Mooks: You gonna be sitting on your roof with that big net trying to catch that big tin bird (Delta version) on its way to CW & Mutt this weekend?
The rain is not coming from here (although they are talking SNOW in the foothills on Sunday)....Maybe CW & Mutt can save me some of their moisture....
gotta go.
CP and Brian - (snort) young uns....
Randy - It is raining really hard here - and it wasn't even predicted.
I can't tell if it is coming from Houston Ed or Denver Chicken. Either way - I will have to hunt them down and pat them nicely. (snicker)
Having a meeting of catty people - so I will return later!
Mook
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
It's raining in Sioux Falls? Huh- we've got a beautiful blue sky here in Cedar Rapids, and the weekend is supposed to start out nice last I heard.
a day early, CP2816. Welcome to the 52-year-old club. My entrance was May 28.
Brian (IA) http://blhanel.rrpicturearchives.net.
It's not quite 12:30 PM here in Sioux Falls, South Dakota and it is raining here. The wind is blowing from out of the south at 15 miles per hour. Everything is nice and green here, but I wish other parts of this country were getting some badly needed rain.
I am taking a break from giving my kitchen a thorough cleaning, it is long overdue. I am hoping to be ready to start baking bread tomorrow morning.
Tomorrow is my 52nd birthday, and right now I don't have any plans to celebrate it. I am guessing that I will probably spend the day catching up on some reading. It's supposed to rain tomorrow.......my Dad once told me that the moment I was born, Sioux Falls was in the middle of one of the most violent thunderstorms he had ever witnessed. And it may seem funny that I like it when we are socked in with rain on my birthday.
CANADIANPACIFIC2816
Morning everyone.....
Nice day here in Madison, in the mid-60s now, to hit 75 today. Packing up to head to the parents this afternoon, going to help my dad chop corn silage again, if the bagger comes, and if we can get in the field without burying the tractor. So if anyone sees a mud, dirt, and corn-covered John Deere tractor pulling a Gehl chopper in the pull-through stall in the diner parking lot this weekend, it's just me. (I try not to back up when pulling the chopper, can get tricky.)
Joe- closed due to fog today? Was pretty bad over here a couple nights ago, was foggy again last night, but not as bad.
I'll help out with the fish fry when I can, but I'll need help. I changed the oil in the fryers this morning, needed the old oil to make diesel fuel for vehicles.
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
Mookie wrote: JoeKoh wrote: morning we had a 2 hour delay then matts school closed for the day.grandmas house is going to be a full one today.after a nap I'll pick up matt and we will go see if we can see anything on csx today.thats is the 2nd calamity day for the district. they get 5 per year(no snow yet here) time for a nap stay safe Joe No fair Joe - a cat-as-trophy and you don't tell us what - then take a nap!
JoeKoh wrote: morning we had a 2 hour delay then matts school closed for the day.grandmas house is going to be a full one today.after a nap I'll pick up matt and we will go see if we can see anything on csx today.thats is the 2nd calamity day for the district. they get 5 per year(no snow yet here) time for a nap stay safe Joe
morning
we had a 2 hour delay then matts school closed for the day.grandmas house is going to be a full one today.after a nap I'll pick up matt and we will go see if we can see anything on csx today.thats is the 2nd calamity day for the district. they get 5 per year(no snow yet here)
time for a nap
stay safe
Joe
Yeah - Really!
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...
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").
I was going to procrastinate today, but figured I'd just put it off until tomorrow....
Of course, I can't procrastinate on the railroad - looks like it will be a nice weekend in the woods, and the colors are starting to show, so we may be rather busy. It's also firefighters weekend - firefighters and EMT's ride free. The Old Forge Fire Department (just down the road) has a "Drill Weekend" every year at this time - a very popular event open to firefighters from all over. If they aren't in a class, some of the firefighters may just come and ride with us. I'll be in my usual railroad "regalia," but I'll have my FD badge on my belt...
Guess I'll slip into the kitchen and warm up a bear claw to go with my flavored tea...
Morning all! Thought I'd pop in here for a while. I see Ms. Moo is up to her usual...how's about a chocolate kitty treat?
Class has been pretty strenuous thus far. On the bright side I now should have less in class time and more things to do on my own allowing for much more efficient procrastination!
Dan
Yawn...scratch....sniff....
Few facts to share: The Nebraska fight song played at a slower tempo is actually a polka! (anyone know how to polka? Crank it up!
We did fish 2 weeks ago - before the rain. We plan very carefully!
Willy - you can delete the double post and take away Brother Carl's fun - just say you want to delete the 2nd post. They will take your name, address, and drivers license #, but it will work.
Building is pretty empty - guess who didn't get to go to the USC/UNL game in LA this weekend.....so I may actually have some peace and quiet and can catch up on some pending projects that are growing whiskers. But before I do that - need to paw through the breakfast items, have my coffee and since I do have my priorities, check out the hammock - has a light dent in it.
(if someone is in it, I may sneak underneath and do a love bite where it counts!)
Moo....
Y6bs evergreen in my mind
Dear SJ,
We went as far west as Kar-ney last time we were out (though I may have left the "e" out of it then). And my mother-in-law was born in Be-AT-riss (people still hear a Nebraska accent when she talks--her dad ran for some public office in GI).
We get our share of severe weather around here, too--and don't forget that Pat and I are from western Michigan, where the Lake fuels the snow machine!
In spite of the appearance of those widely-publicized golf outings, Mr. Ford was quite the athlete, up to and including his time in the White House. Muscular, too--I remember the time he uprighted a certain young newspaper reporter, about my weight, when he'd nearly landed on his posterior after slipping on ice (I didn't have a chance to hit the ground!).
Rough day--I think I'll borrow the hammock for a nap before bedtime.
BC
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)
Willy,
Mooks was going to go to Louisville last week, but apparently got rained out.
Our rain is supposed to arrive again on Sunday.
Weather something like today's would be perfect for three weeks hence!
Double posts are fun to answer!
Mookie wrote: Willy2 wrote: I agree with Mookie, football is not my favorite sport. In fact I don't like it at all. To make matters worse, it is the next thing we are playing in gym class. Thank goodness gym is only one semester and we only do each sport for 5 days. Now, if we did baseball the whole semester, that would be better because I like baseball quite a bit. The set-up continues to look good for severe thunderstorms on Saturday here in eastern Nebraska and western Iowa. More info coming tomorrow as the event closes in. Willy! We have guests coming from Illinois and Texas....you don't want to scare them with threats of bad weather. Why, they have probably never seen severe weather where they are from... Having one of these days...... C'mon Friday! Going fishing Saturday at sand pits in Louisville - that's Louis Ville for you out of Nebraska - just like Beatrice is Bee at tris not Beea tris.....And Kearney is spelled with an ey, not Kearny....I digress. Have a few BNSF trains through Louisville - I will train watch, The Driver will fish watch. Both will probably nap! Mookie
Willy2 wrote: I agree with Mookie, football is not my favorite sport. In fact I don't like it at all. To make matters worse, it is the next thing we are playing in gym class. Thank goodness gym is only one semester and we only do each sport for 5 days. Now, if we did baseball the whole semester, that would be better because I like baseball quite a bit. The set-up continues to look good for severe thunderstorms on Saturday here in eastern Nebraska and western Iowa. More info coming tomorrow as the event closes in.
I agree with Mookie, football is not my favorite sport. In fact I don't like it at all. To make matters worse, it is the next thing we are playing in gym class. Thank goodness gym is only one semester and we only do each sport for 5 days. Now, if we did baseball the whole semester, that would be better because I like baseball quite a bit.
The set-up continues to look good for severe thunderstorms on Saturday here in eastern Nebraska and western Iowa. More info coming tomorrow as the event closes in.
Having one of these days......
C'mon Friday!
Going fishing Saturday at sand pits in Louisville - that's Louis Ville for you out of Nebraska - just like Beatrice is Bee at tris not Beea tris.....And Kearney is spelled with an ey, not Kearny....I digress.
Have a few BNSF trains through Louisville - I will train watch, The Driver will fish watch. Both will probably nap!
Mookie
Well, hopefully by October 7th we won't need to be worrying (or anticipating in my case) about severe weather anymore.
Good luck in Louisville on Saturday, Mookie!
EDIT: 5:10 PM: Sorry about the double post!
Willy
Being Crazy,keeps you from going "INSANE" !! "The light at the end of the tunnel,has been turned off due to budget cuts" NOT AFRAID A Vet., and PROUD OF IT!!
mookie
I agree.cmon friday!!!! been a loong week eventhough we took monday off!!!Big Red machine?those were some guys in the 70s with red stockings on their legs and virtually no lead for the opposing team was safe.reds could use some help in hitting with runners on base this year.hope driver cathes a fish"THIS BIG".
joe
ARR 1508 is here in New York as ADIK 1508... I haven't heard of any plans to add a B unit to our rolling stock.
Ham & Bean Soup & Cornbread - I'll take a serving over here!
Left work early yesterday on a report of a structure fire, possibly occupants unaccounted for (they were "in town" having lunch), and several significant exposures (barns and sheds). When the first officer arrived on scene, as the call was still being dispatched, there was fire out all the windows. The roof collapsed 10 minutes later, a good 20 minutes before I arrived. There wasn't much we could do. Did save all the other outbuildings (it was an old farm), but the house is just a smoking hole in the ground now. I guess you could say we saved the cellar.
One in box down and two to go.....
I should entertain everyone and show off my skills at pool and golf. Move over Gerald Ford!
I like football when The Big Red Machine wins - but other than that - I don't follow it much any more.
It is the work involved in the processing of tickets and not giving tickets to Sir Chicken when Sir Ed should have had them.....
Ham & Bean Soup and Cornbread - Yes!!!!! One right here, please! Joe is right - I need to keep up my strength so I can shop a lot after this is all over!
Last night a friend of mine showed up at my front door with three plastic bags loaded with vegetables from his garden. I've got potatoes, carrots, peas, peppers, onions, tomatoes, & almost everything that you would find in a typical vegetable garden. I think I might have a baked potatoe or two for dinner tonight. It's all very good stuff and I wish I could share it all with some of the other forum members out there. I think I will make my homemade spaghetti sauce this weekend, and this is what the tomatoes are good for.
I will start baking bread in another week or so, and my friend will probably be on the receiving end of a loaf of bread, fresh from the oven.
CANADIANPACIFIC2816 wrote: Mookie hates football? Join the club, Mookie. I have never liked that sport, and the same goes for basketball. I've always felt that there are too many people in this country who have been brainwashed into thinking that they must participate in sports, so much to the point that they never stop to consider that there are other things in life to be doing, such as watching trains for example. On the other hand, if I could learn how to play golf, that is one sport that I would take up. A friend of mine told me that I should take lesssons, he told me that I have a natural ability for it. Are there any other train watchers out there who also play golf now and then? CANADIANPACIFIC2816
Mookie hates football? Join the club, Mookie. I have never liked that sport, and the same goes for basketball. I've always felt that there are too many people in this country who have been brainwashed into thinking that they must participate in sports, so much to the point that they never stop to consider that there are other things in life to be doing, such as watching trains for example.
On the other hand, if I could learn how to play golf, that is one sport that I would take up. A friend of mine told me that I should take lesssons, he told me that I have a natural ability for it. Are there any other train watchers out there who also play golf now and then?
I don't play golf (though I did for a while when I knew the caretaker of a golfcourse). I did see something interesting once. While I was railfanning in the Sandpoint area there were these two guys that were golfing there way along the MRL right of way east of town. They would just drive the ball a few 100 feet go find it and drive it again. In the 2 or so days we were in the area these guys covered over 20 miles. Anyone for a round of railfan golfing?
SactoGuy188 wrote: cherokee woman wrote:Does anyone else have any other requests for lunch today? How about your choice of Chef or Chicken Caesar Salad?
cherokee woman wrote:Does anyone else have any other requests for lunch today?
How about your choice of Chef or Chicken Caesar Salad?
CANADIANPACIFIC2816 wrote: Are there any other train watchers out there who also play golf now and then? CANADIANPACIFIC2816
Are there any other train watchers out there who also play golf now and then?
I've got a set of clubs which I use maybe once a year when the opportunity presents itself to play a round with my Dad, who's a golfaholic.
mudchicken wrote: Newsflash: For CopCarSS, DenverHank and anyone else in the neighborhood: blue and yellow Alaska Railroad #1503, an F9B, wandered into Denver North Yard on a UP train this morning about 10am, buried in the consist of the Roper-Denver local.(DIC/not running)...It is being reblocked for further transit here in Denver....Imagine it will be here for another 12-24 hours. No idea where it is heading. (converted to HEP use?) We now resume swimming between the icebergs in the Gatorade bowl.
Newsflash: For CopCarSS, DenverHank and anyone else in the neighborhood: blue and yellow Alaska Railroad #1503, an F9B, wandered into Denver North Yard on a UP train this morning about 10am, buried in the consist of the Roper-Denver local.(DIC/not running)...It is being reblocked for further transit here in Denver....Imagine it will be here for another 12-24 hours. No idea where it is heading. (converted to HEP use?)
We now resume swimming between the icebergs in the Gatorade bowl.
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