.....Weather. And it continues. Last day of Winter, and we had the lawn chairs out in front of the garage / house, driveway this evening just like we do on a Summer evening.
82 degrees early evening. Can't say we've ever done that before. Looks like another mowing is going to be necessary either tomorrow or Wed.
Quentin
Good Tuesday morning everyone. Sorry about not making it back in yesterday afternoon: weather was just too gorgeous to be inside at the puter. We made it up to 84 degrees yesterday, should be between 84 and 86 for a high today. No rain in sight, until Friday and Saturday, then we may have a few spotty storms, or just showers come rolling in.
Coffee, juices and other morning beverages are fresh and ready to go. Breakfast is on the warmer bar: bacon, eggs, cereal, toast and some fresh cantaloupe and watermelon chunks.
Remember, I probably won't be back in until 6 p.m. or so, as I have that business appointment for this afternoon. Everyone take care, have a great day and see you all much later.
Almost forgot: Happy Birthday to Stacey Kohnen!!!!! . Stacey, may you have a great day, and many, many more birthdays to come your way.
.....Again, hope we don't have to "pay" for this unusual Summer like weather. I retired for the night at 12:45 am.....and with the bedroom window all the way open all night.
At bedtime the amb outside temp was 72 degrees...! That, on the so called last night of Winter...!
afternoon
mamma says thanks for the birthday wishes.been working on chores outside.have some projects to do tomorrow.Cw thanks for supper for 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").
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Good Wednesday morning everyone. Everyone be very quiet, so we don't wake up the Mookster, before she's ready to wake up.
Looks like another beautiful day today, going for a high of 84 degrees. Seems like everyone's allergies are kicking in a month early. On the local news this morning, they had one of their reporters at an allergist, getting tested for allergies (he didn't think he had any). Turns out, he's allergic to just about everything. Poor guy. I know my nasal allergies have kicked in with a bang. Will need to take my allergy pill in about an hour, so I can quit sneezing, and wiping my nose. My meeting went well yesterday afternoon.
Coffee, juices and other morning beverages are fresh and ready to go. And breakfast is ready and on the warmer bar: bacon, sausage, eggs, pancakes w/maple syrup, and some kiwi.
Have started the Crock Pots going with pork chop abracadbra and brown round steak w/mushrooms and cream of mushroom soup for lunch and dinner/supper.
Have a great morning everyone, take care and see you all later.
It all started with kids skateboarding on the side of I-25 at 9:30 AM yesterday............................
Sir C - you best finish the story or I am calling da Boyz to have a chat with you!
You know how they love to "chat"......
Happy Spring Railfans!
Sorry I've been away for a few days, work has been a bit overbearing so not much RR fun time. Been warm here for a few days now but heading to be more seasonal which is nice; no need to rush Summer getting here.
Darren (BLHS & CRRM Lifetime Member)
Delaware and Hudson Virtual Museum (DHVM), Railroad Adventures (RRAdventures)
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.....Our "June" weather for Spring continues....Blossoms....everything green, advancing so pretty....Have already mowed twice, and the yard looks like pretty green velvet.
Yeah,
That does kinda have that "funny thing happened on the way to the forum" sound to it...
So what's the ending?
Mookie Sir C - you best finish the story or I am calling da Boyz to have a chat with you! You know how they love to "chat"......
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Got me curious, too...
Beautiful day here, and I spent most of it so far on the road. Picked up our 'show kit' from Utica and stopped in Old Forge for some tourism material on the way home.
Had lunch there, too. Never would have thought of making a "chicken salad melt," but it was pretty good.
Dozens of things to do.
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...
well mowed for the first time this year.It's the earliest I have ever mowed.Temps next week are back to the 70 degree level for spring break.Cw thanks for supper.Last I knew skateboards and semis didn't mix.
While waiting on Sir Chicken, I had a fun day today and didn't have to leave the house.
They are doing a full block of tree trimming on our street and the street just south of us. They cut down several trees that are too close to the overhead wires (yes, we still have overheads) and trimmed others. We lost one tree as did the 2 houses directly behind us (we are a double lot). But I saw the trunks go into the wood chipper and they were either hollow or starting to rot.
Lots of noise; one young man swung from one tree to another prompting my neighbor (that I don't care for) to comment that he looked just like a monkey. I thought he looked more like Tarzan. See, we can't even agree on what's in trees!
But while it wasn't Tonka Toys, it was just as entertaining. I am now left wondering about the size of the grinder in the chipper and how often it has to be replaced. Maybe "Tree" will know?
(That's a groaner, ain't it!)
mudchicken It all started with kids skateboarding on the side of I-25 at 9:30 AM yesterday............................
Mookie from my time working for GE Capital Fleet in 2001-2002 and we where in charge of Ashphlund Tree Services at that time the Grinder in the tree the Bits of it have to be replaced about every 3-4 years.
Man people wonder why I hate coming into the rest of the Forums anymore all because I show a differant side of the Transportations idustry I get attacked. Man this place was not like this 10 heck 5 years ago even with Futuremodal in here. The era of the Foamer is here at Trains and if you disagree with them your not worthy to be here it seems.
Ed don't pullthe "pin". Some folk just can't accept reality, just because they didn't think of the topic before you did . Keep on truckin' and listen to the tires sing.
Respectfully, Cannonball
Y6bs evergreen in my mind
Good Thursday morning everyone. We had an absolutely gorgeous day yesterday. Our high was 85 degrees. Tomorrow and through part of next week, we'll be back to highs in the 70s, so no more summer weather in the spring time. We spent a lot of time outside yesterday, just enjoying the beautiful weather. Walt even got out his bike, and did a little bit of rail fanning. Our projected high today should be about 82 degrees, and the rain showers will be in somewhere between 2 and 5 p.m.
Coffee, juices and other morning beverages are fresh and ready to go. Breakfast is on the warmer bar.
Everyone enjoy your morning (I may even try to take a good walk later this morning), take care and see you all later. Can hardly wait for mudchicken to come back in and finish his story.
Ed - take heart. The cafe is always safe.
That is the same tree service we have doing the work here this week. I was up above the grinder (2nd floor) and watched the size of some of the trunk parts they put in there. The chipper barely even made a noise and they were gone!
zardoz mudchicken: It all started with kids skateboarding on the side of I-25 at 9:30 AM yesterday............................ The police told them to get off of the side of the freeway and use the road surface like everyone else.......
mudchicken: It all started with kids skateboarding on the side of I-25 at 9:30 AM yesterday............................
(sure beats "it was a dark and stormy night" too; the following must be read with the appropriate Dudley Dooright theme music playing in the background:)
While all the fun is happening, Mud and a fellow field-dog were behind a guardrail digging out the end of a concrete pipe that had silted-in so it could be located for a highway redesign survey....Our trucks, with three flashing yellow lights ea and regular flashers "on" are in barrow ditch behind us, totally off the road.
(1) Highway patrol (CSHP) goes past us, lights on, pulls to the shoulder down the hill from us and gets the two stoooopid teen boys off the road.
(2) Southbound traffic, already slowing down to avoid the knuckleheads, slows down even more.
(3) Toyota Camry rear ends pickup and empty car trailer in #1 lane (LH lane closest to median) with a bang tearing front bumper off car at which time field dog and mudchicken look up
(4) just in time to see another car, not slowing down, strike the Camry from the rear and disappear into a cloud of flying dirt in the median and partially roll over.
(5) CSHP patrolman, lights and siren on, makes two knucklehead teens sit on guardrail where he stopped them and backs up the shoulder and gets over to protect the wreck. Mud and field dog get up and out of the hole they dug ...and had so quickly had crawled into.
(6) CSHP invites two of his friends to come along with the El Paso County Sherriff and the local ambulance company for a flashing light convention.
(7)CSHP tends to the drivers in the damaged/disabled vehicles. Meanwhile passing traffic avoids the wreck slowly by slaloming through all the carnage, using the shoulder closest to us in the process.
(8) One of the two knuckleheads decides to flee and runs west over the 1978 abandoned ATSF embankment and onto the grounds of the Air Force Academy.
(9) CSHP puts other knucklehead in back of cruiser, comes back to us and asks if we saw where fleeing knuclehead went. Observant surveyors that we are, we happily point in the appropriate direction. Off they go.
(10) CSHP comes back through a little later. Military police catch fleeing knucklehead on academy grounds - Guess who now has a federal criminal record?
We go back to our regularly scheduled drudgery.....
Good Morning Railfans!
Another seasonal day today and then summer kicks in early as we head towards 80F by Monday; YUK!
More NCAA Basketball action tonight, I wonder how much worse my picks will be this round but hey I only but about 5 minutes of thought into it and I still have Kentucky winning so maybe my rank will get better compared to those that went with others whos #1 team is already out but picked better then me in Round 1 & 2...
The year was 1989...
Wow! Who knew surveying could be so interesting!
But what really fascinates me is chickens digging holes....
Rooting for Cincinnati over Ohio State tonight. (Went to both schools)...Any cowards like those in Columbus who have actively refused to ever play their in-state rivals again (since 1962 after losing two consecutive Final Four games to the Bearcats) deserve to lose after that show of bad sportmanship.
I'd be rooting for Cincy, too, albeit more because Ohio State is an arch-rival of my favored Michigan.
Sounds like MC had an interesting blinky light convention - and even contributed a couple of his own. I attend those meetings on an all-too-regular basis...
Getting ready to pitch the railroad at an outdoor show. Should be interesting!
Have my 18volt battery for my Worx "trimmer" on charge, and it really does charge back up quickly. So i'm in here taking a break from the "Summer" heat....Trying to "edge" my concrete driveway. The "non Winter", must have allowed the grass / roots to continue to grow. And grow it did...out over the edge of the concrete.
I've never run the battery down before in normal trimming / edging around our place. But the grass roots seem to be adhered right to the concrete, and it's taking forever to get this task finished. 70' driveway.
If this weather performance of the past month and beyond or so, continue....It's going to be a lengthy Summer.
ohio st is going to have its hands full with the bearcats.last night of work before spring break.going to be a working at home outside vacation but we'll still go to deshler a couple of days.Cw thanks for supper for work tonight.Time to get Matt from school.
Mudchicken, really enjoyed reading your account of your story. Great story!
I did get out this morning, around 10:30 or so, and took a nice walk: got back home a little after 1 p.m. No rain yet in our immediate area, but it looks like it could start raining any time.
Supper/dinner menu for tonight:
Things you can eat while watching the basketball games:
Burgers, cheeseburgers, bbq chicken wings,sloppy joes, fries, potato chips, and other snacks
Desserts:
Chocolate brownies, cherry cheesecake, hot fudge cake, hot fudge sundaes
Everyone enjoy your evening, hope your picks win, so they can continue in the tournament and take care.
Good evening all!
Had a temp of about 80* today. Very nice with a good breeze. Grandma fixed me a nice lunch of Spam sandwiches with horseradish on them. Now that's good eatin'!
Did some rail-fanning. Caught a westbound mixed freight and a westbound Road Railer.
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Have a swell evening all!
-Justin
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