Good Morning. I think we may have to send our weathermen out for remedial training. They fell short on yesterdays forecast high by 25°!
Today looks like a repeat of what actually did happen yesterday. -2°F right now with a high of 7°F. Snow flurries are possible.
No new RR operating news that I can see today, but the Globe and Mail newspaper is all shook up by the announcement of the retirement of a senior CP executive. Without going into details, I think they are looking for conspiracies where none exist. Sometimes a retirement is just a retirement.
Interesting to note that the News Wire has a story from a Victoria newspaper about the number of avalanches this year, after I mentioned it here yesterday. I guess I wasn't the only one to notice something was going on.
Bruce
So shovel the coal, let this rattler roll.
"A Train is a Place Going Somewhere" CP Rail Public Timetable
"O. S. Irricana"
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According to the local news, CP has 29 cars on the ground at Bassano, AB. It happened at 4 AM. This is on the transcontinental line. They are saying it will take most of the day to clean up, but I don't know if that means how long the line will be tied up. Reading between the lines of the media has always been hard.
This wreck happened within easy view of the proverbial road to Grandmother's House. Forty some years ago I could probably tell you what our family was going to be doing either Saturday or Sunday.
evening
busy day today.we went and exercised with mom since matt had no school today.(teachers in service).We have a break in the rain for now but more is on the way.Going to do some chores.Will make popcorn for a movie tonight.
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").
Latest update now has the line reopening after the derailment at Bassano, AB, at approx. noon tomorrow. That would mean about a 32 hour closure of the transcontinental line.
Larry, I spent about $60 for black and color cartridges for our Kodak all-in-one ink jet. I won't say what I ended up spending today at Walmart just on bare necessities, mostly for the printer, but did get a few other things we needed. Just as I came out of Walmart, it started to lightly rain. But, as I got not quite half way across the parking lot to the bus stop, it started pouring rain. By the time I got home, it was just a light drizzle. Supposed to pick up again later tonight. They also say, by the time it ends Sunday morning, we'll be picking up probably at least another 2 inches of rainfall. They already have flash flood watches out. Earlier this week, they installed two of the flood gates along the Ohio River downtown. Also still calling for possible snow flakes Sunday morning, as we're to get down to about 31 degrees tomorrow night.
Our Friday Fish Fry is now on the serving station, with all the regular kinds of fish, and the regular side dishes and desserts.
Joe, your idea of popcorn later on sounds like a good idea! Just hope I can stay awake to enjoy some of it. Everyone have a good evening, and see you all later.
cherokee woman Larry, I spent about $60 for black and color cartridges for our Kodak all-in-one ink jet.
Larry, I spent about $60 for black and color cartridges for our Kodak all-in-one ink jet.
Ah, yes. The "Gillette" phenomenon. Sell 'em the razor (printer) and they have to keep coming back for blades (ink/toner). No you know why printers only cost a little more than a full ink replacement...
Under a flood watch tomorrow and Sunday. Still a lot of snow on the ground, so a lot of rain will help melt it and all the water will run immediately off the frozen ground. Could be interesting.
The accident this AM was due to snow drifted onto the road. Unfortunately one victim didn't make it.
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...
And, if you decide to go to color laser--Whooee! Ricki and I are sticking with black laser; she has an antique HP printer that serves her purposes, and I have a somewhat newer one that has a flatbed copier and fax capability. One thing about laser printing, you do not have much worry about running ink if it gets damp.
Johnny
Good Saturday morning everyone. Rainy and 54 degrees here in Louisville this morning. From the front door, it looks like it's coming down pretty heavy right now. Will probably see rain all day long. Definitely going to be an "inside day".
Coffee, juices and other morning beverages are fresh and ready to go. Homemade cinnamon rolls and regular Saturday brunch menu are on the serving station.
Larry, the $60 for the ink cartridges were for two double packs.
Hope everyone can keep dry today, and have as good a day as you can. Take care, and see you all later.
good morning
As for printer cartridges there should be a place where they will refill them for you.Much cheaper then buying a new cartridge every time.
rain here in nw ohio as well.Going to go work out with mom this morning then go to the grocery store.Matt and I will see what csx has coming by at FC.Then its come home and unload and do chores inside.Cw thanks for breakfast.Will be back for pizza tonight.
Good morning. I will pass on breakfast as I really haven't slept lately. I don't know what is going on but I didn't slept at all last night. I guess I will keep playing Solitaire until I get tired.
-2°F right now, with a S 7 mph wind giving us a windchill of -15°F. It is foggy right now and snow flurries are expected all day.
It is too early to hear of more news about the derailment at Bassano and sunrise doesn't happen until 7:12 here, so they are still working under lights for another hour yet anyway.
Hope everyone has a good day.
Morning all......
To borrow from the Grateful Dead, what a long, strange trip it's been. Not too bad from where I stand, though I did find out how super single tires on a trailer handle a week and a half ago in the snowstorm in PA, did pretty good. Hope one of our drivers is doing better, Georgia police stopped a suspected drunk driver on I-75 south of Atlanta, and as they were arresting him, he broke loose and tried to run across I-75, right into the path of our drivers truck. From what I heard, they had the road closed for several hours while they picked up what was left of the guy.......
Home for the weekend, need to get everything ready for the home loan people, if all goes well, we should be closing on March 31. That will give us a month to move everything before we need to be out of the apartment. Looking forward to it.....
Well, breakfast, then back to relaxing.....
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
tree68 cherokee woman: Larry, I spent about $60 for black and color cartridges for our Kodak all-in-one ink jet. Ah, yes. The "Gillette" phenomenon. Sell 'em the razor (printer) and they have to keep coming back for blades (ink/toner). No you know why printers only cost a little more than a full ink replacement...
cherokee woman: Larry, I spent about $60 for black and color cartridges for our Kodak all-in-one ink jet.
Larry, remember when the razors were very expensive and the blades were cheap-now adays it's the other way around. I've started buying the disposable razors, and don't shave every day since I don't have to go to work. (or am still in the Military!)
We don't really print that much out, but it's getting to the point we can't afford to print out stuff, even things we need. If I print out a couple of pictures, I have to ask myself how much of the next months budget have I used.
Joe, if there's a place around here to get the ink cartridges refilled, I'm not sure of their location; and if we have to send them to be refilled, postage rather negates any savings.
Being Crazy,keeps you from going "INSANE" !! "The light at the end of the tunnel,has been turned off due to budget cuts" NOT AFRAID A Vet., and PROUD OF IT!!
I don't have my rain guage out yet this season, so don't know how much rain fell overnight. It appears quite a bit. And the ground is still saturated from the flooding waters of almost a week ago.
Haven't been anyware, so don't know how high the river is again...but i'm guessing the typical low areas in Muncie, are once again getting water where it's not wanted.
Golf course fairway behind me again has it's "lake" that extends over to our property line....That's the high spot we've seen it in the 40 years since we've built this house. Doesn't hurt us any, but the street, which is about 5 or 6' lower than our home had plenty of water on it. Had to walk in some water to get to our mail box. Again though...it it gets much higher there, it will then drain down in a creek on the fairway behind the houses on the other side of the street.
What in the world makes ink cartridges cost so much money.....and if one doesn't purchase "XL" type, the "normal" ones last but just a short time.
We've had 2 or 3 different printers in the past and this last time around I tried to read up on what to purchase. It seemed to me I was understanding the "all in one" type units needed less cartridge changing. That's not what I've found in actual performance for ours...A HP Photosmart C6380. Seems like I'm needing cartridges quite often to be fed to this one. I will say this though....It copies any kind of hard copy photos almost perfectly. {Believe Walt can verify that as I sent him a copy of one}...
Jean and I had a "family" photo taken last Fall, {including Ella, our little pup}, and I can copy one of those on my machine and it looks like it was done in a Lab. But it has 5 cartridges to replace. I've tried getting cartridges refilled, {not for this machine}, and have had just so-so performance from them.
Temp here is mild today and totally overcast.
By the way: Gas price here now is: $3.55 / gal.
Quentin
Modelcar By the way: Gas price here now is: $3.55 / gal.
Quentin: Diesel has shot up too, paid $4.01 in Harrisburg this past Sunday, PA and NY are the two higher-priced states I usually fill up in......
....That's terrible Randy.....Crude is high, but not as high as it was when we had the last extremes. Believe that was back in '08 and then crude was $147 / bbl.
Somebody is making the figures to feed them at the "trough" again....
afternoon
had a surprise today.matts cousins were at the Y as we were working out.Had a great time.We saw lots of action on csx.bad news for k803 and k 223.The switches in west Deshler are in hand throw for when they want to turn and go south.We also saw Maw unit #4 in the ready track in the yard.It was shipped out for repairs awhile back.Cw we'll need a pepperoni and mushroom pizza for tonight.Thanks.
Well we are up to 0°F now with a -13°F windchill.
I think it was Thursday night that they were talking on the 11:00 news about increasing gas prices, and they had to announce that prices had increased during the course of the newscast! I'm not going to try to compare our prices to the ones you see in the US. There is our price per litre, which you have to convert to price per Imperial gallon, then convert Imperial gallons to US gallons, and then take into account the exchange rate between Canadian and US dollars. Not surprisingly, there are websites that do that.
It is that time of year when the 2011 Canadian Men's Curling Championship starts. I have it on the TV connection on the computer right now, and it runs through next Sunday evening, in prime time.
So, like a couple of weeks ago, I will likely only be dropping by every couple of days or so. Everyone take care.
We have places approaching $3.80 a gallon...
I default to my laser printer for "gotta hava copy of that" printing. If I need color, it goes to the inkjet.
I have a flatbed scanner that will do slides, etc, too, and more importantly, will do PDF's, handy if I need to send someone a copy of something. It even does a pretty good copy, when paired up with the laser printer.
Rain, rain, go away! Up to .55" on the day, so far, and it doesn't look like it's going to quit soon. And it'll turn to snow tomorrow... We're under a flood watch to boot.
Benefit dance for the ambulance squad tonight. The band is really good, so I'll go over and listen in for a while.
Gee, I didn't even look at the fuel sign at Kroger's this afternoon, when I did a little bit of grocery shopping, so I don't know what it was this afternoon. But, I'm thinking the gas around here is $3.50 or a little higher.
Here's our Saturday Night Pizza Fest menu:
1. Canadian bacon
2. Cheese
3. Chicago style
4. Goetta
5. Hawaiian
6. Italian sausage
7. Pepperoni/mushroom
8. Supreme
9. Anchovie
And maybe, later on, we'll pop some popcorn, if anyone wants that tonight.
Still raining, and very, very chilly. Temp is somewhere in the low 40s. Walt heard on the TV earlier, that we may have snow later tonight. And the river is rising. (Gee, no wonder, with all this rain we've been getting!) We may see FLOOD STAGE after all.
Everyone have a good evening, stay warm, take care, and see you all later.
our rain has changed to snow but not expecting much.The river is expected to crest on Tuesday but no major flooding here.Cw thanks for the pizza.Going to make some popcorn and watch the Duke/North Carolina game on tv.
rvos1979 Modelcar: By the way: Gas price here now is: $3.55 / gal. Quentin: Diesel has shot up too, paid $4.01 in Harrisburg this past Sunday, PA and NY are the two higher-priced states I usually fill up in......
Modelcar: By the way: Gas price here now is: $3.55 / gal.
Okay, I have a curious question; why is diesel more expensive now than gasoline? Several years ago, diesel was much cheaper. I know when I had my diesel pickup, I really enjoyed paying much less at the pump and getting about 40+ miles per gallon. (Datsun 4 cyl. diesel with a 5 speed transmission.)
pulling a small (4 X 8 ' trailer) I got lots less mpg.
Larry, we got one of the Kodak All-in -one printers when they first came out. Can scan to file, do PDFs, etc. Prints very good pictures, but if I do more than 3 or 4 8 1/2 X 11" pictures, I need to start looking for a new color cartridge. This one replaced an HP all-in-one that I wouldn't give you 2 cents for!
Mutt: Short answer; blame the EPA, today's Ultra Low Sulfur Fuel requires more refining than the diesel of old, and fuel taxes are also part of the equation. Federal gasoline tax is 18.4 cents/gallon, diesel is 24.4 cents/gallon. Most of the issue comes from the increased cost of removing the sulfur from the fuel, then they have to add special additives to replace the lubricating abilities lost from removing the sulfur.
Breaking news: Little sister just called to tell me her boyfriend proposed. She said yes......
Later all......
Mutt - I think you can blame supply and demand, too. Everybody noticed Diesel was cheaper, so they went with Diesel engines. Suddenly demand is up, driving the price up (plus the factors Randy mentioned).
Time got get the good suit out and check it for moth holes, Randy.
Still raining - almost an inch so far, plus all the snow melt. The cellar pumping details are starting to come in on the scanner.
I think it's time for bed.
Randy, Larry, Thanks for those answers-----about what I thought. I got my diesel pickup in 1982 and kept it until 1986. Generally would get my diesel at a Truck Stop, and have to wait in line for other people in pickups to get done.
Randy, Guess Congrats are in order there, hope it will be a good one.
CW should be in shortly with breakfast items, I just happened to wake up earlier than her today. (and couldn't go back to sleep!!)
Good Sunday morning everyone. Cloudy and 36 degrees here this morning. Slept pretty good last night. I guess Walt was too tired to sleep. He and I cleaned and rearranged a couple of bookcases yesterday afternoon, after I got back from the grocery. By the time we got through, neither one of us felt like fixing anything for supper, so guess I'll be fixing breakfast after a little bit for both of us. And speaking of breakfast:
Coffee is on, and on the serving station this morning: bacon, eggs, sausage, biscuits, gravy, hash browns, bagels and bear claws.
Everyone enjoy your morning, whether you're going to work, Church, railfanning, or just plain gellin' out and resting.
morning
had to scrape off what mother nature left us last night.Cw thanks for breakfast.Off to church and G+G house.In todays paper they say the Amtrak station in Bryan will be getting replaced with a new one.Can't wait until they get started.
joe
Cof, cof....well, that's better than sneeze sneeze and cof!
Sunny - not too warm, but no moisture right now. Looks like snow will stay mostly to north of us for today.
Love is in the air - Congrats to Randy - new BIL-to-be.
And love in the Netherlands: Nest cam showing the Battling Bickersons - two get into nest house and then one screams at the other one and they throw mice back and forth.
Owls - call to each other so softly and then when one lands on a limb next to the other one, the first one reaches over and bites the other one on the beak! Ain't love grand!
They had a parade on the street next to the tracks yesterday. Kind of a Dutch Mardi Gras. Floats and goofy costumes and maybe just a tad bit of beer? Fun to watch. Track work again around 3 am their time. Something about the crossing bothers them.
Off to do a little train watching. First day in a week I have felt like going out for awhile. Maybe the very fresh air will revive me a little. Taking a bottle of cof syrup, too!
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
Hi Mookie, glad to hear you're feeling better. For myself, kind of in a holding pattern: not feeling worse, but not feeling much better, either. Friday, when I went to the dr., after I told him how I was feeling, he didn't comment. Doctors
Our Sunday Dinner is kind of on the "light" side:
Beef stew w/cornbread and garden (tossed) salad.
For dessert: rice pudding, peach cobbler, apple and cherry pies.
Have a good afternoon, and see you all later.
......Mild temps.....partly sunny / overcast.....dry.....Sore ear from dermi taking a spot off several weeks ago, and not healing properly...Jean, did well yesterday, had cast removed from arm...{re: broken wrist on ice}....
Excellent meal at Texas Road House today.
To be some sunshine, dry & mild temps tomorrow too.
River crested about 12 hrs. ago, but folks down stream from us, will be seeing lots of water coming their way....
And now.....{after they are done blabbing}, time for the Nascar boys to run out at Vegas.
Up at Oh-dark-thirty to pump a basement, then got home and had to pump 6-8" out of my own basement. Making sure the furnace is dry before I try firing it back up.
The 1.54" of rain plus the warm temps lead to a lot of flooded basements and other problems. The ice broke up on the pond here in town and managed to create an ice dam against a bridge. The highway crew broke it up, but there was some concern for a while.
Now it's below freezing and it's snowing. They're promising 6-8" of the stuff...
And the pump details continue (at least it's not for my department...)
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