Good evening everyone. We have had lightning and thunder all day, but not a drop of rain has fallen from the skies.
There is a tropical storm out in the Atlantic. In a week, it might be close to Florida. You cannot imagine the excitement and glee in the local weather forecasters now that they have something to talk about.
One of the local stations is even having a one hour special tonight about the storm.
I am betting right now, that it does not even effect Cape Coral... any takers... none... OK.
This is going to be a long week for the news until the storm finally turns North.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
I thought herring was what you did when you were using yer ears!!!
Huh? Nah!!! Herring is the reason ya gots tuh shave once in a whahl....
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
York1 John
THAT is a BIRD.... I Thought that Herring were FISH
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Good morning, everyone. Thanks for the pancakes.
Mike, have a good time with your daughter home from college.
Kevin, I haven't liked Eggos ever since I tasted them when the grandkids came one time. I thought it would be an easy breakfast, and the grandkids liked them, but I'd rather just make my own from scratch. My wife eats Lefse (Norwegian flatbread) for breakfast, and to me, it's like wet cardboard.
Jim, we drive through Salina several times a year on our way to and from Dallas, TX. We normally don't stop, but the Cozy Inn sounds like it may be worthwhile to get off the Interstate and have a lunch there.
Ed, that's a sad picture of the locomotives at the scrap yard. It's hard to imagine those same locomotives coming out of the factory bright and powerful years ago.
Dave, we have the same issue at our house with the freezer. We have things in there that were probably made before the rules mandated any dates labels. We also now buy most of what we eat each day. Our small town grocery stores is only blocks away, and it's easier just to buy food that we want each day. It sounds like what some European towns are like.
Bear, the poster with the E units is great! That's what trains looked like when I was a kid, and I wish they'd never changed.
Lion, when Mom made fresh cookies, there weren't any left to put into the freezer.
TF, I hope you can figure out what's causing your posting problems. The diner suffers when the Post Hog isn't here several times a day!
At our house, it's cleaning day. We're having out-of-town company for several days. It's the only time we clean the house the way it should be.
This blue heron is in a 'lake' (actually a large mud puddle) in our town. This might be the same heron I see on my daily morning walks:
For all those mentioned and not mentioned, I hope you have a great day.
Good morning
Been having difficulties posting sumore.
Good thing the Railroad strike was avoided. A tetitive deal, from what I understand was reached after only eleven hours of deliberation.
Others certainly would have discovered, (as we all know here), how important the Railroad is to us all, if that strike would have commenced.
Two billion bucks a day lost certainly wouldn't have done anyone any good on a catastrophic level.
I don't believe any of this is political. I'm just stating what a critical role our Railroads provide and should be appreciated by everyone
Have a great day gentlemen
TF
hon30critter SeeYou190 Scrounging for something to eat, I found an old box of Eggo waffles in the freezer. I do not remember buying these. Hi Kevin, You have my sympathies. Long overdue frozen foods can be pretty gross. Dianne and I are risking the same fate. We have a large freezer and it is full to the top! We have declared many times that we will only eat what's in the freezer for a couple of weeks in order to get rid of the surplus. It never works. As soon as we have some clear space along comes another bargain which invariably fills the freezer to the top again! The truth is that we are spoiled. We can buy whatever we want whenever we want. Long gone are the days when we went from paycheque to paycheque (thank goodness!!!). We simply have to develop more resolve! Cheers!! Dave
SeeYou190 Scrounging for something to eat, I found an old box of Eggo waffles in the freezer. I do not remember buying these.
Hi Kevin,
You have my sympathies. Long overdue frozen foods can be pretty gross.
Dianne and I are risking the same fate. We have a large freezer and it is full to the top! We have declared many times that we will only eat what's in the freezer for a couple of weeks in order to get rid of the surplus. It never works. As soon as we have some clear space along comes another bargain which invariably fills the freezer to the top again!
The truth is that we are spoiled. We can buy whatever we want whenever we want. Long gone are the days when we went from paycheque to paycheque (thank goodness!!!). We simply have to develop more resolve!
Cheers!!
Dave
MOM only put fresh baked cookies in her freezer.
Good Morning Diners. Chloe, large coffee and a stack of blueberry pancakes please!
Watched my nephew play soccer last night. Rivalry game against another local school. Both teams went into the game 4-0 in conference play. It was a great game and our boys came away with the win. It was kind of a unique game so far this year in that both teams played well, both teams played cleanly, and the official was good and fair. Haven't been enough games like that this season unfortunately.
I'm so excited for work to be over today! I'm leaving straight from work to go pick my daughter up from college for the weekend. It's her first time home since we dropped her off at the start of the school year. I've got a couple special dinners planned for Friday and Saturday. It's going to be a great weekend.
Whoa, top of the page and Chloe just showed up with the pancakes I ordered. Dig in guys, I ordered more.
Mike
Dianne and I went on a cruise on Georgian Bay on Wednesday. The TripAdvisor had given it two stars out of five. They were absolutely correct!
It would take me half an hour to list all the negatives, and the only positive was that we had some good conversations with people who Dianne already knew. I won't go into the negative details (that would be too satisfying), but I can sum it up by saying the whole thing was a waste of time and money! Very disappointing!
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
SeeYou190Scrounging for something to eat, I found an old box of Eggo waffles in the freezer. I do not remember buying these.
SeeYou190 They were terrible. They toasted up soggy and limp. I don't remember Eggos being good, but this was just plain bad.
They were terrible. They toasted up soggy and limp. I don't remember Eggos being good, but this was just plain bad.
Kevin,
Hope you won't have to pay for this in the middle of the night. Reminds me of that old expression (I think) from California: "Gag me with a spoon." 'Cept maybe a fork in this case. Comfort yourself by thinking of German pancakes.
John
I made a huge mistake tonight.
Scrounging for something to eat, I found an old box of Eggo waffles in the freezer. I do not remember buying these.
Someone much smarter than I once said — "All things must come to an end..."
Erie & Penn Central McCook IL 1977 by Mark LLanuza, on Flickr
I see a lot of air horns in there that could sure use a home. I remember seeing scenes like this quite often in my railfanning days around the Rust Belt.
Regards, Ed
up831I can just about guarantee that these will be the best burgers you will ever eat.
Hi Everyone,
Brunhilda, coffee with cream, please.
The Flint Hills make up a band of hills in the eastern part of Kansas, in which Manhattan (Kansas State University) is right in the middle of them. There are a lot of buildings made of limestone in the state. KSU and KU both have most of their buildings made of limestone plus many towns west of those locations have limestone buildings. Where my recent ancestors homesteaded is an area called Post Rock country. There you would see fence posts made of limestone. My Dad had said that he thought everybody had limestone fence posts only to find out that it was unique to their corner of the world.
Speaking food and Salina, KS, one has to mention The Cozy Inn. I tried to get some pictures, but they wouldn't show up in my photos. Anyway, the Cozy Inn is a little hole in the wall place that seats six. All they make is little burgers (sliders) and they also offer pies. The burgers start with a little ball of ground beef, they're placed on the grill, flattened and seared. Then they place grilled chopped onions on them, flip them, and sear the onions into the meat. The buns are put on top and allowed to finish. The grill these delights are cooked on is 100 years old and has never been cleaned. They only scrape it and oil it. I can just about guarantee that these will be the best burgers you will ever eat.
Once a friend of mine and I went to the Cozy, had some burgers, then 3 hours later went to our local hobby shop. Someone in the shop said, "Who's been to the Cozy Inn?" The aroma is that potent.
PS: No cheese is available on the burgers and no fries, only chips and a can or bottle of soda pop.
Edit: Thanks Bear for the video of grain hoppers being winched.
Jim (with a nod to Mies Van Der Rohe)
Good morning, diners. I'll have the usual, Flo.
Mike, that is a neat video of the bopper cars. I'd never heard of them. It was a good idea that didn't work out.
Jim, I'm not sure that elevator is standing anymore. I believe the picture is fairly old. It was from a newspaper, but I couldn't find any more information.
After moving to the midwest from Louisiana, we were very interested in all the land and things to see here. We are surrounded by huge areas of cornfields.
However, when we first drove our daughter to Kansas State University, we saw that after about 70 miles, the corn fields disappeared, and we were in an area called the 'Flint Hills'.
The old buildings, the farm houses, and a large part of Kansas State U buildings were made of stone.
Since our part of Nebraska has no stone at all, this was quite a change so close to us. It really is a neat part of Kansas.
This kind of stone would make great landscaping supplies, but it is not cheap to haul it up to our area.
The farm fields in the Flint Hills grow mostly wheat, with very rocky fields and thin layers of topsoil.
Have a great day, everyone.
Good Morning all. Chloe, just a coffee this morning, in a CB&Q mug please.
Not much news worthy from my neck of the woods. Found a video about a "Bopper Car". Interesting concept. Not surprising it didn't take.
Have a good day everyone.
SeeYou190 Bear: You might not believe this... Chocolate and bacon go together so well! -Kevin
Bear: You might not believe this...
Chocolate and bacon go together so well!
“If you google it you can find recipes to scratchbuild your own.
Doesn't look as bad as it sounds:”
To set the context, my Grandma who as a young luckily employed woman lived through the Great Depression could not abide wasting food, not only were we to eat everything on our plate, but we were to be grateful too! So I am Not a fussy eater. But that said Gentlemen, as much I as I value your contributions to the Forum, I’m afraid that you can’t convince me otherwise, on this matter!
Jim:
In Dodge City I have seen diesels, trackmobiles, and front-end loaders moving cars at the local grain elevators.
John: I like the picture of the elevator mishap in Salina. I'm trying to figure out exactly where that elevator is. I thought I knew where most of them are, but I'm a little baffled with this one.
One thing I haven't mentioned about grain elevators is loading and unloading cars. One way to do it is to have a locomotive either railroad or elevator owned push cars through the loading area, which of course takes fuel. One thing I've never seen is a locomotive going through the loading shed. I can speculate that there's too many things to hit and damage, or they don't want diesel exhaust contaminating the grain, or the weight of the locomotive, or all of the above. Whatever the reason, it seems they just don't do it.
The other way they would load and unload cars is with winches. They'd attach the cable to an end of the string and pull the cars through either from the front of the string or the back, depending. I have seen this done. It's a little unerving to look at a string of cars and all of a sudden they move on their own so to speak.
Sorry I couldn't find any pictures of this.
If you google it you can find recipes to scratchbuild your own.
Doesn't look as bad as it sounds:
Bear: You might not believe this, but getting a Chocolate Milkshake from Five Guys, and mixing in Bacon Bits is a rocket powered dream on wheels.
Good morning, everyone. I'll have eggs, some of Bear's Union Pacific dining car bacon (skip the liver), and black coffee.
Water Level RouteA local restaurant & ice cream parlor/manufacturer has a sundae consisting of butter pecan ice cream, caramel, waffle cone pieces, and bacon. My wife tried it and liked it. Said it was a sweet and salty kind of thing. I refuse to try it.
I've been buying peanut butter ice cream. At first, that sounded like a terrible idea, but I actually like the sweet and salty taste. I'll skip the bacon ice cream.
Track fiddlerI just got a bundle of pictures in the mail of me as a youngster and my dad from my step Mom Marlene.
That's pretty neat! If you're like me, when I see old pictures of parents, grandparents, etc., it always seems like those people look so old in the photos and the pictures were taken when they were younger than I am now. I really don't picture myself looking as old as them. I am, but I picture myself as an 18-year-old.
Photo from Salina, Kansas:
Good Morning Diners. Flo, I'll pass on the chocolate covered bacon. I will take some bacon with a couple fried eggs though.
A local restaurant & ice cream parlor/manufacturer has a sundae consisting of butter pecan ice cream, caramel, waffle cone pieces, and bacon. My wife tried it and liked it. Said it was a sweet and salty kind of thing. I refuse to try it.
Hope everyone has a good day. I'll try to check back later.