Hi all. Here is some good news. Aunt Mertie just celebrated birthday #101. Here is a pic of last years cake with the guest of honor. On previous occasions she talked to me about the golden age of rail travel as a young woman. Fascinating first hand accounts. Her mind is crisp & clear.
Ray, sorry to hear the news about your brother, hope all works out well.
Tom, come up this way if you want a bit cooler weather; the next several days here,
were Not Supposed to get higher than into the mid 80s.
(although, the State Fair starts next week, all bets for cooler weather are off!)
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!!
Mookie wrote:(Bang Bang Bang) Is everyone awake? ^~^?
(Bang Bang Bang) Is everyone awake?
^~^?
//peeks out from underneath the counter; is it safe to come out now?!
Talk about a Rude Awakening!!
I'll take some pancakes, a Blueberry muffin or two and a cup of coffee.
(if they don't have bullet holes in them!)
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)
Good morning everyone, I've been absent from the Flat Wheel Cafe for a while and I thought I'd better report in. I will be headed out to our county fair grounds in a couple hours with one of our HO scale railroad club members, the week of the Sioux Empire Fair kicked off this past Tuesday morning and our club is running it's annual fair week open house and running trains for the fair-going public. At the present moment we have 65 degrees here and it is supposed to warm up to about 85 later this afternoon.
Yesterday afternoon while I was running a train out on our club's layout, and old friend of mine came looking for me and informed me that my brother Tim had had a heart attack at roughly 11:00 PM the night before last and was air-lifted to one of our local hospitals. One of our club members loaned me his cell phone and I spoke with my one of my older sisters last night. Ginger told me that Tim is now out of danger right now, but has six stints in his heart and will need bypass surgery, which I surmise will probably happen sometime this week. Any time you have a situation like this with another family member who is close to you, you are going to lose some sleep over it and it is certainly no different with me. Meanwhile, I have some health issues of my own and will be seeing my doctor next Thursday morning for a physical exam, which is long overdue here.
Ray
good morning
a nice cool morning to start the day.Cw thanks for breakfast.We are going with Lucy and Aunt Kathy to Ft. Wayne to the zoo.Sis says it would be great to leave lucy and matt with the monkeys.will report back later.
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").
.....Didn't cool down quite as much as we were told it would...but certainly different than we've had in a while. 62.1 to start and clear blue skies and the sun working around the neightbors trees.
Should be a day {I think}, we can leave open the windows....Like that.
Train horns, during the overnight were so loud it sounded like they were running up our street and not a mile north of us...Frankfort {NS}, line...Weather conditions do that.
TGIF....Wishing a good weekend for all....
Quentin
Mookie, I've been in the kitchen, and when you started the banging, you scared the daylights out of me! I didn't know what was going on out here! Oh well, guess it's better to get the daylights scared out of you early in the morning. Then, you'll be prepared to anything as the day progresses.
Mookie, here's you a mug of coffee, and a couple of chocolate covered doughnuts. Or would you rather have a blueberry muffin?
Yes, the coffee is ready, fresh juices are made, and the Friday morning doughnuts, danish, muffins and cinnamon rolls are on the breakfast bar.
Very nice temps this morning: it's about 65, 66 degrees out, and the high today is supposed to be around 84. Mookie, would you like to go out to the garden, and sit in one of the rockers out there? If so, think I'll join you.
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
Hit several monsoons enroute across Ontario and in SE Michigan today. Nothing debillitating, although during one particularly heavy downpour west of Toronto several motorists ran for the shoulder, and the guy on the Harley took refuge under an overpass...
No safely ensconsed at the hotel. Delicious dinner, by the way. Took Mom out sightseeing, seeing how the old hometown has changed (and it has, even since last time I was here) in the 30 years since she left.
Waiting on the sisters (who arrived in the area today as well) to decide what tomorrow will bring.
Time for bed.
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...
.....A different weather here as the day wears on.....Actually turned off A/C about an hour or so ago. Humidity down and temp down low in the 70's now....Haven't looked for a while now just where it is, but tomorrow morning we're to get near 55....Haven't seen that for a while.
I wonder if I just might be able to get those remaining 7 shrubs trimmed tomorrow after all the dew is dried off...It's just been too sunny / hot for me to do it.
Florence....Tom, we'll...we've been thru there several times {years ago when 301 was prominent. In fact our first trip back in '59 to Florida was down that route. {From Pennsylvania then}.
Dan
Dan, you're welcome on the wedding cake. And I like your suggestion for what to have with the green beans tonight. So. . . on that note, here's tonight's supper menu:
grilled chicken breasts w/two kinds of stuffing: a combination biscuit/cornbread, sage dressing, and a cornbread dressing.
Desserts tonight: more chocolate cake, oatmeal-raisin cookies, apple cobbler and yellow cake w/chocolate icing.
afternoon
we went into town and then south along the NKP line to watch NS run their horses.Those F units on the buisness train were sweet.Matt said it was a good idea.Cw thanks for supper tonight.Its friday!!!!!!!
I'll grab some of #1 and lurk for a while.
How about grilled chicken breasts with stuffing and green beans on the side tonite?
Thanks for that wedding cake. We will practice cutting (and eating!) after it's thawed.
Mookie, did you enjoy your breakfast this morning? Hope so!
Mudchicken, glad you all are getting some much needed rain!! I'd also like to see a picture of you dancing in the rain: think mudhen can take a picture of that for us?!?!
Today's lunch menu:
1. You can have leftover meat loaf, mashed taters, etc., or
2. How about meat loaf sandwiches, if you just want a sandwich
Now, I'm off to the kitchen, and string and break green beens. What would you like to have with the green beans tonight for supper?
RAIN!!!!! - Denver residents are out dancing in the the streets. Must go join them for Mookie's viusual off-line amusement. More rain due today.
(CopCar got back into town from the Pacific NW and opened his suitcase?)
.....67 and clear skies start our day here.
Dan, if you check the freezer, you should find a "wedding cake: 3 layers w/a bride and groom on top. You can take that, if you wish, and you and fiance can practice "cutting the cake" (but, make sure you let it thaw first. Don't want you trying to cut through a frozen cake!) Plus, try not to stay away from here so long.
Coffee is brewing, juices freshly made, along with fresh teas and lemonade. And, of course, we have plenty of Gatorade for the mudchicken!
On the breakfast bar this morning: BLTs on toast, omelettes, and cereal.
Currently here in Metro Louisville, we have a temp of 76 degrees, and the sun is beginning to peek out. They are forecasting a high of 86? for today, and the cold front is on it's way in, but hasn't made it just yet.
Okay, Mookie, where are you? I've got your coffee mug down, and waiting to fill it up for you, when you get in here!!
It's nice to pop back in. I've been busy...but who hasn't?
Fear not...I'll leave lots left for Ms. Mook. I'll just grab this wee slice...there, that won't even be missed!
We're now knocking on 44 days until the wedding...so much to do even though most is already done. I've learned to love the phrase "Yes, dear" and it works so well! LOL!
Dan, good to see you in here, don't be such a stranger.
As far as the chocolate cake goes, you'll have to ask Mookie; but I'm suspecting she'll
have her Paws hands full protecting what's already here. (if Trapper hasn't gotten into it!)
(CW just told me that there were two Large Chocolate cakes made, so you should be safe.)
JoeKoh wrote:
Walt please I think 1 wild cat in the diner is enough.
Joe, you're very correct. At least with this one, we can control how much catnip he eats!
(Now Chocolate Cake is another Story!!)
BTW, he does have a BLUE collar with UK Paw Prints on it!!
(GO CATS!!!!)
Evening
matt and I went to the store and we saw the Maw working in the weeds on their main line.We also heard that there was an empty hopper train in emergency in hicksville on CSX.The dispatcher was giving a heads up to a westbound going by defiance.CW thanks for supper.hey Walt please I think 1 wild cat in the diner is enough.
....That's unusual....we being warmer than Walt's area....Right now: 86 and mostly sunny. Roughly 140 miles north.
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