Running Bear's March 2025 Coffee Shop

[Bill Tidler Jr.]

Good morning! It's 32°F with a chance of rain later in Tipton.

 

[bnsf971]

Good morning. It's clear and 42.

 

[kbkchooch]

Good morning guys!

32° under clear skies, heading for a high of 51°.
I’m supposed to pick up my western Maryland hammerhead RS3 tonight at the society meeting. Pics tomorrow!

 

[NorthBrit]

Good day everyone. The Weather Guessers have got it right today! Rain. Rain. Rain.
A large coffee please, Flo. I'll sit by the window and watch the world go by.

A friend who has a collection of model railway items and is selling some rolling stock. I purchased four wagons that are relative to my area modelled. They are on the way.

A busy day for me in the kitchen. Dawn wants a Full English Breakfast for lunch?

Back later

 

[migalyto]

Good morning all!

Happy Friday!

Currently 32F with a light rain/snow mix falling. Only supposed to reach 35F today. Bummer!

Have a parent teacher conference today. Hard to believe the school year is already 3/4 of
the way done.

Hopefully not much else going on today, nut thats subject to change.

Have a safe day everyone!

 

[NorthBrit]

Have a parent teacher conference today. Hard to believe the school year is already 3/4 of
the way done.

Parent - Teacher days. They remind me when Dawn had those days. She was a Lecturer at our local College. Staying back after lessons and talking to parents. Those were late evenings.
Those days ended when Dawn became a Senior Lecturer and Inspector. Then she brought her work home and continued to the early hours of the next day; with me helping.

Fortunately those days have ended. When we both worked we talked for a living. On our retirement I remember days we never said a word. It sounds funny now, but we understood each other.

 

[TLOC]

Good morning from about 100 miles north of Mike (MIGALYTO) where it is 31f degrees heading to 38. Our snow predicted as about 1” is supposed to start any minute now. The city doesn’t seem to think much of this predicted snow event as the streets are dry because the pickel brine solution they use to slow down the freezing has not been applied.

My phyiscal went very well yesterday. I’m happy.

Today, some time will be spent in the train room. Yesterday I spent most of time in the morning re-arranging and organizing as I really thought that my stress test results would put me in the hospital yesterday. It needed to be straightened up but I felt some urgency yesterday. Thankfully it wasn’t needed.

We will have the granddaughter here for dinner from after school till her parents pick her up. This weekend her brother’s hockey team is hosting the PeeWee A state hockey championship and today the team is decorating the rink and going to a team dinner. I believe his team has a very good chance but it’s why they play the game. The other 5 qualified teams have all been played against. Winning and losing against each. This should be fun and possibly heart breaking

At 1 this afternoon the #1 nationally ranked Wisconsin Badger women play in the WCHA conference finals against #6 ranked Minnesota-Duluth. Normally we would be there for the conference finals in Minnesota but the grandson’s State playoffs are more important. We will watch the Badgers play on the TV monitor.

Enjoy the day

 

[traiNscale]

well well well..
yesterday evening i was down in my basement and working on my small H0 Diorama.
I also did a livestream on my youtube channel. was a chill evening.

tomorrow we will have the general meeting of our discgolf club, also club internal tournament and bbq after, so it could be that iam drunk tomorrow night. also tomorrow my girl will comeback from her yoga vacation from marakesh, sunday will be a lazy day i think.

wish you all a great weekend!
and here are two pictures from my work yesterday:

 

[NYC_George]

Actually I don't have taxes withheld from anything, but not enough is taxable enough to incur a penalty.

Willie I'm just the opposite I have taxes taking out of all my income. I sold the last of the sock last year and they took out $18,500.00 in taxes. I'll get some of that back. I have $5.38 left in my and my wife's stock portfolio since her passing.
Swal

 

[NYC_George]

She still is avoiding the crypto market. I still feel it’s a scam, she wants to play it but is semi agreeing with me

Me to Tom.
Swal

 

[traiNscale]

i made a small investment in crypto about 10 years ago, forgot about it (no not Bitcoin). one day a friend called me and told me, ey jay didnt you buy from this and that, iam yes i think so. go check it he told me. when i found my passwords andd account again i saw, i 12x my invest, so i took about 4k out. buyed some nice rims for my car hahaha.

so for now i still have something in crypto but did not really pay that much attention. for me crypto is like playing in the casino. you can win you can loos but you cant predict. casinos are also scam, so like crypto. i mean there are some nice projects in crypto, but it still is just a gamble.

 

[Len Turner]

Its Friday! Good mornin' y'all from a snowy and cloudy Cheyenne. Currently 17 with wind chill of -6. Winds N @ 18 gusting to 27. Intermittent snow showers during the morning hours into the afternoon. Accumulations of 1"-3" Good day to stay inside...
Finally got down to the boxes of train stuff yesterday. Spent most of the day sorting through paints, stains, weathering, kits, detail parts, etc. and setting up the inside workbench. I have a backlog of FSM detail castings I need to get going on so that's first up on the workbench.
Y'all have a good day. Stay warm, stay safe.

 

[Patrick]

Morning all,

Shingles (and not the illness are mine. While I don't have any big holes that need immediate attention, these are the architectural type that you can't as easily piece back in. We've been here 11 years and the house was empty 18 months before wee got it, so roof is at least 13 years old, but newer that the 25 year age of the house as I've found pictures that the house was built with the old style 3 tab type shingles.

Have to pick up materials to fix the fence, so the new truck box had to come back off. Good thing I have attached it in a way that makes removal fairly simple, but difficult when the box is locked.

Supposed to be mostly sunny and windy today. Currently 50° with a high later of 57°.

 

[TLOC]

well well well..
yesterday evening i was down in my basement and working on my small H0 Diorama.
I also did a livestream on my youtube channel. was a chill evening.

tomorrow we will have the general meeting of our discgolf club, also club internal tournament and bbq after, so it could be that iam drunk tomorrow night. also tomorrow my girl will comeback from her yoga vacation from marakesh, sunday will be a lazy day i think.

wish you all a great weekend!
and here are two pictures from my work yesterday:

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Nicely done

 

[TLOC]

The local forecast called for snow beginning at 6:30am. It started about 8:40 and it’s been just a few flakes to coming down strong enough sideways where you cannot see out the window. Accumulating on the grass but so far melting on the street and sidewalks.

I withdrew from my 401k in 2024. We wanted to make sure the taxes were withheld. Seems we over compensated and we got both a State and Federal refund for our personal taxes. The businesses is something else…

 

[santafewillie]

Good Morning All. Cloudy and 58°, supposed to reach above 80° later today. Cold front with rain still predicted for tomorrow, but short-lived, it will be back into the 70's & 80's on Monday.

One of the granddogs was dropped off here yesterday evening, as her family is going to Hawaii for Spring Break which starts for them on Monday. The other granddog will arrive Saturday, but I don't remember where his family is going; if I was ever told to begin with, maybe it's Vegas. Should be fun with the expected rain and ensuing mud in places. Third granddog has to go to the kennel. She is not allowed here after the first time. She barks at me, gets on the furniture, but mostly she craps (and probably pees) inside the house. She does this at home as well. She was rescued from an abusive home and has never recovered.
Weekly grocery trek went OK, still some random stock-outs, but they will honor my expired coupons. Nothing really necessary, just stocking up items. Gasoline around town has skyrocketed up by 20¢/gal, to $2.89.

Today is going to be busy for me if I follow the plan. Starts with the damn dishwasher again and includes laundry. I'll be planting Green Peas later today and a succession row of Spinach. Meanwhile I also hope to do the final tilling of the last third of the garden. That's where I will plant Tomatoes and Green Beans. Squash is going over between the peas and onions.

Train shed time yesterday and today as well, will be a bit limited. I continued with the rehab of the Model Power structure kit. I painted the roof brown as the original gray plastic was also discoloring.

I have decided to leave a portion of the front unpainted and I am going to set up a scene of house painters doing their thing. This also shows more clearly the discoloration that occurred with the original white plastic.

I'm repainting the window frames to a gray color to improve them.

Finishing up the windows and a little bit of touch-up is next, and then I will add the replacement clear styrene to the windows.

Todd - The colonoscopy wash-out thing is overly exaggerated. It's needed for sure, but a tech admitted to me that they run a hose in and flush it out anyway, before inserting the camera.
Patrick - I'm with you on the roof work. I put mine on in 2002 or so, but the latest one in the fall of '23, I contracted out. I'm glad that I did, as it survived the tornado of '24 while the older one on the train shed is still in the field across the road. I don't even risk ladders any more.
Tom O - Re: Crypto - I don't so much call it a scam as folks should know what they are getting into before investing. I only invest in stocks backed by real physical assets, real employees, and real sales. But some people are making money with it!
John - My "tin can & string" phone company is really pretty good. It's out of Muenster TX. They have taken advantage of Bush federal grants to provide fiber-optic to any and all of their rural customers. I can get 2 Gb/sec if I am willing to pay for it. I stick with the 500Mb/sec plan because that's all that I need.
Swal - I'm just escaping some taxes temporarily. This year I am required to start taking a major RMD from my IRA account, which when combined with SS and other income sources will put me over my salary level from any year at work! Mostly since retirement, I have used previously taxed assets like savings and Roth IRA's, all of which are non-taxable. I had no income tax to pay at all from 2020-2023. Wife's income was too low to get us over the poverty level, but much of our income came from those other non-taxable sources. All of my stock purchases have been within the IRA framework, so I'll have to "pay the piper" soon.

Everyone have a fabulous Friday.

 

[bnsf971]

Good afternoon.
I got a really strange message in my work inbox, and it’s not giving me a feeling of longevity.
I have a document to acknowledge as to whether I consent to the company contacting me for feedback up to 60 days after I leave my employment here.

 

[TLOC]

Good afternoon.
I got a really strange message in my work inbox, and it’s not giving me a feeling of longevity.
I have a document to acknowledge as to whether I consent to the company contacting me for feedback up to 60 days after I leave my employment here.

That would be disheartening! Hope it’s meaningless…

 

[NorthBrit]

Good afternoon.
I got a really strange message in my work inbox, and it’s not giving me a feeling of longevity.
I have a document to acknowledge as to whether I consent to the company contacting me for feedback up to 60 days after I leave my employment here.

My answer is NO!!!

 

[TLOC]

Good Morning All. Cloudy and 58°, supposed to reach above 80° later today. Cold front with rain still predicted for tomorrow, but short-lived, it will be back into the 70's & 80's on Monday.

One of the granddogs was dropped off here yesterday evening, as her family is going to Hawaii for Spring Break which starts for them on Monday. The other granddog will arrive Saturday, but I don't remember where his family is going; if I was ever told to begin with, maybe it's Vegas. Should be fun with the expected rain and ensuing mud in places. Third granddog has to go to the kennel. She is not allowed here after the first time. She barks at me, gets on the furniture, but mostly she craps (and probably pees) inside the house. She does this at home as well. She was rescued from an abusive home and has never recovered.
Weekly grocery trek went OK, still some random stock-outs, but they will honor my expired coupons. Nothing really necessary, just stocking up items. Gasoline around town has skyrocketed up by 20¢/gal, to $2.89.

Today is going to be busy for me if I follow the plan. Starts with the damn dishwasher again and includes laundry. I'll be planting Green Peas later today and a succession row of Spinach. Meanwhile I also hope to do the final tilling of the last third of the garden. That's where I will plant Tomatoes and Green Beans. Squash is going over between the peas and onions.

Train shed time yesterday and today as well, will be a bit limited. I continued with the rehab of the Model Power structure kit. I painted the roof brown as the original gray plastic was also discoloring.
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I have decided to leave a portion of the front unpainted and I am going to set up a scene of house painters doing their thing. This also shows more clearly the discoloration that occurred with the original white plastic.
View attachment 213566
I'm repainting the window frames to a gray color to improve them.
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Finishing up the windows and a little bit of touch-up is next, and then I will add the replacement clear styrene to the windows.

Todd - The colonoscopy wash-out thing is overly exaggerated. It's needed for sure, but a tech admitted to me that they run a hose in and flush it out anyway, before inserting the camera.
Patrick - I'm with you on the roof work. I put mine on in 2002 or so, but the latest one in the fall of '23, I contracted out. I'm glad that I did, as it survived the tornado of '24 while the older one on the train shed is still in the field across the road. I don't even risk ladders any more.
Tom O - Re: Crypto - I don't so much call it a scam as folks should know what they are getting into before investing. I only invest in stocks backed by real physical assets, real employees, and real sales. But some people are making money with it!
John - My "tin can & string" phone company is really pretty good. It's out of Muenster TX. They have taken advantage of Bush federal grants to provide fiber-optic to any and all of their rural customers. I can get 2 Gb/sec if I am willing to pay for it. I stick with the 500Mb/sec plan because that's all that I need.
Swal - I'm just escaping some taxes temporarily. This year I am required to start taking a major RMD from my IRA account, which when combined with SS and other income sources will put me over my salary level from any year at work! Mostly since retirement, I have used previously taxed assets like savings and Roth IRA's, all of which are non-taxable. I had no income tax to pay at all from 2020-2023. Wife's income was too low to get us over the poverty level, but much of our income came from those other non-taxable sources. All of my stock purchases have been within the IRA framework, so I'll have to "pay the piper" soon.

Everyone have a fabulous Friday.

Maybe scam is a strong word about Crypto but it really is how I feel. I totally agree regarding investment. It’s needs real physical assets. That said, the son has invested 6 figures this year into Crypto hoping to make the big kill. He’s been playing the last 5 years and always cashed it when it reached his parameters. Now he is financially able to allow it to sit and hopefully accumulate. To buy the Wimberley ranch though he did have to promise to cash it in or the Bank of Mom would have said no to financing the deal.

Investments are interesting.