As of 7a.m. I am another year older, having achieved 59 years by the grace of God. Funny thing, I still feel 58. I wish you all a happy and prosperous 2009.
Good morning and Happy New Year to everybody. 24 degrees and clear in Carolina this Jan 1. Supposed to get up to 47 later. Thanks for breakfast and everybody stay safe and warm
Tom
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HAPPY NEW YEAR, 2009!!! And good Thursday morning, everyone. I did not stay up to watch the New Year come in: about 11:30, I had to go on to bed. Just couldn't keep my eyes open for another half hour. Woke up at 5 a.m.
Coffee, juices, hot chocolate, hot cider, and hot water for tea are ready.
Only one local channel had news this morning, and when that came on, it was 21 degrees here, out at the airport, where they take the official readings. I haven't looked at our outdoor thermometer.
For your breakfast this morning: bacon, eggs, toast, buttermilk pancakes w/plenty of maple syrup, bagels and bear claws.
I also have a beef roast in the Crock Pot w/potatoes, onion, mushrooms, carrots for lunch and supper.
Hope everyone had a good, safe New Year's Eve, and everyone have a good day today.
edblysard Now, I don't want anyone here to take this wrong, but... The only place I want to read about any of you is right here on the forums, not in the newspapers....don't drink and drive tonight, and if you do drink, please have a designated driver...if you can't agree on a driver, agree on a cab ride... All of you are important, not only to me, but each to the other, we all kinda go well together, like broke in boots, we fit just right. You guys take care, please be safe, watch out for each other, and remember, friends don't let friends drive drunk.
Now, I don't want anyone here to take this wrong, but...
The only place I want to read about any of you is right here on the forums, not in the newspapers....don't drink and drive tonight, and if you do drink, please have a designated driver...if you can't agree on a driver, agree on a cab ride...
All of you are important, not only to me, but each to the other, we all kinda go well together, like broke in boots, we fit just right.
You guys take care, please be safe, watch out for each other, and remember, friends don't let friends drive drunk.
We were home from church by seven, and we did not see any irresponsible driving.
Johnny
Happy Birthday Ed:
While you are doing the Mexican thing with the food, Polo Loco would be a great way to get full with some wonderful flavors.
Enjoy your birthday it only comes around once a year, But you knew that I am sure.
PL
edblysard Thank you...swung by Alamo tamales, picked up 12 dozen beef and 4 dozen chicken hand made tamales, five bags of chips and salsa...and fresh avacados...gonna stay in for the night and enjoy.
Thank you...swung by Alamo tamales, picked up 12 dozen beef and 4 dozen chicken hand made tamales, five bags of chips and salsa...and fresh avacados...gonna stay in for the night and enjoy.
All the best from the frozen North Ed!!
LC
Well, the next round of steaks, potatoes, pork chops, etc., are on the warmer bar, just waiting for you all to come in and fix a big ole plate.
Ed, sounds like you're going to have a very safe and Happy Birthday tonight!! Have a great time, and enjoy your status of 'birthday guy' (I'll refrain from saying 'birthday boy).
AND, HAPPY NEW YEAR, TO ALL!!!!!!
Had to go out to the store just a little while ago; boy are the
"Crazies" (besides self) out already-very glad we'll be at home
watching TV, etc to celebrate the "NEW YEAR"!
Ed, A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY to You!! Hope you have Many, Many More!!
(and yes, with the invites from AARP, etc., you probably WILL have to get
a Larger Mailbox! (unless you've bribed your mail carrier to "delete"
those messages before they get to your homestead!) )
And To All: HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!
And A Happy Birthday also to John Denver, had his life not tragically ended in 1997
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!!
cherokee woman edblysard Thank you...swung by Alamo tamales, picked up 12 dozen beef and 4 dozen chicken hand made tamales, five bags of chips and salsa...and fresh avacados...gonna stay in for the night and enjoy. Ed, are sure sure you'll have room for your steak and baked potato? With all those tamales, should I make your steak a 'small' one? For everyone, steaks, baked potatoes, pork chops, baked beans and potato salad and cole slaw are ready. (Potato salad and cole slaw are in the cooler, next to some mango desserts left from yesterday.) You all enjoy lunch (and there's plenty left to fix, so we'll have some more for supper tonight). Be safe, and take care, whatever you do for the rest of this afternoon, and tonight!
Ed, are sure sure you'll have room for your steak and baked potato? With all those tamales, should I make your steak a 'small' one?
For everyone, steaks, baked potatoes, pork chops, baked beans and potato salad and cole slaw are ready. (Potato salad and cole slaw are in the cooler, next to some mango desserts left from yesterday.)
You all enjoy lunch (and there's plenty left to fix, so we'll have some more for supper tonight). Be safe, and take care, whatever you do for the rest of this afternoon, and tonight!
CW.
The tamales are going in the freezer....seems Aimee has made arrangements with a few of our friends, we are heading out to Hickory Hollow in the Heights area, a very old and very good local steak house, known for its food and the musicians that stop by and play, like the Dixie Chicks, Travis Tripp, Sugarland and the like.
After dinner, we are headed over to their house to play cards, let the kids play video games, and ring in the New Year.
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Night people? well never intended to be one but it pays the bills.Went to the store for mamma and sent letters to bill and his cousins.The maw was waiting at FC to put more cars in the siding.Csx must have had 1 more train to go by then they are on a holiday curfew.House is ready for G+G and matt is too.Cw thanks for supper and see everyone next year.
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").
Happy Birthday Houston Ed - from the diner as well as your personal thread. If you like AARP applications, wait until they find out you are ready for Medicare! You will need a bigger mailbox!
Johnny - back in the 50's we didn't have air conditioning at the house and our now BNSF yard was a big hump yard. The boxcars would hit each other and the sound would rattle you - about 3.5 miles away. Our city sits in a bowl and doesn't/didn't have high buildings, so the sound carried quite well.
I posted a blurb on here several years ago that the turbo whine woke me out of a sound sleep. I have excellent hearing and can hear high pitch sounds pretty well. That was like a needle in my head! (atmospheric conditions and an open window)
Sunny but cold here in middle of country. Debating whether to go out or not. If so, will be home by 4 pm to escape the "night people".
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
Good morning of the last day in 2008 to all. We had a temperature in the low twenties this morning, and expect to get into the upper thirties. The sun is shining; one climatologist says we will have snow tomorrow, another one says not to expect any until Saturday. Take your pick. We also get lake effect snow, much more often than Quentin does. I like the powder; it does not clog the snowthrower when it is fresh.
Happy birthday Ed; oh, to be fifty again!
Mookie, when I was in college, I could sometimes hear the N&W whistles (almost two miles away) in town; I do not recall hearing the Southern's horns (less than a mile away). In Wesson, Miss., the main line of the Main Line of Mid-America was across the street in front of my house, and there were four passenger trains, three through freights and the Rockpile each way every day--with four public crossings in town. Seldom was I wakened either by the Creole (midnight) or the Southern Express (3:24 in the morning). When the City went down about ten at night, I would sometimes count the cars by the sound of the trucks going over the switch frogs (there was a trailing point crossover right in front of the house). In Reform, Ala., the GM&O was about two blocks from my house, but I seldom paid attention to its movements; the AT&N was just outside my backyard, and I often went down to ride the engine or help the crew as they did their work.
Off to church this evening (five o'clock New Year's Eve, with communion), then home for supper (bean and pasta stew) and our usual bedtime. Tomorrow and Friday, watch the games with Southeastern Conference teams (today, also).
edblysardThank you...swung by Alamo tamales, picked up 12 dozen beef and 4 dozen chicken hand made tamales, five bags of chips and salsa...and fresh avacados...gonna stay in for the night and enjoy.
Good morning and HAPPY BIRTHDAY Ed. Sounds like you are preparing a new years blowout with all the stuff you bought. I had to take the girls for their annual checkup this morning, and they checked out OK. My nephew and another guy are cleaning the field in front of the house, thanks be to G-D and at last, it will be done after a years worth of trying to get someone. That is the field that the miscreant hid in during the manhunt excitement a month or so back. 55 degrees and sunshine in Carolina, on the way to 58. Everybody stay safe
It's been dusting snow here since last night. No major accumulations - just enough to keep things interesting. I think the folks south of us are getting some lake effect. I'm not headed that way until Sunday, so, who cares?
Ed - Happy Birthday! You're of an age with my sister, who gets her AARP application this coming February. She lives in MC territory.
I'm just hanging around the house tonight, in case some of the "amateurs" get themselves in trouble on the roads. Gotta get some stuff in town, and I'm leaving work early, so I'll go get Mom and we'll figure out something "special" for supper.
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...
......To our great surprise, opening a mini blind and looking out from bedroom at 7 this morining we had about 1" of snow on the ground and eveything else....Further checking, it was still snowing and then a puff of wind would blow it off house roofs like it was dry power. So really dry light stuff. First snow we've had here since Dec. 16th we had a "skiff" of it.
But a surprise it was and checking weather maps, found it was just an extension of lake effect snow clear down into our central Indiana area....Very rare it does so. Lake effect snows generally do not get this far south in Indiana.
Temp in upper 20's now and since skies have brightened and even some sunshine in the past several hours.
This is it.....The last of 08'.....Lets hope we see some improvement start in 09'.....From what I can hear, I believe we will.
Best to everyone and did I see Ed with another birthday....If so, best wishes to you Ed. Staying in as Ed mentioned, seems like a good plan tonight.
Quentin
Well BC we got 4" last night. Time for the wind to do it's thing as well! At least it is only supposed to snow on Thursday, a little Friday, and then on Saturday again...gotta love it!
Happy Birthday Houston Ed.
Happy New Year to everyone. Be safe and warm!
Dan
Good morning---have about 6" of snow on ground, expecting some more today---I get to drive in the stuff, what with it blowing around to the west of us---oh well---
Have yourselves a safe and HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!!!
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Good Wednesday morning, Joe: see you beat me in this morning. That's not been too hard for anyone to do, lately. Thank you very much for the coffee, juice and cinnamon rolls. Nice way to end the year.
Going to be firing up the grill around 10 or so, and we'll celebrate Houston Ed's birthday with steak, 'baked' potatoes on the grill, along with some other goodies. And speaking of Ed: !!!!!!
good morning
we got our bit of snow overnight.Juice coffee and cinnamon rolls are ready.Mookie will be watching the games this week.Matt and I have chores to do.G+G are coming over for new years tonight.Hope everyone has a safe new years and hope to see you in 2009.
Mookie; That is our 'Spring' cat---he 'springs' everywhere, in our xmas tree, up bookcases, on my layout, then makes off with my sw1200's and hides them on me---headbutts me and the laptop---curls up in my arms while I am still trying to type on this---kind of hard typing while he is headbutting you but it can be done
About the horn business---how many places are going anti-train horn down there? I know for a while we seemed to have a spate of that here but gave up because people didn't here the engines much---now that they seem to be quieter---modulo where we live right now we can hear the turbos kick in as the train comes into London from the west via Komoka's hills---at a 2.2% incline---lots of fun---
Tacos do smell good!
Barry - I couldn't stand it if I couldn't hear the trains any more. We always had several different railroads in, around and straight thru the middle of town many years ago, so you always had the sound. Lot less now, but with BNSF running a lot more trains, it still can get very noisy.
Like your cat picture - had one just like that many years back. He was so mellow, daughter used to put him in doll clothes and then in her doll buggy and cart him around the neighborhood. Hobo - great cat.
Joe - Nebraska - Gator Bowl - noon on Thursday.....should be a good game.....
.........Just about time to head to the family room to catch the "extreme trains" program...
miniwyoWow Tacos smell delicious! Can I get a take home box? My Girlfriend loves tacos and it is my night to cook.
RJ, go for it: to-go containers are always kept under the counter, so everyone can help themselves to anything they want to take home with them.
Good evenin' to all of you---We are supposed to be having some more stuff tonight and tomorrow---enough to make out of town trips I've got do interesting---
Mookie; In Woodstock--my hometown not far from here---the CP lines come from the NE side and sweep down through the western edge to parallel the CN lines which cut through the middle of town---the horns, when they blow can be heard all over the city and you can pick out exactly where the train is---when there are more than one it is like they are talking to each other as the sound just echos back and forth. I love it when you can hear them really clearly---we still can use the horns here ----so far---as to trains stopping to pick people up it has happened only a few times
Wow Tacos smell delicious! Can I get a take home box? My Girlfriend loves tacos and it is my night to cook.
More snow melted today... and revieled a leak in the supply to my sprinkler system... Apparently I forgot to close the valve...... Looks Like I get to do some plumbing in the spring!
RJ
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Cw thanks for supper.well the maw was busy doing the frieght car shuffle in the yard and over the FC diamond.they are also busy working on the # 16 to get it running again.weatherguessers saying some snow overnight and chillier tommorow but nothing major.Time to make some popcorn and watch some football(ZZZZZZZZ).
Ms Mook - It's the luck of the draw. Boy (well, boy's wife) had girl, now girl is having boy.
Regardless of whether Owen had been a boy or a girl, he was going to be a basketball player (both mom and dad played) and a Red Sox fan (per dad).
Whether other grandchildren will ensue has yet to be decided. DIL is 27, so certainly young enough. Daughter is currently pushing the line at 33. A three year gap would mean she'd deliver at 36, which is starting to get "old" as childbirth goes, and tends to garner special attention from the doc.
Regardless. I'm taking my grandparent job (spoiling the grandkids) to heart, although the tap on the diaper and stern "NO" granddaughter got from me the other day when she wouldn't leave a plastic wrapper alone wasn't a real popular thing with her....
Congrats Dan! Mookie I can answer your 2 questions.Warehouse is extra full.bean counters need more time to count this week for inventory.About amtrak sometimes the station person covers more than one amshak.The one here in Bryan also covers the one in waterloo indiana.We had to wait for ns trains before we got to the waterloo station.a guy called on his cell phone and was picked up at a crossing just outside of town by his buddy.
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