Morning All
Just a cup of tea please My throat is to sore for any thing else
last night i dreamed of eating a cheeseburger
yummie [:P]
10 more treatments to go well better get going
Oh BTW the computer that runs the radiation machine froze up friday and got stuck on the forth position so i had to lay on the table and wait for my tech to run and get the engineer to restart the computer
i was so happy to be done with that one
Have some fun today !
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Good morning …
Looks like Jim, Jerry, and Terry are in the corner booth. If they don’t mind I’ll join them, for some coffee…
Any sweet rolls today? … They were so good yesterday, they vanished in no time. Is Ed around? Some of his OJ would be great now. Where’s Duke? Cruisng on that bike?
Terry … sorry to hear about the radiation computer problem. I sincerely hope and pray that you’ll be done with all of this stuff soon.
Flash … I’ve not heard in the past couple of days if you’re Dad’s condition is improving. I’m almost afraid to ask. Prayers will continue.
We’ll continue our concern for people in the CA wildfire region. You OK, Tom?
Happy Model Railroading
Morning all–
Woke up this morning and there is BLUE SKY! Well, not really blue, but the smoke is pretty much gone and there’s a Delta breeze that’s scoured the air out pretty well. We’ve still got 1,000+ fires here in the northern half of the state, but CalFire and the Forest Service has been able to get a handle on all of them except for the one south of us at Big Sur.
The Government sent in eight HUGE borate air tankers a couple of days ago, but they’ve been grounded because of visibility. Hopefully today they’ll be able to take off and start whacking the biggest of the fires. We had thunderstorms yesterday, but they stayed east of the Sierra and just bombarded Nevada. And of course, wouldn’t you know–they were WET! Just what that state needs–soaked sagebrush, LOL!
Terry: That must have been something, waiting for them to re-start the computer. Hope that’s a first and a LAST for you, there. And keep thinking about that cheeseburger–It’ll happen, buddy. Make it a double–with bacon slices.
Jeff: Hope you and your parents have recuperated from that bunch of Dildo-heads at the restaurant. People that ignorant just make my teeth grind.
Lee: Sounds like your neighbor and his kids think your front yard is the Super Bowl. Anyone ever tell those animals about Property Rights? Had a similar thing happen to me with the school across my back-yard fence. I kept pulling T-balls out of my pool until I had a collection big enough to take to the principal’s office and inform her that they needed to re-locate Home Base. She just blinked as I poured a bucketful of the little thingies on her desk. Home Base got re-located, LOL!
Well, Mother’s leaving today, my sister is coming down to get her. It’s been a week and a half around here, with everyone house-bound. But at least I c
Tom, I was thinking about that Atlas tower after reading your earlier post. Now you have some leftover building for another building, too! [yeah] Good to hear your air is improving today. Hope that continues (and that you get some rain, but not a la Midwestern levels!). [tup]
Jim in Cape Girardeau
Howdy folks!
[bday] First off, I just want to wish Benjamin a Happy Birthday! [bday]
He turned 13 today! So, Happy Birthday Ben! At 5’ 9" he is as tall as me now, I think he’ll surpass me in height this year!
Been out a pocket the past few days! Playing catch em ups now! Sorry if I miss some posts in here, your forgiveness appreciated.
Lee, thanks for the heads up on page 92…hummm…who could that be…[:-^] << scratches head >>
RT, I like your new Southern loco in your signature! [tup]
Jeff, some people have no manners these days. Glad that the restaurant manager handled it right!
Good afternoon from steamy, hot, humid Central Massachusetts. We ahve had TS’s every day for the last week, today will be no exception. Everything here is green as can be, garden is doing great with all the right amount of rain, although we have had some gully washers.
There have been some really nice sales online for locomotives and cars at several MRR sites. I have a couple of B&M loco’s coming, and another undecorated that I will do in B&M colors myself. I received an email that Klein has shipped that order last week, so it should be arriving today via “Mr Brown”.
JEFF: I was so angry just reading about what happened to your parents and yourself. I was even more surprised to hear of their ages. I could expect this from “some” certainly not all, the “me” generation, but not someone who certainly should know better. And to call you a half breed, etc, I wish I was there Jeff, people like that really light my boiler fire. I commend you for keeping your cool, and I was really happy to hear how the manager handled it. I think if I were there, I would have said to them as they exited…" don’t let the door hit you in the a**. ( Of course my wife would be angry with me also )And tell your mother that I said the Cherokee’s are beautiful people!!![:)]
ROB: I feel badly that you cannot save your tooth with a root canal, they are so painless these days with modern technology. Have you asked your dentist if can cut you a break after all that you have been through? Thinking longer term Rob, if you keep having problem teeth pulled, sooner or later you will need a bridge, or implants, either way, this will cost you far more than canal and cap
Hey, Ryan … say Happy Birthday to Benjamin …[bday]… and if there’s any b-day cake left over, I…er, uh… I Have some thoughts about what to do… [dinner]
Dick … that’s a good thread you started and people have some good ideas. [tup] I had another idea and started a thread on tips to economize just within the hobby.
So far, Lee is the only one to comment on the cartoon on p 92 of Aug MR. Well, I thought of one or two diners when I saw it. [swg]
Afternoon all,
Well the trip to the DDS went well; matter-of-fact they said I’ve made vast improvements since I had my jaw fixed in 2003.
Well if I have problems with the neighbor kids they know it’s better to deal with me than with Dorothy she is typically armed when she confronts trespassers.
That cartoon reminds me of myself some days. I have 3 turnouts that will need to be motored before I install some buildings.
Some of you may remember my goal for 2008 was to assemble all the structures in my big box. Well to date between Dale and I we have built 15 out of 24 kits. Almost there.
Lee
Afternoon all
Garry I am still around and sitting in the other back booth watchn’ and listen’ and when I saw the Toon in the MR,that certain person came to mind.[:D][:-^]
Dick As a matter of fact,I do have a rail trip planned for July. I would like to make it to the East Broadtop,Steam Town,and then into Jersy to see Northlandz. I need to send Attaboy an Email to see if he will be able to make it to one of the sites in Pa.
That’s about it and best to all on sick call and those recovering [angel][angel][angel]
Bridge Tom Hope the air stays better for you and they get the fires under control.
Talk to you later
Duke
Silver Spike that engine I’ve had about 4 years and its accually about 10 years old I’mthinking of upgrading it to TMCC (that will cost me about $300.00) but thats down the road, I have 6 passenger cars to go with it in that lovely southern green scheem.
QWell went out to truck this am and put some boxes of stuff in the backseat (that still sounds weird to me a pickup with a back seat lol) for a lady at work whos nieghbor’s house burnt down the other night . Well we got in put the key in turned the key and silence turned to wife and said this is not good of coarse she goes what isn’t good and I have to tell here dead battery isn’t good. and then she goes OH!! Great.
Well I call for a wrecker to give us a jump and we head to get a new battery (took wrecker company about hour and half to get here lol. )
But rest of day went fine. Received another train set in the mail today well from the brown truck I should say. Its from 1948 its another addition to my collection again lol.
it took them 60 years to deliver it to you???
LOL
Well, just when everything was starting to look at least at least partway in control out here in SmokyCal, ANOTHER fire has popped up, this one about 25 miles up the hill from me between Auburn and Cool in the American River canyon. Heavy brush, it’s closed State Hwy 49 which is a major foothill artery running north to south. Here we go again.
And to top it off, the news just said that the fireworks booths up and down the North part of the state are doing BOOMING business, this year. The TV cameras zeroed in on one woman with six kids buying enough to detonate a small country, and she was smiling and saying, “Well, the air’s clearing up, we might as well.” Yo, lady, where did you leave your BRAINS?!!
Wow, sorry to groan about all of this, what with the disasters in the Midwest, but we’re just at the start of fire season out here, and already we’ve managed to burn over 300,000 acres of wildlands. That’s a LOT of country, folks. Missouri is under water, California’s burning up–WHEW!
Well, there is a bright spot in all of this–got a call from the high school–the Music Director and the Principal, and CAN I PLEASE COME BACK NEXT YEAR FOR THREE DAYS A WEEK? Not only that, but at the SAME CONTRACT?
Whoa, am I going to pass THAT ONE up? Well, I’m going to think about it. I asked Leah–the Choral Director and my ‘partner in crime’ over there if I had to give back the Plaque that the Chamber Singers gave me on my retirement, she howled. I don’t have to give it back if I return. Frankly, since it’s only part-time, I think I will. I’ve been ‘retired’ for a month, and I’ll be frank, gang, I don’t think Retirement’s all that Big a Deal. Maybe Partial retirement—
Besides, I already miss those kids like crazy. And you probably have to be Catholic to understand this, but Jesuits are just a HOOT to be around.&n
I love fireworks. the two best are the saturn missile batteries and the bottle rockets. We’re shooting them off at my grandma’s house on saturday. REally, you get great deals on fireworks then. I’ll see what I can get in terms of pics.
Dick, That will be the day.[(-D] All I could think of would be cats using it for an outhouse, or dogs running off with the structures. I really like our inside layout. If progress isn’t happening, at least the locos get exercised.
Our airconditioning at work was broken today. The thermostat inside read 86. I am hoping for cooler weather tomorrow.
Have you been on any rail fanning trips lately?
Sue
Packers:
I love fireworks, too. Seriously, if it weren’t so bad out here in California, I’d be setting them off like I always do in the Fourth. Nothing like watching a bottle-rocket take off, LOL! Post some photos so I can see what they’re SUPPOSED to be, okay? Maybe next summer out here, we can all watch them ‘woosh’ without burning up the REST of the state [:D]
Tom
I suspect he still did not see the cartoon. [sigh]
I don’t get MR. This cartoon sounds fascinating.
Tom, Your smoke has finally drifted up here. The haze is causing it to cool off. Hope they get your fires undercontrol soon.
Sue
Sue–
I hope our smoke doesn’t linger around you very long. It’s really NASTY. Hopefully it’ll disperse over Puget Sound, and QUICK! Sorry we had to send it north, that’s not a pleasant way to cool down your temperatures.
Tom [
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