Bought anything interesting lately?

[Bernadette]

The comforter was really ugly in person, so I returned it and bought an embroidered quilt instead, with a matching sham. No throw pillows, since I hate them.

[mikemac]

A Canadian Pacific ABA C-Liner set and a Canadian Pacific GP7 to add to my already too large collection of HO model trains.  I try to tell myself that they are not just toy trains, but fine replicas of first generation diesel locomotives that ran in the 1950 steam to diesel transition era.  They all run great.  I have some steam locomotives too.  I am a member of the Campbellford-Seymour Heritage Society of which the Campbellford Model Railway Club is a part of.  It's historic, don't you know. 

http://csheritage.org/

[Bernadette]

The large size Bible from Baronius Press. No more squinting!   

[Lynne]

I got a French press!

(I should have posted this in the Coffee Pot)

yes, but did you pay $1.00 for it?!?!?!  I got one a few weeks ago for ONE DOLLAR! at our local discount store.  I bought the thing simply because it cost a dollar.   I would've been a fool not to   

I also got 4 new maxi skirts, originally priced at $60, for $1.20 each, plus a Gap flannel nightgown for $1.00 at the same discount store      That was a good shopping day!

Wow! I clearly need to shop with *you*!

[Bernadette]

The large size Bible from Baronius Press. No more squinting!   

This arrived yesterday, and is absolutely gorgeous! Sewn edges! Two bookmarks! I'm officially spoiled as far as other Bibles go.

[Bernadette]

A laptop, since my desktop is now basically a giant hard drive. Audio doesn't work, won't connect to the internet. It's amazing how attached I've become to having a computer. Now I need to figure out how to transfer all of my stuff to the new laptop once it gets here.

[Prayerful]

A Canadian Pacific ABA C-Liner set and a Canadian Pacific GP7 to add to my already too large collection of HO model trains.  I try to tell myself that they are not just toy trains, but fine replicas of first generation diesel locomotives that ran in the 1950 steam to diesel transition era.  They all run great.  I have some steam locomotives too.  I am a member of the Campbellford-Seymour Heritage Society of which the Campbellford Model Railway Club is a part of.  It's historic, don't you know. 

http://csheritage.org/

Diesel startup. Diesel trains have a charisma to them.

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv_cGG56QA4[/yt]

[mikemac]

Diesel startup. Diesel trains have a charisma to them.

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv_cGG56QA4[/yt]

Now that's a cold start.  It reminds me of a Koehring 466 that I used to own in the 1980s.  Not quite as bad as that but there were some start ups that I was wondering if it would ever start hitting on all six cylinders.  It was powerful though.  I bought it to dig a few ponds.  It was something like this one.

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFOfgWitwgc[/yt]

I think one of the nicest sounding diesel motors are the ones in the EMD GP7s and GP9s.  They are called Geeps.  In this video you should be able to distinguish the sound between the screaming of the electric traction motors and the diesel prime mover.

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ-A8blvDlU[/yt]

[moneil]

Thank you mikemac, for the model train pictures, very cool.

Like a lot of kids my age (I'll be 68 in June) I and my brothers had a model train set (Lionel I'd guess, I don't know the scale, larger than HO as I recall) which mom sent off to the St. Vincent de Paul thrift shop decades ago.  At various times and events in various places I've lived or visited I would see displays which the local model railroad club set had set up and have often thought that would be a fun hobby!


I'll likely never get around to it, but I always enjoy watching model railroaders and their set ups.

[Bernadette]

A cedar chest to store my quilts and bedding. I've wanted one for years. It came as a kit from eBay, and a local carpenter put it together for me. It came out gorgeous! 

[maryslittlegarden]

A cedar chest to store my quilts and bedding. I've wanted one for years. It came as a kit from eBay, and a local carpenter put it together for me. It came out gorgeous! 

I have one that my grandpa made - love cedar chests...

[Heinrich]

https://www.sogknives.com/type/knives/trident-clam-pack.html

[Bernadette]

The complete Liturgical Year in hardcover for a ridiculously low price. And the complete Oxford Illustrated Edition of the works of Charles Dickens, ditto. It's cleaned out my book budget for the rest of the year, but I think it's worth it to achieve a lifelong dream.

[Josephine87]

I'm so envious of your last two buys, Bernadette!  All three are dreams of mine 

[Prayerful]

The complete Liturgical Year in hardcover for a ridiculously low price. And the complete Oxford Illustrated Edition of the works of Charles Dickens, ditto. It's cleaned out my book budget for the rest of the year, but I think it's worth it to achieve a lifelong dream.

Superb, although Dom Guéranger had a notable blindspot in somehow regarding neo-Gallican and French Cathedral uses as the nesting places of Jansenism, which is unfair, given the elaboration called for by these Uses, appears largely to have been something Jansenism (whatever that really meant) rejected. Public penance like the Use of Rouen might have been to their fancy, and some neo-Gallican liturgists were perhaps Jansenist, but the decline of the Uses in the nineteenth century after the French (Masonic) Revolution slaughtered and exiled so many canons, monks and nuns who sustained them; removed one obstacle to the post V2 catastrophe of the 'New Mass.' Pardon my aimless discursion.