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Posted by Deggesty on Thursday, July 16, 2009 5:17 PM

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The local weather weenies have issued a watch, but the radar is pretty bare hereabouts.

Joe - I've got some slabwood I'm not using - it'll be a gift...

The cap is on the truck now.  Looks pretty spiffy.

Yes, those are wind turbines in the background.  They're on Tug Hill, just south of Watertown and just west of Lowville, NY.  All 150 of them.

Yes, it does look spiffy now. When will you bring it out to the Crossroads of the West?

I didn't know anybody else knew anything about slabs now. Years ago, we would get a load of slabs and our nextdoor neighbor would cut them into stovelengths for us. They came in handy, also, for building a fort in the backyard.

I forgot to mention one item I wish we could put on our packing list for Snowbird--firewood. The first year that we owned a time-share at the Iron Blosam (named for one of the mines near Alta; the miner who named it had trouble spelling) the fireplaces still burned wood, which was provided--I had to carry it up to our condo. Since, they all burn gas, and a gas log does not look quite the same as wood logs. Even so, we always go up there for our week in August. We always exchange a week that we own up on Bear Lake.

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Posted by grampaw pettibone on Thursday, July 16, 2009 4:46 PM

Yowzers, what a storm. Near whiteout rain, incessant thunder.... I never heard thunder that had reverb before. Chugging kinda like a steam loco going flat out! The local police/sheriff/emergency communications trunk took a hit and is offline. This was one for the books. Moving right along, I see where some meshugana wants a national holiday for Michael Jackson. If that happens, I'll be moving to Tonga.....

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Posted by mudchicken on Thursday, July 16, 2009 4:46 PM

For Quentin's amusement: http://thefiftiesandsixties.com/CarsWeDrove.htm

Mooks: Someplaces have more wind than others (Yeah I know - Kansas (*inhales*), but not nearly enough for uniform wind tower placements)...Those towers do not go up until a test wind meter tower spends a year measuring wind speed...

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Posted by Mookie on Thursday, July 16, 2009 4:40 PM

Tom - we had so much yellow over us this morning, we looked like a school bus for awhile.  But as usual, it parted, we got about 10 min of moderate drip and then reconnected just east of us.  I hope you get something of substance out of your storm.

Tree - like the truck - send windmills.  I really don't know why we aren't wall-to-wall here in the wide open wind tunnel.

You are all doing so well on our new diet - no food.....guess I should tell Joe.....

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Posted by Modelcar on Thursday, July 16, 2009 3:56 PM

Looks like you're in business with the truck now Larry....

Windmills.....I think they are fine and serve a real purpose, but there are plenty of people that think they are just terrible....That, I really don't understand....The wind is giving us "free" power.

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Posted by tree68 on Thursday, July 16, 2009 3:44 PM

The local weather weenies have issued a watch, but the radar is pretty bare hereabouts.

Joe - I've got some slabwood I'm not using - it'll be a gift...

The cap is on the truck now.  Looks pretty spiffy.

Yes, those are wind turbines in the background.  They're on Tug Hill, just south of Watertown and just west of Lowville, NY.  All 150 of them.

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Posted by grampaw pettibone on Thursday, July 16, 2009 3:37 PM

There is a line of heavy weather coming at us and we are under a severe thunderstorm warning. I am hearing a lot of thunder both north and south of us at present. This kinda looks like something Mookie had a hand in........

Tom

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Posted by JoeKoh on Thursday, July 16, 2009 1:36 PM

Afternoon

Well we were working at telling the woods to "Get back to where you once belong" this morning.I chopped down some brush and weeds to make the border more even.As for Ns I saw a rather loong frieght headed eastbound last night at work.Tree as far as firewood I could bring some with us.Tonight is Friday.One week until Michigan.Cw thanks for supper.

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Joe

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Posted by Deggesty on Thursday, July 16, 2009 12:47 PM

tree68

Lots of packing and other preps for the trip to do, too...   Putting together my "don't forget this" list.  Some stuff (clothes, tent, bedding) is a given, but firewood for the pit at the park at Deshler wouldn't normally be in my list of things to load up....

Larry, be sure you do not forget to put anything essential on your "don't forget this" list--and be sure to check everything off as you pack/load it. Ricki has a long list for our week-long trips to our timeshare (24 miles from home, four thousand feet higher and ten degrees cooler)--and even then we usually come back home after church Sunday morning to get something we forgot (you won't have that luxury!).

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Posted by Modelcar on Thursday, July 16, 2009 9:47 AM

Our morning here is a really nice one.....Humidity is ticking up a bit and it is plenty warm....First noted, early this morning it was 70 degrees, with lots of sunshine.

Have a printer and scanner to disconnect and install a new replacement for them both, but somehow don't seem in a hurry to start.....

This is the day when I would be out on the tractor mowing, but it's still quite dry, it really is not ready for mowing....Maybe tomorrow.

I'm wondering about the {seemingly}, uptick of traffic on our not too far away, NS line....Perhaps some traffic being rerouted away from a problem, or just a slight increase in business....Just seems to be a bit more traffic on our Frankfort line in the past week or so.....Hope it might be a bit more traffic because of the economy.  Surely, it has to start sometime.  {Hear a train horn while I type}....

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Posted by Modelcar on Thursday, July 16, 2009 9:02 AM

Mookie

Quentin - life seemed so much simpler back then.  I watched Morning Joe and now need to take a chill pill and go to my quiet place.  (actually it was one ibuprophen and I will go work a jigsaw puzzle on line)

Jen, as you probably know, I'm a watcher of Morning Joe too....It does get pretty wild at times.  Mika gets steamed at Joe and all the rest....I like to catch the back and forth from the various participants....

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Posted by tree68 on Thursday, July 16, 2009 8:36 AM

Found a bear claw in the cooler, and brewed up some tea...

Some rain followed me to work this morning, then kept on going.  Looks to be a decent day.  Headed out to get the cap put on the truck at noon, and then dinner with fellow firefighters this evening.

Lots of packing and other preps for the trip to do, too...   Putting together my "don't forget this" list.  Some stuff (clothes, tent, bedding) is a given, but firewood for the pit at the park at Deshler wouldn't normally be in my list of things to load up....

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Posted by Mookie on Thursday, July 16, 2009 8:30 AM

oh good - everyone on diet.

Radar shows big storms right west of us.  Also shows big storms splitting just before Lincoln and going north and south of us.  Landlord watering lawn - think he is smart! 

Quentin - life seemed so much simpler back then.  I watched Morning Joe and now need to take a chill pill and go to my quiet place.  (actually it was one ibuprophen and I will go work a jigsaw puzzle on line)

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Posted by Modelcar on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:09 PM

Mookie
Anyone remember DX?  Owned a station on what is now university ground. 

 

Oh, yes....being one of the mature one's on here, I certainly remember DX.

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Posted by Modelcar on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:05 PM

Murray

Esso

Esso Plus

Esso Extra

As I recall they also had them on the Pennsylvania Turnpike.

.....And a Golden Esso brand after the above 3.

Yes, the Pennsy Turnpike was first served by every station being Esso and along with each station was a Howard Johnson's restaurant.

I have a menu copy here someplace  from the restaurants from the 1940 era....Fun to look at the offerings and prices.

Edit update:  Thinking about that menu, I believe it can be pulled up on the internet....{Pennsylvania Turnpike, Howard Johnson's}....etc...

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Posted by rvos1979 on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 8:30 PM

Evening everyone.....

Doctor visit went well, no new problems cropped up, also went and moved a bunch of my model RR cars and engines into a new storage system, managed to only fit about half of it into the carrier.  Went to Walthers online and ordered another one to fit the rest in, now will have to start finishing up some of the kits.

Going back out on the road tomorrow, next time home will be at end of the month, for the county fair.

See everyone later.... 

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Posted by Mookie on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 6:18 PM

Note from Mrs. Paula - we are on our own until Friday sometime. 

My grandfather was a big Texaco man - then had a problem with them and went to DX.  Anyone remember DX?  Owned a station on what is now university ground. 

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 5:59 PM

Modelcar

Murray
When I was a kid growing up in New Jersey my neighbor had a corner Esso Gas Station in my home town

Murray...Just a bit of trivia:  My family had an Esso Station for 45 years back in our home area of Pennsylvania....Dad had it built in '38....and it went from there...Closed for the War duration for 4 years....Re opened in '46.  Older brother served in the war....

Located on route 30....The Lincoln Highway.

 

Those were really nice stations back in the day...and full service too!  I remember:

Esso

Esso Plus

Esso Extra

As I recall they also had them on the Pennsylvania Turnpike.

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Posted by Deggesty on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 5:43 PM

Modelcar

To me....the piece of mind having it, even after the 3 / 36 run out...was worth it.

Yes, some expenses are really necessary. Last year, the air conditioner on the '95 quit because the compressor was leaking refrigerant. Cost? around $1.000 to replace the compressor, refrigerant and other things. Now the car has 460 air conditioning. This year, the check engine light came on and stayed on. A new chip, at a little over $500, was needed. For safety, a new chip was put in. As it is, we do not expect to keep this car much longer, but I would not want to sell it to someone if it were unsafe to drive it.

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Posted by Modelcar on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 3:59 PM

Murray
When I was a kid growing up in New Jersey my neighbor had a corner Esso Gas Station in my home town

Murray...Just a bit of trivia:  My family had an Esso Station for 45 years back in our home area of Pennsylvania....Dad had it built in '38....and it went from there...Closed for the War duration for 4 years....Re opened in '46.  Older brother served in the war....

Located on route 30....The Lincoln Highway.

 

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 3:32 PM

When I was a kid growing up in New Jersey my neighbor had a corner Esso Gas Station in my home town.  He was a great mechanic...learned a lot from him...His station truck was a '48 Ford V8.

Hard to find good neighborhood mechanics anymore.

 

 

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Posted by cherokee woman on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 2:46 PM

grampaw pettibone
How about chicken fried steak, steak fried potatoes and fudgecake for dessert.....

 

 

Tom, you've got it!  Right now, on the warmer bar, is:

Chicken fried steak w/steak fried taters, freshly made tossed garden salad, and fudge cake for dessert.  

Walt looked at the rain guage about a half hour ago.  We got a half inch of rain this morning.  Looks like we might get some more:  it's beginning to cloud up again, after having sunshine for the last hour and a half.  

Since we couldn't get outside this morning to do any yard work, due to the rain, I worked in the kitchen:  scrubbed down the table, and work spaces, did some general cleaning and pitching of stuff, and then got the kitchen straightened up.  Also got all the laundry folded, and most of it is put away.  Still have some things that need to go in 'winter storage', and will work on that later on.  Right now, I'm taking a rest.

Everyone have a good afternoon and take care.

 

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Posted by Modelcar on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 1:47 PM

Deggesty
Sometimes they do pay off, and sometimes they don't

 

Johnny......Our truck seemed to have a pesky unusual vibration to the drive train at some speeds and conditions....and my dealer did various work in trying to eliminate it....Some thought it was within spec. and later after talking to the dealership owner, he took the bull by the horns and instructed the crew to "take care of it, whatever it takes".....Well, they started to replace parts....and some more....

Finally, they ordered a new drive shaft assy. for it {at $1,100}, and that did a lot to minimize it...So I was on safe ground how ever it was to be charged.

Just one example of how "parts" can really add up in cost.

To me....the piece of mind having it, even after the 3 / 36 run out...was worth it.

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Posted by tree68 on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 12:50 PM

Deggesty
so I have done without sun-and-wind-dried clothes for almost thirty-five years.

While the birds occasionally give cause to re-wash, I love hanging the bedclothes out - they smell so fresh.  If I'm feeling "green," I'll dry other clothes out, too, but since a lot of that kind of thing gets done in the evening (or even overnight), the dryer is the more likely resource.

I've heard of homeowners associations having conniptions about clotheslines....  Apparently some folks feel they look too plebian.

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Posted by Deggesty on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 12:41 PM

locomutt

As to bringing in the laundry, CW wishes we still had a clothes line; the poles came down about 10 years ago after pretty much rusting through....just never replaced. (at least she does have the dryer!)

I grew up with clothes lines and clothes poles (those you use to lower the line so you can put the clothes on them and then raise to keep the clothes off the ground). We even used the clothesline as one side of a private telephone circuit between the house and a building we called "the barn;" the earth was the other side of the circuit. When I was off at school, I used driers, but once I was out on my own, I used clotheslines--until we moved out here. I asked Ricki about putting a line up in the backyard, but she was less than enthusiastic about it, so I have done without sun-and-wind-dried clothes for almost thirty-five years.

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Posted by Deggesty on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 12:34 PM

Modelcar

Yes, I thought the same way....I purchased an extended warranty on my Chevrolet Xtreme when I purchased it and it has payed off.....It is just a bit more satisfaction too.

Sometimes they do pay off, and sometimes they don't. We paid for exteneded warranties on two of our four new cars--an '83 Park avenue and an '89 Le Sabre. The '83 had transmission problems and the catalytic converter had to be replaced. The '89 had no problems. When we bought our '85 Le Sabre and our '02 Le Sabre, we did not buy extended warranties, and we have not regretted saving the money (we have had many opportunities to buy such from companies that specialize in such, and we have ignored them all). We do put money aside into our car fund very month, and if we need heavy repairs we can draw from that fund.

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Posted by tree68 on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 10:41 AM

locomutt
with your Warning Equipment on it

Looking at a full sized LED bar for it - no color unless it's on.  So much the better for travel to places where the police use blue lights (in NY firefighters can carry blue).

The cap (color matched) will also be a great addition...

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Posted by locomutt on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 10:27 AM

tree68

JoeKoh

rain is on the way according to the radar.Time for a nap.

At this moment, it looks like 'Mutt and CW should bring in the laundry....

Quentin - I'm looking at retirement in the not-too-distant future, so I'll be in the same "I don't have to go just now" mode, other than emergency calls.  Then it's only three blocks to the fire station - I can always wade throught the drifts and hope I can get a fire truck through the mess.

 

 

Larry, funny you should mention that, as it's raining reasonably hard here right now.

As to bringing in the laundry, CW wishes we still had a clothes line; the poles came down about 10 years ago after pretty much rusting through....just never replaced. (at least she does have the dryer!)

Nice Looking Set of Wheels!! I'm sure will look even better with your Warning Equipment on it.

 

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Posted by tree68 on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:59 AM

JoeKoh

rain is on the way according to the radar.Time for a nap.

At this moment, it looks like 'Mutt and CW should bring in the laundry....

Quentin - I'm looking at retirement in the not-too-distant future, so I'll be in the same "I don't have to go just now" mode, other than emergency calls.  Then it's only three blocks to the fire station - I can always wade throught the drifts and hope I can get a fire truck through the mess.

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Posted by Modelcar on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 8:50 AM

tree68

I bought the extended warranty - if I ever have a problem, it's someone else's problem.

The largest portion of my driving is on regular roads which have been suitably cleared

Yes, I thought the same way....I purchased an extended warranty on my Chevrolet Xtreme when I purchased it and it has payed off.....It is just a bit more satisfaction too.

I keep two 70# sand bags in the back of my little pick up in the Wintertime, behind the wheel wells in the bed.  Also have Winter tires on it too for that season.  It works out pretty good.  I really don't have to go right now, in the Wintertime  being retired, anyway.

 

Quentin

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