General Discussion

 Tom, whatever are you talking about?!  Thanks for starting things this morning; seems when CW turned the computer on, she had "updates and changes" to be added, then restart the 'puter. All was well there, but seems that either ISP or browser (or both) wouldn't let her get up on the internet to do anything.

She got frustrated and handed it off to me; and after another restart (and some cussing) I made it onto the internet and here finally. She should be in semi shortly to get everything else going.

Temp. here right now is 69 degrees, going for a predicted high of 83 this evening. At least the oppressive heat and humidity have left the area for awhile; or course later this month that Will change, and we Will get back into that pattern again.

....A beautiful mole free, sunny and dry morning....70 degrees as I checked a short time ago.  Really getting dry here.

Just walked out to the back edge of our lot and it seems to confirm my suspicions we are now mole free and I wanted to check how wet the grass was from the dew....None...!  Simply dry.  No moisture in the atmosphere here.  For mowing reasons....that's good.  As the next task at hand we'll be mowing.

Shrubs are all nice and neat now, and with a mowing, we should look pretty good.  Flags in place at back {as golfers go by they can see}, and a group of 7 out front.  So looks like we're presentable for our Nations's holiday.

Quiet in our neighborhood this morning...but we'll be hearing some cracks and booms over the next 2 days.  Nice celebrations going on in the little town we're part of now...{Yorktown}, over today and tomorrow.  Big picnic area and ball fields near the edge of town makes great locations for get togethers.  Small town America...Guess that's what it looks like to me this morning.

Freedom...Great blessings.

Good Friday morning, everyone.  Tom, thanks for getting things under way this morning.  As Mutt said, after having to do two restarts due to updates, the puter was giving me a royal headache!!  That's when I relinquised the puter to him.  

Since it's now mid morning, I've made up some BLTs for our Friday Brunch, along with some danish:  raspberry, blueberry and plain danish with white icing (get the red, white and blue theme?).  Don't worry Larry:  your bear claws are still here also!!

Hope everyone has a great morning (what's left of it, except on the West Coast), and I'll see you all later.

cherokee woman:

Don't worry Larry:  your bear claws are still here also!!

And that's a good thing, too! 

Of course, it being a federal holiday (since the 4th is on Saturday), I chose to sleep in...

Raining here right now.  That low over eastern Ontario better move on pretty soon.

Good morning!

Well, it's in the upper 60s right now. We have some sprinkles around and the clouds don't look like they're going to move out for most of the day. In fact, some severe thunderstorms are possible this evening, right about the time that my favorite fireworks display will be.

I should have had my wisdom teeth pulled a day or two before Halloween. All I'll have to do is step out the door today and I'm sure people will be running in fright.

Justin, on what day exactly are you going to come west through Omaha on the California Zephyr? If it's not running too late, I'll watch you go by, since the BNSF is just a few blocks from my house.

Good Afternoon All:

I go the day off of work today as well because of the Federal Holiday.  It continues very hot and dry here in Alamo City.  Our expected hit today is 101, 102 for Satuday and 104 for Sunday.

Despite the heat, it has the makings for a great holiday weekend.

Modelcar:

....A beautiful mole free, sunny and dry morning....70 degrees as I checked a short time ago

Well, it looks as though Quentin is out of the running for "molekiller of the year." I expect he will look his yard over from time to time, though. 

Indeed, Freedom is a blessing that we enjoy--even those who do not care about how it is that we have it should enjoy it also.

A happy Fourth to all.

Do they have a Fourth of July in England?

Johnny

Deggesty:

Do they have a Fourth of July in England?

I'm pretty sure they do - right between the third and the fifth. 

Rain cancelled the fireworks tonight.  Things cleared up and some folks were wondering why, but that line of showers due in about 10-ish would have doused the crowd pretty well....

Getting things loaded up for a couple of days on the railroad.  Hard to say what kind of crowds we might have.  Sometimes the rain actually increases our ridership...

Whew.....

1853 miles, 254 gallons of diesel #2, average MPG of 7.3 (not bad for flat ground), and all in three days....

Might actually get to the house to celebrate the fourth after all.  Only about 6-7 hour drive to Richfield, then 1 hour home, and probably take rest of weekend off, have to get a DOT physical Monday.

Joe, if you didn't get that PM, the offer is open for 8-9am your time, sorry about the short notice.....

Dan, seems like Aurora has had probs in the past, my friend's wife had many complications (some caused by staff mistakes), she missed out on about the first three months of her daughter's life.  Thoughts and prayers are with you.

Now I think I'll   //thud//

zzzzzzzzz 

Good Morning

happy 4rth of July.Dan we were busy with chores and company yesterday.I didn't even look at the computer at all.My sisters Sweedish visitors are actullay in Louisville right now visiting their cousins.Lisa wants to look at the horses.Jon wants to go to the Louisville slugger museum.They are going to go to Virginia and then New York to finish their trip.They are also going to go to a Dodgers/Mets game.So we gave Jon a cheat sheet on how to keep score.We all had a great time.we stopped and watched Defiances fireworks on the way home.Tonight its Napoleons fireworks.When Matt wakes up we are going to see what csx is running.Might not be too much today.They have been dropping rail in town.The breakfast bar is ready to go.Everyone enjoy.

stay safe

Joe

Good Saturday morning, and Happy Independence Day to all our forum family!!

Joe, thank you for fixing breakfast!  Joe, sounds like your friends are really enjoying their stay!  

I'll be firing up the charcoal grill after a little bit, and will start grilling all the hot dogs, hamburgers, brats, corn on the cob, veggies, and whatever else any of you want fixed on the grill. 

This has been a busy week around our house.  Been having some work done on the outside of the house:  gutters.  They are supposed to be here sometime this morning, to finish up what little bit they have to do, to sign off on the job.  After they finally left about 4:30, 5:00 last evening, we hopped into the Jeep and went to the new Peddler's Mall that just opened up Wednesday.  Pretty nice set up at this new location.  It's on the second floor of a building that used to house a Bacon's department store, before Dillard's took them over.  Not completely set up with booths, but there was a lot of booths, with plenty more room for a whole lot more.  We got some interesting buys.

Everyone have a terrific 4th of July morning, and Be Careful with the Fireworks!!!  See you all after a bit.

Morning

Supposed to be a bit rainy this morning. A little dreary right now. Supposed to move out intime for fireworks. Last year the cloud cover was so low, we couldn't see them explode...

Every one have a good 4th of July!

1 week till' vacation!!!

Mornin' all....

Forgot to mention a few things from my sleep-clouded mind last night, first off, want to thank Ohio for raising the speed limit to 65 on the interstates, doesn't save much east of Cleveland (maybe 10 mins), but it does help.

CW, was rooting around in the IN and KY DOT websites, I see that as soon as studies are done and money is available, they will be rebuilding Spaghetti Junction, as well as the Ohio river bridge on I-65.  Should be interesting when (IF!!) it gets built....

Everyone have a good and safe fourth, and remember, alcohol, vehicles, and explosives do not mix.  Am sure I will see my share of idiots out here today, especially around Chicago.

See everyone later..... 

Happy Independence Day !!!!

Good thing that this is on a white background!!

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We are seeing SUN!!! today. We've been getting a little desperate up here----July and the temperatures/ cloudbanks and rain did not help much----

Now I get to mow the lawn, do lots of weeding and all that other Schtuff one does

Have a good safe weekend folks--

rvos1979:

Mornin' all....

Forgot to mention a few things from my sleep-clouded mind last night, first off, want to thank Ohio for raising the speed limit to 65 on the interstates, doesn't save much east of Cleveland (maybe 10 mins), but it does help.

CW, was rooting around in the IN and KY DOT websites, I see that as soon as studies are done and money is available, they will be rebuilding Spaghetti Junction, as well as the Ohio river bridge on I-65.  Should be interesting when (IF!!) it gets built....

Everyone have a good and safe fourth, and remember, alcohol, vehicles, and explosives do not mix.  Am sure I will see my share of idiots out here today, especially around Chicago.

See everyone later..... 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA!!!

Hope everyone has a "Safe and Sane" Holiday

Randy,  That's all they've been doing for the last 15 years....are studies about "Malfunction Junction"! By the time they get around to building the bridges (if ever) everything will be more obsolete than it is now!  I would LOVE to have some of the "Tax Dollars" that have already been spent on those "Studies"!!

I know EVERYWHERE has their NIMBYS; but we sure have a BUNCH here that don't want any more bridges across the Ohio.......we only have three, and none of these people seem to care what would happen if even one of those bridges got put out of service! Louisville is like a lot of other cities right now in having very big budget problems, but yet is still building a new basketball arena downtown, and still trying to make this a "World Class City", but seemingly dosen't care how the traffic is going to get in and out of the city. (seems the roadways are much lower on the list than the arena, go figure?!)

CW mentioned that we had gone out to a "Peddler's Mall" and wound up with a few things; well, I wound up with a used mountain bike at a Very good price......Joe, you and Matt come down here and we'll all go riding around some of our bike trails. One of them starts at Clagg Tower (old Pennsy lift bridge) and goes towards the old K & I T yard, (now NS) along the canal and locks and dam.