This forum is a life saver.

Iam relaxing after a day of moving snow by plow,shovel and blower and not necessarily in that order allowing the temple time to rest. Get well Roger!

Here's a favorite of mine for you, Ralph. I wish you a speedy recovery

This forum has gotten me through so many hospital stays that I can't (won't) even remember them all. Then again Ebay while in the hospital is the reason I have to hurry up and get back to work......

 

Hope you are up and back to feeling better soon!

Great place and it is always here when you need it.....Great guys. 

Hi Roger,

 

Take care of yourself and I wish you a speedy recovery

 

Alex

Roger, you have to get better because I know where your going later this year. Don

Get well soon so you can finish that roundhouse

While I wouldn't call it a life saver, my forum participation does tend to vary inversely with how well I am physically doing. Which of course can present it's own problems, particularly when my crabbiness begins to seep into my commentary.

 

Get well soon!

Roger,

 

Glad to hear you're getting some good treatment.   

 

I'm laying here watching Hawaii 5-0 on the DVR.  Got back yesterfay from a week of skiing and spent this morning clearing snow.  While I'm not sick I sure am hurting!

 

Get well soon.

Thanks everyone for your encouragement. Reading Chris's post, I should be very thankful that I am just a little sick. He had the "Sandy" storm and then this bad storm. You guys up there in the northeast are really getting pounded in the last 5 months.

 

As I said before, thanks to all for helping the time go by. Also, for taking me under your wing and teaching be the ins and outs of this hobby.

Roger:

 

Get better quickly my friend. The Forum is a lifesaver as it can help get you through some really tough times with so many good friends out there that support you.

Roger....it was good e-mailing back and forth today with you.  Very sorry you are under the weather.  LaKeeta and I wish you a speedy recovery.  You've got to get better soon since we have the NWA train meet in a couple of weeks and then two weeks later is the BIG Springfield meet!!  It would not be worth going to with you sick so get better SOON!!

 

Alan

Heres hoping you get beter rapidly Roger.

I know the way you feel regarding the Forum and agree about the ecucational benefits. I have dealt with health issues quite a bit over the past couple of years and unable to steadily work the layout beyond just staring at it. The Forum has kept me motivated when I didn't feel like it.

 

You stroked Richard's Hemis in Randleman just a few miles south of where I now live. I knew Lee, his Dad, and saw Richard when he was a teenager but never actually met him. Jule Petty, Lee's brother, was mechanic on a 38 Ford we raced on dirt back in the early 1950s. Jule had a strong hankering for the "corn broth" and tended to be variable in his work.

i got involved with Jule when I came out of the Navy and was convinced to buy a replacement radiator and 4 tires by the driver Bob Welborn who I grew up near[he was later NASCAR Convertible Champ and before that drove #44 at Petty's] and, I became an "owner"?. Thankfully I soon met my future wife, started college and she put the kaput on car work most nights and weekends and ended my racing career.

 

Best wishes to you for improving health.

 

Dewey....

 

Thanks for the great e-mail above.  I know my great friend Roger will enjoy it!!  A lot of folks would be really impressed to know what Roger has accomplished in his life.  Sounds like you too had racing in your blood.....

 

Alan

Feel better soon Roger. Glad the forum is a help to you while you recover. 

Dewey, great stories. I also knew Jule, but the Petty brothers had different names for their relatives. A bunch of good fellars, back in the day. We were all blessed to have lived in this generation. We all kinda went from the out house to whatever we wanted. This is The greatest country on this earth and we are so blessed to have lived in it and meet such great folks along our pathway in life. When we get back down you way, I will give you a shout out.

 

Roger

Although he was a good and smart driver, Maurice and your crew were the key to Richard's sucess by preparing cars like no others in racing except maybe the Woods Brothers during their heyday. You were part of a historic race team holding the record number of wins and a very prominent place in the NASCAR Hall Of Fame.

That was some operation at the Petty Garage and it sure put Level Cross on the map.

My short career racing skill was limited to grunt work with lug wrenches, tire irons, hammers and banging on injured sheet metal. I can still smell the burnt rubber,burnt oil of blown compression and always the dirt. An after-race shower could start a mini-landslide.

I will be 81 in a couple of weeks so I am runing in the slow lane ---but I am running.

 

How you are feeling better soon Roger.  I recall bringing Forum greetings to another member when he was in the hospital.  It sure made his day. 

Take care of youself! Don't need to come down with the Boogie-Woogie flu now!

This Forum is nice for passing time, but books from my public library are better...at least for me.

 

Roger, This hobby started for me, as an adult, that is, alone in my basement, back in 1995. It was a simple personal expression, speaking only to myself, of childhood experiences of a long time ago. That monologue quickly became a dialogue. The hobby shops, the magazines, the shows, and the forums (I attend two) have happily introduced me to a whole new world of friends and acquaintances of like-mindedness (most of the time, that is,) and I have gained tremendously by learning new ideas, techniques, and the myriad wonderful ways folks express their personal love of model trains. We can be a pretty sentimental group, and I value that. Reading or even speaking on a forum has become a daily habit, which probably amounts to a total of a half hour (or a little more, perhaps,) each day. Even "meeting" some of the harsher and more gruff or vitriolic voices that can sometimes people a forum has been edifying, and at the very minimum, entertaining, helping me learn further what patience is and what holding one's tongue can mean.

 

For the most part, the huge variety of personal expressions I have discovered on forums is a joy, making a much larger world of possibilities and creative expressions available than would have been discovered in my basement.

Hope you get well soon...and I was in your shoes roughly this time last year...felt like crud at work so they told me to go to urgent care...when I arrived there I was informed I had a 105 degree temp and they wouldn't let me go till I cooled down...nothing like feeling cold already and having to remove your shirt for a half an hour to cool off...fun stuff!

Read some books, tweek some train stuff, read/post on the forum here to kill your time and you'll feel better in no time.

Hi Roger,

 

The OGR Forum is the best feature in O-gauge railroading, and you are absolutely right, the forum and its members are lifesavers. I am so thankful to Rich Melvin and all of the OGR Staff for giving us this gift, the best podium on the planet to talk trains from A to Z. 

 

I am also trapped at home, but for a different reason. There is 34 inches of snow against the front and back doors of my home on Long Island, and the plow made a mountain at the end of my driveway that should melt away by July. It's a great time to be running trains and hooking-up some accessories.

 

The sad part about being trapped today is missing the train meets in Lindenhurst and at Queens College. I am also missing out on a Model A Ford club run.

 

Roger, I hope you get well soon. Feel better and have a great day!

 

Model A driving this time of year?!..you'd take blankets, right?{my '40 has a heater}

Get well soon Roger! Maybe I'll be able to make some Springfield trips this year!

Hey, Roger!

 

Somehow I missed this thread and just saw it now. It looks like the worse is over and I wish you a speedy recovery. Judy and I will be seeing you next month, and we are really looking forward to it.

 

Alex

4 years ago I was stuck in the hospital having had my gallbladder out on an emergency basis.   I was bored out of my skull and on my mandatory walk around the floor I spied a sitting room with a PC and internet connection for patients only.   I spent several hours doing what you just did---I even got a phone call in my room from Mike Taylor and Mark Spadaro!  Talk about forumites pulling for each other!  It really lifted my spirits - and talking to Mark really helped put my mind at ease (for those who may not know he is an ER physician). 

 

Roger - I hope you recover quickly!

 

-Greg

Killian---I'm glad to see you are back!  Hang in there - if you ever feel the need to talk my e-mail is in my profile---just e-mail me and I'll be glad to give you my cell phone number.

 

--Greg

Killian....glad that you chimed in.  Many of us have been thinking of you.  I join Greg in offering my ear anytime you need it.  Just let me know.  You have my e-mail and I can easily give you my phone number.....take care my friend.

 

Roger....you get better....ya here me!!

 

Alan

Killian, I'm glad that your absence from posting on the forum wasn't awfully long.  I always appreciate what you have to say or ask.  Take care......

Roger, Get well soon. I know how you feel. When i was injured the Forum was a savior. Scrappy

Anytime Killian   It would be my pleasure....Greg

Roger,

   Get well soon, hope the OGR helps a bunch!

PCRR/Dave