Happy Birthday MC!!!!!
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I just started my blog site...more stuff to come...
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY Mudchicken!!!!!!
Being Crazy,keeps you from going "INSANE" !! "The light at the end of the tunnel,has been turned off due to budget cuts" NOT AFRAID A Vet., and PROUD OF IT!!
Good Morning
Welb...after sitting down this morning to breakfast I find that all the rum toddies and quilt cuddling did do the trick somewhat..now I am not so stubbed ub...
Weather wise here..another dull kinda dribbly day here..we actually had a bit of drizzle here..now just plain old fog and dull...high today? 60F...yay
Today is just another do nothing but get cold out of system day here....have a good day!!
Mook: I have a pic on my cellphone you'd just love...the little Spring all cuddled up IN the sink!!
H B, MC!
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
Beginning to wonder if I should have sold the rowboat. Still got the sailboat, though.
It's not that it's raining hard, it's just raining constantly, and looks to do so for a while yet.
Would like a break tomorrow afternoon, when the interment of a good friend's father is scheduled...
Fire meeting tonight, and still plenty of house cleaning to do. Back to work.
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...
afternoon
busy day today .Ns crane has been parking in our siding at night. We had a "Southern" visitor come eastbound on an oil train last night on CSX. Going to work with Matt on his bible verses for tomorrow. Tonight is Friday.
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").
When I was but a wee lassie - I had a white muff for my hands in winter. See from your pix that you have one, too. Be sure to use it for warmth and maybe a little sympathy?
Good Mordig..*coff cooff coff...gack hack....aaaccchhhhiiiinskiiiiiiiii!!!!...honk honk...*
yeb'm...I still have the cold ...now it settled into the lungs and I will be coughing up bits of lung for a few days here...cooff coff.....
Anyhooo...called in sick and they gave me a couple of weeks off...nice ...get a bit of a break to let me get over this lousy thing...
Today I will be indulging in some hot lemon toddies and wrapping myself up in quilts...sweat this thing out...hopefully
Have a good day!!
The Wiki article did say the were a pest.
Got Mom's iiterary last night for her visit to the north country. A few days earlier than anticicpated, and the house isn't even close to "mom-ready" yet. Gotta hustle, plus everything else I've got going on!
T68: If we are going to talk "trees"....
It is across the street and up one house. It had babies on our side of the street. Landlord gave them a new home in the garbage. It is a nice looking tree, gives great shade and should be kept under glass at all times. If you have allergies - this one will do you in.
BOC - our cottonwoods are flying right now, too. Means the bluegill are spawning - well, normally. I wonder if it hasn't been too cold to do much of anything in water.
Moo.....
I never worried about the meaning of "ailanthus," nor thought of its origin. I knew that they stank if you bruised them, and that they exuded a gummy sap-- and we called them "varnish trees." I think that it is called "tree of heaven" because it will grow almost anywhere--and they can fill a vacant lot with their offspring. When I was young, we had two chinaberry trees and one varnish tree in our backyard; the chinaberry trees (don't try to eat the berries; they taste bad) were good for climbing, but we did not even think of climbing the varnish tree. It was good for holding one end of a hammock (which came when one of my brothers was discharged from the Navy) up, but that was about all it was good for. Was it ever fun trying to get into the hammock until I learned how!
We also had a huge mulberry tree (its berries are edible), which had to be cut down when the power company ran a 220 volt line to the house at the time my mother bought an electric stove for the kitchen. My older brothers taught me how to run a crosscut saw when they sawed the trunk up so we could burn it for heat. The new stove was much better than the kerosene stove she had used for many years.
Johnny
Mookie Our neighbors have a Tree of Heaven (it stinks) and it really bothers my eyes and nose when it leafs out and again when it blooms.
Our neighbors have a Tree of Heaven (it stinks) and it really bothers my eyes and nose when it leafs out and again when it blooms.
I'd never heard of the "tree of heaven" so I looked it up. The Chinese name for it translates literally as "foul smelling tree..."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ailanthus_altissima
Mookie BOC - do you have anything blooming close by? Something bigger than flowers? Or mold? Our neighbors have a Tree of Heaven (it stinks) and it really bothers my eyes and nose when it leafs out and again when it blooms. Otherwise, you probably do hab a bad code...
BOC - do you have anything blooming close by? Something bigger than flowers? Or mold?
Otherwise, you probably do hab a bad code...
mmmmmm...we do have a whole pile of cottonwoods behind us......and they are in bloom now...mmmmm
had chores and errands this morning.Going to get matt from bible school.He is having fun.Supper will be burgers and brats on the grill.
Goog Bordig..
Welb...I dow hab a goog ode fashiod code...by dose seebs to hab endless subbly of creebig crud to cob oud ov id...I deed solice....and sobe deocitrand....I ab loaded ub with fisherbads fred though...mmmm...I see sbellcheg is habing fud with the sbellig here...
I'se be goig to the bagbood to curl ub ad try to heat this code oud ub be...
Hab a bedder day thad I ab habbig
Well, the breakfast bar is up in time for Brunch, anyhow...
Nice and sunny today, but another cool start, just like BC.
The forecast for the weekend was predictable. Despite early prognostications of half decent weather, it appears that our antique fire truck muster this coming Saturday (a decidedly outside event) will again be plagued by cool temps and rain. For the third year running...
But I still have to get stuff ready for it. Off to the tasks at hand.
Good Evening...
Well, I got the meetings done and away with...came out with a scratchy throat....now am sneezing everywhere I go....great...creeping crud is back
Back to Fisherman's Friend and other such things...now...where is my kleenex box....
I'll be around some yet...hope ...hope...
Good Morning ..thanks for breakfast..
Sunny but kinda cool out here...all of 44F going for a high later on of...oh...60F
Got a couple of meetings to get to today...another one cancelled out so that may leave a little time for train things later on...
Have a good day..
morning
time to get matt to Bible school.Ns has a crane in the warehouse siding and the local waits in the siding uptown.breakfast is all set.
Joe
Rgr, permission by the stop proceed at restricted speed until move clears next more favorable signal...
8 N' Sand
Hello
Spent the last little while with the little Spring on my lap...think I'll head off to bed now...
rvos1979 I bet even the slow guys ran really fast, go for the restart.....
I bet even the slow guys ran really fast, go for the restart.....
Thing is, you don't have to be fast - just faster than the next slowest guy...
Having some light work done at KW, so drug out the laptop......
Exhausts - With all the new emissions articles under the trucks nowadays, I can roll past a sign saying "no Jake brake" with my Jakes on full, and nobody would notice.......
I have also made the mistake one night of parking next to a guy that had eight inch straight pipes, and he ran the truck all night long. Hard to get sleep that night.....
Dad had a -pre 68 John Deere 4020 Diesel with a rain cap on the muffler, the bushing was worn just enough that the rain cap would rattle at low idle. Always liked the sound of that 414 cubic inch straight six under a heavy load in the field.......
Don't see many rain caps on semis anymore, they still make them for straight cut and mitered stacks, on the right truck and balanced right, they look great.....
Mud - I bet even the slow guys ran really fast, go for the restart.....
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
Good afternoon..
Yep...I got done early..not so much reports to go through...good thing too..as it looks like week after is going to be a PITA...what with quarterlies out and such...
This afternoon featured a CN train with turbine shafts and other such goodies going through town....I managed to get the thing on my Palm Pre 2 as it was going through...gonna see whether it will post up on youtube....
MC: You have my permission as well!!!
My Reader's D version of a blob for today: Spring house cleaning....Will be going to hospital for a rest here shortly. 5 closets - 4 are completely cleaned now. 1 to go. (3rd time thru the last one!)
For all you single men and domestic gods - I have 2 feather pillows to sleep on - one goes in queen pillowcase really snazzy - 2nd one - well try stuffing what seems like about 50 pounds of feathers into a regular size pillowcase.
Going to tackle the kitchen cupboards after the rest in the hospital! Guess you really don't get rest in a hospital, do you..... maybe I will just go curl up in a chair and practice my engineer napping!
Downsizing, don'tchaknow....
Hi 8NSand - long time no see here. Come back and visit again!
X 1 !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Permission granted - from just about 100% of forum.
Field crew opened a manhole to a culvert this morning, only to find a growling bear.
Manhole cover replaced post haste. [Nikes don't fail me now!]
Gonna be one of those weeks,.....
Permission to go home and go to bed, wake up and start over?
Got a lot cooler last night...now we are cloudy and 47F.....going back up to 55F later on....
Having some work to do today at the office...hopefully not too many reports to shuffle through...then off to the LHS to check out what's new....may pick up something there...
Have a great day!!
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