Good afternoon from the deep South of Canada on the left side near the blue part. It is 20c and sunny.
Ray, so sorry to hear about Manet, I think you made the right choice not to let him suffer. Having a wife that is a Vet sometimes lets you see the suffering animals can go through because of owners that either can't for emotional reasons or don't because they won't spend the money to have an animal put down.
I have accompanied my wife at all hours when she has been called out to euthanize an animal and it never gets easy, we have both shed lots of tears along with the family that made the call. Sometimes the wife would come home angry as she knew the animal had been in excruciating pain for a long time and the owners just didn't care enough to do something about it.
We have had a lot of dogs pass through our lives and every one of them has a distinct personality and it has been heartbreaking to say goodbye.
Steven, glad to hear you are enjoying the new job. I did the shopping cart thing at Safeway at age 13/14 and use to do paper routes for guys going on vacations. My first what I consider my real job was at a City-owned golf course. That was from April of grade ten through until a month after I graduated High School. Made full City worker wages while I was there and worked 40 hrs a week. 12 hours on Sat and 12hrs on Sun and then three days after school during the week to make up the 40 hrs. My friend also in the same grade as me got a job at the Post Office. He worked from 0400hrs to 0830hrs every day before school and then all day on Saturday. He made slightly more per hour than I did but I got more hours. A couple of high rollers for high school kids. Things got a lot better as soon as I was out of school. Happy times getting real financial independence.
Well, time to get to work on this sunny day as I have recovered from blowing off 1200 calories on the bike. Have to fire up the chain saw and cut up a 60' tree that fell over.
You think I'm workin hard now, just look at what's up ahead.
All the best to all.
I got tops! Beverages of choice on me. I'll have a McWilliams Cab Sav please.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
Good afternoon ...
Ray .... It is hard when there is a surviving pet. You can't explain to Blackie what happened to Manet. Blackie will miss Manet for a long time. ... .We have had both dogs and cats over our years, and have many memories of them. Currently, we have three cats, and they are enjoyable.
Brent ... It looks like you have a lot of dogs. ... I like the photo of the passneger train. I'm guessing it is CP in BC. A full length open observation car is partly visible in the lower left corner on the picture.
Everybody .... Have a nice evening.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Ray. I hope every day gets better for you after your loss. It's a tough thing to go through and takes some time. I have been there, it's hard. Try to keep your chin up
Brent. From the picture, it sure looks like you run a tight ship with your dog business
Another beautiful day in Minnesota today. I went out to my buddy Erv's in Prior lake. He helped me fine-tune the organization of my truck. Now I know where everything is down to the last screw.
I helped him cut simulated slate porcelain with my wet saw for his grills. Erv is like the Midwest Grill Master of the far North. He has a smoker and three grills. He wanted to put big slabs of tile over the wood slats in front of the grills so it's easier to clean up barbecue sauce and slop during grilling season.
It was a good day. The first taste of the nice weather is refreshing. I hope you all had a good day too.
TF
Eveing Diners
Flo, give the gang and I a JR the wine list and leave a stein outside for Ulrich.
Worked Sucked Rail Spikes. So that is covred.
Ray Hope the best for you and Blackie. When we lost are first Irish Wolfhound Soyna, Tiffany seemed lost. (American Eskimo) While not litter mates they meet at 8 weeks old. Getting are second Irish Wolfhound Shaddy helped but still was not the same for Tiff.
Ed Got the shell off the dead B&O F7a and it has the magnetic reed switch not the rubber button you thought it had. Just want to make sure I understand what you told me.
I get setting the engine on the layout with power on. Then run the whole earth magent over the reed switch the lift the engine off the track. But do I keep the magnet over the reed switch when I lift it off the rails or not? I was going to say I was scratching my head over this, but not going there again with you!
Later, Ken
I hate Rust
Hi, Folks,
Hi, Ken! I also enjoyed our conversation last night Good Stuff!
From the manual:
To Reset Your Locomotive to Factory Default Values (Analog and DCC) In case your locomotive’s sound and control system misbehaves and turning the power off and back on does not return it to normal operation, you can reset your locomotive to original factory values.
Locomotives with Magnetic Reed Switches: Locate the reed switch area as shown in the Diesel Model Specifications sheet that came with the locomotive. Turn off the power. Place the Magnetic Wand over the reed switch area and apply power and leave the wand there until you hear the word “Reset”. Your locomotive is now reset.
When in doubt, scratch everything
Hope that helps, Ed
Pardon me for ranting:
Dianne and I went out to a new restaurant in town on Thursday night. The burgers were great, the crab cakes were more bread crumbs than crab, and the wine was as bland as anything that I have ever had. However, what set me off was when the owner approached us and we told him that this was our first time in the restaurant. His response was to tell us, jokingly of course, that "he had a problem with that". In other words, he wasn't pleased that we had waited so long to visit his establishment. After all, he said, they had been open for three months!
That is not what I call humour. I felt like I suddenly had to come up with a response to justify my tardiness. I felt that he was implying that we had done something wrong by not visiting his establishment sooner.
Maybe I'm too thin skinned, but to me humour is something that both parties can feel comfortable with. I shouldn't have to suffer someone else's idea of a joke or go along with them even though I feel uncomfortable, especially when I am paying the bill. We won't be back to the restaurant for a while.
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Everytime an interesting new restaurant opens, I go and have a meal and check it out.
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I am amazed at how off-putting (and sometimes creepy) the owners can be. I know they are excited about their new restaurant, and they mostly want to make sure you are enjoying yourself, but they can be sometimes so overbearing and obnoxious.
They can be their own biggest problem, and that is not good.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Good Morning All,
38F and raining some more. No wind though so I'm good.
Started reading the tutorial on wiki for DCC. Might as well, eh? Only been 10 years since I got the system and maybe I should figure out how stuff works.
Sorry to hear you are still having issues at w**k Ken. Can't be any fun that way.
Getting ready today to load for the two race tracks. Right now I'm finishing up some brake ducts on the back of the Lotus23 and then onto the F-350 to make a new rear door for the bed cap. We got one of the trick glass caps with a full size one piece hinge up rear and a smaller door inset into that. One of my Smedleys drove back from the track with the inset door unlocked so of course it opened and then broke on our bumpy northeastern roads. At least this time nothing fell out. So todays project is to replace said door.
Dave, I think that owner needs to work on his curbside manner a bit. We had a similar experience a couple of weeks ago when we decided to try an old favorite that had changed hands. Hadn't been since the ownership change and got berated for not knowing to call for a reservation. Didn't say anything on their website either and before it was no reservations taken, just show up. Oh well.
Nothing much else going on now so I'll just take my coffee and go sit in the corner for a spell. CUL, J.R.
hon30critterMaybe I'm too thin skinned
Yes, I think so. Did you happen to tell him what you didn't like about the food? That might have been helpful to him, and maybe he would have offered you a refund, or at least a free desert.
About Cats and Dogs.
Br. Louie had to put down his cat BUTTERSCOTCH because it was suffering with feline AIDS. This was a cat that was left with us by an indegent family whose car had broken down beyond repair. We got them bus tickets to get back home, but the cat stayed here. He was a free roaming cat and must have fought with some infected feral cats.
Then there was TILLIE, or Mechtilde the 2nd. She was a fine cat and in the end was 18 years old. She was beginning to suffer, so while I was out of town for a week, Br. Louie took the animal out back and shot her. (Yes we do have guns at the Abbey)
Finally was my brother's dog MARLEY. It had belonnged to his son, but when he got married to a woman who had another big dog, the two did not get along. So Russ kept Marley. Eventually he got old, and it seems that Boxewrs have a congenital issue so that he could no longer operate his back legs. The vet assured him that the dog was not in pain, so Russel would just tie a towel around the dogs back end and held it up so that the doge could walk on his front legs. But eventually even this became too much, so Russ and Wendy lay down on the ground with the dog between them and the vet came to their house with the needle. They burried the dog in their back yard. This was the first pet to be interned at this propery, all of their other cats and dogs were burried at their old address.
Oh well, Callista is alive, but cannot jump up to surfaces, which is why I can keep her in the copmputer office. Her date is coming, but I hope that she remains comfortable. She will have to go back outside when summer comes, but I think that she will like that, she was never an indoor cat.
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Tonight Mrs. ROR and I are going to hear the Phoenix Symphony perform, along other things, a Philip Glass Violin Concerto (arranged for Saxophone.) Here is what the Phoenix Symphony posted on their Facebook page today. I thought to myself, "Hey, I know who that is!" (And, yes, I do indeed have an active Facebook account.)
Richard
Dave I wouldnt get all worked off about the restaurant owners sense of humor. Irony and sarcasm are hard to pull off.
I'm more concerned about ordering crab cakes in the middle of winter? Fresh made crab cakes freeze OK, but a restaurant can't keep that many frozen crab cakes. Therefore it comes from 1/2 way around the world.
My credentials? I live 2 miles from the Chesapeake Bay. Fresh in seafood is the same as fresh in sweet corn. Minutes matter.
Br Lion, I hope people aren't shocked at the methods of euthanasia used at the friary. I took my last dog, Emmie Lou to the vets. The gave her "sedation" and she jumped only getting a partial dose. They came back into the room 5 minutes later and gave her a second dose and she had dysphoria, appearing violently disoriented, swinging her head from side to side. The vet came back, started an IV, gave her a a third dose of sedative, and then the barbiturate that actually does the job. It was awful.
My current dog will take a walk in the woods.
At Home Depot, I got down on my knees to read a label on a box, and as I turned my head, the lens popped out of my eye glasses. I went to my optician. There were 3 employees, doing nothing, well one was eating. One asked my what I needed right away. She replaced the lens, found a new screw and then had a 10 minute conversation with another employee.
She then spent 5 minutes cleaning the lens, decided there was a piece of fuzz between the frame and the lens, took it apart again. Then her buddy came back and there was another discussion. Ultimately there was no charge. You get what you pay for.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Afternoon Diners
JR When I said work sucked rail spikes it not because it was hard. Pretty much because no one came in that was worth talking to for 3 days! I think I had a whole $496.00 in sales for 3 days?
Wonderfull World Of VA Health Care! Went in for a Catscan of my chest and that went smoothly. Next was to have my blood drawn for my A1C and other thing test. After waiting around 20 minutes I was called back, so not that bad.
Second time in a row there where no orders in my file for the need blood test? Had to march down stairs to my primary care unit and complain and waited for my Dr PA to come out and talk with me. Danny did get things squared away and I marched back up stairs and got the blood work done.
What should have been a 1 hour visit turned into a 2 hour ordeal. By far not the worst debacle I have has with VA Health Care but still not as smooth as it could be.
Well that's all folks.
Ken
RideOnRoad
cudakenWhen I said work sucked rail spikes it not because it was hard. Pretty much because no one came in that was worth talking to for 3 days!
Did you ever tell us which mattress company you worked for? Is it a private local company, or one of the national chains? Around here mattress stores are almost as common as Wawa's and CVS's, except the mattress stores all seem to be grouped together.
Good Evening,
Snow is melting nicely here. We can actually see a bit of the back patio.
ROR, the mention of Phillip Glass always gets a reaction from my wife. She can stand his music and finds it monotenously repetitious. She says it is like water torture. She is an accomplished pianst herself. Besides the grand piano we have a dual manual harpsicord.
Well time for a little tellie.
CN Charlie
Hello,
CNCharlieROR, the mention of Phillip Glass always gets a reaction from my wife. She can stand his music and finds it monotenously repetitious.
I haven't listened to much Phillip Glass but by the sound of things, I hold the same opinion of Kenny G and his horn blowing. Pretty redundant IMHO, to my untrained ears anyway.
Ken, RE: BLI, QSI resetting. Read through this recent thread:
http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/744/t/275071.aspx
Enjoy the weekend, everyone.
Ed
Hey fellas,
So I messed around with the coal gon again, relocated the bolsters and mounted the trucks, once the operation problems on this car are solved I'll be extending the side braces all the way down the car and to the underframe with strip styrene, first I have to get it to run right though.
Steve
If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough!
The reason for posting the meme was to show the amusing use of a railroad picture in classical music setting, not to open the door for Glass bashing.
WARNING: Musically-oriented response follows.
While Philip Glass’s compositions are not for everyone, they are not simple and repetitive, but complex and multi-layered. The symphony’s meme featuring Cody was making light of the incorrect perception that his pieces are the same thing over and over. To appreciate his works, one has to actively listen, not to what is the same, but to what is different. Glass is easy to perform poorly, but difficult to perform well. I have actively studied his works for more than twenty years. For what it is worth, he has also composed a number of film scores including three that have been nominated for academy awards.
As for tonight’s saxophone interpretation, the arranger and soloist, Amy Dickson, is a Grammy-nominated artist who is actively working on increasing the repertoire of classical saxophone works. To that end, she arranged the Violin Concerto (yes, originally composed for violin) for saxophone. In order to play the piece she had to learn the skill of circular breathing, allowing her to play long passages without a perceived breath. The performance was awe inspiring.
Track fiddler For some reason they maneuvered poorly turning to the left.
Gidday TF, The Sopwith Camel was powered by a rotary engine, but not at all like the Wankel rotary, which powered the Mazda RX series of automobiles.
Track fiddler I remember him talking about the targets on the British planes. I think it was a strategy to throw the enemy off.
Cheers, the Bear.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Back in the shop this morning trying to finish up repairs on the one F-350 cap door. I'll just have a regular to go as I already took the CFO and youngest son to breakfast elsewhere.
To add to Bears disertation, the round red things were indeed deleted in the Pacific theater. In fact much of the British Pacific Fleet air fleet in WWII was comprised of US aircraft and simply had the star in the middle of the insignia painted over.
Well back into the shop with me. Chow, J.R.
maxmanDid you happen to tell him what you didn't like about the food? That might have been helpful to him, and maybe he would have offered you a refund, or at least a free desert.
I tried to find an email address to send my comments to him but they don't have an up to date website yet. I did post my thoughts on my wife's facebook account (I don't have one).
As for telling the manager directly what I thought, I don't hesitate to politely comment on the quality of food be it good or bad, but I guess I was so caught off guard by his comments about our failure to visit earlier that I didn't wish to pursue the conversation.
ROARING!
Good morning Diners.
Hosting a booth at Randolph Railroad Days, Minnesota. Two days of fun
Come on down.
RideOnRoadWhile Philip Glass’s compositions are not for everyone, they are not simple and repetitive, but complex and multi-layered. The symphony’s meme featuring Cody was making light of the incorrect perception that his pieces are the same thing over and over.
Ah, okay that makes sense.
RideOnRoadshe had to learn the skill of circular breathing
Is that similar to learning to "breathe thru you eyelids" ala Susan Sarandon in Bull Durham"?
If you really want to know here you go. It even features a mention of your favourite Kenny G. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_breathing
Door finished, on to cleaning the shop. J.R.
Maxman I now work for a small and getting smaller local company. Rather not say the name at this point because of how keyword searches work. Don't think the owner or GM (he is a train guy) would like what I have posted about the owners wife being a dingbat.
Bear I like the video! I had confuse the term Radial and Rotary. With out a carburetor was raw fuel just sprayed in?
Ed Thanks for the veido! While I did not successively get the QSI decoder reset it did move under it's own power on DC and the lights came on! So there is still life in the engine and decoder! I am 90% sure the Mighty B&O F7a will roam the rails again.
Got some needed cleaning down on the front porch.Wife was not home so I threw away a lot of her junk fake flowers and general crap she left outside.
Steven, I have the stomach equivalent of an earworm after talking about crab cakes. Has Louisiana seafood recovered after the BP oil spill?
My rustoleum spray paint that was in the garage turned to pudding. I was able to clean the nozzle out twice and then they died. No doubt they froze in the garage this winter. Maybe a bath in my ultrasound cleaner would have saved them, maybe not.
I like to use rattle cans on my flex track that is going to be straight. Do not waste your money on those testors paint pens for track weather. They bounce over the fingers that hold the rails and leave unpainted areas on either side.
I miss-measured my PSX for terminal blocks. It's dark underneath the layout, I have to look up, which doesn't work well with bifocals so my measurements weren't even close. I've heard that target shooter use upside down bifocals. I don't understand the concept because you need to see your sights and the target, but working on a variety of project, looking up, reverse bifocals might make sense.
Edit It was the annual Sock Burning Day in Annapolis, MD. You can go to most formal events, with a coat, tie, boat shoes and no socks in this town.
https://www.trbimg.com/img-5c969dae/turbine/cgnews-ac-cn-sock-burning-20190323-pg-007/750/750x422
Henry, as far as I know it has I have a seafood allergy so I don't eat crab and other crustaceans, but theres quite a few successful seafood businesses in my area, BP has a really bad reputation down here since then, all the BP stations closed within a year of it, if you intend to make a trip down here let me know you can come visit the Midsouth Model RR Club.