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Running Bear's December 2024 Coffee Shop
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migalyto
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Good morning all!
Its currently 12 degrees out, and with the wind it feels like -11 degrees. Yes that's negative in -11.
I hauled the garbage can out last night so it would not have to be done this morning.
My new locomotive is still in a USPS black hole. Its now gone down in Southern Illinois again, so
Its passed by my house twice on it journey.
Nothing much else going on here, which is good! Stay warm if your in this cold snap area.
Have a safe day everyone!
Its currently 12 degrees out, and with the wind it feels like -11 degrees. Yes that's negative in -11.
I hauled the garbage can out last night so it would not have to be done this morning.
My new locomotive is still in a USPS black hole. Its now gone down in Southern Illinois again, so
Its passed by my house twice on it journey.
Nothing much else going on here, which is good! Stay warm if your in this cold snap area.
Have a safe day everyone!
KriegslokBR52
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As you're writing this with shaking hands
shortwrench
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Good morning. First real snow here in the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts. Expect
about 3" accumulation, ending mid morning. Would look nice for Christmas day.
Hate the first snowfall of the season-people are relearning how to drive in snow since they've
forgotten that skill from last year.
Have a good day.
about 3" accumulation, ending mid morning. Would look nice for Christmas day.
Hate the first snowfall of the season-people are relearning how to drive in snow since they've
forgotten that skill from last year.
Have a good day.
ctclibby
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James: Love the extra space you will be getting. You will have room to 'stretch your legs' sorta speak.
Two helix's? If the room is big enough you might think about a no-lix around or in the middle of the room. My take on it is that one helix is probably bad enough as you loose site of your train for quite awhile, while the no-lix will allow walking with and viewing your train. I will use my single helix as a crew change point and serial storage. In my case the middle of the room is for that transition between levels. I have 20" separation between levels, with 4" between ramp levels which gives me 5 loops. My outside radii is 34" with 148' of track in the helix proper; approaches have not been calculated, so the track length will grow by a few feet. Note that I also have tangents in the helix to keep the grade down to so that trains do not stall out. Currently planning for 18' - 20' trains and 1.1% on that 148' segment should work.
In any event, keep us updated - pix of course.
Later
KriegslokBR52
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It must be a lot nicer than Jersey then, here they don't even hide what morons they happen to be. Just a few snow flakes in the air...and a lot more "snow flakes" on the road. They have multiplied like certain Teacher was multiplying bread and fish during a sermon.
D&J RailRoad
Professor of HO
Nooo, actually, after about an hour, I get very sleepy and nap for about 15 minutes, then I'm wide awake the rest of the day.As you're writing this with shaking hands
Sleep aids affect me kinda strange too. If I take Melatonin, I'll be awake all night. Same with Ny-Quill if I have the flu.
No shakes at all with the energy drinks. I usually have a "Bang" dring in the morning. Less sodium.
If this stuff has the opposite affect, I wonder if taking Day Care instead of Nyquil would let you sleep.
ctclibby
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Good Morning All!
30F @ 77% still dark. Must be overcast as can't see any stars. Weather guessers are now saying above 34F until Wednesday during the day, 28F to 30F night time. - go figure.
Got the deep fryer finally cleaned out. Went to Ace, Roseraurs, Empire ( smaller grocery ), Dollar General and another of those dollar stores whom I don't remember the name right now - have 3 of them in town. Anyway, nobody had the cone filters for fryer oil. Ok, so then I went to the Switchback, Venture Inn, VFW as they deep fry stuff; finally found a couple at the Pastime. Got home and 20 minutes later the fryer was clean and put away. I am pretty sure we have said filters, but they are in that 'somewhere' spot.
Ya, a beer at each of the bars of course. Sandy was working the Pastime ( owner ) of which we have not seen for awhile. She switches with her son Ricky every month or so between here and New Mexico. Great schedule - work for a month, get a month off. It was good seeing and talking with her.
Train Cave clean up is taking longer than I want. Currently un-burying stuff so I can start cutting helix legs and uprights. Base top is already done, ramps are currently in FreeCad. I'm getting there, be patient.
Cellulose Car Company is offering a wooden car. Everything is made of wood: Engine, body, wheels, frame, seats, and it even has a wooden key. Had them bring me one for a test drive - beautiful looking car. Got in and ... well crap - it wooden start.
Later
30F @ 77% still dark. Must be overcast as can't see any stars. Weather guessers are now saying above 34F until Wednesday during the day, 28F to 30F night time. - go figure.
Got the deep fryer finally cleaned out. Went to Ace, Roseraurs, Empire ( smaller grocery ), Dollar General and another of those dollar stores whom I don't remember the name right now - have 3 of them in town. Anyway, nobody had the cone filters for fryer oil. Ok, so then I went to the Switchback, Venture Inn, VFW as they deep fry stuff; finally found a couple at the Pastime. Got home and 20 minutes later the fryer was clean and put away. I am pretty sure we have said filters, but they are in that 'somewhere' spot.
Ya, a beer at each of the bars of course. Sandy was working the Pastime ( owner ) of which we have not seen for awhile. She switches with her son Ricky every month or so between here and New Mexico. Great schedule - work for a month, get a month off. It was good seeing and talking with her.
Train Cave clean up is taking longer than I want. Currently un-burying stuff so I can start cutting helix legs and uprights. Base top is already done, ramps are currently in FreeCad. I'm getting there, be patient.
Cellulose Car Company is offering a wooden car. Everything is made of wood: Engine, body, wheels, frame, seats, and it even has a wooden key. Had them bring me one for a test drive - beautiful looking car. Got in and ... well crap - it wooden start.
Later
TLOC
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Good morning from chilled but not shaken So. Central Wisconsin. +9f degrees at 7am with a real feel of 0f. The winds while blowing at 9mph and gusting at 19mph are very calm compared to the yesterday afternoon gusts in the high 30mph range. Yesterday the wind was picking up the mulch and sandblasting the house with it
Bringing up the Christmas bins and taking down the stuff the Christmas stuff replaced was done in spurts on Wednesday. I bring the 13 bins up, put 6 in the kitchen and the rest in the living room. 14 steps down and then back to bring the bins up and later reverse the process, bring the refilled bins down and walk back for the next bin. Needless to say the mother hen was all over me yesterday saying don’t push it. I didn’t, a job Terry and I have done for probably 45 years took 3x’s as long but it is worth it. Needless to say I was exhausted last night.
I did bring up the tree bin last night and assembled it this morning. I need to spread out the branches in a few minutes. This is Christmas #3 for this tree which at 7’ is 2’ shorter than the previous tree and also much narrower. Not as beautiful but fits the room pretty good.
Overall a good tiring day where I did not walk the treadmill, never left the house except for a quick USPS office drive and my steps registered as 14,603 per my iPhone counter. I should be in that neighborhood today including roughly 4000 round trip steps for Volleyball on campus this afternoon. Wisconsin is #7 nationally ranked and #2 in the NCAA regional playoffs tonight. Number #2 nationally ranked and biggest rival Nebraska is #1 in the region and hopefully they meet next week, unfortunately though it would be in Lincoln, Nebraska.
I spent 2 minutes if that in the train room yesterday. The daughter asked me to come over to her studio on Friday to install a new maniford for the spray booth. When she paints she moves between 3 airbrushes on her projects, When I weather I use 2. So, she had the plumber make up a 7 spot manifold for use at the booth. It will be ready this afternoon.
Enjoy the day
Bringing up the Christmas bins and taking down the stuff the Christmas stuff replaced was done in spurts on Wednesday. I bring the 13 bins up, put 6 in the kitchen and the rest in the living room. 14 steps down and then back to bring the bins up and later reverse the process, bring the refilled bins down and walk back for the next bin. Needless to say the mother hen was all over me yesterday saying don’t push it. I didn’t, a job Terry and I have done for probably 45 years took 3x’s as long but it is worth it. Needless to say I was exhausted last night.
I did bring up the tree bin last night and assembled it this morning. I need to spread out the branches in a few minutes. This is Christmas #3 for this tree which at 7’ is 2’ shorter than the previous tree and also much narrower. Not as beautiful but fits the room pretty good.
Overall a good tiring day where I did not walk the treadmill, never left the house except for a quick USPS office drive and my steps registered as 14,603 per my iPhone counter. I should be in that neighborhood today including roughly 4000 round trip steps for Volleyball on campus this afternoon. Wisconsin is #7 nationally ranked and #2 in the NCAA regional playoffs tonight. Number #2 nationally ranked and biggest rival Nebraska is #1 in the region and hopefully they meet next week, unfortunately though it would be in Lincoln, Nebraska.
I spent 2 minutes if that in the train room yesterday. The daughter asked me to come over to her studio on Friday to install a new maniford for the spray booth. When she paints she moves between 3 airbrushes on her projects, When I weather I use 2. So, she had the plumber make up a 7 spot manifold for use at the booth. It will be ready this afternoon.
Enjoy the day
TLOC
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I have the same issues. NyQuil and other night time help you sleep cold/flu remedies keep me awake. I never thought of trying the day time stuff at night
I have had decent results just taking about a third of the recommended dose. If the directions on the NyQuil say 2 teaspoons, I try taking a little under 1.
santafewillie
Same Ol' Buzzard
Good Morning All. Foggy and 41° greeting us this morning. The on-again, off-again drizzle and light showers yesterday left me 0.4" in the rain gauge. Not enough to do any good, but it did wash the landscape off. Forecast is for typical fall weather for here, mid-50's, rain over the weekend, back to the mid-60's Sunday (despite the anticipated rain), 50's again for a couple of days and back into the 60's a week from today. Some days will call for jeans, others will require shorts again. Shorts never really get put away for the winter here. There is still a cold front hitting us tonight for another possible freeze.
The major trip to town yesterday went rather well, considering that there was precipitation the whole time. We stopped at the ENT doctor to get the earwax removed. It's more of an issue with my wife; she has to go every three months, I need it once a year. While there, he looked down my throat. For the last 3-4 months, it's felt like there's something caught in there. It doesn't affect swallowing. He determined that it's just a temporary swelling of a lymph node at the back of my tongue. Didn't even know there was one there. He told me to adjust the schedule of a once a day medication that another doctor has prescribed.
After that, the weekly grocery trek went as planned. Got gas, it's still around $2.49/gal everywhere. I had 50¢/gal off in accumulated gas points. Dropped my wife off at Walmart while I sat in the parking lot listening to music. Then went by the pharmacy on the way home. There was a huge platter of cookies with a "Take One" sign on it. Later, my wife looked at the small town's Facebook page and found that the cookie thing was city-wide and dozens of businesses were participating.
No room to put an elevator in our one-story home!
I do need an alternate way to get into the attic though.
Part of my time out in the train shed yesterday, was spent reading the latest MRR. Interesting article regarding Rod Stewart and moving his layout from Los Angeles to the UK. It's amazing what you can do when you're worth $300 million. He didn't really move the layout, but had a crew go in and map everything out on his old layout, remove it, reassemble it in a warehouse on custom-designed portable benchwork; and then had it disassembled, packed and loaded into containers for shipping to his new home. Afterwards, I touched up a few more places on the layout with ground foam, that the rain/missing roof muddled up back in May.
From the archive, another Hydrocal structure from Downtown Deco.
James - Good luck with the expanded layout room.
Today is National Repeal Day, celebrating the ending of Prohibition. It's also the birthday of the late Walt Disney, and the late rock & roller Little Richard.
Everyone have a great Thursday.
The major trip to town yesterday went rather well, considering that there was precipitation the whole time. We stopped at the ENT doctor to get the earwax removed. It's more of an issue with my wife; she has to go every three months, I need it once a year. While there, he looked down my throat. For the last 3-4 months, it's felt like there's something caught in there. It doesn't affect swallowing. He determined that it's just a temporary swelling of a lymph node at the back of my tongue. Didn't even know there was one there. He told me to adjust the schedule of a once a day medication that another doctor has prescribed.
After that, the weekly grocery trek went as planned. Got gas, it's still around $2.49/gal everywhere. I had 50¢/gal off in accumulated gas points. Dropped my wife off at Walmart while I sat in the parking lot listening to music. Then went by the pharmacy on the way home. There was a huge platter of cookies with a "Take One" sign on it. Later, my wife looked at the small town's Facebook page and found that the cookie thing was city-wide and dozens of businesses were participating.
No room to put an elevator in our one-story home!
I do need an alternate way to get into the attic though.Part of my time out in the train shed yesterday, was spent reading the latest MRR. Interesting article regarding Rod Stewart and moving his layout from Los Angeles to the UK. It's amazing what you can do when you're worth $300 million. He didn't really move the layout, but had a crew go in and map everything out on his old layout, remove it, reassemble it in a warehouse on custom-designed portable benchwork; and then had it disassembled, packed and loaded into containers for shipping to his new home. Afterwards, I touched up a few more places on the layout with ground foam, that the rain/missing roof muddled up back in May.
From the archive, another Hydrocal structure from Downtown Deco.
James - Good luck with the expanded layout room.
Today is National Repeal Day, celebrating the ending of Prohibition. It's also the birthday of the late Walt Disney, and the late rock & roller Little Richard.
Everyone have a great Thursday.
KriegslokBR52
Well-Known Member
Little Richard for the uninitiated, one of his, in my opinion best hits, was featured in one of the best ever Science Fiction/Action flicks "Predator":Good Morning All. Foggy and 41° greeting us this morning. The on-again, off-again drizzle and light showers yesterday left me 0.4" in the rain gauge. Not enough to do any good, but it did wash the landscape off. Forecast is for typical fall weather for here, mid-50's, rain over the weekend, back to the mid-60's Sunday (despite the anticipated rain), 50's again for a couple of days and back into the 60's a week from today. Some days will call for jeans, others will require shorts again. Shorts never really get put away for the winter here. There is still a cold front hitting us tonight for another possible freeze.
The major trip to town yesterday went rather well, considering that there was precipitation the whole time. We stopped at the ENT doctor to get the earwax removed. It's more of an issue with my wife; she has to go every three months, I need it once a year. While there, he looked down my throat. For the last 3-4 months, it's felt like there's something caught in there. It doesn't affect swallowing. He determined that it's just a temporary swelling of a lymph node at the back of my tongue. Didn't even know there was one there. He told me to adjust the schedule of a once a day medication that another doctor has prescribed.
After that, the weekly grocery trek went as planned. Got gas, it's still around $2.49/gal everywhere. I had 50¢/gal off in accumulated gas points. Dropped my wife off at Walmart while I sat in the parking lot listening to music. Then went by the pharmacy on the way home. There was a huge platter of cookies with a "Take One" sign on it. Later, my wife looked at the small town's Facebook page and found that the cookie thing was city-wide and dozens of businesses were participating.
No room to put an elevator in our one-story home!
Part of my time out in the train shed yesterday, was spent reading the latest MRR. Interesting article regarding Rod Stewart and moving his layout from Los Angeles to the UK. It's amazing what you can do when you're worth $300 million. He didn't really move the layout, but had a crew go in and map everything out on his old layout, remove it, reassemble it in a warehouse on custom-designed portable benchwork; and then had it disassembled, packed and loaded into containers for shipping to his new home. Afterwards, I touched up a few more places on the layout with ground foam, that the rain/missing roof muddled up back in May.
From the archive, another Hydrocal structure from Downtown Deco.
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James - Good luck with the expanded layout room.
Today is National Repeal Day, celebrating the ending of Prohibition. It's also the birthday of the late Walt Disney, and the late rock & roller Little Richard.
Everyone have a great Thursday.
NorthBrit
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Should have wood in the tank. A wooden match. and fire it up.
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troyphoto
Snarky Old Fart (in training)
I'm up!
I did this.
Celebratory whiskey shall be consumed tonight.
For now it's back to the manuscript for editing. I had the AI summarize each chapter. Then I had it analyze the first act for weaknesses. It gave me several issues that I agree need to be fleshed out better.
I did this.
Celebratory whiskey shall be consumed tonight.
For now it's back to the manuscript for editing. I had the AI summarize each chapter. Then I had it analyze the first act for weaknesses. It gave me several issues that I agree need to be fleshed out better.
Bruette
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Bruette
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I like it! I'm a firm believer in "use what you have"
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