Dan
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)
.....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}.
Quentin
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...
(Bang Bang Bang) Is everyone awake?
^~^?
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
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.
.....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....
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").
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
Mookie wrote:(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!)
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!!
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!)
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.
I thought it was nice this morning at 53 on the therm-o-meter. We're on the way to mid/upper 70s today. Better than the "dog days of August" as far as I'm concerned.
Something smells like gunpowder around here...was Yosemite Sam in this morning?
I think I'll grab a quick bite and then lurk for a bit in the corners...where its safe!
grampaw pettibone wrote:Once, when I was in construction, we were sent to the beach for a job and rented a big room with kitchenette. A couple of the guys just had to go honky tonking and came back three sheets in the wind. Next morning, threy felt poorly and wouldn't get up. I found a big old pot and an BIG spoon and roused them up quickly. Thinking back, I'm surprised I survived that. Latest weather guess now is 88 for todays high instead of 90+. Things are on the improve.
Dan, I think Mookie has earned a couple of new nicknames this morning (and neither is courtesy of me!) No, it wasn't Yosemite Sam, but Nebraska Nell, or the Lincoln Lurker/Lugger. (Not to be confused with Louisville Slugger).
Instead of our regular Friday Fish Fry, today is going to be grilled fish day. The cod, perch, flounder, haddock, halibut and jumbo shrimp will all be grilled today. But, we've still got the regular side dishes of baked beans, corn on the cob, hushpuppies and cole slaw.
DESSERTS TODAY: chocolate cake, and the usual list of pies and cobblers, along with ice cream.
....Well Tom, that was a long time ago but still remember it was fun. First trip the wife and I made since being recently married. And we sure did come many miles down on 301 including that area....So if you were there back then we have been close....
We sailed down to Florida on our first trip to the deep south in our 1957 Corvette....A black one with the silver cove trim on the sides....In fact, Have a picture of us in Florida on the desk here and a model of that Corvette as I write. {Photo of it too}.
Remember it was so hot driving we made it to Jessup, Ga. and stopped for the overnight...arriving in mid afternoon and swam a while in the motel pool and then got up real early the next morning to travel before it got so warm....it was summer.
Mookie wrote: (Bang Bang Bang) Is everyone awake? ^~^?
The screen door is now out of service (and almost in pieces). When the cat wants in, the cat wants in.
CNW 6000 wrote:I think I'll grab a quick bite and then lurk for a bit in the corners...where its safe!
Move over please; I'm not sure it's Safe here either!!
Things are looking better in here. Who fixed the screen door? Whomever fixed it, thank you.
Just got through taking another round of grilled fish and corn on the cob off the grill, and is now on the warmer bar. Plenty of the side dishes have also been replenished.
The weather is so nice today, we managed to turn off the industrial size fan in the living room. But, I'm not sure what our high actually made it up to today. Took a late nap, and missed the weather report on the local evening news.
You all enjoy your grilled fish, and have a great evening.
Cw thanks for supper.we had a great time at the ft wayne zoo.we even found some more areas along a trail to explore in new haven along NS.Time to read the daily paper and watch my eyelids close.
Joe, glad you all had a good time, guess the kids came home with you all?!
I'll take some Fish if there's not gunpowder in it; I DO NOT want to take a bite of Perch
and have it explode in my mouth.
(my dentist would love that, however.)
Evening all.....
Missed Mookies wakie-wakie call this morning, as I was just pulling out of a rest area near Albany, NY at that time. Made it all the way back to Harborcreek, PA before I found out what the commotion was. Guarantee that if that cat did that at a truckstop, cat would be full of holes and not looking very good (we truckers like our sleep!!)
Larry, you must have missed that reported bomb threat at the bridge between Port Huron and Sarnia, they had the bridge closed down for about 2 hours yesterday, and security measures have been stepped up at all border crossings (and they can now take computers and cell phones for no reason, other than possible terrorist activities).
Quentin, yep, the same I-40 gorge, it's 50mph for trucks for a good 25 miles or so, not a straight stretch of road there. Saluda on I-26 is 6 percent for trucks, plus the Green River Gorge is a 7 percent grade in the same area, but that is a relitavely short pull, Saluda is about 3-4 miles, versus about 3/4 mile.
Should be off to bed shortly, this load drops in Frankfort, IN, tomorrow, then over to Lapel, IN for a load of beer bottles to deliver near the VA/NC border for Monday morning. Once I get that off, will be about 3500 miles for the week. I'm tired just thinking about it.......
Randy in Harborcreek, PA
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
....Well Randy, sounds like we're talking about the same location. I was always glad to get thru that area. Some wild scenery thru there and even a tunnel if I remember correctly. At least in one direction.
rvos1979 wrote: Larry, you must have missed that reported bomb threat at the bridge between Port Huron and Sarnia, they had the bridge closed down for about 2 hours yesterday, ...
Larry, you must have missed that reported bomb threat at the bridge between Port Huron and Sarnia, they had the bridge closed down for about 2 hours yesterday, ...
We lost an hour in traffic west of Toronto - looks like we would have lost it at Sarnia anyhow.
Checked out "Milford Memories" today. Booths were down a bit, but it was all good anyhow.
Actually saw a southbound on CSX's Saginaw sub tonight! First time in three visits...
Headed for Huckleberry Village Saturday for a ride behind a Mudhen.
wrote the following post at 08-06-2008 12:44 PM:
....Cool Tom...I am not...Just got off the John deere finishing up the yard mowing for today. It's not that hot by the thermometer but boy, that sun still has power and it is shining bright today. So we're in here cooling off a bit before thinking what's next. Need some lunch soon.
Actually, the thermometer is showing just 83 plus, but the sun is really driving it home....
+83 Degrees F could you send some of cool air down my way? Yesterday(Thur) was down in Houston, my thermometer recorded temps of +103F(+humidity). & over +100F in Dallas Today(Fri).
I'm at the house now & in the air conditioning in the house as opposed to the truck w a/c.
Rgds IGN
rvos1979 wrote: Evening all.....Missed Mookies wakie-wakie call this morning, as I was just pulling out of a rest area near Albany, NY at that time. Made it all the way back to Harborcreek, PA before I found out what the commotion was. Guarantee that if that cat did that at a truckstop, cat would be full of holes and not looking very good (we truckers like our sleep!!)Larry, you must have missed that reported bomb threat at the bridge between Port Huron and Sarnia, they had the bridge closed down for about 2 hours yesterday, and security measures have been stepped up at all border crossings (and they can now take computers and cell phones for no reason, other than possible terrorist activities).Quentin, yep, the same I-40 gorge, it's 50mph for trucks for a good 25 miles or so, not a straight stretch of road there. Saluda on I-26 is 6 percent for trucks, plus the Green River Gorge is a 7 percent grade in the same area, but that is a relitavely short pull, Saluda is about 3-4 miles, versus about 3/4 mile.Should be off to bed shortly, this load drops in Frankfort, IN, tomorrow, then over to Lapel, IN for a load of beer bottles to deliver near the VA/NC border for Monday morning. Once I get that off, will be about 3500 miles for the week. I'm tired just thinking about it.......Randy in Harborcreek, PA
Getting run to death? Dallas sucks. got stuck on a load up to Dallas from Houston yesterday. Then waited for company to deceide to take a broker load from Dallas to Little Rock for the wkend. Only good thing is I get to go home for the wkend.
Way it goes somedays.
Good Saturday morning, folks!! It's really a very nice morning. Our temp is about 65, 66 degrees, and very pleasant.
Coffee, tea, juices and hot chocolate are ready this morning. And on the warmer bar:
country fried ham w/redeye gravy, grits, turkey bacon, pork sausage links & patties, scrambled eggs (and I'll fry eggs if anyone wants fried eggs instead), chocolate chip muffins and blueberry muffins, cantaloupe, watermelon, pancakes, homemade buttermilk biscuits w/sausage gravy, home fries.
Everyone have a great morning, and come back tonight for our pizza fest.
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