May each of you find a possum in your pear tree
Tom
COAST LINE FOREVER
It is better to dwell in the corner of a roof than to share a house with a contentious woman! (Solomon)
A contentious woman is like a constant dripping! (Solomon)
Wow,
I feel really bad now...it's 80 degrees, sun is shining, gentle breeze blowing nice and easy off the Gulf....not a snowflake or icicle in sight...and I have to mow my lawn tonight so we can find the cats when they go out....and you guys are all trapped inside eating...wait a minute......
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cherokee woman wrote: You all have a good morning, and if anyone has any suggestions for lunch (along with the leftover soups from yesterday), let me know, please.
You all have a good morning, and if anyone has any suggestions for lunch (along with the leftover soups from yesterday), let me know, please.
Good late morning everyone. (Grabs big mug of coffee)
I'll take the Italian spaghetti for lunch!
Ahhhh, looks like we've had a full house this morning!! Makes me very happy! It's so good to see such good friends coming into the Diner!! Is everyone finding the cookies with their names on them? Very tall people will have to "look up" to find theirs. And everyone else, maybe look right at eye level, or below. (Making a game so you all have to hunt for your Christmas cookies!)
Our lunch/supper special today: Italian spaghetti, garlic bread/sticks/toast, and garden salads; tuna salad sandwiches w/your choice of fries or chips.
Desserts: homemade jam cakes, yellow cake w/caramel icing, chocolate cake, chocolate pie, pecan pie, mince meat bars, cherry cheesecake, strawberry cheesecake, and Christmas cookies w/frosting and sprinkles.
I have taken a big turkey out of the freezer, to start thawing for our Diner Christmas party on Friday. (I will roast the turkey, and then slice it for turkey sandwiches w/mashed taters, gravy, and fresh fruits and veggies).
Mookie, when I was employed, it was as a building inspector. Once, while doing a final inspection on a building catering to food allegedly from a LARGE country in east Asia, We found that they washed the vegetables and then dried them by putting them on a sheet on the floor and running barefoot over them. I don't recall ever being tempted to dine there.... Send the rain....
.....10-4 Cannonball....Those big chunks becoming loose down in the desert was a big surprise to many I'd suppose. I understood right away what was happening when I first witnessed it, as "home" to me was western Pennsylvania and that area is not a stranger to the Winter stuff in season.
Years ago, {my family had an Esso Station on rt. 30, Stoystown}, and some Winters the State would have to bring in the old Walter Snow Fighters, the "blowers", to open the highway particularly where it passed thru cuts in the landscape.
Just for reference....Stoystown {very small}, is located just 10 miles north of Somerset exit of the Pennsy Turnpike.
Quentin
tree68 wrote: mudchicken wrote: Um Larry/Tree, your Buds in DC look like they're busy this morning (along with the media)...I see that. Looks like a quick knockdown, though. Sounds like the VP will have to get ceremonial someplace else for a while.
mudchicken wrote: Um Larry/Tree, your Buds in DC look like they're busy this morning (along with the media)...
I see that. Looks like a quick knockdown, though. Sounds like the VP will have to get ceremonial someplace else for a while.
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
Larry Resident Microferroequinologist (at least at my house) Everyone goes home; Safety begins with you My Opinion. Standard Disclaimers Apply. No Expiration Date Come ride the rails with me! There's one thing about humility - the moment you think you've got it, you've lost it...
Mookie wrote: Tree: watched a line cook make french toast one time - she had 5 kids and a farm and was used to using short cuts. She would put the bread under her arm just above the elbow while she was dipping the first piece.Still eat french toast but don't watch it being prepared.
Tree: watched a line cook make french toast one time - she had 5 kids and a farm and was used to using short cuts. She would put the bread under her arm just above the elbow while she was dipping the first piece.
Still eat french toast but don't watch it being prepared.
Dan
Mooks:
Start working on that second layer of fur. The snowstorm that gets us oughta be at your place about Saturday afternoon and the weatherliar thinks will get more snow on x-mas day.
// Hauls in the first batch of BossHen's Christmas Cookies to start the annual sugar-fueled feeding frenzy. (Why not? - The office horde gets theirs today. )
Um Larry/Tree, your Buds in DC look like they're busy this morning (along with the media)...
French toast - always a favorite, although it wasn't until I joined USAF that I discovered putting syrup on it - I'd grown up putting on powdered sugar and cinnamon on it. Which I still do from time to time.
I spent some time aboard a (relatively) small Navy ship. After a certain amount of time the cooks were reduced to using powdered eggs and making their own bread. French toast made with thick cut home-made bread (cut thick in part so it doesn't fall apart) is good stuff...
Bacon's good, too. The one memory I have of my maternal grandmother is her cutting up my bacon, which struck me as odd, since everyone knows that bacon is finger food....
I'll be in the corner booth, reminiscing.
good morning
lots of traffic yesterday in deshler.well last night at work a guy(after an exit interview) decided to make a moon roof on a semi trailer.matt did get to go to school today and they will be showing the polar express.so much to do.look out cat i'm going to need that hammock for a nap.
stay safe
joe
Deshler Ohio-crossroads of the B&O Matt eats your fries.YUM! Clinton st viaduct undefeated against too tall trucks!!!(voted to be called the "Clinton St. can opener").
Grampaw Tom - I brought my trusty map in with me this morning and found Florence.
Everyone on the forum knows I am geographically challenged, so trying to expand my eastern horizons. I found you and still can't believe you aren't sunny and warm. 'Course you do have a rather large pond east of you - which may or may not make a difference.
Well, maybe the weather is acclimating everyone for their eventual move to Nebraska/Colorado/Iowa - the true Midwest? Hmmm, y'all?
BNSF ran a lot of trains through our bedroom last nite. Haven't heard them like that for quite awhile. Must be atmospheric pressure - or my ears are paying better attention.....
Good Wednesday morning! Mookie, french toast and bacon coming right up! Along with more coffee, hot chocolate, juice, and hot tea. Would you like anything else, this morning?
I brought in about a 64 oz thermo container for my coffee here at work.
Maybe I can talk Cannonball into backing the coffee urn rig up to the door so I can fill it.
I am going to put a note on it and tell everyone here that I cannot possibly talk to them until I finish my first cup of coffee.
CW - I am hungry - how about some french toast and bacon. Ah... to die for and probably will......
Y6bs evergreen in my mind
Cw thanks for supper.matt and I went to see a freinds new arrival.csx also was busy in the corn city.snow has started to melt.if we get the rain they are saying for saturday the snow will be gone quick and we'll be in mud.
My sister has been after me to retire and move to Phoenix. Used to be you could say it wasn't the heat, it was the lack of humidity. Apparently, however, due to all the man-made lakes that have sprouted up in the valley of the sun, the humidity is becoming a factor....
I'll stay here in the snow country. Like Modelcar said - I can always add another layer. Taking off too many layers leads to things like indecent exposure.....
Bob, haven't heard from her lately. Gonna have to check on her, and see how they are all doing! Will let you know whenever I hear from her. I've got several emails out, to missing patrons, but haven't heard back from any of them yet! Now, I'm really beginning to wonder about them!!
Got supper on the warmer bar. Some of the soup is left over from lunch, and I've also fixed pizzas for tonight. So, on our TUESDAY NIGHT PIZZA FEST menu:
1. Anchovie2. Cheese w/extra cheese3. Goetta4. Hawaiian5. Pepperoni/mushroom6. Pepperoni/mushroom/onion7. Sausage/pepperoni8. Supreme
After I got back from my trip to the library this afternoon, I started baking cookes: as in, Christmas Cookies. We've got all shapes: bells, angels, reindeer, Santa, elves, Christmas trees, stars, stockings, and tin soldier shaped cookies. Some have icing, some have sprinkles, and some have names on them. If you find any with your name on them, go for them!! Know I'll be baking more, between now and next Tuesday. Think I just gave away a big hint as to tonight's dessert!
....I would think Brownsville would have a tendency to be humid all the time being right on the Rio Grande.
And yes, I know it is almost always Summerlike down there, but freak weather situations can change most places, briefly.
Q - the west I know a little more about - Brownsville was beautiful at Xmas - but incredibly humid at Easter.
Flagstaff - used chains to get out of the area. Scared me to death! Unlike Brian - as I get older, the heat isn't as bad and the cold is worse. Guess I am finally going through my cool down stage.
Nebraska has changed a lot in the years - little less extreme - more moderating. Getting a little drier - maybe in another 50 years I will find it really liveable.....
....J, That temp I mentioned earlier down in Florida is not the norm....But....it can happen, and does...but doesn't usually last too long. When we {up here in our area have cold Canadian air sweep down over the area, sometimes if it is a large enough system, it will go all the way down to Florida and hence, the temps drop.
I've also seen the temps in central Florida around Christmas near 90 degrees....and as for south Texas, haven't I heard of it {not too long ago}, snowing in Brownsville...!!! That's next to Mexico, on the Rio Grande....! Believe it was in just the last year or so....
Doing testing out in the Kingman, Az. area years ago down on Yucca Flats...where it was almost 70 degrees we'd see large chunks of ice that had fallen off semi's that had just come across the 7000' ele. at Flagstaff.....It was a weird sight to see that with the temps that warm. That was of course in the Wintertime....
Heat wave here today, we're up to 31 degrees and the trees are shedding ice like crazy.
Mook, I've pondered that question quite a bit lately as I look forward to retirement, and I've come to the conclusion that there's no place in this country where one can live comfortably all year round, San Diego included (remember the wildfires?). Since I dislike heat and humidity worse than I dislike cold, which I can compensate easier for by adding layers of clothes, I'm convinced that I'm going to stay put here in Iowa.
Brian (IA) http://blhanel.rrpicturearchives.net.
Q - our sun came out yesterday and today and so far hasn't done anything except shine in our eyes!
I just can't get over the fact that some of the places that should be warm for Xmas are freezing. And I know there are mts on the east coast - and that is where the cold should be. But down on sort of flat land - it should be toasty.
So I can't move anywhere and get away from the cold, except maybe south Texas - and then I would have to put up with the humidity. San Diego is nice, but a whole lot of people had that idea first, so now it is too crowded. Guess I should stay home and just be quiet.
Hot soups it is, folks! On the warmer bar: New England clam chowdah, French onion, minnestrone, and vegetable beef, along with grilled cheese sandwiches, and PB&J sandwiches.
Everyone stay warm, and take care!!
cherokee woman wrote: Good Tuesday morning, everyone! Very pleasant this morning, with a temp of 30 degrees outside. Think I heard that our temp is to go up into the mid to upper 40s today. That will be nice!! Coffee, juices, hot chocolate and hot water for tea are ready. On the warmer bar this morning: all the regular breakfast items; including Mookie's 'beagles' and Larry's bear claws. Any requests for lunch today?
Good Tuesday morning, everyone! Very pleasant this morning, with a temp of 30 degrees outside. Think I heard that our temp is to go up into the mid to upper 40s today. That will be nice!!
Coffee, juices, hot chocolate and hot water for tea are ready. On the warmer bar this morning: all the regular breakfast items; including Mookie's 'beagles' and Larry's bear claws.
Any requests for lunch today?
Good morning everyone. It's 48 degrees F. outside and lightly raining as I type this. (Grabs big mug of hot coffee and a bear claw)
I request pots of thick, hot soup such as New England clam chowder, French onion soup, and minestrone.
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