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And finally an appropriate picture of myself and my missus which describes us rather well :-



I'm kinda cute with the orange highlights, eh, now you know why I'm not afraid of your genetically mutated lieutenants

Yikes!

What have you done to yourself?

Ok I'll admit you are kinda cute (I said KINDA) but now you'll have to change your 'name' to robot guy or something...

BTW, the missus is way too good for you

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What have you done to yourself?

Nothing, well except spruce myself up a bit with a touch of paint about 150 years ago, anyway don't need to change my name, everyone should have a hobby.

You see I am designed well for collecting up items to sell in a flea market like greedbay

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BTW, the missus is way too good for you

Too right, lucky me, don't know how she puts up with me so well especially when I get started on greedbay

At least it's better than Pete's teletubby, remember that?? Wonder where he's been anyway

You're up awfully early aren't you?
(oh yeah, I forgot...you old folks go to bed about 7 pm & sleep for 3-4 hours)

Yeah yeah I know, look who's talking

Well with such a damp, cloudy and dreary June onwards getting up at 6am in the morning is the best time to catch some sunlight before it rises above the cloud line.

I'd rather be up early in daylight than the darkness of late evening any day.

Just gone 7:35am here now, well Pete reckoned on being busy, anyway ol'gal isn't it about time you zimmered off to bed, heaven help your victims if you start jabbing them in the wrong places 'cause you are half asleep

Are you trying to get rid of me?

I already know the answer to that one
It's 1:45 am here and yes, it's almost time for some shuteye.

"""I'd rather be up early in daylight than the darkness of late evening any day"""

I'm just the opposite...LOVE the night, hate the mornings

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I'm just the opposite...LOVE the night, hate the mornings

Ah, yes you must have inherited that from your father, the Count, I forgot you are not called the FangMother without reason

Me try and get rid of you ? With who else could I have such an elequent and articulate discussion on world affairs as those I have with you

You're the only one that calls me FangMother
Yeah you'd miss me if I were gone wouldn't you...then you'd have no one to pick on
I'm going to bed, got work this weekend.
Try to behave yourself

Let me see the quick answers are no, maybe, zzzz, hee hee, why?

Good night and pleasant fang dreams

Wow, no posts for days. And I suppose you're going to blame me Just stopping in to say HI, going swimming now. This is one of the worst summers we've ever had, cloudy & cool.
Of course when I'm at work the weather is perfect

Are you behaving yourself Choo??

Of course I am, bad enough talking to myself without being here and typing to myself as well.

Oh well I'm just stopping by to say 'lo just like the weather all lows our second hot day in a month frequently cloudy and the perishing clouds leak as well.

So you are going swimming to be warm and dry then

Me missuses makes sure I behave myself in public, but not in private

You must really think I'm ignoring you

I've been doing some more listings and I actually got to swim 3 days in a row! Now it probably won't be nice out again for a month

Which is OK I guess, I start my new second job tomorrow (what in the world was I thinking)

You must really think I'm ignoring you

I haven't been doing some more listings, haven't been for a swim for 3 decades in a row and the weather has finally turned hot.

And I am not starting a new job any time soon, we have quite a lot in common it seems

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we have quite a lot in common it seems

You forgot one...you have cats & I have dogs. (Only my dogs don't eat people)

Really? No swimming in 3 decades????? I don't even know what to say to that

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I don't even know what to say to that

Corr, well what if I said that 3 was to match your 3 days and in fact it is more like over 4 decades since I scared the life out of myself at a school swimming lesson before I reached my teens ?

Haven't been able to step foot in a swimming pool or go near a steep waters edge since !

Last time I went to a local pool with my wife to pickup up our lad (some 6 years ago) I could not even enter the hall where the pool was, I just froze at the doors.

Would love to have been able to swim but I was nervous enough before going for swimming lessons but one short panic underwater due to a collision with another kid terrified me. Despite that I weent back the next week determined to not let it put me off but I could not get in any further than knee deep, that's life, obviously wasn't for me

My cats don't eat people, only your lieutenants, the creatures that Darwin's evolutionary process of natural selection seem to have overlooked.

My cats correct and realign the process

OMG Choo, that's terrible...talk about a phobia! Shame, you don't know what you're missing

Anyway, I think next time I'll send my dogs to take care of your cats, so I can send my BIN bandits. (That doesn't make sense even to me)

Well my big cats will charm your dogs and devour your BIN bandits, they are partial to oriental cuisine and what they don't like they bury, they're tidy pussy cats

Well another day of showers, the garden is a slime bath where I have been trying to landscape it, or rather rearrange the clay into something grass can grow on and a mower can trim withoutout scalping the lumps.

Must be the dampest and grottiest summer for a long time after a few above average days in spring and early summer.

Can't even come up with some decent lunacy here, come on folks pop in and drop a bombshell or two to liven this thread up a bit more

Choo let's face it...we're the only ones left here

PS..I'm gonna send over a bulldozer, that might help you out

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I'm gonna send over a bulldozer, that might help you out

No hurry, finish your housework with it first, don't want to inconvenience you

Edit - my tipping get vorse !!

My house actually NEEDS a bulldozer

I've been working so much at both places I have no extra time at all....Good thing I LOVE my job(s)

Hmmm, if you had a 3rd job so you did not need to go home then you could save on fuel, housework and all those tedious things like cooking, watching TV, sleeping . . .

SLEEPING????

What the heck is that??? (As I sit here with my red bleary eyes)

It's 4 in the morning and I'm leaving for work...I have to get up when I'm normally going to bed. Luckily I don't work at this second job too often and pretty soon I'll be on the later shift again.

Let me have that bulldozer back when you're done with it

So, this thread is finally running out of steam. Days between posts, instead of minutes or hours.

Hi Jeff, good of you to drop in and nudge it up the charts again, well what with holidays, and some working multiple shifts and selling in a summer/part recessional lull it was only to be expected.

This ol' thread ain't finished yet, Ms M and I are it's guardians !!

Still the view count continues to creep up despite the lack of lunacy at present, then again online selling isn't that hot at the moment either, just like the weather.

Mind you I am getting good out of season sales on the SpecialistAuctions site so much so that I doubt I wil move my magaazine and books sales back to greedbay, but certainly watching for Auctiva's alternative.

So, running out of steam ? Well the tender is a bit low on coal and water, but the fire still glows, very soon we will get steam pressure up and start pounding the metals again, and anyone else daft as us to get involved in this lounge thread or is it a rope ?

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Let me have that bulldozer back when you're done with it

By the time our lad has cleared up his room it will need a heavy overhaul or shall I just mail you what's left of it

I'm sort of taking August off. I've got some unique items to list, but I'm waiting until September to get started again in quantity. Summer is always slow, so why bother?

Summer has been good for me but it seems to be over now Last week sales really tanked so I'm done for now, at least for a month or so. Then I can start up with fall/winter stuff (if I can ever find any time to take pics)

So Jeff, you're still reading our nonsense huh? Glad you joined us, if even for a little while.

Choo--if his room is THAT bad, keep the bulldozer...you need it more than I do

Hey ChooChoo, going back to my avatar picture, C&O 614, if you want to see a wonderful video of this fabulous engine at 70mph, check this out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhGoR1cpdrM&feature=related

I just came upon it on YouTube looking up something else In fact, there a re a number of vids, but this is a particularly good on at high speed This is similar to the speed of when I snapped that pic at left Its been over 10 years since these trips, time goes by fast. That's what railroading was once all about!

Another good one, taken a few miles from where I took my still photo. Great pacing footage.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrrPGQMwXxM&feature=related

Pretty impressive videos, steam rules, when it comes to putting on a spirited show

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Originally posted by ChooChooGuy:
Pretty impressive videos, steam rules, when it comes to putting on a spirited show

There are just so many outstanding videos of these trips 10 years ago, I can't get over it.

Take a look at this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7PePKv7OGU&feature=related

While it's 7 minutes long, and worth watching every minutes (some great pacing shots), the first 90 seconds says it all!

What a shame this engine is now sidelined, and essentially rusting away. I don't even know who owns it now. I do know it needs major restoration again, and is out of certification. It can no longer be steamed.

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Originally posted by JeffS:

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Originally posted by ChooChooGuy:
Pretty impressive videos, steam rules, when it comes to putting on a spirited show

There are just so many outstanding videos of these trips 10 years ago, I can't get over it.

Take a look at this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7PePKv7OGU&feature=related

While it's 7 minutes long, and worth watching every minute (some great pacing shots), the first 90 seconds says it all!

What a shame this engine is now sidelined, and essentially rusting away. I don't even know who owns it now. I do know it needs major restoration again, and is out of certification. It can no longer be steamed.

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Originally posted by JeffS:

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Originally posted by JeffS:

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Originally posted by ChooChooGuy:
Pretty impressive videos, steam rules, when it comes to putting on a spirited show

There are just so many outstanding videos of these trips 10 years ago, I can't get over it.

Take a look at this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7PePKv7OGU&feature=related

While it's 7 minutes long, and worth watching every minute (some great pacing shots), the first 90 seconds says it all! A cold day and the steam condensing from the stack.

What a shame this engine is now sidelined, and essentially rusting away. I don't even know who owns it now. I do know it needs major restoration again, and is out of certification. It can no longer be steamed.

Awesome vids, Jeff. I think everyone likes trains. The hospital I work at is 103 years old and was built behind a huge trainyard. No steam engines anymore, but plenty of freight and commuter trains still carrying on. The noise is deafening at times but no one ever seems to mind The patients say they actually like the sound of the train whistles at night.

Last time I had a stay in hospital the noises I heard all through the night were clanking, splashing and crashing . . . .


Unfortunately it was from the bed pan washing room across the corridor

Choo...are you sure those werent the sounds of your false teeth, glasses, and hearing aid falling to the floor???

KIDDING

Pardon, just felt something go crack under my foot looking for me teef

Yeah Choo, I caught the action...

(Ahem..) I think you lost your toupee too

No, just hung it out to dry after cleaning out the toilet