WV and MD are pushing non stop daylight savings time. No one seems to remember it's dark in the winter.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Florida is in two time zones. The far Western part of the panhandle is in the Central time zone.
A long time ago, the Central time zone part did not follow Daylight Savings Time, so part of the year it was in sync with Florida and part of the time with Alabama.
This is so dumb. In the era of jet planes can we not agree that 24 time zones and no daylight savings time is only sensible?
I might have made sense with sailing ships and horse drawn buggies when your whole world was only twenty-five miles from your house.
We left this idea behind a long time ago.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
I think Indiana is split, part of the state is DST and part is not.
Mike.
My You Tube
Daylight savings time? What a nonsense! We are still on "normal" time here, but will change the clocks in 3 weeks. The EU had plans to abolish daylight savings time, but could not agree upon it. So we will be stuck with it for some more time.
When told the reason for daylight savings time the Old Indian said, "Only the government would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket, sew it to the bottom, and have a longer blanket!"
Happy times!
Ulrich (aka The Tin Man)
"You´re never too old for a happy childhood!"
York1I hate Daylight Savings Time. If I made the decisions, we would stay with one time year-round. It's back to dark mornings for a while.
I do too.
A few years ago the Florida Legistature and the Governor voted/signed to stay on Daylight Savings time YEAR ROUND! How stupid was that?
We would have had a different time than Georgia for 6 months out of the year. You need to be in sync with your hat.
Fortunately, the Federal Government stepped in and said "NO! Florida, You cannot do that! Now go sit in the corner and stop being stupid."
I know we are not supposed to disuss politics in here, and in Florida this is a very political issue, but I HATE daylight svaings time and wish the polititcians would repeal this stupid 18th century idea from before electric lighting and air condiitioning.
York1Ulrich, from the sounds of your breakfast, you must be feeling better.
Only in a virtual way, John!
Speaking of cranes, one of the major migration routes leads over our house. These birds are certainly noisy!
Good morning.
I hate Daylight Saving Time. If I made the decisions, we would stay with one time year-round. It's back to dark mornings for a while.
Glad everything went ok, herrinchoker! Will you have to have some radiation treatments or something like that? Your dogs must have a sixth-sense for your feelings.
Ulrich, from the sounds of your breakfast, you must be feeling better.
Kevin, the cranes are only here for several weeks, so we don't have the mess or the tourists for very long.
I deserve some rewards today. I went with my wife yesterday to see the movie, "Emma". My wife didn't even get mad when I fell asleep. I'm not sure I've ever sat through a more boring movie.
It's off to church, then eat some donuts, and then a nice spring day to relax. It will even be warm enough for us to sit in the rockers on the front porch this afternoon.
York1 John
Good Morning!
Sunday! Time for my gargantuan breakfast of crisp fried bacon, eggs, sausages, buttered toast, jams, pancakes w/maple syrup and lots of strong coffee, please.
We actually had a few minutes of sunshine yesterday, with a hint of Spring in the air. It was nice while it lasted! We are back to the usual grey today.
Jan - I am glad the surgery went well! I hope the recovery is speedy and not too painful!
People here remain in panicking mode. While no major shortages in supplies yet, the people in the stores can´t keep up filling up the shelves. Germany reports 800 cases currently, but fortunately no deaths since the outbreak. 95% of the cases were in Italy or had contact to people who were in Italy. Compared to the about 4 million cases of influenza and reported 25,000 influenza-related deaths in 2017/18, this is just "peanuts".
Politics and media are pouring oil into this fire by inflating the risk, which can be minimized by the usual precautionary measures. I am not at all in panic about the disease, but about how that self-made crisis will be politically abused. The writing is on the wall!
Mike Lehmann of this parish has started a portable layout using a mix of Blackstone HOn3 track and ME track (I think). This has rekindled my appetite for building something similar, just to give my D&RGW T-12 a place to run. Just a simple oval with a few sidings and spurs, nothing breathtaking. Just KISS - but only after we have moved and there is a shed or something I can use for that purpose.
Stay safe!
There was a Coronavirus death in Lee County, Florida where I live. Everyone freaked out yesterday, and every store was cleaned out of everything.
Today, hundreds of Publix and Wal-Mart trucks rolled into town, and all the shelves are full again.
The panic has subsided.
The news reported that there are no new cases, but only about a dozen people have been tested.
So I was thinking, if only 2% of the people who catch it die... and we had 1 death, does that not mean we should have 49 survivors out there...
Whatever. I am glad I am unemployed/retired and I can just stay home. This worked out well.
moelarrycurly4I am tired of working so time to go on strike.
Hey! My little people had the same idea —
Strike_tank1 by Edmund, on Flickr
They each got a year subscription to M-R and that settled things for everyone
Cheers, Ed
I am tired of working so time to go on strike. This was the National rail strike of 1991, Englewood Yard in Houston Texas.
Sante FE Junction sign near Eagle Lake TX, this is all gone now. Rayner Junction.
Good evening all,
Since it was warmer and dry I spend most of the day working on my car. I put new lower control arms and tie rod ends ( new ball joints, busings etc) on the front and, it is like a different car. I am a bit worn out but it went better than expected. I figured bolts the had been on the car for 23 years would be hard to get off. I am a firm believer in PB Blaster, a good dose of it on the bolts and off they came. The ball joints were all toast, but i could tell that when I drove. The car rode like a goat and was getting worse.
Not much else going on
UP Train on the Santa FE Houston sub, getting ready to cross the T&NO at T&NO junction. T&NO ( Texas and New Orleans) was Southern Pacific in Texas. Railroads had to incorprate in Texas by law so the big railroads all had corporate subsidiaries in Texas. GC&SF was Santa Fe, Texas and Pacific was MP , etc.
cudakenWhat do Red Classification lights mean? The new BLI PRR Shark has them and have to idea what they are for?
Hey, Ken
When they're red they are marker lights, same as they would be on a caboose.
PRR 2269 (GP35) in Logansport, IN Yards, November 25, 1966 by Marty Bernard, on Flickr
PRR used lots of engines as helpers on the rear of trains. They would show red markers to the rear when pushing.
I don't recall but I think F7 turns them on or off.
Good Luck, Ed
Afternoon Diners
Flo, give the gang and I a please and Dirk half a dog treat.
Over all a pleasant day. Well till the wife decided she wanted half the tax money? Well it was not that unpleasant. Only reason I am getting $1288.00 back in taxes is because I was having a extra $25.00 a week taken out of my check for 3/4 of the year.
What do Red Classification lights mean? The new BLI PRR Shark has them and have to idea what they are for?
Jan Glad the surgery went well.
Later Ken and Dirk say's Snarl, Woof, Woof! Yep not a good boy today.
I hate Rust
I share your bladed fustrations. Last time I got annoyed and used a Unibit to drill the center out on a 10mm arbor blade. Worked like a charm and still in use on the 5 1/2" Skill saw. J.R.
mbinsewiI don't believe how hard it is to find a blade for a Craftsman table saw.
I have a tile saw that takes an 8" diamond blade. It is near impossible to find a blade for it. I think I bought the only tile saw ever made that requires an 8" blade. Lucky me. 7" tile saw blades are everywhere.
mbinsewiI think even the days of a seperate cross cut and rip blade are gone, and now the combination blade as well?
About a year ago I sent my wife to Home Depot with specific instructions to get me a 10" carbide tipped crosscut blade. She went to two Home Depots and could not find one.
I went out with her to look again, and sure enough, no ripping, crosscut, or combination blades anymore.
That caught me by surprise.
We have lots of sand hill cranes in WI., too. You'll see them in the fields with the turkeys. In any part of the state.
We have a few show up on the trail cam.
I don't believe how hard it is to find a blade for a Craftsman table saw.
The rub is that the arbor is 1/2" NOBODY has anything like that in stock. I even tried Ace, which is usually full of surprises.....Nope! when asked what I was looking for, from an older experienced employee, I said I want an 8" hollow ground combination blade with a 1/2" arbor......he smiled and said "I know your frustration". I don't think they make a hollow ground blade any more.
What I did do was order some 1/2"-5/8" adaptors, so I can at least use a blade with a 5/8" arbor.......which everybody has.
I think even the days of a seperate cross cut and rip blade are gone, and now the combination blade as well?
Not even Granger has it.
Oh well, I cut everything cut for my feeder project.
John, Interesting that Florida is not on your Sand Hill Crane map. We get flooded with them all through the winter. They do not come this far South, but from Tampa Northward, they are all over the place.
These birds are exceptionally dangerous. They are large, fearless, and will walk right into traffic in the path of an oncoming vehicle with no warning.
Drivers slam their brakes to avoid hitting them. You better be alert, because the car in front of you could slow from 55 to 0 instantly to avoid hitting one of these cranes.
They have no fear of humans, cars, or crowds. They have been known to walk amongst us as if they belong.
It is hilarious when they attack their own reflections in windows. Actually it is the lead-up to it that is funny as they try to intimidate their reflection.
Br. Lion,
Knew that, was suprised that Gorilla Glue is now doing the same. I have the same shiney line on the incision that the joints on the furniture I have repaired have. It is a special sterile formula that they have come up with. Imagine, a way to turn a $6.99 item into a $306.99 item. If not more......May explain the bruses, clamps---
herrinchoker
herrinchokerSomthing new in the field of medicine, Gorrila Surgical Glue, whoda' thunk?
The ER has been using super glue for years.
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Good morning. Bacon, eggs, and coffee this morning.
I know that some of you at the diner are bird lovers. (To watch, not to eat.)
Something on your bucket list should be central Nebraska in March. It's not widely known, but each year over 600,000 Sandhill Cranes and over 500 Whooping Cranes spend time on a 20-mile stretch of the Platte River.
They funnel here from all over North America. They spend several weeks here, eating and resting, then fly on north.
This is a few miles from where I live.
Every morning they fly in huge groups out to feed in fields, and at night the large groups fly back to spend the night on sandbars in the river.
Thanks Mike. I love all of it save the grits. And a kettle of coffee too please. My wife has a special tool for squirrels and racoons but now that we are in city limits she can't use it anymore .
I had gone to see Jethro Tull when Mick Abrahams was playing with them but he got bounced at Immigration and instead I got to see the debut of Martin Barre who ended up being the longest tenured band member at the end. Mick then started Bloodwyn pig but for the aforementioned run in with INS I never saw them tour in the US (right after that I got to go on an extended sea cruise all expenses paid so if they toured later, I didn't see it).
If memory serves, they had Roland Kirk open, then Tull, but it was a long, long time ago and I just don't recall. In the words of one of my favorite songs "Ah but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now". J.R.
Survived---
Had Thyroid Gland, and some other associated items removed yesterday morning--
Haven't had this much discomfort in a long, long, time. Miss Morpheius is helping though, along with PopCorn Sutton's Elexir.
Somthing new in the field of medicine, Gorrila Surgical Glue, whoda' thunk?
I have a 5++ inch incision at the base of my neck, and a large goiter appearing growth from the bottom of my chin to the top of the incision. It is a wonderful mix of colors, I presume that some form of cutting device was used in the process, if conclusions were drawn from physical evidence--conclusion would be that somone very strong just grabbed, and ripped. Liquids are most uncomfortable to send down the drain. Don't even want to think about turning my head to either side.
It was interesting when I came home, (this is now considered day surgery) all three dogs, even the 6mo. pup, came up to me, gave me a check over sniff, and all have been very gentle around me. Jasmine took great pains getting up on the bed with me-usually launching, and crash landing on the mattress. Yesterday she was very gentle, still came--of course---but didn't try to bounce me for the warm spot. I appreciate things like that.
The anestheologist, (I ask) is an avid waterfowler, so I made my usual trade--keep me in a functional mode, and I will guide them duck hunting for sea ducks, and puddle ducks, sculling them of course. Worked Again--!!
When I was rolled into the OR I asked everyone there if any had been to Wohan China in the last six months. I also advised them I had not been in that part of the world since 1963, so was fairly certain that if I was carrying anything it would have hatched, and that I have never had anything that common drugs were'nt effective on.
Dug out a 2-8-0, supprise!! it still works--and it even came back on it's own !, a wonderous event!...
Miss Morpheus is calling, so....It's Back!!
I do realize the throat thing was caused by being inahabeted (sp.?)---h.
THANK YOU JR !
I've had the BP song, Dear Jill, running through my head for weeks, and for the life of me, I couldn't remember who did it!!
I've been doing endless searching of the bands I used to listen to. When I seen the album cover you posted....BINGO.....it all came back!
I have the song playing right now. I love that slide quitar, and the sax.
The squirrels, I know how to deal with. I use the cone shaped gaurds, and, I have a special tool behind the garage door.
PS. TOP! A country skillet breakfast for all.
Good Morning All,
Doing clean up in the shop today, like it or not. Got some stuff sorted on the layout last night though I didn't spend as much time as I wanted due to getting out of here late.
Guess I understand why I don't fit in so well.
Well you get the idea.
I like the idea of bird feeders with metal roofs. That way when lightning strikes, they may zap the squirrels that steal all the bird feed. The birds are smart enough to take shelter when bad weather comes.
Ciao, J.R.
BATMAN TF, love the rocket! My buddy was really into model rockets and had plenty of them when we were kids, my favourite was the three-stage Apollo that after many successful flights we lost. Being a three-stage ship it went awfully high.
TF, love the rocket! My buddy was really into model rockets and had plenty of them when we were kids, my favourite was the three-stage Apollo that after many successful flights we lost. Being a three-stage ship it went awfully high.
Thanks Brent. I saw a three stage rocket at the hobby store when I was there, maybe it was the same one. At a pretty penny the first thing I though was, She's A Goner
TF
Another Train show in Coon Rapids Mn. The nice thing about this one is the MR club next door is hosting it. They are having an open house with free entree after paid admission to the show.
I've heard the giant layout has come along way from three years ago when I saw it. My Brother and I should have a lot of fun this morning.
Have a great Saturday everyone
SeeYou190Went and played wargames with the Wargator group tonight.
Our SIL does Warhammer 40K.
The wind finally gave up, so today and tomorrow are going to be outside days!
Have a little fix-it welding job, then make the oriol feeders. There going to look something like this:
Only with an old barn style twist, using barn wood, left over from my bath vanity project, and metal roof. I'll use #5 rebar to make a shepards hook hanger.
Have a great Saturday!
Went and played wargames with the Wargator group tonight. We played a six general Amercian Civil War scenario. I was General Stone.
I kept rolling 1s and 2s for reenforcement, and my army did not enter the game until turn 4. Then we entered in difficult terrain and could not get into a useful position.
The game ended with none of my guys encountering a Confederate unit at all.