ChiefEagles wrote: Cooking my speciality. Okra, tomatoes, green peppers, onion, hot peppers [two kinds], bacon grease, salt, black pepper. Boil it down to a soup. Will make Yankees surrender and cry for more. Later.
Cooking my speciality. Okra, tomatoes, green peppers, onion, hot peppers [two kinds], bacon grease, salt, black pepper. Boil it down to a soup. Will make Yankees surrender and cry for more. Later.
Bob Mitchell Gettysburg, PA TCA # 98-47956 LCCA# RM22839
mitchelr wrote: ChiefEagles wrote: Cooking my speciality. Okra, tomatoes, green peppers, onion, hot peppers [two kinds], bacon grease, salt, black pepper. Boil it down to a soup. Will make Yankees surrender and cry for more. Later. Chief - that concoction sounds like an ulcer or a heart attack waiting to happen. What do you call it and how do you eat it or serve it?Mitch
Its a soup. HOT!!!! Just finished a bowl. SHHHHHHHH
Goooood night all.
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
Chief - That soup sounds good to me. I guess you proved that GRITS prevents GERD anyway!
Some friends in St. Louis still don't have power and are expecting up to 5 more days at this point, and all the hotels are full. I offered to let them stay with us, but they are bunking with some relatives right now. My wife's co-worker bought a $1000 generator at Hoods (HD and Lowes were sold out, but nobody ever goes to Hoods). She got a warning from a neighbor to watch it 'cause people are stealing them down in Hillsboro. Another storm came through while we were working downtown Friday. My buddy is a smoker so we went out and stood under the shed (it's a copy of an old train shed) and watched it blow through for a while. It wasn't so bad where we were, next to Union Station, but it knocked UE back to about 538,000 without power.
Luckily, our power has been fine since Wednesday. We did lose our vcr - it won't power-up now. She's going to try and exchange it, since we just bought it. The storm also knocked down my neighbor's fence, but just sections he didn't fix a month ago. I helped him move some sections off my lawn today.
My freind Dave turned 37 yesterday. Out to dinner last night for pizza and hot wings, then stopped by for cake. We met with our sons today and saw Pirates of the Carribean, which I thought was great! But, I can't wait to see the finale! Then had Chicago style hot dogs for dinner with waffle fries, rented some movies, and hung out here with the kids while the wives went to the Muny.
RIP Chewy - best dog I ever had.
Jim Fortner wrote: ................ Then had Chicago style hot dogs for dinner with waffle fries, ....................
................ Then had Chicago style hot dogs for dinner with waffle fries, ....................
Good old Northern food.
John, Great video with great sound. I couldn't see it on the laptop but it worked great on the old reliable eight year old desktop.
Celebrating 18 years on the CTT Forum.
Buckeye Riveter......... OTTS Charter Member, a Roseyville Raider and a member of the CTT Forum since 2004..
Jelloway Creek, OH - ELV 1,100 - Home of the Baltimore, Ohio & Wabash RR
TCA 09-64284
Good Morning from Blueberryhill.......
Well, it's 59 degrees, going up to 79 today, with a shower, maybe. A little foggy right now. Summer day.
I think I will watch the NASCAR race today. Looks like it will be a good one. 500 miler. Not much going on with trains, lately. Try to run them every day, in the hot afternoon.
Looks like Buckeye is up early today. John is either sleeping in or working. Same here, laptop won't work but old desktop did it. Great.
Well, going to the Dining Car for breakfast. Talk more later.
Y'all have a great day.
Chuck
3rdRailMike wrote:Well Frank,It's early Sunday morning, and I decided to mosey on over and see what you are up to on the other forum. Looking forward to reading a lot of good stuff! By the way.......I have 18 pepper plants growing in the garden, Cayennes, Jalapeno's, Anchos, CHili's, Thai's etc......(And some nice sweet bells) Plus 12 tomato plants....... All I need is to add the beef and Ill sever you some chili (NO BEANS) that will warm the heart and heat the pallete!Mike
to my buddy Mike. He's a Yankee but he's a good one [if there ever was a good Yankee ]. See Mike, we are not as formal over here as you are use too. Glad to have you. Guys, Mike is the one I mentioned a couple of months ago that had heart surgery. Got lots of pepper plants in the garden but not as many varities as you. I do have 35 tomato plants and they are now going strong.
Well, I'm back from Early Church and SS. Now I have nothing really planned for the day. Probably get measurments on the walls for the tunnels to the walkin attic. Then sit down with RR Tracks and do somemore planning. Got to put up a shelf in the "mud room" for the wife. She is moving all her plants she has in the kitchen windows to that shelf. Guys [Lowes] are coming this week to do actual measuring for ceramic tile for the floor in that room. I know who will have to install new threshholes and cut off the doors. They will move the washer, dryer and chest freezer.
Have a good one and God bless.
Good morning, everyone!
Mike, welcome to the forum! It's always great to have a new member!
Well, I got back to Regina on Wednesday. My parents brought me up with the truck so my display (which is stored here) could be brought back to Langenburg before the Melville train show this coming Saturday.
My car got fixed A-OK and is just like new again. Hopefully it won't need to get repaired again for a very long time!
My parents stayed here for a bit and we went up to Saskatoon on Friday. Took in the Western Development Museum there, which has always been a favourite place to visit. They have a 1905 CPR 0-6-0 switcher there. The last time I was there, it was still in the restoration stage (which it had been in for a few years). Now the restoration is finally complete and it sure does look sharp!
As usual when taking a trip like this, I phoned all the antique dealers in Saskatoon and stopped in the antique stores we found in towns along the way. Only one had any trains (a cheap Lionel set from the 60's, a Yonezawa Japanese battery operated tinplate set from the 60's and a box of newer HO stuff) and they were all over priced.
An interesting article from a fishing forum:
This aritcle was in the Arkansas Democrat Gazzette Sunday, I know there are alot of people on here that like "sweet tea" and thought ya'll might like this. You have your Johnny Appleseed, who, few people know, won a lawsuit in 1814 over the American Medical Association, which objected to his motto: An apple a day keeps the you-know-what away. And you have your Johnny Sweet Tea, who has yet to be sued for his motto: Life is short, sugar is cheap, and the South is too hot to live without sweet tea. Johnny Appleseed's real name was John Chapman. Johnny Sweet Tea's real name is, well, I am he. My mission is to spread the gospel of Sweet Tea. Southern Living magazine, in fact, once referred to me as a "sweet tea evangelist." I don't know who coined the phrase (I wish it had been me), but the father in Steel Magnolias refers to iced tea as "the house wine of the South." (He should have been specific that it must be sweet tea.) My love of sweet tea began at home in Pineville, La., where my two kid sisters and I were allowed a glass after supper after we had consumed our milk, which wasn't always easy. One summer, my mother, in an effort to economize, mixed our Foremost homogenized milk with nonfat instant powdered milk. We called it "mixed milk," and to say it was awful greatly understates the matter, especially after the milk had sat out a few minutes. My mother's tea, though, was as good as the quote-unquote milk was awful. When I worked at the newspaper in Mobile, Ala., I rhapsodized in a column that sweet tea embodies all that is good about the South. Readers responded with rhapsodies of their own. For the next five years, we held a contest every summer to find the best homemade sweet tea in South Alabama. Rick Bragg wrote a story for The New York Times about my crusade to save the sweet-tea tradition. Rick, who grew up in Possum Trot, Ala., where mamas keep tea in gallon pickle jars, understood the significance. "In a region where the summertime air is thick and hot and still even when it's dark," he wrote, "where people work hard and sweat rivers, hot tea was senseless and unsweetened tea was just brown ice water... Sweet iced tea spanned race and class; it was one thing Southerners had in common, besides mosquitoes and creeping mildew." Jousting with unsweetened windmills is no easy task. In Oklahoma, for instance, the restaurants that serve the tea sweet are few and far between. Grits are hard to find, too, and once in a small-town diner, when I asked for rice to put under my pinto beans, the waitress looked at me as if I had ordered a bowl of dirt. Arkansas isn't as unwashed as its neighbor directly to the west, but I have some work to do. Too often I've heard the refrain: "Sweetener's on the table." This would be the place to stipulate that sweet tea and sweetened tea aren't the same. Sweetened tea may not be sweet enough. Again: Life's short, sugar's cheap, the South is hot. Furthermore, I'm a Southern Baptist. I can't drink, cuss, dance, gamble or go to Disney World. What's left? Sweet Tea appears Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday.
Pretty much sums it up.
Mornin' All,
All kinds of new records for temps yesterday, we had an official 112*, here at the house I think it mite have been a tad higher. Went to the bank at 10:30am and the car was showing 105* after backing out of the garage. Either way it's still to damn hot. Real simple and easy dinner last nite, threw a couple of ribeyes on the grill and sliced up a real nice homegrown beefsteak tomatoe. Now to get ready for another day of HEAT.
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Freezing here - mid-80's with a breeze. We had 11 days of 100+. Broke the spell yesterday and only supposed to hit 94/95 today.
Have to mow the lawn before I head out for Denver tomorrow (it was 70's there yesterday ).
Had Mexican food for dinner last night. Had Maalox for desert!
Still wish I could see previous posts while replying.
Regards, Roy
"Still wish I could see previous posts while replying."
Doing laundry and taking it easy today. Got two coupons from Michaels for 40 percent off - might have to get some Lemax Halloween stuff this week!
Wow, nearly 1 pm and it is only 89 degrees with a breeze blowing. Got the lawn mowed in relative comfort
Just caught a segment on Mythbusters where they launched a 24 lb cannon ball with a steam cannon and only 68 psi pressure. They wanted to go higher but ran out of time. Interesting thread over on OGR forum about superheated steam and its power.
As previously mentioned, we took the Granddaughters to Chuck-E-Cheese last night as part of the now 5 yr. old's birthday celebration. What a rip off, for the number of tickets it takes to get a 5 cent, or less, prize one can take the cash and buy the child a full bag/box of whatever. Luckily I was able to talk them into leaving after an hour, that's about all I could stand. After about an half hour the middle GD seemed to be getting bored.
After C-E-C we went to a real pizzeria for supper. While there all h**l broke loose with strong winds, rain and lightening. By the time we left it was starting to die off but there were branches all over the road. After we were home a bit their stepfater called and said that the wind blew their swing set over and trampoline into the woods.
Spent this morning cleaning gutters, ugh, make that a double ugh. Been scratch building a run down ranch house and barn. I was just out in the train room surveying the site. Why is it that things don't look too large on the work bench but seem to take acres on the layout? Looks like I'm going to have to call in the demolition crew and do some grading to set the house and barn. Of course the paint I used for the ground is long gone, I hate the idea of buying a quart just for about a square foot of ground, at least I have a bit of joint compound around, hope its still soft.
Mike !! You'll like it real good over here !! Boy, we have quite a few guys now from Pa. I got to tell you, I always liked your signature at the bottom about " She's a Streamliner & She's Fast ya' know....!! I used to see that all the time when I read over on the other forum !! Have you got any more like that ? !! Anyway, glad you're here !!
Well, just got home from work, & glad some of you guys were able to see my video on your other computer !! I think I'll try & bore us all with one every Saturday !! Yeah, then more guys can come & put some good ones on !!
Hope everyone is having a nice day !!
Thanks, John
I use this technique with Internet Explorer, don't know if it will work with other browsers.
Right click on the reply button. Select "Open Link in a New Window" from menu. This opens a second page for the reply. To switch between the windows, use the ALT and TAB keys together. This makes it easy to read the posts while replying. When you click on POST, the reply is now in the second window only. Switch back to the first window and click on refresh. Close the second window.
wrmcclellan wrote: Still wish I could see previous posts while replying.
I have started opening up 2 copies of the forum, that way I can look at the posts while posting a reply. A pain but it works.
Good afternoon,
Hot again but not as bad as it had been.
Looks like our hot water heater is about to die. This morning when Jean opened the faucet in the kitchen, she nearly got steam instead of hot water. Turned it off and called my plumber at home and asked to be put on the list for tomorrow. Oh the joys of home ownership.
All the talk of hot peppers is making me hungry. I always grow a few varieties.
Mike, Welcome to the forum. Stop in again.
Roy, Have a nice trip. You are supposed to get the inside scoup on TMCC-2 at the LCCA convention.
John, I predicted that the chief would give you a hard time.
Enjoy your trains.
John : Yes that was a good prediction, & I almost emailed you back, & I checked the forum & there it was !! The Chiefs reply !! Wait till he sees the Sunday Photo Fun !! You know, that eng. went down the other track ,cause someone didn't have the switch handle down in the little safety lock. The lead truck went through & the rear truck wheels picked the switch cause it wasn't latched. We get that all the time, mostly from the newer guys, just forgetting .
Also, that's what I do, bring up 2 forum pages !!
Roy : have another good trip !!
Hey John (jefelectric) - that's right - TMCC II at LCCA. I'll see if I can get you guys a report if it happens.
Greg - good suggestion. I did the right click and that works just fine. I just pick from the menu bar to go back and forth between pages. Thanks for the suggestion!
Weird weather. Temps have dropped to 84/84, cloudy, but not a drop of rain. Radar scan is looking out 100+ miles - not a drop in sight.
Hey guys, I just stumbled unto this. Do you think it could be the Chief's layout?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcrPQo5DFJQ
jefelectric wrote: Hey guys, I just stumbled unto this. Do you think it could be the Chief's layout? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcrPQo5DFJQ
By Golly, I'm sure it is !! Not only is it on the floor, but there's car racing on the TV !!
Good find, John !!!
csxt30 wrote: jefelectric wrote: Hey guys, I just stumbled unto this. Do you think it could be the Chief's layout? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcrPQo5DFJQ By Golly, I'm sure it is !! Not only is it on the floor, but there's car racing on the TV !! Good find, John !!!
By golly it is. Thought I did a real good job of carving a likeness of John [CSX30] sitting therer beside the TV.
Got my lower level drawn in RRTracks. Tooks some time and lots of measuring the walls where the tracks will come through. Had to drill holes through the walls from inside the walkin attic to get the angle of the roof in the walkin attic. Used straight edge and connected the holes. Got more tracks than the original drawing. Also left a switch for a siding that can be for a "add-on" module. Now the upper level.
Later.
Chief, Buckeye, Mitch, Jefelectric,
Sorry it took so long to get back to you. I think I need pre vaction days to get ready for a vacation. Chief there have been numerous ghost sightings in Gettysburg. Looks like your wife saw the real deal. I'll try to get some photos from your side of the action. Not getting to NC this trip, but our daughter has the heart of a County Girl, you never know.
Buckeye you may be right about History being her major. She took two college credit History classes in her Junior year of High School and got the top grade. It helps to have a great teacher. Looking at my mapquest directions for todays trip our first stop is the first right past BUCKEYE ROAD in Stubenville Ohio. Could be a good sign.
Mitch, Thanks for all the local information on the train shops. Now I'll be sure to have some benifit from all this driving.At least my wife and daughter enjoy the trip. Thanks again for all your help Mitch. It means a lot.
Jefelectric, I think my wife would like to see our daughter go to a school that was less than 20 BLOCKS from home.You are right about the trips being an adventure, and ours starts in four hours. Better sign out.
Thanks again everyone. See you next Sunday.
Best Regards, Ken
I Plan to hide in the garage all day today.
I feel like it might be "on of those days today".
You can never tell.
John,
Did any of that flooding affect you or the family? I hope it wasn't any of your family that drove around the cones and the road closed signs and then found their car afloat.
Good Morning from Blueberryhill.............
It is going to be another beautiful day today. 61 degrees now, going up to 84. Nothing but sunshine.
I have a few small chores to do today and then I will probably be outside enjoying the weather. Go for a long walk.
Not much new on the train scene. Try to work on the layout, on rainy or extra hot days. Rain coming at end of week. Have to secure track and put down some grass mat. Snow on the mountain. Making roads out of roofing paper. Look like asphalt. Have to stain retaining wall. A lot to do. No rush, that's the nice part.
I'm off to the Dining Car for breakfast. Talk more later.
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