Please make sure you have your hip waders on while you read the above. the word polite should be replaced with politician and word nice should also be deleted we won’t say mean but he nice when he wants to be and not when he wants you will see as time goes on just becareful he’s a really a want to be yankee as he live in NORTH carolina and presently is receiving a subscription to YANKEE magazine.
Morning guys nice 69 degrees when I went out to the truck this morning at 06:00 . guess its going to be a warm one today. Hope all have a good one. Good day to be working as its cloudy outside and light rain off and on.
32 and no rain yet but its a comin. Running trains and football on tap for today. Going to make beef stew today and let in crock pot all afternoon, yum yum.
DON B. sounds like that pool is a real wifelife preserve in more ways then one? Best to get the dead one out.
BRUTUS, prayer train is still goin for YUZ GUYZ.
OLE TIMER watch dat black ice.
BUCKEYE, scantilly clad women walking on white sand, best to where sun glasses, to keep the glare down? You are a poor soul to be down there in that [}:)]? Come back home to OHIO, at least the women are dressed propper.
Aloha all. Weird weather here - grey, seems warmer but everything covered in a sort of frost - looks like an ice storm but it’s not slippery. Off to church in a few. I look forward to visiting Navyjack someday - he lives west of CL - I owe him a catch-up phone call too! Wow, what a great idea, I need to put a sublimitter scope on the top of Eagles Ridge on the layout. Gotta keep that photo. Good news about Mrs. Brutus settling in. Looking forward to some football later today.
hello doug and guys. the first time i met a guy from the south was when i went overseas in the navy. he had gotten his first pair of boots from the navy, but he would have give me the shirt off his back. his wife was real nice too and nice to us. my wife used to watch their baby. like so many other nice people we lost track of them. i was in from 1966-1982. i had about a year of broken service. had a family and was screwed in the head, could not get a job so i went back in. i was a ct, later forced to change to yn and retired as yn1. (no upward mobility) at the time. i love the acl and the virginian, am god-fearing and have had my first cup of (arabica bean) strong coffee this morning. i guess the arabica bean coffee apeals to me because of my german descent. the krauts trade a lot with turkey, like we do with columbia. bob your trains are cool. it is nice how you can have them displayed. i have mine thrown in boxes in closets. see i cant walk, and only get to see my trains when i get them. my wife is sympathetic, but she is taking up my slack, and does not have time to help me with the trains. i cant walk, and cant close my right hand. bogus huh? anyway, i am glad to see pictures of how you have your trains displayed. is that a pre-china lionel gp-7 that you have? i have an acl gp-7 with railsounds, that i have never heard. it is still the pre-high detail u.s. made style. thanks jack
Don B. you must be special, I was born and raised in Ohio but was blackballed from the OTTS.
Chief if that engine was any other brand you could have set it on the track and off it would have gone to work. No sitting around waiting for a battery to charge.
Overcast again today but still in th 30s. Big train show today, I will be leaving soon. Have a great sunday…S.J.
hello sir james, by the type of train brand you are talking about, i will guess you are talking about either, lionel early vintage, or williams. i have heard that they are the most reliable. i have a williams reproduction blue/orange trainmaster that supposedly is the first reproduction of the engine and it is gorgeous. i have not seen it run, but have heard that it has real high quality can motors(probably no reverse) i just enjoy looking for now. thanks jack. p.s. i love your train shelves in the picture behind you.
i have not heard that expression (stay frosty) since i was in the service. i used to wake my boys up to go to school while i was saying that (get frosty). if they still did not wake up i would gently slap their faces. (i guess i was just sensative) your friend jack
Had a rough week this past week but it all came out OK. Got a call from my sister at 10:30 pm Tues night telling me she was getting ready to be transported via ambulance for emerg surgery, that her husband had left earlier in the day for a business trip to Moscow, and that she just “wanted to let me know” and if I would call our brother and let him know. My wife, daughter, and I talked and then the daughter and I packed, jumped in the car, bought gas, and hit the road to Houston starting at midnight. Daughter drove 3/4 of the way and I drove the rest since she does not know Houston (where I was born and raised) or the Houston Medical Center, which is HUGE now. I had told my sister that if they could keep her stable they would not operate until first thing in the morning when they have full staff. We made it to her hospital room at 4:30 am and she was scheduled for surgery at 5:30 am. With luck her husband landed in Moscow at 3:30 am (our time) and made it through customs by 4:30 am. My cell phone worked great for calling and text messaging him so I was able to keep him informed through the pre-op, operation, and post-op procedures and doc/nurse discussions. Had we lost touch with him I would have been able to make decisions for my sister in her husbands absence. The hospital was great in dealing with all this. She was out of surgery by 7:30 am and all was well - heck she was walking later that day. Daughter and I were able to stay at my sisters house and catch a few “z’s” that afternoon and then we went back to the hospital. My sister has great friends and all were offering help (one is an RN at a neighboring hospital) and another that lives across the street came over and spent the following night with my sister so daughter and I could drive back to Dallas. So all is well and she is recovering. Her husband was able to avoid a very expensive emergency return ticket and continue his trip in Russia and on to China. It is an amazing world we
Laz … ice storm fizzled out here … just rain and fog thank goodness . What did it do up your way ? Chatting with SJ and Brutus on the early morning chat channel … SJ just blew out the door to a train show … the lucky rascal .
May try to get #2 son to take me to DC to the World’s greatest Hobby on Tour train show . Shot down again on Ebay … you guys are gonna have to stop bidding against me … LOL … [:-^]
Laz … speaking of those scantilly clad women … I used to have to wear dark sunglasses at Daytona beach when all the girls wore THONGS … and I mean thongs … teeny lil things … so they would’nt see my eyes following and bulging and my wife would’nt blacken both of them … lol
Term STAY FROSTY, came out of the HBO series Generation Kill. It was a show diplicting the Iraq War. One part was entitled STAY FROSTY, where it was about the horors of the war but at end their SGT. treated the men with warm milk shakes. It was good and funny if you saw this episode. That’s why I use the term, along with my own interpertation of BE COOL. But STAY FROSTY sounds better. Sometimes I’ll just use the letters SF.
I will be at that show on Sat. 1/23. Maybe we could meet and say hello. We have talked here and by PM but never face to face. Someone else here was going to this show, but I forgot who that was.
Good afternoon, Ya’ll, from ominous-looking Taxachusetts:
Jim…thanks for the update. Prayers and good thoughts continue for Char. BTW, please save your strength. With your plate so full, I feel guilty and undeserving of your taking the time for these updates.
Four inches of snow forecast.
navyjack…is your Poplar Grove near Rockford or South of Rock Island? I’m originally from Chicago, in laws live in Elgin.
Don…thanks for the update on your neighbor. With that weight gain it sounds like she needs your help as her personal trainer getting back in shape. Make sure you take pictures of the workouts so she can garner some encouragement and motivation from the before, during, and after pics.
Laz…you bust me up. A stop with your wife at the ammo store on the way to the party. You must be a gangsta. “Stay Frosty” coming from you might mean 'Yeah, I iced that guy at the train nerd party for insulting my transformer choice."
Buckeye…one of your posts listed all of the clothes you weren’t wearing when you went out. Is Snohio a clothes optional state?
Fife…I was rooting for Baltimore. I’m bummed two weeks in a row.
Roy…scary turn of events. Prayers for your sister’s speedy r
Home from the trains show. Very well attended. Big HS with two large parking lots full. We had to park in a church lot and then walk back to the school. Shuttle service was offered from a farther location but I never saw the shuttle. Heaps of O and HO some were offering deals others were asking way more than I would pay. Oh I spent three dollars plus admission…S.J.
Buckeye–I just added $1,000.00 to your PayPal account, get out of there NOW! Sadly, those dreaded southern sun rays and temps have affected your decision making abilities, just let me know if you need more $$$.
Roy, glad to hear that your sister is doing alright. That was a nerve racking story. Prayers for speedy recovery.
Still braced for the big rain but today is beautiful and sunny. Makes me wonder what those weather guys are up to. It would not upset me if they were wrong.
Chief, are instant grits any good? I saw some Quaker instant grits at the market yesterday. I think they were cheaper than the regular grits which you have to cook for a long time and they came in a big box. Looked like too much for me. Might go bad before I could use it all. Had a politicallly incorrect breakfast yesterday with grits, eggs and a pork chop but it was gooooood? Back to the straight and narrow today with oat meal and a banana.
hello jack, poplar grove, illinois is located about eight miles east of rockford, and eight miles south of clinton wisconsin. right in the middle of the state line. we are about 50 miles away from elgin. we get wisconsins weather here, there is a lake here, and that makes the weather worse also.
