Pretty good Halloween here in the Ol’ Pueblo. Bought candy for giving out I think maybe the second time in my life. Usually I’m either at work or keeping my head down. I dressed up as a Corvair mechanic[:P] I was changing out the muffler and putting in new exhaust packings on the right “log”. Family that came by said they call this place the ‘cool car house’. [:D]
New muffler sounds good. Need a tailpipe though. What they had didn’t quite fit. Something to look for tomorrow. Old muffler was starting to rust out on the inside and was too big and in the way of the valve cover. It came w/ a used engine I got. Was an old Sears “Muzzler”. Wonder if they still use that name?
Rented a couple movies to finish the night off. One made me think quite a bit.
Welb…it is another rainy, cold, blustery day here…one of several we had.
Today is going to be a somewhat slower day for us’uns…I had another chemo/radiation session yesterday and so, my energy is a little on the low side…hopefully the session tomorrow will be the last one…and I won’t need another set…dang thing
Sandy did take a swipe at some beachfront around Sarnia…which made for some interesting times…
We did have a few kids around here…maybe 30…was pretty subdued around here…
Morning. Getting ready to go down east to deer hunt. Going later in the AM and hunt stands through lunch. Got to call heat/AC buddy. Heat pump in box frozen. Did that last year right after he installed. Came and did some pressure changes and all was OK from then on.
Rain again today. Rained all day yesterday. Picked up rest o vinyl fencing yesterday, was gonna put a section in but when I removed plywood over the hole you guessed it 3 feet of water in hole. Covered back up and gonna look today. Got a pund pump to get it out then I’ll put a section up later. Won a CN Tank train off e bay last nite. WIFEY got her new KIA SOUL last nite so she is a happy lady. Nice car runs great gotta good deal and also bought the extended warranty for 10 years or 100k at a cheap price so now shes set for a while.
Mornin’ boys. [(-D] Just got the mental image of sirjames hand dipping scoops of banilla into trick-or-treaters bags. Just kicked on the furnace. Sitting on 1/4 tank of heating oil…gonna be an expensive phonecall. [sigh] There goes the train budget. Did pick up these cool items for wifey’s Dept 56 display this past weekend:
It is a cloudy 40 degrees. Going up to 54 today with some rain. This weather is not nice.
Today is a busy day. Wife is grocery shopping. I have a few chores to do and some paperwork. Then, I have to finish a project. Put groceries away, have lunch and take a nice nap…
Good morning. It’s 50° with 97% humidity and dense fog. Later it’ll be mostly sunny with a high of 82°.
Well the morning will be pretty much shot. I have to go down to my parents place this morning and see that my mother gets her breakfast and morning meds then be there to watch over her until my father gets home. Later I have to go to town to pay bills, buy gas and groceries and do whatever else I need to get done.
Hope everyone is doing well, and faired well from the storms.
Today is Christina’s 15 month b-day! She had a blast trick-or-treating last night. Memories for a lifetime - just have to get them written down in her baby book.
Had a large branch come down in the front yard (did not hit anything). It is a rotten branch that I’ve been watching for years - I could not cut it down since it was the top most branch on a 40 - 50 ft oak tree. Hope to get it cut up this weekend and depending on the density I may burn it or just drag it to the woods. TheQ’s cousin and his wife (who we went trick-or-treating with last night) had a tree come down over their fence, so after I’m done cutting up the branch on Saturday I’ll head over to their place to do away with the tree - and hopefully get some firewood for next year!
I am really thinking about cutting down a few trees around the yard this year. Just feel that I need to ‘think the heard’ a bit. Just take out some smaller stuff and in the spring have a tree guy come and take the tops off about 5 -7 trees - take them from 50 ft to 20 or so, then I’ll finish them off next Fall.
Christina and I ran a train again on Sunday. She REALLY likes running trains with Daddy. [:)] So I have to really start thinking about the under-the-tree garden for this year. Last year I bought 3 complete FasTrack circles - 60, 48, 36 so I am thinking a simple three tierd hill? We’ll see. Gotta run. TTYL
Yeah fife what kid doesn’t like ice cream, right. Got a train friend coming over this morning, we are going to prep a couple engines for a weekend running of the Glancy modular layout. Not sure about the rest of the day. Happy 15th to Christina…S.J.
Sunny here in North Central IL. and the frost is melting off the shed roof. Going to low 50s so they say.
Like Jeffery, 1st of the month = bills to pay.
Nice stuff Fife.
Good luck with the hunt Chief. [;)]
Brent I think your right to cut back on some trees. I need to do the same. Some are just too close to the house. What did you have Christina dressed up as for trick -or -treating? My grand daughter was Tinkerbell. [:)]
SJ, after passing out the ice cream you had better keep a close eye on your place for a few days. [:O] We had no trick-or-treaters, just a doe who came dressed as a fawn. We had put out a pan of corn for her.
I have to pick up the ZW I got on the bay last month from Ken later today.
He Replace the power cord, 4 carbon rollers then align roller holders to a clean secondary coil, 2 terminal posts, circuit breaker and installed 2 diodes! Cleaned/adjust both sets of switch-shaft contacts, sandblasted base plate then paint, clean case! Max. output now about 21.5 volts! For $69.00 not too bad I don’t think. So that puts me in it fully reconditioned at $125.30
Brutus, Prayers for a quick recovery for Char and prayers for all others in need and hit by Sandy. [angel]
Srue will be glad when next Wednesday gets here. [yeah]
That is better. Sorry for the waist of space. Can anyone help me identify the group? I think I see Chief center back row, Fifedog in front just to Chief’s left, SJ standing on right, Shake n’ Bake two in from SJ and the TCC crew on the left. The rest I am not sure of. Any help?
Front Row (L to R)
LAZ 57, wrmcclellan, Mitch, fifedog, AF53?
Back Row (L to R)
Kent Johnson (CTT), Carl Swanson (CTT), MichRR714, Don from CT?, lionroar88 (me), ChiefEagles, MartyE, jefelectric, dbaker48, dbaker48’s friend?, sir james