Running Bear's Coffee Shop July 2024


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migalyto said:
James-Yes there are 4 of them.

Unfortunately mama has moved them overnight to some other location. I wonder if she had them in that window well, and didn't feel safe raising them there. My daughter and I looked at the other window wells and all over the yard and don't see a trace of them. If they grow, we will see them again, our area has a huge wild cat population. There is several restaurants a block east of us, and they scavenge food from their dumpsters.
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None of the restaurants are Chinese, are they?

 
NorthBrit said:
As fault finding the short on the control panel went into the third day, Linda started to thing it might have been an idea to embrace DCC....

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Not quite as bad as the former club layout, but I do remember wiring the old DC control panel with 26 10 position rotary switches, and the only colors were orange and white. A year after it was finished it was disassembled when the club was forces to vacate the property. I saved 1 rotary switch as a memento.
 
D&J RailRoad said:
They just had the trial date moved to late October and didn't bother to let me know about it. I suppose they thought it was clever that I had to drive all the way up there for nothing.
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Ya think the Commonwealth's Attorney could have let you know also. I'm sure they knew. When one is guilty, and knows it, their only recourse is to stall the inevitable, hoping you lose interest in the interim. In this case, the messed with the wrong guy. They just strengthened your resolve.
 
Hey don't worry @Boris and @NorthBrit , i have one of those animals, didn't try her yet🤣
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I'm still here!

busy morning. Hit the grocery after getting up at 4am to word my words. Book is currently at 46,500+ words. Need about 50K to make it a book.

Brought home a couple of small sirloin steaks. went up an hour ago to unpackage them, and get the dry-brine going on them.... and half-an-hour later the wife came down to tell me we're going out for pizza.

Yes Dear!

I'll cover the steaks and cook them tomorrow.

As for grilling, a friend pointed out to me that the glue for holding the gasket to the two shell parts of the kamado grill is only rates to 600f.

I got to 700+. :eek:

BUT I didn't open the lid until it had cooled all the way down the next morning.

Fingers crossed, I gently tugged on the gasket, all around, inside edge, outside edge. Top half, bottom half. So far so good. The glue is still holding.

More 600f rated glue ordered from Amazon last night, just in case. Since I've got a fancy gasket (like the metal one around your oven door) instead of the felt ones, they're only about $90 to replace. IF I try to cook with it loose, it will shrink some, and then won't fit. So it falls loose, that's a full day of waiting for the glue to set before I could use the grill.

Spent the afternoon listening to podcasts and got the airbrush out for the Magical shrine the Orcs pull around. I'll put the Tayler Swifty bard up on it, with some other orcs down below as security guards.

Still have to pick out a bunch of details with other colors. And do some highlighting before I glue her on.

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I might have to get a second kamado, just in case. ;)
 
santafewillie said:
Good Morning All. Partly cloudy and 69°, clouds will keep the temperature in the 80's for another day. Gradual rise but still not out of the low-90's for another week. Lots of thunder yesterday, but the isolated storm slid by to the south of me. Drat!

Yikes! The pool temperature dropped down to 81° yesterday morning due to all of the cloudy days. That's close to too cold for me, and is below my wife's tolerance level. This is unheard of in July! Less than 2 weeks ago, it was 89°. With the wind-free days, evaporation has also been down and chlorine needs have been reduced.

Another week's worth of firewood yesterday, this one for the '25-'26 season, as I start to clear some other areas of the yard out. I did about 45 minutes of mowing as well. These cooler temperatures are really helping with the yard activity.

I have a morning appointment with my Cardiologist today, a 2 year follow-up on the stent. While there wasn't a great amount of blockage at the time (about 30%), I could really tell the difference afterward. Now if I can overcome this sciatica, I'll feel like I'm 60 again. After this morning's doc appointment, I will be stopping at the PT center to set up some therapy for it.

Out in the train shed yesterday, I mainly started the quarterly cleaning, on segment 3 of the lower level. It's a ~40' segment that is entirely made up of my largest town, Fort Wish. It has a main line, a passing siding, and 11 industries with 18 spurs.
Downtown is on the turnback peninsula.
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Some of this area is more finished than this picture shows, but it's the only one that I can find this morning.
Part of it is in this still unfinished strip along the north aisle.
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Yesterday was spent examining the ROW along the main and passing siding for any stray rolling stock parts. Next will be all of the industry spurs and then track cleaning with the Woodland Scenics Tidy Track wand. None of the freight cars will need cleaning since I did all of them last fall, but all structures will be removed and cleaned as needed.
I also added two figures to the roof of the ADM elevator.
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Todd - Quite similar to the crap that we have but never used!
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Joe - I don't believe in investing in cryptocurrency, even though I have seen it make some significant gains at times. I have also seen it take some significant dives as well. I just can't invest in something with no physical assets, properties, employees, etc.
Mike - Mama Kitty probably needs to move the family soon!
Hughie - Sorry for your loss.
Ken - I thought that a no show in court resulted in an automatic guilty sentence.
Bill - I'll pass on the breakfast and leave all of that to Troy.

Today is the 59th birthday of Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash. While I was never a big fan of the band, I disliked the vocalist, Slash is a good guitarist though. TRIVIA: He comes from a rock & roll family. His father designed album covers for Joni Mitchell, Neil Young and Jackson Browne among others. His mother designed clothes for David Bowie, Ringo Starr, Janis Joplin, Dianna Ross and The Pointer Sisters.

Everyone have a fantastic Tuesday.
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The figures are the finishing touch to a nice scene.
 
good morning

today is a "special" day. why? Well its my birthday :p 43 years young.. well time flys i guess.
- airport is up and running (yes iam at work)
- weather is "cold" just around the 22 celcius
- partly cloudy (maybe thats the new summer in switzerland)
- tonight a cake (citrus) and some beers woohoo

and the picture of today, again delivered from my gf:

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cheers
jay
 
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