Depot Diner & Coffee Shop

[switch7frg]

It can get down right interesting @ times as some of the people who have never driven much on freezy skid stuff , try to drive on roads that have a thin oil film & rubber dust.
Then comes the rain, road gets greasy for about 1/2 hr. until water washes away the goo. Exciting times in Hooterville, white knuckles & other things. Settin' @ the top of the hill watchin' the world slide by. See ya'll later. Cannonball

[Anonymous]

Raining here as we speak it is slipperly out, looking foward to Dinner tonight.

[mudchicken]

Mutt & CW: I'm beginning to fear Louisville this fall. That Redi Kilowatt guy ("Sparky"?) sounds like he's got it in for you folks. (and you already know about me and computers)

Big bowl of Brocoli Cheese Zoupe sounding good about now...The snow here is just starting to stick.

[Anonymous]

Well----I guess this place is good as any to put my first post.

Hello everybody. I'm Dean and just joined the forms. My handle comes from my father who was a switchman here in Topeka on the UP many many moons ago.

How many here are actual railroaders?

[cherokee woman]

Third-trick, {#welcome] to the Depot Diner and Coffee Shop. You get a free meal
tonight, courtesy of the head cook (me, cherokee woman, or CW, whichever you
want to call me). Mutt and Sarah are just walking in the door; they went down the
street doing a little bit of railfanning.

[Anonymous]

thanks cherokee woman. whats on the menu tonight?

[cherokee woman]

Pork chop abracadbra w/carrots and onion. It's a really good and delicious dish,
fixed in the Crock Pot.

[Anonymous]

mmmmgood i'll have some :D

[railfan619]

Hi everyone how we all doin tonight. I' m fine and dandy well today was a really nice day here with temps in the 40's and tomorrow is going to be about the same execpt with rain and thunder storms but aleast winter is done for now anywho that's about it from this end hope to be talkin to you all soon oh yeah have a good night

[locomutt]

QUOTE: Originally posted by mudchicken

Mutt & CW: I'm beginning to fear Louisville this fall. That Redi Kilowatt guy ("Sparky"?) sounds like he's got it in for you folks. (and you already know about me and computers)

Big bowl of Brocoli Cheese Zoupe sounding good about now...The snow here is just starting to stick.

Actually this time I believe it was a squirrel roasting "chestnuts" on an open transformer However;when it went off,there was one certain place I looked at first !!![:0]
(seems it brought back memories of the first part of this year)

third trick; [#welcome] to the forum and Diner !!! Enjoy the food and company.[:D]

Orignially,most if any severe weather was to come in tomorrow,but seems that,
that prediction got changed earlier today;with a chance of.......through tomorrow,
all day !!! The NWS radio is already very much making it's presence known !![xx(]

[SactoGuy188]

Well, the roof repair people came and fixed the roof. It appears a bunch of squirrels were making holes in the roof and dumping their nuts inside! [:(!] Alas, we also found out we have to replace the rain gutters, and that will definitely cost serious money. [:(]

[CShaveRR]

We had an animal inside our house last month--crawled in under the back room, apparently. I think it died under there; the odor is finally dissipating. Nice subject for the diner--sorry about that! We also had a squirrel in the attic a few years ago (wow--close to ten years ago, amazingly); roof has since been repaired, and gutters came later.

The thunderstorms we were supposed to get today haven't materialized yet, though we did have rain at a very inopportune time--there were some loads of cornmeal that I couldn't control. No damage down below that I was made aware of, thankfully.

Our neighborhood seems to get more than its share of power outages, too--they usually don't last too long. Strange thing is, all of our cables are underground!

[CShaveRR]

Late note--just heard some thunder up there--it's coming!

[jeaton]

Oops, Looks like we chased another one away. Last I knew "Error" isn't used as a regular screen name.

The rain here has completed the snow and ice removal from our driveway.

I know about those squirrels and other critters. We have them locked out now, exxcept the racoons that like to camp out in the rarely used fireplace chimney. You might ask how they get up to a roof 25 feet in the air. Think the old TV antenna tower. I guess it make a good ladder for an agile racoon. Oh yes, there is a possum that hangs out around here, too.

[locomutt]

Guess he couldn't handle the cat,dog,possum,et. al. in here. His loss.

We've had several squirrells in our attic over the years,but believe they
went up the pine tree out front and jumped to the roof, (not the "actual"
"flying squirrel" species) don't think they could have climbed the walls
of this house very well.

Whatever weather system that's coming in,is starting to make it's
presence known;only a few drops of rain at present time,but the wind
has sure picked up quite a bit.
And Sarah just an FYI ,our storms mainly come in from the southwest,
we very seldom get anything that comes down from the north.

[Anonymous]

ha...speaking of annoying animals..

when i was younger still living at my mom's in a far away land called arizona, the house had a chimney for a wood stove-all tin. well, one morning in early spring i awoke to what sounded like an air chisel hammering away at the wood stove. jumped outta bed, looked all around inside, nothing. went outside and looked up and wouldn't you know, a woodpecker was hammerin away at the top of the chimney. for a couple months after that, every saturday morning around 7 or so, the *** bird was peckin away at the chimney. then, one morning...poor bird stepped in front of a pellet from a BB gun. back to sleeping in on the weekends i went.

[rvos1979]

Morning all......

Reeeeeeeealllllllll foggy outside tonight and this morning, just as bad as the last few days. Found out the wreck (see earlier post) was a little different than posted, the trucker was crossing the eastbound lanes when a car hit the trailer, killing the driver of the car. State troopers were saying nobody was slowing down, drivers were even flipping off the troopers (bad idea). I think this morning will be more of the same.

Be in for breakfast later.

Randy

[Mookie]

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[cherokee woman]

Good Thursday morning everyone! I've got the coffee going, and made the
orange juce. Got the paper off the porch a few minutes ago, no rain right at
this time.

Breakfast this morning: your choice of cold cereal w/strawberries, turkey
bacon, sausage, biscuits & gravy (yes, Jim, it's sausage gravy), and honey-
due melon.

[JoeKoh]

we have had a little bit of rain and it actually is nice now tempraturewise.the radio news said people from jim to walt and paulas batten down the hatches storms possible for this afternoon.i hope it doesnt rain that hard.need to get some chores done before it does rain some more.
stay safe
Joe

[Anonymous]

ummmmm....coffee, thanks!

We had bats in our attic (that doesn't sound good, does it?). But really, bats. And we couldn't kill them. It seems that they're protected, in Colorado at least (use-ta live in Colorado, now Ohio, soon Wyoming...). So we had to wait till they went out for the night and then plug the hole where they were getting in—yech!

One time we were staying at a friend's house and my whole family stayed entertained for about half an hour while a derranged bird kept attacking it's image in the glass.

And then there was the bird that got a bad attitude, pooped on the porch, walked in it and then flew feet-first into a window (over and over). Really....I'm serious.

Wierd.

Still overcast round here, Sigh. Wish I could go back to bed. Make my coffee a double!

Josie

[CShaveRR]

We're supposed to get more rain, with temps in the 60s (55 right now--dropped a couple of degrees). The dehumidifier has kicked in down here in Computer Central. My bike is due out of the shop today, but it looks like tomorrow will be beter for pickup.

Sarah, you know those tank cars we saw, and I said I'd figured out the former numbers of the whole series? Guess what...there was another identity for all of them between the original (NATX) and the current (UTLX). I've found all of those (DBUX), too--just have to get them on the discs. One of the many things that has to get done before the doctor sees me this evening. I won't be going to work tonight.

[Anonymous]

Hi All

Well the rain moved in over the night. When I watch the noon news I will see if any of it was severe or not. Here I think it was just light to medium rain. But I do not know about the rest of the state.

So far this morning it has been light showers on and off.


MC [^]

We don't mention the green stuff by name. Someone (name withheld for fear of my life [:o)] [;)] [:p] ) does not like it. [;)] Personally, I do. [:p] And mushroom too, I don't care if they are cooked or not, I LOVE MUSHROOMS. [:p]

Well today is my Monday so I must get off the comp and start thinking about work. [:(]

Everyone Take Care

[cherokee woman]

Jim, you can mention the "green" word: I'll just ignore it!!

Lunch menu today will be: BLTs with grilled cheese sammwiches.

Will let you all know in a couple hours or so what will be on the supper menu.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by cherokee woman


Jim, you can mention the "green" word: I'll just ignore it!!

Well please don't ignore the coming storm system.

W O W

It has been really bad for Arkansas. [V] [:(] [V]

It has about one hour left in the state and will be gone but it has one death to its credit and many homes destroyed or damaged. Just north of me in the same county about 15 homes destroyed by a possible tornado. About 10:30 this morning when I was having a medium shower, windows were being blown out in Little Rock.

The death was an ederly gentleman who could not get out of his house after it was struck by lightening. His wife is ok, but he didn't make it. There has been damaged in various places in the state.

So watch your weather warning and keep an eye on this storm.

[CShaveRR]

A BLT for me, please!

It's awfully gray out there--just got a call that my bike needs some parts replaced, and will be ready for me tomorrow. Hope the forecast for better weather holds!

[mudchicken]

"And then there was the bird that got a bad attitude, pooped on the porch, walked in it and then flew feet-first into a window (over and over). Really....I'm serious."

What was Cousin smoking that day????



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[Anonymous]

Aw come on...I'm serious! The bird kept it up for days until it met an untimely death.

[blhanel]

Hey there Diner residents- hope you've got the hatches battened down, the storms are on your doorstep...

[locomutt]

QUOTE: Originally posted by jhhtrainsplanes

QUOTE: Originally posted by cherokee woman


Jim, you can mention the "green" word: I'll just ignore it!!

Well please don't ignore the coming storm system.

W O W



So watch your weather warning and keep an eye on this storm.

The NWS radio is already making it's presence very well, known;
thus far all the watches and warnings issued out of here,have been for
counties in both more western areas of In. and Ky. The way the system
seems to be moving,I imagine we'll start getting those warnings for us
in two or three hours.