Can‘t disagree with that. I know for me the pandemic has cost me some people I knew, limited family functions and besides my wife, someone to talk to.Yeah you guys you gab too much
Good morning, y'all. Sunny with rising temperatures...we are anticipating a steep rise in temperatures between now and tomorrow, followed by a corresponding steep drop, later tomorrow. There is a high wind warning up from 1300 tomorrow until 0100 Sunday morning.
Not for nothing, there is a correlation between our recent high fuel costs, and our unusually high temperatures...has happened before also...can't explain it, but I'll take it. Back in the late 80's, I bought a 4wd SUV to deal with all the snow we were having. Had it for 3 years, during which we had hardly any snow. Replaced it with a Lumina, and three days later, a blizzard...can't explain that either...
In a little while, we will be going shopping for the last gift, a Rx pickup for the MIL and our annual visit to the liquor store. Seems that Christian Brothers Brandy, a key ingredient in the wife's Fruit Cake, is in short supply...Wonder if Woodford Reserve is a good substitute?
Jury Duty starts Monday, with a Zoom Conference...should be interesting...Philly Chapter PRRT&HS, is doing a Zoom Meeting Saturday, should be good practice.
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Woopsie in Kensington...RDG Bridge train string lines on Trenton Ave Curve in Philadelphia in 1966. Phila Bulletin Photo courtesy Temple U.
Feeling much better today! Tomorrow, 'Nova plays South Dakota State, in the FCS Championship Finals...Sunday, 'Nova plays Baylor on ABC @ 3PM. Go Cats! And finally, GO ARMY - BEAT NAVY!
Good Morning All. Mostly cloudy and 64°, expecting 80° later today, a repeat of yesterday's weather. Cold front after midnight and the high tomorrow will be 56°. Back into the 70's and 80's by Monday. Last night's sunset wasn't quite as spectacular as some of the previous ones.
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Yesterday's weekly grocery trek turned into a bummer when I was through the checkout line and discovered that I had failed to bring either the credit card, debit card or cash with me. Whooops! However, they sacked everything up and moved the cart back into the cooler while I spent an extra hour returning home and getting my wallet and went back to complete the transaction. I say my wallet, but I actually just carry the cards/cash along with my drivers license in my front pocket. A throw-back to when I was a kid in Brooklyn and watched pickpocketers at work on the subway platforms. Later in the trip, the visit to the post office was for a certified letter and not a package too big for the mailbox, wasn't a wasted visit as I had to purchase stamps anyway.
Santa arrived early yesterday while I was gone and left my new Canon Power Shot camera. I had to charge the battery before I could use it, kind of an inconvenience. A little different than the older model but works pretty much the same. However it did not come with a cable to connect it with the computer and the one from the old camera does not fit in either port? You are supposed to download pictures through your home wifi which I haven't had time to set up on the camera yet. Five pages in the instruction manual! In the meantime, I will just have to remove the SD memory card and plug it in to do the download. I may even have another cord somewhere that fits one of the two ports in the camera. Won't really matter once I get the wifi process set up.
Thanks for all of the wonderful responses regarding the newest member of the clan. In case that I didn't mention before, his name is Liam, shorter version of both of his grandfathers' name of William.
Thanks also for the many likes and comments for yesterday's simple post; Sherrel, Patrick, James, Christian, Guy, Rick, Gary, Joe, Tom ), Hughie, Curt, Louis, Jaz, Karl, George, OB Ken.
I'd like some sausage links with poached eggs this morning Francine. So Flo is running late you say - hot date last night huh?
Late trip to the train shed yesterday due to the unfortunate act of forgetfulness earlier in the day. I mainly cleaned up around the new project area and looked at how I want to proceed, The Walther's Magic Pan Bakery kit was a good start with the flour storage tanks and the pneumatic lines to transport flour. However it did not come with the final few feet of hoses that eventually attach to the outlets on the airslide covered hoppers. These I will fashion myself out of some correctly gauged wire and just lay on the nearby ground. I did glue back the errant part and some of the piping that either didn't have enough glue, or I didn't do all of the connecting points to begin with. At the time, I was in a hurry to get the layout built and parts of it operational, so I have unfinished projects like this one.
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I will also be fashioning some kind of return piping to go under the track from the piping on the other side.
The platform and concrete pad with retaining dikes was added by me to provide a place to unload corn oil. The oil storage tank is from Rix Products and the small pump house is from Pikestuff. The piping between the two came from Walther's.
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The safety cage also came from Walther's but I haven't trimmed it to fit yet. I intend to add a pipe from the pump house to the unloading pit for the oil.
Here's a shot of the boxcars waiting for loads by the side of the bakery.
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The toothpick on the left is a temporary aid to assist me in spotting the cars correctly so the doors line up. I will replace it eventually with something else.
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Steve J - Congratulations to your daughter, and you and your wife for her fine upbringing.
Ken (D&J) - That front railing was knocked loose by the maintenance crew while repairing the hanger. Engine has not gone through post-repair inspection yet before returning to service.
I am still putting up some remaining fascia after nine years. Ironically everything that I built in the last six years is done.
Baby leaks - not my problem any more!
Guy -
Boring hasn't stopped me from posting photos! Your trials and tribulations can help other newbies with their projects. At least that's how I look at it.
Joe - Good news about the test result.
Jesse - Nice haul.
Curt - Good luck with the diagnosis of the loco problem. Cleaning wheels usually works well for me.
Tom O - Waco is about 150 miles away, but in Texas, that's considered backyard. I don't think that Baylor had a chance to begin with.
Terry - I ended up liking direct deposit once they got it working right after the first pay period. Our company had an option if the employee was unbanked. A vendor that I dealt with switched with no option and lost 40% of their employees overnight, obviously to their detriment. Their corporate owners gave them no choice even when warned ahead of time what would happen. They never recovered and eventually shut down completely from loss of business (ours included) about six months later. Mexicans, whether legal or not do not use banks.
Everybody have a great Friday. Stay safe.
Again WILLIE, congrats to all involved in bringing Liam into the world. Great pictures of the layout todayGood Morning All. Mostly cloudy and 64°, expecting 80° later today, a repeat of yesterday's weather. Cold front after midnight and the high tomorrow will be 56°. Back into the 70's and 80's by Monday. Last night's sunset wasn't quite as spectacular as some of the previous ones.
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Yesterday's weekly grocery trek turned into a bummer when I was through the checkout line and discovered that I had failed to bring either the credit card, debit card or cash with me. Whooops! However, they sacked everything up and moved the cart back into the cooler while I spent an extra hour returning home and getting my wallet and went back to complete the transaction. I say my wallet, but I actually just carry the cards/cash along with my drivers license in my front pocket. A throw-back to when I was a kid in Brooklyn and watched pickpocketers at work on the subway platforms. Later in the trip, the visit to the post office was for a certified letter and not a package too big for the mailbox, wasn't a wasted visit as I had to purchase stamps anyway.
Santa arrived early yesterday while I was gone and left my new Canon Power Shot camera. I had to charge the battery before I could use it, kind of an inconvenience. A little different than the older model but works pretty much the same. However it did not come with a cable to connect it with the computer and the one from the old camera does not fit in either port? You are supposed to download pictures through your home wifi which I haven't had time to set up on the camera yet. Five pages in the instruction manual! In the meantime, I will just have to remove the SD memory card and plug it in to do the download. I may even have another cord somewhere that fits one of the two ports in the camera. Won't really matter once I get the wifi process set up.
Thanks for all of the wonderful responses regarding the newest member of the clan. In case that I didn't mention before, his name is Liam, shorter version of both of his grandfathers' name of William.
Thanks also for the many likes and comments for yesterday's simple post; Sherrel, Patrick, James, Christian, Guy, Rick, Gary, Joe, Tom ), Hughie, Curt, Louis, Jaz, Karl, George, OB Ken.
I'd like some sausage links with poached eggs this morning Francine. So Flo is running late you say - hot date last night huh?
Late trip to the train shed yesterday due to the unfortunate act of forgetfulness earlier in the day. I mainly cleaned up around the new project area and looked at how I want to proceed, The Walther's Magic Pan Bakery kit was a good start with the flour storage tanks and the pneumatic lines to transport flour. However it did not come with the final few feet of hoses that eventually attach to the outlets on the airslide covered hoppers. These I will fashion myself out of some correctly gauged wire and just lay on the nearby ground. I did glue back the errant part and some of the piping that either didn't have enough glue, or I didn't do all of the connecting points to begin with. At the time, I was in a hurry to get the layout built and parts of it operational, so I have unfinished projects like this one.
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I will also be fashioning some kind of return piping to go under the track from the piping on the other side.
The platform and concrete pad with retaining dikes was added by me to provide a place to unload corn oil. The oil storage tank is from Rix Products and the small pump house is from Pikestuff. The piping between the two came from Walther's.
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The safety cage also came from Walther's but I haven't trimmed it to fit yet. I intend to add a pipe from the pump house to the unloading pit for the oil.
Here's a shot of the boxcars waiting for loads by the side of the bakery.
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The toothpick on the left is a temporary aid to assist me in spotting the cars correctly so the doors line up. I will replace it eventually with something else.
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Steve J - Congratulations to your daughter, and you and your wife for her fine upbringing.
Ken (D&J) - That front railing was knocked loose by the maintenance crew while repairing the hanger. Engine has not gone through post-repair inspection yet before returning to service.
I am still putting up some remaining fascia after nine years. Ironically everything that I built in the last six years is done.
Baby leaks - not my problem any more!
Guy -
Boring hasn't stopped me from posting photos! Your trials and tribulations can help other newbies with their projects. At least that's how I look at it.
Joe - Good news about the test result.
Jesse - Nice haul.
Curt - Good luck with the diagnosis of the loco problem. Cleaning wheels usually works well for me.
Tom O - Waco is about 150 miles away, but in Texas, that's considered backyard. I don't think that Baylor had a chance to begin with.
Terry - I ended up liking direct deposit once they got it working right after the first pay period. Our company had an option if the employee was unbanked. A vendor that I dealt with switched with no option and lost 40% of their employees overnight, obviously to their detriment. Their corporate owners gave them no choice even when warned ahead of time what would happen. They never recovered and eventually shut down completely from loss of business (ours included) about six months later. Mexicans, whether legal or not do not use banks.
Everybody have a great Friday. Stay safe.
Sherrel, I thought the Diner WAS Christians professional helpCHRISTIAN -- You should seek professional help .. lol, LOL!
Those are some great scenes there Willie, I may just steal some ideas from you
The problem was that it was covered up by all the stuff piled on the peninsula so I didn't see it.
I saw this too Willie, very sad to hear, I remember their TV show.
