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Post by bnsf971 on Nov 4, 2012 7:06:58 GMT -8
Good morning. For most of the people in the United States, it's time to turn your clocks back an hour to revert to Standard Time. We are cutting the top back off the blanket and resewing it to the bottom again.
I'm going out to mow the rest of the leaves in my yard, which should end the lawn mowing season for me, unless the wind blows the neighbors' leaves into my yard.
After that, I'm heading out to look over the stock of a closed hobby shop, and see if there's anything I can use.
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Post by calzephyr on Nov 4, 2012 15:11:18 GMT -8
Good morning. For most of the people in the United States, it's time to turn your clocks back an hour to revert to Standard Time. We are cutting the top back off the blanket and resewing it to the bottom again. I'm going out to mow the rest of the leaves in my yard, which should end the lawn mowing season for me, unless the wind blows the neighbors' leaves into my yard. After that, I'm heading out to look over the stock of a closed hobby shop, and see if there's anything I can use. Terry Wait a minute, or sixty minutes since we turned back the clock. I turned back most of the clocks last night, but woke up before six on yesterday's time, which was actually five this morning. That will probably help me to sleep longer tonight! What is the saying about resewing the blanket back to the bottom. I never heard that one and need an explanation, please. We went out for some fall color pictures as our trees are beginning to turn colors in the past week or so. Nice, but we have not had any cold weather to get the bright colors early. Larry |
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Post by rhpd42002 on Nov 4, 2012 17:20:17 GMT -8
Good Evening Terry and the rest of the Forum Folks. Been a long week but managed to get today off. Had to do the household shopping, but managed to get out to the layout for a bit. I test ran a Bachmann 70 ton loco with DCC onboard. It seems like it will need to be dismantled to see what keeps it from running smoothly at slow speeds. Seems as if there's a burr in the gears or dirveline or something is rubbing against something else. Temps were nice but we've had frost every morning this past week and now some rain may be on the way late tonight. The Va, WVa and Ky mountains had some nice colors when we passed through them on the way to Illinois, 2 weeks ago, but everything was brown on the way back last week. Terry that's too far for me to drive to check out any bargains and besides, I can't get the time off to go look....  Hope you find some good stuff! Larry, I "get" the blanket sewing thing, but I can't adequately explain it. Maybe Terry can. ;D Hope that everyone has a good week. |
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Post by calzephyr on Nov 4, 2012 17:50:28 GMT -8
Good Evening Terry and the rest of the Forum Folks. Larry, I "get" the blanket sewing thing, but I can't adequately explain it. Maybe Terry can. ;D Hope that everyone has a good week. Mike Thanks. I guess I need an explanation. It might be an old saying? Larry |
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Post by bnsf971 on Nov 5, 2012 3:56:59 GMT -8
Good Evening Terry and the rest of the Forum Folks. Larry, I "get" the blanket sewing thing, but I can't adequately explain it. Maybe Terry can. ;D Hope that everyone has a good week. Mike Thanks. I guess I need an explanation. It might be an old saying? Larry For those that have never heard the saying... Daylight savings time is like cutting a foot off the bottom of a blanket, sewing it onto the top, and believing the blanket is a foot longer. |
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Post by rhpd42002 on Nov 5, 2012 15:29:48 GMT -8
Mike Thanks. I guess I need an explanation. It might be an old saying? Larry For those that have never heard the saying... Daylight savings time is like cutting a foot off the bottom of a blanket, sewing it onto the top, and believing the blanket is a foot longer. LOLOLOLOL!!!!!! Thanks, Terry! Any luck at the closed Hobby Shop? |
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Post by bnsf971 on Nov 5, 2012 15:44:31 GMT -8
Any luck at the closed Hobby Shop? Another buyer got there first, so it all is gone. The seller is going back to get another truckload of stuff this weekend, and will let me have first dibs on it. For anybody that's interested, it was Sandlapper Hobbies. The owner passed on, and the son is disposing of the inventory. |
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Post by calzephyr on Nov 6, 2012 8:22:25 GMT -8
Mike Thanks. I guess I need an explanation. It might be an old saying? Larry For those that have never heard the saying... Daylight savings time is like cutting a foot off the bottom of a blanket, sewing it onto the top, and believing the blanket is a foot longer. Terry Very good!!! I never heard that prior to your explanation. It fits into the type of sayings I used to hear in the midwest. Like this one. " Head for the roundhouse, they can't corner you there!!!" Thanks Larry |
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Post by rhpd42002 on Nov 6, 2012 11:04:18 GMT -8
For those that have never heard the saying... Daylight savings time is like cutting a foot off the bottom of a blanket, sewing it onto the top, and believing the blanket is a foot longer. Terry Very good!!! I never heard that prior to your explanation. It fits into the type of sayings I used to hear in the midwest. Like this one. " Head for the roundhouse, they can't corner you there!!!" Thanks Larry LOL!! ;D Larry, That's a new one for me. I like it.  |
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Post by calzephyr on Nov 6, 2012 13:28:32 GMT -8
Terry Very good!!! I never heard that prior to your explanation. It fits into the type of sayings I used to hear in the midwest. Like this one. " Head for the roundhouse, they can't corner you there!!!" Thanks Larry LOL!! ;D Larry, That's a new one for me. I like it. Thanks. It is an old one but I like it. The story below was on one of the forums a few years ago that I thought was funny. You have to think about it just a little. One fine day the train comes moseying down the branch line. All of a sudden the engineer spots a guy in a hard hat frantically waving and brings the train to stop. As the head end crew comes out of the cab, the power company guy explains that there is a live power line down across the track and they should stay away from the rails. The power guy goes on to say "I'm just waiting for the other guys to shut off the power so I can remove the cable. It shouldn't be long now."
By then the conductor has started to make his way up front, all along issuing a stream of profanity that could turn the air blue. As the conductor reaches the locomotive, he turns to the power guy and exclaims, "You'd better have a damn good reason for stopping us!"
The power guy, taken aback, says "Well yes sir! We've got a live power line down across the track and you'd best stand well clear of those rails"
The crusty old conductor screams "Ain't no power line gonna keep MY train cooling it's heels!!!". And with that he begins trundling up to the downed line. He grabs the cable and flings it off the tracks, sparks flying everywhere.
The power guy stands frozen in stunned amazement, and finally quivers out "I c-c-can't believe he wasn't electrocuted!?"
"Nothing' doing" quips the engineer, "he's just a bad conductor" |
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Post by rhpd42002 on Nov 7, 2012 14:55:31 GMT -8
LOL...., Larry.... Another good one I've not heard before. ;D
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Post by calzephyr on Nov 8, 2012 7:43:34 GMT -8
LOL...., Larry.... Another good one I've not heard before. ;D Mike Thanks. I thought it was funny when I read it and stored a copy in the disk, but I can't remember where to give the credit./ Larry |
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Hope you find some good stuff!