Evening Dinners
Flo, [B] Please
Pretty Boring Day. Dave called off today thank goodness and he told me he is seeing a Doctor Monday! For his family sake, I hope they find out what is really wrong with him.
Other than work beening real slow, nothing to type about tonight.
Ken
Gidday Chloe, I see things have been rather quiet in here, I just hope Vinnie doesn’t look at laying off staff, though I guess Barrys snack would have kept the cook and chief potato peeler busy for a while, and with the warmer temperatures I would hope that everyone was out getting a top up of vitamin D.
Todays visit is to the Feilding & District Steam Rail Society, the featured steam locomotives being F163, 0-6-0T, built 1881; X442, 4-8-2, built 1909, and Wab794, 4-6-4T, built 1927. The Wab, (pronounced Wob as in Bob) were tank versions of the Ab Pacifics, but with a four wheel trailing truck.
Thoughts and Best Wishes to All that need them.
Good Morning
Going to be another warm muggy day here with the ever popular 40% of little dribblebits falling.
We might get a chance to carry off our May 24 weekend firework display as well as my bands two outdoor sets…weather permitting, of course. [:-^]
Chloe, I’ll have the 12 egg special with 4lbs of bacon and hash browns please…I’ll be at the RC for a bit. [:-,][:-^]
Good Morning Diners,
Flo, my usual, please.
Yesterday helped son and DIL move into their new place. Move went fairly smoothly and all of the in-laws were involved except MOH who was attending a graduation. I’m not as young and limber as I used to be and boy, did I feel it. Afterwards, went home and straight to bed. Even though I took an aspirin I’m still a little stiff this morning.
Their new place is conveniently across the street from the old C&NW now UP mainline into the city. About every 30-45 minutes there was a train going by. If I lived there, I’d be in heaven, sort of. Get myself a chaise lounge, cooler, reading material (of course, MR) and sit back and watch the parade. Ok, that’s not reality, but nice to dream about.
Well, have to hobble in to work.
i hope everyone is OK and safe.
Morning, all. Monday? Well, that means tomorrow is hockey. Yay!
I’m in a rut, train-wise. I need to start a project. I’ll probably either get started on the scenic cover for my staging tracks, or build up the old-time rooming house kit that’s going to be a saloon. In an ideal world, I would have a dual-era layout just by swapping trains and vehicles, but that movie theater is just too modern, so I’ll swap that out too and put the saloon on the corner. That will give me a chance to install the old Miller Engineering “Theater” sign and maybe some lighting on the theater itself.
Ken, let Dave know we’re thinking about him, if it’s OK to let him know you talk about him on the train forums. It’s kind of like “House,” the doctor show where everyone’s trying to figure out what’s wrong with the patient. Not being able to stay awake at work could indicate a serious circulatory problem, or maybe it’s just too much Letterman.
Dave’s problem could also be a side effect of medication. I had similar symptoms on both Atenolol (for blood pressure) and Metformin (Type 2 diabetes.) The patient has to advocate for himself on this stuff. There are alternate medications that should work without the bad side effects, but you’ve got to tell the doctor and ask for a change.
Morning?
Yawn?
Monday? what is this Monday that ewe speak of.
Snow? Snow? Really? Wet White stuff on the grass and in the garden.
Looks like somebody was trying to put frosting on their Monaday Morning.
Frosted Flaky Monday 2 ewe 2.
ROAR
[size=18]I’m Baaaaaaccccckkkkkk!!![/size] Mornin’ everybody!
Slept about 9 hours last night which starts to make up for the major deficite of sleep time over the weekend… Nice day here in the Finger Lakes Region, but will be hot (85°F) and muggy.
Weekend went very, very well with only a few screw-ups. There were some mistakes in the program handbook (of course the guy who out it together for us was still trying to get information the day before the Convention…). Some clinic rooms were listed wrong and at the last minute we had to change one room to a different room as the college had something else in there on Friday. Saturday we got to use the room again. We didn’t list the time and place to get the bus to the Museum(s) and one person didn’t get the word (we went to each convention room twice to announce it). I felt really bad about that and refunded his fee for the tour… He came back and donated it back, saying that he should have asked about it much earlier… We got a great bunch of Model Railroaders there! Clinics were all superb! The layout tours went well (I only got to a half dozen of them). My favorite of the whole bunch was Harold Russell’s latest creation. He is in his mid 80’s and the old master hasn’t lost his touch. Besides, he is a great gentleman! His clinic created more laughter than the rest of them combined. His clinic was on “Field Measuring”. He showed how he does it and told many humerous stories of stituations he has run into in the over 50 years he has been doing this. It was the only clinic I took time off to attend… Anyway, had some rave reviews (one from a National Board Member) so I guess it was a great weekend.
Now I have turned 100% of my attention to the 2 weeks worth of stuff I have to get done before Wednesday for the Scholarship Dinner. Programs are printing as I type.
Have a great day everyone!
Ken - Isnt taht just like a Y6 ! Couldnt kill those beast ! LOVE the photos of the B&O !
Ray - good to see you back
Lion - Snow ! Snow ! Send some here it is stinking hot humid 90+ degrees
UP831 - When you get done helping your family move come my way [:-^]. Still not finished moving [banghead].
Galaxy - Will keep you prayer. In the meantime watch out for the frying pan express !
CN Charlie - OUCH ! OUCH ! Really pulled his own tooth ?
Johnboy - Some of us get some holidays like Memorial day ( honor fallen veterans ), Labor day, Christamas ( not Xmas) , Thanksgiving, new years day, Independence day, George Washington day (AKA Presidents day ) , Columbus day, Martin Luther King day, Columbis day. In construction unless you are upper management you get very few days off and if you take them generally speaking you dont get any pay. Of course governemet is very generous with your money and pays their workers to be off every holiday and you get to pay for them to be off. What is Victoria day ? How many holidays does Canada celebrate ?
I think one more weekend of moving and we will be complete - then I think I will head in to the docs to get some relief for my aching back !!!
Gotta head back to w**k
TTYL
YGW
Good Morning,
Well we just had a major storm here for the past 2 days. It was what we call a Colorado low as that is where our major low pressure storms usually originate. Lots of rain, wind, and that is followed by cold air coming from the north so the high today is about 35F.
YGW, our statutory holidays are paid holidays by all employers. Labour laws here specify that employers must pay all full time employees for such holidays. We have a few different ones, such as Victoria Day, August ‘bank’, Boxing Day, etc. but probably a similiar number. Victoria Day is to celebrate Queen Victoria’s birthday which is actually on the 24th. It is a holdover from the time when Canada was more closely tied to Great Britain although we still are to an extent as the Queen is the head of state.
Been running a few trains and now have pushed all freight to the sidings as it is the turn of passenger on the Mortimer sub. We had dinner with our friends in England who live in Mortimer. The don’t know it but they also live in a house on my layout. I also pulled out a PK2 kit from my stash and will start on it soon. It is a 50’ box car kit. I bought a new side cut sprue cutter so must try it out on those grab irons.
Well not much on the agenda today, not going out anywhere so it might be another fire day as in the fireplace.
Hope we see a few of the MIA’s such as Tom in PA to mention just one. I was wondering if he is still doing his weekend railfanning.
CN Charlie
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My Father-in-law pulled all of his own teeth as well. He was the town Vet although he didn’t have the education he was very talented and had the tools and sometimes he used them on himself.
YGW, CN Charlie is right but he missed a few holidays, the year goes like this.
New Years Day,
Family day in mid Feb. not Valentines.
Good Friday
Easter Sunday
Victoria Day in May. around the 24th, give or take.
Canada Day, July 1st.
First Monday in Aug. not all get this.
Labor Day, First week end in Sept.
Thanksgiving, Floats around in Oct.
Rememberance Day, Nov 11th
Christmas Day
Boxing Day, day after Christmas, not all get this.
Most are paid holidays, but sometimes it has a connection to Union Agreements. For instance some may take the Feb. Family or Heritage Day in lieu of the Aug. holiday or vise versa.
Whatever you had I hope it was a great week end. It wasn’t very nice here but I guess much better than what North Dakota and Manitoba had. We sure don’t want any more snow.
I had the last three days off and tomorrow off but had to work the Stat today, but I do get double time for it, so that is great.
BYW, I did get my mine truck chained down on that depressed center flat car and it looks pretty good. Will try and get a pix of it here before long.
Keep Smiling Gang, it looks good on ya. [swg]
Johnboy out… for now
Evening guys
a warm one here today,33c and to think last week we had frost a couple days.
i was off today and yesterday and managed to get some weathering done so that is good. I just didn’t feel like baking in the sun today. I probably won’t get any more modelling time now until next weekend or maybe a little In the evenings.
talk to you fellas later
Good Evening
Got everything off the ground tonight and now I is just restin’ ‘dem ol’ bones…for now…
The outdoor concerts were kinda weird. First set was semi-acoustic and the second one was full band. Both 45 minutes long…[:-^]
Fireworks were attended by over 300 people here…
Evenin’ folks!
Janie, just a refill for my cup of decaf please… Put [color=red]Barry’s[/color] meal on my tab, OK?
Ah, yes, the 24th. of May… Only it happened on the 18th. this year?
I’ve been hard at w*rk most of the day. Got the programs run off for the Scholarship dinner, mowed half the lawn (in between rain and thunderboomers), and just spent a couple hours getting some of the photos ready to put into the Slide Show for the dinner. We had a major line of storms come through the area a couple hours ago. There were warnings for localized flooding and strong lightning… I shut down the computers and put away items from the Convetion while that was going on.
Have gotten a couple emails today complimenting the Division on the Convention. Nice to get positive feedback, and both of these were from people who attend a lot of Conventions in the NMRA… Aslo found out that the Asst. Superintendent took a fall yesterday while his layout was open and hit his head hard. Our treasurer who is also a fireman and knows first aid and emergency situations. arrived just about the time this happened. he didn’t see the accident but after a few minutes the gent said he had a good sixed bump on hios head. The Fireman looked at it, told him to shut down the 3 trains he had going and get upstairs for an ice pack. The guy who fell was lucid and acted normal and he didn’t think much more than to make sure his wife was home and tell him if he has any trouble to get to the emergency room. On the way home he started thinking he should have insisted he get to the emergency room or the Urgent Care place nearby. He called several times and got no one. He figured maybe he went to the Urgent care place. Called back in the morning and talked to the guys wife. Yep, he went to the Urgent Care facility where they took a look at him, then ran down a list of conditions. Turns out th
Ray … You are picking up Barry’s tab ! … That could be very, very expensive ! Did you win the lottery ?
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CN Charlie … Those fragile plastic grab irons are troublesome. I hope the sprue cutter works for you. … A few weeks ago I opened up a P2K stock car kit i had in storage for quite some time. Instead of a sprue cutter I heated an Xacto #11 blade and slice with it. The hot blade sliced through esily. … However, I ended up making grab irons out of thin brass wire because the plastic grab irons were too frustrating.
The completed GN stock car is coupled next to the locomotive in this picture.
Gidday Chloe, just my usual please.
Good to hear all that hard work put into setting up the convention was well worth it Ray.
Tonight we visit the capital of New Zealand, Wellington, and do a bit of train spotting.
Thoughts and Best Wishes to All that need them.
Cheers, the Bear.[:)]
Good Morning
Cooler morning today…going to 50F then going up to 54F later on…in the sun.
Have a bunch of gotta buys and gotta do’s today…right now not much of anything.
Garry: How dare you assume that I would be a chowhound on Ray’s ticket. I never did that…[:-^]
Chloe, I’ll have an Earl Gray Breakfast Tea with toast and jam please…
Good morning.
Barry … How could I possibly get such a thought?
Bear … Thanks for more videos.
Mornin’ everyone!
Zoe, I’ll have a short stack of blueberry pancakes with real NYS Maple Syrup, a couple breakfast sausages, and my usual dark roast coffee in my R&GV RR mug. Thank you Ma’am!
I have to get busy with the rest of the lawn before it decides to rain again. Just sitting here printing some stuff needed at the Scholarship dinner. Only have to do the tickets and they won’t take long.
Zoe, I’ll pay up muy tab yhis morning… WHAT! $805.93!!! Oh, that’s right I said I would pay for [color=red]Barry’s[/color] supper last night. (Shoulda known better…)
Later!
73
One good thing about O gauge 3 rail is there isen’t the constant worry about grab irons.
Unseasonalally cool all week, low 70’s or high 60’s, I hope I don’t freeze to death, I’. glad my heater works good.
My Wi Fi didn’t work again this morning, it took 3 tries to get it working and I got up early for some forum time before I go to Vintage, so some anxiety as if I can’t get it to work I don’t know what to do. Wi Fi is just another thing so you can’t get the internet.
Last Sunday afternoon I attended a membership class and I’m now offically a member of the big church I go to and like.
Barry, You will fade away to nothing on a diet like that. Similar to what has happened to me here. Just a mere shadow of our former selves. Although, that is not to say I didn’t need to lose a little weight.
You go right ahead and eat for the two of us, you have my blessing. [bow] [dinner]
Johnboy out.