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Happy 4th of July, America.
Hazy, humid, and 69 degrees in the remote reaches of the 29th state. Upper 80s today and tomorrow then cooling down to the low to mid 80s.
I recently ordered new checks for the checkbook. Yesterday 3 of the 4 packages arrived. The package missing is the one containing the next sequence of checks. I'm down to my last 2 checks so I hope the 4th package arrives on Monday. Had some light sprinkles Thursday night into Friday morning with a total of just a shade over 4 inches in my rain gauge yesterday. That's on top of the rain from Wednesday which resulted in the baseball game being cancelled after only 2 and a half innings. Seems home plate was under water and difficult to differentiate between balls and strikes.
It's Saturday so that means laundry and since it's the first Saturday of the month it's time for cleaning around my wife's and son's grave sites. Since the city took over the cemetery I will admit the condition is much improved.
All stay safe.
Tom
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Happy 4th of July!
Hot and humid again but showers this evening to cool it off a bit 
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hi all. I survived the first surgery on my eye still in the healing process with some improvement vision but still not great might be able to do some modeling work now. gas is 3.69 to 3.99 here don't expect much improvement on the price in the future. all stay safe.
Jim
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Greetings gang.
68 under hazy skies outside my window this morning. High today and for the next several days is supposed to be in the mid 80s with lows in the 60s. Much more comfortable weather than last week.
Took the pollution solution vehicle out yesterday with a new speedometer installed along with the existing one. I used the default setting for my tire size and that proved to be inaccurate. Got the manual out and reset it. I'll try again today. Not much else going on.
All stay safe.
Tom
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Tom:
We're waiting till tomorrow, when that weather moves in here 
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Good afternoon.
Happy 5th of July, My wife's 79th birthday.
I woke up to a wet floor, found a water drip in a fitting to the water filter replaced the filter with a pex line and back in operation. The filter was useless anyhow.
Work on trains will occur after birthday celebrations are over. It is still too hot to work outside.
The Forth was extra noisy this year with all the neighbors setting off loud diplys which our oldest dog does not appreciate one bit. He hidess in the shower for storm and fireworks. He finally calmed down about 2 AM
I managed to win a couple more PRR BP20'd (passenger sharks) so now the only PRR locomotive on my bucket list are the Lima transfer units.
Enjoy the day and stay cool
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Hello Blue.
No train news. After a week of HOT (for us) we have had lite rain all morning. The 4th was spent with our 3 kids and some of their friends. Food and fireworks of course. Driving home through all the gunpowder smoke was almost challenging. Fireworks galore. They were still going off when we went to bed at 11:30. I feel asleep anyway.
Gas is still hanging around four dollars.
S.J.
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Greetings, gang.
68 and humid this morning with an allocated high in the mid 80s. Some light fog which is rapidly dissipating.
After cleaning up the grave site I took the pollution solution vehicle out for another test ride with the new speedometer. Very odd result. Initially the new speedometer ran about a tenth of a mile faster than the old (verified) one. I stopped and reset both at some mile markers provided by the city and started again. This time the two were in lock step. Today I will run some more testing.
First up though will be an event that will determine my plans for the next couple of weeks. I need to get the tires rotated and the brakes looked at. If that can be done today or tomorrow then I can leave on Wednesday for the west coast following Highway 20 after my annual physical. If they can't get it done until later in the week then my trip will be delayed. I want the brakes looked at as they have over 100,000 miles on them. I also need to pick up my new glasses but I will work that in around the maintenance on the car.
Mikey - I hope your cooler weather arrives as scheduled. This may come as a shock but the NWS is (very rarely) not quite as accurate as they claim.
All stay safe.
Tom
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Greetings, gang.
67 with 100% humidity this morning in the remote reaches of northern Iowa. Maybe the upper 80s later.
I love it when a plan comes together. Everything went very well yesterday. Tires are rotated and the brakes are good for quite a while yet. Also picked up my new glasses. I'm mostly finished packing as well. Only major project for today is to fill the gas tank. Then after my annual physical tomorrow I'll leave directly from the doctor's office heading for the west coast following highway 20. I'm estimating about 4000 miles. Participation here will therefore be somewhat spotty.
All stay safe.
Tom
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Cool weather finally after 100 deg heat.....
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Greetings, gang.
Just a quick check in and reminder. I'm hitting the road for a couple of weeks and participation here may be somewhat spotty.
All stay safe.
Tom
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Good evening folks
It has been a crazy week at work. We were down two inspectors out of four this week. For a couple days I was overseeing paving work which meant I was with the subcontractor until they finished. This meant the inspector had to bounce around from other activities. Luckily we picked up a substitute, and he handled the concrete pours. I did not see the inside of the office until today. Now I am way behind on paperwork/computer work. I may do some over the weekend. Thank God the night for last night was canceled.
Needless to say, I have been exhausted most nights. I did, however, finish the Bachmann Spectrum Trade Tower kit. I still have some things like roof vents and water tank to add.
My wife and I are thinking about going to a museum this weekend like we used to due before her health took a turn. Now that she is doing better, we want to get back into some of our old routines. We will still need to do those pesky errands of the grocery store, pharmacy, and the hardware store. I need to clean the fishpond filter and there are some steppingstones that need to be installed.
I would like to add the detail parts to the Trade Tower. Next will be adding it to the layout. Then comes the choosing of the next project. I hope to run some trains and perhaps assemble a rolling stock kit or two.
Tom enjoy your trio.
I hope everybody has a good day.
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So me and my family did a thing today. It was a great day for all of us even with me being on crutches. I took my time navigating around and everyone was really nice. We spent about 5 hours going around and looking at everything they had on display. Yes that's right, we went to Altoona, Pa to see the BIG BOY!!!! It was well worth the trip and everything. Now we are home relaxing and enjoying the evening.
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well have to head back to Tucson as the tube they put in my eye plugged up so it looks like another surgery
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(07-12-2026, 01:32 AM)jim currie Wrote: well have to head back to Tucson as the tube they put in my eye plugged up so it looks like another surgery
Jim
Wow, Jim.
Really sorry to hear this. I hope things get better for you soon.
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