I went to a rock concert at UF in 1970. Sly and the Family Stone and Grand Funk Railroad were two of the acts.
I went to Florida Tech and we went cave diving somewhere near Gainesville. One of the guys in the car commented how quintissential country it looked in a small town with an old lady sitting on the rocker on her front porch and the hound dog asleep next to her. At that point, said old lady stood up, leaned over the rail and spit the spit only tobacco chewers can spit.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Steven OtteOh, yeah. LOVED Leonardo's. <SNIP> Two slices was a full meal.
I grew up in Gainesville and rode my bike to Leonardo's when I was 8-13 years old to grab a slice of a Big Leo whenever I could!
When I go back there now, it is like a time machine... truly a unique place.
I did not go to UF, I was accepted, but I was also accepted to Vanderbilt in Nashville, and that is where my parents made me go.
I often ponder how much my life would be different if I went to UF like I wanted to.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
BATMAN TF, you mentioned Diet, not a big fan of diet stuff. The chemical soup in some of these diet products is disgusting. The wife will not let anything with aspartame into the house.
TF, you mentioned Diet, not a big fan of diet stuff. The chemical soup in some of these diet products is disgusting. The wife will not let anything with aspartame into the house.
Than I see you think the same way that I do. The only reason I recall suggesting it is a few of my friends are diabetic. Judy and I do not touch anything artificial, sweeteners or anything that is hard to pronounce in food ingredients.
Beer, Boose and wine are full of sugar too as I know you realize. I have learned sugar among other things isn't good for how my joints feel either. Still that deviation from the norm night is not going to discontinue in my house. I have just learned to slow my roll in recent years and stay away from those two dayers. Otherwise...
Judy freaked me out about an hour ago. She told me she's getting tired of this too much time on her hands and she's getting bored.
I told her let's get up in the morning and start a craft on the glass table. I'll do my craft and you do yours and we will admire what each other is doing tomorrow.
She said, "but I can't think of a craft I want to do". I said would you like to learn how to make some model trees and some foam rocks? She said okay if you're willing to show me and have some patience, I would like to learn how to do that
I think the corona just busted my wife into joining me in my hobby... Is that cool or what? I think tomorrow will be fun.
P.S. A little irrelevant to this subject. I'm not a very fancy lad but a little high-strung and sometimes down-right rambunctious at times. Judy knows this and also knows I always make her laugh, sometimes hysterically.
I guess that's why she puts up with me. I'm kind of backwards as I haven't even laid my track yet. I'm getting many buildings and many bridges done, with trees, rocks and all the stuff I will need in the end to make my layout come together. It all has to be done eventually, even if I do it backwards.
And now my Judy wants to get into the hobby with me. Is that cool or what?
I just noticed I need to work on my long-windedness I used to be short spoken and don't know what happened...... maybe the corona
P.S. again. I liked the Grand Trunk Garry
TF
Howdy ...
Steve O .... Thanks for the Pizza. Yummy!
Ulrich .... Continued best wishes for you and Petra.
Dave ... Thanks for the information about the original Grand Trunk . I like the 4-6-0 .
Ed ... Thanks for the video of the steam fan trip! Nice.
While in Ontario, we can talk about Canadian National Railway. It was founded on June 6, 1919. For many years, it was owned by the Canadian Government. In 1992, it was privatized, and thereafter its stock is publiclly traded.
Its freight cars have English spelling on one side (Canadian National) and French spelling on the other side (Canadien National). Only one letter is different.
Is this a Grand Trunk ?
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
MisterBeasleyYou might look for end of the season rental sales.
Thanks.... I do want to ride it this summer, "God willing and the creek don't rise". There is a shop here in Geneva that might just have a used bike that would fit the bill!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Ray, I am still riding a Cannondale mountain bike I got 30 years ago. It's a no-frills bike, no shock absorbers or spring seat, but I don't do the kind of aggressive trail riding that would make those important.
I got this bike when we visited Acadia National Park in Bar Harbor in Maine. It was Labor Day weekend. I had brought my road bike and intended to ride that, but the interesting trails are really only good for mountain biking. I looked into rentals, and discovered that the rental shops all shut down after that weekend, and they would sell their existing bikes and buy new ones in the spring.
This was a very good bike, used sporadically for one summer and impeccably maintained, and I got it for half the going price. You might look for end of the season rental sales.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Afternoon folks....
BATMANYep food addiction is treated like any other addiction these days. Obesity cost corporations gazillions in health care and lost productivity.
I think you are right with that.... NYS was asking questions like that 40 years ago when my wife applied for unemployment when we first arrived in Geneva. They said the reason had to do with finding job openings that would be a better fit for people. Someone who is 5' 3" and wieighs in at 340lbs. might not be a good fit to work in a warehouse climbing ladders all day.... And employers like to not have their costs made higher because an employee has an accident, etc. Risk assesment and management is important to employers.
I have just purchased t-track roof mounted racks for my Tesla. Found out my lady friend is also into mountain biking (at 76 years of age). I mentioned that I used to like riding bikes back when and her answer was that If I knew how back then, I would still know how now! So..... Any advise on a low end bicycle that can be used on roads and paths??? The retired Athletic Director across the street from me does mountain biking and I am waiting for him to chime in with advise.
I just measured my HO Inglenook switching layout and it will fit in the back of the Tesla easily...
Have a good one and STAY SAFE!
Good morning from the left side where it is sunny and should hit the mid twenties today.
Think I'll have some of that Pizza Steven, thank you so much. BP was 104/62HR46 this morning before I burned 1400 calories on the bike and went for a quick mile afterwards to cool down. Our rural streets were layed out at 8 per mile before we switched to metric so it is easy to tell how far I run.
BroadwayLion cudaken Was going to file for unemployment today, but seems I have to appliy on Tuesday with my last name starting with the letter G? Would you believe the State OF ILL wants to know what your Weight is when you file? Whistling Wonder if they pay by the pound? If you are too fat, then you cannot qualify for unemployment since yopu would be unemployable. Oh well, Ill eh? That explains a lot.
cudaken Was going to file for unemployment today, but seems I have to appliy on Tuesday with my last name starting with the letter G? Would you believe the State OF ILL wants to know what your Weight is when you file? Whistling Wonder if they pay by the pound?
If you are too fat, then you cannot qualify for unemployment since yopu would be unemployable.
Oh well, Ill eh? That explains a lot.
Yep food addiction is treated like any other addiction these days. Obesity cost corporations gazillions in health care and lost productivity.
It was no secret that the kids rapid rise in the movie extra world was because of his fitness level and the ability to keep up the demanding physical requirements. He is been head hunted now by many corporations and they always mention his FB pages when contacting him. It is evident he is involved with lots of sports and volunteers a lot and that catapults him to the front of the line.
Getting thank you phone calls from people we delivered meals to last night, I am glad we do it.
Well the honeydo list is long so best get goin.
All the best to all.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Steven Otte Ulrich, perhaps you can rent for a while, establish Danish residency, then buy a house.
Ulrich, perhaps you can rent for a while, establish Danish residency, then buy a house.
Thanks for that hint, Steven! I looked into this a while ago. The Danish real estate market has very few places to rent outside the big cities, as house prices are very low in rural areas. OTOH, rents in the urban areas are really high, even higher than in Germany. The paradox thing is, we can afford to buy a small house, but not to rent one.
If it were up to me alone to decide, I´d go even further north. You can by a decent cottage in good order on a small plot of land (something like 20 acres) for as little as $25k.
Happy times!
Ulrich (aka The Tin Man)
"You´re never too old for a happy childhood!"
--Steven Otte, Model Railroader senior associate editorsotte@kalmbach.com
Did someone say deep dish, Deep Dish?
Aside from the fact, that Germany´s border will not likely be opened before mid of June, our plans to move to Denmark received a deadly blow today. Despite being a member state of the EU, which is supposed to give equal rights to all citizens of the EU, Denmark has imposed restrictions for non-Danish citizen to buy property. These restrictions have been not really been enforced - until recently! Now buying property is more or less impossible. I still will give it atry by sending an application to grant approval to the concerned authorities, but a positive outcome would require a miracle. I need new ideas to solve our problem, but I don´t have any.
Rats!
SeeYou190 13th street in Gainesville, You MUST have eaten at Leonardo's! I graduated from Cape Coral High School in 1985, and was accepted to the University of Florida. I wanted to go back to Gainesville so badly. We could have been there at the same time if things would have been just a little different!
13th street in Gainesville, You MUST have eaten at Leonardo's!
I graduated from Cape Coral High School in 1985, and was accepted to the University of Florida. I wanted to go back to Gainesville so badly.
We could have been there at the same time if things would have been just a little different!
Oh, yeah. LOVED Leonardo's. They sold a rectangular slice packaged between two Styrofoam meat trays with a rubber band around them, and it was so thick the top and bottom wouldn't close all the way. Two slices was a full meal.
I was also a fan of Gumby's Pizza. Their advantage over Leonardo's was they delivered, and they had those flavored crusts.
I was at UF from 1983-1987, so if you didn't delay going there after high school, we probably did overlap a couple of years. I was in Murphree C from 1983-1985, and North Hall Co-op after that.
Deep dish pizza for everyone!
Good morning
A beautiful sunny day to wake up to this morning. It looks like it's going to be another great day.
Yesterday was one of those days where everything went right and was just the opposite of last Saturday when everything went wrong. My cracked ribs are feeling better and I'm relieved they must not have been injured as bad as the last time that happened.
I have a decent floor job to bid today and I know I'll have to get a kid to crawl around on the floor while I cut the pieces. My bum knee don't take that sort of thing anymore. I'm hopeful as I could use a job like that right now.
Ulrich, it was good to see you stop by. Good to hear some restrictions are being lifted. Things will get better for you and Petra soon, I just know it.
My daughters and I are going to get together for a picnic soon for one of their birthdays. I'm looking forward to that day as it will be good to see them.
I wish I had some Ontario pictures to post. Hopefully I can come across something.
Have a great day everyone
Good morning. I was just finishing the morning walk when the rain started.
Keep the faith, Ulrich. Something may fall into your life that will be better than the ones that are off the market.
I got some concrete poured late yesterday. I just finished when darkness hit. I covered it with plastic, knowing rain was possible. Tomorrow I'll take the forms off.
Mike, your picture of the chili dog hit the spot. I'm going to make some tonight. I agree with Garry, the chili dog was much better than anything with bananas.
Have a good day today.
York1 John
Heartland Division CB&QAnybody have more Ontario trains to post ?
I was fortunate that my dad would take me with him to several of the CN and GTW excursions that were frequent in the 1960s.
This one was from Sarnia to Stratford and returning by a different route.
Great stuff! Some of the footage around Stratford was later used in a documentary about the Stratford Shops.
https://vimeo.com/210872959
Today, 6167 is stuffed and mounted — like so much of the late, great CN steam — outside the depot in Guelph, Ontario.
Cheers, Ed
How about the Grand Trunk Railway (GT)? It was chartered in 1852 to run between Montreal, Quebec and Toronto Ontario. The charter was soon extended east to Portland, Maine and west to Sarnia, Ontario, and by the 1860s the GT served not only Ontario and Quebec, but also Connecticut, Maine, Michigan, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont. Eventually its subsidiary the Grand Trunk Pacific served northwestern Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia. Another subsidiary, the Grand Trunk Western, operated in Michigan, Indiana and Illinois. The Central Vermont Railway was also an offshoot of the Grand Trunk. Eventually the Grand Trunk was incorporated into the Canadian National Railway.
Here is a map of the GT's operations in Ontario, Quebec and the northeastern USA:
This is my most favourite steam locomotive of all. I love how shiny it is!
Here is my long running attempt to make somewhat reasonable copy of it:
I'll see what esle I can find regarding Ontario's railways. Everyone is invited to join in!
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Good Morning!
Just stopping by to say hello. The lockdown has been lifted slightly, but we are still unable to pursue our plans of going for a house hunt in Denmark. Meanwhile another of the objects we intended to take a look at has been sold, leaving us with just one option. Properties fitting our requirements in terms of location, layout and quality are hard to find. I am scanning the market on a daily basis, but no new chance has come up.
Stay safe.
Good evening .
Mike ...... Thanks for posting the chili dog. Yummy! ... Much better than the bannana yuckie stuff others were talking about.
Maxman ...... Your reply to Richard is very funny.
Anybody have more Ontario trains to post ?
Everybody .... Have a nice night.
Yep
I do believe you are right Dave.
It was a fun day and I'm going to hit the rack
Sleep well Kids
TF,
We had better quit while we are still ahead!
And I do think they could have made a much more attractive looking tunnel before the Boom
I do remember viewing tunnels in my younger days that were much more attractive than that
BATMANLike I said, it is on the TV so I figured it was alrigh
This comment is going to test Vinnie's patience, but I thought the actress should have had a bigger smile on her face!
BATMAN Like I said, it is on the TV so I figured it was alright.
Like I said, it is on the TV so I figured it was alright.
And do you figure everything else on TV is all right now too Brent?
Relax, I love Canada's TV commercials
Who could not?
Today I broke through my inertia and took small steps towards setting up my layout again. The GF set stuff up first, so some file cabinets and a shelf will have to move. Once that end of the layout is up, the furniture can go under it, So, no net loss in floor space. Then I have to figure out how to reconfigure the track on the next section to round the turn, as the wall size there is smaller than I used to have.
BigDaddy BATMAN Here is an ad with a train in it that has been on TV up here. And cuzin Vinnie deletes my posts?
BATMAN Here is an ad with a train in it that has been on TV up here.
And cuzin Vinnie deletes my posts?
BATMANHere is an ad with a train in it that has been on TV up here.
Post Hog!
Honey, ... This definitely ain't a Friday or a Saturday Night! and I don't think we're in Kansas any more.
Oh, that's right, ... We're in Ontario, Canada and I definitely like it here
P.S. It's beautiful scenery, just beautiful
Beautiful Lake of the Woods Ontario, Canada. I've fished Lake of the Woods many many times and caught many of walleye. My favorite spot, Sioux Narrows. You know at one time and maybe still do, they have the world's largest wooden highway bridge there that I jumped off in the dark of night. I wish I had some pictures to post!
Brent, You never cease to amaze me
P.S. Try Diet Pepsi, and from previous experience, a day break in between Sometimes when your liver light is on,,, your joints can get sore and achy too