Overcast in central Indiana this morning....Headed for 60 to 65 today. But such temps have consequences. Here it will be high wind sometime tomorrow. Some could be damaging according to weather people. it is gusty this morning but in the acceptable range. Almost no snow now....Just a bit left in some piles from parking lots, etc....
So...onward towards Spring. Actually, the sun just started to shine in on the computer.
Quentin
cherokee womanTom, there's also a hot-from-the-oven pound cake. Do you want it plain, or do you want some sauce over it, or iced?
Thanks Paula. I like mine chilled with sauce or ice cream, but anyway you have it is fine. 50 degrees and clear, headed for 74 in Carolina today. I got up early to check out the wireless, and since nothing interestin showed up, it's time for a nap. Everybody take care
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 Tuesday morning, everyone. We have a temp of 57 degrees this morning. High yesterday was in the 70s. Worked out in the front yard, getting a start on the ice storm damage to the pine tree, getting the small branches and pine needles swept up and bagged. Now, we are getting rain. Tomorrow, we're to have some high winds and thunder boomers.
Mookie, I know what you mean, worrying about Joe. Like you, I hope it's just computer problems.
Coffee, juices, hot chocolate and hot water for tea are ready. Mookie, got your coffee mug cleaned and ready to pour your coffee.
On the warmer bar this morning: bagels, bear claws, turkey bacon, sausage, homemade buttermilk biscuits w/sausage gravy, scrambled eggs.
Tom, there's also a hot-from-the-oven pound cake. Do you want it plain, or do you want some sauce over it, or iced?
Cannonball, I hope your Produce Wednesday picks up soon. (And I also hope our Tuesday Produce picks up! How are you and Shirl doing? Hope both of you are well. And, I'm glad the coffee wasn't too hot!!
Going to be a busy day around here. After I get through with Produce, have to go to the Pharmacy and pick up a prescription, come home, and start fixing chicken & dumplings while Walt goes to the airport to meet Sarah. And, if there's any time left, will be working on getting up more pine branches and needles.
I wonder how our friends down in Australia are faring with the fires down there. Has anyone heard from Peter or Kozzie?
You all enjoy your breakfast, have a good morning, keep safe and take care.
CW, a big oops .Dumped hot coffee on self & keypad . A lot of events happened rather quickly. Spare keypad in service now . Wireless mouse to the rescue . Post was to tell about ruomered cut back in food programs here in the area . so far it hasn't come to be . With the way things are it's worriesome . We will see come wed. produce day. Fortunatly, the coffee wasn't tooo hot . Hope y'all are warm & dry. Respectfully, Cannonball
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CW,
Tree: Yeek! That is quite a story!
No one was hurt in this fire which is the good part. The house will be torn down since the damage from both the fire and fighting the fire took its toll.
It seems like you hear more about women being the extreme hoarders. I wonder if this is true. Dr Phil has addressed this issue only the woman moved from one house to a 2nd one to keep hoarding.
BC - house built in 1910 so wasn't going anywhere until now.
53 and ....... rain! Little gust of wind every so often. Rain.....hmm! We don't have rain this time of year unless we are going to have major ice to follow. Haven't heard anything like that yet.
Putting out food for the backyard livestock yesterday morning just before sun up and had our resident hawk circle overhead. Must have liked my bright red sweater! Or maybe he eats peanuts, too.
I am getting concerned about Joe, CW. I hope it is only puter troubles!
Off to find some more totally useless news!
Mook
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
.....I'm sure some form of weirdness appears in every part of the country....we just don't hear about all of them....Glad we don't.
I'm sure each one of us can relate some form of this from his home area of someone that knew of it and or first hand experience to some instance near by..
Temp is rising from about the freezing mark earlier this morning....Skies are overcast, but bright at times like the sun is about to break thru.
Snow is all but melted. A good thing.
Possible storms Wed pm......That's not a good thing.
Anyway, hope we'll kinda "coast" out of the worst of the Winter cycle from here on out. March can be the tricky transition month.
Hope the new week is good for all....
Good morning and thanks for breakfast. 56 and sunny in Carolina this lovely day. Not much to offer so I will hang around for a while. Paula, could you bake an old fashioned pound cake some day?
Good Monday morning, everyone! Slept in for a bit this morning, so just getting in here. Has anyone heard anything from Joe???? I hope everything is all right with him and family.
Coffee, juices, hot chocolate, hot cider and hot water for tea are ready.
On the warmer bar this morning: bagels, bear claws, bacon, sausage, scrambled eggs, biscuits w/sausage gravy and cereal.
We have a temp of 43 this morning, could get up to almost 70 degrees today, with rain coming in later on. Might even see some thunder boomers tomorrow.
Jack, glad you had a nice birthday, yesterday. We do try to please everyone around here.
Mookie, I'm very sorry to hear about the fire in your area. Very sad, indeed. I've got your coffee mug ready, and I'm waiting to pour your coffee into the mug, when you get in here.
Everyone have a good morning, take care and keep safe.
There was a fire around here years ago that was a super rat pack episode. Two old maid sisters, who were both schoolteachers both died with no heirs. The will specified that their house was to be locked and burned to the ground with all it's contents. Officers and the coroner who had investigated the last death reported that the house was full of antiques, bags of silver and gold coins, and shoeboxes full of currency. The sheriff was obliged to put a 24 hour guard on the house until it was burned. Afterwards, people with metal detectors scavenged it. This is a true story. You never know with some people. Kinda like the guy in Chicago who had $600,000 in the bank but froze to death after not paying his bill to the gas company.
Thanks for all of the birthday wishes. Now let's highball toward another great week of discussion about things that matter - or don't.
Mookie This was, from what I heard on my scanner, one of those houses that the little old lady didn't want to part with anything, so it all stacked up throughout the house..
In NYC, they refer to those as Collyers Mansions. A read of the link will explain it all fully.
Kinda makes my pack-rat tendencies pale in comparison. I don't save everything. I knew a woman who did, and when her house burned, she had to be restrained from trying to save her "stuff."
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...
SJ, when we see house fires around here they usually leave black areas above the windows. We took a trip one spring to the U.P. (Michigan, not the railroad), and saw in Ishpeming the aftermath of a rough winter--old wooden houses with roofs and large portions of the walls missing. Thankfully, we live in a more modern age around here. I suspect that the neighborhood near Camp Mookie is much older.
We've got a couple more days before your cold air reaches us--it's actually supposed to get above 60 on Tuesday, with Monday's rain gone. Today was a cool day by comparison (just above 40), but it got a few people with cabin fever outside, including Colin (Metra Kid 2) and Pat. The twain didn't meet, but we heard that Colin caught UP 1982 (the MoPac Heritage unit) at Elmhurst (I saw it at work soon afterward). After he left Elmhurst, Pat and I got there for dinner, and caught a couple of eastbound freights. Most of our snow is gone (this week should melt all but the largest Tonka-induced glaciers), but it will be months before the dirt roads and bike paths are hard enough for me to break out the bike.
Jim, I wish we could have made it out to Eola after work yesterday--there are a few folks in that crowd we haven't met yet!
The economy may finally be hitting us. Rumor has it that the extra board that fills my jobs will be cut from eight people to four. That will almost certainly leave the gal I've been refamiliarizing out in the cold (she did very well, and I'm proud of her!). The rumor has it that by March, the yard board will have 150 people furloughed--I think that cuts back to about 2005. I'm really hoping that we get an uptick in business between now and then (customary in normal years), so this doesn't happen.
Wow--a cafe-lounge and a dining car! Happy birthday, Jack!
Carl
Railroader Emeritus (practiced railroading for 46 years--and in 2010 I finally got it right!)
CAACSCOCOM--I don't want to behave improperly, so I just won't behave at all. (SM)
Happy Birthday, Jack. Hope I don't trample anyone getting to the dinner table! Sounds so good!
Cloudy and colder today - wind is from east, which means I am going to send it all back east. And will probably add moisture before I send it.
Had a huge house fire here today. Happened to be not far from our train watching spot, so we got to see some of it. The smoke was so heavy you had to stay several blocks away to get around it. This was, from what I heard on my scanner, one of those houses that the little old lady didn't want to part with anything, so it all stacked up throughout the house.. No cause yet, but when they finally got to the fire, it was pretty much out of control. An old, old house with dormers and probably lath and plaster.
Remember please - Support your local fire department - gather all your junk and put it at the curb!!!
Jack; Greetings right back to you;
And HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
(and if anybody asks your age, just tell them; That You're Old Enough!!)
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 Mookie, maybe he'll make a bee line in when he sees the Sunday Dinner menu, that Jack requested for his birthday: We have 8 oz. ribeye steaks, fixed medium rare; mashed potatoes, green beans, tossed salad with blue cheese vinagarette dressing Birthday dessert today: fresh homemade lemon meringue pies with nice flaky crusts. There's also chocolate cake, and cherry cobbler. I hope Jack and everyone enjoy the menu today, and once again, Happy Birthday, Jack.
Mookie, maybe he'll make a bee line in when he sees the Sunday Dinner menu, that Jack requested for his birthday:
We have 8 oz. ribeye steaks, fixed medium rare; mashed potatoes, green beans, tossed salad with blue cheese vinagarette dressing
Birthday dessert today: fresh homemade lemon meringue pies with nice flaky crusts. There's also chocolate cake, and cherry cobbler.
I hope Jack and everyone enjoy the menu today, and once again, Happy Birthday, Jack.
CW, you are a most gracious host. Thank you so much!! And my greetings to Mutt.
I don't know how my BD became known, but perhaps I can't remember furnishing it. Anyway I am at that awkward age - too old to be tempted but too young to resist. My wife says I have used that line long enough and I should just settle for the first part of it.
Wet snow in Prescott, AZ today and it is the verticle type, not the horizontal version found too frequently in the mid-west. We need the moisture and are enjoying the beauty of snow standing on the pine trees like Christmas decoration.
Where's Joe - I am missing Joe!
Good morning everybody. Yesterdays warm (almost) 60 degree weather brought out virtually all the regular Eola yard railfan crowd and we all had a good time viewing and photographing all the BNSF/Amtrak and Metra trains during the warm afternoon hours. The recently closed McClure crossing makes for a much nicer viewing as you can now safely be closer to the tracks behind the new road closure steel barriers...now when they make it a "horn free" location it will be even nicer for all of us. I will likely not be trackside today but will be in Des Moines, IA tomorrow through Wed. morning after which I will drive home and possibly stop in Rochelle on my way back. Have a wonderful, safe and healthy week folks!
Good morning. 58 degrees and sunny in Carolina this lovely day. It is supposed to get up to 72, then back to 44 tonight. Thanks for breakfast, Paula. Larry, we had a police lieutenant about 20 or so years ago who was shot to death by a man who he had befriended and helped. I knew him well, and the turnout was enormous. Police and EMS people never know when someone will turn on them, and they are to be highly commended for the job they do. Everybody take care
....It looks like we'll start with sunshine this morning. Temp now 37 plus, and it has done a job on the snow....Not much of it left. Just some where it was piled up, etc....Believe a weak cold front passes today, and then back to warmer air from the southwest for several days.
Watching the race activity at Daytona last night they indicated at race time the temp was 55....Had been 70 in the afternoon. That's an improvement to what they had several days of earlier in the week.
February is 1/4 behind us now. Come on Spring.
to Jack (dining car)! May you have a Blessed, Happy Birthday Jack, with many, many more to come your way!
Coffee, juices, hot chocolate, and hot water for tea are ready.
Special birthday breakfast menu today: Eggs, basted, crisp bacon, fried taters w/chopped onion & bell pepper, multi grain toast w/jelly
And there will be be a special Sunday Dinner later on this afternoon, will probably have it ready between 12:30 and 1 p.m. EST.
Good Sunday morning, everyone. Larry, I imagine it was a very emotional day for all of you. My condolences to everyone.
Pizza sounds good, but I even brought home leftovers from the events today commemorating the young EMT who died a week ago. I was working the road between the fire station and the church where calling hours were yesterday and it seemed like every five minutes someone else showed up with another donation of food or related items.
Some 2000 people attended todays ceremonies. Almost 180 fire and EMS vehicles participated in the procession. Attendees came from far and wide - NYC sent a contingent of the FDNY bagpipe band, and Boston EMS sent their color guard. I spoke briefly with a paramedic from Pittsburgh, PA, and even Toronto, ON, was represented.
It was an emotional day.
We had a high today of 61 (current temp), but it's been very windy and cloudy all day. Lost another branch out of the pine tree. Good thing we weren't outside, standing on the sidewalk at the time, because otherwise, we would have been hit on the head by the branch!
Here is our Saturday Night Pizza Fest menu:
1. Anchovie; 2. Cheese w/extra cheese; 3. Chicago style; 4. Pepperoni/mushroom/sausage; 5. supreme; 6. Goetta; 7. Hawaiian
Dessert Pizza menu: 1. apple; 2. cherry; 3. peach
Everyone take care, have a good evening, and enjoy your pizzas.
MurrayQuentin, here is some of Mr Griffin's music:
Wow.....! Thank you very much Murray. Good looking turntable too.
We have everything on here.....!
I just went down a pretty long list of pipe organs after watching your youtube presentations....Never realized to find all that on here.
Just listened to the first Griffen cut you presented, and now I'll go catch the other ones....Thanks.
Edit: That is a nice pleasant different post....very much enjoyed it.
Quentin, here is some of Mr Griffin's music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkMxqBG7gyU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roIScOjIZ4U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhtHxPI3cxM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvEU0V17I6o
I like this last one.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxUNiGBi4z4
MurrayA little Saturday morning music:
......Now that was nice.....Which brings up the subject again....In the past I've read {someplace}, there really is a connection between railfans / railroaders and organ music interests....I especially like pipe organ music.
As I listened to the music Murray was presenting....I wondered off to be reminded of Ken Griffen....Anyone remember him and his organ music. I have dozens of his 45's here in the home office {they probably date to the 40's...}, but do not have a turntable set up in here or out in the family room system, so I've never played them yet. I do have a turntable but just do not have it in my systems, and haven't had for years....Wonder why...? Still have dozens of records from years past....
A little Saturday morning music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF0f1TFx-0Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S87nSZxqus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMTk0wc5y7c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akYn2Su4iAY
Enjoy!!!!!
Murray: Where it's 65 degrees in San Antonio!
grampaw pettibone Quentin, Jerry Murad and the Harmonicats were formed in 1944 and first hit the charts in 1947 with PEG O MY HEART. They all died in the late 80s through early 90s.
Quentin, Jerry Murad and the Harmonicats were formed in 1944 and first hit the charts in 1947 with PEG O MY HEART. They all died in the late 80s through early 90s.
Oh yes....I very much remember "Peg O My Heart" Tom.....They {Murad}, were quite a gang.....Kind of spoofed it up in their performances on early TV.
Now this is more like it....42.7 degrees and rising this morning.....Snow is diminishing fast....and that's good too.....Been here too long....
And now the sun is starting to shine on my computer screen. Good thing is, we're to have this "warm" weather for several days.....Could Winter's back have been broken.....Probably not, but it's nice to see it on the run right now.....
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