Geezer's Lounge (Rev 1) - Volume 2

[deemery]

TomO:  The Coast train from Seattle to Vancouver would be worth considering for your next trip.  There's lots of good mountain drives between Seattle and Vancouver, and of course many more within BC.  You're right to travel as much as you can while you can enjoy it, I'm regretting all the trips we didn't take, now that my wife's back bothers her so much.

dave

[PRR Modeler]

Good Morning All,

This morning breakfast is coffee, cereal, bagels, yogurt, OJ, and soda.

Yesterday after chores I started on the boiler kit and I have to admit it feels good to be working on a project again.

MOH picked up a rescue yesterday and the poor animal is scared too death. Also today MOH is taking 2 of the "ambassadors" for a week vacation. Actually there is an event Saturday night we can't make.

Today is chores then continuing on the kit.

I hope everyone has a good day.

[Larry C]

Good Morning,

Curt thanks for the coffee and breakfast. Hope the critter comes around and starts trusting you. Have fun with the Kit; it looks really nice.

Happy Labor Day and what are your plans for the day.

It's another sunny 50 with a high of 78 in New York. Well it's Labor Day already and the last day of the NYS Fair. Where did the summer go? Typically people's mindset this week will be Fall even though it's officially a few weeks away yet. Not sure about today but maybe some bench time.

Have a great day!!! Be well and stay safe.

[jbvb]

Good morning from Iowa, Curt, Larry and later arrivals.  The Old Threshers' Reunion is winding down; There were 900 camping spaces, almost all occupied by RVs and trailers. They take a while to get ready for the road and many attendees have long drives home.  We're hoping to be on the road in an hour, but I won't see NH till some time tomorrow.

[KentuckySouthern]

Bright sun and 0% precipitation forecast for the day in MI. 

We had afternoon visitors yesterday and spent way too much time figuing out a refusal of my main PC to print on my main Epson EcoTank printer.  Every other devise in the house would wi-fi to it perfectly.  Finally Geek in law fired up his PC laptop and dove into the obscure settings and found a strange difference he changed on my pc and all was well.  He'd become a bit morose thinking he'd med a computer that he couldn't decypher.  We gave him extra cookies for his efforts. I wish we started earlier as the Doll and Ms. Geek were a touch conflicted by the time the afternoon wound up. 

The hobby remained on the shelf yesterday.  The Doll had Lonesome Dove on and I joined her for the final 1/2.  Decent entertainment.

Today? Glad not to be on the roads.  With the Bridge walk at Mackinaw there will be massive amounts of traffic in the North after the bridge is reopened.  Several thousand folks do that each labor day.  I saw a feature on an 80 something lady that is making it her 50th year.
 
Be well all. 

ACLTom, nice video. The USCG helicopter crews in Mich do great things.

KSinMI

[elwoodblues]

Good morning Curt, Larry, James, Karl and the rest of the crew that drops in later.

Thanks for the coffee and breakfast Curt, you have made a great start on the kit.

Larry and James, Enjoy your day.

Karl, glad you got the printer issue resolved.

It's currently 14c (57f) and sunny.  Yesterday was a productive day as the old shed was demolished and thrown in the dumpster, the back yard cleaned up and the lumber bought for the floor for the new shed.  I even managed some time at the bench last night and some progress was made.

Today's plan is to build the new shed floor and put together the shed kit.  Hopefully some bench time this evening.

Have a great day everyone.

[Philip]

Morning Crew, Have a great Labor Day!

[PRR Modeler]

Karl how many miles is that bridge walk?

[Rick]

Good morning everyone.

North Cascades NP weather: Mostly sunny with a high of 77.

Curt, thanks for the coffee and breakfast.
Have fun with the new kit.

Philip, good morning.

Ron, you had a busy day.

Karl, you've been posting some interesting pictures.
Looks a little too crowded on that bridge for me.

James, safe travels back home.

Larry, have fun at the bench if that's what you decide to do.

TomO, how'd the volleyball team do and did you make it to the food trucks?

Mike, how was the sunset and the s'mores?

Jerry, more fun with the grandkids today?

ACLTom, any news from the shed?
How does Pam like her new car?

I did my hike yesterday but didn't make it to the end of the trail.
I started feeling tired and wanted to be sure to make it down safely.
Still a great hike and did 9.94 miles and 2,733' of EG and got a good picture of Thornton Lake.
Haven't processed that picture or any of the pictures from my last 4 hikes.
The next hike I do will include Star.

This was Star and me as we got close to the peak of Dickerman Mountain.



Have a great day everyone.

[Jerry]

Morning everyone

Curt thanks for the coffee & breakfast.

Nice picture Karl but way to many people for me.

Larry hope you make the bench.

James be safe driving back home.

Morning Philip.

Nice picture Rick.  Have a nice day.

Weather in South Jersey beautiful again sunny/71.  Later on 74.
Cleaning is done I hope.
One of the grandkids is still here he' leaves around 2:00 takes the bus back to the City that's NYC.
The granddaughter left last night.

Everyone have a wonderful day!! 

Jerry

[ACL1504]

Morning all,

Thanks for breakfast Curt.

Thank you all for the nice comments on the USCG video. We are very proud of our grandson.

Shed time for me today and I'm cutting some Lexan for the fascia. Hopefully adding it will prevent damage to scenery and structures.

Mice picture of Rick and Star.

Well, back to work on this Labor Day.

Happy Labor Day everyone.

Tom

[Bernd]

Reporting in late. We're at Northern Command this week. Came through Syracuse Saturday morning hoping to by past all the traffic heading to last weekend holiday.  Forgot the Syracuse Fair was on. Traffic was heavy many idiots on the thruway. Lost half of them at the Syracuse Fair exit.

Weather is great up here until Thursday. Calling for rain. I'll check back a few days to see how close the weather guy was.

We'll be here all week. A friend of mine that sells previously enjoyed train items at shows will be staying with us for the weekend of the Clayton Train Show. (Saturday the 6th/Sunday the 7th)

Still waiting for the roofers to put a steel roof on the Northern Command Station. In the meantime I'm bored out of my gord.

Going to pull the boat next weekend and get it home. These cold spells tell me it's going to be an early Fat Water Season (fat water = snow).

Have a good one everybody.

B~

[deemery]

That's a great photo of Rick and Star.  While in the North Cascades, be sure to take the drive up to the lookout over Mount Baker and Mount Shuksan.  Shuksan is one of the most photographed mountains, and probably the most photographed non-volcano, in the Northwest.

Another beautiful early fall day, although there's light clouds.  Looks like a cloudy night tonight, which is too bad, because there's a good chance of Auroras here and even further south into Mass.  Sigh... 

I did a bit of work on the machine shop forge, test fitting and then tack-gluing the bellows onto the joists that will suspend that over the forge hood.  I'll let that glue set up.  The next step will be to glue the forge itself into position, and then work through the pipe from the bellows to the forge.  That'll be a lot of test-fit.

dave

[TomO/Tloc]

TomO:  The Coast train from Seattle to Vancouver would be worth considering for your next trip.  There's lots of good mountain drives between Seattle and Vancouver, and of course many more within BC.  You're right to travel as much as you can while you can enjoy it, I'm regretting all the trips we didn't take, now that my wife's back bothers her so much.

dave

We took the Amtrak Cascade down from Vancouver to Seattle. 4 hour train ride, very pleasant but with a very disturbing border crossing into the USA. The train conductor warned us about 15 minutes prior to the crossing: have your documents out, do not stand or attempt to leave the car your seat was in and do not talk while the customs officers were in the car. Unnerving seeing border guards literally come storming through the train in full combat gear including masks down screaming have your passports open. If you do not you can be removed from the train. 15 minutes later 3 very nice but offically still mean looking officers walked through checking ONLY the non-whites passports or papers. Also in full tactical gear. I kid you not

We'd thought about driving and making the trip at least an overnighter or 2. But the cost of the rental car was kind of a shock. Glad we didn't drive. One of the border crossings was where the train stopped to be inspected by customs and they had about 8 lanes open and backed up at least a mile per the train conductor. It has been like this since January.

TomO

[Jim Donovan]

Good Morning;

Tom(O) sorry you went through that, they say the pendulum swings one way and then the other, sure would be nice to just have it sit in the middle where the vast majority live for a change. During the 40 years of my business travels overseas the hardest country to get into was the US when flying. Missed a lot of domestic connections because of it. One time I sat for two hours because the latest toy customs had bought said my laptop computer was a bomb. 

Love the pictures but I don't think I'd want to walk over that bridge with that many people. Star looks great and enjoying the walk.

We don't have much planned for today so I will work on some layout projects and perhaps paint some detail castings. Curt thanks for the coffee, hope everyone has a great Labor Day. Photo of the day is a picture of a lake my family had a cabin on when I was a kid. I took this photo around labor day a few years back. Honeoye Lake in NY.



Jim