Had to do research to get the 14 years back into the post. If you do new Pot, don’t forget to add the years.
Enjoy this month’s Coffee Pot.
30 degrees and fair. Not as cold and warming tomorrow. 60’s by weekend. [:O] Next week 70’s
Good night.
Mornin’ boys. Thanks, Chief, for startin’ the new coffee pot. Snohizo and 7 degrees along the Patterson Creek cut-off. Was going to go to office this AM, but now… Only if big boss summons me.
Started assembling a tunnel liner and retaining wall for the layout. Using NOCH 57720; material really fools the eye.
rt - Thanks. I don’t even work out…
TGIF…
Snow is falling this morning in the Valley. A small herd of deer have already crossed the back yard through the snow. Big fluffy flakes make the woods a greeting card photo.
The train room is framed and the electrician starts the wiring today. I will have ten outlets to run the layout. Six track lights on a dimmer will light up the place. With the 8000 watt emergency generator as backup, trains can run 24/7. 
Mrs. Buckeye has requested I add a bump trolley. Your suggestions are welcomed.
Fife…Is the Noch product the flexible rock wall material? I used that on the last layout. At the joints I just hid them with vines and grass.
Buckeye - It’s a paper product, with indentations. Are you going to pre-hang/hide blue rope lights this go-round? I opted not to.
Morning. Only 40 degrees and sunny. [:-^] Going into the 50’s. 70’s next week.
Will sneak up into Buckeye land and unplug generator. [;)]
Fifey, stay warm.
Have a good one.
TV says +2 degrees. going to 15. We have sun. No toy train news.
S.J.
Good morning from a warm North Bluff above Marseilles
Pension payday so off to get supplies today and pay a few bills.
6 degrees and a fresh 4" 0f snow on the lane. They say 21 today, a heat wave.
The blue rope lights worked good when we turned down the lights so visitors knew where the edge of the layout was located. May do something different this time.
Howdy all!
Thermometer was right at 0° around 6:30 this morning. For the first time in, well, a long, long time I am actually looking forward to Spring.
Had to start working early this morning, got up and found that the monthly maintenance which runs at the end of the month on our database had taken up all of the disk drive space, effectively grinding our system to a halt between 4AM and 6:30. Managed to free up space and get everything running, then let the owner know. Still working on resolving this space issue so we won’t run into it again.
Have a good one!
Aloha. It is funny how you adjust to today’s high temp of 13. It seems so warm after the frigid temps of the past week. School was closed Monday for snow and closed Wed. and Thurs. for the cold. Back to ‘normal’ now. It felt good to get out. Ran trains quite a few times this week. It was a good excuse to keep an eye on the furnance which ran practically non-stop this week! Whew! Happy birthday to RT!
Afternoon fellas
Still frigid outside! Been a long time since it was this cold in MD. Even during the back-to-back blizzards in 09 it wasn’t this cold.
Fired up the heatpump in the sunroom today… think it is the first time I’ve run it for longer than 10 minutes. Have the fireplace insert roaring as well… mainhouse heatpump hasn’t come on in over 4 hours… keep it that way.
Put air in the Durango’s tires this AM. It has been complaining about low tire pressure for a couple days, so brought her inside and filled her rubbers. Can’t wait for the new house so I can keep her inside.
Not much else going on… oh…
[bday]RT!
TGIF Buckeroos ----
A balmy 10F this morning at 0630, a full 8F higher than yesterday morning.
Snowing now in Southern New Jersey, up to 3 so the weather guessers say.
Hope to get the FD train board into the house tomorrow, legs are just about ready, I have to install the adjusters and then screw the legs on. I can lay track and get that started to prototype to the main 5X9 board, which will need foam.
Hope to get track down and then buildings in the next 2 weeks. Will be setting up wall sockets for track power and LeMax/Menards lighting.
Track Power will be a new ZW with 2-180W bricks and Legacy. Accessory Power (I will be powering the switches on transformer) will be my Dad’s 275W ZW mounted on an aluminum console from my first layout and switches will be for 2 independant loops or switching to full 1 track power loop (combining 2 main lines to 1 main power line). I have 6 switches total and will use 5 for accessory lighting. I’ll be buying a heavy duty power strip for the LeMax/Menards stuff.
Laundry, Housework and trains on Saturday, will see Glass Saturday Night.
No Super Bowl plans.
Happy Birthday, [^]RT!!
Happy Birthday RT!!! [^]
That young 8 point buck was just here. Nice looking guy!
Thanks for the birthday wishes. Been kinda of a soso day.
no real news here.
Good evening all,
Stayed home. Started to go to work, but almost slid on the on ramp and the radio was saying roads were awful so I turned around. Got driver’s license renewed and did my RMDs from a couple of beneficiary IRAs and shoveled walks. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Hello there,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY RT!!!
temp was 4 at 645 this AM When I took Mrs to work. Got up to 22 with off and on snohio accumulated bout 2 inches total. Not sure what’s up with PennDot. The roads were nasty all day.
Went to the quarterly care plan meeting for Mom this AM and was lazy the rest of the day. Watched the last B of B disk. Interviews of real members of B of B, a documentary and more.
Found a source for pre bent brake lines for the Blazer. Next week’s project if it warms up a bit.
Kids and grandkids due here at noon tomorrow for a sledding party .
. Time for sleep.
Prayers for those in need
Youse guys out east - cheer up. Was mid 50’s and sunny today. This weather is headed your way!
Went another round with my health insurance company and the health plan administration company today. Didn’t result in much. Our perscriptions are not yet being accepted by the insurance company. Near as I can tell, something happened between the administration comapny and the insurance company that resulted in the insurance company not being updated that we are still paid up and active in 2019. Probably won’t be until mid next week before the bearucratic wheels creak arojnd to get things straightened out.
Really frustrating to be paying as much as we are to have issues like this - second time, too. Similar thing happened when the company dropped me off of their list when I retired last year. Sad thing is, the customer service phone workers can’t really fix the problem and don’t seem to care. Glad I don’t have that job.
The next project was to deal with the Social Security Administration to get an error in my records corrected. This went off without any problems.
Entertaining story here - an armed gard greets everybody at the SS office asking to see identification and if we are carrying any weapons. Well, I had my pocket knife, so I said oops, I’ll go put it in my truck. When I came back I pointed out that I was now in violation of ont of the Gibbs rules. The securtiy guy looked puzzled, so I point out that one of Special Agent Gibbs rules was to always carry a knife, which I am no longer doing. That got a slight eye roll and a smile from the security guy and oughtright chuckles from the other two people in the waiting room.
My wife has started Weight Watchers program. It has changed over the years. She was overjoyed to learn that turkey and shrimp are ‘free’ foods without limits. She was really happy to discover that a Jimmy John’s
Evening all!
Hit about 60 today! [yeah]
[bday] RT! [bday]
Just got back from dinner with friends/neighbors. Stopped at a neighbors house after to view some remodeling work. Required adult beverages.
8n - a SS office with a couple of folks waiting??? The local office here is packed. If you do not make an appt (4-8 week wait) you can try and wait - I ran into a man who had been there two days when I tried to walk in and I gave up after 3 hours. And very few old folks there…
And…Valentine’s Day dinner reservations made [tup]
Got my heating and air conditioning installed today. Had to hang around the house all day for the workmen. Looks like a good job and everything seems to be working OK. Just wondering how many trains I could have bought with that money. Oh well, I needed it.
Ray
That’s what I will be having done sometime after the 13th. Yes how many trains could I have bought. Oh well as you say it’s a need. Right now we are running on emergency heat.
Waiting for some plastic people from japan so I can cut there feet of so they fit in my passenger cars. Once they get here I will probably order more, Once I see they will work. This is from a different seller so could be a differant product than I’m use to.
Hope all had a good day, and thanks again for all the Birthday wishes.