Good MorningKinda dull and muggy out here this morning...going for a high of 83 feeling like 98 later on...welcome to summer 2013!!Well, here I be in front of laptop and who decides right then to come up and start schmoozing? The little Spring of course!! lol! So I be typing this chicken wing style! It is going to be a resting weekend here after all the battles with the lair of doom...there still is a full complement of yuckiness to contend with in there so come Monday I'll be back to arguing with that place...I'm even thinking of putting up a sign over the door...Hic qui in vobis spes relinquatur....abandon all hope ye who enter here.
for those who lost loved ones and those undergoing the weather extreme out in Alberta...
Happy Birthday Joe!!!
Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
I just started my blog site...more stuff to come...
http://modeltrainswithmusic.blogspot.ca/
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Joe!!!! Hope it's a Great one for you, and you get to see lots of Trains!! And Happy Birthday to the rest of the family!
Looks like another 3H day here in the Ohio Valley, may just stay indoors in the AC.
Being Crazy,keeps you from going "INSANE" !! "The light at the end of the tunnel,has been turned off due to budget cuts" NOT AFRAID A Vet., and PROUD OF IT!!
good morning
Breakfast is all set.Going along the toledo sub today for our annual June Birthday bash.Going to wish my sister a happy birthday as well.(we are 13 years apart).Going to be poolside as mother nature cranks up the humidity.
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").
Ahh,
I got two granddaughters, Summer and Autumn Blysard,( pronounced Blizzard).
I was shooting for Wendy Gayle and Stormy myself, but got voted down.
Larry, actually, I kinda like Rockett Jaye, has a ring about it.
23 17 46 11
Me and about 2000 of my closest feathered friends?
Let me get "back" to you on that.......
Sir Chicken: You will be coming to lift said chest into your truck and taking it to said river, when?
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
NorthWest MookieDid you read Kim and Kanye's new baby name for daughter - "North". Last name "West". Odd coincidence, my screen name refers to the fictional NorthWest Express commuter system that I plan on modeling... Bizarre!
MookieDid you read Kim and Kanye's new baby name for daughter - "North". Last name "West".
Odd coincidence, my screen name refers to the fictional NorthWest Express commuter system that I plan on modeling... Bizarre!
Mookie Did you read Kim and Kanye's new baby name for daughter - "North". Last name "West". Isn't that just too cute - (Gag) (like London Bridge, Paige Turner, - both real people. What are these parents thinking? Or not!)
Did you read Kim and Kanye's new baby name for daughter - "North". Last name "West". Isn't that just too cute - (Gag) (like London Bridge, Paige Turner, - both real people. What are these parents thinking? Or not!)
I have a cousin named Rockett Jaye... Yep.
Two days of pure sun and nice temperatures. Doesn't bode will for the weekend.
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...
Mutt - you would love one of them - either one. And like Joe - if you stubbed your toe - insurance rates would go up.
Can't you just imagine the mail carrier's face if they found this in their post office, Mutt division?
Hmmm....Economy Rate.......Plunk it in the South Platte at Lincoln....floats downriver to Omaha (hope it makes it through the irrigation diversion/ flood control dams) then ...down the Missouri River to Kansas City to St. Louis, pick-up a towboat down the Mississippi down to Cairo, take a left and go up the Ohio River to Loo-vulle and drop off at the gangplank of The Belle of Louisville at the public landing.
Might take about 4 years; 3 months a week and two days (Give or take)
Hope it can float that long. (or it joins the stuff from the steamboat Arabia in Kansas City)
Mookie BOC - I was just thinking you might need a mask of some kind getting into old items. Think possible mold along with dust and small dead bodies. Just what your lungs don't need! Brother Carl - are you certain that the crawl space won't pick up any moisture? Having seen the archives - you will always have to be very careful with water - anywhere. Leave your glass of H20 at the stairs. Tree - I am so lucky in downsizing. I can honestly say that I have gotten rid of lots and never once had to rebuy or regret. Tells me I had too much of "absolutely no use left or didn't need to begin with". Too hot to fish - actually too humid to fish. Ditto train watch. Besides - time to rest - make it a 3 day weekend - just because we can. Did you read Kim and Kanye's new baby name for daughter - "North". Last name "West". Isn't that just too cute - (Gag) (like London Bridge, Paige Turner, - both real people. What are these parents thinking? Or not!)
BOC - I was just thinking you might need a mask of some kind getting into old items. Think possible mold along with dust and small dead bodies. Just what your lungs don't need!
Brother Carl - are you certain that the crawl space won't pick up any moisture? Having seen the archives - you will always have to be very careful with water - anywhere. Leave your glass of H20 at the stairs.
Tree - I am so lucky in downsizing. I can honestly say that I have gotten rid of lots and never once had to rebuy or regret. Tells me I had too much of "absolutely no use left or didn't need to begin with".
Too hot to fish - actually too humid to fish. Ditto train watch. Besides - time to rest - make it a 3 day weekend - just because we can.
......And I guess if they have another child, they will name it...."By North-West"........
Mook, I might be interested in one of those chests, about how much "shipping" do you think you need for it to come to Lou., Ky.?
Good Morning
Today is going to be another sunny day...high 77F feeling like 88F...
Today is another day of cleaning up the lair of doom...this time with a respirator...too many pieces of my lungs went out of me last night....
Have a good'un!!
chores are done.breakfast is all set.time to go see what csx is up to.Tomorrow we go to my sisters for the June birthday bash.Matt will get to meet his newest cousin as well.
Good Evening...
The lair of doom has kinda been beaten back...well...sort of...we found a slew of unidentifiable...ermm...things in there that must have been in there from before we even bought the place......old archival boxes with what appear to be old ledger books and some odd manuals...from a PDP810....mmmmm...so...tomorrow will be another day of working out what exactly lurks in that doom-ridden lair....
those chests are also known for good toe stubbings. Mom and I are on the front porch watching paint dry. Then we will put the shutters back up. good to be on vacation again.
Joe
Today is sunny and getting warmer...74F feeling like 82F later on....
Yep...going to get ready to tackle the lair of doom...otherwise known as my garage...I'ma gonna see just how much stuff one can throw out'n this doom-ridden lair before i start hacking up pieces of my lungs...
Have a good day!!
As stated here before - I am downsizing. I will probably downsize for another 3-5 years. Then continue to live here as health permits. (stairs)
However, my tale of woe - I have two - that's 2 - full-size cedar chests. One in living room and one upstairs in bedroom. Both are from the 1940's and were given to me by family members. They make great storage and even chairs. And they are super heavy.
I now have nothing to store in them.
However - a word of caution. When a cedar chest comes into your home - it never leaves. You can't drag it out to the garbage, to the street so someone will steal it, to your worst enemies house or to the house next door and stick their eternally barking dog in it. And my daughter and grandchildren are wise to not accepting any large objects from me.
Enter the 2 Men & a Truck. If I go thru my Xmas list and no one claims one or both, the 2 Men - (probably more like 4 Men) will be taking both to an unsuspecting Goodwill and dropping them in their parking lot!
If someone on here expresses an interest, send me more than a lot of postage and I will mail one or both to you! No charge on chests - free to a good home or two.....
We have a new Goodwill store in our town. I suspect that they'll be getting some business from us. Our regular trash containers have been full to lids-ajar every week since our construction project started. As for the garage, the car has not been able to go in there since March, as that's the place where the sewing room and kitchen have been stored...as well as some tools, construction materials, and so forth. As of today, we're just lacking baseboards in the kitchen and the new great-room, and counter-tops in the kitchen, before we can move stuff back in and decide what we no longer need. (Unfortunately, that won't be the end of it for us. Then we'll have to move everything out of our living room and dining room so they can refinish the floors in there. That will require leaving the house, as we won't be able to access the bedrooms and bathroom while that's being done. Then there is major work to be done in the dungeon basement, where my library will probably be expanded into the crawl space. Said crawl space is now insulated and lighted, so we just need easier access--maybe a step stool. The crawl space will enable a lot of archives to be stored, giving the active library more space for organization and expansion.)
Carl
Railroader Emeritus (practiced railroading for 46 years--and in 2010 I finally got it right!)
CAACSCOCOM--I don't want to behave improperly, so I just won't behave at all. (SM)
I'm in the process of weeding/downsizing/whatever-you-want-to-call-it - and it can be a real challenge. I'm slowly getting past the "but I might have a use for it" angle on a lot of items, but that's been tough. You know - you throw something away, and two weeks later have to buy the same item...
But that's the main reason I got the larger container from the trash company - in hopes that I'd fill it up on a regular basis. I haven't been as diligent as I'd like, but I am getting some stuff thrown out...
Finally some nice weather here. A bit cool on the overnights (it's down to +52F right now), but the days are getting better. Then there's that 30% chance of showers over the weekend. Hopefully that won't be a problem.
Good Evening..
Well, the mess in the garage is...still...a mess. Every time I go in there it seems that a different form of mess showed up...sigh
Tomorrow will be the same thing as today...try to combat mess in the garage...maybe I should get more than one 50 cubic yard bin for all the 'stuff' in there...
afternoon
went into town after work this morning.Tonight is last night of work for the week.Tomorrow is chore day here at home.Have my lunch for tonight.
My garage has a bunch of old lawn chairs I swear we gave to goodwill...some must come back somehow....that and old frame parts
I have a kink in my thinking - if anything comes into this house - say a tube of toothpaste. It doesn't get placed in the bathroom closet until the box is gone. Everything gets downsized as much as possible before it stays.
So why am I on my 4th go round cleaning closets? All I have new in mine is some clothes - and they go on those hangers that I have from donating old ones. Yet I still have "junk" in there that needs to be pulled out and moved to a new home. Think that is the kink? I needed it then, but not now?
I can tell you of some other things that multiply. In going through Ricki's things on and about her desk, I found lots of Post-Its, staples, and little pads of notepaper (some of those were collected from various hotels).
Johnny
Mookie BOC - have you noticed that cleaning to get rid of "stuff" is like removing hangers in a closet. It all comes back and brings more.
BOC - have you noticed that cleaning to get rid of "stuff" is like removing hangers in a closet. It all comes back and brings more.
There is a joke running in our office about paperclips and coat hangers....one breeds the other..or something...
Lots of sun and cool out here right now...all of 60F going to a high of 70F later on today..
Got a few things need done at the abode here..such as more...hopeless...garage cleaning and other such oddments...gonna see whether I can do this without coughing up a few pieces of my lungs
yep.
Our community is FREE to join. To participate you must either login or register for an account.