WE WEnt and took the first 3 hours of the 6 hour safe driver course. Take the other 3 hours later. Will save us the cost for both of us in one 6 mo. premium. will save aobut $75 or more over 3 years for a cost of just $24 through AARP. Not a huge amount, but enough to make suffering through it worth while.
A nice day it turned out to be and not TO warm in this tin can we call home.
WEnt shopping yesterday to stock up on a months worth of groceries or thereabouts.
Time for an afternoon nap as I haven’t slept well in 2 nights.
The Heljan (N) bridge kit arrived today. Looks pretty simple to put together. This is the bridge which crosses the main canyon on the line which runs to the volcano mining operation.
Made a run to the feed store and my wife ends up with a couple baby geese. Presently they are chasing 4 of our 5 remaining grown geese around the paddock. The 1 older, mature goose is talking to them and hopefully will adopt them shortly.
Got that paper finished up today. Wasn’t too bad once I got rolling. But I still have a disdain for that kind of writing.
Chris, Thanks for the info. Especially about the zito yellow (I’ve actually refreained from buy Zito yellow cars cause I though they were a 90s thing) being an 80’s scheme. I have a few of the Walther’s cushion pockets left, but I’m out of Kadees. Either way they’d be on the backlog with all the other project I have going on. (either don’t have the money, or the time)
Ray, What’s the humidity up there in the Finger Lakes region? Down here it’s usually quite high. Today was pretty nice, 82 or so with low humidity (what’s up with that)
Be back in later. Waiting for the car to cool off so I can replace some of the really brittle vacuum lines.
Packer, humidity? Best answer is variable… On a good cold sub zero Winter’s Day it could be less than 10%, hot Summer’s day right before a storm… 110% (Yeah I know that doesn’t happen, just feels like it). Right now a comfortable 50% humidity, tomorrow will be rain most of the day and they are predicting about 80% humidity average. Around here if you don’t like the weather, just wait a minute.
Back to the basement for me. I have a layout to build!
Cape Jim, yes it was her mother that chewed her out. And her son that snitched on her and told her mother that she refused to sign the divorce papers. Would have loved to be a fly on the wall during that discussion. Her mother is good woman and nice person. I can just hear her saying something like that.
howmus, got you beat on the temp yesterday. Hit 88F here in central PA. Slept with the ceiling fan on all night for the first time this year.
Seems to have been a rather slow day here somewhat…
I’ve managed to get a few things done today…mostly of the medical appointment variety…tomorrow I have my ICD checked out…then I might get a chance to get a few things done on my layout…
Chloe, I’ll just have a coffee and a piece of that Blueberry pie as well, please…I’ll be at the RC for a bit…
Not much going here. The diner has really been slow today.
Howmus- That is a great photo.
Teen Steam Fan- I like your taste in music. My favorite rock band and I believe the best rock band of all time is Led Zeppelin. I also like AC/DC and Pink Floyd.
Curt and Teen Steam Fan, I like much of that music, in particular Pink Floyd. Another hobby of mine is collecting CDs and their greatest hits album is my all-time favorite Pink Floyd piece if not my favorite album ever. I’d have to add to that list of music, The Beatles, Smashing Pumpkins and Nirvana.
Flo just a decaf and maybe a tiny slice of the blueberry pie… Uh, just a bit bigger, keep going, yep that’ll do it. What do mean that’s two slices… Well I won’t tell if you don’t.
So what’s all the noise in hear tonight? Nirvana? Smashing Pumpkins? Pink Floyd… Dead Presidents? Oh, sorry I think that may be those electrical guys, you know? AC/DCC or something like that. Oooohhh some Leonard Skynard! I do kinda like his music, but frankly I prefer Berlios or maybe Jerry Brubaker… What? Who’s he? Chief arranger for the United States Marine Band, That’s who! Old friend of mine from college too. Gustave Holst is good. So is Kodåly and Orff. I guess my taste in music is a bit different, but it comes with the territory.
Curt? What Photo? Did you mean the one Barry just posted?
I spent the evening tearing out and completely relaying an 18" section of mainline coming out of Hopewell Junction tonight. One end of the track is hand laid code 70 that has been there over 25 years. That was fine. The other end was some code 83 flex track I put down about 4 years ago. Connecting them was a Walthers code 83 to code 70 track section. The roadbeds were about 3/8 inch apart in height so I used a section of cedar shim to connect the. Most of my rolling stock and all the locos have had no problem navigating it even with no easement at the top. the new coaches are just long enough from the coupler to the truck to have the coupler ride up and uncouple at that spot. I tried to work it so the coaches would not uncouple there last night to no avail.
So tonight I cut out an 18" section including the Walthers 83 to 70 track, removed the ballast and old hand laid ties. Then got out my belt sander and the vacuum and had at it. Put down new profile ties, cut some leftover sections of Micro engineering code 83 t
The Beach Boys, Bill Haley, Bobby Darin, Buddy Holly, Carl Perkins, The Chantays, Chuck Berry, Dick Dale, Eddie Cochran, Elvis Presley, Jan & Dean, Jerry Lee Lewis, Ritchie Valens, Roy Orbison, The Surfaris, Bee Gees, Neil Diamond, The Troggs, Dave Clark Five, The Animals, Herman’s Hermits, Eric Mantel, Eric Clapton, Gordon Lightfoot, Pink Floyd, Alice Cooper, Climax Blues, Three Dog Night, Jefferson Starship, Pure Prairie League, America, Atlanta Rythym Section, Alan Parsons Project, Chicago, The Beatles, Rolling Stones, among others.
Boy what a beautiful day it was today, but it shucked.
Work Front While I was on the phone with Ben (my boss) we where talking about the projections of what the store could do this month. At the current paces I will hit around $56,000.00 which will be a all time record. Last month I sat the all time record with only $45,000.00. (store had been averaging $35,000.00) Berry the owner was listening and and stated “If you hit $60,000.00 I will give you a 2 foot tall trophy and a $1500.00 bounces”. While that sound great and all and would love the extra cash. But, at this point unless I get real lucky I don’t see the paces will pick up that much. But you never know so keep your fingers crossed for me.
Rotten Kids and there parents. I have seen more than my fair share of rotten brats in my days. I have had them running, screaming, interrupting me while talking, jumping form bed to bed, kicking the beds, beating up on there siblings, bleeding on the beds and blowing chunks on the beds! [banghead]
But, today this little rotten bastard set new standers! [|(] While he was a terror from the get go,running, screaming, jumping on beds going behind my counter gaping my stabler, phone, books, and interrupting me. The Feast of Resistances was when the printer jammed. While I was bent over trying to get the jammed paper out he shoved a ball of Play-Do down the BACK OF MY P
Jeff’s list minus Pink Floyd, (come on…I don’t wanna hear it. Not saying they are bad, just not my cup of tea) Not really a big Beatles fan either. Anyway, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Yes Lynyrd Skynyrd and Led Zepplin (best rock band ever IMHO), Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, George Stait, Waylon Jennings, Brad Paisley, Southern Culture on the Skids, Aerosmith, soooome Guns and Roses, George Jones, Emy Lou Harris, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, that silly Elton John, Marshall Tucker Band, Molly Hatchet, Marvin Gaye, Waylon Jennings, Liked Electric Light Orchestra and Blue Oyster Cult back in the Day, Charlie Daniels of course, Merle Haggard, The Man jerry Reed, Hoyt Axton Hank Jr.and oh the list goes on. Rather eclectic (sp) list I have. Basically it’s the song or group of songs I like rather than any particular genre. That’s all for marketing any way. Guess you have to call it something so you’ll know where to put it at the Walmart. I listen to country when I do beause, until lately, they had the most songs I liked. Now…well lets just say I don’t listen to the radio or buy Cd’s much anymore at all unless they are old stuff. Few and far between there’s a good one thrown in there. I kinda like the last two releases (or so I think they are) from Miranda Lambert.
I’ll second that list plus add a few more of my own, but won’t take time to list here now.
Rain rain and more rain!!!
1st half of 6 hour safe driver course is over. We did it this year through AARP for the first time and apparently MOSt of the seniors there have never taken a safe driver course at a ll and some of the questions or comments they made to the “safe driver” alternatives makes one SERIOUSLY think that maybe they shouldn’t have a driver’s License!!! lIke if you are making a turn to the left and have to wait for oncoming traffic, one NEVER turns the wheel that direction until one is ready to execute the left turn. They thought that was a joke! {the reason you don’t, for those who here may not know, is that if you get rear-ended then you get shoved directly into the on-coming traffic if your wheel is turned! Whereas if you wheels are straight you only get shoved forward and NOt into oncoming traffic.}
It was really nice, they served coffee and tea and refreshments!
Second half sometime today. It is boring as all get-out, but to save a bit-o-money, I guess it is worth it AND we at least have that recond on our car insurance and save a few bucks and get favored discounts! IN NY for those idiots who have points on their license for wrong-doing I think they can get 4 points knocked off if they complete
A very eclectic bunch we are…I also like me some John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Hubert Laws, Billie Holliday, Art Blakey, Ella Fitzgerald, as well as classicals by Stravinsky, Rimsky-Korsakoff, Bartok and Ives…
43F and rainy this morning. I’ve been off my feed a bit and scrambling at the shop so I’ve not been in much. I’ll have a regular and a blueberry muffin to go please. Missed the museum last night as I went home and fell asleep waking up too late to go. They’ve changed my meds around a bit and i suppose I’m just adjusting to it all. Good part was the adjustment was because the blood pressure was trending lower.
Layout front is progressing with all the foam base down and road bed started in places. Walthers has the foam WS bed on sale so I’ve a bunch of that on the way while I clean up the salvaged track from the last layout. I’m using latex caulk (left over from the house projects) to hold the bed to the foam and so far it seems to be w…king well. I can move the stuff after it drys by just carefully prising it up with a putty knife and cleaning it off to reattach. Total used ended up being 7 half sheets of 2" and two half sheets of 1" extruded polystyrene foam sheet.
Ah bands and music. I guess all the above plus Frank Zappa, the Who, the Byrds, Edgar Vareze, John Cage, Charles Ives and of course Quicksilver Messenger Service, Dave Brubek, Hank Williams, Bob Wills, Ray Price. Probably be easier to list what I don’t like… Bubblegum and Disco and Rap being chief among them.
I’ll wander off now and get after it back in the shop. Try to catch up on posts later. Catch y’all later, J.R.
Todd- Yeah, Waylon’s awesome and Jerry Reed is the man. I didn’t figure country into this, but I also have a few suggestions
Tom T Hall, Waylon, Jerry, Hank Williams Jr. Toby Kieth, Johnny Cash, Big and Rich, Charlie Daniels band, Willie Nelson, Eddie Rabbit, The Highway Men John Denver Ken Mellons, Montgomery Gentry Ray Stevens, trace Atkins, Tracy Bird, Travis Tritt, and a few others I might of forgot.
Well, gotta go. See yall on the on other side of the day.
