On dear I was already some what down when along came that terrible man(Steve Otte) and started everyone talking about there favourite food mouth watering stuff some sounded quite delicious some to me a Scot sounded some what strange YGW had me baffled but I digress. Why should this light hearted post from "The Grand Poobah" cause such alarm and consternation!!!!!! Well SWMBO has taken the decision that I must sorry "we" must lose weight and are therefore going on a strict diet!!! No more full Scottish breakfast to start the day we are going to eat healthy things like muesli (wood chippings) crispbread(corrugated cardboard) and cereal! So as you post about your favourite food please spare a thought for one unhappy Scotsman (no whisky either). I can only hope that my good lady wife cracks first or this could be a long miserable spring. Maybe a quick cup of tea and a few chocolate digestive biscuits before she notices!
Health and happiness to all who visit the diner!!!
With all due respect to the denizens of Northern Virginia, us down here in the Southeast corner of the Commonwealth would definately have to include pulled pork bar-b-que and ribs; served with hush puppies of course.
Good Evening,
In my neck of the woods we really don't have regional dishes but we do have several that reflect the ethnic background of the groups that settled Manitoba. Winnipeg, the capital, has a very diverse restaurant scene except for Mexican. In a city of 800,000 there are only 2 that I know of. I suppose some French Canadian dishes could be considered as regional so tourtiere must be on the menu.
In any event I grew up in a house that never knew garlic but roast beef and yorkshire pud were frequently on the table. My father's favourite meat was lamb chops with mint sauce. I never had a real pizza until I went to university. Yes, it was very much a Brit cuisine household.
I have done a little on the RR. I bought a new decoder for a Kato PA as I thought I had fried the NCE unit I had installed. Turns out it wasn't so as the new one doesn't work either(TCS). I tested the motor on DC and it works fine so there is a pickup issue. It is driving me crazy so I may just save my sanity and put the whole thing away. I have one PA (N scale) that does work but it suffers from intermittent stall issues so it has a pickup problem too but not as bad as the other. Sometimes I find N scale very frustrating and if I had to do it all over I would have just left it DC as I find N scale DCC fairly tempermental compared to HO.
Ray, my wife and I are back to doing our laps at the gym. I try to do 2 miles 3 times a week. I am working up to increasing that but my wife's back can't take more than 2 at a time. We do it fairly briskly and average a mile in about 12-13 minutes. I feel a lot better getting some exercise. I might even try out some of the equipment they have too but first things first.
Well soon time to watch Nature. I am recording it now as we weren't quite ready for 7.
These new TV's are great but when we watch some of the video shot on our trips the picture quality isn't so good as on the old TV. I think is is just that the picture is so much larger and the imperfections are magnified. When we went on our last trip to Africa in 2015 I changed the camera to 16:9 in anticipation of a new TV but the picture isn't very good. Perhaps the old Sony video camera is wearing out or at least its circuits are degrading.
See you soon,
CN Charlie
Br. Otte,
When you are setting up the new menu, Please don't forget to stock some "Ensure" and some "Two Cal" and do have a heavy duty blender/extractor handy for me to dilute and blend any of these great dishes so that I can get it down my tube. I would hate to miss out on any of them.
BTW> Also include this in the new menu, it is called the Glacier Burger made by the crew at the Ice House Tavern in Emerald Park, Sk. about 11 miles east of Regina on #1 Hwy.
Johnboy out.. and yes I always did like Cucumber sandwiches with light mayo....
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
Mmmmm. Local delicacies.
So, my daughter came home tonight with a present, but one which is totally out-of-era and out-of-region. She got it from a friend who found it in an office building they were moving in to.
It appears to be a nice European model of a Portuguese locomotive. I'm guessing it's DC. It's got some minor cosmetic damage (one of those peculiarly European bumpers on one end) but it otherwise looks OK. I'll give it a test run tomorrow.
It would be silly to put this on a shelf under my layout. I'd rather find a good home for it where it will be run. Ulrich? Are you interested? Free, and I'll pay the shipping just to know that it's going to a good home.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Good evening ...
As I said, i will have little or no computer time starting in the morning when we leave for our trip. Be back in a week.
Cheers, everybody .
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Modelling HO Scale with a focus on the West and Midwest USA
Hey diners,
I was thinking of different shades of gray on railroads. I named a few, SP, UP, NYC, L&N, DL&W, SBD. There's apparently more right? I was thinking about this on my walk this morning.
I read about the Germany train wreck, and I totally forgot about Ash Wednesday. Its okay it's not like we celebrate it. I make sure we don't eat any meat on Friday.
Train News: I bought an Athearn covered hopper Conrail. It will be my first product I bought from them.
Good night and many prayers to the sick and wounded.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
Good Morning!
Last night saw as much ra*n as we usually have for an entire month! Thank goodness it has cleared now and we don´t live in a flood zone!
Cambus - muesli is my usual fare for breakfast for many a year now. I am allowed to eat my favorite breakfast of crisp fried bacon, scrambled eggs, sausages and buttered toast & jams only in this place
Chris - that must have been "Schweinenackensteak", which is essentially a grilled slice of pork neck or pork shoulder.
Mr.B - nice loco, but unfortunately wrong gauge. My little Swiss trains run on 12mm gauge, representing metre-gauge in HO scale.
I don´t know what I´ll be up to today. I should do a little more shaping and carving on the layout, but it might be better to have a day without making a mess again ...
Have a good one.
well, cold weather is coming...single digits F for HIGHS this weekend, and lows for ambient temps are in teh negatives F. The artic bast will be felt stronger by Bro Elias in the Dakotas, though,s o i gess we should complain. All I knwo is the vehicles will be hard to start this weekend, and will have to start tehm jsut to be sure they will.
I turned up the 8' electric strip out int he 3 season room. It has a "low, med, hi" temp "thermostat" on it and doens't regualte as well as a temperature guage thermostat. SO I turned it form low-med to med, and am prepared to turn it to med hi over the weekend. I think we wiol hacve the electrician install a temp guaged thermostat on it sooner than later. That way it SHOUDL maintain a constant guaged temp. It is now a 4 season room, one we use as a cobo room/storage shed {we don't have one yet} util we get one erected. MOH wants a wood built one, bt if the town allowes it and we can still get one, we will build a platform and erect a metal one on top.
So bless all those whoface bitter cold temps KEEP WARM.
Have a good day.
I cnanot wait til tomorrow for the drs appt to find out aobut the spot on my lung. I sall be in the back booth contemplating my life......
-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.
Good morning from a VERY COLD northern NJ. Angelo, add to your list the LIRR in the 60's had their motive power and passenger cars painted in a gray color. Still love those colors and every now and then I break out my LIRR nostaglia train made up of an Alco C420 with some P72 passenger cars. Brings back great memories...
Good morning to all...Flo , a cup of coffess with two creams, please, and a jelly doughnut. Herein Southern Maine it's cool, temps inthe high teens, but the weekend is promised to be cooler still.Train nite for me tonight, looking forward to it. But for now, as soon as I finsh my coffee and doughnut, i am planning on goign out to cross country ski for some exercise. I went the other day and concluded I could use a little more exercise than I am getting just by walking around.
Later a stop by my local hobby shop to pick up some sceniking stuff, as I am just about at the point of sprinkle and glue time.
Hope all have a nice day ...
Hey all
Spoke to one of the chiefs in my local NMRA. I am considering volunteering to help with some things. He is going to speak to some of the other staff about how to make that work.
Last night an agent sent over a home inspectors report on a unit we walked this week . I hate dealing with these guys they ALWAY get half of the report WRONG because they are IDIOTS and these houses are so advanced they dont have a CLUE of what they are looking AT !!!!!!!!! , So now I have to be the bad guy and tell the HO that they just wasted $800 on an idiot and that he doesnt know what he is talking about and NO WE are NOT GOING to follow his OPINIONS because he is CLUELESS and is not an engineer and is WRONG and it is not based on Codes, industry stds or certified engineering... . Geez I hate this part of my job. Thanks guys I feel better now. Sorry. Just venting a little ( okay a lot )
Loco - what is yorkshire pudding
Ulrich - Hope I didnt offend you. I was just surprised that you didnt like that food. It is actually very popular in certain areas of the US.
Howmus - What does the lemon juice do for it ?
Cambus - What has you baffled maybe I can explain ?
Bob - Denizens ?? - Hmmm I take you all dont like the NVa folks ? I was going to mention the BARB Q but I though that NC is more famous for it. Although I do love it and Hush puppies ( yummy !!) I thought the tar heels needed something to crow about. Even though we are better at it than they are !!!
CNCharlie - No Mexican food !!??? Oh my you are deprived ! If you every get a chance try some Peruvian food it is as good or better that Central American food. I do love Papoosa ( sp? ) Tacos in hard or soft shells, Taco salads ...
Johnboy - Is that you in the picture ? Can a person actually eat the WHOLE THING ? Wow what a sandwich !
Mr. B - Go freelance with that thing !
Garry - Safe travels.
Angel, Mick, Neal Good Morning and hello to you all. Have a cup of Joe on me.
Gotta get back to W**k
TTYL
YGW
Morning Dinners
Flo, Big Please.
Been at the dinner every day the last few days. Just did not feel like posting by the time I read all of the post.
Did not sleep well Wednesday night and by Caboose was dragging Thursday. Did get some of my running done but not all of it. Did buy a new offices chair but did not feel like bring it in the house. Guess I will get that done today.
B&O PK2 GP-30 Found out why it would not run. Seems when I cleaned the wheels using DC I some how cooked the decoder?
Well I am off, the Honey Do's are coming in quick and heavy.
Ken
I hate Rust
Good Morning
Coffee and a breakfast bagel for me this morning, please, Chloe.
We are currently socked in with snowsqualls again here...le sigh.
Today may end up being a getting some basic survival foodstuffs for the weekend of bitter cold and more snowsqualls...sheeesh.
Oh well, only 11F out there now, going to get up to 16F later on.
Have a good day, all!!!
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/
Oh, BTW...avoid anything from the Heart Attack Grill. My version of pentuplex and octoplex burgers are bad, bad, bad....
Good morning, everyone! It's a bit below freezing now, and we won't see much more melting until Tuesday, with the coldest weather of the season coming up this weekend. It will be the muscle machines and treadmill at the gym for me for a while longer, I guess.
Galaxy, it's good to see you back. Getting "doctored up" is never any fun, but I like to look at it as the first step on the road to recovery. My own diagnosis of Type 2 Diabetes felt like a death sentence a year ago, but the exercise program I've been on has made me feel and look better than I have in years. It's a new experience when I sit down at my local tavern and catch ladies actually looking at me, instead of the other way around.
MrMickLater a stop by my local hobby shop to pick up some sceniking stuff, as I am just about at the point of sprinkle and glue time.
Are you going to use static grass? I started a few years ago, and I've found that it takes my scenery to another level. I've got one of those cheap Grass-Tech applicators and it works fine.
I wired up the City Classics company houses yesterday, and I'm ready to put them on to the layout and connect them to "city power." I'm still not sure about their exact placement, but a couple of extra holes in foamboard won't hurt anyone.
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, I'll have a bowl of hot oatmeal with brownsugar and a pot of dark roast coffee (Café Justo) and a seat next to the kerosine stove in the back.
Winter has finally arrived here in the Finger lakes today! Currently 13°F (high might be 15°F) with a 20 mph wind. The wind chill is around -7°F. I have to drive to Canandaigua to take care of the kitties today and I bet the ICE fires before I get out of the driveway.... That should lower the 102mpg I'm getting on this tank of Dinasaur Dung. Yesterday I drove all over Geneva using only EV. Sun is trying to shine now and then so the white layer on everything is already dissapearing on the roads and hopefully my solar panels.
YGW, I guess the lemon juice gives a bit of tartness to it. Without it the pie would be really sicky sweet....
I best get myself away from the computer and get busy here. I forgot to do some laundry yesterday and will have to scounge to find clean clothes to wear today. Catch you later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Lion:
Just a polite warning on the lamingtons you won't be able to stop at just one
OOW a Tube Map havn't seen one of those for 42 years used to get from Liverpool St to Holbourn (spelling) twice a year and go to near Holloway twice a year to see late favorite Aunt who was Hospital Matron @ Holloway
C&P Restaurant Supply – Food To Die For!
If you think Maryland, you must think of crab cake sandwiches.
What else should go on the menu?
we have something called "spedies",cubes of chicken, pork or beef
John will likely go for Haggis, Auld Reekie Cock-a-Leekie Soup, Toad-in-the-Hole and Dornoch Dreams!
but definitively no knuckles of pork!
Der - Really ? A British phone number ? I am surprised by that I thought it was a reference to teh locomative in your picture.
what is yorkshire pudding
Cambus267: Why should this light hearted post from "The Grand Poobah" cause such alarm and consternation!!!!!! Well SWMBO has taken the decision that I must sorry "we" must lose weight and are therefore going on a strict diet!!! No more full Scottish breakfast to start the day we are going to eat healthy things like muesli (wood chippings) crispbread(corrugated cardboard) and cereal! So as you post about your favourite food please spare a thought for one unhappy Scotsman (no whisky either). I can only hope that my good lady wife cracks first or this could be a long miserable spring. Maybe a quick cup of tea and a few chocolate digestive biscuits before she notices! Health and happiness to all who visit the diner!!! We feel your pain! Console yourself in the thought that there are many observing Lent as a Fast up to Easter, and so you are not totally alone! And who knows, SWMBO may crack first!
Why should this light hearted post from "The Grand Poobah" cause such alarm and consternation!!!!!! Well SWMBO has taken the decision that I must sorry "we" must lose weight and are therefore going on a strict diet!!! No more full Scottish breakfast to start the day we are going to eat healthy things like muesli (wood chippings) crispbread(corrugated cardboard) and cereal! So as you post about your favourite food please spare a thought for one unhappy Scotsman (no whisky either). I can only hope that my good lady wife cracks first or this could be a long miserable spring. Maybe a quick cup of tea and a few chocolate digestive biscuits before she notices! Health and happiness to all who visit the diner!!!
BobL609: For those unfamiliar, could you explain Hush Puppies. There are some in your readership who may think these are footwear!
CNCharlie: I have done a little on the RR. I bought a new decoder for a Kato PA as I thought I had fried the NCE unit I had installed. Turns out it wasn't so as the new one doesn't work either(TCS). I tested the motor on DC and it works fine so there is a pickup issue. It is driving me crazy so I may just save my sanity and put the whole thing away. I have one PA (N scale) that does work but it suffers from intermittent stall issues so it has a pickup problem too but not as bad as the other. Sometimes I find N scale very frustrating and if I had to do it all over I would have just left it DC as I find N scale DCC fairly tempermental compared to HO. As perhaps I should have, given the amount of actual running I got out of the last layout (overcomplicated) But I’m stuck with the equipment now and don’t fancy changing everything back to DC. Also, not having to bother with all those block switches has improved life….
I've got one of those cheap Grass-Tech applicators and it works fine.
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
JohnDer: too late. I already did.
Flo, a cup-a-tea plus toast and marmalade please.
Ulrich,
Thank you for identifying the pork shoulder dish. I can now find recipes and try to cook it myself.
Yorkshire puddings should (if done correctly look more like this...
Getting them to rise to that height takes a lot of practice. Especially here in the south with so much humidity - but it can be done. I use muffin pans as they are deep and allow the batter to rise and overflow the top.
Chris.
Loco Guy - is a state of mind - not an affinity to locomotives.
Sit back and enjoy your track...
Mr. Yougottawanta: no disrespect implied nor intended.
For me the idea would be some fresh baked full grain breads, Gouda and Stilton cheeses, roasts of various types with various dry rubs and marinades, Russet popatoes, Brown and Black Rice, Salads of all sorts, and maybe, just maybe, some superhuge burgers of all sorts...including portobello ...
Afternoon Diners,
I went to the JCP to get new shoes since my old ones started to tear my socks and half too place cardboard slits inside.
I just read about the Egyptian train accident crashing into a concrete barrier. Caused by negligence and conductor was arrested. A common problem over there.
Der- I wish I could count undecorated ones.
yougottawanta Johnboy - Is that you in the picture ? Can a person actually eat the WHOLE THING ? Wow what a sandwich ! YGW
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Trying to post an image...
You entered a URL to photobucket not the image address.
Here is the image address.
http://i1377.photobucket.com/albums/ah69/NealsTrains/MR%20MCDONALDS_zpspho3pnmz.jpg
You can get the image address by going to your photobucket page and right click on the image and then copy image address. Then paste the image address into the <img> tag or whatever you are using.