Running Bear's December 2021 Coffee Shop
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TomO
TomO
George
Posting time, my sleep patterns are so messed up. No sleep on any plane is normal for me but no sleep for me in 36 hours messes me up. It is getting better but I hit the pillow and after a few minutes I get almost like an anxiety attack but it’s not. I think maybe 5 hours total including naps for Dec. 6th.. This has happened three times before and all were after cancer surgeries. After the 2nd one, my doctor at the time figured I can’t handle any pain killer with oxycodin in it. No drugs in me the last week since being home.
TomO
Christmas celebrations in Medieval times rather closely resembled the Roman celebration of Saturnalia.
en.m.wikipedia.org
There is a lot of truth to the old saying "there is nothing new under the sun"
The Holy island of Lindisfarne, raided by Vikings in 793 is considered to be the dawn of the Viking age.
Churches were where the most wealth could be found in one place and were seen to be soft targets.
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troyphoto
Snarky Old Fart (in training)
Don't worry about falling off the edge. If the earth was really flat, cats would have knocked everything off it by now
TLOC
Well-Known Member
Thanks Ken. I am always looking for removal loads for flats, bulkhead and gondolas. Those look great
TomO
just be careful you don’t go over the edge
TomO
TLOC
Well-Known Member
Good morning from Wisconsin. The weather channel says the White Gifts from Above are falling but I can’t see it. The temperature is at 11f/-11.6c heading to 21f/-6c if the calculator is correct.
If politicians would read and understand history, war would not occur.
Remember Pearl Harbor.
The Arizona prior to the attack
The Arizona in 2021
If politicians would read and understand history, war would not occur.
Remember Pearl Harbor.
The Arizona prior to the attack
The Arizona in 2021
NYC_George
Well-Known Member
OK James I sent them. If anyone else needs them let me know.
George
Alcomotive
Grandson of an ALCO Builder
Many thanks!
santafewillie
Same Ol' Buzzard
Good Morning All. Clear and 31° this morning, second freeze of the season. Maybe another one on Saturday, but otherwise fair weather for the next ten days. Should be above 80° again Thursday and Friday, typical roller coaster weather for us at this time of year.
Nothing special today except get the Christmas stuff out of the attic. Wife changed her mind about putting up the tree this year. so that's on tap this week. I will put it up earlier than our usual 12/15 date to allow her more time to decorate, as it will be just be a bit every day. I do the tree and lights and she doesn't trust me with anything else.
Her recovery is obviously going better than expected in just a week. Yesterday, she did not take any of the narcotic pain relievers, relying solely on Acetaminophen. That allowed her to have a glass of wine with supper. An aside here: She regularly asks me to get her Advil, Tylenol or Aleve, however we don't have any of those items on the medicine shelf. I never learned what the generics were for all of them and she expects me to just know them; we have them all but it is frustrating to have to ask again which generic she means! Let's see, is that ibuprofen, acetaminophen or naproxen??? End of rant. Lucky me, when I take a single ibuprofen, it lasts 24 hours+, and thankfully I only need it 10-12 times a year.
Pearl Harbor, 80 years ago today, is a notable day of remembrance. I am too young to have been around, but I remember older relatives talking about it in the mid-50's.
Man! The overnight traffic in here is getting pretty heavy, to me that's anything past 8:30 pm. I understand those across the pond, but Tom O seems to still be on Hawaii time, and Louis - who knows what world he is in?
Give me a Mexican omelet today Flo. As usual, spicy salsa and OJ to go with it.
Thank you as always for the comments and reactions on yesterday's post; Patrick, Karl, Tom O, Jaz, Christian, Chad, Rick, Sherrel, Gary, Tom, IB Ken, Joe, Louis, OB Ken, Jesse.
Out in the train shed yesterday, I guess that I broke my Canon Power Shot camera. The lens no longer retracts and the error message appears that says to restart the camera. Except there is no restart button! Looking up solutions on the internet yielded a lot of solutions that didn't work, however I was still able to download the pictures that I took yesterday to the computer.
Meanwhile since I have no major projects in mind right now, and I am not ready to start that street corner for the Coffee Shop, I referred to my lengthy list of small projects to do. One stood out because it was the first one that I saw, name and upgrade a structure in downtown Vernon facing the RR tracks.
Needs a name and a purpose. It's a Smalltown USA kit called Cab Co. It is now known as Wholesale Electrical Supply. I added signs, yellow bollards and a lamp over the garage door.
Still looks naked so I added four pedestrians, one customer and three passer-bys.
Lady in the red dress is in front of the adjacent business.
Patrick - I have had no issues setting up wifi in the past, but about two years ago when the phone company came out to hook up the fiber optic with a new router, they did it for me in a whole lot shorter time. Why not, as there was no service call charges as the internet provider had a government grant to hook up our rural area. I can't really tell any difference since I rarely download stuff, but my wife's Roku works a lot better she says.
Thank you for the clarification regarding Dell, I reread my source and it indicated that he got many employees from Silicon Valley, but he himself was from Texas.
Ken (D&J) - The two op sessions sound like a real fun time. You are probably correct about folks here clicking on the Christmas songs.
Nice pipe load.
Christian - Others have answered and I agree that adding Kadee couplers and metal wheels would be an improvement to Bachmann cars. But to actually answer your original question regarding whether they will run well, yes as long as you just go forward and don't do any switching. Note that those horn-hook couplers will not couple with a Kadee coupler, so if you run a mix of cars, you will need some "transition" cars with one of each coupler on either end.
Tom O - I mainly vote for policies not personalities. Right now, I believe that someone else is actually running the show.
I like the debris on the pulpwood cars. The shots that I looked at of the HS were on Bing.
Joe - Best wishes on a speedy recovery.
Tomorrow evening our DIL goes into the hospital for labor inducement for grandson #3, who should be born Thursday. It will be grandchild #4 for us. His name will be Liam, shortened from my name of William. William is also his other grandfather's name, his uncle's name and my son's middle name.
Everybody have a great day. Be safe.
Nothing special today except get the Christmas stuff out of the attic. Wife changed her mind about putting up the tree this year. so that's on tap this week. I will put it up earlier than our usual 12/15 date to allow her more time to decorate, as it will be just be a bit every day. I do the tree and lights and she doesn't trust me with anything else.
Her recovery is obviously going better than expected in just a week. Yesterday, she did not take any of the narcotic pain relievers, relying solely on Acetaminophen. That allowed her to have a glass of wine with supper. An aside here: She regularly asks me to get her Advil, Tylenol or Aleve, however we don't have any of those items on the medicine shelf. I never learned what the generics were for all of them and she expects me to just know them; we have them all but it is frustrating to have to ask again which generic she means! Let's see, is that ibuprofen, acetaminophen or naproxen??? End of rant. Lucky me, when I take a single ibuprofen, it lasts 24 hours+, and thankfully I only need it 10-12 times a year.
Pearl Harbor, 80 years ago today, is a notable day of remembrance. I am too young to have been around, but I remember older relatives talking about it in the mid-50's.
Man! The overnight traffic in here is getting pretty heavy, to me that's anything past 8:30 pm. I understand those across the pond, but Tom O seems to still be on Hawaii time, and Louis - who knows what world he is in?
Give me a Mexican omelet today Flo. As usual, spicy salsa and OJ to go with it.
Thank you as always for the comments and reactions on yesterday's post; Patrick, Karl, Tom O, Jaz, Christian, Chad, Rick, Sherrel, Gary, Tom, IB Ken, Joe, Louis, OB Ken, Jesse.
Out in the train shed yesterday, I guess that I broke my Canon Power Shot camera. The lens no longer retracts and the error message appears that says to restart the camera. Except there is no restart button! Looking up solutions on the internet yielded a lot of solutions that didn't work, however I was still able to download the pictures that I took yesterday to the computer.
Meanwhile since I have no major projects in mind right now, and I am not ready to start that street corner for the Coffee Shop, I referred to my lengthy list of small projects to do. One stood out because it was the first one that I saw, name and upgrade a structure in downtown Vernon facing the RR tracks.
Needs a name and a purpose. It's a Smalltown USA kit called Cab Co. It is now known as Wholesale Electrical Supply. I added signs, yellow bollards and a lamp over the garage door.
Still looks naked so I added four pedestrians, one customer and three passer-bys.
Lady in the red dress is in front of the adjacent business.
Patrick - I have had no issues setting up wifi in the past, but about two years ago when the phone company came out to hook up the fiber optic with a new router, they did it for me in a whole lot shorter time. Why not, as there was no service call charges as the internet provider had a government grant to hook up our rural area. I can't really tell any difference since I rarely download stuff, but my wife's Roku works a lot better she says.
Thank you for the clarification regarding Dell, I reread my source and it indicated that he got many employees from Silicon Valley, but he himself was from Texas.
Ken (D&J) - The two op sessions sound like a real fun time. You are probably correct about folks here clicking on the Christmas songs.
Nice pipe load.
Christian - Others have answered and I agree that adding Kadee couplers and metal wheels would be an improvement to Bachmann cars. But to actually answer your original question regarding whether they will run well, yes as long as you just go forward and don't do any switching. Note that those horn-hook couplers will not couple with a Kadee coupler, so if you run a mix of cars, you will need some "transition" cars with one of each coupler on either end.
Tom O - I mainly vote for policies not personalities. Right now, I believe that someone else is actually running the show.
I like the debris on the pulpwood cars. The shots that I looked at of the HS were on Bing.
Joe - Best wishes on a speedy recovery.
Tomorrow evening our DIL goes into the hospital for labor inducement for grandson #3, who should be born Thursday. It will be grandchild #4 for us. His name will be Liam, shortened from my name of William. William is also his other grandfather's name, his uncle's name and my son's middle name.
Everybody have a great day. Be safe.
McLeod
Forest Lurker
Good Morning!
Wow! Miss a day of coming in, and find yourself 5 pages behind!
What does one say about today? - Happy Pearl Day! - Duck - There seems to b a little nip in the air!? - I'm not sure if Pearl day is celebrated like Remembrance Day, but, I'll bet it's an extremely important day to our American friends. - I don't think it hits us as hard, because we were already heavily engaged in the war for a few years when Pearl took place. Many of us and our allies had already died fighting, including direct family members on my parents side. - My own parents had been made guest's in a German concentration camp by the time Pearl happened, both having been radio operators for the Dutch.
I suppose we are all tied to that war in some way, even though we were mostly born after the event.
Joe - so sorry to hear you are ill. God's speed in recovery!
Willie - You need to replace that Canon PowerShot right away, less it takes away from your ability to post photos. Luckily, you can get an almost new, top caliber digital on the Bay. They often go for cheap, because people don't seem to be using real cameras anymore. They seem to be trusting their phones, like they've got some kind of instamatic in the 1950's.
Yesterday, in-between the wife's 'go on a date' harassment, I was able to get the front signage placed into my Cafe':
I'm happy about that, as I can now finally start putting things together. About time; it's only been about a year!
I'd like to start putting walls up today, but, the wife is still off work. So anything can happen. - We'll see by days end.
Have a great day!
Wow! Miss a day of coming in, and find yourself 5 pages behind!
What does one say about today? - Happy Pearl Day! - Duck - There seems to b a little nip in the air!? - I'm not sure if Pearl day is celebrated like Remembrance Day, but, I'll bet it's an extremely important day to our American friends. - I don't think it hits us as hard, because we were already heavily engaged in the war for a few years when Pearl took place. Many of us and our allies had already died fighting, including direct family members on my parents side. - My own parents had been made guest's in a German concentration camp by the time Pearl happened, both having been radio operators for the Dutch.
I suppose we are all tied to that war in some way, even though we were mostly born after the event.
Joe - so sorry to hear you are ill. God's speed in recovery!
Willie - You need to replace that Canon PowerShot right away, less it takes away from your ability to post photos. Luckily, you can get an almost new, top caliber digital on the Bay. They often go for cheap, because people don't seem to be using real cameras anymore. They seem to be trusting their phones, like they've got some kind of instamatic in the 1950's.
Yesterday, in-between the wife's 'go on a date' harassment, I was able to get the front signage placed into my Cafe':
I'm happy about that, as I can now finally start putting things together. About time; it's only been about a year!
I'd like to start putting walls up today, but, the wife is still off work. So anything can happen. - We'll see by days end.
Have a great day!
CHRISTIAΝ
Old French Guy
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Jaz avalley
Station cat
santafewillie
Same Ol' Buzzard
Not to worry Guy. A replacement has already been ordered. In the meantime, I will use my older model Kodak Easy Share digital camera.
troyphoto
Snarky Old Fart (in training)
I was just looking for something over on Model Railroader....errrr... Trains.com
I had subscribed to their MRR Video plus service
Then Trains.com video stuff came along.
This summer I kept paying for Vid+ even though I didn't watch anything on it... MRR is a winter activity for me. I'll get back to it.
I'm not finding videos there I want to watch. And the series that I did find on MRR V+ (Gary Leone and Steve Brown - both with content they don't put on their own Utubes) aren't on MRRV+... looks like it's over on the trains.com service.
Blah... I don't want to spend another $5 a month to get what I used to have before.
I had subscribed to their MRR Video plus service
Then Trains.com video stuff came along.
This summer I kept paying for Vid+ even though I didn't watch anything on it... MRR is a winter activity for me. I'll get back to it.
I'm not finding videos there I want to watch. And the series that I did find on MRR V+ (Gary Leone and Steve Brown - both with content they don't put on their own Utubes) aren't on MRRV+... looks like it's over on the trains.com service.
Blah... I don't want to spend another $5 a month to get what I used to have before.
PRR Modeler
Well-Known Member
Afternoon All,
Made a speed run to the LHS this morning picking up 5 pieces of flex track and another bag of static grass. After getting home I "cut in" a turnout and laid down the main section of cork roadbed. I discovered that I need about 21" of track past the Turnouts to fit an ABA consist. This means that the black water tank and the MMW water pumping station have to be moved.
Thank you all for the likes yesterday for my photos. It really blew me away.
Mikey- Thank you.
Tom- That was really loud.
Terry- I wish you the best.
D&J- Nice looking load.
IB Ken- Thank you. You have to remember I'm retired and have lots of free time (don't tell my wife).
Joe- Thank you. I hope you get better quickly. I had never heard of a flange oiler! I actually had to research it. Should be easy enough to model though.
TomO- Thank you and thanks for the gluing tip.
James- I may have to invest in one of those.
Jesse- That photo is funny. I really like Tamiya paint. Strangely it smells like bananas to me in the jar.
Willie- Nice scenes.
Guy- Nice looking cafe signs.
Jaz- Excellent rust effects.
I hope everyone has a good night,
Made a speed run to the LHS this morning picking up 5 pieces of flex track and another bag of static grass. After getting home I "cut in" a turnout and laid down the main section of cork roadbed. I discovered that I need about 21" of track past the Turnouts to fit an ABA consist. This means that the black water tank and the MMW water pumping station have to be moved.
Thank you all for the likes yesterday for my photos. It really blew me away.
Mikey- Thank you.
Tom- That was really loud.
Terry- I wish you the best.
D&J- Nice looking load.
IB Ken- Thank you. You have to remember I'm retired and have lots of free time (don't tell my wife).
Joe- Thank you. I hope you get better quickly. I had never heard of a flange oiler! I actually had to research it. Should be easy enough to model though.
TomO- Thank you and thanks for the gluing tip.
James- I may have to invest in one of those.
Jesse- That photo is funny. I really like Tamiya paint. Strangely it smells like bananas to me in the jar.
Willie- Nice scenes.
Guy- Nice looking cafe signs.
Jaz- Excellent rust effects.
I hope everyone has a good night,
TLOC
Well-Known Member
Willie, congrats on another grandchild arriving soon.Good Morning All. Clear and 31° this morning, second freeze of the season. Maybe another one on Saturday, but otherwise fair weather for the next ten days. Should be above 80° again Thursday and Friday, typical roller coaster weather for us at this time of year.
Nothing special today except get the Christmas stuff out of the attic. Wife changed her mind about putting up the tree this year. so that's on tap this week. I will put it up earlier than our usual 12/15 date to allow her more time to decorate, as it will be just be a bit every day. I do the tree and lights and she doesn't trust me with anything else.
Her recovery is obviously going better than expected in just a week. Yesterday, she did not take any of the narcotic pain relievers, relying solely on Acetaminophen. That allowed her to have a glass of wine with supper. An aside here: She regularly asks me to get her Advil, Tylenol or Aleve, however we don't have any of those items on the medicine shelf. I never learned what the generics were for all of them and she expects me to just know them; we have them all but it is frustrating to have to ask again which generic she means! Let's see, is that ibuprofen, acetaminophen or naproxen??? End of rant. Lucky me, when I take a single ibuprofen, it lasts 24 hours+, and thankfully I only need it 10-12 times a year.
Pearl Harbor, 80 years ago today, is a notable day of remembrance. I am too young to have been around, but I remember older relatives talking about it in the mid-50's.
Man! The overnight traffic in here is getting pretty heavy, to me that's anything past 8:30 pm. I understand those across the pond, but Tom O seems to still be on Hawaii time, and Louis - who knows what world he is in?
Give me a Mexican omelet today Flo. As usual, spicy salsa and OJ to go with it.
Thank you as always for the comments and reactions on yesterday's post; Patrick, Karl, Tom O, Jaz, Christian, Chad, Rick, Sherrel, Gary, Tom, IB Ken, Joe, Louis, OB Ken, Jesse.
Out in the train shed yesterday, I guess that I broke my Canon Power Shot camera. The lens no longer retracts and the error message appears that says to restart the camera. Except there is no restart button! Looking up solutions on the internet yielded a lot of solutions that didn't work, however I was still able to download the pictures that I took yesterday to the computer.
Meanwhile since I have no major projects in mind right now, and I am not ready to start that street corner for the Coffee Shop, I referred to my lengthy list of small projects to do. One stood out because it was the first one that I saw, name and upgrade a structure in downtown Vernon facing the RR tracks.
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Needs a name and a purpose. It's a Smalltown USA kit called Cab Co. It is now known as Wholesale Electrical Supply. I added signs, yellow bollards and a lamp over the garage door.
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Still looks naked so I added four pedestrians, one customer and three passer-bys.
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Lady in the red dress is in front of the adjacent business.
Patrick - I have had no issues setting up wifi in the past, but about two years ago when the phone company came out to hook up the fiber optic with a new router, they did it for me in a whole lot shorter time. Why not, as there was no service call charges as the internet provider had a government grant to hook up our rural area. I can't really tell any difference since I rarely download stuff, but my wife's Roku works a lot better she says.
Thank you for the clarification regarding Dell, I reread my source and it indicated that he got many employees from Silicon Valley, but he himself was from Texas.
Ken (D&J) - The two op sessions sound like a real fun time. You are probably correct about folks here clicking on the Christmas songs.
Nice pipe load.
Christian - Others have answered and I agree that adding Kadee couplers and metal wheels would be an improvement to Bachmann cars. But to actually answer your original question regarding whether they will run well, yes as long as you just go forward and don't do any switching. Note that those horn-hook couplers will not couple with a Kadee coupler, so if you run a mix of cars, you will need some "transition" cars with one of each coupler on either end.
Tom O - I mainly vote for policies not personalities. Right now, I believe that someone else is actually running the show.
I like the debris on the pulpwood cars. The shots that I looked at of the HS were on Bing.
Joe - Best wishes on a speedy recovery.
Tomorrow evening our DIL goes into the hospital for labor inducement for grandson #3, who should be born Thursday. It will be grandchild #4 for us. His name will be Liam, shortened from my name of William. William is also his other grandfather's name, his uncle's name and my son's middle name.
Everybody have a great day. Be safe.
Posting time, my sleep patterns are so messed up. No sleep on any plane is normal for me but no sleep for me in 36 hours messes me up. It is getting better but I hit the pillow and after a few minutes I get almost like an anxiety attack but it’s not. I think maybe 5 hours total including naps for Dec. 6th.. This has happened three times before and all were after cancer surgeries. After the 2nd one, my doctor at the time figured I can’t handle any pain killer with oxycodin in it. No drugs in me the last week since being home.
TomO
NYC_George
Well-Known Member
I ordered some Micro Engineering weathered track the other day and for some reason he sent me the ladder templates I sent to James. I didn't order any switches but I guess he thought maybe I might buy some. In any case it worked out.
George
George
D&J RailRoad
Professor of HO
Finished setting the empire up for the op session. I've been avoiding putting this pulp wood car in a train because it's so light. Trucks turn very easy and wheel spin with very little resistance. Just no place to hide weight on it. It's made of bass wood with wire detailing. The deck has a bulkhead half way down the car. Decided to gather some dead brances off the trees outside and cut them to fit. Seems to be working just fine. Gonna take a lot of twigs to finish this. Maybe I can get it into a train by Saturday.
Bruette
Well-Known Member
Jaz, many "pagan" customs and traditions have been incorporated into Christianity. One in particular was the Roman celebration of Saturnalia, that influenced our Christmas as well as influence from pre-christian Nordic, Germanic and other customs.
Christmas celebrations in Medieval times rather closely resembled the Roman celebration of Saturnalia.
Saturnalia - Wikipedia
There is a lot of truth to the old saying "there is nothing new under the sun"
Bruette
Well-Known Member
Patrick and Terry, I'm sure you already know but to be safe, ibuprofen and other nsaids can be damaging to our kidneys, as I know all to well. Keep the dosages as low as possible.
Bruette
Well-Known Member
You had to break down the door and directly over the door were the "murder holes".
The Holy island of Lindisfarne, raided by Vikings in 793 is considered to be the dawn of the Viking age.
Churches were where the most wealth could be found in one place and were seen to be soft targets.
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