I put in all the effort to see that after spending the last two weekends nearly killing myself during our museum's Thomas event???
ROFL !! { sorry David & congratulations on the win ... I promise to use standard image formats in the future. Hey, maybe that should be an LPTP thread rule ? }
What was your favorite engine down at the museum ? How did the event go ? Sounds like my kind of fun ! :-)
Cheers, Mike.
Or maybe just a general forum rule...
We only have a dummy Thomas, with a diesel pushing from the other end of 7 or 8 cars. Thomas makes a bit of smoke, and I think he has a whistle, and his eyes periodically shift from looking down to left. The man in the cab has a brake valve to stop the train at the end of the run or in case of emergency.
I had nothing to do with Thomas. I was a trainman on the regular coach train, with a real steam engine (a 2-10-0). We were very busy, running trips hourly. We do this for two weekends; I worked both Saturdays. The second day (this last Saturday) it was so humid you were dripping with sweat the moment you got out of your air conditioned auto. Then we had a thunderstorm in the middle of the day (which actually made it a lot nicer, until the sun came out around closing time). My white museum shirt is a filthy black mess.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
DownUnda it seems we have finally come around to the shiny side of the Sun. Today I diagnosed the 23rd case of pneumonia I have seen for this winter, a usual season being 2 or 3 maybe. So even those who were over winter, were also over being over winter. Hence :
Spring has sprung
The grass has rizz
I wunder where the lawnmower iz ...
Darwin In The Garden : I opened the shades this morning to find a rabbit in frozen posture - mid chew with a grass strand hanging out - on the lawn staring at me looking at it. Neither of us moved a muscle. I looked away and it moved, but again was frozen when I looked again. One last look away and it was gone. Now I thought : this is a rabbit that has survived winter as a generality and a certain Powerful Owl in particular ( she came back for an encore ). No fool this bunny. Pays attention. A honed rabbit.
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Darwin In The Garden : I opened the shades this morning to find a rabbit in frozen posture - mid chew with a grass strand hanging out - on the lawn staring at me looking at it. Neither of us moved a muscle. I looked away and it moved, but again was frozen when I looked again. One last look away and it was gone. Now I thought : this is a rabbit that has survived winter as a generality and a certain Powerful Owl in particular ( she came back for an encore ). No fool this bunny. Pays attention. A honed rabbit.
Cheers, Mike.
I found a rabbit in my yard the other day, I was on my deck picking tomatoes, chasing away the squirrels and it was down in the grass, it saw me and froze, but I had my 'airsoft' plastic pellet gun with me and started shooting at it. ONLY when I actually hit it did it move, most of the shots are misses, the gun is cheap, ALL plastic and the pellets are plastic with NO rifling, so accuracy is not a though process. But even when I did hit it it only moved about 3 or 4 inches and then froze again as I kept plinking away at it. I emptied 3 12 rounds clips at the thing, hitting it only 3 or 4 times, and it only ran away after I stopped shooting at it!! It's like it KNEW it wasn't going to get hurt and was just messing with me!! The whole time the rabbit was about 25 to 35 feet away from me on a downward angle from a 2nd story deck.
My 'airsoft' gun is kind of like a 'paint ball' gun but not NEARLY as powerful and even if it hit you it only stings a little bit from about 6 feet away. Mine is battery powered so I can rapid fire the thing on full auto or semi-auto, but as I said it is SOOO inaccurate I can't even hit a tree with more then 6 shots out of a 12 round magazine, even when standing still leaning against a post and shooting one shot at a time! And it's NOT me shaking, it's the guns design, but it serves my purpose, to scare away the squirrels, so I am on my 2nd one of these. The first one lasted about 12 months so I bought another just like it. That gives me a total of 4 clips that all fit the same gun, enough to scare any squirrel deep into the woods!! They make MUCH more powerful 'airsoft' guns, but my wife is anti-killing things, she buys meat in the grocery store or the farmers market, NEVER from a real butcher!! This makes her happy and keeps me busy!!
DownUnda it seems we have finally come around to the shiny side of the Sun. Today I diagnosed the 23rd case of pneumonia I have seen for this winter, a usual season being 2 or 3 maybe. So even those who were over winter, were also over being over winter.
It is, reciprocally, about the time of winter when we would normally start to see signs of spring up here. This year, though, winter hung on stubbornly for about a month INTO spring.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
Yeah, everything is very late this year. I heard my first locust just 2 days ago, and the Cicadia were very late too. Bad bad winter, but we're just paying for all the easy ones we had. The cycle, she goes round and round.
After the 1978 blizzard it took me 13 hours to deliver my 138 papers as a paperboy. That was one long morning. I was climbing up snow drifts to the gutter lines on some houses and jamming the paper down inside the storm door. Had some really nice customers though. Sometimes I would get one that would shove the storm door open against the drift and trade me a cup of hot chocolate for the newspaper. Got some good tips that week.
RE: I'm here, now... It
Good Morning Scott !
Anymore aftershocks out there from the 6.0 ?
Bill
edit - It's 9:12am here. 2 hours later )
RE: RE: Old business:
Or maybe just a general forum rule...
We only have a dummy Thomas, with a diesel pushing from the other end of 7 or 8 cars. Thomas makes a bit of smoke, and I think he has a whistle, and his eyes periodically shift from looking down to left. The man in the cab has a brake valve to stop the train at the end of the run or in case of emergency.
I had nothing to do with Thomas. I was a trainman on the regular coach train, with a real steam engine (a 2-10-0). We were very busy, running trips hourly. We do this for two weekends; I worked both Saturdays. The second day (this last Saturday) it was so humid you were dripping with sweat the moment you got out of your air conditioned auto. Then we had a thunderstorm in the middle of the day (which actually made it a lot nicer, until the sun came out around closing time). My white museum shirt is a filthy black mess.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
RE: RE: I'm here,
No aftershocks in my area; however, aftershocks have been reported elsewhere. I live quite a ways away from Napa... ...about an hour and a half away.
TimeLord04
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DownUnda it seems we have
DownUnda it seems we have finally come around to the shiny side of the Sun. Today I diagnosed the 23rd case of pneumonia I have seen for this winter, a usual season being 2 or 3 maybe. So even those who were over winter, were also over being over winter. Hence :
Spring has sprung
The grass has rizz
I wunder where the lawnmower iz ...
Darwin In The Garden : I opened the shades this morning to find a rabbit in frozen posture - mid chew with a grass strand hanging out - on the lawn staring at me looking at it. Neither of us moved a muscle. I looked away and it moved, but again was frozen when I looked again. One last look away and it was gone. Now I thought : this is a rabbit that has survived winter as a generality and a certain Powerful Owl in particular ( she came back for an encore ). No fool this bunny. Pays attention. A honed rabbit.
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Goodnight everyone. :-)
Goodnight everyone. :-)
TimeLord04
Have TARDIS, will travel...
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Update ... 24th. Cheers,
Update ... 24th.
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
RE: Darwin In The Garden :
I found a rabbit in my yard the other day, I was on my deck picking tomatoes, chasing away the squirrels and it was down in the grass, it saw me and froze, but I had my 'airsoft' plastic pellet gun with me and started shooting at it. ONLY when I actually hit it did it move, most of the shots are misses, the gun is cheap, ALL plastic and the pellets are plastic with NO rifling, so accuracy is not a though process. But even when I did hit it it only moved about 3 or 4 inches and then froze again as I kept plinking away at it. I emptied 3 12 rounds clips at the thing, hitting it only 3 or 4 times, and it only ran away after I stopped shooting at it!! It's like it KNEW it wasn't going to get hurt and was just messing with me!! The whole time the rabbit was about 25 to 35 feet away from me on a downward angle from a 2nd story deck.
My 'airsoft' gun is kind of like a 'paint ball' gun but not NEARLY as powerful and even if it hit you it only stings a little bit from about 6 feet away. Mine is battery powered so I can rapid fire the thing on full auto or semi-auto, but as I said it is SOOO inaccurate I can't even hit a tree with more then 6 shots out of a 12 round magazine, even when standing still leaning against a post and shooting one shot at a time! And it's NOT me shaking, it's the guns design, but it serves my purpose, to scare away the squirrels, so I am on my 2nd one of these. The first one lasted about 12 months so I bought another just like it. That gives me a total of 4 clips that all fit the same gun, enough to scare any squirrel deep into the woods!! They make MUCH more powerful 'airsoft' guns, but my wife is anti-killing things, she buys meat in the grocery store or the farmers market, NEVER from a real butcher!! This makes her happy and keeps me busy!!
WINNING!!!
RE: DownUnda it seems we
It is, reciprocally, about the time of winter when we would normally start to see signs of spring up here. This year, though, winter hung on stubbornly for about a month INTO spring.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
Yeah, everything is very late
Yeah, everything is very late this year. I heard my first locust just 2 days ago, and the Cicadia were very late too. Bad bad winter, but we're just paying for all the easy ones we had. The cycle, she goes round and round.
After the 1978 blizzard it took me 13 hours to deliver my 138 papers as a paperboy. That was one long morning. I was climbing up snow drifts to the gutter lines on some houses and jamming the paper down inside the storm door. Had some really nice customers though. Sometimes I would get one that would shove the storm door open against the drift and trade me a cup of hot chocolate for the newspaper. Got some good tips that week.
Phil
Phil
I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken.
Good morning everyone.
Good morning everyone. :-)
It's going to get into the mid 80's F today, tomorrow, and Saturday.
TimeLord04
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