Good morning, y’all! Coffee and a warm scone with butter for me, Flo.
Not much on my plate this past weekend and this week from the looks of things, though we will see. Got some time to work on the layout. Finally laying ballast after starting the layout nearly two years ago! Should be able to do small sections over the course of the week and hopefully be done by Saturday. Then I can start working on a model kit I received from my wife for my birthday or, if the decoder arrives by the end of the week, installing LokSound into a Bachmann Mikado.
@Water_Level_Route Had to look up what an avulsion fracture is, and it sounds incredibly painful! Praying that heals quickly.
I have got to say seeing a rotary plow in BNSF colors bothers me for some reason, even though it makes sense for the road to have them. I think my mind is hardwired to file any BNSF livery NOT on a GEVO or EMD as cursed!
…anyway, here’s a “loaf of bread” tender that was converted into a snow plow for the Rock. Somehow this is fine!
Good morning from the West Coast of America (the Canadian part) It is 6c/HOC and dry.
This week is awful, we have two or three appointments every day this week, I am already exhausted just thinking about it. We are into Vancouver twice for specialist visits for the boss. She is also doing some serious repro work at one of the Vet Hospitals and I am needed as she is just using the facility not the staff as it is for own animal, I am the staff, LOL. I am hoping we can get to Cardero’s for lunch at least.
I think they have won twice, but I have little interest in baseball so I could be wrong. Watching the World Series was a good excuse to get the gang in a couple of times and we had a good time.
John those leaves/trees are beautiful. Vegetation growth of all types this year has been terrific. We went for a long drive to check out a couple of areas yesterday and the show put on by the leaves was spectacular.
This has also been a banner year for the farmers. I was at the Auto mall while waiting to get the Toyota serviced and wandered over to the Ford and Chevy lots just to kick some tires. I talked to a couple of sales guys for a while and they said you can tell it has been a good year on the farms as the farmers are coming in to buy new trucks. The corn has been really good this year.
Snowshed’s have always been a favourite sight for me on the CPR. I have hiked or mountain biked to a few long abandoned ones over the years in the Selkirk’s and Rockies. I am not sure I can squeeze one in on my little layout but I will try.
Brent, you are right. They won twice in the early 90s. I had completely forgotten. I also am not a Dodgers fan, so I had hoped someone, anyone, would win this year except for them.
To show how little I know about baseball, when someone said the Jay’s were playing the LA Dodgers, I said, isn’t there also a Brooklyn Dodgers? I got schooled. LOL.
I am surprised I know so little about MLB. I played organized baseball as a kid for a few years and then there was a shortage of volunteers to coach the 13 to 16 year old girls softball so I was volunteered by the person running the local league. I was fresh out of High School and I had two problems through the season. One was at that age the girls were really showing an interest in boys and boyfriends and wanna be boyfriends would show up at the games. The second one was, some of the girls had a crush on me which I was able to ignore. Managing the boyfriend/ girlfriend thing was a little more difficult.
I also coached boys baseball for a while which was much better as come game time, girls did not exist.
In the late 70s I was working for the Feds and played in some very competitive industrial baseball leagues for a few years. I could catch anything and hit really well, but with my spaghetti arms I was not the best thrower on the field so I played first base most of the time. I also played a couple of years of competitive fast pitch softball which I enjoyed.
In later years I got drafted to play in beer leagues a couple of times but had so little interest I moved on both times after a few games. I did not drink at the time and I had more productive things to spend my time on.
I also spent decades at the hockey rink, especially when my son came along. Through it all the worst people to deal with were the parents who never helped out or contributed at all. There were always those that said they paid their money for their kid to play and would never stop complaining and would never lift a finger to help out. We are all volunteers not employees. Lot’s of times I have seen coaches hold out the clip board to the obnoxious parent(s) only to see said parents turn and walk away in a huff.
Coaching kids has been the best as they are so full of life when they arrive at the venue.
Hey guys. Got an appointment set with the orthopedic doc Wednesday morning, so hoping I’ll know more after that. Google is a bit pointless on this one as I’ve seen estimates of 1 to 6 months recovery when I’ve tried looking. Hurt like the dickens when it happened, but since then it mostly doesn’t hurt unless I move it just right or put sudden, even minor, pressure on it, like changing my shirt. They gave me a sling that I’m not sure does much for me other than remind me it’s hurt and keep me from using it more.
I feel for you. I had a double on two different bones in my foot. It was well over two years to get back to normal. I spent a lot of time out on the ocean with a fishing rod in my hands through that time. That goodness for friends with big boats,
Fishing is certainly relaxing. I haven’t been in a good while. Might see if the missus is ever up for it when it warms up and we have the gear. What we DO have is golfing gear, and it’s about time I get some lessons!
My friend has a beautiful house right on the ocean up the coast from Vancouver and we would go there most weekends. He had two boats, one was a 18’ ski boat and the other was a 27’ Sunbridge. Like this one, same year I believe.
When the Doctors finished with me at the hospital I called him and he came and picked me up at the hospital. I had a cast to my knee and crutches. He said let’s go up to the house and hang out, take extra clothes and you can stay as long as you want. We got up there and he got the Sunbridge fuelled up, watered up and drinks in the fridge. He went back to Vancouver and left me there and I would hobble down to the dock, climb aboard and rip out a few miles to our favourite spot and just float around with a couple of rods out.
He came back on the weekends with a couple of the other guys and we had a blast. I had my cast on for seven weeks.
Floating around out on the chuck mid-week drift mooching meant there were not a lot of other boats around and on a couple of occasions I was visited up close a personal by a couple of pods of Orca. They just floated along next to the boat and we seemed to have to most interesting conversations. It was quite a spiritual time.
I ended up going back to work at the airport with my cast still on and crutches. I rolled up next to a fully loaded 747 in my truck, got out with my crutches and was doing my thing. It said Government of Canada on the side of my truck and there were people on the plane that were looking out the window at what was going on. A couple of days later I got a call from Ottawa that under no circumstances am I to be hobbling around where the public can see me. They had received several complaints and inquiries as to why the Government was making me work in my condition from people who were on the plane.
Hah! That’s a good one, Brent. Nothing like supervising government offices receiving a complaint from a stick-in-the-mud constituent.
I worked for the government for 30 years. I was behind a partition one afternoon when one of our receptionists came back with a special accommodation request from a walk-in recent widow. Well, “out of sight, out of mind”: I mentioned to the receptionist that the request would be “dead in the water” when I took it back to the Director’s office. Oh, forgot to mention that I worked in the office of a large national cemetery. As I was momentarily oblivious, the widow overheard me. Wrote to her congressman as soon as she got home about the facility’s insensitive staff.
As the office’s version of a wordsmith, I happened to be the one that drafted a lot of the Director’s reports and official mail. A week later, when he got the congressional inquiry letter, he trotted it back to me and asked if I knew who the culprit was. I sheepishly fessed up. He said, “Thanks, John. You get to write up your own reprimand.”
Good morning Diners. A large coffee please, Janie.
Still not 100%. I have a nurse visiting this afternoon. I am doing my best so she does not send me to hospital. Not keen on the food there.
Good morning, everyone. Bacon, eggs, and coffee, please.
I’ve got to drive to the ‘big’ city this morning – population 40,000! When you live in a town of 7,900, that city seems like New York City to us. They have both a Home Depot and a Menard’s. What else could anyone want in a city?
What do you do with the pumpkins after Halloween? This is in my daughter’s backyard:
The corn has been really good this year.
