mbinsewiSo, JR, what was the meat in those tacos? the same "specialty" meat the Puerto Rican's used?
Eating in Louisiana, you never asked that question. You just enjoyed the taste.
SeeYou190Still cannot get a plumber to come out and give me a quote to move the toilet flange and tub drain.
Will they have to break up the concrete to move the drains? Gets expensive.
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Since it's still happy hour in the central time zone, I'll buy another round for the entire diner crowd.
York1 John
SeeYou190 Still cannot get a plumber to come out and give me a quote to move the toilet flange and tub drain. I am so sore. -Kevin
Still cannot get a plumber to come out and give me a quote to move the toilet flange and tub drain.
I am so sore.
-Kevin
I bet you are, you ain't no spring chicken any more kid
Kevin, moving floor drains over isn't too very difficult. You just need to rent a demolition hammer and borrow your wife's little garden shovel to shovel the sand.
The plumbing code is the exact opposite of our 2% maximum grade in model railroading. Quarter inch per foot minimum slope for drains.
Dry set the pipe and put little permanent marker dashes on the joints before you PVC purple primer and glue it.
It is legal for a homeowner to do his own plumbing if you are being inspected. At least that's the case up here
P.S. Moving drains over are usually anywhere from 800 to1200 per drain up here Can be more, may give you some incentive.
Last I checked, I like $2,000 dollars or more
TF
A bit of interesting news from New Zealand:
The things you can find with a good metal detector
Pity they had to leave the second one behind —
Cheers, Ed
Enjoyed the video Ed.
The men's junk of a 93 year old past is a modern-day man's treasure
Sweet!
Track fiddlerP.S. Moving drains over are usually anywhere from 800 to1200 per drain up here Can be more, may give you some incentive.
Reminds me of the prep-work I did to make my layout room ready. My laundry area was against a basement wall, this would not do.
So, a concrete saw and jackhammer came into play to put a new drain in for the laundry. My nephew was on-hand to help and comments often "be careful when uncle Ed asks for help on his model railroad — you might need knee pads and ear plugs!"
That was twenty-five years ago.
Model Railroading IS fun!
We had someone look at our home. Their offer was extremely disappointing.
On the plus side, I lost my Iphone and found it at the local park, where I was walking the dog. If you have an Iphone, make sure Find My Phone is activated.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Good for you Ed!
I'm sure even twenty-five years ago, Tom Sawyer would have said, a younger set of legs and knees is always a better bet if you can achieve that
Your nephew sounds like a wonderful kid Ed
My brother Richard installed a bathroom in his basement many years ago. His young son Chris helped. They had to cut into the concrete floor to install the drain and Chris did the repairs to the floor on his own. Unfortunately he decided to clean up the excess concrete patching material by flushing it down the newly installed drain thinking it would just wash away. Of course it didn't so the new drain was plugged almost solid right from the get go. It took Richard days to figure out why the toilet wouldn't flush.
They got it right the second time!
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Judy and I just got done playing one of those old DVD games Neither one of us is very good at them but I won.
I can relate to you on that plugged drain very well Dave. I helped my buddy Jeff with his new bathroom he was putting in the basement. I gave him one of my plumbers at cost of course, he is my friend.
The toilet drain was moved by my plumber. The next day my friend Jeff installed the tile on the floor. The next day he grouted the floor and reinstalled the toilet.
To make a long story short, Jeff can be like me sometimes. He was so excited about his new bathroom the beers started to flow. Beers can be like Pringles sometimes when you're happy, "Once you pop you can't stop" He somehow knocked a beer can down the sewer hole while he was tiling.
After his first flush and the toilet didn't work, he got a hold of me and blamed it on my plumber. After my plumber went back over there, pulled the toilet and found the problem. My plumber wasn't very happy with me to say the least and I wasn't very happy with Jeff
Different story, same scenario, same end result. Jeff is still my friend but it took a little while after that
I have a plumber story, a patient of mine. He was on a call for plugged up toilet. He reached into the bottom and grabbed it. It had ribs. He thought the worst.
It was a chicken (grocery store, not live) the woman of the house had burned in the oven and tried to flush it down the toilet.
Wow ! OK, I have a story, 2 friends of ours, one ran a septic tank and grease trap pumping service. The other friend was his helper.
One of East Troy Septic Service's regular customers was Sawyer's Meat market. They process animals, and, had a "meat plant" (meat market) as they were called then, and had to have a septic tank, for the butcher room, cleaned out often.
The outlet from the tank was plugged, so after pumping down the level a bit, George (the owner of the septic service) got down in the tank, and unlugged the pipe, and replaced a baffel. His helper, watching from above, spit into the tank, and George yells out..."What the ...., Brian, you trying to make sick?"
I was there, as we were adding on to the meat market store, pouring the footings. They did run a fan and flexible duct pipe down into the tank for fresh air.
OK, where were we? Canada, right? the West (left) coast?
Mike.
My You Tube
Funny stuff Henry.
For God's green earth, why in the world would'nt she wrap it in a plastic bag so it didn't stink and throw it in the garbage.
If I only had the rubber gloves that plumbers have
P.S. it seems to be slowing down around here in the house. I think I'm going to play that nightly game of Yahtzee with Judy and hit the rack
When my daughter was about 4, we experienced a clogged toilet. After a bit of investigating, she admitted that she had flushed "a top" down. I wasn't sure what she meant, but I sent the wife and daughter away for the day and prepared to take off the toilet. This wasn't a plunger job. I tried that first.
I got the toilet off, and firmly wedged in, surrounded by you-know-what, was the top to a toy pot from a tiny cooking set.
It had a happy face on it. All I could do was laugh.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Betty Crocker Easy Bake Oven pot top?
I remember those things made some pretty good little cakes Mister B, and that was probably what was on top of the pot top
P.S. And the smiley face when you removed it, ... that is rich
gmpullmanPity they had to leave the second one behind —
They had a second attempt and got V126 as well, Ed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NZR_V_class
Cheers, the Bear.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Good morning
A bright sunshiny day this morning. It's suppose to get a little warmer every day to 63 degrees on Saturday. The plan is to go enjoy it doing some yard work at my daughters house, my other daughter is going to be there as well. Haven't seen my kids for a while, looking forward to it.
The weather guy says the wintery weather should be done now, we'll just have to see. Getting a little tired of being indoors all the time, enjoying some spring weather is on the agenda.
Have a good morning.
Good Morning All,
A regular to go please Zoe. It's 34F and some s**w coming down today. A bit different from yestedays high 50's and sunshine. Got the scrap barrels to swap out today and then it's on to the unit room. Racing looks unlikely before late June or July at this point. All we can do is hunker down and try to make it to the restart of the season.
Started on one backround building last night. A refit actually it was always a backround building that originally was used to hide the 1 foot difference in height on the two levels of the old layout. When I started the new layout I needed to hide the column that holds the house up so I bodged the building some more and wrapped it around the column. It was always hideous so I pulled it and started making it at least presentable. This the before picture. Once I moved Hudson Wire it was too much to put up with. I couldn't just toss it as it is also the view block for the start of the incline to the elevated track in the backround.
010 by J.R. Mitchell, on Flickr
Good to see our Kiwi friends found a couple of Ja Bears secret stash of lokies. The man must have a bit of racoon in him. When I lived with my uncle, there was one that lived behind the out building and would steal your tools from under the car. I finally tracked him home and recovered a half dozen wrenches and a couple of screwdrivers.
Time for Fun. Ciao, J.R.
Track fiddlerGetting a little tired of being indoors all the time, enjoying some spring weather is on the agenda.
Me too!!!
hon30critter Track fiddler Getting a little tired of being indoors all the time, enjoying some spring weather is on the agenda. Me too!!! Dave
Track fiddler Getting a little tired of being indoors all the time, enjoying some spring weather is on the agenda.
I was able to get the walk in this morning before the winter storm starts. Three to six inches of that white stuff today with wind. The only good news in the weather report was 60° by Saturday.
Hm, we need another Diner special... let's see... this is Thursday, we just had Taco Tuesday, Thaco Thursday... that's it! THAC0 Thursday!
If you ever played D&D you'll recognize that acronym -- "To Hit Armor Class 0." A lot of the things people like about model railroading translate into tabletop role-playing games, including creating scenarios (operating schemes), solving problems (switching puzzles), cooperative play, and of course building and painting miniature terrain and figures. In the end both hobbies are about world-building. Does anybody else here remember playing D&D or other RPGs as a youngster? Or still do?
--Steven Otte, Model Railroader senior associate editorsotte@kalmbach.com
Steven OtteDoes anybody else here remember playing D&D or other RPGs as a youngster? Or still do?
I think I may be too old -- those weren't around when I was younger, and by the time it got popular, I did not know anyone who was a player. Risk was the big game for us in college.
I think Kevin is the big game player in the Diner.
Good Afternoon!
This is one of the days I wonder why I got out of bed in the morning! It´s not Friday the 13th, but things could get worse! My wife wanted me to take a picture of something, which I couldn´t do because my little old, but trusted Panasonic Lumix had died - this time for good. Adding to that, our dryer started to smell funny - a fishy, burning smell, so that´s a goner, too. I knew this was coming towards us, but I had hoped the old one would hold until we move. Which won´t happen for an indefinite period of time,m as the lockdown continues and rumors now say it will continue well over summer. I refuse to think about the consequences of that! Well, I have to talk Petra into hanging up our laundry on a clothes line and wait for some time to buy a new one.
Steven - in my time, RPG did not stand for role playing games (which came much later), but for Ручной Противотанковый Гранатомёт, better known as Panzerfaust or Rocket Propelled Grenade.
Thursday is Tortellini Day!
Happy times!
Ulrich (aka The Tin Man)
"You´re never too old for a happy childhood!"
Tinplate ToddlerAdding to that, our dryer started to smell funny - a fishy, burning smell, so that´s a goner, too.
Never a good sign when you smell that! One night our smoke alarm went off, and we had the same smell. Our electric furnace had problems.
The talk in my state is to try to start to get things back to normal. Our state is allowing some stores to reopen, and a large shopping complex is reopening this weekend.
Here's hoping things get back to normal for you sooner than you think.
Love tortellini.
I remember our Dungeons & Dragons club well, in the mid 70's. Half the fun was painting your new pewter figurine pieces you acquired from the club meating of the prior week.
I remember there was a different dungeon master every week and Danny was always the best at that. When it was your turn you would have multiple scenarios of what could happen next with the roll of the dice.
I remember one time my role of the dice wasn't very good because the result was I had to dive into a chute to escape an outnumbered confrontation in the hall of the castle we were in.
It was the laundry chute that led to a locked room full of Ork socks I didn't get out of that room until the next club meeting
P.S. Danny was not the dungeon master that week
Good morning ...
John York1.... You said businesses in your state may be reopening . I am trying to recall where you are. I think Nebraska. Right?
JR ... thanks for commenting on my layout . Yours is looking very good in your photos.
Ulrich . Thanks for the tortellini. Yummy.
Yesterday was day 35 for us being hermits. That's five weeks of social distancing.
Everybody ... Happy Model Railroading
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
35 days! Around here, things started to close up, voluntarily, the week of March 16. The WI. GOV. didn't officially start it until March 24.
So officially, this is our 23rd day.
Heartland Division CB&QJohn York1.... You said businesses in your state may be reopening . I am trying to recall where you are. I think Nebraska. Right?
Yes, Garry, Nebraska. The mall is a large one just west of Omaha, and they said they will start reopening this weekend.
My little town has never really closed up, except for restaurants.
It's now coming up to planting time, and if we don't work now, we miss an entire year. There's no waiting a month or two.
The view of my backyard. This is supposed to keep up for a while.
I am not happy.
Post Hog, John is post hog
Looks like you're getting that second wind of winter I got last weekend John,... Yuk
Right on Dave, I find myself turning on the TV to get the weather more than once in a day somehow thinking it'll change quicker. I got to tell you I'm getting really sick of this covid, covid, covid Puppet Show every time I turn on the TV.
Spring is just around the corner, no one's going to have to give me permission to go outside....... Stay-at-home is wearing pretty thin here
John, that a neat little shed!
The snow is going to make it to southern WI., as well, they say maybe an 1" for us. Looks like it might just miss TF.
The Gov. of WI., just extended "SSAH" until May 26. All schools closed now for the rest of the school year.
I will still be doing what I have planned.