Good Morning ! from Tipton IN.
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Good Morning…
Must have fell asleep in the corner booth again…no wonder Duke is always back here…its so cuddled up here…
Going all the way up to the mighty 46F in the sun today…tomorrow? back to rain…
Anyhow, got a phone call last night to start the on-call…another no show so I ended up finding someone to cover …
Hopefully this will not be a sign of this weekends condition here…
Chloe, I’ll have an IV bag–set at maybe a 30cc drip rate of 3ltr’s of rawcaffeine…think I’ll need it today
Good Morning Everyone! I woke up at 3am?? Guess I am stuck in the W**K mode? I cleaned up my mess I had made in the kitchen lunch box,water bottles, man purse, etc… I have a few pieces of wood to cut and install on my bench work then I will be heading to Home depot to get some plywood and order some Homosote. We have a neighbor that lives in her parents home, She likes to sleep all day while her sweet mother watches her son, cooks,cleans, laundry,shopping,etc! What I do because we love the mom. I fire up the mower,weed eater, leaf blower, But today I will be nice. I will let her sleep in until 7am before I open the garage door and fire up my old table saw. HEE HEE! I will see everyone later. get busy!
Thayne.
Good morning,
The MR 75-year collection was delivered in Fridays mail. Very cool to have every MR from 1934-2009 at your finger tips.
Good Morning!! Coffee and an English muffin with butter and grape jam please. Thanks.
Santa Claus is coming to Williamsville today so I must be there to take pictures for the Foundation. So, that means my morning and early afternoon is shot.
Ya’ll have a Great Day!!!
Good morning. It’s 56° and cloudy. The high will be 70° and we will be having what the weather guesser calls ‘partial sunshine’. Looks like mostly cloudy to me.
No plans today. I’ll just do what I think should be done when I think of it providing I can remember it long enough to do anything about it. I can think of something to do and by the time I’ve gotten up to - what was I going to do? It can be aggravating at times. Yesterday I sent out a KCS Southern Belle grain car to a friend in north Louisiana. Monday he’ll be sending me a well car with containers. I don’t know what I’ll do with it yet.
Welcome to Darren! I hope you continue visiting with us in the DIner!
Jeff … The last B&W photo looks like a real historical picture.
Curt … Nice pictures!
Ray … I like the boiler you are including the the power house.
Rob … Glad to see you here as always.
Lee … Sounds like the 75 year MR was a good purchase.
JimCG … This Imac is running flawlessly, and I wonder about yours. Hope you can be in the diner more often soon.
Ken … Glad you are back home. Hope all goes well for you.
CN Charlie, JohnBoy, and Bob Seamonster … Are you guys ready for the winter up there in the cold prairies?
Here’s another photo of the Amtrak trip in CO. This is still on the Eastern Slope.
Thanks. Get a load of this one!
Mornin’ everyone!
Zoe, I’ll have a Glazed Sour Cream Doughnut and a few cups of dark roast coffee in my R&GV RR Mug please and thank you!
I got up early this morning, showered, put on my Boy Scout Uniform and headed down to the Parochial High School for the big Rechartering Extravaganza this morning. Stood around and yaked for about an hour with a few Scouters, and then came back home… My Units didn’t show! I am not happy as now they will be late rechartering and I will have to take another day to meet with them and go to the Service Center and get it all done… [|(] I did get a doughnut out of it for my trouble…
I have to go hook up the utility trailer to the truck so I can go bring home my wood splitter from the Museum early this afternoon…
Jeffrey, I see , on top of all the other things you have, you now have “Old Timers Disease”… Ah… I was going to tell you something, but I forgot what it was… Hmmmm.
Later!
73
Coffee in a UNION PACIFIC mug, please.
***Garry, love that photo. Very scenic location and you captured it well.
***Ray, I can understand your sentiments. I’m skipping Christmas this year, except I will send out gifts to my sister’s family. Health providing, I plan on putting up the tree next year. Time and will tell.
Only got a few hours of sleep last night. Eyes are dried out again. Other than a few farm chores, will take it easy today. Rob
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Oh, I see the Diner has come to rest not far from the old Mile High Stadium. Denver is such a pretty city but the air is so thin I have to inhale three times to get the amount of oxygen that I need.
Chloe, I feel great, I got to sleep in today and it was wonderful. I’ll have a re-do on that Mountaineer Special of the other day. It was great. follow that with a H.C. if you please.
GARRY: The winters that I loved were in my early years when I did lots of skiing and snowmobiling and of course sledding with my boys. Absolutley hated the part of winter for the forty years I was on the road. And now still it is just something that we put up with. Not much fun anymore. Too much worry about slips and falls with the accompanying broken hips, ankles, wrists etc.and then that stupid driver somewhere around you that hasn’t polished up their winter driving skills. Best to stay in the train room, me thinks…
ROB: Hope you can stay warm until that new wood stove arrives. About the dry eyes. I have somewhat of a problem there but not as much as you seem to have. I handle mine with an over the counter product called “Tears Naturale Free”. Inside the box is a number of little plastic vials that you break the end off and drip the solution on to your eye. Works good for me. Also quite reasonable in price.
JEFFERY; having watched my Mother go through the various stages of Altzhiemers I think if we keep busy with our hobby, actively reading about it, learning new skills and sharing thoughts with others such as here on the Forum, that will truly help with keeping that dreaded foe at bay. Not a guarentee, but a major help in not having to give in to it. What say Bro ??
JERRY; How is that new Division of the Illinois Southern coming along ?. We haven’t heard any reports lately. Hope you and Sallie are doing well.
Coffee refill, please.
***Johnboy, haven’t ordered a stove yet. Need to get either the van or pickup fixed first, so I have a way to bring home a 3/4" sheet of plywood to start work on the base. That’s my new priority, get one of them running/reliable.
So, how much difference does HP make between tractors? Been looking at 50hp and up tractors to replace my sick little old J.D., before the transmission gives out. Will use it mostly for moving dirt around, including some road building and moving round bales, fallen trees, etc… Doubt I will ever get into trying to bale my own, just because even used equipment for that costs a fortune and I haven’t the land to make it viable. Any thoughts?
Sure is windy here today. Rob
I have the same problem. The thing is if I DO remember what I was going to do, My “get up and go” to do it has “got up and gone”.
Sometimes I think it’s the medcations I take that cause the memory lapses. If not, I hate to see what will become of me when I get older? WIll I become a blathering idot who doesn’t make any sense when he talks? I USED to be a good speller {forget teh dyslexic and bad dyslexic typing}, but now I find myself wondering if words like “really” has one “L” or two "L"s. and the word “with” never looks right to me…Assuming I can get it typed out right.
What else was I gonna say? Ah, nuts…
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Hello…I’ll have a coffee and a Hungry Man’s Lunch if you ain’t too busy, ma’am…please and thankye…
Well, it do look like a slow day for me tday…actually had a good 5 hours of sleep since this morning heeheehee
Rivet counting threads with no flaming sessions? Who’da thunk it?[swg]
Any ‘get up and get’r’done’ around here just ‘got up and disappeared’ on me lately…must be the time of year too…ah me…it just might be that I do be getting older…
Think I’ll j’es set by the ol’ pot belly stove in back here …
mmmmmm…wonder where the road is here…[:^)]
Barry
ssssshhhhhhh!!! You will let the secret out [;)][:-^][:D]
Best to all on sick call and those recovering [angel][angel][angel]
Duke
Garry: Ready for winter? If by that you mean do I have the heavy jackets and parkas hanging by the back door with the insulated boots, scarves, toques and mitts, then yes. If you mean psychologically ready, then no, never. I don’t like winter. I don’t like 30 and 40 below, I don’t like shovelling snow, and I miss sitting at the beach looking at the scenery. No, I’m not ready for winter, never will be. At least winters aren’t as bad and not nearly as long as they were back in the '70s when we lived 500 air miles north of here.
Johnboy: Will you quit sending that cold and snow our way? I know that our weather patterns move west to east (except for the Colorado lows which take dead aim at us) but couldn’t you just divert it a bit north, bend its path a little?
CN Charlie: Try using some rosin core flux (NOT the acid kind used for plumbing) on the joint before applying the solder and heat. And clean the area first. I use flux and have a chisel tip on my iron and the solder flows all over the rail joiner and under it. I have my iron set to about 30-35 watts and I rarely melt any ties. With the higher heat and the flux, I’m not in there long enough for the heat to spread to the ties.
Afternoon folks!
Just a cup of hot chocolate for me right now Chloe…
Got the wood splitter back home. Found out the truck is going to have to go in for an exhaust system check next week… I got about half way to Canandaigua driving over to the museum and found I could barely keep my eyes open… Then realized i was smelling exhaust from the truck… Funny no loud sounds as usual from when a tailpipe goes, but none the less I recognized the smell. Rolled down the window and turned the heater to full air exchange and made it out to the museum. By the time the splitter was loaded on the trailer, I was feeling fine. By the time I was half way home with it, even with the drivers side window half way open, I was starting to feel woozy again. Made several stops on the way home to get out of the truck, check the straps on the splitter, and just get some fresh air…
I will need to get it done ASAP as my son will be needing to drive the truck to work next Friday I think!
Johnboy the Steam Boiler is this one from American Model Builders: http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/152-106 They also make a stationary Steam engine which can be used to power belt driven equipment. Unfortunately they don’t make a turbine kit… I will have to scratch build those.
Barry, the boiler is the start of the inside detail for the Power House.
Gettin’ chilly here so I best go feed the wood stove…
Later!
73
I see I got the top again. Well, I guess afternoon coffee break (or afternoon tea as they call it in England) is on me. Tea and crumpets for everyone, Flo, and put it on my tab.
Good Evening,
So far the March 1941 issue was the first to have HO scale trains in the advertisements that I’ve noticed. A whole year of MR was $1.50. Of course this was the first issue with a diesel on the cover, the AT&SF Super Chief…
Dorothy surprised me with an early birthday present: 10” Porter Cable portable table saw. The saw folds up into a hand truck. This will be nice when I want to use it down near the train room.
Ray you need to get that looked at! Good thing you noticed right away.
Ray: Got the linkee for that boiler…have something planned for that one…yes, I be looking at doing summat on another HO diorama…
Good Evening…
Well(kind of wet. Frogs swimming abouts) tomorrow is going to be a raining kind of day for us’uns…then we will see some more showers on Monday with a few little tiny snowfluffies for Tuesday now…
I managed to get a few hours of train running …around and around[:-^][:-,]…and found no issues on the layout…now…on Tuesday, when I be having the fellows up here…I am predicting total disaster will occur…[:-^][sigh]
Chloe, I’ll have a BIG ol’ Rib Dinner with all the fixin’s and a large RBF please…I’ll be at the corner booth for now…
