Depot Diner & Coffee Shop

[cherokee woman]

Brian, very glad to hear that Joanie's surgery went well. Give her our best wishes for
a speedy recovery.

[CANADIANPACIFIC2816]

Good Morning from Sioux Falls, South Dakota!
We had a major thunderstorm come through our region earlier this morning and I must have slept right through it. I got out of bed this morning at 7:00, switched on my radio and learned that we had gotten 3 and a third inches of rain out of this storm. Other points north of here got more than that. We had high winds as well and the wind continues to blow at gusts of 30 to 40 miles per hour as this is being written. I fly the American flag from the wooden railing of my cedar deck which is on the front of my house, and at some point during this most recent storm, the wind whipped my flag out and tossed it in my neighbor's yard, and ripped the mounting bracket right out of the wood! It's too cold and wet here, not a good day to be out watching trains. I might go to work in my kitchen and bake a batch of chocolate chip cookies this afternoon............and visitors are always welcome when I am baking cookies![C=:-)]

CANADIANPACIFIC2816

[blhanel]

QUOTE: Originally posted by CANADIANPACIFIC2816

I might go to work in my kitchen and bake a batch of chocolate chip cookies this afternoon............and visitors are always welcome when I am baking cookies![C=:-)]

//goes to work on the wife to persuade her to get into the car...

She's not too inclined to do a 12-hour road trip today.[:(]

[Mookie]

^ Cookies?^

[cherokee woman]

Those cookies sound like the perfect dessert to top of the Friday Fish Fry in
the Diner!

The fish and the fries are being fried, and am saving some fi***o be grilled on the
Geo. Forman Champ grill that I have in the kitchen. Got plenty of cole slaw, and
have fixed some deviled eggs for lunch. Of course, with this being Friday, we'll be
having the same menu for supper tonight.

[tree68]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie

^ Cookies?^

And chocolate chip!

I do them occasionally, too, and add mint chocolate chips in with the regular. Delightfully different and refreshing!

[Anonymous]

Hi All

I kinda like the old fashioned ice box sugar cookies. [:p] We always had a problems tho when mama made them. The amount of dough that went into the icebox was never equal to the amount of dough that came out (in the bowl anyway. [;)] [;)] [;)] .) Now where did all that missing dough go? [:o)] [:I] [:D]

Today is sunny and warm, about 72 and headed up to 82 by what the weather channel says. We have lots of rain clouds passing through. The humidity is pretty high also. [:(]

We have some heavy rain last night but it only lasted about an hour. It was fairly windy for a while.

They are already talking about the next hurricane season and it isn't even here yet. [:(!] [:(] [:(!]

Now about trains . . . at least one mainline is open where the truck and train decided to meet. Something odd about that wreck tho, one of the guys from work lives real close to where it happened. He said the driver of the truck lived just a stone's throw from the crossing where he was killed. So he definately knew there were 2 tracks and a second train could come at any time. Yet he still went around the lowered crossing gates and drove into the path of the train. And if that isn't stupid enough for you, his family will still probally win a hugh lawsuit. [:(!] [:(] [:(!]

Well for some people today is Friday but for me today is Tuesday. [B)] [8] [:(!]

Zach posted this link elsewhere but I thought I would share it here.

http://www.thedailycitizen.com/articles/2006/04/06/news/top_stories/top01.txt

That is an article about the train wreck.

Everyone Take Care

[Mookie]

People: I am gone as usual for the weekend, but I need to keep the note to Dan from getting buried under all the other fine postings on our forum. So I invite all the diner people to add their thoughts, sentiments or just drivel to the posting to keep it up toward the top until we can find him.

The dogs are out looking - they will find him eventually and drag him back here!

Thanx

Mook

[JoeKoh]

Brian
hope Mrs gets well soon.we will need some of those cookies and milk soon.I'm going to go get matthew from school.Jim by chance did the lead engine have a video recorder in it? some do now.
stay safe
Joe

[CANADIANPACIFIC2816]

Last fall I made an offer to bake and ship cookies to anyone participating in this forum as a creative way of generating some extra income for myself. At least one individual, Sarah Warner of Philadelphia took me up on my offer. I found that it is a great way to develop new friendships and share common interests. To date, I have had at least five lengthy conversations with Sarah over the phone since I first shipped a batch of chocolate chip cookies to her last fall.

My offer still stands. [C=:-)]

CANADIANPACIFIC2816

[Mookie]

CP - I am as round as I am tall, so can't order any cookies. My limit is as many as I can eat without throwing up. So we will just have to just visit w/o the food. Besides, you are practically a neighbor of mine!

Mook

[Modelcar]

...Sounds like lots of fellow dinner customers had a bunch of rain last night. Not here, just .3" and that was it. Sunshine today and mild temps but we're under a mod. to light chance of stormy stuff later today. I'm waiting for the yard to dry off so I might do another mowing....It is growing fast and pretty dark rich green.
Spent time on trail yesterday with wife and granddaughter.

[CANADIANPACIFIC2816]

[C=:-)][C=:-)]MOLASSES SUGAR COOKIE RECIPE[C=:-)][C=:-)]

Preheat your oven to 375 degrees.

1 1/2 sticks of Crisco shortening*, melted
2 C. sugar
1/2 C. molasses
2 large eggs
4 C. flour
4 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
2 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. ginger

* I always use the butter flavored shortening in my cookie recipes, it makes for a better cookie.

Form 1 inch balls out of dough and bake for precisely 10 minutes. You will get somewhere between three and four dozen cookies out of this recipe depending on how large you make each cookie. This recipe is so good that I can sit here and eat a dozen cookies in no time flat! My cookie jar right now is empty, now I need to fill it so I can raid it from time to time! [oX)]

CANADIANPACIFIC2816

[blhanel]

As much as I'd like to take you up on that, Ray, I think we better stick to munching on the Diner's goodies. No calories whatsoever! And I wouldn't want to cancel out my progress on the doctor-imposed diet. But, if we're ever up in Sioux Falls...

[CANADIANPACIFIC2816]

QUOTE: Originally posted by blhanel

As much as I'd like to take you up on that, Ray, I think we better stick to munching on the Diner's goodies. No calories whatsoever! And I wouldn't want to cancel out my progress on the doctor-imposed diet. But, if we're ever up in Sioux Falls...

I too, have a doctor-imposed diet, and it is a result of having diabetes type II. Sooner or later I'm gonna have to get serious with my diet and go back to carefully monitoring my blood sugar levels. I kind of figure that the less cookie baking I do, the better off I am.

CANADIANPACIFIC2816

[cherokee woman]

Well, folks, it's 3:13 here now, and we're starting to get thunder. Haven't seen any
lightning, but the breeze is picking up, and no rain yet.

[Mookie]

Tie yourself down CW - and nail Mutt to the floor! Carefully!

M

[JoeKoh]

we are getting some thunder here too at 3:45.better go get the windows closed.
stay safe
Joe

[tree68]

Raining pretty good here, but the forecast for the weekend is pretty good, which is a good thing, since I'll be outside with the firefighter class again all day Sunday.

[locomutt]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie

Tie yourself down CW - and nail Mutt to the floor! Carefully!

M

Almost had too !!!!! One of the Indiana counties right across the river from
us has just come out from a Tornado Warning !! (north eastern Clark Co.)
Haven't heard any reports of damage yet.
All we got (This Time) was some moderate rain and wind.

[Anonymous]

No Rain up here but very cloudy. Have to work the Church Food Drive tommorow.

[locomutt]

QUOTE: Originally posted by AMTK200

No Rain up here but very cloudy.

Be very glad that you haven't had what Southern Indiana had this afternoon;
and this evening,to include us on the later part. Our NWS Radio has
been "earning it's keep" this evening,we actually had to go to a more secure
location in the house when a "Tornado Warning" was announced. At this time,
there appears to be no Reported damage in the local area.

Quentin;hope you all haven't been blown away or anything;saw some of the
weather maps for your area,and they were showing a bunch of angry looking
red colors all over the place !!

[blhanel]

Hope everyone escaped the weather tonight- we had clear skies and a quiet evening here. I just got back from a 2.5-mile walk through the neighborhood. Now I am tuckered out. I've got a blood test to do in the morning for my final diabetes follow-up, so I can't eat anything more tonight. I think I'll go to bed early. TTYL!

[JoeKoh]

good morning
here is some coffee and juice this morning.a bit cooler for the weekend but as we dry out the grass is defineately going to get a cutting.
brian hope everything goes okay on your test.
stay safe
joe

[cherokee woman]

Good morning, all. Well, we made it through all the weather mess last night.
We were under a tornado warning for awhile last night, particularly in the southern
part of the county. Heard of a report of a tree coming down on a house; no injur-
ies, though.
Brunch is out on the warmer bar: sausage, biscuits, sausage gravy, scram-
bled eggs, hash browns.

Hope everyone has a great day, and don't hurt yourselves doing yard work, or
whatever today.

Brian, hope you test turns out A-OK.

[CANADIANPACIFIC2816]

It looks like Cherokee Woman is serving a pretty good breakfast at her house. Unfortunately, Louisville, Kentucky is a long ways from where I live. I brewed myself a pot of coffee and poured myself some orange juice when I got up at 7:00 this morning. I might get my belgian waffle maker out of the kitchen closet and have waffles for breakfast, and fry up a mess of bacon as well.

Sioux Falls survived it's most recent wind-rain storm which came through this area early yesterday morning. I live across the street from a credit union and they had two huge evergreen trees in their lot, both more than 20 feet tall. One of them with a trunk of at least 10 or 12 inches in diameter was blown over by the wind and was snapped off at the base of the trunk itself. The wind has died down quite a bit and today's temperature is supposed to reach 58 degrees. I would be taking my mountain bike out for a cruise on the bike trails in this community, but much of the bike trail system is now under water as a result of the storm we got yesterday morning.

A canoe capsized on the Big Sioux River near Falls Park in downtown Sioux Falls at about 6:30 last night, and one of the individuals who was in that canoe is still missing and is presumed to have drowned. They were not wearing life jackets.

CANADIANPACIFIC2816

[Anonymous]

Mornin' All

CP, sorry to hear your bad news. [:(]

Last night at work it was very windy but no rain. It is 61 here right now. It sure is hard to know how to dress these spring days. Since I start at 2 on the weekends it may be nice and sunny until about 7 or 8 then when the sun sets it can turn colder. OI have to take a variety of clothes to be safe.

I hear several of the neighbors mowing their lawns. I will have to do so on my weekend.

Tennessee got hit again last night with bad tornados. [:(] I read an article a few minutes ago but have already forgotten how many are dead because of it. Spring is a beautiful time of year but these storms can be very deadly. [V]

Everyone Take Care

[cherokee woman]

Hope everyone is enjoying the brunch for today. Will be starting to make up the
pizzas in about two hours for our regular Saturday night pizza fest. Getting
ready to go to the grocery to have all ingredients on hand.

[railfan619]

Good afternoon everyone how is we all doin. Fine and dandy I hope well it is the weekend but I still got to work. I'm get to do my first bar hop tonight which so be alot of fun. But anywho hope everyone has a good weekend and I will be talkin to you all soon. OH yeah I might be dead after tonight so if you don't here from me for a couple of days I will be dead from the lack of sleep.

[blhanel]

Pat, you sure crack me up.[(-D]

Supreme pizza please!