Chow time, Think I'll have a ham n cheese, n coffee Zoe
it's sunny today and 55 with a light S. wind, heading for a high in the 60's. A chance of rain moving in this evening, into tomorrow. At least they're not forcasting cold, snow n ice again.
Update on the kids, looks like their going to get a new house. The bank called the contractors and insurance and said it was not going to be repaired, to much damage and to many problems. They also approve them for a loan , if needed after the settlement.
We're still have some problems with J Bird and the fire. Even though they have a new place to live now. She says she has no house anymore, and wants to live with grandma/ grandpa. I thnk she'll be ok, once she's there more and it starts to fell more like home maybe.
Me n Mother went up to Paris last evening to restock the pantry. With all the cooking she's done the last week or so, it was getting kinda bare. So, we're good for another month or so, now. Got some rail fanning while we were there of the old NYC yard. I'll post some this weekend, I still got to put them on here.
JimRCGMO wrote: Inch must be busy today - don't think I saw him come through this morning.
I have been kinda busy the last couple days with grandkids and such. Have been sneakin in for a to go cup
JERRY, sure glad Sally's feeling some better, hope keep going.
LUC, sorry to hear bout GLO. we'll keep her in our thoughts
PC, a company that does that, sure must be a good one, and their rare anymore. It seems that the more you do, the more they want at mst outfits these days.
GARRY, figure you be gone, but we'll be thinking of ya'll too.
RYAN, glad your wifes trouble be almost small ones. Know what a scare that can be, Deb's had a couple of them.
DICK, I try an do a daily clean the burner and a quick brush down our our pellet stove, takes bout 5 minutes. Then a weekly, that takes bout 20 or 30 mintutes cleaning the whole fire box and smoke chamber.
SUE, we live in a woods, so limbs are just part of it. We are taking down all the ash and a couple maples here shortly, because their dying.
Best get back ta chores. I'm running a new electric line to the shed. The old one was in the ground and went bad. Was going bury a new till I got prices, now it's going over head. The price has almost tripled in the last 10 years. Hope ya'll has a good day
inch
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Good afternoon everyone....lunch was great......clam chowder, fried catfish with cajon sauce, home made corn bread, sweet potato fries, and Strawberry Rhubarb pie...and we got it all before DUKE arrived ..heheheheehhehehe sorry Duke!!! LOL
MIKE: I have a problem with our Harmon Pellet stove that is driving me crazy. At first I thought it might have been a leak on one of the vent pipe joints, but that has been ruled out. It seems that every time I open the clips and remove the ash drawer to empty the ashes, when the stove starts back up I get to smell the stove in the room when it runs. The gasket is in good shape and the drawer snaps in very tight. The front glass door was the next thought, but that gasket is in good shape, and that door seems to close very tight. But it has to be something related to opening these darn doors. It ran very good after my full clean back in January, then I opened the ash door and the glass door last week, now we have the darn smell again...any ideas? Have you seen this at all with your Pellet stove?
Inch, you must really like french food to go all the way to Paris food shopping?
Dick- I'll have a large helping of some fried Catfish cheeks and cornbread and a diet dew.
Got the day off for working the last two weekends, just working on the layout alittle, hope to get the roundhouse service area buildings done this weekend. Just have a few things left to do on my Walthers cinderpit and lift. Then i also bought the new Walthers diesel fueling rack, but i am having second thoughts about using it. I am getting more and more into steam, i always loved steam but when i started modeling the steam that you could buy was not the greatest for running.
The last ten years the steam engines that have come out are better looking and much better running then any of the old brass engines everwhere. The sound oh my! Thats why i can't make up my mind, the diesel house I build is just the Walthers backshop building so i figured i could just as easyly use it as a car shop.
Garry hope all works out well for you and your family.
PC have a great trip, sounds like the weather is really good down there.
Well darnit, seeing as i got this page, guess I'll have a strawberry shake Zoe [good thing Mother got paid this week].
DICK, we've had a problem or two. Most the time it was a pipe not sealed good after a major cleaning. I run a flue brush through the pipe every couple weeks, when burning it hard, That helps a bunch with the draft. We still get some smell some times, when it first fires up, untill it gets hot, then it's ok. I am going to have to replace the door seal this summer,It's drawing air round it and smokes up the glass, but this is also the third season on it
JERRY, Don't know bout a trip up to Urbana, but it sounds good. Have to check with CFO on it. Wonder if PDragon would be round there. I think he lives up that way. May have to send him an Email.
If anybody else is interested, heres a link for more info.
http://www.trains.com/trc/community/events/event-info.asp?eventid=9937
fargo wrote: Inch, you must really like french food to go all the way to Paris food shopping?
Yep, we drove all the way there. #2 son lives there, but he wasn't home, so we had italain last night.
Best get back to some more chores. I got the electric going to the shed again, so need to get on the others while it's warm [67].
MrB,
Inch, Out here in the Pacific Northwest, Ash trees are an alternate hose for many diseases so we think of them as weeds, and there is nothing worse than having a large maple come down on something. I see fire wood.
Dick, I dry the flowers from the butterfly bushes, which means pruning them all summer. The first ones I put sprayed a preservative on them and allowed them to dry, but we have since quit doing that step. Hairspray, dark green ground foam, hairspray. When you have the tree covered to your liking, add a layer of lighter ground foam. We are modeling spring, so ours might be lighter than most. The darker color on the inside gives the appearance of shadowing.
Attaboy, I prune the bushes every spring before they start growing. That will force more growth into the flower. Then start cutting the flower clumps when they turn brown. You can harvest them all summer.
When you dry the bushes, you might want to do it outside. I had to chase bugs on the batch that I dryed in the house. This year, I am going to try drying them in the woodshed.
Have fun. Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Afternoon everyone, I am now officially on vacation for a week.
CapeJim, I noticed in another thread about it being Athearn that bought Roundhouse. I wasn,t sure before, now I know.
Sue, the trees look pretty good. Good thing I have to wait till the flowers start turning brown. My mother might complain if I start cutting her fresh flowers.
I've been cutting up more plywood today. Just got home after spending 5 1/2 hours behind a band saw.
Got a call from Snell's Limbs and Braces in Alexandria. My new shoes are in! I have to go there Wednesday morning for a fitting.
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
sent an n scale engine ( yes I know I do O gauge ) into bachmann on the 17th of Feb called today as haven't heard anything or seen the check cashed yet. well called first off they had to find it and when they did they gave me an order number and said it is process as of 9 march 2007 (I ask oh as of today its processed they said yes) then they said it will take 6 to 8 weeks to be worked on and returned to you . I'm wondering now that I'm off the phone if I didn't call how much longer wood it have been sitting there before they got to it lol.
I picked this up and a couple of cars (O gauge) (about $20.00 worth) and 4 passenger cars penn central n scale and the engine is an Santa Fe 4-8-4 with a 16 wheel 52' tender she is pretty but looksa like someone tried to fix it and there is parts missing so for the $15.00 figure it was worth the try anyway got it all for $50.00 so I have about $70.00 into it including shipping but have seen the passenger cars sell for about $50.00 on ebay so figure I'm close anyway on the cars alone and seen the engine go for about $65.00 so if it gets fixed I'm in good.
heres a pic of her from bachmann's web site.
If I keep her she will have to become either a B&O with penn passenger cars or a Penn central herself lol She is a sweet looking engine and I could put a small loop going around like a mountain on my layout in the far corner to make it look like shes in the far distance.
Happy Birthday Mr. B and hello all been a while but still come in and read here and there.
by the way Cox47 this is the engine I called you about
Not to much going on finally working on the walls of this room hope to get about 3/4 of the way done sometime tomorrow or sunday going to paint as many boards as I have paint for tomorrow morning then go from there lol.
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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SUE: Thanks for the quick reply.....your trees look very real, and I love the cost!!! I have tree Butterfly bushes in the yard, so this summer I will clip off the flowers as they turn brown, and try your technique of Hair Spray/ground Foam/Hair Spray. I take it that the Hair spray preserves the base flower so that it doesn't crumble with age?
MIKE: Sue sounds similar to my situation. The door gasket looks tight, bur right after cleaning the doggone glass, it smokes up within a few days again. I am going to cleanout the outside horizontal discharge pipe to see if that is causing the trouble. We have running ours flat out also.
Dinner bell!!! Talk later guys and gals
Hey you all!
This is what I did this morning, chased the CSX northbound local freight as it passed through Wake Forest at 9:00 AM.
Then this is what I did this afternoon:
Got my swing gate done!
Check back with you all laters!
Ryan BoudreauxThe Piedmont Division Modeling The Southern Railway, Norfolk & Western & Norfolk Southern in HO during the merger eraCajun Chef Ryan
SilverSpike wrote: Hey you all! This is what I did this morning, chased the CSX northbound local freight as it passed through Wake Forest at 9:00 AM.
That looks like fun!
Then this is what I did this afternoon:Got my swing gate done!
That's IMPRESSIVE! More power to ya!
Evening Gang:
Ryan: That swing gate looks good and solid. Where did you come up with the design?
We got my track set up at the gardens this morning. Everything went together well and no problems. A couple of the guys that do the gardening did a great job of ballasting the track. It looked really good. The locomotive unloaded with no problems. The crew at the garden helped and that made it easy. I charged the boiler with compressed air and made a couple of runs. After we got the gondola on and the two 4 wheel dump cars on the track and coupled up I put the air tank in the gondola and charged up the tank and boiler. Again I made a couple of runs with no problems. So everything is working well and I am looking forward to a great weekend. There is a change of rain Sunday afternoon but we won't mind as we need the rain badly.
Thoughts and prayers to all those in need. I have to get to bed as the gardens opens at 7:30am and I need to get there around 7.
Good Night All
grayfox1119 wrote: I take it that the Hair spray preserves the base flower so that it doesn't crumble with age?
I take it that the Hair spray preserves the base flower so that it doesn't crumble with age?
Dick, I am hoping that is the case. The preservative that I put on the first batch looked like diluted white glue. Those seem tougher than the later ones. I have just been putting more hairspray on if they shed when bumped. I have been using hairspray to attach the underbrush also. I buy the cheapest that I can find in the pump bottles.
Have fun.
Sue
Howdy howdy.
French Vanilla tea please Chloe, thank you.
We've got ourselves in high gear 'round here. Cleaning the house, making it look presentable...We want to try to put it on the market in a few weeks. We might be moving into a bigger house soon. That'd be cool, I'd have my own room again.
Adam: Welcome back to the Diner man! Even though I see you at school, it's good to see you hangin' round these parts. I'm trying to spend more time here as well.
Jim in CG: I take it you are far-sighted? Can you technically drive without your glasses, since you can see distances? Or would the gauges in the car be blurry than? I've never thought about that before...Hmm...I'm near-sighted, but it isn't too bad at about 20/100 on each eye.
Mark Hoople: That flower color thing is pretty cool, isn't it? I haven't done that in a while. I think I'll get some white roses and make them blue. If I remember correctly, if you split the stem, and stick each end in a different color; the flower will be half and half. Fun stuff.
Welp, I'll be around. Talk to y'all later.
Scott - Dispatcher, Norfolk Southern
Good Morning, Janie - looks like (except for Duke over there dozin' in the corner) I'm first in the Diner today. A cup of coffee, scrambled eggs with some bacon and a biscuit.
Oh, do you have some blackberry jelly to go on the biscuit, Janie? Thanks!
TrainFreak409 wrote:We've got ourselves in high gear 'round here. Cleaning the house, making it look presentable...We want to try to put it on the market in a few weeks. We might be moving into a bigger house soon. That'd be cool, I'd have my own room again.
And maybe have more room for a layout, Scott?...
TrainFreak409 wrote:Jim in CG: I take it you are far-sighted? Can you technically drive without your glasses, since you can see distances? Or would the gauges in the car be blurry than? I've never thought about that before...Hmm...I'm near-sighted, but it isn't too bad at about 20/100 on each eye.
I can make out the gauges okay, since the numbers (and general position)are large enough to read without my glasses. Now when I want to write down the mileage, I have to get the glasses out, of course..
Inch, I figured if you weren't in the Diner, you might've had a passle of kids to ride herd over. Did you get your other major chores done yesterday after running the electric line for the shed?
Thinking (after I get laundry done this morning) of going to the Radio Shack (in Jackson, next door to Cape G.) and see about some more wire for the layout. Right now, I have some solid (thinner) wire for the shorter runs, and some (12 gauge, I think) stranded for the main power bus, but it's almost too thick with the strands for fastening - like to a terminal block, etc. Wiring is NOT my favorite subject, nor is it one I am very knowledgeable about. Of course, finding electronics parts and wire isn't a piece of cake nowadays, since hardly anyone carries it locally (and I'm reluctant to order it when I know so little and could end up getting the wrong gauge, etc. and possibly not be able to return it). In the words of Charlie Brown... Aaaaaauggghhhh! Makes me want to go work on a building or a car kit to chill out....[aaahhh...]
Well, better get going for now. Hope everyone has a productive (and fun) day.
Blessings,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
Good morning ! from Indiana.
03-10-07
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
hey guys!
I am planning on going to the MNGRR tomorrow. that April show is getting closer.
Colby
oh come on again???
Oh yes, again!
I'll have bacon and eggs.
Wind Chill: 64°F
Humidity: 79%
Dew Point: 58°F
So Far TodayHigh: 64°FLow: 59°FRain: 0.00"Rain Rate: 0.00"/hGust: 6mph NNE
Today High: 78 Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Light and variable winds.
Tonight Low: 55 Increasing clouds. Patchy fog after midnight. Lows in the mid 50s. Light and variable winds.
dang..... how many times have I paid for every one's lunch? what 6 times?
colby
Yeah, thanks, you've been helping me dodge that bullet lately!
Oh, and hook me up with a burrito and a Moxie please!
Prayers for all those in need! (Thats everybody!)
pcarrell wrote: Yeah, thanks, you've been helping me dodge that bullet lately!
MOXIE?????? THAT STUFF KILLS TASTE BUDDS.
Good Evening, Janie - since Jeff's buying, I'll have the beef Stroganoff tonight! Yum!
Not lots new - I got some terminal barrier strips and wire connectors today at the other Radio Shack. They were out of the gauge I was looking for, but should get some in in a couple of weeks. So I may start with what I have instead - I have 12 gauge (instead of 16 or 14) solid for the power feeders, and 20 gauge (instead of 22 gauge) for the main power bus lines (stranded). The 20 gauge seems huge in stranded wire to me. I'm hoping the 'solderless' spade ends I got today will fit the stranded 20 gauge and hook up to the terminal strips okay (and stay put). One thing I would like better would be if I had more color coding (the solid is only in red insulation, and the stranded 20 gauge is only in black insulation. Dick, how well do those solderless connectors work (or, can I solder the wire ends into them)? I may just end up ordering online to get color coding to help me separate which wire is for which. I do have some of the LaBelle color coded wire (2-colors and another package of 3-colors), but am not sure what gauge they are, so they'll probably end up (if I use them) being used for accessories and/or switch machine wiring or such.
Jerry, we didn't get any rain today, either, so I'm not sure where it all went! But it was a really nice day - very enjoyable. Oh, I did get a router (Wireless and Ethernet), so if I want to, I can sit out on my deck this spring and surf on over to the Diner. Pretty straightforward to set up - ran an install program and (once I realized I couldn't connect wireless to the router until I'd disconnected the Ethernet cable - and broken that connection first) once I got done with that, worked seamlessly.
Going to go drill those holes for the wires that I didn't get done earlier. As PC said, prayers for all those in need (or just all...).
Blessings on your (one hour shorter - remember to set your clock forward) night,
Howdy.
Yay! Our house cleaning is coming along nicely. Moving is looking very good.
Found out something about driveways and heavy trucks...They don't go together very well. Saw today that the truck that delivered our dumpster cracked our driveway! We have two ruts where the truck's wheels went up...I guess because the ground thoroughly soaked, the driveway wasn't all that stable...
Jim in CG: Yes, hopefully, I'll have some space for a layout. Maybe have a 4 x 8 or something I can roll under the bed. That'd be cool. I'm definitely going to have a loop of O gauge around the ceiling of my room. When tax returns come back, I'll be ordering an MTH Coors Light Silver Bullet.
RT: The new Bachmann Northerns are pretty decent locomotives. Much better than the older runs. They weren't the greatest. I used the chassis of one to build my Steasel. 3 piece axles; the drivers were always unquartered. It took me forever to get the mechanism running reasonably well on the one I have.
Catch y'all later.
Evening Gang: Well the train show went well today. We had a good crowd come to our area and we ran several pieces of equipment. I ran my steam locomotive on air and it did very well. Of course we had many requests for rides that we were unable to grant. Next year we maybe able to give rides. The gardens may get insurance to cover the event for rides. I had to get up at 5:45 this morning. That's the earlest I've gotten up since I retired. I don't have to get up as early tomorrow but I'm tired so I'll head for bed.
ModelTrainLover wrote: pcarrell wrote: Yeah, thanks, you've been helping me dodge that bullet lately! MOXIE?????? THAT STUFF KILLS TASTE BUDDS.
It's the necter of life!