Mom is doing great on her own. I check up on her a lot to make sure. My wife is taking her to the doctor today to see what course of treatment she will undergo. according to her she is fine.
RI Jack, Mom is a Philly Phanatic. She would rather watch the Mets than the Yankees.
DJ, Prayers for Tyler and the family. A “Mercruiser”, those Gran Marguis are popular at “Holiday City” by me.
Shake and Bake: Slow season? 40 hr. week? Enjoy the engines and the Goose.
Kev: Nice Pics. That may be a destination of mine on a road trip.
Laz: Happy Birthday to Minnie. [bday] 59 days and a wake up to go.
Well I went and got the groceries because the wife did not when I was gone. Paid some first of the month bills and picked up lunch. Now to make meatloaf for tonight then some time for me. [;)]
Here are a few more pictures from the Camp 5 at Laona WI. We did not take the ride but they say you can spend 2.5 hours touring the logging camp. Maybe next trip with the wife I will take the ride to.
We had Beer to drink on Saturday when we got back to the cabin. [;)] [B]
P.S.
Just saw Brain and the damage on his truck is over 3k in parts alone. The good news is State Farm considers a deer hit as payable under the comprehensive coverage so no detectable. [Y]
DJ - Great news about Tyler! Prayers will continue!
I went back through the last few days of September’s Pot and I saw that Laz has been playing with taxidermied fish and photoshop again! And he got his brother involved in his shananagins this time!
Fife - Glad to hear Fifegrandpup recognizes train whistles… in a few years he’ll be able to identify the engine by its whistlie like FifeGrandDog… [:)]
TheQ has been studying for her certification exam this weekend and this has afforded me the opportunity to ‘watch/supervise/monitor’ Christina… when she takes her naps I have been able to make it down to the trainroom and have made considerable progress! Last weekend I was able to completely rebuild the transition track from the first level as it comes out of the second level mountain. The ceiling tile has also been cut and put in place. This weekend I was able to rebuild the transition track inside the mountain and I identified one last area of concern which I will address this coming weekend. Once I have ceiling tiles in place I will be able to put the foam roadbed under the track, drill the power drop holes and then secure the track. This will be the first time in 3 years that the entire main level will be screwed in place! I will also be able to get the supports built for the tunnel portal for the transition track on level 2 and the double portal for the main level. I also hope to get the support structure built for another mountain… I will post pics this weekend.
I expect that by 10/11 I’ll have a substantial area of the layout sceniced! and I may even be able to run trains for the first time in a year! When I told Christina that we’ll be able to run trains in a couple weeks she smiled and said ‘Choo Choo’. [:D]
Jack - several years ago one of our elderly neighbors passed away and his family dressed him in his flannel shirt and jeans. They also had his coffin lined in flannel. And the buried him with a full bottle of Manischewitz.
Went in for regular doctor check up this morning at 11:00AM and was told my appointment was cancelled because of a power failure earlier. Come back tomorrow at 4:00PM. We will keep doing this until we get it right. Nice of them to call me and save me a trip to the office![:-^]
Don, congratulations on moving over to the right hand side and sitting in the cat bird seat. You’re becoming a regular Casey Jones.
Laz, thanks for the video of the fish. That was a sight for sore eyes for someone who hasn’t been fishing in a long time. What is the limit on keepers? Happy birthday to Minnie[bday]
Jeffrey, thanks for the photos of the progress on the silos and buildings. The fly paper adds a nice touch. Sorry, couldn"t help myself.
Temp is going up to 105 today and hot again tomorrow. Suppose to taper off a little on the weekend.
V8, California does have a lot of faults including smog but at least you don’t have to shovel it. Smog levels are not as bad as when I moved here in 1958. It was so bad then you could not see the Hollywood Hills from Hollywood Blvd and that’s only a few blocks South of it. My eyes watered constantly for a while. We have lived in the San Gabriel Valley East of downtown since about 1962. Moved to Glendora in 1976 which is the only town I would live in here in the San Gabriel Valley.
Went out to eat last night and had a New York steak but was a dissapointment. Had too much grissel. Most of it was eatable though.
Ok it was in the 60s today, still comfortable. All Detroit sport fans will be watching the Tigers tonight. One more win or one Chicago Sox loss is needed. Banilla for the thingy crew tonight. we had a good size group last night…S.J.
well wasn’t able to do work in den/train room because of weather as I need to cut wood outside and it was raining. did get some shelves built today for the train room and I put my latest haul on the top 3 shelves except the NYC A-B-A all the boxes and cars of coarse the Marx switches and some other track is not present. I also sent 2 items to Brutus which where repainted prewar items.
Most of the boxes are in fair to good shape The guy did do one thing which made me [banghead] He took the original box that had the 3 2356 engine boxes in that was used to sell as a set and used it to ship some of the train cars its not completely destroyed as he wrote my address on a piece of paper and taped it to the box so was able to get that off but theres a 3" x 1 1/2" area he has his address in the top right corner and there is 2 tracking labels and priority mail tape across it but as a whole its not completely destroyed.
I started working on the ZW I got with this set as it needed a new cord real bad but can’t find my solder gun as every thing is here and there while redoing the den/train room. I’ll find it in the next two days I went out and bought a heavy duty replacement plug and cord. Everything else looks good on it.
Kev…Thanks for sharing the photos. Always like to see rolling stock and locomotives from all over the world.
Almost nine hundred miles for work last week. I need to do the long road trips before the snow flies.
Still might try to make York, but the oil keeps showing up in Ohio. It is the pipeline work, specifically the compressor building sites that keep us busy. One well went down 8000 feet vertically and then 8000 feet horizontally. (The Grand Canyon is a mile deep.)
Jeffrey, that is a beautiful watch and the price was right! Being a Civil War buff, it caught my eye right away. However, I don’t collect Civil War memorabilia much. I did pick up some spent bullets from the battlefield at Gettysburg but bought them at a shop there. They won’t let you take anything from the park itself. I have books mostly on the subject and some music on CD’s and tapes from the period. We saw a civil war reinnactor band play a concert once at Gettysburg near the anniversary of the battle July 1st, 2nd and 3rd, 1863. They even had period instruments in the band.
Suppose to be raining. Not raining. ??? Rains when they say no rain and then doesn’t when they say it will. Meetings over. Tomorrow is a no Town day. Was suppose to be a ribbon cutting for new extra nice subdivision. Moved it to Thursday due to forecast of rain. Now I have to rearrange my schedule as was suppose to be gone. Will leave as soon as ribbon cutting and FREE meal is over. Oysters, shrimp, crab cakes and veggies. [dinner] Think I would miss this??? I really would but developer is a great guy and builds quality. Gave us a nature park.
Popcorn and TV time.
Sleep tight.
PS: Jeffrey, pretty Eagle you have on the watch. [:-^]
You and I are somewhat alike in that respect. I don’t have any Civil War memorabilia either outside of a few items from the Cherokee. Most of what I have are commemorative objects, coins and such symbolizing both sides.
It’s 66 here. Low tonight 55. Time for me to call it a night. See y’all tomorrow.
SJ - you are on, we will be right over in the TARDIS - Mike has it running really well, much better engineer than I am, but I get distracted by…
Hey - Char had her doc appointment this morning and her numbers are all Very Good and she will be off all immunity drugs in 3 months from today [:)]
Mom is doing well, but still having nausea - but she won’t take her nausea meds!
It was overcast here all day, but it didn’t actually rain at the house. I stopped and got the screws I needed to finish the install on the plumbing, but got home and after dinner I didn’t feel like doing much. Had a little family conference as my son wants to drop one class from “honors” to “regular”. We will call about it tomorrow and see what can be done. I think they won’t let him change until the semester is over. We’ll see - also need to find out about tutoring. Also, my daughter will start PT for her knee tomorrow night.
RT - What a great deal!!! It all looks great, man!
Prayers for all and for our intentions, especially for John’s Mom and for Tyler.
So talked with Linda earlier - according to the docs, the mass in Tyler has shrunk BY HALF due to the chemo drugs already applied. Based on that the doctors have decided to remove one of the chemo drugs from the heavy mix which will be applied to him next. Also, he’s now allowed to eat soft foods based on the Cat Scan from yesterday.
Just had my last day at work - a few of us went out and had a couple of pitchers this afternoon. I got there at 3’ish - some got started around 1. A bittersweet moment for most of us.
We decided to clean up the shop today. Took just about everything out except the mill and lathe. Cleaned the floor really well and did some major re-organizing and put everything back in.
Pretty darn tired but we like it.
OK, so I’ve ran a floor machine many times in both the Navy and working in a restaurant, however, I have not run one since I’ve seen the Blue Collar Comedy Tour…
I just had to try it:
“If you’ve ever tried to ride an electric floor machine, you might be a redneck”
Rainy here just took B day gal for her mile walk she didn’t like. Gonna run on treadmill and lift weights. Then vacuum and run trains later. I need the train fix. Yesterday pulled out all the bean plants and dug that bed to put in compost. Also cut back cone flowers in front o pond.
V8VEGA, your BROTHER must be a handsome guy.
JACK, PAM, MINNIE and I are going up to ACADIA NP next summer. We are looking forward to hiking the park then eating some of those lobsta’s up there.
HUDSON JOHN 59 more DAYZ!!![B][B][B][B][B][B] See you at YORK? I’ll be there both dayz Thursday and with WIFE on Friday.
KEV, nice pic of the 2-6-2 made by VULCAN Iron Works. Thats the same place that made out LOKIE back in 1927. Wilkes Barre, Pa. is about 25 miles up the road from where I grew up in Hazleton, Pa.
SPMAN, salmon up in NY have no minimum lenght to keep. They have to be hooked in the mouth to be a legal catch. Lots get hooked in the fins and tails. Those must be thrown back. We only caught one in the mouth that we kept the others we took pics and released. Fines if caught taking fish start at 100 bucks and go up. So I’d rather take a pic then pay for a fish.
88 No photo shop there, was the real deal. Wish I was still up there. Are you going to YORK?
RT, your racks look great. Is that ERIE set from K-line?
DOUG M, BEARS WIN!!! Beat the COWGIRLS, but I still like their CHEERLEADERS[:P][:(!]
