MisterBeasleyIf I ever get around to it, my layout's carfloat will be named the "Walter Kelly" after the creator of Pogo. They used to have flat-bottomed swamp boats with name like "Old Walt" and, since I always loved Pogo, I thought that demanded to be honored.
That is a great idea!
I will be tempted to steal it. I loved Pogo.
It is still a bit too early for the bubbly beer, so lets all enjoy some Rhode Island style Coffee Milk.
I love this stuff, but it is hard (impossible) to find in Florida. I still have a little bit stashed away from my last long road trip.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
SeeYou190I love this stuff, but it is hard (impossible) to find in Florida. I still have a little bit stashed away from my last long road trip.
There is a URL on the bottle, go to the website and order it direct. Either that or they will tell you where you can order it. (By the case no doubt)
(ROAR)
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
My backyard today:
My daughter's backyard today, 600 miles straight south of me.
York1 John
BroadwayLionThere is a URL on the bottle, go to the website and order it direct. Either that or they will tell you where you can order it.
I can order it from Amazon for a pretty reasonable price.
Somehow, it is more fun to find it on a road trip and bring it home. Kind of the thrill of the hunt.
York1My daughter's backyard today, 600 miles straight south of me.
It is so strange to see swimming pools without screen enclosures.
While not exactly a snow plow I thought I'd show this just to break the ice:
Thomas Underwood Coll B&O901 by John W. Barriger III National Railroad Library, on Flickr
But if you were really hoping for a plow —
Thomas Underwood Coll B&O857 by John W. Barriger III National Railroad Library, on Flickr
Cheers, Ed
SeeYou190It is still a bit too early for the bubbly beer
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Sorry Bear, you are always free to help yourself to a beer from my refrigerator.
I was bummed about that cake thing. Perhaps some are a little more sensitive than others around here. Never has been my intent to hurt one's feelings. Perhaps I should tread a little more Softly.
"When you learn to walk on the rice paper without leaving a trace Grasshopper, you will have learned".
My little brother needs to learn all things are not perfect, even people. Especially in the here and now when something flows out of your mouth is different than edited text that can't be fixed as well without facial expressions
TF
SeeYou190It was almost 80 today, and the house got up to 76 inside. I hope it cools down over the next three days, or I might be sweating my butt off!
The temperture reached 85 today.
It looks like Winter is over. I will be sweating my butt off to finish the HVAC duct work.
Hear today, gone tomorrow.
LION toast (French)1) Take a loaf of bread and slice it the long way.2) Take each slice, dip in egg and milk per usual3) Spread with Cimminimineon and Sugar4) Cut into 1 inch strips5) Roll up like a stickee bun, place on baking pan (or fry in frying pan)6) Continue until all bread is rolled up7) Bake until it looks right8) Eat with butter and syrup
Morning Gents. A balmy -1F when I got up this morning (4am). It's warming up quickly though. 5F now.
SeeYou190In John Allen's city of Port, the carfloat was named Annabel. I originally was going to name my carfloat Annabel as well, but it will now be the Miss Melody instead. Thus Port Mary was changed to Port Annabel to strengthen the linkage to John Allen's layout. More name changes could be coming. Nothing is set in stone yet.
SeeYou190 Sorry Bear, you are always free to help yourself to a beer from my refrigerator. -Kevin
Lion, that sounds like a tasty twist on French Toast.
I tried to talk work into getting one of these years ago, but struck out. Not exactly a plow, but certainly snow removal equipment. Photo from RPM tech.
Cheers!
Mike
Hi Everyone,
Brunhilda, coffee with cream, please.
We've had a go around with lake effect snow the last couple of days. Parts of the area got dumped on and parts didn't get anything. Now the sun's out and as usual, the temps drop like a rock. Ugh!
John: I'm taking a stab that your daughters house is somewhere in the general vicinity of Dallas Ft. Worth. As you know, snow there isn't common, but it can happen. Still looks goofy. If you are where I think you are, I grew up about 100-150 miles south of you.
The DuPage train show is this weekend. I'm planning to go for a couple of hours if all works out. A few years ago, I picked up an Athearn yellow box PFE reefer kit There. The kit was so old that the trucks weren't even sprung, but had those old rubber pads for springs. Anyway, back then the doors on the reefer kits would open. Athearn changed their molds to not have opening doors, but solid sides back around 1965. +/-. This kit had opening doors and one was missing from the kit. So, I'm looking to see if one of the dealers has an old junker that I can get a set of doors from. It's a long shot. Hopefully I can find one, otherwise I'd have to fashion a new one out of styrene and notch it out to clear the hinge locations.
Jim (with a nod to Mies Van Der Rohe)
BroadwayLion LION toast (French)1) Take a loaf of bread and slice it the long way.2) Take each slice, dip in egg and milk per usual3) Spread with Cimminimineon and Sugar4) Cut into 1 inch strips5) Roll up like a stickee bun, place on baking pan (or fry in frying pan)6) Continue until all bread is rolled up7) Bake until it looks right8) Eat with butter and syrup
Hi. 57 degrees here. A week ago we got a metric boatload of snow. We stocked up then so we still have plenty of food. Fortunately we didn't lose power, so we could cook and maybe more important, microwave.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Track fiddler Perhaps some are a little more sensitive than others around here. Never has been my intent to hurt one's feelings. Perhaps I should tread a little more Softly. "When you learn to walk on the rice paper without leaving a trace Grasshopper, you will have learned". My little brother needs to learn all things are not perfect, even people. Especially in the here and now when something flows out of your mouth is different than edited text that can't be fixed as well without facial expressions.
Perhaps some are a little more sensitive than others around here. Never has been my intent to hurt one's feelings. Perhaps I should tread a little more Softly.
My little brother needs to learn all things are not perfect, even people. Especially in the here and now when something flows out of your mouth is different than edited text that can't be fixed as well without facial expressions.
Good afternoon, everyone. It's a great Friday so far.
up831If you are where I think you are, I grew up about 100-150 miles south of you.
Yeah, she lives in a Dallas suburb. I live in the middle of nowhere. It's a great place to be, especially after spending 20 years in a large city.
CNCharlieI have been informed by the person in charge that we can no longer use our wood burning fireplace as her research shows the soot is very harmful, worse than cigarettes apparently.
Charlie, I hope that's not true. We love our fireplace. For that matter, I quit smoking 42 years ago, and I still miss it. I think I was truly addicted to tobacco. In the factory where I worked during college, we could not smoke, so I chewed tobacco. I'm glad I didn't get addicted to that.
I've mentioned that I'm taking apart my layout to make a new one. I've learned that even though Sculptamold is light and fluffy when you add water, after it dries it is hard as a rock. I am chipping some of it off the table inch-by-inch. That's amazing stuff! Maybe my town could use some of it to patch the potholes.
Hope everyone has a good Friday afternoon. For those of you not retired, only a few more hours until the weekend!
BNSF clearing track in Nebraska:
It was my birthday night when I was blasted John
There's nothing like the steel guitar that my brother-in-law plays as the sound makes my day.
https://youtu.be/vWZ6hmHj2MA
Although the Original is never done better. And none of them ever are.
Opera girl is a bit Pitchy unlike the original recording completely worthy as the only singer able to hit the high note.
Afternoon folks!
Today has been cancelled here in the Finger Lakes Region of NYS! There were over 200 closings due to a little white stuff out there.... I have run the electric snow blower this morning and it walks through 12 to 13 inches of heavy white crap very well. The 4 foot high wall the city plows left at the end got taken care of by a neighbor who was out having fun with a much bigger machine. And still.... I look outside and see more little white things coming down. Will be back outside later and clear out the few new inches in the driveway.
Planning on going snowshoeing with a lady tomorrow early afternoon... Of course no local stores have any thermal underware! None! I threw out my old stuff, which would be 4 sizes too big for me at the moment, about 3 years ago. Nor can I find my old heavy mittens. Hoping I can borrow a pair from my son for the day.
Hey TF, I am a guy who always finds out I should have kept my mouth shut right after stuff comes out of it!!! LOL I am very good at saying the wrong thing. Don't worry too much, most of us here have the same trouble and most have fairly thick skins!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Thank you Ray as I know you're the type of guy that can understand.
And you hit the nail on the head that sometimes one should keep their cocky mouth shut even though something feels like it's funny at the time but sometimes only to the Sayer.
While it's freshly listened to. Here is the original that can never be duplicated. Even if the original Opera Singer is still available, Nobody can go back and do something to perfection as they did at the time that it gelled.
https://youtu.be/cVBCE3gaNxc
Her voice is all over the place and she Boots the treble clef right off the staff but stays in key.
Sorry, computer videos didn't exist back in 1973. Only VHS from reel to reel tape.
If only I was ever able to make Wifey sound like that at night
POST HOG!
I can't do any better than that! Even with my many images of the pig versus this image provided by Ed is better than that.
Judy and I are at a hotel we checked in early Thursday night so we didn't miss the balloons at the festival in Hudson for Friday night.
It's colder than a (FFF) but I gave my Carhartt bibs and extra Western jacket to Judy and I'm wearing the other ones.
As we are speaking I'm getting scolded by Judy because it's time to go to the parade before the balloon launch even though it isn't no until 5 and I've learned to say "Yes dear".
It's close enough and they have the Lift Bridge beer down there .085 on the Richter scale so I'm okay with all that.
Track fiddlerI've learned to say "Yes dear".
The most important words any husband should know.
Thanks John
I'm at the bar on the Wisconsin border with the stone wall.
I know it don't look like much seeing the red brick separating the glass picture window in front.
But the white paint was sand blasted off in the late 1800's wall separating the two buildings
They've hung a bunch of crap on it now and nobody knows the significance of that wall but me.
York1 Track fiddler I've learned to say "Yes dear". The most important words any husband should know.
Track fiddler
I've learned to say "Yes dear".
Well, there's some nuance I must be missing. Following "yes" with "dear" is generally considered a bit snarky by my sweetie. Even when it's not at all inflected. She's quite attuned to context, you see.
John
I make it a point to stop by this place John because I think the wood is almost as old as the stone is.
Either that or someone did a better job than I could ever do and if I ever find that out I will give them credit for that.
Attuvian1Well, there's some nuance I must be missing. Following "yes" with "dear" is generally considered a bit snarky by my sweetie. Even when it's not at all inflected. She's quite attuned to context, you see.
Uh-huh! Back when My wife was alive, my saying "Yes Dear!" was usually followed with her saying, "How good is your memory!!!" If you catch the drift.... Luckily she didn't stay mad long and didn't follow through with the threat, but it did shut me up!!!
If the weather co-operates I am all set (I think) to learn how snowshoe tomorrow... By the lady I have started dating. The temperature is supposed to get all the way up to 18°F with an 11 to 16 mph breeze... I hope we will take the trail with the quickest route back to the car.... My old winter clothing is not as good as I wish I had to be out doing stuff like this..... But what the heck.
Off to the balloon show on a Friday night I hope
Judy drank all the craft beer made in this plac
Winter Doldrums?
Pop over to the Tube and take a tour of the Empire:
Beauty Of The Empire by Edmund, on Flickr
The Wealth, Romance and Beauty of the Empire! 1933
Ray-Have fun and good luck!