Tom, it appears your State competes very closely to Florida to be king of Lightning....Kind of surprising. That stuff can get "old" after a long siege of that kind of weather.
Here, this morning it is beautiful.....mod temps. and low humidity...Not normal for our Indiana area this time of the year. Haven't even used A/C yet....That is abnormal.
As soon as the dew evaporates from my lawn, I'm heading for the John Deere to give it a haircut....Possible spotty rain in the area this afternoon. Sunday and Monday look to be very nice.
Eveyone enjoy weekend.
Quentin
Mawnin. 74 and sunny in Carolina this lovely day. We have had over six weeks straight of lightning and severe thunderstorms forecast, with about 90% of them actually happening. We had a real whizzbanger come through night before last, and a lot of thunder heard last night. Thankfully, nothing developed. I can't remember this much storm activity in the recent past, but in 1994, we spent the entire month of April under a warning. Every afternoon, between 5 and 6 pm, there was a storm of some magnitude just in time for the ride home. This get's old after a while. Everyone 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 Saturday morning, everyone. Nice and cool here, with a temp of 64 this morning. Had a little bit of patchy fog in some areas this morning. Going to be a beautiful day, though, with a possibility of some 'heat of the day' popup showers/storms. On the whole, not too bad a day forecast.
Joe, thank you so much for fixing breakfast this morning. I always appreciate your help around here. Maybe you, Larry, and some of the other guys can help me put up the birthday decorations for tomorrow: Matt's & Sarah's birthdays, and Mark Hemphill's birthday Monday. And I know your birthday, Joe is a week from Monday, on the 22nd.
Joe, hard to believe that Matt will be 8 tomorrow! You're right about time flying by!! So Momma is baking his cake today! That's what I did all afternoon: baking a cake from scratch for Sarah's birthday tomorrow: baked a yellow cake for her, and it has made from scratch icing. And we'll be going out to my brother's tomorrow, for his grandson's 3rd birthday party.
Everyone have a great morning and day. See you all back tonight for our Pizza Fest.
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").
Deggesty Willy2 That's as bad as the people who drive down the train tracks because their GPS system told them to. Willy, I have two responses: 1. I have started down a railroad track because I thought, when driving in a dense fog, that I had reached a street parallel to the railroad where I was going to make a sharp turn to the right.
Willy2 That's as bad as the people who drive down the train tracks because their GPS system told them to.
That's as bad as the people who drive down the train tracks because their GPS system told them to.
1. I have started down a railroad track because I thought, when driving in a dense fog, that I had reached a street parallel to the railroad where I was going to make a sharp turn to the right.
To me, that's understandable. What I do not understand is people who have such great faith in their GPS system that they blindly follow it wherever it tells them to go, regardless of whether that's down a train track or down a street.
Willy
2. It is also possible to depend upon a Streets and Trips or some other program map that cannot tell the difference between an alley and a street. Last year, when I was planning a trip which took me to the town where I grew up, I used Streets and Trips to help me in some of my driving. When it got me to my home town, it indicated that I should go down a certain way which I knew was only an alley. For several years, we lived right by that alley--and it is still NOT a street. We then lived at a right angle turn (complete with flashing warning lights) in the highway through town, and if you did not turn when going north on the highway, you went up the alley. Our house was set back from the street, and there was a high privet hedge along the alley down to the street. One day, one of my brothers pruned the privet drastically; that evening a Greyhound bus started up the alley because that driver had been using the hedge as his marker for making the turn. There were other exciting events, such as when a southbound gasoline tank rig turned turtle after making the turn.
Know your route, and observe the established, official, markers.
Johnny
I got a good shot of a unit grain train just outside of Attica today. We were going home the back way to see if we can see any trains. (I really wasn't expecting to see anything) Nevertheless, as soon as we rounded the corner... There was the train hauling at 55 mph. I'm proud of the shot I got. I will show later.
CW, breakfast was good! Can't wait for supper! I ran a temp of 102.9* last evening. I'm warm blooded, and never cold. I was shaking and chlilling like carzy. dad took me to the doc. this morning, and he said it was just a bad cold. I feel ok/better now.
A comfy and slightly breezy 65*F now here in western Indiana. Don't know what it is supposed to get up to today. Well, yall' have a good day, and I will see you later on!
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mudchicken Willy: The GPS tells them where they are, part of the GIS tells them where to go.... (symantics and marketing people) Mooks: Think technoDarwinism
Willy:
The GPS tells them where they are, part of the GIS tells them where to go....
(symantics and marketing people)
Mooks: Think technoDarwinism
I learned something new today, and it's summer vacation. How can that be?
Mookie - If those train tracks were a bit busier, I'd be happier. They do have a tendency to fleet, so if one goes by, I go down and wait and see if another couple come through. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
mudchicken The GPS tells them where they are, part of the GIS tells them where to go....
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
Bright, sunny with mod. temps here this morning....and I believe it's to be lasting all day.
Morning
well I made a couple stops on the way home and then went and made a couple more.mamma wants the house clean top to bottom.She and Matt are at the store picking up supplies for his party.Time for a quick nap before they get home.
stay safe
joe
Sir C - I am speechless, which almost never happens. (about the house, not the trip). I can't even fathom coming home to no house. And for no good reason at all - just simple stupidity.
Willy, now that I know you live that close to tracks - I am extremely jealous!
CW - have coffee in hand - we will head out.
Good Friday morning, everyone. We're starting out the day with a temp in the mid 60s, with cloudy skies. Supposed to get up to 80 today. The rain appears to be out of here, at least for today.
Mudchicken, you're very welcome. We were glad we were able to find it. I used to have a hard copy of of, but can't find it.
Coffee, juices, and other morning beverages are ready. On the warmer bar this morning: our usual Friday morning doughnuts and danishes, along with bagels, bear claws, BLTs on toasted bread, and sausage/egg/cheese on homemade buttermilk biscuits.
Mookie, how about meeting out in the garden this morning? We'll talk, watch the trains going by, and see what 'mischief' we can get into.
Everyone enjoy your breakfast, and have a good day.
mudchicken A bunch of us mudchickens will be laughing our feathered butts off and shaking our heads at the same time: http://www.wsbtv.com/news/19715994/detail.html A wonderfull lesson about GPS, GIS and Horizontal Datums.....and why we get sarcastic about calling people "button pushers".....
A bunch of us mudchickens will be laughing our feathered butts off and shaking our heads at the same time: http://www.wsbtv.com/news/19715994/detail.html A wonderfull lesson about GPS, GIS and Horizontal Datums.....and why we get sarcastic about calling people "button pushers".....
Mooks: Get the net out and try again Sunday and Tuesday....the Mothership beckons (RE: Industrial Eggbeaters & Pinwheels on da Prairie)
CW & Mutt: Thanx for explaining "Rainbow Bridge" to the newer forumites...... (Wednesday, Clyde, Andy, Ily & Lilly are already there... with the original Mookie )
grampaw pettibone Johnny, I have a congenital back condition and a semi healed broken left arm with a rebar in it. There is constant pain now from the two. My back didn't manifest itself until I had mustered out of the navy and worked on construction for a while. By the way, what's a Carolina boy doing way out west?
Johnny, I have a congenital back condition and a semi healed broken left arm with a rebar in it. There is constant pain now from the two. My back didn't manifest itself until I had mustered out of the navy and worked on construction for a while. By the way, what's a Carolina boy doing way out west?
As to being a Carolina boy out west, you could say that where you believe you are called to work can move you places you never thought of going. Ricki and I spent a night in Salt Lake City on our honeymoon, and we were glad we did not live here. Two years later, we were on our way. As it was, all six of us boys scattered after we finished school. My oldest brother (four and a half months in an S. C. school), went to Baton Rouge after his graduate work(Chapel Hill)--married, raised a family there, and lived there until his death. My second brother, (three years and four and a half months) went to Birmingham after a year of graduate work (S. C.), and stayed there, with wife (Birmingham girl) and son until his death. The next two (four years and four and half months) split--one went to Greenville, W. Va., the other to Greensboro; they are both gone. My youngest brother (he was three, and I was two when we moved from near Seffner, Fla. (our father operated the locomotive crane in the ACL Tampa shops), in January of '38) and I had all of our growing up in the Up Country. This brother went to New England after finishing college. I really broke the distribution pattern, living and working in Mississippi and Alabama before coming west. I could go back a generation or two and tell of others who went far from home, such as great-uncle who was born in Brunswick county, Va., and died in San Bernardino.
As I tell friends here after I have been back South, "It was good talking with people who know how to talk." Also, I enjoy talking by telephone with such; my sister-in-law in Baton Rouge called last night to inquire after me, and it was good to hear her voice.
JoeKohwell it's still raining here in nw ohio.we made a quick trip to deshler to help a friend who is camping out.hope they stay dry.Cw thanks for supper.walt and tom hope your backs both get better soon.off to work for a friday night. stay safe joe
well it's still raining here in nw ohio.we made a quick trip to deshler to help a friend who is camping out.hope they stay dry.Cw thanks for supper.walt and tom hope your backs both get better soon.off to work for a friday night.
ALL, Thanks for thinking of me and the back; it usually lasts a day or two and it gets back to normal? It's just something I've had to put up with for about 20 years. Although it does hinder my "To Do list"
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!!
Thank you Walt, for finding this beautiful poem. This is for all who have lost a beloved pet:
Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge.
When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge. There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together. There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable.
They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. His bright eyes are intent. His eager body quivers. Suddenly he begins to run from the group, flying over the green grass, his legs carrying him faster and faster.
You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart.
Then you cross Rainbow Bridge together....
Author unknown...
Well, I'm just now getting back in here. But I do have a little bit of supper ready:
You have your choice of hamburgers or cheeseburgers (with real cheddar cheese), garden salad, and fries.
Larry, I was so sorry to hear about your dog. I know how hard it is on you, and know you'll miss her terribly. As mudchicken said, one day, may you see her at Rainbow Bridge.
Larry,
I'm very sorry to hear about your loss. I still remember when I was just little and we had to put our 21 year old cat to sleep. It's some tough stuff to deal with.
I went train watching in the rain for three hours on Tuesday and saw only one train. That was a sharp contrast to last Thursday when I saw six trains in two hours.
More rain on the way for tomorrow and again early next week. We haven't had a single day so far this June with at or above normal temperatures. It's been more like April.
Everyone have a good evening!
Tree: I am so sad for you. Hopefully she will find Mookie, among others, to play with......
I am deeply sorry for your loss. Although I cannot say I have been through the same thing with my dog, I still send out my deepest thoughts and prayers to you. May you meet again someday in heaven!
CW, Can't wait for supper. I went to the dentest today. Got a good clening. I also got a nifty little bag to put my brushing supplies in, when we go on vacation. It has rained off and on today. Just got done raining. For an idea of how much rain we got. there is an old house just to the west of my house. It's gutter's are fairly clean from what I can see. We got so much rain the gutter's pulled away from the house, and slammed on to the porch. The porch is an old block one. it was crumbling.......... Well, you fill in the blank The porch finnally ______ ___.
Walt, I'm sorry for youre pain, and I hope it gets better.
grampaw pettiboneLarry, I am so sorry for you. We have had to do that several times, and it was traumatic for us. They bless us so during their short lives and become a part of us. Johnny, I have a congenital back condition and a semi healed broken left arm with a rebar in it. There is constant pain now from the two. My back didn't manifest itself until I had mustered out of the navy and worked on construction for a while. By the way, what's a Carolina boy doing way out west? 76, overcast, and more lightning forecast as usual in Carolina today. Everybody take care
Larry, I am so sorry for you. We have had to do that several times, and it was traumatic for us. They bless us so during their short lives and become a part of us.
76, overcast, and more lightning forecast as usual in Carolina today. Everybody take care
Tom, I "Broke my Back" about 21yrs ago from an ambulance/car accident at an intersection, have not been the same since.......As a matter of fact, back decided to "Go Off" yesterday, so haven't made it back to the computer 'til about now.....it does get rather debilitating when things like that go wrong?
Larry, You have Our Deepest Condolences on the loss of a Family Member!
We may call them pets, but we know better...........
tree68locomutt Larry, guess you heard about the Meade county, Ky Fire Engine accident? All firefighters are doing well, engine is a "TOTAL LOSS"! 1993(?) model, apparently water tank not baffled enough? Sloshing supposedly caused the engineer to lose control? Looks like it was their Engine 42 - 4 door International top mount. Based on the pictures, they took a bit of a ride. I hate to be a skeptic, but I've driven our '93 2 door top mount pumper a lot of miles and never had a problem like that with it. If the water was sloshing, odds are the tank wasn't full - all the baffling in the world won't fix that. Add to that the wide-open 4 lane road and I'd suspect that speed was probably a factor.
locomutt Larry, guess you heard about the Meade county, Ky Fire Engine accident? All firefighters are doing well, engine is a "TOTAL LOSS"! 1993(?) model, apparently water tank not baffled enough? Sloshing supposedly caused the engineer to lose control?
Larry, guess you heard about the Meade county, Ky Fire Engine accident?
All firefighters are doing well, engine is a "TOTAL LOSS"!
1993(?) model, apparently water tank not baffled enough? Sloshing supposedly caused the engineer to lose control?
Looks like it was their Engine 42 - 4 door International top mount.
Based on the pictures, they took a bit of a ride.
I hate to be a skeptic, but I've driven our '93 2 door top mount pumper a lot of miles and never had a problem like that with it. If the water was sloshing, odds are the tank wasn't full - all the baffling in the world won't fix that. Add to that the wide-open 4 lane road and I'd suspect that speed was probably a factor.
The "Engineer" was/is a 10 yr Veteran of the dept.; she supposedly only had 6 months experience on that particular engine. I Totally agree.
I have seen the pictures, been on those roads before, and concluded that that was about the only thing that could have gone wrong.
tree68 Alas, my 16 year old Sheltie mix makes her last trip to the vet today, never to return. She's had a good run, but old age has overtaken her. Seems like not all that long ago that she came home from the pound, a tiny ball of fur.
Alas, my 16 year old Sheltie mix makes her last trip to the vet today, never to return. She's had a good run, but old age has overtaken her.
Seems like not all that long ago that she came home from the pound, a tiny ball of fur.
Larry, so very sorry to hear of your sad news.
Our sympathies go out to you at this time.
tree68 Alas, my 16 year old Sheltie mix makes her last trip to the vet today, never to return. She's had a good run, but old age has overtaken her.
Larry, you have our deepest feelings with the passing of your pet. We have experienced that....twice. They certainly are part of the family and when they leave it leaves a large opening of loss.
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