howmus Met a very nice woman for the first time yesterday. . . . . We seemed to enjoy each others company so we plan to get together again....
Met a very nice woman for the first time yesterday. . . . . We seemed to enjoy each others company so we plan to get together again....
Well, you'd better follow through, friend. I just read of a woman in Flint that is trying to sue a guy for $20,000 because he stood her up. Emotional stress, etc. The second scary thing from the story is that she actually got an initial video hearing.
BATMAN howmus maxman Huh??? I got it.
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I got it.
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Attuvian1 howmus Met a very nice woman for the first time yesterday. . . . . We seemed to enjoy each others company so we plan to get together again.... Well, you'd better follow through, friend. I just read of a woman in Flint that is trying to sue a guy for $20,000 because he stood her up. Emotional stress, etc. The second scary thing from the story is that she actually got an initial video hearing.
Hey! She was a School Secretary back when. One thing I learned very early in my teaching carreer is ... NEVER, EVER, tick off a school secretary! The principal, sure. Superintendent (most of them were complete jerks anyway!), sure... But, always treat the secretary with utmost kindness and respect.....
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howmus Attuvian1 howmus Met a very nice woman for the first time yesterday. . . . . We seemed to enjoy each others company so we plan to get together again.... Well, you'd better follow through, friend. I just read of a woman in Flint that is trying to sue a guy for $20,000 because he stood her up. Emotional stress, etc. The second scary thing from the story is that she actually got an initial video hearing. Hey! She was a School Secretary back when. One thing I learned very early in my teaching carreer is ... NEVER, EVER, tick off a school secretary! The principal, sure. Superintendent (most of them were complete jerks anyway!), sure... But, always treat the secretary with utmost kindness and respect..... 73
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Well, folks, I note that I'm responsible for the first post of the page. Not sure just how that happened as it wasn't when first posted. Perhaps this time of night, when layout gremlins can't exercise their regular duties, they transport or beam themselves into the forum's innards.
Last time this happened, I offered up RBFs (root beer floats) to one and all. As I recall, even the Bear was intrigued at such a great distance. This time around, how about an old Michigan distinctive, the Boston Cooler?
www.allrecipes.com/article/what-is-a-boston-cooler/
Brother Elias' cat above looks thirsty.
(I'd post a picture, but they're all at .com sites. I'm not sure I want a black helo landing in my backyard at o-dark-thirty)
John
gmpullmanI think the old Santa Fe might be portraying the beauty and splendor of the many Spanish Missions located in southern California.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Just testing to see if I get the 403 forbidden message again........
And still can't put today's post in. Hmmmm.
Mike
I'm sick of trying to get an actual post to go through. Must be something wrong as it won't let me copy/paste my original post in. Too much to retype. Maybe I'll try again later. Have a good day everyone.
OK. Here I go foolishly trying a highly abbreviated version of the post I intended for today.
Attuvian1 John, thanks for the Boston Cooler! I've seen the top poster change on pages here before, so no worries.
Bear, I wonder how many HO scale locomotives you have to ingest before the listed hazards kick in?
Brent, in one way, I don't want to get back to being able to wear that suit. Do you know how hard it is to find clothes I like that fit a 29 inch waist line?! I'm a 31 now and it is much easier, although 32's are too big (belt or extra care required), so still a bit special to find stuff. Not like 29s though.
Last day of the work week for me today, and vacation next week to spend some time with the family before my oldest goes to college, and get a couple small projects done around the house.
Hope the post works this time. Take care guys.
Attuvian1(I'd post a picture, but they're all at .com sites. I'm not sure I want a black helo landing in my backyard at o-dark-thirty)
RIGHT CLICK on the photo, and select "Copy Image Link". If that ends in .jpg or has .jpg in it, then paste that location under the photo icon above.
Water Level Route I'm sick of trying to get an actual post to go through. Must be something wrong as it won't let me copy/paste my original post in. Too much to retype. Maybe I'll try again later. Have a good day everyone.
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Water Level RouteBrent, in one way, I don't want to get back to being able to wear that suit. Do you know how hard it is to find clothes I like that fit a 29 inch waist line?! I'm a 31 now and it is much easier, although 32's are too big (belt or extra care required), so still a bit special to find stuff. Not like 29s though.
32"? 32"!!!... I'd be happy to find a 42" waste line!
And for Ed…
Music to my ears, Bear!!!
Warning labels — when you find them EVERYWHERE they somehow lose their impact. Wood dust when you cut wood? Why — never!
Plywood_warning by Edmund, on Flickr
One of the safety committee higher-ups at GE was behind installing yellow strobes and LOUD back-up alarms (ON in both directions, of course) on every vehicle on the property, even the little Cushman carts that some personnel used.
I brought up the thought that with so much beeping and flashing going on that people would become immune to the REAL dangers of some of the bigger equipment and simply ignore it.
Not to mention that after a while, wires would get mysteriously snipped or shop rags stuffed into the alarms, even tin-foil caps over the flashers.
Little-by-little most of the offending noisemakers were removed and the safety personnel moved on to bigger fish to fry.
Feather River:
Keddie Wye by Mike Danneman, on Flickr
Threading the Needle:
Roundin' the Loop by Mike Danneman, on Flickr
Traction motor troubles: An expensive fix!
Mantis 30011 by Mike Danneman, on Flickr
I hope everyone is doing well these days...
Cheers. Ed
How does tentickle of oktopuss sound two ewe!
ROAR
The North Dakota Attorney General has determined that California may be hazardus to your health.
BroadwayLion The North Dakota Attorney General has determined that California may be hazardus to your health.
Go ahead and laugh
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9698991/#
Thank you to everyone that posted well-wishes and thought after my wife's excellent news from the doctor a couple of weeks ago.
Sorry for being late with this.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
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BroadwayLionHow does tentickle of oktopuss sound two ewe!
SeeYou190Sorry for being late with this.
Good morning from the beautiful West Coast.
I went to John Deere this morning to get a part they did not have the last time I was there. It would have been cheaper to have it mailed but I have not been out in ages and I love the quiet drive through the agricultural belt.
I was 147lbs when I graduated and hit the gym, put 20lbs of muscle over the next couple of years, and 46 years later I am still the same. I still see my three best friends from childhood I grew up with and two of them are also just the same and one is just slightly overweight. All four of us are still very fit though.
There are toxins everywhere on this planet, and the amount of exposure to them usually determines the outcome. If you know a firefighter that has died from cancer through breathing in toxic fumes in burning buildings over a career but feels differently about a sawmill or woodworker that has had the same chemical exposure from sawdust and also died then nuff said. It all boils down to common sense as to what we let in our bodies.
Arsenic is a naturally occurring compound and will be found in water tables everywhere. Normally the low levels are not a problem but sometimes levels sneak up just a bit and agricultural areas can all of a sudden see animal reproduction plumet. It can make people unable to get pregnant as well, the first thing my wife tells people if they or their animals can't get pregnant is to check their water for arsenic levels. The point of this is, don't blow off warnings, it doesn't take much for toxins to affect your health.
When I worked I was on several accident review panels that involved moving vehicles. On the airport, of course, we had flashing lights/strobes that was a no-brainer, but we never had the beepers for backing up, though some vehicles were delivered with them. It was found drivers paid less attention to backing up when there was a beeper on their vehicle.
One of the biggest infractions airport safety officers patrolled for was parking brakes not set. The first infraction was a three-day suspension, 2nd 10 days, the third dismissal, no appeal. I saw more than one person lose their well-paid job over this.
Oktopuss I have had many times in different parts of the world, like anything else, who and how it is prepared makes all the difference. I generally like it though.
Bear, I also enjoyed Air on the G string.
Coffee done, time to fix the Deere.
All the best to all.
Got all excited the other day as I thought I was first in line for a train, but it was short-lived.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
Greetings all. I shall pass on the octopuss and take some nice grilled salmon!!
Speakin' of airports, I worked at Horizon Air for 20 years here in PDX. I spent my first three years in the freight department and saw far too many instances of bad / dangerous conduct on the ramp. One of our agents, whom I considered a very poor hire, was protected by the freight department management despite several instances of damaged freight and vehicles. Well, his luck ran out when he was goofing off on the ramp and backed a forklift into the props of one of our aircraft. He destroyed both the prop and engine plus damaged the wing. Management could no longer protect him and he was gone post haste.
After I was done with freight I went on and spent 17 years in safety and wrote up plenty of bad ramp behavior and was not very popular, but alas. . . . .
Y'all have a fine day out there and see ya on the flip side.
Don; Prez, CEO or whatever of the Wishram, Oregon and Western RR
Thumbs up is right!
Union Pacific Big Boy at Nelson IL with NS engineer Steve Rathke by Mark LLanuza, on Flickr
I don't know about the Big Boy but on the USRA Mikado I'm familiar with if you decide to occupy the apron plate like that you had better make sure there aren't any tight curves ahead. That gangway can get awfully tight in a hurry!
Cheers, Ed
I spent about 3 hours today masking off the tiles in my beer nich to put down the siliconized grout in the spaces between the tiles.
I applied the grout, then carefully removed all the mask.
It looks OK, but it looks just like caulk. I should have just caulked it and saved myself a few hours.
Time to get ready for Christmas!!
Last year I made a plum pudding for Christmas and it turned out okay but it certainly wasn't sensational. I used a recipe that I found online that dated from the 1800s.
This year I have a much better recipe thanks to one of our lifelong friends, Brenda. She brought some of her pudding to our New Years celebration last year so we were able to compare the two. To say that hers was better would be a vast understatement! My only saving grace was that my home made caramel sauce was to die for!
To give you an idea of just how fruity Brenda's pudding was, the recipe calls for 1 lb. each of raisins, currants, mixed candied peel, chopped red and green candied cherries and chopped dates. That's 5 lbs. of fruit with only 3 cups of flour! This has to be a healthy dessert!!
Of course there are other ingredients like 1/2 lb. margarine, 2 cups of brown sugar, 3 -4 tbsp of cocoa powder, 2 -3 tsp. of milk, and 2 tsp. each of cinnamon, cloves, allspice, vanilla and nutmeg. You will also need 3 eggs, 2 cups of water, 1 tsp. ginger and 1 tsp of baking soda. Chopped pecans or walnuts can be added too.
Boil the margarine, sugar, fruit and spices for 20 minutes. When the mixture is cool, mix 1 tsp. of baking soda with 2 or 3 tsp. of milk and add to the fruit mixture. Then add the eggs, flour. salt, vanilla and nuts, and mix.
Bake in a well greased pan (Brenda uses a bundt pan) at 300 degrees for 2 1/2 hours.
The recipe actually comes from Fogo Island in Newfoundland!
For those who might be interested, I will dig out my recipe for caramel sauce. I can only say two things about it. One is that you need to make tons of it because everyone will stand at the fridge spooning mouthfuls of it into their faces. The other thing is that this is one recipe that you cannot take your eyes off for a second, because if it burns, you will have the bitterest concoction that you have ever tasted!
Cheers!!
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
AEP528Go ahead and laugh
AEP528 Go ahead and laugh And your point is what, exactly??
AEP528 Go ahead and laugh
Do you really not get it? People are laughing and mocking California because of the labeling, while in fact something that seems as harmless and natural as wood dust has caused cancer.
Is it unlikely for one person to suffer lead poisoning from occasional handling of a product? Of course. Is it so unlikely for someone who repairs those products, handling them day after day?
Unfortunately, too many people suffer when simple precautions can protect them, because of the same mocking attitude exhibited in these forums.
I have no issues with these warning labels, the Governments spend a lot of money researching what may harm us. How people react to warnings such as weather warnings, disease warnings, and labels on cigarettes or booze is up to them, I see it as a gentle reminder. I like a wee bit of good scotch before dinner, I also know excessive amounts will do me in.
People don't know what they don't know, all you can do is inform them and they choose how to proceed. Food nutrition labels tell us if we are eating crap or not. A lot of money was spent bringing in that program. How many lives were saved and /or improved with the money that was spent bringing in that program and was it worth it? Judging by the obesity epidemic not many read them so I guess it was a complete waste of money. You can lead a horse to water.
It is another perfect day in paradise with temps in the low 20c. The first order of business is a long walk in the forest. Conservation put up a bear in area sign but I am going to live dangerously and go anyway. What a waste of money putting up that sign.