RideOnRoad Any chance anyone has had experience with an asthmatic dog? My daughter's pappillon is staying with us and about 10 days ago he developed a persistant so the vet checked for valley fever and it came back negative. As I have paid closer attention, I don't think it is a cough, but a forced exhalation, similar what I experience when I am wrestling with my asthma. The more I see and hear, the more it seems like the dog is suffering from asthma. Does this sound familiar to any of the diner folk?
Any chance anyone has had experience with an asthmatic dog? My daughter's pappillon is staying with us and about 10 days ago he developed a persistant so the vet checked for valley fever and it came back negative. As I have paid closer attention, I don't think it is a cough, but a forced exhalation, similar what I experience when I am wrestling with my asthma. The more I see and hear, the more it seems like the dog is suffering from asthma. Does this sound familiar to any of the diner folk?
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My last little English Springer Nellie develop quite the hack. It did sound like a cough or some kind of reflex gag. She had a bone fragment caught in her throat that the vet removed.
Dogs get sick to their stomach and eat grass for some reason. They munch on stuff all over the yard. I'm sure a little stick can get caught in their throat too. Maybe it could be something like that.
Hopefully not too serious. I just love dogs. The better part of my life was spent with them.
TF
Our car (Odyssey van actually) air conditioner is on almost all year round unless the windows are down. Why run the AC in December? It's because the windows fog up even with the heat on! There is obviously a flaw in the ventilation design. Our old Civic was worse. If you wanted clear windows in freezing cold weather the AC had to be on full blast! It didn't matter if the fresh air intake was open or closed.
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
hon30critterIt's because the windows fog up even with the heat on! There is obviously a flaw in the ventilation design.
That used to happen to a few of the cars I had. It usually meant that there was a leak in the heater core. I've changed a few of those in my day. Talk about a knuckle-buster job. The heater core is the first thing they put in at the assembly line
The air conditioner quit in my 2009 GMC Canyon so I went out and got one of these:
GMC_CHV3 by Edmund, on Flickr
It was tough to find a truck that didn't have a four-door cab! As it is I had to "settle" for four wheel drive. well, I DO live in the "snow belt" but now that I don't have to drive in to w**k it really doesn't matter much.
I hope everyone is doing well this day.
Cheers, Ed
gmpullmanIt was tough to find a truck that didn't have a four-door cab!
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It is especially hard to find a two door cab, long bed, 2WD, painted red. It looks like the old Colorado will need to stay in service for a while longer.
hon30critterOur car (Odyssey van actually) air conditioner is on almost all year round unless the windows are down. Why run the AC in December? It's because the windows fog up even with the heat on!
On every automobile I know of made in the last 15 years or so, the refrigerant compressor will run in defrost mode to keep the windows from fogging. If you run your heater without any output air directed to the defroster vents below the windshield, the compressor will turn off, and the windows can fog.
You will need the refrigerant compressor running in cold dry climates to prevent window fog with the heater on, but it usuallly only happens automatically in the defrost selection on your climate controls.
This is one of the reasons air conditioning is standard equipment on almost every automobile available for purchase.
As your glass gets older, the problem can become worse. The coating they apply at the factory to help with this gets old, and some cleaners can actually damage the coating and create worse fogging.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Good morning ..... Coffee and a donut, please.
Everybody .... If you are interested, you may look in Weekend Photo Fun and see my whimsical scene I put together just in time for grandkids to visit here........ You can also look at Kevin's boxcar in Weekend Photo Fun with a creative name for a fictional railroad.
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Ed and Kevin ..... Nice pickup trucks..... As I have mentioned befoe, I ahve a Chevy Avalanche and am very pleased with it.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Good Morning All,
A regular and a blueberry bagel please Zoe. Can you toast that and add cream cheese too? Excellent.
Not too much to report on the layout front. For some reason I've gotten home tired and haven't done much. I did add a big drainage ditch to the throat area of the yard and covered it with coarse plaster to replicate concrete poured haphazardly plus some vegitation but not much else. If I get ambitious perhaps I will start on the pull out section where I took out the swing panel at the entrance to the isle.
Not bothered too much about pickups as I spend enough time in the duallys and don't care to use one when I don't need to. We have one dually crew cab and one dually extended cab that also has 4 wheel drive and rides worse than either of my Kenworths. The other company vehicle is the trusty Excursion 7.3 2wd still going strong at 300k. Nope, don't need another truck.
Hope those of you on the mend feel better. Ken you must be up to 60 days by now. We're proud of you for pulling this off.
Gotta go and get started in the shop. Ciao, J.R.
VW bug I drove in the 60s had to scrape the ice on the inside of the windshield. Heat didn't work until the car was moving, forced air system. Just a treat when it got below 20 deg.
herrinchoker
Triumph TR's (several) Heat never worked but might thaw your kneecap by the end of the trip. Would not melt ice on screen either. Sidecurtains on TR-3s didn't seal anything and I finally gave up with the TR250 and ran it year round with no top. TR250 did have roll up windows so above 50 it kept the snow or rain (but not sleet) out. Geez I miss those cars. J.R.
Good morning, everyone. Already had my breakfast, so I just need more coffee.
Garry and Kevin, I really like the pictures. You gave me some ideas for when my grandkids visit. Kevin, are you going to spread some of these boxcars around like your others? And Garry, great idea with Cruella Deville.
Right now, I'm scratch building an N Scale version of the Psycho motel and mansion. I will take some pictures in two or three years when I finish.
herrinchokerVW bug I drove in the 60s had to scrape the ice on the inside of the windshield. Heat didn't work until the car was moving, forced air system. Just a treat when it got below 20 deg.
Same here. In the 60s, in high school, I delivered prescriptions for a drug store and they used a VW bug. I remember freezing and scraping ice until you got moving for a while.
Have another medical appointment this morning, this one about 50 miles away. There goes most of the day.
Have a good day, everyone.
York1 John
Good Morning,
Ah, VW memories in winter. I had a '61 and in our weather up here it would have been a little cold to say the least except that the previous owner installed a gas heater under the back seat. You had to prop up the bottom seat cushion to use the heater. I don't know where they got the heater but it certainly wasn't designed for a VW. It had one speed and heat setting, High and Hot. The hair on a passengers head would blow around when it was on. I remember driving home one night when it was -35 and I had to open the window a little as I thought I would melt in there. It had studded snow tires on the back so it really was set up for winter.
CN Charlie
SeeYou190It is especially hard to find a two door cab, long bed, 2WD, painted red. It looks like the old Colorado will need to stay in service for a while longer.
Here's the 2009 that I'm replacing, Kevin. I think GM calls that color Bessemer & Lake Erie Orange (or was it EJ&E?)
GMC_2009 by Edmund, on Flickr
I didn't trade it in thinking maybe my grandson can use it. With 130K on it, still runs great. The A/C just developed a leak last summer. Otherwise, I've had very little repair work done. At 100K I pulled the rear brakes and they still looked like new!
The new Colorado is just TOO BIG for my tastes. I will have to get some kind of step or runningboard just to climb into the thing. Box sides are almost as high as my chin. With all that height I still konk my head every time I get into the cab
Only reason I went with a Chevy (and not a GMC) is that my neighbor is a salesperson and she gave me a pretty decent deal on it. I gave her the stock number from their on-line inventory. She brought the truck to my house with the paper work, I signed the papers, gave her a check, she handed me the keys and I never had to leave the house or haggle with the usual vultures at the dealership. She got a little spiff and a check mark in the "sale" column. Win — win.
Nice looking trucks guys. I wish my old Ram still looked that good but the salt in Minnesota seems to eat them a little. I probably should think about upgrading but it's too nice not owing anybody anything.
On the wxxk menu today was fun. I was happy to have inside work because it's hot and humid here. I laid a tile floor. I love working with tile. The first tile laid determines the outcome of the whole job.
Tomorrow ain't no fun though. Dummy work. The positive side is it's a short day for a Saturday but I hate to grout. Who in their right mind would like putting the mud in between? Yuck, I wish I could get the kid to work on a Saturday so I didn't have to do it
York1Kevin, are you going to spread some of these boxcars around like your others?
No, the DAWDLE AND DELAY is not my roadname, so I will not be sharing any cars.
...However... If you PM me your address I can drop a set of D&D decals in the mail for you. I have a few more than I can use.
That's funny Kevin. If I ever have any large amounts of freight to ship and I'm not in no big hurry to get it there. The DAWDLE & DELAY R.R. would definitely be my best bet. I will assume it's at a pretty decent rate.
I came across this beauty. Green Machine! Green Machine! I'd swear the thing was brand-new if I didn't see the dent in the tank. Of course it's not new but she sure has been well taken care of.
The picture is from a few weeks ago in Osceola Wisconsin.
Still love my childhood Railroad BN's.
I must say..... this is probably the best it's ever going to get again.
Check out the white nosings on those stairs. I don't think anybody has even walked up them yet. I think this locomotive was just parked here to fully cure the paint...... I was tempted to go up the stairs, jump in and see if the keys were in it
If you ended up, waking up with that Green Machine in your driveway. It would way out do the bender of the cow in the back seat of the 66 Mustang
gmpullman. . .At 100K I pulled the rear brakes and they still looked like new! . . .
Is that a comment about the reliability of your truck or your approach to driving? ("Brakes?! We don't need no stinkin' brakes!")
Richard
SeeYou190No, the DAWDLE AND DELAY is not my roadname, so I will not be sharing any cars. . ...However... If you PM me your address I can drop a set of D&D decals in the mail for you. I have a few more than I can use.
Kevin, I appreciate the offer, but I have a small N Scale layout, and the only cars I have are a set of UP City of Los Angeles, and a BNSF intermodal train. I don't really have anything that I could use the decals on.
Thanks! I really think it's great you have put out cars all over the country with your Stratton and Gillette insignia. That's a neat idea. Some day, if I take a hobby shop trip, I will keep a look out for your railroad name.
OK, I'm going to complain.
I just took the dog out.
It is 93°, the dew point is 76°, the heat index is 108°, and the mosquitos are approaching Minnesota mosquito size. I think I'll move back to New Orleans, it wasn't this bad there.
Eveing Diners
Flo, give the gang and I a and Ulrich what ever he wants.
Wifes Glaucoma Results. She had to see a sepcialist today because her normal optometrist thought it had gotton worse. She got good resulits and it has not changed.
Mainly did running today. Bought some Saw Blades, new Jig Saw and Weed Sprayer. Harbour Freight really likes me.
Ed Nice truck.
Later, Ken
I hate Rust
Evening again Diners.
I wonder if one of you Forum members could do me a square. It would be very much appreciated considering I don't know how to do it.
Last night I posted something about Lakeside Park, Canada. I will go into a little bit of detail and let's just leave it at that.
Lakeside Park is in Ontario Canada. I went to see it and stayed there once when I was a young teenager.
I lived on a resort in Voyageurs National Park about 33 miles south of International Falls. Kabetogama State Forest.
Back then I was pretty much of an adult at a young age and helped my parents all the time..... my job was tending the docks.
In the summertime back then, which was way more than the four days of summer now, I would break away on my break from the resort and (go figure) go with a group of friends fishing in Canada.
Nestor Falls and more so Sioux Narrows Canada was our favorite spots. We did go to St. Catharines, Ontario to Lakeside Park one time. I really enjoyed my stay there. It was beautiful.
Kirk from Arrowhead was always the best cook. He was always there on our ventures.
Well let me get to the point. Back then, Lakeside Park, I do believe was owned by Saint Catherine's and Toronto Railway. I don't know if that railroad still stands today. That was a lot of years ago.
I saw Lakeside Park years after Neil Peart did. He grew up very close to there and worked there when he was a young teenager years before I ever saw it. He wrote the lyrics for the song from his childhood memories, and Geddy Lee orchestrated it. One of my favorite bands when I was young.
This leads me to say, this is one of my all-time favorite songs. I would like to share this memory and song with you guys but I don't know how to post it.
If one of you could help a brother out..... Appreciated
Lakeside Park
Rush Caress of Steel
I hope you enjoy it as I have.
Thanks TF
Howdy ...
TF ..... Thanks for the photo of BN 6234. ... It was originally an SD9 owned by Colorado and Southern which was a subsidiary of CB&Q. It was C&S number 839. A unque feature of C&S SD9's was the short hoods were taller than the long hoods. BN 6234 still has that feature as can be seen in the picture. C&S 839 had extra headlights consistant with CB&Q practice. BN removed the extra headlights, and the remaining headlights are positioned lower than on other SD9's.
York1 / John .... I'm glad you liked my whimsical scene. It was fun putting it together.
Ken .... Good to hear the good news about Sue's eye exam.
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July Diner ..... Who is planning to ope the Diner for the new month. Also, where do we want to visit ?
Track fiddlerI wonder if one of you Forum members could do me a square.
Never heard of that expression before. I think you want a link to Lakeside Park?
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Thanks Henry. I do have a copy but there's something about enjoying it on the world wide web while you know other people hear it too. I like that one just had to share it. Thanks for helping me out. I do appreciate it
Garry, you're definitely in the part of the Northern hemisphere where you can enjoy a good Green Machine too. Thanks for the information..... enjoyed.
I loved the day I found it. It made my day. I stood and walked around with a big smile on my face before I took pictures of it.
Track Fiddler
gmpullmanThat used to happen to a few of the cars I had. It usually meant that there was a leak in the heater core. I've changed a few of those in my day.
Every Civic owner I talked to had the same problem. One of my customers had a Civic without AC. In the winter she had to sit until the car fully warmed up before she could see out the windows. PITA.
Just love you guys.
Nighty night and sleep well.
RideOnRoad ("Brakes?! We don't need no stinkin' brakes!")
Maybe I had better check! Perhaps the master cylinder or "balancing valve" might be keeping the rear axle brakes from applying? Still, you see the trailer I'm hauling, and it has brakes, too, and I don't seem to have any trouble getting stopped.
cudakenEd Nice truck.
Thanks, Ken! Today was the first time I did any "real" hauling in it. I'm going to need some kind of bed liner. Anybody know about the spray-in bed protection? The 2009 had a factory GM liner that was nice.
hon30critterOne of my customers had a Civic without AC. In the winter she had to sit until the car fully warmed up before she could see out the windows.
I started out driving my mom's '66 VW Beetle. No heat to speak of. Helped my dad change the octopus muffler, and "heater boxes" several times. They would last a year maybe. We kept a 12V. plug-in heat gun to try to keep the windscreen defrosted. Often it was just a little oval to peek out of!
IMG_0005 by Edmund, on Flickr
gmpullmanOften it was just a little oval to peek out of!
My '68 MGB was the same way! In the winter, the further you drove the smaller the oval got. I always carried a small hand scraper to use on the inside of the windshield.
It never occurred to me to get upset about the foggy windshield. It was simply a given fact that the defroster was pretty much useless so I had to make do. It's called "learning to cope", and I loved every minute of it! That car gave me more pleasure than most things in my life despite the occasional engine failures and the rust! I put more than 200,000 miles on it!
Geeze, now I'm getting all nostalgic!
Cheers everyone,
It's almost too hot to come to the diner. 93 degrees, not a breath of wind, moderate humidity.
Found out on Facebook that one of my former coworkers is now a widow in her mid 40's. Lost her husband to stomach cancer. They were both from Iceland and she was your ideal of a Scandanavian blonde. I haven't seen her in years, but her facebook pictures look like she has hardly aged.
ROARING
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
I don't know I was just in NOLA last week and it was heat index of 105. No mosquitos to speak of but you could cut the air with a knife.
moelarrycurly4 I don't know I was just in NOLA last week and it was heat index of 105. No mosquitos to speak of but you could cut the air with a knife.
Most people wouldn't believe it, but in all the years I lived there, mosquitos were never a real problem. Of course, I lived in Mid-City, and I imagine the mosquitos are much worse in outlying areas.