Didn’t seem like much productive got done this weekend - spent most of it catching up on errands we didn’t get done during the week.
We did have a nice dinner Saturday night at the wine store here in town. On the 1st Saturday of every month, they do a dinner featuring foods and wines of a certain region. Saturday was Spain and Portugal. 7 course dinner with a different wine with every course. The best item was figs wrapped in bacon, and stuffed with goat’s cheese, olives & walnuts.
Finally got tomatoes and peppers planted today. Yea, I know, I’m several weeks late getting this done, but life happens.
I pulled the trigger and put a Texas freight set and the matching expansion set on order Saturday at the LHC. That about shoots the train budget for this year.
I think Hires is now part of 7 UP. Also, A&W root beer is not the same as it was a long time ago. Used to be that each stand would brew their own root beer using the secret company formula. Now, I think it is mixed from syrup delivered in plastic bags…
Morning to all. Just stopping in for a quick splash of coffee before I head off to work. Weather here is beautiful with temps in the low 70’s and low humidity. Last week of school for students and teachers. After they are gone I have 9 days of training in the next 4 weeks. No train activity to speak of lately. I blew my train budget on an iPad. Really a cool device. Well I better get going. Lots to do today. Hope to do some outside work, trimming bushes etc when I get home. For some reason I really hate trimming the shrubs. I have about 8 of them hat need a haircut so I might as well do it while the humidity and temps are reasonable. Take care. Mitch
2 dayz i school left. Spent 11 hrs yesterday hanging V groove red oak cieling that I made at school. Tired after that going up and down on latter. Now to start running cope and sticker joints for the colonial wainscotting for side walls all done in red oak to. Hope to have that done this week?
It is a sunny and clear 70 degrees. Going up to a sunny 82 today. No rain for a change.
Today is a busy day. I have some errands to run and chores to do. Then, I have PT this afternoon. I will be busy. Ran trains yesterday. Did a lot of dusting. Had to fix a couple of small items. I need to do some scenery work.
Dining car is here and it’s Cheerios for breakfast. Then, it’s off to all of the “Points West”.
Beaver on the run!!! Off to meetings and tonight I have meeting. Somewhere in the afternoon before night meeting, a new child will come to live with us. Yes, another one. A Doodle. 8 weeks old and is as big as Lucy. Will be a big boy when he is grown. Have a good one.
Lots of trees down and same with power lines, but I lucked out. Cars crushed, homes and garages too. Most in the neighboring towns to me. Damage as far South as Boston and as far West as the Berkshires. A mess. Will take a day or two for this to dry out so the grass can be mowed.
Fishing line issues? I thought you Southerners just threw sticks of dynamite in the water and scooped up the floaters. [:D] What a game, Celtics prevail over the Lakers in the NBA finals. Blackhawks are rolling again in the Stanley Cup finals… [tup] [tup]
Banks…Navyjack’s pc died. Around here they smooshed Memorial Day and the D-Day celebrations together.
Mitch…re the prunning, I hear ya! I do them once a year but not all at once. The clean up and disposal is worse than the actual prunning. Plus some of my stuff has gotten too tall to reach, even with a ladder and pole cutters.
8N…funny you should mention foods from Portugal. Ten years ago we took one of those Chevy Chase summer vacation trips with the family to Portugal and all were watching the videos (w. sound) Saturday night. What a hoot!
Laz…counting the seconds? Re the porch…no cuts, breaks, or falls…a good thing. Red oak, my favorite. We did our floors in that.
JimmyT…I kicked in an extra $120 while the collision guys had my car and had a little extra done to eliminate evidence of a wife’s faux pas. With ba
Morning Coffee Potters - taking a personal day today. I heard that too, Jack - that Navy’s computer died?
Wife has had a rash for about 3 weeks now, mostly on her face. They think it’s an allergic reaction - she’ll talk with a dermatologist today and they will do a biopsy to be sure. Not sure when they will get that done, but soon we hope.
RI remember Hires and Dads old fashion root beer, Big old wooden barrels at the park, probably just a prop though. Gonna just be lazy today unless the grass dries enough to cut. Brutus get back to work we need your SS money…S.J.
Aloha all. Sunny and cool here after the storms came through last night. Hosted our pastor and his bride for dinner last evening. Paid the teens to watch their kids. And just had enough gas in the tank to finish grilling. Whew. The teens even made it in time to watch the Hawks.
A BLT sounds like a great way to start the day, Sir J
Our local paper managed to track down some D-Day vets to recognize the day but as with anything it seems, time (and the individuals) passing seems to reduce these seminal events to history.
Good morning all, went to TTOS train meet yesterday. Lots of PW trains and a little new stuff as well. Three layouts up and running and a special layout being run by a Boy Scout who was doing it for a project. He was selling raffle tickets for the layout. It was a very nice 4X8 layout with scenery, switches, accessories etc. Very nice. It would be good to win it for my grandson.
Glad Chief got the new Beaver accessory in one piece and that he liked it. Now I can stop sorting through all those E mails every day about the latest thing going on with Chief’s birthday present. Just kidding! It was a lot of fun. Thanks to Dougdegrump, Dbaker and Roy for all the hard work.
Trying to figure out what’s wrong with my lawn sprinkler/timer system. I have just been turning it on manually because there is a parked car in the way sometimes. The problem is that the water does not want to come on full force right away. It just puts out a weak little trickle for a while. After turning the timer on and off a few times it will finally work. I have an instruction book on the thing but its too complicated. Think I will call the 800 help number on the manual.
Still think Chief needs a swing on his new screened in porch. I thought those were standard equipment in the South. In the old days I used to sit on my Grandma’s unscreened porch in a swing and we would ward off the mosquitos with burning rags in a can.
Got an E mail from a friend about the bad language in the new Ice Road Truckers series. He is a retired railroader. He was just saying that if he used language like that on the radio he would have been fired. I watched the show last night but it looked like old reruns to me. That big guy that they call the polar bear is always kind of salty and acts like a jerk IMHO. I like the
I’ve watched Deadliest Catch, but I’ve never gotten interested in Ice Road Truckers. I mainly watch Dirty Jobs, even after the salvage yard incident.[X-)]
I intended to go fishing today, but it has been getting cloudy every so often. I sent the money order for the 350 earlier this afternoon. I’d like to add smoke, but the cleanliness of this one makes me hesistant to drill a hole in the boiler. I can live with forward only operation by not relocating the reversing unit and just removing it. I really want smoke and chuff, but drilling the hole in the top of the boiler is something that I can’t undo once it is done.
New child is at the Eagles’ house. A male that is 8 weeks old. Big as his sister Lucy now. His mom is a tall thin one. He is a black Doodle. His name is Fin. [Black and curley hair. Like Fin on Law and Order SVU]
I just finished cutting the grass and heading for a root beer. Balilla is ready for the thingy so maybe i’ll have a float…Take care all, stay well…S.J.
Good evening guys, got home early as did a couple of cases this morning then went to the set. They are filming in the jail today and it was rather crowded. Tomorrow we are filming at the church and on one of the streets in town. It involves a father/son race so I will be bringing my son and being an ‘extra’.
Regarding D-Day and the lack of coverage about it, I and one of the guys I work with were commenting on that earlier today. My son and I watch a program on the “Military Channel” on D-Day plus one which was about the conditions our troops encountered after the landings. It is a shame that we had to search out programs on it. I must mention that our local paper has had a running section of local war heros from WWII. We have COM winners (or better: Earners), and some flying aces, etc. What is really neat is to know the history behind some notable campaigns and then to meet guys who were there. I am not sure why the lack of programs or mention about it, but it is deplorable.
CHIEF ! A belated happy birthday, sorry about that, but the daughter’s family has been visiting from Colorado all week and just haven’t had time to check in.
Another evening collecting photons. The director and one of her students are with us as well.
I talked to NavyJack last night. His hard drive got corrupted and is too much to fix. Hopefully he can get back on line in the near future. We spent a while swapping old military stories, including some about dropping plumbing parts and logging chains from aircraft.
JimT- nice score on the 350! Did you see the photo of the two circus trains in the lastest CTT?
Chief - congrats on the new addition to the family!
Read something on line about them trying to stabilize the erosion of the cliffs the Rangers climbed at Normandy. Was impressed by the number of yearly visitors to the site, was in the hundreds of thousands.
Cute pics of the new pup Chief! Glad it is you and not me. Puppies and young dogs are cute until one finds the inside doors all scratched up and the carpet stinks regardless of how diligent one is.
I would like to relate the following about our dog Maggie. She is a Golden/Lab mutt. She is 8+ now and has turned a new path in life. She used to go nuts when a duck was in the pool or a squirrel was on the fence. However - Maggie has become:
THE DOG WHO STARES AT DUCKS
This developed this spring. In the past when a duck (or ducks) was in the pool, Maggie would whine, bark, and pace around the pool - and of course the duck (or ducks) would just causually swim to the far side from wherever Maggie was. This would go on for long periods of time - the ducks would just snub her.
Now when a duck lands in the pool, Maggie will go carefully out and then just stand and STARE at the duck or ducks. She does not move nor make a sound. The ducks cannot take this. No duck(s) has lasted more than 3-5 minutes with this new technique by Maggie. You will see the duck(s) get progressively more and more uncomfortable until they cannot stand it and then they take off in a flurry of wings and quacking commotion. It is hilarious to witness. Unfortunately I have not been able to capture this on video and now the migration for the spring is about over.
She does still bark at the squirrels but with far less enthusiasm/optimism than when she was younger (caught one once - brought the tail to my wife).
