I prepared home-made-from-scratch cheese ravioli for dinner last night using a recipe my youngest daughter sent me.
It was OK, but I did something wrong with the noodle shell. Today the left-overs turned to mush in the refrigerator.
Ohio:
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Ulrich, thanks for the video. That is an amazing train. I haven't watched the entire video yet.
Grandchildren just left. Wife is napping. I'm sitting in my rocking chair with a blank mind.
York1 John
A nice looking church - quite similar to a Victorian train station in Britain. The car parked right is a pest! Why didn´t they extend the llawn around the church? Or should I have better said why didn´t the get rid of the ornate windows and install a big garage door instead, so the cars can be parked inside the church?
The car park in front of the church really ruins everything!
Happy times!
Ulrich (aka The Tin Man)
"You´re never too old for a happy childhood!"
MisterBeasleyLawn service guys did it while the car was parked in our driveway.
That stinks. Sorry to hear about the accident. That must be frustrating.
It really frustrates me when someone parks a white SUV right in front of a church I want to get a good picture of.
The GF's car is in the shop for bodywork. It got rear ended by...a lawn mower. Lawn service guys did it while the car was parked in our driveway.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Heartland Division CB&QAre we still in the UK?
Indeed we are!
And we shouldn´t miss one of the most spectacular train rides of the world and go on a rail cruise through the Highlands on board the Royal Scotsman!
Interesting switcher locomotive and baggage car in Ohio:
Okay, thanks for the responses. I think I'll give that DuckDuckGo a whirl John.
That thing cuts off the whole screen and sometimes I can't lose it without backing out of the forum completely. It seems to be appearing every time I'm logged in here and getting rather annoying.
Thanks
P.S. it looks like I'm foiled painting my truck topper today. The roof rack nuts and bolts are rust seized. My impact wrench was lost with all my other tools I don't use very often last year when my tool trailer was stolen.
Looks like a trip out to my buddy Ervs this weekend. Too nice of a day to model inside. Maybe a wash and wax job on my car. It needs its yearly oil change too. I'm back in business. There's always something to do to fill a day.
TF
York1Kevin, I can see certain barns are well-cared for, and others are not. In my area, most old wooden barns are falling down. Farmers don't use them anymore, and they don't want to spend money to fix them up just for nostalgia.
Barns are falling apart everywhere. I do not care for pictures of severley dilapidated structures, unless nature is taking it back. I prefer beautiful structures.
Ohio had the highest frequency of barns in poor shape. I did not see more than a half dozen restored/maintained barns there.
Here is an example of nature taking back from us. I love these pictures. If I did not know this was Ohio, I would swear this picture was from Georgia.
Good morning.
John York 1.... We have used DuckDuckGo which worked fine for me. My wife thinks she gets better search results with Google. I wonder about that, but it is nothing I care to disagree with.
Are we still in the UK?
Hey Flo, Do you have any scones for breakfast?
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Track fiddlerJust a quick question. Is anyone else getting hacked with this congratulations you are the 5 billionth customer to Google claim your prize with all the muti-color confetti falling down or is it just me? Of course I'm smart enough to not to click on to it. It's only Happening Here and quite frequently.
TF, I use DuckDuckGo for my browser. It's free, works just like Google, but it does not allow trackers, and that stops almost all ads and popups.
Track fiddlerJust a quick question.
No.
Track fiddler Just a quick question. Is anyone else getting hacked with this congratulations you are the 5 billionth customer to Google claim your prize with all the muti-color confetti falling down or is it just me? Of course I'm smart enough to not to click on to it. It's only Happening Here and quite frequently. TF
Just a quick question.
Is anyone else getting hacked with this congratulations you are the 5 billionth customer to Google claim your prize with all the muti-color confetti falling down or is it just me? Of course I'm smart enough to not to click on to it.
It's only Happening Here and quite frequently.
Yes, I am. I simply ignore it!
Good Afternoon!
It´s way past lunchtime for me, so some coffee and a slice of my favourite pie would do perfectly! You know, it´s a cherry crumble pie with a topping of vanilla ice cream!
Still working on house designs to overcome German building regs, but still have a house inexpensive enough for us to afford. Flat roofs are highly unlikely to get permitted here, so by taking to 20ft. containers side by side instead of a 40ft. container opens up new possibilities while keeping the sq.ft.´s at the same level (and costs only moderately increades). Adding a roof is not much of a deal, then.
I have been toying with some designs:
or
I like the last one more than the first one!
Back to our host country! Britain does not only have the famous Thomas The Tank Engine, bit also some good looking work horses of the branchlines:
In this video Mr. Marsh dug deep into my archive to bring you action from three preserved British Rail Standard 4 Tanks. Llangollen based 80072 features mostly with a couple of her appearances being impersonations of former class mate locomotives. 80080 courtesy of the Princess Royal Locomotive Trust is seen on the East Lancashire Railway and a fleeting appearance of 80136 which returned to steam in 2016 courtesy of the North Yorkshire Moors Railway. This will be the first in a series of compilations looking at the B.R Standard Locomotives all captured from the lineside. The series will focus on the Standard Fours and Fives and finally finishing with the 9F !
I hope you enjoy the mini compilation !
Good Morning All,
A regular to go please Zoe. Mid 60's today and overcast but no rain predicted until late evening. Got the floor stripped in the front of the trailer. only a 10 x 8 area but my intrepid carpenter had used enough adhesive to glue a house in the one area. Fortunately I had a Fein tool with a scraper attachment to augment the big shingle scraper I used to pull the engineered flooring. The plywood underlayment still looks ok so after letting the new (wood) floor acclimate I can fit the new flooring.
Not much else to report right now. The CFO is in Va visiting reletives so it's just the two dogs and I roughing it. No progress on the layout and I leave for Elkhart, Wisconsin next week for another event. Ciao, J.R.
Good morning
Made a little progress on the 5th scratch built bridge of the 8 the last couple of days.
Going to be ordering an airbrush kit from eBay. Don't want to paint five styrene bridges with a cheap airbrush hooked up to a big compressor and take a chance of water getting in the paint.
Finally see a light at the end of the tunnel, only three bridges left. It'll be refreshing to switch things up to wood. Only a high Trestle, a low Trestle and one double track Viaduct bridge are left to build.
Sure will be glad when these bridges are done to change things up and move on to track and scenery.
Going to dig the automotive spray gun out of the tool trailer and the best wide pattern tip. Painting the tool topper on the truck matte black today. Always hated the white on gold.
Have a good one all
Howdy , everybody ...... Like everybody else, I was locked out of the Diner this morning.
Steve O .... Thanks for paying the locksmith.
My medical appointmnt went well yesterday . Firday is the dental appoint with major work. Then for the next four weeks, I have at least two medical appointments each week. various issues. .... I'm living with Too-Many-Birthdays Syndrome. LOL. ...... Stuff was delayed because of social distancing for the virus.
Everybody: ..... Have a good night.
Eveing Diners
Flo, give the gang and I a please and Dirk half a dog treat.
Steve O Thank you for getting the dinner opned again!
Nothing really to talk about today from my end.
Later Ken and Dirk say's Woof, Woof!
I hate Rust
Peco has a new hybrid N scale code 55 turnout. Unifrog. It can be used as Isofrog or Electrofrog. It has a wire out the bottom and is more user friendly.
It works!
Testing 1 2 3
Yep I guess everything works for me as well and I'm permanently logged in again.
I heard there was a lot of internet problems yesterday, not just this site. I don't know if that was part of the problem here or if it was shut down for repairs.
I went to eBay yesterday to buy something in my cart and that site was down for at least 2 hours.
The Caboose is coming along nicely Ed. Looks like a great job. I did like your color choice.
Yay, the Diner's open!
Do I need a mask?
Got my taxes done and I am getting money back!
Good morning (for another ten minutes).
Steve, thank you for getting the diner open again. I can't tell you how much I miss it when the doors are closed.
Kevin, I can see certain barns are well-cared for, and others are not. In my area, most old wooden barns are falling down. Farmers don't use them anymore, and they don't want to spend money to fix them up just for nostalgia.
To protect machinery, most farms now use steel buildings. I would guess in another 20 years, you could drive across my state and not see any more wooden barns, where 30 years ago, there would be three or four barns on every square mile section.
I got a new tooth this morning -- the first new tooth I've had for 60 years! I believe this one tooth is the most expensive thing I've ever had for my body.
We have grandkids in the house. We're not getting much rest. More than several days and I would need to find a nice quiet place to go.
Yippee we're open again ! Thanks for putting the coffee on Steve.
New Hampshire went well over the weekend except for losing a lift gate motor loading up Sunday. That is repaired now and I'm back pulling the floor in the front of the trailer which proved to be glued on place and is a PITA. Back to it Ciao, J.R.
Good afternoon. Has anyone seen Neowise Comet? It has been cloudy here the last couple days, and before that, I did not feel like getting out of bed at 4 am. It is supposed to be visible in the evening. We have a lot of light polution though.
I have been looking for what is different. Search works again, and I do not get logged out in Chrome. Still can't send pm's in firefox.I was unfaithfully looking at another forum yesterday, and I really do find the way our forum appears on the screen, as an easier reading presentation. It's also easier to find new posts.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/13/world/comet-neowise-pictures-how-to-see-scn-trnd/index.html
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Hi Everyone,
Brunhilde, coffee with cream, please.
Brent: I know you asked Bear, but of the three options presented, I like the last one. CANZUK sounds like a great idea, that said, I agree with bear. You can never underestimate the human tendency to screw something up.
Before the bubble burst in '09, I looked at some real estate listings in SoCal. They were selling for about $400 per sq ft. I haven't checked what prices are now, but I'm sure they're ridiculous.
Enjoying all the pictures of everybody's trips. That Jiffy mill looks like a candidate for a model.
Jim (with a nod to Mies Van Der Rohe)
Steven OtteOK, everybody, the Diner's open again. Flo should have hot coffee ready in about 15 minutes. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Edit: Oh dear. Top of the page. Coffee all around. And shome ashpirin.
Mike
They do run again!
The first UK mainline steam tour with paying passengers has finally taken place with a wrath of regulations in place to ensure the safety of passengers,crews and volunteers as we now enter the new norm of steam hauled trains on the mainline network. While the return of steam charter trains is a welcome sight, baby steps are somewhat still needed and unfortunately at the current time we're not likely to see pre Covid levels of excursions that we had in early March. Still, it's all Credit to Saphos Trains for laying out their plans and taking the plunge to get steam back to it's rightful place. Also credit has to go to West Coast Railways who are now ready to kick start the popular Jacobite trip over the Scottish Highlands from this weekend ! I hope you enjoy the return of mainline steam action !
Filmed today!
Thank you Steve.
Picture from Ohio: