Had McD's in the park this morning at 7 am. In the shade, it was nice. But temp now @ 9:30 is 85 with 61% -
How about an ice cream social this afternoon - old-fashioned ice cream sodas (not pop) and root beer floats...Maybe popcorn to go with them? Yum....Somehow the new freezes and whatevers just aren't the same.
Tall glasses and long spoons....
Ah.
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
And Boston Coolers (floats made with Vernor's ginger ale)!!!
Methinks a nice selection of salads and cold cuts would be the choice for lunch.
Not as hot here as in Mookieland, but it's still enough to get your attention.
One thing I don't like about hot weather is the requisite constant consumption of liquids. After a while I get tired of drinking water (and other stuff for that matter). I try to stay away from soda as it really doesn't absorb into the body all that fast and has lots of calories (and I don't do diet).
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...So the heat wave continues. First look at the instrument this morning showed: 82.2...! That's a warm start.
Upon going to bed last night at about 12:45 our instrument showed to be still at 85.2 degrees....!! A high for this season.
Still dry here.
Quentin
Tree - have you tried G2 for hydration? My internist recommends it. Keeps you from getting leg cramps, too! (and it is cheap!)
Mookie Tree - have you tried G2 for hydration? My internist recommends it. Keeps you from getting leg cramps, too! (and it is cheap!)
Oh, yeah - and it does work well. In the fire service, it's been recommended that FF's entering rehab (rest and recovery) on days like today drink one sports drink and two waters. On the railroad, I find that a bottle or two of water (with G2 thrown in there somewhere) every trip seems to keep me in balance.
Stuff with more exertion (like switching cars) warrants a little more.
Sometimes I'll mix a packet of flavoring into a bottle of water for a change of pace, especially if I'm just "sipping."
The key at all times is to ensure that your urine remains mostly light colored. If it's the color of tea, you need fluids, and now. The same is true if you haven't had to answer a call of nature for a while, ie, longer than normal.
Mookie How about an ice cream social this afternoon - old-fashioned ice cream sodas (not pop) and root beer floats..
How about an ice cream social this afternoon - old-fashioned ice cream sodas (not pop) and root beer floats..
That sounds like great fun. I was never big on floats, but I love sundae's and banana splits.
Larry talking about his favourite Ginger Ale, reminds me of a story about a Canadian who had moved down to the Chicago area. He could not find a brand of Potato Chips made in the US that he liked, so he used to drive back up to Winnipeg and come back over the border with a carload of Old Dutch brand chips in various flavours. And before he was married, the actor Michael J. Fox used to have his mother send boxes of Smarties to him in Los Angeles. Smarties and M&M's are basically the same thing. I see now from TV commercials that you folks have Caramilk and OH Henry chocolate bars. Were I younger, that news would have lessened my reluctance to move to the US.
The big North American heat wave is trying to happen here, but it can't quite pull it off. The thunder storm warning we received yesterday morning was cancelled by 3:30, and although we received another warning this morning at 10:47, I don't see anything happening. We never made it to our forecasted high yesterday, and it is only 70° right now with a high if 77° predicted. So, compared to what I see on the TV, we are getting off lucky.
No new RR news today. Everyone stay cool.
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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....A note on local railroad spur to connect our Park One, Industrial Park at Muncie. Located at I-69 & route 332, just west of Muncie.
Brevini, the company preparing to manufacture gear sets for power producing wind mills has been in the works now for several years.
Finally, our morning paper shows the necessary concerns, County....N S Railroad....and other necessary signers, etc....have finally signed on to now allow the approx. one plus mile of railroad spur to be constructed from the Frankfort line {nearby} to the Industrail Park.
The line will serve other businesses in the Park as well.
But Brevini needs it to transport the gear sets that will be manufactured at their new plant, which has been mostly completed.
This project has been struggling for several years now. Now, hopefully....the spur construction can proceed. Hopefully, quickly.
AgentKid And before he was married, the actor Michael J. Fox used to have his mother send boxes of Smarties to him in Los Angeles. Smarties and M&M's are basically the same thing.
Unless it's a local nickname.
Mookie and Larry, I love your ideas for lunch/supper tonight. Just the tickets to help us all cool down! And that is exactly what is on the menu tonight: Got a couple of electric ice cream makers going, along with a couple of "hand crank" ice cream makers, so we should have plenty of ice cream. And there's plenty of root beer for root beer floats and Dr. Pepper for Dr. Pepper floats also. I believe there's even a couple of really large watermelons in a big metal tub filled with ice, getting nice and cold.
need water? us too.Hicksville needs csx permission to fix a broken water line under a viaduct in town.The right of way belongs to the railroad.And in other news our great niece Lauren has been named miss lake festival princess in Celina Ohio.Bosses are around the warehouse with plenty of water for us.back to work 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").
Good morning and peace be with you. 74 and clear in Carolina this mornng, headed for 100+. Nuff said about that.
I have been up most of the night ebaying the coin dept. The govt here has no use for collectng and I get some long winded speeches at times, but I have fun looking at them goodies that I generally can't afford anyway. Coins are like trains. They are habit forming...
Everyone take care and stay as cool as possible.
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 Wednesday afternoon, folks! We have been without power, until just about an hour ago, since 11:40 last night. Big ole thunderstorm, with winds blowing 35, 40 mph+ per hour, did a big number in the West End of Louisville. The three of us went out on the front porch, and basically stayed outside until about 3 a.m., just so we could keep cool. Plenty of heat lightning, after the storm passed over. Sarah went to the RR Yard to get ice, so we wouldn't lose too much food in the fridge/freezer.
Everyone have a good afternoon, keep as cool as possible, and see you all later on.
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WOW!! We really are talking apples and oranges here. That roll of Smarties looks like a roll of Life Savers.
Canadian Smarties look just like the M&M's in your second photo. Just made with a different tasting recipe. The idea for both probably started at the same time, but there may have been a local taste preference.
CW, my afternoon was not unlike your evening. I had to shut down my computer about 3:30 when it got really dark and your could tell we were going to get hit with a bad thunder storm. For the first time in a couple of summers one passed right over me, and they came in waves until around 11:00. Then when I tried to boot up my computer I couldn't connect to the internet.
It was too late to work on it then so I finally got it working this morning. I eventually ran a troubleshooter and it said it had to refresh some of my settings. Which was weird because I never tweaked them in the first place. So I guess I will proceed onward in blissful ignorance.
61° now with a high of 68° and a risk of thundershowers later. There is still lots of standing water around from yesterday, so it is humid, but I'm not sure it will get warm enough to trigger a storm.
No new RR news.
Hopefully everything will continue working on my end and I can get caught up on my other tasks.
....The heat is still on, and continues to be as they are saying, thru Sunday.
Had lunch under the overpass at our favorite Xing. Doing MOW work on the tracks. They looked plenty warm. No shade around rr tracks for workers!
Joe - I got a WB from you UCEX passing thru and sent you an EB - Well, it has lime green on the rotary ends and looks like a leasing company cleaned out their closets. It is a mixture of FSTX, JSCX, WSCX NSTX, PSTX and CPOX.
If you happen to be close by, you will know right away!
95 and 50% here right now. They say moisture overnite (HA - from where? Sprinklers?) and cooler tomorrow - only around 90-95 but no doubt with sprinklers and cooler, the humidity will be around 60%. Never fails.
Oh well, I am still more comfy with this weather than zero and below. I don't generate much heat any more, so staying warm means blankets stacked next to puter!
Bruce - Our Smarties are about the size of a fountain pen (in diameter) and have a slight tartness to them. There's no filling - in fact, the center is concave. They're still available.
We're under a high heat advisory today. The airport is showing 84F (65% RH), my weather station (which lies on sunny days in the afternoon) has 90F. Despite no A/C, the house is currently at 80F, but it'll hang on to that well into the night.
Back to my projects for the day. I've finished two so far, and have four more on the list.
afternoon
staying inside in the AC today.last night of work before vacation.NS had a mixed frieght in the siding last night.cw just a salad for supper will work.off to do chores.
Joe
Joe, I like your idea for our meal; so salads it it:
1. Tuna salad, garden,Caesar, chicken, turkey; for dessert, we'll have sugar cookies and more ice cream homemade sundaes, floats, and the novelty ice creams.
Take care, have a cool, safe afternoon.
..........99.1 degrees now at 4:44........High humidity. Just stepped outside and it truely seems like stepping into an oven. Believe we will inch up a few more notches yet. Max is about 5 or 5:30.
CW, after a busy day I think I will relax and enjoy a tuna salad and a sundae for desert.
We are definitely bucking this North American heat wave like a bronc down at Stampede Park. It only got up to 68° today and it is not expected to get above 70° until Saturday. The 23 mph wind from the mountains to the west has something to do with that.
My computer is still not working properly since last nights shutdown. I can't smoothly play any streaming video. It is like something has slowed down my connection speed. Most other sites I visit including this one seem to be loading OK.
Now it is time to enjoy my evening. Hope everyone else enjoys theirs too.
.....Yep, it did it. 100.2 degrees here at 5:35 this afternoon.
Like walking out into an oven. Took a pic of the instrument at that reading. That is probably a record for here on this date.
We actually had a line of storms move through San Antonio yesterday afternon. We received some much needed rain!
Rain...! That's what we need here, but please without the storms.
So dry.
Quentin...you mentioned that whe you were mowing you were mowin high.
Is that around the 3 1/2 inch mark??????
930-10pmish, I was doubling out the manifest. 83 degrees on the ol' thermometer.
And I also brought home one of the orange kittens that was living in our yard. ORCA guy said he was 6 weeks old, but he may only be 5.
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zugmann 930-10pmish, I was doubling out the manifest. 83 degrees on the ol' thermometer. And I also brought home one of the orange kittens that was living in our yard. ORCA guy said he was 6 weeks old, but he may only be 5.
Zugmann, if you didn't live so far from us, I'd ask you to get one of those little orange kitties for me. Are they, by chance, orange tiger striped kitties? We would love to have another one of them, but haven't found any around our area.
And good Thursday morning to everyone. 81 degrees and rising here in Louisville this morning. Skies are fair and we should reach a high of 97, 98 today. Heat index should range from 105 to 115.
Coffee, juices and other morning beverages are fresh and ready to go, and breakfast is on the serving station.
Everyone have a good morning, keep as cool as possible, and take care. See you all later.
Yep, orange tiger. Actually the 4th orange one we have in the house right now.
9 AM, 83 degrees, 57% RH. If it weren't for the brisk breeze and light overcast, it would already be intolerable. I can only guess that it will become so later in the day. We're still under an advisory.
Zug: Awwww. Been my experience that orange tigers, especially males, have a very laid back temperment. We had a neighborhood one that would come when you whistled.
Tree: I want to stir the pot on the locked Nevada thread, but don't want to get into the pot to do it - so will just post here that we had an empty tractor trailer fall over and burn on the overpass that goes OVER the yards of BNSF. Wonder who they will blame for that?
Off to watch MOW work in direct sun and high heat. They are definitely more interesting than the roofers. At least they have jobs, but....
Murray Quentin...you mentioned that whe you were mowing you were mowin high. Is that around the 3 1/2 inch mark??????
Murray, my mower has been set at 3" for most of the Summer. Sometimes in the Spring, when we have so much water content in the grass, and it's growing fast, it might take a higher mowing height.
But, I'm of the opinion when we enter these very hot extended periods....Mowing at 3" seems about right. Longer grass under these conditions, {for me}, seems to allow it to survive better than being very short.
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