The rain is skipping us and dumping out out on the plains (and they need it)...We have snow in the hills, flooding from snowmelt in Western Colorado, rain on the plains not in Spain and we might get T-Storms tonight with a 10 degree drop in temperature. ah springtime!
The newspaper account of the errant locomotive now had it going from Canton, OH to Anniston, AL and now mysteriously the locomotive weighs 80 tons/ 160,000#s which is still a tad heavy for a GE 44Tonner (ex-USA #7948 ?)
Mookie wrote: PS - Rain and cool headed east.....Lovin' it.
PS - Rain and cool headed east.....Lovin' it.
If it rains much more I'm gonna have to call a farmer friend to come bail my lawn....
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...
Off to do some errands for the day - Driver off until Tuesday, so must go out...
What is Dan doing!? I think he got into something not good for him.....
Someone give him a big cruller - he is going to need it to get back to normal.
Later
Mook
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
Tom, good luck with that medical appointment this afternoon. I hope you get a good report from the doctor whom you will be seeing.
Ray ooo ooo ooOOOOOo
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)
Good Thursday morning, everyone! Ray, thanks so much for fixing breakfast. I really do appreciate everyone's help around here! It lets me have a little break. And since you took care of breakfast, I'll clean up this morning.
Jess, Ray's correct: no reservations required (unless you're booking the Cafe for a special event. Then, I might need you to make a reservation.) But normally, we usually have plenty of room for everyone.
Bad news for the holiday weekend around our area: gas is right at 4.00 per gallon this morning. In some places, it's just over $4.00. Some folks they talked to on the morning news, said they had planned to go on a trip this weekend, but now, they're staying home.
Finally, I made it in!!! Wahoooooo!
Thanks for the welcome, I better get off too work, there are a lot of sick and injured waiting for me to give them a ride to the ER....
I love driving an ambulance, we have neat things to get people to move out of our way, and I get to drive a really cool van really fast....he he he !
No, Jess. You do not need a reservation here with this establishment. You, like everyone else is welcome here!
......Good morning all:
A little bit early here this morning. And it's still a bit cool here....Starting out {now}, at 47 degrees. We're still running a bit below normal temps in our area. Normally, that would mean we'll get up to about 67 this afternoon. One thing that helps....the trees are motionless...no wind.
But the sky is clear and looks like another really nice day.
I'm sure one of these days it will turn from too cool to really warm....and humid. So far, low humidity too.
Quentin
I've been trying to get in here, do I need a reservation (bad for Indians) or something?
Just wanted to say hello and that I'm from the model Rail roading section of the site!
Jess Red Horse of the Weawantapie Tribe!
Good morning! The coffee is about done brewing, and I've mixed up a fresh batch of orange juice. And I've brought in a generous assortment of rolls, donuts and bear claws from our local Sunshine Bakery.
Otherwise, breakfast this morning will consist of buttermilk pancakes, belgian waffles, bacon, pork sausage links and scrambled eggs.
I got up this morning at 4:30 and will be off to work at 7:00 this morning. I hope the rest of you out there all have a good day!
mudchicken; I bet the driver got yelled at big time.
Cannonball
Y6bs evergreen in my mind
...sneak...sneak...
ZAP!!!!
//THUD
....sizzle..........
Dan
Joe:
The locomotive that wiped out the bridge is an ex-US Army 44 Ton GE (somebody please tell the journalist that 80,000# does NOT equal 80 tons)...still waiting for someone [trucking lobby?]to blame this on the railroad... Curious who thought they were getting a locomotive, only to find out it visited the chop shop along the way and came out a temporary bridge pier.
http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080521/NEWS01/805210387
I'll take a number three. Cool and drizzly all day. Yuck!
I have a workbench to build here at work, but I don't really want to use that table saw out in the rain...
beautiful day today.I'll take a #1 for work tonight please.Got our yard looking good.tommorow will head into town to mow in the old neighborhood.Dan watch out in that back corner.thats where the bug zapper is.
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").
//changes to green camo
...sneak....sneak...almost time....sneak....hehe....
//hides further back....waaaay back...
Hey, Sneaky Dan, are you still hiding in the garden? Or are you over in the corner? I need to know, so I don't spill anything on you, as I go by to put lunch out for everyone. And speaking of lunch, I've made the following for lunch today:
1. Spaghetti w/meat sauce, garlic Texas toast and garlic bread sticks, & fresh garden salad
2. Tuna salad sandwiches w/fries and garden salad
3. And since it's still kind of cool around here, some vegetable beef soup w/cornbread
Since it's kind of cool, thought I'd also get ready, and go take a short walk outside, but I'll be back in a little while, just in case anyone has any suggestions for supper tonight.
.....J....It's not unusual to find those type of oil well pumps and tanks scattered around in fields in this part of the country.....{midwest}, that are mom and pop operations...I simply missed the news report on this one locally. {Selma, In}, just a few miles east of us.
It makes one wonder if it might be possible to really get serious with the better ones and extract larger quanities of oil out of them. Surely these oil prices that are being charged now {$130 this morning}, will excite some companies to investigate.
Just came back from the barbershop and right here now this morning we're looking at 4 dollar / gal. non regular gasoline...The signs were reading: 3.999 right here in Yorktown this morning.
And Pres. Bush just a few weeks ago looked at the questioner when he talked about 4 dollar gasoline like he was from outer space....Somehow we as a nation are going to need to get in and get our feet wet and let the world hear us.....Our economy is going to start to go into the dumper if something isn't changed.
We've been sticking our nose in all other kinds of events in this world, and it's about time we do the same with something on these oil prices.
Dan, the next time you want to hide like that, you might consider using "Forest Green" camo
in the Garden......."Desert Tan" was........ Sort of a "Give-a-way"!!
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!!
Hmmm - Joe watered plants but didn't spray that bush for what looks like some kind of fun-gi. Looks like it has eyes, too! Weird. I am going in for a CW donut and think about this one. I think it needs observing from afar....
Q - I heard about your oil well here in the true midwest, also. Wonder if our landlord would mind me digging up our backyard.....
Moo
oops sorry Dan! didn't mean to give you a shower.Just was helping CW and Mookie water the hanging baskets out here.Matthew is off to school.he also wiggled out a baby tooth last night and the tooth fairy brought him a dollar.he thought it was cool.under the tooth fairy contract the first tooth is a dollar the rest are quarters.Time for a nap.
...ssh...waiting to surprise someone...hehe...
//hides under & behind a bush...
CNW 6000 wrote:Drat! I wouldn've gotten away with it if it wasn't for those meddling kids...LOL!I'll put the camo on and sneak outside to hide in the garden...feeling sneaky today....
Drat! I wouldn've gotten away with it if it wasn't for those meddling kids...LOL!
I'll put the camo on and sneak outside to hide in the garden...feeling sneaky today....
That's all right, Dan: sometimes, we all get in sneaky moods. Just livens things up a bit, right?
Good Wednesday morning, everyone! Hmmmmmm, who is "trying" to hide in the corner? Dan, if you want to hide from anyone, don't use such a bright blanket to hide under!! I see you!!!!! And thanks so very much for getting breakfast together this morning, and making the coffee and juice. Oh, goodie gum drops: I see Dan set out my favorite doughnuts, chocolate covered, cream filled!! Thank you, Dan! I'll just take one, and save the rest for everyone else!!
CW glad to hear you are doin heaps better . Trying to stop by more often, but the cost of fuel~~~~ that seems to be the answer for every issue . With the Jr. Bush rebate check I'll buy a Atwater - Kent solar system to recharge the ( B ) battery for my Muntz computer HEE HEE LOL .
The best blessings to you and yours
Cannonball& Shirl
Cannonball:
Asked Jean about what you said of the oil operation out in Selma and she said yes, I forgot to mention it.....She saw it on the news with the pump operating, etc....
When I find out a bit more I let you know.....I simply did not see it on the news....and I'm sort of a news junky. {Really, not sort of...ha}.
Yes, the route 32 east passes by Selma now and has for quite a few years. It's a 4 lane concrete road in that area. I've not been in Selma for a long time.
Really, those mom and pop oil wells are dotted around in the state and you can see them over in Ohio too. Perhaps we should get busy in this country and get serious with some of the better ones and really see what kind of capacity they really can produce.
We're heading east Saturday and I'll kinda watch and see if I see any difference in them across Ohio. Some have been dormant for some time. But 127 dollar / bbl. oil might energize some of them again.
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