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Good Morning All!
48f @ 81%, drizzle

Dogs: Have 2, +3 cats. Got a doggie door 15ish years ago - don't know how we lived without it. Animals come and go as they please. Yard is fenced to corral the dogs and they have not challenged it ...yet. They all come in at night for sleeping in their beds. Well, not the cats - end of our bed which keeps feet warm. I am not a fan of non-service dogs in public places and think the owner(s) are off their rocker. Most of the time those animals look to be tense and somewhat scared. Not a good thing.

@RhB Michael If you run across some pix of the heat shield, how about posting? Boy, they sure have the physics down for the around the moon trip! Wonderful flight.

So, you are supposed to learn from your mistakes; right? I should be a genius by now!

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Good Sunday morning folks.

I wish I'd had "the rest of the story" in that aviation video. I've been warned of wake turbulence many times when I was flying, but it was normally from an aircraft ahead of me landing or taking off. In those cases it is critical to be aware of where that wake turbulence is going to be as it can, and has flipped over small propeller driven aircraft if caught in one of the wind vortices. And the relative wind can blow one of those vortices right into your flight path. The heavier, larger, and slower the aircraft is, the stronger the vortices can be. Very bad situation if you get into one of those by accident.

Die Polizei was summoned at 0130 this morning after the neighbor once again put both of the dogs in the pen in back. They showed up five minutes after the call. It took ten minutes for her to answer the door. I could hear Sparta 12 banging on the back door calling "Sparta Police!" She could probably sleep through a Mk82 landing in the back yard. They told her to put the dogs in the house, and I would imagine they were stuck in the basement which is where I've seen them when no one is home, through one of their basement windows. All was quiet after that, but I still couldn't get back to sleep until around 0300, and didn't rise until 0815. Feels like I slept half the day away thanks to the neighbor.

Running trains yesterday went well. No problems. Swapped a couple of trains around for some variety. Since I am very limited with maneuvering track, it takes awhile to swap trains in and out of the yards. No surprises though.

ctclibby said:
@RhB Michael If you run across some pix of the heat shield, how about posting? Boy, they sure have the physics down for the around the moon trip! Wonderful flight.
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NASA will be releasing an inspection report in about 30 days. Navy divers photographed the underside of Integrity as it was bobbing around in the water, I guess so it was fresh from orbit. If NASA releases this report, I will be certain to post information.

TLOC said:
Get home and the garbage door won’t open and the outdoor lights were not on. Grab the phone and go check on the generator. Take a picture, then a video of my disconnected connection to MY house and follow the new connected cord to the neighbors place. SO I shut the generator down, disconnect the cord and take it to the neighbors yard and take a picture. Go back and get my house plugged in, go to the car put it in the garage and call the cops. They come out and take a report saying I disturbed the evidence and that’s that.
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That takes a hell of a lot of nerve. I would never assume it was OK to steal someone's generator power just because they had a generator and I didn't. But, never disturb a crime scene. I know you know that now and needed the power yourself, but once the evidence is gone, it's your word against your neighbor's.

santafewillie said:
Don't go to Europe then, dogs are welcome at most restaurants. But not in the kitchens. Surprised the hell out of me when I traveled there in 1984.
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I thought it was strange the first time I saw it too. But got used to it quickly. If the dog can't behave you will seldom see one in a restaurant or other public place as they will be asked to leave and not return with the dog. And they do not have to be service animals.

Nothing going on here today. Just another lazy Sunday after Mass. Have a great Sunday!

Servus!
 


Morning all,
I have a large problem with what I call Amazon Service Dogs. My wife has had epilepsy since she was 2 years old and a little over a year ago got Bodhi as her Medical Alert service dog. She waited 3.5 years to be matched to the correct dog to meet her needs. There are only two questions you can legally ask about if a dog is a true service one, "Is that a service dog?" and "What tasks is it trained to perform?" Bodhi is trained to retrieve his vest that has her emergency meds, deep pressure therapy, and has begun to sense and alert her to an upcoming episode, and several other tasks as well.
 
Good afternoon. It's mostly sunny and 80.
I've discovered if I watch YT videos in "mobile mode" instead of "desktop mode", I don't seem to be seeing any ads on my iPad. This seems to be opposite behavior from the way YT has been, where I had to watch in Desktop mode to get the best resolution and ad play blocking. Video quality seems limited to 480p in mobile mode, so things aren't as sharp as I know they could be.
 
troyphoto said:
For all of you flyboys and flygals out there....

This looks really cool.

I've gone on a few Hot Air balloon rides, but I'm not about to try this. Your milage might differ.

Looks cool though

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I'd never do that. I'm afraid of heights. Flying an airplane isn't the same thing, however. No fear there. You'd never get me into a hot air balloon either. I don't even like skyscrapers.
 
Afternoon all,

Once again a busy day with house stuff and laundry. Been replaying a game I have that I found a patch so that it works under Win11. I haven't been able to play it since Microsoft killed the ability to allow programs to access the CD. It was a "patch" you could uninstall on Win7, but unremovable with Win 8 and 8.1. Turns out there is a following and others have been programming updates that were left unfinished when the company belly up in 2006.

Made a business decision on Friday to move to a new insurance company for the house and autos. New company will cover the home and vehicles for what the home policy renewal is. So we're saving in the neighborhood of $2500. It is a name brand company. We've been with the old company 33 years.
 


santafewillie said:
Good Morning All. Cloudy and 66°. The rain forecast for tomorrow has been extended forward into this afternoon. Rain on and off for the next week is possible.

Nothing special happened on the homestead yesterday and today will be a repeat. I do have to make a trip to town for a prescription that was screwed up earlier in the week, this morning since they are only open until noon on Saturday. The dishwasher awaits me. I've tried to talk my wife into switching that chore, but all she offers is cleaning toilets. I've passed. I did grill a rib eye last night, made some sauteed mushrooms and frozen peas. She made the garden salad for us. Tonight is roasted chicken which I think that she wants to make. She comments that I use too much Garlic in my rubs!

I got some time out in the train shed yesterday. While my primary intent was to run a few trains, I also populated one home on the new portion of the layout. It's a Walther's structure called Mission-Style Bungalow House, a stucco structure with a large front porch and patio out back. Here are pictures taken over on the workbench.
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Its site on the layout is with the back of the house right up next to the layout edge, so that's where the action is.
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I have a Woodland Scenics scene that I have been holding for this opportunity.
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The two orange lawn chairs were not part of their kit, and are 3D details from MiniPrints, which I painted.
After some fiddling around, I came up with this scene.
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Looks to be a keeper.

Tom O - Have a safe trip this morning.

Everybody have a great Saturday
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Have to say, the surface of the walls on this kit looks very believable. Not just stucco, but southwest stucco.
 
Marlin39 said:
Absofreakinloutely. I hate thieves. A fence will send a message too.
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Yeah, well...don't I know it. My thieves heisted everything they wanted to for months--I finally stopped calling in the police for most of them--up to and including my Porsche 996 straight from the garage. For that one I had three cops with guns out in there less than twelve hours before they actually STOLE the car, all clearing out the place. But the gang came back in the earlier (daylight!) hours the next morning, boosted it and sold it to the poor sap who bought it...right from in front of my garage(!). The buyer had done a VIN check, and even though he bought it (no Title--he just wanted the motor) it wouldn't have done him any good, as I didn't find out it was stolen until six or seven hours later. Only then did I report it, but by then it was 140 miles away, up in Sterling (CO). That I ever got it back at all is very unlikely. Most others wouldn't.
 
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Many of my German and Swiss buildings are stucco-like coated. Very easy to weather that stuff, but also easy to overdo it too.

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RhB Michael said:
Many of my German and Swiss buildings are stucco-like coated. Very easy to weather that stuff, but also easy to overdo it too.

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I have the idea EU stucco is something like large grains of sand or small gravel--or grains of sugar sprinkled onto the walls--wrapped up in a plaster binder. So the (sugar) bumps stick out. If I'm right, this would explain the classic "lathe and plaster" wall treatment in this old house (USA, circa 1930). The one I'm living in now. Long before the age of drywall sheets. Not sugar in this case, but large grains of sand.

SW stucco is different. The thick...not really plaster now, but it'll do...mud...is slathered onto the under-layment. In the US Desert Southwest, this was effectively "Adobe." The underlayment was everything up to and including Straw. Today it would be "straw bale construction," and there some very good reasons for wanting a return to that as an option.

Whatever the underlayment, the mud was often slathered on flat, but it pulled off and away each time with the trowel (the tool used to apply it). The mud stuck to the tool and then pulled away in (thin) layers. Thus you get this sort of a "chicken pox" look, as though each pull (off) of the surface reveals another--second--surface behind it.

But let me know if you think I have it wrong. Always willing to learn.
 
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RhB Michael said:
Good Sunday morning folks.

I wish I'd had "the rest of the story" in that aviation video. I've been warned of wake turbulence many times when I was flying, but it was normally from an aircraft ahead of me landing or taking off. In those cases it is critical to be aware of where that wake turbulence is going to be as it can, and has flipped over small propeller driven aircraft if caught in one of the wind vortices. And the relative wind can blow one of those vortices right into your flight path. The heavier, larger, and slower the aircraft is, the stronger the vortices can be. Very bad situation if you get into one of those by accident.

Die Polizei was summoned at 0130 this morning after the neighbor once again put both of the dogs in the pen in back. They showed up five minutes after the call. It took ten minutes for her to answer the door. I could hear Sparta 12 banging on the back door calling "Sparta Police!" She could probably sleep through a Mk82 landing in the back yard. They told her to put the dogs in the house, and I would imagine they were stuck in the basement which is where I've seen them when no one is home, through one of their basement windows. All was quiet after that, but I still couldn't get back to sleep until around 0300, and didn't rise until 0815. Feels like I slept half the day away thanks to the neighbor.

Running trains yesterday went well. No problems. Swapped a couple of trains around for some variety. Since I am very limited with maneuvering track, it takes awhile to swap trains in and out of the yards. No surprises though.



NASA will be releasing an inspection report in about 30 days. Navy divers photographed the underside of Integrity as it was bobbing around in the water, I guess so it was fresh from orbit. If NASA releases this report, I will be certain to post information.



That takes a hell of a lot of nerve. I would never assume it was OK to steal someone's generator power just because they had a generator and I didn't. But, never disturb a crime scene. I know you know that now and needed the power yourself, but once the evidence is gone, it's your word against your neighbor's.



I thought it was strange the first time I saw it too. But got used to it quickly. If the dog can't behave you will seldom see one in a restaurant or other public place as they will be asked to leave and not return with the dog. And they do not have to be service animals.

Nothing going on here today. Just another lazy Sunday after Mass. Have a great Sunday!

Servu
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Rubicon said:
Morning all,
I have a large problem with what I call Amazon Service Dogs. My wife has had epilepsy since she was 2 years old and a little over a year ago got Bodhi as her Medical Alert service dog. She waited 3.5 years to be matched to the correct dog to meet her needs. There are only two questions you can legally ask about if a dog is a true service one, "Is that a service dog?" and "What tasks is it trained to perform?" Bodhi is trained to retrieve his vest that has her emergency meds, deep pressure therapy, and has begun to sense and alert her to an upcoming episode, and several other tasks as well.
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@Rubicon Ok. But, unless I missed something obvious (usually did) I missed the actual problem. [@Rubicon] A specific problem needing attention? Or more a large...I would call it an issue...with the idea. Trust me, I have many "issues" of my own too. Many, many and all too many more. Very familiar with the latter.
 
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Snowman said:
Ok. But, unless I missed something obvious (usually did) I missed the actual problem. [@Rubicon] A specific problem needing attention? Or more a large...I would call it an issue...with the idea. Trust me, I have many "issues" of my own too. Many, many and all too many more. Very familiar with the latter.
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Just commenting on a post a couple pages back about service dogs that do not qualify as service dogs. It is a sore spot for me having watched and waited for my wife to finally get one matched to her after a long wait versus someone ordering a vest on Amazon and calling their pet a service dog.
 


Rubicon said:
Just commenting on a post a couple pages back about service dogs that do not qualify as service dogs. It is a sore spot for me having watched and waited for my wife to finally get one matched to her after a long wait versus someone ordering a vest on Amazon and calling their pet a service dog.
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My mom had to get paperwork from the doctor to get hers. What i wish is people knew the difference between a service dog and an emtional support animal.
 
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