afternoon
matt keeps talking about expanding our layout,I just said better talk to Mom first.Going to get him from his afterschool program later.It's almost done for the school year as is his school year.Right now it's off to do chores.Paula thanks for filling up the lunchbox.Off to work later.
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 morning!
Hope all is well here. Southwest Wyoming has been Really warm (65 degrees on Saturday) then just freezing cold and snowy since. I caught UP 2002 in Rock Springs yesterday, (it appears to have been attached to the local switch job here.) It was just parked on the team track by itself.
Also, I am a reader of a comic called XKCD. It is full of science and sarcasam... and it's just downright awesome! Here is a train related one (Even if it is model trains) that you all might find funny......
Hope you liked that one....
Have a great day everyone!!
RJ
"Something hidden, Go and find it. Go and look behind the ranges, Something lost behind the ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go." The Explorers - Rudyard Kipling
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Quentin; I have noticed that the website in the late afternoon is like rush hour traffic on the city freeway~~~ (drive home time).
Cannonball
Y6bs evergreen in my mind
....Didn't take long to open this site up this morning, but it's pretty usless at night. Sometimes one can get on in a "reasonable" time, but not consistently.
Sure would be nice to have this site operating even as well as it is now....in the evening. Soon we'll have no one in here....
Quentin
Good Tuesday morning everyone. Man, it took me 20 minutes to get on the computer this morning. But had no trouble getting in here to the forums. We currently have a temp of 44 degrees with cloudy skies this morning, here in Louisville. Supposed to make it up to about 54 degrees by 4, 5 p.m.
I went shopping yesterday afternoon, and, even with my raincoat on, got drenched! Managed to get most of what I was going for, except for the one thing Walt needed most: Walmart's grey primer spray paint. After I got home, called another Walmart location, and they were out of it also. I think that is a first for them with their primer spray paint.
Coffee, juices and other morning beverages are fresh and ready to go. Breakfast is on the serving station.
Now, in a bit, I'll have to go start getting ready for my Tuesday Produce people.
Everyone have a good morning, and I'll see you all, hopefully, later. Take care, you all.
Don't know what's up with Kalmbach's servers, but they need a turbocharger or four.....
Well, the DOT doctor today said I was good to go for another year, so that's one less thing I need to worry about for the next two weeks or so, heading back out tomorrow and will finish moving when I'm back on the 20th. While I was around Milwaukee, stopped at Walthers and bought some flatcars that were on sale, I'll have a pretty long intermodal train when I'm done.....
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
WOW!! Either the Diner/Cafe if really busy, or Kalmbach's web site i slower than Moleasses today; it's taken me almost an hour to get in here.
Our weather today, apologies to other people that have had worse.
Menu for tonight: Fried Chicken for people that can catch them, and Dumplings!
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!!
still raining here in nw ohio.Matt is working on his homework.Cw thanks for supper.Time to get things around for work.
joe
.....Monday......Brief hard rain overnight. LIght rain several times this morning. Still mild in temp. Reached 73 plus yesterday with sunshine...and wind.
We're under a storm watch included in a wide area of the mid west and upper mid west.
Have friends / family stating to our Muncie today from Florida....They purchased a small home here several years ago to spend this extended season here....until roughly October, each year until they migrate back here. Have to wait to several conditions change....
Severe weather forecasts between there and here possible today....Hope they can stay away from most of that....They {neice & husband}, are really anxious to get back here......
I....must put off another day of yard mowing....Hopefully, I can take advantage of probable sunshine and mild temps for tomorrow. It is now really starting to grow, and this needs to get started...
Just received the brand new edition of TRAINS this morning...Of course May issue....and a new Motor Trend mag...Even as I'm retired and have been for approching 2 decades, never seem to get time to get thru my mags until a new iteration arrives....How did we ever do such things before we retired.....
Seems a lot of time swishes away as one catches up on many things on this {computer} thing....daily.
Mookie Bruce, when does your winter officially end? Our last frost date is 5/15, but we usually don't hang on that long. At least not in these latter years.
Bruce, when does your winter officially end? Our last frost date is 5/15, but we usually don't hang on that long. At least not in these latter years.
Good morning everyone. I will get to Mookie's question first. Historically we have had only one frost free month in Calgary, July. The latest frost we have ever had is in the last day or two of June, and the first frost can come during the final week of August. Farmers can get out on the land in May and harvest in September. Measurable amounts of snow though, are a different matter. A couple of years ago we set a record where now we have no snow free months anymore. There was a trace amount on the ground either July 1 or 2, I forget which.
My brother is three years younger than me, and my sister is eight younger than him, and we all started the school year at least once with snow on the ground, although the year's were separated by over a decade. Receiving a small amount of snow during the last week of school, which ends at the end of June, was not that uncommon. One final weather fact, Calgary has never hit a high of 100°F, although the town of Strathmore, 30 miles east of us, has. That is due to the slight drop in elevation away from the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.
Enough history, today we are at 37°F, with a wind of 7, and a windchill 32°. Currently we are cloudy, which almost seems like a good thing compared to the brightness of yesterday. That was wild.
As to RR news. CP had a problem on their Lethbridge-Medicine Hat, AB line on Saturday. High water levels closed the line for almost 24 hours near the village of Bow Island. This is down in that part of the province I mentioned yesterday, that can sometimes have real problems with winter runoff. It had gotten warn enough before this last storm to start the melting, but the cooler temperature now has stopped that. Slow and steady are the watch words for melting down there.
CW, thanks for breakfast.
Bruce
So shovel the coal, let this rattler roll.
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morning
had some thunder boomers this morning with more to come.time to get matt on the bus.Cw thanks for breakfast.Goodnight.
Good Monday morning everyone. 74 degrees at 5:51 a.m. Hopefully, I'll be home before the rain/storms roll in. My appointment for therapy is at 9:00, and my ride should be here about 8 a.m. Wind gusts today will range from 40 to 45 mph. We must be at our high for the day, because I heard the meteorologist say that when the frontal system comes through, and the rain/storms have started, our temp will be down to 64 degrees.
Coffee, juices and other morning beverages are fresh and ready to go. Breakfast is ready and on the serving station.
Everyone have a good morning, take care and I'll see you all later.
Excellent dinner, CW! One chicken/one steak - two hands comes in handy!
MC - As you know - Willy lives 50 miles from me and we can't get a drop of rain. If it is snow, we can get that. Just no moisture otherwise. But very high north winds tomorrow. (Driver won't be going fishing unless he can learn to parasail quickly)
Off to find trouble. Think he is in the living room.
Moo.....
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
Nice, beautiful day: 80 degrees here in Louisville at 5:00 p.m. But it is very, very breeze (windy).
For our Sunday Dinner tonight:
1. Grilled chicken w/a blend of broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, peas & snap beans
2. Grilled steaks w/above vegetables and steak fries
Mudchicken, we're not supposed to have any snow, but we are to get rain/thunderstorms later this evening, through at least tomorrow morning.
Everyone enjoy your meal, have a good evening and take care.
Good afternoon. Well, we got quite a bit of snow yesterday. I haven't heard the numbers, but it was the heavy moist spring type snow. It is sunny now and is it ever bright! It is almost two weeks past the equinox, so the sun is now higher in the sky, and reflecting off of this new layer of clean white snow. I know it is not the correct smiley, but do you ever need sunglasses today.
34°F right now.
We are normally a semi-arid area, so when this heavy wet snow starts to melt it can cause problems if it melts too quickly. And if it is sitting on old snow that hasn't melted yet, it softens that up and you have even more melt water. I haven't heard anything yet but these mismatched types of snow can also cause avalanches west of us.
Hope everyone has a good day.
MC, +1 on your last observation.
85 Degrees yesterday,60 Degrees this morning, 50 degrees now , thunderstorms this afternoon and snow (2-3") tonight....variety? Willy2 and the gang outdid themselves this time. Keep the moisture coming!
Aerated the lawn yesterday, the dogs are still checking out the sod plugs. Hoping for green sometime soon. The prairies are burning bigtime, 1000+ acre range fire near Ft. Collins last night. Quentin rolls flat the grass, we turn sod into swiss cheese. (Quentin has topsoil, we have brick)
Pleased with the outcome so far in the final four. (would like to see GPA and graduation rate trump PPG)
guessers say thunderstorms and rain moving in later today.It's time for back to work tonight and Matt goes back to school tomorrow. We did stop at deshler yesterday afternoon.Very very busy.Q 133 had to wait in south Deshler for q 342 to squeeze into a siding.Meanwhile q 324 came and took the nw transfer to go to Toledo.We weren't going anywhere for awhile.Cw thanks for supper for tonight.Off to get stuff ready for tonight.
Good Sunday morning everyone. Well, we are starting the day with a temp of 45 degrees, supposed to get up to 75, but it is going to be a very windy day, with high gusts this afternoon, to about 8 p.m.
Sorry about the Cats losing; it was a semi good game, but guess the guys have worn themselves out. At least that is what it looked like to me. Maybe next year.
Everyone have a good morning, keep safe and take care.
locomuttRandy, know what you mean. Our house dates to 1900, give or take a couple of years on either side.
Did I hear Hawaiian?
Spent a fair part of the day keeping an eye on a benefit for one of the managers of our local convenience store. She's quite ill. Since Zumba is pretty popular hereabouts these days, they held a Zumba session, along with a bunch of raffles. I'm told the profit was pretty good.
I've also been working on a sign for the fire department. One of our members happened on a moveable letter sign (like you see just about everywhere) someone was getting rid of. New versions are ~$600. This one was free, but fixing it up is going to cost a bit of time and money.
All day fire class tomorrow - time to start thinking about bed.
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...
CW, that Supreme pizza sounds interesting, I think I will go with that.
Well, no Curling trips for me. I cracked open the Daytimer and there it was, a doctors appointment next Thursday. And that appointment has already been rescheduled once, by him. So I guess I'm stuck with watching it on the TV.
27°F and still snowing, but I think it is slowing down a little. Lots of road closures, but I haven't heard of any rail problems yet.
Well, it may have been a slow day here in the Cafe/Diner, but I've been busy here at home. Did laundry, mended some of the laundry items that needed it. Walt went to the library this afternoon, and battled the wind both ways. Even with the wind, it is fairly warm outside. I even had to turn the little fan in the living room up to medium speed, to better move the air around.
Here is our Saturday Night Pizza menu for tonight:
1. Anchovie
2. Canadian Bacon
3. Cheese
4. Goetta
5. Ham & green pepper
6. Hawaiian
7. Italian sausage
8. Pepperoni/mushroom
9. Supreme (tonight, known as UK pizza)
10. Chicago style
Desserts tonight: blueberry cobbler w/vanilla ice cream, peach pie, and, for Mookie, yellow cake w/chocolate icing.
Everyone have a very good evening, take care, and see you all in the morning.
rvos1979 Walt: The house dates from 1951, when builders still used boards for the floor, BX for wiring, and before the use of copper in plumbing. There will be upgrades as time and money permits, thinking the plumbing will be first up, nothing is really wrong with anything, just that the gas water heater is on the opposite side of the house from everything that uses water (I can tell where the water heater used to be). It will keep me busy for a while.... Layout was dismantled and moved today, but rain put a damper on moving anything else, so will have to wait for tomorrow. Apartment is already beginning to look a little bare.... Fish fry will work tonight, a good beer-battered cod sounds really good....
Walt: The house dates from 1951, when builders still used boards for the floor, BX for wiring, and before the use of copper in plumbing. There will be upgrades as time and money permits, thinking the plumbing will be first up, nothing is really wrong with anything, just that the gas water heater is on the opposite side of the house from everything that uses water (I can tell where the water heater used to be). It will keep me busy for a while....
Layout was dismantled and moved today, but rain put a damper on moving anything else, so will have to wait for tomorrow. Apartment is already beginning to look a little bare....
Fish fry will work tonight, a good beer-battered cod sounds really good....
Randy, know what you mean. Our house dates to 1900, give or take a couple of years on either side.
Boards are boards, plumbing was upgraded to copper before we bought the place, electric is better than it was.......it takes awhile, but just hang in there.
April 2nd, and still no mowing.....Getting behind in our "normal" activities outside. We have cloudy and partly sunny and into the 40's now, but I need a bit warmer to go and hit the first mowing. Maybe by this afternoon...?? If it doesn't rain by then.
And just now the sun came streaming in my eastern window here by the computer, from behind the moving clouds....Like to see it stay out more, to help to warm us up outside. It has power now...
Good morning, nice to see everyone here for the Second Quarter.
Unbelievably, we are have our apparently regularly scheduled weekend blizzard again today. When I got the text weather warning yesterday morning I thought it was an April Fool's Joke. I hadn't been on the forum the last couple of days because the weather had been so nice. I was out catching up on things to be done.
Wednesday was so nice it was still in the high forties at sundown, and on Thursday night I was walking home from friends about 11:00 PM and it was in the high thirties. That temperature always feels nicer in the spring than it does in the fall. Then it started snowing last evening and it is really giving her now. 29°F, 12 mph wind, and a windchill of 21°.
So far it is too soon to hear of snow related trouble on the road or the rails.
Starting this afternoon and running until Prime Time next Sunday evening the World Men's Curling Championship is being played in Regina, SK. This means I will be watching sports on TV at sensible times. However, part of me really wants to find a low airfare and go there toward the end of next week to see some games in person. It would only be an hour flight, but I'm afraid my inner accountant will try and tell me it is not in the budget. I will have to decide sometime on Monday.
Meanwhile I will just have to stay inside out of the snow.
Good Saturday morning everyone. Decided to sleep in a little bit this morning. Currently 44 degrees w/partly cloudy skies, and going for a high of about 61, 62 degrees. It looks like it is going to be a very beautiful day.
Coffee, juices, milk, chocolate milk, strawberry milk, cider, and hot water for hot tea are all fresh and ready to go. Our regular Saturday morning brunch is on the serving station.
Looking out the front door, I see a robin sitting on the chain link fence in the front yard. Oops: it just flew away. Must have know I was watching him.
Everyone enjoy your brunch, have a good, safe day and take care. See you all later this evening for our pizza fest.
Randy
driving around looks like others had moving day on their minds.lots of new houses up for sale too.Too bad they are not in our school district. i brought home some indiana with me from driving some back roads near the state line.There is a train of empty KRL big load cars waiting to move west in Hicksville.Seems Garrett is plugged up as usual on a Friday night.Cw thanks for supper.Going to finish up a project and relax.
Busy, busy morning: paid bills, went to grocery, and bought bus tickets for Walt and myself. Whew! Warming up nicely, though, as our current temp is in the mid 50s w/sunshine.
Here is our Friday Fish Fry menu:
FISH:
1. Catfish
2. Cod
3. Flounder
4. Halibut
5. Haddock
6. Perch
7. Jumbo butterfly shrimp
8. Salmon patties
SIDE DISHES:
1. Baked beans
2. Cole slaw
3. Fries
4. Hush puppies
5. Breaded fried mushrooms
6. Corn on the cob
7. Spinach or mixed greens
DESSERTS:
1. Chocolate cake
2. Yellow cake w/caramel icing
3. Strawberry/rhubarb pie
4. Cobblers: Apple, Blueberry, Cherry, Peach
5. Pecan Pie
Hope you all enjoy the meal, have a good afternoon, what's left of it, and evening, and everyone take care.
Yes. April Fool's Day....but a very bright sunny one here. Temps still below normal. 29 when I first looked earlier this morning.
Must head over to the church to install envelopes in the pews this morning.
Not sure just how warm it might get today, that would promote firing up the John Deere from it's Winter sleep.....
Noted the awesome snow "plowing" thru New England today....and it being April....Must be a weatherman's April Fool's joke.
We have the really cold months behind us now....and that's a good feeling here.
Good Friday morning and Happy April's Fool Day to one and all. We have 35 degrees this morning, supposed to get up to between 55 and 58 degrees by 4 p.m. EDT. But that's also when the rain is supposed to arrive here. The guessers also say we might possibly hear some rumbles of thunder this evening.
Randy, thanks so much for taking care of getting us moved, along with moving into your new house.
Joe, thank you for getting breakfast ready this morning, and fixing the coffee, etc. Everyone have a very good day, and I'll see you all later.
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