Happy Birthday Brian! In honor of your birthday, I will go to the grocery store!
Rain and clouds gave way to sunshine and going to get very hot. Hmmm - must be getting close to summer.
Landlord put in "yard art". He is going to install an underground sprinkler both here and at property across the street that he owns. The one across the street has been all buried and patted for about a week. We are buried to a point, but still have long ends sticking above ground, hence the "yard art". Not sure where he went for a week, but would like to see it get finished so we can have water art instead.
He was eyeing our roof, so I am nervous!
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
Brian - all the best. Enjoy your day!
Got all sorts of people trying to throw monkey wrenches in my weekend. Hopefully all will turn for the best.
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...
cherokee woman Good Thursday morning, everyone AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO BRIAN HANEL!!!!! Brian, I hope you have a great day today, and may your birthday be blessed to the max. Also, may you see quite a few trains today!!
Good Thursday morning, everyone AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO BRIAN HANEL!!!!! Brian, I hope you have a great day today, and may your birthday be blessed to the max. Also, may you see quite a few trains today!!
Thank you very much, CW and Joe. I'm actually hoping for a quiet day, and I doubt that I'll see a single train due to other stuff that I've got to get done tonight, but that's OK.
As far as supper goes, do you still have that recipe of mine for Iowa Chops? In reality, I need to stay away from them, as my weight has been headed the wrong way lately, but no calories in here...
Brian (IA) http://blhanel.rrpicturearchives.net.
morning
starting to dry out a little here in nw ohio.Brian happy birthday!!.matt is on time and on the bus.Mookie you will have to check for the cake yourself.if it stays dry I will go into town and mow.Matt has an early dismissal today due to his school playing baseball in the state tournament.They get to play Coldwater at Elida high school.Nap time.
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").
I got up early to fix a special breakfast for this morning. The coffee, juices, lemonade and hot water for tea are ready. On the warmer bar this morning:
Turkey bacon, sausage, pancakes with real maple syrup, or whatever fruit you want, scrambled eggs. There's also the regular bagels and bear claws.
I won't be around for lunch today: have to leave at 11:15, to go back to the place that made my ankle/arch support. Going to see if they can put something over it, so it doesn't rub places on my foot.
Brian, what would you like for your birthday supper tonight? Grilled pork chops? Roast, taters, carrots? Just name it, and it will be on the warmer bar tonight. And yes, there's a large chocolate sheet cake hidden where no one can find it, until the unveiling tonight.
Randy; good to see your still out there. When we were teeruckin' some years back, we did the same thing . That was in the days when trk . stops were called ( slop chutes ) . We had a micro wave that was fired by an APU. nailed to the headache rack, that was punchin' out enough power feed a coffee pot also and a tv. The only time we stopped at a trk. stop was to do laundry & shower . . Never could figure how duds got dirty LOL See ya' along the line some where, and dont' transfer paint~~~~ it could clash with your colors. Respectfully, Cannonball
Y6bs evergreen in my mind
cherokee woman Tom, Mookie and everyone else: Pound cake is fresh out of the oven, actually, there's about a half dozen of them. So, there's sauce to go over it, or your can cut a slice, and put some strawberries and whipped cream for a strawberry short cake. Or, put whatever you want on it, or eat the pound cake just like it is, plain, with nothing on it. You all have a great evening, and I'll see you all in the morning.
Tom, Mookie and everyone else: Pound cake is fresh out of the oven, actually, there's about a half dozen of them. So, there's sauce to go over it, or your can cut a slice, and put some strawberries and whipped cream for a strawberry short cake. Or, put whatever you want on it, or eat the pound cake just like it is, plain, with nothing on it.
You all have a great evening, and I'll see you all in the morning.
Johnny
Justin - summer comes in June, not May. Summer vacation maybe?
Joe - Oops....
Mutt - Gafield is a favorite of mine. I like his Catitude.
We have 3 counties in Nebraska that are named after animals - Buffalo, Antelope and......Garfield.
Pound cake sounds good. I always like pound cake. Not too many cakes or pies I don't like - just chocolate cake with raspberry or dark chocolate frosting is fav. Carrot cake is 2nd.
Justin, I shall remember her in my prayers. 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)
Evening Joe, evening everybody!
Mook: Wow what did you do!!?? Itis absolutly pouring down here! Did you couple 100 P42's to the front of it? Goodness!
Grandma Pat just got rushed to the doc. Hope she is alright. Something on her cat scan alarmed the doctors. I'm praying for her.
CW, can't wait for supper tonight CW!
BTW, TODAY IS THE FIRST DAY OF SUMMER!!!
The road to to success is always under construction. _____________________________________________________________________________ When the going gets tough, the tough use duct tape.
had to go to town for mamma.saw Y101 drop cars for the maw.They had none to pick up so they were cabooseless today.The fun came when K 645 came westbound. A mow foreman left his boards up and started to head home.Had to turn around and take them down after telling the K 645 to proceed.Time for more chores and to get ready for work.I hear more rumble rumble.
Was at the 'puter about 1:30 (EDT) doorbell rang, UPS driver delivering
a couple of light fixtures for the kitchen, and I noticed it was starting to
drizzle rain; a couple of minutes later, I hear a very loud boom of thunder
and it's raining so hard you can't see.
(would have said something else, but moderators, etc. would have blocked.)
Mook, have you and Jim Davis been conspiring lately?
This week Garfield seems to have an awful lot of "Mookieisms"
in the strip.
(Sombreros, Siestas, et al.)
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!!
Rumble Rumble Rumble
says mother nature.Mooks if thou is bored perhaps you could come and help with matts field day on Friday.I'll be working the spoon race.
I don't know how accurate this is, but the wife found an article somewhere concerning gas prices. According to it, supply and demand have nothing to do with fuel prices. Actually, the pricing is based on the futures market. If the futures mkt is on the upswing, the fuel prices follow. That would explain sudden changes in fuel prices that make no sense. BTW, regular unleaded here is $2.25 and diesel is $2.18. Ain't greed grand? PFUI (German word translated as phooey) Paula, how about some lemon pound cake?
Mookie, I enjoyed our outing in the garden this morning. Maybe we can do it again tomorrow morning?
Mudchicken, thanks for the info!
On the warmer bar for the rest of the day: Beef noodle casserole w/French bread, garden salad or Caesar salad, or: tuna alfreado (sp?) casserole, with the above sides.
Desserts: we have plenty of chocolate cake and also have apple, blueberry, cherry, peach and strawberry cobblers, with plenty of ice cream.
Quentin - our gas prices spiked a couple of weeks ago (coincidentally, just before Victoria Day), and have continued to creep up. Let's hope they do a little "market correction" before long.
OTOH, all of the state parks along Lake Ontario and the St Lawrence River were packed for the Memorial Day weekend, and I heard that most of the campsites in the Fulton Chain area were full as well. Judging by the traffic out of the area on Monday - plenty of people were willing to spend the money for a weekend on the water or in the woods.
And, for those of you who complain about the state of education today, stop over to the humor thread...
Back to the grind. Hopefully my contractor shows up soon - I have work to do at the house and I know if he's much later he'll want to work overtime tonight. As long as he's gone by Friday.
We've got $2.35 a gallon for the regular stuff around here- goes up to $2.45 near Minneapolis. Of course, that's about 40 cents higher than a week before the holiday...
Mookie Hi Brian - I am sending you some rain. I think.....
Hi Brian - I am sending you some rain. I think.....
Yep, got about an inch worth overnight. Too bad we can't send it north, my folks up near Minneapolis are pretty dry.
Mooks:
Bored, eh? Wanna come watch Nigel bury his rawhide bone (needs more dirt seasoning?) in the green peppers? Guess I'll go get some more seedlings and start over. I'm sure you'll re-direct Nigel, Dougie & Gus (Da boyz/ scotties all) over to the asparagus bed to excavate...
(Plus with their long fur and bottom fringe kilt trimmed off right now, you can see the business end of a scotty in all its bow-legged, knock knee-d, pigeon toed glory which explains how they are built to be diggers (terriers))...You don't want to be vermin in a hole with these guys on your trail.
Just found out that Kat Kube put a picture of a co-worker (up and coming mudchicken) in the current new issue of TRAINS. We just married him off Saturday and now this - he's a happenin' right now. Must find the flagship rag and investigate.
CW: HoustonEd and Kozzie are out there, just VERY busy right now.
Muddy Feathers
Muggy and partly sunny in central Indiana this morning. Just finished up doing the yard....It got ahead of me a bit having been out east for a long weekend. Have it back in somewhat of order now. Will need it again in maybe less than 3 days...
Joined a great long weekend back in the Pennsyvania home land and enjoyed great Memorial Day celebrations. And met lots of friends, etc....
Believe we witnessed less trucks on the eastern direction of the trip than any previous 47 years we've been doing this.... Super Recession / Holiday...??
And of course on the way home yesterday afternoon it seemed at about early afternoon the oil companies got the word out to raise the gas price to 2.65 / gal....From mid Ohio on, the price was basicly the same at all stations on into our local Indiana home area here....Even saw one at 2.75.
Didn't haved to conform as our vehicle makes the trip of 400 mi. without stopping for refill. Of course I will later, but we'll wait a few days and see what happens to the recently upped price. Truck is used for local running anyway.
Guess they really don't care about what escalating such prices {when supplies are bulging from reports we've heard}, what it might do to the struggling economy, now trying to recover.....Yea, I know...supply and demand....Don't think that is the reason for raising it now.....
Quentin
Yawn....cloudy again today. Nice rain shower from about 4 am to about 7 am. Everyone getting rain but us up to that point. Nice and cool today.
Glad the cake is such a hit. Randy - I think we may have a Flying J out around North Platte NE. Not sure that is far enough to keep me from the cake, but it will be safe for awhile anyway. (They say there is one at Gretna - which is between here and Omaha and since we are going to Omaha in about 10 days......hmmm....)
I am bored. Will wander out to garden and CW and I can be bored together.
Sir C - saw a mini scotty on an old Phylo Vance movie this morning. Love those dogs!
Johnny - did you know canaries are not colorfast. They leave yellow stains 'round your mouf! Pthatt....
Morning
very muggy outside with more rain for today.Matt had a great time at the zoo.He is on time and on the bus.Good sleeping weather today so time for a nap.Chores will be calling this afternoon.
Good morning, it's Wednesday! 64 and overcast in Carolina with another 24 hours of thunderstorms forecast. So far, the lightning has bypassed us for the past few days, but it's good to keep one eye on the radar. I will have a piece of that cake, with some vanilla ice cream if you don't mind. I never met a cake I didn't like, but chocolate and pig pickin are the best. Everybody take care
Good Wednesday morning, everyone. We still have very muggy conditions here in Louisville this morning. Temps are ranging anywhere from 68 in the outlying areas, to 70 degrees in the downtown area. Still have 60% chance of showers/storms for today here. I think we only saw a little shower, that didn't really do much for the plants or our grass yesterday afternoon.
Coffee, juices, lemonade, Gatorade and hot water for tea are ready. I've also got iced tea ready for the day, both sweetened and unsweetened.
On the warmer bar this morning: bagels, bear claws and BLT on toast this morning. There's also some sausage/egg/cheese biscuit sandwiches.
No need to worry about the chocolate cake disappearing, mudchicken: I always keep plenty of chocolate cake on hand, for Mookie, Brian, and all the rest of us chocoholics around here!
Mookie: I've got your coffee mug ready to pour coffee into, and a large slice of chocolate cake cut for you. How about we go out to the garden this morning, and enjoy the scenery and trains going by?
Randy, it does sound like you need to get the speedometer fixed on your truck! Better get that taken care of, ASAP!! You and everyone else, have a very good morning, and take care, all of you!!
blhanelrvos1979 Mookie, next time you are near a Flying J truckstop, swing into the restaurant. They have a chocolate cake that will give you fits (took three days to finish the piece I bought on Friday night!) What a coincidence, we stopped at the one in Evansdale, IA on the way home from Minnesota today. We haven't sampled the restaurant fare there, though. I guess I better put that on my to-do list (I haven't met a slice of chocolate cake yet that takes me more than one day to wipe out).
rvos1979 Mookie, next time you are near a Flying J truckstop, swing into the restaurant. They have a chocolate cake that will give you fits (took three days to finish the piece I bought on Friday night!)
Mookie, next time you are near a Flying J truckstop, swing into the restaurant. They have a chocolate cake that will give you fits (took three days to finish the piece I bought on Friday night!)
What a coincidence, we stopped at the one in Evansdale, IA on the way home from Minnesota today. We haven't sampled the restaurant fare there, though. I guess I better put that on my to-do list (I haven't met a slice of chocolate cake yet that takes me more than one day to wipe out).
Brian: What Flying J forgot to put on the dessert menu is that menu items are shown actual size. The first time I ordered the cake, I couldn't even finish half of it. This past weekend, I managed to stretch it into three meals. When you get it, you will understand why it costs five dollars.
Lately, have not sampled truckstop food, preferring to pack food in the truck and eat. It's a lot easier on the wallet....
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
DeggestyMookie Is that the cat that swallowed the canary? Johnny
Mookie
Nope, that's just the Cat that swallowed the "Chocolate Cake"
locomutt Larry, I would have thought that that years you've been on the Fire Department and climbing up and down ladders would have helped and made things easier; training anyway.
At least on most fire ladders you can stand more or less straight up. Not so on an F.
On the other hand, I spent enough time hanging off the sides of cars and the F's this weekend that I'm pretty sure I can pass the NS "hanging on the side of a car for two minutes" test...
Present!
Sorry I haven't posted much lately, just haven't been very talkative, I guess.
Another observation from the trip home- got stopped by a northbound MN&S train near Castle Rock, MN, headed up to switch the businesses in the Lakeville Airlake business park, I think- two six-axle motors pulling maybe 40 mixed cars. What surprised me was that there was no EOT on the end.
Evening all.....
On my way back to Wisconsin, will hopefully get the truck into the shop tomorrow, has a slight issue with the speedometer jumping around. Not good when you have the cruise set and the truck goes from full power to full jake brake.....
See everyone later...
Randy in Mt. Vernon, IL
Our community is FREE to join. To participate you must either login or register for an account.