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Posted by Deggesty on Monday, August 19, 2013 3:31 PM

A can of corn? I thought corn came in fruit jars, though it could be bought in a bottle in an ABC store in North Carolina.Smile

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Posted by Mookie on Monday, August 19, 2013 2:51 PM

Tree - if I catch him eating peanuts, he will be known as a squirrel.  He has food and water to wash it in available.  

BOC - you know - he was kind of cute.  His fur wasn't quite as dark as an adult, so figure he was about 3/4 grown.  

Just like trains, I have a healthy respect for wildlife - their teeth and claws are much sharper than mine!

Tried a different city fishing hole.  Moderately sized lake not too far out of center of city.  Driver caught a couple of bass @ regular lake then we tried this much older lake where I fished as a kid.  He caught some carp, fed some turtles corn and then caught a "fingerling" bullhead.  That was the most fun.  Easiest to get off the hook, too!  I stayed in Millie out of the sun and "bobber-watched".  He had two and they would both go down @ same time.  

I guess not much has changed in the past many years - a hook, a bobber and a can of corn - cheap thrills.  

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Posted by blownout cylinder on Monday, August 19, 2013 9:14 AM

Morning!!

Sunny and warmer today...high of 80 feeling like 93.....back to deep summer days here...

So...I also discovered that whatever budget I thought I had for my recording studio is now in pieces because SWMBO has to get her workspace done first...yay...not...sighSighGrumpyBang Head

So...off to work on that space...growlGrumpy

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Posted by Deggesty on Sunday, August 18, 2013 8:46 PM

Mookie

Johnny - if I remember correctly - you are in Utah?  How far are you from Park City?  

Yes, Mookie, I now live in Salt Lake City; until this past March, I (and Ricki) lived in West Valley City, which is the second largest city in Utah and is just southwest of Salt Lake City.

As to Park City, I think it is about thirty-five miles from us, over on the backside of the Wasatch Mountains. If you have an atlas look for Highway 80 going east, and then turn off at Kimball Junction and go up to the former mining town of Park City, which is now a tourist trap; I avoid it unless there is absolutely no escape.. Alta, which is just southeast of Snowbird, was also a mining town, but it has not been exploited as Park City has. 

The annual Oktoberfest at Snowbird started yesterday, and runs into October, on Saturdays and Sundays. It draws thousands of people. When I came back up after church, early this afternoon, I could not find a place to park in the Iron Blosam's (that is the name of  the mining claim the timeshare is named for) parking lot, and had to park way away (I did move my car closer late in the afternoon). I did not bother to see if every car in the Iron Blosam's lot had a parking permit in it.

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Posted by tree68 on Sunday, August 18, 2013 7:42 PM

Ms Mook - I don't think that was a squirrel...

Back from a weekend on the railroad.  Conductor Friday and Saturday, then traded places with the Saturday engineer for today.  First time running our RS-3.  Brakestand is a 6, and it has manual transition (kinda like driving a car with non-power brakes and a stick shift).  Got through the day without any problems, though.

If the weather holds, this week is work-on-the-house week.  Plenty to do, for sure, including putting the steel roof on the kitchen.

Time for beddy-bye.

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Posted by JoeKoh on Sunday, August 18, 2013 5:42 PM

evening

more Deshler days today. Good view at the car show and on Csx. Saw a pair of mookies on an eastbound coal train. Also met some new friends. Vacation night tonight.Back to work tomorrow night. Mother nature is going to warm us up a bit this week.

stay safe

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Posted by Mookie on Sunday, August 18, 2013 11:23 AM

They tell me we have fox squirrels.  I have seen a fox or two and a lot of squirrels.  Trust me, they look nothing alike.  Unless you count 4 paws and 2 ears.

So when we were backing Millie around in our backyard to go train watching, I looked up to the roof of the neighbors directly behind us.  They have a normal upside-down V roof line, but added on a screened in porch which slopes to almost a flat roof.  

Had some kind of giant squirrel sitting right in the middle of the roof.  Eating something.  Had he had a pan of water, he could have washed it before eating whatever it was.  

And if he would have had a small gun, he could have committed a bank robbery.  

I knew we had "creatures" around here - Driver saw one and called "Kitty, Kitty" before he realized it was "Kitty" with big, sharp teeth.  And a city bus ran over an Oposs-no-more!  

Looked like a youngster from this year's crop and how he got up there and then back down - I have no clue.  We didn't put him there and so didn't offer to help him down.  But he was almost better watching than trains today!  

He will probably be in our peanuts/birdseed offering next.  Something more for the crows to holler about.

Ranger Mook..... 

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Posted by blownout cylinder on Sunday, August 18, 2013 7:55 AM

Good Morning...

Boy, was I busy the last couple of days...SWMBO decided that 'we' needed to go up into the attic to see what was up there...did I say ...'we'? Sad  Nah...it was more like ...little ol' me that went up to the attic...oh joy Tongue Tied...it was chock-a-block with more junk than ...."Carter had Liver Pills"Dead So...to start...several old chests, a rocking chair, a couple of old paintings and several other items of woe had to come down to the main part of the house...to rest...where else...in my just cleaned up and ready to reno studio space!!!Bang HeadGrumpy So, guess whose workspace gets to be done...first? SWMBO's.....growl!!!!Bang Head

I'm going to crawl back to the basement and mope....Black Eye

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Posted by Mookie on Sunday, August 18, 2013 4:40 AM

Johnny - if I remember correctly - you are in Utah?  How far are you from Park City?  

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Posted by Deggesty on Saturday, August 17, 2013 9:39 PM

I am starting my second week at my favorite ski and summer resort (I never come up here except in the summer). The first week, I had exchanged a week at another timeshare to be at the one that is about 26 miles from home and 2,800 feet higher (10 degrees cooler). This week, I am in the two-unit timeshare that Ricki and I bought about twenty years ago, and have used every year (except last year, when I was physically unable to come up) since. Katie and Jackie came up this evening, with Ginny's (Katie's sister) 5 and 7 year old daughters. It's nice to have the company, and they will spend the night.

If you look at my avatar closely, you will see Jackie as she holds something for me to look at while we were on the train coming back from Chicago in April.

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Posted by Mookie on Saturday, August 17, 2013 5:07 PM

Joe:  Did 'ya bring back corn and butter?  (don't need salt, thank you!)

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Posted by JoeKoh on Saturday, August 17, 2013 4:55 AM

good morning

Breakfast is all set.Busy day today running and watching trains.(Corn city festival)

stay safe

joe

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Posted by locomutt on Friday, August 16, 2013 3:11 PM

CShaveRR

Hang in there, SJ...we'd hate to hear of you being seized by a person tipping over and falling after eating a T-bone.

While working for the Ambulance Service and being a Firefighter, that's one run I never had to make..........

Gotten people out of swimming pools, extricated people from autos after a "T-Bone" accident, made several seizure runs, and treated people at Bar-B-Ques (and local eating places) but have never treated that combination.

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Posted by CShaveRR on Friday, August 16, 2013 1:25 PM

Hang in there, SJ...we'd hate to hear of you being seized by a person tipping over and falling after eating a T-bone.

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Posted by Mookie on Friday, August 16, 2013 10:28 AM

Joe - you have Clinton St - we have gravity.  Seems like there is almost an accident a day where an SUV "falls over".  Or a "T-Bone".  Drivers in our fair city are maniacs!  And the fire calls for falls keeps going up.  Used to be seizures, but now they are pretty well tied - falls and seizures.  And not together!  I have listened to police and fire calls for many years and this is a whole new world.  

Drat!

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Posted by JoeKoh on Friday, August 16, 2013 6:29 AM

good Friday morning

Breakfast is all set. Matt had a great time at the zoo yesterday. We even saw a "Bluebird"(Toledo lake erie & western) train on the way home. The Clinton St. can opener claimed another victory while we were gone as well. Chores today,Deshler days tomorrow. Better get things going.

stay safe

Joe

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Posted by blownout cylinder on Thursday, August 15, 2013 7:43 AM

Good Morning

Sunny with a high near 72 today...

Gonna go and do a few 'honey do' and a few more 'honey buy' things today...I'm going to attempt to get a few things done for myself somewhere along the line as well, if'n that is permissable....Whistling That is if there is much money left that is..Confused

Have a good day!!

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Posted by JoeKoh on Thursday, August 15, 2013 6:53 AM

morning

ns brought some gons into our siding last night. work is done. we might see some trains in Toledo. Matt is going with his cousins to the zoo in  Toledo. Better get a quick nap.

stay safe

Joe

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Posted by tree68 on Wednesday, August 14, 2013 5:14 PM

JoeKoh
How is the new railpark looking at the C&O/NKP diamond area on Columbus ave?

Didn't get over that far at Fostoria.  Hung out at the station where a bunch of other fans were, and where CSX provided some action (and NS, too).  Could hear horns to the northeast, but never saw the trains involved.

Left Deshler at about 7 this AM, pulled in at the house a little after 5 - right on the nose per Mapquest.  Didn't really have time to do any official 'fanning on the way home, although I did catch a few trains in motion in OH, MI, and ON.

Laundry, mowing, getting ready for the railroad this weekend.  It just never ends.

Edit:  As I was approaching the Ambassador Bridge on I-75 in Detroit this morning, I noticed a mere skeleton of a building not too far off.  You could see right through it.  Then I realized - it was the old Michigan Central Railroad Station...  So sad.  Not even a half a chance for a picture, though.

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Posted by blownout cylinder on Wednesday, August 14, 2013 8:24 AM

mudchicken

Mookie

Tree:  I used my hated cell phone and had a small friend of mine put out a pint of milk and a bowl on your porch.  

I have small friends in Mud's area... be glad it is just milk.  

Enjoy!

^~^

Now I know why the 'hood is over-run with attack wabbits!

Mud just got home and now is gloating a bit. One of his students just unravelled a longstanding mess in CA. with a persistent approach and using a few tools he picked-up in class.

We have attack moles here.....

MC....good to hear!!

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Sunny right now, current temperature is at 50 going to a high of 66 later on....

Need to pick up some things today..wonderful honey buy list magically showed up in front of me this morning...Confused Like to know how these things come up whenever I have a little cash available...mmmmm

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Posted by JoeKoh on Wednesday, August 14, 2013 6:43 AM

morning

46 degrees today.highs in the 70's. work is busy busy. Larry they usually fuel and turn the power for those stack trains pretty quick. Maybe Mookie will see the horses since the train is going back out on BNSF. How is the new railpark looking at the C&O/NKP diamond area on Columbus ave? heard they have started construction there. Breakfast is all set. Larry if you have time on the way home check out Walbridge,standley and maybe Vickers on Toledo's east side.Hope you have a safe trip home.

stay safe

Joe

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Posted by Mookie on Wednesday, August 14, 2013 5:47 AM

I have heard that this is why teachers teach.  Congrats!  Thumbs Up

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Posted by mudchicken on Wednesday, August 14, 2013 1:27 AM

Mookie

Tree:  I used my hated cell phone and had a small friend of mine put out a pint of milk and a bowl on your porch.  

I have small friends in Mud's area... be glad it is just milk.  

Enjoy!

^~^

Now I know why the 'hood is over-run with attack wabbits!

Mud just got home and now is gloating a bit. One of his students just unravelled a longstanding mess in CA. with a persistent approach and using a few tools he picked-up in class.

Mudchicken Nothing is worth taking the risk of losing a life over. Come home tonight in the same condition that you left home this morning in. Safety begins with ME.... cinscocom-west
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Posted by blownout cylinder on Tuesday, August 13, 2013 9:09 PM

Good Evening

We never even got to 60 here...it stayed at...57 .... ??

Anyhoo...got a fair bit of the yard...or field...cut....brother...what a pain in the tukous....especially around the wetland part...thank goodness it was done before nightfall...otherwise I'd still be doing it by the light of my silly little tractor thingee....

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Posted by tree68 on Tuesday, August 13, 2013 8:04 PM

CSX is being generous this evening. Almost always a train on the ATCS map.  Getting too dark for pictures, though, so I'll just have to watch.  Picgs coming through right now, with some stacks on the end.

They are talking cool tonight - will dress accordingly.  At least the bugs are behaving themselves.

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Posted by rvos1979 on Tuesday, August 13, 2013 7:19 PM
Larry: Nope, in south Georgia today, one of my many evil twins out here. My truck number is 3068 now, one of the new T680 models. Best way to tell between the two models we have is to look at the mirrors on the hood: the 680 has just one arm, the 700 has a tripod arrangement. Later.......

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Posted by tree68 on Tuesday, August 13, 2013 4:18 PM

Ms Mook - I think I know which one it was.  Next time you talk to them, tell them the bird feeders are off limits...

Joe - those horses just went west though the diamond.

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Posted by Mookie on Tuesday, August 13, 2013 4:09 PM

Tree:  I used my hated cell phone and had a small friend of mine put out a pint of milk and a bowl on your porch.  

I have small friends in Mud's area... be glad it is just milk.  

Enjoy!

^~^

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Posted by tree68 on Tuesday, August 13, 2013 3:39 PM

Those two horses were still at North Baltimore when I came back from Fostoria this afternoon.

Despite the berm that separates Ohio 18 from the intermodal facility, it is possible to see "inside" by swinging in to the "bulk water facility" for the local water district.  It's not up close and personal, but you can see a little bit.

Big project in Deshler is the replacement of the Main Street crossing.  They assembled a 91 foot "panel" to put in place there on track 2.  Things seem to be going well, but I don't know if they'll get it all done tonight.  I'm sure there will be a slow order on track 2 until it sees some traffic to settle it in..

Fostoria wasn't too bad - a sizeable group from outside the area was there to watch and "film."  They were looking for where to go next, but apparently couldn't decide, as they were still there as I left, a good hour after they started making noises to that effect.

Hey, Randy - You weren't on US24 at the Ohio-Indiana line on Monday evening were you?  I didn't wave, so don't feel bad if you didn't.  Confused

One more night here at Deshler, then it's back north and east for home. 

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Posted by JoeKoh on Tuesday, August 13, 2013 2:42 PM

afternoon

had breakfast with Tree (Larry) this morning after work. Csx was quiet. They did send a stack train eastbound with 2 NS horses on the point while we were heading home. Chores here at home and work tonight.

Stay safe

Joe

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