Good morning
If I could go to Walmart only once a year John, I would be much happier than I am up here
In fact a little bit ago we traded Walmart in for Aldi because Aldi is actually cheaper than Walmart and the ingredients list is better because it's an over the pond based company and Europe's FDA is better than ours.
I replaced the faucet this morning because it drips and if you lifted the handle just a tad it wouldn't drip but we got sick of all that.
While this old boy was crawling around fiddling and fumbling under the sink I noticed a tag on one of the water lines that said Cauld Chauld or something like that.
Somehow I knew that was the hot water line
Wouldn't it just be easier if they printed Hot?
If they want to make it difficult to keep novices from installing a faucet they should just print Scald! The last time I scalded my hand I became afraid of that and will never do it again
TF
Our local Walmart is well-run, clean, neat, and has employees who will take extra time to help customers. Of course, we are a very small town and that may make a difference.
I actually don't mind going there, but I usually avoid it just not to deal with a large store and lots of people. Out here on the prairie, having a Walmart near means I don't have to drive 55 miles to the nearest town to find things I need for the trip.
York1 John
York1I'm heading out for my once-a-year trip to Walmart.
My wife and I went to our local WalMart (the one where she was overnight manager for years) last week for the first time in months.
What an awful disaster. The store was just fully remodeled, and now there are no cashiers, and the aisles are arranged like an Ikea maze. You kind of need to go through the store in sections.
As you go through different parts of the store, gates close behind you. You need to get back to a hub to go to the same section again.
We hated it.
Although, it does not seem to be hurting them. The store was packed, as usual, and people were buying like crazy.
We will not be back to that WalMart for anything. Fortunately there are three other WalMarts all within 10 minutes of my house if we need one.
While we were driving around the country last month we stopped at several WalMarts. Some of them were amazingly clean and staffed with friendly workers. Not around here.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Good morning, diners. Bacon, eggs, and coffee, ... just like every morning. The same thing day after day never gets old.
I'm heading out for my once-a-year trip to Walmart. We are heading out-of-town later this week, and I have to buy some things that we don't have for the trip.
I got all the trees' storm damage cleaned up and all the branches hauled away. The result is that I'm sore today. I told my wife this is the last time I will be up a ladder with a chain saw. Next time a storm does this much damage, I will have to hire someone else to do the cleanup.
I know we have some diners who are having health issues. Please know that we are thinking of you.
North Platte, Nebraska, has one of the largest classification yards and locomotive service centers in the world:
The diesel shop is a neat sight from from the Golden Spike Tower. The tower is open to the public and overlooks the Bailey Yard. A former student is a mechanic there.
Good morning everybody.
There is a lot of stuff I need to work on today, so I am not looking forward to much this morning.
Pictures in locomotives are always good.
Good morning Diners. Tea and toast please, Janie.
A cloudy day here in the land of the former North British Railway.
Yesterday a neighbors house caught fire. Fortunately nobody was injured, but quite extensive damage was done.
A film to watch over coffee.
David
To the world you are someone. To someone you are the world
I cannot afford the luxury of a negative thought
Hello Railfans!
Top of the evening to you. Hope everyone is doing well.
Please bear with me I am trying something new. I searched everywhere for the 'test post a picture' thread but only found a million of them.
I logged in with a cell phone. I am posting with that very same cell phone. And I wanted to try and post a picture as well. All of which is turning out to be very demanding and much more of a hassle than doing with a computer.
Please pay no attention just passing through and wanted to say hi, too.
(Pic was inserted here)
ok, well I got the login and post, but no pic. 2 outta 3 ain't bad I guess. Gotta love modern programmers!
Riding the Yellows,
Douglas
PS: those posting sympathies concerning my last post, I thank you very kindly!
Evening all just had a big roast lamb feast and I am licking my chops.
Heartland Division CB&QBrent ... You mentioned mountain bikes, and the reminded me of our visit to Whistler in September. Guys would ride up the mountain on the ski lift with their mountain bikes. Riding downhill must be thrilling. However, we did see guys in the village with injuries that looked like they fell off their bikes . Looked painful.
Garry, mountain biking is huge in Whistler, the kid and I have spent some great days together plummeting down Whistler on our bikes. The last time we went up the kid had a good wipeout on the first run and that was it for the day. We got a ride down the mountain in the back of a pickup truck. We were back out the next day to make up for it though.
Lots of good youtube videos on Whistler mountain bike trails. Soooo much fun.
BigDaddyGarlic "there is no such thing as too much"
Agreed!
Track fiddlerMy one daughter calls me a lot Brent but the other one doesn't. I always hear such a great family repore from you and I have to tell you it's always refreshing.
Thanks, TF. Having kids was the best present one could ever ask for. My daughter was really into music and was a competitive swimmer and golfer winning lots of hardware. My son was into hockey and golf also winning a lot of trophies along the way. It did not matter how tired I was, going to the rink for games and practice three times a week was the best. Spending most of a Saturday at the rink and coming home to a house full of friends late in the day watching Hockey Night In Canada happened most Saturdays. The best exhaustion ever.
We would host hockey tournaments over a weekend with teams from all over Western Canada and the U.S. Sunday night I would come home and the back of the truck would have some 200 stinky jerseys in the back. The wife would have a prime rib feast ready for us and by Monday night the wife would have all 200 jerseys washed and folded, ready for the next tournament. The worst part is they grow up, at least we all still yap all day long on FB.
Almost 2100hrs, time for a walk around the back 40 with the dogs and then rack time.
BCR passing Whistler.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
Yep
Heartland Division CB&Q Howdy .... You mentioned mountain bikes, and the reminded me of our visit to Whistler in September. Guys would ride up the mountain on the ski lift with their mountain bikes. Riding downhill must be thrilling. However, we did see guys in the village with injuries that looked like they fell off their bikes . Looked painful. Everybody ......... Have a good night.
Howdy .... You mentioned mountain bikes, and the reminded me of our visit to Whistler in September. Guys would ride up the mountain on the ski lift with their mountain bikes. Riding downhill must be thrilling. However, we did see guys in the village with injuries that looked like they fell off their bikes . Looked painful.
Everybody ......... Have a good night.
I used to do that! I loved it! I did it at Sunday River in Maine. My best day, actually, was a rough-and-tumble affair where I actually went very slowly over the handlebars and finally made it home covered in mud and blood, nothing serious. I hosed off myself and the bike and headed inside for a draft beer. Those were the days, ah yes, those were the days.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Me too
It is pretty cool we both took pictures in the same spot.
Most of my friends have been to Bovington and taken pictures by Tiger 131.
I have not gone yet, and probably never will, but they all say I need a picture of my own.
Maybe one day... but... I would rather have a picture of me on a caboose any time!
Here's the siding on Interstate 94
I really did like the similarity.
Nevermind
I promised that for July 12th I would bring the diner to my hometown.
I tried to do a good job, but fate was working against me. I took off yesterday to find my local railroad, the SEMINOLE GULF.
Searching along all the tracks in Fort Myers revealed nothing, so I took off north.
Just South of the CSX interchange in Arcadia, I found this SGLR locomotive... finally.
Just South of there, in Fort Ogden, I saw this string of covered hopper cars.
One interesting thing I saw in Fort Myers was this pair of old 40 foot steel boxcars. These were actually the home of the model railroad club Scale Rails Of Southwest Florida for over ten years. It has been about 20 years since the club used them, but they are still there.
The car on the right housed the HO scale layout. The car on the left was the N scale layout and the workshop.
This is an older picture of mine. This passenger car was the Scale Rails lounge and meeting room. It also housed the club library.
The club sold this passenger car in the mid 1990s and purchased the commercial building in North Fort Myers that is still their home.
OK, there you have it. That is my second-rate attempt at hosting the diner in Southwest Florida.
Howdy ....
Kevin ..... The peach cobler looks good, but I would not want it to be salty.
Brent ... You mentioned mountain bikes, and the reminded me of our visit to Whistler in September. Guys would ride up the mountain on the ski lift with their mountain bikes. Riding downhill must be thrilling. However, we did see guys in the village with injuries that looked like they fell off their bikes . Looked painful.
Here, the ship is still stuck, and the cruise company has experts trying to plan a solution. The have engineers, divers, etc. at the scene.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Track fiddlerBut I like to keep a crunchy salad crunchy and a soft salad soft and I never mix the two. Mixing the two doesn't agree with me with anyting.
Guessing you are not a fan of Southern Peach Cobbler?
Hot, cold, soft, crunchy, sweet, and salty.
Yum yum yum!
I never mix tuna and pasta. I guess that's what Garrison Keilor called a hot dish. My wife calls light tuna "cat food tuna"
Celery is crunchy, salary is not.
My rules on mushrooms and onions is measure what you think you need and double it. Garlic "there is no such thing as too much"
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
SeeYou190 Track fiddler I kid you not I have made the best tuna salad for the last 20 years better than anybody we know. We make something similar here and call it "Poor Folk Caserole". It looks like 95% the same thing. Ours includes celery and diced up bread-and-butter pickle chips. -Kevin
Track fiddler I kid you not I have made the best tuna salad for the last 20 years better than anybody we know.
We make something similar here and call it "Poor Folk Caserole". It looks like 95% the same thing.
Ours includes celery and diced up bread-and-butter pickle chips.
To each their own and I mean that with the upmost respect Kevin.
When the noodles are soft I don't like crunchy stuff like salary in the pasta.
Just like spaghetti, I will pre cook the onions and garlic so you don't even know it's in there.
I like a crunchy seven layer salad with celery, lettuce, radishes, onions and all that stuff thats crunchy.
But I like to keep a crunchy salad crunchy and a soft salad soft and I never mix the two. Mixing the two doesn't agree with me with anyting.
It would be like putting raw salary in lasagna so to speak Help, Help, Where can I spit this out???
Soft dish soft. Crunchy dish crunchy, ........No Mix!
But that's just me!
Post Hog!
OK That one was a little heavy and I'll quit.
But I must tell you that was the tip of the iceberg for the good Old Pink. If you ever want to hear some more, I have them all
I wouldn't just be rolling these ones out here but I know you guys well enough to know that you like this album just as much as I do.
Only difference is you haven't heard much of it. Any objections?
Did you ever hear an old Pink Floyd tune that sounded country?
Now you have! Yes, ...Old Floyd had steel guitar
PH
Track fiddlerI kid you not I have made the best tuna salad for the last 20 years better than anybody we know.
Yes, ...I approve this message
Post Hog! Post Hog!
Okay I'm getting to the critical part of the day now. Life is getting extremely tough here
I kid you not I have made the best tuna salad for the last 20 years better than anybody we know. But I haven't made it for a few years because there's so many more things that are better but Judy said all she wants is my tuna salad when she gets home from work. And the funny thing is I have to go pick her up because she doesn't drive
I have all the fixings right here but I used to make a double batch when the boys lived across the street and they'd come over and eat half of it or all of it.
Now I have to cut the recipe in half and divided everything by 2 which sounds really simple but I'm used to doing something the same way I've done for 20 years
This is going to be a bit tough because it looks like I've already divided it by two?
See, If you guys were coming over tonight I wouldn't have to divide this recipe in half and confuse myself.
I used to make it by memory and somewhere along the way I divided it in half and I don't remember when I did that. Now it's very confusing!
I ain't no Kelly girl
Here here!
Gordon ever comes around this neck of the woods, you will know where I'm at.
My one daughter calls me a lot Brent but the other one doesn't.
I always hear such a great family repore from you and I have to tell you it's always refreshing.
I was looking for something to do this week and I think I found it. It can't be nothing major but whatever it is I'm going to fix it.
I'm not going to say I wish I had two sons instead of two daughters but daughters are delicate and a tough act to follow. Their little feelings are hard to keep track of when I could never figure them out in the first place with my Judy. At least she lets me know is a luxury
It is high noon out here in fire land. We have 306 fires currently burning in B.C.
Just got off the bike so please excuse the sweat, feelin great for an old man full of arthritis.
Gordon Lightfoot has been my hero for 55years and even though he is really old and does not sound as he once did, it is all about the journey for me and I will continue to go see him when he wanders into town. I just won't sit in the front row anymore in case his teeth should launch out of his mouth trying to hit a high note.
I can sit and play Gord tunes for a good three and a half hours, that's how many I have down. I rotate through them every week or so.
The wife was watching a show on sitcoms last night and the only two I had watched were All In The Family and Mash. Sitting in front of the TV was not something I did. Skiing and hockey in winter and Golf, sailing, and cycling in summer were my pastimes. You can golf, sail, and cycle all year out here on the coast, I just did not do as much in the off-season.
There was an event that use to be held in the winter called the sea to sky event. In one day we would play a round of golf, go sailing and then head up the mountain for a few hours of skiing. It would be nice to be that young again.
Went for lunch with the kid on Saturday morning. Went to a joint called the Flying Beaver. It is on the Fraser River at Vancouver International where all the floatplanes come and go from so it is non-stop action and the food is terrific.
The kid has been offered the CEO job where he is working. It is a nationwide company and last January he was brought in to do some consulting work while he was still going to school full time and was also working for the UN on the Covid response. He has quickly climbed the corporate ladder increasing the companies revenue stream significantly. His boss is retiring and has recommended him to the board to replace him. The kid is only 22 and is feeling a little shell shocked at the offer. It comes with a huge pay increase. He was phoning me a lot last week. Still nice that he turns to Dad for advice.
I remember in the mid-eighties I had a girlfriend that dressed me up in plaid shirts, all the rage back then. I had long hair way down my back and two of my buddies and I were walking down Hollywood Boulevard when this guy comes running out of a shop wanting to buy my hair. It was a wig shop. I was a fool and turned him down but he offered some good money for it. Girls loved that long hair and I was not going to give that up!
Time to hit the shower and get busy doing something. Maybe more yard work, I hate old age, Plummeting down a mountain on a mountain bike sounds much more fun though I would not survive at my age.
Oh!
I like that one too Charlie!
It's good to hear from you as well And I'm not going to screw up the good studio version with an offset video. The most successful musicians had a slow and simple beat
Good one Charlie
Congrats on your eBay score
Good Afternoon,
TF, great to see you back in the diner!
We finally had a few showers today which are welcome .
I finally won a ebay auction. It was for a Spectrum combine nicely done in CN colours. I have wanted a combine for some time but they are hard to find in CN colours. I paid $50 cdn for it which is reasonable.
I have been listening to some old rock music on youtube recently. When I moved to Barrie in June of 1971 to start my first job after Uni, Riders on the Storm by the Doors was popular. I always liked that song. I find it haunting.
CN Charlie
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