cherokee woman wrote: Brian, glad to see you come in this morning! How are you and Joanie doing? Hope you are both well.
Brian, glad to see you come in this morning! How are you and Joanie doing? Hope you are both well.
We're doing great, thank you. We're even starting to do an occasional walk around the neighborhood, something that Joanie hasn't been able to do in a couple of years.
Brian (IA) http://blhanel.rrpicturearchives.net.
Cw thanks for supper.brian glad you and joanie are doing better.I mowed today and loaded some wood for deshler's bonfire.Tommorow will probably go into town and help with chores there.time to get cleaned up.
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").
The warmer bar is now ready for tonight's Mexican Fiesta. Everything is freshly made, and heat hot. (Spicy hot is also available, for those of you who like your food spicy hot.
Brian, maybe whenever my knee brace comes in, I can go on really good walks, without the shooting pain through my leg and knee. That would be so nice!! Tell Joanie I'm glad she's doing so well.
Everyone have a good evening (what's left of it), and I'll see you all tomorrow.
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)
So my phone rings at work about 15 minutes before quitting time. At first I don't recognize the voice, but then figure out it's one of our railroad volunteers, who wanted to know if I could work Wednesday - they're short a conductor. Unfortunately, I have vendors coming in and have to be at work.
Drat.
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...
Good Wednesday morning, and first day of October! We are currently at a very pleasant 56 degrees this morning, and looking for a high of 65. Should be a very nice day today, with some cloud cover.
Coffee is on, and has finished brewing; fresh oj and oj/tangerine and grape juice are ready and in the fridge; there's hot water for tea; hot chocolate and some hot cider.
On the breakfast bar: oatmeal, toast, bear claws, bagels, turkey bacon, pork sausage patties, homemade buttermilk biscuits w/sausage gravy and hash browns.
Everyone have a good morning!
morning
cool morning. a projected high of 60 today.very fall like today.going to look in the archieves for a bit then time for a nap.
grampaw pettibone wrote: If we could get the liars, finger pointers and ne'erdowells assorted, off the TV, things would improve all around,
To do that, Grampaw, you'd probably have to shoot all of 'em. And while you're at it, you can attend to ours as well - we've got plenty of them in the UK.
Dennis
I'm fond of saying that the best person for the presidency is walking down the street in Lincoln, NE. I'm not thinking of Ms Mook as such, although I'm sure she'd do a great job (and would have a fantastic transportation policy!). It's more of an "Anytown, USA" thing.
Maybe I'm glad I'm not working on the railroad today - looks as if I'd have gotten quite wet.
Got enough of that this past weekend.
......Before I get back into seriously thinking of who is going into the President's office....I'd like to see some movement on this rescue package....Of course one that is acceptable to most. Sad part is, my belief is that most citizens don't really know how much trouble we're into...
So the Senate votes today on a new revised package....and hopefully the H of R before Monday...
Our skies are partly cloudy with quite a bit of sunshine this morning. Temp right now here 54 and sunshine. Crisp morning, but nice. Probably must do a mowing later today.
Quentin
Yeah, we're still getting sunshine here, with enough of a breeze that it's kind of on the nippy side out. Had to go to the bank first thing this morning, so we could have some bus tickets, and got a few groceries while I was there. Right now, at noon, we have a temp of 60 degrees.
For today's lunch and supper, I've fixed pork chop abracadabra, w/mashed taters & gravy, green beans, or sweet green peas, glazed carrots, creamed corn and baked cornbread.
For dessert today, you have your choice of:
1. Chocolate cake
2. Yellow cake w/caramel icing
3. Apple cobbler
4. Blackberry cobbler
5. Peach cobbler
Think I need to go put on a sweat jacket: even here in the house, it's on the cool side. (Too cotton pickin' early to turn on the furnace.)
cherokee woman wrote: (Too cotton pickin' early to turn on the furnace.)
I never shut mine off - I just turn it down and put the thermostat on "hold." That way I don't get surprised by a mid-summer cold snap. And I've seen it drop into the low 40's here in August...
....Boy, this talk of turning on furnaces brings this fall season into too much focus, reminding of impending Winter on the way. Seems I dislike it more each year of age I add.
But sure would not be happy to live where the furnace "kicks on" during August. Haven't had to add any heat here yet, in fact, this is the "coolest" bit of weather we've had this season so far.....Right now it's 62.4 and sunshine and a bit of wind....Cool enough, but not bad.
No furnace to kick on either.....Individual radiant {electric},room heat with each room having it's own thermostat. Believe we're to warm up a bit next weather change.
This Summer cycle sure has sped by fast and got us to Fall really fast.
Modelcar wrote: But sure would not be happy to live where the furnace "kicks on" during August.
That usually happens when we've had a really nice day, so all the windows and doors are open, then the temp drops overnight, so in addition to heating the house, we're heating the great outdoors as well...
tree68 wrote: cherokee woman wrote: (Too cotton pickin' early to turn on the furnace.) I never shut mine off - I just turn it down and put the thermostat on "hold." That way I don't get surprised by a mid-summer cold snap. And I've seen it drop into the low 40's here in August...
Larry, we have several floor furnaces in our house. But the one in the entry hall gets vaccumed out all the time; but when we actually turn up the thermostat in the fall/winter, we also check one of the smoke detectors: if it goes off, we know we didn't get all the pet hair out of it!
(furnace; if it were pet hair in the smoke detector, I'd be wondering about the cats climbing! )
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!!
afternoon
went into town and got the chores done.won't be too long and we'll be raking leaves too.Csx was working on FC so trains passing were crawling along.The maw is leaning on its track and the cars in the siding will have to wait until tommorow morning to move.I also picked up some supper and it also helps the united way as well.
cherokee woman wrote:Yeah, we're still getting sunshine here, with enough of a breeze that it's kind of on the nippy side out. Had to go to the bank first thing this morning, so we could have some bus tickets, and got a few groceries while I was there. Right now, at noon, we have a temp of 60 degrees.For today's lunch and supper, I've fixed pork chop abracadabra, w/mashed taters & gravy, green beans, or sweet green peas, glazed carrots, creamed corn and baked cornbread. For dessert today, you have your choice of:1. Chocolate cake2. Yellow cake w/caramel icing3. Apple cobbler4. Blackberry cobbler5. Peach cobbler Think I need to go put on a sweat jacket: even here in the house, it's on the cool side. (Too cotton pickin' early to turn on the furnace.)
Tonight's supper of pork chop abracadabra and all the sides are on the warmer bar for tonight.
Definitely going to be a nice evening, to curl up and cover up, to keep from getting chilled. But, that's fine with me!!
Good Thursday morning, everyone. Very cool this morning, with a current temp of 50 degrees outside.
Coffee is ready, as well as fresh juice, hot chocolate, and hot water for tea and there's also hot cider.
On the breakfast bar this morning: turkey bacon, sausage patties (pork), hash browns, oatmeal, toast, homemade buttermilk biscuits w/sausage gravy, scrambled eggs, bagels and bear claws.
You all have a good morning, and enjoy your breakfast.
a 37 degree start this morning according to the radio guys.matt is on time and off to school.mamma has a patch and fill at the dentist today.The NS local has decided to put some boxcars in our siding at EDC.Its strange because we haven't shipped anything by rail for about a year now.Time will tell.Mookie here is your coffee mug.
...I note everyone is a bit cooler this morning, including us...54.1 degrees now in mid morning but bright sunshine too.
Once we get into October Winter shades are lurking out there....It can be 80 degrees or drop into 40's and maybe sometimes into the 30's.
But still I'm in the act of thinking of yard mowing....Maybe yet today.
Like that bright sunshine streaming in on me here from my eastern office window....
Don't hear of any severe stuff around right now so seems about normal weatherwise.
Thanx Joe. Coffee is especially good on a cool morning. Sunny and no breeze. No clue what the temp is, but must be in the low 60's by now.
Q - our landlord cuts our grass about every 6-7 days, but doesn't cut it really short. It looks so nice.
Mutt - Pet hair is something I lived with for almost 40 years - seems kind of nice not to have it on everything in the house. But I miss the companionship. Thought crossed my mind to get a gerbil or hamster, but then we are back to it dying in just a few years and having to go through the grieving process. So I will go hug my stuffed bear when I feel the need for something furry.
Off to sit with CW in the sun for awhile. She needs a break from cooking.
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
...Jen, I mow at 3" in height and it does enhance how the yard looks. Also try to mow in nice straight lines and that adds to it too.
I mow roughly every 4 days throughout the season, except when we get into a bit of a dry spell as we've been in now for weeks. So it has extended up to a week between cuttings. In fact, Ive mowed just 34 times so far this season and generally I hit the 60 number in a normal season.
I just like to keep the place neat along with smooth trimmed shrups and it all contributes to a neat appearance.
Quentin - My back yard isn't really conducive to straight lines. Besides, I have fun cutting patterns! Right now by back yard is about ready to bale. I haven't had time to mow, and when I did, it's been raining....
Can't mow tonight - fire meeting. And I'm off for a conference this weekend.
Mooks - if you need a little dog hair as a reminder, I'd be glad to send some your way, although it appears the Dal's shedding has slowed down of late. I usually find little piles of short white hairs anyplace he regularly brushes up against something... And that's with regular vacuuming...
....Larry, you mention the patterns....I'm amazed at what one sees at many Nascar race tracks as some do the mowing {in grassy areas}, in sweeping patterns...Guess some ball parks do the same. I'm always impressed with those works.
My yard....65% of an acre is nice and flat and open with a gentle slope down to the street in front, and it connects to a golf course at the back yard edge. I {on purpose}, don't have trees scattered around the house but do have 4 evergreens at the back edge. Two reasons. Don't generate any leaves to pick up...Just some of neighbors and this is windy Indiana, and with that in mind....didn't want any close to the house.
(Click on the picture for the fullsized view)
(That's not my back yard, either)
Afternoon all. Seems to be a quiet day in my neck of the woods, sunny but cool and breezy at 55. Kinda nice change from hot/humid but either way...I'm going to enjoy the day.
I've got dessert ready: 3 birthday cakes! Vanilla Bean, Lemon Poppyseed, and chocolate with their respective frostings.
Dan
.....A very nice day with lots of sunshine but no mowing this afternoon as they are here on our street with the machinery cutting an edge along the yards and driveways with a grader, and then a powered brush and a Bobcat picking up the excess ground and loading it all on trucks. All in prep to repave our street.
The result of attending most of our city Council Meetings....{Screeching wheel getting the grease}. We continued to inquire "when will our street be paved".....and when it came down to choices and the budget, we're really convinced it influenced decisions.
Mookie wrote: Mutt - Pet hair is something I lived with for almost 40 years - seems kind of nice not to have it on everything in the house. But I miss the companionship. Thought crossed my mind to get a gerbil or hamster, but then we are back to it dying in just a few years and having to go through the grieving process. So I will go hug my stuffed bear when I feel the need for something furry.
Mookie,
May I suggest that you consider getting another pet. Yes, the greiving is difficult (lost two of our favorite cats to cancer within a month of each other last year), and it takes a while until one is ready for another. But greiving (and death) is a part of life, and my wife and I decided that it is worth it for the many years of joy we get from our (back to 4) cats. If one chooses to avoid the pleasure of relationships due to the fear of loss, one has already lost something valuable.
And if pet hair is a problem for any of you (Mookie, Larry, et.al.), check out a product called Furminator (we got ours at QVC). We have two, one for upstairs and one for downstairs), and it will absolutely amaze you how much hair it will pull off your pet, but you have to be gentle with it until you get the hang of it. And the pets really love once they (and you) get used to it.
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