Were having really nice weather. I wore shorts last night and this morning before church. And plan to wear a short sleeve shirt today at Sunday School and church.
Laz happy birthday.
We have a firebug here who has set 41 fires the last few days in Hollywood and San Fernando Valley. Mostly car fires, often in apartment garages with extensive damage. There is a $50,000 reward.
I had a bit of a stressful time when I got home from my Christmas trip. I cracked my new dentures. had a hard time renewing low cost internet, and the water heater was leaking in a rental I have. The unlicensed contractor (read illegal alien) who lives across the street fooled around and I feel gyped me while my tenant had no hot water. I keep swearing I’ll never use this guy again this time for sure. Everything is fixed now.
I went to bed at 9:45 new years eve to get up early for 1 hour on CTT and MR forums before Sunday School.
Beautiful day here. Should be nice for the Rose Parade tomorrow.
Chief, glad to hear that Mrs. Chief is doing better. You’re right! Everybody knows you are suppose to have black eyed peas and ham on New Years, at least in the South. Got mine ready to go today.
Happy birthday Laz [bday][bday][^] How clever of you to have it on January 1st. You better get a real gun if you want to get one of those deer.
V8 Dennis, sorry about your denture problem, seems like they always break on a weekend or holiday or both. Good luck.
**LAZ…**what time should we get to your birthday party? What should we bring? What is the birthday present “etiquette? Will we be running trains?” [swg]
Happy birthday Laz! I’m thinking that if the woods came alive after you shot that the reason you haven’t filled your tag is that you’ve been sleeping in the stand! [;)]. Hope you have a special day.
My brother and his family just left and I just got back from a 4 car MVA just north of NJTP Exit 8. We packaged 2 victims for transport with minor injuries.
Still in the 50’s now.
Finally got off my butt and went to a party hosted by one of my sister’s friends. Stayed until 0100 and got home and crashed by 0200. I had 1 shot of peppermint schnapps at midnight.
We had a brunch/anti-pasta tray about noon. Princess has since slept on the couch and I may just follow suit.
Giant/'Boys at 8 pm…sorry Roy, you know where my loyalties are at…
Havn’t been avoiding all you guys, this working part time has been somewhat demanding. Just got off for today, don’t go back again till Wednesday, then Thursday and Sunday. (BTW the park has been offering free admission for fire fighters, and law enforcement plus 1 guest for the month of Dec and Jan.)
Submitting a transfer request out of the “traffic” section to the “Railroad”, looking forward to becoming an “Engineer/Fireman” on the trains in the park. (May regret it when the summer comes, but sounds like it would be fun.
This year we had an automotive Christmas, had the transmission go out in our van the week of Christmas, then the "Electronic Idle module goes out in the Buick. So over $2500 in repairs.
Had a GREAT day on Friday, Chris took us on a tour of the Mohave Desert where he has been going on field trips and mapping various areas. Took us to some dormant volcanoes, a couple of huge craters, saw Volcano Tubes, a number of mines, and some salt flats. Went through Kelso, which was a major service location during WWII for trains going to LA from the northern states. The depot has been completely restored and is awesome! Now it is a lunch diner and museum. Was really a great day, and very educational as well as interesting.
As Dennis said the weather is beautiful here today, up to 79/80, have had quite a bit of fog overnight the last couple of days, sure seems like summer. The local skiing resorts aren’t doing to well, but that should change in about 10 days to two weeks.
Will talk to you all later, Hope everyone enjoys the weekend and be safe and stay well !!
Aloha and Happy New Year. Happy [^] Laz! and congrats on your ‘Major Award!’ Back to the office tomorrow after a long time off. Sleepily worked video at church. Nice quiet day around the house. Everyone here seems to be sick except me. Dennis, that gene kicks in early - it seems to be gender specific too [;)]. Don, hope you get your transfer!
Don, One of the Thursday night guys at my layout used to be a fireman on the train at Knotts years ago. Maybe you guys should compare notes. Regarding Kelso, I rode a U.P, excursion train one time from L.A. to Kelso and return. Huel Howser did a TV special about that depot. Still looks good in spite of its age. Happy New Year,
Good evening. I went to my parents place for New Years dinner today. Black-eye peas and ham, cabbage, cornbread, field peas. I got up tired this morning due to all the racket last night. My nephew and some of his friends were up the road celebrating with a neighbor I choose to have very little to do with. I just don’t like the guy. Anyways, they had a lot of loud music going, very big, very expensive fireworks going off and rattling my shelves and windows. That carried on til about midnight. Afterward my nephew arrived back home with some friends in tow. More loud music. Screaming and yelling. Lots of revving up of cars and trucks with very loud pipes. At 2:30 am I went out and put a stop to it. If I had to go out there again the police were being invited to attend. I already have the reputation of my bite being much worse than my bark. The party broke up pretty quickly and all as quiet. After dinner today my mother wanted to go to town to take a New Years dinner to a friend of hers then go to Stage for a few minutes. My mother, Stage and a few minutes are three things that don’t go together. She and Stage go together fine but the few minutes part is impossible. The minimum is half an hour. This time it was forty-eight minutes and $181. By this time she could barely walk out to the car right at the curb and wanted to go go to Wal-Mart. I flatly vetoed that. We went to Wal-Mart any but just so I could get a Mountain Dew from one of the vending machines outside. Their prices are really ridiculous. A twenty ounce bottle of Mountain Dew now costs $2. The next stop was home.
It was pretty low key here Mrs, & I were asleep by 11 PM. Went to 7 AM Mass this morning. Family gathered at my folks for Pork & Sauerkraut.at lunch time today. The rest of the day was a lazy day.
I did troubleshoot and repair a not working headlight on Dad’s 254E
Laz [bday]
Several days behind on the pot. To busy doing nothing I’ll try to catch up later. Haven’t even gone musket hunting this week.
It was a windy & rainy 54 degrees when I did the barn work around 5 PM. Blowing in some cold for tomorrow.
