im back. my first night back to work and we worked ot. but everything for now is in the trailers and people should be happy.Carl my brother in law and his wife have an anniversary on friday oct 13th too! theve been married for 5 years.you and pat have a happy birthday. before mookie gets her paperwork uncluttered im going in for a nap in the hammock.
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").
Good morning everyone.
How about a Philadelphia-style cheesesteak sandwich for lunch?
blhanel wrote:Yoohoo! (yoohoo) (yoohoo)Anybody here? (anybody here?) (anybody here?)Wow, that's pretty bad when you get an echo in the diner... oh well, I'll start the coffee this morning...EDIT: Oh, there you are, CW- snuck up on me!
Guess you didn't see me hunched over a cup of coffee back in the corner by the stove. Jay
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Good morning everyone. I rolled out of bed at a quarter after 6:00 this morning and it is cold here in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. At last report we had a temperature of 42 degrees. There is an arctic cold front moving in here and tomorrow's temperature will max out at 38 degees. It is a bit early for snow here and that is a possibility for tomorrow evening, but I am happy as long as we don't get any freezing rain!
I am still searching for work and last Friday I had gone out to our Empire Mall to apply for work at Kohl's and Target. I went back to these two stores yesterday to return the applications that I had filled out, and the folks at our local Target store wanted to interview me right away! Needless to say, that came as a bit of a surprise to me, as normally I would be going to a job interview fully dressed, with sport coat, tie, the whole works. I will be going back to the Empire Mall within the next few hours with another employment application to turn in. I applied online last night for work with one of our local Shopko stores, and I am going to try doing the same with Best Buy. I've been out of work too long, so I am hoping and praying that something will finally open up for me.
I wonder what Cherokee Woman has planned for lunch this afternoon in the Diner? I'd rather grab lunch and a cup of coffee from the Diner than waste my money in the food court out at the Empire Mall.
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I just realized that I was on the wrong thread when I wished Joe and Stacey a happy anniversary. You, too, Jim and Shirley! You both have a way to go to catch Pat's folks, who will be celebrating their 61st anniversary on Friday the 13th (same day as Colorado Chris' birthday!).
Sarah, glad you're safe and sound.
Getting together with Brian and Joanie was great; I'll have to thank them for taking care of supper for us tonight. Joainie, heal quickly--you did great tonight, but it couldn't have been easy!
Tomorrow I take the birthday girl (I get to call her the Old Lady for six whole days) to the Japanese Gardens in Rockford on the way home--we both want to see how it looks in the fall. We may then stop for some apples (and cider, and cider donuts) from our favorite apple orchard near Rockford, and drop down to Rochelle before getting back home.
Bedtime hasn't changed, in spite of this being vacation (the wake-up time has, though!).
And, in case I don't get a chance before tomorrow night, happy birthday (again), Willy!
Carl
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Linda is in Cincinnati for the week, so it is either go for the Blue Plate or cook for myself. Save me a seat at the Hanel/Shaver table and we can swap stories about road trips.
Jay
Dan
happy anniversary Jim and Shirley.mamma and i decided to go to hicksville hill and look at the colors and trains.more than we expected for a monday.
I'll take a BLT and a garden salad, please. Need to lose some serious weight, especially after that lunch on Saturday. I'll bet MC won't be ordering anything large, either, after that monster burger he had!
A bagel sounds good - for a while they were my breakfast, but that era is over, although I do enjoy them.
Final weekend on the railroad for the season is past. Too much going on to devote any time to running for the rest of the month. We had sold out trains on our "south" trips both days - you have no idea how hard it is to shoehorn people into the train. The groups of three leave one isolated seat, and couples often like to occupy a four seat set alone. No problem with a less than full train, but...
And, of course, it seems like the groups of 5 or more all show up last. I won't start on the people who show up at, or shortly after the scheduled departure time. Due to delays trying to seat as many as possible, we were usually 5-10 minutes late, and people were still arriving and expecting to get a ticket....
My son is visiting right now, and came along for the day on Sunday. We even put him to work, and he enjoyed the day.
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good morning
juice and coffee are ready to go.mookie will need today to recover from the weekend I'm sure.going to get some pics today as its the last of the good days.as mentioned it goes downhill from here.going to get matt ready for school soon.
Evening everyone........
Congrats to all who have a birthday and/or anniversary, glad to hear about the 51 years, Jim, don't see too many of those. My parents will be celebrating 29 years this coming April.
Willy and Brian, the forecast for us has the promise of snow coming for Wednesday night and Thursday, and a few nights of hard freezes. Looks like I'll have to bring out the power cord and plug the truck in at night, keep everything warm and toasty.
Took a nice little drive today to look at the fall colors, were very pretty around the Baraboo and Reedsburg areas, also took the time to look at things on the railroad, lots of new business going in.
See everyone later.
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
Happy Anniversary Joe and Stacey! Happy Anniversary to Jim and Shirley, too!
Back to school tomorrow and what a dreary week this promises to be. Clouds and showers for Monday through Wednesday and highs in the 50s and 60s. Then it looks like a hard freeze for Wednesday and Thursday nights with highs on Thursday struggling to reach 40. And to think that just yesterday it was 83 degrees!
Hope everyone has a good week!
Willy
Mookie wrote: tree68 wrote: Oklahoma is about as dull as Texas, scenery-wise, only red... Been there. The "badlands" of KS, along I-35, aren't bad. Here's to a great trainwatching day in Lincoln! My son will be along in the Diner today. His treat, so I'll be having a really good breakfast this morning. He more or less finished his cross-country trek last night about 11. Still has to drive back down to DC, but not for a few days. Tree - it will be very windy (bad hair day and I am trying to make a good impression!) here tomorrow . I will have to watch closely and make sure it doesn't make the trains wobble!
tree68 wrote: Oklahoma is about as dull as Texas, scenery-wise, only red... Been there. The "badlands" of KS, along I-35, aren't bad. Here's to a great trainwatching day in Lincoln! My son will be along in the Diner today. His treat, so I'll be having a really good breakfast this morning. He more or less finished his cross-country trek last night about 11. Still has to drive back down to DC, but not for a few days.
Oklahoma is about as dull as Texas, scenery-wise, only red... Been there.
The "badlands" of KS, along I-35, aren't bad.
Here's to a great trainwatching day in Lincoln!
My son will be along in the Diner today. His treat, so I'll be having a really good breakfast this morning. He more or less finished his cross-country trek last night about 11. Still has to drive back down to DC, but not for a few days.
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JoeKoh wrote:good morning juice and coffee will be ready shortly.we are going out to eat after church for our anniversary.12 years flys by.sounds like we are going to need a big cake on tuesday for birthdays. stay safe joe
juice and coffee will be ready shortly.we are going out to eat after church for our anniversary.12 years flys by.sounds like we are going to need a big cake on tuesday for birthdays.
joe
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