GMTRacing TF- If you watch too many Daffy Duck cartoons you may become despicable . J.R.
TF- If you watch too many Daffy Duck cartoons you may become despicable . J.R.
Too late J.R. And the duck didn't cause it, I've been that way for years
The Kennedy Curse has struck again.
Robert K's granddaughter (40) and great grandson (8) went out in a canoe in the Chesapeake Bay yesterday. We had 30 mph winds all day; it's still blowing around 20 mph today. They found the canoe. Water temp is 50 F, or 10 C for the rest of the world.
It's beyond my comprehension, how someone who probably had considerable experience on the water would go out on a day like yesterday.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Good Afternoon,
Well the storm is over but there is about a foot of the white stuff on my driveway. I have no intention of shovelling it, melting will have to suffice. The storm came to us via North Dakota, thanks Lion.
Not much new here, we are staying in per orders.
Hope your day is ok,
CN Charlie
coming to you live from my "office" over in our storage area to keep me isolated from others today.
Like my office behind the main shop area. At least I have a door I can shut.
Good morning.
coming to you live from my "office" over in our storage area to keep me isolated from others today. I built my self an nice area to work from. Right now I am keeping our fleet of mobile medical PC carts up and running as well as helping with help tickets
I mowed my yard yesterday, more like cut the hay. It looks much better. It was nice outside yesterday.
I will have to venture out for more groceries tomorrow.
Heartland Division CB&Q Ulrich ..... Donald Duck is my favorite Disney cartoon character, but it is unlikely I will watch 6 hours of cartoons all at once.
Ulrich ..... Donald Duck is my favorite Disney cartoon character, but it is unlikely I will watch 6 hours of cartoons all at once.
I like Donald, In fact all those cartoons and characters were so much better than today's cartoons that there is no comparison.
It isn't an age facter that favors the characters of our era. It's just like music or anything else for that matter. The cartoon industry gelled at that time.
Personally I prefer Daffy Duck to Donald. Put that character together with Elmer Fudd and you had an Insane Nut Farm.
Quite entertaining but a little bit of that goes a long way too.
One of my all-time favorites, Marvin Martian
(Quote from Marvin)
"That made me very angry, very angry indeed.....After I blow up the Earth, I am going to disintegrate you with my Q-236 Space Modulator...... Gossamer come take the prisoner"
TF
Good morning, everybody ...
Steve O ....... We hope you are enjoying your birthday.
John York1 .... Thanks for your photos of your trip. The cake looks good.
Robert .... Thanks for telling about growing up in FL. The Yankee joke is an old one, but still very funny.
Brent .... We are in BC. Where are you?
This is our 23rd day of being hermits becasue of the virus. I'm working on the layout. I still had one section without scenery, but it is getting some now.
Everybody......... Have a nice day !
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Good morning, diners. Bacon, eggs, and black coffee, please.
We crossed the northwestern part of British Columbia on our way to Dawson City, Yukon.
On the White Pass and Yukon, we were lucky enough to have seats in the last car. It had an open platform on the back, and that's where my daughters and I spent the entire trip.
Here is a screenshot off a video so it is not good quality, but you can see the narrow track and the beginning of the taiga forest. Everyone else was looking at the mountains and waterfalls. I was looking at the track and cuts through the rock.
A little icy this morning, but no snow!
Edit: Top of the page. Since it's Steven's birthday, we'll all have cake for breakfast!
Anyone who wants can have a Bloody Mary or three with me.
York1 John
There are native floridians? Everytime I am there seems like the whole state is full of refugees from the Northeast!
Joe Staten Island West
GMTRacing Good Morning Robert. When I was stationed in Pensacola,we used to get glimpses of the "old Florida" when we wandered further east. A more relaxed life style I think though the locals didn't have much use for us foreigners - especially a genuine Connecticut Yankee.
Good Morning Robert. When I was stationed in Pensacola,we used to get glimpses of the "old Florida" when we wandered further east. A more relaxed life style I think though the locals didn't have much use for us foreigners - especially a genuine Connecticut Yankee.
Hey J.R. -
Yeah. There were Yankees and there were Dayum Yankees. Yankees were those loud-mouth people who came down, stayed two weeks, spent a lot of money, and then went home. Dayum Yankees didn't go home.
Robert
LINK to SNSR Blog
Good Morning All,
Happy Birthday Steven Otte. At 55 your just a pup here in the diner.
I'll have a to go and a blueberry donut please Zoe. 41F and rainy this morning. Got the Shred-it stuff done yesterday and some preassembly for another gearbox. It isn't much different sheltering in place at home or here at the shop as we don't deal with the public and there is tons of room between each of us. We all agreed it is probably a ton safer here than going for groceries.
Stuff to do so we'll see y'all later. Ciao, J.R.
I was born in Florida. My parents were born in Florida. Two of my grandparents were born there. Florida was a very different place before air-conditioning, and it was certainly different than it is now. For one thing, it was rural.
Hog butchering took place in the fall, if Florida had such a thing as a fall season. It usually took place around Thanksgiving when the weather had finally cooled. Summers were far too brutal.
There's a story about a big city feller who came to Florida to broadcast the weather on television. He was what in those days we would have called a New Yorker, whether he was from New York or not. Anyhow the story goes, one day someone asked him if it was cold enough to kill hogs. He replied, "Probably not cold enough to kill them but it might make them a little sick."
Nostalgia.
Good morning
Looks like a rain day. I like those sometimes, it makes you feel like you have a good reason to be inside.
It's just Judy and me these days but we find plenty to do. Spring cleaning and organization of every thing in the house.
We also are taking care of the pack rat thing. We have thrown away four boxes of junk and three boxes of drop off donation stuff.
We've never played so many board games. We could'nt find Yahtzee but all one needs is five dice, we remember the rest. Cribbage and even the childish game of Sorry is still fun.
Judy has her rug latch hooking craft while I work on MR stuff, working on laying some track and building some bents for my first wooden bridge.
There is plenty of things to do then to be bored. We're taking advantage of this time. We don't get it to often. In fact I don't ever remember getting it before at all.
Make it a great day everyone
hon30critterYork1 On a whole different topic, I wonder if you long-time diner patrons remember a diner forum that was already on its fourth page on the second day of the month?
Way back then, IIRC the forum only allowed 20 entries per page; now it is 30.
Gary
Glad that GG1 is working out well for you, Ken Sorry I didn't pick-up what you were saying about the coupler.
cudakenBy the way, how do you raise the over head power pick up towers? I do know what they are called but no clue how to spell it?
If you gently rock and pull up with your fingers holding the pantograph where the two green arrows point it will spring upward.
GG1_Pan by Edmund, on Flickr
You really should keep them down as they WILL snag on something and make a mess!
Push the contact bar back down and latch it to a little round-head pin that sticks up where the blue arrow is.
Have FUN!
This is worth a look while you enjoy your morning beverage:
I hope everyone is well. Still no Brent? Does anyone know his contact info? Really not like him to be AWOL
Cheers, Ed
Tinplate Toddler I won´t argue with you, but there is much more to the world than your micro cosmos!
Make that my micro cosmos too. My son and his wife are very responsible and are doing great as are all of their friends! All of our friends' children are also doing very well. In fact, I can't think of any young people who we know who are not responsible and doing well.
Ulrich, I think you paint with too broad a brush. There are certainly lots of trouble makers and irresponsible young people out there, but I don't think that they are in the majority (granted that your neighbourhood has more than its share of miscreants). I choose to believe that the younger generation is rising to the occassion just like all others have in the past in recent history. We did it. They will too. In fact, they might just do a better job of it than we have.
Cheers!!
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 won´t argue with you, but there is much more to the world than your micro cosmos!
Happy times!
Ulrich (aka The Tin Man)
"You´re never too old for a happy childhood!"
Tinplate Toddler We have to face it, that our generation has raised a generation of spoiled brats, who will struggle to stay afloat in the coming economically trying times.
I do not think so.
My children are doing great, it sounds like Brent's are on the way to doing well. Everybody else who has talked about their kids seem very proud of them.
In my previous life as an employed person, from 2012 through 2016 I was responsibel for hiring 12-18 new untrained people per year and bringing them up to speed. There is nothing wrong with the current generation at all.
Society should be just fine, the kids are alright.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Good Morning!
Another day braeking - I hope it isn´t as boring as yesterday was!
Garry - as much as I like Donald Duck I could by no means sit through 6 hours of watching the duck being close to a nervous breakdown each time things go in a different way than planned.
Dave - sorry for not showing my due appreciation Anyone in the print media business faces a hard time staying afloat these days and I am afraid the upcoming slump or even deprecession won´t allow for any improvement. I am convinced the world will be quite a different one once we have overcome the COVID-19 crisis and some of us will face significant material losses in the wake of it. Al Kalmbach founded the Model Railroader magazine in the height of the Great Depression, but our forefathers were a much hardier breed than we are, let alone our kids. We have to face it, that our generation has raised a generation of spoiled brats, who will struggle to stay afloat in the coming economically trying times. Facebook and Twitter "friends" are no substitute for rel friends supporting each other. I just hope it won´t be all doom and gloom, but better to be prepared for living a more humble life soon.
Tinplate ToddlerTwo full pages a day was not unusual, as the number of participants was quite a bit larger. We have lost quite a number of friends, others just left without a trace.
Ulrich,
That is not the response that I was hoping for! I was imagining numerous people praising me for the quality of my prose!
Seriously, several people have thanked me for opening the Diner and I am grateful for that. However, I'm a bit bothered by the prediction that the forums might come to an end. I see Kalmbach getting better at what they do, and in fact they are constantly trying to improve the forums (albeit not without a few glitches along the way). They are also starting to sell good quality modelling items like paint brush sets. I am still considering buying a set despite the fact that I upgraded my brush collection not too long ago.
I hope their retail endeavours are successful. Every bit counts, but that also would put them in direct conflict with some of their major sponsors. Life is never simple.
Without wishing to create a controversy, I will state that I would be willing to pay for participating in the forums. Of course, that's only me. Unfortunately, charging for the forums could have the opposite effect of killing them. A lot of online services, like Wikipedia for example, ask for voluntary contributions. I would be willing to do that.
hon30critter York1 On a whole different topic, I wonder if you long-time diner patrons remember a diner forum that was already on its fourth page on the second day of the month? I suspect that it is because we are all stuck at home (or should be). Dave
York1 On a whole different topic, I wonder if you long-time diner patrons remember a diner forum that was already on its fourth page on the second day of the month?
I suspect that it is because we are all stuck at home (or should be).
Two full pages a day was not unusual, as the number of participants was quite a bit larger. We have lost quite a number of friends, others just left without a trace.
York1On a whole different topic, I wonder if you long-time diner patrons remember a diner forum that was already on its fourth page on the second day of the month?
Happy birthday Steve! I have 15 years on you. July of 2005 I had a serious back injury, construction site accident, while building the Klotsche Center, UWM. I was on the side lines untill Feb. 2006.
I'll take a double of the last of your treats. With the wife home, I have more than enough of the others!
Mike.
My You Tube
Hey Steven Otte!
Happy 55th!! I hope you can have some fun even if the party will be small.
Edit: The photos of your comfort food made me hungry! I would rather have comfort food than a good steak. As for the last two, we rarely indulge in dessert but I can't say the same about the one on the right!
BigDaddyI'll bet you trimmed off all the fat and silver skin.
Yes I did, as much as possible. With small game, it wasn't much of a factor. Rabbits seem to have more of it than squirrels. Game birds, I didn't notice it.
cudaken sort of wish I was 55 again, but then I would not have SS
I would pay it all back and pay what I am supposed to collect every year for the rest of my life if I could be 55 again. 60 was the roughest birthday. At 50 I could pretend I might live to 100 (both grandmothers lived to be 96 & 98, grandfathers didn't fare so well) and I was only 1/2 way there.
At 60 I was on the downhill slope. There was no pretending. In my life, after college, I have been fortunate in that only a few friends and family have passed away who are my age or younger. At 68 I read the obits and so far I haven't seen my name.
On the supernatural front, last night my wife came out of the shower and thought she saw me sneak in the closet, to scare her. I was downstairs watching youtube. Today I saw someone in pink, pass by the dining room window on the walkway to our front door. I thought maybe it was Amazon and opened the front door. There was no package and there was no one anywhere to be seen.
mbinsewi but I used to process my own venison
I'll bet you trimmed off all the fat and silver skin. Gristle I think it's gross too. Silver skin is the fascia, which in building and model railroading is pronounced:
Fay sha
and in medicine it is the covering of muscles and and pronounced
Fah sha.
As a kid, growing up with a farm laborer step dad ( never actually adopted, so I maintained my birth last name), we made sausage every time we butchered a sow.
Knowing everything that went into it ( I did the grinding) I was hesitant to eat it. With pancakes, waffels, or french toast, I used a LOT of syrup. With eggs, any style, I used a LOT of ketchup.
Bitting into a chunk of gristle, was gross.
When we butchered, nothing went to waste, including rendering the lard. The kitchen would have a kind of greasy coating over everything, after boiling it all down. It took longer to clean up the kitchen, than it did to butcher up the meat.
I don't do my own butchering any more, but I used to process my own venison, along with other hunting delicacy treats such as squirrel, rabbit and pheasant, and I still clean my own fish.
Yummy!
Eveing Diners!
Flo, give the gang and I a , Ed a Crown Royal, Steve O what ever he wants and Drik half a dog treat!
Steve O sort of wish I was 55 again, but then I would not have SS.
Ed, you sort of missed read my post. While the couplers looked high on the GG1 it was just becaues where driffrent than my other engines. I all so stated "My fear was unfouned, I hooked a PRR Refer to the GG1 and it was not a problem". It tracks great and pulls great! It pulled all on my PRR Heavy Weight Pullmans Coaches and the PRR Refer you sent! Me Likes!
By the way, how do you raise the over head power pick up towers? I do know what they are called but no clue how to spell it?
Spent $235.00 Today! Not a train iteam in that total! Want to hunker down for the next 3 days and not leave the house till I go to work assuming the company is still open?"
Sat outside today with Dirk and he really enjoyed! Heck, he did not want to get out of his lawn chair when Sue and I went in!
Later, Ken and Dirk says "we sit outside more daddy, Woof, Woof?
I hate Rust