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Deer Friends in the Greenbelt, Late Tuesday Evening
Deer visit from time to time. Was a drizzly evening after we came home from the Mission and dinner, downtown, to let rush hour clear. Wow seven of them, grazing in the Greenbelt. I got pretty ...
Early April has come and gone. We had an unusual warm to hot March. During the late fall and late winter I think I used the snow blower three times. I “hand bombed” (RR slang for shoveling), t...
Christmas and New Years all past
I trust that all had a great Christmas and New Years. My best to all, for this 2017. Jan 1st 2017: The edict from the wife. After Church, I am (not me) going to take the Christmas Tree do...
Eye Surgery 09/01/2016
I developed a gray fog and spots and/or floaters,in mid July, shortly after my annual eye exam. The exam went well nothing noted. I also paid extra, apart from the insurance, where they comput...
Phoenix Rock and Roll 1/2 Marathon January 17th, 2016
Well walked it again. Few aches and pains, but made it. Beat my time from last year by 2 and half minutes. My cell phone, which I listed to radio stations ran out with an hour or so to go. S...
Animal Crackers rant ( in good fun )
Really Really when did they goof up animal crackers. In the ADULT PROOF Package!!!! The wife at Christmas gives joke stuff. Me, I like the animal crackers, yes the dumb old rail likes ani...
Merry Christmas and a Happy Prosporus New Year 2016
A short entry to all and my readers. God’s blessing this season to all. Christmas has a different tone and meaning to many people. It is a pagan Germanic, Nordic and St Nicholas was Turkish...
Denver to Italy then..Tren Italia Milan(Milano) to Venice(Venetzia)
Travel can be a wonderful thing… or the demons come out to derail you. NOOOOOO is the BNSF in charge of airline travel.. They are stalking me.. I am retired .. Work with me .. it’s a tou...
Sunday morning September 6th
It is a cool Sunday morning. Yes like a heathen, I missed church this morning. My old left knee is swollen, why I don’t know, but its working itself out. I need to bring out a ...
The Oxford Hotel Denver,CO and the Cruise Room.
The Oxford Hotel fell on bad times, before I hired out on the rails. It was “classified” in the Larimer Street area. Bums and it was a Mediterranean or Baltic Avenue type of property. One th...
Bluegrass 'n Beer 2015 Aug 1 thru 2 2015 Keystone CO
This is a great event. RockyGrass is up this week in Lyons,CO This is a good line-up. KGNU is live broadcasting/web casting. Bluegrass N Beer Keystone, CO 2015: I call it Beer N Bluegras...
The Washington Capitals vs Colorado Rockies circa 1980
It is cold and the snow is coming down. I am inbound with a coal empty, and I have a chance to make this game. I am a season ticket holder, I have them with me. The Rockies in the late “70’s...
The Kane County Cougars Batavia, Illinois 1995
A reader and I have talked about Minor league baseball. I grew up with the Denver Bears. This was way before the Colorado Rockies got MLB into town. The Iowa Oaks and the Omaha Royals were a ...
The old VFW in North Denver late '50's early 60's
The VFW. Veterans of Foreign Wars. My Grandfather belonged to the VFW, and well as most of the Terry clan. No they, weren’t disabled, but it also was , a place to drink cheap and maybe have a...
It was a summer afternoon. Warm, no chance of storms, and the sky was bright blue. I was working in the greenhouse, in the back cooler, watering the azalea plants that were kept there. Mr Graul ...
The Rodeos at Mequite,TX 1997-2001
My wife is the brains of this family. I was doing Locomotive Utilization with BNSF at the NOC in North Ft. Texas. She worked with Marsh McLlennan at that time as a Senior VP. She always got t...
Sky King "Out of the Blue of the Western Sky"
Who remembers Sky King on Saturday? I found an episode. Enjoy and remember yer childhood, if yer in this era The olde Brake shoe
Kitchen Remodel flooring getting installed The final factor
Well a day late and a dollar short. The kitchen is done, the poor ol Coops has passed. Here are the pictures. I didn’t take the pictures right away. I probably took before pics that since hav...
The Rose Stripper
Okay I know what your thinking, so get all these erotic thoughts out of your mind. I was a High School Junior when is occurred. Roses, the flowers, got stripped, of thorns etc, depending on the ...
13.1 miles The Phoenix Half Marathon
I did it and walked it. It was a good walk and 3 hours 33 min. Not bad for a dumb ol rail. We saw Susie n Alex again. Susie ran the half with my wife. They watched the dumb ol Coops,...
Southlake Carroll Dragons Hockey the gym class 1998
We moved down to Texas. Southlake, Texas 25 square miles and a great place to live. I am now BNSF management, and I have found rinks and the high school also has a “club” team. My oldest ...
Vegas is Vegas .. a good time
This is the Vegas trip. We stayed off the strip. At the Gold Coast, was near the RIO and the Palms. This hotel was recommended by the relatives friends. The Palms would have been better, but ...
Vegas and the Hoover Dam trip Part 3
This is a part of the Dam, besides the structure of the dam itself, that fascinates me as well. The intake towers. These are quite unique, because the too are of an Art Deco design. They stand...
Vegas and the Hoover Dam trip Part 2
The tours have changed since 911. They don’t do the “Hard Hat tour” like they once did. On the dam face side on the top of the dam are three elevators one on the Nevada side, one on the Arizona...
Bear ..Cooper...and Me when my time comes at MP (Mile Post) 49
This is the ol resting place for Bear, my Chocolate Lab, and recently for my Yellow Lab Cooper. Might be mine too. Today Sunday September 7th, 2014 is closure day for me. I forgot to mention C...
