Eveing Diners
Flo, give the gang and I a please.
Jimmy sorry to read about your cat passing away.
Pretty Boring day over all. Got the SS junk done and mailed. Wife wanted to send it Priority Mail and it is going a whole 14 miles. Set me back $25.50. Could have sent it 3 day express for $7.50 but she would have nagged the saving from my flesh! She cannot do much, but she is a world class nagger and worry wort.
Dog Front Pip is starting to trust me more. Yesterday he seemed some what unsure of me. Today he got on the bed when I asked him to and came when I called him for the first time tonight!
Saw a Salamander in the Kitchen today. While I have seen them on the driveway, by the house and 1 in the garage but never seen one in the house. I could not catch it. No way in heck I am going to tell Sue about it!
Later Ken
I hate Rust
Heartland Division CB&Q Actually, I should not say I was never in a hurricane, because remnants of Katrina came this far north causing a lot of damage.
Actually, I should not say I was never in a hurricane, because remnants of Katrina came this far north causing a lot of damage.
It was Katrina Garry that chased the rest of Judy's family out of New Orleans. Judy used to live down there a lot of years ago.
We helped her brother Dave move out of New Orleans right before the storm. He had been thinking about it and decided that was a good time to leave before Katrina hit.
He was a professional painter down there. His ladder flipped sideways through the side of a house where they had no studs behind the sheathing and he fell to the ground and hurt his back really bad. He somewhat recovered but never enough. It was time for him to go home. We moved him back up to Hayward Wisconsin by his mom's. He is on a disability now.
My other brother-in-law Steve followed after Katrina. He moved from Gretna, New Orleans back to Antigo Wisconsin where he grew up.
Hurricanes are nasty stuff and they seem to be getting a lot more prevalent.
TF
Sorry about your cat Jimmy
Jimmy, sorry to hear about your cat.
ROR get well soon.
For fellow weather junkies, I found a website: spaghettimodels.com that has a lot of neat tools on it. He must be retired because he does live updates through the day on his facebook page.
He's an amateur, but it's not like the pro's are all that great. He thinks the rainfall could be huge.
I drove through SC the year the hurricaine his Charleston. For 70 miles there were no leaves on the trees, and hundreds of trees that had falled on the shoulder or roadway of I-95
Stay safe.
Speaking of weather:
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Hi, Jimmy—
Sorry to hear of your cat passing. Never a pleasant thing to deal with.
Glad you're on your way to starting your new job. I hope it works out very well for you and the photos being published, too. Something to be proud of.
I was thinking of your book collection. I have two duplicates and wondered if you have either of these books which feature railroads of your area:
PRR_Pgh_book by Edmund, on Flickr
And...
PRR_book by Edmund, on Flickr
If you don't have either of these books send me an address via PM and I'll mail them to you. I think it is a great thing for someone to have a nice library.
Regards, Ed
Hey all, hope all are well
It's been a roller coaster week for me.
Sunday: My youngest cat passed away in the night. She was ill with a respirtory issue she'd always have from being born outside. At least she isn't in any pain
Monday: got the confirmation I passed the drug screening test, and I start work this coming tuesday. glad to be getting a paycheck again.
Tuesday: Did some more cleaning at the house and outside. Especially putting fill in for where my wooden gutters were- previous owner put these wood channels in, thinking it would divert water from the basement.
Weds: Nothing really happened
Thurs: Tried photographing Amtrak, but I was stuck in a 15 MINUTE traffic jam which nearly overheated my truck from where I was stopped- halfway up a 6% grade. Yeah, I wasn't happy about that. But, I ended up getting a message via facebook saying that my photography from my town's 250th Celebration will be featured in a regional magazine! Woot, I'm finally printed somewhere.
Friday: Caught a NS heritage unit-the Lackawanna. It was leading and had the nose lit perfectly. I also managed to get a photo of it, with a mother and baby doe deer crossing in front of it- the loco was stopped. I'll share that one later if theres some interest.
(My Model Railroad, My Rules)
These are the opinions of an under 35 , from the east end of, and modeling, the same section of the Wheeling and Lake Erie railway. As well as a freelanced road (Austinville and Dynamite City railroad).
I did a little more research on quad contusions and one of the recommended treatments is compression. I mentioned this to my daughter who said, "I have a thigh compression sleeve you can try." In the words of the immortal Frank Barone, "Holy Cr@p!" The pain is not gone, but now I can stand without having my leg scream at me. I just ordered my own thigh sleeve and one for my knee -- good ol' Amazon same-day delivery.
Richard
Heartland Division CB&Q Howdy .. MLC ...... Kevin is thinking Sunday, September 22nd would fit his schedule to visit here. ... We have not firmed up exact plans.
Howdy ..
MLC ...... Kevin is thinking Sunday, September 22nd would fit his schedule to visit here. ... We have not firmed up exact plans.
NOt on call that weekend so i will keep it penciled in.
No Hurrycane, Tornado, or T-Storms up here in Sunny North Dakota, and it is still too soon for Blizzard Warnings.
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Good Afternoon!
Those of you in the path of the coming hurricane, please stay safe!
I have no imagination what it is liuke being hit by a hurricane. We have some bad storms in our neck of the woods, but damage is nothing compared to what we see in the news about the damage done by hurricanes at your end of the Big Pond! I hope everything goes well!
I am keeping a low profile - the weather nearly does me in. I feel bad - worse than before my surgery. I hope I´ll be improving soon!
August is coming to an end tomorrow - time to present a last video of steam in Britain. Enjoy a recent film of "Steam in the West Highlands"!
May I raise the question where the Diner will be located in the upcoming month and who will volunteer to facilitate the move?
Happy times!
Ulrich (aka The Tin Man)
"You´re never too old for a happy childhood!"
Heartland Division CB&Q Howdy .... I have never been in a hurricane, and that is fine with me. .... One of the worst storms here was the 2009 ice storm which broke all of the trees. Most of western KY lost power. We were stranded because roads were completely blocked by massive amounts of broken trees. We had no power, no land line phone, no cell phone, and no county water. Power was not restored at our house for 9 days, and that was better than other locations where it took weeks to restore power. Actually, I should not say I was never in a hurricane, because remnants of Katrina came this far north causing a lot of damage. It cuased one drowning about 40 miles from here. Everybody ..... Have a nice Friday.
Howdy ....
I have never been in a hurricane, and that is fine with me. .... One of the worst storms here was the 2009 ice storm which broke all of the trees. Most of western KY lost power. We were stranded because roads were completely blocked by massive amounts of broken trees. We had no power, no land line phone, no cell phone, and no county water. Power was not restored at our house for 9 days, and that was better than other locations where it took weeks to restore power.
Actually, I should not say I was never in a hurricane, because remnants of Katrina came this far north causing a lot of damage. It cuased one drowning about 40 miles from here.
Everybody ..... Have a nice Friday.
Yes that ice storm was a biggy, we also got hit the Fall before by the remnants of IKE. It was weird and downgraded to to depression then strengthened over Arkansas into a hurricane and ran over us in Western KY. I had more tree damage from Ike than from the ice storm. I moved away form the gulf to get away from hurricanes and had damage from a hurricane here in KY.
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Good morning. Ate at a different restaurant this morning, so no diner food for me.
Garry, I see you live in KY. I have a sister and brother-in-law who live in Bowling Green. We love going there, although it is not often. Mammoth Cave is a neat place. After living in Nebraska so long, I did get tired of driving in parts of Kentucky -- you don't see anything except trees lining the sides of the road!
During college, I worked a summer at Lexington, KY. Loved visiting the horse barns and Keeneland.
It's going to rain again today. This is now one of the wettest summers we have ever had. The corn needs some hot days and sunlight.
York1 John
let me try again
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
moelarrycurly4preping for a hurricane is no the same as prepping for severe thunderstorms
Mike
When Hurricane Jeanne hit, I was news editor at a small daily paper in Leesburg, Fla. While its outer bands were lashing us I got a call that the power was out at the paper. Since I lived in Lady Lake, on a different grid, I still had power, so my editor and I made 6 trips through the storm to bring the bare minimum of computer equipment we needed to my apartment. I cooked dinner for the crew while reporters sat on my living room rug tapping on laptops. We paginated a pared-down, 16-page edition on two computers on my dining room table, and learned the inadequacies of optical computer mice on glass-topped tables. I got a lot of curses thrown at me when I tripped over a mess of cables and unplugged the server. We transmitted the final edition to the Ocala newspaper that had agreed to print for us at 4:30 a.m., only 3-1/2 hours late, and I crashed into bed. I was awakened an hour later by a phone call saying they couldn't open an ad file. Then another phone call an hour after that looking for some other file. Then another call half an hour after that from the publisher, asking how things had gone the night before. Today, I am very glad to be out of both Florida and the newspaper business.
--Steven Otte, Model Railroader senior associate editorsotte@kalmbach.com
moelarrycurly4As far as those that moved from Tornado Alley to Hurricane Alley, preping for a hurricane is no the same as prepping for severe thunderstorms. The thunderstorms can be over in minutes , the Hurricane lasts for hours.
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That was a great description of a hurricane. It is terrifying.
I have been through at least a dozen during my lifetime in Florida. Four of category 3 have hit my current house.
Charley was a fast stomp. It was over in a couple of hours, but the damage was tremendous.
Wilma was the longest I have ever endured. The winds were going for more than 10 hours. That was the scariest I have been through.
Since then, I have evacuated.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
The problem with Hurricanes is their path cannot be predicted. When I lived in Houston the Weather guys said , you see that low pressure in the Gulf it is going to amount to nothing. Two days later we where hit with a CAT 3 of Alicia. So they try to get everyone now in the potenetial path prepared. Now the question is If you live there why aren't you prepared all the time.
Hurricanes are not to be taken lightly but the wether geusers don't need to be chicken little about it either. As far as those that moved from Tornado Alley to Hurricane Alley, preping for a hurricane is no the same as prepping for severe thunderstorms. The thunderstorms can be over in minutes , the Hurricane lasts for hours. With Tornados you have little warning, Hurricanes you can have days.
The main take away from a Hurricane that you will remember for the rest of your life is the wind. The wind never ceases and howls for hours, you are in the dark and have no where to go,you could not go anywhere if you had to, so you wait and hope your house survives. The wind blows and blows and howls and blows. Gust after gust, embedded tornadoes, you hear your neighbors carport go at 2 am , trees crashing. ( remember this started at 9pm the night before) Just when you think the wind can't be any stronger it gusts even stronger than before. You start getting leaks in your ceiling about 4 am as you have lost shingles. Wind wind wind wind wind... did I say wind. At 9 am the eye shows up and all is calm for the moment. Then here comes the backside of the storm and you have several more hours of the same wind. We had major damage from Alicia and we were 30 miles from the coast.
SeeYou190Especially the people two houses down that just moved here from Kansas.
Here's to a great Labor Day weekend to everyone. Hope it's relaxing or productive if you have projects planned like I do. Cheers!
The entire state of Florida has gone completely nuts!
This storm is still 4-5 days away, and gas is sold out and bottled water cannot be found. Everyone is in complete panic mode.
I have been listening to streaming news from all over the state, and from Jacksonville to Key West the newscasters are saying you better be ready because it is coming straight "here" (wherever they are)!
Guys, it cannot hit the entire East Coast at once! Scaring people before it is two days away is not responsible.
I have water (I always have water), I have food ( I always have food), and I have 30 gallons of ethanol free gas in 5 gallon cans. I have no plans to evacuate at this time.
I need my neighbors to calm down. Especially the people two houses down that just moved here from Kansas.
RideOnRoad My reference was to the allure of being able to escape the pain, and was more of an empathetic comment than one of justification. As for me, I have turned down the option of anything stronger than Ibuprofen. I have decided it is not even worth the risk of flirting with disaster
I am currently on two painkillers for my back and hip pain. One is an opioid (Oxycocet) which I take very sparingly only when the pain gets past the tolerable stage. A two week prescription lasts me more than two months. The other is Pregabalin (Lyrica) which I take daily. I had a discussion with my family doctor about potential addiction but he said not to worry. If I am using the opioids that rarely there is no risk. The Pregabalin is (hopefully) a stop gap measure while I wait for surgery for bulging discs.
When I had my spine fused in 2009 I was on Hydromorphone (morphine) for a couple of months. The halucinations were rather entertaining sometimes. When the time came to stop the drugs I had a relatively easy go of it. I was able to get off the morphine quickly and I had very few bad episodes. I was lucky.
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Kevin ..... I replied to your PM. ... Thank you.
We are leaving this Saturday (Aug 31) for a week in Ohio and Michigan. Sometimes, I can post here with the iPhone while traveling . ... PM's don't work on my iPhone.
Everybody..... Have a nice night.
Ken,
Glad your dog is laid back, I wish you well with the new pup.
I remember White Castle in St.Louis were .05 each, McDonald burgers were .12 each, fries were .15 in Fayetteville when I was at Pope AFB.
That is so cool you rescued a dog Ken. Judy's mom does that. Hercules was an old dog and unfortunately he did not last too long. He was a bull mastiff and a very warm dispositioned dog.
The times I was up there Judy's mom said watch this, and I did. At dusk he would go around the perimeter of the house and bark. They have a lot of acreage there. Hercules was just protecting his home, letting everyone know in hearing distance don't come around here, I'm watching out for the people that love me. He did that every night like clockwork.
Something is always empty in your home when you lose your dog to old age. Another member of the family, how they welcome you back when you get back to the house after only being gone for 20 minutes and they act like you were gone for an eternity. I miss that.
I'm with you Terry. I have had multiple surgeries on my right knee after I fell over a step ladder and bent my knee completely backwards a lot of years ago. It's too long of a story but the surgeon that finally fixed me up good said it would only last about 15 years.
17 years later which was only a few years ago I needed another knee surgery. That same surgeon took care of me again avoiding a plastic knee. I do not like pain pills, they make me feel too weird. I took ibuprofen and put up with the extra pain.
I don't understand how we lost the rock star Prince and later Tom Petty, talented people that died early in their years to opioids. What a waste of life and talent.
As far as the cheap Burgers go. I do remember when I was a very little boy. Getting White Castles by the sack for only $0.15 a burger. My dad always bought them on the weekend and it was a real treat
My how the times have changed.
saronaterry RideOnRoad I understand how people can get hooked on pain meds
RideOnRoad I understand how people can get hooked on pain meds
Evening Diners!
Flo, and Dog Biscuit's for everbody!
BigDaddyI thought with a name like that it would look like a husky, instead it is an all white phu phu dog.
Henery them there are fighting words! OK, more than onces when I took one of my American Eskimo to the vet and was holding them arms I have heard "that is such a pretty cat". With Muff (first Eskimo) heard that said she looked around at the lady and growl at her!
We our Fostering Pop Corn / Pip now. Partners for pet's gave him the name Pop Corn for some reason? His real name is Pip. He was a surrenderd dog, landlord told the people that had him they would no longer let them have a dog? He has to be standred American Eskimo! Bet he weights 30 pounds and is solid muscle!
He is such mellow dog! When he got in the car to come home he laid down on the back seat. Just chilled out all the way home. Open the back door to let him out, jump down and walked up the driveway, across the front pourch too the front door like he knew he was home!
Sue does very well walking him. He is not a puller and is easy to control so far. More than likely we will be is forever family.
Later none smoking Ken
RideOnRoadI understand how people can get hooked on pain meds
I can't. After I fractured the L1 vertabra in my back, AND had the right hip replaced last year, they gave me a very high dose opiod. It stopped me up so bad after 3/4 pills I quit taking them. I'd rather take the pain than not enjoy my "library time".
Just sayin'.
Terry
Terry in NW Wisconsin
Queenbogey715 is my Youtube channel
RideOnRoad It can take up to six weeks to completely heal. I am living on Ibuprofen and am in pain most of the time.
Richard, I'm very sorry you're having such a hard time. I guess the good news is no breaks. The bad news is the pain. Prayers for you to have a quick recovery.
Well... if you want unproductive meetings, just schedule them in Orlando when a Hurricane is in the Caribbean.
Afternoon meetings are cancelled. The morning session was worthless.
Now I am heading home. At least I should be there by supper time.
Heartland Division CB&QKevin .... I just updated an old thread we had in PM's .... I hope you recieve it.
Message recieved and response was sent.
BroadwayLionI remember when burgers were 20c each.
You must have lived in the high-rent district. Our McDonalds burgers were 15¢.
If I remember, there were specials on White Castle burgers -- 10 for $1.00. My memory may be faulty on that one.
No breaks were detected in the X-ray, though they did say I have mild arthritis in my hip. Basically, I have a moderate quad contusion, the same thing that was the final straw for Rob Gronkowski, though mine is not as severe. It can take up to six weeks to completely heal. I am living on Ibuprofen and am in pain most of the time. Sleeping is not as easy as it once was. I understand how people can get hooked on pain meds.