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Chrιstιαn said:
Guess I better stop posting for good and go back to just being a reader and never logging in again. Understood !
Have a better day than ever !
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Chirstian, we would miss your posts!

All you need to do is click the "contact us" link at the bottom of every page on the forum for help.

They are good people; they will be glad to help. And we will keep enjoying your posts.
 


Chrιstιαn said:
Guess I better stop posting for good and go back to just being a reader and never logging in again. Understood !
Have a better day than ever !
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I think that you are missing the issue. I think that instead of creating new accounts the idea is you reach out and get help to be able to log into your existing account. (Which for some reason you can't -- forgotten password or whatever).
 
I finished the new shed roof which use to be where my wife started her garden plants when it had a clear fiberglass roof. It's a 60-year-old shed so I had to do a few other repairers. I also got all my bird houses up. My wife likes birds so they have to have a place to stay.
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Afternoon All,

Started out with a walk at 73F and humid. It's supposed to rain here starting around 5pm and raining about 3 hours. Today I washed clothes and some other chores. I have the toilet prepped for removal tomorrow. In the tree department I "planted" yesterday's trees then trimmed a new set of trunks and branches. After that I rattle canned the 23 trunks and branches and when they were dried, I added the first layer of foliage. Tomorrow the toilet guy is supposed to come at 8 am.

Karl- Nice acquisition.

Patrick- Nice garden patch.

Chad- Wow, you are really coming along with the house.

Louis- Nice Bicentennial paint scheme.

Troy- My Dad's foot doctor is 40 minutes away. Lucky me.

David- Good luck to your grandson on his retirement! :D

Smudge- Nice video.

Willie- Nice scenes.

Christian- More good action on the NCCRR.

Swal- Nice job on the roof.

I hope everyone has a good night.
 
Chrιstιαn said:
Guess I better stop posting for good and go back to just being a reader and never logging in again. Understood !
Have a better day than ever !
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Christian, that is NOT what @bnsf971 is saying, if you are having a problem with your account, instead of opening a new account on the Forum, right at the bottom of every page, in the blue section on the right hand side there is a "Contact us", click on that, and one of the Moderators will help you recover your account.
 
santafewillie said:
Good Morning All. Partly cloudy and 59°, the warmup has begun. Looks like lower to mid-80's all week after the seasonally cooler weekend. Might rain Wednesday.

Worn out this morning, after a day in the yard with my two grandsons yesterday. They gathered up all of the brush/limbs that I trimmed from about 75 trees last week, and made one large pile.View attachment 168915View attachment 168916
Next step for me is sorting through and removing firewood sized pieces and shredding the rest.
Meanwhile on the other side of the yard I removed a maple tree that failed to survive for who knows why? View attachment 168917
I was expecting this as it lost all of it's leaves last summer.
During the day, I was visited twice by the local cropduster, turning his plane overhead while spraying fertilizer on a nearby field. This has been a twice a year ritual for over 40 years. Same plane but it used to be his Dad piloting.View attachment 168918
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This fellow is not as brave as Dad, who used to fly under the wires on the nearby power poles. It's always a sight to see when he is in action though.
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While I did make it out to the train shed yesterday, it wasn't for too long. I planted a few of the trees that I have been rehabbing. I also staged a few trains for local trains, but my wife wanted to go out to eat so there was not time to run them.
Here's another business in Maultown, Oakleaf Shipping & Storage.
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Guy - Good news about the fires. Great looking duck picture. I never tire of your railcar pictures, as authorities there seem more tolerant of close-ups.
Terry -

Not again?
Joe - i was amused by your "paperless" comment. Reminds me off working in the late 80's-early 90's. The intent was good but it allowed extensive reports like we had never seen before, which when printed were anything but paperless!
Patrick - Garden is looking good.

All have a great day, and keep healthy.
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Air Tractor crop dusters are a not so unusual site here in west Texas. Their headquartered in Olney Texas about an hours drive from where I live. I go through there if I make a trip to Dallas/Ft. Worth.
Your buildings look good as usual.
The Oakleaf sign reminded me of friends I have who live in Oak Leaf Texas, near Red Oak.
 
TLOC said:
Facts are facts and Austin like Madison, Wi. near our home has homeless and it’s an issue. Doesn’t matter if it‘s liberalism as Madison like Austin is a bastion of liberals in an otherwise conservative state. It’s not an either side of the aisle issue, it’s an American issue that needs to be resolved. That’s not political it fact
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Governments quite often cop off on ownership rather than dealing with an issue, both main parties in the UK allow Brexit to be blames for their uselessness, nothing to do with Brexit and often items cited are equally happening in the EU but nobody bothers to admit it. Politicians care about two things surviving office and getting revoked in, a thing else is secondary at best.
Look at African countries technically they should be rich but who ever is in power strips any cash they can, and pulls any charity cash fed in also, the people on the ground are left to their own devices, however desperately they need help.The countries who provide charity should Try to improve the system, that said I have no bright ideas. But paying the government t to provide armed forces protection should protect doctors missionaries etc
Trouble is as soon as someone gets into power they then plot how to stay there, constitution not withstanding.
 


Meant to post sooner, but got caught up with the wife's upper GI scan. And so far she's fine. Not the damage they thought she'd had from years of acid blockers.

Chad: Thanks for the update. Building a house is something the wife and I wouldn't be able to do.

Willie: When I was a kid we lived next door to a 10 acre Blueberry field. We only knew he was coming when we heard the dive bombing sound. Always when mom had just hung the wash out. They did make us kids go inside until he'd been gone about 15 minutes to let the stuff settle. The firl was about 6 feet lower than the house's main level and we'd run upstairs to watch him go past. Usually insect spraying as they passed some regulations against the fogging the owner used to do.
 
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Patrick said:
Willie: When I was a kid we lived next door to a 10 acre Blueberry field. We only knew he was coming when we heard the dive bombing sound. Always when mom had just hung the was out. They did make us kids go inside until he'd been gone about 15 minutes to let the stuff settle. The firl was about 6 feet lower than the house's main level and we'd run upstairs to watch him go past. Usually insect spraying as they passed some regulations against the fogging the owner used to do.
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Running upstairs and watching must have been a neat experience. As far as I know, this fellow only does nitrogen-based fertilizer and does not do pesticides or herbicides.
 
chadbag said:
I think that you are missing the issue. I think that instead of creating new accounts the idea is you reach out and get help to be able to log into your existing account. (Which for some reason you can't -- forgotten password or whatever).
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Have you considered manually writing your password in an old fashioned diary,and ignoring keeping your password in a hidden place…..
or…..is the wife sabotaging you….
 
NorthBrit said:
Good morning all. A warm, sunny day.

Oh the life of a young sportsman. One of our grandson's has a cabinet of trophies he has won at playing soccer. Yesterday he was awarded the 'Best Football Player in the League Award'.
He then announced he was 'retiring from playing football'. Retiring at 8 years old!!!

His other sporting interest is basketball and he is training at Newcastle Eagles Basketball Club.

David
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Is he being bullied because he is so good,and I do not mean being threatened but his less able friends are miffed at being compared and he just wants his friends even if it means giving up football, my youngest gave up tai kwondo then I found my eldest was encouring the bigger boys to hammer him at the lessons, pleased I was not
 
TLOC said:
Good morning Crew. It looked great out at 5:45 but I should have checked the temperature before heading out for the “walk”. 49f degrees standing there checking the temperature in short sleeves because it seemed cold! Well, it was…. A bit on the slow side to startup but I ended up at 56 minutes for 3 miles.

Today is inventory day in the train room for myself but most importantly the insurance. Once a year I put an inventory sheet in the file Terry keeps for all insurances. Renewal for us on personal, the house and businesses is August. Since Terry will be mostly gone till then, today is the day.

I have had a flurry of weathering sales in the last couple of weeks. I did start selling on EBay in May using a friend’s account. Only 6 of the 10 items listed sold. 5 were weathered graffiti items done with decals and did ok. The 6th item was a custom painted graffiti car that I am in shock what it went for. The 4 items that did not sell were medium weathered with no graffiti. What did happen though is all my weathering sales for the month went up. There is seemingly no rhyme or reason to figuring out what will sell or not. While my listings on Facebook still are my main source for new sales, the messages from those ads asking if I have anything else are almost always a sale. I have been asked more lately if I have any UP, BN and Rio Grande equipment to sell. I didn’t. I was mainly doing what I use on my layout, the Midwestern trains. We shall see when I get back what will have arrived on the front porch. I know there will be at least 2 retail therapy sessions online while I am traveling. I get bored in Paradise rather quickly. Weathering production has ceased until I return June 16th.

enjoy the day
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Outside the boredom and checking for deals, enjoy the break
 


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