Judy keeps planning these fun 3-4 day weekend get-aways. She is trying to get the time off for the first weekend of October to go up and visit her Mom.
Her Mom needs some help getting ready for Winter with some things that need to be done outside the house.
We go up there every Fall and get that stuff done for her. Her Sister and my Brother-in-law already have the time off to meet us up there.
We all have fun getting busy helping her out through the day and have our bonfire and some laughs at night.
Judy's getting a little nervous as the hotel is short staffed and she hasn't been confirmed the time off yet.
Nobody wants to work anymore. I don't get it. How are all these people that don't want to work anymore making ends meet.
She told me five girls called in today and I have a feeling with that, I'm going to be picking her up late tonight.
Hope things straighten out down there so we can go up there next month.
TF
Good afternoon diners. I'm a bit late for coffee, so Chloe how about a cherry coke?
Had a great weekend. Picked my oldest up from college Thursday night, had wonderful days Friday & Saturday getting things done around the house, family time, etc. Sunday, took my oldest back to her dorm on the way to taking my youngest to a soccer game about 3.5 hours from home. This was one of the games that are part of this statewide playoff style tournament thing, and the girls came away with a 3-0 victory. As they finished second in their bracket, it's a waiting game to see if they get awarded one of the wild card spots in the quarterfinals. Looking over the results out of the other brackets, I'll be absolutely shocked if they don't get in. They should be the first wild card team chosen based on every metric I could come up with. Goals for, goals against, goal differential. They rank tops in all of them out of all the non-bracket winners. They look to be about the 4th or 5th best team out of the 20 that started the tournament. Fingers crossed!
Looks like I've got a lot of diner news from the weekend to catch up on, so I better be going. Later guys!
Mike
Hi Everyone,
I found the pictures of the 3rd largest (allegedly) grain elevator in the world and the pictures of the Cozy Inn. I realize it's a bit of backtracking, but it will help clarify what I had posted about.
3rd largest grain elevator in the world just outside of Salina, KS
Large grain elevator by Jim S, on Flickr
The Cozy Inn Salina, KS
Cozy Inn Salina KS by Jim S, on Flickr
The 100 year old grill these delicious delights are cooked on.
The grill at Cozy Inn by Jim S, on Flickr
World famous "Cozies" I met air force personnel at the Embassy in New Delhi who had heard of and been to the Cozy Inn.
Cozies by Jim S, on Flickr
Well, now we're up to date. I hope everyone enjoys the pics and stops drooling.
Jim (with a nod to Mies Van Der Rohe)
Good morning from the sunny West Coast.
hon30critter I have been watching Queen Elizabeth's funeral and procession. It has made me feel a bit melancholy. I have to admit that I am a monarchist despite the negatives that the British Monarchy has been responsible for in the past. I won't say any more because I don't wish to offend the moderators. Cheers!! Dave
I have been watching Queen Elizabeth's funeral and procession. It has made me feel a bit melancholy. I have to admit that I am a monarchist despite the negatives that the British Monarchy has been responsible for in the past. I won't say any more because I don't wish to offend the moderators.
Cheers!!
Dave
I picked up the service at the "long march" our time zone was not favourable for watching the whole thing. I wasn't getting up at 0200hrs.
I must admit that as I watched there was time for a lot of reflection back on my 65+ years. Watching the long march was something. Five-plus km walking that slowly would try my patients. I do a 10km walk/run most days and it takes just a tad over an hour.
I don't think we will see another example of such pageantry again in our lifetime Nowhere else in the world do you see such grandeur. The thousands of people in uniform were quite something to be witness to.
My daughter came home from University when they announced a National holiday for today. Classes ended at 1430hrs on Friday and she hopped on the bus right at University straight to the ferry. She will go back in the morning as her first class is in the afternoon.
I just got off the bike and need to hit the shower and head out for our fourth Covid vaccine and then Costco. No one gets through Costco faster than my wife and I It doesn't matter what my wife is shopping for be it groceries or clothes she is in and out of the store in the wink of an eye. She owns one small purse for formal occasions, maybe two pairs of good shoes, and a handful of nice outfits. No wonder I love her.
Track fiddlerAnother dishonest person I stumbled upon I guess. I hate it when that happens! ...
I always told my kids that being a little bit honest is like being a little bit pregnant. You are either an honest person or you are not.
When I was a landlord I filed a couple of times at small claims court. Even though I knew I would not get paid by one of them it ruined any credit rating they might ever get and warned others. Never had to file for my fencing company always got paid. I did put a lean on a house that was being built when they damaged a property I owned. I could tell they were going to try and dodge the situation, one call to the lawyer had them scrambling to rectify the damage or they would not be able to sell the house.
My wife's Vet hospitals would just pass on unpaid bills to the collection agencies, they would usually get paid eventually, sometimes years later as the scumbags could not get a mortgage or car loan until all these debts were off the books. When they did get repaid it came with a whole lot of interest and other charges added on. Stupid is as stupid does.
All the best to all.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
Thoughts and Best Wishes to All that need them. Kia Kaha.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Good Morning Diners. Zoe, I'll have a ham and cheese omelette, apple juice, and one of those burgers from the Cozy I missed last night.
Well, I was right. My daughter's team made the quarterfinals as the top wildcard team. It's going to make for a long weekend in a couple weeks. I'll be driving 5 hours round trip to pick up my oldest next Thursday, right after work, to come home for homecoming. We'll go to the homecoming football game Friday night, get up at about 4:30 am Saturday to drive 2.5 hours one way to the other side of the state for the soccer game, hurry back afterwards so my youngest can get ready for and go to the homecoming dance. Then, assuming they win their soccer game Saturday, get back up at 4:30 Sunday and do it again. Then, after I get home Sunday, turn right around and take my oldest on the 5 hour round trip back to college. Ugh! My only hope is we are bringing my oldest's roommate back home on Thursday too. Maybe we can get her parents to drive the girls back to university. They seem to be generally reluctant to drive their daughter back & forth, so I'm not holding my breath. Next semester my oldest can have her car on campus. I can't wait.
BATMANMy wife's Vet hospitals would just pass on unpaid bills to the collection agencies, they would usually get paid eventually, sometimes years later as the scumbags could not get a mortgage or car loan until all these debts were off the books. When they did get repaid it came with a whole lot of interest and other charges added on. Stupid is as stupid does. All the best to all.
Nice Pickture. Collection agency is required by federal law via medicare.
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Good morning, diners. Another busy morning. I'll check back later to catch up on the news. Have a great day.
York1 John
I slept in later than normal today.
Yesterday, I watched the entire Netflix series The Devil In Ohio.
I enjoyed it fine, right up until the end. They tried to "twist" the tale at the end, and it felt just tacked-on. They should have ended the final episode 10 minutes earlier.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
My Grandson Carter won his High School football game.
We couldn't make it to that one.
We are ever so proud of him!
Carter's a big boy and has the Kindest Heart that's as big as him
My Carter owns a Big Piece of my Heart! I believe the more smiles you fill your heart with keeps ya healthy!
BATMAN Track fiddler Another dishonest person I stumbled upon I guess. I hate it when that happens! ... I always told my kids that being a little bit honest is like being a little bit pregnant. You are either an honest person or you are not.
Track fiddler Another dishonest person I stumbled upon I guess. I hate it when that happens! ...
Couldn't think of a better way to say that than you did
I only highlighted the quote I'm replying to but what else I read.
You're one of the lucky ones Brent. Or maybe luck has nothing to do with it but how you lived your life.
You were blessed with the Perfect Mate and have been happily married to her for many years and it always shows that you are happy in your words
Did Done Good!
BroadwayLion A Gnu Car? I wood not buy any vehicle that does not come wiff dynamic brakes!
A Gnu Car? I wood not buy any vehicle that does not come wiff dynamic brakes!
You made me Chuckle awfully hard Brother Elias
My 69 Mach 1 has 4 drum brakes.
She doesn't like to stop very fast, even though we keep making her faster...
It's especially disturbing when I'm romping her hard and I need to Stop Quickly
As you can imagine, ... I don't follow too closely!
When the thing wants to go and she doesn't want to stop.
You've got to get a handle on that from day one...
I feel sorry for the guys that have the 429 Cobra Jet!
I might be brave enough to step up to the Ford 390. But for now the 351 seems to be fine!
Are you Kidding me? I would take the biggest engine I could ever have! ...
Track fiddler BroadwayLion A Gnu Car? I wood not buy any vehicle that does not come wiff dynamic brakes! You made me Chuckle awfully hard Brother Elias My 69 Mach 1 has 4 drum brakes. She doesn't like to stop very fast, even though we keep making her faster... TF
My car has dynamic brakes, or pretty much the same thing. Take your foot off the accelerator pedal and the electric motor brakes it. (After all that's what Dynamic brakes basically are! except that in a battery powered car the electricity is used to charge the battery rather than changed to heat and wasted.)
When people ride with me the first time, many notice that I never touch the brake pedal and say, "How'd you do that?" "How'd I do what?" I was asked how my Tesla would do climbing mountains? My answer was "Just fine". They would say, but you would use a lot of battery to be able to do that, would you have enough battery left to drive back down? Uh... Yeah!
There is a wonderful County Park nearby called Gannett Hill Park. You can see down the valley for 35 miles on a clear day! Plan to take the lady I am dating there when the leaves start to change..... ;) To get there the final 3 miles is a very steep climb up the side of the hill. Went there last August for a family reunion (late wife's family). I had 130 miles of range left when I started the climb. At the top I had 121 miles left. Yep it is steep! Was one you did in first gear back when I was driving the VW Bugs! (36hp) Checked the miles left when I exited the park. When I hit the bottom of the "hill" I had 128 miles of range in the batteries! Hmmmmmm...... Never applied the regular brakes! Yep! I like electric!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Our Hybrid Toyota Hylander is amazing. 4.6 ltr per 100km is 61.41 mpg. Not bad for a 9-passenger SUV.
My Summer muscle machine is a lot of fun but I need to start thinking about getting a new everyday vehicle.
My Ram is getting rather old like me.
My Ford Expedition gets 15 mpg on a good day. My wife bought it and loves it. I have to admit I love driving it.
York1My Ford Expedition gets 15 mpg on a good day.
My 7.3ltr F-350 just turned 22. Ford has the Hybrid pick-ups and the Hybrid Expedition is on the way. We will likely get one along with a new trailer. The wife really wants another trailer for the dog shows.
This old girl gets driven about 5000km a year and is in great shape. She is pretty stinky though, even though she is just broken in with 240000km on her. Time to do our part for the planet and get at least a Hybrid. I would think it will do almost as good as the Hylander when not pulling a trailer.
It has served us well.
My little Colorado goes four months on a tank of gasoline.
I love my three mile commute.
Speaking of grain...
Bolt out of (and over) the blue by Mike Danneman, on Flickr
I finally got acknowledgement from the asphalt paving outfit that I hired back in May to pave our driveway that they should be able to start at the end of this week.
Then I recalled that years ago ('84) I had only run a length of UF Romex out to the yard light in front. Thought conduit would be a better idea since this is going to be paved over! Start digging —
Kioti_trench by Edmund, on Flickr
I made this plough device I call a "ripper-shank". It sure has been handy for trenching work:
Kioti_ripper by Edmund, on Flickr
Now that the Queen is laid to rest I can hoist the flag again.
Wilson was there to tamp down the last bits of soil. You've heard of a sheepsfoot roller? I've got a cat-paw tamper:
Wilson_soil by Edmund, on Flickr
Bring on the macadam...
Cheers, Ed
Wow, that is quite an impressive bit of work there Ed.
My texture guy should be out here on Thursday to skip-trowel my living room ceiling, then I can sprint to the end.
I get a kick out of seeing all the "vintage" steam operations these days and the crew is decked out in Hi-Vis dayglo. Not!
How about a military crew in camo so no one can see them then donning glow-in-the-dark vests so everyone can see them?
Hi-vis Camo by Edmund, on Flickr
Sure, makes sense. Rules is rules.
Don't ya hate it when...
NKP 765 by Todd Dillon, on Flickr
— you set up for a shot, got the sun just right, and wait for the train, then the vapor trail shadows the whole train.
Thanks Kevin. That's Home Depot PVC conduit in there. Should outlast me
Good Morning Diners. Chloe, an english muffin with strawberry jam please.
Not much news today. Been working on decaling some old Athearn passenger cars I acquired as undecorated models. I painted them all silver years ago, bought decals a few years back, but never got around to applying them. This particular train doesn't get run often (none of my passenger trains currently do), but it will be nice to have it look better lettered up when it does run. And I'll finally put the glass in the windows to hopefully help hide the lack of interiors on them. Fun stuff!
Good morning
I can't believe the weather up here from one day to the next. Yesterday it was 93° and sticky which felt awfully hot for September. Today is forecasted for 67°. Perfect! My kind of weather
A good day to change the oil. Menards has the best deal on Valvoline 100% synthetic.
My Rams been getting noticeably better mileage using that stuff. I've been running a blend in the Stang but I'm switching to the 100% synthetic.
Judy wants to go to Mankato for October Fest this weekend and Henderson has its last Roll-In car show on Tuesday.
Plenty of things left to do before the season winds down here.
Have a great day gentlemen
I have been chatting with friends and family on the East Coast, they are getting ready for Fiona to slam them, currently a CAT 4. Sailboats are out of the water which is good.
Alaska just got hit with a CAT 3 last week, very weird weather patterns are developing up here in the Pacific North West. The last Typhoon we had was about 60 years ago. We had a really bad blow in 2008, we had 7 trees come down on the property that were in the 150' plus range. The 5' diametre trunks and branches in excess of a foot thick made for months of running the chainsaws. I was wishing we had those little twigs they call trees like they do in the tropics. Bucking up trees that big is hard work, getting through the five feet and then hooking up the truck to pull the round over and then splitting it with wedges and sledgehammers, I thought I would never finish.
Had a grueling day yesterday, got a call from the kid at 0500hrs his car and driver did not show up, he had a huge day of work so I was it. Meetings and such had us going all day for twelve hours. I certainly now understand why he needs a car and driver at times, it was eye-opening watching his day. He is 24 makes six figures and earns it. Watching him operate and eavesdropping in on his conversations in the adult world with huge responsibilities sure had me thinking about how it just seemed like yesterday we would be getting up early on a Saturday, shoveling in a big breakfast, and getting to the hockey rink for a good part of the day. He is also on the board of an organization associated with Hockey Canada. It is a volunteer position and as hectic as his day was yesterday we still attended a meeting for it as our last stop.
Wife wants to go for a long walk with the fleabags, but I want to get on the bike first so best get to it.
Afternoon
Just heard from my Judy and she's getting off work early today. She wants to go over to Bush Lake and have a picnic so we're going to pick up some shish kabobs and potato salad. Perfect weather for grilling this evening.
Water Level Route Been working on decaling some old Athearn passenger cars I acquired as undecorated models. I painted them all silver years ago, bought decals a few years back, but never got around to applying them.
LION has some Atheran coaches. Him wanted them in LIRR gewy and orange.
Him printed the sides with the heralds numbers etc and stuck them to the sides of the cars. I used modeling clay to fashion the headlamp house on top of the cars.
They are sdupposed to represent MU equipment, even though they are static.
York1 My Ford Expedition gets 15 mpg on a good day. My wife bought it and loves it. I have to admit I love driving it.
Have no idea what our cars can do. We have nine fleet cars on the key board to be signed out as required. There are about five cars in the "run-around" fleet (don't go any farther than what you are willing tio walk back from.)
Br. Louie takes care of the fleet and puts gas in the fleet cars every morning. Gas is in a 500 gallon tank behind the garage. The pump has a meter, but that is ignored.
We have diesel in another tank behind the power house, its main reason for being is to run the 100 KW generator inside. We also fuel our diesel tractors and trucks there. It is dyed fuel, ergo tax exempt since we are not going to run the generator on the highway. nor the farm equipment for that matter.
ROAR