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.
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").
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.
Larry Resident Microferroequinologist (at least at my house) Everyone goes home; Safety begins with you My Opinion. Standard Disclaimers Apply. No Expiration Date Come ride the rails with me! There's one thing about humility - the moment you think you've got it, you've lost it...
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!
Brian (IA) http://blhanel.rrpicturearchives.net.
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.
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
"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
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
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)
Y6bs evergreen in my mind
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.
CANADIANPACIFIC2816
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
Good morning everyone.
How about a Philadelphia-style cheesesteak sandwich for lunch?
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.
Good Afternoon!
It's a dreary, ugly day in Omaha today. First freeze still expected later this week, but probably no snow.
My school's softball team is going to districts on Thursday, so everyone gets a noon dismissal on Thursday and Friday is off! I love short weeks!
No other newsworthy information today. TTFN.
Willy
Willy2 wrote:Good Afternoon! It's a dreary, ugly day in Omaha today. First freeze still expected later this week, but probably no snow. My school's softball team is going to districts on Thursday, so everyone gets a noon dismissal on Thursday and Friday is off! I love short weeks! No other newsworthy information today. TTFN.
DrummingTrainfan wrote: Willy2 wrote: Good Afternoon! It's a dreary, ugly day in Omaha today. First freeze still expected later this week, but probably no snow. My school's softball team is going to districts on Thursday, so everyone gets a noon dismissal on Thursday and Friday is off! I love short weeks! No other newsworthy information today. TTFN. You guys get school off for the tourney!? Down here in Papio we can get out of school, but our parents have to sign out a nice little form and there will be make-up work to do.
Willy2 wrote: Good Afternoon! It's a dreary, ugly day in Omaha today. First freeze still expected later this week, but probably no snow. My school's softball team is going to districts on Thursday, so everyone gets a noon dismissal on Thursday and Friday is off! I love short weeks! No other newsworthy information today. TTFN.
Friday was going to be off anyway for a teacher inservice, but Thursday is an early dismissal for everyone because of softball with no forms to sign. I guess we're just lucky!
Randy; Thank you for the congrats' . At times it dont' seemthat long .WE have known each other since high school .Today I saw some new high cube 28 ft. UPS trailers on I-40 at Flagstaff and I wondered if you had a hand in building them. New Volvo tractors pulling them toward Phoenix , all had paper tags ( for transport to destination) . Hope you are having a good week going for you .
Respectfully , Cannonball Jim
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blhanel wrote:Boy, am I hungry this morning- I'll take three of everything!
One of everything will be fine for me....
Man oh man, pancakes, bacon, scrambled eggs, sausage and waffles sound awfully good to me this morning. I got out of bed only about fifteen minutes ago, I slept in this morning and it's 7:30 here.
It's a COLD morning here, we have an outdoor temperature of 34 degrees. It will not get above 38 this afternoon and we have freeze warnings for tonight. The temperature is supposed to dip down to about 22. There is a possibility that we could get snow or freezing rain before the end of the week. The Black Hills of South Dakota is usually the first spot in this state to get snow, so I'll be keeping a watch on the weather reports for that area.
Well, I hope everyone out there has a good day!
Ray
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