Afternoon Folks
Flo, Ed, Jan, Brent and I will have a please.
Over all a boring day which is good!
Blood Surgar Front. Have no idea how this happened, but this morning my blood Sugar was only 68! Yea, I know that is to Low but beats the heck out of 141! Had 2 eggs, 2 small sausges and 1/2 of a hash brown for 21.5 carbs. At 1:00 my blood sugar was only 111? Ate the other half on the hash brown 17.5 carbs and started my running. 2 hours later it was only 141 which I will take as a win!
Later, Ken
I hate Rust
OSSB the second pic is a stumper. Beef tongue glued to a rock with a few bits of coal on top is my guess.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Good Evening,
We sure have been having a lot of unsettled weather here. Normally we have the garden all planted by early June but we still don't have it all done yet. Tomorrow we won't get anything done again as we are expecting a high of 55F with a lot of wind and showers. You would think I would be downstairs at least running the layout but I haven't done that in several months.
I was at the Doc's a few days ago as my ear problem has resurfaced. By evening it feels like I'm underwater in one ear. Apparently the tubes connecting with my sinuses are filling due to post nasal drip. I'm on a nasal spray that seems to be helping. Last time I had this it took at least a month to clear up. Not much of a problem compared to some on this forum.
Not much new on the birdwatching front either. We have a lot of Pine Siskins and quite a few Gold Finches but not much else at the feeders. I sold my binoculars to a friend so must now order some new ones. I have them picked out but will wait until we go down to visit our friends in Minnesota before I order them.
Ulrich, glad you decided to stay with us. I was really impressed with that house in Denmark. A bit too far for us here but compared to Canada the price was sure right. Houses in our city aren't too bad for price, about a third of that in Toronto.
Perhaps I will run a train tomorrow, I have the Northern sitting in front of the station with an express boxcar, baggage car and my Pride of Africa car. A strange consist but I like it.
Well time for some TV. We recorded an episode of Maigret so likely will watch that. It is strange to see Rowan Atkinson as a French police detective but he does it well.
CN Charlie
Sad day today. Our young husky had her x-rays under general anesthetic and has been laying in one spot in the backyard ever since waking up eight hours ago. She has torn both of her ACLs and will require surgery for metal plates. I'll be up a lot tonight checking up on her since I'm the retired one in the household.
Well, I spent all last week in Daytona Beach, and all this week down South in Riviera Beach. I am going home, back to the West Coast tomorrow. I am looking so forward to getting back to the house. I can't wait to play with my new camera and take some good pictures of the cardboard layout. Then I can finally tear it down and give my wife back the living room. She has been so patient.
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-Kevin
Living the dream.
Good Morning,
Old School, sorry to hear about your dog's injury. One of our Westies had a crutiate go on one leg and had surgery to fix it. He was fine afterwards and lived to a very good age. The recovery is a bit of a problem as you have to keep the dog from running or doing much of anything. We had to send our other Westie to friends for 6 weeks as she always wanted to play with him.
Well time for bed,
CNCharlieI sold my binoculars to a friend so must now order some new ones. I have them picked out
CN Charlie:
I'd be interested in hearing about what you chose and why. We have decent binoculars but I'm always curious to see what else is out there.
We just bought a fairly inexpensive scope and we like it. The biggest challenge is that I'm not steady enough on my feet to be able to use it for very long, but we will just drag along folding chairs so we can better zero in on the target.
We had a funny experience when we were buying the scope. We were at a store on Point Pelee that specializes in scopes and binoculars. I asked to see a few models in the less than $600 range, and the very pleasant salesperson gathered up three scopes and took us outside. The store had set up a standard physicans' eye chart about 150' away across the road, and of course all of the scopes were able to zero in on individual letters quite nicely. However, I didn't want a scope that was only good at 150'. In the far distance there was an enormous communications tower so I decided to see if I could focus on the antenna array at the top. It took a while to get the top of the tower in sight in the scope, but once we could see the tower we quickly discovered that there was an Osprey nest at the top that was not visible to the naked eye. The scope was clear enough that we could see the dark stripe on the side of the Osprey's face and the dark bill so we knew it wasn't a Bald Eagle. Our salesperson said she had no idea that there was a nest on the tower! I don't think any of the other store staff knew either. The scope we chose was the least expensive of the three she showed us by the way (Celestron Ultima 80). It is not high end (not even close) but it works for us.
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
CNCharlie Not much new on the birdwatching front either. We have a lot of Pine Siskins and quite a few Gold Finches but not much else at the feeders. I sold my binoculars to a friend so must now order some new ones. I have them picked out but will wait until we go down to visit our friends in Minnesota before I order them.
Here in Dartmouth, NS we are seeing more cardinals every year - I can remember when there were none! In the country a great many yellow-shafted flickers, ring-necked pheasants, osprey (our provincial bird), bald eagles, and red-tailed hawks. On one of my Bay of Fundy shoreline gypsum-collecting hikes there is a nesting pair of Peregrine Falcons up high on the tree-topped cliffs. When they see me coming they are very vocal and do close flybys. I keep my back to the cliffs so I don't get attacked from a blind side and move quickly past. They are an amazing sight to see up close.
OldSchoolScratchbuilderOn one of my Bay of Fundy shoreline gypsum-collecting hikes there is a nesting pair of Peregrine Falcons up high on the tree-topped cliffs. When they see me coming they are very vocal and do close flybys. I keep my back to the cliffs so I don't get attacked from a blind side and move quickly past. They are an amazing sight to see up close.
Hi OldSchool...:
I have an aunt who is an avid bird watcher and has travelled most of North America to see the birds. A few weeks ago she was coming out of a parking lot in the middle of Mississauga, Ontario. The traffic was delayed in front of her. Each car seemed to stop for a couple of minutes before moving on. Like all of us, she was getting a little bit annoyed by the delays. That was until she got up to the delay itself. On the sidewalk right next to the road was a Peregrine Falcon dining on a Dove. She was able to get out her brand new iPad and get a couple of good pictures. It just goes to show that if you are a birder you always need to keep your eyes open (and stay on the road)! She is 87 by the way!
Wow that's amazing Dave! Thanks for sharing.
Good Morning!
The weather in my neck of the woods is playing roller coaster again. It got really hot yesterday, with temperatures at 31°C at 10am. By noon, a terrific thunderstorm rolled in, pouring buckets of water on us. The gusts of wind that came with it reached 180kph, toppling trees and blowing debris around. Unfortunately, quite a few trees fell on the tracks in and around Hamburg, taking the catenary down. It took until this morning to get everything up and running again. People stranded in Hamburg, bremen and Hannover were given overnight accommodations in sleeping cars at no charge.
A second thunderstorm provided us with a beautiful, orange colored sunset.
Looks a bit gloomy, doesn´t it?
I am making plans to visit Miniatur Wunderland, once I start to feel better. I want to see the new section - Italy - which is supposedly the best they have made so far in terms of detail and atmosphere.
Garry - for Dan for a successfull surgery!
Have a great day!
Good morning ....
So far, heavy rains and storms are west of us and north of us. Weather guessers say the storms will move in here in 2 or 3 hours as the line of storms shifts in towards our direction.
Thanks much to those who expressed support for my friend, Dan, who is having the difficult surgery today. His wife texted me very early this morning he was going into the operating room. Probably, I will not hear anything for several hours. In her text she was thankful for support. I had previously texted to her my model railroad friends in the US and other countries were praying for Dan.
Again, I am reminded model railroad people are the best people in the world.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
The other day I mentioned that I had spotted something new (to me) on an intermodal container. It is a tracking box & I finally was able to get Photobucket to play nice this morning. I suspect that these will become more & more common in the future.
Tom
Pittsburgh, PA
Heartland Division CB&Q Thanks much to those who expressed support for my friend, Dan, who is having the difficult surgery today. His wife texted me very early this morning he was going into the operating room. Probably, I will not hear anything for several hours. In her text she was thankful for support. I had previously texted to her my model railroad friends in the US and other countries were praying for Dan.
Garry,
My thoughts and prayers are with your friend Dan as well.
As you know I've been close to that and have some experience there and it is not a fun exercise.
They didn't give me that option, however at my age I don't think I would have taken it. I got into enough trouble with trying dilation. And elected to continue using the feeding tube.
The best of luck to Dan. and to you with the coming storm.
Now to change the subject, I forgot to wish YGW. on the birthday, so now it has been done. Have a Double RBF on me.
Johnboy out.....
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
Afternoon Diners,
Ulrich- That's a beautiful sunset. Sometimes ours looks like that too.
Tom- I never saw one either when railfanning in Reno, NV.
Oldschool- Sorry about your dog.
Prayers for surgeries and healing for anyone.
A fortune cookie quote for fun.
"You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back."
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
BATMAN Gooooooood afternoon from the warm and sunny West Coast of Canuck land. I did waaaaay toooooo much yard work yesterday and am an armchair deadbeat today. Olson: that's just proof you worked hard (as I tell my wife) and not a result of getting older (as I tell myself). YGW, The flight from Sydney to Vancouver is 15 to 17 hours long, right up the middle of the Pacific ocean the whole way, you can be a long way from an airport in an emergency. Long range aircraft have a very extensive list of medical equipment and drug kits on board and (most) first world airlines have someone on the flight crew with full paramedic training for long haul flights. Another long trip is from Vancouver to Eastern Europe..... Although Santa has been known to let the occasional emergency drop down. I recently read a blog review of Etihad's three room suite accomodations called ' The Residence, a three-room suite with a permanent double bed in the bedroom, a living room and a private en-suite bathroom with shower. If you've got, at least, U.S.$5,000 burning a hole in your pocket, it's a way to "endure" those long flights. The kid just got canceled on a TV show he was booked on. A change of script saw a change of characters. Oh well, his days on Deadpool 2 are being firmed up and he has been given an assistant! Why he needs an assistant he has no idea. He is just a glorified extra. I've known a few people in the entertainment industry (some lasting a bit over their "15 mins.") and, sometimes, an assistant is a patronage job...a favour to someone for some reason....maybe he has an assistant because it keeps that person involved but off-screen. I always enjoy YGW quotes of the U.S. founding fathers and having an interest in history I am of the opinion that these gentlemen were wise indeed. It continues to amaze me how thougthful (thought filled) they were given there was little to no template or precedence for what they were trying to achieve. All the best to all.
Gooooooood afternoon from the warm and sunny West Coast of Canuck land.
I did waaaaay toooooo much yard work yesterday and am an armchair deadbeat today.
Olson: that's just proof you worked hard (as I tell my wife) and not a result of getting older (as I tell myself).
YGW, The flight from Sydney to Vancouver is 15 to 17 hours long, right up the middle of the Pacific ocean the whole way, you can be a long way from an airport in an emergency. Long range aircraft have a very extensive list of medical equipment and drug kits on board and (most) first world airlines have someone on the flight crew with full paramedic training for long haul flights. Another long trip is from Vancouver to Eastern Europe..... Although Santa has been known to let the occasional emergency drop down.
I recently read a blog review of Etihad's three room suite accomodations called ' The Residence, a three-room suite with a permanent double bed in the bedroom, a living room and a private en-suite bathroom with shower. If you've got, at least, U.S.$5,000 burning a hole in your pocket, it's a way to "endure" those long flights.
The kid just got canceled on a TV show he was booked on. A change of script saw a change of characters. Oh well, his days on Deadpool 2 are being firmed up and he has been given an assistant! Why he needs an assistant he has no idea. He is just a glorified extra.
I've known a few people in the entertainment industry (some lasting a bit over their "15 mins.") and, sometimes, an assistant is a patronage job...a favour to someone for some reason....maybe he has an assistant because it keeps that person involved but off-screen.
I always enjoy YGW quotes of the U.S. founding fathers and having an interest in history I am of the opinion that these gentlemen were wise indeed.
It continues to amaze me how thougthful (thought filled) they were given there was little to no template or precedence for what they were trying to achieve.
All the best to all.
For ease of understanding my response, I tucked them into the quoted post as italicized and underlined.
OldSchoolScratchbuilder Sad day today. Our young husky had her x-rays under general anesthetic and has been laying in one spot in the backyard ever since waking up eight hours ago. She has torn both of her ACLs and will require surgery for metal plates. I'll be up a lot tonight checking up on her since I'm the retired one in the household.
Sorry to hear that about your husky. Our neighbours' puppy recently had hip surgery, is doing well, but is so used to getting around on three legs won't use the one fixed. Resting, the first 7-10 days after surgery, is the most important thing for proper healing.
tcwright973 The other day I mentioned that I had spotted something new (to me) on an intermodal container. It is a tracking box & I finally was able to get Photobucket to play nice this morning. I suspect that these will become more & more common in the future.
While we rarely (almost never) used Schneider, it was "big news" (back in 2013) when they announced 1) they were installing container tracking tech, and 2) Qualcomm got the bid. It's one thing to track a shipping vessel reportedly containing one's trailer. But once the trailer goes through U.S. Customs and leaves the port, who knows exactly where it is or when it'll arrive? This type of tracking technology, as long as it's not hacked by hijackers, is great.
Hello ... Thanks for the concern about my firend, Dan. He is out of surgery and the recovery can begin. I have no further deatils now.
JohnBoy ... I have been thinking of you as well as Phil (Flip). I know each of you have had to deal with this sort of cancer. I hope you are getting along okay now.
OSSB .... I am sorry to hear about your dog having a spinal injury. It must be hard on you to take care of your pet.
Tom ... It is intersting they installed the box over the lettering. I guess they did not care about that.
Meanwhile, I am working on scenery around my brdges.
Well, as of tomorrow morning our family summer activities begin with a neighbour's wedding. As the bride walks down the aisle I will be playing my acoustic solo arrangement of "In My Life" by the Beatles. Then on Tuesday a surprize song accompanied by the music teacher's students at my wife's retirement function at her school.
This is my last evening online until the fall. Happy railroad modelling everyone and enjoy your summer.
Dennis
Good afternoon from the hot, sunny West Coast. Cold beers on me today.
Garry, I hope your friend gets through his ordeal. Unfortunately, we all know of cancer victims and they just announced on the news the other night that cancer will affect 50% of us now. Obesity seems to be the biggest cause these days. Sure makes getting on the bike (as painful as it is some days) easier when you hear that. I have known a few people that have had horrible things done to them fighting the disease, that have had a full life afterward. A guy I worked with (big time smoker) had half his lower jaw, tongue and nose removed. It took years and a lot of plastic surgery but he actually looks better than he did before the cancer diagnosis. He just can't grow a beard on the one side now. He had a fake nose for a while and when we stopped for lunch at Tim Hortons he would lift it off its hook and slide it across the table at you. Why he worked when so sick I don't know, he didn't have to, but he had no one at home. Most of us were single guys as we were always at work, so I guess we were his family.
Olsen185, I think you may be right about the assistant thing. Being summer, the film school students are filling up the movie/TV sets trying to look important and/or learn. My kid gets treated very well by the various directors and gets asked for specifically by some of them for projects. He even had a call from one director that was in South America that was coming here to film his next project. I asked a couple of casting directors why they like him and have been told it is because he takes direction well and doesn't screw up. They said people love bloopers, but in reality, they can cost a lot of money depending on how long it takes to set up a shot. When he was working on "The Predator" there were only the six extras on set for four 14 to 17 hour days, no main characters until the last day. There was probably at least a hundred crew on site for just shooting these six guys running around. Plus the set was a neighbuorhood and all the residents were moved to expensive hotels.
His movie stardom ends in two months when he goes off to University in Ottawa. He will most likely be interning at the Parliament buildings in the summer and that pays him $35,000.00 a year while going to university.
Oldschool It is nice to be asked to play at weddings and funerals. I have been asked to play and sing Gordon Lightfoots "Beautiful" at weddings a few times and play at some other events, however, I don't like to do those kinds of things and won't. It becomes a job at that point and I learned about turning enjoying hobbies into commitments after playing for 300 people once at a campground on Canada day, even though it went very well. My wife says (jokingly) that I am anti-social because I like to just do my own thing.
Kids graduation tonight at the school and then tomorrow in Vancouver at a very hoity-toity joint.
Here. https://www.tripadvisor.com/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g154943-d155558-i197912810-Pan_Pacific_Vancouver-Vancouver_British_Columbia.html
I am really out of my blue collar element at these things. I was voted by the grads to give the toast to the grad class at it. I gracefully declined though deeply touched by being asked. These kids went to the same school together for thirteen years and I swear when not in school they were at our house. We are very close to so many off them. I took them on some great adventures that some helicopter parents wouldn't dare. One kid wrote a long thankyou letter to us and recounted all the things we did over the years. It was very touching.
All the best to all. Now, where is my monkey suite?????
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
Brent ... Thanks for commenting about my firend and also telling about your friend. I haave now heard, Dan has severe pain and the doctors increased the pain medicine. I don't expenct to hear any more for a while.
Evening Diners
What Flo, Brent is buying! I take a Keg Of please.
Work was pretty good to me today. Made a extra $110.00 in spiffs! Only 3 customers all day but had one that counted!
OSSB Hum, looks like a type of wood shortened like that. Good luck for your dog! Just glad you can afford the Vet bill, guessing that it is not cheap.
Gary Wish your train friend a fast recovery and as pain free as it can be.
Ulrich Glad to see you still posting in the dinner! Yes, that was a nice looking house.
Be on the look out for a Model Railroader with Muck canard crème visage on his face and a empty Crown Royal bottle in his hand! That would be Ed!
We had a cool day as promised but at least I finally got to run trains! Well, one train anyway.
Garry, hope your friend recovers well. I have a friend who lives in Johannesburg who went through similar surgery a few years ago. His stomach is now near his back, smaller and much higher. He lives a completely normal life except he can only eat small meals now.
Dave, the bins I am planning to buy are Minox bins. I have done a lot of research and it seems you get a very high quality for a more modest price. My wife has Meopta Meostars that really are fantastic. We did a back to back comparison with a pair of Swarovskis and we felt the Meoptas had better focusing and were slightly brighter in low light. Besides that they were hundreds less. Mind you that was 3 years ago and now those Meoptas have gone up in price by a fair amount. The bins I sold were Celestron Trailseekers.
As tomorrow is supposed to be cool and cloudy, I might just look at that Red Caboose reefer kit that is open on my workbench.
See you soon,
Quiet place, this one is today.
It´s been an unusually wet day here. It started pouring at the break of dawn and has not yet stopped.
I´ll be heading for bed in a few moments, hoping for some sleep.
Continuing for your friend Dan, Garry!
Hope you all don't mind me dropping in......... I just saw Old School Scratch's "farewell post" and I guess "wow" is the best reaction I can come up with.
What happened to the Silo layout he was commissioned to build? What about the custom loco paint job? What about the experiments in electronics? What about the natural material sourced personal layout? What about all those construction vehicles and locos without occupants? What about the 2000 plus MR mags?
Have to say, I was looking forward to seeing the results, but I guess the ol "MR bug" has just dried up and left the building........
ENJOY !
Mobilman44
Living in southeast Texas, formerly modeling the "postwar" Santa Fe and Illinois Central
BATMANUnfortunately, we all know of cancer victims and they just announced on the news the other night that cancer will affect 50% of us now.
I can't decide if that's good news or bad news, honestly. More than anything else, I think it just says people are avoiding fatal accidents and other terminal illnesses and secumbing to cancer instead.
That number, by the way, is people who are diagnosed with cancer, not those who die of it. We are curing more patients all the time.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Good evening all. I made some potroast.
Garry , Hoping Dan makes full recovery.
Tropical Storm Cindy was sort of a bust here in W Kentucky, we did not get near the rain they forecasted.
Here is a picture of the sunset last night after the remnants and the front had passed on to the east.
This is a block from my house so yes I can railfan from the fromt or back yard. Even better in the winter when there are no leaves.
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Evenin' folks!
CNCharlie My wife has Meopta Meostars that really are fantastic.
Really Charlie! I don't think we are supposed to say stuff like that in here.... This should be a kid friendly forum you know!!! Vinnie will be back on Monday and take care of that! (What the heck is he talking about anyway???)
Sir MadogIt´s been an unusually wet day here. It started pouring at the break of dawn and has not yet stopped.
You know, "On cable TV they have a weather channel - 24 hours of weather. We had something like that where I grew up. We called it a window." - Dan Spencer
"Weather forecast for tonight: Dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning." - George Carlin
As for me, "It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up." - W Somerst Maugham
Manét the cat woke me up about 6:30AM this morning as the sun had decided to peek through the window in the bedroom. I scratched his chin for a couple minutes, rolled over and went back to sleep for another 3 hours... Have spent most of the day doing some odds and ends including packing a bunch of stuff, including my laptop, to head out to Boy Scout Camp tomorrow to check out and have the Properties Chair and the Camp director make the final decision of what I should put in down at the lakefront for sound. I am recommending against using the old probably 50 year sound equipment I gave to camp about 15 years ago down there. The power head (mixer and amp) has sat in the shower house for the last 10 years and I'm not sure I trust it at this time. Would hate to have something go kaput and end up burning down the building it would be in. So I will recommend I donate a new unit that also has all the new connections used today (such as USB) and is a one piece set up that would be easy to move around camp where needed. I will also bring out some stuff to check out the main sound on the Dining Hall/Parade Field for them. If time permits I will start my yearly trimming the grass and weeds around the tent platforms in campsites.
OK, back to being lazy for a bit, and then to bed! Have a good one out there... Prayers for those in need of them!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Flo, Brent, Jan and I will have a beer please. If Ed makes it in a Crown Royal on the rocks.
Not a dran thing good happen today!
If you want to call it work. Only 2 people all day, I think one just wanted to use the rest room. Sold a whole $160.00 in 8 hours!
Tax Front? Got a tax refund from Mo for $745.00! I know what I want to do, make a house payment! But I am 99% sure that check should have went to the state of ILL! I want to do the right thing, but I am hurting for the need funds for the house payment. I was going to take $400.00 out of my meager savings to make the payment.
Later Ken