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Good morning folks

It was a pleasant 69 F as I drove in this morning. First morning in a few weeks I did not need the A/C on in the van. High will be 87 F.

Last night we had an incident. When my son went to feed the dogs he found bugs in their food. They only eat dry food and we just got a new bag about a week ago. The kids dumped the storage container and washed it out. This meant we had to make an emergency run to the pet store for a new bag of food. While we were there we also picked up a new under the gravel filter and some other things I need to reset-up the aquarium. After the last fish died a few weeks ago we broke the tank down and are now getting ready to set it back up.

With all the fun I never got a chance to do any modeling.

I hope everybody has a good day.
 
Good Morning

The sun be out--Audrey's out for the walk and I got some bents in front of me---eventually there will be enough of 'em to actually start building them up:eek::):)

A couple of mill shots from Woodstock ON with a couple from the Beachville ON quarry
 
I just finished with the parent's yard. That took nearly 4 hours and it's not quite finished yet. I have to go back and sweep some clippings away from the drains. I'm waiting for the clippings to dry out first. It's much easier to get rid of them then. My sister's mower is still not fixed. No surprise there.
 


BOC, pretty impressive concrete plamt, especially that conveyor. Big limestone quarry too. Is it just me or does Spring have kind of a "Don't mess with me" look about her? Purdy cat though. Nice Galaxie with the 427. Looks from the air cleaner like it has trips too. If it was a four door and black and white, it would look just like the first patrol car I ever drove. We just had four barrels but they were still darn fast cars. As I remember, we had to use 109 octane gas in them. I wonder if they even sell that kind of stuff away from an airport today?

Phillip, if she's walking around and only needs Tylenol for pain relief, that's really good news. MD does have to be treated carefully when it comes to medicating a patient. Never heard of novacaine being a problem though.

Karl, no cars for the first year and having everyone live on campus are two excellent ways to make sure the kid actually makes it through the first year. I'm also in favor on no cell phones unless they can only call school numbers, mom and dad, and 911. The less distractions, the better.

Jeffrey, let 'em cut their own grass if they refuse to cooperate. You have enough to do already.

Another beautiful day in the Heart of Dixie. Got up into the low 90's but the humidity is still low and we had a nice breeze so it was still comfortable to be outside. Kind of weird not having to run the A/C full blast all the time. Went to my semi-annual visit to the ear doc to check on my hearing and my Meniere's Disease. The right ear is still good and I'm still deaf in the left ear. Good sign though, as Meniere's can sometimes cause deafness in both ears and that hasn't happened yet. I also haven't had a serious attack since last October so I'm in what they call a burnout phase, where you don't have attacks for a year or two. Unfortunately, it always comes back, but I'm enjoying nor being dizzy all the time as long as it lasts.

I've got the gravel road done for the church and I'll have to take a few shots and see what ya'all think. I've torn up previous versions three times until I think I've got it about right now. Added some water puddles and mud and it seems to look like a typical muddy gravel road after a rain. Doing gravel roads so they look right is way harder than I thought.
 
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The funeral service for my MIL was very nice. A lot of her friends were at both the viewing Mon evening and the service today. My FIL seems to be doing pretty well and so are my wife and daughters. The preacher was really good to my FIL and wife during this process. The funeral director was one of the best I have ever worked with. So everything went smoothly and they let the family have as long as they wanted to do anything they needed or wanted to do. I want to thank you all for you support and prayers during this sad time it is greatly appreciated. My wife has yet to take the time and read all of the messages but she has read some and asked me to thank you all also.
 
Today was another day of my sister's son coming home with his entourage and immediately zipping off somewhere else. So as I said would happen, I ended up fixing the mower that he said would take too much time and require tools that he would have to dig out, so he wasn't going to do it. let me tell you guys something. I'd never changed out a single belt on that mower in all the years my sister has had it and it only took me 5 minutes to change it with no tools. I didn't even have time to break a sweat! Though it did take me a couple of minutes to stand afterwards. So today I mowed my parent's yard which is 5.5 acres and then my sister's yard which is just over 2 acres and I'm not even tired. I think I'll bill him for my time.
 
Jim, CMT is one of the 40 diseases covered by the MDA, but unlike a normal (if you can call it that) muscular dystrophy, in which the defect is in the muscles, CMT is a disorder in which the defect is in the nerves that control the muscles. CMT, also known as hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy (HMSN) or peroneal muscular atrophy, comprises a group of disorders that affect peripheral nerves. The peripheral nerves lie outside the brain and spinal cord and supply the muscles and sensory organs in the limbs. The neuropathy of CMT affects both motor and sensory nerves. It sets in with boys in adolescence and has a slow, steady progression. In girls, the effects are mild until around age 35 or so, and then it comes on like a runaway freight train. Thats all probably more then you ever wanted to know though................
 
Jeffrey, bill her anyway. I figure one hour minimum at $70 for a good mechanic is fair. Maybe that will help her get sonny boy to get some work done.

Larry, I'm glad to hear the ceremony went well. I hope it gave everyone some closure. Tell your wife the next few weeks are the toughest, even if it seems like things are going well. Check with hospice in your community and see if they have any grief counseling groups. It was a huge help to me when my first wife died. I'm sure we'll all still be keeping you, her, and the rest of the family in our prayers.

Phillip, thanks for the information. Because there are so many types of MD, we only got an introduction to the most common ones in my paramedic training. I've heard of CMT and know it is one of the less common types of the MD family of illnesses. I had a few patients with MD that I cared for and we always had to check with the hospital by radio before we adminstered any type of medication for interaction problems. I'm sure this takes a toll on you and the family but you seem to handle it remarkably well. I sure hope they find a cure one of these days but we know more about the dark side of the moon than the brain and nervous system. :(

Was doing a little cleanup on the layout and reached across to remove a spider web and my sleeve caught a crosing gate and broke it. Dang! I think I fixed but I'll give it until morning before testing it. One of the downsides of having lots of detail on a layout is that there's also lots of stuff to break. Much warmer tonight (74 compared to 64 last night at this time) and the humidity is coming up so I think our early fall has ended. With it comes the hope of some rain toward the end of the week. Those of us who missed out on the Rex-type floods are really starting to need some moisture. There's an area of disturbed weather called 92L north of Puerto Rico that has the potential for some develpment although I doubt it will make past tropical storm stage. You folks from the Carolinas north to Nova Scotia need to keep an eye on what's now 92L as the computer models want to take it close to the coast as it moves north. Nothing else of any significance in the tropics and certainly nothing for at least the next week that will help us any. We are starting to move into peak hurricane season and I'm surprised that the only thing we've gotten from the Gulf was that dud, Claudette.
 
Good morning.

It's 74 and cloudy. The high will be in the low 90's and it will be partly cloudy.

The mower drama played out just as I thought it would. I changed out the deck belt on it in just 5 minutes with no tools. Getting up off the ground afterward was the hard part but I managed alright. I then mowed the yard since I was already there anyway. This was after I had already spent half the day mowing my parents yard so I was already in not so good a mood. I just hope it cools down this year so I'm not still cutting the grass at Christmas. So all in all it was a fairly busy day for me. Didn't get a chance to work on the layout but I may have time for that today.

Today's Weather for:
Sundown, LA 71446-6114 8/26/2009

Heat Index: 78°F
Humidity: 72%
Dew Point: 65°F

So Far Today
High: 75°F
Low: 72°F
Rain: 0.00"
Rain Rate: 0.00"/h
Gust: 6mph E

Today High: 92 with a heat index of 101. Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds around 5 mph.

Tonight Low: 68 Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. South winds around 5 mph.

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Good morning folks

It was 70 F on the way this morning. High will be 92 F.

Last night my daughter had her flute lesson. Afterwards I spent a good part of the evening going over my son’s Reading and Scholarship Merit Badges. He is preparing to submit his completed work to his merit badge councilor and wanted us to go over it to make sure he did everything.

No trains last night.

We have a planning meeting for Cub Scouts tonight.

I hope everybody has a good day.
 
Hello

Nice and dull again with the showers be showering---I'm in the trainroom doing up some more bents for the trestle then I'll be assembling part 1 of the beastie:eek::D:D

Jim Hear you on the detail breakage---I have a small machine shop in one area of my layout that I managed to clobber the chimney off twice reaching over it---I ended up exchanging it for a shorter stouter one---now I have some poles that I seem to knock over-----may as well imitate some kind of windstorm--:rolleyes:

A few more for ideas
 
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Lots of people taken by surprise by the weather today and I know of at two construction foremen that are severely ticked off. The forecast last night and this morning said nothing about rain, just partly cloudy. Near noon a line of thunderstorms came crashing through so quickly that the weather service didn't get out a warning until the leading edge of the front had passed through. We got 1.4 inches of rain in less than an hour on a day for which no rain was forecast. Meteorology must be the only job in which you can be 100% wrong and not get canned.
 
Jim, most forms of MD are much easier to work with because they're a mechanical type issue. CMT, being a nerve disorder is really quite different. This link is pretty good, though not entirely on target. It gets it better then most, and is about 95% correct. It's wrong in the severity, timings (somewhat), and limitations of the condition, but you'll get the idea. Being you have some medical background you should be able to grasp most all of it pretty easy. My wife, son and daughter have CMT1B.
 
Afternoon, everyone.

Looks like the Labor Day doldrums are starting to set in. I'm feeling kind of doldrumy (is that a word?) myself today.

Jeffrey, I'd still make her pay. As far as mowing grass at Christmastime, I'd just wait for the frost and burn it off. They tell me it's actually good for Bermuda grass to burn it off in the winter.

Tom, you sure are a good dad. I don't think I ever spent enough time with my sons when they were young.

BOC, turns out I busted a wire in the crossing gate also so I'll try solder the teeny little thing back on today. This is the second time I've broken this gate. I probably should have just put in a crossbuck and flashers but this is the main road into town and gates just look right. I've been mounting them to the layout using CA and I'm going try silicone this time. The CA just snaps and usually takes something else with it when it breaks. I'm hoping the silicone will give the mount enough flexibility that I'll feel when I've gotten caught on it and have it bend a little, just enough time for me to stop and not break it off again.

I remember abandoned quarries like that in Ohio when I was a kid and we used them as swimming holes. I imagine the cops would probably show up in no time today but we had a good time swimming hole in what was pretty good quality water compared to Lake Erie at the time, and none of us ever drowned. Keep at it with those bents. To the slow and sure wins the prize. :)

It's a hot day here today, with a temperature of 97 and humidity starting to creep up again. The liars at the NWS say we have a chance for thunderstorms through the weekend. I'll believe it when I see it.

Invest 92L will become Tropical Depression Danny by this evening. It looks like Danny will follow a similar track to Bill although it should be much weaker storm. There's a chance it could develop into a hurricane by Friday. There's a <20% chance it will make landfall in the Outer Banks but about a 50% chance of landfall somewhere between Long Island and Cape Cod as a Cat 1 hurricane. Anyone with Labor Day plans along the coast from North Carolina to Nova Scotia needs to keep up on the latest news about Danny.
 
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Jeffrey, I'd still make her pay. As far as mowing grass at Christmastime, I'd just wait for the frost and burn it off. They tell me it's actually good for Bermuda grass to burn it off in the winter.
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Good for the grass maybe but not so for sandy soil. We did that a few times and ended up losing much of the grass in the sandier parts of the yard and it took years to get it covered well again.
 
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Good for the grass maybe but not so for sandy soil. We did that a few times and ended up losing much of the grass in the sandier parts of the yard and it took years to get it covered well again.
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10-4 That! It's also good to overseed with a mutt lawn seed mix of rye grass bermuda and Bahia to just before the temps drop below 70*'s that helps keep the sand sea from taking over your yard!
 
Thanks for that link, Phillip. I didn't realize that the CMT sub-type of MD was so relatively common. I think I saw maybe two in my 15 years as a paramedic. Unfortunately, it's very much like the leukemia my late wife had, with different variations influenced by genotypes and hereditary factors. It would be hard enough to cure one type but it's another smart disease that just keeps on mutating. It sure would be nice if some of this unbelievable deficit we've built up was directed towards diseases like CMT and leukemia instead of bailing out banks that should have been allowed to fail. :mad:
 
Jeffrey, I saw that line of thunderstorms blow up from nowhere just across the border in Texas. There's a low pressure system sitting just offshore from Louisiana that's rotating in enough moisture for these thunderstorms to pop up. I'm hoping that low will drift east and give us some thunderstorms over the weekend.

No sand to worry about here, just sticky red clay. My neighbor's backyard started on fire on New Year's Eve from fireworks. I managed to get it put out with my garden house before our worthless fire department showed up but it burned the tall grass in about half the yard. The difference in the part of the yard that burned and the part that didn't is striking, with much thicker grass and less weeds in the burned part. It apparently used to be common to let the grass grow up to about a foot before the first freeze and then burn it off when it was all brown. The locals all say it works and my neighbor's backyard would seem to confirm that. Unfortunately, it's illegal to do any burning in the city limits. By the time the FD got here, half the neighborhood would have probably burned to the ground. The saying is that they've never lost a foundation. :rolleyes: Pretty poor performance for a paid fire department with three stations and about 76 firefighters.
 


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Jeffrey, I saw that line of thunderstorms blow up from nowhere just across the border in Texas. There's a low pressure system sitting just offshore from Louisiana that's rotating in enough moisture for these thunderstorms to pop up. I'm hoping that low will drift east and give us some thunderstorms over the weekend.
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Blow up from nowhere is right! It came from out of nowhere. One minute it was bright and hardly cloudy and the next it suddenly clouded up and started pouring. I'd never seen anything like it, and I've seen some pretty weird weather in my time.
 
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