Afternoon/evening all.....
Sorry I haven't been on lately, my smartphone does just enough on the Internet that I don't get on here much anymore. And I have just been too tired after driving to fire up the laptop......
Had a windstorm through here last week, did some damage to the deck, looks like I will be re-doing railings on the deck this fall, I have an idea that my sister likes. Ah, the joys of home ownership, the to-do list just keeps getting longer.....
The other reason I'm here is that the truck is in the Richfield shop to have an overheating issue resolved, was pulling a beer load across West Virginia last Thursday, and pulling the hills, the water temp was at 210 degrees and still climbing, even with the engine fan on. I'm suspecting the radiator has about five year's worth of dirt and dead bugs stuck in it.
Will take some Pizza, and retire to a booth....
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
.....Another nice day under way here in central Indiana. comfortable temps., sunshine and low humidity. Very nice, compared to hi humidity recently.
House window window washing under way here at the residence.
Quentin
Tom, hope your hand will soon start to improve and heal.
Here is the menu Sarah has picked for today, for her Birthday Meal:
Cheese pizza, made with whole wheat flour, tomato sauce and mozzarella cheese.
And, since we have the cheese pizza, have taken our other list of pizzas out of the freezer, and they are in the oven now. They'll be ready in 5 minutes:
1. Anchovie
2. Chicago style
3. Goetta
4. Ham & green pepper
5. Hawaiian
6. Italian sausage
7. Canadian bacon
8. Pepperoni & mushroom
9. Supreme
And, for dessert: C H O C O L A T E C A K E W/CHOCOLATE ICING.
Everyone have a good afternoon, keep safe, take care and see you all later on.
Good morning from Carolina. 76 and sunny, headed, so they9 say, for 89.
My hand continues to aggravate me, making typing difficult. I go back the surgeon in a couple of weeks for a final evaluation.
Everyone keep cool and safe
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 Tuesday morning everyone, and Happy Birthday Sarah! May all your wishes today come true, and hope you enjoy your day (even if you have to work today)!! There is still much chocolate cake left from last night, and I know Sarah will enjoy a slice of chocolate cake!!
Coffee, juices and other morning beverages are fresh and ready to go. On the serving station this morning: bagels, English muffins (2 of Sarahs' favorites) fried eggs, turkey sausage, cantaloupe, watermelon and kiwi, along with regular pork sausage, bacon, and toast.
Running behind schedule this morning, so will wish you all a good morning, keep safe and take care. See you all later.
Yep - Matt can have my fries today.
Met the young whippersnapper when I visited Deshler - he knows the trains!
The list of "to-do's" just seems to get longer every day....
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...
Shucks - Shoulda invested in french-fry futures. I hear they jumped quite a bit today.
Happy B'Day Mr. Matt
Happy Birthday to Matt. That 10 years went really fast!
Early Happy Day to Sarah. Won't talk about her being over 10.
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
cherokee woman Joe, thanks for the reminder on Matt's birthday; think I put it down on my calendar wrong for this year: I have it listed as being tomorrow, same as our Sarah's birthday. MATT: HAPPY 10TH BIRTHDAY!!!!! Hope you're having a terrific day today! But, the good news is: I do have a chocolate cake w/chocolate icing, that is ready and is decorated with "HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MATT" on it for dessert tonight. For our meal tonight: 1. Whole chicken, but up into parts, and fried a nice golden brown, with mashed taters, milk gravy, green beans, or broccoli or Brussels sprouts and corn on the cob, cole slaw and garden salad, and your choice of dinner rolls or made-from-scratch buttermilk biscuits. 2. Leftover roast beef, carrots and taters, and all the above listed side dishes in #1 on menu. For anyone who doesn't like or want chocolate birthday cake, there is yellow cake w/white icing, and peach or strawberry cobbler for dessert. We have known for awhile that we have a stray black cat residing in our crawl space under the house: what we didn't know is that she has 2 baby kittens! I figure they are about 4 weeks old, they have a nice coat of fur, and are walking about. I need to download the couple of pictures I got of them this morning. After I get the pictures downloaded, I'll post one or both of them on here. Anyone want to give a good home to a free kitten?!?!
Joe, thanks for the reminder on Matt's birthday; think I put it down on my calendar wrong for this year: I have it listed as being tomorrow, same as our Sarah's birthday. MATT: HAPPY 10TH BIRTHDAY!!!!! Hope you're having a terrific day today!
But, the good news is: I do have a chocolate cake w/chocolate icing, that is ready and is decorated with "HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MATT" on it for dessert tonight.
For our meal tonight:
1. Whole chicken, but up into parts, and fried a nice golden brown, with mashed taters, milk gravy, green beans, or broccoli or Brussels sprouts and corn on the cob, cole slaw and garden salad, and your choice of dinner rolls or made-from-scratch buttermilk biscuits.
2. Leftover roast beef, carrots and taters, and all the above listed side dishes in #1 on menu.
For anyone who doesn't like or want chocolate birthday cake, there is yellow cake w/white icing, and peach or strawberry cobbler for dessert.
We have known for awhile that we have a stray black cat residing in our crawl space under the house: what we didn't know is that she has 2 baby kittens! I figure they are about 4 weeks old, they have a nice coat of fur, and are walking about. I need to download the couple of pictures I got of them this morning. After I get the pictures downloaded, I'll post one or both of them on here. Anyone want to give a good home to a free kitten?!?!
Paula, I'll take a good slice of the chocolate cake (if Mookie has left any) and a dish of peach cobbler; Ricki will take a slice of the yellow cake.
When I was out a few minutes ago, the temperature was up to seventy.
This morning, I finished cutting some broken branches out of one of the pussywillow trees, tomorrow promises to be a good day to put another coat of near-white paint on the stoop and perhaps cut some firewood; bzzzz!
Johnny
afternoon
Just got back home from getting matt at bible school.He is the big 10(YES 10) ALREADY.He asks questions like aunt mookie and can be ornry at times.Cw he would lake chocolate cake with chocolate frosting.Thanks for supper.Time for other projects at hand.
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").
It's 2 legged and seems to have "elevator" problems of some sort.
We live in a 2 story side-by-side duplex. Bedrooms/bath up and basement. He lives in basement; roomie lives upstairs and they share the main floor (kitchen and living room)
He keeps all windows covered and even with mini-blinds at the back door window, he put notebook paper on each side of the blinds so no one can peek in the sides.
We can't keep any kind of tools in the garage or he just helps himself.
Had to have a chat with him about staying out of our mailbox. He would open ours to see if mail had been delivered when he didn't get any.
Blocked our door at halloween with his so the kids would go to their door and couldn't see ours. I quit buying candy for halloween after that. Saves $$$$.
I got tired of him alphabetizing the garbage and sorting thru it looking for jars, containers or anything else he thought he should hoard, so Driver put a smaller garbage can with wheels outside next to our back door and drilled a hole in the lip of the lid and put a padlock on it. We put our garbage in it each day, lock it up and then I take it to the bigger containers on garbage day.
It made him mad that he didn't have access to our garbage anymore, so he backed over our personal garbage can with his car. Big dent down by one of the wheels.
Landlord knows, but I told him to not say anything - at least they are quiet. We can handle it by making changes. And we have definitely lived next to a lot worse.
Never a dull moment!
Back home, finally. Can put off dealing with Maryland for a while, like maybe next April in Baltimore. (See you then PDN.... Guess I get to see you work up a sweat first in MN)
Got home just in time to wrassle with Gus in the bathtub and catch up on da honeydooz.
Thanx for all the kind words last week. (I was kinda busy getting ready to teach some 100 of my fellow mudchickens and not on the forum much; the copy machines are are still panting & weezing here.)
They closed Raton Pass this morning due to fire and smoke on the hill ("Track Fire" -. http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_18260517 http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/play/2543347/track_fire_near_raton_burns_2_700_acres?cpt=8&wpid=) Hope they get some rain soon. We have cases of flooding and fires happening out here at the same time - weird. Not a good day for Amtrak around here.
I was wondering the same thing, Quentin. Several times when I was out walking early in the morning, I have come across a two-legged recycle bin pawer; he is gathering aluminum cans, and I am sure he knows which bins have treaure troves of aluminum cans.
A little cool here this morning; in the upper fifties. We have a promise of a few days in the eighties, and then back down to the seventies. We also have a promise of maybe some rain. I have started watering our grass.
The band of the junior high school that is behind our house is going past on the street just now as they practice for the Days of Forty-Seven parade (24 July). I'm glad that I do not have to work evenings or nights.
Is this neighbor that "paws" around in your garbage a two legged one Jen....? If so, what might "he" be doing that for....?
Muncie this morning: Nice blue sky, with high puffy white clouds, and sunshine. Temp. now: 68 at 11:17. Nice and dry / cool...After our yard work last evening, it really looks nice.
I got a new battery in the motor on the rockin' chair - I'm ready.
Had to get up early this morning for my meeting with the garbage man. 2x's a week we meet. I lock up our garbage to keep our strange neighbor out of it during the week. But I have to get up by 6 am and transfer it to big containers and then play watchlady to make sure neighbor doesn't sneak out there and paw around in it.
He's very nosy. Really bent his nose when I started locking it up until collection days.
Rivers are high and still rising. Going to be a very long summer! BNSF & UP rerouting around our area. Now what will I do for entertainment! I guess move to KS where they are rerouting all traffic.
Blah.
Good Monday morning everyone! 64 degrees with cloudy skies here in Louisville this morning. Very comfortable outside, even a tad bit chilly!! It is a welcome relief. Murray, between Mookie and myself, maybe you'll be getting some rain down your way.
Coffee, juices and the other morning beverages are fresh and ready to go. On the serving station this morning: bagels, bear claws, bacon, sausage, eggs, toast, cantaloupe, watermelon, kiwi, papaya, fresh sliced tomatoes.
May have to dig out a pair of sweat pants for in the morning, as it is to be very cool, with our projected high tomorrow of 79 degrees. Heck, I even may need a light jacket in the morning, when I go to Produce.
Everyone have a great morning, take care and see you all later.
Hey Mookie, want to go sit out in the garden this morning, in our rocking chairs? We've got a really nice morning for it!
Mookie Murray - NE and IA are sending water to TX/LA just as fast as we can. Up to you to spread it out.
Murray - NE and IA are sending water to TX/LA just as fast as we can. Up to you to spread it out.
Thanks Mookie!
I have my catch basins ready....
beautiful day outside today.Everyone had a great time at the sunday school picnic.cw thanks for supper for tonight.Time to relax before we go back to work tonight.
Murray, saying prayers that you all receive a steady, gentle rain for about a week, to relieve your drought conditions! At least it would help the deficit somewhat.
For our Sunday Dinner menu today:
1. Roast, potatoes, carrots, corn on the cob, baked cornbread, your choice of green beans or broccoli w/cheese sauce
2. Leftover pizza from last night
3. Grilled steaks, pork chops, chicken, brats, hamburgers, hot dogs w/baked beans, corn on the cob, cole slaw, potato salad, and freshly prepared garden tossed salad.
Hope you enjoy, have a good afternoon and take care.
Good morning everyone. Its another bright sunshiny day here in Alamo City. Out expected high today will be 100.
Exceptionally dry down here. and there has been many wildfires out in West Texas. My wife and I took a drive up into the Hill Country northwest of San Antonio and its even worse up there.
San Antonio has received a total of 4.03 inches of rain for the year. Normally we have 14.34 inches...a deficit of 10.31 inches.
Fortunately it looks like the La Nina weather pattern (responsible for the nasty weather, and our lack of rain) is fading, and we may be slowly getting back to a more normal weather pattern.
Those of you in the area's threatened with flooding...be careful. And if anyone has a way to ship that water done here, we'll gladly take it.
Enjoy your Sunday!
Good Sunday morning everyone. I hope everyone had a good evening, and got a good night's sleep.
Coffee, juices, milk, chocolate milk, apple cider, hot water for hot tea, are fresh and ready to go. On the serving station this morning: cold pizzas from last night, bacon, sausage, eggs, and toast.
Keep safe going to Church, work, railfanning, or whatever else you have planned for this morning (maybe you worked last night, and getting ready to go to sleep); take care and see you all later.
YAA! Pizza time again. I think I will go with a Supreme and Peach Cobbler for dessert. Thanks CW.
Been raining all day and it is still 50°. There have been warnings all day to stay off the Bow and Elbow Rivers through Calgary, but as we all know it is very hard to get teenagers to listen. Here is a story from CTV Calgary:
The Cochrane Fire Department, EMS, and Fish and Wildlife personnel attended the scene and assisted in the search for the group of rafters.
The rafts were found hitched to the shore.
It was later found that all five rafters, three men and two women, were picked up by a CPR train conductor and taken to Cochrane.
Cochrane was once the first open station west of Calgary. It was closed when CTC was installed in 1967. Of all the stations once open on the Laggan Sub., Cochrane along with Banff, were the only two my Dad never worked at on that line.
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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Well, let's see if I can get this posted this time (tried an hour ago, and kept getting an error message.
Saturday Night Pizza Menu:
2. Canadian bacon
3. Cheese
4. Chicago style
5. Goetta
6. Ham & green pepper
7. Hawaiian
8. Italian sausage
9. Pepperoni/mushroom
10. Supreme
Desserts:
1. Chocolate cake
2. Peach cobbler
3. Blackberry cobbler
4. Ice cream (all kinds of flavors in the freezer, with lots of chocolate ice cream)
Everyone enjoy, have a very good evening, take care, and I'll see you all in the morning.
,,,Enjoyed the couple of photos in the back of the current Train's mag. of the Johnstown, Pa. area. Still trying to figure out which building that is in one of the photos. A building of rather good size in the background...I should be able to ID that, but I'm drawing a "0".
went to work out this morning at the Y.We couldn't go swimming because they are installing new diving boards for the college swim team.We saw a short stack train and an empty coal hopper train(e960) go west.getting ready to head back out to our nieces 1st birthday party.Cw would you save us some pizza for tonight please?
....Warm and sticky here today. Sunshine the last 5 or 6 hours. 1.3" of rain in the gauge for the last 24.
Good Morning.
It was a good thing that I got out and had a look around the neighbourhood last night, it is raining and 50° now.
Not sure what my plan for today is, I hadn't expected rain. I should have paid more attention.
No other news right now.
Good Saturday morning everyone. 69 degrees, and we've had rain overnight. As a matter of fact, the heavy downpour around 4, 5 a.m. woke me up. But, I managed to go right back to sleep.
Coffee, juices and other morning beverages are fresh and ready to go. On the serving station this morning:
turkey bacon, eggs, sausage, pancakes, waffles, country fried ham, grits, cantaloupe and watermelon, kiwi and papaya.
Everyone have a great day, and keep safe while out and about today. See you all this evening for our pizza fest.
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