Running Bear's Coffee Shop LXV


Good Morning All. 70° and partly cloudy to start the day. Didn't do a lot yesterday as I was battling a kidney stone all morning, until around 2:00 pm. Painful and problematic. Came and went quickly, just have to take Advil and wait it out. Wasn't feeling up to taking a hike despite the dedicated day!

Thanks to all who commented on the structures, Chet, Dave, David, Garry, Curt, and anyone that I might have missed
Sherrel - So glad that everything went well. I expect the same for the next round. Sounds like a competent set of doctors.
Eric - Nice looking building. Like others who have asked, what type of supplies? Looks like a grain mill to me.
Chet - Please don't hold your breath waiting on the town pictures. I have 35 or so odd structures already built and three locations to put them in, plus a few vacant lots in existing towns, and I am still shuffling them around to determine what I like best. The wooden structures and similar ones that I have posted are all going into the same rural town that is planned but not yet built. That's one reason that I gaze a lot at the layout!

All right. I have some catching up to do outside, so I'm off. Everybody have a great day.

Willie
 
Good morning everyone. 73 and overcast with a chance of thunderstorms here today. Must be residual rain from the tropical storm. Hope those of you living in its path are okay.

Back from Chicago. One of the better workshops I've ever attended. Drove into the night, got back to Springfield around 1:30 a.m. had a nice day off work, got wood needed for next part of benchwork build.

Eric - really nice work on that refinery and supply house. inspires me to try some more complicated things.
Sherrel - We're pulling for complete recovery.

Gotta run. Stuff to do here at work. have a good day everyone.
 
Sherrel I'm glad to hear you are home!!! Beer and Ice, I hope you used the ice to cool your face. Please don't tell me you poured the beer over the ice.

Eric, Willie and others you guys are true craftsmen/artists GREAT WORK!

Willie I am sorry to hear about the kidney stone, I've been told they are among the most painful things a person can endure. A lessor man would rush to the doctor or hospital for narcotics. I'm glad to hear you handled it so well, I'm proud of you my friend. Once again you set an example for others to follow!

When I was fist hospitalized with pancreatitis they put a young man in my room with kidney stones. He cried half the night. Until I told him "if you don't shut up I will throw you out the window. It might be the last thing I do, but at least I won't have to listen to you whine any more"

He quickly called the nurse and told her what I said. She explained to me how much kidney stones hurt. I asked her "how does it compare to my condition?" She said "it could be as painful" I said "do you hear me whining and calling for pain medication?" They removed the young man from my room, not a minute to soon!

The next summer I am at my ex-wife's family picnic. Guess who I see? Of course, it's whine boy. He is one of my ex-wife's cousins. His uncle said laughing "I hear you met (I can't remember his name)"

In other news: Rosedale 7-8 Orioles season has officially come to an end. We were rained out Monday and rain shortened our game yesterday. Were able to make it an official game by playing 3 innings. We won 5-0. The other manager (a former player of mine) could have asked to complete the game on Friday, but his team was already eliminated as well and he felt his team was no match for mine. I taught him better than that. I guess you can't teach heart or the lesson wore off in the 20+ years since he was my player. In his defense; my boys were playing at the top of their game.

As I am driving home the sun comes out, as I told the umpire it would. I showed him the weather radar on my phone, but he was in charge and he wanted everyone to know it. The field was still in good shape when I left. I think we could have finished.

All we have left now is to have a year end party sometime after the 4th of July. We may have not won as many as I would have liked, but my boys showed improvement and we all surely had fun! I am going to miss them all, I already do.
 
Good morning. A chilly start to the day at 41 degrees with a high only in the low 70's. I can live with that. Don't need the heat that they have in the southwest.

Sherrel - From the way you're talking, everything apparently went well. Hope you enjoyed the beer. (Beers?) Keep the heat down there. Maybe I should send some cool weather your way. Trussrod would probably enjoy it also. He's apparently melting.

Eric - I can imagine that that was a frustrating call. Don't worry about the rant. Hoping that things can get back to somewhere near normal for you. The supply house really looks good. Nice work.

Toot - I really enjoyed the videos, especially the cab ride. Details were fantastic.

Willie - Really sorry to hear about the kidney stone. Not fun at all. I went through the same shuffling process with buildings in just the one town of Logan on my layout trying to make everything fit and look right. That was just one town, not numerous towns. The process can take a while. I even cheated and picked up a couple of ready built Woodland Scenics buildings to try to save time by not having to build them.

Getting busy, ................. Later
 
Good morning ..

Sherrel... I am very pleased your procedures went well.
Willie .... Sorry to hear about the painful kidney stones.
Louis ... That is quite a story about "whine boy"... Not sure what I would have done if I had been you at the time. Maybe, I would have asked to be moved to another room. Then I could listen to him all night long from across the hall. :D

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I'm very concerned about my good model railroad friend, Dan, who is one of the three model railroaders here at the lake. Dan has cancer of the esophagus and some of his stomach. Tomorrow morning he is having very difficult surgery. Doctors will remove the esophagus and part of his stomach. They will build a new esophagus by extending the healthy part of his stomach all of the way up to his neck. Some of the surgery will require puncturing a lung. If all goes well, he will be recovering in the ICU for the following 2 or 3 days. Next, he will be recovering in the hospital for a while. When he comes home to recuperate, he will be on feeding tubes and can never sleep laying flat. He will sleep sitting up. Eventually, he should be able to swallow and the feeding tubes would then be removed. The surgery will be at the University of Kentucky Hospital in Lexington. Needless to say, Dan is in my prayers.
 
GARRY- My prayers for DAN also. His condition is worse than mine was. I had the tube but didn't need it.

Phil
 
Garry - Sorry to hear about your friends condition. Sounds like some pretty radical surgery. Really hope things go well for him.
 
Good morning, another nice day at the Jersey Shore. Last day for the Public Schools here. MIL will be leaving the Rehab facility, Sunday.

Louis: Congratulations on another successful season.

Sherrel: Bet that beer tasted extra good.

Willie: Glad you're feeling better. those damn stones do put a hurt on ya.

Garry: Our posts overlapped. Hope things go well for your friend, Dan, I will add him to the prayer list.

Today is shaping up to be a busy day, and we're getting a late start.

Not for nothing, there is a disconnect in out elder care system, between what people need and what the facilities want to provide them. The last thing I would do, is advocate Socialism, but after observing how the system has treated the MIL over the past 18 months or so, healthcare does not belong in the private sector. [end rant] :mad:.
 
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Good morning all, 66 and light rain today. Will be taking the old 88 suburban to the repair shop for new shocks and some other stuff. It was my Dad's vehicle and I will be using it as our second car.

Not much to add to other comments, will spend some time on the depot building today.
 
Bruette said:
Sherrel I'm glad to hear you are home!!! Beer and Ice, I hope you used the ice to cool your face. Please don't tell me you poured the beer over the ice.

i hope I don't burst your bubble, LOUIS, but that's exactly what I did THREE times! AND it was good!

WEll, Louis, I have had three rounds in my life with kidney stones, and if you had been in the room with me on the one that I was hospitalized with - you would not have had to worry - I would have killed you(LOL) ... I litterly begged them to kill me. They had to dinamite that one and when the "chunks" passed it was the strangest feeling in the world- like a snowball rolling down a hill.

After the "BEER OVER ICE" I never made it to get my computer. Waiting for the Geeks to open this morning. Best Buy store is about 1/4 mile away. Went beddyby ar 6 pm .. Drat

Eric, Willie and others you guys are true craftsmen/artists GREAT WORK!

Willie I am sorry to hear about the kidney stone, I've been told they are among the most painful things a person can endure. A lessor man would rush to the doctor or hospital for narcotics. I'm glad to hear you handled it so well, I'm proud of you my friend. Once again you set an example for others to follow!

When I was fist hospitalized with pancreatitis they put a young man in my room with kidney stones. He cried half the night. Until I told him "if you don't shut up I will throw you out the window. It might be the last thing I do, but at least I won't have to listen to you whine any more"

He quickly called the nurse and told her what I said. She explained to me how much kidney stones hurt. I asked her "how does it compare to my condition?" She said "it could be as painful" I said "do you hear me whining and calling for pain medication?" They removed the young man from my room, not a minute to soon!

The next summer I am at my ex-wife's family picnic. Guess who I see? Of course, it's whine boy. He is one of my ex-wife's cousins. His uncle said laughing "I hear you met (I can't remember his name)"
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Been trying an hour to post this .. Didn't realize that you have to add to the quote .. Not just write inside of it.
 
Good evening. It's 9:32 PM. Where is everyone at? :confused:

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Gorgeous George poses with GG1, under B&O Bridge at Bay View,(MD) in 1976.
 
Garry I am sorry to hear about your friend, thank God for modern medicine. I pray for him and the doctors.

Thank you Boris, I agree the season was a success. When I asked the boys if they wanted to play next year they all answered loudly, YEAH, with enthusiasm!

Last year when the season ended I was exhausted. This year I was just getting started, I have plenty left in the tank. Thank you God!

Defense (Army, Navy etc.), Homeland Security, Police, Fire and other services are not socialism, why should health care be any different?

We have the best military technology, we have the best security technology, we have the best fire fighting technology, of course we would continue to have the best medical technology.

Sherrel "I asked you not to tell me that!" (yes I am a huge fan of "Get Smart")

As for whine boy, I am normally not so mean, but I had been in the hospital for over 10 days with no food or water. My abdomen looked like I had an alien growing in me. I had tubes running everywhere and machines I do not even know what they did connected to me. I could not even sit up. I was in the worst unrelenting pain of my life, but I suffered in silence.

There is an unwritten rule in baseball; never show pain. If you are hit by the pitch don't even rub it, just run to first base and try to steal second!

His constant whining had gotten to me so much that my adrenaline must have been off the charts. I had every intention of throwing him out the window. I had it all planned out in my mind. I was thinking "it will be the end of me, but I will be happy to see him hit the ground from the fifth floor" Thank God they moved him.

My cousin I grew up with once described me to my 2nd (and last) wife in this way "Louis is a cold hearted calculating bastard, but in a good way" I think it was the best description of me I have ever heard.

Now you know my state of mind when I threatened his life, I suppose I should tell you the rest of the story.

A day or so after they moved whine boy a little doctor with tiny hands came and asked me if he could cut me open to see inside. I said "you can do it right now, I'll do it for you". I then had to wait for an Anesthesiologist willing to put me under for surgery They all thought I should have already been dead, even the priest who gave me my last rites. I could see it in their eyes and in the way the talked to me. Everybody thought I should be dead, except for me.

Finally in the middle of the night a young doctor came to my room wearing a denim jacket, strange the things we remember. He said "if you will sit up for 24 hours after the surgery I will put you under" I said I would and I did.

They found out my pancreas was swollen to the size of a football, it was caused by a blockage. The doctor with tiny hands removed and rebuilt the pancreatic duct and removed my gallbladder that was full of stones. As soon as I woke up from surgery I began to feel better. They did not give me much chance to recover, but I did. When it was clear I would live to leave the hospital they said I would never work again, but I am.

It was a long road to recovery, with many set backs, complications and new health problems. They even offered me hospice care, but I never gave up and God gave me everything I needed to keep my spirits up. My family, my English cocker spaniel Bessy, baseball, TV, trains, beagles and many other things along the way. Every day I focused on what I could do and fought the despair of thinking about what I could not do.

I give all the credit to God for enabling people to learn so much about medicine and to be so skilled in their craft. Add to that my unrelenting faith and refuse to lose attitude and here I am, better than I have been in well over 10 years. Thank you God!
 
WJLI26 said:
Good evening. It's 9:32 PM. Where is everyone at? :confused:

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Gorgeous George poses with GG1, under B&O Bridge at Bay View,(MD) in 1976.
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I love that picture and it was taken not far from where I live now!!!

That old girl needs a bath. A majestic beast like that should be taken better care of. They should have called me, I would have come and washed it!

I'm watching the birds trying to figure out how we can come from behind and split this series with Cleveland. The streak of giving up 5 runs or more continues and I am not loving it!!!
 
kbkchooch said:
Ken
You just have to get B.C and I down there. We'll learn ya good!
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Yea I know Karl, I've seen BC's tree-making video on the FCSME site. When I've finally gotten the new terrain ready to accept trees, I'll call you guys over.


Willie - sorry to hear about that kidney stone adventure, glad it got resolved! One of the reasons I've been drinking 2 quarts of water every day is to [hopefully] avoid suffering that particular ailment.

Garry - I too will pray for your friend Dan. A neighbor of mine had that same condition and opted not to undergo the surgery. He just quietly accepted his fate and endured 3 more pain-filled months until the good Lord finally called him home!:eek:
 
First post from the new computer.

It's and me have sorta been screwed up all day. I think two days of "Happy Juice" need to workout of my system.\, but really feel pretty good(if that makes any since?)

B]Louis[/B] I have to reread your post afain in the morning - I do know a little about what you felt .. I;m sorry you had to go thru that and put up with "whinnieboy", but he could have really been hurting as well .... Anyway glad that you are doing so well nowdays.

/GARRY of course I will add your friend to my prayer list .. I owe a lot of prayers for all of you! Maybe I should say "TOO YOU ALL?"

Gotta get some sleep - have been up from 2am with not a nap of any kind. Almost feel like I used to when on an all nighter accross the pond. Just running on kinetic energy! See you all tomorrow.
 
Thanks for comps on my work guys.
The oil refinery was the most difficult one to date.
The supply house was pretty easier. In fact I didn't paint a single part.
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