Hobo Jungle

[E7]

Jon, as you know, the Pilgrims were headed for Virginia when they ran out of beer. Stopped at the rock to brew more. Odd name Pilgrim. Combines "pill" and "grim" which aren't that uplifting, are they?

In my best John Wayne voice (which is NOT too good) : Well pilgrim (Tramp), ya got me to thinkin' about that one.

Turns out that "pilgrim" has nothing to do with pills or being grim. What I found was:

"Pilgrim comes from the Latin words per (meaning "through") plus ager (meaning "land, field"), which were combined into the adjective pereger, used to describe a person traveling abroad. Eventually, this developed into peregrinus, meaning "a foreigner."

Appropriately enough, the word peregrinus traveled far and wide (from Latin into Old French, then Middle English, and eventually modern English). From the very earliest days of Christianity, it was customary for Christians to journey to places of religious significance. A person making such a pilgrimage was also known as a peregrinus, which in Late Latin became peligrinus. In Old French, the word became peligrin, which was borrowed into English around 1200 as pelegrim or pilegrim, becoming pilgrim in modern English."

Rich

[rogruth]

Well Pilgrim,that explains why a man's got to do certain things.

[The Dirt]

Hey Professor Tramp,( ), when you get a free hour and a half, explain to me the scoring and stratagy implications in the sport of Curling. I think I can see that the stone's trajectory and distance are affected by the sweepers, (and the slight spin they impart to the stone?), but I'm sure there's so much more.
To be able to take it's weight and park it down the length of the ice on the proverbial dime, well, it's not only mighty impressive, but it must take years of practice.
Gracias

[Tramp]

Pete, phone call, beer, lots more beer, and I'll do what I can. Send phone and beer. We'll proceed from there.

Heading back to the NY grind in two days. I'll try to reach you tomorrow once the beer arrives. Ale is also acceptable. Must be fresh.

MARCH! It's coming. Keep the weather eye out.

[The Dirt]

I printed two attempts at explanations off the internet, maybe 20 pages each, and I slogged through them and I think I might have a glimmer, maybe 10%, but I ain't even feeling real comfortable about that.

I like the 'sportsmanship' thing. Sadly, gone forever in every other professional sport known to man.

I watched a semi-final end or two prior to coming to work, (Swiss vs Chinese), and saw one of the Swiss ladies trying to curl her stone around a guard stone, and from what? 35-37 feet away, and passed the guard stone with less than a quarter-inch of room to spare, just as sweet as can be, no word of that a lie. Was that the throw, or the sweepers, or both? Beats me, but I was im-PRESSED!!
You downeast? I'll try you at the house tomorrow. I'll be home. Shoveling snow. Or fixing something that's broke. The homeowner's lot in life.

[JIM2223]

Sad Day atJim's apt.


Today is a sad day at my apt. The Christmas layout has been up since Thanksgiven but all good things come to an end. I have orders that the Christmas MUST be down by Monday. Its about 1/2 way down now. Hope everyone feel my pain...But at least it was up for 3 months. Not bad.

Jim

[rogruth]

Jim,

I took down the Christmas layout near the end of January.Fortunately I do have a permanent layout which is now getting some scenery.

[JIM2223]

Wish I had a permanent layout but in an apt. its hard to find the space.


Jim

[rogruth]

Jim,

I was a high school band director for forty three years,Taught in eight school systems in three states.

I was an armchair model railroader from 1952 until 2002.

It did not take too long to get benchwork and track but I have been very slow with scenery.

But that is OK.It gives me something to do.I am fast learning that I am not very good at making trees.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I am not very good at making trees.

Most of us are not and after you've made a few 100, it gets pretty old,

[rogruth]

Rufus,

Thanks for the encouragement.

What is the source of your tag quote?It seems familiar but I am not sure.Now to really blow,I think it is top rate.
{I hope it is not by Hitler or someone like that .]

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Roger,

It seems you can never have too many tress and that's what leads some folks to model the desert, I really dislike making trees, and just set up an assembly line to make enough to do a specific scene. After I forget how much "fun" they were, I move on to the next scene - probably correlates with the speed on my doing scenery.

Source of quote: John Stuart Mill

And, now that you asked, that tells me it's time to rotate the signature lines,

[rogruth]

Thanks Rufus.

[JIM2223]

Layout is all the way down including the platform. Don't know how my 3 year old grand daughter that every day when she was leaving our apt. would tell me " Me ove you choo-choo PAP". My daughter has not told her that we took the trains down this week-end so I don't know how she will react to the trains being down. I guess we will find out Tuesday am.

Jim

[Del Mar]

Winter is ebbing and the fixie will soon go back on it's garage hanger. Good ride in the dark of winter after walking the dog, but DST is too weeks away and I am looking forward for the lightness of being on a 17 lb road bike.



San

PS: Cops made me put brakes back on the fixie. My gog, they are desperate. Not at all needed. It was a rather expensive ticket and I had to go to traffic school to avoid the point on my auto insurance. Wasn't carrying ID, so cop had to believe info on the Droid phone. Shoulda not put so much on it or put Dirt's credentials. (Here in nazi San Diego, you must have your papers).

PPS: Nothing to report on tsunami's. Brought a bunch of rocks up on Coast Highway, but not much else. Water did surge in a short time and it was cool to see (from a higher elevation).