miniwyoIt feels like October here. It almost feels like it wants to start snowing. We actually had to switch the central air from Cool to Heat...
Wow..I wish we had that situation down here!
http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20090814/NEWS01/908150345/Sell+or+keep+city+railroad?
The "Rat-Hole" (Cincinnati Southern) in the news again.....Knowing how stupid the Cincinnati political machine is right now, the NS may get the steal of the 21st Century...
MiniWyo: It would be almost neighborly to have you ship us some of that October weather a couple hundred miles E-SE....
good morning
MC thanks for the link.Our friends from the Queen City have told us about the budget problems down there.Matt and I had fun camping in the corn city.
Going to be a warm one today.Going to find a cool place in the shade or AC today.
breakfast is ready to go.
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").
Well, there. Decent day on the railroad Saturday. After I got there I was asked to take over as conductor for the day as the scheduled conductor was under the weather. No Problem! Had plenty of help.
Lots to do today - unfortunately most of it is inside, and it looks to be a beautiful day again. I do have to mow, though - looking pretty shaggy, grass-wise. Must be all that rain everyone's been complaining about.
Yesterday's beautiful weather brought on a lengthy traffic jam in Old Forge. There's a water park there and I think half of Central New York tried to get there. At one point, we got reports that traffic was backed up some five miles, and we know that said back-up lasted upwards of two hours...
A little more time getting caught up on-line and then off to my tasks at hand.
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...
Good morning. 72 amd sunshiney here in Carolina. Supposedly, headed for the high 80s and more thunder. As soon as I wrote sunshiney, a cloud hid the sun.... The wife and I are just a tad under the weather this morning, nothing serious, just the droops and mulligrubbs. Everybody take care and have a great day
Tom
COAST LINE FOREVER
It is better to dwell in the corner of a roof than to share a house with a contentious woman! (Solomon)
A contentious woman is like a constant dripping! (Solomon)
Today will be a hot one here for us....add humidity and it will really feel hot. Prediction is 94 and sunny with just an outside chance of a pop up shower....
Next week we're being told we have a chance of rain virtually every day. Now that would be a difference since we've been so dry here....
Quentin
Morning all....
Woke up this morning to find out I must have blown a trailer tire last night coming down US 69 in Oklahoma, so waiting for the repair guy to show up now. It's that time of year when high heat and rough roads will help to blow up tires (a small leak sometimes helps). Will be the second one I've blown this week, think I'll have to start checking pressures more often.
Otherwise, supposed to be hot down here, headed to Mineral Wells, just west of Fort Worth, TX, forecast is for 95 degree weather.....
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
Good Morning Everybody.
Another beautiful day here in Alamo City. Continued hot and dry with a high of 102.
Enjoy your Sunday!
Quentin, I wish I could have sent you some of the rain that hit Sioux Falls yesterday. It rained off an on all day yesterday. I was working our railroad club's exhibit out at the fair grounds last night and the thunderstorm we got around 8:00 brought in a lot of people who were simply looking for shelter from the rain.
Right now we have a temp of roughly 65 degrees and our temp here is supposed to max out at 76 degrees. The humidy here right now is still pretty high, at 72%.
I spent a couple evenings photographing our railroad club's layout, and we are usually running a minimum of six to nine trains all at once, and in varying lengths. Once in a while one of us gets a little distracted or forgets what he is doing and as a result we do have some neat accidents, two of which I photographed yesterday afternoon. We all have a pretty good sense of humor, and one of our club members, Wayne Hanson told me that he is hoping I will not try to blackmail him with any of my pictures! I told him that I have notified the NTSB of his carelessness and that he will no longer be permitted to work as a dispatcher anywhere!
Time for me to go to work, I have an office building to clean today. I hope the rest of you are all having a very good day!
Ray
CANADIANPACIFIC2816Quentin, I wish I could have sent you some of the rain that hit Sioux Falls yesterday. It rained off an on all day yesterday
Ray we sure could use some of it....I know lots of areas are getting rain, in fact some close to us....Seems we've just been missed by many of the pop up showers and many of the lines of weather coming thru.
Our famous corn crop seems to have survived rather well in spite of the dryness. Most yards now are really in the brown stage where there is no shade.
Hot and humid. A little breeze would be nice. At least it's not raining.
warm here in defiance too.Going to take a salad for supper for work tonight.I also need an extra bottle of gatorade.
Quentin; with corn doing so well , how is the soybeans doing also???
Respectfully, Cannonball
Y6bs evergreen in my mind
tree68At least it's not raining.
Whats rain?
A friend of mine who lives in southern Africa told me that he was passing through a village once which was getting its first rain in 7 years. Young children were screaming in terror and trying to hide from it....
Evening all! Wow have things been busy!
Well, to start things off tonight, I must say that I’ve missed not being on here as much. However, things have been busy around the Sandlin Family home.
First off, the past 2 days, I’ve been helping tear down the old Mellott IN. School building. It once housed the headquarters of Dr. George W. Crane. I guess he was a really famous Dr. It actually collapsed. It didn’t hurt anyone.
We knew the guy who tore it down. He’s a good guy. He took his John Deere 200C and tore it down. It was all brick. The chimney’s were the most dangerous part standing about 75 feet. We wrapped a 4’’ cable around it and tore them down. It want off without a hitch. I really enjoy helping on things like that.
Dad got his first 2 calls for the VFD. The one was the building collapse, and the other was a truck fire. It melted the hood off, and the engine was totally melted. Dad says that when they got done they could hear the oil still in the cylinders boiling. The guy said that he was originally going to put it in the hay barn…..
Well, I’m sure that I will post this, and then remember something I was going to tell you all…. Oh! One day of free summer left for me. I go back Tuesday. It’s been fun!
See you all later!
Justin
The road to to success is always under construction. _____________________________________________________________________________ When the going gets tough, the tough use duct tape.
switch7frg Quentin; with corn doing so well , how is the soybeans doing also???
Cannonball.....By coincidence, just this early evening, Jean and I were driving up 600W near Cammack and I commented to her how nice the soybean fields look....So they too, seemed to have survived the long dry spell in our area here. 93.4 degrees this afternoon...That dries moisture up rather fast.
bubbajustinThe guy said that he was originally going to put it in the hay barn…..
tree68bubbajustinThe guy said that he was originally going to put it in the hay barn….. Nothing like a barn fire to make your day (and night, and part of the next day). I've been to a few...
Nothing like a barn fire to make your day (and night, and part of the next day). I've been to a few...
And night, and day, and night, and day. Only good way to put one out is to remove the hay from the barn, and a few tank car loads of water. Think there is a fire department in northern WI that had a special hay grapple made for a crane, which are both on standby. They saved quite a few barn structures with this rig.....
Think it was hot enough today to fry an egg or two here in the parking lot in Weatherford, TX. Not sure how hot it got, but the Idleaire could not keep up with it untill the sun got low enough. Supposed to hit 100 here tomorrow, also just found out Texas has a new 'no idle' law, apparently those lawmakers never tried to sleep in a hot truck in 100 degree heat before......
Good Monday morning, everyone. Hope you all have a good weekend. Here is Louisville, KY, we're looking for a projected high today of 89, with a chance of afternoon popup thundershowers/storms. That will be a couple of degrees "cooler" than yesterday. Our official high was 91, with a heat index of 94, or 95.
Coffee, juices, lemonade, Gatorade, iced teas are freshly made this morning, and there's hot water for hot tea. For breakfast, I've made some biscuits, and fixed bacon, sausage, fried eggs for biscuit breakfast sandwiches. If you want to add cheese to your biscuit sandwiches, there's some sliced cheddar cheese in the cooler.
Taking roll call this morning, to see whose here. Seems like several regulars have been absent for quite awhile. Lurkers need to check in once in awhile, so we know you're still alive and kicking.
Everyone have a great morning, stay as cool as possible, and take care.
Morning
Muggy outside and a red sunrise.thunderstorms possible this afternoon.A guy at work almost took out the boss.Not a good way to work on a monday.Cw thanks for breakfast.
nap time
Looks to be a nice day again today - of course, my office is air conditioned due to the equipment that's in it...
Weatherguessers apparently think that Joe's thunderstorms will be here tomorrow.
Got more to do at home than I do at work, but I don't want to burn off any vacation time. It'll all get done eventually. Better mow the lawn soon, though. All that rain we got is still paying "dividends."
I'll be in the corner with my bearclaw and tea.
Puter threw up this morning and wouldn't get out of bed. Called tech support - have no clue what state it is in but not this one. Internet was off until just a few min ago and he said we had no outages in the neighborhood. Tech can't come until Thurs afternoon - and since we have been having some issues with the internet, will let him check it all over. Meanwhile, will type like mad in case it goes out again!
I would have jumped out a basement window had I been w/o internet all week.
Rain all around us. Rain predicted all week. This is our very dry time of year, so don't understand rain, but at 61 degrees - who's complaining!
CW - garden? Coffee in the sunshine?
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
Good morning. 78 and sunny at present in Carolina. Not sure of the high today, but as usual, they are calling for thunder. Spent a good Sunday and caught up on some sleep. Think I will try that again... Everyone take care.
MookieCW - garden? Coffee in the sunshine?
Mookie, I'm right behind you, with our coffee mugs and a thermos of coffee!!
Attendance is up a bit this morning and a surprising number seem to have rain potential in their area. We do. All week in fact....Potential for rain each day until the weekend.
Right now the radar seems to show it going north of us and nothing west for a while, but I suppose popups can happen quickly.
Started out with 77 plus degrees this morning....For us, that's pretty warm to start the day. So windows remain closed to ward off humidity too.
Wish a good week to all.
Modelcar ...but I suppose popups can happen quickly.
...but I suppose popups can happen quickly.
Frighteningly so. We often have the conditions for such popups travel across Lake Ontario, prevented from growing by the relatively cooler waters of the lake. Once ashore, they grow amazingly fast. It's not unusual for such a system to pass over me (just six miles off the lake) with some rain and a few bumps and rumbles, only to grow to the point that NWS is issuing warnings by the time they're 15 miles inland.
tree68Nothing like a barn fire to make your day (and night, and part of the next day). I've been to a few...
Yes, indeed, especially if you did not get your hay completely cured before you put it away in the loft, and it sets itself on fire as it continues to cure When I was at 4-H camp sixty-one years ago, we were told of the danger of putting green hay up. We also were told of using fans to move air through the loft to help prevent fires.
Johnny
I wonder which, bailed or loose hay in a loft inside a barn that has not been completely dried, has more fire potential.......?
Lots of farms around my home area of western Pennsylvania and over the course of my lifetime, there has been quite a few barns lost to such a fire...And I agree, the barn filled with hay {in any form}, is a fire just about impossible to stop until it consumes the barn and contents.
Baled. Tightly packed and tightly stacked.
Some years ago we were dispatched to assist with a barn fire. I was driving our tanker (tender to our western friends) and as I approached the scene I was looking for the sizeable smoke column I just knew a burning barn would be producing.
No such animal. The fire was in the hay mow, well seated in the hay, and (at the time) not producing much smoke. Despite efforts to get as much hay as possible out of the mow to get to the fire, the barn eventually burned to the ground.
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