Perhaps, Turkeyville would have been a good spot in Novemebr.
I recall Turkeyville near Marshall, MI… It is a turkey farm which grew into a tourist trap… They sell fresh turkeys, and you can eat there with various kinds of turkey sandwiches and so on. … Marshall, by the way, is the birth place of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers… The town also has a German restaurant which attracts people from long distances.
I’m slowly getting over the cold, and so, it is time to work on the layout again … Speaking of cold, the weather certainly cooled off. I heard Louisville had a bit of snow overnight last night. Tonight it is forecasted to be 28 degrees there. …
It amazes me how many people underestimate the strength of a disabled person, especially those with leg issues. While many let themselves go some don’t and build their upper body strength. Last night someone ticked me off and realized he’d made a serious mistake at exactely the same moment I snatched him off his feet and commenced sweeping the floor with his worthless carcass. Now nobody wants to makethis big Indian mad. I’m not THAT strong! I can only bench press twice my weight and change and snatch an average person off their feet with enough force to throw a good scare into them. It’s not like I’m out to hurt anybody.
A bright and sunny day again - I really enjoy it! If we had a solar panel on our roff, we could harvest some kW´s these days!
I just had a look at some forum statistics. Elliot´s Trackside Diner used to have an average of 600+ posts in the past years, now we are short of about 200 posts in recent months. Quite a number of folks don´t come here any longer, and some of the regulars post less. Time for a MIA role call?
I miss Barry, Chris, Jerry, Jim, DerJohn, Flip, Rob, Todd and those many others, who used to come in here for a chat in those 5 years since I joined. I know some have to battle health issues - let´s extend blessings to them.
Good to see Jeff on a regular basis. He seems to be in a kind of fighting mood, putting the nurses to the floor [:P]
Thought I´d share some pictures of a layout with you, which was the source of inspiration for my little layout:
Layout and pictures by Jeroen Mentink, a talented young Dutch model railroader.
Hmmm…slightly ominous tthat you should mention this!
Garry, After my maternal family left KY, they settled in Marshall, MI, where my mother was raised…then later on settled in Battle Creek.Guess where my g-ma worked? Why, Kelloggs, of course!
I DO so hope it was your nephew you mopped the floor with. He would deserve it from what you tell us.
I am aware of how disabled people compensate for what they lack…especially those with no legs and incredibly immense upperbody strength.
I can’t imagine what you would have done if that person had really made you mad, instead of just a little ticked off!
~Chilly, blustery, cold here now all of about 35F… but Tuesday near 70?
~The furnace only ran a few times yesterday as I kept it down to save on fuel so as to not get to far behind the balanced utility budget. MOH of course wants to keep it high, but i can adapt. If its in the 50 out on the enclosed porch, it stays around 67-70F inside here. If it is in the 40s it will stay around 64-66F in here without much help from the furnace…Thats the way I like it.{NOT using the furnace burnign fuel I mean…I cna always put on another layer or a hevier layer to keep warm. That was what I did during the oil embargo as a teen in the 70s! We had Oil heat, I was first one up as a teen, and I was ALLOWED to turn it UP to 60F {from 58} when I got up. Then My father would turn it up to 62F when he got up, and MY mother got it to go to a whol
Mornin, an irish coffee please Janie, it down frosty out there at 23. Sunny today with high 47, a lite wind. For all the wind n cold here, atleast we ain’t getin any white stuff like some folk.
Spent most of yesterday in Paris for Andy’s services went well. His wife held up ok, thanks to a pill. Sis said she was a basket case earlier. My mom, sister and Andy’s sis did lot better than I figured they would.
I can sure tell it’s getting close to x-mas, with the number of containers on the tracks out back. Also been seeing some different power, BNSF running 3 or 4 through with balken crude oil a week. A mixed power [KSC,BNSF n CSX] haulin wind turbine parts. The radioactive waste car. The number of KSC Schneider container up. Still got UP’s PRB coil drags runnin. Some days it’s hard to remember CSX owns this ROW with all the different trains.
Well [has a skiff of ice on top] I best get on ta chores, not much planned for the day, some cleanin n football. Thoughts n prayers for tose in need, n hope ya’ll has a gooden
Interesting … I lived in Michigan most of my adult life. First location was Kalamazoo, and the next was Marshall (very briefly). Next job was in GTW RR HQ in Detroit, and we lived in Macomb County, Oakland County, and lastly Ann Arbor. … Kelloggs was GTW’s largest customer not in the automotive business. GTW’s locomotive shops were in Battle Creek, and I was there numerous times. … I retired early and we live in a nice location at Land Between the Lakes in KY.
I always liked model railroading, but it was challenging to build a layout because of many moves. I did model GTW in N Scale for a while. Following that I was building my 1900 erea layout, but it was dismantled to move. … We moved in this house in 2001, and I have been building my CB&Q layout ever since
Perhaps, Turkeyville would have been a good spot in Novemebr.
I recall Turkeyville near Marshall, MI… It is a turkey farm which grew into a tourist trap… They sell fresh turkeys, and you can eat there with various kinds of turkey sandwiches and so on. … Marshall, by the way, is the birth place of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers… The town also has a German restaurant which attracts people from long distances.
Hmmm…slightly ominous tthat you should mention this!
Garry, After my maternal family left KY, they settled in Marshall, MI, where my mother was raised…then later on settled in Battle Creek.Guess where my g-ma worked? Why, Kelloggs, of course!
Strange you should mention it…
Interesting … I lived in Michigan most of my adult life. First location was Kalamazoo, and the next was Marshall (very briefly). Next job was in GTW RR HQ in Detroit, and we lived in Macomb County, Oakland County, and lastly Ann Arbor. … Kelloggs was GTW’s largest customer not in the automotive business. GTW’s locomotive shops were in Battle Creek, and I was there numerous times. … I retired early and we live in a nice location at Land Between the Lakes in KY.
I always liked model railroading, but it was challenging to buil
Coffee and the Sunday Breakfast buffet please. Thanks.
Inch- I’m very sorry to hear about your Nephews passing. I’m sure it was a blessing for him. He’s no longer suffering.
Not much going on worth reporting here. Things are going along ok.
Speaking of leaves, this is the first year I actually removed most of the leaves off the yard. There are still some chopped up for the fertilizer, but the amount I had would just choke things out. Also is the first year I had to clean the gutters of leaves. Why….who knows.
Havent commneted here in a couple weeks. I have been busy at work. I managed to rake some leaves today as well as replacing batteries in smoke detector and carbon monoxide detector. In my free time I have been playing alot of sports games on the PS3 as well as strat o matic.
Lunch was almost a disaster for me. A pineapple type dessert turned out to also have have banana slices in it. I’m allergic to bananas. The kitchen staff then offered cherry pie as a replacement. Can’t have that either!
Chloe, I just need a refill for my decaf at the moment.
Actually went to church this morning… Haven’t been to church since the first week in May. Communion this Sunday (Always the first Sunday of the Month at our church) and got to sit next to Granddaughter #2 for the whole service. She is growing into such a sweet young lady! I stuck around after the service for about 45 minutes to test out the sound system and see if I could figure out what went wrong with it a few weeks ago. Didn’t take too long to figure out the amp for the main speakers is fried. One side of the amp doesn’t work at all and the other side is not sending out really clean power to the one speaker it handles. I think gthis is yet another casualty of the lightning hit a couple years ago. Hopefully the sound dealer agrees with what I found and can drop ship a new amp to us. Will take about 45 minutes to switch out the amp and check/adjust the new amp.
Guess I will go and light the wood stove as it is all of 40°F outside. Catch you all later!
Perhaps, Turkeyville would have been a good spot in Novemebr.
I recall Turkeyville near Marshall, MI… It is a turkey farm which grew into a tourist trap… They sell fresh turkeys, and you can eat there with various kinds of turkey sandwiches and so on. … Marshall, by the way, is the birth place of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers… The town also has a German restaurant which attracts people from long distances.
Hmmm…slightly ominous tthat you should mention this!
Garry, After my maternal family left KY, they settled in Marshall, MI, where my mother was raised…then later on settled in Battle Creek.Guess where my g-ma worked? Why, Kelloggs, of course!
Strange you should mention it…
Interesting … I lived in Michigan most of my adult life. First location was Kalamazoo, and the next was Marshall (very briefly). Next job was in GTW RR HQ in Detroit, and we lived in Macomb County, Oakland County, and lastly Ann Arbor. … Kelloggs was GTW’s largest customer not in the automotive business. GTW’s locomotive shops were in Battle Creek, and I was there numerous times. … I retire
We made it to the train show in Timonium last Saturday. Although we had a nice time, the show itself was a little disappointing in my estimation. I don’t think there were nearly the number of vendors than were there in my past visits. Still a good show, but simply not worth the cost for us anymore. The modular club layouts were very interesting with a lot of excellent modeling on display. I ended up buying nothing. That’s right, nothing at all. There were some good deals to be had, but nothing of note for my collection. We did find a new restaurant in Camp Hill that is really good, so the trip wasn’t a total loss.
The new gas dryer was delivered last week before we left for Timonium, but they refused to install it because the existing line was copper & required a reducer which they didn’t have. But the store we always buy from immediately refunded our installation charge. I got hold of my plumber after coming home & he installed a new gas line for the dryer, so I won’t have any hook up issues in the future. I also had him install a new kitchen faucet assemply & shut off valves. However, I have to call our appliance repairman tomorrow as the spring on the dishwasher door broke last night. He had trouble getting parts the last time he was here for the dishwasher, so who knows where this adventure will end.
As far as changing the clocks for daylight savings time, I realized last night that my Iphone, the car, the TV & 2 clock radios all change the time automatically. I only need to do 1 wall clock, the stove & the microwave. Oh, my wristwatch too. That’s it. Getting more & more simplar for us forgetfull seniors all the time.
This was a good weekend for railfanning. Yesterday there were 13 trains in 3 hours. 5 mixed freights, 4 intermodals, 1 coal, 1 crude oil, 1 stone & 1 unit train of open gondolas with what looked to be sand.
Today there 2 auto racks on CSX in about 2 hours. After stopping for lunch, we headed bac
~I just spent 4.5 hours in the ER with MOH this time,MOH has a kidney stone. SOme good meds later and no pain…for now…we’ll see about later or tomorrow!!
~Garry- Even Smaller world…BOTH my parents graduated from WMU! My father got his job at IBM out here before finishing his degree, came out here was granted a sabatical to go back and finish his last semester…so I started Kindergarten out there in BC.Then came here for the second half the year of K. Every summer we returned to BC to my g-mas to a family reunion. My mother’s family {save the ones in KY} all live/lived in MI, we were the only ones to leave the state… The EL ran out here, so that with a few well placed Chessie trains ran on the road to my house here, out in the country…if we went home the wrong tiem, had to wiat for either the cows to cross the road or the train to cross the road when I was growing up! They once dug up the {bad crumbling} road roadbed around the tracks and put in the metal plates, but the cows refused to cross the metal plates as to the sound on their hooves,SO…the RR had to dig up the plates and go back to RR ties for crossings!
~Jeffrey! Make Sure they know all your food allergies too! Shell fish and I don’t get along well, but no other food sensitivities, just a growing list of adverse reactions to medications! SInce I was once clinically dead for 6.5 minutes on allergy one med, I don’t fool around if I start to react to a med! GOod thing for CPR, ambulances and shockers! when they were looking for donations to outfit local schools/public places with Automatic Defib machines, I so wished I could have donated one as they sure come in handy sometimes!
Well, have a good nights rest! There is no extra hour tonight for certain ones of us!
Diet, very disapointing. I have been good about the amount of carbs I havee been eating. Been keeping right around 40 carbs a day. In the last 2 weeks I have lost nothing and gave up a lot of the foods I enjoy! I have read one of the Diabetic Med’s I am on makes it hard to loss weight and I am starting to beleive it!
Well I am not done yet! If I no longer can lose weight with a 40 carb intake a day, I am going to cut down to 35 carbs. I use to lose weight at 40 but that was a few years ago, OK 15 years ago.
Shoulder Finally Stopped Hurting. There is still a very faint discomfort so I am waiting another day but after that I am going to start working out again. That should help get rid of some of the weight.
Another Computer Question. My Mother Board will support up to 2 Gigs of memory (Have 125 right now) It and the Pentium 4 Processor will only run my RAM DDR333 at 320 MHz. Now do I have to stick with RAM that is only 333 or could I use say a 500? I think it will still only run at 320 MHz but easier to find.
