Well, the Cats did it again: they managed to beat W. Virginia!! Go Cats!! Don't know if Morehead has started their game yet or not. Decided to come to the puter for awhile.
Nice and sunny, and quite breezy, from what I can see looking out the front window. I haven't been outside, since this morning, when I got the paper off the porch.
Here is our Saturday Night Pizza Fest menu:
1. Anchovie
2. Canadian bacon
3. Cheese
4. Chicago style
5. Goetta
6. Hawaiian
7. Italian sausage
8. Pepperoni/mushroom
9. Supreme
10. Ham & green peppers
For Dessert: Chocolate cake w/milk and/or ice cream and peach cobbler.
I hope everyone's team does good in the tournament, if they're playing this evening. You all have a good evening and take care.
Suggestion: Dunk pizza in milk and then when pizza gone, pour remaining milk over chocolate cake in bowl.
YUM!
CW: Cats are always winners!
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don't tell that to the pitt panthers.the butler bulldogs won that one.lot's of great games today.matt had a great time swimming.We saw q 368 with a gp 15-t engine.Then we saw another train with a leaser and a switcher along for the ride.Cw thanks for the pizza.going to get ready for tomorrow.
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").
I still don't know what to make of our weather here. I should never have said it was boring. We are still waiting for the storm I was texted about yesterday. In fact I have received three more texts about it since. They are still calling for 5" of snow in the next 24 hours and maybe 2 more inches in the 24 hours after that. 32°, E 12mph winds, and THICK heavy overcast skies currently. It has been abnormally dark all day today.
I hope everyone's favourite teams are winning today, but I have a situation that you likely don't encounter. The World Women's Curling Championship is being played in Denmark from today until next Sunday. I lied down early last evening and then got up to watch the first Canadian game from there at 2-5:30 AM MDT. Then I went back to bed. One has lots of time on their hands when you are retired, but some would say maybe I have too much time on my hands to do stuff like that. Many of the games from this point forward will be shown at a more sensible time, on a tape delay basis.
Interesting story on the TRAINS Newswire yesterday about the state of the rail transportation component of the Canadian grain industry. I then went to the CN and CP websites to read their responses to the government suggestions. This is a fascinating topic for me, as I have both railroaders and farmers in my family tree, and this topic has come up more than once or twice. I see also that there is an active grain loading thread on the go in the forum, so I may have to offer my there as well.
Well, it is pizza time! Thanks CW.
Bruce
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good morning
farmers and grain hauling have been an issue since trains have started.Taking Mom to church and then to G+G house for her birthday today.Rain moving in this afternoon with maybe some thunderboomers.But today starts spring.Breakfast is ready.Juice and coffee are ready.hope everyone has a great day.
joe
Good Sunday afternoon: Joe, thanks for opening up this morning. When I came in at 7 a.m., the doors were locked: everything down for maintenance. This is the first chance I've had to get back in here.
Joe, be sure to wish Stacey a Happy Birthday from us! (I did log onto facebook this morning, and send her a birthday greeting.)
Mookie, you are definitely right: pizza would be good to dunk in milk, and then use the milk w/chocolate cake!! Just wish I could have some. But until I can get my cholesterol down, most sweets are off limits. I have eaten a few gingerbread cookies, as they don't seem to have much sugar in them (at least I can't taste any sugar, just the ginger).
For our Sunday Dinner today:
1. Roast beef w/all the trimmings
2. Grilled pork chops w/broccoli & butter sauce, garden salad and dinner rolls w/real butter.
We too are to be getting some rain sometime this afternoon, w/maybe some thunder boomers late afternoon, evening. Right now, though, the sun is shining.
Everyone have a good afternoon, and you all take care.
....Wow, this place is full of none activity...! Is the weather too nice for people to be on their computers...
Almost completely vacated in here today. Maybe the weather....maybe some losing interest. Basketball...?
Spring / Summer....some of us will see more rail activity as opposed to being inside so much in our Winter months. Jean just asked me if I heard all the trains yesterday and I had to reply..."no"....Perhaps, they wern't on my radar. It was a real nice day and we did just a bit of clean up yard work....leaves under shrubs....I cut down our ornamental tall "grass" that comes back up each season, and got it ready for the trash truck on Wed.
I didn't get it cut down last fall....So, I got out the electric hedge trimmers and sliced it off across the bottom....It soon will be renewing itself. It's in one of the areas at a corner of the house....Jean usually has flowers around it during the Summer.
Sorry, no railroad chatter to comment on...
Quentin
Good Monday morning everyone (if anyone bothers to show up this morning). Guess everyone was either busy watching NCAA games or out roaming around.
69 degrees and partly cloudy here in Louisville, KY this morning. Supposed to see a high today in the mid to upper 70s. Going to be a beautiful day, although on the breezy side, with winds 10 to 20 mph.
Coffee, juices and other morning beverages are fresh and ready to go. Breakfast is on the serving station.
Mookie, if you're coming in, I've got your coffee mug ready for coffee to be poured into it. Our rockers are set up right by the big bay window, so we can see the trains this morning.
Well, Syracuse is out of it - lost to Marquette last night. Michigan State lost a couple of days ago. I'll have to check and see if there's anybody else I'm interested in...
Raining with a hint of snow this morning. Old Man Winter isn't giving up easy.
I stop in from time to time, but don't always write anything on the wall...
I was about to type "onward," which reminded me of a story - years ago a senior class posed for a group picture. At their feet was a placard with their class motto - "Foward Ever, Backward Never." As the photographer was "post processing" the prints, he "vignetted" the picture (faded it out around the edges). In the process, he truncated the class motto to "Ever Backward..."
Onward to the day's projects.
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...
Good morning everyone.
Quentin, not a lack of interest, it just seemed there was too darn much "real life" intruding into my railfan activities yesterday. Telephone calls, out for supper, and catching up on necessary household errands.
I can't recall the last time I went over 24 hours without even a chance to look at the forum. And yes, sports, not Basketball but Curling, was part of the distraction yesterday. I can't find it now, but one of you had me going over the weekend talking about UK, up here it means something entirely different! So I went to the TSN site and looked up this NCAA thing. TSN is the network that handles the Championship Curling.
Well, that weather warning I was talking about turned into much ado about nothing. I think we have gotten as much snow since the warning ended as we got the whole time it was in effect. And that is not very much. So little in fact I haven't even seen a number mentioned. And there were no snow related accidents or even highway closures that I could see. I thought of Larry though when I did read one story. It seems a store selling fireplaces had a fire. The store manager said it was a good reminder not to place combustibles too close to heat sources!
There is light snow right now with a temperature of 22°F, a wind of 7 mph, and a wind chill of 14°. So much for the first day of spring. And there is a half, to one and a half, more inches of snow forecast for today, and an inch more for Tuesday.
Hope everyone has a good day.
At 2:53 p.m., we have a temp of 81 degrees, and it is clouding up. Both Walt and I were out earlier; we went in opposite direction, though. Sure is nice out, and the breeze isn't so bad, so far. It is manageable, anyway.
Bruce, I'm the one responsible for writing UK for University of Kentucky. That is what the University is known as around the state of Kentucky. And I believe UK can also stand for University of Kansas.
I've set out the makings for you all to "build your own" sandwiches, subs, hoagies, whichever you prefer. (Just heard an ice cream truck ringing their bell outside.)
Everyone enjoy your afternoon, and you all take care.
afternoon
nice outside now.cool down and rain on the way according to the guessers.Cw thanks for supper.Lots of projects to do.
...Well Bruce, I note a few more people in here today, so perhaps it's not going belly up yet.
Here....No snow, but temps in low 70's today....Hazy sunshine. Grass is growing.
Nothing exciting occuring here today....Did have 2 Dr's. appointments, scheduled, and got thru them with flying colors.
Wife met me at one Dr's. office and then followed me to near by Meijer's gas station and big box store as she was headed for the grocery. But first, I put gas in both vehicles....55 dollars worth and that was just to bring the tanks up to about 3/4 full....
Like to catch it at it's "lower price", and add some to our vehicles....Play the game along with them. One of them requires Premium too.
Did everyone see that!!! 81° and ice cream trucks in Louisville KY! Oh man.
It is up to 26° with light snow here.
CW, thanks for supper.
Good Tuesday morning everyone. Overslept this morning, and puter taking its own sweet time in booting up.
Bruce, if our 81 degrees from yesterday thrilled you, you'll absolutely love today: supposed to get up to the mid 80s with plenty more sunshine on tap.
Coffee, juices, milk, chocolate milk, hot water for tea are fresh and ready to go.
On the serving station: bagels, bear claws, fresh fruit (kiwi, papaya, cantaloupe), turkey bacon, pork sausage, scrambled eggs, toast, cereal.
Guess I'll see you all this afternoon, after I get through with Tuesday Produce. You all take care and have a good morning.
CW - 78 here today, 55 tomorrow and mid 30's by weekend. Ah spring!
Been watching the NL webcam. Going to have owlets and something in the Helmond nestbox this spring. Right now, both have mothers that spend a lot of time in the boxes, but possibly no eggs yet.
I have my south window open wide, can lean back in my puter chair, listening to the birds singing and the train whistles. Just like my hammock in the diner.
Having said that - time for a spring nap!
.....A seasonal appearing morning. Some hazy sunshine peeking thru light overcast. Spring is growing...! No measurable snow now for just a few days shy of a month.
Whew! I'm feeling less hyperventilated today. That talk of ice cream trucks yesterday got me all worked up!
27°F with light snow right now. 1-2" more snow forecast between Tuesday and Wednesday evening.
Right now I'm watching Canada play the USA in the Women's World Curling Championship in Denmark. Your USA team plays out of the Rochester NY Curling Club. The Skip is Patti Lank.
I will be back in a while.
80 degrees with a 30mph wind in Fort Worth, TX. Waiting on a load today, after giving a trailer it's last ride to it's new home this morning. Also got in touch with a friend who lives here, but he had to dispatch trains on the BNSF this afternoon.
Not much else has gone on, other than the 42,000 pounds of pancake syrup I had on Saturday. Now, if I only had 44,000 pounds of pancake mix......
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
Randy you'll need some sausage patties with that.
some rain has moved through nw ohio.Going to cool down this weekend.Need to get matt from school and get things ready for work.
Randy - that would almost qualify as a hazmat if it got loose all at once....
I read a story some years ago about a molasses tank that burst - we're talking thousands of gallons. There were casualties, and for weeks people were still tracking the stuff around and the area was filled with the sickeningly sweet smell.
In the 40's here today, with a promise of a low in the low teens overnight. Hopefully the snow will stay south of us, but it sounds like Syracuse will get another chance to move up their own list of snowiest winters.
Meeting tonight to discuss a new brush truck for the fire department.
tree68 Randy - that would almost qualify as a hazmat if it got loose all at once.... I read a story some years ago about a molasses tank that burst - we're talking thousands of gallons. There were casualties
I read a story some years ago about a molasses tank that burst - we're talking thousands of gallons. There were casualties
There was a documentary about that on "Disasters of the Century" or some such program. I was amazed to learn that lessons from that incident are used in the construction of oil storage tanks at refineries to this day.
We had quite the demolition derby during the evening rush hour yesterday, with the new snow. Police said there were an inordinate amount of rollover accidents. Apparently people were going so fast for the conditions that they weren't just sliding into each other, they were going so fast that when they got into trouble they were flipping their cars! Sounds like lots of fun.
Patti Lank's Team USA lost their Curling game to Canada. Sometimes games are won by skill and great execution, and sometimes by who makes the fewest mistakes. It was the latter scenario for the first eight ends of the game, but both teams made great shots in the ninth and tenth ends. It was just too late for the US team.
Still snowing but we are up to 29°F now.
tree68 Randy - that would almost qualify as a hazmat if it got loose all at once.... I read a story some years ago about a molasses tank that burst - we're talking thousands of gallons. There were casualties, and for weeks people were still tracking the stuff around and the area was filled with the sickeningly sweet smell.
Ah yes, the great Molasses Flood of 1918(?) in Boston, History Channel did a segment on it in their 'Engineering Disasters' miniseries a few years back, think I even have that DVD in the truck with me.
Staying in Fort Worth for the night, so enjoying the nice weather.....
Anyone in here?
//cleans off buffet and resets it for breakfast//
Can't sleep tonight, must have been something I ate earlier, oh well. Guess I'll go back to watching classic cartoons on YouTube.....
Have a good one, all.....
rain rain go away,snow stay away.time to get matt on the bus.randy thanks for breakfast.
Good Wednesday morning everyone. Randy, thank you so much for fixing breakfast. Didn't go to sleep until after 11:30 last night, woke up at 5 this morning, with a headache, so went back to bed and sleep. Been back up for about 40 minutes, still with headache.
We watched a Russell Crowe movie last night. The one where he is trying to get his wife out of the Alleghany County Jail, for a murder she didn't commit. Cant' remember the name of the movie, but it was very, very good.
Our high today is to be 71, 72 degrees, then we'll have a 30+ degree drop for tomorrow, with a high in the low 40s. Even though Easter is late this year, we have had snow on Easter morning here in Ky.: about 38, 39 years ago. Still remember it well.
Everyone have a good morning, and I'll see you all later.
Syracuse is showing snow on the traffic cams, but no accumulation yet. All that stuff is staying south of us - we're just getting a cold wind (chill factor currently +17F).
Good thing I got my outdoor project at the fire station done yesterday.
Well, we won't be long in getting the thunderstorms: just heard on the NWS radio that they're heading our way at 50 mph. We already have the high winds (at least Walt went out and brought the flag in, so it won't get ripped to threads).
For lunch/supper, I've fixed a corned beef brisket and we have broccoli to go with it; or, if you're like me, and don't care for broccoli, we have some peas & corn mix
Don't know if I'll make it back in this afternoon/tonight, so you all take care, if you're in the path of these storms/tornado watches/warnings, and keep safe.
Yesterday afternoon, we had warnings all over the place. Had a big red spot right over Lincoln. Should have had a major storm. We got a cloud out of the whole thing. No rain, no thunder, no nothing. Did hit mid 70's, however.
Fri - snow predicted and you can just bet we will get that! Snow predictions are always right on!
AARRGG - I was so enjoying the sun and warmth. Sun today, but not very warm.
CW - been trying to get a good corned beef here at home. They haven't looked so good, but will keep trying!
Afternoon everyone. Not feeling so hot myself. Just general muscle aches all over. I new I wouldn't get up in time to watch it this morning, so now I am watching Curling on the DVR. Right shoulder hurts as I type this, so I will finish quickly.
26°F, SE wind at 11 mph, wind chill of 16°F, and light snow. Snow is supposed to continue in waves until Friday. Less than an inch a day forecast.
Everyone have a good day.
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