When I rearended a pickup with my Integra GSR it bent the metal crossmember the hood latch is on back. My neighbor had a old big heavy pickup in front of my house with a strong trailer hitch. I tied a log chain my dad had and I have had all these years and to the crossmember I wanted to pull forward on my Integra and to his trailer hitch
I was plenty apprehensive about this but a few good yanks and it pulled the hood latch forward so now the hood closes properly and latches. It bent it down some but with a bumper jack I was able to bend it back up. I’m really happy to get this straightened out.
Today I saw something I had heard about but never seen. Its like a DUI police checkpoint but this is a smog check. They direct cars to portable rollers to check your car. This was in my town, I was going the other way and it looked like they weren’t doing any checks right then…
Well, someone asked why we didn’t paint frist,then steam clean the carpets. That was the plan…but due to a death in the family, our friends we were counting on for help had to bow out. ANd we jsut couldn’t get it done in time ourselves. It has been an ordeal getting things one, let alone purging again and packing and moving stuff. No large furnitture was moved either. Maybe next weekend we can gets ome moved with one ohter friend as our grieving friends aren’t forthcoming wiht a commitment. We cannot really afford to hire painters or movers.It cost $300 fo rthe locksmith to do the necessary adjustmetns and replace the locks with commercial grade {expensive} locks-all 6 of them. It cost $200 for the steam clenaing. It will cost at least $200 for the overhead door company to re program the auto garage door opener codes and give us new fobs and an estinate on widenig the door. We spent $500 on paint and fixtures and such at Lowes {some few I can take back as we don’t need them} so we have easily spent $1k on such things that realy need to be done. We want to locate a stackable inteh kitchen so I dont have to navigate t he narrow steep steps tothe basement everyday for laundry, and taht will entail the plumeer and electrician, we also want the electricin to install dedidcated outlets for the windows a/cs and a few other electrical things, as well as the electrical for the dryer upstairs, so he will cost some moeny. Some things you may wonder why i don’t {or can’t} do myself…I WANT IT DOEN RIGHT, not half-butted like I may do. The locksmith spent 3 hours adjusting jams and strikeplates for the 6 locks alone!!! It would take me twice as long and I’d loose patience.
so there have been extra expenses we dind’t quite expecctthe costs of, and more coming. buying a hoosue, even when you ahve “everyhting” never is JUST buying ahouse! those who bought should know thta!
so I am sleeping there, mOH here, nad we are apart driving t
a off day today. Still really haven’t had the urge to get back to the bench or the layout to work on the railroad. I sometimes go through periods where I step away from the trains for a bit. I have been playing a lot of table top sports games such as strat o matic baseball,football and hockey. Also playing rod table hockey. That can be a hobby in itself painting figures and such. That’s the good thing with model trains, there always there to go back too when the urge strikes, for me though I have to clean up my gaming setup as its in front of the trains,lol
When you subscribe to a thread, every post made to that thread is sent to you as an e-mail. So, basically, it was the last five days’ worth of posts to the November Diner. Certainly not 93 complaints or abuse reports! [:O] Just keeping an eye on things so if the forbidden topic flared up again, I could nip it in the bud.
We finally have some sun after a lot of rain in recent days.
Steven … Your efforts are appreciated.
Frank … (If you are looking in,) … I went ahead and built the 1950 Fruehauf livestock trailer, and I am pleased with the results. I have not yet ordered the tractor, but will soon. Also, I want to select an approppriate grain hauling truck. I was thinking of a stake truck with a tarp over it.
Other model railroad… Actually not much… I have been running trains. My to do list is growing.
Zoe, I’ll have a pot of Seneca Lake Blend Dark Roast Coffee and a couple sour cream glazed donuts to start the day.
Dark and gloomy here in the Finger Lakes Region of NYS this morning and supposed to stay that way for the whole day. Predicting 100% chance of rain and that will be moving in soon… Guess I will stay inside and clean the house and work on the Girder Brdige project most of the day. I do have to head over to Waterloo tonight to help with the annual Scout rechartering session. I am not yet assigned anything in particular, but I probably will be put to work as soon as I show up… That is what happened last year. All three of my units are early in the process. There is one that I doubt will be able to recharter, but we shall see.
[color=red]Galaxy[/color], welcome to the joys of house ownership… [:-^]
I’ll go sit at the Rivet Counter and chat with [color=red]Garry[/color] for a bit.
Oh, I missed that, i thought it WAS 93 complaints! I wias going to say since we were foolign wiht the new MRRing space with hosue over it, that I wasnt on much then, so how could I generate any complaints?
Ray: don’t forget: we OWN the Mobile home nad have ALL the costs/maintenace/etc of a home, but it means little in value, hte hosue will grow in value {I hope}, so any work MEANS somehting this time!
well, my back is KILLING me, and so I am resting most of today.
Good morning! Nah. I’m tired from hockey last night, still fighting this cold and it’s cold and rainy out. Bah.
I call him “Mr. Caesar.” He owns the Empire Leather Tanning Company, a set of buildings Walthers makes. An old tannery takes in hides, acid and salt and needs fuel too, and it ships out finished leather, so it provides opportunities for a number of different freight cars.
That sounds like low blood sugar. I’m taking Old Man Pills for type-2 diabetes, and one of the warnings is that I might experience this. So, if I’m doing any sort of exercise and I haven’t eaten for a while, I carry along either a small candy bar or one of those “health bars” in my pocket. The health bars are probably better for you, and they don’t get all gooey and melty in the heat.
Want a good story? I was hanging out after hockey last night, and the Zamboni driver (I’ve always got a beer for him) was telling us that last week there was a group of guys like us who had just come off the ice. One of them keeled over in the locker room. Somebody checked him - no pulse. So, this whole bunch of hockey players, not a medical person among them, sprang into action. Someone called 911. Someone opened the emergency doors closest to the locker room and waited outside for the ambulance. Someone ran to get the defibrillator. They hooked it up and it did its job, and their friend was saved.
Oh yeah… But having done both several times in my life… There is always a bit more to do when you own the house! Your experience may vary, but I think you folks will really enjoy the house more even though there is more to do… Hope the transition goes smoothly for you.
Mr. B … Now that I look at my figure of the elderly man, I see it is similar but not the same as yours. Perhaps, the paint is the only difference… On my layout, he is behind the red car and walking to the bank.
Garry…Congrats on Your Livestock trailer build…Does it roll??? He’ He’.
Grain trucks… Magnuson used to make a resin cast kit, I believe Walthers took them over, but I don’t see any offering of it in the catalog. You can use one of those GC lazor kit body’s and build Your grain body, just remember to put the bracing outside of body and smooth inside, like plywood on a homemade farmers grain truck. Rear gate would look the same as the sides, but with a opening like a small gate that can be opened like in a dump truck. I have seen some home builds that started out as a dump, converted to a grain truck. You have to give it some thought, as to how to get the grain out once at the mill…rather than shoveling it out…time consuming. For how one would look or if You want to take the plunge and purchase a Sheepscot feed truck body, they look exactly like a grain truck…if not, You can at least see what one looks like:
Grain Trailers…Should You want them…again You will run into the same thing as far as era is concerned and may have to scracth Your own or purchase a Wilson grain trailer kit from Lonestar. They will be around 60’s era and above. They are fine kits…true 1/87 scale, finer detail than Sylvan, but cost more and are ABS Plastic, not resin. I have built three of their grain trailers and two flat bed kits, quite some time ago, when they were cheaper:
I’ve enclosed a pic’ of one of the flat beds that I built with a Truss girder load on it, made with Plastruct girders, A-Line 40 links per inch chain, that actually hol
Garry Wrote - YGW …Other than two of them meowing with a Southern accent, they go very well together. — ROTHF [(-D] Thinking of a cat meowing with a southern accent is funny !!!
Galaxy - Welcome to home ownership !
Ken - Howdy
RH Shilling geez 3 degrees already ? Wow we are only down to teh 50s here.
Howmus - I just dont understand why anyone wants to buy with eloectronics systems that get hacked ! Geez people think I am crazy because I still use cash and checks and I refuse to do on line billing. I have been hacked, my wife has been hacked…
Good evening, diners. Had another cloudy day in the SE Ohio River Valley but drier than the last couple of days. Raked leaves this afternoon as it looks like the city will be around with their leaf vac rig tomorrow as they have the sign up on our street this afternoon. The city here provides two leaf pickups each fall. The leaves go to the local compost farm and are recycled as mulch for the city. Keeps the leaves out of the landfill as open burning is banned in town.
Order a batch of ties and a bunch of switch ties this afternoon as I am at a standstill laying tracks without more switch ties. Had order ties/switch ties from Walthers in October but they have been back ordered with no indication of when they will ship. So, I ordered direct from manufacturer. Hope they can give better service.
Frank, your trucks are really impressive. I have a Sylvan resin cast grain truck awaiting painting and assembly. Any suggestions on how to pin stripe a HO scale grain body?
Howmus, your mention of NY state maple syrup brings back fond memories of a departed friend who used to bring back syrup for us when we lived in Iowa. He retired and moved back to the Syracuse area.
I had a very easy computer add on experience today. Bought and installed a 5tb external storage unit that was truly plug and play. Backed up my entire photo library in about 15 minutes. It contained over 10 years of photos. Now I can delete about half of the photo library and hopefully speed up my laptop.
The benchwork is in the house and the road bed is down. The layout is flat and mostly straight as it is based on the intermountain/desert southwest. The new section will be a town and farm land. Here are a few pictures–
The new section
The corner. A mess with all of the buildings and vehicles with no place to go.
Well, I got nailed again. I must be related to Ray! [:-^] I checked my MC account before bed to make sure a payment was received, and saw a charge I didn’t know about. Turns out, some jackhole is running around Amman, Jordan, with my credit card number. Luckily, only 1 of 5 charges went through, and that one is being removed, too, but this is insane! This is like the 4th time I’ve had this happen in the last 12-18 months. This time, it was on an almighty chip-equipped card that I don’t use a lot. Just very frustrating.
Now, to try to wind back down so I can sleep. Later.
MEANING: noun: Rowdy, destructive behavior by the youth.
ETYMOLOGY:
From yob (a rowdy youth), coined by reversing the spelling of the word boy. Earliest documented use: 1974.
USAGE:
“A police crackdown on yobbery during the Bonfire Night period in Stirlingshire proved effective. Police report the number of calls concerning antisocial behaviour between October 30 and November 6 were down by over a third.”
Yobs Getting the Message; Stirling Observer (UK); Nov 13, 2013.
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A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end, but not necessarily in that order. -Jean-Luc Godard, film director (b. 3 Dec 1930)
