Good Thanks Giving Eve fellow Rail Benders & Spike Drivers,
Hi Flo, Francine, Well you have Jeffrey Running Bears' Dinner all trimmed for Turkey day tomorrow, looks great! He'd be proud, poor RR buddy passed on way too young at 52.
5:43 PM PST on November 22, 2017 (GMT -0800) |
75°F | 51°F
Currently 64°F - Feels like 64°F & Partly Cloudy;
Humidity is at 63%;
The wind is mild at 0.7 mph from the NW;
Wth wind gusts to 2.0 mph;
Tomorrow is forecast to be nearly the same temperature as today.
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I wasn't expecting to get my Glucosamine, Choindroitn & MSM till after Turkey Day but low and behold, I went to let my cat in around 5:00 Am this morning, I usually go to the back porch door and call him but decided to go to the front door for a change and when I opened the storm door, there he was along with my order from Puritan's Pride. So I took a GC&M along with a B100 and orange juice and went back to bed. When I woke up around 9:15 Am I noticed that I didn't feel quite as stiff, which was a relief, so I took a second GC&M and had some breakfast. It was sure nice not to fee like the Rusty Tin man when I was moving around. That's not to say I don't still feel some of the creekyness or unsteady ness from not being sure if my movements were going to cause pain but at least it's taken the edge of things and that a very welcome relief, indeed!
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Good Morning All. Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Weather Underground claims 34° about 6 miles south of here, but I've got 39° on my thermometer with perfectly clear skies today.
Remembering this day in 1963, I was in seventh grade in Dallas TX. We came in from outdoor recess and the TV was on and local newscaster Eddie Barker was about to hand over the reins to CBS national guy Walter Cronkite, reporting on the terrible news from our fair city. Interesting sidebar is that Walter came to our house with his nephew, my dad's boss, about six months later for cocktails (that's what they were called back then!). We reciprocated about four years later by visiting him at his house in Connecticut where his wife served us lunch.
Train layout-wise, I got out the brown paint and painted some bare plywood prior to adding ground cover, which I won't start to do until next week, but I needed to paint two small areas within the small town business district that I am working on. One is going to be a very small park and the other odd-shaped parcel at layouts edge is going to be a fenced-off, overgrown vacant lot; it is about the only thing that I could do with the spot. I'm looking at something like Lance Russworm did on his Bleeker Street area on his model railroad.
http://www.railroad-line.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=18983
Elsewhere on the layout, I rearranged some vehicles to allow the asphalt road to "age" more evenly! I also selected some more little people for inclusion in the area.
David - Good luck at the X-ray center today. Prayers that it is nothing serious with you.
Everybody have a great day.
Willie
Willie: Thanks for your thought about the X-Rays, as mentioned above if the GC&M keep improving my joints, as it did a few years back, I may not need to go for the X-Rays? Anyway, I did climb in my Eclipse and drive up there again like a dummy without calling first to see if they got the light they needed. When I got there I was told the part didn't come in so I needed to wait till Monday. Unfortunately they didn't call either to inform me not to come in. So the only thing I got out of the 24 mile round trip was that on the way back I stopped at a turnout area and took a shot of a hillside showing Lodge Pole Pines, with some dead as well as some Oaks a little lower. Actually, that's the spot where the Sierra Nat. Forest touches or comes closest to Hwy 41 at the Southern most point. It's also at the location where Coarsegold Creek crosses under Hwy 41 at it's Northern most point. This is about 5 miles North of the center of the little town of Coarsegold. I'd post a picture but need to find out how to resize it properly.
Thanks for posting the link to Lance Russworm's various layout shots. I'm not sure but suspect he models 'O' scale to be able to get the detail he does. I didn't see one shot of any loco's or train cars either.
Good Morning All,
Have the grand kids here today after spending the night. Daughter is having surgery on her right knee this morning. Last night my son and I took the oldest grandson (12) to the range. I had him shooting my .22 rifle (single shot) that I got as a kid. He did pretty well and I'm thinking seriously about passing it down to him for Christmas.
When I received the news about President Kennedy I was in class (2nd grade) and I remember a girl that had been in the office came back to the class crying. The whole school said a prayer for him, his family and our nation followed by a minute of silence. The next couple of days the entire nation was in mourning and glued to the TV or radio. It was another one of those moments that forever changed our country and probably not for the better.
The dryer is fixed. It turned out to be the thermal fuse and not the heating coil. The wife is happy, so by definition that means I'm happy.
This is my next kit. I will probably start it Saturday or Sunday.
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I hope everyone has a good night.
Say Curt: Thank you for reminding me of the date of President John F. Kennedy's assination. I had was in Pearce Juinor College at the time after graduating High School at 17 & 1/2 yrs of age and didn't have any idea of where I was headed and walked out of a large lecture class. I decided I had no business being there and literally walked to my car got in it and turned on the radio only to shortly hear the news of the presidents assination. I walked back to the class which was still in instruction and announced in a somewhat loud voice that the President had just been assinated and was promptly told by the instructor I was disturbing the class and to leave saying he didn't believe me what I just said. So I left and was walking back to my car and the announcement came over the loud speakers throughout the campus.
I think your Grandson would really like a gift like that from you and probably one he hopefully would cherish his entire life!
RR talk:
Your new Water Tank can be made to look very nice by weathering the wood and then carefully painting the cable bands and
tightening blocks a rust color. The up rights of the base are generally very weathered as well unless this a brand new tank. As your well aware, anything to kill the scheen of the plastic makes it look so much more realistic.
Well, hell, CHET- She already has my heart.
Phil
Say Phill: Good God Man, no wonder you've had so many problems in the past. Doesn't Debbie raealize you need your heart to keep your blood circulating properly?? Tell her you want it back ASAP and be stern about it, too!
They will probably send you to a physical therapy type place to do some stretching and weigh lifting with your bad leg. I just finished up a couple months for a sore right hip. It's Arthritis setting in but it can be delayed with the right workout. I feel much better now and can actually jog about a mile now, where as before, 1/4 mile was the limit before the pain was just excruciating. i should be able to get back up to 2 1/2 to 3 miles by next summer.
Ken: I doubt seriously that I going to be doing any running in my immediate condition. Even after I get to feeling better I'm still not a jogger and wouldn't go for that. There's a saying that the sharp shooters in the military have, 'Run and you die Tired.' I'll take my time and exercise in other ways.
Good evening.
Still busy. Friend were here from Friday through tmyesterday. We made a trip to Nashville TN today and just returned. Tomorrow family members visit from OH and MI for the long thanksgiving weekend.
Have a good evening everybody.
Garry: Hope you enjoy your company but sure you'll be anxious to get back working on your layout. That's what I planning on doing in a few minutes.
Hope everyone has a very enjoyable Thanks Giving!
As an added tip: If you over eat and feel stuffed, eating some Citrus of one type or another will take the stuffed feeling away in a few minutes. Try it you'll be surprised how quick it works!