morning
juice and coffee are ready to go.we also have leftover pizza or doughnuts for breakfast.they held off the forcast for rain until later sunday night /momday morning here.after this front goes by we will have lows in the 40s.welcome to fall.
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, I reckon fall has arrived here in the Dakotas. I've been up for an hour and we have a temperature of 48 degrees, it actually feels like 42 degrees. I noticed yesterday that the few trees in my yard are beginning to change their colors, and we might be getting some rain later this afternoon.
I poured myself 12 ounces of orange juice and brewed a fresh pot of coffee this morning, and I think I might hit my neighborhood grocery store for a few plain cake donuts after I have been to church this morning. I should probably pick up enough donuts to share with everyone in this forum. I baked a batch of homemade bread yesterday afternoon, and I think I will do it again this afternoon. I think I will use some stone ground flour and turn out a batch of my whole wheat bread. Anytime I am baking anything, this house of mine sure smells good........you would be able to smell the aroma of freshly baked bread even before you walk in my front door.
CANADIANPACIFIC2816
I survived last night without getting blown away. The supercell that prompted the tornado warning for Omaha missed my house completely, but the squall line gave us 1 inch of rain in less than half an hour. It had to be one of the hardest rains I've ever seen and there was a little hail mixed in too. One tornado did touch down on the southwest side of Omaha, but didn't do much damage.
CW - How about roast turkey and mashed potatoes & gravy for Sunday dinner? My mom has some peaches that I could use to make either peach pie or peach cobbler for dessert.
Everyone have a good Sunday afternoon!
Willy
Willy2 wrote:I survived last night without getting blown away. The supercell that prompted the tornado warning for Omaha missed my house completely, but the squall line gave us 1 inch of rain in less than half an hour. It had to be one of the hardest rains I've ever seen and there was a little hail mixed in too. One tornado did touch down on the southwest side of Omaha, but didn't do much damage. CW - How about roast turkey and mashed potatoes & gravy for Sunday dinner? My mom has some peaches that I could use to make either peach pie or peach cobbler for dessert. Everyone have a good Sunday afternoon!
Hold the chain, stop the clock, hold the phone.......... what is this I'm hearing about Mashed taters and rosted turkey w/ gravy?? I think I'm going to need to eat some of that for sure tonight. Actually, I'm going to need two servings one for lunch at work tomorrow and one for din din tonight.
Well, I see we had a b-day here in the diner since I've been gone for a while.
Ray, happy belated B-day may you continue to have many more, and God Bless.
Well, the rain has finally left Philadelphia, PA. Thank goodness, as much as I like to go out river watching, I don't care to drive back and fourth in the rain. Temps cooled down a bit here after the rain though, which I'm real happy about.
Checking in from Bar Harbor (or Bah Habah) tonight. Weather has been great so far and we should get a couple more good days for looking around Arcadia NP and the rest of the island. After that we will be heading just a little west, and then a swing down to Boston for a few more days.
If any of that heavy Midwest weather hits Delavan, can anybody run by the house and check it out?
Later-
Jay
"We have met the enemy and he is us." Pogo Possum "We have met the anemone... and he is Russ." Bucky Katt "Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future." Niels Bohr, Nobel laureate in physics
Delicious dinner, CW! And I hope everyone enjoyed the cobbler, also.
I've got a couple of quizzes in school tomorrow, so I am off to study.
I could have biked...
Willy, I saw the most impressive storm front to my west just as the sun rose, about 6:30 this morning. Then I had to work. I was talking to Pat a little later, and she said the approaching storms had disappeared off the radar! Sure enough, that line of thunderheads (which had been on the horizon for mearly 180 degrees) was gone!
So I had a nice, dry day to work in, and for a while after work. Had I biked, I probably wouldn't have had to put up with the Sunday drivers that were out and about that afternoon. Like the super-hot Camaro that was doing 25 in the left lane, the person making a left turn out of the left traffic lane (instead of the left-turn lane), the limo that had two speeds--slow and stopped, and on and on.
But we joined the throng later in the afternoon, going out to dinner and watching the action (all Metra and Amtrak while we were around) on the BNSF Raceway from LaGrange to Downers Grove. And while we were out, it rained buckets! A lot of the streets we were driving on had standing water, but at home we only had about a quarter inch. More falling, though, as we speak.
Willy's dessert ideas have made me hungry. I think we still have a couple of Michigan's best peaches in the fridge.
Carl
Railroader Emeritus (practiced railroading for 46 years--and in 2010 I finally got it right!)
CAACSCOCOM--I don't want to behave improperly, so I just won't behave at all. (SM)
Jay - Back when the ex and I were still together, we would visit her family in New Hampshire (excuse me - New Hampshah). Wish I'd bought the book I saw there once entitled "How to Speak New Hampshah."
Most of our train crew went across the street from the depot for supper tonight, so I missed the feast here (the club sandwich was good, though.) Not a bad weekend, business-wise, but boy, the colors are coming on fast up in the mountains. I even called my daughter and suggested that she and her fiance change their visit to the railroad to next weekend, lest the color be gone (as they certainly will be) by the time they had planned to come up in October.
Next weekend should be a zoo - colors will be peaking and so will the leaf-peekers.
On top of that, we have a "new" conductor, in training from trainman. He said he missed me last weekend - found out how hard it is to do everything. Normally if I'm on board, I'll collect the tickets and can handle some of the other stuff that needs to be / should be done on the train. We was all by himself.
On the other hand, he had lunch (ham and scalloped potatoes) on board a private car that was visiting... We usually just get sandwiches..
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blhanel wrote: Hope everyone else is having a good weekend!
Hope everyone else is having a good weekend!
Da Bears sure did!
(couldn't resist--and I suspect that my three-month-old granddaughter has a blue-and-orange "onesie" for the occasion!)
Y6bs evergreen in my mind
CShaveRR wrote: Da Bears sure did! (couldn't resist--and I suspect that my three-month-old granddaughter has a blue-and-orange "onesie" for the occasion!)
And cheeseheads everywhere are converting to Bears fans! (me included!!)
Don't worry, Jay, nothing more than a few rumbles of thunder happened here this evening, and just a light rain to go with it, enough to force the farmers out of the fields for a day. Took a drive around the field we were supposed to chop this weekend, glad we didin't try it, was pretty wet yet.
I am now predicting that the Packers will have a very long and hard season, seeing as they lost to Nawlins, a middle of the road team. Thus, I have converted to a Bears fan!
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
yeah someone gambled and lost the football in the minnesota game.juice and coffee are ready to go.the rain has arrived here but just showers no thunderboomers yet.
Switch8frg wrote:CW >>>> Deelishus dinner today. We enjoyed it very much, and practising for the big event in Nov.Now the earth has tilted more to cool , how bout some buckwheat pancakes , short stack with maple syrple withsausage links / scrambled eggs for breakfast ? beverage optional. AAH the smell of burning leaves in the fall . Cannonball.
See, See - I told him! Yes I did....Yep, Yep.....! I am going to hold a class in meteorology "weather prediction for Eastern NE".....I could save Willy2 a lot of $ in college! And there was a surprise in Surprise NE. (Yes there is a Surprise NE) They had a tornado. Oh BC - I can see you having a tussle with this.
I'm baaaack....can you tell....
First things first - Jay and Tree do you ever read Non-Sequitur in the comics section of the paper? They have the old "sailor" from Maine, I think. I have such a flat accent, I have to read it very carefully aloud to get the right "inflection".
Friday - it rained it poured but for only a few minutes at a time - in between sunshine breaks.
Sat - Driver fished - 1 bass, 2 bluegill - all catch and release. I napped and read papers - listened to the trains going by - couldn't see them at all. It was sunny and quite warm all day long. Went into town at noon to see some trains before heading home. Found Willy! Kept thinking it was him from a distance, but he was w-a-a-y too tall. Keep forgeting that teens grow daily at this age!
Sat nite - cool, but no rain. Sunday ditto. Very, Very windy. Looked like a dandelion gone to seed both days! Bad fur day.
Well, on to other projects. Must alphabetize the left overs in the fridge and sample to make sure they are ok. It's a tough job but.......
Ah - almost forgot. Heard from Dan - he is ok - he is very busy. I am sure he doesn't alphabetize the fridge, so how busy can he be?????
^
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
Mookie wrote: First things first - Jay and Tree do you ever read Non-Sequitur in the comics section of the paper? They have the old "sailor" from Maine, I think. I have such a flat accent, I have to read it very carefully aloud to get the right "inflection".
Most certainly. I don't usually have a problem with "Down Easters," since I live not far from there.
Interesting side note - the phone company had a devil of a time with voice recognition in New England. Five turns into "Fye-uv," nine becomes "Nye-un." Etc, etc.
I love that old salt (but read him on Sundays only). His way of impressing the ladies is something I hope I don't have, though.
Rough, sleepless night last night. Well, sleepless, anyway. Started out the night with a/c on because of the stickiness, but turned it off later. Still wet out there with a chance of rain, but I hope to finally get to the lawn today. Needs it badly.
Not meaning to get too cozy or anything, but is there room on the hammock, SJ?
cherokee woman wrote: Switch8frg wrote:CW >>>> Deelishus dinner today. We enjoyed it very much, and practising for the big event in Nov.Now the earth has tilted more to cool , how bout some buckwheat pancakes , short stack with maple syrple withsausage links / scrambled eggs for breakfast ? beverage optional. AAH the smell of burning leaves in the fall . Cannonball.Good Monday morning to all! Well, we had a terrific day yesterday. Met mudchicken andBoss Hen, and had dinner with them at Texas Roadhouse. Very good meal with verygood people! Also fantastic conversation. I could have listened to them both, all nightlong; but they had to be up early this morning for meetings, so it was an early night for us. Wish the visit could have been longer. Coffee is on, and I've made fresh oj, and oj/tangerine (both no pulp). There is also hottea and hot chocolate/cocoa for anyone wanting either of them.Got Tree's bagels ready for him, and we also have bacon, sausage links and buckwheatpancakes w/plenty of maple syrup. Watching for rain to come in in our area. Supposed to be here shortly. Cannonball, the smell of burning leaves in the autumn around here, will get you a visitfrom the fire dept., (possibly police also), along with a hefty fine. But, sure do missthat smell in the autumn. Message From:The Cook
I agree with the statement that Cherokee Woman made about how burning leaves in the autumn can get you into trouble with the fire department. When I was a kid during the early 1960's, my Dad was cleaning out the basement and was hauling a lot of junk out to the alley where he had a bon fire going. It was 1964 or '65 and the Sioux Falls Fire Department had opened a new engine company just south of us, and on the other side of the alley. There was an old gentleman in the neighborhood who was kind of an uncle figure to all of us kids and we used to referr to him as "Uncle Bud". My Dad had gone into the basement to collect another pile of stuff to burn when a couple fire fighters came down the alley to find Bud standing there, watching the fire. They said to him something like, "Don't you know that it is illegal to be burning anything in this alley?" Uncle Bud covered for my Dad with this response, "What fire? I don't see no fire. Do you see a fire?" The fire department must have thought that Uncle Bud was off his rocker.
I got out of bed at six this morning, and at last report we had an outdoor temperature of 42 degrees, with some drizzle coming out of the clouds. It is not supposed to get much warmer than 50 degrees this afternoon. I will be facing a job interview this afternoon at 2:00 with one of our local hospitals. My line of work is custodial/light building maintenance and I had applied for a position on this hospital's housekeeping staff. It will be full time if they offer me the position. It has been a long time since I last worked a full 40 hour job, I've been getting by with a couple part time jobs for the last several months. I've got a few people in my own church praying for a positive outcome in this job interview for me.
Morning. Absolutely fabulous weather here on the Maine coast and I will not be on here very long. Just waiting for the coffee lady to return and then we are off to the wilds.
The natives are smart enough to stay away from the tourist haunts, so the people we speak to have an accent that goes along with their license plates from midwestern states. Still, there is a chance we will meet someone who talks like Dani's grandmother before we leave the state.
Have a good day.
SJ, when I was about Willy's age I grew a whole foot in one year.
(Never figured out how I got along with only one before then!)
Oh--and I'll bet the alphebetizing project won't last too long (you see, after the apples and the apple pie and the applesauce comes the asparagus...)!
CANADIANPACIFIC2816 wrote: I've got a few people in my own church praying for a positive outcome in this job interview for me.
I've got a few people in my own church praying for a positive outcome in this job interview for me.
Add at least a couple of your forum friends to that.
cherokee woman wrote:Cannonball, the smell of burning leaves in the autumn around here, will get you a visitfrom the fire dept., (possibly police also), along with a hefty fine. But, sure do missthat smell in the autumn.
I remember burning leaves way back in the late 1960's in Sacramento as a little kid. I do remember that smoke from all that burning was pretty bad, though.
By the way, can we have ground beef casserole for lunch? (Gawd, I wonder do people nowadays even KNOW how to make a decent casserole....)
blhanel wrote: CANADIANPACIFIC2816 wrote: I've got a few people in my own church praying for a positive outcome in this job interview for me. Add at least a couple of your forum friends to that.
Ray Loftesness II
cherokee woman wrote:1. Italian spaghetti casserole w/garlic bread sticks (the spaghetti casserole is Mutt's maternal grandmother's recipe, with a few additions of his own). It is VERY, VERY good, too!! I gain weight, just thinking about it.
(Grabs plate of spaghetti casserole and a couple of garlic bread sticks )
Mookie wrote: See, See - I told him! Yes I did....Yep, Yep.....! I am going to hold a class in meteorology "weather prediction for Eastern NE".....I could save Willy2 a lot of $ in college! And there was a surprise in Surprise NE. (Yes there is a Surprise NE) They had a tornado. Oh BC - I can see you having a tussle with this. I'm baaaack....can you tell.... ^
Trust me, it's not too hard to tell when you're back!!
The later in the evening it got and nothing developed I was becoming more and more certain that it would all develop in Iowa, just because that is the way it always ends up and also the dryline and cold front were fast approaching. I'm surprised you didn't get any rain at all. The radar did show a couple of little cells that looked like they went right over Lincoln. The National Weather Service still hasn't rated the tornado that hit Omaha, but my guess is F0 or F1.
Lots of homework already and there is still one more class to go. Off to do some of that homework right now.
CW
matt and i will take the pasta. mamma wants the stir fry.Mookie as young lad in high school I grew over a foot as well and changed shoe sizes3 times.I have a nephew who is now 6' 7".As for mat we'll just back the grocery truck up to our driveway and send auntie mooks the bill.
cp2816 good luck on your job.its alot easier keeping steady at a 40 hr job then 2 part-time jobs.
joe
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