Depot Diner & Coffee Shop

[espeefoamer]

The temp. in L.A. hit the low 80s today. It is strange to be baking in the heat, and look up and see snow on the mountains.[banghead]

[CSXrules4eva]

OH thank goodness I realized a couple of days ago I missd the Corn on the Cob here in the diner but, thanks to the cook we're once again having Corn on the Cob. I'll take three please allong with some mashed taters w/milk gravy, and some homemade biscuits w/honey. I actually need two of those biscuits w/ honey. [:D] Please??

Well, I'm tired, tired, tired, tired and sick to death of professors that love to give out last minute projects. Sometimes I feel like telling some of them to a hem...stuff all your projects were the sun don't shine....but, I graduate in May so I better not start complaining too much. hehehehe

The high here in Philadelphia was 80 degrees.

[blhanel]

QUOTE: Originally posted by cherokee woman

Brian, supper will be:

fried chicken, corn on the cob, mashed taters w/milk gravy, homemade
biscuits w/honey, and for dessert, there'll be your choice of chocolate
cake, chocolate pie, coconut cream pie, banana pudding, of white cake
w/white frosting.

YUM, YUM!!!

Wake me when it's ready... [zzz]

[cherokee woman]

Brian, supper will be:

fried chicken, corn on the cob, mashed taters w/milk gravy, homemade
biscuits w/honey, and for dessert, there'll be your choice of chocolate
cake, chocolate pie, coconut cream pie, banana pudding, of white cake
w/white frosting.

[JoeKoh]

will take some cobbler for work tonight.if you want to take a snooze in the hammock beware when the kitty returns.(and watch out for cake crumbs)
stay safe
joe

[blhanel]

//mimics old Hee-Haw line-

Hey CW, what's for supper?[:D]

[CNW 6000]

I'll grab some stew and cornbread to go please but hold the cobbler. I've still got some here!

Found out yesterday that my little sister may come up for the weekend from Ft. Knox where she and her husband are stationed. Got extra room in the hammock? LOL the house'll be a zoo!

[cherokee woman]

Lunch today will be: beef stew w/cornbread. And along with what's left of
Dan's peach cobbler, I've made an apple cobbler and a blackberry cobbler
to go with it for dessert today. Made large cobblers, so we'll have enough
for dessert tonight.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie

Gone Fishin' ! Takin' pie, too!

Later

Moo

Bring Fish, Leave Pie. [:o)] [8)] [:I]


Larry, the mulch should be free of bugs. [:o)] And

Congrats on your good news.


Well I got up at 7:15 to get the recycle and trash out. Here it is 9 now and no sign of them. BUT you know if I would have slept to 8:15 they would have been here at 7:45 GUARANTEED. There is some unwritten LAW about that you know.

Today is a much nicer day than yesterday's very high temps. [^] It is only 73 now with a high of 84 predicted. MUCH BETTER. [:)]

Our local food bank is citing the high gas prices for an increase of aid help needed for the lower middle class and poor people. It is a crime that CEOs are making millions in bonuses while working class people can't afford the basic necessities of life. Something is BAD wrong when working people have to choose between food or gasoline, and when retired people have to choose between food and their meds.

Believe it or not, my green grass is dying already because of lack of rain. We are about 4 inches behind normal for the year and finished something like 12 to 15 inches short last year. Small towns nearby are declaring a water emergency now and limiting car washes, and watering lawns.

Well I have house work to do. <Mookie is fishing and I have housework, what's up with that. [:o)] [:I] [8)] >

[Mookie]

Gone Fishin' ! Takin' pie, too!

Later

Moo

[JoeKoh]

good morning
quick breakfast and off to bed.one computer says people get 2 boxes other puter says they get 4 boxes hmmmm.
stay safe
joe

[tree68]

QUOTE: Originally posted by mudchicken

The mulch was recycled railroad tie butts. Still want some? Any takers?

Think I'll pass - sounds like it might have a detrimental effect on the tulips. Speaking of tulips - they aren't blooming yet, but it looks like mine are going to put on a good show this year. I'm not a big gardner, but I have amassed a pretty good crop of them (along with some lillies and irises) in front of the house.

QUOTE:
Carl: Your comment is on the money. Still a little snarly over the garbage that initially went out over the 6-fatality incident at Granada. FRA and Highway Patrol finally stepped-in and shut up the trial lawyer sponsored muckrakers who put out misleading really bad info. (Mysteriously, the tone and content of the articles changed overnight)

We don't usually end up with anything that bad for routine fire service news, but for something they deal with almost every day, the news folks still don't have a clue. A number of fire departments around have put on "mini fire academies" for the press, in an effort to help them understand (and thus more accurately report) what we do every day.

Time for my morning tea.

[cherokee woman]

Good Wednesday morning, everyone! At least, I think it's morning. NWS radio started going off around 1:45 this morning.
Man, did we get the thunder, lightning, and rain!!

Coffee is on, juice is made, and breakfast is on. We've got turkey bacon, sausage, scrambled eggs,
sausage gravy, and hash browns this morning.

Dan, I'm sure Mookie and I can keep the rest of your dessert here in the Diner.

[CNW 6000]

blhanel comin' up...c'mon people! Eat up! I've got lots more to dish up! I'm not taking it home either...maybe mookie or cw can keep it here at the DD&CS.

[blhanel]

Mmmmm... cherry pie with vanilla ice cream, please!

[CNW 6000]

cw I'll make dessert tonite. I've got peach cobbler from the dutch oven and vanilla ice cream or warm Door County WI cherry pie with either vanilla or chocolate pie.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by AMTK200

To answer your Sports Question I am for the Cubs and Red Sox. Yes it's been a long wait for the Cubs.

Go Cubs! [B)]

My two brothers and I went up for a game wednesday of last week. Beautiful day, mid-70's and sunny all day. Cubs won 4-1, Maddux had another masterful performance. Good times all around except for the trip home. It took an hour and 45 minutes to drive up there, just shy of 4 to get home.

For the dude who loves to mow grass, I have pleeennntttyyyy here for you to do if you want. lol

[jeaton]

Speaking of accuracy, went to lunch with Matt, Bob and Jason of Trains today. Huge part of their job is to check and recheck facts. One tiny insignificant mistake and 15 minutes after the magazines hits the street, the e-mail boxes are full with messages pointing out the error. (Or, they said,so it seems).

Maybe a big attraction of this hobby is the unending munitiae.

Jay

[mudchicken]

The mulch was recycled railroad tie butts. Still want some? Any takers?

Carl: Your comment is on the money. Still a little snarly over the garbage that initially went out over the 6-fatality incident at Granada. FRA and Highway Patrol finally stepped-in and shut up the trial lawyer sponsored muckrakers who put out misleading really bad info. (Mysteriously, the tone and content of the articles changed overnight)

[CShaveRR]

Actually, MC, if all of the cars were like the one in the picture, the article was literally correct (the cars were BN, but, as you say, the train wasn't). Guess that doesn't help educate John Q. Public, though--and it shows the true depth of painstaking research these people undertake before presenting a story.

[cherokee woman]

Josie, sorry, but no liver and onions left. But, please help yourself to anything I've got on the grill tonight,
and any of the side dishes.

Mudchicken and Larry, we could use some of that mulch ourselves.

[jeaton]

Heading for Indy tomorrow afternoon. Stepson Matt registers at Butler U. on Thursday and, if all goes well, six years from now he'll be filling our meds orders. On to Cincinnati for the weekend. Indiana residents can post weather and gas price info up until 1pm CDT

Thanks Jay

[Anonymous]

Oh My Gosh! I can't believe I missed the liver and onions...I love that stuff and my family will never let me cook it. Sigh, and I thought i was suppose to be the adult. Got any leftover, CW?

Beautiful in Ohio, I can almost see the grass growing (and I so looove to mow!) Anyhow, it's so nice out I don't even mind.

[Anonymous]

To answer your Sports Question I am for the Cubs and Red Sox. Yes it's been a long wait for the Cubs.

[tree68]

QUOTE: Originally posted by mudchicken

tree would have fun with this - locomotive sparks that set a train hauling mulch on fire.

Innnnnnnnnnnnteresting. I've heard plenty of stories about trains setting fires along the right of way, but (GE's notwithstanding) none of a train setting fire to itself. I wonder if that was red ochre mulch - I could use another bag or two...

[mudchicken]

Springtime in The Rockies....Ma Nature on one of her valium trips. 83 degrees yesterday, a lttle over 50 today, spurts of light rain mixed with snow...huh? ....lots of WIND too (found my garbage can a block away when I got home last night).

tree would have fun with this - locomotive sparks that set a train hauling mulch on fire.
As usual, media blew-it on whose railroad it was - Great Western/Omnitrax this time.

http://9news.com/acm_news.aspx?OSGNAME=KUSA&IKOBJECTID=aa4f2898-0abe-421a-01bb-f1a745fa3869&TEMPLATEID=0c76dce6-ac1f-02d8-0047-c589c01ca7bf

(anyone vote for spontaneous combustion?)

[Anonymous]

Well Folks today is warm in my Area. Going to the Baseball game tommorow.

[CShaveRR]

We were able to find relatively good gas prices in Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan on our quick trip north today. We've found places in various locales that sell the same stuff for less than the surrounding areas, so we make a point of routing ourselves via them.

Joe, best fill up before getting to the Chicago area (last service area on the Toll Road, for example). We encountered lots of construction delay on 80/294 and 80/94 Monday afternoon, very little this afternoon, so you never know. Things won't be done by next month, unfortunately.

[JoeKoh]

thats waaaayy to warm for this time of year.if gas prices keep pushing up we'll just find places to go closer to home.(were still going to see the mookie)
stay safe
joe

[Anonymous]

93


Yes folks it is 93 outside now and feels like 94 with humidity factored in. [B)] [V] [:(]

They say tomorrow will be about 10 degrees cooler. I certainly hope so.

Our best grade of gasoline went over $3 a gallong today, and I fear it will be just a few days before the lower grades do too. [8] [:(!] [:(!] [:(!] [:(!] [:(!] [:(!]

And guess what, JUST in time for summer driving. Hmmmmmm.

Well I am having an early supper. My day has been sorta screwed up. [B)]

Everyone Take Care