CudaKen- I think I needed something when not smoking, plus my wife is an excellent cook.
I'll probably get blasted for this but have you thought about getting a vap, they did a study in England and found that people were twice as likely to quit using a vape. You can controll the amount of nicotine you use and slowly wean your self of it. Plus you wont smell of old smoke.
Hang in there, you can kick it.
Ken
Evening folks,
Ken, best of luck in your quitting endeavor.
J.R. Oooo, lotus, my favorite Lotus racing car is the 43.
Ray, would you post some pictures of your mine kitbash?
So Thursday my brother killed the engine on our "new" (used) mower, it had a little single cyl briggs, it made a clank, died, then started smoking, it has no compression, I figure it's the connecting rod, so we did a engine swap! I had a Briggs v twin sitting around and surely enough it bolted up PERFECTLY, now it's got more hp and a newer engine.
Steve
If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough!
Winding down with a couple of night cappers here to help me sleep fast.
God bless my Judy, she's got the Toronto...Boston Stanley Cup Playoffs game on.
I'm rooting for Toronto. Must be my Grandfather's Canadian in me, -A-
TF
Somewhat hard for me to do. I remember the Esposito Brothers back in the 70s. Tony and Phil but mainly played for Chicago.
Not everyone here knows who Art Linkletter was. A US TV personality who made a fortune on the premise that "Kids say the darndest things" in the 60's
My wife babysat my 3 grandchildren, age 5, 3, 1.5. The 3 yo discovered that the 1.5 yo had something major going on in his diaper. She wanted to see it and my wife replied, no you don't everybody does it.
"Everybody"
"Yes"
"Do you do that Oma?"
I guess I took a lot for granted as a kid.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Yep, Art Linkletter, I can hear my grandma laughing now.
Welcome back Henry.
Have a good trip TF.
The wife and I stopped smoking in 2004. She had a perferated ulcer, never wanted to touch a cig., and she smoked a lot. After that, I went cold turkey and joined her. I only smoked when I had a beer, so it wasn't bad for me.
A pack of Camel filters would sit on the dash of my truck, until it got so dry and crumbly, even the guys I worked with didn't want them.
Quiet night, Hack Saw Ridge was on the History Channel.
Mike.
My You Tube
BroadwayLionToday's LION...
Handsome dude!
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
BOFC?
Boiler_on_flatcar by Edmund, on Flickr
Yep, Boiler On Flat Car!
I was busy "staging" scenes tonight for a thread on the old Athearn Heavy Duty flat car. This is how I have fun!
Boiler_on_flatcar2 by Edmund, on Flickr
I hope everyone has an enjoyable Sunday. Ulrich, if you can read this, I'm thinking of you, too.
Cheers, Ed
mbinsewiA pack of Camel filters would sit on the dash of my truck....
Seriously though, best of luck, Ken, it took me two attempts, but it is well worth it. I can taste food again, and don't take half an hour each morning clearing the phlegm from my lungs.
Cheers, the Bear.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
I can taste food
.
When I quit back in 1996, I intantly developed a love for good food! Suddenly I could taste the difference betweeen garbage food and a meal prepared by a chef.
I spent all mt cigarette money on my new love... well prepared food.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Beautiful crisp morning on the plains. The dog went out, but it is still a little too cold for her to stay out. There's a little ice on my wife's bird bath.
Don't feel real well this morning, so I think we will probably miss church.
Hopefully will feel good enough to finally finish a control panel that has taken me a long time.
I quit cold turkey. I was told at the time that trying to quit smoking by cutting down gradually was like having to have your dog's tail cut off, but you do it an inch at a time so it doesn't hurt as much.
Have a great Sunday everyone.
York1 John
Good morning .... Coffee and a blueberry muffin, please.
Smoking.... There are times when I wonder about smokers. .... I recall when I worked in downtown Detroit, there was a large fire. At lunch break, I walked there to see it. By then, the fire was mostly under control, and some of the firefighters were taking a smoking break. Really. .... Rules were changed at the office, and smoking inside the building was no longer permitted. People had to smoke outside. Once, I was in a meeting, and it was time to take a break. One guy said:" Yeah; let's go outside, get some fresh air, and smoke. Really ....... Crazy habit.
Here are photos of passenger trains that served Chicago ....
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Actually enjoying watching the Masters as I do a little airbrushing.
There were 22 hole in one's at the 16th, in the entire history of the Masters. There were 2 today.
Molanari was leading at the start of the day but he put it in the water putting Tiger in a tie for the lead. That changed in just a couple minutes when some guys back in the pack pulled in front.
A productive couple of days.
Bonus was finally finding the fault in my yard track work last night. Turned out to be a defective turnout. I will finish up doing the assembly/mods to the 18 and then get back to the layout when I'm not so distracted. Hope the rest of you are well. Cheers, J.R.
Heartland Division CB&QSmoking.... There are times when I wonder about smokers. ..
Being that I was a heavy smoker for 14 years, you would think I could offer some profound insight, but I cannot.
All I can say is that I have no idea why I ever had anything to do with cigarettes.
ROARING
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Having some good well-deserved Fun in the Sun.
Eveing Diners
Flo, give the gang and I a please and leave a stein outside for Ulrich.
Tad in the dumpes tonight, no real reason just am. Maybe because I just made the house payment.
Ken I had thought about using Vapping. I looked at the one called JUUL, well I think that is it name. Starter kit was like $35.00 but the kicker was there refills where $16.95 for the equivalent of 4 packs of cigarettes! Reason this sounds high to me is I live with in 14 miles of the state of Missouri where 14 packs of what I smoke is around $42.00. Need to set down and do the math.
Darn cool today. Rained a lot and high was only 38 degrees and just a yuck day.
Train Front Trains are running great.
Later, Ken
I hate Rust
I admire Tiger for coming back from back pain and winning the Masters, his first major tournament in 10 year, which is another feat. I'm an old fashioned guy and I have other issues with him. After coverage starting early because of the weather, CBS is replaying the Masters.
That weather has triggered tornado warnings from Savannah to Erie. Maryland might get a tornado once a year. In that last 1/2 hour the local TV claimed to see a tornado on radar with 105 mph winds. If that really happened, there will be damage.
The interesting thing was he was pulling up all these screens, we never see around here, wind speed, rotation, storm height 22,000'
Working on a Carolina Models water tower that I picked up at Timonium. Roof top not steam engine. The laser siding for the tank is supposed to be glued to a dowel. The dowel is 1/2 the height of the siding. Seems like a recipe for warpage to me. The couldn't add another 20 cents worth of dowel?
The kit includes thread, they call brass thread, but I'm not sure I appreciate the brass. They also suggest painting it or using Black It, but it's already black. The diameter looks a lot bigger than the teensy tiny hole in the ends of the plastic turnbuckles.
You car guys ought to figure out how to watch tonight's Simpsons.
Homer got the wrong car from the valet, a 56 Elderado. Bart didn't know what a window knob was. I didn't know there was a name for the Brodie knob nor do I remember where I saw one.
well I am back from the Southern command.
Well the Juke Joint festival was kind of a rain out. It turned cold and prob had about 5 inches of torrential rain and wind on Saturday. The good thing was it thined out the crowds at the nite time venues. I had to wear my "professional" rain coat the whole time or I would have been soaked.
They need to do some modifications to the festival or it is going to die off because of the weather.
Okay, for all you birding nuts out there - we had a wild turkey in the back yard yesterday! Wild turkeys are very common in Ontario these days but to see one this far into town is unusual. It managed to find its way out to the street after I opened the gate and it promptly disappeared.
Wild turkeys were reintroduced several decades ago after having been hunted to extinction locally and they are doing well, almost too well! There are reports that they are affecting the salamander populations because they stir up the leaf cover on the forest floor so much. The salamander populations are not doing well to begin with. Never the less, it is nice to see the turkeys out in the fields.
We also have redpoles back in large numbers, and they seem to be sticking around. We haven't had them here regularly for years. The wee beasties eat four or five large cups of nyger seed every day!$$$
The male osprey is back on its platform just up the road. He must be surviving on slim pickings because the lakes are still mostly frozen over. His other half will be here soon.
We have seen lots of swans and snow geese in the last couple of weeks. We found a couple of new areas (for us anyhow) where they are sitting on flooded ground, still mostly frozen. I don't know how they can do that for weeks on end! We humans are wusses!!!
Dianne and I are off to Point Pelee on May 15th for four days. We hope the weather is favourable. Wind direction makes all the difference in terms of how many birds we will see.
Cheers!! Happy birding!!
That's neat to hear that turkeys have returned to your area, Dave. We see them pretty often around our neck of the woods. They make some pretty neat sounds, too.
The other day I looked out at our feeder and we had a brightly colored cardinal, goldfinch and bluebird all hanging out together. Such vivid colors. We have bluebird boxes around our property, too, and at last count seven out of nine of them are occupied The bluebirds stay here year-round.
I put the orange slices and grape jelly out for the Baltimore Orioles which should be showing up soon, then the hummingbirds.
I wonder how many young people are going to be interested in bird watching? They probably have no interest since they can Google photos on their Twitterboxes. I'm sure they have app for virtual birdwatching.
April 15th and we still have a fire in the wood stove. 33° [0] here, NE Ohio, as I type!
End-of-run by Edmund, on Flickr
Happy Monday, everybody! I hope Vinnie brings some Bear Claws and pecan coffee cake
gmpullmanI wonder how many young people are going to be interested in bird watching?
I think that lots of young people will become interested in things like bird watching. My son has shown some interest, at least to our benefit. His work brings him close to several holding ponds in York Region, Ontario. Whenever something interesting shows up there are always crowds of birders. He takes the time to stop and ask them what they are looking at, and he passes the sightings on to us. Last spring we were treated to a goose that was native to Norway (please don't ask me the name) sitting in a settling pond in Shomberg.
Does he carry binoculars in his car? No, at least not yet, but we are working on him!
Good Morning All,
I'll have a coffee to go please Zoe. Where is Vinnie with those bear claws? We had the remnants of the storm that all you to the south of us had full force blow through early this morning. Lots of rain and howling wind and thunder boomers. No damage here to speak of and though i came in on the interstate I didn't see any signs of trees down.
Lots to do this week, finish the Lotus 18, finish the last bits on the other cars and clean/restock/tidy up the trailer. Need to make a new battery carrier slide out for the lift gate on one of the trailers. After 35 years it finally rotted out.
Catch y"all later, J.R.
2 days till I leave for Chicago Is the dinner anywhere near Union Station :)
Joe Staten Island West
Despite the weather forecasters 100 mph winds, there are no damge reports on the news consistent with that. They did have me stay up half the night to check for tornado warnings.
Our local grocery stopped making their excellent bear claws. Instead they make a raisen bun that has at least a 1/2 cup of raisens in this donut sized pastry. Way too many.
Good morning from the cold Great Plains. I walked two miles this morning on the trail system, but I was bundled up. Lots of birds singing with spring on the way. Very few trees have budded out yet, but you can tell it's getting close.
Finally finished a control panel yesterday that I have been working on for a long time. I'm sure in a few days I will find I am not happy with it, and begin work on changing it.
Those of you interesting in birds will sometime have to schedule a spring trip to Nebraska. For about two or three weeks each year, 500,000 Sandhill Cranes gather on a thirty mile stretch of the river on their way north. It's about half-way on their migration to Canada, and they stay for a while eating and resting. It's amazing to see thousands of these four-foot-tall birds in a group. There are also several Whooping Cranes that travel with the Sandhill Cranes, but I have never seen a Whooping Crane yet.
Have a great Monday, everyone! It's great to be retired and enjoy Mondays just the same as Saturdays.
Good morning from the sunny edge of the Salish Sea.
We have a massive migration of Snow Geese that pass by up the coast. They park themselves in the fields which are white as far as the eyes can see. While I am not into bird watching specifically I am in awe of the variety I see throughout the year. Whether hiking the backcountry or heading out sailing or fishing, for me it's all about being part of nature, not a feeling I get in a city.
The Orca is my most favourite of all the creatures that roam the Earth. This was reinforced when they would come up to the boat for a nose rub when we were out fishing. I never met Luna as there was always more than one Orca in our encounters and Luna lived alone. I just love living on the Coast. The Grizzly is my second favourite and can be seen on the shore often when we would go a little further North to fish.
Give me the backcountry or coastal inlets over Disneyland any day.
Supertrain was this past weekend in Calgary, it is Canada's largest trainshow. Once again I didn't get there, someday It'll happen. Someone took some pics.
Should have mine by early June.
Time to hop on the bike, I felt lousy and missed a day and don't want to miss two.
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."
Notre Dame Cathedral is on fire
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47941794
What a travesty!
Regards, Ed
gmpullman Notre Dame Cathedral is on fire https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47941794 What a travesty! Regards, Ed
Just saw that on CNN. The damage must be devastating.
Russ
Modeling the early '50s Erie in Paterson, NJ. Here's the link to my railroad postcard collection: https://railroadpostcards.blogspot.com/