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Ouchie Russell !!
Good morning in here
@Uncle Willie - that was marvelous !
Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part Seven
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Ouchie Russell !!
Good morning in here
@Uncle Willie - that was marvelous !
Jenny-O Turkey Sausage is pretty good. I make up a couple dozen sausage/egg/cheese biscuits at a time and freeze them in 2/packs for quick and easy breakfasts.
Well, you do some amazing things, thats why! Seriously that table (s) is TDFThanks, you always make me feel special.
Ouch! That's got to be sore today!Fell stepping off the truck onto the dock today
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Do you have more monies? We have a list. [emoji23] [emoji23] [emoji23] [emoji41]Darn, that Amazon! Somehow I was looking at pen kits and Olive wood blanks from the Holy Land and I wound up ordering 10 of each. And you guys think you are good at helping others spend their money. I will have fun making the pens and some friends will get to enjoy the fruits of my labor. I did make another pen in Purple Heart earlier today.
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Yup, they're not going anywhere while we're alive. I had thought about building some to sell......maybe when I retire....which is looking like the 14th of never.....pffft
Shins are tough, knees not so. Lotsa ice!
My shins have mo' 'notches' dan a gunslinger's Colt grip...
Just beautiful outstanding craftsmanship!
I don't expect anyone to recall my posts from some time ago .. I don't really expect anyone to remember posts I've made lately, for that matter .. the rants and rememberances of an old fool that many times has no where else to write about things .. back then, I wrote about shuttering my Studio and packing up my stuff .. at any rate, part of the old baggage was a box of ancient reel to reel tapes that I had hoped to get to sometime and digitize or toss if they were not worth keeping ..
In between sessions, which sometimes would last for days, I had plenty of dead time, so, I would noodle around with the gear just to kill some time .. today, I ran across my stash of old noodlings .. (some are now probably shuddering
The tapes are not dated, but I would put this around the late 1970's, maybe the early 1980's .. it's all me, done on a multitrack recorder .. I'd put up more as I get to them, some material I recorded goes back to the 1960's .. then again, I don't want to seem pretentious or vain .. we'll see how it goes .. it's pretty crude anyway, not much room in there for vanity .. I just thought I'd share ..
Now that was a cool one. Thanks Willie. That pic of the yard with all the goofy switches. We used to go into a couple of those. They call those puzzle switches. We used to have to line them by hand. You had to line 2 or 3 different switches and they all had to be lined right. You'd have to line them then get back up on the engine and look at them and follow the rail you were on to see if you had it right. If you didn't you'd run through a switch they frowned on that. Eventually they made them all power and the guy in the tower lined em for ya. I used to hate going into those yard. Great old train pics. Those log trains were especially cool for me. I used to work a job called the Lake Kapowson logger. Not sure on the spelling. We'd haul about 40 empty log flats up and switch them with the loads. We always stopped at Electron and picked up a case of beer. We'd get there and get our work done in about 4 hours so we had 6 hours left to work with a 2 hour trip back. We'd try to get back to Tacoma right on our 12 hours so we'd get all the OT. So we'd sit up there and drink beer and play 4 handed pinochle till we just had enough time to get back. One night, the job worked from 6pm to 6am we were creepin down the hill and went across a bridge over the Puyallup River. The engine and about 10 cars were across and the train went into emergency. So I proceeded to walk back and the rear brakeman was walking up it was dark and foggy. We got part way out on the bridge and the bridge had collapsed with about 10 cars and caboose on one side and engine and 10 cars on the other side. The middle of the train was either hangin from the bridge or in the river which was really running. We were lucky it collapse where it did. We found out later it was an old wooden bridge built in the early 1900's that they put sheet metal over the top. The wood underneath was rotted and looked like Balsa. They never reopened that line had to start trucking the logs and the caboose to Tacoma.
Shoulda stayed on the truck. The old shoulda, coulda, woulda. Nice legs tho but they need a shave.Fell stepping off the truck onto the dock today
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Your stories about your train-operating days are absolutely fascinating, @2legsshrt. Addictively so!
Holy cow, @cigatron, what amazing artistry!
Holy cow, @cigatron, what amazing artistry!
You know what was funny that night. Before we even called it in they knew about it and we couldn't understand how. Seems an old lady that lived right near heard this terrible noise and called the police. They didn't know what had happened but she always heard the train every night and knew something was wrong. Oh and all those flats that fell in the river only one broke the chains and logs got away. We always had to check the loads before we took them and make sure they were tightened down well. Plus we had to tie a bunch of hand brakes on the ones we left and release the ones we picked up which was a job in itself. These were the old staff brake and you had to use a brake club to get them on and off.
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