Eveing Diners
Flo, give the gang and I a please, Dirk and Robbie a dog treat and the puppies some milk.
Brent Happy to the puppies!
Work Front new hours. It was a tad hard to to work today. For the last 4 years we opned at 11:00 AM. I uslally get in 20 to 30 minutes before the store opens. Today I only got in 10 minutes before opening. Did enjoy getting off at 7:00 PM insted of 8:00 PM.
Richard Yes I know it is called the collar of shame. We will have the new one Tuesday, hopefully he will not need it long.
Trains are running well and I am beat.
Later Ken and Dirk says "can I see the puppies daddy, me licks them Woof, Woof!"
I hate Rust
BigDaddy I've seen at least a 1000 births, always amazing, but never an animal, much less a dog C-section. It has to be cool
I've seen at least a 1000 births, always amazing, but never an animal, much less a dog C-section.
It has to be cool
I have participated in quite a few emergency and non-emergency C-Sections. I did not have to go today as there were plenty of Vets and staff on duty. One of the Vets said this must be a special litter and the head of the hospital said no, this is an extra special litter. I have had calls from France and Spain and India already wanting to talk to the wife about them but they are still at the hospital.
Henry, Both my kids were delivered by C-Section and I was in there watching the whole thing and taking pictures over the curtain (I asked first) Had them all in stitches and when we went in for kid # 2 a couple of years later I did the same thing and my wife was chuckling as they were up to their elbows in her and one of the nurses says "I remember you!" and the other nurse said "so do I" I wasn't sure how to take that.
With the dog, they are on their back intubated and the uterus is pulled out through the incision and laid on the abdomen and looks like a big V. With any luck the puppies can be squeezed out through one incision but sometimes multiple incisions are required. Once the process is started they come fast so having many hands to take the handoff is a good idea. My kids were put to work a few times in the middle of the night from a very young age. We would have to wake them up and they got dressed fast and into the car. They would take very gooey puppies and clean them up quickly and grab another one. They went right to school from the hospital sometimes and had a great story to tell.
Thanks for the interest and congrats, it will be nice to hear the pitter-patter of little feet around the house again.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
BATMANThree girls and five boys.
Congratulations all round!
I hope they and mom are all healthy, although I suspect that mom has a bit of a sore tummy.
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
BATMAN Three girls and five boys.
Three girls and five boys.
Evenin' Folks!
Congrats! How's Mama doing
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
SeeYou190I was woke up this morning by the sound of a tree falling over in my neighbor's yard.
Kevin, was it a dead tree that fell on its own? The neighbor was cutting it down and the tree didn't fall as planned? High winds blew the tree over? A beaver infestation?
Just curious.
BATMAN I think I will incorporate pullies in future efforts. When I was at Central Hobbies they had a good selection of pullies on hand and I had taken some to buy thinking I would use them for other things.
I like to keep lots of the detail parts that Tichy has to offer on hand. He sells parts from the coaling tower separately and there are some pulleys and odds & ends that are handy for kitbash projects.
Cheers, Ed
York1However, after several bouts with skin cancer, the doctor told me to not go out again without one.
BATMAN I have never been a hat wearer at all, only in the worst weather.
I didn't wear one for many years. However, after several bouts with skin cancer, the doctor told me to not go out again without one. I think it was years of New Orleans sun while coaching football and softball.
Now that I'm used to wearing one, I don't feel quite right being outside without one.
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York1 BATMAN I have never been a hat wearer at all, only in the worst weather. I didn't wear one for many years. However, after several bouts with skin cancer, the doctor told me to not go out again without one. I think it was years of New Orleans sun while coaching football and softball. Now that I'm used to wearing one, I don't feel quite right being outside without one.
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
Happy Thanksgiving to all Canadians assembled!
Stepping aside from the topic, if I may, I've a question. I'm about to attempt my first Ditch Light install on an Altas GP-15 N Scale. The decoder in play is a TCS ASD4. I have micro-mini LEDs (and yes, the decoder has internal resistors to handle LEDs) pre-wired with black and red wires. There are two soldering pads on the decoder for these periferals, one labled Green and the other Violet. There is also a Ground pad. My question is (since the LED will only pass current one way, "Do the black wires go to ground?" That would be my immediat choice, but if some-one knows differently, please let me know. Thanks, John.
Good morning from the left side of the continent. The wind storm must have not got the memo as it was quiet all night. Right now it is dead calm so we will see. We live in an area that seems to have its own micro-climate and most of the time we are spared the weather that is happening all around us.
Dave, good on you for your action on the RDC front, the world should have more people like you in it. Being a little bit honest is like being a little bit pregnant, you are either honest or you are not. I am really enjoying the RDC I got last month and will be getting the RDC2 pretty soon as it is in transit from China apparently.
Ed, I like the light pics you are posting, I think I will incorporate pullies in future efforts. When I was at Central Hobbies they had a good selection of pullies on hand and I had taken some to buy thinking I would use them for other things. I put them back as I was getting carried away on all the little things I was buying, as it was I spent $400.00 that day including my RDC.
Henry, sounds like a great time with the family. I am happy my kids are doing University from home now as I miss them terribly when they are gone. The fact we get along so well makes it easy to have them home.
I have an old Apple iMac Indigo sitting behind me that still works, it was in with the Estate stuff I am dealing with. I will throw an add on FB marketplace and see what happens, likely someone from the movie industry will grab it as it is right up their alley for staging. I visited some of the massive warehouses where they store all this stuff for the movie industry and they reminded me of the end of the Raiders of the Lost Ark movie where they end up storing the arch of the covenant. You need it for a scene, they got it.
Pooch is scheduled for a C-Section at 1500hrs so hopefully, my daughter will go along to help and I can stay home. I may get conscripted anyway as when they start pulling those babies out the more hands the better. The sire lived in Europe and died some 30 years ago, the wife had the sperm stored frozen since then. Pupsycles we call them.
All of a sudden it is a cloudless blue sky, a window of opportunity to hop on the Deere.
Get the crop to the elevator and celebrate Thanksgiving.
All the best to all.
Good morning.
This discussion reminds me that years ago, when my in-laws died, we had a very limited time to clean out their house. We held a garage sale.
In the morning, a woman bought several items. Later in the day, she came back and said she felt guilty. It was obvious we did not know the true value of the item, and she gave us $50 more. Even at that, she felt she was cheating us.
My wife continues to believe that one day we will watch "Antiques Roadshow" and see that the item we sold for $55 is worth several million.
York1 John
Dave:
That would be a very honorable thing to do. If I sell something on ebay that goes for more than I expect; I will rebate the shipping cost, and add extra stuff, to make value.
Good morning! Flo, please bring me a cup of hot coffee, black.
I was woke up this morning by the sound of a tree falling over in my neighbor's yard. It took down the power line into the street lamp.
Not a good way to wake up.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Good Monday Morning —
Happy Thanksgiving, Canada!
Canada by Edmund, on Flickr
To the Mad Fool, well done , Sir.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
SeeYou190John: I will join you. Thank you.
Count me in!
BigDaddyThere were two highlights of the day, both scatalogical. My son spilled a plate of hors d'ouerves on the ground and said a naughty word, which was repeated by my 3 grandchildren, over and over like a Gregorian chant. I was in tears and my 4 yo granddaughter said "What's so funny?" Later on the same group was together and there was a gaseous sound of undetermined origin. I said "Who did that?" My granddaughter answered "Your son" More tears.
Hi Henry,
Sounds like you had a great time with your family!
Isolating seniors is certainly a huge problem. Unfortunately the current reality is that if we don't do that we may literally kill them with kindness. I do think that many of the seniors' homes have not stepped up to the plate. They did not prepare properly and they could be making much more use of plexiglass separations and HEPA filter fans etc. to control the air flow. It is likely an issue of a lack of funding.
It is a really sad situation.
Dave: I do not think you a fool at all.
I have seen similar situations where people were selling for others and had no idea what they had. I could have bought some of the items for a song, but instead I have contacted the seller and help them rewrite the listing so the item sells for a better amount.
John: I will join you. Thank you.
Dave, thanks for doing the honorable thing.
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It's 9:30 p.m. It's too late for food, but a glass of wine sounds good to me. You can all join me.
Kevin the neighbors keep telling me to drive to WV, but things are starting to change here in VA.
Ken My Rescued Coonhound group on Facebook calls it the cone of shame. Not sure why it is called shameful, except as black humor, but they run into stuff with it, like going up stairs or bumping into corners.
I went back to MD "celebrate" my mother's 92nd birthday. The way that is done is that we see her outside, my sons and I could only see her 2 at a time over the course of 45 minutes.
She has been confined to her room since March or maybe February. This is the first time she has seen her grandchildren since New Years day and hasn't seen her great grandchildren since then. It appears unlikely that there will be a family celebration for Thanksgiving, so at the very end of her golden years she is in solitary confinement and doesn't even get to talk to her fellow residents.The assisted living facility has had a half dozen staff get covid, but no patients have, and they are proud of that record. If I am lucky enough to live that long, I hope no one does that to me. I want to see my grandkids, and great grandkids and eat turkey and pumpkin pie. If some disease kills me, well it's better than living as a specimen in a zoo that no one is allowed to visit.
My son bought my other son a bottle of Pechuga Mezcal, it's an over simplification but it is kind of like tequila. It is distilled over a raw chicken breast. As unappetizing as that sounds, it gets worse. Imagine you pulled the inner tube out of your bicycle tire and set fire to it. That's what it tastes like.
We then had a discussion of single malt scotch and they don't like peaty scotches. They didn't get that from me.
There were two highlights of the day, both scatalogical. My son spilled a plate of hors d'ouerves on the ground and said a naughty word, which was repeated by my 3 grandchildren, over and over like a Gregorian chant. I was in tears and my 4 yo granddaughter said "What's so funny?"
Later on the same group was together and there was a gaseous sound of undetermined origin. I said "Who did that?" My granddaughter answered "Your son" More tears.
Well, I just did something that some of you might think was crazy, and perhaps others will agree with.
I won a Proto 1000 Canadian Pacific RDC on ebay, and I got it for well under half of the usual selling price. It was listed at an unrealistically low price to begin with and there were almost no details in the listing, so I decided to ask a few questions, i.e. "Does it run?". The seller didn't know. He explained that he was selling a number of model railroad items for an elderly neighbour but he knew nothing about them.
I got the RDC today and it is in superb condition and runs like a top. If it had been in poor condition or not running I would have said that the price I paid was fair. However, given the excellent condition, I felt like I was ripping the older gentleman off. So, I just sent a message to the seller offering to pay another $40.00 for the RDC. That still makes it a bargain, and it will make me feel better too.
Some of you will think me a fool. We all have different values.
Cheers!!
BATMANHi Ed Here is the pic of that light again.
I found a nice photo of an arc lamp located in Salem, Mass.:
Salem-MA-arclamp-crop by Edmund, on Flickr
I recall reading about how hazardous it was to be a lineman in those days. No surprise there!
Salem-MA-arclamp by Edmund, on Flickr
You are being a good doggy-daddy for Dirk, Ken Good for both of you!
Flo, give the gang and I a please and Dirk and Robbie a Dog Treat.
Sorry I have been MIA so much lately. Just not much to post about.
Dirk is a cone head. Vet says he needs a cone so he will stop chewing on his bad paw. There is not yest or bactiare (spell check) on the paw. He has chewed off part on his center paw pad becuse it itches. New med seems to be helping.
Only problem is I cannot get the dang thing on him! Had to take it off when we got home from the vet to get is harness off and I cannot get it back on? He is not fighting me, he is a Good Boy. But it is just a stupid pain in the ash pitt hooking system!
Daughter bought a better collar off Amozona. Should have Monday.
Train are running well.
Time to sit outside with Dirk and the Wife.
Later, Ken and Dirk says "Daddy, I don't want to be a cone head, Woof, Woof!"
SeeYou190 DISASTER! My battery has died in my Canon Digital Camera! I cannot locate the charger in this mess of a construction zone that I am living in. It could be absolutely anywhere. The last time I charged the battery was when I was in Michigan back in June/July. Oh No!!! -Kevin
My battery has died in my Canon Digital Camera!
I cannot locate the charger in this mess of a construction zone that I am living in. It could be absolutely anywhere. The last time I charged the battery was when I was in Michigan back in June/July.
Oh No!!!
How come taht sounds familiar to me! I bought a charger and some batteries at ebay.
But here you are... You can buy them directly from the distributer
www.mykastar.com
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
gmpullman I seem to recall that we had some discussion about the carbon-arc lamps that were part of the thread on the Drake St. Vancouver, roundhouse photo you posted a while back, Brent. http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/t/282232.aspx For anyone modeling the late 1800s through about 1915 or so there should be a way to represent these lamps. I don't recall seeing any commercial models? Cheers, Ed
I seem to recall that we had some discussion about the carbon-arc lamps that were part of the thread on the Drake St. Vancouver, roundhouse photo you posted a while back, Brent.
http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/t/282232.aspx
For anyone modeling the late 1800s through about 1915 or so there should be a way to represent these lamps. I don't recall seeing any commercial models?
Hi Ed
Here is the pic of that light again.
Here is the one I made hanging on my water tower. I have not powered it up yet but so far I like it.
BATMANI have never been a hat wearer at all, only in the worst weather.
BATMANEds pic of the Glazier Stove Co. shows an interesting light that looks like it can be lowered by pully to change the bulb.
They had to be lowered frequently in order to change out the carbon/copper electrodes. I remember working with old carbon arc lamps in movie theater projectors! I went to Charles F. Brush high school. The Brush Arcs was our football team. Brush developed early arc lamps, some being demonstrated here in Cleveland. He was a pioneer in wind energy, too, using a 12 kW generator on a windmill to power his home.
I'm headed back outside for more chores
Good (what's left of it) morning from the Pacific Rim where it is a cloudy but pleasant day.
Apparently, we are to get a bit of a blow overnight so I will need to have the generator ready to go in case the puppies are making their way into the world. Not likely as her temp has not dropped yet.
Thanks for the compliments on the bathroom. The rain shower (head) was supposed to come out of the ceiling, not the wall, however either the wife ordered the wrong one or they sent us the wrong one and because of the massive covid delays we did not want to wait for the right one. It made no real difference to us anyway.
I have never been a hat wearer at all, only in the worst weather.
Eds pic of the Glazier Stove Co. shows an interesting light that looks like it can be lowered by pully to change the bulb. I spent hours looking at old pics on the Provincial and City Archives yesterday as I had no energy for anything else.
There is a church in the opening and closing of the IMAX movie Rocky Mountain Express that I want to build for the layout at some point.
It is the Canadian Thanksgiving and the wife is doing the turkey dinner tonight. It will be weird with no big family gathering as we are doing our bit to knock this virus out. We usually have 20 or so for Christmas as well and everyone is in agreement that it is not a good idea either. Health is more important than tradition. Things may improve so we have not written Christmas off completely. The only sad part is it may be the mother-in-laws last the way her health is declining. We may sneak them down for Christmas dinner.
I intermittent fast most days which means I eat my calories in a six-hour period of time, so it is almost breakfast time for me followed by dinner in four hours. I usually have an omelette with ham, cheese, onions and tomato. No bread as the carbs add to the Arthritis pain I will get if I don't behave. I may misbehave at dinner though.
Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow Canuckleheads!
All the best to all
Heartland Division CB&QJohn York 1. .... You said you are thinking of putting a church on your layout. I have one in the background on my layout as you can see in the left side of this picture.
Garry, that church looks nice. I see your windows have what looks like stained glass. Was that in a kit? I'm still not sure what I want to do.