Running Bear's March 2025 Coffee Shop

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Makes no sense to me. Neither one of those is around here. The closest thing we have is a Sonic. :(
I don't get it either. Oh well my wife makes the best hamburgers!

We do have Sheetz, and hotdogs are better than burgers in my book! I think they are currently 2 for $1!
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No relish on mine please, thank you.
 


Good morning. It's 62 and clear.
Don't forget to make sure your clocks turned themselves ahead.
Only about 1/3rd of ours do. I have three in the train/hobby cave I have to change... BRB...

OK... even got the five in the kitchen. Two analog battery wall clocks, stove, mircrowave, and the coffee maker. Don't forget the coffee maker.

This morning I did a pourover instead of the brewer.

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Pour over is NOT my favorite method, but it's one step above a Keurig. Maybe two. The problem is, I'm down to drinking only about one travel tumbler of coffee each morning. And any pot less than 6 cups tastes "off" to me. I hate dumping 1/2 a pot of coffee. But I'm not needing more. Wife doesn't drink it, and I don't want to get the cat started.

I might get a Keurig, and try the self-packed single cups DIY home brew with it. The K-cups are not worth the investment, but I'll drink them when travelling. If I must. But I wonder if the self-packed reusable cup through a keurig is worth it?
 
I might get a Keurig, and try the self-packed single cups DIY home brew with it. The K-cups are not worth the investment, but I'll drink them when travelling. If I must. But I wonder if the self-packed reusable cup through a keurig is worth it?
I have the reusable pods, and they work well. You just need to keep the pods clean, so you aren't tasting "recycled coffee". I make 7 pods at a time and refill weekly.
 
Good morning from Wisconsin. It’s 30f degrees now going to the low 60’s. It looks like a great morning observing through the big window.

It’s just 1 hockey game this morning. 9:45am as the grandson’s team split their games yesterday. There is a 2 week reprieve from the youth hockey games before he starts his practices with the AAA team, that’s located 54 miles south! Turns out I will sometimes be the chauffeur for his practices per my wife. The daughter assumes I won’t have an issue! I don’t but being asked would have been nice…

Enjoy the day

The golf course I'm a member opens Monday. I'll be there 4 days a week from now on. I hope to finish up the last of my layout projects very soon. I'm still waiting on orders I placed many weeks ago.
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I am just a touch envious. Hit them long and straight and may you sink every putt
 
Good morning all!

What a beautiful Sunday! Currently 36F but it will be going up to 60F with abundant sunshine.
Good day to run both cars through the car wash, but it will be packed.

The girls won their volleyball game yesterday fairly easy. We move on in regionals and play again
Tuesday evening.

Have plenty to do today, but we shall see how much gets done.

Have a safe day everyone!
 


Good mornin' y'all from bright and sunny Cheyenne. It's clear and 34 with a wind chill of 27. Winds are from the NW @ 9, gusting to 21. Looking for a high of 61 today and a low tonight of 36. No precipitation in the immediate forecast but looking for colder temps and some snow later in the week. All of our devices reset themselves to DST. Don't have any analog clocks anymore... The only thing that didn't reset was me...
Yesterday was a good day. Went through the last couple of boxes of train stuff and transferred to plastic storage bins that fit the shelving. Still have several several of the wife's boxes of clothes, quilting stuff, etc. to be unpacked and stowed away, so layout end of garage is still occupied with moving boxes. In the other end is a large pile of flattened moving boxes, packing materials, etc. leftover from D#2/SIL's move to the new house last year plus all of our empty boxes, etc. Probably be at least a month or so before we actually start any work on the layout itself. We'll get a bit of workbench time later today.
Enjoy your Sunday! Take care all.
 
Good Morning All. Cloudy and 42°, headed to sunshine and 60°+ later today. Rain in the last 36 hours has gifted me with 0.6" in the rain gauge. It was still misting when I got up, but has stopped now. Looks like clear and 70's & 80's for the next ten days after today.

All of my clocks (including analog) have "leaped" forward except the internal one which will take a couple more days. I never lose that hour of sleep, I have always lost an hour of awake! Yesterday's plan fell apart rapidly and SIL bought the granddog up before lunch yesterday instead of the supper engagement that we had originally discussed. So the wet paws saga doubled earlier than planned. Granddaughter wasn't feeling well, which we parents well know, always happens just prior to leaving for a vacation.
I am pleased to note that some of the Tomato and Arugula seeds that I planted indoors on 2-28, started peeking out from their dirt. Didn't attempt to set foot out in the big garden, since I am not expecting anything new out there. Waiting on Lettuce and Spinach to emerge. Much of my indoor time yesterday after household chores was spent on the computer organizing some more of the modeling photos.

Out in the train shed yesterday, I continued adding the clear styrene to the Model Power structure kit. In the process I broke the muntins in two windows beyond my ability to repair. I broke others but was able to fix them. So the house will now have 2 open windows to model. I don't have any of the correct size styrene strip in stock to make new ones.
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I paused that project a bit before I burned out. I was already bummed out by the broken windows.
I turned my attention to another small project, related to the water infiltration last year. This is a printed backdrop structure that didn't quite survive. I reprinted a new copy on 65# paper to replace it.
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Unfortunately I had too much "bleed-thru" from a black magic marker initially.
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So I printed another one on regular paper and cut out the grain bin and feeder pipe to glue over it.
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Mounted it to some Popsicle sticks and it's ready to go back on the layout wall.
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Didn't mount it yet, but I applied Hob-E-Tac to the sticks, which should be ready after the overnight drying.

Troy - Looks like lots of room for growing tall plants on the LH side of the shelving! Hope that the grow light hangers are adjustable up & down.
Chad & others - No Culver's near here, closest one is more than 45 miles away. In-N-Out is a tad over 25 miles. We haven't been to either since fast food isn't often on our radar.
David - Nice remodel/rebuild to the Leeds Sovereign Street Station.
Marlin - The shows that I go to around the DFW area have about 25% visitors younger than me.

Everyone have a wonderful Sunday.
 
Good morning, all! It's a cool, 53, breezy and overcast day here in Houston. Not a lot happening around the hobo camp. Still working at getting the mower maintenance done. The squatting & kneeling really put a hitch in my get along. I have several other projects I'd like to get done before the real heat and humidity arrive, so I'm hoping these aches go away soon.

Marlin, Willie - The show I attended last month was filled with kids. I saw many teens with a bag of goodies. Of course, there were plenty of old coots looking for that one item they need to "finish".

No Culvers that I'm aware of, and In and Out just started to appear in Houston proper. None near me.

So in keeping with the train motif,
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STAY SAFE
LATER
 
Amazon contractors are not "the brightest crayons in the box", me included. But this is my ninth year doing this.

Amazon had 16 blocks (routes) staged to go out at 3:15am this morning. When 1:59am ticked over to 3am. There were no contractors to take the blocks. I know because I was waiting in the parking lot for the rates to go up. I knew from experience this was likely to happen.

By 3:10 am there were two contractors to take a block, I was still waiting. At 3:13am the rates peaked.

I made two days' pay for less than two hours of work. 😁
 
Amazon contractors are not "the brightest crayons in the box", me included. But this is my ninth year doing this.

Amazon had 16 blocks (routes) staged to go out at 3:15am this morning. When 1:59am ticked over to 3am. There were no contractors to take the blocks. I know because I was waiting in the parking lot for the rates to go up. I knew from experience this was likely to happen.

By 3:10 am there were two contractors to take a block, I was still waiting. At 3:13am the rates peaked.

I made two days' pay for less than two hours of work. 😁
Would they let you come back and get a second load if you wanted?
 
Would they let you come back and get a second load if you wanted?
Normally yes and we often do. But today they pulled the second wave. We did see a few available at 6:15am for $21.50/ hour before they pulled them. I refuse to work for so little. Not even double that will get me off my couch.

Normally the second wave has blocks every 15 minutes until as late as 8am. I'm guessing they had too many no-show contractors and sent their staff that handles contractors home. Amazon vans don't begin loading until 9am.

They always start the contractor's rates low and only raise the rates when they have blocks ready that have not been picked up. They don't want to waste work their staff has already done. Amazon has made being cheap into a science, but I'm patient.

Since Jeff Bezos is no longer running day to day operations, on time delivery has become "You will get your package when you get it"
 
Good afternoon to all..................

Sunshine and clear here in west Texas. We had rain off and on yesterday afternoon and last night. I looked out the back door around 9 pm and it was snowing along with a fine rain. Odd as it was only about 48 degrees outside. Snow only lasted about 15 minutes.

I have finally figured out only a few folks at the USPS know that those 5 digits shown after the city-state, on a package/envelope, actually represent a location.

More work on the layout laying track, adding feeders and drilling holes for turnout servos. This seems to take longer than expected. Plus I only have so many "heavy" items to sit on my track after adding adhesive to hold the track onto the roadbed. And I am very picky about getting my track work as perfect as possible as I don't like doing things twice plus running steam locos requires excellent track work. After finding some ME code 83 track out of gauge (too wide), I am now checking every piece from one end to other, both before and after placing the track. And after finding some bad track , I ordered some Peco, code 83 track. I wish now I had used Peco all along. The two brands work well together and after ballasting there should be no noticeable difference.

I prefer daylight savings time as I enjoy the extended evening sunshine to complete outside projects. In any case, I wish we could decide to be on daylight savings time or standard time as I hate having to make the changes. As I get older, it takes me a couple of months to adjust.

I'll end my ramblings..............John
 


Welp... got all but one light up in the wife's 4 and 20 indoor farm. Here's a pic of the first shelf done. Shelf above has grow lights too. The tall grow space to the side has only one light up, since I ran out of chain. I'll get more tomorrow.

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And now the odor of potting soil is taking over the house. I may have to livin the basement for a while.

She's added a bunch of starters in cups to the top shelf.

So far, no asthma attack on my part, but I made her shut her office door when I caught the odor spreading into the stairway.

Hope that odor of wet soil dies out after a day.
 
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