Running Bear's June 2023 Coffee Shop

[NYC_George]

This is the second time I ever saw a freight car with a bump out. What's with that?

You mean the caboose Hutch? The side windows are positioned so you can over look the train. Looking for any trouble with hot boxes, open doors etc. When I worked there that's where the table was located. Where we all ate lunch there cooked on the stove and then played some pick and lay waiting for passenger trains to pass before heading back to the terminal.
Swal

 

[Jaz avalley]

Good afternoon all. It looks like (finally) the San Francisco 49ers group will take over Leeds United soccer club.

David

Good Morning All. Clear and 69° here on the first day of June. Temperatures are slowly inching upward, although not really as warm as a normal year, yet!

So the onion harvest has partially begun here on the SFW estate. First run-through pictured here.View attachment 169298
The yellow ones mature a few days ahead of the purple or white ones. They'll dry here for a week and a half or so, and then I will trim the tops and roots off for storage. Later today I will make the first picking of green beans. I may also have a few Cherry Tomatoes ready later on. There are a lot more onions that I just didn't get to yet.

Time today for the weekly grocery/beer trek, stopping by the Vitamin Shop and Home Depot is also on the list.. Dental Hygienist visit yesterday was just a normal stop, my usual tech was still out on maternity leave, and the one that I saw is about seven months along. There's something about that job...or maybe it's just the age of those gals.

Out in the train shed yesterday, I also got some stuff planted. I did finish the ground foam cover.
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The brown area which is actually a fault in the plywood, is going to be a stagnant water feature. I plan for more trees in this area, along with weeds and maybe cattails. I planted more trees in back and along the side next to Red & Fred's.
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Then I planted some saplings along the drainage ditch between the road and the RR ROW.
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Some weeds are next for this space.

Troy - Nice progress.
Patrick - Tomato plants are looking good, as well as the green beans and cukes. Rabbits don't normally eat corn plants, but they occasionally make an exception. Two things that you can do to prevent rabbits without much expense. Rabbits are "sniffers", so you can dust corn plants with talcum powder which irritates their noses. Or you could spread blood meal, available at all gardening centers, around. Rabbits are vegetarians and the smell of the blood repels them. The blood meal also adds nitrogen to your soil.

Marilyn Monroe would have been 97 years old today.

Everyone have a wonderful day.

Missed…so until this is put right I can spend 20 days replying to his post……love the onions AND the layout photos, normally I do have a wonderful day,now I am just sulking…………………if this rolls into next month I am likely returning to a UK forum…although I will drop in to get my drug addiction to certain threads like TLOC and friends like Troy, I may be forced to actual look for some friends work in the forum BUT should Willie and others move to another forum and go to a rival coffee shop……faints…..I will like sneak off…..and encourage others to do the same..
FREE WILLIE!

 

[NYC_George]

Not many people left sopping by for coffee shop anymore. Like an old abandon railway station that seen better days.
Swal

 

[Hutch]

Thanks Swal. Passing trains and tunnels must be scary.

 

[Hutch]

Tell this novice what a bump out is and maybe I can answer.

That is not a railroad term but a camper term I used because I didn't know what to call it.

 

[Bruette]

That is not a railroad term but a camper term I used because I didn't know what to call it.

Lionel calls it a Bay Window Caboose.

 

[NYC_George]

Thanks Swal. Passing trains and tunnels must be scary.

Hutch If 2 trains have freight car doors open they can hit. We were going into Grand Central terminal one day and the mirrors on 2 engines going in opposite directions hit. My fireman at the time had his arm resting on the windowsill. A big bang crash glass flying all over the place. That was scary. He hurt his arm tried to retire with the injure but they we're buying it.
Swal

 

[Jaz avalley]

I have a present for the xxxx who lit a fire under Tony pushing him out in front of the train…..

and won’t hold their hand up, because I think an apology from them might be a way to fixing this mess, Tony might have red lettered himself but I assume there was someone pushing him to the cliff edge.

 

[rgeiter]

Bought a Lowe’s Kobalt brand.

My first house, over 30 years ago, was in one of those HOA’s. They mowed the grass. (23 years) Then we lived in two church parsonages. (10 years) Now we own a house again and thank God there’s NO HOA, thus,I have to mow my own grass. Oh boy!

I’m impressed. The battery lasted the whole hour it took me to mow.

 

[NYC_George]

I’m impressed. The battery lasted the whole hour it took me to mow.

It takes me over 2 hours to move our lawn, so I guess I won't be buying one.
Swal

 

[rgeiter]

Also got the Arlo cameras up and running. The backyard is still a desert due to lack of rain but eventually the grass will grow.

 

[rgeiter]

It takes me over 2 hours to move our lawn, so I guess I won't be buying one.
Swal

Battery life was a concern. I have an extra battery so I should be ok when the yard really fills in.

 

[Bruette]

1983 - B&O GP40 #3739 in Akron, OH.

 

[Smudge617]

Not many people left sopping by for coffee shop anymore. Like an old abandon railway station that seen better days.
Swal

That's not because of what's been said recently, it started getting quieter here a few weeks ago, caused I think by the warmer weather in the US.

 

[Sirfoldalot]

Sherries had 2 dogs die in short time and was depressed. And needed a break,and none tried to stop him as he clearly needed time to cope, he’ll return when he can feel up for it, I think, but it look likes he will be in for a nasty shock.

Still depressed over the lost of my two buddy's, but that is not the reason that I quit looking and posting on the forum.
Believe it or not, I could see something like this coming down the track.
Once before - I had asked BOB to remove me from being "staff", but I guess he didn't bother or see my message to him - so I have been a "non-moderator" (really didn't have many tools to work with)

I have always been of the mindset that if you don't want to see, or read, a particular post that all you have to do is skip to the next one.
I am against posts being deleted - even political - as long as they are not directed entirely towards another person.
I have enjoyed the banter here for going on 8 years I believe?

After my brush with cancer and aneurysms + other ailments, I do not get out very much and I felt like that I had made a few friends which I enjoyed conversing with and most of all seeing and hearing what others are/were doing.

I feel that TONY greatly overstepped his bounds! An apology is due along with a retraction.

 

[Bruette]

 

[westtexjohn]

Bay Window Caboose is the common name for the freight car with a bump out.
How about the "Hutch" caboose..........see photo. Part caboose and part boxcar for LCL shipping.

 

[westtexjohn]

Also got the Arlo cameras up and running. The backyard is still a desert due to lack of rain but eventually the grass will grow.
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The earth is indeed ......Round.

 

[westtexjohn]

I have a present for the xxxx who lit a fire under Tony pushing him out in front of the train…..
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and won’t hold their hand up, because I think an apology from them might be a way to fixing this mess, Tony might have red lettered himself but I assume there was someone pushing him to the cliff edge.

It is just "dog eat dog" here in the Coffee Shop.

 

[Sirfoldalot]

It's too hot outside. Alberta is on fire again. Edson has been evacuated for the 2nd time this spring.

Mel's not happy with the loss of long-termed, primetime, valued customers. If you get a rock with your coffee that looks like a hamburger patty, it's because he believes you are responsible for creating the toxic atmosphere.
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Have a great day!

Sorry about the fires - It has only been in the high sixties and very low 70's around here - seems like summer is in hiding. He must have read the last few pages of posts and is afraid to show his face?

Love the pic of the rock!