Good evening Track Gang,
Hi Flo - Francine, How about a big slice of Cheese Cake and coffee. Great, thanks.
61°F Wells rd Station Report
6:29 PM PST on November 26, 2017 (GMT -0800) | Updated a few seconds ago
--°F | 44°F
61°F - Feels like 61°F Mostly Cloudy;
Winds are at 2 mph from the ENE with Gusts too 3 mph;
Humidity is at 49%;
Tomorrow is forecast to be Much Cooler than today.
Talking about the Fire issue's recently, and maybe a bit of sixth sense, I went out to grab a few more pieces of Oak wood from the unstacked pile in the back yard last night at around 11:30 Pm. The odd part of this was I had some wood inside the back porch and only had a low fire going as it was actually only about 55°F out so not really cold to any extent. Also last night I decided to tur on the back yard flood lights where normally I'd just use my LED flash light but this way I had both hands free to crab a hunk of wood with. I'd made about tree trips and had a piece of wood leaned against the house from opening the door prior that I went to retreive and as I looked to the West across the back yard and over toward the trees near the property line it looked a bit strange to me as it seemed there was a greyish cloud amongst the trees and as I looked a bit more I thought I saw a bit of Red mixed in the grey. I watched a little longer and sure enough there was a fire going in the grass and under brush.
Fortunately the grass and brush were moist enough as well as having enough Humidity in the air so the fire moved somewhat slowly.
The water spigot/hose bib I have out back of the tool shed, somewhat close to this area wasn't connected in the water line due to plumbing problems so it didn't do any good and my knee joints felt far too inflexible to get out there and attempt to fight it so I call 911 and they put me in touch with Cal Fire, I guess it was who arrived about 15 minutes later. I directed them to the next road below my place which seemed to work out well as the fire spread in that direction to the East and West and only came a little bit in my direction because there was quite a bit of space my friend Joe had mowed down fairly close to the tree line area much earlier in May.
In talking with the Captian initially shortly after he arrived, and again later on when his crew had things fairly well cleaned up, I learned there were a number of suspicious fires between my area and Raymond.
So enough excitement for one late night and morning till about 3:30 Am.
Good morning, Happy Sunday! 47° and sunny, with temperatures falling through the day.
David: Perhaps, what I was thinking of was a Turkey Buzzard
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It's quiet here, everyone left yesterday,
to avoid todays traffic crunch, and is now safely home.
Say Joe/Boris: I see many Turkey Vultures/Buzzards out here, they are an ugly bird. Rather sounds like the discreption of your Mil ! LoL
Willie:
Well...
, at least she behaved herself...
David: Chimney fires can be real nasty, and creosote is insidious, in that it frequently doesn't show itself.
Chet: Another nice view of the NCL. I will have a photo of the NYC cabin posted later today.
Was 30° when I got up this morning, supposed to reach 60°, before the rain comes. Frequently, at this time of year, the temperature rises overnight, and drops during the day. This may be one of those days. The electrical problems on my staging siding reappeared yesterday. Appears the problem is on the common wire rail. need to change joiners, or something.
Say Joe/Boris: As far as your statement about the Creasote in my chimney, it's possible and probably was but when I looked down the fire clay flue it looked fairly clean to me but I didn't have an LED light to shine down there to really check things out good. I could have been a build up of the junk on the heater-a-lator tubes as well as the damper and other portions of the fire place heat-a-lator.
Willie - All I'm going to say is that November 9th you stated that your rain gauge had .75 inch in it.
Don't go trying to pull that, "no rain since August 24" on us ... Hello?
Curt and David - You boys better be careful playing with those fires ... especially David with that shake roof, maybe 50 year old roof. Glad that neither suffered any major damage.
OK .. Will be busy tomorrow AM and depending on traffic - it may take me a long time to make it back home.
Today i went out shooting with my son and two of his friends. Good Lord! They had at least 20 guns counting the pistols.
I think we busted about 600 rounds all total ... I surprised everyone with a first shot "bust" of a clay pigeon with a .308 automatic rifle.
I just lowered the gun, looked around at the three of them standing there with their mouths open, and said, "OK -- One Shot - One Kill! Now top that!" We really had a good time! I can't begin to describe all the calibers that we had. My son is quite the gunsmith and has built several AR type guns - all with different calibers from .223 to 12 gauge/with drum mag. Needless to say - We made a lot of noise today and reminded me of how little shooting I have done in the last 1/4 century.
I hope everyone has has a memorial Holiday weekend
Sherrel: That's darn good shooting, 'Dead Eye'!
Oh I did comment on the fact Phoenix didn't have a train connection which also seemed odd to meetoo !
Good Morning Folks. 45° and clear to start today. Nothing significant happening around here, just another beautiful day. Cut some more firewood yesterday after maybe three weeks of inactivity. I tend to get lazy when I am not actually using it. This is the "freebie" wood that comes from where I used to work instead of trees. Well it once was trees! It's untreated oak 3" x 4" x 42" that I have to cut in half on the radial-arm saw in order to fit through the door of the wood-burning heater. On a normal heating day in January, it takes 14 pieces (seven whole) to heat the house for 24 hours. Since I haven't had a fire since Tuesday, I removed the ashes from inside the stove, and stored them for later use in the garden. Still eating turkey with all of the fixings around here, I did cut up and froze parts of it yesterday for future meals. I'm ready for a good steak right now and I have several in the freezer along with a prime rib roast. Ah, but it's too late for that tonight since it takes a while to thaw, so I guess that steak it is!
Actually spent some quality time in the train shed yesterday. Made some significant progress with that small town business district that I am working on but forgot to take any pictures. A small part of it is finally ready to display. Won't spend much time there today as we are going to lunch with some friends after church, the usual German food along with some "bier".
Joe - Very nice looking transfer caboose. You should get a lot of use from it.
Sherrel -
.75" ain't no rain around here, that's just a minor shower especially since that was a 24 hour total if I recall. Now maybe in Southern CA, that's considered a rain! Heck, the cats never even retreated to under the house!
Have a safe trip home.
David -
Actually no. It is a Rudy's Country Store and BBQ, a locally famous chain with 41 locations across the Southwest, mostly Texas. They're different in that they smoke their meats with oak instead of the traditional mesquite wood. I have a "Roadkill Restaurant" elsewhere!
Everyone have a great Sunday.
Willie
We will experience a delay in posting until this website comes back on-line!!! This is three days in a row now.
Say Willie: At least you have a road kill restrauant!
Afternoon All,
Did some chores this morning then I spent about 75 minutes staining the strip wood for the JV Models water tank. I used Hunterline Creosote for the base and Medium Brown for the tank. Taking Mom out to her favorite Mexican eatery tonight then back here for birthday cake.
Joe- Great looking caboose. The heating element appears intact (no damage). Apparently there was a puddle of grease in the center of the oven that caught fire. The broiler still works properly. I'm going to get the new heating element tomorrow and return the dryer heating element for a refund. They are about the same price.
I hope everyone has a good night.
Say Curt: Nice gesture to take your Mom out to her favorite Mexiacan restraurant.
Hope all have a good night and Monday.
