Good Evening all
Laz - That sounds really neat! Take some pictures!!!
Sounds like everyone is having a nice weekend
Happy Father’s Day, let’s all be good dads and encourage all young men to leard to become good dads
May God bless all special intentions
Jim
Howdy guys! Running hard all day and finally got a chance to relax! I’ll catch up on the last 2 days of the coffee pot tomorrow, lol!
God bless all!
Tardis is ready and on the way!
Actually got a bit of rain last night. Rain in June. Normally this is one of our driest months. I guess the Too-soons are here to stay.
Well the ultrasound came and went. I wont know anything 'til some time next week. Saw her making notations on the screen, but for all I know she could have been ordering lunch. I seem to have settled in on the meds for now.
I saw a mention that a Mr. O’Conner built the replica engines for the Golden Spike National Historic Monument. For those who haven’t been there it is well worth seeing. I went by last summer when helping a friend move to Seattle. We got there late in the afternoon, but in time to see them run both locomotives back to the engine house. They fire both off every day about 6 months of the year, one on coal and one on wood. You could easily feel the years drift away as I was looking at the locomotive in the distance and hearing the whistle reveberate off the mountains. I even got to help the ranger fold up the 20 star flag. This is really what preserving history is all about.
Happy Father’s Day all!
Bob
Rain off and on here in th great northwest. Just been catching up on all the “goings on” here on the pot. Wanted to post a quick note wishing everyone a “Happy Fathers Day” If your “young un’s” turned out like mine, then you definitely earned a lazy relaxing day off. In fact I do not think there are enough fathers days left to make up for those years! [sigh][banghead]
Morning all!
Happy Father’s Day!
Sir James: I didn’t know you grew up in Toledo. We park by the river…if that’s where you grew up…the place doesn’t look so good. The few stores there have bars on the doors, and on the few windows they haven’t boarded up. There are 1 or 2 really expensive homes mixed in with a lot of broken down ones.
Laz: COOL!
Doug: Careful on the shopping in HI…Some parts are like Rodeo Drive…Especially by Waikiki Beach. Try to find a roadside place to eat that has a Mixed Plate. Smoked pork from the previous night Luau, and much less expensive.
Hope to spend the day watching the Open, but the kids seen to change their minds on what they want to do every 3-minutes. Bride still sleeping.
Kurt
HAPPY FATHER’S DAY, maties! [oX)] Mostly cloudy and 72, with winds from the NW at 15-17 mph, here in the Mid-Atlantic region. Spent 4 hours at the dock yesterday afternoon. Saw a SW1200 and two GP9s pulling a long hopper train off the wharf whilest I was there. Installed new ignition switch. Did a lot of organizing below deck, finding lots of tools and sailing nick-nacks the former owner left behind. He made some modifications that I’m going to try and write to him about, so I have a better understanding of what lies beneath. Fabric has been ordered for cabin cushions, and that should be done by mid July.
Wanted to take my parents out for a sail at noon, but not sure Dad is feeling up to that.
Everyone. enjoy your day. [8D]
Good Morning—and----HAPPY FATHERS DAY!! to all dads out there–[bow]
Right now we have fog and some drizzle falling—and 14C out. We’re still getting that chance of rain with those t’undering boomers -----
Going to get some MR stuff done and some lawn work done—maybe—[:-^]
Have a good one----[:-^]
HI GYZ,
Thanks for all the CONGAs on the little steamer. I talked with my MOM yesterday and told her the news of my endevor. I also found out that the engine that I am working on was last used in 1927 outside of Hazleton, Pa, which happens to be the town I grew up in. Told my MOM this and she said, is it a Lokie engine? Now my MOM has no railroad background whatsoever. I said yes, it is why? She then told me of my Aunt’s father, who lived next door to us, was a Lokie engineer how worked for the mines. WOW, small world? This Lokie could be the exact one he use to drive way back when? I was floored. I have to ask my aunt if there were any pics of her DAD with that engine. I go back up to work on Tuesday.
Raining here all day yesterday, whatched the US OPEN, pretty soggy there too.
SPMAN, to bad I could’nt find a beer garden along the way in my engine like you found the winery. But that might get ugly?
Stay frosty,
laz57
HAPPY FATHERS DAY
Good Morning all
Kurt, yea I did. Born and raised in Toledo. I have an aunt that lives just off of the river road about a mile west of the park. Still really nice neighborhoods there. Toledo itself however has fallen like many of the other midwest cities.
The kids have already paid their visits this week so I guess granny and I will prepare a burnt offering on the grill. Haven’t decided what yet.
Have a Great Fathers Day…S.J.
Good Morning from Blueberryhill…
It is a beautiful, sunny 70 degrees. Going up to 82 today with sunshine all day.
Happy Father’s Day.
Today, I am taking it easy. Nascar race from Sonoma. Baseball game. I will have plenty to do. Not much else new here.
Dining car was here and we had the usual for breakfast.
Y’all have a great Sunday.
Chuck
Happy Father’s Day Guys!
Good morning all. Happy Makuakane Day to those who are - welcome Barry! Too bad about the ex-car - sort of like the ex-parrot. Kurt, thanks for the heads up - now I know Prada and Gucci are open late here just like the 7-11. Dodged that bullet. Jet lagged still. I could get used to this place… it’s like a movie set out in the country. Great video Laz. Nice chatting with Jim and Wes yesterday afternooon before the phone battery died.
Happy Father’s Day!
Finally got caught up on the coffee pot - sheesh!
Happy birthday to your son, Wes!
Laz – Big Congrats! That locomotive is cool! They have one like that in front of the transport museum here in . AWESOME! I sure hope that engineer job works out [:)] That would be TOO COOL if it was the one your great uncle worked on!
Barry – love that “ex-car” line!
Ray – neat story, sounds like you had some fun and some nice wine, lol!
Hello all
Back from the beach.
It will take me a few days to catch up on the Pot. I did attend the Train Show in Rehoboth Beach DE. I’ll find my other thread on it and fill you in.
Prayers for all who may need them
I got the ol’ BBQ goin’ out back—we got 4 families here as we decided to get out and enjoy the sun after we got monsooneded–can we use that as a word?–by a 20% chance of an ‘isolated’ shower[:-^]
We’re having a potluck kinda thingummie out here—[swg]
Got some plantings shuffled around --now to see if they’ll take-----
Catch you all in a bit—
Guess I’m a little late, but
HAPPY FATHER’S DAY
to all the Fathers.
Ditto Ditto
Hey all not a lot happening got home regular time today and just couldn’t get motivated to do anything other than sit in front of putor and play card games, and eat some dinner. hope all the dads had a good day. did get off an hour early today as it was Fathers day. That was decent.
Well will talk tomorrow more as off but will be running around so will try to get a few words in.
Dennis hope your trip was/is good for you all.
Happy what ever to all as been out know I missed someones son and sure there were a few others in there too. have a good one all
Prayers out to all who need them.
Hey Patrick How about K.K. winning it by 4 car legnths . just heard it as turned on radio
Good evening all,
IIABSDISEI with temps in the 80s. We watched the IRL race and the F-1 race. I did some yard work afterward. I had bacon and biscuits on the dining car this morning. Beacon is lit. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Evening all
The house is quiet now, youngest is driving back to Cincinati and oldest is heading back to where she is staying in town, and she will keep the grandkids a few days. Part of her rehab is re-learning parenting skills. Please keep her in your prayers.
A great weekend, got a lot done and stayed out of trouble. I had to make a raised platform for the truck bed so the truck camper would ride flat and evenly with the rails for the fifth wheel hitch still in the truck. Easy enough job. My youngest daughter helped me.
God bless all dads, our job is more important now than ever to teach our kids life skills, discipline and service to others.
Jim