Good morning and top 'o' the day to all of ye.
Today, I'll be converting another Proto 2000 to DCC. An E7. It will bee repainted as well.
It's in Southern Pacific livery right now, but will soon be KCS.
Today's Weather for: Sundown, LA 71446-6114 2/6/2007
Sundown Fire Dept., Station 23 Wind Chill: 36°FHumidity: 93%Dew Point: 34°F So Far TodayHigh: 43°FLow: 35°FRain: 0.00"Rain Rate: 0.00"/hGust: 0mph NNE High: 67 °FLow: 36 °F
Today High: 68 Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. South winds around 10 mph.
Tonight Low: 48 Increasing clouds. Not as cool. Lows in the upper 40s. South winds around 10 mph in the evening becoming light and variable.
Today I'll have eggs Benedict.
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
Good Morning! I'll have some scrambled eggs with ham, and a cup of coffee please, Zoe. Thanks, Jeff! (Boy, did I time that one just right...)
Paul, you ol' rascal, you - calling and tormenting your former boss! Yeah, your weather sounds like it's barely endurable, isn't it? At first when Dick started suggesting a 'companion' for you, I was thinking "Is he crazy? If Paul did that, MaryAnn would kill him! Why is he telling Paul to get a girlfriend?" But then I read on, and saw that Dick meant getting a dog.
We're up to 24 degrees this morning already. Supposed to maybe reach 42 today (we'll see if that happens, though). From the radar, it looks like Inch and Jerry had better get in the wood for your fires - may not be helpful for getting outside for a little while. And our Indiana folks like PC may be next in the cold front's path. Our forecast is somewhat on-again, off-again with any snow, every few days a possibility of snow, then just warm enough to melt off some of what we get.
Time to head on out. Everyone bundle up (except for Paul - put your SPF 15 on today).
Blessings on your week,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
JimRCGMO wrote: And our Indiana folks like PC may be next in the cold front's path.
And our Indiana folks like PC may be next in the cold front's path.
Yeah, we're getting it all this evening I think. Here's the weather guessers words of wisdom for today.......
SNOW ADVISORY UNTIL MIDNIGHT! A fast moving clipper will streak across the Ohio Valley today and tonight producing a band of accumulating snow across most of Indiana. Right now, the heaviest snowfall should occur across the central and southern portion of the state. I expect 2" -3" of snow on the ground by 5pm and a storm total 3" -5" by late evening. A couple of spots might receive as much as 6" of snow. Driving conditions should become hazardous this afternoon and evening. Allow yourself plenty of time when heading back home from work or school as roads will be snow covered and slick. The snow should not be on the heavy, wet side as the atmosphere is too cold. Also, I do not expect a lot of wind so blowing and drifting hopefully will not be a problem. The storm is a fast mover and will get out of the state by midnight. Some sunshine but cold weather will continue for the next several days. Again, 3" - 5" of snow by late this evening. Have a great and safe day.
Right now is not so bad, just cold, but you can see it coming......
Philip, How is your layout progress? You thought that things might start moving forward again.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
gear-jammer wrote: Philip, How is your layout progress? You thought that things might start moving forward again.Sue
Indeed things are progressing. I was just thinking last night that I needed to clean up in there and take some pics for you all. I finished subroadbed for the class 1 last night. Roadbed should go quickly, then comes track. I'm hoping to lay track maybe as early as this weekend. I'll get some pics up soon.
Good morning gang......17F this morning, wind chill is 5F, so we are far better off then yesterday.
I just saw on the news that a fire last night in Kentucky killed 6 children in one family, the parents and a two year old were the only ones that escaped. That is so sad, I can't imagine those poor parents standing outside while their 6 children were dying inside the house with no hope of rescue. Having had fire-fighting training, I cannot stress enough the need for parents to make sure smoke detectors are working, to have a plan for each child to escape, escape ladders from bedroom windows, and most important, constantly be checking for fire hazards in your homes. Space heaters are a #1 cause of fires in the colder months. Children have stuffed toys, clothing, etc thrown all over these devices, and that is a recipe for disaster!!!. I never want to carry a dead child out again!! Jeff, you know what I'm talking about more than others.
CAPE JIM: Are you trying to get me in trouble with Mary Ann????? You trickster!! Wait until Der John hears of this!!!!!!!!!!!
PC: Ahhhhhhh, the infamous Alberta Clipper is descenting upon the midwest once again!!! Like all of them this winter, it will pass south of New England and hit Ryan and points north to New Jersey. Do you need my shovels Phil??? LOL
grayfox1119 wrote: Do you need my shovels Phil??? LOL
Do you need my shovels Phil??? LOL
Nawww, I'll just banzi my way through the snowdrifts!
pcarrell wrote: grayfox1119 wrote: Do you need my shovels Phil??? LOLNawww, I'll just banzi my way through the snowdrifts!
4 wheeler with a plow works great.
ModelTrainLover wrote: pcarrell wrote: grayfox1119 wrote: Do you need my shovels Phil??? LOLNawww, I'll just banzi my way through the snowdrifts!4 wheeler with a plow works great.
Yeah, but wheres the sport in that?
I've got a family sedan. That keeps things a bit more interesting!
ModelTrainLover wrote:4 wheeler with a plow works great.
jeffrey-wimberly wrote: ModelTrainLover wrote:4 wheeler with a plow works great. Colby didn't misspell anything! It's a miracle!
WOW! Thats COLD Jeff!
Oh forgot to mention..I push a snow shovel with my Hooverround power chair...Works great till you hit a crack in the side walk...ended up with a big purple bruise on my tummy the size of a softball...I am the Plow King of the Pearl street Apartments....Jerry
grayfox1119 wrote:CAPE JIM: Are you trying to get me in trouble with Mary Ann????? You trickster!! Wait until Der John hears of this!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey, now, Dick - you said 'companion', and to me that's a vague term... especially in today's PC world (that's politically correct, not Phillip). I feared for Paul's life if his CFO was reading over his shoulder and read 'companion'... Then I read the rest of your description about the border collie, and breathed a of relief.
Okay, let's try this again from home.
What happened last week, when I got home on Friday I started the computer with no problems then did the auto update of my Norton Antivirus. After restarting as required I got nothing. It wouldn't reboot at all. I took it to the local repair shop and when I told him what happened he winced and shook his head. Seems Symantec and MS are involved in a lawsuit right now. Symantec had trouble getting Norton Antivirus to work with XP and foolishly took their source code to MS to work out the problem. Now MS is coming out with their own antivirus software that is eerily similar to Norton. Thus the lawsuit. I had to have the hard drive wiped clean and XP reinstalled. The repairman said it was either a virus that got past Norton (unlikely in his opinion) or MS is playing games with Symantec users through their Windows auto updates. So Symantec users, be alert to potential problems. The repairman suggest and antivirus software called AVG. He said it's very effective and free. Just Google "AVG", it's one of the first listings to come up. I'm trying it now.
Other than that not much going on around here lately. That's why I haven't posted in a while, nothing to say. I decide against going to Timonium last Saturday. Got to thinking about it and decided I needed to get some track operable before buying any more engines or rolling stock.
Oh, and a belated to RT.
See you later (he said with fingers crossed)
Ah, Ha, so IE6 works but Netscape doesn't, do sense a plot here?
Dick,
I liked that snickers com with the two guy's working on that car. Worst one thats a hard one this year, I thought there where alot of bad ones this year.
Paul, you really should have a dog. I love having my bud in the basement when i'm working on the layout and if I ask her how my latest project looks she never gives me that [ its cute line]LOL.
Well good night all 3am comes fast, so its off to bed.
Howdy all,
Got'er fixed and I'm happy!
Y'all sound soo busy and its great to hear the news, see the progress on the layouts, & I pray for y'all.
I recieve a lot of encouragement & get a real kick out of all the banter. Its just like a real family w/o having to pick up the laundry or taking out the trash.
Train biz is going great and selling lots of all scales and gauges.
Oh, there have been LOTS of little ones gettin their 1st train and I don't mean wooden! I'm so encouraged!
Gotta go!
Trent
Good evening one and all: Kris pointed out to me today that tomorrow is 07/02/2007, or 02/07/2007 if you prefer! Just one of those curios, but I thought that I would pass it along.
Ah! I see I'm hosting the page, so Chloe, I'll have a green tea, please, and a sourdough rye crispbread with butter and Marmite. Sprinkle on some sage too, if you don't mind, and we'll see what everybody else is going to have.
I’m painting the walls of the office / lab building prior to assembly. I need some brick paper in N scale, and as we are going to town, and the city, tomorrow, I get to go to both the LHSs.
Just for fun I’ve built the interior of the building out of card stock. It’s actually helped to place the windows, as I’ve had to work out where the blank walls would be for the staircase, and stuff like that. Now I’ve done it, I think I’ll try to light the rooms. Should be possible to do each one with a separate bulb.
Jeff: That paint job on the E Unit is going to look just great. Plain and simple. The light grey is probably going to look almost better than the white in the long (and dusty) run….2 old style Beetles!
Don't feel bad. I missed the whole thing, commercials and all.
Colby didn't misspell anything!
Dick:
Then Cloe discovered that the entire box of Rum Balls was gone.........now we all know how Der John likes those Rum Balls....
Now Dick! How come I get dragged into this? BTW, I’ve discovered who took the rum balls…
Attaboy: Thanks for that “Heads Up” on the MS vs Symantec thing. I’ll avoid installing those update thingies until I hear the case is settled.
Trent: Great to see you in here again! You sound like things are smokin’ in the LHS business.
Paul: Take your pick…
Well, time to try and get some warmth back in my feet. They’ve been cold since I went out earlier this evening, despite the wood stove.
all, and God bless. Prayers continuing for all in need of healing, comfort and peace.
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
If Der's buying, I'm eating!
I'll have the pineapple barbeque chicken.
I got the E7 all wired, the decoder works great and the mars light is dazzling. The shell has been repainted a flat white in prepareration for the units makeover into KCS 20.
Evening Gang: This being retired is all right. After eating breakfast with my best girl I went out and got the tractor and cleaned up some more brush, cleaned up some hay in one of the fields, and went down to the well sight and scrapped up some gravel. Mary Ann had another appointment with her doctor so we headed to Ft. Worth. After we got done thee we just headed off on a little trip down to Granbury and hit the antique shops. We really had a great time.
Guys we've got three dogs. Daisy is a wiener dog and she is sleeping now in her bed by my side of our bed. Krausmeyer is a big klutz that I found wondering around Six Flags. and Ellie May is old but a good girl. Kraus and Ellie live out side in the back yard. So we have enough dogs around. Whenever we loose one God sends us one that needs a home so we have at least 3 all the time.
Tomorrow we'll go to town in the morning for a little breakfast and the feed store for feed. After that it's back to work on the brush, which I willl finish, and then I may get to do some on the 7 1/2 inch gauge.
Well I'm going to check out the rest of the forums and hit the sack.
Good Night All
Good evening, DerJohn, Jeff, and Trent! Chloe, I'll have a cup of hot cocoa, since John's buying.
Trent, good to hear you've been helping get some young'uns started right on MRR'ing! I was meaning to ask you about taking out that big trash bag - Chloe said she can't lift it enough to get it out the back door to the dumpster!...
Jeff, if I hadn't already had dinner before coming in here, I'd be tempted to have that pineapple chicken. Sounds like you've been even busier than last time I checked in here.
Tomorrow's payday (Yip-yippee-yahoo!!) - will need to figure out how much I'll have available after the necessaries for MRR'ing stuff. I'm also on-call tomorrow night, so hopefully it'll be too cold for anyone to go out...
Oh, today our local library passed a bond issue election (to expand and update their building). Luckily it passed, 'cause I didn't realize there was an election!
Well, time to head out for now and get on home and get ready for bedtime. Prayers for those who are ailing (how's your Dad coming along, Fergie?).
Blessings,
JimRCGMO wrote:Jeff, if I hadn't already had dinner before coming in here, I'd be tempted to have that pineapple chicken. Sounds like you've been even busier than last time I checked in here.
Jim: I was doing pretty good until I got two fire calls, back to back, and 24 miles apart. That kept me busy for a couple of hours.
der5997 wrote: Colby didn't misspell anything! …That would be accurate only if plough was spelled the way you saw it! ….I do hope we aren’t going to get all police like about each other’s choice of spelling, I know that mine has never stood that kind of scrutiny, which is one reason I do everything in Word first. (another is the ability to easily insert these things)
Don't worry....I don't think Jeff is a member of the
Good late evening gents...the wife and I fell asleep watching the 11pm news, just woke up.......so this will be a quick note....I just received this email from a friend in NY who had relatives in Florida where the Tornado struck. Here is the link to the local paper and some pictures of the severe damage:
http://www.thevillagesdailysun.com/tornado/DS_020207.pdf
Good morning ! from Indiana.
02-07-07
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
oh NICE guy you are Jeff.. lol.
Well In Maine Model Railroading news
Feb. 10th Augasta, Maine Model train show. I'll be going with a new model railroader who is a budding railfan and model railroad, and my friend. I'll be going to find some more rolling stock, couplers, and to help my friend find an engine so I can get the one I let him barrow back.
also my friend has been looking in Uncle Henery's and has found a 4x8 table that has House Oriented track on it. 5 switches, and 2 loops, and the the track is old enough that just the track is worth $100. he is getting the whole thing for $20.
I have lended him so of my Model Railroader mags that have tips on making scenery at home. I talked with him last night and he has made "starter" hills for the track to go between and Mountains made of Styreen Foam. I might go to his house to see how his layout is comming.
wow!! This is a lot... lol
Colby
ModelTrainLover wrote: jeffrey-wimberly wrote: ModelTrainLover wrote:4 wheeler with a plow works great. Colby didn't misspell anything! It's a miracle!oh NICE guy you are Jeff.. lol.
Good morning. Work continues on the E7. Today I'll be doing the trimwork, decal work and detailing.
Today's Weather for: Leesville, LA 71446 2/7/2007 Wind Chill: 48°FHumidity: 95%Dew Point: 47°F So Far TodayHigh: 52°FLow: 46°FRain: 0.00"Rain Rate: 0.00"/hGust: 3mph SSW Low: 45 °F
Now through 09:00 AM CST February 07, 2007
High: 72
Through 9 AM...areas of dense fog will continue to form across inland southeast Texas...western and southwestern Louisiana. Visibilities will drop greatly to less than a quarter of a mile over a short distance...making driving conditions hazardous this morning. The areas of fog will be lifting between 8 and 9 AM.
Partly sunny. Areas of fog in the morning. Highs in the lower 70s. Light and variable winds.
Tonight Low: 48 Mostly cloudy. Patchy fog after midnight. Lows in the upper 40s. Light and variable winds.
I'll have the ham and eggs today.