louisnashcherokee woman I'm wondering how many of you will be around here tomorrow. If there's going to be a few of you around, I'll take a roast and a goose out of the freezer to fix in the morning for Christmas Dinner. That's Funny mentioning a goose. I'm doing right now what I do every year on Christmas Eve. That's watch "The Christmas Story" on TBS. At the end where they have the duck and the Chinese guys can't sing Deck the Halls is hilarious. CW, that goose won't be smiling at me will it. lol Merry Christmas Everyone.Brian (KY)
cherokee woman I'm wondering how many of you will be around here tomorrow. If there's going to be a few of you around, I'll take a roast and a goose out of the freezer to fix in the morning for Christmas Dinner.
I'm wondering how many of you will be around here tomorrow. If there's going to be a few of you around, I'll take a roast and a goose out of the freezer to fix in the morning for Christmas Dinner.
That's Funny mentioning a goose. I'm doing right now what I do every year on Christmas Eve. That's watch "The Christmas Story" on TBS. At the end where they have the duck and the Chinese guys can't sing Deck the Halls is hilarious.
CW, that goose won't be smiling at me will it. lol
Merry Christmas Everyone.Brian (KY)
Doing everything I can to avoid "The Christmas Story", seems like it's on All channels tonight.
(that segment IS Funny, however!)
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL, AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT!!
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!!
My holiday cards (too late to call them Christmas cards) got mailed this afternoon.
First Christmas with granddaughter tomorrow, and I think we're all finding out whether daughter and SIL are having a boy or a girl....
50's and breezy on the western shore of Chesapeake Bay tonight Looks like they had rain all day at home. We'll have to see what the rain gauge says when I get home.
Checked the NORAD site and Santa is already in the air.
Everyone enjoy!
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MookieRay - this is so much better - no trees lost, no stamps, almost no effort and yet you can get the point across In Color! Jay - I will pay the freight and you keep the merchandise! Chad - we are entertaining tomorrow - I invited a pork roast and a jar of sauerkraut to visit. We will have a very quiet time with them. AND - the best part of all - the sun may shine enough and it may warm up enough to go trackside for awhile. You can't beat that with a big ol' stick! Life is good! Mookie
Ray - this is so much better - no trees lost, no stamps, almost no effort and yet you can get the point across In Color!
Jay - I will pay the freight and you keep the merchandise!
Chad - we are entertaining tomorrow - I invited a pork roast and a jar of sauerkraut to visit. We will have a very quiet time with them.
AND - the best part of all - the sun may shine enough and it may warm up enough to go trackside for awhile. You can't beat that with a big ol' stick!
Life is good!
Mookie
Ray
I just pulled up a web site on here to refresh memory: How to carve a turkey. So as not to butcher it too bad. Meijer's, the large chain store has cooked it for us and provided a {kit}, of trimmings to go along with it all for a decent price. We've done this before and it worked out fine.
Skies here have cleared somewhat of rain and now just partly cloudy. A big blow of wind passed thru here an hour or so ago which must have been a leading edge of a front. Looks like we are going to dry out. Temp now at 37.6.
Everyone enjoy the special evening out there in forum land.
Quentin
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
MookieI got my Christmas Cards out and got all ready to address them - and then found out that there are waaaayyy too many people on the forum to send them to - so I boxed them back up and put them away. Instead I will just say have a safe and Merry Christmas. Attendance will be taken after Christmas to make sure everyone is ok. The sun is shining here and some of the snow is melting (with help) so, this too shall pass. Mookie
I got my Christmas Cards out and got all ready to address them - and then found out that there are waaaayyy too many people on the forum to send them to - so I boxed them back up and put them away.
Instead I will just say have a safe and Merry Christmas.
Attendance will be taken after Christmas to make sure everyone is ok.
The sun is shining here and some of the snow is melting (with help) so, this too shall pass.
Thanks Mookie, I'll be around, I'm stuck in wonderfull white Winnemucca. Did the family thing last week.
Merry CHRISTmas to all !!!
And DON'T forget what it's all about.
afternoon
has been a busy day.We have plenty of buckeyes bread and cookies from our neighboors that we wish to share.One neighboor also made a picture of matt and I trainwatching.Mother nature has melted some of the ice but there is still some left.Be careful.
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").
CW, you don't need to go to any extreme lengths to feed us, but your efforts are very much appreciated! Pizza tonight would suit me just fine!
I myself, have been quite busy in my own kitchen since 4:00 this morning, baking bread. I've got loaves #11 & 12 in the oven right now, and all of the 12 loaves of bread that I will have produced in the last two days will have gone to people at one of my part-time employers, Howes Oil Company. And you can bet that my house smells real good right now, you would be able to smell my bread out on the porch even before you enter the house!
Thanks for the offer, Jay; but, I think I'll pass on you sending us some snow. Know we'll more than likely get it anyway, sometime. I think I'll just take the pouring rain we're getting at times today.
I've put out some things for lunch: open-face turkey sandwiches w/turkey gravy and mashed taters, green beans, corn and salad. And there's some fresh Christmas cookies that I just took out of the oven, for dessert.
Just let me know, so I can plan a menu this afternoon, o.k.? (I know a lot of you all will be spending the day with family, and I don't want to take away from that: maybe I'll just fix some pizzas for tomorrow night.)
Actually a little above freezing here, but snow is falling. Will fire up the snow blower in about an hour and hope we won't get much more after that. If anybody is missing a white Christmas let me know. Pay the freight and I'll ship out a couple of truckloads.
"We have met the enemy and he is us." Pogo Possum "We have met the anemone... and he is Russ." Bucky Katt "Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future." Niels Bohr, Nobel laureate in physics
We got rid of our ice overnight with steadly rising temps. Mid 40's now this morning. Some rain and some wind. No snow on the ground. Lots of rain overnight too. Golf course fairway behind me has a nice size pond on it since the ground is probably frozen and it doesn't soak away as quick.
Glad it was warm enough to be rain and not ice or snow.
Everyone enjoy the special day. Next two days are to be above normal temps.
morning
Made it home safely.the backroads have standing water on top of the ice.Going to take a nap then we are going to G+G house for Christmas eve and midnight mass.Ray thanks for breakfast.To all of those here Merry Christmas.
joe
Good Christmas Eve morning! Ray, thanks for coming in and fixing breakfast. That hot chocolate sure does smell good this morning. And your cinnamon rolls always smell good!
We have a temp of 48 degrees, and it's pouring rain this morning. (Or was, until a minute ago: seems to have slacked up for now.) I think they said our high today will get into the mid to upper 50s; and it's not supposed to get too cold tonight. Hope not, 'cause with all this rain, that would really cause some problems tonight.
Wishing each and everyone of you a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS, HAPPY HANNAKAH, KWANZA, AND WHATEVER ELSE YOU CELEBRATE AT THIS TIME!!
Morning all.
Light freezing drizzle that should eventually get to snow. Another 3-5 inches is forecast. 9.5 hour day at work today but I'm done at 2:30 so that's not too bad. Then I gotta get crackin' on finishing the home-made candies I usually make. Pecan Turtles (homemade carmel and chocolate over pecans) and Chocolate Whipped Cream Balls (secret recipe!)...mmm.
My family all went down to Kansas to see my sister so my wife and I are flying solo, so to speak. Time to see if I can see CN out the window...
Dan
Good morning. Thanks for the hot chocolate and cinamon rolls, Ray. 42 degrees in Carolina and clear with rain expected later this evening. Well, somehow I got roped into going to the wife's sister's house for Christmas. Her husband is deef as a post, and walks arounds hollering all the time. Everybody hollers back and the whole place is like a bullfight or something. I think I will take my shooting earplugs this time.... Oh well, it could be worse.... Everybody stay warm and safe.
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 Morning, it's Christmas Eve! The coffee here is about done brewing and I've mixed a fresh batch of orange juice. There is also a pot of hot chocolate here on the stove, made from milk and Hershey's chocolate syrup.
And if anyone is hungry this morning, there is a pan of freshly baked cinnamon rolls here on the counter, they just came out of the oven, and there is lots of soft, spreadable butter on hand.
Ray ooo ooo ooOOOOOo
"There was a time in this fair land when the railroad did not run, when the wild, majestic mountains stood alone against the sun, long before the white man and long before the wheel, when the green, dark forest was too silent to be real." -Gordon Lightfoot
Randy
Glad you made it in OK. It would be my worst nightmare to get stuck for an extended period in a car or truck in bitter cold. Seems like it takes no more than 5 minutes for the inside of a car to drop to the outside temp.
Delavan is loading the big piles of snow in trucks to haul to the back of the maintanence yard. Probably could be enough to open a good ski hill.
Have a good holiday break.
Well, the trip up from St Louis was interesting, to say the least....
Took two changes of fuel filters, three big bottles of Howes Anti-gel, and one big bottle of PowerService Diesel 911 to get from Bloomington, IL to Oconomowoc, WI. Think the Bloomington TA forgot to treat their fuel, but the -3 with 35mph crosswind probably had more to do with it.
Anyway, at the house now. Jay, might need that Cat D9 after all, dad is running out of places to push the snow, some piles are over four feet tall.
Will celebrate christmas with the immediate family tomorrow night, might even get to see my sister's boyfriend that she has been dating for the past nine months, she conveniently "forgets" to bring him over, and nobody has seen him yet.
See everyone later.....
Randy Vos
"Ever have one of those days where you couldn't hit the ground with your hat??" - Waylon Jennings
"May the Lord take a liking to you and blow you up, real good" - SCTV
And a good afternoon it has turned out to be here. Sioux Falls topped out at 20 degrees this afternoon and the temp is now slowly dropping. I had to go out and shovel my sidewalk, which is something I had to wait to do a couple days as the weather conditions would not permit me to get it done. At last report the temp here was 17.4 degrees.
I turned out 6 loaves of bread this afternoon, and all of it went to some folks I known at my other part-time employer, Howes Oil Company as Christmas gifts. I know it was much appreciated. I plan to get up early enough in the morning tomorrow to produce another 6 to 8 loaves of bread. Right now I've got a crock pot load of homemade soup brewing in my kitchen, it should be ready to serve and eat in about 3 to 4 hours.
I sort of wish it were possible for me to share my baking skill with the rest of you folks. I like nothing more than surprising someone with a loaf of freshly baked bread or a batch of chocolate chip cookies.
temps have slowly risen this afternoon and we are getting a light rain now.Cw thanks for supper.One more night before the holiday.
grampaw pettiboneHow many remember the Crest commercial "Look ma, no cavities"?
How about "Brusho.....brusho.....brusho....Ipana tooth paste....The chipmonks doing the brushing....
Just returned from over town....and the conditions are deteriorating weather wise....In the Meijer's parking lot {where no salt exists}, the rain is freezing right on the surface. Out on streets that have been salted several days ago, it's not too bad....yet....But it's right on the edge. The key now will be if the temps begin to rise....That might reduce the impending conditions looming out there.
Indy radio is reporting wrecks everywhere....29.1 degrees right now.
Hope to stay right in here where the "weather" is nice and comfy the rest of the day.....Have a Pacer game to watch tonight. Hope we have enough players to staff the team....So many illnesses and injuries lately.
Good afternoon. I just got back from the indignity of a dentist visit. All is well, no cavities. How many remember the Crest commercial "Look ma, no cavities"? We had 19 degrees in Carolina at daybreak and now it's 44 and sunshiney. Thanks for lunch CW ane everybody stay warm.
Well, I'm back from Produce. Only had 38 people today. So we had plenty for everyone, plus quite a bit for the people who come in for the Dare to Care boxes: yellow peppers, sweet potatoes, regular potatoes, bags of cabbage, small bags of slaw mix and cauliflower.
Our Tuesday Mexican Fiesta is on the warmer bar: tacos (soft shell & hard shell), burritos (beef, beef & bean and beef enchilada style), quesadillas, enchiladas, tamales, chimichangas, fajitas, etc.
Everyone have a good afternoon, enjoy your meal, and see you all later.
Paw over edge of counter. Finds cup, coffee and candy cane. Off to warm spot by fire.
.....We're having a heat wave....up to 24 degrees now. Dry and overcast but possible ice, sleet or mixture sometime today. Possible, not absolute. No snow here still...
It would be nice if the weather would stay stable and dry for the folks who will be traveling today and now to Christmas, etc....
I imagine some of the diner folks may have seen the dangerous situation over near Washington D C this morning with the massive water main bursting and flooding a main street, etc...Seems all were rescued. Over a dozen or so...Helicopter and boat and great work by emergency people.
Good Morning. Thanks for breakfast, CW. It's a little warmer too here in South Dakota, right now we have 20 degrees here in Sioux Falls, and the wind chill is 11 degrees above 0. I have the day off and I will be baking bread here in my kitchen, I hope to turn out at least 6 loaves, but first must wash some dishes, should have done this last night before going to bed!
I hope the rest of you out there are all having a good day, stay warm!
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