Hi Gang: I'm just taking a break. I cleaned the other side of the corral today and put out a fres bale of hay for the calves. Mary Ann said the vet will be coming on the 27 to do the cattle. Other then that not much happening.
Ed: I still think that pit in the middle of the layout is a great place for a mine or gravel operation. I can just see a Bucyrus Erie 120-b there loading some ore cars.
I'll see you all later.
JimRCGMO wrote: Where is everybody this afternoon? Are they afraid they'll hit the TOTP? Nah....
Where is everybody this afternoon? Are they afraid they'll hit the TOTP? Nah....
Yeah right! Me? Afraid of TOTP honors? NEVER HAPPEN!
Chloe, got any more pie?
Hello everyone,
hope everyone's fit and well
Welcome Steve
Well my brains in full speed ahead now, we dicided to go live in New Zealand after all, lots to do and lot's of paperwork to fill in but it will be well worth the effort. i have a good job offer which i accepted as an air compressor field service engineer, good pay, company vehicle etc etc, just got to decide what the CFO will do, either carry on nursing or get trained as a midwife which she's always wanted to do,
later guys
Cederstrand wrote: My thoughts have been with the victums and familys of those lost, too. I will never forget, nor forgive. Wish I could play God for a few days and do some planet cleaning. Rob
My thoughts have been with the victums and familys of those lost, too. I will never forget, nor forgive. Wish I could play God for a few days and do some planet cleaning.
Rob
i.e. 95% of the middle east (Most of Isreal is part of that other 5%) also we can greave about the victums but we also must be thankfull for the people who risked their live to save others and the Miracle in Stairway B in the North Tower I think. Both Firefighters and the people they were rescuing survived the collaps by being inbetween stairway A and C, also by being on the lower level of that stairway.
And I'm Paying. I don't know about the rest of you but me hitting toppage is a very rear event.
I've been doing a bit of layout work today. I put down fine sand along the roadsides to build the berm so it looks like an embankment. I then soaked the sand with alcohol and applied a 50/50 water and white glue mix and applied WS green blended turf. Later, when the glue dries, I'll vacuum the excess grass into the recovery tube on my shop-vac. These pics were taken after the grass was applied. I'll post more pics later when the excess has been removed.
More pics later.
Dr. Frankendiesel aka Scott Running BearSpace Mouse for president!15 year veteran fire fighterCollector of Apple //e'sRunning Bear EnterprisesHistory Channel Club life member.beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam
in a UP mug, please and thank you.
***Colby, on that 95%.
***Jeffrey, nice progress photos. Looking forward to seeing more.
Other than installing a new ceiling fan, only to discover it's defective, then taking it all back apart, it was otherwise a productive day. Have a nice evening all! Rob
Here are the same areas after the cleanup.
That's it for now.
Good Evening Coffee Clubbers,
Last night I said: We may try and head out to the orange grove again tomorrow, but that may get postponed until Thursday, depending on how other things shake out for tomorrow. Well, we did pack up everything and headed out. Unfortunately, the little cable-operated car ferry that we use to cross the river wasn't operating. Looks like the rains we've had in the past few days were heavier up in the mountains, and the river was up a bit. Didn't look too high, but I suspect they took it out of service yesterday and are waiting for the flow of the river to quiet down again before putting it back in service. So a wasted couple of hours, including time to pack and unpack all the tools, plants, food, etc from the Blazer, plus driving out and back.
In the end it was probably for the best, as we had a few fairly heavy showers come through starting only a couple of hours after we got back home. No guarantee that it would have rained us out at the grove, but I felt better anyway.
We'll see what tomorrow brings.
Hasta mañana,
Ed
Evening Gang: Not much since this afternoon. We just got back from town. We went in to get tile for Mary Ann's wash house and get a bite to eat. We had a great chefs salad and a small piza. We brought most of the piza home as the salad was really enough, and it was only a half size. If any of you get to come here we'll take you to this place. An old friend of mine owns it and makes the best piza and salads around.
Jeff: How do you collect the excess grass and ballast?
Well it's time for bed so I'll head out.
Good Night All
I put the foot of an old panty hose leg inside the tube of my shop-vac and folded the cut end over the end of the tube and secured it in place with duct tape. When I vacuum the layout, the loose ballast and 'grass' gets caught in the nylon.
Evening, Chloe - hot fudge sundae and a cup of decaf, please. Thanks!
My body's been out of sorts a good chunk of the day. I've had a medium earache off and on, after starting the day groggy and ready to put my head on my desk for a nap. I took on antihistamine, but I can't take any with multiple ingredients or I usually get that effect. I had two appointments for the whole day (2 & 3 p.m.), it turned out - but both called in and rescheduled. I had trouble keeping focused enough to get some assessments written. Did get a few chart discharges done, though. But by heading home time, the earache started up - one of those 'stick your little finger in you ear and just rotate it in hopes of loosening something up and make it go away...' I took a naproxen in the afternoon; only marginally helping. Hope everyone else's day has been better.
Steve, best wishes on the move 'Down Under' to NZ, the packing, selling the house, finding Nicky a good job, etc.
Jeff, I'm curious like Paul - how do you re-gather the grass and stuff (or do you re-use it)?
I'm going to finish up this sundae and then go head for bedtime. Need to get rested up; I'm on-call tomorrow night, and I sure don't want this earache to go along with me.
Take care of yourselves tonight (and tomorrow). I'll see you all later.
Blessings,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
I put some trees in today. They give this part of the layout a more natural look.
Good evening, just getting to the Diner for the 1st time today, the weather has been so infigurating that I have been doing multiple projects. I added a gusset to the swing gate in the train room, and painted the surfaces of all the foam on top of each table....pink foam top just doesn't hack it for me. And, and area that doesn't get covered with landscape, grass, trees, etc, will look like earth as opposed to PINK ? It applied real easy with a roller, and being latex, the cleanup was easy. I had a floor fan on high speed due to the fact that this room has no windows and only one doorway.
Tomorrow I plan to add storage shelves under some of the 30" wide tables. The 48" wide tables will not have any shelving underneith, as I need the ability to crawl under these wider tables to get to 16" wide lift-outs.
JIM: Sorry to hear you are not feeling 100%. Take a steaming hot shower to help the sinuses, which should also help your ears, and then take a 6 Oz glass of Ginger Brandy.
ED: How wide is the river where the Ferry is located? What is the depth of the river at that spot? You also have more action in the Carib....not far from the ABC islands, so it looks like a similar path as previous storms.
JEFF: Clever idea for vacuuming Jeff!!! I have a small portable vacuum that my son got me for Christmas a few years ago for small jobs, it is easy to carry with one hand. It doesn't have a lot of power, but I was thinking it would be ideal for MRR cleanup.
STEVE: Glad you mad your decision, I think you will find the climate very nice in New Zealand. You will have another chore also, being down under, you will have to close the Diner at night and shut off the coffee pot...LOL
Time to hit the sack, too tired to type and eyes are closing, see you guys for breakfast,
Mornin, farmers special n coffee Zoe
Cool here this morning 51, forecast high in the upper 70's, n sunny. Yesterday was cold with a low of 47, high of 70, and a chilly north wind here in the woods. Saturday is suppose to be the coolest day this week, low round 41, high in the 60's.
Been busy with kids and not feelin the best this week so haven't been in but for a ta-go-cup. This is kind of a quickie catch up today.
DICK,, haven't got the pellet stove going yet, but the furnace is and it kicked on yesterday. I hadn't gotten all the summers dust collection cleaned out of it or the ducts yet, so it smelled good for a bit in here.
STEVE,,, congrads on the up coming move way south, and hope things work out down there. Sure looks like purrty country from the pics I've seen.
JERRY, good to hear Sally's doing ok and tell her happy birthday for us, hope she gets home some. Rockome Gardens train show is the 21'st n 22'nd this month, don't know for sure if we're going or not.
SCOTT,, you be careful on your road trip ya hears and don't crowed the travel time to much.
Family up-date, still on baby watch, if Missy don't go today, she'll be 2 weeks late. Doc's suppose to induce her tomorrow if she don't go on her own.
#3 daughter n her bunch bought a house in Girard, 50 mile south of Springfield, so they're moving. So a different area to rail fan now, UP/Amtrak and BNSF meet there. I still haven't caught up with the pics I've got already.
That's bout all that's new here. Need ta get moven, Leroy will be here in a bit to catch the bus later and when he's gone, I'll have no kids and plenty chores to do today. Thoughts for those in need and hope ya'll has a gooden
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Good morning ! from Indiana.
09-13-07
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Good Morning All
Jeff: You're making some wonderful progress, much more than I can claim these days. Might want to slow down as yopu'll run out of rhings to do!
Dick: I was speaking to Teffy 2 days ago and wasn't expecting him to get hit by a Cat 1 so soon! Lisa's in her glory with all the waves now starting to form and I go back to sea in 2 weeks
Well back to the grind all, never thought there'd be so much work to closing an estate.
Fergie
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Fergmiester wrote: Jeff: You're making some wonderful progress, much more than I can claim these days. Might want to slow down as yopu'll run out of rhings to do!
Morning all!
Jeff, you sure are showing off some good stuff lately! Those trees really bring the layout to life.
Ed, sorry the trip to the grove was a bust.
Well, it's looking like another nice day around here. Glad that heat from last month is gone!
Today should turn out to be the best day of the week with plenty of sunshine and highs climbing to near 80 degrees this afternoon. A cold front will move through on Friday bringing the threat for a few spotty showers.
Good morning. Coffee please.
I am moving earlier than I usually do on a non-work day. I need to get 4 fence posts done before it gets too hot today. I am running out of nice weather, and need to get the fence repair done before I get my next batch of calves.
Ryan, Salsa is a food group at our house, so canning saves on the grocery bill. I used canning paste tomatos this year and the salsa came out thicker.
Jeffrey, Cleaning up the layout has sure given us a better perspective. Larry & I tend to use the layout as a work bench so from time to time a thorough clean up is required. Thanks for tip with the vaccuum.
Later,
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Good Morning Coffee Clubbers,
Hope Steve (BaylorMax) and Teffy make out okay, as it looks to me as if Humberto is going in right over Beaumont. I half way suspect that's why Steve hasn't posted yet this morning. He's usually an early riser.
Dick: How wide is the river where the Ferry is located? What is the depth of the river at that spot?
You also have more action in the Carib....not far from the ABC islands, so it looks like a similar path as previous storms.
Fergie - good to see you back in here.
Catch you guys (and girls) later. Right now I need to relax with my first cup of hot coffee.
Good morning.
Got some extremely bad weather coming through today. I'll be on pool watch today to make sure my parents in-ground pool doesn't overflow.Today's Weather for: Sundown, LA 71446-6114 9/13/2007
Heavy rain bands associated with Hurricane humberto will continue to rotate across south-central and central Louisiana. These rain bands will be accompanied by heavy rains... Increasing winds gusting to 30 mph and possibly brief tornadoes.
Heat Index: 78°FHumidity: 92%Dew Point: 71°F So Far TodayHigh: 73°FLow: 72°FRain: 0.81"Rain Rate: 0.24"/hGust: 21mph E ============================================Important Message Inland tropical storm warning in effect until 7 PM cdt this evening. Flash flood watch in effect through late tonight. ============================================ Today High: 82 Thunderstorms. Strong winds. Some thunderstorms may produce gusty winds and heavy rainfall. Highs in the lower 80s. Southeast winds increasing to 10 to 25 mph with gusts to 35 mph shifting to the south 20 to 35 mph with gusts to 50 mph in the afternoon. Tonight Low: 70 Mostly cloudy with numerous showers and thunderstorms. Very windy. Lows around 70. Southwest winds 10 to 30 mph. Chance of precipitation 60 percent.
Howdy all,
Been awhile and I've missed so much. Life has been terribly busy. I'll take it easy on Jeff and order a 44oz. cherry-limeaide. My new email is TBAIR001@satx.rr.com . Ya'll take care and prayers for all.
Trent
Good Morning, Diners! Zoe, just a go cup, mocha coffee, please. Thanks to Jeff on that. Hope your folks' pool drains quickly enough. I'm not up on pools - tell me later (after Humberto leaves your area) what happens if an in-ground pool overflows.
Trent, have they been keeping you busy at the store there? Good to hear you're still around. I'll e you tonight when I get home.
Time to get me back to w**k again. Beautiful weather here today - might be getting some wet weather to the south of us (Arkansas and the Missouri bootheel, also Memphis area) tonight or tomorrow, but our weatherguessers are saying Humberto won't make it up this far. That'll be good for the district fair here. The past couple years, they've got some rain during the fair (and last Saturday was also wet there), but yesterday and today it was perfect 'fair' weather...
I'm out of here for now!
Almost lunchtime!
Grilled Chicken Taco's for me Chloe! Since Jeff's buyin', I'll split it with him!
pcarrell wrote: Almost lunchtime!Grilled Chicken Taco's for me Chloe! Since Jeff's buyin', I'll split it with him!
It is barely breakfast here, but I will have an order the that. Yummmmmm.
Cox 47 wrote:Jeff..Ground cover looks good....How about some photos of the buildings in the corner on your video looked like it might be trimmed in red and have a turrent?
Jerry: That's an old Adam's Rib building that I used as a shipping office on my last layout. I think the peeling sign is a nice touch.