Mille Kappe refill, please & thank you!
"Trains & Locomotives" RFDTV tonight at 6:00pm EST (for those who have it) "Memories of Steam in the Northwest" Historic film features a collection of steam power in the late 30s and early 40s.
***der, that's a wicked head of steam on that photo of the 2-8-0 you posted. Cool!
***Dave V, good to see you in the Diner again. Too bad about your website, even if it is just temporary. It is in my bookmarks and I have shared it with family & friends. Inspiring stuff! As for the weather, being in Northwest GA, our creeks are non-existent. It will take several tropical storms to "stall on top of us" to make any noticeable difference. Very worrisome for those of us with lots of animals.
With todays rain, we're up to about 700 gal in the barn tank now and close to 400 gal in the house tank. That's progress, but need LOTS more. Perhaps tonight and/or tomorrow will bring additional wet stuff.
Rob
Good evening ! from Indiana.
10-22-07
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Cederstrand wrote: Mille Kappe refill, please & thank you!"Trains & Locomotives" RFDTV tonight at 6:00pm EST (for those who have it) "Memories of Steam in the Northwest" Historic film features a collection of steam power in the late 30s and early 40s. ***der, that's a wicked head of steam on that photo of the 2-8-0 you posted. Cool!***Dave V, good to see you in the Diner again. Too bad about your website, even if it is just temporary. It is in my bookmarks and I have shared it with family & friends. Inspiring stuff! As for the weather, being in Northwest GA, our creeks are non-existent. It will take several tropical storms to "stall on top of us" to make any noticeable difference. Very worrisome for those of us with lots of animals. With todays rain, we're up to about 700 gal in the barn tank now and close to 400 gal in the house tank. That's progress, but need LOTS more. Perhaps tonight and/or tomorrow will bring additional wet stuff. Rob
And here I thought that I was the only one watching. Not impressed with the narrators, but the clips are good.
And you can HAVE our wet stuff. take all you need. Please. be my guest.
-Morgan
I got the headlight installed in 422 early this afternoon.
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Nice headlight Jeff !!!
Dave V ..... thanks for stopping in the diner. The maps are correct, our drought canditions are improved in this region. Rain today. It's a little late and farm production was cut in half this year. Too many hot, dry days ove summer.
Flashwave ..... that's a funny story.
Here's a story I remember... The most popular Indian Chief in the area was Chief Shortcake. Sadly, he ate too much of his favorite dessert, strawberry shortcake; he had a heart attack; and died. Upon talking with Chief Shortcake's wife, the Medicine Man learned that the Chief's death wish was for Mrs. Shortcake to bury him instead of the Medicine Man. Hundreds of Indians came to attend a funeral, and asked the Medicine Man why he was not the one who would be sending the Chief to the Happy Hunting Ground. The medicine Man responded: "Squaw Bury Shortcake."
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Hey, my website's back up again!
If you're interested, here's a view of my locomotive roster:
http://kc.pennsyrr.com/layouts/dvollmer/Roster/index.html
Modeling the Rio Grande Southern First District circa 1938-1946 in HOn3.
Evening Gang: Not much going on today. I really wanted to take it easy and maybe a nap this afternoon, but we had a bunch of errends and chores to do. It rained last night about 3/4 inch. we also had a cold front come through with high winds all day. I forgot what 45 degrees and wind felt like. Brrrrrrrrrr. Right now I'm yawning so I'd better get to bed before I fall asleep at the key board.
Good Night All
Garry, Liked your weathering on Champion Packing Co.
Dick, Speaking of working outside, I was outside 7:00 to 7:00 today. It was 69 degrees. I got more done that I have in ages. Hope that your trip is great.
Inch, Thanks for sharing your photos.
der, You have been really working on your layout lately. You make me realize how much I need to do. Larry has a deadline, and I am holding him up. He started on his trestle this weekend. I worked on some Aggro trees. They still need the foam part.
Mark, Sorry to hear about your dad. I hope that things get straightened out for him. Yes, Larry and I will be going to Puyallup. I am sure that much of it will be repeat from last year. When I renew MR magazine, I get a free pass. You should look into that.
Well, I am tired from working outside. The calves are adjusting well. They are starting to follow me.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Good evening, errrrr good morning, and I see that I paid for breakfast this morning while Jeff picked up supper. I never got back into the Diner, or even on the PC today.....problems with the 18hp lawn tractor, doggone battery. It seems that these batteries die in a year or two. The smaller 11hp 27 year old wheel horse tractor battery last for 5 years or more!. I was talking with several other guys today, and that had experienced the very same thing....so off we go tomorrow for another new battery.
SUE: The trip is OVER, I wish it was just starting, the Canadian Rockies are beyond description. And I agree with you about the temp. It seems that 70F +/- 5 is very conduscent to great vitality to accomplish work outside.
MIKE: Nice job with photos as usual, the sky was really clear that day for sure, very sharp focus on the photos.Are you using a filter?
ED: Do you think that 9 days off will effect Denver??
DER JOHN, GARRY: I was really disappointed to miss the Kamloops to Vancouver part of the trip. The guide tried to soften the blow by telling us all that it was a lot of dry farmland etc, I said "bull", people who took the trip told me otherwise, and, I went online to check the satellite closeups of that part of the route, it is quite stunning.
Time for bed, making too many typos...see you guys in the morning,
Good morning ! from Indiana.
10-23-07
Mornin, coffee please Zoe,
Still got a cold rain and expecting a high of bout 58, which is about normal here.
DER,, most of Sept and Oct, have been in the upper 70's to around 80 [even a few 90's], almost 15 to 20 degrees above normal, but all good thing will end. So enjoy your Hawaiian shirt while ya can. Liked the stems pics, thanks.
DICK,, no filter on the digital, but the skies were really clear Sunday. Most the crops are out now and there wasn't too many doing field work, so that cut down on the dust.
http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/showgallery.php/cat/500/ppuser/4309
Good Morning All,
Back from my travels so I thought I'd drop in for a coffee and one of Bills' donuts. I do like the coconut covered ones. It's just getting light out and the weather is dry and feels comfortable already.
I'm stoked - was watching the video of the new BLI New Haven I-5 which I've had on order since ihe day it was announced about a year ago. Hope mine shows up soon. Maybe the release will coincide with the NHRHTA convention Nov 9th & 10th in Hamden. I don't really model steam, but the I-5 was a prime example of the New Havens willingness to do something above and beyond the norm. Pity they were all scrapped, but on my road there is a museum with preserved examples of the New Havens unique power so it will join my EP-5 Jet, E-33, FL-9 and others as I accumulate them. I think the box cab electrics used for passenger and freight service were way ahead of their time and if I ever hit the lottery I'll add those as well (brass really is expensive).
Inch - take care of yourself - we don't want that cold getting worse.
Dick - sorry the trip was cut short - would have been nice if they'd offered a voucher for the rest of it for a future date so you could go back. By the way - have you tried the new gell cell batteries for the mower? We use the same size i think DCS - 33H and get a lot more life with the gell than the old lead/acid type. The wet types were good if they lasted a year and the gell ones go 3-4 years.
Jerry - you and Sallie are in our prayers as are Mark and his dad. Hope the rest of you are doing all right. Not much to report on the MRR front, just trying to catch up with cleaning and chores after the last spate of road trips. Cheers All, J.R.
Morning, Zoe - a JR special and one of those twisty donuts that Bill T. brought in. Thanks!
Sounds like everyone else (almost) has been very active lately, either with yard/outside work (Sue, Paul, & I've probably missed some others), or inside workin' on the RR (Jeff, DerJohn, Dave, & the rest). Makes me feel like a slacker! Good pics too, Jeff, DerJohn, Inch! Dave, I'll eventually learn how to read those multi-color weather charts, but I caught the drift of what you were saying about the SE's drought (I think...).
Mark, prayers for your Dad's health problems and for the doctors & nurses and others treating him. Good that you'll be able to see him even while he's taking care of that.
Paperwork continues today, though yesterday I was able to make a (small) dent in it, without all the usual interruptions my days usually have (and I don't mean seeing the clients). Now I need to get going on my morning, so I'll be heading out.
Blessings and prayers (including for rain for the Southeast),
Jim in Cape Girardeau
Good morning.Today's Weather for: Sundown, LA 71446-6114 10/23/2007 Wind Chill: 48°FHumidity: 75%Dew Point: 44°F So Far TodayHigh: 55°FLow: 52°FRain: 0.00"Rain Rate: 0.00"/hGust: 30mph NW Today High: 65 Mostly cloudy. Cooler. Highs in the mid 60s. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
Tonight Low: 48 Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest winds around 10 mph in the evening becoming light and variable.
Good morning diners
Had some tough to take news last night. As many of you know, all the members of my family, save me, have muscular dystrophy. Yesterday my wife went to the doctors and they told her that they have a new knee surgery that has an 80% chance of helping her greatly. My health insurance will foot the entire bill too. The down side is, with her form of the disease, patients who go under for surgery many times aren't able to be revived. This is obviously a major concern. A local anesthetic is not really an option. For those of you that are the praying kind, please pray for wisdom and guidence for us as we make our way through this. Thanks.
And just so you all know, I continue to pray for each and every one of you all the time. We all have needs, and I pray that God sees to those needs and makes it known to us that it's really Him thats providing for us.
Afternoon All,
A couple of chili dogs with cheese and a vanilla shake would do just fine right now. Trying to catch up jobs in the shop today. We just finished up a Renault gearbox and this afternoon I hope to reassemble a Lotus Elite steering rack.
Jerry - I may have one more race this year but we're not certain yet. It'll be Summit Point either the first week of Nov. or Thanksgiving weekend depending on who wants to go and when. I finally took Ders' advice and ordered a bunch of Grandt Line doors and windows through Walthers and also found an HO New Haven heavyweight on sale for half price. Sweet.
Well back to it, jobs are waiting. CUL, J.R.
afternoon.
I got a nice shot of this mornings sunrise. I'll get it up later today.
BTW PC I tjhink we are all out of pie ingredients.
Philip,
Best of luck to you and your wife, and God bless. That's a tough situation you've got; how easily we can forget how good so many of us have it.
God's also hopefully going to bless the Carolinas with some rain tomorrow through Friday as a broad area of Gulf moisture drifts slowly eastward ahead of a cut-off upper level low...
Looks as if Georgia, also in a critical drought, is also on the way to relief. If this system holds together and continues a slow drift, it may be enough (here's hoping!) to knock many of our counties down from Exceptional Drought down to only Extreme Drought. The city of Raleigh has only a few months left of water. My town, Apex, is faring much better.
Going up to PENN STATE this weekend to watch the #24 Nittany Lions (hopefully) knock down #1 Ohio State. On game day, Beaver Stadium becomes the third largest city in Pennsylvania with a "population" of over 110,000 people! We're actually camping in a state park near campus with our kids. With highs in the 50s and lows near 40, it could be a whole lot worse. I remember a few late October snowfalls as a student at Penn State!
My prayers and condolences to all those who may be affected by the California wildfires. I remember something very similar happening in 1996. This roughly corresponds to the decadal drought cycle.
TO GO, please & thank you!
1000gal in the barn tank, 550gal in the house tank, with decent odds more rain is on the way. YEE HAW! (hope Dave & others in need of some get their share soon)
Not enough time for individual comments today...Gotta run...sending healing thoughts to those in need. (Philip, that is a real tough decision to make).
And thanks Rob (and everyone else)!
"THANK YOU MOTHER NATURE" I'm psyched...while out running errands the sky let loose on the farm. Upon our return, the barn tank is a few inches from FULL & the house tank is up to 1000gal. Can't tell you how good that feels. Now I wish we had an even bigger storage tank to pump the extra into.LOL
Picked up a set of Woodland Scenics HO scale Holstein Cows for the wife. She is really into cows (ALL species), both real & model.
Oh yea, a tallin a Southern mug, plez & thx.
Hope everyone is doing well. Rob
Hello everybody ...
PC ........ yes, we will be praying. I do admire your faith, and believe you will be rewarded for your faith.
How's everyone else? Anybody hear from RT?
I like the KCS picture, Jeff....
Any pie available in the diner?