Good morning. I am home from the hospital. What was supposed to be minor day surgery turned into kidney surgery and 10 days stay. I am still plenty sore and am moving slowly, but on the improve. Thanks for your prayers. All were appreciated.
34 degrees in Carolina.
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)
Good morning..
Welp, we got another 6" of the snowstuff on us last night. So we be out there with the Powerwagon getting the driveway plowed out...again And the wonderful weatherbeguessers have us as getting another 4-6" of the stuff by tomorrow ..again If we get the full extent we will be under ...instead of the current 56" of snowcover ...under 66" instead We actually exceeded our total from last year by something like 48" so far...and we only JUST entered winter season
Audrey and I are going out later this aternoon to our fave diner and sit with the neighbours as we watch other people go...AAAACCCCHHHH!!!...over their Christmas shopping...
Have a good day people..
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I just started my blog site...more stuff to come...
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good morning
cw thanks for breakfast.going to take matt to the corn city today.Want to share a lesson from yesterday.our young paperboy was troubled.he wasn't happy with our nieghbors because they stopped getting the paper.I explained how the husband slipped and broke his hip and is in a nursing home.I said so we have 2 lessons here
1.respect
2.drink your milk so that when you are an old fart like me and fall your bones won't break so eaisily.
have a great day
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").
Good Thursday morning everyone. 27 degrees here in Louisville this morning. Think we're to make to the mid 30s today.
Coffee, juices, hot chocolate, hot cider and hot water for tea are fresh and ready to go. On the serving station this morning: bagels, bear claws, turkey bacon, biscuits, gravy, sausage, scrambled eggs., (and there's a few Christmas cookies laid out also).
I think I got all my cooking and baking done yesterday. Was in the kitchen all day, roasting turkey, making home made biscuits, dressing. Baking Christmas cookies (sugar), getting them iced and decorated. So you all have plenty of Christmas cookies to last until next week. Also made some fudge, Mookie: chocolate, peanut butter, vanilla.
Everyone have a very good morning, keep warm, take care and see you all later. Has anyone heard anything from Tom (Grandpaw Pettibone?
Somebody's been running the Zamboni on our roads here - lot's of folks finding out where the ditches are located (much to their chagrin). Just got back from a call for a pickup well off the road, and on it's side. By the looks of the skid marks, the driver almost made it before the truck rolled over. At least nobody has been hurt so far, other than the EMT from the ambulance whose feet suddenly were in front of him, rather than under him...
Looks like it will turn to snow later.
At least we aren't getting rain like the left coast. Syracuse has already gotten almost a year's worth of snow already, though.
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Ok on..."La Nina" this season....It does seem familiar when the west coast is having nasty rain, etc....as now, we've had "different" weather patterns here too.
This December has been on the cold side. Believe I noted a figure that we're in a pattern to be the coldest Dec. since 1958. My unoffical snow counting figures are more {at this point}, than last season. Up to now, 10". And that is more than normal...for here.
When we get a cold Dec. we very often get unusual "warm" temps in January. Your 58 degrees sounds ok for now Murray....
One thing about it this season so far, the snow has come 2 or so inches at a time and not one or two larger snowfalls.
Quentin
Hello Randy:
Boy Randy....you were getting very close. We're just about 7 mi. from the location you mentioned of Daleville, In.
And the double east / west CSX line you were near passes right thru Yorktown which is a town just a few miles east of where you were.
That's the line you may have seen me comment about {on here}...a bit farther east in Muncie, and being visible just across rt. 32 as one is in Bruner's restaurant.
And as for that temp drop this morning we commented about....That was strange....Seemed to do it quickly too.
Happy Motoring.
Modelcar...this Winter in some parts of the country seem to be acting very extreme....Goes along with the warming of some parts of the Pacific ocean, I suppose....What is it this time...El Nina.??
Hi Quentin...Yes we are in a La Nina pattern this winter.
While the folks in California and the Pacific northwest have been getting pounded, we here in Texas have remained relatively mild and very dry. That is what usually happens down here during La NIna. All the storms pass to the north of us. It is currently 58 degrees here as I write this.
We have a shot for some rain from this latest California storm.
Afternoon, everyone.....
well, as seems to have happened every Christmas for the last few years, something crazy happened, got a load last night that unfortunately did not make it on time (ran out of hours to drive), so am sitting over in Daleville, IN, waiting for the 7am appointment tomorrow morning. Case of 66mph truck, 100mph dispatcher......
Quentin, noticed the bottom dropped out of the temps too this morning, was 31 when I went to bed at 4am EST, and was 21 when I woke up at 1145. Forecast said nothing about it, was worried I would have fuel issues. Nice thing about sitting at this Pilot/Denny's is that CSX runs directly behind here, lots of variety this morning...
That photo looks like it's the attack of the 50-foot kitty, our first cat liked to do that when we set up the large village at my parents, the two we have now don't care for the decorations as much....
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
Yes, Cannonball...this Winter in some parts of the country seem to be acting very extreme....Goes along with the warming of some parts of the Pacific ocean, I suppose....What is it this time...El Nina.??
I know some of those low gullys in Az. can become roaring streams quickly with these kinds of weather happenings....and sometimes they have cars floating around up in Las Vegas {NE}, with extremes, and so on.
Today...now, we're upping the temp again...It's now back up to 26. Don't know where that quick cool down came from this morning. I noted on a weather map, it showed some lake effect snow bleeding down over northern Indiana earlier, but looks like that's all finished now.
Mohave Co....that's a big one....knew the Sheriff and wife when we were working out there years ago. The wife was a mgr. for quite some time at the La Posada restaurant there in Kingman along rt. 66 just up over the "hill" coming east out of town. That restaurant was brand new then....and nice.
Christmas Greetings to you and family Cannonball....
Quentin, the rain has hit Mohave co. Az. Now parts of the County and 4 houses are moving downstream as Beaver creek is 3ft. high , (normaly ) 1 ft. Winter has gotten off to a roaring start. However the ski bucks & bunnys are hitting the slopes in Flg. as snow is abundunt.
Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Cannonball
Y6bs evergreen in my mind
A surprising drop in temp these past several hours...First noted 30.9 earlier, and now its approching 20. Did not hear anyone talking about this.
Very, very light snow flakes coming down....Overcast. But pretty light.
Noted on a full country weather map this morning, that system of much rain in Calif. is {will be}, moving east with wide spread snow, rain and freezing conditions, patterns that seems to sag down as it crosses the country. In fact, seemed to leave us almost not touched with it...But we'll watch for a more specific determination just where the stuff will be headed.
BraddS - not any more knowledge here on identity, but will verify that the BNSF still has some GP38's pulling freight. Most of our freight sightings are the "older" engines - leaving the "newer" ones for all the coal that goes thru here.
Dash 8's are pretty scarce, but Dash 9's seem to be abundant right now. (Whoop!)
If your information source is very current, you may have the right designation. If not, it could be a renumber.
My best source of info is to read the type on the engine itself. when possible.
I envy your location in the coffeehouse. I would have many nose prints on their windows!
Mookie
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
Good Morning.
We woke up to a dull dull dull day tat will see a high of 30F --and between 2-4" of snow on top of our 44" snow cover...
I'm going out with a friend of ours to finish picking up some Xmas goodies then tonight finish of the grocery buying...then we be ready for any't'in'...
I got an opportunity to actually record a 'live' Alco RS2 ---this should be interesting...as I'm using one of these when I do that..
mmmm-- I got a tripod with this one as well..
Hi everyone. Overcast in NC and supposed to go up to 50, so hopefully I can get some brush clearing done today. Met two ex-co-workers yesterday at a coffee house in the old industrial area of Winston Salem and got to watch a long freight go by right outside the building, almost close enough to touch. It was a Norfolk Southern (of course), led by a 3-loco lashup that I couldn't identify, but I'm *guessing* were dash-8's? Hopefully somebody more knowledgable (which would be just about everyone) can tell me how to find out? I thought I'd memorized the road number of the lead engine, but looking it up later told me it would have to have been a GP-38, so obviously I got it severely wrong!
morning
ma nature has warmed up things so matt can have freezing drizzle/snow.he is on a 2 hr delay as of now.it's his last day of school for the year.Cw thanks for breakfast.going to get a nap the ponder when to go into town.going to need some more cookies and milk to decide that.
Joe
Good Wednesday morning everyone. 37 degrees this morning, with fog and NW winds.
Coffee, juices, hot chocolate, hot cider, and other morning beverages (including soft drinks for those who drink that in the mornings) and hot water for hot tea are fresh and ready to go.
On the warmer/serving station this morning: bagels, bear claws, turkey bacon, sausage, scrambled eggs, etc.
I'll be in the kitchen for about the rest of the day, as I'm starting to cook for the weekend: turkey, ham, and starting to prepare all the side dishes. Maybe I can even get Walt in the kitchen, to make his mince meat bars. I will even be making the prerequisite Christmas cookies.
Everyone have a good morning, take care of yourselves and hopefully, I'll see you all later.
B.O.C. Your friend is very serious in his inspection of " his" territory or hers. We have a genuine imported Junkyard cat from GJCol. Pookster rules her yard and house in the same manner. We liked the pic of your cat in the tree . Pookster likes to knock the ( dangle dandys) off the lower branches of her 2ft. " Charley Brown " tree. Merry Xmas to you and yours.
blownout cylinderOur Christmas Village has a guest now...
Good Evening..
Our Christmas Village has a guest now...
I've been so busy today, this is the first chance I've had to get back in here. Produce went well, had 49 people show up. About half of them stayed for the Bread/Pastry truck, and it didn't show up.
Instead of a total Mexican Fiesta tonight, I've just fixed some tacos (soft and hard shell) and beef, beef & bean and beef enchilada style burritos, and some Spanish rice for supper tonight.
Our high today made it to 40 degrees. So basically, all the ice from the weekend is gone; although, there are a few little patches of it on grassy areas, and one or two on the sidewalks, but not totally in the walking area.
Everyone have a good evening, take care and see you all in the a.m.
Cold, with an east wind this AM. Not usually a good thing, but there's nothing on the radar.
Too cloudy last night to take in the eclipse.
The birds got an early Christmas gift - a new, hand-built feeder. It holds about three times what I could put in the previous feeder there - we'll see how long it takes them to drain this one. I think it still needs a minor modification so the seed doesn't get knocked to the ground as easily.
Seems odd not to be planning for my next day on the railroad. But the "vacation" feels good, too.
Well it looks like we got off rather well with the latest "Winter" passing thru. Last evening for several hours with light snow produced about a total of 1.5" for us.
Had an appointment locally, at the Dr. this morning, and it wasn't too bad if one was being careful. Temps around 30 plus, so salt was very effective. Very good at getting the vehicle dirty too. That's part of Winter around here.
Now, we have to see what we'll get Christmas Eve Day.....
Joe: Mookie would you like to help?
SIGN ME UP!
Good Morning
Joe: I like it when it is snizzling...none of this heavy snowsquall activity to bug me... After what we got stuck with...all of 6.5 FEET of snow in 2 days? megh..
Welb, I get to go to the ICD clinic to get the dressings checked as well as my ICD-defibrillator --they do this on a 1 week, 1 month, 3 months,and then every 6 months thereafter...to keep monitoring my defibrillator...so far I've not noticed anything untoward going on...although I may be used to having shocks...
Anyways you all have a good day....
mother nature is snizzling at us.not enough to delay schools or make the roads nasty.chores to do today.another tough job I have is to make sure matts cookies for school are okay.It requires a glass of milk and careful judgement.Mookie would you like to help?
Good Tuesday morning, everyone. Current temp: 35 degrees w/light drizzling rain. Hope everyone is doing fine this morning. Still haven't heard anything about Tom, but will let you all know when I do hear something.
Coffee, juices, hot chocolate, hot cider, and hot water for hot tea are ready to go. Regular breakfast menu is ready and on the serving station.
Everyone have a good morning, take care, and I'll see you all sometime this afternoon, after I finish with Produce.
afternoon
well mail person came to the door.Matt got a package.he was excited.Cw thanks for supper.Need to get readu for work.Ma nature wants to give us a mess tomorrow.
Johnny, I don't know about anyone else here on the forums, but I haven't heard anything since what I posted last regarding Tom. I will try to see if I can find out anything this afternoon.
I've warmed up what is left from our Sunday Dinner, as we had plenty of everything left.
Very cloudy and overcast around here. I think our current temp is in the mid 30s. At least there's no wind blowing outside.
You all have a good afternoon, and I'll see you all later.
The temperature is in the thirties this morning; it was too dangerous to walk (slick spots here, there, all along the sidewalk)
Ricki seemed better yesterday, but still needs help to stand and move around.
Has anyone heard from Tom as to how his surgery went?
Johnny
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