Good morning, Paula, and thanks for breakfast. At present, it is sunrise in Carolina, 43 degres and fair, with a projected high in the 60s. The weather has turned off nice, and I wonder what it's up to. I think I will walk the bar and gather meself in a corner with a morning paper and some of the goodies. Everybody stay safe.
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 Thursday morning ,everyone. Very pleasant here this morning, with temps in the mid 50s. Supposed to have a high in the mid to upper 60s before the next cold front comes in later tonight. We're getting very light rain right now; but, later on, especially tonight, may have a slight risk of severe weather, with the thunderstorms coming in. Probably happen around 2, 3 a.m. in the morning.
Coffee, juices, hot water for tea are ready. Also have chocolate milk, and strawberry milk.
On the warmer bar this morning: turkey bacon, sausage, scrambled eggs, hash browns, homemade buttermilk biscuits w/sausage gravy, grits, oatmeal, and toast.
Everyone have a good morning, enjoy your breakfast, keep safe and take care.
Yes, Randy, I have heard of those places that you need two or three shoehorns to get into. My experience has been directing drivers back to docks. Some had it, others did not. One of our docks had a square-cut apron on the leveler, and it was right next to a dumpster. I tried to keep the maximum clearance possible between the dumpster and the dock (push the dumpster over with a forklift). Usually, it took several tries for the driver to get set right so that I would not cut a piece out of his trailer with the corner of the apron (I did that once, when I thought he was set right). To complicate the maneuvering, there was hydrant out in the yard, with posts around it. Most drivers saw that it was easier if they went around it clockwise; one or two could make it counter-clockwise, but most had to go back, turn around, and come back if they tried it that way. Most of our loads in 53 footers came in in the morning, and the driver would be waiting for me in the driveway when I came to work. I would tell him which dock to go to, stop at Security on my way in to say it was all right to let the rig in, go to my desk for my clipboard, and go to the dock. Once in a great while, the trailer would be spotted just right by the time I got out to the dock. One afternoon, a load came in just as I was ready to go home. The driver apparently had had little experience, for it took him more than half an hour to get to the dock. The local drivers, with their forty footers, had no problems.
Watch out for the crazy people on the highway.
Johnny
tree68Randy - I take it you had a pickup down toward NYC or in Binghampton - Kanona isn't exactly on the beaten path between Boston and points west.
Randy - I take it you had a pickup down toward NYC or in Binghampton - Kanona isn't exactly on the beaten path between Boston and points west.
Actually, Larry, Picked up in Saratoga Springs, company frowns on using too much of the thruway unless we are picking up or dropping off near it, even though its a touch longer and with more hills running 86 and 88. Traffic is a lot lighter, though. I don't complain, they pay for the diesel.
Johnny, you would not believe some places I have bent this rig into, a lot of customer's docks were built in the age of cabover tractors and 35' trailers, I am about 70 feet or so from front bumper to ICC bar on trailer.
I did not care too much for the Boston area, don't like the idea of using the right shoulder as an extra lane during rush hour, it's unnerving when you're tooling along at the limit and someone shoots by you on the right hand side like you're standing still.
Randy in Lake Station, IN, 577 miles from Kanona
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cherokee womanLunch menu: Sandwiches: BLT; tuna melt clubs; grilled cheese; PB&JSoup/Stew: Roy, you got me with the chicken stew, but made up a batch along with a batch of beef stew, and we also have vegetable beef soup, and cream of potato soup
Lunch menu: Sandwiches: BLT; tuna melt clubs; grilled cheese; PB&J
Soup/Stew: Roy, you got me with the chicken stew, but made up a batch along with a batch of beef stew, and we also have vegetable beef soup, and cream of potato soup
Since we were so slow this afternoon, I've made extra of today's lunch menu for supper/dinner tonight. Along with making more yellow cornbread to go with both the soups and stews.
According to the latest weather report, we got up to anywhere between 56 and 60, depending on the area you live in. Now, we are 'waiting' for rain to come in from the west. It will probably come in sometime around midnight or after. They say we may even have a few thunderstorm showers in the morning.
Everyone enjoy your meal, have a good evening, keep yourselves safe and take care.
I can't speak about boston traffic but NYC traffic is crazy.Matt and I ran some errands and sent a package for a birthday boy in Pennsylvania.Jay Horsfall(noras oldest) has a birthday on saturday.Cw thanks for supper.time to get cleaned up for work tonight.
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").
Randy, Ricki and I agree that Boston is a dangerous place to drive even a car (and people say that Salt Lake City is dangerous). Several years ago, we rented a car in Boston, drove to Cape Cod and then up to Hollis, N. H. We had planned to drive back to Boston in time to take a mid-morning train down to the Big Apple, but after our experience in getting out of Boston after people had finished their morning "drive time" (as it is called by some out here), we turned the car in in Nashua and rode a bus to Beantown (right to South Station). Among other thngs, it's a bit unnerving when pedestrians step off the curb in the middle of the block and start to cross the street without regard for street traffic.
You don't need forty acres to turn your rig around, do you?
Randy, glad you got a chance to drop in. Hope you make your 10/20 base safe & sound.
Since I don't see any meal suggestions for today, here is what I've come up with.
You all enjoy lunch, while I consider what to do for tonight's menu choices.
Randy - my introduction to Boston drivers was in the backseat of my brother-in-law's car - we were visiting that entire side of the family. He was a Boston cabdriver. Never quite got over that experience!
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
At least you dodged the lake effect we've had recently.
Nice day here - a tad cool but at least the sun is shining.
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...
Boy, one goes away for a few weeks and everyone moves again, oh well, such is //WHAM!!//
//Staggers back up, looks around//
Oomph, did anyone get the plate off of that Boston driver?
Anyway, killing time waiting for my 10 hour rest period to end, then hitailing it back to Wisconsin to unload and take a weekend off. Was out in the Boston area yesterday, do not care for those drivers, is very unnerving when they come flying up on the shoulder.
See everyone later, should be checking in on the weekend, helping move my sisters back home, they decided to terminate their lease, and the place they were looking at doesen't have openings until summer.
Randy in Kanona, NY
Miss Paula:
By some chance would you have a bit of that wonderful chicken stew and yellow cornbread around. Seems that my head cold responds to nothing better.
Hopefully back to work tomorrow,
Clear and not as cold here in W-S, Might get up into the 60's tomorrow.
PL
Wake up, wake up, the sun is on the rise,
And it's time...it's time...it's time to fertilize!
Increase the yield from your field, watch your profits swell,
You never lose when you choose Smith-Douglass fertilizer--with "Trell"!
Imagine that being sung over the radio every morning (except Sunday, of course--this was western Michigan!) by a couple of guys that sounded like they were dragged off the farm for that very purpose. I think the accompaniment was a guitar or two.
One of the things I left behind when I moved to the city, thankfully.
It's supposed to hit 40 here today; chance of rain today, thunderstorms tomorrow. Last week's snow will disappear. Still no robins, though.
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)
Good Wednesday morning and Happy Ash Wednesday to you all.
Our temps this morning are in the mid 30s, going to a high into the mid 50s this afternoon. Unfortunately, supposed to see some rain sometime tomorrow, with a cold front that is coming into the area.
Coffee, juices, hot chocolate and hot water for tea are ready.
On the warmer bar this morning: bagels, bear claws, turkey bacon, sausage, scrambled eggs, hash browns, homemade buttermilk biscuits w/sausage gravy, oatmeal, grits and toast.
You all have a good morning, enjoy your breakfast, and if any of you have any meal requests for today, now's the time to speak up and let me know.
We've been seeing the annual advertisments now of all kinds of fertilizer for the farm crops upcoming so when we see them on TV, Spring can't be far behind......And saw more Robins in our back yard again this morning....
To be in the 50's next few days.
Quentin
I like a well dressed dog - but I don't care for regular yellow mustard. Maybe some good brown or hot Dijon....
Nice out, if cold. Just discovered that my low temp this morning was minus 7. I missed that minus on the digital thermometer and thought it was 7 above. Silly me.
Reports of upwards of 4 feet of snow to the south of me from that latest lake effect event. Haven't talked to my daughter in Syracuse, but first hand reports indicate a foot + there.
Of course, I just signed up to work the Easter Bunny trains, so spring must be on it's way!
Modelcar ....I am a hotdog lover and ketchup must be included...on any i eat.
....I am a hotdog lover and ketchup must be included...on any i eat.
A big DITTO from here.
Brian (IA) http://blhanel.rrpicturearchives.net.
afternoon
a guy I used to work with has a ketchup dispenser(like you would find at a ballpark) in his refrigerator.Some say to put mustard on a hot dog or brat isn't cool.matt says ketchup on fries is great.Cw thanks for supper tonight.going to help mamma with chores.
Modelcar....isn't it possible the {pseudo-Italian}, restaurant also has hamburgers available hence, making ketchup avail. for such.......
....isn't it possible the {pseudo-Italian}, restaurant also has hamburgers available hence, making ketchup avail. for such.......
Must be molting season for dust mites! These are true allergies, and since nothing is growing, we have no pets and it can't be a dusty house.....well, maybe just a little....I am going to blame it on the warm dust we get from Kansas! That's it!
Ketchup - like it only on fries and pot roast. Otherwise, don't use the stuff.
Corned beef and cabbage for supper then back in diner/cafe for late pie, maybe cake and milk before bed! Yum!
Good morning and afternoon to all. Paula, thanks for the sausage and grits.
As to pancakes, Ricki will take pecan pancakes, if you have pecans. I like plain pancakes, spread with butter and almost awash in syrup. Maple syrup, of course.
As to catchup on the table, who can explain everyone's taste? One of my brothers would ask the waiter/waitress if he wanted steak sauce for his steak, "Is there something wrong with the steak?," not adding "and ou need to hide the bad taste?" There is something wrong with my keyboard; I keep having to go back and correct its mistakes. And you have seen people put lots of salt on their food before they have even tasted it.
In college, I learned about honey and margarine (we were not given butter) on hot cornbread, catchup on french fries--but freshly fried, freshly cut, potatoes do not need anything. The cafe where I often ate before I married ran out of the frozen french fries one day. The proprietess cut a potato up and fried it for me--and she did the same when I asked for french fries after that.
CShaveRRNow, can somebody explain why a pseudo-Italian restaurant, serving pizza, pasta, salads, and Italian-style sandwiches would have a bottle of ketchup alongside the grated Parmesan cheese at every table?
Recall that the late Jackie O used to infuriate the great chefs by dousing their creations in ketchup....
Carl, have no idea to the answer for your question. It does sound a little bit odd, that a pizza restaurant would have bottles of ketchup on the table, though! I admit, I eat some combinations that are odd to anyone else, but I'd never consider putting ketchup on anything at a place like that, not even on a hamburger pizza.
Our Tuesday Mexican Fiesta is now under way:
tacos, burritos, spanish rice, chimichangas, fajitas, black bean & rice tostadas, enchiladas, south of the border snapper, gazpacho w/shrimp, chipotle tomato soup, cheesy beef nachos
We didn't get much at Produce today: potatoes, yellow sweet peppers and little 4 oz. containers of orange juice. And we only had about 35 people show up.
We're supposed to warm up to the mid 40s this afternoon, may see 46 for a high here.
Everyone enjoy your meal, have a good afternoon, keep safe and take care.
Larry, I vaguely remember the smiley-face from the time we visited Johnny Rocket's, and wouldn't mind going again sometime soon. Granddaughter Emily had apparently been looking forward to the smiley-face, too; I guess she wasn't consulted when her sister asked for the Italian place instead.
Now, can somebody explain why a pseudo-Italian restaurant, serving pizza, pasta, salads, and Italian-style sandwiches would have a bottle of ketchup alongside the grated Parmesan cheese at every table?
Pancakes sound good, especially with some real maple syrup (almost that season here!). Blueberry pancakes would be even better!
Carl - I like Johnny Rockets - good old hamburgers and a smiley face in the ketchup tray.
No snow for today, but the temps will be all over the place for the rest of the week and we'll see both rain and snow. I'll take rain, I'll take snow, but I hate getting both on the same day....
good morning
happy fat tuesday.its also international pancake day.so what do we have first the punchkies or the pancakes?? matt is on time and on the bus.here are some tissues for in the diner.
Good Tuesday morning, everyone. Went to bed early last night: wore myself out yesterday, what with all the baking, and everything else done. I was out about as soon as my head touched the pillow. Hope everyone is beginning to see a little bit of improvement, as far as sniffles, sneezes, etc., are concerned. My nose is stuffed up this morning. (And no, I haven't stuffed anything up in my nose, either!)
Coffee, juices, hot chocolate, hot cider, and hot water for tea are ready.
On the warmer bar this morning: bagels, bear claws, oatmeal, grits, cream of wheat, toast, turkey bacon, sausage, homemade buttermilk biscuits w/sausage gravy and western omelettes.
Looked out the front window a few minutes ago, and so far, no one has shown up to wait for the Produce truck. I normally already have about four, five vehicles sitting out front.
Everyone enjoy your breakfast, have a good morning, and I'll see you all later, after Tuesday Produce is over.
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