Here is a detail thata we are missing on our layouts!
Oh Oh! …Yum Yum, …Lake Bird eggs must be a delicious delicacy to Mr Bear sometimes[:S][:S][:S]
Perhaps a blue heron or something I see looking a bit concerned in the tree to the left? [:^)]
TF
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Reminds me of quite a few years ago when the Blue Heron population was declining in quite a few wetland areas here in Minnesota.
The DNR put up cameras directly in the nesting areas and soon found out why. It was the raccoons, climbing the trees and eating all the Heron eggs.
This was really a problem and no one quite knew what to do about it for a significant amount of time. Sometimes solutions are too big of a problem and far too difficult to find. At that point, usually common sense is the answer and that’s exactly what someone came up with.
The idea came from outside the department and the DNR put up aluminum sheet metal around the trunks of the trees. Far enough up off the ground so the raccoons couldn’t jump up over them or sink their claws in the metal to climb up the trees.
It wasn’t too many years after that, the blue heron population started to make a comeback.
I really like blue herons and egrets. They’re a very cool bird to watch in flight. Those things look kind of prehistoric like a pterodactyl or something the way they fly. Lofty wings with their long legs straight out behind them like some kind of rudder.
TF
Good Evening,
A bit cool here, only got up to 40F and not expecting more than 45F for another 5 days, and there are showers too.
Started boxing up the rest of the N scale layout. Pulled the DCC system, a Bachmann infared wireless. Next are the buildings. I will take them to the LHS for a consignment sale. I might get something for the turnouts but the track will be trash. I liked building the layout but I guess I’m not a n scale guy. I built the layout as we had planned on moving to a condo on Vancouver Is.
Dave, I hear you on not driving much. For the last 4 years we have been averaging 5k km/year. Our 2010 Volvo only has 131k on the clock. Will need brakes and some suspension work next year but it is still in great shape.
Time for some dinner.
CN Charlie
I just checked my odometer on my 2019 Chevy truck. 8175 miles (13,156.39km) in a little over three years. Most of that was driven by Dee Ann while hauling “stuff” for her various projects. I think I drove it to three different train shows within a hundred miles from home.
2019_CHV3 by Edmund, on Flickr
Fall Foliage and a Geep by Craig Sanders, on Flickr
For all you diesel detail nuts, don’t forget to stick some yellow and brown leaves on your carbody intake filter screens!
Cheers, Ed
nice pics!
Evening
Image courtesy of Reddit
Coffee 4:30 Highway 6:30
Time to hit the rack.
Nighty night.
Have a nice weekend gentlemen[;)]
TF
Good morning all…
We are heading to Orlando to spend the day with our baby. It is her 27th birthday today.
Hard to believe this was 20 years ago… where did all that time go?
-Kevin
My wife’s 2015 Impala just turned 40,000 miles. Most of that has been trips to Orlando, Tampa, or Miami.
We are taking it to Orlando again today.
-Kevin
Good morning, diners. Bacon, eggs, and coffee, please.
Out-of-town company is gone, more coming next week. It’s nice seeing people, but I’m tired.
We’ve put 90,000 miles on our Ford Expedition in the past six years. We’ve driven it from our place in the middle of the U.S. to a lot of places all over – the farthest to Florida, to Washington state, and to Mexico. However, most of the miles are all the trips to visit grandchildren. I wish they lived closer.
Warning: If you don’t like history, quit reading now while you can!
Fall in Nebraska is celebrated in the southeast part of the state’s apple orchards.
During World War II, thousands of German soldier prisoners were sent to prison camps in Nebraska. They often worked on the farms in the state.
One of the prisoners, William Oberdieck, worked at the Kimmel Orchards near Nebraska City, NE. He became friends with the Kimmel family. At the end of the war, the POWs were all returned to Europe.
However, with Kimmel’s help, after being returned to Germany, Oberdieck and his wife were allowed to come back to America. Oberdieck became an American citizen, and worked as the manager of the Kimmel Orchards. In 1967, he purchased the orchards from the Kimmels.
Today, the Kimmel Orchards are run by a foundation, and it is a favorite fall destination for tourists.
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Join me in breakfast, the best meal of the day!
For those of you like David or Bear, I know it’s not breakfast time for you, but bacon and eggs is good anytime of the day or night.
Have a good trip, Kevin. Enjoy every minute!
Good evening Diners. Zoe, I’ll have some of the bacon and eggs John has left. Add some hash browns, mushrooms and tomato as well. Dawn and I like an ‘All Day Breakfast’ in the evening.
Dawn is having a large number of ‘bad days’. The ‘Novichok Nerve Agent’ she is suffering from is taking its toll. She is attending hospital two or three times a week.
Talking of German prisoners in WW2.
Dawn’s family are a ‘family of farmers’. In WW2 her grandparents had a farm in Cumbria. Labour was required to work the farms and German P.O.W.s were sent. One worked the farm in Cumbria; a young man, hardly 20 years of age.
Anyway by all accounts he was a good worker. On time off working he liked to draw pictures of the countryside. On his repatriation to Germany he handed (to Dawn’s grandfather) a picture of the farm. The picture was handed down to Dawn and is now in a frame and on a wall in our house.
Thoughts & Peace to All who Require.
David
Ooo! Bad, Bad Stuff! You might have said before or may not be able to share, but how did she get exposed to that STUFF!!!
73
I have mentioned it previously, howmus.
Six years ago we were in St Petersburg and got it there, somehow.
Dawn spent four months in hospital. Two weeks of that in intensive care.
She is still learning to walk properly. Some days are good. Recently not so. But we will win.
David
Wow! I somehow missed that. Do know that I am pulling for her! (both of you actually!)
73
Greetings from Casey,IL. We are trave to Indianapolis to pick up our son and his girlfriend tomorro; we are going to the Purdue/Nebraska football game Saturday night. Our first game since his last game in 2016; really looking forward to it.
Driving across rural Kansas, Missouri, and Illinois we have seen lots of fields in the middle of harvest, wheat and corn, primarily.
David, hope your Dawn continues to get better.
Kevin, our daughter turns 27 in two weeks, safe travels to Orlando.
We got to the BnB in time to watch the Astros game. We will also be able to watch the Stars season opener. Go Stars!!!
Sunday morning I drove to the Cleveland Amtrak station to pick up my son-in-law and his daughter when they arrived from New York City and the Comic Con convention. The Lake Shore Limited was on-time to the minute.
Later that day I read of a derailment in Sandusky, Ohio, that supposedly happened the day before and one photographer showed the Lake Shore (#49) annulled in Springfield, Mass. Confused?
Anyway there WAS a derailment in Sandusky that sent some tank cars full of parrifin wax tumbling off a bridge on to a highway below.
So the interesting thing was the fact that Amtrak combined the eastbound Capitol and Lake Shore, routed on a detour as far as Cleveland, where they split, #48 continuing on the old New York Central and #30 heading toward Pittsburgh on the Pennsy’s C&P branch and then on the B&O to D.C.
Combined Amtrak by Todd Dillon, on Flickr
Combined Amtrak 2 by Todd Dillon, on Flickr
A while back there was some discussion on “Mid-train helpers” on a passenger train (!) well, here it is, photographic evidence.
Interesting stuff for modelers [8D]
Cheers, Ed
We just made it back home from Orlando, and another great day with our baby.
This is always a great way to spend any day.
-Kevin
Whoops, wrong thread.
-Kevin