Morning all and congrats Fife!
Not much has been going on. Still messing with trains a bit. Changed out some smoke units wicking and changed a few traction tires.
Hope everyone is staying safe. Good thoughts for all!
Mornin’ boys. Cloudy and 31 along the Allegheny front range. We got the icy conditions that Banksie didn’t get. And fife was stuck on street with a kinda steep grade for some 45 minutes, waiting for conditions to improve. Finally got to kid’s house, where Grandma was waiting, and I decided to assemble the dresser/changing table before attempting to venture back to Fifedom.
Thanks for all the well-wishes and at-a-boys. Instead of handing out cigars, I’m handing out bottles of Mega Steam![oX)][tup]
Aloha. Grey and much colder this morning. Glad I cleared all the snow late yesterday with the help of my youngest. Then i was pretty beat for the rest of the evening. Encouraged my oldest on his way home from work - he’s finally ready to go back to school to finish his degree.
Such good news in Fife-land!
Hmm, Kev, I should check my FOID card.
Congrats Fife.
Mornin’ all!
I just decided this morning I’m not gonna stay up after getting the boys up and bust my arse trying to get this work done. The 2nd half of yesterday proved fruitless because I was tired and frustrated. And constantly distracted. So I’ll do what I can today, and if it has to drag into tomorrow or Friday, well, too bad. The owner knows I’m killing myself on this, but this is new stuff we’ve never done before, so it’s not just turning the crank. At least he’s trying to run blocker for me, pushing off the endless requests because some client can’t figure out where the toilet paper is.
Need to get the tree out this weekend, it’s getting dry. We’ll probably leave the layout up for another couple of weeks - Corey’s been pulling different engines out to run on it. Glad he’s still into it.
Have a good one!
48, cloudy and messy. Guessers say snow late tonight early AM. Maybe an inch [with temps this high?]. Doom and gloom guessers. Try to cause excitement. Had to go to Lisa’s to meet with developer about them messing up her yard. Her and the kids are quarantined. Daughter sick but not hospitalized. Now frig repairman coming to see what he needs to order for icemaker repair. A new icemaker, stupid. Under warranty.
Scheduled to get my vaccine shot tomorrow.
Have a good one.
Our trash day is Monday, I have several Mondays worth of a full green bin yard cleanup from that big wind storm we had. It’s cold out and will rain tomorrow and Friday they say, so I want to fill the bin today so it’s ready to go. We have big bins. We have the kind of trash pickup where there is a claw on the side of the truck that grabs the bin and hoists it up and dumps it into the truck.
CA has that firearms ID card too, it’s a additional tax on gun owners. That’s all it is. Calif. has many firearms laws designed to make it such a pain in the rear to own a gun and expensive that many people just give up and forget about it.
I saw Truman Capot’s In Cold Blood again last night. A really really good movie, a true story. At the end they show a prison hanging and I believe it is true to life as to how it happened back then and looked.
Afternoon folks!
Sunny and 50’s-ish. Not so bad. And no snow to clear!
Feeling OK and certainly improving a bit day-by-day. One side affect of radiation is this incredible fatigue - that extra sleep does not help with. Just have to push through it.
Fife - congrats to the family!
Take care all!
Good for you Wrmcc I pray for you.
I found 6 cars I had bought sometime in the past I had stored and their too big. Bigger than 143 and I also hve 2 more the same size bought about a year ago from a pharmacy store. They look like 143 till you get home and they are too big compared to my 143 cars so I can’t use them.
All my rolling stock is traditional size except for some scale size desels and steam plus I have a lot of what I call O27 the smaller that traditional cars. They look good on my layout.
So even 143 cars are already too big for scale at 148.
Hello There,
Lazy day today. Did a bunch of nuttin. Takeout from a local eatery this evening.
Looks like as expected April York is off. Found this on OGF
Bed calling, .
Prayers for those in need and the end of this pandemic
Mornin’ boys. Cold and grey along the Patterson Creek cut-off. Supposed to get down right frigid today. Only thing on the agenda is to pay some utility bills. In person. No usps.
The new mommy will be discharged today. Baby has to stay another week or more. Premies. It will be hard on her mentally, but she can be there all she wants, so she can get a little rest and freshen up,so it might be a small blessing.
Roy, continued well wishes on your recovery.
V8vega - I use my 1:43 vehicles in the foreground. Perhaps one of our members has some 1:50 scale stuff they’d like to trade…?
34 degrees and sunny. Woke up at 8:15. Got up to the blizzard.
Wifey got up at 3:30 to watch it snow. [:O] Children! I woke up at 3:15 and looked out. Was snow hard and big flakes. Was pretty. I got back in bed and went back to sleep.
Crazy TV folks. Found 2 18 wheelers on I 95 east of us off the road. Big reporting. along with one tree fell in Raleigh [reporter and camera there reporting constantly]. These folks need something to report. Its funny
Get my shot later today [12:50].
Fifey, all will be fine.
Hope all stay warm and well.
That’s pretty much what we got Chief, on the lawns, not the roads, picturesque but not a PITA, if you know what I mean.
It’ll be gone in about 24 hours, maybe less.
Was 0 out when I got up and won’t hit the high 20s today but there is full sun so makes it good enough for me. What little snow we got is not going any place for at least a few days. If they are right more snow on the way for Doug Saturday and it just may be rain for us. We will see. No word from the county on shots yet. I did see that to get it there will be a 60 mile round trip unless they open up more places… Give me a break!
Going to cook up some chicken tenders and srooms in the egg air fryer for lunch. [dinner]
Well, Lady Firestorm did manage to “crack the code” and found a county site where we could register for the shots, so we did. Now we wait for the word.
Not losing any sleep over it, it’ll happen when it happens.
38 and strong wind. Got the shot. Easy and very efficient. Feel fine. Stopped and got hotdogs from Cookout. Then left Caddy [again for the same thing] and got loaner.
Now home. Goof off.
KEV, 30 miles round trip is nothing.
Later.
30 mile round trip is nothing but 60 is a push. You would just think they could set up something at the county seat 8 miles away? It is what it is? It well may change by the time they call me in. I see they are asking the guard to set up sites now. We will see how that goes?
Good evening,
I think we were supposed to get some snow but it didn’t happen. I have not paid one bit of attention to the vaccine news as I have no intention of getting it.
Good night,
Joe
Valentine’s Day is approaching, are you prepared ?
30 degrees and sunny. High today is guessed at 38. Mom use to say, “The snow is staying around for more.” Guessed wintery mix coming. NC usually has snow and within 24, all gone. Today is The Box work day.
Cooked 3 egg ham, cheese and onion omelet. No peppers to chop and put in.
Today Show featured a principal of North Charleston SC High. Works night shift stocking at Walmart. Gives all his salary back to the kids. Been doing it for some time. Over 90% of his students are living BELOW the poverty level. Store manager did not know he was a principal. Walmart donated 50K to the high school. Maybe some of the rich folks in Charleston proper will help.
Later