Geezer's Lounge (Rev 1) - Volume 4

[Rick]

Good morning everyone.

19 now in Birmingham, mostly sunny and 33 later.

Curt, thanks for the coffee and breakfast.
I look forward to you getting the SW kit and following your build.

Jerry, I guess the 'Weather Weenies' were mostly right this time.

Philip, what was the final total?

Dave, chili on a cold s#$@y day sounds good.

Karl, so how much did you end up getting?

Ron, enjoy your working from home day.

TomO, you staying warm?

James, buy anything yesterday?

Larry, how's the s$#@ removal going?

ACLTom, did you end up tossing the ball down the alley yesterday?

I hope everyone is doing well and staying safe.

Although BWW has pretty decent wings, I usually get their triple bacon cheese burger and that's what I had yesterday.
After leaving there I headed to Storyteller and stayed in their lot.
Later at night I got an email saying they'd be closed today and I can have the work done on Tuesday. 
So, I'll hunker down here and probably work on the video from the Nevada Northern RR.

Another photo from Oak Mountain SP, AL.



Have a great day everyone.

[Larry C]

Good Morning,

Curt thanks for the coffee and breakfast. I usually clean my bench before I start a new project; I like things more on the tidier side. I'll be posting another chapter soon; it's written I just need to prove read it first.

Rick the sn*w removal will take a few hours including warm-up breaks.

What's your plans today.

It's 12 with a high of 18; that will be 3 times warmer than it's been the last 2 days. It finally stopped snowing and from what I can tell we have a good 12 inches maybe slightly more but not the 18 they had predicted; which is fine by me. In a little while I'll go deal with the sn*w and get the cars and driveway cleaned out Bench time ??

Have a great day!!!! Keep warm and if you're dealing with the weekend's aftermath be careful outside and be well. Oh ya, there are 279 closings in Central NY including ALL the schools.

[friscomike]

Good morning,

Curt, thanks for the coffee and breakfast.

Rick, good luck with Storyteller.

Larry, hope clearing the driveway goes well.

How is the rest of the crew?

IT's cold here, but no precipitation.  High today forecast for 40°F, tonight 19°F.  I'm covered up with 1:1 tasks today, so doubtful about any bench work.

Have fun,
mike

[deemery]

The plow guy came about 7:00 this morning and pushed the powder off the driveway.  Because it's so fine and tends to compact (particularly with the wind gusts last night), it's a bit hard to measure.  Weather app says we got 23", I'm guessing we have maybe 15" of snowpack.  The dogs are happy the driveway is cleared, the path I shoveled for them last night was barely adequate and I got some stink-eye when they were doing their business.  

Today's German class is fully remote, as planned. (Teacher is laid up for ankle replacement surgery.)  Then it's back down to the train room.  I'll try to finish the railings on the farm bridge, and work more on the farm building placements.

dave

[ACL1504]

Morning all,

Thanks for breakfast Curt. I'm also looking forward to your next build.

Raining here with temps dropping by the hour.

I'm warm in the train shed.

Rick, I did bowl yesterday. I bowled 187, 222 and a whopping 139. Actually, I lost interest in the third game. A bunch of screaming kids came in and bowled next to us the last game.

Time to work on my challenge build.

Have a safe and warm day everyone.

Tom

[elwoodblues]

Good morning Curt, Rick, Larry, Mike, Dave, ACLTom and the rest of the crew that drops in later.

Thanks for the coffee and breakfast Curt, enjoy your day hopefully the chores won't take too long.

Rick, looking forward to the video about the Nevada Northern RR.

Larry, be careful shoveling all that snow.

Mike, hope the 1:1 tasks go easy for you today.

Dave, hope the time in the train room is productive.

ACLTom, have fun working on the challenge build.

Jerry, looking forward to the update.

Current temperature is -14c (7f) and the white stuff is falling, I'm working from home today.  No modeling yesterday as we had a pet emergency to take care off.  It seems that Gracie found some chocolate and decided to give it a try.  Not sure where she found it as we are very careful where we store food that is harmful to dogs.  We ended up rushing her to the emergency animal hospital where they took care of her.  Fortunately she didn't each much and we got her to the hospital quickly.  They ended up inducing vomiting, gave her an IV and kept her for observation for a couple of hours.  She is a little out of sorts but otherwise fine today.  That was an experience I would not wish on anyone.  Working from home today so should make it to the bench tonight.

Have a great day everyone.

[Jerry]

Morning everyone

Curt thanks for the coffee & breakfast.

Rick nice picture.
At least you'll be the first one in line tomorrow!! 

Larry go easy with the sn*w removal.

Mike have a nice day sorry you can't fit the bench in.

Morning Dave.  Remember the dogs come first.

Tom looking forward to the update.

Ron glad the puppy is okay!

Weather in South Jersey cloudy/23.  RF/18.  High today 34.
Today will be a day of shoveling we have about 16" of the white stuff.
So it will be shovel a little then rest then shovel a little then rest.

Everyone have a great day!! 

Jerry

[KentuckySouthern]

Positive numbers in the temp dept, 8^o with 14 per gusts.  Sunshine makes it LOOK nice. 

I watched the 2d half of the snow bowl and all of the W Coast games, both had their highs and lows. 

Snow, hmm, make 5-6" total over the weekend.  For some reason going out and dealing with it kicked my butt yesterday, today's respite is appreciated.

Layout engineering on tap, we'll see. 

Later y'all.

Be Safe and WARM

KSindoorsin the Mitten

[TomO/Tloc]

Good morning from chilled So Central Wisconsin. -4f degrees feeling like -20 but 7 degrees warmer than the 6am wake up temperatures. The real temperature will break zero today but the wind chill will still be - double digits.

Last week I noticed the train room seemed cooler than the rest of the lower level and had in retrospect been cooler for awhile. Turns out one of the radiant heat segments was in a semi closed position. After trying a new thermostat I called the HVAC guys who said I needed a new valve. The cost was roughly the price of 3 sound equipped DCC diesels. But of course they didn't have one. They could install it over the weekend for another sound equipped diesel but with a hoodie on the train room wasn't too bad. They are here now installing the new valve.

The hockey was good yesterday. With 4 of the 6 top scorers heading to the Olympics the next 5 weekends should be interesting for the now #1 ranked Badger Women. #2 and #3 Ohio State and Minnesota are also sending players so I expect an Eastern school to magically become #1 over the next few weeks.

Yesterday I hit up the LHS for supplies and later this afternoon it will be HomeDepot for adhesives.

My few weathering commissions are waiting for payment. Have a great day as I am heading to the bench

Stay warm
TomO

[TomO/Tloc]

Up to 6⁰ in the lower mitten this morning after a record setting -20⁰ at a nearby University associated Ag Weather reporting station, just SSE of me a half dozen miles.  We are getting 2-3 or 3-6 inches of snow depending on the path of the Super Storm.  As it's trash to the road day, most likely I'll fun the Deere this afternoon.

I was at trestle bents most of the day yesterday, finished up 8 of varying height.  I need to engineer layout placement in the next phase of the project.

SPARTY beat Maryland 91-48 in a clinic on Natl'll TV yesterday.  Nice to be able to have them on an accessable outlet for a change.  The current state of college sports viewing is disappointing to go easy on my feelings.

TomO, sounds like  you're at it big time.  I had bet myself after a couple days of missing your sprightly commentary of all things Wisconsin that you might show up suddenly reporting from some place warm and tropical. 

Football has no interest for me spiritually any more this season but may watch one of the games, most like the West Coast teams just for a time filler. 

Enuf from here.

 Rick, travel safe.  All you folks in the Mason-Dixon areas are on our thoughts here.  STAY IN!

Be Safe, stay well.

KSintheMitten

Karl, stay warm! No plans to head to warmer climes as I type this. We do have credit on airline tickets as we were going to fly to Austin and house sit the son and his girlfriend's places while they were in Japan. Their house sitter was supposed to have surgery the 2nd week but it was cancelled the last minute.  We thought about Florida but like Maui it holds no appeal to me after a couple days.

Too many issues on Maui since the Lahaina fires and even the brother is thinking of relocating and has finally started looking. When you are the support network for the Island economy but are not openly welcomed there, why stay or visit?

Be well
TomO

[deemery]

One problem with the Springfield show is no one brings stripwood or Evergreen styrene.  So I have a list of those things that I need to order.  But I did fill the rest of the stuff on my shopping list.

dave

[KentuckySouthern]

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[Vietnam Seabee]

😂😂😂
Good one, KS

terry

[PRR Modeler]

Karl you're too much!

Ron I'm glad Gracie is OK.

[Rick]

Karl, that's funny.

Ron, glad Gracie is home and resting.
I was looking forward to editing and posting the video from the Nevada Northern RR but I can't find the video clips.
They must of gotten accidentally deleted.
Don't know how, since I'm careful with that stuff.