....Thanks to all the good folks in the Diner...Appreciate all the kind and good words. Quentin and Jean.
Now if I could be that pleased with our Indiana Pacers...We've just lost the 6th game in a row....!
Quentin
good morning
juice coffee and cinnamon rolls are ready to go.hot chocolate will be ready soon.Mookie carl sent us a UP and a KCS on v 771 yesterday.we saw it in auburn indiana.Going to be a windy and rainy day today.(wind is coming from the south).Hope Ray in South Dakota is okay.They have a blizzard warnings up there.
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 north wind doth blow and they shall keep the snow! It's here!!!! Brrrr....
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
Good Sunday morning. Joe, thank you for fixing breakfast this morning!! I really do appreciate all the help you guys give me in here.
Joe and Mookie, we've got winds out of the south and west. They (the winds) are supposed to 10 to 20 mph, and gusting in the 40 mph category. But, we're 'supposed' to be 'warm' today with temps in the mid to upper 50s. Only to have sprinkles today. And for most of next week, rain predicted for everyday, possibly some nasty wintry mix. But for now, temp is 44 degrees outside. Mookie, want to come to Louisville to warm up?
.....Our weather is very much projected to be similar to what Paula just described for Louisville, just a few degrees cooler. 38 here now and very gusty wind. Streets are wet and it must have rained a bit during the night.
Wet roads....some wind, we can handle that. I see all that nasty stuff heading up across the country north of us. Sounds like real winter. Wind and snow and cold are a nasty combination to deal with. Thankfully, it looks like we'll not have to contend with that one.
Jen, I too found the front door on here barred last evening.....I was beginning to wonder....but later it did clear up and the "door" seems to work smooth and easy this morning.
So we can enjoy the "non winter" day it seems to be providing for us. If we don't get blown off the street and highway leading into town for church.
Good morning everyone (grabs big mug of coffee and a cinnamon roll).
It's supposed to rain today, but right now looking at the Doppler radar map from Weather Underground's web page and I don't see a darn thing! Maybe the rain will arrive later today?
(By the way, we should make a big pot of vegetable beef barley soup today. )
40 degrees and the ice on the driveway is trying to melt. Got to get salt down to finish the job today, because the thermometers are packed up and ready to head south. (High of 14 tomorrow.)
"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
Jay - 60 yesterday and 11 today. But all of you northerners have the snow to contend with. We don't and probably won't - or maybe a little only.
CW - I want to go to Houston where my weather indicator sez 68! You are getting what we had yesterday. Very windy, but very nice. Keep your mittens close by.
We are going to brave the cold and go look at some trains. Hopefully they will warm the air as they go by? At least they will stop the wind for a few minutes, since we will be on the south side of them.
Okay, Jen, maybe in either direction, you could detour to Louisville?
On our Sunday Dinner menu today:
1. A large Crock Pot full of steaks, cooked nice, tender & juicy w/onion & potatoes, baby carrots & cole slaw w/crescent rolls
2. A pot of vegetable beef w/barley soup w/fresh-from-the-oven cornbread (sweetened and unsweetened)
3. Sloppy Joes sandwiches w/your choice of sweet or sour pickles and fries
And for dessert, there's plenty of Quentin & Jean's anniversary cake left from yesterday.
Afternoon everyone.....
Belated thanks for the birthday wishes, spent my birthday backed into the loading dock of NewPage Paper in Whiting, WI, took them five hours to load 23 rolls of paper, they had computer problems. Am now 29 years old (really!)
I've been fortunate this week, only times I hit snow was last Sunday around Syracuse, and a touch of freezing rain on Wednesday night in western PA.
Joe: what do you warehouse, I dont think we have anything going on up that way. US127 is sometime referred to as Millis highway between Eaton and Hamilton, we run that road a LOT!!
See everyone for dinner.....
Randy in The Rock, GA (that's really the name of the town!!)
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
MookieWe are going to brave the cold and go look at some trains. Hopefully they will warm the air as they go by? At least they will stop the wind for a few minutes, since we will be on the south side of them.
Having stood on the platform over the past couple of days as CSX intermodals passed a few feet away at 60 per, I can tell you conclusively that passing trains do not warm the air as they go by.
1400 more happy patrons of the Polar Express while I was working this weekend.
A few dozen customers decided to dine with us for breakfast this AM at the fire department. The jolly old elf himself paid a visit to the kids in attendance, then set off around the neighborhood delivering some smiles, candy canes, oranges, and apples to area senior citizens.
Photogs from two local papers rode the trains this past weekend. Will share links when they post them.
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...
Quentin -
Congratulations on the anniversary!
As Mookie said, I've been accepted to four universities. I'll be going to the one closest to home, which is Creighton University right in Omaha. The scholarship is for $14,000, renewable for four years. I also plan on living at home, which will cut several thousand more dollars off the pricetag. Of course, I could always choose to not go to college and just work at Arby's for the rest of my life...
Willy
Willy2 Congratulations on the anniversary!
....Thank you Willy.
Your University plans sound great....{no on Arby's}, Best of luck in 2009 in your "start up", at your school right there in Omaha.
Willy! Knowing you - the Arby's comment was very funny!
Tree: You are supposed to be in a closed vehicle and a little farther away for the wind effect. Millie has an air leak around the door handle and my side (the engineers side) always faces north, so any relief is very noticeable.
You have been a busy citizen this weekend.
It is 7, 8 or 9 degrees depending on where you are reading it and with a very gusty wind. W/o the wind, it wouldn't be too bad.
Off to do haircut on The Driver. Gotta see if I can cut something beside 1/2 of a Z in the back of his head.
Mookie,
You can get here from there...and tomorrow will be warmer!
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edblysard Mookie, You can get here from there...and tomorrow will be warmer!
Randy
if you ever come near archbold ohio off the turnpike let us know.My Dad takes 127 south when he visits my brother in tennesee.he gets on I-75 closer to cincinnati.Cw thanks for supper.wind has been howling today.After sunday school matt helped G+G put up some decorations.Time to get ready for work.
joe
Well, we here in the Louisville Metro area are now under a Winter StormWarning for this afternoon, tonight and tomorrow morning. They changed from a Winter Advisary at 5 a.m. We currently have 57 degrees outside, with light rain showers. Noon, we'll be down to about 48 degrees, and by 3 p.m., 32 degrees. With the rain having switched over from light rain to freezing rain/sleet/snow.
How's everyone else this morning, weather-wise?
Coffee, oj, pineapple juice, hot chocolate, hot cider, and hot water for hot tea are all ready this morning.
On the warmer bar this morning: bagels, bear claws, turkey bacon, sausage, homemade buttermilk biscuits w/sausage gravy, scrambled eggs and you have your choice of hash browns or fried taters.
Mookie, I've got your coffee mug down, and I'm ready to pour your coffee, when you get in.
You all have a good morning, stay warm and keep safe.
our temps are dropping too.going to be in the 20's by this afternoon with some snow showers.matt is on the bus for school.cw thanks for breakfast.time for a nap.better make sure the cat has her mittens on today.
Mornin all. I had to scrub my hard drive because XP got corrupted somehow. Haven't got the weatherbug back on the desktop, but it is cold in Carolina this morning. Thanks for breakfast and everybody stay warm
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)
Mid 40's at the house this morning, with a light rain. Didn't bother shovelling the snow off the driveway, but it's all gone now. Still a lot of snow in areas that got a bunch of it, though.
Temps are supposed to drop, but not into single digits AFAIK. That's a good thing. Mom arrives from Phoenix Wednesday evening, and she's not exactly used to this stuff any more...
Large tea (need the caffiene!) and a bearclaw, buttered and warmed on the grill, please.
Well CW...my weather station said that it was -4 now. With windchill we're looking at -21! It is getting a bit chilly out there.
I'll grab a plate of whatever's hot.
Question: How does one deal with in-laws that one absolutely can't stand? This could be a looooong holiday season!
Dan
CNW 6000 Question: How does one deal with in-laws that one absolutely can't stand? This could be a looooong holiday season!
OOOOH, the age old question by one so young. As an expert on this subject, I can only say to make yourself scarce while they are about. They can't stay forever..... I have managed to do that for nearly 40 years now and it seems to have worked. Good luck, son
I see the real cold system has already effected some on the forum this morning. It is about to put a bunch of cold air thru here too...A little over an hour ago it was 32, and now it's 26.
There has been some moisture overnight and with the temps dropping it has stuff sticking together...Mailbox lid, etc....With the colder temps moving in I suspect we'll not get anymore rain....Moisture might be the little round balls of ice and or a bit of snow later. Last night, Indy was forecasting no more than a half inch of snow for this general area.
I am still putting off having the winter tires installed on my little S-10 but one of these days I know I will have to have it done. Do have my special sand bags in behind the wheel wells and that provides a bit more traction but still one needs the more rugged tires when winter gets rough.
Front drive car generally just rests in the garage when we have this stuff...No real reason to take it out.
We've had a total of 3" of snow since Nov. 9th. Those pic's I've seen from up in the Dakota areas is the real winter stuff and nothing to play around with. And the terrible ice storm up in NY and New England area....Terrible for those folks. Believe they are to get some warmer stuff like we had yesterday and that might help with the melting. Hope so.
1 degreee above nothing.
It's official - Old Man Farenheit has left the building....Minus 10 as I went out the door this morning, Minus 24 60 miles east of here. Railroads dealing with multiple pull-aparts and broken rails.
.........And since I last posted, we've received about a half hour of the little ice pellets that made the roads white. But now it is getting very bright and nothing coming out of the sky. Believe the colder weather is good for us right now to kind of stop the ice forming and "raining" down on us. So far, we're in pretty good shape.
Edit: And today is the day when the sun stops setting earlier....One minute later today and heading towards June 21th.
Dan, that is why I like driving semi, when one tires of family, one call to the friendly dispatcher does it all. Plan this year is to avoid my mothers side completely, fathers side is coming to house for xmas this year.
About 55 and the sun is out in The Rock, am #30 in line on the list for a load out, so will be at least tomorrow before getting a load, but hey, it's nice out......
Q, I thought the first day of winter was the 21st?
Randy in The Rock, GA
rvos1979 Q, I thought the first day of winter was the 21st?
Depends on when the sun touches the Tropic of Capricorn. That can vary by a day.
According to this site, howerver, Sun., Dec. 21, 2008, 7:04 AM EST (12:04 UT), marks the solstice—the beginning of winter in the Northern Hemisphere and summer in the Southern Hemisphere
Ah! Must talk fast to cover all this ground.
Q is right - we aren't at the winter solstice, but if I remember from last year - according to the Old Farmers Almanac - the times show that we will start gaining a minute or however it goes. OFA is different from solstice is where I am going with this.
(if this continues, I won't get through all my thoughts!)
In-laws.....Be there for your spouse. Keep your mouf shut and just show your pearly whites. And try to remember that the love of your life is the product of at least one or maybe both of these people, so they can't be 100% bad - altho it do make you wonder sometimes.
Randy - I like your solution.
Sir Chix - we are not quite as cold as you are - we are -3 but very sunny. You have had more snow and colder temps than we have. So until it warms up, I am shutting the door at the border.
All you folks east - good luck! It's coming and it ain't purty.
Driver was going to sleep in a sweatshirt last nite, so I opened the heat vent in the bedroom. He was snuggly warm and I was pushing blankets off. I am trying to regulate the temps in the house and two individuals, also. I need a bigger paycheck!
Thanx for coffee CW. I was cold and sleepy. Now I am cold and jittery! Will go sit by the stove.
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