Depot Diner & Coffee Shop

[cherokee woman]

Good morning, all! Hope everyone had a fantastic weekend. Also hope our
resident kitty cat is feeling better this morning.

Breakfast this morning will be sausage, biscuits, gravy, and fried taters. Or,
you can have cereal w/strawberries. Sarah & I went to the store yesterday
afternoon and got some Frosted Flakes and Honey Bunches of Oats.

[Mookie]

^

[JoeKoh]

how about just the strawberries??? got a clean blanket in the hammock and tissues if the kitty comes today.
stay safe
joe

[Mookie]

look what the cat drug in -

the cat.

[JoeKoh]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie

^

ok someone get her some coffee asap
stay safe
Joe

[cherokee woman]

Mookie, glad to see you back today. Sure hope you're feeling better.

Joe, yes, you can have just the strawberries for breakfast.

[Mookie]

Joe - thank you so much - I really need a big box.

Tom - congratulations! I am a little partial to girls myself!

Glad everyone is back in their places - it is easier to take attendence. I will have to spend the week reading and catching up. Just no strength to do it right now.

Did I read that Jay is/has been sick, too? Hope he is ok. Whatever this is, it is nasty!

oom.

[JoeKoh]

hey mookie
what do you call a train with a cold?
aaaahhhh chhhoooo-chhoooo.
bless you(gezuenteight)
stay safe
Joe

[cherokee woman]

Since some of us have the sniffles, and what-have-you, for your lunch enjoyment
today, you have for your choice of lunch:

beef stew and cornbread
vegetable beef soup and grilled cheese

[tree68]

QUOTE: Originally posted by cherokee woman

Since some of us have the sniffles, and what-have-you, for your lunch enjoyment
today, you have for your choice of lunch:

beef stew and cornbread
vegetable beef soup and grilled cheese

Please wash your hands, use the serving utensils, and notice the sneeze guard over the food...[8D]

I already had my cold a few weeks ago, unless you folks are carrying around a new strain...

The beef stew and cornbread sounds good.... Reminds me of a visit to a Georgia fire station - got invited for lunch, which included - cornbread, properly prepared in a cast iron pan...

[jeaton]

QUOTE: Originally posted by tree68

QUOTE: Originally posted by cherokee woman

Since some of us have the sniffles, and what-have-you, for your lunch enjoyment
today, you have for your choice of lunch:

beef stew and cornbread
vegetable beef soup and grilled cheese

Please wash your hands, use the serving utensils, and notice the sneeze guard over the food...[8D]



I already had my cold a few weeks ago, unless you folks are carrying around a new strain...

The beef stew and cornbread sounds good.... Reminds me of a visit to a Georgia fire station - got invited for lunch, which included - cornbread, properly prepared in a cast iron pan...

And do a frequent virus scan?

Yup, I am the sicky of the week. Fairly light appointment schedule. Need rest.

Jay

[Anonymous]

Hey Hey Hey

Yesterday was the big Marathon in Little Rock, with 6,000 runners in the race. [:0] I didn't get anywhere near the area where the race was held. The rain they had been predicing for late in the week was almost nill.

Today is about 65 now and headed for the low 70s. The ants are out along with tons of bees and wasps. In another week or so I will have to mow already.

Over the last few days I saw an interesting engine. An ex Amtrak GP9u was here. [:0] It was originally a Wabash engine. I think Zach got some photos of it when it was in his area.

Well got to go, today is Friday and I do have to work. [:(]

Everyone Take Care

[cherokee woman]

Have taken all the necessary precautions in food prep. Although I think what's
going around now is airborn, with the fluctuating temps all over.

Supper tonight will be beef pasta w/mushrooms in it. Actually pretty tasty.

Making some key lime bars for dessert.

[JoeKoh]

yummmmm mushrooms.matt would like to taste test the key lime bars please.
stay safe
joe

[railfan619]

Good eveing everyone how is we all doin today fine and dandy. Well I think winter has come back to visit for one last time before spring time gets here finally which I will be really glad cause I'm really really sick of winter now. Because it is really a diffrent feeling driving a bus with air brakes in a snow storm. But anywho that's about it execpt that it will be almost 50 degerss by friday which will be really nice for a change oh well have a good night and I will talkc to you al tomorrow,

[CShaveRR]

How'd I miss those key lime bars?

After work we made a quick run to LaGrange. In less than a half hour we saw five trains--two coal-related, one intermodal, a dinky, and an Amtrak. One of the coal trains had some brand-new aluminum hoppers. I was trying to confirm build date and plant of manufacture (could have been either Danville or Roanoke--builder was Freight Car America), but when I was close enough to read the tiny print it was moving too fast by me!

[SactoGuy188]

QUOTE: Originally posted by cherokee woman

Supper tonight will be beef pasta w/mushrooms in it. Actually pretty tasty.

Good enough for me! [:D]

Alas, bad news: my house appears to have a termite invasion. [:0] We've having someone from Clark Pest Control (the local pest control company) come out and see what can be done to get rid of this problem.

[cherokee woman]

Good Tuesday morning to one and all!! Hope everyone is feeling better today.
Our local temp was about 34, 35 when I awoke at 5, and is now about 30,31
degrees. Supposed to make it to 54 today.

Breakfast this morning: bowls of cereal w/strawberries and cinnamon swirl
bread that's been toasted. Or, you can have the regular breakfast of sausage,
biscuits, gravy, scrambled eggs. If you wish, you can substitute turkey bacon
for the sausage. Everything's laid out on the breakfast warmer bar.

[JoeKoh]

i'll take some cereal with strawberries.yummmy.
better get the coffee ready in case the cats a draggin
stay safe
Joe

[tree68]

QUOTE: Originally posted by JoeKoh

i'll take some cereal with strawberries.yummmy.
better get the coffee ready in case the cats a draggin
stay safe
Joe

May want to make that espresso...

[Mookie]

Cof...cof...cof....

Ahem.....

ok - it's official. I had the "bird" flu. It think it might have been the "Jay Flu".....well, lucky for all of us - it didn't affect my humorous.

Now have a cof...kind of a furball cof. Also have no energy, but what's new!

Coffee feels good going down; wonder what it tastes like?

But the really exciting thing is that they are doing some major construction work in our watch area. So I get trains and the Tonka Toys all at the same time. Got big piles of rocks and earth moving toys and signal bridges and wooden ties and dirt and and and...where's Matt!

Moo....[alien] - just in case someone thinks I might still be contagious!

[Anonymous]

Morning,
My tummy is so rumbling, and I've got to fix the biscuits myself. Would you please tell me how, my little cousin has been utilizing my previous attempts as hockey pucks!

And, by the way, I'm using a wood stove!

Thanks, and um, I'll take some coffee while I'm waiting...

Josie

[locomutt]

[#welcome] to Diner Josie !!!!!

Our "resident cook and cooking teacher" Cherokee Woman,is
out gathering proudce for our place,she should be back for lunch.[:)]

Mook;glad that you're feeling somewhat better today,those things are
no fun at all,and CW and I have been fighting that ourselves for too long !!

[Anonymous]

Josie, let me second that [#welcome] to the Diner! Hopefully, CW can help you with your biscuit problem. My wife makes the biscuits in our house. If it's supposed to be fluffy or flaky, I leave it to her. I can't do biscuits or piecrust or pancakes from scratch to save my soul!

[cherokee woman]

Good afternoon all! Produce give-away was interesting this morning. We got
purple onions, Tropicana orange juice, honeydew melons, and lettuce.

JOSIE: Here's the recipe for homemade biscuits:

2 cups Self-Rising Flour
1/3 cup shortening (Crisco is the best to use)
2/3 cup milk (or buttermilk)

Cut shortening into flour until mixture resembles course meal. Quickly stir in
milk; knead dough lightly. Roll to one-half inch thickness on a lightly floured
board. Cut into two-inch biscuits; place on ungreased cookie sheet.

Bake in preheated, very hot oven (450degrees) 12 to 15 minutes. Makes 12
to 16 biscuits. *Note: Dough may be stored in refrigerator in tightly covered
container up to five days. Roll, cut, and bake as needed.)

Lunch today: Cream of Potato soup w/ham & cheese sandwiches

Got to go have my eyeglasses checked. The screw holding one of the lenses
keeps popping out, and my left lens pops out of the frames. Should be back
in time to post supper menu.

[CShaveRR]

Pop-eye?

We've still got a little of the snow that fell on Sunday, but we're already near 40, so it won't last!

Not getting much done around home today; last night I watched the program about the Milwaukee sinking. They had one contemporary shot of Grand Haven, which made me a little homesick.

Josie, welcome!

SJ, glad you're feeling almost human...umm, feline...whatever! again. Today is the anniversary of a bug that almost wiped me out once.

[Mookie]

State of New Brass Key has declared that the flu season is just about over for us.

Scanner last nite for police/fire sounded like the pneumonia ward - either talking in a tube or coughing.

Our building is sneezing and coughing.

Schools have large amounts of absence due to respiratory illness.

Are there two New Brass Keys in this country?

(I am sounding like a page out of Mudchicken's book....[^])

[espeefoamer]

Something must be passing through the Diner via the internet.The last few days coughing and nose running.Took some nighttime cough medicine last night.Took care of the cough,but feel out of it this morning.Need some OJ and busciuts and gravy.

[tree68]

CW - I prefer to make my biscuits with baking powder and regular flour (baking powder biscuits!!!) Still just as good. Of course, if I'm lazy, I just grab the box of Bisquick...

Aksarben!

[JoeKoh]

mookie
glad your feeling better.matthew has been watching csx trucks work on tracks and grind crossovers.then of course to get around the mow they use the other crossovers wwhich makes auto racks and doublestacks wiggle.all this talk about biscuts how about some biscuits and gravy for supper?with some eggs on the side?
stay safe
Joe