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I just need someone to give me a “crazy” idea and then I can go for it.
I’m putting a Tardis ph booth on my layout - that way I can travel between N and HO
Hi All.
A nice hot coffee would hit the spot now. Nothing like that coffee after work.
Ulrich - hope you are feeling better and hope the pain is going away.
Garry - the cat is my best buddy and he loves the railroad (he never jumped on the railroad but enjoys watching from the engineers chair).
Expecting rain this evening and tomorrow with possible rain mixed with snow on Saturday; crazy.
Good evening Diners: I feel I’m that far behind in reading post that any attempt to comment would be old news. However for those who have talked of difficult situations, be assured you are in our thoughts and prayers.
Ulrich: So glad that ER was not what we thought at first! [angel] Thanks for that Lost Railways video - @ 70 mins it will take a while! In the mean time here’s a song about vanished lines from the post Becham period in the UK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6OHD2uCpfU! Blandford Forum is close to where I was born; and Chester-Le-Street not far from where I had digs on my first permanent job after college!
My thoughts are with you and your family, Garry, especially the kids. I’m sorry to hear about the situation. I’m just wondering whether it’s good for them to be around a dirtbag, I mean bad influence like their seed donor/biological father. Can they terminate his parental rights in Michigan, and is your daughter considering doing so? Regardless, I hope this turns out well.
LION have TUR-P tomorrow morning. I did not know that they performed TUR-Ps on LIONS, but I suppose there is always a first time for everything. I’ll drop in again when they let me out of the cage.
ROAR
Morning!
The night was awful! Just when I found some sleep, the pain meds wore off and the ones I took did not kick in until early morning. But now I have traded joint pain for stomachache.
Needless to say I feel pretty miserable!
Garry - family situations like yours are not easy to bear for an adult, but for children they are traumatic experience which may show effects decades later! My prayers go out to them!
I´ll be staying at the RC for a moment, listening to what the pain tries to tell me.
Not happy today.
Good morning … I’m glad Canadians are here; so I may have a Tim Hortons coffee with a T H Old Fashion Donut. … Yum…
Uncle Bob … Thanks for your thoughts. The court just decided the kids’ father may see the kids only in a neutral location with a social worker present for only 1 1/2 hours per week. (If he is sober enough to go) . That is much less than he was seeking in his motion, and he is angry at the court now.
Ulrich … Thanks for your prayers. Praying your health improves.
Der John … Happy birthday to your daughter a day late . Your track plan looks like a fun layout. Keep us posted about your progress.
Reinhard … All 3 of our cats are neutered females. The white one was rescued from Cincinnati, OH. Here she is at Christmas time.
V8 Vega… You might like the Lionel trains we have.
Mornin’ everyone!
Zoe, I’ll have my usual pot of Seneca Lake Blend Dark Roast Organic Coffee and a couple of those Dougnuts that [color=red]Garry[/color] brought in…
[color=red]Ulrich[/color], hope you get to feeling better quickly, my friend! Keeping you in my prayers. Prayers also going out to [color=red]Garry[/color] and his family for a good resolution kin his family!
Today is dark and gloomy outside. Currently 45°F out there with some drizzle and lots of heavy thick clouds. This is supposed to continue all day.
I will be starting to get everything ready for the Batavia Train Show this Sunday. I know I need to print a supply of materials for the table. We usually give out information on the NMRA and the Division. I always have a pile of old newsletters to hand out. this time I will proint up a bunch of extra ones from last month announcing our Spring Meet the end of this month.
Want to get a few laps in over at the fieldhouse too, so I best get moving… Later!
73
I put a phone booth on my layout, too…
Some clown in a funny costume mistook it for a changing booth!
I was productive, too. I made a cardstock mockup of the small church I plan to put on the latest section of my layout. All the HO scale models I’ve seen are either too big, too expensive or too plastic for my taste, so I decided to scratchbuild one. Northeast Scale Lumber is a short drive from home, so I will go there one of these days and personally select the necessary materials. For now, the mockup helps me visualize the church so that I can plan the pink foam terrain around it.
Afternoon Diners,
After seeing free shipping on the Micro Mark shop I decided to get my DCC system. It will be a Digitrax Zephyr Xtra Set.
Good Afternoon Diners,
Flo, I’ll have an extra large coffe with lots of cream, please.
Weve been having winter still linger a little. Right now there’s snow or sleet flurries, but it’s not that cold that it was a month ago. Can’t wait until it warms up for good.
I saw some post that said the Beatles were on Ed Sullivan 49 years ago today. If my memory serves it was February 1964, just a few months after President Kennedy was assassinated. This April 2016. Hmmmmm! Obviously, that was an old post that was resurrected for some reason or other. However, I do remember that momentous event. It was a long time ago.
Der: I like your latest version of the plan. Not too many parallel lines. My thought is that angled lines always add interest.
Garry: hope your family situation works out.
Ulrich: hope you get to feeling better, soon.
YGW: thank you for the update on SIL. Very glad to hear that she is getting some functions back. It’s important for her children. Hope all else is well for you.
Dennis: Not a thing wrong with 3-rail. They’re really a lot of fun.
Lion: i don’t want to find out what a TURP is, but hope you’re OK.
Hello to all, and I hope everyone is OK, safe, and warm.
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Heartland - That is precisely where I’m headed in the next 10 minutes … I’ll pick up your order also [C):-)]
Mr B - that is hilarious, have you seen that Mantis monster on the other thread?
take care all
Mister Beasley:
Know what you mean. I was given a plastic one as a present and had to adapt it – carve off the junipers ‘growing’ up the walls and replace with 3d ones in the ground in front of the walls, for instance. Also the steeple wasn’t “local looking” for around here and that had to be changed. A wheel chair ramp helped change things up visually too.(It slopes away from shot in the photo) A coat of paint and window trim also helped enormously. But not scratchbuilding since one doesn’t look a gift kirk in the doors! [swg]
Up831:
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Der: I like your latest version of the plan. Not too many parallel lines. My thought is that angled lines always add inte
Sure you aren’t looking at the weather in Geneva, Switzerland? [:)]
Regarding churches. … My background church is a Hallmark Christmas tree ornament. I sprayed it with matte spray because it had a glossy finish. It is undersized for my HO layout, and that is consistant with nearby background buildings to force perspective. Being in the background of the layout, it does not get much attention.
UP831 … thanks for commenting about our situation.
Krump … Mmmmmm … The TH donut was tasty.
Hello all from Stormy cold Va. Crazy weather. Last week 70s, Daffodils are up and they are calling for snow this weekend !
UP831 - Great to see you in here ! We are doing well. Overworked is about all I have to complain about. How are you ?
Garry - Is the kitties eyes pink ? Did the deacons take the wheels off of teh cars so they couldnt leave before the offering plate was passed around in your church photo ? [(-D]
Ulrich - Hope you feel better soon. That is a bad place to be. No sleep and in pain!
Ken - A ten inch gas line ? That is a HUGE amount of gas. Consider this. Our “main” for an entire subdivision of 50 homes with gas furnaces, gas FP, Gas HWH, Gas cook tops, opt gas grills etc…is only 2".
DO - Sorry to hear your health is not 100%. Here is a [angel] for you.
Reinhard - Me too on the work front I am insode and thankfully I get top work outside.
Lion - I looked up TURP. Geez ! Here are a couple of [angel] [angel] for you.
For you old time gospel Hymn lovers I just heard the most interesting story on the song “What a friend we have in Jesus” It was orginially a poem written by Joseph Scriven. Apperently he lost two Fiances. The first the day before he was to marry, she was thrown from her horse and she drowned, the second of pneumonia. He wrote the poem after the loss of the second. Aperently it was sent in to a paper ? and was turned into a song. It was sung ten years before he revealed he was the author.
W**K Front just got worse. Sales sold two more houses. Now have 13 homes, was 14 but one settled this week. Someone throw a life line !
TTYL
YGW
Good afternoon. It is rainy and chilly in the mid-Ohio valley today. Took the dog for an abbreviated walk as it started to rain on us before finishing are normal mile loop.
Krump, the tardis sounds like a great idea. You could not only switch back and forth between N and HO but go anywhere from John Bull to the latest diesel monsters.
Uhlrich, prayers headed your way for healing. Hope you get to feeling better soon.
YGW, 13 houses is a lot of inventory. Here’s hoping the economy cooperates so you can get them sold.
Spent part of the rainy afternoon kerfing out more homosote to lay out the forth lead into my planned yard. I pin nail the curve sections with 16 gauge 1 inch nails with a trim gun. Still getting lots of use from all my construction tools. Plan to stain up another batch of ties tonight.
Looking forward to real spring weather.
Jim
Flo got any chocolate chip cookies?
70% burns, pretty grim. I took care of an engineer who had every engineers worst nightmare…he hit a 18 wheel truck hauling gas. Poor guy had a gazillion operations.
Expiration dates exist so you will buy another one. Aspirin is one of the things that truly do go bad.
More rain today and still chilly. I accidently threw away the tip of my airbrush that was sitting in solvent. Waiting on Badger to send me a new one.
Amtrak fell out of the national news, but there were multiple rule violations, including a change of shift that may have contributed. Apparently workers can “short” the rails and trigger a red signal. A posted lookout is required as Lion said. The loco was traveling within the speed limit, but at 106 mph and braked 5 sec before the wreck. It was on a 2 mile straight away. The supervisor is said to have died trying to save the guy in the front end loader.
Evening Dinners
Flo, Beer Please.
Yard Wars Had to work in Rodger’s yard to day to cut the stuff down. Cutting the stuff down was easy. Throwing the stuff in to my yard as a bite. Mainly because it was a tangled mess, I hate wild grape vines! Some of the trees are trying to grow back, not this time. Used some Round Up Poison Ivy Killer on them.
Last Photo I posted.
And After Today Efffort.
Most of the fence post can be reused for now. [Y]
While it may not look like I have done much (some of the stuff I cut down is still blocked by the junk still on my side)
YGW Yes, even I knew that was big. Just heard on the news that the Construction Company knew it was there? And you thought it was bad when the Plumber cut your power line.
Hum? Was he thanking Jesus that he stayed single? [:-^] I am sure I am not the only man that as felt that way sometimes!
Speaking Of B
Flo: Maxwell Dark Roast please.
On the topic of shorting the rails, a set of booster cables, clipped to each rail works nicely.
That is/was the preferred system for native Canadians setting up a rail blockade a few years ago.
Dave