cherokee woman wrote:Coffee is on and ready, juice is made, and am working on getting breakfaston the warmer bar: bacon, scrambled eggs, sausage patties, biscuits, sausage gravy, diced potatoes w/onions are frying in the skillet as I type,so they'll be ready in a few minutes. Also have some pancakes w/your choiceof maple syrup, blueberry syrup, or Mrs. Butterworth's syrup.
Good morning! I'll take some pancakes with the real stuff, please. Nothing beats real maple syrup- I grew up on it, home-made from my grandparents' neck of the woods in northwest Wisconsin.
Brian (IA) http://blhanel.rrpicturearchives.net.
CW: The weather liars are talking about a prairie blizzard (6-14 inches of blowing snow here) and an Albuquerque Low to feed it. The plains get the snow and the mountains get little if any. SE Colorado (Pueblo, Trinidad, La Junta, Colorado Springs, everything south of I-70 and east of the front range could get really slammed) It all depends on how much moisture Hurricane Paul and Houston Ed send this way when the cold front gets here from the Pacific NW. Could be ugly or could be nothing.
Boss Hen stocking-up at the store on her way home tonight. May not be staking railroad curves on Thursday.
Fire-up the soup kettles! Hot apple cider!!!
The snow shovel is having anxiety attacks out in the garage....
....MC: The truck in the picture from your link is very close...Very likely it was a Brandt truck but with different equipment on the back. I note it does have 3 axles in the picture so maybe what I originally thought I saw...I did.
Yes, very similar designed truck overall.
Quentin
Hmmm - a Mudchix now thinks he is a Prairie Chix. Next he will want to be a snowy owl!
Moo....
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
....MC: Watched the national weather reports on morning shows today and it was being described very much like you mentioned in your post. Sounds like east a bit from you {Plains}, could really get a dose of January like weather.
Seems strange this kind of stuff is messing around now out there as our mid west forecast for the upcoming Winter is: Warmer than normal and drier than usual. It showed a large sweep of it coming from the west all up over the upper plains and to us for this Winter forecast.
Morning All,
Not a whole lot to report here. As MC said, weather could be interesting tonight (though it shouldn't be too bad up here on the NW side of Denver). We shall see. I actually have a roll of film! that I need to have developed from the last bit of snow.
Every so often I like to run a roll of film through my older cameras to keep the lubricants from getting hard and crusty. So after the last bit of snow, I took out one of my Soviet Rangefinders (a Fed 3b to be exact), and headed out. It was actually kind of a novel experience. The Fed 3b is about as simple as a camera can get. It has precisely three controls to affect the image: Shutter Speed, Aperture & Focus. Since the lighting was consistent, I used the "Sunny f16" rule. Since I had 400 speed film in, I set the shutter speed to it's highest (1/500th), adjusted the aperture to a bit under f16, and pre-focused to get all of the DOF that the small aperture would allow (from about 6 feet to infinity). Any time I wanted to take a picture, I simply raised the camera to my eye, and snapped! Wow, I'd forgotten how much fun rangefinders can be! Now if I could just find the cash to pick up one of the new Leica M8's and a couple of those killer lenses!
Anyways, guess I had better get to work. Hope you all have a great day!
-ChrisWest Chicago, ILChristopher May Fine Art Photography"In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration." ~Ansel Adams
....rvos1979: That sounds interesting and for sure a 1:1 rev. box would allow the vehicle to go as fast backwards as forward. {If it would stay on the track}. That could explain the speed I saw as the truck moved out on the rails....Not high speed but faster than I realized it would be moving with a normal Rev. gear.
I'm familiar with automatics and power train stuff basically as was exposed to such in the Lab I worked in for 37 years developing and testing such stuff at BWA.
mudchicken wrote:CW: The weather liars are talking about a prairie blizzard (6-14 inches of blowing snow here) and an Albuquerque Low to feed it. The plains get the snow and the mountains get little if any. SE Colorado (Pueblo, Trinidad, La Junta, Colorado Springs, everything south of I-70 and east of the front range could get really slammed) It all depends on how much moisture Hurricane Paul and Houston Ed send this way when the cold front gets here from the Pacific NW. Could be ugly or could be nothing. Boss Hen stocking-up at the store on her way home tonight. May not be staking railroad curves on Thursday. Fire-up the soup kettles! Hot apple cider!!! The snow shovel is having anxiety attacks out in the garage....
mudchicken wrote: CW: The weather liars are talking about a prairie blizzard (6-14 inches of blowing snow here) and an Albuquerque Low to feed it. The plains get the snow and the mountains get little if any. SE Colorado (Pueblo, Trinidad, La Junta, Colorado Springs, everything south of I-70 and east of the front range could get really slammed) It all depends on how much moisture Hurricane Paul and Houston Ed send this way when the cold front gets here from the Pacific NW. Could be ugly or could be nothing. Boss Hen stocking-up at the store on her way home tonight. May not be staking railroad curves on Thursday. Fire-up the soup kettles! Hot apple cider!!! The snow shovel is having anxiety attacks out in the garage....
Like this stuff I had to drive through last Friday on my way to the wedding?
Not that there was a lot of it (a total of 4" fell), but it was that nasty wet, slushy stuff that makes you afraid to change lanes, for fear that you'll keep on changing lanes right into the median....
Larry Resident Microferroequinologist (at least at my house) Everyone goes home; Safety begins with you My Opinion. Standard Disclaimers Apply. No Expiration Date Come ride the rails with me! There's one thing about humility - the moment you think you've got it, you've lost it...
blhanel wrote:And you're snapping pictures WHILE YOU'RE DRIVING IN IT?
Took a lot less concentration than changing lanes, I want to tell you.
Did have to stop trimming my nails to get the shot (wedding pictures, donchaknow). Lunch was getting cold, too... (Not! )
will take some cider please.last i heard tommorow is supposed to be a cold cold rain.Im going to check the gutters for leaves today.after last nights frost our trees have dropped there leaves now.short raking season.
stay safe
joe
Deshler Ohio-crossroads of the B&O Matt eats your fries.YUM! Clinton st viaduct undefeated against too tall trucks!!!(voted to be called the "Clinton St. can opener").
Modelcar wrote:...Chris: Boy it sounds good to hear someone to even mention film...! Maybe I don't have to through away my 2 film camera's quite yet...In fact just had them out of their cases in the past 2 days looking at battery situations...123 type stuff....
Quentin,
It's been awhile since I played with any of mine. I'm not sure what I'm doing this weekend, but I may get my Mamiya/Sekor 500DTL out just for kicks. It's always a sentimental favorite, as it was my first SLR, and previous to that, it was my Dad's first camera. I've added a couple M42 lenses to go with it, and it really is a sweetheart to use.
When I complete the switch of my Canon stuff to Pentax stuff, I may just have to add a K1000 for those occasions when I want a simple, all mechanical film camera to take out into a blizzard or something.
Do you still have your Elan 7? I had one of those and really liked it. By far and away the quietest SLR I've ever used.
....Yes, Chris...the Elan 7e is still here and an Infinity SuperZoom 300 Olympus. EOS Elan has a 28 to 200 mm lens and If I remember correctly the Olympus zoom is 38 to 135.....Haven't used either one in some time and was making sure batteries were either out or not causing any problem.
I just find myself not using them and grabbing this inexpensive Fujifilm FinePix A330 digital so I can come right in and download them on here, etc....What a shame. But then I really am at the place where we don't need hard copies of pic's to add what we have in drawers here, etc. So, so far that's what I've been doing in recording photos either to send via email or perhaps to make a copy here if I have one I really want. Guess I've really backed off and settled down on the picture taking action. Guess it comes with age...ha.
I will eventually make the switch to digital, but I feel that there is something to be said about the old standby 35 mm SLRs. Virtually everything I know about photography I learned from an old friend of mine who was a master at it, and he sold me my first Nikon 35 mm camera. I have two old Nikon FE camera bodies and an assortment of lenses and right now I would hate to dispose of my Nikon FE's, as they are like old friends to me.
This past summer I visited a cousin of mine who lives out in Denver and she was able to show me what she was able to do with her digital camera, and I am convinced that there are advantages to going to a digital camera format.
CANADIANPACIFIC2816
"There was a time in this fair land when the railroad did not run, when the wild majestic mountains stood alone against the sun, long before the white man and long before the wheel, when the green, dark forest was too silent to be real." Gordon Lightfoot
Personally, I really do love digital, and don't miss a lot about film. Probably the one item I miss the most is the reliability of a nice mechanical camera, no matter what circumstances you throw at it. I've used my Canon F1N (kind of a hybrid between mechanical and electronic) in temperatures nearing 20ºF below zero and 105ºF above. While I've never had my D60 fail me in cold weather, battery life is attrocious, and once the batteries are gone, that's it. With the F1N, if the battery died, I just had to pull it out, and I had all shutter speeds from 1/125th up (plus 1/90th...the flash synch speed). Of course, I'd be guessing at exposure, but this really isn't as hard as one might imagine.
Mostly, when I shoot film now, it's either a nostalgia trip, or to keep the lubricants from gumming up (and usually a combination of the two). The exception to the rule is when I get the 4x5 camera (a Graflex Crown Graphic) out. It delivers resolution that would cost me tens of thousands of dollars in the digital realm to duplicate, and I picked it up on Ebay for $250 or so. While it doesn't have lots of movements, it does pack easily, and delivers great images. I don't have many lenses for it at the moment, but I am looking to add a nice Wide Angle, and a Portrait lens. With those two, plus the good standard lens it comes with, I'd have a nice little kit that could deliver quite a bit (and could even be handheld in a pinch). Not bad....
Chris:
Hope you got to play with the wild afternoon light. About the time you posted, CN2564 came into town MU'd to a FURX leaser and a war pumpkin at South Denver. If only the camera was with me and not in the truck!
Having boosted Kodak's and Fuji's revenues by probably $50,000 over the last 25 years, I miss *nothing* about film, including all the pain of handling, storing, mailing, reloading, protecting from frying in the summer heat, etc. Now I can shoot 400-500 photos a day of field conditions or on vacation (and I frequently do) and think nothing of it. I can enjoy myself instead of thinking about how much money I'm burning through. The only thing I don't like about digital is it wasn't consumer-ready 25 years ago.
S. Hadid
It's raining.
@
Yes, it is...
Like we need more ground water down here...the gators dont take to that much fresh water....
Seriously, the city just condemned the old Family Law Building court rooms…the basement is right next to Buffalo Bayou, and a gator made a home in there, scared the janitors last week, so the city did an inspection, discovered the entire building is contaminated with a pretty bad type of mold.
Not to mention the wildlife in the basement…the gator, and water moccasins, along with assorted rodents.
Told Aimee she can't bring the gator home, we already have to many reptiles.
Hummm…Gator steaks, anyone?
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Mookie wrote: It's raining. @
SHISHH!!!! The word "rain" could just as well be a four-letter word in some places. At least in Lincoln it is not going to get cold enough to either freeze outright or turn into snow. The temperature in Lincoln is supposed to max out at about 49 degrees this afternoon.
Ray CANADIANPACIFIC2816
we really dont need the rain here either.will have to pass on the gator as well.juice and coffee are ready to go.
Joe
CW, if I had any OTC Naproxen on hand, I would gladly share it with you. I used to take that stuff for my arthritic knee joints until my pharmacist ruled that it doesn't mix well with other medications that I was taking at the time. I've got some Tylenol and some Ibuprophen which you are welcome to. Anyway, I hope you can rid yourself of that headache quickly. I know from previous experience that it's no fun to wake up with a headache.
It's mornings like this that I'm ever so happy that I have a 17 second commute (well, maybe 18 today) to work. Watching the news this morning made me quite glad that I didn't have to drive today. Going to be a snowy one!
MC, didn't see your post until this morning, so Alas! I missed it. There was some phenominal afternoon light yesterday, too. Oh well...I'll see what this weather brings. If the snow stops, and the sun comes out, I might have to head out and get some winter wonderland pictures. Not sure what the weatherman has in store, though. I might have to stick to the city, too. Heard that the foothills could get up to two feet. The CopCar does alright in some snow, but her limit is around the one foot mark if I've got some weight in the trunk. Beyond that, I'm pretty much shoveling myself wherever I want to go.
Anyways, hope you all have a great day. TTFN!
Out walking the dogs last night and watched a pretty bizarre lightning show for about an hour up towards Chris on the north side of town.
Four inches of wet snow on the ground and no wind. No blizzard this time. Took the broom to our walk and the neighbors, then did the driveways. Wasn't long before snow had lightly recovered everything. Dogs in the window watching the snow from the back of the couch - at least they're entertained.
/// Heads off to drain the hot cider container.
Two kind of nice days with sunshine, but now its back to overcast with precip in the forecast. Been busy getting the den ready for the winter hibernation. I'd stop by the diner more often, but I already have enough in the personal stores to take care of the nutrition issue.
Jay
"We have met the enemy and he is us." Pogo Possum "We have met the anemone... and he is Russ." Bucky Katt "Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future." Niels Bohr, Nobel laureate in physics
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