As we were getting up into the 70’s on pages in the old place it seemed high time that we move … again.
Those who wish to look up something in the old one can go here.
Here’s a photo of some of my most recent work just to kick things off.
Hello Jeff!..Nice photo. Where is everybody else?
No idea. Maybe dodging the weather like I am. Weather map shows some ugly stuff moving my way from down south. See ya later.
Coffee in a large SOUTHERN mug, please & thanks.
***Jeffrey, nice work there![tup]
Wife’s HO Layout: We spent a few minutes in the train room together, making decisions. Seems I’m still the one doing all the work though. No surprise there and I really don’t mind a bit. She has a short list of structures needed to finish her town, so perhaps tonight we’ll search some online sites to see what is available that might work for her. Cut & glued some wood around the Drive In Theater screen. Hacked at some foam in a few spots and made a couple culvert pipes using that tinfoil over screw technique. Whoever suggested it, that’s a pretty neat idea.
My N layout: Zero progress to report.
Hope everyone is having a great day.
[C):-)] Rob
Careful now, short lists have a nasty habit of becoming long lists, especially when I’m shopping for something.
If you waited 3 days Bergie would of done it for you as he has a thing now about starting a new every month. Guess thou this was close enough. looks good the new location. Been a good and quiet day basicly other than stated in the other one. Oh you had one asking where the lock was. will go back and see If I can put a lock on the door.
Hope we didn’t move 'cuz of my pics?
Terry
Cheesh! Here I was eating lunch and getting ready to chat with somebody or other, and all of a sudden the darn thing starts to move. I must have fallen asleep in the booth as nobody was in the place.
So this is the new location, huh? Just one track over so i doubt anyone will have any trouble finding the place.
Another new record for high temp in April here in the Finger Lakes. Highest ever reported for the month here was set last Saturday at 89°F. Right now it is 87°F outside which is a new record high for the 27th. of April. Sure hope this isn’t what Summer is going to like this year! On the other hand it is a nice cool 65° down in the train room, so…
Dick you mentioned Bully Hill Vinyard’s. Walter S. ––––––– was the brains behind the Bully Hill Winery on Keuka Lake. Walter lost the right to use his name on the Bully Hill label after Coca-Cola bought the original Taylor Winery which Walter was part of as a family member. When he started the estate winery on Bully Hill, he signed his name on the bottles and was promptly taken to court where he was told he couldn’t put his real name on his wine as it was a copyright violation. Walter legally changed his name to Walter S. –––––––––– Thus beginning a great “tongue in cheek” advertising campaign. He planted some wonderful French/American Hybrids and proceeded to make some full bodied French tradition wines. Walter S. ––––––––– was also a good artist and his work ended up on many of the wine bottles. One of my favorite was directly related to the lawsuit, “(You didn’t get my) Goat”. There are now many, many fantastic small estate wineries on several of the Finger lakes with some of the best on Seneca Lake where I live. If you ever decide to vacation in this area let me know and I will escort you on the wine tour. Finger Lakes Wine is among the very best in the world and has won many internat
Hello all,
Well, Jeffrey,you beat me to it. I was gonna open a new diner when I saw we had reached the 70 page mark this morning, but I didn’t really have time to even post. Thank you.
Went shopping bought La Roma Tomato, Dill, Parsley, three kinds of salad greens, oregano, thyme, and some mary-golds and a flat of pansy to start off with. Over 90* here today, Really have to thank my stars I have an a/c van and house. Whew! gotta love A/C!
Went to visit my father and the in-laws today. Got that out of the way. MIL looking for something to bloom in early spring and stay bloomed all summer into fall. A plant. We have no such animal in these here parts we were told at 3 garden centers. {and we suspected}.
It would seem Dandilions have about taken over the planter and around the pond area this year. Durn it!
We I will have plenty to do next few days preparing the planter and pond.
Well, have a great evening folks and welcome to Jeffrey’s new diner.
#48, the NB thru freight,enters Spooner Yard limits:
Nice new digs!!
Terry
We have yet to see any of that temperature stuff here—YET!![:-^]—don’t worry—Ray—cooler weather, with the attendant barrels of rain are here for tomorrow. BTW–We had a strange day up here. The weatherguessers kept saying winds from the southwest at 30kmh—but the weatherdata kept giving us winds from the southeast at up to 70kmh at times, which it proceeded to do —in spades-----huh?[%-)][:-^]
Well—I had a wonderful short meeting------NOT!!![banghead]—I had to adjourn the thing late this afternoon after a couple of union reps got into it over some dang certification test thing. Then --after I threatened to stick both with a censure over their actions–they spent a hour and a half basically sniping at each other----[:(!][:(!][soapbox][|(]—so I tend to go----RRAAOOORRGH!!–a lot when these things happen
Then I get on our illustrious forum and get OOPSed out----GROWL!!![|(]—
Chloe, I’ll have Strawberry-Rhubarb PIE!!—and a large RBF please—gotta have my comfort food!![swg]
Yup, Barry, I got ooops for almost an hour. Even tried the log-out/log-in thing and no joy. Went to a few other sites, no problems?!?
Terry
Hm, seems I missed last month’s diner entirely. We sure move a lot, don’t we? [:P]
Well, between my computer crashing–I mean, it did a Kamakazi on me, and then a wonderful bout with the Emergency room for a couple of days, I’m just getting back on my feet.
Weather out here in SunnyCal has been kinda/sorta strange, we had a couple of days of over 90 degrees down here in the Valley, then something moved in from Alaska and we had chain controls in the mountains while the snow fell, and now we’re back to breezy and cool. And puffy little clouds wandering around.
Had a week of pollen so high that my COPD went bananas, and I ended up in emergency for some breathing treatments, and right after that, one of my blood-pressure medicines went haywire, and I was back to get some treatment because my tongue swelled so badly it almost cut off my airway. Got the blood-pressure medicine changed and the swelling has gone down, but you’ll never guess what my new blood-pressure medicine is–okay, it’s little triangular blue pills. The INFAMOUS little triangular blue pills. Can you guys say VIAGRA? Well, evidently that’s what it was originally designed as–blood pressure control. They only discovered the side effects later, LOL! Okay, the bottle says COZAR, but it’s the same thing. Ask me, I know!
But I ended up with a portable nebulizer to use for the COPD if I need it (haven’t, yet), a whole bunch of new pills, and I feel a lot better than I have in a long time. Been out working on the MR, installing my Tomar semaphores (they are so COOL–!) and re-wiring the freight yard. Working on my turnouts. Running smooth, now. Getting ready for the Spring-Summer reefer hauls over Yuba Summit, by golly.
Spooky and Remington are just fine. Since Remington is a "Wegie
The storms have passed, for now. There was no rain, just wind, thunder and lightning. Looks like more on tap for tomorrow.
Well, had a great time at practice tonight y’all. Game tomorrow, hopefully I’ll be hydrated for this one!
You gotta be careful on that. Get dehydrated and they’ll be carrying you off the field.
yeah man, that ain’t too fun. I got cramps last game; was very hot, and I’d already been coaching.
I think the line for this was something along the line of—
“You can take the musician from the music but you can’t take the music out of the musician” —or summat. I think it’ll help in getting better in the loong term as well Tom------Take care—nice to hear from you again-------
Ah-hah!! The little one’s are still all “bundles of fluffy silliness”—hopefully you kep
Boy, do I know that well! Usually my friends word it to be “You can take the Mark away from the drums, but you can’t take the drums away from Mark!”, mainly because I usually tap out rhythms with my pencils… I also get caught air-guitaring a lot now, too.
Tom: Good to hear from ya! I hope you get all of those health issues taken care of so you can get back to working on the Sierras on your layout! I love watching the progress. As far as the cats go, I’ve got three foster cats at the moment. Not sure what breed. I’ve got the mom, and two kittens… The mom is a black and white long haired cat, while the kittens look like they’ll be short haired. One is black and white like his mom, and the other is sort of a blackish tabby… Not the usual gray, she’s more black. They are quite interested in my trains… Ran the tomato stripe local around, and Emily (The mom), was intent on watching and trying to figure out what it was… I put my F7 next to her, and she proceeded to swat it. I love cats… Don’t think I love 'em quite as much as I love birds, though.
Did a little work on the layout today. Started to rip up the old 6% grade, trying to replace it… Made it two years ago, and I did it terribly. I still remember I actually asked in this thread (Not this diner, but one of the old ones) what % the grade should be. I definitely need to re-do a decent bit of the the trackwork on the sidings… The mainline, however, is bulletproof. Big boy pulled a passenger train at 50 sMPH around 30 times without an issue. One siding has a weird electrical issue that I’ve got to fix… Oh well, as AC/DC says, “It’s a long way to the top, if you wanna rock and roll,” which is true in it’s original meaning, and in my situation.
That’s about it for now.
Another new place. Man we keep moving up!!!
The in-laws are here. The mother-in-law is leaving tomorrow, but the brother-in-law is talking about staying 1 - 2 weeks!!! I don’t know if I can handle that. He’s a good guy, its the cocker spaniel I am getting fed up with. I think she tried to bite the M-I-L. The wife and I will talk to her brother and tell her if the dog is still going “crazy” he will have to sleep at grandmas.
The new job, well its one of those we will call you. I do interviews very good, but this one was pretty weird. The questions were like…What kind of cars do you drive, do you rent or own your house, does your wife like her job? I think that was getting to personal.
So…I guess I will keep looking.
Well guys wish me luck with the in-laws/dog troubles.
Have a good night.