MookieTree - Our trip to North Platte was only 4 hours and I thought we would never get there.
Just got back from our county firefighters association meeting, where we had the "official" kick off of our address posting campaign. Far too many people don't have their address adequately posted, which makes finding their house in an emergency problematic. And in an emergency, seconds count.
Hopefully all of you have your address posted so emergency responders (and others) can find it easily.
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...
tree68 Hopefully all of you have your address posted so emergency responders (and others) can find it easily.
Yes, Larry, we sure do: 1. On the front of the house. 2. On the front gate at the street sidewalk. 3. Back yard, on the back gate. I saw your pictures on facebook. Such a sad time for you all, though.
Good Friday morning to Larry and everyone. We have about 61 degrees this morning, going for a high around 75. We've had some sprinkles this morning. If we got the storms and winds they were expecting, I never heard them through the night.
Coffee, juices and other morning beverages are all freshly made and ready to go. As always, there's plenty of hot water for our hot tea and hot cider drinkers.
There is a very nice assortment of doughnuts, danish, muffins, bagels and bear claws on the serving station this morning, along with the bacon ,sausage, eggs, biscuits and gravy.
Everyone have a good morning, and take care.
morning
rain has arrived.cw thanks for breakfast.time for bed.
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").
cherokee woman bacon ,sausage, eggs, biscuits and gravy. Everyone have a good morning, and take care.
Joe - still squeezing out some cloudy skies, but will be in the 80's this weekend with wall-to-wall sunshine. Will send you some.
Tree - our address is prominent cuz like Joe sez - Bill always finds us. Did notice a lot more of the 911 addresses in our rural area, however. Since I worked with "finding" lost people, I was so happy when they instituted the 911 address system. I would try to get an address out of people and they would always give me their PO Box #. I had to try to explain that they didn't live in their PO Box.
They always thought that was funny, but still couldn't figure out that I wanted their actual "where do you put your head at nite" address. The new 911 addresses made my job a whole lot easier. (We were doing this all by mail at the time, too.)
Fruit for lunch, maybe? Hmmm, CW?
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
Yes, Mookie, there is plenty of fruit to have with lunch today (our regular Friday Fish Fry menu is on the serving station, along with apples, bananas, cantaloupe, kiwi, papaya, strawberries (the strawberries are ripe and ready for picking at the Hubers Orchard/Winery/Restaurant across the river in Starlight, IND).
No rain/storms/winds yet, but they are supposedly heading our way. I can see our White Pine from where I sit at the computer cart, and the needles are barely swaying.
Everyone enjoy your lunch, and have a good afternoon.
Got liquid sunshine? We do!
Still waiting to watch:Mookie vs. Mudchicken
Now back to lurking...
Dan
Joe ; thank you for the " trip to the way back" . In my early truckin' days , ran quite a bit across central Ohio back and forth 1950s. Em-1s. & Ys. were seen very often . I still recall how the ground shook at trackside when the big girls pounded by. ~~~ Respectfully, Cannonball
Y6bs evergreen in my mind
CNW 6000 Got liquid sunshine? We do! Still waiting to watch:Mookie vs. Mudchicken Now back to lurking...
Sir C: A lady never tells!
You should do the honors since you are his senior peer.
Does Boss Hen know about "Savanna" whats-her-name?
Am off to Colorado for Memorial Day week. Down where the BNSF loaded coal trains head toward TX.
MC, do you have any advice about where to go or not go? I am not talking about dins of inequity but any new RR events or new construction.
This September the American Assn. of Private Rail Car Owners are having their annual convention at the Pueblo Union Depot. There will be twenty or more private cars parked in Pueblo. Following the Pueblo events (9-20 to 9-22) their special (Amtrak operated) train will depart Pueblo on 9-23 for La Junta, then through Las Animas Jct. and Boise City, OK to Amarillo where it will overnight. Then on 9-24 it will depart AMO for Clovis, Belen and arrive in ALB the evening of 9-24. MC, I may be riding some of that (will decide later) so if you are in the vicinity we can meet for reminiscing and maybe a bite to eat.
sparagus is delicious and healthful!
http://www.asparagus.org/maab/recipes.html
http://cookingtips-recipes.com/?s=im2g0ir44maokifms1d8g98tj4
http://www.herbcompanion.com/uploadedImages/Blogs/Herbs_in_the_Kitchen/grilled%20asparagus.jpg?n=6596
DC: Will keep an eye out for that one. If you haven't seen it - take a good look at Las Animas Jcn (re-arranged); North Junction/Springfield is missing and all the fuel tanks at LJ are gone. Machovec is totally different (and take a look at all the hydraulic switches below Las Animas Junction). Vroman and Ruxton extensions are on hold. Stratford has quite a big connection track addition. New Elevator at Walsh and there are changes in Pueblo Yard.
(at least you won't be stranded in lower east armpit, er-um Boise City, the depot even got out of town.)
Mooks: I just got confirmed that I must be at Savanna on Sunday, so I go the I-80 fast route. (what sleep? )....Let bossHen tell you her railroad widow stories. (She's off playing anyhow, gonna knit me a crash net.)...strapping the rocket pods on Lurch right now. Gotta remember to toss out the tin shoes to Brian as I go by.
Evening all.
We had some sightings of a tornado today apparently by some trained weather spotters in our county. We were headed into Lafayette at the time, so we weren’t in the path of the storm, but we sure could see it!
Now the skies are broken, and all sunny and with good lighting.
See you all later!
Justin
The road to to success is always under construction. _____________________________________________________________________________ When the going gets tough, the tough use duct tape.
MC - keep your feathers dry and Lurch between the lines. You are the only chicken I really do like!
Murraysparagus is delicious and healthful!
Yuck, yuck, double yuck and phooey. Bleahhh. Nuff sed
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)
grampaw pettibone Murraysparagus is delicious and healthful! Yuck, yuck, double yuck and phooey. Bleahhh. Nuff sed
LOL... How do you really feel Tom???
I has spoken!
Good morning from asparagus free Pettibone Mortgage Manor, where we are taking applications from people with filet mignon, Italian spaghetti and other such novelties. 66 degrees and clear to partly clear in Carolna on a Saturday morning. Not normally up this early, but got up to see what worthwhile is on the wireless. Nuffin!
We are supposed to have a high of 84 and a thunderstorm later. The rain we can use.
Everyone take care and have a great day
Good Saturday morning, everyone! We have 63 degrees this a.m., going for a high of about 83, 84 degrees with plenty of sunshine. Tomorrow, will be close or right at 90 degrees, with very sticky conditions for much of next week.
Coffee, juices and other morning beverages are fresh and ready to go.
On the serving station this morning: a good ole 'country breakfast' to stick to your ribs for your 'adventurous Saturday': We have fried chicken, buttermilk biscuits w/gravy, country fried steak (fried in a good ole cast iron skillet), scrambled eggs, bagels, bear claws, fried taters, sausage, bacon, strawberry jam, blackberry jelly, grape jelly.
Everyone have a terrific day, and take care.
.....Our Saturday morning is fog like overcast, but is to give way to sunshine later today, and then several days with more sunshine and.....much warmer.
So....In a short while {after grass dries}, we'll be on the John Deere, and then another spouting to clear Oak leave fuzzies from it. Oh, yes....it's time to start trimming shrubs too. They have been growing like wildfire...!
TV news is telling us of lower gasoline prices....and that happening with the approaching Memorial Day weekend.......??? It really has come down almost 30 cents here in the last week or so...
Sounds good to me with our desire to head east to Pennsylvania home area for several days this coming holiday. An annual occurance. lots of old freinds to see at our little home town Memorial Day celebration....One of the largest in the county....For decades. Perhaps 70 years plus. Back in early years of it, of course it was Decoration Day.
Quentin
BNSF is fantastic. We parked there to watch trains and suddenly the yard became a no-person's-land. Went to eat breakfast and could hear all the whistles.
Went back - ditto. Went to bookstore and could hear all the train horns running like mad.
Went back around 3pm - nothing, zip, nada.
Came home - have south windows open and yep - you guessed it.
How do they do that?
Quentin - go to our favorite Netherlands web cam, click on multi and you can watch one of 6 pix. The best one is a "birdie" cam. A nested pair of "Hobby Falcons" and their new brood. Put the regular webcam in the background and you can watch both!
Not much going on, either here in the Cafe/Diner or here at home.
But, here is our pizza menu for tonight:
1. Cheese w/extra cheese
2. Goetta
3. Hawaiian
4. Italian sausage
5. Pepperoni/mushroom
6. Pepperoni/sausage
7. Supreme
There are two extra large of each, and if we need more, they're in the freezer, ready to put into the oven.
Everyone enjoy, have a great evening, and take care.
cherokee woman6. Pepperoni/sausage
We had a great day in NW Illinois. Sunshine & a soft wind. I puttered around outside, then Barbara & I went for ice cream.
evening
cw thanks for the pizza.the sun finally came out this afternoon.we went to deshler but on the way home we watched the q 324.they usually work off of track 1 but they were on track 2.This ment they had to use the crossover near harris road to switch.They also had NS units for lead power.Backed up road traffic and some train traffic for a time.time to get cleaned up so we can get up for church in the moring.
Good Sunday morning, everyone. I trust all of you had a great day yesterday. This morning ,we have 63 degrees, going for a high of 90 today. They (weatherguessers) are saying we're to have a very warm and sticky week.
Coffee, juices and other morning beverages are fresh and ready to go. On the serving station this morning: bacon, sausage, scrambled eggs, bagels, bear claws, cinnamon rolls and blueberry muffins.
Wishing everyone a very safe morning. Anyone have any requests for Sunday Dinner?!
A very early good morning to you Paula. I've got some pinto beans in the dutch oven and ribs are in the smoker. Some slaw & corn bread, and Sunday dinner will be ready.
ribs....(drool)
spokyone A very early good morning to you Paula. I've got some pinto beans in the dutch oven and ribs are in the smoker. Some slaw & corn bread, and Sunday dinner will be ready.
Bob, you've got my mouth watering! Are you, by chance, sharing that with us here in the Flat Wheel?
If not, I happen to have some pork chop abracadbra in the Crock Pot, along with potatoes and a little bit of onion. To go with it, there's fresh tomatoes, sliced and there's also cole slaw and cornbread. And, I've also got some ribs going on the smoker grill, and another Crock Pot w/pinto beans in it. They should be ready by about 6, 6:30 tonight, Mookie!
Not sure what our current temp is, but Walt and I just came in from the front porch, and it is mighty warm outside. And not much of a breeze at all.
.....Yes it is warm. Today's heat is Summer like. Humidity too. It's to be similar all this coming week. And not much breeze here either.
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