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A question...is it better to go visit children (age>20) or have them at home with you?? I enjoy your stories, and hope you had a good visit!!

Just want to say...its been worth waiting for the pictures!!! Thanks for sharing them.. Dick

In a previous career, I worked on phones...my best was the trainer who swore a phone wasn't working....I walked over and plugged it in for her... At least I kept my job :-)) It happens everywhere, not just pc's!! Dick

Heard on NPR tonight, an interview with some spokesperson from CSX. She said that the engineer had gotten down, to align a switch, and when he realized that he'd not gotten all the brakes set, he tried to reboard the train, but it was moving too fast. According to her, he got scraped up a bit...

Ok, Walthers 2001 HO Catalog, page 287--Peco Code 100 Flex track, concrete ties, nickel silver rail--no. 552-1162, available only in boxes of 25 for $104.99. If you have a good hobby shop, you can probably get them to order it, and get fewer than the whole box!! I knew I'd seen it somewhere...

until Shamus's loggers....

to make trees, and trees...and MORE trees....

Talking about railfans, I remember when the Freedom Train made its passage through my home town--a small town of about 350 people. This was ex-SP GS-4 4449, and I don't know where everyone came from, but people just would NOT get off the tracks!! It was running at a slow walking pace--I know...

...found out the hard way that grues really DO like the dark by...

Hmmm...being a railfan...does that mean (amongst other things) that you buy a house because it is close to the tracks???

seem to be wandering aimlessly in a gorge...

Hobbies outside of model railroading....I have noticed a lot of gardeners out there. I thought I wouldn't have to do it once I grew up, but I find that I enjoy it a lot. Just growing my own tomatoes, and canning them.. a lot we learn from our parents we never intended to!!! Also, building...

its time to get out the...

...he made Cranberry Grade...

...guy named Long, Lean Lanky John???

not too far from..

'cause now those roses smell more like...

...and those blowfish guts are starting...

George, fortunately, I go to a great hobby shop. They've been in business now for over 25 yrs, and I knew the owner when it was only a SMALL shop. They will order from Walthers, but they don't go by the prices in the catalog. BTW, the owner owned laughed for a FEW minutes when I told him I...

balin' spit and wire...(some of us had to bale hay when we were kids...)