Geezer's Lounge (Rev 1) - Volume 3

[friscomike]

Good morning folks,

Philip, thanks for opening, coffee, and eggs. 

How is the rest of the crew?

It's overcast today, but the forecast is for 12° cooler at 72°F. I hope to apply decals, install couplers, add trucks, weather, and make a heavy load on the gondola.

Have fun,
mike

[PRR Modeler]

Good Morning All,

Thanks for opening and breakfast Philip. I hope you have a good day.

Started out with a walk at 74F and moderate humidity. Yesterday was a bit of disaster. I made the entire set-up including bracing of the roller track for the main freight doors. Long story short is that I ended up trashing the assembly and today I will redo it. I think part of the issue was the glue, so first thing is a run to ACE.

Not much else happening this way. Saturday I may be helping MOH at a rescue event.

Tom I once broke a molar eating a piece of white bread! Good luck with your tooth.

Mike have fun with your build.

I hope everyone has a good day.

[ACL1504]

Morning all,

Philip, thanks for breakfast.

My tooth was fixed. It was only a small chip but felt like the Grand Canyon. Dentist put a damn around the tooth, mixed up some stuff, filled in the chipped area, let it sit for 5 minutes and then blasted it with some purple light. Bang, good as new and can't even tell by looking it was ever chipped. Dental advancement is way ahead of me. I was in and out in 40 minutes.

Anyway, thanks for all the well wishes on the tooth. I'm back in business with no eating restrictions. Amazing.

Time to edge and cut the grass.

Have a great day everyone and stay safe.

Tom

[KentuckySouthern]

Looked like sun was starting just before down,...FROSTY look to the grass in the open area outside my window.  It says 35⁰ on my watch, 33⁰ on the monitor screen.  It does look like sunlight in the tree tops in the woods behind.

PT at 11:30 is my obligation for today.

The rug machine worked out fine, the Doll got right at it and what she did looks nice.  WE had a power outage for several hours Tuesday night...within one minute of walking in the house.  "Power" provider does text updates, when the juice came back on the said it was due to TREES.  Our single line branch has not had a good tree trimming in years if ever.  5-6 times a year they boot us off and most times list TREES as causation.  Area supervision must like the OT pay more than having trees trimmed. Just had a rate increase approved, just fine.  We do have another guy coming to give us an estimate for the generator. 

I messed around on the layout a bit in the evening.  I had to cut 2" off of the back of a prebuilt Walther's freight station to fit a narrow area I am working on.  Painted it to kill off the plastic sheen out of the box.

Interesting about the tooth repair, Tom, I have some adhesive I bought off Amazon that is UV activated and have used it a few times.  I like it. 

All I got. 

KS

[TomO/Tloc]

Good morning from the western shores of Lake Michigan in Southeastern Wisconsin. It's 47f degrees here but only 34 at home about 100 miles west and inland.

The ball game was fun and cold after the sun went down. We had layers but gloves would have been nice. The Cubs did win to extend the playoffs. The 1st 5 miles leaving the ballpark was tough taking about an hour. The drive normally would be roughly 1.5 hours to Racine, Wi. and last night was 2 hours and 20 minutes. Really not bad and since I wasn't the night driver I was relaxed.

Leaving here in about 45 minutes as someone (not me) forgot a dental cleaning at 11:30am today. We'll be home in plenty of time.

Be well
TomO

[Larry C]

Morning Gents,

Philip thanks for the coffee and breakfast. Great news on the clots.

Mike sounds like a busy modeling day; enjoy.

Curt sorry to her about your modeling mishap. Yup old glue bad....new glue good. Good luck.

Tom glad you were able to get the tooth fixed. Dentistry has come a long ways over the years; of course it ain't cheap. Enjoying the layout photos.

Karl generators aren't cheap!! I looked into a whole house unit and almost fell off my chair when I heard the price. My response "You're insane charging that kind of money"; of course I don't think he appreciated my views on the matter. Nice you were able to "bash" the freight house to fit.

Tom O. good morning.

It's a sunny 36 with a high of only 55 today in New York. I pulled the mums back on the porch to keep any frost off; it's going to be colder tonight. I think it's time to pull the A/C unit out of the window upstairs. Some time at the bench this am then I can see grinding up leaves in my afternoon agenda.

For those of you following my blog I ADDED another chapter last night.

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

[TomO/Tloc]

Looked like sun was starting just before down,...FROSTY look to the grass in the open area outside my window.  It says

The rug machine worked out fine, the Doll got right at it and what she did looks nice.  WE had a power outage for several hours Tuesday night...within one minute of walking in the house.  "Power" provider does text updates, when the juice came back on the said it was due to TREES.  Our single line branch has not had a good tree trimming in years if ever.  5-6 times a year they boot us off and most times list TREES as causation.  Area supervision must like the OT pay more than having trees trimmed. Just had a rate increase approved, just fine.  We do have another guy coming to give us an estimate for the generator. 


KS

Karl. Living off grid except for natural gas was enlightening from basically 2018 to 2024 when we moved back here. We had the full house generator that put out 26kw. Put them in 3 houses during that time frame. Completely installed never cost more than $8500. When we moved back into here in spring 2024 I got the electrician out to check over everything for an install. He asked if I really wanted to spend the money. I almost fell over when he told me the price almost double of the last install. I can't image how much it would be now. GOOD LUCK, We now have a small emergency generator just for the heating or air conditioning and the refrigerator.

[Rick]

Good morning everyone.

Bend weather: 47 now and a chance of showers before 11am, then a slight chance of showers after 2pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 64.

Philip, thanks for the coffee and breakfast.
Good news on your clots.

TomO, glad you enjoyed the game.

Karl, hope you get a reasonable estimate.

ACLTom, great news on the tooth repair.

Curt, sorry about the modeling fail and hope a new glue works better.

Mike, have fun upstairs.

James, was the car done?

Dave, good news on the drawing program.

Jerry, how was dinner?

Ron, I'm sure you're still busy at work and looking forward to your time off.

Star, my friend Whit and I hiked to the top of Bachelor Mountain.
6.73 miles and 2,657' of EG.
Had to stop and catch my breath a few times because this hike was at a higher elevation than all the other hikes I've done lately.
It's a little over 9,000' at the top.
I'll have to do more high elevation hiking to get back in shape.
Today another hike is planned but this one is mostly flat and goes around a lake.

Star and me at the top of Mount Bachelor.
In the background on the right is Broken Top and on the left are the Three Sisters.



Have a great day everyone.

[jbvb]

Good morning, all. The NH seacoast is about 45F and sunny, headed to the 50s before a likely first frost tonight.  If the car is fixed in time I'll go to Seashore, otherwise plenty to do here.  Maybe even some modeling.

Karl, our power company also acted like PGE for quite a few years: big stock buybacks, big C-suite pay, no tree-trimming.  It didn't matter much to me personally, as my PV/battery/inverter system went on-line in 1994 and paid for itself that June (power outage wasn't even noticed during my daughter's birth at home).  After PGE was found guilty of causing at least one big California wildfire through neglect, ours straightened out its act.  Maybe a letter to yours, Cc'ed to the Public Utility Commission, would shift their thinking.

[elwoodblues]

Good morning Philip, Mike, Curt, ACLTom, Karl, TomO, Rick, James and the rest of the crew that drops in later.

Thanks for the coffee and breakfast Philip.

Another quick stop as I have a very busy day ahead of me.  After today I have 4 days of R&R.  

Woke up this morning to frost on the windshield and 1c (34f), it's currently 6c (43f) and sunny, I think fall has finally arrived.  The Mrs has a honey-do list for me this weekend but all the items are small ones that should be completed fairly easily.

Have a great day everyone.

[Jerry]

Philip thanks for the coffee & breakfast.

Mike looking forward to the update.

Curt be careful eating that white bread!!!

Tom glad the tooth is fixed but like Curt don't eat any white bread!! 
Nice pictures.

Karl good luck with the PT.

Yes Tom some of teams are lucky tha managed to stay in!

Nice picture Rick.  You're looking fit to me.

James enjoy the day.

Ron I've heard those eady honey-to-do lists can be very time consuming!!

Weather in South Jersey sunny/crisp/52.  Later on 58.
Dinner out with friends last night was very good!
Chores to do today.
Then maybe some bench time.

Everyone have a great day!! 

Jerry

[PRR Modeler]

Rick that is a great photo of you and Star.

[Jerry]

Rick just showed Diane the picture she said what an amazing picture of you and Star!!

Jerry

[Rick]

Thanks Curt, Diane and Jerry.

[friscomike]

Howdy folks,

Rick, that photo is so Star and you.  Congratulations on having such a wonderful companion.

Have fun,
mike