Yipidee Yap and all of that.. Don't waste the time of day.. but Mister Ed will never talk unless he has something to say
TF
MisterBeasleyWe're having home-made chili WITHOUT the football. The GF won't watch football for political reasons. I don't like the political nonsense either, but these teams really don't interest me. And there's no Kitten Bowl this year!
LION doesn't have a horse in this game either!
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Good Evening,
Another cold day here with a little snow.
I think I will dismantle my N scale layout and sell off what I can. I rarely run it and just prefer HO. I did enjoy building it. I have packed up the Trainmaster, some rolling stock and a few buildings to sell. I just have the RS18 and a little rolling stock left. I also plan on selling my HO BLI mikado too. It runs well but isn't a CN loco as it is the USRA version. I have a consolidation and light mountain to haul freight. Lately though I run mostly passenger or mixed trains.
Time for rea and some blueberry pie
CN Charlie
Another quiet day here.
Tonight I'm going to be Frank.
I had two good friends through life named Frank so tonight you can call me that but usually I prefer to be called TF
Both Franks I knew never complained. That's why I always enjoyed my time with them. They were Always a joy to be around
My little get well message doesn't apply to everyone here at all but my Grandmother always told me over and over through her life raising me.
"If you don't have something nice to say about someone or something, ... Don't Say It At All! ....."Never complain because nobody wants to hear it"!
Never 'Dog' a place you rode your horse to hang-out with friends or you might as well just keep riding.
Thanks for listening
Didn't make the beef nachos till half-time after those two big beef sandwiches at the beginning of the game that were (ALMOST) like a Po-boy mimic John
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TF, I'm surprised there're still nachos left in that bowl. I could have had that entire bowl empty by the end of the first half.
York1 John
POST HOG!
A little later I got the heavy artillery out to dip my Nachos. Judy had her lotion out because it's been colder than the tolerated FFF consideration and Ridiculously dry.
I almost feel if I gave it a little more attention... I could do an Ortega set for a Magazine on top of my old 1800's shipping trunk coffee table
If I did do that... I would just hope nobody would complain
It's always good to see you Gents
Evening
Digg Inn Kids!
I spend more time pulling beef nachos every year then I do watching the halftime show or their souped-up commercials.
By the way.. The "Back in the day" ones were better!
Take a couple if you wish.. They're on the dish
Enjoy the rest of the game and have a good evening gentleman
Hi Everyone,
quick note.
John: I was in LA just shy of 10 years. Why did I move away? Long story!
Your train table looks smooth enough to have some Olympic ice skating on it. Hope the track locating and laying goes well.
I can't imagine the NFL would acquiesce to moving the game to Saturday. It's not their problem or responsibility that people have next day hangovers.
Jim (with a nod to Mies Van Der Rohe)
Good afternoon, everyone.
I've seen there are some petitions out there to convince the NFL to move the Super Bowl to a Saturday. I think a lot of people call in sick on the following Monday. In the early 1990s, I remember the NFL moved the game from afternoon to evening, which didn't help with the Monday hangovers.
Look at the nice, flat, smooth surface I have to play on starting tomorrow!
Have a good rest of the Sunday, everyone.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
We're having home-made chili WITHOUT the football. The GF won't watch football for political reasons. I don't like the political nonsense either, but these teams really don't interest me. And there's no Kitten Bowl this year!
I recall my daughter's lacrosse games fondly. She started in middle school, in what was then a brand new program. We even had volunteer coaches. I was one of them, actually more of just an adult presence although I played one season my freshman year in college. Her first year, there had been a lot of snow and the fields didn't dry, but we got a few practices outdoors. This showed early, as other teams had only practiced indoors and our team of newbies were beating other girls by scores like 10-1. Then, of course, reality hit when more veteran teams who had practiced outdoors ended up beating us by scores like 10-1. Still, it was a lot of fun.
When they got to high school, they had a real program and even a real coach. I was still adult presence, but mostly I was sitting on the sidelines with Band-Aids. I still remember a practice where our goalie forgot her mask, so she couldn't play. I filled in, maskless, and I saw my own daughter put a whizzing shot right by my ear. From then on, when I coached, I made sure I had my hockey goalie mask in my car, just in case.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Good afternoon diners from beautiful snowy northern Michigan.
Well, my daughter's soccer tournament went OK yesterday. Didn't look like it was headed that way though. Our first match was against a team that played physically dirty and the ref (looked to be about 18) wouldn't call anything. Our girls won't play a physical game for the most part, but if pushed far enough will retaliate. Our coach finally lost his temper and started yelling at the ref to do his job. Yellow card. Continued to yell at him (and ritefully so I might add). Red card. He pulled our girls off the field with 50 seconds left in the game. It was tied 2-2. I absolutely support his decision. By the end of the game we had a girl out with what was later diagnosed as a lisfranc sprain in her foot, our best defender walking with a very concerning limp and holding her stomach (from getting elbowed when she had the ball, which wasn't called even though the ref was staring right at them and watched her crumple to the turf), and another with a gash in one knee bleeding rather steadily. Out of 9 girls we were down to 6 healthy after 25 minutes of play. The tournament club host representative ended up going over and having a talk with the ref who appeared absolutely disgusted, but finally started calling the rough stuff. We ended the tournment 2-1 (with our one loss being the forfeit of that tied game). We would have played that dirty team again in the final had we finished that first game out. If we hadn't have walked off though, I doubt there would have been a change in his calling of the games, and a lot more girls from all the teams would have ended up hurt. Watching the other games, that one team played dirty in all of them, but at least they started getting called for it, which slowed it down some. The behavior of one of their parents following our walking off showed everything one needed to know about that team. The apples don't fall far from the trees usually.
I for one am excited to watch the Super Bowl. Snacks cooking away in crock pots right now. Family coming over in a couple hours for pre-game board games and a little social time prior to kick-off.
howmusI'm sure I will over over eat
Have a Super Sunday guys!
Mike
Mornin.... Well it is still morning here in the Finger lakes for a few more minutes....
Thanks Brother Lion! I now can't button a new shirt I put on this morning after looking at what you served for breakfast here in the diner!!!! Well, I need to get back on the stick and lose a couple lbs. I have put on and the new shirt is a size smaller than I normally wear, but!!!
Tonight I will at my son's house watching my once a year sit and stare at the idiot box to see the Stupor Bole thingy... My team (Bills) are not playing but I guess I will sit and endure who ever is doing that this year (not even sure who that is... Tells you how into that I am...). Nice being around family at least. DiL says they will start to serve pizza and chicken wings about 5:30 and I'm sure I will over over eat on the side stuff of chips, dip, desserts, a couple beers (early so I don't get nailed in the expected police traps that will be on the roads when I drive home...), etc.
I am one that would far rather do stuff than sit and watch other people do stuff.
Hope all of you have a great and safe day out there.
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Good morning, diners. No breakfast yet, Lion. I'll have donuts later.
My parents saved everything. My wife and I also did not buy anything unless we saved up the money first -- except the house. It was a very good feeling to pay that off.
I'll check in later when we come home.
Big Crew in this Dinner...
Breakfast from the House of the LION!
A friendly smile —
A timeless pose:
BN, Belton, Montana, 1970 by Center for Railroad Photography & Art, on Flickr
Cheers, Ed
Good morning Diners. A full English and large coffee please, Chloe.
A very wet day today here in the former land of the North British Railway.
I grew up at a time when we did not throw anything away. 'It will come in useful one day'. Anything we wanted we saved money up until we could buy it. The only thing we did not buy outright was our first house.
Snow Plow at Train Mountain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBq8jtqnfj8&ab_channel=TomWatson
Stay Safe Everyone.
David
To the world you are someone. To someone you are the world
I cannot afford the luxury of a negative thought
gmpullmanOne for The Bear
maxmanIt wasn't Fyrquel was it?
Pretty close to the same thing, Houghto-Safe:
https://fireresistantfluids.com/products/hfc-water-glycol-hydraulic-fluids/houghto-safe-620-series/#:~:text=HOUGHTO%2DSAFE%C2%AE%20620%20is,or%20in%20high%20temperature%20areas.
Probably wouldn't take too much of this stuff remaining in a drum to contaminate gasoline.
Regards, Ed
gmpullmanSix months later he was grumbling about having all this gas on hand and it was starting to turn into jelly. (I wonder how well he cleaned out the drums? They had contained hydraulic oil.)
It wasn't Fyrquel was it?
Hi Ed,
I do have to admit that my family benefitted right after WWII as well, and although there wasn't any hoarding involved, there were a few eyes winked.
As one story goes, my great uncle Laur Peck owned a garage in Little Current on the Manitoulin Island. Right after the war ended the military was selling off all manor of vehicles, so Laur decided he would buy a six wheel drive heavy duty truck and convert it into a tow truck. He recruited my dad to help him drive it home from whatever base in southern Ontario it was stored at. My dad, having only been home from the war for a few days, decided to wear his uniform to pick up the truck, and it was also decided that dad would use his 1937 Mercury sedan to drive to the base. The Merc's tires had never been replaced and they were as bald as I am.
When they got to the base my dad was instructed to leave the keys in the ignition when he parked the car. It took a couple of hours to sort out the paperwork for the truck but eventually they were on their way. However, when my dad went to get into his car he discovered that there were five brand new tires in the back seat and the trunk. The Sergeant who had ordered him to leave the keys in the car told them to get off the base immediately! They didn't argue!
Cheers!!
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
hon30critterWe discovered a 100 lb. sack of white sugar buried in a corner of his farmhouse attic. After close to 30 years in an uncontrolled environment it was as hard as a rock, but nothing had been chewing on it.
Why couldn't it have been some tasty Canadian Maple Syrup?
Mistrust of banks caused many depression-era families to stash money in odd places, like coffee cans buried in the yard. Here in Cleveland a contractor doing a remodel on a bathroom found $182,000 stuffed in the wall cavities.
So he claimed the money was his but the homeowner had other ideas. Since the money was from the '30s and earlier it actually had a putative value of over half million dollars!
https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2008/02/woman_whose_contractor_found_c.html
When my aunt passed away back in 1980 I helped my mother in removing her belongings from their apartment. It wasn't long before my sisters and I began finding small packets of tissue paper wrapped in rubber bands hidden in the most obscure places. Inside the vacuum cleaner, indide a seldom-used coffee percolator, and yes, even in a hollowed out book. Each of these wads had about a thousand dollars in paper bills tightly wrapped . We have no idea if we ever did find it all.
I recall that W.C. Fields would open bank accounts in cities all over the U.S. and perhaps other countries, all in assumed names. I doubt he had time to reclaim all these accounts before his demise.
Lionel_Bobsey-Twins Hudson by Edmund, on Flickr
Oh, yeah — speaking of hoarding. Back when the big Y2K "panic" was going around one of the electricians at GE was not about to be left high and dry so he gathered up a half-dozen 55 gallon drums and proceeded to fill them with gasoline. Ah, yes, right on top of things.
Six months later he was grumbling about having all this gas on hand and it was starting to turn into jelly. (I wonder how well he cleaned out the drums? They had contained hydraulic oil.)
Come to think of it, I now see so many parallels to that big "scare" of 1999 to what we are witnessing today.
One for The Bear
Greymouth, New Zealand, 1996 by Center for Railroad Photography & Art, on Flickr
Where's TF? It's been almost a week.
Next week we start work on installing a new pantry cabinet with roll out shelves. It is replacing a converted broom closet that has served as our pantry for 33 years. We were never happy with the awkward access and poor lighting.
The new pantry will have five 24" x 22" roll out shelves so access will be a breeze. We figure that we will actually gain some shelf space, but perhaps more importantly, we will be forced to deal with the clutter of pop bottles, shopping bags, rarely used appliances and other miscellanea that littered the floor of the closet. We tried not to open it when we had guests. It was embarrasing!
Another benefit will be having all the same types of products grouped together. In the past, we had been in the bad habit of shoving new purchases wherever there was space. That meant that we could have canned tomatoes on three different shelves with half of them buried behind different products. Hopefully the additional space will prevent us from falling into that trap again. We shall see.
Our son Cole is going to tear out the old closet walls and do the necessary drywall work. I have decided to have the cabinet supplier install the new cabinet. I'm a bit of a believer in warranties in situations like this, plus they will have oodles of experience with getting things like the alignment and miter cuts correct. Cole could do it, but I don't want to ask him to use his time anymore than necessary. He is a busy guy.
Hopefully everything will be done by March 3rd.
Hi Lion,
Thanks for providing breakfast! Looks yummy!
I didn't realize that I had the top of the page so I didn't offer up any goodies. Thanks for filling in.
MisterBeasleySo, we began to hoard, or as we called it, "stock up."
Two years ago, when the shortages appeared, I thought it would be neat to have a year's supply of food and products stored up. I just don't have the organizational thinking to do something like that.
Good morning! We went out and had a delicious steak dinner last night. It's a new place, and we have finally found a good steak house here in Delaware that we like.
We still have toilet paper in the closet from two years ago. We had a problem back then with Poddy Pirates, I guess. We are in a summer resort community that has very low full-time residents, but we quickly discovered that our normal stores were being raided by lean and hungry barbarians from Philadelphia and DC, who made the trip here just to buy out our stores. So, we began to hoard, or as we called it, "stock up."
Good morning, diners. Saturday! Just like Friday, or Thursday, or Tuesday ...
I'll have bacon, eggs, and coffee, just like Friday, or Thursday, or ...
Dave, that's pretty neat about your hoarding ancestor. I'll bet that happened more than we can guess. My parents lived through the depression, and it colored how they lived the rest of their lives. It was a crime to them to throw anything away.
Ed, I'm glad you like cats. I don't think I could live with all the cats. I had a hard enough time living with one for many years.
No offense, Lion, I'm just not a big cat fan. As a kid on the farm, it would have been unthinkable to have a cat or dog in the house.
Mike, I remember those days of driving the daughters to tournaments. For several years, that was about all we did on weekends. Enjoy your time with kids -- it goes too quickly.
Maxman, I agree with the confusing test results. I don't like tests that say, "Yes, you positively have the virus, but maybe you don't."
MLC, with your headaches, you could probably do better at predicting the weather than our local TV weatherman. "It might rain, but it might not." Kind of like the Covid tests.
Tin Can, good luck with your eye issues. It's great you out-lived your "lifetime" corneas. The alternative is not as good.
Brent, hope your trip to Oregon went well.
Bear, your report on the bad tourist economy came up when I read a newspaper letter that said the person was hoping NZ would open up again so they could take their long-postponed trip. They were scheduled to go two years ago. I would love to go with them, but I don't think that will happen.
MisterBeasley, you were lucky to get that water heater with a lifetime guarantee. My next car is going to have a lifetime warranty, but only because of my age.
Ricky, that snowplow sounds like it's in kind of a neat display park. I love those small kind of places with interesting things that many people drive by without stopping.
Jim, how long were you in LA? I took several trips out there in the 1970s. At that time, you could see the dark dome of smog over the city as you got closer to it. Thankfully, I think that's pretty much gone now.
Kevin, I thought of you the other day. When I go to the Menards, there is a Lowes, a Home Depot, and a Menards within a ½ mile of each other. If you can't find what you want in one, you have two other chances to find it. They all three have help-wanted signs. You could move up here and get three jobs.
No layout work today. I used some caulk to attach the foam to the plywood, and it will cure today. My old layout was on plywood. I cleaned off the old as best I could, but it still was not completely smooth, so I was going to replace the plywood. Then I thought, why spend that much on new plywood? I'll just cover it with foam. Menards had these ½ inch 4x8 foam sheets for $13 each, so it was easy to cover the old wood.
I haven't completely finalized how I want the track to run, but this whole process has kind of remotivated me with the hobby. For months, I knew I was satisfied with my old layout, but I didn't know if I really wanted to start over. But once I took the first step, there was no looking back, and I'm actually so happy I'm doing it. It's fun!
For those I haven't mentioned, I hope everyone has a good Saturday.
Breakyfaste is on the table!
Or it will be as soon as you put that box car away.... Sheesh... Boys!
Come and JOIN the LION for Breakfast.
No veganbeasts left around the LION's table!
Here is a recent video of the Cumbres and Toltec OY rotary plough in action. Click on the 'Watch on YouTube' icon to get the full width video:
Edit:
I didn't realize that I had the top of the page. Lions post should cover the Diner offering. I'll pick up the tab.