Well, it hit 90 degrees today. It amazing when we haven’t had many 70 degree days. We would gladly take some of that rain that you guys are reporting.
Looks like it is my turn to buy.
Sue
Hello everybody…
All the rain has dodge around us here. We could use some now. The lake is up however. Evidently, not much water is being released over the dams towards the other rivers. good for boating and fishing.
Happy Modle Railorading.
Well, couldn’t spend as much of the day as I thought–the smoke LOOKS like it’s way up there, but it’s still dropping what the newspeople call “Particulates”, which I suppose is supposed to mean teeny-tiny “Particles” of smoke that are floating down to the ground and into my lungs. Spent about an hour out in the garage then had to come in and use the Inhaler. I did re-install the water tank and flag-stop station at Bassett’s on the ‘finished’ portion of the Buttes, but the rest of it will STILL have to wait. Bought a cute little Atlas elevated gate tower kit that I thought I might be able to kit-bash into a Forest Service lookout tower for the highest Butte, but the more I look at it, the more I don’t think it’ll work. Too small, and there’s no DOOR! I mean, how does the lookout get into the darned thing, right? [:O] Besides, the lookout station on the Buttes isn’t an elevated tower, it’s just a cute little house sitting on a big, fat rock. Back to the drawing board. I KNOW there’s a kit out there somewhere just waiting for a ‘bash’, just have to find it.
Sue: You probably won’t have to buy too much tonight, but if you are, I’ll just have a strawberry milkshake. 90 degrees in OLYMPIA?! Hoo boy, do you have MY sympathies–my son lives in Vancouver, and when it gets above 80 there, he just wants to go out and commit suicide. Read in another post that your first lokie was the MDC Shay. I’ve got one–haven’t gone the NWSL route like you have, but I’ll agree, they’re one nifty little lokie. Pulls like a team of oxen. [:P]
Flash: Thanks for explaining your fire-train (I think, LOL!). I’m still back in the steam era when the fire-train on Donner Pass had a pump mechanism on the tender. Funny story–I worked for the Forest Service u
Tom:Retorical Answer: There should be a ladder to the tower and a trap door.
Do you you have any pics of the Steam Engine? I can’t find so much as a clue to what a wate rpump should start looking like.
What am I doing up at one two? I just decaled my first successful. A BL1 Demo. Decals from micro, on a Proto engine. My first success. it was fun. Destroyed one stripe, but cannibalized what I thinkw as an extra, coul dbe part of the also included GP7 I don’t have to patch the gap. I even put on the tiny F marking front. I have paint specs bigger than that F. LOL I’ll get pic tomorrow
What an end to my nnight
just thinking nice and easy then some down and out puts a bus sign strait through the glass pannelled door in the other building. just spent the last 2 hr cleaning shards of glass up lol
ill have another tea please girls
Good Morning from Tipton IN ! [:D]
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Good morning
Good morning all,
Gav I feel for you, my mother worked at Bowling Green State University, your stories sound similar to hers.
Sue, I’ll divert a few tank cars of rain water your way.
Jim, I work for the Coast Guard; if it gets too bad I’ll just have the guys pick me up.
Lee
Good morning.
It’s 74 and very cloudy, almost to the point of being foggy. The high will be around 90 and there’s a good chance of thunderstorms this afternoon.
I’ll be doing more ballast work today on the two back corners. I’ll also be adding some patches of weeds (no tall grass) to a couple of spurs as well as a stretch of abandoned track running beside the north engine house and foundry.
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Today’s Weather for:
Sundown, LA 71446-6114 6/29/2008
Heat Index: 79°F
Humidity: 92%
Dew Point: 72°F
So Far Today
High: 76°F
Low: 74°F
Rain: 0.00"
Rain Rate: 0.00"/h
Gust: 16mph W
Today High: 90 Mostly cloudy. Chance of showers and thunderstorms in the morning…then showers and thunderstorms likely in the afternoon. Highs around 90. Southwest winds around 10 mph. Chance of precipitation 60 percent.
Tonight Low: 68 Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s. East winds around 10 mph in the evening becoming light and variable.
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Mornin, just an irish coffee please Janie.
A disturbance will pivot in from the northwest Sunday as a low pressure spins through the Great Lakes. This disturbance will cause the clouds to build & billow over the sky & pop some scattered showers & t’storms. With the very cold pocket aloft & reasonably low freezing levels a few small hailers of pea- to marble-size would not a be out of the question. I am tracking this system, as well as one that may bring heat, humidity & t’storms by late week
TOMORROw NIGHT:
JIM
We tested another .4 of rain last, luckily after the demo derby and fire works at the fair.
LEE,
All of our kids are driving; course the youngest is 30 now. You really start feeling old when the grandkids start. We’ve got 2 driving now.
DICK,
Gardens out and doing good even for being late and the rains. We’ve had a few banana already peppers, and most everything else is blooming n setting fruit. Hope for some fried green maters before long. Also, there’ll be enough tomaters for the dinner to. Mother said we needed to can a lot, so she kept bringing hole plants. At last count there was 49 out there.
When the all crop damage gets figured, I’m sure the numbers will be staggering. Some damage won’t be known until harvest. And with crop demands getting higher, price are going to soar at the grocery store.
GARRY,
We’re going down IL-1 to 45, then 145 the rest the way [about 4 hrs], almost a straight shot for us. Going thru Marion would add an hour or more. Mothers talking bout going down by there, to Giant City state
So you like our “improvements”? I’ll send over a couple more for your approval, OK?
Gav, bus signs hurling through windows? Sounds like something to avoid!
I’ll have three cinammon rolls, please.
Well, my little bro had a fun b-day pary yesterday, and got a ton of cool presents today. So he’s now officially 7. Inch53: I love demolition derbys. that’s the night we go to the local fair; they destroy a bunch of cars there.
Good Morning All…Its partly cloudy with chance of more rain…I’ll have a sasage sandwitch,sweet roll and coffee please…Thank You…We got another rain last nite but like Inch said it held off till the Fair was over…I went outside and watched the fireworks from here…Not much planned for today …gonna watch the Cards game this afternoon if I don’t doze off…Plan on reading the New Model Railroader too…You all have a good one…Jerry
Wow, the swet rolls are nearly gone. Packers ate 3 and Jerr yate 1. holy cow!
Inch and packer metioned demolition derbies. Did you know this? Another name for a race track specializing in such events is called a “crash course”. [swg]
Inch … one of those days should fit. Please send PM so we can exchange contact information. I’ll see if the other guys here have time. Mrs. Inch would be more than welcome, too.
MR subscribers. Look at page 92 in August 2008 issue just out. See the cartoon? Remind you of anybody in the diner? Actually, the person here has an alternative.
Happy Model Railroading everyone.
I’m going to the Grand Canyon in July. I just wanted to know if the former CB&Q 2-8-2 #4960 this year. I already know the former LS&I 2-8-0 #29 is running.
Actually, i ate 4.
4?
Wow!
We’re gonna be calling you ‘WIDE LOAD’ if you keep that up.
When I was in high scholl back in the 60’s one of my nick names was "wide track’…Pontiac had “wide track” cars but my nick name came from my size…Jerry
Actually, since i’m 6’, I don’t really get fat. It kinda gets streched out.