Evening.
The most I know about my family Roots is my Grandfather came from Scotland and moved to Canada, eventually residing in Minnesota. His Father and he was of the Fraser Clan and had their own Family plaid. His Father was a friend and business associate of the MacGregor Clan who also had their own plaid.
My Grandmother was from Ireland and 100% Irish. Her name was Edith but my Grandfather always called her Irish.
I'm back in Fargo North Dakota and have picture capability again.
Let me introduce to you my new Grandson Xavier.
I love this kid, he's only two months old and already a football fan.
I loved holding my new Grandson for the first time. My other two Grandsons ain't too bad either. If Anthony, who eats like a horse gets much taller, he's going to have to start ducking under doorways.
TF
BroadwayLionBack when I was selling Good Humopr Ice Cream from an ice cream truck, a customer handed me a $100, and I sais\d "Mam, I cannot change that so early in the day". "What you can't even change a $10.00 ?" I said to her, "That is not a Ten." Only then did she lookat it.
When I first hit US soil back in 1973, I found it quite irritating that all the Dollar bills more or less looked the same and had the same size. Back in the old country, each bill had a different size and color. the smaller the amount, the smaller the bill. The funny money Euro is the same - different sizes and colors, as well as different "dots" for the blind folks.
I never use a credit or even a debit card, I am a cash only person. It really helps to keep your cost down and your bank balance up.
Happy times!
Ulrich (aka The Tin Man)
"You´re never too old for a happy childhood!"
BroadwayLionWell, I do not know about one upsmanship, but...
OH YA! Well, my family comes from a little place situated between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and we claimed the planet for us. I don't know where the rest of you came from.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
Please, no. Let me keep my dollar bills. I do NOT walk around with a pocket full of change. I keep a bunch of quarters in my car for parking meters. I pay for everything with a credit card, which I pay off every month to get rebates and avoid interest and fees.
I hate it when I buy groceries and the lady in front of me is fishing through her her huge purse for 78¢ in change.
I used to pay cash at my LHS, because it helped him save on CC fees, or for tips at bars to be nicer to the servers. Just the card now.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
ricktrains4824This is the point where I started laughing. In 16 years of retail, never had anyone simply handed over their entire wallet before.
Back when I was selling Good Humopr Ice Cream from an ice cream truck, a customer handed me a $100, and I sais\d "Mam, I cannot change that so early in the day".
"What you can't even change a $10.00 ?"
I said to her, "That is not a Ten."
Only then did she lookat it.
Of course here in the whine dcellar I can change a $100 any time at all, but not a $500 ir a $1000. But I do not suppose that anyone has any of those that they want to get rid of.
If the LION ran the zoo, the $1.00 and the penny woud be history. Break out the dollar coins and the two dollar bills.
ROARING
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Good afternoon diners.
Ed - Sorry to hear about your sister.
Dave- While it is good to hear that Diane has made good progress, I hope that it continues at a good pace till she is completely recovered.
Ken - Copper magnets in a mattress.... Hmmm. Very interesting.
York -
York1 He is another casualty of the Vietnam War. Like my older brother, dead from Agent Orange complications.
He is another casualty of the Vietnam War. Like my older brother, dead from Agent Orange complications.
My Grandfather was also part of that group. Betweeen that and Operation Wigwam, he went through a lot of chemical exposure. The complications from both are what he finally lost the battle with.
Weather - Cool and damp. And a bit windy as well.
W*^k - Well, first time this has ever happened - I’ve done retail for the past 16 years, and this is a first. I had a customer making a small parts purchase while chatting with my boss. When I told him the total, he pulled out his wallet and simply handed his entire wallet to me.
I just stood there holding it, and said "Umm....."
That got my boss's attention, and he looked over and seen me holding the customers wallet in my hand, and simply said "Sweet!" and started laughing.
This is when the customer realized what he had done, and took his wallet back, while saying that he needed to leave before he gifted me his car next!
This is the point where I started laughing. In 16 years of retail, never had anyone simply handed over their entire wallet before.
Trains - Not much going on this week.
Hope all are well, and all enjoy the day!
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.
BroadwayLion A Lesson in the physics of the LION. It is a given that 32 degrees F. is NOT equal to 0 degrees C. Which one is warmer, and why! ROAR
A Lesson in the physics of the LION.
It is a given that 32 degrees F. is NOT equal to 0 degrees C.
Which one is warmer,
and why!
ROAR
32°F defines the melting point of ice, whereas 0°C defines the freezing point of water. Those two points are not identical, although the difference is marginal. 32°F is slightly warmer than 0°C.
BroadwayLionYou can see the cooking areas in a fast foor resturant, but not in a Chinese Resturant. I wonder why (meow) that is.
My travel made me eat in the strangest places, where I ate the strangest things - things I don´t dare to describe. Most of it tasted actually quite good, if not delicious. I didn´t even want to know what the kitchen looked like. Only a couple of times my body didn´t like what I ate and that didn´t happen in those far out places, but here in my own country and a burger place in Ireland. Only once I walked out of a restaurant immediately after entering it, as the "smell" was revolting. That was a burger place in Wales, the one with the big golden "M".
Having said all this, the best kitchen I know of is Petra´s. Spotless, tidy, you could literally eat off the floor. We keep a tight and tidy ship here.
York1Some of you discussing restaurants reminded me. Once or twice a year, the health department had unannounced inspections of our school lunch kitchen. There was never an issue. However, the inspector told us that school kitchens in general were the cleanest. He said that restaurant kitchens were the absolute worst. They were inspected several times a year, and they always had problems.
Our kitchen is always spotless, but then it was a school kitchen until we got rid of the school in the 1972.
On board ship the gallies were always spotless, so were the shore stations, but at Miramaar Naval Air Station, we always got gigged for dust on top of the proof box.
Well duh... It is a big proof box, and its top will not sppoort the weight of a cleaner. We just left it as it was, the inspector could come in look t the top of the proof box and then leave having done his job.
You can see the cooking areas in a fast foor resturant, but not in a Chinese Resturant. I wonder why (meow) that is.
cudaken Compter shopping. My head is starting to hurt
I order all of my compters on line from Cybertron. I never buy anything 'off the shelf' but rather always customize the thing. I max out the memory, I order a 500GB solid state drive for my C drive and then a 1 TB (or more) Hard drive for all of my documents, photos, music, movies, books, and LIONS.
As far as I am concerned the standard audio and network ports on the mother board is satisfactory, no need to spend extra money there.
I have been buying 'Gamers' but then my users are very high in graphical content and those seem to work petter than regular desktops or workstations.
BATMANI knew our family went back to the 1790s in Manitoba, but now someone has traced it back to 1725 Virginia as to where some of them came ashore. I bet the natives were thinking there goes the neighbourhood that day.Laugh Many carried on to New Zealand and Australia as well. Many named Howard and Hayward and Harvey as well as my surname.
NICE CAT!
Well, I do not know about one upsmanship, but...
My great ancestor Remmet Jansen van der Beek settled in what is now Queens and Brooklyn back in the early 1600s. His family coat of arms was given to him by Emperor Barbarosa.
I can recognise many of the street names in Brooklyn and Queens from his many offspring.
Good Sunday morning, everyone. No breakfast, just coffee. Donuts later. Going to church this morning by myself. My wife has a bad cold and is sleeping in. I am trying to stay about 10 feet away from her at all times.
Bear, your country is beautiful. I can see why a lot of movies are filmed there.
Ulrich, I agree completely with dropping the time change. As I've gotten older, it takes me longer to adjust after the changes. We have another week before we make the change in the U.S.
It's supposed to snow later this week. I will try today to get on the roof to clean off the pine needles and leaves.
Leaves on the yard are another story. I mowed yesterday to pick up the leaves. It looked great when I finished. About two hours later, there were so many leaves you could not even tell I had picked them up earlier. This will go on for quite a few weeks.
Baby-sitting yesterday wore me out. I know that some grandparents have to take care of their grandchildren for whatever reasons. I don't know how they do it.
I hope all of you have a good day today. For those of you who are not doing well, or are taking care of an ailing spouse, I am praying for you.
York1 John
Good Morning!
Sunday! I won´t go for my usual big breakfast, though! Last night, we set our clocks back an hour and for that matter, my bodily clock is completely off today! I think we should just stop that nonsense, once and for all. The intended purpose of conserving energy has never really happened, so we might as well go back to Mother Nature´s timing!
Bear - thanks for the videos! New Zealand is such a breathtakingly beautiful country!
No trains, but while we're here , we might as well have a look at some of the sights.
Enjoy, I hope!!
Cheers, the Bear.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
rain rain and more rain, that is all it has done here at the Southern Command.
Fianlly this evening it has quit, The temps have dropped 20 degrees and it is windy.
We are headed out to hear a local blues performer over in Clarksdale MS. He is usually good.
talk to all laters
Afternoon Diners
Flo, give the gang and I a please and Dirk his Buffalo treat.
Nasty wet cold autumn day. No rainny day is good when you need a new roof! Was going to take Dirk Pip to Lowes so he get his car ride, I all so have a special order that should be in. Wife said No, he will get wet! He sure looks bored today.
Did get some Garage / Train Room cleaning done. Got the area around the old wall gas heater cleaned out so I can get to it.
Later Ken and Dirk say's Woof
I hate Rust
CNCharlieI got the fish out of the pond and into their winter quarters which is a laundry tub in the laundry.
So you took them for a "spin"?
Good Afternoon.
Hope everyone's well today. I had more pics to send but my Imgur link with my phone internet has crashed here in ND.
Just wanted to say more thoughts and prayers have gone out for your wife Dianne, Dave. Our hope for the best.
Have fun on your trip to Arizona Garry, should be just the right time of year for the perfect warmth but not to hot of weather
Good Afternoon,
Up early today as we had to take Robbie in to the vet for the day. He is getting a test for Cushings Disease. Sure glad we bought pet insurance. It pays 60% which takes the sting out of those vet bills.
I'm a little tired as I have been hurrying this morning to get the main yard work done before the temp drops overnight. It is about 50F now. I got the fish out of the pond and into their winter quarters which is a laundry tub in the laundry. I pumped the water out of the pond and rinsed it a little to get some of the sediment out. I also cleaned out the soil from 30 or so pots I didn't finish last week. Now just to put away the rest of the lawn furniture and do some clean up. Oh just remembered I have to get on the roof and clean out the eavestrough or we might have problems in the spring.
I think I'll be tired tonight.
Well must get back at it.
CN Charlie
Good morning. Cold and sunny this morning.
One of my teacher's husband died and the funeral is today. My wife and I won't attend the funeral -- we're going to babysit the teacher's grandchildren during the funeral. He is another casualty of the Vietnam War. Like my older brother, dead from Agent Orange complications.
Some of you discussing restaurants reminded me. Once or twice a year, the health department had unannounced inspections of our school lunch kitchen. There was never an issue. However, the inspector told us that school kitchens in general were the cleanest. He said that restaurant kitchens were the absolute worst. They were inspected several times a year, and they always had problems.
Hope everyone has a good day. Dave, I'll pray that your wife continues her recovery.
Good morning ...
Dave .... Prayers continue for your wife.
Alvie .... Good seeing you again.
Kevin .... Thanks for the comment about our trip.
We're leaving shortly.
Cheers.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Normally I like to preview the videos I post but haven't had the time for this one, hope it's worth a coffee or two. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd1_-L58Dn4&t=204s Cheers, the Bear.
Normally I like to preview the videos I post but haven't had the time for this one, hope it's worth a coffee or two.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd1_-L58Dn4&t=204s
It is, Bear, it certainly is! I watched some time ago and found it entertaining and informative!
Saturday seems to become a strange day. The weather doesn´t really know which direction it will take, and when I got up there was a strange red light glowing on my WiFi router. It turned out that our VoIP phone was no longer registered with the provider, although correctly linked to the system. Fortunately, the ISP has a service shop in our immediate neighborhood, so I went there for help. They told me the phone service has a glitch and the phones are dead everywhere! They hope to be back in business during the day (they didn´t mention which day ...). So ne calls today, which may be a blessing!
Dave - Dianne and you remain in our thoughts and prayers!
Found an interesting video on Youtube. The short video shows exactly, what I saw when railfanning in my teenage days. Those days are long gone and even most of the Diesels and the electric engines shown have been sent to the scrapper in the meantime.
Enjoy!
gmpullmanDid you see any CCTV cameras around, Dave? You might not want to wait too long if there was any video recorded the day Dianne fell as that may help your case if you decide to pursuit it. Not an easy decision to start legal action but evidence can disappear if too much time passes.
Good point.
I think we will call our lawyer on Monday. We need our wills redone too.
Thanks Ed
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Hi, Folks —
cudaken Ed Hope to see you in the dinner again and best wishes.
I haven't gone anywhere, Ken. Still keeping tabs on everyone here. Hope you're doing OK. I'd like to see that copper magnet that Nancy has
Bijou, my sister's cat that we have adopted, has started to get a little curious about her new surroundings. The other cats are kind of, ho-hum, here we go again.
As Henry predicted, the coroner did not make any certain determination, but "I see a little coronary disease so I'll make cause of death heart failure". No CSI stuff here.
Working with my other two sisters to see that Linda's final wishes are satisfied and that her estate is properly taken care of. My oldest sister is executor. Fortunately there is a will.
Kind of sad when I found a shoebox full of old greeting cards and photos, some of my first wife that passed away back in '86. Nice to know that Linda saved some of these keepsakes. Lots of notes from my dad and mom from years ago. Even some Victory Mail that my dad sent home during the War. Some of this I can pass on to my boys.
hon30critterDianne is making some progress but she is not out of the woods yet.
I wish you both well, Dave. My wife Dee Ann fell and hurt her knee about three weeks ago and she is just now getting back on her feet again. We seniors take a long time to heal!
Did you see any CCTV cameras around, Dave? You might not want to wait too long if there was any video recorded the day Dianne fell as that may help your case if you decide to pursuit it. Not an easy decision to start legal action but evidence can disappear if too much time passes.
NYC_25-Ani_0004 by Edmund, on Flickr
Thank you again for the kind words and condolences.
I hope everyone has an enjoyable and safe weekend,
Regards, Ed
Heartland Division CB&QWe are leaving tomorrow for a week in Arizona.
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That sounds like fun.
Safe travels, and lots of enjoyment.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Greetings all.
I've been thinking about you all. In the last couple months I moved home to family's home, and started working parttime so I can do an internship for school. This is my last semester, and I'll be looking forward to being done. It's been a hard two years. Now I just need to get a proper job.
About this time a year ago, I lost one of the cats who thought well of me, and adopted another. He is an orange and white shorthair like my last cars, and he's not quite 18-months now. Heis quite the cat. A smart one, and he knows it. My family adopted an orange and white kitten over the summer who knows she's cute and adorable, she's now about 4.5 months old. Very playful too.
Not much on the MR front these days, but I did weather some freight cars over the summer, and bought a BLI PRR L1 Mikado with some tax refund money last spring, as well as some PRR freight cars. One can never have to many trains haha.
Good thoughts and prayers to all who need them these days.
Alvie
CNCharlieDave, How is your wife doing? Has she recovered from her fall?
Hi CN Charlie,
Thanks for asking. Dianne is making some progress but she is not out of the woods yet. On the plus side, all of her symptoms have diminished somewhat but they are not entirely gone. She still feels dizzy and light headed, and the vertigo still kicks in when she lies down, but nothing is as bad as it was at first. We actually managed to go out for breakfast on Friday morning and then we went for a very short colour tour to see the last of the leaves before they fall. The noise in the restaurant did tire her out. She has also started doing some basic cooking chores like chopping veggies. Simple tasks are recommended to train the brain to focus again. She is even watching a bit of tv with no undo side effects.
Still a ways to go. We are considering putting in a claim because the fall has totally messed up our lives. We are not normally people who would make a claim but this has turned out to be pretty serious.