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Mike, best of luck with the smoking...
I was on the patch for almost 6 months, boy that gets expensive quick.
I got down to three patches a day cut in 1/2. The 14 mg and 7 mg patches cost the same.
So when you get to that point try cutting the 14 mg.s in half to save yourself a little money.
Try brushing your teeth a lot, and lots of sunflower seeds.
If you still have a full ashtray laying around, dump it into a jar and leave it where you can see it.
When you really need a smoke take a nice big smell of the jar full of butts, that will churn
your stomach quick. And perhaps the hardest part lay off the cold ones for a few weeks.
Anyway what finally got me off the patch was something called Smoke Away.
Its made from some kind of all natural herbs and voodoo medicine but it worked for me.
It basically does a drain and flush of your body and once all the nicotine is gone you don't
crave it anymore....
And remember all the money you used to spend on smokes is now extra money for trains!!!
Tim: I'm using joint compound. It takes a couple of days to set up good, depending on how thick it is. I still have a couple of gallons to go through.
Mike: I'm happy that you're giving up smoking. I smoked for 23 years. When I finally quit in 94, I was smoking 2 1/2 - 3 packs a day. However, I waited too long and now suffer from emphysema. By the way, did my suggestion about your stuck shell problem help any? Mike Rotate the front truck slightly. You'll see a small screw hiding under there. There's one on either side. I had the same battle with the shell of a GP30 that had a bad light board.
Mike Rotate the front truck slightly. You'll see a small screw hiding under there. There's one on either side. I had the same battle with the shell of a GP30 that had a bad light board.
I won't be working on the layout tonight. I've been busy all day making mortar and RPG shells for Uncle Sam. No, they're not real. They're practice/training rounds made from lengths of ABS and filled with sand or concrete and weighted to the specs of the actual article. The contract is expected to last about a week and a half. Maybe during that time, something else I can work on may come in.
Mike - pick out a locomotive that you really, really like from your LHS. Divide its price by the price of a pack of cigarettes, and then divide that by the number of packs you used to smoke every day. Figure out how long it will take to save up for that loco, and mark the date on your calendar. If you're still smoke-free on that date, go buy the loco. You've earned it.
Good luck. And let me buy your next cup.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
mikesmowers wrote: Morning all, just a cup of coffee, black. thank you. I got a pretty rough week ahead, I have been a cigarette smoker for 33 years, and have gotten some of the patches and am going to QUIT. I know it will be rough, am wondering if any of you have ever tried the patches and how well do they work? Please WISH ME LUCK. Mike
Mike;
Don't have much time, but when I saw this come in I had to reply. It's well worth quitting. I Quit just over 20 years ago cold turkey and not had one since. When I quit I was smoking 3 to 3 1/2 packs a day. Damn near hacked up a lung before I quit. I never used the patches, just decided one day that enough was enough and I quit. I wish you all the best. Stick to it. It is worth it. Good Luck!
GUB
Good morning and top 'o' the day to all of ye. I'll have some o that Irish coffee you're hiding back there.
Possibly going to work today. It's just a small contract, don't think it'll last more than a week or two, but it's something to do.
Got more mud down yesterday. Here's the pics.
More to come.
Hi all , just poppped in for a nite-cap.
Jeff-The mudding looks good,so much to do so little time it seems when a layouts in the construction phases. Mines just benchwork at the moment. Unfortunatly I'm comming into teh busy work season for me so the productivity on the layout will go down.
Mike-The fence looks great ! I can imagine how much time and effort went into it.
Inch-Wow , I don't no about your state but the upper end of gas prices for natural gas is capped by the provincial government.So I would say that about 90% of the users up hear actually get at least one free month at the end of each 10 month contract.Being hit with a big one at the end like that is down right nasty !
Gub-It was good that you left those books at that price in those conditions. You can get them at chapters or Coles for $25 each brand new.The one you'll want for the roads your looking for is volume 2. The lost electrics of Southern Ontario chaptre covers the Windsor Essex and Lakeshore Rapid Railway, The Sandwich, Windsor & Amerstburg,The Woodstock,Thames Valley and Ingersoll, The Chatham Wallaceburg and Lake Erie,& The London and Lake Erie. This book also touches on the London & Port Stanley, The Lake Erie and Northern , and the Grand River Railway. hamilton and St Catharines electric railways are aloso in this book.
Another good hardcover to try and track down would be Traction on The Grand by John Mills ( member # 1 at our museum ) It's been out of print for a good 15 years though and copies generally sell at $70 +
See everyone tomorrow.
Rob
Cooked half a dozen lobsters and a couple of pounds of steamers for dinner, plus some garlic bread and a salad contributed by the ladies of the house. Everyone else was totalling their tea tonight, so I had a couple of Harpoon IPA's to wash down my dinner. And just to make you all feel bad, the lobsters were $5.99 a pound.
I even got to do a bit on the trains. I pulled out the Model Power "Baldy's Barber Shop" kit that I've had sitting around for at least a year and a half. I mortared the brick faces, and started painting the details for the interior. This is a nice little kit - it comes "pre-weathered" so I decided to stick with the original kit color for the exterior, although I had to add the mortar. It also has a detailed interior, at least on the ground floor, and even comes with lighting. It will also be one of the tallest buildings on the layout, at 4 stories. (They designed it with one optional floor, but I'm gonna use the whole thing so I can use the full Walthers fire escape set on it.)
Foo, back to work tomorrow. This weekend's gone by fast. Well, Pats won, anyway, big. The Cowboys did too, so maybe that early-season Super Bowl pick of those two teams by one of the Sports Illustrated pundits wasn't so out of line.
Evening Everyone, I'll have a glass of Gamay Noir if you please. Will go good with the Pork Roast I got in the oven. Decided to cook indoors rather than the BBQ. Starting to smell good.
Jeff - Looks Good.
Mike - that seems like a lot of work. It looks great though.
Well we went to the Brampton Model Train Show. It was pretty good. Lots of layouts - HO, N, Z & G. Seems like the usual venders were there. Noticed a a few of the ones I've seen at other shows were missing though. Lots of kids. Didn't buy anything. Took some pictures. Hopefully they will give the inspiration I need to start my next diorama. I did pick up a business card of a guy who makes Custom Wooden Model Railroad Kits - very nice - www.fullsteamahead.ca
It was nice to get away from working on the house for a bit.
Trolleyboy - I've seen both of Ron Brown's books. In fact I would have purchased both of them today if the price had been a little better. Both books had been well handled and filled with pink highlighter. Not exactly a selling feature at least for me. The guy was asking $20 each. I thought that was a bit pricey. By the way, do you know if either of the two books has anything on the Woodstock Thames Valley and Ingersoll Railway or Woodstock Thames Valley and Ingersoll Electric Railway or Woodstock Thames Valley and Ingersoll Transportation Co.?
Well I should go and finish with dinner. Will chack back in later.
Best grab another cold n head back outside, gotta ham cooking on the grill to check on. Catch ya'll lattersinch
Beer and ham, pretty tasty combination.
Just checkin' in so you know I'm still kickin'. Got more mud to sling.
Good afternoon, I'll have a large Coke and a 5th of Jack Daniels, please.
Here's what I've been up to today. More mud work done!
Morning;
Change of plans for today. We are going to the Brampton Show instead of working on the house. Need a break.
Thanks for the pics Inch. We have a depot similar to the Monticello Depot near us in Tilsonburg from what I can remember. I'll have to take a drive out there and compare the two.
More later when we get back. Have a great day!
Mornin all, irish coffe be what I'll have.
Another cool morn, but warming up latter, 70's and sunny... Football, nascar, and barleypop planned for this afternoon. Mother invited the boys n theirs out for supper for our youngest and his boy's burthen day. Both have the same birthday. I'll have another mess of kids under foot for awhile this evening.
MR. B,,, sure sounds good , Me and mother luv sea food. There's a bar over in Terre Haute, Ind., that brings in fresh sea food every couple days. They don't always have fresh lobster though., but they always have crayfish, almost as good I geuss. The old boy that ran it learned to cook back east somewhere and down south in LA., his daughter runs it now. and she's a fine cook too.
Rob,, the 2 boys that live here, both pro-rated they gas last year, and both got nailed hard in the end with a big bill, even though they were both paying extra along the way. Car gas is is going 2.13 to 2.29 depending where you are. Mother's bus [van ] get bout 20 mpg. It'll last a week or more less we do some extra running.
GUB,, found the photos of the other station. This ones in Monticello, Ill
Best get ta chores, catch ya'll laters in a day
inch
Mr B - Thanks for the AC info, I'm going look into one.The rescipes sound quite good as well,too bad I'm so far away as well, I've always been a sucker for well done seafood.
Inch- I go through about $250 worth of nat gas and hydro in the winter months, heaviest for us november to feb. In the summer hydro runs for us about $60-$80 a month. of coarse we pro-rate the nat-gas so you pay the same every month for 9 months of the year, we usually end up with a credit worth two free months at the end of it each year.Of coarse gasoline another story.At the monet I'm paying 83 cents a litre for it. Figure almost 4 litres to a gallon....Good thing we have two failry efficient cars. My wifes VW gets about 850-900Km on a tank we generally only have to fill it once a month !
Gub- I was at the woodstock show, you actually didn't mis much. it wasn't as good as it usually was. Actually the train musuem I belong to ( Halton County Radial Railway in Milton ) we usually take the gift shop on the road to allot of train shows. We bowed out of Woodstock the last couplemof years as the numbers and sales really started to decline for us anyway.If I remember correctly the track behind the Chatham station was for the local interurban line. It was electrified upto the pouint of it's discontinuance in the mid to late 1930's.If you get a chance to read or finf ron Browns Ghost Railways of Ontario vol 1 & 2 he did several chapters on the lost electric lines of Southwestern Ontario.
Mike- the Gp's look good
I'll keep the pot boilin' for ya. I cook the lobster in a big pot outside, on a burner fed off the propane tank from the grill. That keeps the smell out of the house, and allows me to get enough BTU's into the pot to cook up a mess of them. A couple of years ago I did a dozen in one pot. The steamers are done on the stove, with about an inch of water and a vegetable steamer to keep the clams up high.
Mike - are the twins pulling elephant-style, or do you run them back-to-back? And what happened with the road numbers? Did they both show up the same (identical) or did you get different numbers (fraternal)?
GUB wrote: Mr.B - What kind of wine do you serve with Swordfish?
Tonight, it was a Cuvee Blanc. No big deal, it was from a 1.5 liter on sale. Gack, it even had a screw top, but it wasn't bad. I think a nice woody California Chardonnay would have been better, but the wife doesn't like woody Chardonnays. There were also peppers and small ball onions on the kebab. I did little tomatoes on a separate skewer, cooked less so they wouldn't fall apart. My trick for the night: microwave the ball onions before you even peel them. For the 2 dozen tonight, I gave them about a minute, minute and a half. Then peel them. They're soft and easy to skewer, and they only need about the same time as the fish and peppers to cook to perfection. Everyone wanted seconds tonight. I love it when a plan comes together.
Then, I got to take Mr. Guest up to see the trains, while Mrs. Guest and the wife yacked about family matters.
Tomorrow night, we get serious. New England clambake - steamers and lobster. And this time, I'll assign the broiled garlic bread to someone else, so it doesn't become "New Orleans Blackend Garlic Bread" like it did tonight.
Evenin all, think I'll grab a cold out of the box.Got 2 granddaughters this evening, granny's reading Mr. Brown can do it, how bout you. Thank the lord it's her n not me.Jeff,, know what you mean bout small cars. Me n mother neither ones like them much. Drove pickups and vans most the time. Although did have a 78 Mecury Lynx we liked.
Mr. B,,, I do a lot of cooking too, only outside. Heres a photo of my most wanted from campground AHam n Beans in a renderin kettle
But I also make fancier stuff too. I like cooking down to the campground, here's why
Great rail fanning also.
Mike,,, like the twins, don't think they look much like you yet
GUB,,,These's 2 doors on the street side side and one along the track. It was a segrageted station. When it was built, women waited in one room , while the men waited in the other. Was told that later on [hate to say it] it became black n white. No fireplaces, pot belly stoves. I've gotta photo of another segrageted station I can post, just have to find it now that might help some, maybe tomorrow. Bleak House is a good movie with or without scotch.
Also Gub, get ya smoker, takes a while longer to cook, but there's nothing like. our favorite is turkey. Been know to smoke a pork shoulder or beef roast all day, just to make BBQ .
Well just got rid of kid and the others napping. I know it's late, but she's not spending the night, so it's her dads problem. Time for britcoms on PBS, catch ya'll laters.
91rioja wrote:My wife would say everything I make, but I would have to go with sesame and cracked black pepper pan seared Tuna (rare of course) with Chinese Mustard and Wasabi, or my Basalmic Chicken. Better yet just give me a grill, some flame, a beer, and some kind of meat and I'm happy.It's starting to get cooler here, so I finally get to break out the cold weather stuff (roasts and chili). Speaking of which, I guess it's time to go and work on dinner.Chris
That's funny my wife says the same thing. I agree, now that it is getting colder Chilies, Stews and Roasts are the best! Tomorrow, I will do a Pork Roast on the the BBQ in n a Cast Iron Pot. Let it cook slowly for a few hours. Drive the neighbors crazy.
We have to be carefull here. Afterall it's all about the trains you know and the beer and the wine and of course the Scotch. But mostly trains.