Eveing Diners
Flo, the gang and I will have some of Jan's White Lighting with a chaser and a call to 911 and give Rick and Steven what they want.
Jan, first good to see you in the dinner again! Hope things are going better for your family. Far as the gene pool, that is what I am worried about with my wife. Her Dad passed from Allhier and at the time he seemed old to us. Hum, back then we would have seemed old to us. I think Ed was 70 or 72. Wife is knocking on that door at 67.
Steven Reach out to the young lady from drivers ed. What the worst she can do?
Work Front, strange day. Not a customer in the store till 6:45 PM then I had two pretty much at the same time? Both bought but it was only $920.00 total but still way better than a zero.
It is a all Ed engine night to night! Running the Bessemer SD 7, B&O F7's and the CB&Q F7's. Thank you Ed I love them!
Later Ken
I hate Rust
Good night diners,
Went to the club.
Had to check couplers on some cars.
My friend Sarah is talking to me more today, so that's good.
I'll be back in a bit.
Steve
If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough!
Kitchen Remodel Update: This is actually an update from last weekend.
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I intended to install the backsplash tiles, but when we opened the boxes we found they had enclosed the incorrect tiles. They were a crackle finish that was not what we wanted.
I decided to install the under (and over) cabinet lighting instead.
Progress continues...
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Afternoon Diners,
I could had bought a Kato 6-6-4 sleeper American Eagle yesterday with bids up to 12 people with a high price around $30. and shipping. It was worth it the price of a single passenger car out of a old 4 car set.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
Good day to all, it is high noon on the West Coast where we have a High O/C and pleasant temps.
Well, Eddy, the Eagle flew a couple of hundred metres to the neighbours yard and has moved on again after a lengthy stay at our place. My wife was in constant contact with "Owl" as they had been tracking it closely hoping to capture it for rehab. The poor thing was covered in blood, but it seemed to be flying better when it left than when it showed up.
Dave, that is great your Aunts worked with Owl, my son did a bit of volunteering with them, however, they were far from home and getting there was a challenge so it was short lived. My wife was the Vet for "Critter care" for years and that made life at the hospital really interesting. We had this beaver there with a huge chunk out of its tail. It would wander around the hospital and bite you on the foot if you didn't pay attention to it. After it was healed, it had a long happy life back at CC. It may still be there, I am not sure.
One late night about 0200hrs the wife and I were coming back from Vancouver on the freeway and saw a Bald Eagle in distress on the side of the road. It had been hit by a car trying while trying to reclaim its rather large Salmon from the middle of the road. We put it in a dog crate in the back of the truck and went past the hospital and euthanized it. It put a bit of a damper on what had been a great night out.
I stumbled across an Auction house full of RR goodies and have bids in on almost everything they have. It will cost me a fortune to have it shipped here. However, there is some stuff there I just can't believe I may get as I would never pay retail or eBay prices for. I had a thread going about a lady up north that was trying to get rid of her husbands' large collection and while I was researching that, stumbled across this auction. I also came across auction houses in South Africa and Austrailia that had large estate sales going on for MRR stuff. Those had closed, but the closing prices were peanuts. Shipping cost really determines what your bid price should be.
A friend of mine collects Corgi, dinky and other cars, especially military stuff and has over 3000 pieces in his collection. I put him onto the foreign auction of said stuff and even with the high shipping he did well and has not stopped thanking me. I told him to keep his lips sealed on the train stuff and he wasn't allowed to bid on it.
I have a bid of $12.00 ($8.00US) on this New in Box Sunset Loco for four days. This is one of about a dozen brass loco's I have bids of under $30.00 on. Most new in box Tenshodos. There is a Tenshodo Challenger NIB at $94.00CAN. I can't decide how high to go.
I think the sharks may show up soon and run up the prices, but then the auction house is in a small remote town far away, so I may get lucky.
Well back to the preassure washer.
Prime Rib on me tonight, EAT UP!
All the best to all.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
Good day folks,
I've been finishing cutting the grass, it takes about three full tanks to do it all, I've got about half an acre left and I'm out of gas, so I'll have to wait till my grandpa gets up from his nap to see if he's got some in the shop.
Well I'm going to make myself useful and do some yard work.
I'll be back.
Good Afternoon!
This is one of those days I should have better stayed in bed instead of getting up and trying to do some work on my layout. In the attempt to install one of the signals guarding the engine house, I must have turned over the Swiss loco, which was parked there. The pantograph got all tangled up in the overhead and got destroyed by me trying to free it. Adding insult to injury, I had put the tinplate roof of the engine house on my chair and when sitting down, I got a strarnge sensation of something being between my bottom and the chair. Fortunately, I had not fully lowered my 260lbs. on it, but the roof got dented and distorted. It took half a day of careful bending to nudge it back into shape. The damage is hardlky noticeable, but my soul is somehow scarred! Needless to say I won´t be touching anything for the rest of the day!
Steven, reading about your dating woes makes me grateful that I am happily married for 34 years and therefore don´t have to go through that ordeal again!
TTFN!
Happy times!
Ulrich (aka The Tin Man)
"You´re never too old for a happy childhood!"
Morning diners,
I probably should have acted sooner on that one.
Perhaps I should give it one last shot?
Thanks Dave for the compliment, by the way.
Well today I am grandpa (paw paw) sitting, at 87 my grandma doesn't want him left alone, she's going with my mom to trade in the car she just got for another one.
I'll be back later!
NWP SWPWell I waited a few weeks, finally got the courage to talk to her again,
I wonder what she was thinking having not heard from you for a few weeks?
Be bold Steven! Don't let things grow cold. Why wait a few weeks? What does that accomplish? Mind you, don't go overboard the other way either. You don't want them running away from you screaming!!
Actually, I'm pretty sure that won't happen. You are an intelligent, well spoken young man.
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Seems I have the top of the page, on my tab, mug up all, grasshoppers for the "young-uns"
herrinchoker
Ken,
When it comes to women, age is not a factor----it is genetic, nature of the beast, as it were---
I have not given up hope, just I'm not expecting anything.
Thanks though for the advice guys.
I did try reaching out to a girl I met at graduation, all I got was her name, so I looked her up, found her on instagram, so I took it easy and just commented saying"hey don't I know you from graduation?" She said "yeah we met at the bowling alley in the sports center" I said "yeah"
Well I waited a few weeks, finally got the courage to talk to her again, I commented "hey, so what do you plan to do now after graduation, if you don't mind me asking" that was a few weeks ago.
I have the same problem with my friend, she's a grade older than me, we've known each other since 3rd-4th grade, I've always been nice to her, we've talked, I've gotten her mad, made amends, I stopped talking to her for a while, nothing she did I just needed some time, we've been talking for a while, I've tried to make gestures, like inviting her to prom, she said she had a rehearsal for something at church, I thought that I might have startled her with the invite, so I tried to explain that I was just wanting to go as friends, and that I'm not looking to date right then, I've invited her to my concert, she said she had to work, I've offered to take her to hang out at the mall on a Saturday when I get my license, that she just ignored. Perhaps she's just a little shy, we both have never dated so that might be it. Just trying to give her the benefit of the doubt. She has however started to seem a bit jealous now that I'm meeting new people, especially other girls.... oh well it will all work out, there's plenty of fish in the sea, and "beyond the sea"
Patience is a virtue I guess!
NWP SWPI would certainly text her only one problem, I gave her my number, when I asked hers she said she'd text me, and did not give me her number, so that's where I sit.
Oh well, don't give up hope just yet.
I met my wife Dianne at University. I was in 3rd year and Dianne was in her first year. Another young lady with whom I had had a very brief (and regretable) prior relationship warned Dianne that I was one of the worst guys on the campus! Stay away!!! (The reputation was partially deserved by the way. I never let my classes interfere with my education.)
Dianne managed to avoid me for about four months despite the fact that our residence rooms were right side by side. The ice was broken when I asked her if she could make change so I could do my laundry. The rest is history. We have been together for 42 years, and if I'm lucky, I'll get another 42 years out of the deal!
I would certainly text her only one problem, I gave her my number, when I asked hers she said she'd text me, and did not give me her number, so that's where I sit.
BigDaddyStephen, text her. You have nothing to lose. In life you lose a lot of the times, but if you don't ask you don't get.
Steven:
That's good advice! Be brave!! The worst you will get is a "No". Anything other than that and you might be away to the races!
Stephen, text her. You have nothing to lose. In life you lose a lot of the times, but if you don't ask you don't get.
Dashcams are big in Russia. There is a Youtube of all sorts of crazy things including a truck driver coming through the front windshield of his cab.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
ricktrains4824I have actually been thinking about getting a dash-cam, just because I now drive 26 miles one way to w*^k, not because I do dumb thing, but because I am worried about all the idiots finally doing something dumb enough that I get caught in the mayhem they create.
Hi Ricky W.:
I strongly suggest that you invest in a dash cam. In fact I suggest that you get a system with a forward pointing camera as well as a rear pointing camera.
My wife recently witnessed an accident where a kid tried to go straight through a red light in the right turn lane. He hit a car that was coming in the opposite direction that was legally completing a left turn after waiting for my wife to stop. He made all sorts of excuses, including accusing my wife of stopping too quickly, but when the officer saw the video from the dash cam she said the kid's goose was cooked. If we had had a rear view camera he would have been charged with following too closely too. We now have a rear view camera.
The reason we got a dash cam originally is that we witnessed an absolute maniac driving wildly on a major highway a few years ago. I moved over two full lanes to make sure he didn't hit me. We called the police and they got him stopped, but because they didn't witness his wild driving they couldn't charge him with anything. Had I had the dash cam then, he would have been charged with several driving offenses. I would have purchased a rear view camera at the time but they weren't readily available.
Prices have come way down recently. The front/rear view video camera system cost me about $150.00 Cdn. on Amazon. You should be able to get something decent for not much more than $100.00 USD. The last one I bought is made by 'Aukey'. The screen is a bit small but workable. My previous camera was made by 'Auto-Vox'. It worked great but didn't have a rear view device.
Don't go too cheap. My very first camera, which was a gift from my son, was a piece of garbage. He only paid about $30.00 for it.
Evening diners,
I'm starting to think that the girl from Drivers Ed (Anna) will not be texting me, as my Grandpa Ward said, "hope for the best, expect the worst" well I tried, perhaps I'll be wrong though, we shall see.
Either way it's fine.
Anyways, I completed my online application for American Idol, just have to finish some paperwork to fill out to go to the audition.
Again not going to win, just get out there.
Wednesday I start voice lessons again. My mom is pushing me to start playing piano again, I would need lessons but I guess I'll try.
Still no news on the mobile home situation, hopefully my uncle won't change his mind.
Mowed some grass today, gotta finish tomorrow if it's not too wet.
ROBERT PETRICKThe problem is that most of the people here drive big duelly pickup trucks and king-cab, extended-bed diesel pickups
They have the same problem in downtown Dublin, Georgia. They put angled parking places downtown for easier access to the businesses. These are along the streets where you would expect parallel parking to be.
When someone parks a big dually crew cab in one of these spaces it protrudes out inot the travel lane and causes a traffic problem.
Swing and a miss! Gave up one problem and created a different, but just as bad, new problem.
I live in a small little town in one of those big square states out west. For a place that has literally thousands of square miles of nothing, we have traffic and parking problems of our own.
In the downtown business district there are plenty of angled parking spaces. The problem is that most of the people here drive big duelly pickup trucks and king-cab, extended-bed diesel pickups and pickups with giant wide angle side mirrors (for pulling lots of flat bed and livestock fifth-wheel trailers). Talk about ten pounds of sugar in a five-pound sack.
The irony is that my town was laid out in 1909 to provide "streets wide enough to allow wagons driven by four-oxen teams" to pull a u-turn maneuver. As if.
Robert
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I watch people in shopping centers and with a clear shot, they can't make it into the parking space (forward parking) the first, second or third time. 7 years of parking in downtown Baltimore and I can parallel park with the best of them.
This weekend is the 7th rainy weekend in a row. I've never see constant lightning, but it can happen hundreds of time per hour. Toby doesn't care much for thunder and lightning.
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Ulrich - In my area, people raised a fit when a local town went to back in angled parking. It was originally split between parallel and pull in angled parking.
Trouble is, if you pulled in at an angle, you had to back into traffic to leave!
Everyone griped that it was "too complicated" to back in on a busy street at an angle.
All of the remaining "parellel parking" spots in the area, were, and always are, empty.
People actually are now crossing said busy street to pull in forward, against traffic! This is, in my mind, much more dangerous that way, than backing in to a parking place.
It's just that everyone is in such a hurry, that they can't wait 5 seconds for you to back into a parking spot without getting all upset and crowding you and honking at you. (As well as some choice words and guestures!)
I have actually been thinking about getting a dash-cam, just because I now drive 26 miles one way to w*^k, not because I do dumb thing, but because I am worried about all the idiots finally doing something dumb enough that I get caught in the mayhem they create.
I actually have been recently subpoenaed for a trial date because of witnessing a idiot total his car on the interstate in front of me. He lost control on a straight and slammed into the "catch fence", as I call it, that cable style guide wire fencing.
He claims that another car hit him first and pushed him into it, yet, not only did I never see that other car, he took off on foot before the police showed up!
Ken - Sorry that your wife is having memory issues. A good friend of the family has been having issues of late, as has another friends mom. The friends mom no longer know who I am, and is stuck back when her kids were very young time wise. (My friend had is his third oldest graduate high school this year!)
The friend of the family is getting to where he sometimes forgets people's names, ours included. Other times, he is still as smart as a whip!
So, while I can't say I understand, as yours is your wife, I can say I have sympathy for what you are going through.
Wish that your wife stays well for a long time!
Edit - While I was posting, I see that Kevin posted again.
Kevin - I should have said that, in my area, there is no where to parallel park, so it's very hard to practice.
Because of that, and the fact that all they use for the test is a painted in box, with a couple of cones for your test, it is very, very difficult to pass.
And, if we do travel, we will be so out of practice, that we will be probably bumping something, be it curb, or another car, if we had to parallel park! In my area, there are only a few spots, and no one ever is in them, so it's very hard to keep practiced in it.
Ricky W.
HO scale Proto-freelancer.
My Railroad rules:
1: It's my railroad, my rules.
2: It's for having fun and enjoyment.
3: Any objections, consult above rules.
ricktrains4824But where do you parallel park?
Gainesville, Florida
Orlando, Florida
Tampa, Florida
Statesboro, Georgia
Etc.
We have one amazing storm that just came in across the Atlantic Ocean to Daytona Beach. Most tourists probably hate the rain, but I am enjoying it. It rains the entire Summer in Florida, but I rarely get to see it over the ocean.
NWP SWP In Louisiana they no longer require "parallel park" because they don't feel it's necessary.
In Louisiana they no longer require "parallel park" because they don't feel it's necessary.
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
Afternoon Diners
Flo, the gang and I will have a and give Rick and Steven what they like.
Brent Hope the egale will be able to fly again.
Gary Thank you for the photos!
Wife and I had a fight today and it beat me up. Last Friday she wanted to give me $100.00 toward the gas bill and I told her to keep it I was not going to pay till 6-11-18 this Monday. Asked her for it today and she swore she all ready gave it to me! I have never seen her this mad. I got her to go thought her wallet and she found $100.00 but she said that was for a coming Vet bill! (funny she asked a few days ago if I could pay for Sparkies shoots?) I finally gave up and did my running for the day, thank god.
Got home and the wife started remembering right. Hum now she remembered I told her to keep the money? It pertty muched runied my day. I am getting worried about her, this is not the first time she said she gave me something and it turns out she still had it.
Going with someone 5 years older to you when 17 was cool! Being married to someone 5 years older to you when 62 not so much.
I can parallel park if needed, it's just no longer a required part of the course.
Good Evening!
It´s been a pretty day, but only outside! I felt bad all day long as my BP and heart rate have completely derailed. I have a doctor´s appointment on Thursday and I hope I´ll make it that long.
I didn´t get much done today, just a few minor adjustments and shiftings on my layout. One of the signals on the tracks leading to the engine house will not be installed, allowing me to move the engine house a little closer to the nearest mast, which happens to be exactly one length of a piece of catenary. Now one of the stalls is "under wire" - and one to go! To complete the job I still need a few masts - and those two semaphore signals. Right now I don´t feel like driving to the neighboring town to pick them up.
No parallel parking? You guys would be lost here! Roadside parking is always parallel parking here, no angle parking allowed!
Have a good one!
Good afternoon all.
Flo - I will take a slice of apple pie, and a RBF please. Thanks.
Steven NWP - Drivers-Ed wasn't too bad in PA, but the worst part of the whole thing is they still require you to be able to parallel park.
3 point turns, sure.
All other types of driving, sure.
But where do you parallel park? There is nowhere in my area to do this, so they set up a box, with cones and paint. If you can make it into the box, you are fine. If you can't, you don't pass.
There is no curb, no cars around to see, so it is very difficult to pass.
And yes, everyone seems to think trains can stop, seemingly quick, when they simply can't.
I once had a w*^kmate say that they could beat the train as the trains could stop. I told him that they sure can, about 1 mile after they crushed your car. He was sure surprised it took that long!
Kevin - Best thunderstorm I ever saw, was split between the one in the Pocono mountains, and the mountainous area of Virginia near the WV border. Both put on quite the light show!
Weather - Warming back up.
W*^k - They seem to think I'm doing well in the new department, so....
Hope all are well, and all enjoy the day!
SeeYou190There is a huge thunderstorm a few miles off shore, and the lightning is striking the water and bouncing from cloud to cloud.
Kevin, when we lived in Chatham, Ontario we used to have some really amazing thunder storms. The sky would stay lit for several minutes at a time. It wasn't just a flash or two, it was constant. I remember thinking that this what it must be like in the southern USA.