Well, under the heading "you just never know," patronage at our chicken BBQ was much less than we expected. Last time we had a good weather day, we sold out in no time. It was cool, but sunny today, and we ended up with around 60 out of 450 halves of chicken left over (plus salads, etc). It's always a ****shoot...
Off to the railroad tomorrow for Columbus Day trains. Hopefully they'll be well attended. It being a "solo" holiday (ie, people aren't planning longer trips, school vacations, etc) maybe we'll see a lot of "day trippers."
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Mookie Another successful 2.5 hours trackside. 21 locomotives - 2 of them CSX. Moving a lot of them around since DE came in with 6 on the headend, headed west. And a lot of grain moving back and forth. I heard they are just about done with harvesting in some areas, so this didn't surprise me. Went to look at the bison/geese/ducks at a local park. Couldn't find the Elk but did see a red-tailed hawk sitting on a fence post right in front of Millie's nose. He didn't seem too concerned about us. And while I was watching an eastern bluebird on a fence with binoculars, he was watching me thru the other end. No, Murphy - I had the binoculars, not him! Score one for Mookie! Life is good! Chilly, but good!
Another successful 2.5 hours trackside.
21 locomotives - 2 of them CSX. Moving a lot of them around since DE came in with 6 on the headend, headed west. And a lot of grain moving back and forth. I heard they are just about done with harvesting in some areas, so this didn't surprise me.
Went to look at the bison/geese/ducks at a local park. Couldn't find the Elk but did see a red-tailed hawk sitting on a fence post right in front of Millie's nose. He didn't seem too concerned about us. And while I was watching an eastern bluebird on a fence with binoculars, he was watching me thru the other end. No, Murphy - I had the binoculars, not him!
Score one for Mookie!
Life is good! Chilly, but good!
Thanks to Chris / CopCarSS for my avatar.
Murphy Siding " DE came in with 6 on the headend" Delaware?
" DE came in with 6 on the headend" Delaware?
Probably Detroit Edison.
Murphy- I am sorry to report that the elk that were there last year are now missing and the bison are in that enclosure. The bison look very well fed....and were all down for a nap when we were there.
The ducks and geese were doing what they normally do - fertilizing all the ground around them. This must have been Illinois day since a lot of the license plates going thru the park were from there. Maybe they all come to Nebraska to celebrate Columbus Day?
DE - you are probably one of the few that know the postal abbreviation for Deleware. Congratulations. That was for Joe - Detroit Edison, don'tchaknow.
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
We have something similar to this. We call it a zoo. It has other animals too.
But you can drive thru this zoo. And... Park in the park.
I was going to say something about a fence around...but I will retain my ladyship and not say it.
have a wepx train waiting to go back west plus a tank train.(couldn't see the placards).The local was also uptown moving around.Got my flu shot today after work too.Time to catch up on things around here.
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").
Last day of the regular season at Thendara is in the books. Next weekend is our "Pumpkin Trains" (Carl's been there!), then it's quiet until "Black Friday."
It wasn't a bad day - 101 on the first train, which averaged the day out as still passable, even if only 7 rode the second train of the day. Holidays can be funny like that. Sometimes people come out, sometimes they don't.
Our Polar Express trains start November 21 - I'm sure I'll be doing a lot of running, if last year is any indication. I enjoy working on the train (the people are fun), but ya gotta do what ya gotta do.
afternoon
rain here in nw ohio.ns still has an empty coal train in the siding.The local is parked uptown as well.Csx had to clean up an engine fuel spill west of town.Chores to do.
all clear on the main and siding.local has empties to pick up.Matt has confirmation class tonight.time for chores.
Puter found a new game to play - hide the favorites. Puter doctor just left! No more games! At least the patient will live and act like it should now. It sits really close to a window to be doing "funny" things!
Joe - we found your rain.
All quiet here today. Had some middle schoolers at the fire department on a community service project. They got the trucks all washed for us, and cleaned up our banquet hall, too.
Still gathering up all my stuff for the Punkin Patch. It's amazing how things wander in a year...
Mookie Puter found a new game to play - hide the favorites. Puter doctor just left! No more games! At least the patient will live and act like it should now. It sits really close to a window to be doing "funny" things!
(Our cyber-geeks are trying figger out how Outlook started talking in multiple tongues (like Russian & Japanese) by encrypting what's being sent out as e-mails. Other folks firewalls decided the thuff was spam instead of legit. Weird...)
swamp mowed.Our trees are starting to turn.Two days ago they were green now they are a golden yellow.Ns had a westbound in the siding and 2 trains going by when I left work.No cars uptown.Back to chores.Tomorrow is Friday.
joe
Colors are past peak around the house, and most of the trees around Thendara are bare. On the up-side, with no leaves blocking ones view, you can see just how rugged the countryside really is.
Headed for the railroad Friday to set up for Saturday and Sunday's "Pumpkin Trains." Lots to do. Maybe someone will show up to help!
Happy Birthday Larry & Carl!!
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!!
locomutt Happy Birthday Larry & Carl!!
Geez - you'd think I'd remember Carl's birthday. Been so busy getting stuff ready for Pumpkin Trains that I've lost track of everything else...
happy birthday Larry.Ns had a frieght going eastbound and the local had gathered cars to take back as well.Ma Nature is going to cool us off and blow the leaves this weekend.Going to work on a project for my Dad.
Mookie:
I know it has been a couple of days since you posted this, but today we had a similar happenstance to the family 'puter.
All of a sudden we had black lines over the 'favorites bar', and patches of black where instruction screens would normally appear. |(] Got mad, and throttled my PC by the cord. Unplugged it. That did not fix anything but I felt like I won the battle with the machine. Anyhow, after several hours, Iturned it back on, and 'Windows was 'updating' went thru that for about 40 minutes, and now it seems to be back to 'normal'... No idea what the problem with it was, but I now feel better, and my wife is not complaining ,"...I Broke it..." I guess you just have to take your victories where you can.
"Um.....Son? can you come look at the computer for a second?""Awe geez Dad. What did you screw up this time?"
Hey Sam,
I know the feeling. The video card drivers on my computer are acting up. Screen occasionally goes haywire. Got a call in to my guru but haven't heard back. Just one of life's aggrivations.
Norm
I still don't know what went wrong, but I think it might have had something to do with either Java or drivers. Or fat fingers somewhere. Only Driver I want to mess with sits downstairs and is connected to a tv a lot of the time.
Even our iPad went haywire today. It must be an electronic virus that is airborne! iPad was something to do with the battery and was corrected with plugging it in for a couple of minutes.
Norm - my usual fix-it-place-we-do-house calls said it would be 3 weeks before he could get to my problem and I would have to bring the whole studio puter to him. (When pigs and BNSF fly!) So I called a little known place that looked pretty competent on paper and they were here in about 2 hours. Took that 12 year old looking young man about 20 min and it was all fixed!
My now new fix-it-and-make-house calls-place.....
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
Murphy Siding Mookie Another successful 2.5 hours trackside. 21 locomotives - 2 of them CSX. Moving a lot of them around since DE came in with 6 on the headend, headed west. And a lot of grain moving back and forth. I heard they are just about done with harvesting in some areas, so this didn't surprise me. Went to look at the bison/geese/ducks at a local park. Couldn't find the Elk but did see a red-tailed hawk sitting on a fence post right in front of Millie's nose. He didn't seem too concerned about us. And while I was watching an eastern bluebird on a fence with binoculars, he was watching me thru the other end. No, Murphy - I had the binoculars, not him! Score one for Mookie! Life is good! Chilly, but good! Yes, yes. Tell me more about the bison and the elk in the park. Are they usually there, floating along with the geese and ducks?
Another successful 2.5 hours trackside. 21 locomotives - 2 of them CSX. Moving a lot of them around since DE came in with 6 on the headend, headed west. And a lot of grain moving back and forth. I heard they are just about done with harvesting in some areas, so this didn't surprise me. Went to look at the bison/geese/ducks at a local park. Couldn't find the Elk but did see a red-tailed hawk sitting on a fence post right in front of Millie's nose. He didn't seem too concerned about us. And while I was watching an eastern bluebird on a fence with binoculars, he was watching me thru the other end. No, Murphy - I had the binoculars, not him! Score one for Mookie! Life is good! Chilly, but good!
Yes, yes. Tell me more about the bison and the elk in the park. Are they usually there, floating along with the geese and ducks?
http://www.lehighcounty.org/trexlernaturepreserve
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http://www.lehighcounty.org/Departments/ParksAndRecreation/OurParks/TrexlerPreserve/tabid/462/Default.aspx
http://www.lvzoo.org/
http://www.yelp.com/biz/trexler-lehigh-county-game-preserve-schnecksville
A running joke in our family is how (quite) a few years ago we took a camping trip to Michigan (northern part of the lower peninsula) to see elk - of course, we saw none while there (Petoskey area and easterly). Not only are there elk at the Trexler Game Preserve, but there's a pretty good-sized herd in north-central Pennsylvania, near the town of Benezette (not far from the Buffalo Line and Keating Summit on the ex-PRR/ PC/ ConRail, now NS).
- Paul North.
Paul_D_North_Jr Funny coincidence - one of our Lehigh County parks just a few miles west of us - the Trexler Game Preserve (1,100+ acres, almost 2 square miles) - is well-known for its herd of bison (American woods type) - Paul North.
Funny coincidence - one of our Lehigh County parks just a few miles west of us - the Trexler Game Preserve (1,100+ acres, almost 2 square miles) - is well-known for its herd of bison (American woods type)
My understanding is there are no buffalo in the USA. They are all bison. Africa and Asia have the buffalo that part their hair in the middle. Ours look like they should carry a shotgun and sing for ZZTop and the true buffalo looks like he should be wearing a bowtie and teach @ university. (you didn't see my college professors!)
Moo....
Paul - They used to have a Jack and a Jennie. They got rid of them many years ago and that park has never been the same for me. But I did enjoy the elk - which have disappeared. I think getting this close to cold weather, they have moved the animals around and now the bison that were way out on the horizon are now in pens closer to the "ranch" and the Elk, I hope, are just over the hill in another set of pens we can't see. Maybe a privacy issue for the females? Or not....
I don't know that I can recall just exactly how my college professors wore their hair, but there were a few that had buffalo breath. I suppose next you're going to tell me that we really don't have antelope either. Oh give me a home where the bison roam and the deer and the pronghorn play Nah......I don't think so.....
Do you have any jackalopes there? I have never seen a live one, but I have seen several mounted for sale in Evanston, Wyoming. Several years ago, as I was on my way to Chicago, a coach attendant said that we should be on the lookout for herds of jackalopes (none showed; perhaps the train frightened them). The man sitting beside me had never heard of them, so I felt obliged to describe them--body like that of a jackrabbit with antlers like those of a pronghorn.
Johnny
Murphy Siding I don't know that I can recall just exactly how my college professors wore their hair, but there were a few that had buffalo breath. I suppose next you're going to tell me that we really don't have antelope either. Oh give me a home where the bison roam and the deer and the pronghorn play Nah......I don't think so.....
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