hon30critterThat looks really nice Kevin! We would never put tiles in our bedrooms.
Thank you Dave. It turned out to be worth all of the effort to remove the thinset from the old tile and level the floor. The final installation is satisfactory. My big steel ball bearing will not roll on any of the field tiles. A+!
The contractor called yesterday and said they will now be here to install the lanai sliding door and front window on Monday 05/OCT/2020.
Another delay.
herrinchokerIn the past 14 months I have lost all my Sons--the last, Patrick Emmet went to join his Mother, and Brother Labor Day Weekend.
This is terrible news. I cannot imagine that kind of a loss. My thoughts are with you.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
herrinchokerThe only advantage about being old is the memories that are retained. The downside is that memories cannot be hugged.
My thoughts are with you, Jan. Never easy to deal with the loss of a loved one. Never.
Regards, Ed
Saturday morning, and I feel terrible.
I ate chili for dinner last night we had delivered, and it was spiced with an odd flavor. Not really hot, but spicy.
I was up all night with heartburn, and still feel bad this morning.
Chloe, please bring me a tall glass of milk and some Pepto-Bismol.
In the past 14 months I have lost all my Sons--the last, Patrick Emmet went to join his Mother, and Brother Labor Day Weekend.
All have died from various types of Cancer. Pat was 59, Mike was 60, and Ed was 50.
I cannot begin to express the hollow feeling I have right now. I take comfort that they are all with our Saviour.
No matter how old they are, hug your children, and tell them you love them.
The only advantage about being old is the memories that are retained. The downside is that memories cannot be hugged.
Jan
SeeYou190Got the tile grouted in the guest bedroom
That looks really nice Kevin!
We would never put tiles in our bedrooms. However, I'm not suggesting that you have done anything wrong at all. You are in Florida. Doing anything that you can to stay cool is a priority. We are in Ontario. Cool is nice in the summer but it is far more important to be warm in the winter! That's why we favour wood floors or carpet in our bedrooms and hallways. We do have tile floors in our entrance way and our bathrooms, but that is simply because they are easier to keep clean.
Nice work!
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Got the tile grouted in the guest bedroom, and all the light fixtures installed in the bathroom as planned.
Track fiddlerWe went to the Lantern Lighting on the shore of the lake for Judy's little sister Kelly tonight
TF,
That is such a nice way to finish the services for Kelly.
Take care. Please wish Judy all the best. Time will heal the wounds.
Good evening ....
We returned home from Cincinnati . Still busy though ...
Rob : .... Sad to hear about your brother, Stan. ... Sincere prayers and condolences.
TF .... Your pictures of the Lantern Lighting for Kelly looked like a very good memorial for her.
Everybody .... Have a good night.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Rob I am so sorry for the loss of your brother I would never say I know how you feel as I can't but I know the healing takes a lot of time and my heart goes out to you and your family
We went to the Lantern Lighting on the shore of the lake for Judy's little sister Kelly tonight
I just love my little CC and it was so good to see her again. She is the happiest little girl and just melts my heart
My colored pencil drawing for the lantern was a cartoon cow for Kelly Kelly's favorite thing in the world was Cows and she had them all over her house
The sound of the bagpipes we're present and I saw the silhouette of the bagpiper across the lake between the two weeping willow trees
John
Eveing Diners
Flo, give the gang and I a and a mug for Rob's Brother and Dirk will have a dog treat.
Rob Sorry for your loss. Hope he had a good life.
Could have not asked for a nicer weather day! High was only 70 degrees!
I am taking this Saturday off. Well from work that is. This will be the first Saturday off in the last 12 weeks. Finally a Jerry the Free week!
Later Ken and Dirk say's Woof, Woof.
I hate Rust
CederstrandAnd then there were 4 siblings.
Please accept my condolences on the loss of your brother Rob.
My condolences to you and yours on your loss, Rob.
Craig the Bear.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
My condolences to you for the loss of your Big Brother, Rob.
I hope everyone is getting along OK out there —
Cheers, Ed
Good morning. It's sunny and cool -- 58°!
I thought I would have a free day, but things seem to come up. I need to solder some LED light wires for a layout building I'm working on, but I don't know if I will get to that today.
You have my sympathy, Rob. My oldest brother died of Agent Orange cancer in 2007, and at times it seems like it was just last year. Time makes things a little easier by blurring the details. I hope your health issues are not causing too many issues and that you feel OK.
Even though weekdays and weekend days all seem the same when you retire, I hope those of you who are not yet retired have a good weekend.
York1 John
Good morning everyone. Chloe, I think I will start this Friday with a coffe and a bowl of oatmeal.
Today I will be grouting the tile in the guest bedroom and working on the wall tile in the bathroom. Painting is done for a while. If I get the bathroom operational by the end of the weekedn my wife will be very happy.
I need to put up a few light fixtures also.
Extra strong coffee in a AT&SF mug, please.
And then there were 4 siblings. My eldest brother Stan left his earthly bonds two nights ago. After many heart attacks, stents, and eventually a stroke, then infection in his feet, recovery became too difficult. Moving into a nursing home was the final straw. RIP big brother. I will miss you dearly.
Think I messed up the old umbilical hernia surgery site while working on the brushcutter PTO shaft. Major oops! Wish me luck, it must heal on its own!
Enjoy your day everyone.
psssst:
Makita tools are Japaneese........ They do have factories in China but they are a Company in Japan.
POSTER HOGGER
It's getting late and my Judy's watching the movie Return to Me with Carroll O'Connor, Minnie Driver, Jim Belushi, many more of the good old guys and of course music by Dean Martin.
Nighty Night Kids, ...I'm hitting the rack. I have to roller the top of my cork with Dap Kwik Seal clear tomorrow so it's dry for Saturday
TF
SeeYou190 Ringo58 I had a good chuckle installing door lights on my truck from china. The insructions were useless. Couldn't understand a thing I bought a drywall tool made in China. The instructions were the most incredibly polite document I ever read. "We ask you to please be happy with your new tool" "Always be nice when using your tool and live a good life" I did not learn much about how to use the tool, but I think I became a better person. -Kevin
Ringo58 I had a good chuckle installing door lights on my truck from china. The insructions were useless. Couldn't understand a thing
I bought a drywall tool made in China. The instructions were the most incredibly polite document I ever read.
"We ask you to please be happy with your new tool"
"Always be nice when using your tool and live a good life"
I did not learn much about how to use the tool, but I think I became a better person.
I have many Makita tools that are of quality and I know how to use them.
But the point is I have Chinese Friends and one Member of the Family and I see them as People of Honor.
In their culture they will bow to you as they greet you and bow to you as they leave. This is more subtle than it used to be but still seen.
These people I know on a daily basis would do anything for you if they saw you needed something.
I admire that
Ringo58I had a good chuckle installing door lights on my truck from china. The insructions were useless. Couldn't understand a thing
Hi Everyone,
Well, my excursion to the LHS proved to be fruitful. I got the decal sheet that I needed. The decal sheet included enough to do 3 cars although I'm sure each color is for a different class of car. I found out that I'm going to need setting fluid and probably a couple of others before it's done. But, I hope to learn from this on how to do this sort of thing right.
Tequila: great song! When we were down in Mexico some years ago, we toured the Herradura distillery near Guadalajara. When you tour a distillery, of course you must sample the product afterwards. Good stuff. The gold is the smoothest tequila I've ever had. I still have half a bottle. I guess I've failed in the lush department. But, it goes well in margaritas.
Incidentally, Hatch, NM is the chili capital. They grow a lot of good chili's. For heat and flavor, I like the range of jalapeños at around 5K scovilles of heat. I believe the flavor should be enhanced not buried. That's why I don't go much for the likes of ghost peppers or hotter.
Jim (with a nod to Mies Van Der Rohe)
Good evening, everyone. It's been a long day. Got the grass cut and some layout work finished.
Track fiddlerI guess my phone service provider has some kind of program to eliminate most of these scam likely calls that I should look into.
TF, that may be what we have. Our phone company provides it free. It's called Robonomo. It really works. You have to let the phone ring at least once. If it doesn't ring again, it was a scam call that was blocked.
We still get one or two calls, but we aren't getting anywhere near how many we used to get. After I signed up for it, it took about two weeks for them all to die away.
BigDaddyThe ISP with a dish on the mountain that was going to get me Internet in 2 weeks is now obfuscating. Now there are equipment delays, which they knew about when they said 2 weeks, rain, which we have a lot of.
My daughter just had a pool put in at her house. When they started, they said, "Two weeks." That became the joke, because it took nearly three months, starting with having to cut through rock they didn't know was there. Everytime my daughter asked, the guy said, "Two weeks!" Kind of like in "The Money Pit".
TF, your brother's story of the oysters is hilarious. Can you imagine cleaning that up?
I've got a men's group at 7:00 a.m., and after that a completely free Friday and Saturday. I'll be working on the railroad.
My wife is a professional artist and she chooses all the colors in the house. Our house colors are something like Morning Sunshine which is a warm white (heading toward red tones) as opposed to a cool white (heading toward blue tones.) The accent walls--living room and kitchen--are a rich brownish burgundy.
I once got her to do my backdrop wall. She painted whispy clouds with redish underneath. They were way too large for scale and had no perspective. I ended up rolling blue paint over her work.
I don't think she'll ever help me paint a backdrop again. She couldn't stand to see her work covered. It was lovely.
Chip
Building the Rock Ridge Railroad with the slowest construction crew west of the Pecos.
CNCharlie Our kitchen is gloss black. We did it in 1990 and the fellow who did our bathroom a couple of years ago thought we had just done it recently. Surprisingly the black makes the kitchen look larger. I think it is because the gloss reflects the light. There is a 3ft square skylight in the kitchen too that helps a lot. Fall is the time produce and fresh foods go to market. Perhaps there is lobster in those cars, speeding to market or fresh water fish from the docks in the harbour. Been quiet in the diner lately.
Our kitchen is gloss black. We did it in 1990 and the fellow who did our bathroom a couple of years ago thought we had just done it recently. Surprisingly the black makes the kitchen look larger. I think it is because the gloss reflects the light. There is a 3ft square skylight in the kitchen too that helps a lot.
Fall is the time produce and fresh foods go to market. Perhaps there is lobster in those cars, speeding to market or fresh water fish from the docks in the harbour.
Been quiet in the diner lately.
Hi Charlie
I had a gloss black 1972 Pontiac Ventura in my younger days I liked quite a bit. I never seen a gloss black kitchen before though but that does sound interesting. If we all didn't have different tastes, what a boring world it would be That Car of mine always did look better in the shade
Fresh Fish from the harbor yes. How about some walleye with a loaded baked potato and some asparagus?
And it does look like it has been a bit quiet in the diner lately! It looks like it needs 2B Loudened up a bit with a few Stories in lieu of hot sauce and paint
Remember those days when you were young and stupid and life was a blast?
Well, ...A family get-together is always good. And boy did I have one. A three-day weekend in a hotel would have been better under better circumstances but I'll see family anytime.
It's kind of like that song by The Cars "Let the good times roll". A lot of times I'm King of the Castle with the humor section but Steve won at this gathering. Steve is my brother-in-law, Master Senior Tech Ford mechanic that rebuilt the engine in my car.
It was 1974 and he went to the David Bowie Major Tom concert. Him and his friends stopped at some kind of Bar and Grill close to the stadium and the special was all-you-can-eat oysters. Him and his friends had shots of Jagermeister back then and called it Monster.
To make a long story short they all had their fill of all-you-can-eat oysters with Lots of Shots of Monster and went to the Bowie concert.
Entering the concert they came to a T and the security guard was directing people to the left and at that point Steve decided to put his hand up to his mouth and Blow Oysters and Monster through the cracks of his fingers.
The security guard stepped back fast and said Woe Woe!!! Steve of course went to the hall to the right away from people to Blow Oysters and Monster The security guard wasn't messing with that one and the next thing Steve was backstage with Roadies and David Bowie's guests.
I guess that concert, David Bowie came down suspended from cables from the ceiling on the phone singing his Ground Control to Major Tom song.
I never laughed so hard in my life from this story and neither did anyone else. I guess you had to be there.
The whole rest of the night when a little humor came up during our Socialization and Cocktails, one of us would add to it by saying Blue Oysters and Monster and everything got just a little more hilarious all through the night.
The next morning my gut and throat muscles hurt from laughing so hard but apparently laughing is very good for you.
It was a heck of a night at Sea Sir
I haven't been all that impressed with Google Translate.
When the Rocky Mountaineer landed in Vancouver we had a tour bus tour of the city. They used Chinese electric buses. The driver said they were $1 mil a piece(Canadian?) There was something rolling around in the luggage area above the seat. He stopped he bus to look for it. He said he had a whole box of pieces that have fallen off various places.The ISP with a dish on the mountain that was going to get me Internet in 2 weeks is now obfuscating. Now there are equipment delays, which they knew about when they said 2 weeks, rain, which we have a lot of.Still it ought to be simple math number of installations/installations per day.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Good Afternoon,
Bit of a heat wave this afternoon as it got up to 55F. We are expecting 70F by Saturday so summer is returning at least for a few days.
We also have neutral walls. In our case it is white with a gray undertone as our tile floor is white with a gray tone. All colour is in some fairly large paintings and also a couple of cobalt blue chairs. Our kitchen is gloss black. We did it in 1990 and the fellow who did our bathroom a couple of years ago thought we had just done it recently. Surprisingly the black makes the kitchen look larger. I think it is because the gloss reflects the light. There is a 3ft square skylight in the kitchen too that helps a lot.
I put away the passenger cars and put out the express reefers. I have 5 of them as they make a nice train for a passenger loco on a small layout. I usually use the light mountain to pull them. Fall is the time produce and fresh foods go to market. Perhaps there is lobster in those cars, speeding to market or fresh water fish from the docks in the harbour.
CN Charlie
Well
Funny stuff John
When I buy something and they say can I have your email before they even finish their sentence I say NO!!! That helps but because I have a registered business on the internet sometimes it takes at least five minutes to clear my junk emails every morning over coffee.
The junk calls and messages are even worse. I guess my phone service provider has some kind of program to eliminate most of these scam likely calls that I should look into. The thing that fascinates me is if the powers-that-be are already labeling them scam more than likely calls, why don't they just block them in the first place?
What's funny is some of these calls you try to call back just to see what it's about and it says call cannot be reached. And if you block the number it doesn't matter they just call back with the same Spiel from some other number
As far as color of paint on walls I prefer the neutral families of tan, beige or taupe. I learned years ago don't pick a neutral color that resembles fleshtones, ...Yuck.
I also like accent walls that are a medium tone of color and any color goes well with a good neutral. I've lived too long not to have a splash of color in the house as I feel it makes us happy. I love to paint and if I get sick of a certain color on a wall I just change it.
And with all wall paint I only use flat. I hate shiny walls as you can see every little imperfection, especially when the sun shines in.
I don't let the paint store people give me this if it has a Sheen you can wash it malarkey! It's not a mechanic shop or a butcher shop, it's my home.
If the walls get that dirty it's time to repaint anyway and I never waste my money on painters tape. When they started making it thinner and charging $6 a roll that's when I learned to cut in twice as fast as I can waste a roll of tape on a room. And that was many years ago
P.S. I like Frank's Red Hot! I use it in all my cooking and like it mixed with Hellman's on most sandwiches. I think Miracle Whip only belongs on chicken, turkey, tuna and definitely BLT sandwiches. Don't need Frank's on those, just a thick hunk of lettuce and some pepper
York1 I just got the following email. If they're going to go to all the trouble of sending these emails, maybe they could have someone who speaks English check them. These guys are hilarious. "We which is locks your amazon, we secure you directly, because of access, validation of your account, From (Browser) Mozilla Firefox (9/17/2020 7:32:38 PM)"
I just got the following email. If they're going to go to all the trouble of sending these emails, maybe they could have someone who speaks English check them. These guys are hilarious.
"We which is locks your amazon, we secure you directly, because of access, validation of your account, From (Browser) Mozilla Firefox (9/17/2020 7:32:38 PM)"
That made a lot of sense lol. I had a good chuckle installing door lights on my truck from china. The insructions were useless. Couldn't understand a thing
For our Southern Command house we painted all off white inside and just added pictures, painting and otehr stuff for color