good morning
Cw there is still time.have we set up the fire brigade for the candles? better get going before the cat comes back.
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. 34 and sunny in Carolina, Up from 28 earlier.
Clemson's head coach threw a tasteless tantrum against Carolina yesterday. He acted like a spoiled child who lost his crayons, crying that Clemson is the only university of SC and always has been. He seems to have forgotten that the University that isn't thoroughly stomped his team last weekend. I hope someone changes his diapers for him. Intersting to see how this works out.
Everyone take care and stay warm
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)
Temp very similar to others on here this morning. 34 earlier. Mostly sunny now. Should be all day. Don't know how "warm" we're to be this afternoon....No heat wave, for sure. Perhaps around 40.
Quentin
Joe/CW - if you knew how much I hate my birthdays, you would know that if you keep mentioning it, I will wet on your parade!
Just leave some milk and dark chocolate cake with raspberry filling on the counter (don't even need frosting, since I will probably scrape it off. Make it 2% milk. I am counting calories.
I am pretty laid back when it comes to all holidays and celebrations. Some people get very tight jawed if they can't celebrate Xmas and Txgvg on the exact day. Why can't you do it on another day? Is a holiday on any other day so different? (Other than maybe July 4th).
How about we just have hug day that day. Cyber group hug. That would be nice.
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
grampaw pettibone Good morning and peace be with you. 34 and sunny in Carolina, Up from 28 earlier. Clemson's head coach threw a tasteless tantrum against Carolina yesterday. He acted like a spoiled child who lost his crayons, crying that Clemson is the only university of SC and always has been. He seems to have forgotten that the University that isn't thoroughly stomped his team last weekend. I hope someone changes his diapers for him. Intersting to see how this works out. Everyone take care and stay warm
I, personally, have never had a good opinion of Clemson even though our school superintendant the last five years (grades 8-12) of my high school education was a graduate of Clemson and an elder in our church. His older son had begun his college at Clemson, but transferred to Presbyterian College, and his younger son also went to PC.
Johnny
Hello from Centennial, CO where we FINALLY got some snow yesterday!!!!!!!
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Hello from Lincoln NE where tonite and tomorrow we are going to get it from you! Please come and take it back!
LOL!!!!!!!
Yea, they due tend to head NE up the I-76 route right at you don't they. Hate to tell you, they are talking about more snow this weekend and we badly needed the moisture here in town as I was just about the drag the hoses out in December to water the trees. EEK!
Hope to get the rest of my outside holiday lights up this weekend as well as finish the inside decorations; including a HO train running around the tree this year!
Clemson's coach stirred the pot some more today with more inanities. He should be concentrating more on this weekends ACC championship instead of attacking Steve Spurrier and being a poor loser.
One thing that troubles me about Clemson is that for them, the rivalry is 365/24/7 and is often tasteless and insulting. Carolina does not reply in kind, which is not to say they do not get excited at times. Spurrier said today that he thinks about Clemson one week a year and then forgets about them till next time.
Johnny, one correction: In 1862, the ENTIRE student body at Carolina joined the Army of the Confederacy en mass, shutting down the school for the DOW
Stourbridge Lion Hello from Centennial, CO where we FINALLY got some snow yesterday!!!!!!!
Hello and Welcome from Louisville, KY, Stourbridge Lion. You are welcome to come into the Cafe anytime you want. Just leave the snow there in Colorado, please.
Supper is on the warmer/serving bar: our regular Friday Fish menu.
Mookie, have you been looking in the cabinets in the kitchen?? Can't I keep anything a secret from you? Do not touch that cake, before its time, please.
Everyone have a very good evening, take care and keep safe. See you all later, or in the morning.
CW -
packages ready to go.our desserts are ready too.how many calories in chocolate carmel brownies?better get to bed.long day tomorrow.
Good Saturday morning everyone. A nice, pleasant morning here in Louisville, with a current temp of 40 degrees. Supposed to get up to 60 degrees this afternoon. That is my kind of weather, to be going Christmas shopping. Don't have to worry about falling on slick roads, parking lots, sidewalks.
Our Saturday morning brunch is just about ready and things are going on the warmer/serving bar: bacon, sausage, pancakes, scrambled eggs, grits, cream of wheat, fried taters and hash brown taters, toast, made from scratch buttermilk biscuits and sausage gravy, kiwi, papaya, pineapple slices or cubes, blueberry muffins, chocolate chip muffins, bagels and bear claws.
Going to be heading out to do some Christmas shopping, in a few hours. Everyone have a good morning, take care and be safe with whatever you have to do today. See you all this evening for our pizza fest.
Cw thanks for breakfast.beautiful sunrise this morning.csx sounds busy this morning.Ready to hit the road.Mookie watch the mailbox.Mr. Lion welcome to our diner.We live in the northwest corner of Ohio.Draw a line between toledo and ftwayne and we are right in the middle.
Joe
Two hugs to you Ms. Mookie on this cold rainy day.
Cannonball
Y6bs evergreen in my mind
Thank you Cannonball. A hug is always welcome!
You must live just outside my office window. It is about 35 with rain overnite and now snow, so we have a real skating rink on our parking slab. The garbage can is just about 3 slips and a good slide from our back door.
Ah, winter has arrived!
I'm just going to poke my head in quickly and let Quentin know that there is a big new order from CP for work to be done at the EMD plant in Muncie. See the thread "Big Canadian Pacific EMD ECO Order".
36° with a NW 19 mph wind now, with increasing winds and snow flurries expected later.
I'll try to drop back in for pizza later.
Bruce
So shovel the coal, let this rattler roll.
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Mookie Hello from Lincoln NE where tonite and tomorrow we are going to get it from you! Please come and take it back!
Snow is keeping Gus' rock from being placed in the fieldstone walls and Lurch from being made whole.
Have two furburners ('da Boys, aka 'da Bark Brothers) that want a walk in this stuff. Waiting for it to stop. (4" of powder so far). Hope Mooks got a new pair of insulated bloomers from Driver - she's gonna need 'em!. Single didits here on Monday.
Sir C - We are supposed to have really cold temps for the next two weeks, so Lurch and Gus' rock may have to wait awhile.
I don't think we are going to get more than a couple of inches, but with the cold, that will confine us here until about Thursday.
Actually our moisture came from the 4 corners and then turned solid when it got over the KS/NE boarder. Lots of things do that - not just precip.
I didn't get the insulated bloomers, but I did get a heater for my "office". Cooks the whole upstairs in an evening.
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.....Thanks Bruce.....I'm right here and did not know anything about that....Zip, zero.
Will keep my ears up. I'll check out the thread you mention.
Edit: Read other post, and sounds good for our new Muncie plant operation.
Don't know if we made it up to 60 degrees today or not. I was chilly the whole time we were out shopping today. We were gone from 9:40 a.m. until 2:40 p.m.: the bus broke down, somewhere along the way, to pick us up to come home, so we had to wait for them to send another bus out. We didn't find all that we were looking for, to finish our Christmas shopping. So Monday morning, I'll be going online to find/order what we could not find today.
Rain is supposed to be in later tonight, or early tomorrow, and will be continuing until Tuesday. There is a Flood Watch out already for about half the Commonwealth of Ky.
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
Think I will try a slice of the ham & green pepper tonight, along with a slice of supreme. (All I've had today is a bowl of cereal at 6:30 this morning, and around 5 p.m., a few cheese puffs.) That is unusual for me, belieeeeve me.
Anyhoo, everyone have a good evening, take care and see you all in the morning.
I just saw another interesting football game--LSU and Georgia playing for the Conference title. Somewhat like last week, LSU was a little slow in unleashing the powerhouse, letting Georgia score ten points before getting on the scoreboard. Then LSU scored forty-two points and kept Georgia from scoring again. I'm not sure what the Dawgs left in Atlanta--collars?
Tom, how will it feel if the Southeastern Conference comes out on top for five or six years in a row? I trust Mark Richt will be a better sport than that man who was supposedly coaching the Clemson team last week.
A note about 1862 or thereabouts: my maternal grandfather's oldest brother was a cadet at the Citadel, and went into the army early--and died in camp of typhus.
We did get some snow last night (less than an inch out here), and the streets were a little slick early this morning.
Good Sunday morning everyone. Hope everyone had a good night. Temp is in the low 50s this morning, think I saw a reading of 54 degrees, on the puter's homepage. Local news/weather not on yet.
Coffee, juices and other beverages are fresh and ready to go. Cinnamon rolls, bacon, sausage & egg biscuits are also ready to roll this morning.
Everyone have a good morning, take care going to Church,work, Christmas shopping, or rail fanning, and see you all later this afternoon.
Q - round up the ducks and send them to CW.....
Thought I would drop by for a rare Sunday afternoon visit. 17°F now. We had more snow last night, and now there is pretty much an even covering of snow everywhere. The last of the dry patches has been covered. Just in time for the first of several Christmas functions later this week that I will be attending.
Yesterday was the first day of the new TV season of Curling on TSN. Which explains why I wasn't back in for pizza last night. I heard an interesting thing a month or so ago about the differences in sports preferences between our two countries. Many of you here follow college football, and the TV networks there are almost willing to sell their mothers to get a chance to broadcast the games Yet, in Canada so few people are interested, the college football league has to pay a TV network to carry their championship game, just like it was an infomercial or a televangelist program.
In the US the majority of the population had never heard of Curling until the advent of Satellite TV. During the Canadian Men's and Women's Championships, TSN can make money showing THREE 3-3½ hour games a day for seven day stretches. With so many similarities between us I was surprised at how different our sports tastes were.
Been an interesting week for RR news. There have been a number of different items on this site as well as on other sites and forums, that while not significant in themselves, might prove to be really something in the future. With or without the activist hedge fund's new position in the CPR, I think in six months time things will be different there. Do you improve things (operating ratio) by concentrating on reducing costs at almost any cost, or do you spend more now to greatly enhance your revenue stream later. A common enough question for many businesses, but it seems the railway has painted itself into a corner where the answers have to start coming soon and fast.
It goes without saying I am more than a little curious to see how this story ends.
Everyone have a good day.
afternoon
Resting today.back to work tonight.busy week ahead.
Been a very rainy afternoon here in Louisville. As a matter of fact, when I came out of the grocery store earlier, it was absolutely pouring! I saw one young lady fall flat on her butt in the parking lot, going to their car. Guess she wasn't hurt too badly, as she picked herself up, picked up her bags, and went on down the parking aisle.
Here is your Sunday Dinner menu options for this afternoon/evening:
1. Beef noodle casserole w/garden salad, mashed taters w/beef gravy
2. Grilled or fried chicken w/mashed taters, milk gravy, biscuits or cornbread, mixed vegetables and garden salad
Mookie, by the time this rain is over by mid morning Tuesday, the ducks from the Ohio River will probably be floating by the house anyway. According to what I heard on the news/weather last night, we are already almost 63 inches over our normal yearly precipitation amounts. And at 5:18 p.m., we are already beginning to start to see it getting a little bit foggy outside, even with the rain still coming down.
Everyone have a good evening, take care, and see you all later.
Bruce - I wish they would show curling. I get awfully tired of football/commercials/football/lots of commercials.....
I am not sure why we haven't picked up on "other" sports - curling, more televised hockey, more of the winter Olympic sports - what a nice change. For my part, they could lose basketball or show it @ midnite. Played a little in high school, but still not a big fan of it. I even miss bowling!
Joe - work hard - I need an increase in my allowance. Fast.....
CW - quack....
Mookie, of course they have to have lots of advertisements so they can pay the networks pay the tremendous amounts they have obligated themselves to pay the schools and such. The extended breaks when the ball changes sides, between quarters, and especially at half-time do give the viewer a little time to do something else--but they certainly extend the time taken to show the end of the game--and a few weeks ago, BYU complained because the start of their game was not seen on television because the previous game ran a little long. Apparently the complainers had not been exposed to national television broadcasts of football except during the bowl season. On the other hand, since I watch games that are between teams in the upper ranks of excellence, I am used to games running beyond the stated time.
Johnny - I am a news junkie (local, especially) and I never get local news at suppertime on any weekend. Have to watch it just before bed.
Fortunately, I don't mind football and golf which seem to be the biggest offenders, but I am fussy about who and which team. So sometimes I don't appreciate the run-overs.
I guess that is minor compared to my irritation at having 65 channels and nothing to watch, but paying a fairly high price to not watch it....
Almost a full moon, isn't it? I can tell....
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