Good morning, Vagabonds. The annual Turkish Day Parade that I look forward to and was scheduled for today was cancelled; it wouldn’t be appropriate for thousands of people to celebrate while hundreds of families in Turkey are in mourning for their loved ones lost hundreds of feet deep inside the coal mine.
Good morning Vagabonds.Can’t keep up with the weather forecast. Today it will only rain in the morning and Sunday it will be cloudy most of the day. Same for Monday and then off and on showers up through Thursday.Must be all those Polar Bears causing this problem.
Morning, Vagabonds. Today is Sports Day in our community. This is the annual event where children with handicaps and disabilities from all over the area come to our community for fun and games. They get to jet ski, ride boats and kayaks, play softball, ride ponies, and do lots of other fun things that they normally don’t get to do where they live.
Good morning, Vagabonds. When I was 17, almost 60 years ago, I heard a beautiful singer on the radio. Throughout the years, I asked people if they knew of her with no luck. Yesterday, I googled her and heard a LP of her songs. I quickly got my camcorder and recorded her songs and then copied it to a DVD. I can’t believe after all these years I now have a recording of her voice!
Good morning Vagabonds..Looks like we’ll have a nice day today, however it’s in the mid 30s this morning. (got’a pay for it some how).Go David, knock ’em alive..Good find Arye The singing love of my life is Alison Krauss..Where are the ladys? We miss you when your not here..ttfn
Good morning Vagabonds.Another beautiful day today. Yesterday was also great. Not so the rest of the week, if you can believe them. Oh well, can’t do much about it. Just have to take them as they come.Everyone be good.
Friday we drove 250 miles up to Ely (pronounced e-lee) in Northern Nevada to spend the night. Yesterday, we spent the day at the Nevada Northern Railway Museum (www.nnry.com). We had a blast! The museum is located at an old train yard (built in 1906) that was the hub of copper mining in Nevada. It has multiple tracks, an equipment barn for the locomotives and all sorts of other neat stuff you would want to see in a train yard. And the best part is that most of the equipment there was actually used in that yard. There are a few pieces of equipment that were purchased or donated from other locations, but not much.
We also rode the excursion train, Locomotive #40 pulling a coal tender, a dining car, a passenger car, a flatbed observation car and a caboose. #40 was built in either 1909 or 1910 (they have two and one of them turned 100 years old in 2009 and one a year later, don’t know which was which) and is a 4-6-0 coal powered steam engine. The other engine is #93 and she is a 2-8-0 and is also coal powered. #93 was recently completely rebuilt and is usually the engine used for these excursions, so we got lucky to be pulled by #40.
Just the chug-chug sound of the engine was exciting! It is something you hear on sound tracks, but rarely for real any more. The flatbed observation car had another “advantage” – coal cinders flying all over in the smoke – fortunately not hot by the time it got back to the flatbed. I was picking tiny bits of coal out of my hair for quite a while. And as usual, I forgot my camera.
The number designation indicates how many pilot or lead wheels, drive wheels and trailing wheels on a steam engine. The pilot wheels are usually on a “truck” in the front so they can pivot a bit going around curves and the trailing wheels (when they exist – they don’t on either of these two engines) are under the engineer’s cab.
Forgive the jargon, but we had fun yesterday and I have to show off my brand new knowledge. We drove back yesterday afternoon. Both ways were a very nice drive. Sunset on the desert can be very spectacular.
The weather up there was low 70’s all day, while it was still over 90 here when we got home just after 8PM.
arye uygur over 10 years ago
Good morning, Vagabonds. The annual Turkish Day Parade that I look forward to and was scheduled for today was cancelled; it wouldn’t be appropriate for thousands of people to celebrate while hundreds of families in Turkey are in mourning for their loved ones lost hundreds of feet deep inside the coal mine.
woodworker318 over 10 years ago
Good morning Vagabonds.Can’t keep up with the weather forecast. Today it will only rain in the morning and Sunday it will be cloudy most of the day. Same for Monday and then off and on showers up through Thursday.Must be all those Polar Bears causing this problem.
davidf42 over 10 years ago
Morning, Vagabonds. Today is Sports Day in our community. This is the annual event where children with handicaps and disabilities from all over the area come to our community for fun and games. They get to jet ski, ride boats and kayaks, play softball, ride ponies, and do lots of other fun things that they normally don’t get to do where they live.
Dkram over 10 years ago
Good morning Vagabonds..Raining off and on, hard enough to lodge the daffodils..Well the brain hasn’t come on line yet so have fun all..ttfn
arye uygur over 10 years ago
Good morning, Vagabonds. When I was 17, almost 60 years ago, I heard a beautiful singer on the radio. Throughout the years, I asked people if they knew of her with no luck. Yesterday, I googled her and heard a LP of her songs. I quickly got my camcorder and recorded her songs and then copied it to a DVD. I can’t believe after all these years I now have a recording of her voice!
davidf42 over 10 years ago
Morning, Vagabonds. Today I start my new pastoral appointment.
@Arye – What’s her name?
arye uygur over 10 years ago
@David, she’s an Israeli singer named Hannah Messinger.
Dkram over 10 years ago
Good morning Vagabonds..Looks like we’ll have a nice day today, however it’s in the mid 30s this morning. (got’a pay for it some how).Go David, knock ’em alive..Good find Arye The singing love of my life is Alison Krauss..Where are the ladys? We miss you when your not here..ttfn
woodworker318 over 10 years ago
Good morning Vagabonds.Another beautiful day today. Yesterday was also great. Not so the rest of the week, if you can believe them. Oh well, can’t do much about it. Just have to take them as they come.Everyone be good.
JanLC over 10 years ago
Good morning, Vagabonds.
Mark, it is nice to be missed.
Friday we drove 250 miles up to Ely (pronounced e-lee) in Northern Nevada to spend the night. Yesterday, we spent the day at the Nevada Northern Railway Museum (www.nnry.com). We had a blast! The museum is located at an old train yard (built in 1906) that was the hub of copper mining in Nevada. It has multiple tracks, an equipment barn for the locomotives and all sorts of other neat stuff you would want to see in a train yard. And the best part is that most of the equipment there was actually used in that yard. There are a few pieces of equipment that were purchased or donated from other locations, but not much.
We also rode the excursion train, Locomotive #40 pulling a coal tender, a dining car, a passenger car, a flatbed observation car and a caboose. #40 was built in either 1909 or 1910 (they have two and one of them turned 100 years old in 2009 and one a year later, don’t know which was which) and is a 4-6-0 coal powered steam engine. The other engine is #93 and she is a 2-8-0 and is also coal powered. #93 was recently completely rebuilt and is usually the engine used for these excursions, so we got lucky to be pulled by #40.
Just the chug-chug sound of the engine was exciting! It is something you hear on sound tracks, but rarely for real any more. The flatbed observation car had another “advantage” – coal cinders flying all over in the smoke – fortunately not hot by the time it got back to the flatbed. I was picking tiny bits of coal out of my hair for quite a while. And as usual, I forgot my camera.
The number designation indicates how many pilot or lead wheels, drive wheels and trailing wheels on a steam engine. The pilot wheels are usually on a “truck” in the front so they can pivot a bit going around curves and the trailing wheels (when they exist – they don’t on either of these two engines) are under the engineer’s cab.
Forgive the jargon, but we had fun yesterday and I have to show off my brand new knowledge. We drove back yesterday afternoon. Both ways were a very nice drive. Sunset on the desert can be very spectacular.
The weather up there was low 70’s all day, while it was still over 90 here when we got home just after 8PM.