.....Yes, CW....We did fine on our traveling. Yesterday, we had a gorgeous day to travel back...Clear blue sky and cool and bright sunshine all the way.
And by today's standards, we sure did fine on gasoline...In my interstate traveling {all of it, between there and here}, I decided {like many others}, to lower my speed limit to about 68 mph on the cruise and just let it roll and of course that improves even farther on gas mileage. Car does great on it anyway. So, trucks and holiday traffic did not seem to be any problem even though there was plenty of both in some areas...
Now, on this bright sunny morning they are fertlizing my lawn and I must get it mowed....Hope I can do that this afternoon after the granules have settled down and the liquid weed killer dries, that mowing won't disturb that treatment....Don't want it to look like a hayfield....It almost got ahead of me, even though the rain gauge only had .25" of rain since late last week. Just talked to the installer, and he indicated to let it dry for a few hours and it will be find to mow then...Boy, sure hope so as it must be done...
Hope all on here had a good holiday time.
Quentin
Q - was a little quiet around here over the holiday. This temporary retirement is interesting. With one working and one not - it makes for some long days. Going to have to get very creative if this lasts much longer.
Ray - I think your rain will be our rain sometime later today. Looks like our whole area may be in for some weather of some kind.
Evidently had a leaking tank car (hydrocloric acid) on BNSF last nite in Omaha, which is UP country! They evacuated and cleaned and transferred. All better now.
Driver wants to fish this afternoon after work, but not sure weather will cooperate. Pretty cloudy again today but much warmer and a lot more humid. Will gather this all up and send it on to Brian. (Yeah, like they need more "weather" over there!)
CW - anything is fine - as long as I don't have to cook it!
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
Good Morning everyone!
I had a strange start to my day this morning.
I had just come off a 24 hour shift and was driving home on the same route I've driven over and over again and was almost in a hypnotic daze as I watched the car in front of me floating back and forth, from the looks of things I figured the driver was preoccupied with something in the car that was distracting the driver from staying within his own lane.
I backed off a bit thinking that he was going to have a head on with another car coming in the opposite direction when in a flash I seen a good size deer jump the short guard rail on my side and bounce right in front of the car in front of me and bam, the deer rode up onto his hood and through the drivers windshield.....YIKES!
The car spun out and came to rest in a ditch, I'm an EMT and was supposed to be off duty but we are really never off duty.
I was still in uniform and stopped too help out, when I got to the car that hit the deer I found a 18 year old kid pretty bad off, I used my cell to call my base and get help sent out.
It turned out that the driver was having a diabetic episode.
In the end everything worked out alright ... well except for the deer which had to be shot by a State Trooper.
All I wanted to do was get home and have a cup of coffee but I ended up rendering medical aid (We are expected to carry crash bags) in our personal cars when off duty for just this sort of thing.
After writing up a report and helping the Er staff with the kid I finally got home, only 3 hours late, I came home to find that we were out of coffee so I sit here drinking ginger ale and hoping there is some coffee left here!!!
I hope the rest of my day is dull and uneventful!
Can I get a coffee roll?
Jesse, you are an "unsung hero". That 18 year old kid needed help and you were there for that individual. I sometimes think that God places us in situations like this, and for good reason.
Ray ooo ooo ooOOOOOo
Guys, thanks for the suggestions. Today's menu is:
1. BLTs w/your choice of fries or chips
2. Chicken ala king
3. Pork chop abracadabara (which was what I was thinking about this morning) w/peas, carrots and creamed corn, cornbread
Jess, you did good this morning! Here's some coffee for you, along with a roll.
Desserts: plenty of chocolate birthday cake left, along with the following cobblers: apple, cherry, peach and blueberry.
Jesse - we live in deer country and had a fatality when a deer went through a windshield. Actually, two fatalities. The deer and the woman driver.
That would be like a meteor dropping in your windshield - totally unexpected and tragic.
Mook
Jesse - I rather dislike those calls (I'm an EMT as well) - you think you're dealing with one thing and the truth ends up somewhere else. The young man is lucky he had trained help on the scene right away.
Did I hear BLT? Just have time before I head to the garage to have the truck checked. On the road this weekend and that "service engine soon" light is a bit unnerving....
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...
.....Sounds to me like you did a good job Jesse...Good work by being in the right place at the right time. The young man was fortunate it wasn't worse....Like the possible head on as mentioned....Hope he recovers ok.
Mookie wrote: Driver wants to fish this afternoon after work, but not sure weather will cooperate. Pretty cloudy again today but much warmer and a lot more humid. Will gather this all up and send it on to Brian. (Yeah, like they need more "weather" over there!)
Just don't follow it up with a front of some sort- it tends to make the wind swirl.
Brian (IA) http://blhanel.rrpicturearchives.net.
Way to go Jesse. Too many folks freeze or don't know what to do in those spots. Sometimes ya gotta wonder if fate puts us where we are for a reason...
Short morning at work and time off before the sentence my evening shift. Guess it's not too bad, I think I get paid to play volleyball today and I have to teach CPR tomorrow morning. Off to lunch and maybe sit trackside.
I'll be 10-6, on the side for a while.
Dan
Well, there. Truck's back from the garage (with $330 in new parts and labor). Turns out this particular item I could have ignored for a while, but it had to be fixed eventually.
Packing well underway. First rail trip tomorrow has been moved (again). One hundred twenty screaming kids (and probably some screaming adults) depart from Utica in the morning. Only three on the crew from what I can see, so I'll be spending more time in the cab, which is cool even if I'm not doing the running...
Saturday I'm on the road for Maryland. Meeting both kids and their spouses (and the baby) in Baltimore for lunch - just not sure where. They're in charge of that. I've got six hours of driving to deal with and hope I can hook up with them when I get there.
Back to preps...
In early, with the supper menu. Going to repeat the lunch menu for today: BLTs, chicken ala king, and pork chop abracadabra.
We've had a really nice afternoon, weatherwise. Beautiful sunshine, not too many clouds in the sky, that I've noticed. Although, we're supposed to get some rain sometime tomorrow. Temps are in the mid to upper 70s, but the humidity does seem to be climbing somewhat.
Hope everyone has a great evening!
Telegram to Willy:
cc to Brian (IA) Ray (SD)
SHRIEK! Stop. Western NE is getting pounded. Stop. Headed to the east. Stop. Hiding under hammock until morning. Stop. And I do mean now! Stop! Stop!
Mookie
Mookie wrote: Telegram to Willy:cc to Brian (IA) Ray (SD)SHRIEK! Stop. Western NE is getting pounded. Stop. Headed to the east. Stop. Hiding under hammock until morning. Stop. And I do mean now! Stop! Stop!Mookie
Ah, it looks like it is raining down there in "Mookieland"! Stay dry Mookie, and don't be standing underneath any trees!!
Ray
CANADIANPACIFIC2816 wrote: Mookie wrote: Telegram to Willy:cc to Brian (IA) Ray (SD)SHRIEK! Stop. Western NE is getting pounded. Stop. Headed to the east. Stop. Hiding under hammock until morning. Stop. And I do mean now! Stop! Stop!Mookie Ah, it looks like it is raining down there in "Mookieland"! Stay dry Mookie, and don't be standing underneath any trees!!Ray
Mookie wrote: CANADIANPACIFIC2816 wrote: Mookie wrote: Telegram to Willy:cc to Brian (IA) Ray (SD)SHRIEK! Stop. Western NE is getting pounded. Stop. Headed to the east. Stop. Hiding under hammock until morning. Stop. And I do mean now! Stop! Stop!Mookie Ah, it looks like it is raining down there in "Mookieland"! Stay dry Mookie, and don't be standing underneath any trees!!Ray Rain headed this way, I think. Around here you never know. Don't worry - Tree never stands out in the rain!
I dunno, it promises to be a pretty exciting evening around here. A couple of tornadoes touched down in Kearney. Initial reports suggest that a train was derailed, UNK was damaged, and a trailer park was hit. Storms are moving east. A flash flood watch already in effect for us, and the Storm Prediction Center says that a PDS tornado watch will be issued shortly. I like severe weather, but I always hate to hear about tornadoes hitting anything other than open fields. Plus, I don't want my new $130 weather station to get destroyed by wind or hail already.
Willy
Mookie wrote:Don't worry - Tree never stands out in the rain!
Nope - it always stops just before I have to go outside.....
It's probably that firefighter mentality (we run into buildings while everyone else is running out), but given a tornado watch (and especially a warning) I'd probably at least be at the windows, keeping an eye on what's outside....
Thundering. Tornado watch until 2 am. I am going to bed soon, turn the fan on low and sleep through it all.
Willy - UNK huh... will have to check that out.....
Sounds like Kearney and Grand Island got hit pretty hard- keep your ears up, Mook, it's knocking on your doorstep!
We are getting good, heavy rain in Sioux Falls right now, with lots of thunder. No telling what is happening futher south of here, such as places like Vermillion, and Yankton, South Dakota, and Lincoln, Nebraska.
I will be listening to a "thunder" of a different kind when I go to bed tonight. I have on a compact disk a recording of SP 4-6-2 #2472. It helps lull me to sleep and I let it play continuously while I am sleeping. I told a friend of mine about all this, and she thinks I'm a little nutty.
Good Friday morning, one and all. Morning temp here this morning, right around 60 degrees F. Looks like it's going to be a beautiful morning, with the sun beginning to come up. Sure do hope our friends northwest of us are doing all right this morning, and I hope they'll be in shortly to let us know how they fared last night.
Coffee just finished brewing, and I've got fresh oj, oj/tangerine, grape and pineapple juice all in the cooler. Friday morning doughnuts, danish, bagels and bear claws are on the counter.
Present and accounted for. Hit west-central NE pretty hard, but don't think we had much more than rain and lots of noise.
Ah Spring!
M.
(wonder when Joe will be back with us? Anyone know? Joe? R U There?)
Mookie, glad you didn't have any really bad stuff through the night.
I was wondering the same thing about Joe. Haven't heard from him, except for his post here the other day.
.....And our morning is at 59 plus degrees here. Possible rain sometime today, but not for a while yet. Temps to get into the mid 80's today....
Late yesterday while mowing my .65 of an acre of grass my trusty John Deere decided to stop....with just maybe 20' yet to go to finish....Acted just like it was running out of fuel. And could not be restarted...So....Waiting for service fellow to call after dearlership checks their messages this morning a few min. from now. They have a mobile service fellow that comes right to the home. I think it is the fuel pump. Hope we find out and get it fixed this morning....But who know's how busy they might be.
And....We've errands to run, etc....today. Sunshine is about to come out from behind a tree east of me and put the shine in my window here.....
//comes in looking like a cat after a bath
Anybody have a towel?
blhanel wrote: //comes in looking like a cat after a bathAnybody have a towel?
They said we had 70 mph winds and 1/2 inch of rain. I missed both mostly. Don't think this one was as damaging to our trees/lines as the one from a couple of days ago.
I better not "Freeze " when it comes too helping people in bad situations or I'd be out of a job as an EMT....LOL!
Good morning everyone!
UUuuMMmm, Is that apple pie I smell....ahhhh, brings back memories!
Any way, I'm into day 2 of 2 days off in a row and yesterday was a day to finish up putting the dog fence up around an acre of land so that my Jack Russell Terrorist can run free with out getting eaten by a bear up here in the woods.
Well, today is a train day, I have some final detailing to do on my HO scale layout, I made a deal with the Mrs., when I have two days off in a row she gets 1 of them for what ever she needs me to do around here and the 2nd day is mine, mine, all mine!!!!
I'm wishing you all a great day!
Happy Rails!
Jess Red Horse of the " Broken back" tribe!!!
Mookie wrote: blhanel wrote: //comes in looking like a cat after a bathAnybody have a towel? Oh Brian - did you get the rain I sent? They said we had 70 mph winds and 1/2 inch of rain. I missed both mostly. Don't think this one was as damaging to our trees/lines as the one from a couple of days ago.
2.25" at Omaha/Eppley, 1.88" at Offutt AFB, and 1.81" at home. No severe weather here at home, just a lot of thunder and some very heavy rain. The airport in Lincoln only got 0.11", so it is interesting to see how much rainfall amounts can vary over a short distance.
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