cherokee woman Everyone have a good morning, stay dry, and take care.
Everyone have a good morning, stay dry, and take care.
The rain is bringing a problem: getting grass cut. Since my adventure last week (only showers and no baths for a month, and lift nothing equal to or greater than twenty-five pounds for a month) I am going to have to back off from handling the lawn mower for a while. I talked with the man who takes care of a neighbor's yard, along with other peoples', and he told me that he is behind in his cutting because of rain showers. Katie cut the grass for me Saturday, but she had to squeeze it into her tight schedule.
Johnny
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 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...
MookieI probably look a little odd in public (like the grocery store) since I wear glasses to see throughout the store, but to read ingredients or dates, take my glasses off. Just the opposite of most people. So as I get a smidge older, I hope to lose them altogether. I had single, tri and bis when I was working and now down to just single lens and eye dr sez that is fine. Yippee! One thing that is cheaper rather than more expensive in my life!
Mookie, I'm with you on taking my glasses off so I can focus on fine print. It always amuses Ricki when she sees me take my glasses off so I can see what I am doing when I thread a needle. I have no hope of ever being able to drive without glasses; I need entirely too much correction--and I got more last month. Once, when my eyes were examined, I was told that there had been a little improvement since the previous time. Ricki's first husband (he was thirty years older than she) was able to stop wearing glasses a short time before he died.
You are a marvel in going back to single lens from trifocals, much less hoping to stop bothering with glasses altogether.
JoeKohModelcar glad the Mrs.is doing well with the operation.I hear kitty feet.better scram.
Thanks Joe....She's still doing fine.
Quentin
....Another watcher of Morning Joe....after coffee and Juice prepared.
And thanks...CW.
Kitty feet found a comfy chair downstairs and fell asleep during 2nd half of Morning Joe.
Even had a cup of coffee just before.....
Guess I shouldn't drink coffee standing up....
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
Morning
rain here in nw ohio.Randy you are in Nora's part of the country.Watch out for"Box" cars.Going to take a nap then help mamma with chores.Tonight is friday.Modelcar glad the Mrs.is doing well with the operation.I hear kitty feet.better scram.
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").
Mornin' all.....
Air is thick with moisture here in southern Pennsylvania this morning, supposed to be more rain later, flash flood watch is also up. Good thing I'm headed south to southern Georgia with a glass load, now, if they can just get me something good for the weekend out of Albany, I will forgive whoever is playing substitute dispatcher.....
Anyway, thought I'd stop in before firing up the truck and doing my 600-mile day today, will see everyone down in Cartersville, GA for dinner....
Randy in Greencastle, 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
Good Thursday morning, everyone. We've had rain overnight, and still getting light rain this morning. Current temp is 68 degrees F. Have more showers/storms coming in later on.
Coffee, juices, lemonade, Gatorade, iced tea, and hot water for hot tea are ready.
On the warmer bar this morning: turkey bacon, sausage, scrambled eggs ( or however you want your eggs this morning), hash browns, biscuits & gravy, bagels and bear claws are ready, also.
We never did hear anything from our company yesterday. Guess the weather delayed them? Whenever they do show up, I'm looking forward to meeting them (they're Walt's friends from when he was in the Nat. Guard).
Mookie, got your mug ready for you. With all this rain, think we'll find a dry spot outside to talk, and watch the trains going by?
Quentin, glad to hear that Jean is doing so well, after her surgery!
No problem Johnny....My name has been the source of problems to many trying to spell it over the many years.....I'm used to it. I also know you know how to spell it.
Today Jean was reading distant signs to me and all kinds of small distant objects. So we're doing great right now. Sure we pray the 2nd one does as well...
And we wish you and your family the best on the eye problems you mentioned.
ModelcarShe is doing very well with it...we were in for a check on it today and in a bit over a week the other one will be done. Her vision has been greatly improved on the eye just operated on. So, so far very good.
Quentin, it's good to hear that Jean is doing well after the first exchange operation, and may she do as well with the second one.
I apologize for mangling your name yesterday; I have known how to spell Quentin (as in Roosevelt) for more years than I can remember; I must have had a bad senior moment yesterday.
Ricki's operations really improved her seeing ability, and we pray that the recurring growth (which may be due to the Lucenta injection in one eye) will be extremely slow.
cherokee woman To go along with the roast, taters & carrots, you have the following choices: green beans, broccoli & rice w/cheese sauce, corn, succatash (lima beans w/corn), mashed taters w/beef gravy, homemade buttermilk biscuits or baked cornbread, cole slaw, garden salad, Caesar salad. Desserts today: yellow cake w/chocolate icing, fudge cake, and the following cobblers: apple, cherry, peach and strawberry w/vanilla ice cream. Everyone have a good afternoon, and if you're in the areas getting rain showers/thundershowers, be careful, driving, walking, or just standing out in your yard, especially if it's lightning!
To go along with the roast, taters & carrots, you have the following choices: green beans, broccoli & rice w/cheese sauce, corn, succatash (lima beans w/corn), mashed taters w/beef gravy, homemade buttermilk biscuits or baked cornbread, cole slaw, garden salad, Caesar salad.
Desserts today: yellow cake w/chocolate icing, fudge cake, and the following cobblers: apple, cherry, peach and strawberry w/vanilla ice cream.
Everyone have a good afternoon, and if you're in the areas getting rain showers/thundershowers, be careful, driving, walking, or just standing out in your yard, especially if it's lightning!
Afternoon everyone.
Just woke up from nap. Still sleepy. Mowed grandpas yard and went and had lunch with them Good. I think I'm running a temp. CW, Can't belive how good roast and tater's are! I'll have the white cake. I'll juyst wipe off the icing. I hate icing. las t night at the BSA meeting I won the election for Assistant patrool Leader, and get this... Scribe!
Was really stormy this morning. was out by 8:00.
Talk at you guy's and gals and cats later later!
A tired Justin S.
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Well, enjoyed our time in the garden, Mookie. Then, I went to the store, to get a couple of items (we're expecting company sometime today). And have done a few things around the house.
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.
tree68Gloomy and grey weather here today - but it's not raining and the temperatures are acceptable. Got an email from my Colorado sister. She said she was a little closer to the action around Denver this past weekend than she'd like. While she lives a fair distance from the mall that got hit in Aurora, it turns out the twister actually touched down about a mile from her house. She found out her dog is a pretty good forecaster - it wanted to go in the house. She put the dog in and went back to planting flowers, only to discover shortly thereafter that the weather was looking pretty ominous. About 5 minutes after she went in the hail struck, wiping most of the blooms off her irises (but no other significant damage). Good lunch. Time for a siesta, but the boss wouldn't appreciate that....
Gloomy and grey weather here today - but it's not raining and the temperatures are acceptable.
Got an email from my Colorado sister. She said she was a little closer to the action around Denver this past weekend than she'd like. While she lives a fair distance from the mall that got hit in Aurora, it turns out the twister actually touched down about a mile from her house. She found out her dog is a pretty good forecaster - it wanted to go in the house. She put the dog in and went back to planting flowers, only to discover shortly thereafter that the weather was looking pretty ominous. About 5 minutes after she went in the hail struck, wiping most of the blooms off her irises (but no other significant damage).
Good lunch. Time for a siesta, but the boss wouldn't appreciate that....
When this particular storm came through, it got about as dark as midnight.........I actually thought back to "several" years ago when we had really severe weather.
"Siesta" doesn't sound bad, as a matter of fact, a Very Good Idea!!
(when you work for yourself, you are the boss!!)
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!!
DeggestyModelcar Jean {CW}, is still doing quite well with the eye surgery....We stop into the clinic today at one for a check up. From what she is saying, believe it will make a great difference. Then when both eyes are complete and healed, we can go for the new glasses and that should really be a great inprovement. Quinton, I trust that all will go well with Jean. For several years, Ricki complained about starbursts around lights when she was out at night--and two cataract removals helped. However, she is one of a very few who have regrowth (I had never heard of such), and she is again seeing starbursts. She also has not had the severe trouble with macular degeneration that most have (my oldest sister-in-law is legally blind because of this), but it seems to have been halted. Cold laser surgery in one eye and injections in the other eye have helped her considerably. Johnny
Modelcar Jean {CW}, is still doing quite well with the eye surgery....We stop into the clinic today at one for a check up. From what she is saying, believe it will make a great difference. Then when both eyes are complete and healed, we can go for the new glasses and that should really be a great inprovement.
Jean {CW}, is still doing quite well with the eye surgery....We stop into the clinic today at one for a check up. From what she is saying, believe it will make a great difference. Then when both eyes are complete and healed, we can go for the new glasses and that should really be a great inprovement.
When I had mine done in 2002, about three weeks after the surgery I had to get reading glasses; then about about a month after that go back, have eyes examined and get my prescription glasses.
(I saw mainly "Halos" at night) (I've worn glasses since I was about 10 yrs old)
Which I still wear glasses; and they are bifocals, they wanted to do Laser surgery then, but insurance wouldn't quite cover the price, so...........
Was "Raining Cats and Dogs" just a few ago, glad I didn't go out and "Step in a Poodle"!!
Joe, CW should be in reasonably shortly with a few additional items for the lunch menu.
howdy
glad everyone is feeling better.matt and mamma are doing errands in town.I mowed this morning before it started to sprinkle.going to be good sleeping weather today.I found out what awnings can be put on the house to cover the porches.they are pre fab and a little more expensive but Mr. Bank says no problem.next tuesday they will start on the roof.When the awnings come in they will install them for us too.Time for bed.Cw thanks for lunch
joe
I'm here - albeit a little late. I had to mess around downstairs this morning. Now will mess around upstairs. Overhauling the bedroom and the bath (cleaning).
Since most of us are either of the age or close to the age of cataract surgery - my Dad had it done in his late 70's and now doesn't wear glasses. He and I are both nearsighted and with no other complications, he quit wearing glasses. I am finding that I am wearing mine less all the time. I take them off here at the house and only use them for distance clarification.
I probably look a little odd in public (like the grocery store) since I wear glasses to see throughout the store, but to read ingredients or dates, take my glasses off. Just the opposite of most people. So as I get a smidge older, I hope to lose them altogether. I had single, tri and bis when I was working and now down to just single lens and eye dr sez that is fine. Yippee! One thing that is cheaper rather than more expensive in my life!
Tree - I would love a real NS in anything - so if you find one that they don't want any more - let me know. I will "drive" it home. Wouldn't that be a hoot! Waiting for the railroads to let me know that maybe they have one that they smudged the paint on it - or the carpeting on the stairs is worn - or maybe the chairs are starting to show a little wear.....ahhhh -
Time to take my coffee and fairy sprinkles out to see CW.
cherokee woman Quentin, glad to hear Jean is doing so well, after her surgery.
Quentin, glad to hear Jean is doing so well, after her surgery.
Still ok....and thanks Paula.
Overcast here this morning.....very light rain...very light.
Yard mowing occured last evening so I did get ahead of the rain.
Don't know if any severe stuff will still occur here today....Sure seems calm now. Temps. moderate.
Still hearing quite a few trains north of us on the Frankfort line {NS}, during the night....
Note new board members coming on stream at GM....including Chairman of the Board.
At this point in time....Friday and on thru weekend looks nice, weather wise for this area....
Looks like an up opening for the NY stock exchange today....
Just general info I noted this morning in papers and some morning shows......Wishing good day for all.
Good Wednesday morning, everyone. Here in Louisville, we have 73 degrees this morning, have had some rain overnight, and will be raining/storming off and on pretty much all day and evening, into tomorrow sometime. Right now, though, we don't have any rain coming down.
Coffee, juices, lemonade, Gatorade, fruit punch, iced teas, and hot water for hot tea are ready.
On the warmer bar this morning: bagels, bear claws, watermelon, turkey bacon, (pork) sausage (links and patties), hash browns, scrambled eggs, homemade buttermilk biscuits w/sausage gravy.
Have lunch and supper going in the Crock Pots: roast, taters, carrots, and later on this morning, will start cooking other veggies to with the roast. Just let me know what other veggies you all would like to have today.
Mookie: have you coffee mug ready, and I'll meet you in the garden, in our rocking chairs, when you get in, o.k?
Everyone enjoy breakfast, have a great morning, and see you all in a bit. Take care, you all.
Deggestyquote]Quinton, I trust that all will go well with Jean. For several years, Ricki complained about starbursts around lights when she was out at night--and two cataract removals helped. However, she is one of a very few who have regrowth (I had never heard of such), and she is again seeing starbursts. She also has not had the severe trouble with macular degeneration that most have (my oldest sister-in-law is legally blind because of this), but it seems to have been halted. Cold laser surgery in one eye and injections in the other eye have helped her considerably.
Thanks Johnny.....She's doing very well at this point. Had a good report from the Dr. at check up today....
grampaw pettiboneQuentin, give my regards to Jean and my wishes for a speedy recovery. My eye quack sez that I need to have my left eye done, but I am putting it off till it gets bad enough to require it
Thanks Tom.....She is doing very well with it...we were in for a check on it today and in a bit over a week the other one will be done. Her vision has been greatly improved on the eye just operated on. So, so far very good.
The process has not been too much of a problem for her. Really didn't take very long at all, and really not much discomfort for her. New glasses will be created about 3 weeks after all surgery is finished. Probably will be needed just for close distance reading, etc....
Quentin, give my regards to Jean and my wishes for a speedy recovery. My eye quack sez that I need to have my left eye done, but I am putting it off till it gets bad enough to require it. Right now, it doesn't bother me at all. Paula, I hope your new brace does what is intended with minimal discomfort. Everybody take care and stay cool
Tom
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Well, I guess the doctor visit went semi-well. He have me a new prescription for another ankle/arch support brace (with the medal bars on the sides). Hoping my insurance will pay for it!!!!!!
Quentin and Johnny, Walt had to have cataract surgery back in either 2002 or 2003 (can't remember exact year now). One week, he had the right eye done, then the next week, or two weeks after, they did the left eye. He has the implants in both eyes.
As promised, I have our Mexican Fiesta on the warmer bar: tacos, burritos, spanish rice, quesadillas, chimichangas, fajitas, etc. There's also some tortilla chips and the assorted dips for the chips.
And for dessert, fudge cake for everyone! (And if you wish, there's plenty of several varieties of ice cream to go with the fudge cake, or you can have strawberry shakes.
Willy2We stayed at the Best Western when we were in Glenwood Springs. It was a very nice motel and Glenwood Springs itself was nice too.
Sounds like you spent most of your time north of the river Guermo Dos. (except getting on and off the train) - over by the Courthouse (which I spent half a lifetime doing research in) is a building that has a massive weaving operation going on in it 7 days a week....interesting place with all the looms.
On the other side of the courthouse, further down 8th Street, up against a building that was a lumberyard and now is a series of small businesses, sits a forlorn GE 44 Ton locomotive still lettered for Public Service Company. The locomotive now sits on a track that has no switch to connect it to UP/RFTA on the Aspen Branch.
JoeKohneed to double check our rules about awings
Joe, I never heard of any restrictions on saying "Aw." Is that something in effect around Deshler?
We have some interesting changes going on here. For some time, there has been a city ordinance against parking on grass. You could drive on grass to get to where you park, but you had to have rock, asphalt, or concrete pavement under your vehicle where you park it. Now, a new ordinance (effective in a year) forbids parking on rock, though you may drive on rock to get to the parking spot. Many people have complained, and the city council may relent.
Willy2We stayed at the Best Western when we were in Glenwood Springs. It was a very nice motel and Glenwood Springs itself was nice too. Did you go to Glenwood Caverns when you were there?
No, we simply enjoyed our stay at the Colorado. We were coming home from California (by rail, of course), and did not want to have to get up early, early, in the morning to get off the train. So, we planned to come on to Glenwood Springs, spend the night at the Colorado, and go home the next day, arriving at Salt Lake City around eleven at night, instead of maybe four in the morning. As it was, we started getting up while we were in SLC (trackwork east of Reno delayed us about three hours). Last year, we drove to Grand Junction, spent the night, and left town at a reasonable time of day; when we were coming home, we rose somewhere below Provo.
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