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.
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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.
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.
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.)
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!
Ray
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").
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.
Mookie
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
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.
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
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!
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
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
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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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.
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)
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)
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!!
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Merry Christmas to all the denizens of the diner. May your holiday season find you well. I'll be staring at the fire in the fireplace until I doze off. I thought I heard something on the roof...
Dan
Good Thursday morning, and MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL OUR FRIENDS (who we consider family, even though some of you we haven't met)!!
Welcome back, Brian (louisnash)!! You need to come in more often! And no, the goose won't be staring at anyone.
Woke up at 5:00 this morning, so decided to go ahead and get up out of bed.
Coffee, hot chocolate, orange juice, and pineapple juice, hot cider, chocolate milk, strawberry milk, and hot water for tea are all ready, for when you all come in.
I've put out some cinnamon rolls (thanks, Ray!), muffins, bagels, bear claws on the counter, so help yourselves this morning.
The pork roast w/potatoes, carrots & onion is in the Crock Pot, and the goose will go into the oven about 11 so it will be ready when the roast is done.
Once again, wishing everyone a Very Merry & Joyous Christmas!!
Marry CHRISTmas everybody. Thanks for breakfast. I'm looking forward to that goose. Those things can be a chore to clean! When I was a child, my father saw one fly into the side of a truck and break its neck. He brought it home, and the three of us cleaned that bird till after 2AM. When done, we had enough feathers and down to fill a cotton bale. He said if he ever saw another one do that, he was going to leave it there in the road.... Everybody enjoy this Holy day, eat well and 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)
....Clear skies here in central Indiana this morning....and the sun is blazing in my eastern window now. But the instrument says it's only 16 degrees now and the trees are calm so must be the wind. No snow, and roads are dry. We're in for a bit of a warm up next few days.
Everyone enjoy this special Day.....Yes, Tom.....CHRISTmas day....!
Good morning
light snow is falling here in NW ohio.Matthew is sleeping in.The scanner is quiet.
Merry Christmas
MERRY
CHRISTMAS
To the rest of you folks out there,
And May God bless you all richly as we
Celebrate the birth of His son,
Christ Jesus!
Ray ooo ooo ooOOOOOo
grampaw pettibone Marry CHRISTmas everybody. Thanks for breakfast. I'm looking forward to that goose. Those things can be a chore to clean! When I was a child, my father saw one fly into the side of a truck and break its neck. He brought it home, and the three of us cleaned that bird till after 2AM. When done, we had enough feathers and down to fill a cotton bale. He said if he ever saw another one do that, he was going to leave it there in the road.... Everybody enjoy this Holy day, eat well and stay warm
Goose! The only time I ate goose was when I visited my college at Thanksgiving 1961. My German instructor and his wife (also German) invited me to eat dinner with them, and she served goose. I now know what goosegrease is; I had never before eated such greasy meat.
It's about thirty degrees here, with snow coming in from the south. We expect much more today, but we will go to church this morning, and after church we plan to eat dinner with a daughter who lives in a hilly section of Salt Lake City before coming back home.
Johnny
Good Morning! Merry Christmas!
Woke up this morning to some sun between the clouds, a few flurries and no running water!
Apparently some genius ran over a fire hydrant last night and well, the water company guys are on double overtime today. At least it is back on now. Oh well, brown water for a little while longer I guess.
Luckily the kids and Momma are distracted by the electronics. Santa brought the "Wii fit" and "Guitar Hero World Edition" so it will be a noisy day even before the 15 other family members arrive at noon....
Anyway, it will be good to see the smiling faces and the big beef roast looks good...
LC
Hello all from Winston-Salem, NC
Pretty day here in the piedmont w/ clear skies and temps approaching the mid 60's. Just Roy and his Lynda today after a usual Christmas Eve 4 services with the Moravians (she works for the Home Church in Old Salem as Director of Music).
Dinner tonight will be Snowshoe chicken served with steamed veggies and followed with desert of ice cream and sugar cake, iced tea is a requirement even in the winter here in this part of the country to go with Supper.
Have today and tomorrow off,
Enjoy Christmas all
Roy
Good afternoon everyone and MERRY CHRISTMAS! Thanks for the pork roast!
May today be a joyous one for all.
Merry CHRISTmas to everyone in the Diner! I hope God blesses you all richly on this day, the day of our Savior's birth.
Willy
piouslion1Hello all from Winston-Salem, NC Pretty day here in the piedmont w/ clear skies and temps approaching the mid 60's. Just Roy and his Lynda today after a usual Christmas Eve 4 services with the Moravians (she works for the Home Church in Old Salem as Director of Music). Dinner tonight will be Snowshoe chicken served with steamed veggies and followed with desert of ice cream and sugar cake, iced tea is a requirement even in the winter here in this part of the country to go with Supper. Have today and tomorrow off, Enjoy Christmas all Roy
"Snowshoe Chicken"?; can't wait for them to take them off?!
The weather today has not been as bad as was predicted. It was snowing when we left for church (eleven and a half miles), and it had stopped before we got into Salt Lake City. We had no more snow by the time we got back home, and the temperature was up in the forties (at four p.m.). We'll have roast beef, baked potatoes, and artichokes for supper tonight. More snow is predicted for tomorrow, with a low in the twenties; we'll see.
I still remember, with horror, Christmas about twenty-five years ago, when it snowed every day for three weeks, and this was pre-snow thrower time for me. A man down the street used his front-end loader to scoop snow away from the curb at each house so that it would be possible to park in the street if necessary. The following February, I left for work one afternoon about three, leaving the driveway clear. When I returned home about 12:30, I took eleven inches out of the driveway before parking for the night.
locomutt piouslion1 Dinner tonight will be Snowshoe chicken served with steamed veggies and followed with desert of ice cream and sugar cake, iced tea is a requirement even in the winter here in this part of the country to go with Supper. Have today and tomorrow off, Enjoy Christmas all Roy "Snowshoe Chicken"?; can't wait for them to take them off?!
piouslion1 Dinner tonight will be Snowshoe chicken served with steamed veggies and followed with desert of ice cream and sugar cake, iced tea is a requirement even in the winter here in this part of the country to go with Supper. Have today and tomorrow off, Enjoy Christmas all Roy
Love to give you the recipe, after you eat it you will not want to take anything off, just eat it,, it is even safe for diabetics to enjoy. The prep and the right salsa make it a meal that a king like you would enjoy more than one time. But what would I know???
PL
Well, I seem to have survived the afternoon at Sis-in-law's place relatively intact. I had a nice ride down there with the wife doing the driving. We had a nice meal of fried turkey, dressing with giblets, and a half dozen or so special homemade recipes. Then, coming home we stopped for supper at a well known national truck stop chain and got totally grossed out. The food was terrible and most was left on the plate. To add insult to injury, their credit card machine was off line, so our usual payment option was out. We then tried to pay with a check. Guess what! They don't accept checks. The wife and I finally pooled our resources and found we had just enough cash together to pay for whatever it was we tried to eat. My wallet is completely empty and the wife only has change left in hers, and I doubt we will frequent that particular place too often. Anyway, it was an interesting experience.
Everybody take, have a good Boxing Day and stay warm
grampaw pettibone Well, I seem to have survived the afternoon at Sis-in-law's place relatively intact. I had a nice ride down there with the wife doing the driving. We had a nice meal of fried turkey, dressing with giblets, and a half dozen or so special homemade recipes. Then, coming home we stopped for supper at a well known national truck stop chain and got totally grossed out. The food was terrible and most was left on the plate. To add insult to injury, their credit card machine was off line, so our usual payment option was out. We then tried to pay with a check. Guess what! They don't accept checks. The wife and I finally pooled our resources and found we had just enough cash together to pay for whatever it was we tried to eat. My wallet is completely empty and the wife only has change left in hers, and I doubt we will frequent that particular place too often. Anyway, it was an interesting experience. Everybody take, have a good Boxing Day and stay warm
The second snowstorm of today is now here.
You, too, enjoy Boxing Day.
piouslion1locomutt piouslion1 Dinner tonight will be Snowshoe chicken served with steamed veggies and followed with desert of ice cream and sugar cake, iced tea is a requirement even in the winter here in this part of the country to go with Supper. Have today and tomorrow off, Enjoy Christmas all Roy "Snowshoe Chicken"?; can't wait for them to take them off?! Love to give you the recipe, after you eat it you will not want to take anything off, just eat it,, it is even safe for diabetics to enjoy. The prep and the right salsa make it a meal that a king like you would enjoy more than one time. But what would I know??? PL
Would really like to have the recipe, have several diabetics in the family,
you can send a private to either me or CW.
Who knows, might become a Cafe regular. Have to talk to the about that.
(I'm still trying to envision a chicken in snowshoes!)
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