One last thing,
I bought tickets for the game. The stadium has windows I think, So trains and football perfect combination!
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Good evening, everyone. Everything went well this morning, I guess. They just told me to wait for the doctor's report next month, when I go back to him. Sarah and I have both been busy, busy, busy this afternoon. I've helped her a little bit, seasoning the turkey. I've also been busy working on the baby blanket afghan for my great niece.
For supper tonight, I've set out cold cuts (bologna, ham, cheese, sliced roast beef) along with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, etc., to go on your sandwiches. I figured no one would want a heavy meal tonight (if anyone even comes in, that is).
We got up to about 51, 52 degrees for the day, have had a little bit of sunshine. They say our temp tomorrow will be in the low 40s, with the possiblity of light rain with maybe spits of snow, especially tomorrow night. Guess we'll wait and see what we get.
Everyone take care, and have a very good evening, and. . .
HAPPY THANKSGIVING, EVERYONE!!!!
I am so sleepy I can hardly stay awake, but wanted to come in and see if I could sleep by the fire.
Have had a busy last how ever many days. Chased and caught! chickens; had an early thanksgiving w/daughter and family; shopping today; you know how it goes. Weather has been decent albeit very windy. But the sun was out all day, so it was another happy day in the true midwest.
Driver cooking itty bitty chic....oops, uh....itty bitty something for our dinner tomorrow. Along with all the normal accessories. Sad part is, I still get to do dishes.
Happy Thanksgiving to all.
And to all a good nite!
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
Evening all.....
Could someone explain to me how people always forget their brains when going on a trip? We threw out the first wreck at about 9:30 this morning in New Stanton, PA, a Jeep Cherokee battled a dump truck and lost, though both ended up on the hook. Uneventful until northwest of indy on 65, people could not do 65mph, for some strange reason. Guess people just do not know how to drive anymore. Heard a good line from a fellow driver, if a bit cynical: They have a cure for stupidity, it just involves a large-caliber pistol.....
Anyway, in Hebron, IN, tonite, will run through parent's house tomorrow for Thanksgiving, drop off the current load and pick up magazines for Cleveland for Saturday morning.
Have a good night, and a good thanksgiving to all.....
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
CW ; Our producetruck showed upon time whenever on time is 7:00am . We had a 4x4 tub of smashed bread and assorted pastries . Granny Smiff apples went over big .Various squash ,kolrabi ,onions, carrots and stove top dressing and various can goods. Best of all St. Marys food bank sprang 150 frozen turkeys. With 200count of folks ,some gave their turkey to other folks , great idea . We all will eat good tomorrow. Some days are better than others , today was one of them.
Respectfully, Cannonball
Y6bs evergreen in my mind
Good Thursday morning, everyone, and:
HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO EVERYONE!!!!!!
Coffee's brewing (just about done brewing), orange juice and grape juice ready to go, along with hot chocolate, hot cider, and there's plenty of hot water for tea.
On the breakfast/warmer bar this morning: Cinnamon rolls, bagels and bear claws.
After breakfast is over, I'm going to set out some snack items and fresh fruit, for you all, because the turkey and all the trimmings won't be ready until somewhere between 6 and 7 p.m. tonight.
Everyone enjoy your Thanksgiving Day, be safe and take care!!
Everyone enjoy and give thanks.....
Quentin
Happy Thanksgiving!!
Willy
I am busy in my kitchen, baking cinnamon bread for my family's Thanksgiving dinner tonight, and I think I should take a moment to wish every one here a very HAPPY THANKSGIVING! And I think I will leave 2 loaves of my cinnamon bread on the counter here for everyone to enjoy.
For those of you who are traveling, be careful on the highways and be safe! Enjoy this holiday, everyone!
Ray ooo ooo ooOOOOOo
We just got back from Thanksgiving dinner at the rib house(?), which was supposed to have turkey and dressing. Couldn't find that, so ribs and fish sufficed. Everybody take care, Remember to be thankful for all our blessings, and have a great day, Peace be with you
Tom
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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)
......And we've just returned from "Ryan's", a chain restaurant...buffet style and it was certainly going strong when we arrived there at about 2 pm.....Lots of customers. And plenty of food. Not much traffic on our highways in the area as we traveled to eat....about 15 mi. distant.
Thanksgiving weather here this afternoon....heavy overcast and light rain @ about 40 degrees.
Our local Ryan's closed about 2 years ago. I never understood why, because they were always packed out, and had excellent food. My favorite was all you could eat cheesecake!!!. I certainly availed meself of that, but doubt that it put them out of business.... Anyway, they are missed.
We have the possibility of some snow and rain mixed coming in any time now. Temp is down to 39 degrees, and our low tonight/in the morning will be in the low 30s.
Ray, thank you for the cinnamon bread. It's really good!!
The turkey is out of of the oven, carved and on the warmer bar, along with the dressing/stuffing, green beans, mashed taters w/gravy, corn, cranberry sauce, cole slaw and potato salad.
I am finally sitting down. Been going in the kitchen all day, getting everything ready, while Sarah got the turkey in the oven. The three of us will be eating in about an hour and a half.
I didn't make any dessert today, but there is yellow cake w/chocolate icing, pumpkin pie and pecan pie that I made yesterday.
Everyone enjoy, hope you've all had a very HAPPY THANKSGIVING TODAY, and remember to say a word of thanks for all the blessings you have: your family, friends, whatever talents you have, every good thing in your life. I know I am very, very thankful for each and every one of you on the forums here. Even think of all of you as part of my family, although there are quite a few of you whom I have not met in person yet. Take care, keep warm, and stay safe.
Evening all.
We have had a busy day today. At 12:00am this morning we had a community dinner at the local church. Then after cooking and cleaning, went to the family thanksgiving at my aunts house in Attica IN. We are right along the NS ROW there, and caught 2 trains plus a 3 locomotive consist that was sitting in the siding there. I saw an EMD SD40, SD70M-2, 2 GE -9’s, and my favorite, an SD70M. All in all it was a great day with all the food, and trains and all.
Now we are all around the family dinner table eating pumpkin roll, and pumpkin pie. CW, thank you for dinner it was really good.
You all have a good and safe Thanksgiving. Also if you are going to go black Friday sales tomorrow, be safe, and bring the shoulder pads and knee pads.
Justin
CW - you cook all day, fuss over the table, unload the fridge, hunt down enough silverware and whoosh! it is all gone in just a couple of minutes! Then you get the 30 min of dishes!
Well, Thanksgiving dinner will have to wait until Saturday (or possibly Friday) as we spent Thanksgiving in the hospital with granddaughter, who may have a touch of pneumonia. She's spending the night there, but hopefully will be home Friday morning.
She hardly slept overnight, so on top of a nine hour drive (traffic was heavy, to be conservative), there wasn't much sleep. Should get caught up tonight.
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tree68 Well, Thanksgiving dinner will have to wait until Saturday (or possibly Friday) as we spent Thanksgiving in the hospital with granddaughter, who may have a touch of pneumonia. She's spending the night there, but hopefully will be home Friday morning. She hardly slept overnight, so on top of a nine hour drive (traffic was heavy, to be conservative), there wasn't much sleep. Should get caught up tonight.
We have had a good day--church in the morning, and then to the older daughter's house for mid-afternoon dinner. While carving the turkey, Grandson exclaimed, "It's pregnant!" Daughter had put a game hen in as part of the stuffing. I think Ricki (partial to game hen) got some of it.
It was a far better day than it was thirty-seven years ago, when our doctor told me, the day before Thanksgiving, that I had a strep throat. The bad part of that was, as pastor of the host church for the union Thanksgiving service that night, we had to come up with someone else to preside because I had to stay home; I think one of the elders stood in for me.
A few years earlier, when the Baptist pastor's wife was working at the Town Hall, and taking payments for the water bills (among other tasks), the Methodist pastor said, during the union service, "I want to know what's in that glass Brother Degges keeps drinking from." My rejoinder? "It's just some of that stuff the Baptist preacher's wife sells." I was reminded of this by the former postmaster, when we visited in Reform two and a half years ago. He also told me that he had retired because he was tired of reading postcards.
Take Justin's advice if you go shopping Friday. We avoid all such, and shop for groceries only.
Johnny
Larry - I hope your granddaughter gets better soon!
We had a high of only 42 degrees today, but we're headed for 60 tomorrow, which will be perfect for some train watching. Looks like it might get pretty cold again by the middle and end of next week.
I hope everyone had a blessed Thanksgiving.
Tom......Our Ryan's here in Muncie did the very same thing....closed several years ago and it too was always busy when we'd stop in or go by it....This one we visited today is just about 15 miles from here....Anderson, In. The location Gen. Motors used to employee about 25,000 workers and I believe there may be none at all now....In just the last decade or so....
I wonder....If we don't start making things in this country again to add value to make our economy rise.....where are we headed for......
Tree - sorry to hear about granddaughter. Wasn't it your granddaughter that spent some time in hospital before with something similar?
It was a nice thnxgvg, but nothing you can't do on Sat or any other day for that matter when she feels better.
Bad time of year for kids and being sick!
Mookie Tree - sorry to hear about granddaughter. Wasn't it your granddaughter that spent some time in hospital before with something similar?
Tree; we hope the best for your granddaughter. The grandkids are always so precious , there are 11 for us. Respectfully, Cannonball
Good Friday morning, everyone. I hope you all enjoyed your day yesterday.
Larry, I'm sorry to hear about granddaughter Evie. I hope she's much better this morning, and will be able to come home.
Don't worry, Mookie. Sarah did the dishes last night. I went to the living room, and watched "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving".
The coffee, orange juice, pineapple juice are all freshly made this morning, and there also hot chocolate, hot cider and hot water for hot tea.
On the breakfast bar this morning: bagles, blueberry muffins, chocolate covered doughnuts w/cream filling, and bear claws.
For lunch today, there's plenty of leftovers in the fridge and the cooler. If nothing else, you can make turkey sandwiches. At 1:00 this afternoon, will be getting to meet Baby Miranda Grace. Hard to believe she is five months old already. And no, won't be presenting her with her baby blanket/afghan. It is nowhere near completed. The way it's looking, she'll be lucky to get it by Valentine's Day.
Good morning from Carolina. 38 degrees and it seems cloudy/foggy, but can't tell for sure. Paula, thanks for breakfast. and Larry, I pray Evie can go home today.
I have noticed lately that one of the major online/cable news outlets has a reporter(s) who cannot spell. It is a sign of our times when an international news source has semi literate writers. It is shameful before the entire planet and shows how far the American educational system has fallen.
Everybody stay warm and safe.
grampaw pettibone I have noticed lately that one of the major online/cable news outlets has a reporter(s) who cannot spell. It is a sign of our times when an international news source has semi literate writers. It is shameful before the entire planet and shows how far the American educational system has fallen.
That's the case with our local news networks too. In addition to spelling mistakes, they also get their tenses mixed up. For example, a current headline on one of their websites reads: "Two people were hurt Thursday evening when an SUV goes out of control."
Willy2That's the case with our local news networks too. In addition to spelling mistakes, they also get their tenses mixed up. For example, a current headline on one of their websites reads: "Two people were hurt Thursday evening when an SUV goes out of control."
Willy, I'm glad that people other than Ricki and I notice such errors. I do not know why the passive voice is avoided as it is (making for difficult or inaccurate sentence structure at times), why transitive verbs are used without objects, or why it is believed that using the present tense to describe past action makes the description "more vivid."
As to spelling, we believe that most who have trouble spelling correctly have never read much, and so do not have the examples of good spelling (and writing) in their experience.
As to that SUV, the driver lost control; the SUV did not act on its own.
Agreed, and another thing is the loss of the posessive S. There is a lot of " they went to the man house" or such stuff. Such is the state of the educational system in the U S today, and it's only getting worse.
I suspect it's only going to get worse - look at the language as used on forums, webboards, and the like. Even worse is the comments following news stories on on-line sites. The Queens English is definitely taking a hit.
Granddaughter is back home. No pneumonia. In fact, after a few meds, she was pretty well back to normal, and keeping her entertained at the hospital was a challenge. "Papa" did get to hold her during a nap for a while.
Saturday will feature a full turkey day meal.
tree68Granddaughter is back home.
Fantastic news Larry. Enjoy your turkey day, even if it is a bit late. You have even more to be thankful for...
tree68I suspect it's only going to get worse - look at the language as used on forums, webboards, and the like. Even worse is the comments following news stories on on-line sites. The Queens English is definitely taking a hit.
Some forums are such that one just passes over them. Really quickly. I think it'll get to the point that there might not be any real differences between that form of language and Pittman shorthand
That is good to hear
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Good morning--
Weatherguessers have us getting some sun later--yay! The high today will be 5C while the low for tonight will be 2C.
I'm up getting ready to go to the university to do a weekend seminar series. This usually takes all Saturday and Sunday----then it'll be dong normal work during the week---such as that is--
Have a good one!
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