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Posted by JoeKoh on Monday, November 7, 2011 6:04 PM

hmm earthquake then tornado...ok not so ok?

busy day here.rain has arrived.Got a phone call from the local museum.They are asking for pictures of trains going by the defiance depot.been going through the archieves.Cw thanks for supper.time to get ready for work.

stay safe

Joe

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Posted by tree68 on Monday, November 7, 2011 5:08 PM

Oklahoma under the gun with some severe weather - a chaser is following a twister SW of OKC as I write this.

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Posted by cherokee woman on Monday, November 7, 2011 11:50 AM

Bob, thanks for the link:  those are some mighty good pictures.  Thankfully, we haven't had any trucks getting stuck under the railroad bridges around here lately:  now watch:  since I've said that, watch one get stuck sometime later today, or in the very near future!!

For the menu for the rest of the afternoon, and this evening, I'm warming up the leftovers from our Sunday Dinner.  Everything will be on the warmer/serving station in ten minutes. 

According to our thermometer (and my homepage on the computer) our current temp is 67 degrees.  Very nice and warm outside, with just a touch of a breeze.  Everyone enjoy your meal, have a terrific afternoon, and see you all later.

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Posted by spokyone on Monday, November 7, 2011 8:41 AM

Our local ABC affiliate put together pictures of trucks that tried to go under the RRs and didn't make it.

http://www.wqad.com/wqad-quad-cities-truck-eating-bridges-20111011,0,61043.photogallery

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Posted by grampaw pettibone on Monday, November 7, 2011 6:11 AM

 Peace be with you. 47 and clear in Carolina at present . Yeah Johnny, the weather was against our thunderchickens Saturday. They have had a ruff time this year, what with injuries and personnel issues.

My computer died big time last week and ergo, I have a new old Dell that I am getting used to. It has Windows 7and 3 gig of RAM. It also has a defective keyboard that has to be swapped out.  I still don't have email yet,  Things will work out if I don't put a bullet in  it first

That said, everyone have a great day and stay safe

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Posted by cherokee woman on Monday, November 7, 2011 5:21 AM

Good Monday morning everyone.  Larry, sounds like you had a good time w/grandson.  Larry, just do what I have a tendency to do with little ones that age, when I'm having trouble understanding what they're saying:  "Is that right?  Tell me all about it."

Nice outside this morning, with a temp of 49 degrees.  Supposed to make it somewhere in the mid to upper 60s for our high today.  And tomorrow is supposed to be in the mid 70s, with rain coming in tomorrow night/Wednesday morning. 

Coffee, juices and other morning beverages are freshly made and ready to go.  On the warmer/serving station this morning:  bacon, eggs, toast, oatmeal, bagels, bear claws.

Everyone have a good morning, take care, and I'll see you all later. 

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Posted by tree68 on Sunday, November 6, 2011 7:27 PM

Mookie
Grandson grew another foot, which looks a little odd,...

Grandson (2 1/2) visited train show (and Papa) yesterday, and joined his mom and dad when I took them out to dinner tonight.

Due to the value of the merchandise, and the fact that most of the layouts were too tall for him to see otherwise, Papa carried him around the show.  He's an armful.  Not so bad on the lap (although I find I don't speak fluent 2 1/2 year old...).

His mom says he's already three feet tall.  Another basketball player in the family.

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Posted by Deggesty on Sunday, November 6, 2011 7:05 PM

We had our first sticking snow Friday night-Saturday morning, but the streets were pretty well cleared by yesterday afternoon, and we had clear running on our way to church this morning. Yesterday morning at 7:30 was different, but I had no troubles going to a meeting in Salt Lake City.

Our backyard trees have lost hardly any leaves, and one branch on a pussywillow was broken. The maple branches were bowed down (almost to our incoming powerline), but I have not yet seen any damage (wait until I go into the yard and look at the north side of the tree.

The greatest problem with the snow was that as I was watching a football game in the morning the dish filled with snow (where it came from, I do not know, for there was none falling from the sky) and the signal was lost until the sun melted the snow--I could not put a ladder up to the roof because snow-covered branches blocked the way.

Tom, I was sorry to see the Gamecocks go home without a load of hams, shoulders, pork chops, loins, fatback, and rib meat (would any have wanted feet, jowls, or headcheese?).

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Posted by locomutt on Sunday, November 6, 2011 4:22 PM

Mookie

Went to lunch with family - beautiful day!  Very windy yesterday and last nite - so passed it on to CW!  Kisses

Watched some trains and now home for rest of day. 

Grandson grew another foot, which looks a little odd, but @ 12, they don't seem to notice.  He is now just a shade shorter than his Grandma.  But he is still Grma's boy - just as long as the laptop isn't too far away.  Computer

So that's why I had to pull my bike helmet strap a bit tighter todaySmile, hopefully tomorrow won't be as windy as I'm going to have to go back and camp out to see that passenger/business car move tomorrow, seems it didn't make it out of Chicago today.

Just don't send any earthquakes this way.(yes, I know it was in Ok; but it's close to Ne.)

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Posted by Mookie on Sunday, November 6, 2011 2:57 PM

Went to lunch with family - beautiful day!  Very windy yesterday and last nite - so passed it on to CW!  Kisses

Watched some trains and now home for rest of day. 

Grandson grew another foot, which looks a little odd, but @ 12, they don't seem to notice.  He is now just a shade shorter than his Grandma.  But he is still Grma's boy - just as long as the laptop isn't too far away.  Computer

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Posted by cherokee woman on Sunday, November 6, 2011 1:21 PM

Here is our Sunday Dinner Menu:

1.  Italian spaghetti w/meatballs  or you can have Italian spaghetti w/meat sauce, w/garden salad, and your choice of:  garlic bread, garlic Texas toast, or plain bread sticks.

2.  Country fried steak w/fries or steak fries or mashed taters w/gravy, biscuits or dinner rolls, corn, broccoli w/butter sauce or green beans.

3.  Grilled burgers, cheeseburgers, hot dogs, brats w/your choice of any of the above mentioned side dishes.

Desserts: 

Chocolate cake, homemade vanilla or peanut butter fudge, cherry pie, peach cobbler and apple dumplings

Hope you are all enjoying your Sunday afternoon.  We have beautiful sunshine, but with the breeze, it is very chilly outside. 

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Posted by Modelcar on Sunday, November 6, 2011 8:02 AM

Special passenger train was over on the Roanoke cam 15 min. ago.  Pulled out, west bound at 8:44 

Nice seasonal morning here....Sunshine and temp in the 40's.  To be up to 61 today.

Church is next.

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Posted by JoeKoh on Sunday, November 6, 2011 6:51 AM

good morning

need to get Matt to Sunday school.They will be serving lunch after church today as part of their sunday school food fest.Back to work tonight.

stay safe

Joe

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Posted by cherokee woman on Sunday, November 6, 2011 6:21 AM

Goooooood Mooooorrrrrnnnning everyone.  Yes, I'm very much awake this morning:  woke up on my own, with no assistance from the alarm, Walt or Trapper. 

I don't know how many on here are Joe Frazier fans, but I saw an article on the computer homepage, where he is fighting liver cancer.  Discovered it about 3, 4 weeks or so ago.  The article said he is under Hospice Care. 

Coffee, juices and other morning beverages are freshly made and ready to go.  Hot water is also ready for our hot tea drinkers, and there's plenty of apple cider, whether you want it cold or hot.  On the warmer/serving station this morning:  bacon, eggs, toast, and a small selection of pecan rolls, cinnamon rolls and doughnuts.

Everyone have a good morning, take care going to Church, work, or railfanning, and see you all later.

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Posted by blhanel on Saturday, November 5, 2011 8:22 PM

Dale, that was my brother's account that got hacked and sent out the bogus messages.  He's now reregistered under a different name (Sparetime Trainstation).

Back to my trains...

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Posted by Modelcar on Saturday, November 5, 2011 8:14 PM

....I was over checking on the Roanoke cam, and wow...a passenger train stationary in view...Then at 8:44 it moved out.  It appears to be the same consist that was in the area last weekend {I believe that's when it was}, and the dome cars were lit....and light in the reg. passenger car windows.

Once again {as the last time}, had Amtrak engines for power.  Lots of passenger cars....a couple of full length domes and several regular type domes.

What a nice site.  Check the Roanoke posts for more comments.

Here...we had a nice seasonal day.  Sunshine and blue sky.

Cool and frost this morning, but wasn't too bad this afternoon.  In fact, I did another mowing  and some leaves had blown over on me, so with the mulching mower, we dressed them down.  Looks good again.  If I can keep at it, I'll not have to bag any this season.  Trees of {neighbors}, especially the east side are pretty well down...{maple}, but western neighbor has very big trees, but several years ago that property had a 6' high solid wood fence installed, and they had several big trees removed, and all that makes my job of keeping my place nice somewhat easier.  All my trees are evergreens.

That's my back yard behind me in my Avatar.

Must say hello to Dale...It's been a while.

PS:   C W....Have already started to do the clock deal.  4 are automatic, and have the ones in the vehicles yet to do...and several others.  Even my watch will take care of itself.

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Posted by locomutt on Saturday, November 5, 2011 7:26 PM

cherokee woman

Dale, been wondering about you:  hadn't noticed you posting either place:  here or on facebook.  Hope everything will get worked out promptly for you.

Nice outside:  current temp's somewhere in the 60s, and just came in from outside, only went out in my short sleeves.  Didn't feel too bad outside.

Here is our Saturday Night Pizza Fest menu:

1.    Anchovie

2.    Canadian bacon

3.    Cheese

4.    Chicago style

5.    Goetta

6.    Ham & green pepper

7.    Hawaiian

8.    Italian sausage

9.    Pepperoni/mushroom

10.  Supreme

Hope everyone is enjoying the day, enjoy your evening, take care, and see you all later.

Dale, you mean that Cow I sent you, wasn't to you?!  Sad

Hope you get that resolved very shortly!!

CW was/is correct about today's temp. and being outside, hope it stays that way for tomorrow....need to be watching the NS tracks here close to the house for an ex............business car going to the French Lick Railroad, supposed to take the looooonng way around from the Chicago area, and come through the Lou. area tomorrow.(coming through Cincy., and making a right turn at Danville, Ky. onto the Lou. division.)

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Posted by cherokee woman on Saturday, November 5, 2011 5:31 PM

Just came back in to post this reminder for everyone:

Don't forget to set your clocks back ONE hour tonight, before going to bed!!  Also remember to check your smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors!!

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Posted by cherokee woman on Saturday, November 5, 2011 3:14 PM

Dale, been wondering about you:  hadn't noticed you posting either place:  here or on facebook.  Hope everything will get worked out promptly for you.

Nice outside:  current temp's somewhere in the 60s, and just came in from outside, only went out in my short sleeves.  Didn't feel too bad outside.

Here is our Saturday Night Pizza Fest menu:

1.    Anchovie

2.    Canadian bacon

3.    Cheese

4.    Chicago style

5.    Goetta

6.    Ham & green pepper

7.    Hawaiian

8.    Italian sausage

9.    Pepperoni/mushroom

10.  Supreme

Hope everyone is enjoying the day, enjoy your evening, take care, and see you all later.

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, November 5, 2011 2:26 PM

nanaimo73

Paula, Walt and Brian, my Facebook has been hacked. Yuck! Look out for bogus messages from "Facebook Security". Oh well. Maybe now I'll start spending more time on the forums again?

Other than that, I hope everyone has a great day! See yah!

 

For what it’s worth...Here is what I use for computer protection on my machines:

Zone Alarm Free Firewall:

http://www.zonealarm.com

 Microsoft Security Essentials:

 

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security_essentials/default.aspx

Also, run the following on your machine:

http://www.ccleaner.com

 

and

http://www.malwarebytes.org

http://www.eusing.com/free_registry_cleaner/registry_cleaner.htm

The last three links are free and will not conflict with each other........

I use Zone Alarm Free for my software firewall...and Microsoft Security Essentials for spyware/malware. (NOTE:  Please make sure you are not running more than one anti-virus program at the same time...they can conflict with each other).

All of these are free and provide good protection.  The free software is just as good as some of the programs you have to pay for.

One final note:  When uninstalling programs from your computer remnants of the old program is usually left behind.  In order to avoid this, you should use the FREE version of the following uninstall program:

http://www.revouninstaller.com/revo_uninstaller_free_download.html

Hope this is helpful!

 

 

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Posted by nanaimo73 on Saturday, November 5, 2011 1:37 PM

Paula, Walt and Brian, my Facebook has been hacked. Yuck! Look out for bogus messages from "Facebook Security". Oh well. Maybe now I'll start spending more time on the forums again?

Other than that, I hope everyone has a great day! See yah!

 

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Posted by Modelcar on Saturday, November 5, 2011 11:31 AM

Another sunshiny day.  Cool this morning...{frost}, but it's warming up a bit.  Hope to work on some mulching of leaves in some parts of the yard.

Clear blue sky, and as I just peeked out our east window here in the office, I note a jet stream very high. So clear, humidity must be low.

Watched the space station pass over here beginning at 7:41 last evening, and heading generally east from the west.  Moves rather fast, and it is bright.

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Posted by locomutt on Saturday, November 5, 2011 10:46 AM

tree68

Syracuse train show this weekend.  Sadly, it's getting smaller every year.  Not sure why, but they're down to one building at the state fairgrounds this year.

My old home weather station died, so I got a new one.  Put the anemometer up today - wouldn't you know they want it to face a direction that will make it hard to change the batteries, at least where it's mounted now.  May look to change that when I get the new roof up on the garage (material here - just need time and good weather).

Plus that, they say it should be 30' up in the air....

Sheesh.

If anybody is going to be in Syracuse this weekend, stop in at the show and look me up at the railroad's booth...

Larry, if you really need a place that high to mount the anemometer, bring it to Louisville and mount on the roof of our house. 2 story, gambrel roof; I'm very sure it's about that high at the peak........

(and hopefully our roof won't have to be replaced for a bunch of years, we had that done about 3 years after we moved in.)

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, November 5, 2011 10:08 AM

Good Morning All:

Chilly down here in Alamo City...We have already had to use the heater to warm up the apartment in past two days.

CW, definately wish the best for you!  Good luck on your tests.

Enjoy your Saturday!

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Posted by cherokee woman on Saturday, November 5, 2011 6:44 AM

Good Saturday morning everyone.  Very cool, with a temp of 38, 39 degrees this morning, with a little bit of frost.  But we should make it up to about 64 degrees this afternoon.  Still no word from my doctor.  Guess it'll be Monday before I hear back from him.

Coffee, juices and other morning beverages are fresh and ready to go.  Saturday brunch is on the warmer bar:  bacon, sausage, eggs, biscuits, gravy, hash browns or fried taters, country fried ham w/red eye gravy, oranges, kiwi, papaya, tangerines, grapes and pineapple slices.  Little bit of everything this morning.

Everyone enjoy your breakfast, have a good, safe day and take care.  See you all back this evening for our pizza fest.

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Posted by tree68 on Friday, November 4, 2011 9:06 PM

Syracuse train show this weekend.  Sadly, it's getting smaller every year.  Not sure why, but they're down to one building at the state fairgrounds this year.

My old home weather station died, so I got a new one.  Put the anemometer up today - wouldn't you know they want it to face a direction that will make it hard to change the batteries, at least where it's mounted now.  May look to change that when I get the new roof up on the garage (material here - just need time and good weather).

Plus that, they say it should be 30' up in the air....

Sheesh.

If anybody is going to be in Syracuse this weekend, stop in at the show and look me up at the railroad's booth...

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Posted by JoeKoh on Friday, November 4, 2011 6:47 PM

evening

busy day today.went to Deshler and it was as busy as ever.Q509,q 241 and K 803 had a 3 way meet on the wye tracks.241 and 803 had to wait in south Deshler while the dispatcher could clear q 342 and q 500 and D743(lima local).Also q 010(former 110) and q 170 had to get around a broken rail in sherwood so things were getting backed up.Cw thanks for supper.Tomorrow going to go celebrate Grandpa's birthday. Cw we'll keep you in our prayers.

stay safe

joe

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Posted by cherokee woman on Friday, November 4, 2011 4:36 PM

Well, busy afternoon around the house.  Good news is, we hit a high of 60 degrees this afternoon.  But there is still a good breeze blowing, but at least it is a semi warm one.

Our Friday Fish Fry is now under way, with all the regular list of fish, and all the regular side dishes and desserts.  And, if anyone isn't in the mood for fish, there is leftover meatloaf, just calling to be put between two slices of bread, for a meatloaf sandwich.  Hmm, that doesn't sound half bad. 

Haven't heard back from my reg. doctor yet.  Don't know if I'll be hearing back from him in a little bit, or if it'll be next week sometime. 

Everyone have a very good evening, and I'll see you all in the morning.

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Posted by AgentKid on Friday, November 4, 2011 2:45 PM

Greetings from the Great White North. We have had our first real snow today. Currently it is 18°F and partly cloudy. There is more snow expected with the low dropping to 14°.

I don't have anything else at the moment.

Bruce

 

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Posted by cherokee woman on Friday, November 4, 2011 9:47 AM

Quentin, sorry about you being the first one in this morning.  If Walt hadn't awakened me, well after 7, I'd probably still be sleeping. 

Our morning temps seem to holding right around 50 degrees, and it is quite breezy outside.  Everyone have a good morning (what's left of it) and I'll see you all after awhile, when I'll be posting the menu.

Angel cherokee woman "O'Toole's law: Murphy was an optimist."

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