For FEBRUARY, 2021 we will continue our tour all over North America by train with the diner in tow rather than being stuffed into a stub-end siding in some railroad yard we’ll be out on the Main Line traveling the rails and seeing the sights!
Please join in and suggest or contribute ideas for locations or trains to ride in your favorite locale.
Kevin, SeeYou190, has provided us with a marvelous graphic to honor our departed Diner patrons. THANK YOU, Kevin!
My daughter that lives in Seattle has entered a contract to buy a very expensive house. She will be the second of my girls to buy a house that is worth several times what my house is worth.
I don’t know why, but this is when I feel like they are all grown up, and they really don’t need me anymore. That is good, because I sure can’t help them out with anything that expensive.
My youngest is still getting settled into life. Trying different things and looking for that something she really wants.
Wondering if Chuck Beckman (TomikawaTT) was to be remembered on the RIP Track. I think there was a fair amount of final support for a particular avatar for him.
Fantastic February - here we come and despite Covid and Lockdown, Spring is right around the next bend. Thanks to Dave for coming-up with the idea of a trip “Here there and everywhere” thru the North American Continent and to Ed and everyone else, for making it so enjoyable. Regards, Paul
I’m glad my sweetie doesn’t read the forum. She’d send you a public request to have you clean my desk on a monthly basis! [:-^]
Amazed at all the work you accomplish on your new house in such short time. And it looks so professional!
BTW, what are you doing up so late? I guess we can be grateful that the diner is open 24-7. Whoever is on the graveyard shift must be sleeping behind the counter - I don’t see any of the girls. Maybe I’ll just help myself to that piece of cherry pie over there . . . [dinner]
Kevin. It is scary when you see your children buying a housethat is way beyond the cost of your own. Our children have done the same. Then I remember our parents wondering how we could afford our house compared to the price of theirs.
[C] It is coffee time. I shall raid the diner and see what is left ‘after the nightshift’.
After a leisurely day in Denver we have big plans to explore the narrow gauge railroads of southern Colorado. When I was there in 1966 there were many remnants around Alamosa, Chama, Lumberton and Durango.
Lots to see and do in the great state of Colorado [8D]
A regular and some bacon and eggs would be nice today Zoe. Rye toast too please with blueberry jam. Thanks for continuing the trip Ed. One of my big regrets on all the Colorado trips we took was that we never went on any of the scenic railroads. We haven’t been back for regular vacation either so that may just be a lost oppourtunity.
22F and swing this morning. I have wk to catch up so I came in though the roads aren’t really cleared yet. Moved a couple of pieces in the yard out of the way for the plow guy and made some coffee so here I am. Hopefully the rest of the crew will be smart and stay home.
Katy, Texas is where the CFO and the chief mechanic from the flight school went to pick up the Cessna 172 to fly home. It turned out to be a really good deal immaculate inside and out though the engine houred out this year. Of course she got the upgrade to the powerplant so now it is if not a hot rod, at least better performing. You can really notice the difference taking off and the fuel consumption is hardly different. I don’t have my license and have no desire to get one though it might be a good idea to take some lessons “just in case”. I usually limit myself to trying to be useful and watch the radar screen and nav system.
Kevin - Sounds like you did a good job raising your kids. It does take patience even after they move out as is the case with our youngest who seemed determined for a while to make a living delivering Chinese food. He is now in Long Beach, Ca. finishing up training to be a teacher.
I don’t know about Fla. but here house prices have skyrocketed though what goes up must come down at least to some extent.
Good morning, everyone. Bacon, eggs, and black coffee, please.
Kevin, I know it gives you a great amount of satisfaction that your kids are doing so well. Congratulations. You did a good job.
I think we may get some sunshine today for the first time in a long time. I don’t think it will warm up to melt any snow, but it will be nice psychologically to see a brighter outdoors.
So refreshing to hear life lived with good Dad experiences. I think I was one of them and still am[Y]
Enjoyed both Crazy Train versions. Thanks Bear, Thanks Kevin. The time of the big Bands before my time. I never knew that version existed and shortly after I listen to it, it disappeared[:|]
So typical. I remember learning exact similarities like that with other songs that were originally composed in older music that the current generation wanted to take credit for[:|]
In the end, after I listened to The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by the one and only Gordon Lightfoot.
Judy and I were talking memories this morning. We were sharing and laughing and decided all the pictures in our life that were lost, we don’t need anymore. The pictures of the memories are permanently engraved in our heads.
She talked about the time we went down to Chicago and we went to see the classic Water Fountain. Apparently it took awhile for Kelly to remember that one but she did and we all laughed.
The reason it was so funny to remember is because of that old Sit-Com Married With Children.
Al Bundy installed a Ferguson toilet in his man cave garage. When he flushed it for the first time the water pressure in the Historic Fountain in Chicago went way down[(-D][(-D][(-D]
It was because of that stupidity we all had to stop there to see it[(-D]
