Another beautiful spring day in the Old Dominion state! I just finished my sausage, eggs and hashbrowns. Doctor recently put me on a high salt, high colesterol regimine. Washed it down with a big glass of whole milk just like mom used to make me drink before I could leave the table.
Now to get my protein enriched butt back to work…
Richard
Happy birthday to those that are today, mines on the 24th. 6 days before those intermountain coaches are released.
Mornin’ everyone!
Zoe, I’ll have the #2 special, eggs over easy, bacon, home fries, and a double order of sour dough toast with real butter. Oh, and lots of dark roast coffee for my R&GV RR mug, thanks!
Happy Birthday to all those who are or soon to be celebrating them… Hope you have a great one!
The big yellow thing is shining outside… That always makes me smile! Final output of the solar panels for the Month of April came to 540 Kwh. May is starting off well…
Hey Galaxy! Where the heck are we this month? I don’t recognize any landmarks around the place…
Today I might actually get time to go down cellar and stare at the layout for a few minutes while I do laundry. That will be after I finish mowing the lawn.
Best get my old bones moving…
Later!
73
Morning all,
Just got done trimming back a tree in the front yard. The humidity feels like it is around 150%. Doing laundry now and I need to vacuum later.
I am off w**k for 7 days because of the change in my shift days[:D]. I go back for 2 shifts then it is vacation time for about 2.5 weeks.[:D][:D][:D]
[bday][^][G] to all those getting ready to have a birthday.
James- You should have a great time in Thailand. I did a port visit in Pattaya Beach in 1992. Talk about a wild location.
Hope everybody has a great day and prayers for those in need.
Morning All,
Currently 47 with an expected high of 65 under partly cloudy skies.
Today being Wednesday, is my regular day off. I have a load of laundry going right now. Will cook up a few meals for the week and freeze them in small one person portions. Then pay a few bills. Was thinking about yard wk, but decided the layout needed more attention, so I hope to paint the engine house and do some more scenery wk.
[bday][^][G] to all those celebrating their special day.
Prayers to all in need.
Paul
Afternoon guys
Been working on getting the front bumper and fender off of my brother’s Miata. It’s nice to have a car that only has metric bolts and nuts. My mustang has both metric and standard (ton op of torx and hex-sockets). Took a few hours but I got it. The killer was getting into some of the areas to loosen bolts. The car is probably made for small people, by small people. I wonder if Jeff could fit in one, much less get in (I have issues doing that)?
There was also a recess for a snake. I was taking the fenderliner off of the driver’s side, and apparently there was a snake in there. It landed next to me (laying down on my back) and didn’t move, I thought it was dead until I touched it. Me and the snake kinda scooted away from each other… I figure it was about 18-24 inches long, gray/tan with black/brown squares on it’s back. I thought it might be a small diamondback, but it didn’t have any rattles. I got a 6-foot long piece of PVC pipe and nudged into the grass away from the me and my brother… It did wrap itself around the pipe once when I was holding the pipe, and I tried to get my brother to take a pic but he didn’t. I went back to work and guess what my brother does. He goes and lays next to the snake with his camera, and starts poking it with a short (probably under a foot) stick. The thing just played dead when he did that. Any idea what kind of snake that might be, and why was it inside the miata? The car has been in the garage for over a year and a half now. I wonder if it was there the whole time? We haven’t had any issues with rats or mice, so it may have been keeping them away.
I don’t know if I’ll work on trains today. I did get pipe cleaner yesterday to get the paint out of the beacons. I just don’t feel like messing with it now.
I won’t turn 24 until August… I got a ways to go lol
NP, ha
Hi Jeff, I think it was a post from me, directed to you, that Todd was referring to. I’m not sure how you highlight the name like you do…I’ll try this: Jeffrey-Wimberly, I don’t know how you do the the color thing with the name, but anyway, the question I had for you, since you are way more computer savy than I will ever be, I stll use a computer with Windows XP, home edition, and IE 8.0. I don’t think I can up-grade any more, as the automatice updates, etc., have expired, as far as I know, especially for IE 8. I discovered that FireFox seemed a lot better and faster on a lot of the sites I use, so I now use it, version 20, with auto-updates, for most of my browseing. I have noticed that there are some things I can not do on Fire Fox, that I can do on IE 8, and one of them is view the web cams in Trains. After reading about Java, and Fire Fox, I understand there are some secutiy issues between Fire Fox and Java, so I was wondering if it’s something I can do on my computer? or just avoid any
got some handrails to replace, I busted the ones on my PSAP GP40-2. I was also going to go back and continue scouting out the layout.
Was it unusual for trains to be longer than the platforms at back in stations?
Good afternoon.
Sore and tired. Not feeling well. Don’t feel like doing anything right now. Will get to work, get through that, head home and sleep.
In the posting WINDOW MIKE, on the top toolbar, right next to the FONT SIZE box {to it’s right} is a “A” with a down arrow to the right of it, click on the arrow, you will SEE COLORS. When you highlight the letter/word/sentece/paragraph. and click the arrow to the right of the “A” and select a color… it will make that letter/word/sentence/paragraph that COLOR.
To select a background color, the 5th item from the left on the second line of teh toolbar is an “ab” with a pencil next to it. click it the same way after you highlighted a letter/word/senetence/paragraph to get a BACKGROUND COLOR. DO both, and you get a color within a color!
Well well
we went and did somehting we haven’t done in a LONG awhile…we stimulated the economy!!!
We went and bought a lawnmower{needed since a yr and a half ago, but we been borrowing the neighbors}, a srayer for weedkiller, a new box fan, two throw rugs for t
Todd and Blownout-Cylinder- It’s not today, its next week, May the 10.
NP2626- Happy Birthday to your son!
And guys, I know my username is alexstan, but please call me Alexander. [:)]
And thank you so much for all your birthday wishes so far!
Galaxy, Thanks, see, you can teach an old dog new tricks. I guess I should be familiar with all of this, as this type of “tool” header is in just about everything I use, like Office, Word, etc. DAH !
Well, I’m glad to hear you folks got a chance to do a little economy stimulating, and consuming of goods. Remember, I’ve been sitting quietly at the counter for quite a while before speaking up, and announcing my presence, so It’s also great to hear YOH found some employment, and the hopes of better jobs to come along with better opportunities for you folks.
BN #24, Gary, There was a thread not too long ago about this very topic, trains longer than the platforms. Yep, and it still happens today. I occasionally have been know to take Amtrak’s Hiawatha service between Milwaukee, WI and Chicago, IL., and just about every place it stops, the train is longer. They make you walk through the cars that are beyond the platform, to get to a car that is, to get off. In loading, everybody fills up the cars at the platform first, and people getting on at the next stop have to walk through those cars to get to one with empty seats. There is no reserved seats on Hiawatha, it runs 4 or 5 times a day, back and forth, first come, first serve. Amtrak’s Empire Builder, with loading and unloading, reserved seats are the norm, and the train will pull ahead and make two stops at most stations, so every one can board, or get off at the platform. Kind of long winded here, but that’s my experience.
Later folks, back to the garage to continue on with some projects that have been waiting for good weather.
Mike.
Ok, dumb Canadian question here… Where pray tell is the “Dominion State:.”
Dennis
Does this look like what you saw?
This is one of the species of shovelnose snake. It can put on a very convincing show including making a rattling sound by scraping it’s scale against each other. It’s essentially harmless but the encounter could still leave you looking for a change of underwear.
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Galaxy, Thanks, see, you can teach an old dog new tricks. I guess I should be familiar with all of this, as this type of “tool” header is in just about everything I use, like Office, Word, etc. DAH !
Well, I’m glad to hear you folks got a chance to do a little economy stimulating, and consuming of goods. Remember, I’ve been sitting quietly at the counter for quite a while before speaking up, and announcing my presence, so It’s also great to hear YOH found some employment, and the hopes of better jobs to come along with better opportunities for you folks.
BN #24, Gary, There was a thread not too long ago about this very topic, trains longer than the platforms. Yep, and it still happens today. I occasionally have been know to take Amtrak’s Hiawatha service between Milwaukee, WI and Chicago, IL., and just about every place it stops, the train is longer. They make you walk through the cars that are beyond the platform, to get to a car that is, to get off. In loading, everybody fills up the cars at the platform first, and people getting on at the next stop have to walk through those cars to get to one with empty seats. There is no reserved seats on Hiawatha, it runs 4 or 5 times a day, back and forth, first come, first serve. Amtrak’s Empire Builder, with loading and unloading, reserved seats are the norm, and the train will pull ahead and make two stops at most stations, so every one can board, or get off at the platform. Kind of long winded here, but that’s my experience.
Later folks, back to the garage to continue on with some projects that have been waiting for good weather.
Mike.
Well now!! Finally a nice enough day to get outside a do some yard work. Got the back yard leaves all blown/dug out etc. and then mulched them up with the new mower I bought last fall. Wow, it started second pull even on stale gas [tup] Mind you for the amount I paid for the fool thing it should really mow the lawn itself. [swg]
I’ll do the front tomorrow if the weather up here turns out like the weather guessers are predicting. Ya never know till you look out the window in the morning.
Later all, time to go do some scenery stuff.
Dennis
Unless I’m mistaken it’s Virginia.
I use Java and Firefox with no problem. I use AVG virus protection and it lets me know it there’s any problem and so far, silence is golden. I stopped using IE several years ago because it seemed like the errors it made increased exponentially with every upgrade and got to the point where I couldn’t even have three tabs open without it dropping one, two or all three and had to ‘recover’ all of them. I used XP for years and really liked it. Now that I have a new computer I’m using Windows 8 which came preloaded on it. The first thing I did was download Firefox then dumped IE off the desktop.
Well, we really enjoyed our 3 days of summer up here. Currently under a Winter Storm Warning. 5-8" of sn**.
Already got the rain/sleet earlier, now the final nail.
31f and sn**ing.[|(]
Trian time!![:D]
I started another kit-bash/mingle/etc. for American Excelsior, a company in Rice Lake that makes erosion blankets and the like.
That’s all for now!
Terry in NW Wisconsin
It was a beautiful day here in Pittsburgh. Temperatures were in the mid 70’s with sunny skies, low humidy and a nice gentle breeze. Now if it would only stay like this all year round. Fat chance of that though.
Because the wife wife really enjoys it, we drove down to the Wheeling Island Casino this morning. We played for a couple of hours and ended up losing what we take to play on. But, I kind of look at it like it’s an entertainment expense, so I really never go with the expectation of winning. It is nice when it happens though. Up until today, we have been playing on casino money (winnings) for the last 4 or 5 years. Today, it came out of my pocket today so we need to win big and go back to playing with their money. Much more fun that way. We do enjoy the buffet there. Great food and you can’t beat the price. Because I had a buy one, get one free couplon, the 2 meals cost me a total of $14.00. The bottom line is the wife goes to play the slots, and I go for the buffet.
Need to get some things done in the next couple of days. The windows need washed inside and ou. No small task as this old house has 23 windows and 2 doors with glass inserts. The car needs to be washed so I can get a coat of wax on it, and the main flower bed needs to be roto tilled and prepared for planting. That’s not as big a job as it once was as I have been planting more and more perenials over the last couple of years. Then there’s… Never mind, I’m not going to get it all done anyway. I’ll probably invoke the “Retired Guy’s” option. Which is “I’ll do it later”.
Have a good one and enjoy where ever it is we are…