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Posted by Mookie on Friday, July 11, 2008 8:36 AM

Peeking in to see if everyone is enjoying the cool.  Yep - all the furniture is covered in people!

Sir Chicken - your video came out as all commercials.  Care to explain what happened?  We can do it w/o the pictures if we have to....

CW - I am going to stick with cold cereal.  Only thing that isn't too hot or heavy. 

Dan - what is the exact date so we can all have a good cry....(I always cry at every wedding - even on tv!)

Heard a few train noises this morning.  BNSF must be moving a little more.  Send greenies, Joe.  Will need them for our tomorrow watching.

Off to find milk.

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Posted by JoeKoh on Friday, July 11, 2008 6:46 AM

good morning

its friday!!!!!!!!!!!.cw thanks for breakfast.Matt and I are off to find what csx can run.Mamma is on a mission today.We will check back later.

stay safe

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Posted by Modelcar on Friday, July 11, 2008 6:31 AM

.....And north of Louisville....it's 69 degrees and bright with just a light haze like in the sky.  Looks like sunshine and more heat today for our midwest central Indiana town....It's Summer.

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Posted by cherokee woman on Friday, July 11, 2008 6:07 AM

Good Friday morning, everyone!  Looks like we had a  pretty good evening here last night.  That is definitely a good thing!  Here in the Metro Louisville area this morning, we have a temp of 70 degrees, supposed to hit 92 by this evening.  Then rain works it's way back in tomorrow, the ole "summer heat of the day" stuff.  

Our Friday morning Doughnuts and Pastries are on the breakfast bar.  You've got all kinds of doughnuts, danishes, bagels, bearclaws and muffins just waiting for you all.

And coffee, tea, lemonade and juices are  ready to go.


 

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Posted by CNW 6000 on Friday, July 11, 2008 5:52 AM

I typically go through each of our A/C units twice a year.  Once at the beginning of the cooling season and once at end of the cooling season.  It's amazing what can work its way into those units over the winter!

Storms tonight.  Last night we had a pretty good gullywasher.  It won't help me get my ferns and lillies planted tonight but that's ok.  I have a feeling I'll be tired from work: presently I have the 1st hour of a 12 hour shift almost done.

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Posted by SactoGuy188 on Thursday, July 10, 2008 11:04 PM

 grampaw pettibone wrote:
Low refrigerant will ice up the coils and compressor. If the compressor goes, it is better to get a new unit.... Mine died last summer during the hot spell and we like to have perished to death until a new unit was installed. At present, things are cool on the Pettibone Plantation.

My stepdad was asked by the repair person when was the last time the coils were cleaned and I found out it was over five years ago! Shock [:O] The repair person said a dirty coil can cause this type of ice buildup and the coils should be cleaned at least once a year.

 

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Posted by grampaw pettibone on Thursday, July 10, 2008 10:58 PM
Low refrigerant will ice up the coils and compressor. If the compressor goes, it is better to get a new unit.... Mine died last summer during the hot spell and we like to have perished to death until a new unit was installed. At present, things are cool on the Pettibone Plantation.

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Posted by SactoGuy188 on Thursday, July 10, 2008 10:45 PM

Good evening everyone.

Gawd, good thing you're not in the Sacramento, CA area in the past few days. The smoke from the Butte County fires north of us are so intense at times that yesterday, I nearly keeled over from the smoke and 107° F. temperatures whenever I walked outside! Dead [xx(] That was the worst breathing conditions I've experienced in many years.

Also, I've been having serious air conditioning problems lately, not a great idea with the hot temperatures recently! Dead [xx(] Fortunately, I asked someone at where I worked what caused my problems, and from that information I had a repair person come out and take a look at the air conditioning coils inside the furnace unit. Essentially, the whole A/C coil unit was completely iced up, and that caused the air conditioning to not blow air frequently. The repair person had to chip away at the ice, then asked us to run the furnace in heater mode to melt away the rest of the ice. He was then able to clean the coils and recharge the refrigerant, and now the air conditioning works great! Cool [8D]

 

 

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Posted by mudchicken on Thursday, July 10, 2008 10:17 PM

Better the pig than the chicken.....

///rushes off to water the asparagus that Doogie hasn't bulldozed (yet)....

Somebody at CSX had a real bad day:

http://opera.cincinnati.com/Netcasts/player.asp?TabsXML=http://opera.cincinnati.com/Netcasts/tabnews.xml&FeedXML=http://opera.cincinnati.com/netcasts/videorecent.xml&FeedPR=http://opera.cincinnati.com/Netcasts/prerollNetcast.xml&GUID=http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20080710/VIDEO/307100083/

 

 

 

 

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Posted by locomutt on Thursday, July 10, 2008 7:41 PM
As I said earlier, Kermit is my favorite..........Does not explain why I like "Frog Legs"!Mischief [:-,]Dinner [dinner]

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Posted by grampaw pettibone on Thursday, July 10, 2008 7:10 PM
My favorite muppet had to be Link Hogthrob. A real sex symbol

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Posted by locomutt on Thursday, July 10, 2008 6:47 PM
 cherokee woman wrote:

Pork Roast,  taters & carrots

 

SHEESH!!!!  Start talking about Sesame Street, the Muppets, Ms. Piggy, etc. and what does CW do;  she goes out and "Roasts" the Pig for supper!!   SHEESH!!!


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Posted by Mookie on Thursday, July 10, 2008 6:31 PM
Tom - you handsome devil you!  You tickle my funny bone.  But then most of the people in the diner do, too!  What a classy joint!  Laugh [(-D]

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Posted by grampaw pettibone on Thursday, July 10, 2008 5:53 PM

Northeastern SC just took a pounding. There was near continuous lightning, fires all over from them with at least one church burning, and some parking lots flooded up to the windows on small cars. It passed just to the north of me, and I missed the lightning, PTL, but the City of Florence caught it. There are cars flooded out on the streets, underpasses are unpassable and numerous people stranded. Again, there are sirens all over and the scanner is full of distress calls. Yet, we are still in a drought situation? Oh, and another disaster, the ball game has been rained out! (that's where the flooded parking lot is).

CW, thanks for the supper. I will have a helping of most plus dessert. My ear is keeping me from chewing much but I am game to give it a try. Mookie, thanks for the comments on my good looks. All of the goils say that!

Take care and stay safe 

  

 

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Posted by cherokee woman on Thursday, July 10, 2008 5:35 PM

Ray, those goodies you're getting ready to make for the RR Club sure do sound good, especially the fudge brownies! 

Since I wasn't around to fix lunch today, and Mookie is starving, here's what I have fixed for supper tonight:

Pork Roast,  taters & carrots

Fried chicken w/mashed taters, gravy, green beans, corn, cole slaw

Lasagna w/roasted red taters, Italian green beans and garden salad

Joe, there is a container fixed for you for your supper at work tonight.

Hope you all have a good evening, and take care.

 

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Posted by JoeKoh on Thursday, July 10, 2008 5:00 PM

just be careful or it could be hiiiyaaaaa!!!!

stay safe

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Posted by locomutt on Thursday, July 10, 2008 3:26 PM

 CNW 6000 wrote:
Statler and Waldorf if memory serves correctly.  Wasn't one of their voices done by Henson himself? Here's a link to a 5 minute clip of these two.

Dan, Thanks for that "link", enjoyed watching it. Guess we'll have to start watching

"Sesame Street" a bit more often than we do; (and Thomas, etc.)

(Umm, be very careful about thinking how much time you'll be spending in that Hammock!) 

Ray, I probably would have gotten that way had I never seen the shows; but My

Favorite character is "Kermit"!

And for one of Mookie's Favorites; "When Pigs Fly", that would be an unmentionable

of: "When Pigs Fry"! 


 

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Posted by JoeKoh on Thursday, July 10, 2008 3:20 PM

afternoon

went into town and got yardwork done this morning. CSX was busy fixing track between sherwood and rosedale. I liked watching the muppet show too. Cw thanks for supper.tonight is friday.

stay safe

joe

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Posted by Modelcar on Thursday, July 10, 2008 3:11 PM

.....For anyone here interested....the video web cams are up and running again out at the Hoover Dam Bridge Bypass project.

The mammoth project of building a 2000' bridge across the Colorado River Canyon with the bridge floor to be about 900' above the river.

They had a "sky crane" failure last year that set the project back until they constructed new towers....{first ones collapsed}  They are needed to take construction material out over the canyon in building the bridge.

Live web cams are now back and running....They were down for quite some time.  Bridge is just down the Canyon 1700' or so below Boulder Dam structure.  This is a wild project....!

For anyone looking to see it:  Google "Boulder Dam Bypass project".

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Posted by Willy2 on Thursday, July 10, 2008 2:21 PM
 tree68 wrote:

They did amuse me, how they were all nicely lined up in a row....

Perhaps some sort of a quaint and/or exotic atmospheric dance?

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Posted by mudchicken on Thursday, July 10, 2008 2:09 PM
Just make them rain on Colorado!
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Posted by tree68 on Thursday, July 10, 2008 2:08 PM

Musta been last night's cold front...

They weren't malnourished, though.  We're pretty much overcast now.

They did amuse me, how they were all nicely lined up in a row....

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Posted by Willy2 on Thursday, July 10, 2008 1:55 PM
They do look a little puny. They need a Chef [C=:-)] to fix them a nice instability, moisture, and wind shear soufflé. Big Smile [:D]

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Posted by Mookie on Thursday, July 10, 2008 1:43 PM
probably from hunger!

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Posted by Willy2 on Thursday, July 10, 2008 1:35 PM
Tree: There was likely just a very weak boundary or disturbance in the area.

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Posted by Mookie on Thursday, July 10, 2008 12:24 PM
Tree:  It is forming a message:  Let's Eat Lunch! 

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Posted by tree68 on Thursday, July 10, 2008 10:59 AM

Here's one for Willy:

On the way to work this morning I noticed several clouds that appeared to be regularly spaced and similarly sized:

I drove a few miles down the road and noticed that they were "multiplying:"

Struck me as interesting.  I suspect it was simply a matter of waves (ground swell, if you will) forming in the atmosphere.  Didn't stick around to see what happened later.

 

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Posted by CANADIANPACIFIC2816 on Thursday, July 10, 2008 10:05 AM

"Guess I learned how to eat a cookie and become a "Grouch" from the other.Wink [;)]"

You mean to tell me that you would sit there and watch Seseme Street?? Actually Walt, I should not tease you over this, cause I've got friends who used to insist that I am the "Original Cookie Monster"!

Our HO scale railroad club, the Sioux Valley Model Engineers Society is gearing up for it's annual fair week open house, which takes place during the annual Sioux Empire Fair. When I first joined the club in 1980 I began a tradition of providing a lot of goodies for the rest of the club's membership to munch on during the course of our open houses, this one in particular. I will start baking the cookies within the next three weeks, and there will be at least two batches of the following; chocolate chip, oatmeal, peanut butter, molasses, ice box, dark chocolate with white or peanut butter chips, and maybe a pan of chocolate fudge brownies as well. Chef [C=:-)]

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Posted by CNW 6000 on Thursday, July 10, 2008 9:38 AM
Statler and Waldorf if memory serves correctly.  Wasn't one of their voices done by Henson himself? Here's a link to a 5 minute clip of these two.

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Posted by tree68 on Thursday, July 10, 2008 9:10 AM

 CNW 6000 wrote:
Walt those critics sure were funny!  I wish I could find an episode or two of that show to watch now and again.
It's out on DVD - I have one at the house with several shows on it.

Now, the 64 cent question - what were their names?

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