My after work coffee please. Another wonderful day with heavy rain in the Northern Virginia Area.
Garry - I hope and pray that your family situation gets better for the sake of the children and for all. Alcohol is bad, however, a cocktail of drugs and alcohol is leathal not only for the individual but for the entire family.
Our cat was a stray who, my wife and I think, was dumped by somebody. This happened in 2008 when many folks lost their jobs. He was in our yard looking for food, I called to him and he came right over, stayed on our patio overnight and would not budge. Thats when we took him in. He was neutered and well behaved and about 5 years old at that time (thats why we think he was dumped). I can’t understand somebody doing that to a member of the family. We have been best buddies since.
YGW - got lucky today, stayed in the office all day looking out at the heavy rain. They say possible snow for us on Saturday.
Br. Elias,
“Turp”, you say… That does not sound like a fun experience and I do not envy you.
But I do wish you all the best in that everything goes well and you come out of it like a straight shooter.
Prayers and blessings Brother… and a double ROAR to you.
Ulrich,
Wishing you as well a quick recovery and a short trip back to normal activity. My prayers and blessings include you as well.
I’v had a turp before. It’s not so much that it’s na invasive process, BUT WHERE it’s invasive! once you get over THAT, you’ll be fine, and er um ah, things should flow freely.
Busy days haven’t been in. TO busy for me that couple wiht insomnia at night and not sleeping much if at all is wearing me down. DID sleep a few hours today but not last night and probably not tonight its alreay WAY past our bed time nad not a bit sleepy.
MOHs clients have been shorting hours of work, which means a low paycheck, not to healthy for the mortgage! Dunno how we will manage if it keeps up.
Well, the night has been a little better than the one before. The pain has lessened, but now I feel sick in my stomach. What a trade!
We are enjoying perfect April weather. Within half an hour, you can have anything from heavy snowfall to hail to rain to storm to nice & bright! I could use a little more sunshine to lighten up my spirits!
No plans for the day, just trying to relax and not think about all those beep (expletive, deleted) illnesses and ailments.
If you have nothing better to do, here is a video of a cab ride along the Bergensbana in Norway, the country which is hosting the diner this month:
Warning - the video shows the entire train ride, everyx single minute of it, so this is 7hrs. 14min.!
Zoe, I’ll hvae a bowl of Vanilla Almond Crunch Granola and a large pot of Marrakesh Express Dark Roast Coffee to keep my R&GV RR mug filled for a while.
[color=red]Steven[/color], I checked the weather at the Geneva in Switzerland and it was about the same as over here… LOL For wjhat ever reason if I change pages at the weather channell site about 5 or 6 times, it finally decides to catch up with the calendar… The hourly forecast and the 5 day forecast, etc. are all on the right day, but the home page for where I live??? Wierd!
[color=red]Brother Elias[/color], hope you are recovering well and you can go with the flow so to speak…
[color=red]Ulrich[/color], I pray you can get feeling better very soon…
[edit] While eating breakfgast at the Rivit Counter this morning, I was watching birds on the lawn eating the fallen berries from the quince… There were two large, beautiful Blue Jays, a dozen robins, and at least 60 starlings. Starlings left and now there only about 8 Robins still getting drunk on the fermented berries.
Currently icky here in the Finger Lakes! All the roofs in the area are covered in white stuff. 31°F with sn*w showers and lots of clouds. I have about 3 days worth of STUFF to get done. Best get started…
[angel][angel] to all who are dealing with medical and family issues.
Ken sometime in the 70’s I swung through Cumberland. They had rows and rows of B&O GP’s lined up in the yard. I don’t know that I still have that pic, but I have this one:
It will only be a bit above 50 here today, with some wind. I hope it’s nice enough to take a long walk rather than go to the gym and deal with the treadmill. It’s kind of cold for April, but yesterday’s rain took care of the last of the snow piles from Monday.
Thanks for the church pictures. I really wanted to build a wood craftsman kit church, but, like I said, they’re all too large. I thought of an N-scale one, but it’s right at the front edge of the layout and it wouldn’t look right. Besides, well, scratchbuilding is fun, and I’m looking forward to the project.
I went to one of my favorite bars last night, and had to leave. Why? Because it was 7 PM, the Boston Bruins game was on, it was a critical game to make the playoffs, and the bartender told me he couldn’t change the channel until the golf was over. Really? No one was watching the TV anyway. So, I went to my other favorite bar where the game was on, and watched my Bruins win convincingly.
Reinhard … Good of you to adopt the cat. As I said this one was rescued in OH. Our ou=ther two cats were rescued in KY and TN. We think it is good to contribute to organizations that rescue and care for animals.
Lion … I hope you are recovering okay. We can be thankful for medical proceedures which imporve our health.
Ulrich. … I hope you are recovering from you latest health problem.
I had errand in Murray which means I crossed the lakes.
It was the final day for driving over the 80 year old bridge over Kentucky Lake. Two of the four lanes of the new bridge are open for traffic today. Soon, cranes will dismantle the old bridge. … (It was the old bridge which was hit by a ship four years ago causing one of its spans to fall into the lake. )
I took this picture yesterday just before my final crossing over the old bridge.
TGIF ! Just finished my weekly three hour production meeting. Gobbling some cardboard with out seasoning for lunch [sigh] But since I started about a month or so ago eating differenly ( if you call that eating !!! [soapbox] ) I have dropped twenty pounds [:)]
Mr. B - why watch sports in a bar ? I have never understood that. Its noisy, dirty public bathrooms ( yuck ) , strangers you dont really know, cops tyhat wait down the street ( at least in Va ) to pull you over for a costly DUI…What is the fun in that ? Not knocking you I really just dont understand. What is the upside ?
Howmus - What is Quinc ? Are they really getting drunk ? Like falling over wobbly ?
Ulrich - The O gauge was impressive ! Like the steam - sounded beautiful, [8] to my ears. How fast why was that Norway train going ?
Reinhard - Can you believe that ! Snow this weekend ! Its spring dang it ! That was nice that you didnt have to go out in that weather it would have been miserable.
Dave - Why did they blockade the rail ?
Ken - I have heard but not tried it if you drive a copper nail in a stump that it will kill it and not drive up shoots. They didnt hand dig a test pit first to locate the gas line ??? That is std procedure here. I think every married man thinks that sometimes !!! Its the old testament saying “it is better to dwell in the wilderness…” Keep the B&O picyure coming. Never get tired !
Jim - these are not inventory. All but two are sold !
Henry - Oh geez that is a nightmare. I am surprised the guy survived. What happend to aspirin when it gets old ?
Garry - I thought that boat was in a river not a lake ? What is a boat that size doing in a lake ? I could understand it if it was Lake erie or something like that. How big is the lake ?
YGW … The ship was a river cargo ship with a load moving from Alabama to Illinois. Kentucky Lake is one of the largest man-made lakes anywhere, and it was made by building a dam on the Tennessee River. We live on Lake Barkley which was made with a dam on the Cumberland River. It is almost as big as Kentucky Lake. The US government owns Land Between the Lakes which is inbetween the two lakes.
This news photo is about four years old. Our neighbors were crossing the bridge at the moment when the bridge collapsed, but they were not on the span that fell. Thankfully, no vehicles were on that span and no vehicles went into the lake. The shipping lane foes under the highest span which is 3 psans away from the one that fell. The crew went off course. I heard from a Coast Guard guy, there was a lot of drinking on the ship when it happened.
At 5:00 this morning, my son and DIL made me a grandpa for the sixth time. The great thing is that my grandkids call me “Old Dude.” The looks we get in public places when the kids yell, “Hey, Old Dude!” are priceless.
Until I retired, I seldom went to bars, but since then I’ve found them a refreshing change from home. At home, I’ve got no companionship for watching sports, or even drinking beer for that matter. The wife has stopped drinking and has no appreciation for anything but tennis on TV.
We are also at the dawn of the Second Age of American Beermaking, and any decent bar is competing with all the others with selections of craft beers on tap. That’s the way to drink them. Most of the time, I have dinner at home before going out, but sometimes I’ll eat “pub fare” for a change of pace.
Like most businesses, smoking is prohibited in bars. That, more than anything else, kept me out of bars for most of my life, but now that the air is clean inside I can enjoy the atmosphere.
The bars I like have live music. Most have no cover charge, so it’s free entertainment. I’ve found quite a few local groups that I follow around.
There’s an old saying that goes, “Chasing women at my age is like a dog chasing cars. Not sure what we do with one if we caught her.” I enjoy flirting with the ladies, even though it gets me nowhere. (Don’t tell my wife.)
Each spring my lawn get’s going good but I had some bare spots so today I bought some Bermudagrass seed and just got it down when it started raining pretty good. Just in time it’s been raining for a hour and a half. Forecast is for rain on and off until Sunday night.
I’m having a tired day, some days I am tired for no reason.
Flo, [B] please and tell the trains to stop picking on me!
Train Front Having power pick up problems with 2 engine’s. Monon F-3 A and the N&W Y6 b. I think the Y6 b problem is the track. I do not solder the rail joiners and do not have feeder wire every section. I am thinking the weight of the engine is causing the joiner’s to lose contact to the other rail’s. Mono F-3 A I have no clue right now.
Richard [Y] on the new one!
Dennis Bermudagrass can be a pain in the caboose! It will grow on your drive way, your patio, your shed and your dog if it lay’s down to long!
Henry I would love some more B&O photos. I like C&O when they have the Blue and Yellow color’s like B&O.
YGW Have no idea what caused them to hit the gas line. Fire is out so it is out of the news.
Brother Lion [:O] I read about what you have had done, hope you get well soon and I never have to have done what you had done! Hope you had a good Vet!
Mornin’ everyone! Hello? So, where is “everyone”? Hmmmmmmmm…
Zoe, just a bowl of raison bran and a pot of Seneca Lake Blend Dark Roast coffee for me. I’ll sit in the back by the wood stove to stay warm and see if anyone else shows up…
Another one of those things I just do not understand is why anyone would actually water a lawn? Why??? Watering a lawn makes the darn thing grow… Then you have have to go out and mow it. I never would ever fertilize a lawn either. That makes it grow faster so it needs to be mowed more often. All that means wasted time that I could be using in the train room, $$$$ to pay for teated water and fuel for the mower. Why would anyone want to do those things??? I just don’t understand that. I do water my vegetable garden, but that supplies me with fresh, organic, non GMO food to eat…
[color=red]YGW[/color], I think that tree in my lawn is a Flowering Quince. At least two different people who plant or cut down trees for a living said that is what it is… Mine is probably a hybred of the Japanese small tree variety (only grows to about 12’ tall). The actual Quince tree has fruit that is not edible raw, but can be cooked down to make quince jam. Mine has very small fruit about the same size as a small crab apple tree. Many years the fruit will ferment and/or turns to some chemical that makes the birds rather tipsy. They have trouble flying correctly… Did have a robin try to fly through my dining room window already this year. Didn’t get seriously injured but was standing in the driveway shaking it’s head for a while. It finally flew away. I have had smaller birds fly into the window and break their necks every once in a while…
I will be heading to Webster, NY soon to get a signature on the Petition… May find a couple items to buy at the show as well.
HOME is the LION. TUR=P is not all that bad. But those hospital beds! They should be sent to Abu Grab or to Club Gitmo! Dis not sleep a wink (ther than was sedated for surgery) My own bed (last night) was much better. Percocet helped.
Hospital portions could not have fed a mouse, let alone a LION.
I was at the bagel shop. It was shut down last fall when they demolished the building, and just re-opened in its new location a few hundred feet away. Yeah, we’ve got a Starbucks and a Dunkins, but this Bruegger’s Bagels is just more what I’m looking for. It was completely mobbed. The line to order stretched from the back of the store to the door, and I saw a few people just walk in and walk right out again. As Yogi Berra once said, “Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.” I’ll go back during the week. Saturday mornings are just going to be too crazy.
