Evenin’ Dudes & Dudettes.
Happy B’day Don !
There isn’t much to see on 305 besides Mammoth Mtn and the eastern entrance to Yosemite. Did you stop at the park I believe that is just south of Lone Pine ? They are supposed to have some of the oldest living trees there, even older than the ancient Sequoias.
Last minute draftee for the museum tomorrow, gonna be a Thomas & Friends day. Easy to pack and transport, travelin lite.
Later All !
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Morning all from wet Southern Ohio
All quiet around here. The grandkids are with the other grandparents and my bride is at a conference in Stubenville. After services going to put some vent covers on the camper and gardening, but if it s wet, I may just have to stay inside and play with trains.
Got to go, may God bless
Jim
Jim, now you know. Not so truthful.
Morning. Off to train meet. Rain aorund in the area. Chat later.
Mornin’ boys. Showers & thunderstorms forecasted all day. Didn’t get out on the Hunter yesterday, and likely not today neither. [sigh] The weather has really been a factor around here the past week and a half. Bad weather headed to mitchie and jefelectric**:** batten down the hatches!
submmbob - I’m sure with the proper amount of airbrushing[#dots][:-^]
Phish - Snohizo, and the rest of the colonies, got the government they deserve…[2c]
Morning to All,
Haven’t posted in a few days. Been busy at home and at work.
Fishing Trip was great but as usual when I fish, not much was biting. Captain decided not to make the 2+ hour run to fish for Rockfish because fishing at that spot had dried up in the previous few days. Caught a few croakers, some spot, and a few flounder that were keepers. Tried fishing for tautogs (or blackfish) at a man-made reef off of Crisfield but caught none. Got in the doghouse with the Mrs. because I didn’t have my cellphone ot on the boat and she got worried when she couldn’t reach me. I had told her that we were going to be out fishing for 4 or 5 hours and it turned out that we stayed out on the bay until after 9:00 PM. Didn’t get home until 2:00 AM. Charter captain had kept us out longer because the fishing had been so poor.
Happy Belated [bday] Don Baker. Your car experience in Nevada sounds like some vacations I have been on. About 25 years ago we were trying finding a muffler for a nearly 20 year old Volvo in Bar Harbor, ME on a July 4th weekend, not pretty.
88 - Great progress on the room.
Fifey - hope you missed the storms when you were sailing. We had some nasty ones here.
Roger B - We used to hang out at Dobbins 35 years or more ago when I was a teenager. A guy built a house on the little island without permits and is still fighting with the County zoning office, at first they were threatening to make him tear it down, but now I believe they have dropped that threat and are still making him jump through hoops and make changes to get approval. Also heard that the owner of Dobbins has applied for permits to build there but it is stuck in zoning etc. I know my friends who live off of Gray’s Creek took almost 3 years in the permit process to do a tear down and build a waterfront home. It is funny you mentioned Bodkin. Our friends son took their boat out and ran into a pile of rubble from the old Bodkin Light,
Good Morning
Sun is up and no rain expected.
I am not sure about today, I have a few small projects I could do or just nothing at all. I will think about it for awhile, can’t just rush into these things. Granny’s at church so no breakfast, maybe some toast I am spoiled and don’t like to cook.
Have a great sunday…S.J.
Don,
[bday]
Fife,
I have always thought that you would look like Harry at the beginning of the first Home Alone in uniform.[;)][:D]
Chief,
You need to move to PA and run for governor. We could use someone like you. BTW, your suggestion to pull some Marvel Mystery Oil through a vacuum line cured the PO400 EGR Flow Malfunction that the Probe had for 145,000 miles.[tup][tup]
Jim,
That 342 thread was one of the toughest ones for me. That was all I was thinking about for a while. I might send you a PM.
Not much else going on today. I might play some Resident Evil and GTA with a friend though.
I didn’t know they made computers games about the Federal Government! [:O]
Hope to get some more work done on the sun room today. Need to finish closing off one wall, cut the holes for the windows on the last wall and then finish putting up the house wrap. If I have time I may try to get the exterior door installed.
Also need to take pics of Doug’s inspection car… been putting it off because I expect major failure reports… [:(]
Aloha! A beautiful day here in the heartland. Nice chatting with Sir J, Charlie and Brutus last eve. Back from church - instead of seeing 4499 live. Maybe off to the beach later. Bob, Hawaii was certainly celebrating the jobs associated with that new 'scope. Don, it would be fun to visit the desert that is Nevada and parts of Calif. sometime - just to see it.
greenprobe - Actually, the Pesci analogy has been made before. "How am I funny…!?
Afternoon all,
Just in from services going to get a quick bite and going to do a little gardening outside as it is not raining, yet.
Fife, I agree!
Jim T The AF stuff is very addictive. I have several pieces inmy project to do box, but till I get my train room back, projects are on hold. You wold enjoy two books if you do’t already have them, The Standard Catalog of American Flyer Trains, by David Doyle, and theComplete Service MAnual for American Flyer Trains, republished several times, by different folks, mine is from Kline.
May God bless
Jim
Jim, (and Chief), if anything, it appears that the President is bending over backwards (by providing $45 million dollars) to keep Jim’s company in the game until it can and demonstrate commercial readiness, and thereby meet the legal requirement for the loan guarantee.
Ohio voters are pretty savvy, and I can’t believe that they interpreted a campaign pledge to support the project as a commitment to disregard any existing regulatory requirements. No president has the legal authority to do that.
From the wording of the White House statement, backed up by the offer of $45 million dollars, it is clear that the President still supports the loan guarantee for Jim’s company, and, in all likelihood, that guarantee will be forthcoming, just as soon as they get their ducks in a row.
I can appreciate the frustration brought on by any delays, but rather than shout “You broke your word”, I suggest that a better response wo
Sure hate to see the Pot, busted. This conversation should go off line, maybe email ???
Not much of a train meet. As usual, JUNK!!! Did see one NS item but already had a bunch. Lots of “stuff” that is 10 years old and wanting new prices for it. Stopped by Sears and they rebalanced and rotated my Michelins. Watching old movie on Westerns Channel. Henry Fonda playing Wyatt Earp. Think we are going to Olive Garden when wife gets home. She has a gift certificate. Later.
Sunny and clear here again. Sunday morning services are tough. Don’t know why, but I always seem to go thru my phases there. Got to take the pressure tester (fuel, not blood:) back to my friend (don’t want him to be w/o something he might need) and maybe some more work in the garage. Figured out why there were no messages on the old answering machine. The voice mail was already active.
cnwDoug - I think the scope was going to make like 140 jobs and more for the construction period. It’s amazing that any new scopes are being built in this economy. Mauna Kea is a good site, they just have more diurnal effect due to the ocean. The elevation (14K) is easier to deal w/ though than most sites in Chile (16+). They also may be interested in getting more northern sky coverage. Will be a great facility.
don - We went up 395 when Dad was stationed at Edwards in the 70’s. Don’t remember that much of it though. Spent some time in Death Valley w/ the geology club in school. It is a spectacular area. The trees that someone mentioned are Bristlecone Pines and they are the oldest living organisms I believe. Glad to hear a field trip made another convert. That’s pretty much how it went for me too. Where is your son going to school?
Mitch - a muffler for a Volvo in ME? Oh, boy. They seem to prefer Saabs up there, but prob not even then at that time frame. I have chased the odd part in a few odd places. Driven on the battery in Mexico in order to get a new alternator in Yuma, etc. The most amazing was when an alternator went out on one of the university suburbans in Death Valley. Limped back into the Chevron at Furnace Creek (there’s like 3 buildings there) and the guy at the station had the altenator which I installed. He got the new belt for us by later in the afternoon. Truck was operational again within a matter of a few hours and we didn’t have to modify the trip. And the university reimbursed our advisor for the altenator. Since that time I was always tail end charlie on trips. That way me an
This is my first post on the August Pot, in fact my first for about 2 weeks. Time just seems to fly by.
I’ve gotten involved with a new O gauge modular group in the area, don’t have a name yet as the first meeting was held just the past Wednesday. Will be using the Tinplate Tackers Standards with some minor modifications, one being the use of Gargraves track.
As I have not read all of the intervening posts, I hope everyone is doing well. I will try to keep up a little better in the future.
Taking two of the grandkids fishing tomorrow. That might be the last for the year as both they and I have a lot scheduled before they go back to school on August 31. The Elizabethtown Fair is held the week of August 24 and we will all be busy, they showing goats, sheep, hogs and cattle, me cooking for our church food stand and watching the kids show their animals.
Hope everyone has a nice week.
We have raised sheep and cattle, and our kids and grandkids showed both, but to show goats, sheep, hogs and cattle is a first for me. They must spend a lot of time training and preparing for the show ring. My hat’s off to them![bow]
Pat
Good evening all,
IIABSDISEI with temps in the 80s. Dad found car keys. Trimmed yard and sprayed weeds. Went to YMCA and did weights. Not much else going on. Beacon is lit. I had bran muffins on the dining car for breakfast. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Good Evening
Another sunny day in the 70s. Spent much of the afternoon outdoors with neighbors. Oh but I did run a GG1 this morning for a short time. Banilla is waiting for Brutus and the thingy…S.J.
Greeting from NW Iowa, Lake Okoboji, one of the three natural blue water lakes in the world. Arrived this afternoon w/granddaughter in tow, giving the parents a three day break and we love it. Spent 9 hours yesterday painting new drywall in Cedar Falls (flood damage repair from last summer) and finally snuck away w/granddaughter to the train store, Classic store, huge inventory, kinda dingy with great prices. My best buddy is a great sport, she’ll go anywhere with Grandpa, treated her to a new book just down the street. Not much sleep the last two nights as we’ve been on air mattresses, they are only one step above the floor-------the slow leaks about did us in the first night, ugh. That will change soon as the son is doing a custom Murphy bed in the newly remodeled downstairs.
She’s now in the same room with us for two nights but i think she’s so tired right now that I hope she sleeps in tomorrow. I’m in the resort lobby, only place for WifFi, seems kinda odd as this place is expensive but right on the lake.
I love coming back to this area of the state, it’s where I was born and it always feels like I’m home as this is where all of our family was from, only one aunt left and she’s 83.
Tomorrow AM the granddaughter and I will have our first fishing experience, I bought her a small rod and reel for this trip, she’s three so it’s time to learn how to fish, she’s really fired up[tup] Hope we can catch at least one fish!
Time for bed as I’m sure Grammie is done reading books and they are both asleep. Sure wish it was June 2 instead of August 2.