Telegram to Willy:
cc to Brian (IA) Ray (SD)
SHRIEK! Stop. Western NE is getting pounded. Stop. Headed to the east. Stop. Hiding under hammock until morning. Stop. And I do mean now! Stop! Stop!
Mookie
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
In early, with the supper menu. Going to repeat the lunch menu for today: BLTs, chicken ala king, and pork chop abracadabra.
We've had a really nice afternoon, weatherwise. Beautiful sunshine, not too many clouds in the sky, that I've noticed. Although, we're supposed to get some rain sometime tomorrow. Temps are in the mid to upper 70s, but the humidity does seem to be climbing somewhat.
Hope everyone has a great evening!
Well, there. Truck's back from the garage (with $330 in new parts and labor). Turns out this particular item I could have ignored for a while, but it had to be fixed eventually.
Packing well underway. First rail trip tomorrow has been moved (again). One hundred twenty screaming kids (and probably some screaming adults) depart from Utica in the morning. Only three on the crew from what I can see, so I'll be spending more time in the cab, which is cool even if I'm not doing the running...
Saturday I'm on the road for Maryland. Meeting both kids and their spouses (and the baby) in Baltimore for lunch - just not sure where. They're in charge of that. I've got six hours of driving to deal with and hope I can hook up with them when I get there.
Back to preps...
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...
Way to go Jesse. Too many folks freeze or don't know what to do in those spots. Sometimes ya gotta wonder if fate puts us where we are for a reason...
Short morning at work and time off before the sentence my evening shift. Guess it's not too bad, I think I get paid to play volleyball today and I have to teach CPR tomorrow morning. Off to lunch and maybe sit trackside.
I'll be 10-6, on the side for a while.
Dan
Mookie wrote: Driver wants to fish this afternoon after work, but not sure weather will cooperate. Pretty cloudy again today but much warmer and a lot more humid. Will gather this all up and send it on to Brian. (Yeah, like they need more "weather" over there!)
Driver wants to fish this afternoon after work, but not sure weather will cooperate. Pretty cloudy again today but much warmer and a lot more humid. Will gather this all up and send it on to Brian. (Yeah, like they need more "weather" over there!)
Just don't follow it up with a front of some sort- it tends to make the wind swirl.
Brian (IA) http://blhanel.rrpicturearchives.net.
.....Sounds to me like you did a good job Jesse...Good work by being in the right place at the right time. The young man was fortunate it wasn't worse....Like the possible head on as mentioned....Hope he recovers ok.
Quentin
Jesse - I rather dislike those calls (I'm an EMT as well) - you think you're dealing with one thing and the truth ends up somewhere else. The young man is lucky he had trained help on the scene right away.
Did I hear BLT? Just have time before I head to the garage to have the truck checked. On the road this weekend and that "service engine soon" light is a bit unnerving....
Jesse - we live in deer country and had a fatality when a deer went through a windshield. Actually, two fatalities. The deer and the woman driver.
That would be like a meteor dropping in your windshield - totally unexpected and tragic.
Mook
Guys, thanks for the suggestions. Today's menu is:
1. BLTs w/your choice of fries or chips
2. Chicken ala king
3. Pork chop abracadabara (which was what I was thinking about this morning) w/peas, carrots and creamed corn, cornbread
Jess, you did good this morning! Here's some coffee for you, along with a roll.
Desserts: plenty of chocolate birthday cake left, along with the following cobblers: apple, cherry, peach and blueberry.
Jesse, you are an "unsung hero". That 18 year old kid needed help and you were there for that individual. I sometimes think that God places us in situations like this, and for good reason.
Ray ooo ooo ooOOOOOo
Good Morning everyone!
I had a strange start to my day this morning.
I had just come off a 24 hour shift and was driving home on the same route I've driven over and over again and was almost in a hypnotic daze as I watched the car in front of me floating back and forth, from the looks of things I figured the driver was preoccupied with something in the car that was distracting the driver from staying within his own lane.
I backed off a bit thinking that he was going to have a head on with another car coming in the opposite direction when in a flash I seen a good size deer jump the short guard rail on my side and bounce right in front of the car in front of me and bam, the deer rode up onto his hood and through the drivers windshield.....YIKES!
The car spun out and came to rest in a ditch, I'm an EMT and was supposed to be off duty but we are really never off duty.
I was still in uniform and stopped too help out, when I got to the car that hit the deer I found a 18 year old kid pretty bad off, I used my cell to call my base and get help sent out.
It turned out that the driver was having a diabetic episode.
In the end everything worked out alright ... well except for the deer which had to be shot by a State Trooper.
All I wanted to do was get home and have a cup of coffee but I ended up rendering medical aid (We are expected to carry crash bags) in our personal cars when off duty for just this sort of thing.
After writing up a report and helping the Er staff with the kid I finally got home, only 3 hours late, I came home to find that we were out of coffee so I sit here drinking ginger ale and hoping there is some coffee left here!!!
I hope the rest of my day is dull and uneventful!
Can I get a coffee roll?
Q - was a little quiet around here over the holiday. This temporary retirement is interesting. With one working and one not - it makes for some long days. Going to have to get very creative if this lasts much longer.
Ray - I think your rain will be our rain sometime later today. Looks like our whole area may be in for some weather of some kind.
Evidently had a leaking tank car (hydrocloric acid) on BNSF last nite in Omaha, which is UP country! They evacuated and cleaned and transferred. All better now.
CW - anything is fine - as long as I don't have to cook it!
.....Yes, CW....We did fine on our traveling. Yesterday, we had a gorgeous day to travel back...Clear blue sky and cool and bright sunshine all the way.
And by today's standards, we sure did fine on gasoline...In my interstate traveling {all of it, between there and here}, I decided {like many others}, to lower my speed limit to about 68 mph on the cruise and just let it roll and of course that improves even farther on gas mileage. Car does great on it anyway. So, trucks and holiday traffic did not seem to be any problem even though there was plenty of both in some areas...
Now, on this bright sunny morning they are fertlizing my lawn and I must get it mowed....Hope I can do that this afternoon after the granules have settled down and the liquid weed killer dries, that mowing won't disturb that treatment....Don't want it to look like a hayfield....It almost got ahead of me, even though the rain gauge only had .25" of rain since late last week. Just talked to the installer, and he indicated to let it dry for a few hours and it will be find to mow then...Boy, sure hope so as it must be done...
Hope all on here had a good holiday time.
The Sioux Falls area here is pretty well socked in with rain this morning, and already we've gotten 4/10ths of an inch of rain. We could get some real thunderstorms out of this system later this afternoon. Right now we have a temp of 60 degrees.
CW, you might do buttermilk bisquits topped with creamed chicken (Chicken ala King) for lunch or dinner. That's kind of what I am looking at when it comes to fixing myself dinner tonight.
CW to me today sounds like a great day for BLTs for lunch. Not quite nice enough for grillin' up here. Whatever is here will work, tho.
Good Thursday morning to one and all! Joe, glad you're having a good time in Virginia.
Quentin, glad you and Jean had a good time, and also glad to know you made it back home to Muncie safe and sound!
Coffee is ready to pour, fresh juices are made, and on the breakfast/warmer bar this morning: turkey bacon, pork sausage, scrambled eggs (will fry some if anyone wants fried eggs, so they don't get too cold), homemade buttermilk biscuits w/sausage gravy, hash browns, oatmeal, toast, fresh pineapple slices, bagels and bear claws.
I have an idea on what to fix for lunch and supper today, but I'd like to have some input from all of you, on what you'd like to have today. So, please let me know by 10 a.m. EDT, so I can get started, if your suggestions are different from what I'm thinking about (and I'm not telling my idea yet, in case someone else suggests it).
....Thanks J....A side bar to our little jaunt out east. Drove a bit over a thousand miles and right here in south Muncie as we were driving out this past Saturday we found the highest gasoline prices we found anywhere in that thousand miles....$4.08
Right at the Pennsylvania Turnpike exit in Somerset, Pa., it was $3.89. Hope you had a good holiday weekend Jen.
Yikes, I'm late for my own dinner. Had to attend our last bell choir practice of the season- we play two anthems Sunday, then we're done for the summer. Now where's that cake?
Ahah!
Happy Birthday Brian! Many good returns. Oooh...cake. I'll just borrow this slice here...nobody will mind...I hope...and run!
Welcome back Q.
And since I am taking Joe's place while he is gone, I'll have some chicken or....a chicken, sans feathers, to go, please.
Stay Safe
MoJo
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Brian!!!! And Many, Many More!!!
Joe, did you get to check out the C & O Historical Society
while in Clifton Forge?
Being Crazy,keeps you from going "INSANE" !! "The light at the end of the tunnel,has been turned off due to budget cuts" NOT AFRAID A Vet., and PROUD OF IT!!
hello from richmond viginia!!! things are going good here.the trip through the mountains was great. clifton forge has trains and ice cream!!! will keep eveyone updated.yes i too will have grass to mow when I get back home.
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").
....Ar. back in Muncie an hour or so ago, after 4 - 5 days out east.....Some catching up to do....and grass to mow....!!
Hey thanks Mook, they look great considering- I guess there's no way to get that one tooth-dent out of the left heel. Lunch was great, I'll be back for dinner; suddenly got busy at work here.
TTFN!
Happy Birthday Brian! Many, Many more! I had your tin shoes refurbished
CW - drool.....
Brian, fried chicken and all the trimmings will be on the way for lunch and supper. You're making me hungry already, with the chocolate cake, ice cream and fudge topping!!
Hey Brian, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! I too, will turn 54 later this year in September. I hope you have a great day, and once again, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!
Thanks for the Birthday wishes, CW! And I'm not afraid to admit that I turn 54 today- since I was born in 1954, does that make it a golden birthday of sorts?
As for my dinner request, hmmm... at the risk of alienating a certain Colorado resident, how about some fried chicken? Haven't had that in a while.
Followed of course by a generous helping of chocolate cake with ice cream and fudge topping...
Tom thank you so much for making breakfast this morning! I kind of slept in this morning, didn't I? The fried eggs look really good this morning (for some reason, I always have trouble flipping the fried eggs over. Will invariably break the yolks when I don't want the yolks broken.) You've got such a good menu this morning, I can't decide what I want to have, except I know I'm going to get a slice of cantaloupe. Going to have to make a decision on what I'm having with it.
And Larry, thanks for helping me decorate last night. Now, all we need is to get Iowa Brian in here, so we can all wish him Happy Birthday!! (And I need to find out what he wants to eat tonight for this birthday dinner!)
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