[color=red]Brent[/color], the more I know about you , the more I like and respect you!!! There are a few people around here like your neighbor. I try to avoid them to keep my blood presure down. Of course, being invloved with several community organizations that do their best to help people, all people, those types usually avoid me as well…
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Afternoon folks,
Brent have a round on me, the world needs more guys like you.
Garry, happy birthday! I’ll pay your tab for today.
Getting ready for the commute home, I’ve been at work since 1 and today I get time and a half!
I’ll be back in, later!
We had fun at the Fair today. I never did put two and two together before we went that it was Labor Day today. It was way crowded! We made the best of it though.
My favorite part was the bull riding in the Horse Coliseum. Man those boys are tough. One of the bulls hind legs came down on one of the riders with full force after he fell off. It had to of cracked or broke his ribs. He just stood up smiling and walked away.
Happy Birthday Garry, another year wiser you are[:D]
NO WE WON’T!
That’s a bunch of fear mongering manure!
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Evening diners,
I saw the models for TS Gordon, looks like we’ll be on the left side of the storm and that it will only be a Cat. 1 or 2.
I had to scuttle the pool furniture at the two hotels in preparation for the storm, the hard part was keeping the chairs from floating!
I’m hoping that the storm comes nowhere near Baton Rouge because tomorrow evening is the weekly meeting at the MSMRC.
I’m beat so I’ll lurk a little while and then hit the sack.
'Evenin Folks
This was also our weekend to attend the Great Geauga County Fair. 196 years at the same location [:-^] A tad warm it was at 92°F (33.333C).
Watched our nieces and nephew horse around a bit. Here they are, gettin’ hitched [swg]
Four-in-hand like nobody’s business. Earlier in the day these girls were driving a team of eight draft horses. That IS an impressive sight. You can feel the power just like a passing locomotive.
Teddy_dobbin by Edmund, on Flickr
Nine-year-old Teddy (the driver, not the horse!) and his grand dad on a spiffy trap.
Yes it was fun, but big crowds on a hot day aren’t exactly my idea of time well spent. Good to be with the family and grandkids, too!
Brent [Y] I’ve always held that the world is a big enough planet that anyone should be free to live, in peace, anywhere they wish.
A few storms passing through but no cool-down until Thursday.
Hope you had a great day, Garry! [^] and everyone else, too!
Cheers, Ed
Eveing Diners
Flo, give the gang and I a [B] Ulrich, Rick, Steven what they like and give the [bday] boy what ever he wants!
Gary How young are you? By the way great photo on the last page! Which mining kit did you get?
Ray Love the photo you posted!
Brent I am with you on that one 100%.
Day with Nancy is a day with out sunshine!
I am beat, so later
Ken
I didn’t get a chance to catch up on all the posts from when I left for the Fair this morning… Brent you are a good man. I see you think the way I do.
While the more fortunate eat stakes, drive new cars and live in a nice home, some fellow human beings are not so fortunate and don’t have much of anything.
Why would anyone want to drive these people down harder into the dirt.
When a fellow human being is having a hard time you help them not hinder them.
The same reason Judy and I brought four big bags of very nice comforters to the organization that is helping people living under bridges in Minneapolis.
These people have problems. They’re messed up. Their lives have become unmanageable. That’s even more of a reason you try to help.
None of these people ever said when they were young, when I grow up I want to be a heroin addict.
Some people had the opposite of a cake life. Some people grew up in a living hell… Many refuse to look and understand these circumstances. These circumstances are even more of a reason to help those less fortunate.[tup]
First time I’ve been here in September and I’ve walked into another firestorm.
I belonged to another forum, where all they days’ threads were organized under the first thread of the day and anybody could start tomorrows thread at anytime. People started that first thread as early as 8 pm so they could be first. Management put a stop to that, but left a loophole. If you edit your post, it appears as the latest post. The same people are now making 5 or 6 minor changes to a post, so it floats near the top, all day long.
Back on the homefront, my homeowners association is in an uproar. Instead of handing them a budget, literally, in a noisy bar, or emailing it after the fact or not at all, we sent it to them 30 days before the vote, as required by state law. We also used real numbers instead of the 2013 budget that has been recycled every year and they are in disbelief at what things really cost.
There was no increase in the landscaping budget for 5 years and no accounting for what was really spent. Most insensed are the people that never volunteer and the wives of board members that purposely misinformed the neighborhood and kept no receipts or proper accounting.
WHAT firestorm?
I scanned back many postings. I don’t see a firestorm.
I responded to a post in another thread here wondering why people can’t be more specific with their intentions.
I have no idea what youre referring to.
Regards, Ed
I had to get to the bottom of the first page to get to a post that was made in September. Before and after that it was who, where and when has the right to start the 1st post.
Firestorm is a bit a hyperbole, but a bunch of posts busting Stephens chops. This is a model railroad forum. Nobody is going to be a penny richer or poorer of live one second more or less because of who starts the forum or where it is.
We are here to have fun.
Howdy …
Thanks, everybody, for the birthday wishes. I hope everybody enjoyed the virtual cake and ice cream. … We were in Tennesse this afternoon and evening.
Cheers !
Ya know, one month I would like to see NWP SWP Steven open the thread and NOT have a bunch of old geezers jump down his throat just because he’s not one of them. He did a fine job, which makes it pretty clear that the problem people have with him opening the thread isn’t how he does it. And that’s all that I think needs to be said on the topic. Capisce?
On a brighter note, we had some relatives over for a cookout the Sunday before Labor Day. My wife made her famous German potato salad, and it was one of the best batches she’s ever made. (I hate commercially-made German potato salad; it’s always too sweet. My wife’s secret: Lots of vinegar!) That night I said, “Is it a bad thing if I don’t want to eat spaghetti tonight, even though the sauce is already made, but just have a huge bowl of potato salad?” She said it was the best compliment I ever gave her! [:D]
Anyway, she always makes a huge batch so there are tons of leftovers. Dig in!
My does that look tasty. I do like a good german potato salad!
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Sorry missed your Birthday Garry, I spent the overnight in the ER with Mrs MLC.
Here we are still touring western KY The original Illinois Central Freight Depot in Paducah kY at 6th and Campbell streets. this is long gone.
This Ill Central boat is frozen in the Ohio river around 1901
IC steam running at CR Junction in Paducah Crossing uder HWy 60 which is now a five lane highway.
clean up of a derail at KY dam in the 1970’s
Hey Janie.
Since we’re in Tennessee, I’ll take the Elvis Special: fried peanut butter, banana, and mayonnaise sandwich. And a Diet Coke. Please.
Robert
