And on the music topic - my daughter's friends used to be amazed when a "golden oldie" would come on the radio and she'd be familiar with it. Of course, she was used to listening to dad's music.
I find it amusing that not a few old songs have been covered by current artists. I sometimes wonder if today's kids hear such songs and like them, not realizing that their parents (or even grandparents) probably enjoyed the song in their day.
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...
Mookie wrote:grumble, grumble - someone hid mah nose overnite! Think it might have rolled under da bed....
Are you sure it didn't just run off?
Mookie, sounds like you're really stuffed up this morning! How about a nice cup of tea w/honey and lemon in it? (I know that's a cold remedy, but it sometimes helps to open up the ol' nose a little bit.) Please tell Driver, that we hope it feels better soon!
Coffee, juices, lemonade, teas (hot, iced sweet & unsweet) are ready to be poured, and for breakfast this morning: turkey bacon, pork sausage links & patties, scrambled eggs, hashbrowns and pancakes are just about ready.
What would you all like for the Labor Day meal(s) today? Do we fire up the grill, or what would you like to have today?
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
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)
Mookie wrote:Ray - our dreams are what keep us going!Willy - That's very interesting. The media has hyped it a little out of reason. But glad to see they are going to be a little more prepared this time. Now if we could just get some of that moisture to our area. Hear it may be cooler next week - guess I can wait for that!Mutt/CW - see L'ville and Kentucky were playing today? Haven't seen the results lately, but LV was not doing so hot.Driver now sick with allergies. He's been pretty much 10 toes up since Friday pm.
Ray - our dreams are what keep us going!
Willy - That's very interesting. The media has hyped it a little out of reason. But glad to see they are going to be a little more prepared this time. Now if we could just get some of that moisture to our area.
Hear it may be cooler next week - guess I can wait for that!
Mutt/CW - see L'ville and Kentucky were playing today? Haven't seen the results lately, but LV was not doing so hot.
Driver now sick with allergies. He's been pretty much 10 toes up since Friday pm.
The "CATS" had the Birds for Lunch; UK 27-U of L 2 Way to Go UK!!
Ray, that was/is a Groaner!!
As was said earlier, Louisville is "hosting" refugees from Gustav, as of this evening there
are about 1400 people here. There's been a reasonably steady stream of aircraft (mainly
Military) landing at Standiford Field (Lou. Int.) all day.
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!!
CANADIANPACIFIC2816 wrote: Two eskimoes were paddling their kayak in the frigid, bitterly cold Arctic, when one of them hit upon the brilliant idea of building a fire in the bottom of the kayak in an effort to keep themselves warm. The fire soon burned a hole in the bottom of the kayak and it sank, the eskimoes died of hypothermia. And the moral of the story is............................................."You can't have your kayak and heat it too!"How's that for a bad story? A real groanner, huh??Ray ooo ooo ooOOOOOo
Two eskimoes were paddling their kayak in the frigid, bitterly cold Arctic, when one of them hit upon the brilliant idea of building a fire in the bottom of the kayak in an effort to keep themselves warm. The fire soon burned a hole in the bottom of the kayak and it sank, the eskimoes died of hypothermia. And the moral of the story is.............................................
"You can't have your kayak and heat it too!"
How's that for a bad story? A real groanner, huh??
Ray ooo ooo ooOOOOOo
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Hey Willy,
I hope you are able to recover from your sinus infection soon! I've had them before and I know they are not fun. Stay on your antibiotic until it is gone.
There is a glimmer of hope in my employment situation at Wendy's. I had been pleading with the former manager at the location where I am working to give me more hours, but to no avail. As of last Saturday we have a new manager and her name is Robin. She took the day off today and working in her place was Setsuko Daniels, the gal who hired me in February of 2007. When I went to work this morning we were rather short handed and Setsuko asked me if I would be willing to learn how to work the grill, frying hamburger patties. When I told her that I would be more than happy to learn, Al Ford, who was a former Wendy's manager in Davenport, Iowa trained me in how to work the grill. Robin had gone ahead and assigned Al some hours that he is unable to work without asking him, and so I was asked if I would like a few additional hours for this week. Normally I would be clocking out tomorrow and Wednesday at 2:00, but for at least these two days I will be working until 4:00 pm.
In light of the fact that we have people who don't even show up for work, I'm going to try to convince Robin to assign me a minimum of 25-30 hours a week. She knows she can depend on me and would have nothing to lose.
Ray
Well, finally back home after a weekend with the railroad. Wasn't scheduled for Saturday, but went down for a kayak trip and to plant a sign at a remote point that wasn't otherwise identifed. Note to self - when making a sign to put up out in the woods, green and gold are not the best color choices!
Signed on and rode the engine for the wine train, allowing the assigned crew to stay on the train (somebody has to ride for at least part of the trip as we have to run long hood forward, effectively blinding the engineer on the other side of the locomotive). The revellers were having so much fun that they literally had the baggage/open air car bouncing. Wine and a live band will do that. Quite the event, I want to tell you.
Worked the train as student conductor today, although I again spent most of the day in the engine. Officially wrapped up my conductor training when my name appeared on the bottom of the conductor seniority list. First gig as conductor of record is next weekend.
The kayak trip was fun - I had the whole river to myself, other than a duck I can't find in my bird book, which preceeded me down the river for a good half mile, a few other ducks who simply watched my passing, a blue heron, probably some animals I didn't see, and two river otters who "tcch tcch'd" me as I passed, ducking underwater several times, as I had interrupted their play. Wish I'd gotten a few pictures but I couldn't reach my camera in the kayak.
I did push a little too hard as I got a late start. My shoulders are still sore... but it was a great trip.
willy
thanks for your weather input.Mookie hope your driver gets better soon.We've been helping mamma with chorses since coming home.
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").
Mookie -
Tell The Driver that I hope he feels better soon. I've been struggling with a sinus infection since Friday Morning (finally got an antibiotic for it today).
Willy
Modelcar wrote: ......Something must be changing with our weather patterns. Two terrible hurricanes of 500 year or so status, {in the same area}, doing so within 3 years....!!!
......Something must be changing with our weather patterns. Two terrible hurricanes of 500 year or so status, {in the same area}, doing so within 3 years....!!!
Just want to clarify that Gustav is certainly not a 500 year hurricane. In fact, it's quite typical of what we can expect to see at least once or twice in the Atlantic during each hurricane season. Pressure of 945mb and maximum sustained winds of 150 mph are intense, but nothing new. A look at the past 10 hurricane seasons shows that all of those seasons except one (2006) had at least one hurricane as strong or stronger than Gustav.
Even Katrina was not a 500 year hurricane. The top 10 most intense hurricanes in Atlantic History are:
1. Wilma (2005) 882mb
2. Gilbert (1988) 888mb
3. Labor Day Hurricane (1935) 892mb
4. Rita (2005) 895mb
5. Allen (1980) 899mb
6. Katrina (2005) 902mb
7. Camille (1969) 905mb
8. Mitch (1998) 905mb
9. Dean (2007) 905mb
10. Ivan (2004) 910mb
So, all of the 10 most intense Atlantic hurricanes have occurred since 1935 and Katrina is number 6 on that list. Two of the hurricanes stronger than Katrina occurred during the same year as Katrina, so it is certainly not a 500 year hurricane. I will say, however, that 2005's Wilma, with her 882mb pressure reading, was probably a 500 year hurricane.
Sources:
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Atlantic_hurricane_records#Most_intense
2. http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pastall.shtml
Roast beef with potatoes and carrots sounds awfully good to me, CW. I got home from work within the last two hours and it got up to 90 degrees here this afternoon. And while I would love to be able to point a giant fan toward Louisville and blow some 70 degree weather your way, I kind of wish I could do a bit more than that.
I got my name entered in the sweepstakes of Publisher's Clearing house a couple months ago, and they keep tellin' me that I could win as much as $5,000.00 per month for the rest of my life, and I keep tellin' myself that it simply aint gonna happen. Although it would be nice to win that kind of money.
If I did win such a huge sum of cash, I was thinking that it would be nice if I could put you, Walt and Sarah on a plane and bring you to South Dakota for a week to 10 days. We could rent a car, Sarah would do all the driving and we could head out to the Black Hills and see Mount Rushmore and ride the Black Hills Central Railroad. And heck, we could even make the drive down to Lincoln, Nebraska and spend a day with Mookie. But , the chances of ever seeing this idea bear some fruit is mighty slim.
aternoon
cw thanks for supper.csx has had to work on a crossover near hamler.busy busy morning.
Joe
Here is our Sunday Dinner menu:
1. Meat loaf w/mashed taters, gravy, green beans, cole slaw, fresh from the vine sliced tomatoes, and homemade dinner rolls.
2. Roast beef w/carrots, onion & potatoes, green beans, cole slaw, fresh from the vine sliced tomatoes and dinner rolls. (Same side dishes for both meats for today.
Ray, how about finding a humongous fan, plugging it in, and sending some of that 71 degree temp down towards this way?!?!?!
Good morning! Today might as well be the last day of summer here, and in my way of thinking, it is. Right now we have a temp of 71 degrees here in Sioux Falls and it is supposed to get up to about 85 or a bit warmer than that later this afternoon. The temperatures here are supposed to be much cooler after tomorrow, with the temps being in the mid 70's Tuesday thru Thursday. I don't know yet about Friday and Saturday, but we could use some rain here, that's for sure!
Tomorrow is Labor Day and I will probably end up having to work a shift at Wendy's, which I will not mind doing, and at least I'll be earning a few more hours towards a pay check. I had yesterday off, which was pretty nice, I don't recall ever having a Saturday off in the last 18 months that I've been working for the Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburger chain.
Well, I hope the rest of you out there all have a good day!
This doesn't sound good at all. In fact, it is frightening at the least.
One good bit of news is: People are leaving ahead of the storm. The exit strategy does seem to be much, much better orgainzed. Heard a figure of over 300 busses.....Amtrak trains getting ready to move people....arm bands computerized to keep info where people are going....and so on....Of course much work has been done on the levy system. Lets hope it doesn't overpower it and ruin what has been put in place so far.....The outlook for the city is not good. For people's lives...much better this time.
Sunshine here this morning....and a temp of 64, which is surprising as they said last night it would be a bit warmer today with the humidity building. So believe I'll keep the windows closed this morning.
My yard is needing rain as is everyone's....but none in the forecast until at least Thursday. Perhaps then, from outer hurricane rain filled weather rings after it {they}, come ashore...
Quentin
Good Sunday morning to one and all. Joe, thanks so much for getting breakfast together this morning! (I would have been in sooner, but when I turned on the computer this morning, had a Windows scan start running, and decided to let it finish).
Joe, it's going to be a triple H day around here, also: calling for a high in the low 90s for today. They're saying we'll have very little chance of rain until towards the last of next week.
The city has set up an 'evacuation' area out at the Fairgrounds for the New Orleans people who are due to arrive here later today.
Everyone keep as cool as possible today, and take care.
good morning
juice and coffee are ready to go.we also have some doughnuts too.a triple H day here in nw ohio.We have been watching the weather too.Everyone keep cool today.
I have spent the evening watching WWL and getting the dope on Gustav. They just announced that the storm surge on the coast (Belle Chase??) could top 25', and it is expected that the NO levees will be topped as well. They made the comment that Katrina was a little sister to what's coming ashore Monday. Also, the track has shifted slightly to the east, and now NO is in the perimeter for hurricane force winds. Rainfall at NO could be as much as 25"!!!!!!!!!!!! Land, what a mess this is turning out to be.
CANADIANPACIFIC2816 wrote: garbage I would make the argument that a lot of kids in this day and age have never even heard of either Lightfoot or John Denver, and instead are listening to all kinds of .Ray
garbage I would make the argument that a lot of kids in this day and age have never even heard of either Lightfoot or John Denver, and instead are listening to all kinds of .
Ray; I've got to agree with you, but those "kids" tell us we listen to garbage; "To each Their Own".
I don't even come close to saying that I understand what some of those people are
singing(?) or saying. If I tried to mention, or quote any of their lyrics, I'd get banned from this forum due to the profanity.
I like a lot of music, I do/don't have favorites, I just like to listen to MUSIC !
What some people listen to today, I don't consider music.
As I said "To Each Their Own"
Mutt, thanks for setting me straight on what John Denver was flying when he died. I must confess that my knowledge of certain things is not always what I think it is.
Gordon Lightfoot's album "Salute" was released by Warner Brothers in 1983. His most recent album, "Harmony" came out in 2004 in CD form. In 2003 while getting ready to go onstage in his native hometown of Orillia, Ontario, Lightfoot collapsed with an abdominal aneurism, which would have killed anyone less healthy. He spent six weeks in a medically induced coma. This latest album is a compilation of songs that he had written and recorded prior to his ending up in the hospital. Some eighteen months following his hospitalization Gordon had recovered sufficiently to be able to go back on the road touring. Hopefully, there will be another album or CD in the works from Gordon Lightfoot soon.
My dear old Dad was a long time radio broadcaster and musicologist, and I feel that my love for good music was inherited from him. I would make the argument that a lot of kids in this day and age have never even heard of either Lightfoot or John Denver, and instead are listening to all kinds of garbage.
Ray: As Quentin said, John Denver was killed Oct. 12, 1997. He few an experimental
version of an aircraft into the ocean, instead of crash landing on the beach, thus
avoiding killing inocent bystanders. The plane was not a homemade ultralight. But
an experimental version of a plane ready for production. The NTSB lauded him as
a hero for "ditching" the plane where no one else but him would be killed, versus
other people.
I am a humongous John Denver fan. When I first joined the National
Guard, it was in West Virginia. And the first annual training (summer camp) that I
went to, coincided with when JD released "Country Roads". We like to have wore that
record out on the jukebox.
(I was Lucky enough to to see JD in concert sometime in the late 70s to mid 80s here in Louisville.)
Gordon Lightfoot is another one of my favorite performers; although I'm not familiar
with the "Salute" album. I particularly like the Canadian Railroad Trilogy, and "The
Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald". (I was actually visiting family in Michigan in 1975,
when the wreck of the Edmond Fitzerald happened.)
I have family that lives in Louisiana and have been there several times;
And have been in New Orleans. It is a beautiful city (I really enjoyed it, wish
that I could have spent more time there.)
(Family is way inland from the gulf coast (Texas-Mississippi border)).
I hope all survives whatever happens with Gustav and after effects.
Can't give you an answer about Sarah: she's been extremely busy. The
railroad is keeping her going. There are times we don't see her very often.
.....John Denver died Oct. 12, 1997.
Mutt, John Denver has always been one of my favorite musicians. He was killed several years ago while flying a homemade, ultralight aircraft. Does anyone remember exactly what year this happened? Unfortunately I don't have any of his music on CD.
Right now I am listening to one of Gordon Lightfoot's older albums, "Salute". I dream of seeing this Canadian Artist come to Sioux Falls for at least one concert, but being that he will be 70 years old in November, I kind of doubt that will ever happen, although I could be wrong. The last I knew he and the band of musicians who accompany him were still performing. Gordon Lightfoot's music in part motivated me to make a trip to Calgary, Alberta for an NMRA convention in 1979, and this is where my interest in the Canadian Pacific Railway sort of began to develop
I've been to Louisiana twice and the New Orleans area is no place to be when a hurricane makes it's appearance on the scene. My prayers are going out to those who live in THAT part of the country.
At last report we had 90 or 91 degrees here in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. I know that the weather conditions for Louisville, Kentucky have been roughly the same for today, although the humidity there is probably a bit higher there than it is here.
I shelled out a little better than $30.00 this morning for a new coffee maker, from "MR. COFFEE", and I had gone nearly a full week without a cup of freshly brewed coffee, and what I've got now is pretty nice. I also baked myself a batch of chocolate chip cookies this afternoon. Yum! :-)
I'm kind of hoping that Sarah will give me a call tomorrow evening if not tonight. I sent her an e-mail earlier this past week and hinted that it was February when I last had a conversation with her over the phone. She's a very nice girl and I really enjoy my conversations with her.
Lets hope Gustav doesn't get as strong as they're saying he could, hope everybody in the
Gulf Coast States will stay safe.
CW & Sarah are out for awhile so I've managed to get several things done on the model
railroad, read and listened to some of my John Denver CDs. Enjoyable afternoon!
Guess I will have to get the regular "Saturday Pizza Fest" going though, so here's
what's on the menu tonight:
Hawaiian
Cheese & Extra Cheese
Goetta
Mushroom & Pepperoni
Supreme
[anchovies, extra cheese, black olives, etc. are available on all orders.]
Right now; John Denver's "All Aboard" album is playing in the background!
grampaw pettibone wrote:As a followup to my earlier post, Southern Louisiana parishes have issued states of emergency and New Orleans began assisted evacuations at 0800 local this morning. Interstates are packed and tolls dropped on bridges. This is beginning to sound serious. The track ahows landfall west of NO, but this would put the right eyewall right over Orleans Parish. Check things out at WWLTV.com
MSNBC is saying that Gustav could be a Cat 5 storm over the Gulf.
If I am reading that right our friends in Louisiana called it right to get out of town.
PL
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