Good morning, diners; Flo, a cuppa coffee with two creams and a coffee roll, please.
At our place, we use a dishwasher, but the dishes get the wipe and rinse before they go in to get the big stuff off; if they have any hard stuckon, we generally sponge that off, too. After that, it's up to the dishwasher to take care of them, end of story.
Except for pots and pans which I am apparently not capable of getting clean enuf to satisfy Barbara; She thinks I need a course in Remedial Dishwashing. I figure if it's in a pan, it's hot enuf to 'take care of' anything that's still left. This is an ongoing conversation, I might add.
Went out skating on the pond out back this A.M., and later joining a frined at the motion picute show. Train Nite last night was a lot of fun, operating someone elses trains always is!
Has anyone used one of those static grass thingys? I am thinking of getting one of the economy models, and if anyone can suggest or relate their experience with the process, I would appreciate it.
Barbara calls, I hauls, see you later, hope all have a good day
Good Morning
Gee, wonderful topic...makes me kinda wonder about some of the greasy spoons I went to when I wwas in my youth, and a tad later. You know, plates with bits of stuff still stuck to them?
My wife and my sister are up here now...we are having fun here. I tell people here I have 5 different mothers now, my 2 sisters, my wife and 2 G+ friends....oi.
Anywhooooo...oh....the daily rounds showed up....
Have a great day!!!
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/
Good Afternoon!
When I came into this place a few moments ago, I thought my Internet connection had gone astray and routed me to a housekeeping forum
As I am the one in charge of doing the dishes, allow me to add my worth to the issue.
We mainly use our dishwasher, but before stacking the dishes, cutlery and pots into it, I give them a quick rinse with hot water to clean any food stuff from them. This allows us to run the short cycle which, despite the use of hot water, means a big saving on our energy bill. It also adds to the service life of the dishwasher. Aside from breakfast, which is usually just muesli and coffee, we like to "celebrate" our meals, so that means a lot of dishes. I´d hate to do them by hand - pansd and big pots are all I do by hand.
Enough of this greasy topic, back to model railroading
I am making slow progress on landscaping my layout. I have decided against giving the layout a winter atmosphere as I have so much landscaping stuff left over from previous projects which I´d like to use up. Money is tight and will even get tighter as we have to face big cuts in our allowance. We will have to sell the car, get rid of any "nice to have" spending and pare down to the absolute minimum to survive on what we will have left. Not really a nice perspective! Now, if I were a Syrian refugee - but stop, this is getting into politics and I better stay out of it, as I see Vinnie has risen from his comfy chair in the back.
I have been doing some more w*rk on the layout today, mainly on the rock faces.
It´s starting to get where I want to be, but it is still a long way. I should paint the bridge and the chapel - that will make a whole lot of difference to the appearance!
I am enjoying this layout and its construction very much - as long as it lasts. I will have to sell it eventually
MrMickHas anyone used one of those static grass thingys? I am thinking of getting one of the economy models, and if anyone can suggest or relate their experience with the process, I would appreciate it.
Well, I have an older model, which is close to the battery operated "fly-swatter"-things, but with a transformer as the power supply. You fill in the grass fibres into the little sieve and gently shake it - ant that´s pretty bad, as some of the stuff does not go to where you want it to be.
A much better choice are those models copying the (expensive) Noch Grassmaster design - take a look at this one:
Static Grass Flock Applicator
Seems to be a reasonable value!
Morning... er.. Afternoon folks!
Chloe I just need another refill of my dark raost coffee please.
Just poping in to say hi beofre heading out the door to pick up my sister at the Rochester Airport. I better check on her flight soon to make sure it is on time...
House is a s cleaned as it is going to get before the big meeting tonight. I have cookies baked and some various beverages (sorry no Beer or anything like that for a Scout meeting...) I hope to get back here in time to get everything ready before people start to arrive.
Ulrich, your project is really looking nice! I hope you get to have many more hours of enjoyment from it and that other things can start to look up for both you and Petra! Keeping you in my prayers...
Gotta get moving. Catch you later this evening, maybe.
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Hey all
Been crazy busy at w**k. walked three units in two weeks, 1 firemarshall sign inspection ( stupid waste of time and monies ) ten final inspections, two Residential use inspections, One elevator inspection ( super pain in the butt ) somehow kept myself together and did not do bodily harm to one HO sales agent and her idiot home inspector who by anybodies standards rightly deserves it ! For this if I were Catholic I think I should have earned the right to be sainted ! It is a Miracle the amount of self restraint I have shown. That lady is holding up a settlement because the gas fireplace gets HOT - WHAT !!!! Thank God it is Friday !
v8 - LOL It always amuses me the whole thing with you all and rain. Survived another one hey ?
Mr. B - I have this philosphy - do it wrong and they will not ask you to do it again !!! Works for dishes too
Garry - Nice custom job on the mirrors there ! Man that was a bit close. SIL is not doing well. There are five points in the brain that make decisions. Of those five, three are not working. The other two are not working well either because she is not making wise choices either - like going to see the docs she really needs to see.
Angel - 83 degree ? I am jealous !
Ken - I didnt see any mention of dish soap. Dont you have my number still ? I didnt change it.
UP831 - Dont get discouraged about your affordibilty of locomation. When one boils it down all transportation gets you from point a to b. Has four wheels, brakes, go pedal, steering wheel and a seat. That is all that matters is that it gets you there with out having to walk everything else after that is an excuse to be charged more insurance and higher taxes.
Henry - man that does sound like a bad day. Stay away from the power tools !
Howmus - Cookies ? Like in Oatmeal raison cookies ??? when can I come by !
Lion - you use dishes ? I thought you ate the wildebeast that hung from the tree limb ? How do you do dishes with paws ?
Ulrich - will that grass staticky thing work on bald heads Boy that would be a site. Hey maybe I could run a little z track under my hat too ?
BO Cylinder watch out for wife and girlfriend thing. Ever heard of Lorena Bobbit ? She cut her husband and threw it in the street as she left him !
Mr. Mick LOL "...calls I haul " you are a wise man !!
Richard - that is an amazing fact. I had no idea that hot water had that effect on bleach
Herring choker - Latrine duty ? Oh gosh that would stink - literally
Loco - I bought my wife one of those fancy mixers. I used to teaser her thatall it really was was a glorified drill press and that if she would just let me I would by a nice Delta drill press and we both could use it !! She didnt think to highly of my suggestion LOL.
John B - I misread your comment first time around I thought it said "...close up work for BIG its..." I thought read t not b oops
FEC - Hey Phil how is it going down in suny Florida ?
Welp gotta run. TTYL
YGW
yougottawanta. . .Richard - that is an amazing fact. I had no idea that hot water had that effect on bleach. . .
It is important to note that hot water stops the sanitizing, but not the bleaching effect. It still works to wash your whites in hot water with bleach.
Richard
Good Evening
Had a great meal here, got for lunch a garden salad with raspberry/cranberry vinagerret dressing, mongolian-no salt-grilled veggie/beef mix on top of rice and milk and a couple of slices of whole grain bread...tonight it was roast beef on rye with the usual lettuce etc and no salt added pumpkin soup with a yogurt/granola with strawberry/blackberry/peach slices mixed in and a milk as well as tea.
YGW: She knows those people as well, lol!! Both are in the Philipines!!!
Anyway, had a wonderful day with visitors and doctor rounds and all kinds of stuff going on here. My window shelf is now loaded with bunches of flowers...my room smells wonderful now.
I have a couple of buddies from the neighbourhood here...jamming away...kentuckey bluegrass style. And keeping the floor entertained, lol!!
Anyhow....back to jamming here.
TTYLTR!!!!
well, I offed a letter the mortgage orriginator, for his help before I offed a letter to the Attorney General of NYS alerting them to the mis-management of our mortgage account by not properly applying the PRINCIPLE ONLY payment of $1,241.27 over the regular mortgage payment due of $567.72 {some of you are jealous...like Perhaps Ken- but Remember KEN: you have a MUCH larger house}.
That is a LOT of money to us to be misplaced and we have more to send extra to principle and we are not doing it until properly acccounted properly.
well, still contemplating life here. Train nut friend has said lately the night mares of finding Christian hanging there in his apartment have been really bad, gtting unbearable, I contacted my mental Health counselor and asked aobut support groups or therapists for them {and us} and she turned me on to a group that meets aparently wednesday at General Hospital [yes its name] called "for those left behind". But When i called the number for info, i got a message recording and left a message. Haven't heard back yet.
Well, bed time
later
still contemplating life and it's meaning as it applies to me.
-G .
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.
Galaxy. Sorry to hear about Train Nut Friend having nightmares. We Diners are train nuts too, and we care. Let him know he is not alone.
YGW. Sad to hear about your SIL's situation
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Flo a slice of pizza with everything.
YGW so sorry about Sil...it just shake your faith in goodness and a higher power. I did manage to use the chop saw and keep my fingers.
Galaxy I feel your pain dealing with incompetent people.
Richard how does heat deactivate bleach
PA Eagle has one egg, might have another this weekend
Modeltrainstuff is about 50 minutes away. I am going there bright and early to buy track and the stuff to convert my very first DCC/sound loco. It may take a while to put it on track since the layout is on paper only and I don't even have a DCC controller
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Evenin' folks!
Janie, another cup of decaf would do nicely right now...
The meeting tonight went very well, and a bunch of issues were brought to the table and answers are in the offing.... Very worthwhile.
I hadn't heard the thing about hot water and bleach either... One thing I should have been more clear on the Scout method for weekend camping is the use of rinse first, then wash in hot soapy water, rinse again and then either Bleach water or the boiling water. Four steps. Been a few years since I was teaching that to the troops... Air drying is the prefered method after the washing. I know that in the kitchen at camp similar methods are demanded by the health department and you do not towel dry the dishes... Ever! Again the last rinse in the dishwaher out there contained a disinfective agent and used boiling water (lots and lots of steam!!!). Then the trays of dishes, silverware (stainless actually) were air dryed, then put in the stacks to be used again. Pots and pans were usually hand scrubbed, then run through the dishwasher.
Got my sister home to her Kitties this afternoon... She was running on adrenaline I think. She had been on flights for over 30 hours and no sleep..... I was a good trip though.
Have a good night!
Enening Dinners
Flo, Please and if Tin Can Jeff stops in his tap is one me.
Learned a few things today.
1 I wash the dish wrong and yes YGW I use soap.
2 My credit is now good with a 728! Far cry from the 850 I had 25 years ago but I will take it!
Berry I may have missed it, but have they found out what happened? I know you where having chest pains and they where doing test. Did you blow another head gasket?
YGW I have missed placed your cell number. One of the reason I have not been bugging you! The N&W coal cars are gone. They do have some Accuready coal cars with no road name for $7.95 each. If I did not all ready have 45 coal cars I would have bought some.
Galaxy Welcome to my world! Sorry to hear about Train Nut nightmares.
Gary Thanks for the photo's, you will be seening the second one agin onces I get it into Photo Bucket.
Train Front Well I really need to start thinking about tear down this layout. There is only so long I can keep my 68 Road Runner at my friends house.
Proto 2000 GP 7 B&O Guess I will be keeping it. Tin Can Jeff is sending another chassis with none cracked gears. I hope to use the extra motor in a Monon BL2 I have.
Ulrich Layout is looking good as usual, just hope you can get this one done.
Later, Ken
I hate Rust
Ken: I'll find out what the MRI's showed on Monday but one of the nurses said to me that it looked like the Mitral Valve was not working very well....
Hi yougottawata
So the fire place gets hot does it indeed, thats very serious the house could be warm in winter
As for what you saw in mine now now this is a family forum but thanks for giving me a bit of a laugh.
I detect a slightly naughty sence of humor.
To all
Whats this dish washing stuff I don't have a problem I am forbiden to enter the Kitchen arena so no problem in that area if the domestic authorities could get a real three headed dog that would be in the kitchen to keep me out.
Hi sir madoc
That is a nice looking layout is that a church or monestary on top of the hill
the rock faces look pretty good.
I do hope it doesn't have to be sold and your posision improves before that has to happen.
regards John
Good Evening or Morning,
It was a mild day here but damp. I just came in from taking Robbie out for his final 'business' and it is still very warm, at least 33F.
Barry, sure hope they are able to fix what ails you.
Not much new here. I spent the day doing errands and renewed the car insurance which is expensive here as in $1300.
I ran trains for a while this afternoon. A way freight pulled by the hog. Think I might get out the passenger equipment soon. I have been giving the N scale layout some running time too.
Not much else to report.
CN Charlie
GM, MEn!
Still contemplating life. Mine and Christians....
Offed my letter and got a response, the originating company customer service will help, I HOPE. IHOPE I don;t have to go to the AG.
well, not so much in a mood for posting this morning at least not now at this 3:00 hour, and will go back to bed, may be then in a good frame of mind.
posta b 50F today!
CNCharlieNot much new here. I spent the day doing errands and renewed the car insurance which is expensive here as in $1300.
Well, that is cheap enough. I used to by $3000/yr in NY and that was 40 years ago.
I have no clue what we pay here, but then we do have a fleet of about 20 cars not including trucks and tractors etc.
Hmmm... I got more subway cars than that...
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
BroadwayLion I used to by $3000/yr in NY and that was 40 years ago.
That's because Lion's are bad drivers, there tails get in the way.
cudaken BroadwayLion I used to by $3000/yr in NY and that was 40 years ago. That's because Lion's are bad drivers, there tails get in the way.
Lions are probably chasing Impalas for dinner, too.
Ken ... I see B&O was one of the RR's that operated GP7's and GP9's long end forward.
Galaxy ... Your friends are here. The worst is behind you now. Keep your chin up. Model Railoading is good for sanity breaks, and I sugesst you do a little of that as soon as you get a chance for it.
Ulrich ... I definately like your Swiss layout so far.
CN Charlie ... Glad you are running trains.
Here I sit contemplating life.
Today's Quote:
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.- Roger Babson
Afternoon, Folks!
Our weather is back to the typical - wet & windy. The snow is gone by now and our surroundings look as grey as ever at this time of the year.
I had one of those "duh" - moments today. Petra told me that our car needs a refill so I took it to our gas station, where I hadn´t been since September/October? I was surprised to see how low the gas prices are - about $ 5.30 a gallon - down by over $ 3 since the alltime high not so long ago! Got about 55mpg, which is not bad for a regular IC car capable of doing over 100mph!
If things develop as they look right now, this will be the last filling we can afford.
Gosh, I am amazed how the cost for car insurance is. Mine is about $ 150 a year, plus $ 30 road tax. That´s about as cheap as one can get over here.
Enough of that, back to MRRing.
I still have leftover WS Fine Turf which I use as basis for my scenery. WS products are hard to come by - there is only one source in Germany, but they do not stock all WS products. I need WS yellow Fine Turf, light green and olive coarse turf, underbrush in various shades og green and WS Scenic Cement. While the turf stuff will eventually be available here, the Scenic Cement isn´t. I was thinking of replacing it with white glue, diluted with water and isopropyl alcohol, so I can spray it over the turf, but I am not sure this will work.
I gave it a try and it seems to work.
Here is a view of the layout the way it looks now:
The bird´s eye view shows how small the layout actually is.
Zoe, coffee and a slice of that pecan pie, please!
Have a good one!
Well, I have no visitors planned for today so this will be my day of rest and working up some RR plans.
TTYLTR!!
Mor... Hmmmm.... Ahem! Afternoon folks!
Chloe, just a refill for my dark roast coffee and a couple creme filled doughnuts to fill the void. Thank you Ma'am!
Went over to the Fieldhouse late this morning, got in a one mile walk, saw a few old friends and colleagues of mine, and thoroughly enjoyed the scenery this morning! (Oh to be about 50 years younger....). By next week I hope to add a couple more laps to the routine. I do feel better already.
Currently 12°F outside, but in 10 minutes it should be 58°F outside.... Yep! That is what the Weather Channel says for Geneva, NY....????? Interestingly it is already 57°F 10 miles from here in Waterloo, NY where my son lives.... Somehow I think the Weather Channel is messed up again! The sn*w is busy melting and running down the street to the collection basin out in fron of my house at the corner. Most of it will be gone by sundown.
Ulrich aka: Sir Madog (not Sir Madoc), Love what you have done with your little layout! Coming along very nicely.
I plan on going to the basement and working on my railroad for a few hours today. That might just be fun!
Catch you all later...
galaxyHere I sit contemplating life.
You should not waste so much time doing that!.....Just live it...''one day at a time''. Take care of ''today''......''never give up''.
Gotta' go....caught the flu' and not feeling the greatest....sure knocks the spunk out of you, when Your old! And yes...I had a flu shot.
Take Care, All!
Frank
Galaxy: Your friend might be going through something akin to Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrom. Both of you should get that checked out...(((hugs)))
Good Afternoon.
I had a quiet day...now my sister and BIL show up, lol!! They came bearing a gifty thing. BIL found a brass 2-8-8-4 steamer Yellowstone in N scale yet. so that is a find.
Anyways....gotta get back to my guests here!
Have a good afternoon.
blownout cylinder Galaxy: Your friend might be going through something akin to Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrom. Both of you should get that checked out...(((hugs)))
HUGs????? HUGS??? THERE'S NO HUGS IN MRRing!!!!!!!!!
Sheesh.
WE ARE trying to get into a supprot group at General Hospital called "for those left behind". He doesn't want to go alone, so I will go with him as i could benefit as well.
Maybe I buy the sunday paper and look for an ad for it, as the number I called doesn't seem to be getting back to me.
well will see what we shal see when we shall see it.
here I sit, fat dumb and contemplating life....
Evening Dinners
Flo, Please and one for Tin Can Jeff if he shows up.
It was to nice of a day to spend in a Mattress Store Today! Seems customers felt the same way! I finally found away to deal with Jerry! I read a book most of the day. What little I talked with him about work was driving me nuts! So I read.
Heartland Division CB&QI see B&O was one of the RR's that operated GP7's and GP9's long end forward.
Gary They ran there SD 7's and SD 9's long hood forward as well. With me starting with Rio Grand SD's I speed matched the B&O's with short hood forward. After running them backwards all this time I wonder if they will be quite long hood forward.
Train Front Either my hearing is getting worse or the Bachmann DC On Board B&0 is getting quiter? Well with me turning 60 this Wednesday, more than likey my hearing!
I seldom think I am old, well till the last 2 days. What made me feel old is I meet two Army Vets. One was in the 101st Airborn for 25 years, other one was in the Army for 24 years. Both enlisted long after I was out? Now that made me feel old.
Good old days running a Body Shop
Good Evening.
Going off to .....g'night