Good Sunday morning, everyone. I've been really busy this morning, all ready. Got up at 4:50, drank some coffee and took my morning meds, went to the kitchen, and started on Sunday Dinner (it's in the Crock Pot/Slow Cooker as I type. Pork chop abracadbra w/stew size veggies.
Coffee, juices, hot chocolate, hot cider, all freshly made, and hot water for hot tea is ready. On the breakfast/warmer bar this morning: bagels, bear claws, blueberry muffins, buttermilk pancakes w/maple syrup, or you can have strawberry or blueberry syrup, or fresh fruit on your pancakes. There's also turkey bacon and both sausage links and patties.
Special note to all our firefighters on the forum, on this last day of National Fire Prevention Week: Thank you for putting your life on the line to protect all of us.
We will be attending the Greater Louisville Fire Drill at Waterfront Park this afternoon, Walt, Sarah and I. Imagine Walt will have two or three pictures to share with you all tonight or tomorrow?
Everyone have a great day, enjoy your breakfast and your Sunday Dinner later on, and I'll see you all sometime later on.
good morning
thanks CW for breakfast and supper for tonight.going to wake up matt here shortly for sunday school and church.Nice day today but a bit cooler predicted here in nw ohio.
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").
Thanks much for breakfast this morning, CW. It's a cold morning here in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, at last report we had 21.6 degrees. At least it isn't snowing here yet.
Stay warm, folks!
Ray ooo ooo ooOOOOOo
Modelcar ......Jen, put up the snow fence around the east side of Nebrasky, so it can't migrate any farther east.
......Jen, put up the snow fence around the east side of Nebrasky, so it can't migrate any farther east.
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
Mookie Modelcar ......Jen, put up the snow fence around the east side of Nebrasky, so it can't migrate any farther east.But I feel the urge to share!
Mawnin.... 61 and cloudy in Carolina with a forecast of rain. We can use the rain badly here. I am lining up somebody to come over with a backhoe and uproot a field of mimosa trees. They have taken the field. Every time you cut one, two grow back and we have clumps of up to twelve trees in them. The backhoe can pull the entire clump out, roots and all and hopefully end this plague. It all began with a neighbor's tree some years ago. She cut hers down, but it's descendants took off across the other opoen spaces like a plague and now, the whole place looks like a jungle of mimosas. Nuff soapbox. Everybody take care and C U
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)
Not sure how many people read the comics on a daily basis, but today's Pickles is great.
http://wpcomics.washingtonpost.com/client/wpc/wppic/
Willy
A nice visit at G+G house.Matt got to pick a few apples today.Grandma had an apple pie ready for dessert too.Time for a nap before going back to work tonight.
Joe, you had mentioned that your son Matt got to pick a few apples today. Your comment kind of reminds me of a time when I was a kid, we had an apple tree in our back yard, and some of our neighbors included Engine Company #4 of the Sioux Falls Fire Department. I remember filling a large, paper grocery bag with our apples and I would trade the entire bag of apples with the Fire Department for a few candy bars. And these guys would turn around and make apple pies with the apples from our tree. I really think that some of the best cooks in the world are fire fighters.
Willy2 Not sure how many people read the comics on a daily basis, but today's Pickles is great.
Pickles is a rather amusing comic strip.....Grandpa gets in trouble rather easy....much of the time.
Quentin
Trivia: Some on here may remember me fighting with ground moles earlier this past Summer....Eventually: Me....6 or 7, Moles....0 They were trying to ruin my back yard....Had me going for several weeks, but I finally conquered all.
This past week as I started to mow....low and behold, I spotted a 100' long mole tunnel. Went to the end of the "tunnel" and stood and watched for some time, but found no movement. So upon getting the tractor out, I proceeded to roll down the fresh tunnel flat.
After that, "mole watching" began, and about 2 days later {Saturday}, i walked out to observe, and took my mole deleting tool with me....and sure enough, the same100' tunnel was pushed up again....and movement was sighted at it's forward end.....Bingo...Action with the mole deleting tool and that ended his career. Hopefully he was solo, but we'll keep watching to make sure.
Well, there. Four hundred chicken halves gone! We (the fire department) did pretty well financially, too.
Time for some rest and getting the uniform ready for a day on the railroad tomorrow. Looks like it'll be dry, if cool. We only managed to muster 50 today, but it was nice and sunny for most of the day.
The clouds are practicing for winter, though. I went into town after the BBQ for some groceries and noted that there were clouds lined up in the usual lake effect pattern. Caught a few sprinkles, but at least it wasn't snowing...
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...
Lessee who remembers what about the old TV commercials. In the '50s, a certain brewer claimed that their beer was too fragile to be poured into a glass. Who was that brewer and what was their suggestion about what to do instead of pouring?
Good Monday morning, everyone. We had a nice time at the Great Louisville Fire Drill yesterday, although there weren't as many booths, and what few were up, were unmanned, and empty of any materials. Kind of disappointing, on the whole. They were even out of the 5 alarm chili. All they had was mild, and I detected a little bit of sweetness to it.
Coffee, juices, hot chocolate, hot cider are all freshly made, and there's hot water for hot tea. On the breakfast/warmer bar this morning: bagels, bear claws, turkey bacon, sausage, scrambled eggs, buttermilk biscuits w/sausage gravy, oatmeal and toast.
We are starting the day with a temp so far of 49 degrees here in the city, with a temp of 48, 47 in the outlying areas. I know it's not as cold as what mudchicken and others out west are dealing with, but it's cool enough for me.
Everyone have a good morning, and let me know, please, if you have any requests for lunch and supper.
Good morning and thanks for breakfast. 61 degreees and cloudy this morning, headed for the mid 60s, so they say. I was advised that I volunteered to go grocery shopping today. It's good to find out such things before the food runs out. Everybody take care and stay safe
Quentin - are moles like mice - see one and you know there will be more?
morning
well the weather guessers said mostly cloudy today.They didn't look out the window at the rain.But it is october in nw ohio and now we can get just about any kind of weather.Going to go take a nap.Cw thanks for breakfast.I have the pictures for next years train calendar that I make.Unless I see something real good in the next couple of weeks.
joe
Good Morning! We have 30 degrees here in Sioux Falls and it is snowing once again. We could have a total of 2 to 4 inches on the ground here by the end of this day. Meanwhile, I need to get ahold of my brother-in-law who is a plumbing & heating contractor and tell him that the burner in my furnace has gone out, and I don't know how to relight it. FUN, FUN, FUN!!!!! I would almost crawl back into bed just to stay warm.
It looks like no one had any suggestions or requests for lunch/supper, for the rest of the day. So, here's what I have planned, and is now on the warmer bar:
1. Beef noodle casserole w/Italian bread and salad
2. Tuna noodle casserole w/Italian bread and salad
3. Italian spaghetti & meatballs w/Italian bread and salad
Desserts today: Homemade pound cake w/brown sugar sauce, Chocolate cake w/white icing, and Dutch apple pie
Everyone enjoy, have a good afternoon, and take care.
MookieQuentin - are moles like mice - see one and you know there will be more?
Jen:
After getting in trouble with them early this past Summer, I got on the computer and read quite a bit about their life cycle, etc....It seems the possibility of having two after finding one, is real.
I must have had an exceptionally large family of them this past Summer as I believe I eradicated at least 7 of them. May have been different groups, but it was generally in a short time span. When I delete them on the spot, I don't dig them up. if you have mole action, and you observe the forward end of the "tunnel", chances are you will eventually see the ground moving....They are just under the lawn surface digging their way forward. So deleting them is not difficult.
I must keep checking to see if there has been any more action in the area of the recent one. I intend to mow this afternoon and we'll be watching close.
From inside the house here I can see the "tunnel" I rolled down flat is still flat....So that's encouraging. Maybe this time we had just one.
Edit:
It is evening now and I did get the lawn mowed and no sign of any new mole action....Yipee.....!
CW, I'll have the Tuna Noodle casserole, one of my favorites, and the trimmings look great also.
I may skip desert. Too much good stuff yesterday.
Partly cloudy in AZ mountains and a high in mid-60's today.
afternoon
thanks for supper CW.helping Matt with homework.Will be time to get cleaned up for work tonight soon.
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
The day started out in the upper 20's and warmed up a tad - the sun was out until about 11.
But the generator that powers the heat and lights in the cars decided to malfunction, so we told all the passengers to dress warm - some even grabbed blankets. The cars got warmed up a bit before we shut down the genset (injector problem - fuel leaking all over the place), and stayed barely warmer that the great outdoors, but were hardly cozy.
Because we're using an F right now, we push in one direction for all trips. Ten miles of 30-ish , 25 MPH wind through the end door of the baggage car (dutch door - bottom closed) is a real chiller. Since the cars were cold, too, there was no place to lose the chill. I think I'm warmed back up now, though....
On top of that we discovered a broken joint bar and had to nurse the train over that joint every time. MOW will get on it tomorrow...
The headaches of a property owner!
Tree - do you do your own MOW as opposed to contracting it out?
Good Tuesday morning, everyone. Overslept this morning, so rushing around trying to get things done around here, before Tuesday Produce.
Coffee, juices, hot drinks (cider, chocolate,and hot water for tea are ready to go. On the breakfast/warmer bar this morning: bagels, bear claws, and caramel pecan rolls.
Everyone have a good morning, and if anyone has any requests for me, I'll take care of them when I get back from Produce.
MookieTree - do you do your own MOW as opposed to contracting it out?
All of the above. We have a paid track maintenance foreman and a group of volunteers who handle a significant amount of the work, but any major project gets done by a contractor.
The issue in question may not get fixed again until the weather warms up enough to close the gap (it's a pull-apart, albeit about an inch), meaning we'll see a slow order there for the rest of the year.
My earlier post seems to have disappeared! I had a rather lengthy missive written around 0830 and it simply vanished.
Presently, 60 and partly clear in Carolina, headed so they say, to 78 and remaining pc.
had a nice walk with mamma this morning.mother nature is trying to make the sun shine.she is also giving us a wind out of the north.time for a nap.chores will be a plenty when matt gets home from school.
Well, we ended up with about 53 people at Produce this morning. All I came home with was a bag of potatoes. I didn't need any peppers or zuchinni (sp)?. That's all they brought us today.
For our lunch and dinner menus today: Tuesday Mexican Fiesta (thought we'd celebrate Houston Ed's wife Aimee's birthday a day late. Whatever Mexican or Tex-Mex dish you'd like, it's on the warmer bar, along with some barbecued Baby Back Ribs and Mesquite smoked steaks.
You all enjoy your meal, have a good afternoon, and take care. And if you notice the music playing on the CD player, it's John Denver's All Aboard CD playing. There are also other CDs in the player, all of them railroad related sound tracks. Unfortunately, Mr. Denver's life was cut short 12 years ago yesterday, when his experimental plane crashed into the Monteray Bay.
Afternoon all.....
In Rotterdam, NY, today, after braving the woods of Maine last night, truck is still in one piece. Knew it was going to be interesting when the first sign you see upon entering is "Caution: Watch for Moose on Roadway"....
About 50 here, with intermittent sun and rain, better than Boston was when I went through this morning, though.
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
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