Mistaken post.
York1 John
Ken, Terry, best wishes for your children.
Jan
Good morning.
Ken and Terry -- prayers for you daughters.
It's cold out, but we didn't get the expected snow.
I seem to be in a bouncing around mood. I started my model railroad with N Scale in a small corner of a guest bedroom. About a month ago, I started questioning myself if I wanted to switch to HO. We have a large, fairly flat backyard with lots of trees, and I now find myself watching garden railroad videos, thinking G Scale is really neat. I need to quit watching videos and just concentrate on what I have.
Have a good Sunday (or Monday, Bear), everyone.
Good morning all. First ---
Thoughts and Best Wishes to both Terry's and Ken's daughters. Been there when it happened to my son.
A new engine arrived. A London Midland & Scottish Railway Coronation Class locomotive. , So gave it a run on the layout. Will post pictures later.
Take care all
David
To the world you are someone. To someone you are the world
I cannot afford the luxury of a negative thought
NorthBritRubby! Rubby being English? No. Never heard it before, or is this a new word added to the (UK) English language that has come from the States.
Hi David,
I guess that the term 'rubby' might be a Canadian original. Our friends from the USA don't seem to recognize it, and obviously as you say, it isn't a British saying.
Without wishing to offend the moderators, the real issue is that these people need our help.
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
cudaken Dughter health is bad right now. She may me promise not to tell her mom.
Hi Ken,
Best wishes for your daughter.
saronaterryMy daughter will be having brain surgery November 6th to remove a tumor she's been battling for 11 months.Docs say it's pretty straight-forward, but you can't help but worry when they're cuttin' open your little girl's head. ( She's 40, but you know what I mean! Ha!)
Hi Terry,
I hope your daughter's operation is a success. My aunt Ruth had an orange sized brain tumor removed when she was in her early 60s. She lived to be 92. There is hope.
Cheers!!
Some thing to watch while you savour your first Sunday morning coffee.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Thoughts and Best Wishes to both Terrys and Kens daughters.
Cheers. the Bear.
Howdy ...
I'm still posting with iPhone instead of with the computer. we are now waiting because the guy who works on our computers had surgery on Thursday. He should be okay soon.
Terry ... I am very sorry to hear your daughter needs surgery for a brain tumor. I am praying for her. Please keep us informed.
Ken ... I'm sorry to hear your daughter also has health issues.
David ... Good to see you here in the Diner.
Brent ... I enjoy seeing the puppies. Best wishes teaching your daughter to drive. Kevin... I have seen those foam castings for house exteriors and they look nice.
everybody ... Have a good evening.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Eveing Diners.
Flo, give the gang and I a and Dirk and Robbie a dog treat.
Boring day and I like it! Dirk did get to go to the park again. I dropped something in the Maryville Library yesterday so I had to go pick it up, and the Library is in the park.
Daughter health is bad right now. She may me promise not to tell her mom.
Time to sit out with Dirk so later, Ken and Dirk says Woof, Woof.
I hate Rust
Afternoon folks!
Welcome to the diner David. You appear to be about a 5 hour drive from where my son lives at the moment. He is residing in West Berkshire and rents an old home said to be somewhere between 400 and 600 years old (photo below). Nice pad I would say. If the world ever reopens again I hope to fly over for a couple week stay sometime. He says I would enjoy the countryside where he is.
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Afternoon, everybody. Monthly check-in so you guys know I'm still upright and breathin"!! Ha!
Love Goldens, Brent! We're on our third, Labs before that.
Sorry to hear about the trials and tribulations, but seems the good news stuff evens it all out.
I'm in the train basement. Refreshing scenery, making and planting more trees( need a TON to model NW Wis!) and running trains in the background. A relaxing afternoon of Nascar will follow.
Unfortunately, I also have a bit of not-so-good news. My daughter will be having brain surgery November 6th to remove a tumor she's been battling for 11 months.Docs say it's pretty straight-forward, but you can't help but worry when they're cuttin' open your little girl's head. ( She's 40, but you know what I mean! Ha!)
Anyhoo, back to trains.They always make me feel better!
That's all for now! Prayers for those that want 'em!
Terry
Terry in NW Wisconsin
Queenbogey715 is my Youtube channel
I am the Post Hog today.
Had my day sort of planned out but now I have to take my daughter to get her learners license. She may be going to Burma next spring for school and needs to be able to drive the vehicles connected with the Anthropological group she will be working with. She had no interest in getting her DL until now. Transit into and around Vancouver is excellent and even my son takes it when he goes into Bigtown. I guess I will be giving more driving lessons. I think she will be a good study. I teach car control in a controlled environment before we hit the public roadway. We just happen to have an area a short drive away that is acres of pavement. Hard to lose control in new cars with ABS and traction control but we will have lots of fun in my old truck.
I also need to go food shopping as the wife is busy, can't remember the last time I did that. I see lots of prime rib and roast lamb in my future.
Puppy update.
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."
BATMAN North Brit David, welcome to the forum, I am enjoying your photos, you can never have too many pics. Where in the "old country" are you at? My family comes from Ipswich, immigrated in the late 1700s and Buxton, immigrated right after WWI. All the best to all.
North Brit David, welcome to the forum, I am enjoying your photos, you can never have too many pics. Where in the "old country" are you at? My family comes from Ipswich, immigrated in the late 1700s and Buxton, immigrated right after WWI.
I am living in South Tyneside now.
Born in Leeds. Moved to Tyneside. Then spent a little while in NYC. Moved back to the UK to near the border of Scotland next to the North British Railway (as was) to look after the family house. Now someone else is looking after it as I have retired from work. Now I am back on Tyneside.
Love the steamer in the snow.
BATMAN. I had not seen this before and at the moulding place, you could buy the same moulding in wood, composite or foam! They also had lots of other fancy pieces (like pillars and beams) made of foam.
Three houses North of mine, there is a very large house with an impressive entrance with columns, beams, and fancy stuff over the entrance and garage. It looks very good. Really massive, but it is all foam.
A good designer/architect can do some very handsome things with the architectural foam that is available.
I am seriously considering stacked fieldstone foam castings to cover a bad 1980s feature on the outside of my house. It could not look any worse.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
SeeYou190I have nothing planned for today, just a lazy uneventful day is all I am hoping for. I am taking the weekend off from working on the house. Time to relax and just laze around for a couple of days.
Now you're talking like a real retired person! What you have planned gets habit forming after a while. I love it.
I also don't have much going on. Harvest continues. It may rain later today, but nobody gets upset. In our part of the country, no one complains about rain, even if it is an inconvenience.
I'll work a little on the layout, and I think I'll get some of the trains running for a while. The layout church is turning out to be harder than I thought. It's a good challenge to keep me thinking.
The Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island, and Isle Royale National Park are the two places in Michigan I still want to visit. I'm running out of time since next year is already pretty much booked. Michigan may be a neat place to visit, but visiting grandchildren seems to be a higher priority.
Good morning from the West Coast where it is still very dark outside. Took a cup of coffee and went out as I heard a tree come down across in the hundred-acre wood but it did not land across the road so no chain saw awakening for the neighbours this morning. It is sure warm out though.
TF, I hope you and Judy are feeling better as the days pass, staying well rested will help a lot to see you through these tough times.
When I was a kid, we used the word rubby a lot along with a number of other words that I would never use today. The thing is we had no idea what they meant when we used them and I never heard anyones parent say something to us when we used them. Rubbys were down and outers to be avoided like the plague when I was a kid as taught by my vanity filled mother and grandmother, as an adult I engage the homeless whenever the opportunity presents itself. My kids were taught to treat homeless people with respect and never think twice about engaging them in conversation. They volunteered a lot at the soup kitchen through their teens.
Hillman cars are a topic of conversation in the WPF thread. In 1959 when we moved from Winnipeg to Vancouver my Mom and Dad drove their Hillman out to the Coast. In 1959 there was no paved road over the Rockies and sane people would go down into the U.S. go over the Rockies and then head north back into Canada. My Dad would have none of that, he was insistent that he should be able to cross Canada without leaving the country. Looking at that car in the carport, I would not trust it to go anywhere never mine over hundreds of miles of wilderness on dirt roads.
We moved to the wilds of North Vancouver across the inlet from Vancouver proper and people thought my Dad was nuts for wanting to live over there in the boonies. They bought a lot and my Uncle built the house for the tidy sum of $16,500.00 in 1959, they sold it in 1977 for $73,000.00 and it sold two years ago (2018) for $1,600,000.00.
Went and bought a few hundred feet of moulding and door casing yesterday as I have been upgrading from what was in the house. In another thread, Kevin mentioned moulding made out of foam. I had not seen this before and at the moulding place, you could buy the same moulding in wood, composite or foam! They also had lots of other fancy pieces (like pillars and beams) made of foam. I am old fashion I guess and bought the wood.
Henry mentioned deer hunting. Up at the ranch that involves taking a rifle out of the gun cabinet, stepping out of the front door a firing off a round. No search and destroy required, it is like going out for an armload of firewood. In the spring a rifle goes in the truck when the Grizzlies wake up and we will leave it on the hood of the truck if there is evidence of one close by. Usually, by the end of June, the bears just start minding their own business as their tummies are full and the guns stay home locked up.
Well, it is now light outside so I better go be productive, but first.
This whole drinking rubbing alchohol just sounds awful!
Flo, please bring my a cup of coffee, and please hold the rubbinh alchohol!
Good morning everyone. I have nothing planned for today, just a lazy uneventful day is all I am hoping for. I am taking the weekend off from working on the house. Time to relax and just laze around for a couple of days.
NorthBritRubby being English?
The dictionary I use says it is Canadian Slang:
(ˈrʌbɪ)
(ˈrʌb i)n., pl. -bies. Canadian Slang.
hon30critter Hi BigDaddy, I didn't realize that 'rubby' wasn't part of the American vernacular. I suspect the term is English. Dave
Hi BigDaddy,
I didn't realize that 'rubby' wasn't part of the American vernacular. I suspect the term is English.
Rubby! Rubby being English?
No. Never heard it before, or is this a new word added to the (UK) English language that has come from the States.
Good evening.
I am still limited to posting with cell phone.
I had time to run trains this evening . All passenger . 3 trains. CB&Q Zephyr. GN Empire Builder . ATSF Super Chief.
have a nice evening.
Good grief you guys!
I never knew extreme alcoholics existed. But then again i never knew one
I would estimate the young gal with the cardboard sign next to the highway yesterday was about 25 years old. I have a gut feeling for these kind of people and the story is some of them go home to a nice house at the end of the day.
She was different and I gave her two tacos and a $10 bill and she was so happy and went to sit down on the cement form and started eating her tacos right away like she was extremely hungry
Had the light not turned green right away I would have got out of my truck and gave her two more tacos and another 10
Stuff like that makes Judy and I happy to help the less fortunate
Other times I have passed money out the window to what looked to me like a drunk begging for money at the side of the highway
Even knowing I never gave it a second thought that if a bottle of boose would give that man some kind of pleasure in his pathetic life being lived than more power to him and I was glad I could help
TF
SeeYou190Interesting. I just realized that when I heard that word in English films, I knew they were referring to a drunk, so I just thought they were saying "rummy".
Hi Kevin,
I think the terms are interchangable. I believe that 'rubby' refers to the habit of drinking rubbing alcohol which was the cheapest way to get a buzz.
When I was in university I made some money during the Christmas break working at the local liquor store. Everything back then was in glass bottles, that is except for the very cheapest sherries. Those came in plastic bottles, supposedly to prevent the drunkards from breaking the bottles when they dropped them or threw them away.
Working at the liquor store was a sobering experience. We had one customer who waited at the door every morning for the store to open. Each day he bought a 26 oz. bottle of vodka. He then proceeded to walk to the diner just across the parking lot where he was a cook. It was maybe a five minute walk. When he got to work he would drop the empty bottle in a garbage can outside the restaurant! I had never been exposed to that sort of behaviour before.
I would say 'Cheers!!' but it's probably not appropriate in this context.
hon30critterI didn't realize that 'rubby' wasn't part of the American vernacular. I suspect the term is English.
Interesting.
I just realized that when I heard that word in English films, I knew they were referring to a drunk, so I just thought they were saying "rummy".
Now I know better.
Evening
Again I would like to thank you guys for your condolences and support. I send my condolences and my love back with a sincere Thank you.
Judy seems to be doing much better today for the first time since June.
My brother was at the Falls last night to give his support.
If you remember my post the other night about Johnson lake being changed to Beast Lake. Apparently my Brother has done his research and called a few friends up there and asked about it. It seems he was told some stories of that interior Lake that are a bit terrifying. He was told by his good friend Mike McMann, Don't go back there, you don't want to go back there.
He smiled when he told me this and said Brother, I think we should go check it out.
I am in agreement. The sounds we heard with our own ears up there, I wish to see where they came from.
We are more than ever planning our Portage back to Beast Lake late spring time after ice-out
My buddy Jeff who owes me one has a fiber carbon canoe that is so light you can lift it with one hand. You can see through it like a thin wet newspaper. I remember paddling around in it in The Boundary Waters
I have something to look forward to all Winter here for springtime
BigDaddyRubby is a new word to me.
I didn't realize that 'rubby' wasn't part of the American vernacular. I suspect the term is English. It is used to denote a person who is obviously a heavy drinker. They usually have bloodshot watery somewhat jaundiced eyes, pale skin and are generally not robust in appearance.
Flo, give the gang and I a please, Dirk and Robbie a dog treat.
TF Soory for your family loss and hope time does cure the pain.
Only person I have lost that was sort of close to me was my Stepfather. I loved him and called him daddy. I have a lot of good memoreys of him, and bad ones. He was a hard man to get close to and I seldomed did as good as he claimed he did. In many ways I did better than he thought I would so he was sort of proud of me.
Day with Dirk. New meds seem to be doing the trick, he not messing with his feet! He has yet had to wear the Cone of Shame. He went on a longer than normal car ride today. Took him and Sue to the gas station, bank, drug store, Libary and then the park. He allso saw a post offices truck and went full blowen bonkers while we where in the car?
By time we got to the park he was all worked up! Set a new record by pooping 15 feet from the car? Then left a second bolier cleaning in the next 20 feet? Boy he was full of ash!
Later, Ken and Dirk say's Daddy, sit outside Woof, Woof?
I almost got one by car. I saw one running directly for me and it was an easy miss. Then I saw the other three coming behind her and had to lock up the brakes. My cooler full of ice and beer turned over in the car. It was a mess, but no deer were harmed.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
BigDaddyMaybe I can get it processed in SC, assuming I get one.
If you don't get one there, come out here to Nebraska. You won't even need a gun. Just drive one mile in any direction from my house and I'll bet you can get one (or eight) with your car.