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Posted by Modelcar on Saturday, March 27, 2010 7:42 AM

....31 degrees 2 hours ago....but clear with the sun shining thru the trees east of me....

I sure hope it gets to a decent amb. temp today.....Have been putting off 3 days now the initial mowing I want to do....Should be able to make it today.....Maybe without the shorts on but I'm determined to get that done today....Even if it takes reg. long pants to stay warm....

Hope my faithful John Deere starts....Has not been run since last November.  But if not, we've got the portable carry around boost unit that will....

Some small leaves and red buds on trees now....along with a generous amount of flowers here and there....Golf course has had it's first mowing....so Spring evidence is becoming abundant now....and beautiful blossoms are next....But rain forecast for tomorrow....Then warmer still next week.

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Posted by cherokee woman on Saturday, March 27, 2010 6:26 AM

Good Saturday morning, everyone.  We have 33 degrees at 7:19 this morning, with clear skies.  Going for a high of 64. 

Coffee, juices and the rest of our morning beverages are fresh and ready to go.  On the serving station this morning:  buttermilk pancakes (regular, whole wheat, blueberry) with your choice of bacon or sausage, along with pure maple syrup, blueberry syrup, or your can have fresh fruit on your pancakes.  If you don't want that, there's scrambled eggs, toast, grits, toast, made-from-scratch buttermilk biscuits w/sausage gravy and country fried ham w/red eye gravy.

Hopefully, you all will have a great day, keep safe, and I'll see you all back tonight for our pizza fest.

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Posted by blhanel on Friday, March 26, 2010 11:20 PM

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Brian, hope Iowa does well tonight. 

Well, they did well, but not well enough.Sigh  MSU was on top of their game in the second half.

Off to bed-

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Posted by Mookie on Friday, March 26, 2010 7:09 PM

mudchicken

Currently in Denver, we have White-Out just before Lights-Out.Approve

OH the things that just showed-up from the National Archives - It's gonna be a long weekend sorting out what they just found for me railroadwise. 

bring your papers and spend some time in Nebraska, my pretty!  Mischief

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Posted by mudchicken on Friday, March 26, 2010 7:02 PM

Currently in Denver, we have White-Out just before Lights-Out.Approve

OH the things that just showed-up from the National Archives - It's gonna be a long weekend sorting out what they just found for me railroadwise. 

Mudchicken Nothing is worth taking the risk of losing a life over. Come home tonight in the same condition that you left home this morning in. Safety begins with ME.... cinscocom-west
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Posted by cherokee woman on Friday, March 26, 2010 5:03 PM

Well, it happened again:  our power went off at 3:30.  Do not know what caused it this time.  I phoned Mookie, and left a message for her, around 5:25,and lo and behold,  two minutes later, the power is back on!  Hopefully, it'll stay on this time.

Looks like things have been slow in here this afternoon.  The serving station has been replenished with the fish, fries, baked beans, etc., ready for tonight. 

Brian, hope Iowa does well tonight. 

Everyone have a good evening, and see you all later.

 

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Posted by cherokee woman on Friday, March 26, 2010 11:27 AM

Modelcar

Walt / Paula....That sounds like terrible service from the furnace installers....Hope you get that problem resolved soon.  Good it didn't happen  in the depth of Winter.

Quentin,  the guy came out this morning.  Said the float on the condensate pump was stuck.  Yeah, we've not been real thrilled with the service we got from them, last month, when they were installing the furnace and all the duct work.  They just happened to be the low bidder, from the city grant we got. 

Mookie, the house is finally warming back up (again).  The insulation they put into the walls, ceiling and crawl pace/part cellar seems to be working just fine.  It didn't get as cold in here overnnight, as it would have.  Nice to have the house retaining heat a little bit better than before. 

Our Friday Fish Fry is now on the serving station.  All the regular types of fish, and the side dishes and desserts. 

You all enjoy, have a good afternoon (Mookie, don't get 'sunburned' sitting in the park feeding the squirrels), and take care.  See you all later on.

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Posted by Modelcar on Friday, March 26, 2010 10:35 AM

29 for the low here earlier this morning....White puffy clouds in the nce bluie sky, with a good amount of sunshine.  But, to see just 48 today.  That's a bit cool for what I wanted to do....But we'll watch it and see......

Walt / Paula....That sounds like terrible service from the furnace installers....Hope you get that problem resolved soon.  Good it didn't happen  in the depth of Winter.

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Posted by tree68 on Friday, March 26, 2010 9:38 AM

Mookie
Think Tree is having a weather issue, also.

Sunny, if cool (18F), here this morning.  Can't complain.

Were it not for the national sales aspect of NCAA tournament games, Cornell would have had a hometown crowd for their game - as it was played only an hour from the school, at the Dome in Syracuse.

Speaking of Syracuse, looks like Butler got the best of them.

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Posted by mudchicken on Friday, March 26, 2010 8:50 AM

Yep Mooks - Kansas State (and Cincinnati is a bit grumpy about that outcome this morning)...Nailbiting time for BHanel is tonight. Sorry to see that Cornell went no further (but they will still win the GPA and graduating rate competition).....

Rain turning into 4-6" of snow starts  here this afternoon, so here we go again. The freshman lab rats at good 'ol Weatherliar U. are rushing to complete their winter weather thesis?

Mudchicken Nothing is worth taking the risk of losing a life over. Come home tonight in the same condition that you left home this morning in. Safety begins with ME.... cinscocom-west
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Posted by Mookie on Friday, March 26, 2010 8:33 AM

CW!  Not a happy time in Loo-Ville!  To make up for it, I will send a little warmth your way.  It won't be much, but it is all I could strangle out of the weatherperson.  It is 38 here now, but with strong south breezes, will make it up to around 60.  Then rain comes back.  We seem to have these little gust of energy coming from out Sir Mud's way.  They just keep hanging on.  Next week will be a little better with high on Wed up to about 70.  Will squeeze it and then send it on to the east.

Think Tree is having a weather issue, also.

Not following BB, but Big 12 is still in the running, I believe.  K-State? 

Going to the "pahk" this afternoon with Driver.  We are going to frolic in the sunshine.  That means we are going to feed a peanut to the local squirrel and doze in the sun.  Thumbs Up

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Posted by JoeKoh on Friday, March 26, 2010 6:47 AM

good friday morning!!! we are on spring break!! matt will join us after school today.Cw thanks for breakfast.Need to get a nap.Grandpa is coming for local fish fry tonight.Then we are going to watch more of march madness.Next week looks great for trainwatching.

stay safe

joe

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Posted by CANADIANPACIFIC2816 on Friday, March 26, 2010 6:43 AM

Good morning. At the present moment we have 28.8 degrees here in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and it looks like it will be a fairly nice day here, with a high of 54 or a little better than that. I've been up for a little bit longer than a half an hour and if I wake up anywhere between 5:00 and 7:00, there is no going back to sleep for this guy!

I hope the rest of you are all having a good day, and CW, thanks much for breakfast this morning!

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Posted by grampaw pettibone on Friday, March 26, 2010 5:51 AM

Good morning, and thanks for breakfast. 59 degrees and dark in Carolina at present. The sun is below the horizon, but we are seeing a difference in the darkness. Nothing to brag about on the wireless, so I will likely go back to bed. Everybody have a great Friday and take care.

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Posted by cherokee woman on Friday, March 26, 2010 5:40 AM

Good Friday morning, everyone.  Randy, sorry to hear about the extra trouble with your trailer.  Hope everything will work for you.

We had a very interesting night:  Mookie, Walt was on the computer, typing a reply to you about the furnace, when our power went out, at 9:50 p.m.  Got power back around 12:58 this morning.  Someone reported "Sparks coming from the transformer",  across the street from our house. So not only did we have a couple of police cars at the two intersections on our block, but the fire department showed up.  Then the power company finally showed up. 

No, we still do not have heat, except for the space heaters.  Got a call from the electrician, they will be out first thing this morning, probably around 9 a.m.  Walt and I had to listen to the UK game on our windup emergency light/radio.  The only good thing last night, was that UK won the game. 

Woke up at 5:00, hearing about snow showers at 4:15 this morning.  Gone now, no accumulation.  But our temp is at 34 degrees, going for a high in the low 50s. 

Coffee, juices and other morning beverages are fresh and ready to go.  And our Friday morning doughnuts, danish, bear claws and bagels are on the serving station. 

Everyone have a good morning, keep safe, warm and take care.

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Posted by tree68 on Thursday, March 25, 2010 10:10 PM

Deggesty
Why would the officer pass the truck without inspecting the log?

I'm guessing that the officer either didn't have the ability to access the log (ie laptop computer with the proper cables and software), or the knowledge of how it worked. 

The emergency medical services world is moving to electronic record keeping in the field, which will allow for a quick download at the hospital and easy transmission to insurance companies for billing purposes.  I haven't worked with them yet, though, so that's about all I know about them.  It'll sure beat all those paper copies...

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Posted by switch7frg on Thursday, March 25, 2010 10:04 PM

Smile   CW ; times are getting better for produce delivery. We got 10 pallets of goodies here today. What was a real blast, we got a pallet of  TOMATOES; 2600 lbs.The price of them has gone thru the roof here in AZ. ( 2.99 ) a lb.  Somewhere there is bad weather where most are grown. They are cool storage, but don't havefuzzy beards.  Cabbage ~ carrots ~ lettuce  and different kinds of ( shrubbery) salad. The last pallet was bananas ( Chickipoo ) brand Smile,Wink, & Grin   All this came from area grocers , mostly Krogers.  Yeah ~~ even out here~~ though called Frys.  Hope the furnace gets  beat upon properly to work.   Respectfully, Cannonball

       P.S. most of the stuff came by train.

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Posted by Deggesty on Thursday, March 25, 2010 9:42 PM

rvos1979
Talked with a driver that now has the new paperless log book that we will be going to soon, and afterwords, am looking forward to working with it, especially after the story he told about the New York DOT officer who thought he would get an easy inspection, only to find out the truck had paperless logs, and passed the truck up.

Randy, when you gain access to your log, can you show it to someone else? Does the driver have to operate the system when the log is inspected? Why would the officer pass the truck without inspecting the log?

Thanks

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Posted by rvos1979 on Thursday, March 25, 2010 8:22 PM

Evening all......

Has been a "bad day at Black Rock" week here, Monday morning in Fredrick, MD, my 5th wheel assembly failed, dropping the trailer (and the load of beer inside) onto my frame rails.  Spent all day Tuesday at the company shop in Weedsport trying to repair, then outright replacing the whole 5th wheel plate assembly.  On the upside, went to a new (for me) brewery today, they make the "Flying Dog" brand beer.  Only brewery I have been to that had rock music blasting in the warehouse.

Business has picked up a bit here, the industry is forecasting a driver shortage later this year, partly because of the economy, partly because of the new Comprehensive Safety Analysis 2010 that is starting in July, that could possibly remove a lot of drivers from service.  Our company sent out a message yesterday that we are actually turning down business because we do not have enough drivers.

Talked with a driver that now has the new paperless log book that we will be going to soon, and afterwords, am looking forward to working with it, especially after the story he told about the New York DOT officer who thought he would get an easy inspection, only to find out the truck had paperless logs, and passed the truck up.

Well, time for bed, see everyone later..... 

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Posted by Modelcar on Thursday, March 25, 2010 6:51 PM

Mookie
Been watching my favorite train cam in the Netherlands and they have some really strange cars on their freight trains. 

 

Jen, since they moved that video cam at Roanoke....that one is interesting too....Just doesn't have sound.  {That really makes a difference}....Put the Roanoke one on "full screen", and it's really impressive....See lots of coal trains going to the right....believe that's west.  Also quite a few covered grain cars.  Generally 3 engines on the head end.

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Posted by JoeKoh on Thursday, March 25, 2010 5:09 PM

Cw thanks for supper.those BLT's hit the spot.we even had a small bowl of chili to fight of the damp air tonight.Matt and I went to the barbershop and met a local CSX track inspector.Time to get things around for work tonight.Might peek at the basketball games before work tonight.

stay safe

Joe

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Posted by tree68 on Thursday, March 25, 2010 4:34 PM

Mookie
Tree - very nice.  Pretty good size, too!  Only question - who gets to play with it in the "off-season"?  Anyone we know?  Hmmm? 

If you mean by "play", "maintain," that would be me....

It could have used a good dusting before we did the scenarios, but nobody complained...

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Posted by Mookie on Thursday, March 25, 2010 4:27 PM

Tree - very nice.  Pretty good size, too!  Only question - who gets to play with it in the "off-season"?  Anyone we know?  Hmmm?  Shy

CW - got heat yet? 

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Posted by Mookie on Thursday, March 25, 2010 4:22 PM

I am just barely creaking through here.  Just got back from grocery shopping - that is always a real "let me show you every ache and pain you ever thought of having" time.

Going to go lay under the hammock - keep falling out of it. 

1st must go look at what's playing on the picture show up the street.  Been watching my favorite train cam in the Netherlands and they have some really strange cars on their freight trains.  Very interesting.  They run bare tables a lot; tankers; odd looking tanks and what looks like double ore or metal cars with covers on them - not unlike our coil cars with "lids".  But they are definitely divided in the middle.  Tree have you looked at it? 

BRB

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Posted by tree68 on Thursday, March 25, 2010 12:53 PM

Chili sounded so good I actually had some!

Ms Mook - one of the tank cars I did up the other day had a starring roll in a scenario we did last night at the training center.  There's a (kind of lousy) shot over on the "What's wrong with this picture" thread.

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Posted by Modelcar on Thursday, March 25, 2010 11:56 AM

.....That's no fun.....Sounds like the thermostat isn't calling for any action from the furnace.

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Posted by cherokee woman on Thursday, March 25, 2010 11:40 AM

Thanks for the suggestions, Joe and Bob!  Here's the menu for the rest of the day:

1.  BLTs w/reg. fries or curly fries, choice of cole slaw or tossed salad

2.  There's also a couple of pots of chili, with the prerequisite crackers (the chili is mild, so anyone can doctor it up, to suit your preferences, with mild, medium and hot sauces, along with tobasco sauce, too)

And speaking of chili, it's quite chilly here in our house.  We've had the new furnace for right at a month now, and it's decided not to work properly.  The heat was running last night, but today:  nothing.  Walt has checked and checked, can't find out what the problem is.  No heat; fan will work, but only when you move the setting to fan only.  So I called the company who put it in, and someone is supposed to be out sometime this afternoon.  What's that old saying:  From the sublime to the rediculous? 

Roy, glad to see you back in here.  Hope you can stay for awhile!

Everyone enjoy, have a good afternoon and take care.

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Posted by spokyone on Thursday, March 25, 2010 11:21 AM

Strange how it is 47 degrees and people say it is chilly. 2 months ago everyone would be saying how warm it is.

And speaking of chilly. Chili would be great for lunch, with those MINIS saltines.

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Posted by Modelcar on Thursday, March 25, 2010 10:38 AM

Original forecast for this week was mostly sunshine and dry....So far, so good, but now they've entered rain possibility for today, and it's a bit cooler.

A little sun at times this morning, but overcast now with a reasonably bright sky.

Best to all for a good day.

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Posted by blownout cylinder on Thursday, March 25, 2010 10:23 AM

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I'm having a very stiff coffee this morning as I'm off to do some running around today

I'm sure that's better than a limp coffee that goes all over the screen when you read something really funny.Smile

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