Holy moley Blowout, can't we go a week without someone in the hospital? Going in was the right thing to do though. Since you got admited I guess they figured you weren't faking it.
My snow pic yesterday was the Durango & Silverton. The eagle decided sitting in freezing rain wasn't her thing. She'll be back.
Took mom to the nurse practioner. I really don't think importing medical care workers from third world countries works out well either country.
Went to a LHS. I guess model cars and military are bigger than model railroad. They a limited selection of Atlas track, more Bachmann and seven different racks of various model paints. Not one identified railroad color. I had to settle for Ford Engine Blue for my PNRR colors.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Hi Gang,
I'm at work here and for the next two as well.
Ulrich, so sorry to hear that you are blue. I second what YGW said and that is I look forward to your posts and progress all the time. You are a real craftsman. Take the time and read the Quotes that Galaxy put in today. and believe them.
YGW. When they are building in this real cold weather they usually hoard the building right in with a wooden framework and heavy tarps and propane heaters inside. but for home builders it really has to get quite cold before it shuts them down.
Garry, Sorry to hear about the owheh on the Avalanch.. *** happens.
YGW. prayers are continuing for Kelly and the boys. What has happened with the perpatraitors ? Did they get them ? Sure hope so.
Barry, Sorry to hear they have you back under survalance again, hope you break out soon, but not before you get everything in proper order. No chasing nurses even if they have big hamburgers. Lol.
Very nice day here today, feels like spring. Not as warm as Br. Elias has, but pretty close. The driveway is melted off (ice build up) and all the cross country ski trails other than on the lake are done, not enough snow left.
Well, back to work, will check back from home this evening.
Later Gators.
Johnboy out..............................
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
Ken::: Anytime is Cuda Time!!!!!
Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
I just started my blog site...more stuff to come...
http://modeltrainswithmusic.blogspot.ca/
That was quick!! Transferred to a private room in CCU and all wired up with all kinds of things. Oh, lovely... 2 IV's in as well.
Oh...something as well... as I transferred from those newfangled EMS beds my right shin caught the lower shelf that their monitor sits on...now am sporting a goose egg/ bruise as well, lol!!!!!
Oh...my room is equipped with WiFi as well....yay!!!!!!
Tin Can wrote "Right before Christmas my 54 year old sister was diagnosed with breast cancer; that was quite the shock and kind of put a damper on things. She is going through chemo now; and at some point I will take off a day or two to spend with her as she undergoes treatment."
First let me say I a sorry for your sister. Even hearing the word cancer can be upseting and devastating at the same time. Please let me offer you some encouragment.
While my wife was going through cancer treatment she was able to get into NIH ( National Institute of Health ) which is a Goverement sponsored study hospital. One of the doctors informed us there, that " breast cancer is 100% curable" I agree with his statement. It is a matter of getting to the right doctor with the right treatments. I would encourage you to get her int a study hospital like NIH if you can. Her chances of survival go way up if you can get her into one. Here the way it works is you have to be referred by your local doctor. You mau have to ask him to get her inyto a study which will treat her along side of the care they give.
Good luck and here is a for her and your family.
YGW
Cuda Ken; your thought about "cuda time" hits home, it made me chuckle. You should trade mark it and make t shirts...
It has been sunny and mid 70's here for the last week; nice! Both of my kids are in college up north; and have become experts at jump starting cars. My daughter is the designated jumper for her teammates (she has a 4 wheel drive and a portable battery booster).
Right before Christmas my 54 year old sister was diagnosed with breast cancer; that was quite the shock and kind of put a damper on things. She is going through chemo now; and at some point I will take off a day or two to spend with her as she undergoes treatment.
Not much on the train front; picked up four Accurail Santa Fe covered hoppers in a grey scheme, with blue letters last week. I was surprised at how nicely the car is painted/printed; sharp microprinting of lots of little stuff.
DER - LOL Composting an inspector ! I guess a comma or period would have helped clarify that staement. There have been a few inspectors I would like to compost !
Ken yea you can send Jerrys resume to : idiotinspectors@Rus.com.
Mr. B we used to put a 100 watt bulb near pipe that froze a lot. Once we did that we didnt have any more frozen pipes. If the pipes are exposed there is "heat tape" that can also be used.
Barry - for you hope it checks out okay
Ulrich - Why in the world do you feel so gloomy ? Do you know the impact you have on this group of guys ? I so look forward to your post, pray for you and Petra, love your seeing your progress...getting on MRR and seeing you here is one of teh highlites of my day ! You are not waste my friend ! I enjoyed animation video and was delighted by your "run by"
Henry - love the eagle post, awsome steam picture
Garry - so glad it was only a broken mirror. Could have been much worse.
Chris - is the water tower scratch or kit ?
Johnboy, Mr. B.- oh "block heaters" that is amzing that if you dont have someting of that nature that you cannot start the vehicle until the weather is much improved. How does anyone do conmstruction in that weather ?
Phil - Bowser - I do not have any Bowsers. Are they good , medium qaulity, trouble some ??? I assume they are better qaulity ?
SIL - Kelly update - It is about as bad as it can get. Apparently there are five areas in the brain that control decision making. Of those five Kelly has severe ( non working ) brain damage in three areas. This leads to some incredibly bad decision making. Her parents have taking over the care of her two boys. She is unable to make responsible decisions. Her boys need as much prayer as she does. What she really needs is a spiritual reawakening. It is so heart breaking to watch the travesty caused by the the thugs who did this to her and family.
howmus* HAZARDS... HEAVY SNOW... SLEET... AND FREEZING RAIN. * ACCUMULATIONS... SNOW ACCUMULATING 3 TO 6 INCHES TONIGHT... 6 TO 12 INCHES TUESDAY... LEADING TO STORM TOTALS OF 9 TO 18 INCHES OVER THE NORTHWEST PORTIONS OF THE COUNTIES. SNOW AMOUNTS WILL TAPER OFF QUICKLY SOUTH AND EAST OF ROCHESTER WHERE MORE RAIN... FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET FALL ON TUESDAY. * ICE ACCUMULATIONS... STORM TOTAL AMOUNTS OF A TENTH TO A QUARTER INCH. * WINDS... SOUTHEAST 10 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH. * VISIBILITIES... AS LOW AS A QUARTER MILE AT TIMES. * IMPACTS... HEAVY SNOW WILL RESULT IN VERY DIFFICULT TRAVEL CONDITIONS. THE WORST TRAVEL CONDITIONS WILL OCCUR AROUND THE TIME OF THE TUESDAY MORNING COMMUTE.
33 Degrees and Sunny in Richardton North Dakota
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Mornin'.....
Today has been cancelled due to Stuff!!!
Barry, keeping you in my constant prayers! Hope all goes well at the hospital...
Jeremy, My prayers for you and your family on your Grandfather's passing.....
As I said earlier today has been cancelled or at least closed here in the Finger Lakes Region. Here in Geneva we have a good coating of ice on everything and when I got up it was sn*wing hard. Now it has turned to freezing drizzel/rain and will be turning back to Snow and stuff later this afternoon. Got in touch with my SIL in Canandaigua (they have it worse than I do. Right on the edge of changeover from snow to rain). Her driveway got plowed out early this morning but she says, "No way am I driving in this anywhere!" She got in touch with our Nephew who lives all of two blockes away from my sister's house. Actually she got in touch with his wife as he was still in bed sleeping. He is a Professor at the local Community College and was up grading papers last night until 3AM. (Everyone forgets stuff like that when they talk about how easy teachers have it. 55 to 60 hour weeks are very common.) He will get to go feed and play with the boys at my sister's house today. He knows where the key is hidden and what to do, so all will be well.
Zoe, just need another pot of Marrakesh Express Dark Roast coffee for my R&GV RR Mug please. I'll be in the back trying to cheer up Ulrich.
The city about an hour ago finally got a truck over on my street to plow and salt the street. Dumped about a foot and a half of heavy, icy, wet sn*w crap in the driveway. I will go out when it changes back to snow and try to dig out the end enough to get the PiP out if I have to.... Will take it very easy! This crap is what my little electric sn*wblower can't do much with.
Catch you all later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Hi guys
havent been in for a while. A few weeks ago my grandpa found out he had cancer, it was in his lungs,liver and right hip. There was nothing the doctors could do. He made the choice to spend the remaining time he had at home.
last Thursday morning he passed away. We have his funeral today at 11:30. We got a decent amount of snow last night too which will make it ticky. The funeral home is about 5 minutes from here which is good. I will check back in tonight
jeremy
Good morning!
And it is. OK, we had snow followed by freezing rain, but the hard freeze is over and it should get up to the mid 50s today. When I got up this morning I found the kitchen sink drained of all the standing water that had been there since Saturday when the drain pipe froze. That was a big relief. I was not looking forward to the task of climbing into the crawl space to thaw that pipe with a hair dryer. I'll have to explore the situation at some time to see if there's anything I can do to keep it from happening again, though.
Never thought I'd be happy just to be able to wash dishes.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
blownout cylinder Great- Chest pains-Hospital....
Great- Chest pains-Hospital....
I am more than just worried! Barry - !
Good Afternoon!
A bright and sunny, but cold day. Not up to anything today - for whatever reason, I feel miserable. Nothing physical, though, just bad spirits and the feeling I am wasting whatever life I have left.
I´ll be staying in the back booth for a while.
GM, MEN!
Today's word:
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Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.
HO and N Scale.
After long and careful thought, they have convinced me. I have come to the conclusion that they are right. The aliens did it.
KEN: SO have I been trying too, don't always succeed, though some things are looking right to others, some things look wrong to me.
Looks like you'd rather have a bibulous working partner, see below post!
Evening Dinners
Flo, Beer Please.
Work Front Today stunk and Jerry sucking the life out of me!
yougottawanta Jerry is that bad you prefer the drunk !
YGW Yes it is to that point!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! When Drunk Dave was not on the he knew what he was talking about and could sale. Jerry on the other hand is painfull to listen to when talking with a customer. He just does not have a clue! Hum, maybe he can get a job where you live as a Buliding Inspector! Got a E-Mail addrees I can send his resume too?
Really soory to hear about Kelly YGW. Let us know about the boys.
YGW Train Front Have you started a layout or have a plan yet? Far as the Coal Cars I think they where $14.95 each and where 4 bay coal cars. If there was 50 which is a guess that would be $747.50 plus tax and shipping.
Cuda Ken's Train Front So far the PK 2000 B&O GP 7 seems DOA. Will move just a little and sits there and Hum's. (Yes it is off key) I am thinking all of the center gears are cracked. Thinking I may take it back for a refund. While I can do the repairs if the gears are cracked, do I really want a nother project?
Galaxy I have been trying to type / spell better and thank you for noticing.
Later, Ken
I hate Rust
Evenin' folks!
Janie, just a decaf and a seat in the back so I can listen to the weather forcast....
Gloom and Doom!!!! The Finger Lakes Region is under a Winter Storm Warning for tonight and tomorrow. The forcast for right here has changed about 4 or 5 times today, so I really don't know what tomorrow will bring. The latest is:
* HAZARDS... HEAVY SNOW... SLEET... AND FREEZING RAIN.
* ACCUMULATIONS... SNOW ACCUMULATING 3 TO 6 INCHES TONIGHT... 6 TO 12 INCHES TUESDAY... LEADING TO STORM TOTALS OF 9 TO 18 INCHES OVER THE NORTHWEST PORTIONS OF THE COUNTIES. SNOW AMOUNTS WILL TAPER OFF QUICKLY SOUTH AND EAST OF ROCHESTER WHERE MORE RAIN... FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET FALL ON TUESDAY.
* ICE ACCUMULATIONS... STORM TOTAL AMOUNTS OF A TENTH TO A QUARTER INCH.
* WINDS... SOUTHEAST 10 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH.
* VISIBILITIES... AS LOW AS A QUARTER MILE AT TIMES.
* IMPACTS... HEAVY SNOW WILL RESULT IN VERY DIFFICULT TRAVEL CONDITIONS. THE WORST TRAVEL CONDITIONS WILL OCCUR AROUND THE TIME OF THE TUESDAY MORNING COMMUTE.
With a quarter inch of ice on tree limbs there will be power outages! Not worried about my house as I have two heaters that do not need electric to run. One down cellar in the train rooms, and one out in the living room. They will keep the house livable without any problem. I planned for this type of thing when I did upgrades in the house. Boy Scout training you know.... My sister's house though. She does have a fireplace. If she was home she could light a nice fire and stay warm in front of it while the water pipes in the house all froze..... Then she would wonder what happened!!!????!!!!! With no-one in her house... Well! So my SIL and I have been making plans for "What If" to make sure that if power goes off someone will go over and make sure the water faucets have been set to a fast drip and the kitties are fed and such. Good likelyhood I will not be driving to Canandaigua tomorrow. SIL volunteers at the hospital on Tuesdays and if the driving is very bad she will call in absent for the day. She lives a lot closer to my sisters house and should be able to get to it to take care of the boys at least.
Of course I might end up having a bit more time to work on the layout instead of shoveling out and white knuckle driving to Canandaigua to take care of the kitties.... BTW, Ilya her new kittie is a wonderful sweet kittie. We have now become good friends and he comes over to get his head scratched and purr for me..... I can't imagine anyone just dropping him in the neighborhood! The little guy did get very lucky that my sister took him in. Both kitties were racing around the house wrestling, and playing on Saturday when I was there.
RideOnRoad yougottawanta . . .Kelly is not doing well. Serious brain damage. . . . Sorry to hear. How are her kids holding up?
yougottawanta . . .Kelly is not doing well. Serious brain damage. . . .
Sorry to hear. How are her kids holding up?
Yes, YGW: PLEASE give us an indepth update on her and the boys!
FOr anyone else: I am STILL collecting donations For SIL KELLY THROUGH THE END OF FEBRUARY!
PM me if you wish to donate!
COllecting for everyday expenses for her and the boys,, not so much for medical bills.
FOr those who don;t know the story: SOme Thugs broke in, savagely beat her to within an inch of her life, set the condo on fire, severely burnign her in the process, resutling in a total loss of the house nad leaveing her and her two young boys homeless. SHe has brain damage,a nd apparently is not improving?
SO GIVE FROM YOUR HEART, and PM me if you wish to add to the funds collected already!
FOr her!
der5997That whistle is sounding really authentic, with the echo and all! (and the bells and birds, now you’ve added those!) Do you trigger it manually, or is it automated (reed switches come to mind)
John - the whistle is added during postproduction of the video, as well as the church bells and the "birds and bees", i.e. ambient sounds. It´s a bit of an awkward process, as you can add only one sound at a time, save the video (which takes 30 minutes!) and then reload the file and add the next sound. I don´t have a semi-professional video editing software, so I have to make do with the Windows MovieMaker It´s still fun, though!
The first whistle will be put into a sound module and can be triggered by a push button on the control panel - I bet Petra will not like it !
Out now - bedtime!
Shame I have had the kind of day where I wish Rule 303 was legal If you havn't seen the movie Breaker Morant you won't have a clue what I am on about.
Mr.B. - rates are much more competitive over here - I pay a flat rate of "only" about $ 40 a month for unlimited Internet, all land-locked calls within Germany and calls to most mobile services. Also "going abroad", i.e. calling someone outside of Germany is much lower than in the States.
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
yougottawanta. . .Kelly is not doing well. Serious brain damage. . . .
Richard
It´s been a slow evening with nothing really important to do. Petra and I can´t even remember when we had turned on the idiot box to watch a movie.
I reworked my last video by adding ambient sounds to it. Saving it and then uploading it takes really ages, but here it is now:
Considering that I am still at the beginning of my learning curve of how to make nice videos, I am quite happy with the result.
YGW - I am sorry to hear about Kelly not improving! Continuing !
Heading for the hay in a few moments!
CU all tomorrow!
I know it will be far more exciting to y'all when I unpack and set up trains, that will come in good time, but for now, the LR is the order of the day.
I did get the hat racks up on the wall. Looks good, and functions well sorta. Not all hats/caps are the same size,and now I gotta find the darn Hats! I THINK I know what plastic tub MOST are in! I think.
Then I got the two Dopey art works up. Har to do wiht the furniture all in the way.
Now I only tell you all this as I need breaks between things and best to bide my tiem sharing with y'all.
Next I SHOULD tackle My calligraphy Declaration of Independence I Did in the shape of the United States... SHowed it to my old neihbors before I moved it here, and the guy, who is 94 and A WWII European theater veteran, siad he got "chills "when {he} first saw what it was". "YOu should put that in the Smithsonian"!!! I said maybe I'd lend it and donate it when i die. I doubt they'd be interested. what do you think?
got a snack of mozzaella sticks in the oven. yum!with some chunky marinara, yum. but my cardiologist mght have something to say about that,
well after hauling boxes, bending over digging in boxes, climbing over and on top of furniture, my back us saying enough!!!!
darn and i was hoping to get both mickey arts up too. tomorrow after mental health.or later tonight if the kink gets out of my back.
moh is due home shortly so a nap will ensue and my back could use the rest.
later y'all
Hey all welcome from snowy VA.
Johnboy - Kelly is not doing well. Serious brain damage.
Garry - at least it was only a mirror. Could have been worse.
Mr. B. That is a lot precautions for cold weather. Geez.
BO Cylinder - that is a good neighber.
Der - LOL sometimes I would like to compost a few inspectors !
Phil - I have never owned Bowder before. I take it they are good quality ?
Ken - Jerry is that bad you prefer the drunk !
Henry - That is cool picture of the eagle !
Ulrich - great run by !!!! Watched the animation. Cannot figure out how they make the people move !
Lazy day. Watching Taken series with my girls.
TTYL
ROAR
Well, been doing stuff and things.
FOund two boxes of food stuffs I ahve been looking for for a while, in the garage burried. They don't seem to ahve frozen wiht the temps so low here,but one cna't tell. The garage is warmer than outside obviously, but not so warm as the basement, where I would not worry aobut it. I also sorta filled the panty cabinets full,s o now no room. I did so as I could not ffind the food stuffs. Was beginning to think I hadn't packd what I knew I packed!
Also foudn the wooden expandable peg hook thingies we use as a hat rack flat to the wall. There are two I found, a large one and a smaller one, and then there should be one more smaller wooden one, though I DO have some plastic ones! The plastic ones I MAY use, if there is room, but they are tacky compared to the wooden ones. They are getting mounted above the shoe cubicle racks. The big one is up, the small one has a stubborn screw in it that won't come out and it is a straight head so I dont wnat to slip and hit the hard shell palster ont he drywall. It will make a mess. There should be the one more wood one, and I THINK i know where it is, but not sure. Its just a matter of digging into the box i think its in.. The plastic ones are in there I know, I HOPE the other small wooden one is too, if not I don't know where it got off too.
SO then I put up my DIsney DOpey Cells and pins, and mY own hand done calligraphed Declaration oF Independence in the shape of the United States on the 30"x 40" mat board I did in 1983. I have to get behind the couch to do it. So those are my palns for today, after another nap!
I am not really fond of "over-animated" layouts loaded with gimmicks and gadgets, but the following video shows some nicely done animated scenes:
Filmed at various model train shows in Europe!
Yes, rates will eventually come down!
Goody. It's already up to 12 degrees, warmer than it's been since Friday. The kitchen drain is still frozen, but it should warm up enough today for it to thaw.
Sir MadogRates will eventually come down
Good one, Ulrich. Had me laughing for a while. They replaced our cable modems a few months back to give us higher speeds. I still haven't noticed any difference, although the wireless that came with it seems better than my old one.
we got a fair amount of that wet & white stuff last night, but it´s not here to stay. The weather guessers predict rising temperatures into the two digit region by the weekend - and that´s Centigrade, not Fahrenheit.
Right now I am uploading a new video to the "tube", which I will post a link to once the upload is done. With the uploading speed of only 0.5 Mbit/s. it takes ages! My provider is not maintaining the old lines as they want us to change to the new highspeed lines of 100Mbit/s. download speed and 10Mbit/s. upload speed. Although the monthly rate is not much higher from what I have to pay now, I am not willing to change (yet), as I´d need to get a new telephone set to be compatible with the VDSL standard. Rates will eventually come down as competition increases, so I have a good reason to wait and save the expense.
Brunhilda, I´ll just go for some coffee, as I just had the last slice of Petra´s birthday cake.
Downunder John - if I had to nominate a "dream car" for me, It´ll be the old Landrover series IIa with the 88" wheelbase, a hardtop, spare tire mounted on the hood (or should I say bonnet, as the Landy is a British car?) and the rugged 2.25 litre Diesel. Second to that is a red Ford pick-up truck...
Edit: Seems as if Youtube has finished processing my upload, so here is the video: