well almost lunchtime.Ns had a stack train in our siding with no horseies to pull it.(within sight).they could still be doing mow on the line.well time for a nap.
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").
.....Adrian.....I'm not keyed in on Ford engines as much as some others, but kinda surprised when you noted a 351 to be a "big block"....
Quentin
I make some money here and there. Hauled a bike for 50 the other day.
Adrianspeeder
USAF TSgt C-17 Aircraft Maintenance Flying Crew Chief & Flightline Avionics Craftsman
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)
......It's 70 degrees up here in Indiana {again}, this morning. Bright sky in th east and again, it looks a bit hazy. So it will get warm here too {again}, today. Rain...? Small percentage for next few days starting tonight. 30 to 40% range of it happening. Still very dry.
Evening train {NS}, at McD's had 4 engines last evening even one of Jen's BNSF in consist....and lots of Jen's city's "Lincon Grain Inc." grain cars heading east. They continue to go thru here quite often. Especially at this time of year. The trailing cars in the consist {quite a few of them were tank cars hauling corn syrup. See lots of them pulled thru here.
Good Wednesday morning, to one and all. It's mighty warm here in Louisville this morning: 79 degrees, and very muggy. Going for a high today in the mid to upper 90s. Not really much of a chance of rain, until maybe tomorrow, with a 20% chance. Then Friday and Saturday, a 30% chance. Hope everyone had a good evening, and are ready for another day.
Coffee, juices, teas (cold and hot) are ready. On the breakfast bar this morning: sausage & biscuit sandwiches, cold cereal, toast, bagels, bear claws, and muffins. There's also some fresh sliced cantaloupe and watermelon chunks.
You all have a great morning, and stay as cool as possile today.
Sounds a bit like my Mom; for some strange reason, she knew what day that was every
year; I never wore the same shirt twice.(for things like that)
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!!
JoeKoh wrote: Cw thanks for supper.been busy at work.Matt has a class picture day coming up soon.Going to find him a nice shirt.stay safejoe
Cw thanks for supper.been busy at work.Matt has a class picture day coming up soon.Going to find him a nice shirt.
Just don't do what I did (quite by accident, and amazing because it still fit) - send him to school on picture day in the same shirt he wore last year...
Of course, it did have one positive effect - his mother (who had left us by then) got her copy and promptly sent money for a new shirt.....
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...
Well, since I didn't get in to do lunch today, decided I'd start the supper menu early. On the menu for this afternoon/evening: Tuesday Mexican Fiesta:
Tacos, burritos (beef, beef & bean, beef enchilada style), chimichangas, Smoked chedder bacon burgers, Spanish rice, enchiladas, beef and chicken quesadillas, and appetizers of torilla chips w/picante sauce, salsa, or con queso.
And, there's plenty of iced tea (sweetened and unsweetened), soft drinks, vitamin waters, Gatorade, lemonade, whatever you'd like to drink, that is not alcoholic.
You all have a good evening, and take care.
Mook, are you sure you're up?!
Adrian's rent-a-truck would work, he could make some extra bucks while in the military.
(everyone knows they don't pay well!)
Somebody please send some rain this way, while we don't like cutting grass;
we'd rather do that than listen to the "crunch" as we walk over the very dry yard!
The Chicken "Saw" it all? Hummmmm.
Tree, "On your feet and out into the Heat"!
Randy, slow down, you're giving the speed limit signs a headache!
Joe, Go back to bed!
Oh, and Mookie, please make sure all you dunk in Tree's tea is your beagle,
I'm sure he doesn't need anything else.
(maybe the Cats and Huskers should get together....GO CATS!)
good morning
good afternoon
good night
Tom! I'm up!
I get up at 5:15 to push Driver out door, but then spend until about 9 downstairs getting the news, breakfast and ahem a bit of a nap....
Let's see we have - Adrian's Used Truck Lot, Tree in semi-sick bay, Randy traveling like a hurricane, Sir Chicken doing a chop and saw gig part-time (geez, doesn't your job keep you waaaay busy enough?) and the rest of us wondering why it is so wet down south but nothing for the rest of us.
There is a front headed through here and going to get the rest of you in a day or so. So far it has brought 70 degree temps, a little spit and a little breeze. Haven't checked on the humidity.
Chemistry over. Figured out where the body stores that 90%+ water we are made of - behind the nose. (I am now storing it in Kleenex.)
And the grand finale - Huskers won big time on Sat. Go Big Red. These times they are a changing! Makes me want to cheer.
Off to find Tree's tea - need to dunk my bagel.....
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
Howdy ya'll!
One more truck...
Would be my second '79 now, but this is a big pimpin' F-150 fully loaded Lariat packin' a big block 351M. And to make it that much cooler, a dually conversion for big towin'!
It's a tire screamer off the line with 4.30 gears, but no overdrive limits me to about 70 and 6mpg. Yeeeehaww. General Lee horn is on order...
Just read that Phoenix, AZ got rocked by some pretty hearty t'storms last week. Haven't talked to the family out there to see what there experiences were. My sister and brother-in-law have a lot of trees in their yard (I think he's tried to recreate SE Michigan in Phoenix) - 100 mph winds would certainly have caused some damage.
The soreness of my kayak trip is finally wearing off. Next time I'll go a little easier...
Beautiful day here. I'll be interested in seeing how our current crop of storms wanders - sometimes they hold together enough that we still get some significant weather out of them.
Bearclaw and tea in the corner....
Quentin, my Dad once told me that at the moment my Mom gave birth to me, Sioux Falls was in the middle of one of the biggest thunderstorms that he had ever seen, and strangely enough, I've always had a liking for rainy weather. But after we've had four or five days of cloudy, wet weather, it begins to wear on me, if you know what I mean.
Ray ooo ooo ooOOOOOo
....Ray, a couple hundred miles make so much difference in weather patterns. We've been really dry here at least thru this past 4 weeks or so. But it really does look like this left over hurricane action {now just a big Low system}, might help us out.
I've loved the clear skies and beautiful sunshine but as we all know, we must have the rain too.
I got out of bed about a half an hour ago and it is raining here in Sioux Falls. We probably will not get a whole lot out of this system, but Quentin, I wish we could share some of this rain with you and some others who really need it. My yard was looking rather bone dry yesterday. Currently we have a temp of 59.9 degrees and it is supposed to drop into the mid-40's tonight. That will make for great sleeping weather, no need to run A.C!
I have the day off today and I am not sure what I will do with my free time. I will probably catch up on some reading. Right now I am reading a book about Benjamin Franklin, "The First American" by H.W. Brands, it's a little better than 700 pages in length and I'm a little better than halfway through it. My Dad loved the subject of American History and I am sure he would be reading this book if he were still walking this earth today.
Well......... It looks like Hannah has set her sights to go directly over us, but it ain't gonna happen. The news said this morning that the storm had already weakened and I say it will continue to weaken. Look for a turn to the northeast in the next day or two. Randy, I think I will let you youngsters take care of the long haul stuff.. As I get older, I become more of a homebody and like to hang out near home. Like Quentin, I am curious about the "air under the left front steer". Are you referring to tires?
Paula, thanks for breakfast, and Mookie WAKE UP.
Take care
.....Randy, "air under the left front steer.....", I wonder just what that might be......?? Are you {as you said}, dreaming of torque to accomplish that....And those miles accumulated, that's a bunch. You fellows really do see the country. I'd imagine if one enjoys doing this it sure must be interesting...{as long as everything holds together}.
70 degrees here now with my "late" start. Hazy, so must mean we have some humidity outside. Weather people are saying after Wed. we have a 40% chance of seeing rain {from the leftover weather system now just a big Low}, and on into the weekend. We'll see. We sure do need it. Bone dry around here.
Good Tuesday morning, everyone. Going to be another hot one today: predicting a high of 94 again for today. Wonder if it tops out higher like yesterday. Currently, it's 76 outside.
Coffee, juices, teas, (iced, hot, sweet & unsweet), lemonade, Gatorade are ready. On the warmer bar this morning: oatmeal, toast, cereal, bagels, bear claws, bacon, sausage, eggs, etc.
Already have a couple of ladies out front, waiting for Tuesday Produce to begin. Think today is going to another looooonng day. Everyone take care, and have a good morning.
Early morning all......
Let's see, 594 plus 555 plus 339 miles is.... 1488 miles since Saturday morning, add to that another 550+ today, and I'll be wiped by about 2pm this afternoon. Check looks real good, though. Traffic hasn't been too bad this weekend, was a little hairy yesterday (them four-wheelers don't realize I pick up a LOT of speed coming off them mountains!!), but nothing a good set of brakes and Jakes can't handle (and the beer is STILL UPRIGHT!!)
Doing the Midnight Rambler thing today, in order to get both stops of this load off, hopefully getting quick turnaround to head back to the house for a relaxing weekend.
Will grab a few of those 5-hour energy thingies, might need them later, and a light breakfast, but will have it again when I cool my heels in Dalton, GA, unloading the first stop.
Time to see if we can get air under the left front steer (not likely, but can dream........)
See everyone later.....
Randy in Glade Spring, VA
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
// off to the showers for me. Cutting down dying aspen trees (rocky mountain trash trees) all day. Paul Bunyan can keep his day job, he has work in Louisiana I hear. Temperatures drop into the seventies tomorrow - figures.
Still have all my fingers, toes, limbs and blood. Didn't drop any trees on me, the house, the house next door, da boyz or anything else. Good job! (one poor tomato plant got roughed-up when the tree bounced on impact - oh well)
Hopefully, snowman isn't drowning in the swamp and the other forum regulars who got in Gustav's way are doing OK.
Joe, thanks for getting the next round of supper goodies going on the grill. And I see they're now on the warmer bar! Fell asleep sitting in my rocker/recliner, and think I slept for about two hours.
Believe we reach our highest temp this season: 96 degrees, and it's now 'down' to 95 degrees. And, if there's any breeze, I did not feel it when we were out on the front porch a few minutes ago. Very hot, with humidity rising, and feels quite oppressive out.
I hope you all have had a very pleasant Labor Day. Stay as cool as possible, and take care.
afternoon
got more burgers brats and dogs ready to go on the grill. going to eat and take a shower.Csx has trains waiting in garrett for crews.Matt and I also saw a bulkhead flat with a gondola car sides on it on q 500.
Well, I went out and got pollinated (can I say that on here?) again.
Had to watch a lot of train traffic in and out of the area (tons of coal ) for about 2 hours with a pretty stiff south wind and high humidity and high pollen count. But so far, so good - for both of us. I think we finally got our fall "systems" in place and can now relax and enjoy the rain and cool weather that will be here tomorrow, maybe?
Willy, will our cool front from the NW meet up with the hurricane coming up from the south? Maybe about.....KC, OKC, ?? Could get interesting?
For anyone interested, we saw KCS, CEFX, SF warbonnet and those silly noranges. Lots of those. And some of my favorites - the Greenies. Had 5 motors on a westbound freight. They went into the yard, so may drop some off at diesel shop for pampering.
Also saw our SW10 and SW15 moving cars around. Good day to talk to the trains!
Joe, thanks for helping fire up the gril. I've got hamburgers, steaks, hot dogs, brats, Italian sausage, chicken quarters ready to go on the grill. Along with corn on the cob, taters, red, green and yellow sweet peppers, broccoli, and whatever else anyone would like grilled today.
Side dishes: green beans, cauliflower, baked beans, potato salad, cole slaw, sliced tomatoes, 3 bean salad, fruit salad (with apples, oranges, pears, bananas, cherries, raisins and walnuts)
Desserts: strawberry cheesecake, chocolate cake, apple pie, apple, cherry, peach and strawberry cobblers, and plenty of ice cream (vanilla, neopolitan, Snickers, Oreo, black walnut, peach).
Beverages: iced tea, lemonade, Gatorade, Vitamin Water (several different flavors available like grape, orange, tropical citrus, dragonfly, etc.), fruit punch
As far as music goes, I like old time rock and roll, some blues, jazz, motown, beach music (Beach Boys, Jan & Dean), country, pop, easy listening, and big band.
Our current temp is about 84, 85 degrees, supposed to make it to 94 by 6 EDT tonight. And maybe rain coming back in around Wednesday or Thursday.
Mookie wrote:grumble, grumble - someone hid mah nose overnite! Think it might have rolled under da bed....
Just what you did not need to end the summer right.
Get well,
PL
Cw I'm ready to help fire up the grill.Larry as far as music goes I've heard it from big band to todays bands.Some covers are good some are not.Keep cool today.
.....And a late morning start here with 63.5 degrees and sunshine..{what else}, maybe we'll get some rain later in the week from the hurricanes. None forecast as of now.
Just checked the TV and seems N O will be a bit east of where it makes shore....Should help the overall situation. Let's hope so. Believe most people have evacuated but hope we don't see such terrible priviate property and city loss as happen 3 years ago. As well as additional levy damage.
Our community is FREE to join. To participate you must either login or register for an account.