Not sure when I checked in last.
With all the restrictions we can’t go anywhere. Gas is cheap and no place to go. Still NO food on grocery shelves. It has gone from no TP to nothing at all around here. Today’s weather is cloudy and 40. Some wet snow expected overnight but will melt with tomorrows 40.
S.J.
Morning. 59 and sun came out after a shower of rain over night. Rain off and on through Wed. Hope it holds during kids feeding time.
Need to run to Harbor Freight as an item goes off of special sale today. My Insider Club special.
Then up to Louisburg and more cleaning. Now Wifey is saying moving there. We’ll see. Bring home my wood lathe and small compressor I gave her Dad. Then may have to haul it back later.
Chief - Momma’s good looks, indeed. [:X] But Daddy’s rationale. [Y][8D]
She should be flattered Fifedog, (maybe she is, secretly) but only a proud poppa sneaks shots like that!
Beautiful young woman, that’s for sure!
Morning trainsters!
Hey! It’s raining! Wettest start to a year on record…3 years ago, wettest year ever. Two years ago, second wettest year…after a 15 year drought…and the last 4 years the weather wonks said we would have an unusually dry winter…
Great pics Fife! Nice your daughter is willing to assist! Layout looking great!
As I inventory my stuff - makes me wish I had a layout again…but no room the way the house is set up now.
The family and friends are all well so far…hope we can keep it that way.
TP situation here got to the point the county announced last night everyone is restricted to 9 rolls (or one pack if greater) as of midnight last night Per person per trip. Haha…the county commish said in so many words it is the stupidest announcement he has ever had to concede to make.
Well, it had to happen. Social distancing on the train layout. 
Flint - She’ll be carded until she’s 42…
Fife, with all the grey hair I’ve got I haven’t been carded in years! (When I was a kid in NJ we called it “getting proofed.”
When I visit a liquor store for a bottle of bourbon now and they don’t ask for an ID I don’t know whether to laugh or cry!
Hello there,`
Billwiz…Welcome…Come back often.
practicing “social distancing”, going very few places. Found a daily Mass on EWTN at 8 AM. Not sure if it’s something new or standard procedure. Been slowly but surely making progress on the bathroom redo.
Decided to do little today. Watched a movie after breakfast, had lunch, and a nap. Afterward we decided to go fo a drive just to get out. Stopped a a Dollar store to get cat feed for the barn cats. The TP shelves were bare, the bread aisle, frozen food and cleaning supplies were really thin. No hand sanitizer. Now homemade pitza while watching Naked and Afraid.
Buckeye and Fife…good videos
Fife…Layout looks good. Glad the princess is helping you.
Best move on.
Prayers this pandemic is short
Hi guys, yep nuts here to.
Would like to thank my son and his family for bringing us some much needed supplies today. Glad to have bread. Now to find some TP. [swg]
Seems as my grandfather would say, is what none of these kids today get,don’t put all of your eggs in one basket. What CEO’s with MBA’s also don’t get. All they have is profit over brains??? Why we don’t make anything here anymore and, Why this is way worse than need be. Damn the virus is enough without the greed of Washington and stock holders.
Been hanging out in the shed cleaning things and trying to find things to do that don’t cost. Wifey said we can eat off the floor out there. [(-D] [dinner]
Evenin folks! Welcome Bill!
Well Dallas County has mandated a 2 week shelter in place order. Only essential businesses can remain open. Daughter is out of work, she applied for unemployment this evening. A close friend dropped off some fresh baked bread!
Evening All,
Had an interesting day, nothing exciting but not boring. I miss not having Nascar on the weekend, but discovered there was a Nascar event on the TV schedule. Turns out it wasnt an actual race but instead a “Invitational Simulation Event”. I didn’t realize this exsisted but Denny Hamlin organized with Fox a simulation race with a number of the actual drivers sitting at home with a simulation car, and they had a simulated race! It was crazy but lots of laughs. Fox televised it as an regulat race, had a Invocation, Anthem, Fly Over was cancelled (Homeland Security would not approve the drone). So with 15 or 16 drivers sitting at home on a game simulator they had the race. 100 laps. The technology was excellant showing the iconic cars, track like photography, trackside announcers, etc… The symbology and all was really fun. Will have to watch the rerun on Fox this week.
Also had a really good telecon with Roy, don’t know that we solved many issues but enjoyed conversing about them.
Then it seemed like a nice enough day, thought a bike ride would be fun. Of course thebikes needed air, no more than got that done and it started raining! So that put off for a day or two, suppose to be getting quite a bit a rain the next few days. I think it would be advantageous is some of the data reporting would include how many or % of people that have survived having the Virus. It not like it a death sentence. And testing is a bit overrated, test clear this morning and get it later in the day, or the next. Distancing is no doubt a must to stop the spread.
Local governments trying to tighten things up a bit, with additional restrictions, closing beaches, hiking trails, etc… Most items seems bountiful so far, as long as people dont panic. But no telling what will be the situation in a couple of weeks. I’m concerned about the crime rate.
Good morning from the Valley.
I always liked the movie, “Ground Hog Day” but now that I’m living it… [:-^]
Banks…Thanks.
fife… Does your daughter have her dad’s art talent?
Don… It never rains in Calfornia, so says the song. I’m not too worried about crime in this area where the locals argue over which rifle/shotgun should be displayed in the back window of their pickup truck.
Banks…Our stores for the most part are stocked full. Of course we are the center of the universe [swg] with a Budweiser and Miller brewery, a Kroger distribution center, a Family Dollar distribution center, an Amazon facility, and several Dairy Queens. [C=:-)] We are located withing 600 miles of 2/3’s of the population in the country. Planes, trains and trucks roll into central Ohio with anything and everything. NS has a big intermodel terminal and with the new Panama Canal, more and more frieght ships to Norfolk, VA then leaves on the train to Columbus.
Electrial question: We have a ceiling fan that does not have a switch on the fan to reverse the direction. Can a switch installed on the wall be installed that will reverse the direction of the blades? Or is it more complicated? I would assume the fan motor is AC not DC. I believe I’m looking for some magic that doesn’t exist.
Have a safe week and stop kissing the Blarney Stone.
Good morning from Lockdown…the ankle chains are a bit cumbersome, but I am doing my best Paul Newman impression with them…
Buckeye - the ability to reverse direction in an AC motor is part of the winding. Not sure if the capability is not there you cannot add it. You would have to disassemble it either way to see if there is a DC motor. Frankly it would be cheaper/easier to buy a new fan. There may be the option of rubbing some bat guano into the cooling vents…
So bad enough having to stay home but this to???
Out the back door,
Out the front door.
“What we have here, is failure to s-e-p-a-r-a-t-e…” I love CHL.
The only work I did in the train room yesterday, was to replace couplers on 2 AF cars. Really gotta be carefull bending the bolster arms on 60+ year old train cars. One of them was a Koppers 912 tank car. Good looking piece. I wanted to see all 12 AF cars on a train, so I ran the 303 4-4-2. I think I’ll leave that consist on there for the grandsons’ visit.
Buckeye - She surpassed me, artistically, some time ago. I simply tell her what I generally want in an area, and cut her loose. It breaks up the “sameness”, visually. It’s a great mood lifter for me, when she spends a few hours in there.
Buckeye…what Roy said. If it has no switch odds are it’s a “shaded pole” type motor. The only way to reverse it is to remove the stator and flip it over. These are common in small fan motors. Much simpler to put up a new fan.
Banks and Roy… Thanks for the great response. I had been looking at new fans, then said to myself, “I wonder if there is some electrical gadget that I don’t know about that makes this thing reverse.” It appears that a new fan is confirmed.
fife… My grandsons are full of scenery suggestions. I’m currently planning on modeling Roseyville, NC. Here is what I was thinking:
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Was raining, sun’s out now.
I have to go to the dentist ina hour and a half. After that home till who knows when, a real lifestyle change for me and I hate it.
How long is this hysteria going to go on? the Swine flu under Obama was just as bad and nobody cared.
I use the internet as my entertainment during the evening, the TV is on but I often lose track of it. I discovered I enjoy 3 rail vidos on U tube. Any of you watch them?
