Yup, honest to goodness American honey bee...a neighbor bought my father's four "Supers" when Dad moved and sold the place to me.
We used to give away quarts of honey every Christmas...the neighbors never complained about the bees at all!
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edblysard Nope, but some oak leaves and a bee managed to get in...
Nope, but some oak leaves and a bee managed to get in...
Are you sure that it was a bee and not a son of a bee? Anyhow, we're in a for a pretty good cold snap for the next few days with some light snow. Getting out on Monday is starting to look questionable.
edblysard double posted for some odd reason....might be operator error...
double posted for some odd reason....might be operator error...
Thanks to Chris / CopCarSS for my avatar.
edblysard Front and back windows open with a nice breeze...
Front and back windows open with a nice breeze...
We got about four inches of the white stuff over the last 24 hours. Now, the bottom is going to drop out of the temperature for a few days.
Norm
getting a dusting of snow.Ns was clear when I left work.Off to Ash wed. services.
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").
We had a little more than a dusting...I had to clean off the driveway, sidewalks, patio, and neighbor's walk. With a broom. I understand that the lakeshore, Gary and east, is getting clobbered. Schools are closed in my home town.UP West (both UP and Metra) is being hampered by an electrical fire that occurred yesterday in a signal bungalow at 25th Avenue (basically the eastern connection between the main line and Proviso). All wiring has to be replaced and tested (I would assume that switches have to be thrown by hand); this probably won't be completed until tomorrow afternoon. Meanwhile, most of the scoots are running, and incurring big delays at this point. The control point has two or three major bungalows; I'm assuming that the fire destroyed only one of them. (Too busy with damage control on one of my files to check it out for myself.)
Carl
Railroader Emeritus (practiced railroading for 46 years--and in 2010 I finally got it right!)
CAACSCOCOM--I don't want to behave improperly, so I just won't behave at all. (SM)
Got a dusting yesterday, it's the most snow that I've seen for a while. I've got a day off coming on Monday, hoping that the weather will co-operate.
A very light blanket of snow overnight, with scattered flurries all day still hasn't amounted to much snow here.
On the other hand, I got the weather station at the fire station hooked up to the 'Net now. Pretty cool!
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...
It's stll winter at the Crossroads of the West. No snow since a surprise snowfall Saturday morning (one of the weather guessers at one station wears his father's white coat (he has his father's former position) when he predicts snow; he wore a dark coat Friday.
Today, the temperature reached 53 degrees at Alta (about 4000 feet higher, up Little Cottonwood Canyon), the official high in the valley was 40 degrees. Isn't it amazing what gunk un the air at keeping the temperature down?
Saturday, Katie took me up to the house so I cold gather all sorts of things to bring down here; as we came down the hill, I saw the gunk that was spread over the valley.
I generally use a walker when I am out of my rooms, but I try to get around with just a cane when I am in; it can be interesting, what with my knees that do not work just as they should.
Johnny
evening
snow flurries and colder today.Ns local was at work when I left.Csx made a mess in Marysville Ohio today.Chores to do.
Ns has an autorack train in the siding.Work is busy.Catching up on chores.
Metra derailed an empty dinky this morning at the crossover east of Naperville. The entire "Racetrack" was shut down for a while (at the begnning of the eastbound Dinky Parade), with nothing operating west of Lisle and passengers from Naperville, Route 59, and Aurora being advised to find alternate transportation into the city. The site appeared to be the crossovers under the Columbia Avenue overpass. There were track workers there early this afternoon, and Metra advises that a normal evening rush hour is planned.
tree68It took my entire 90 minute drive home for them to complete the second half of the Super Bowl - 30 minutes of actual playing time...
If ya can't dazzle them with football, bore them to death with commercials.
CSSHEGEWISCH(too much dead time in the American game)
There's an awful lot of "television timeouts" during televised US football and basketball.
Games without coverage (more common in basketball - at least college BB) run much faster.
It took my entire 90 minute drive home for them to complete the second half of the Super Bowl - 30 minutes of actual playing time...
Wife and I took in a movie yesterday, "The Finest Hours". As far as the game went, I prefer rugby union or football to American football (too much dead time in the American game).
My wife enjoyed the Prius commercial best. She has a red Prius and has used it on two occasions to help law enforcement chase down lawbreakers!
Murphy Siding CShaveRR Guess we need better commercials, like steam videos or something. I did see one with UP locomotives in the background.
CShaveRR Guess we need better commercials, like steam videos or something.
Guess we need better commercials, like steam videos or something.
I did see one with UP locomotives in the background.
Yeah, the Jeep "4x4 Forever" commercial.
Uncle JakePS: go Broncos.
The forum certainly has been quiet this weekend.
Our big giggle for the week was watching a trucking company recover a 90-foot windmill blade after it got dumped on the ground in a major freeway interchange in a construction zone in rush hour here. Appears the trailer wheels under the blade got ripped out from under the blade by a concrete barrier. Ooops?
Hope I'm off the plane quick enough to watch some of THE football game.
There's a football game today ?
Wehn I was a kid, my Dad often took me to the Philadelphia Eagles' home games* at the University of Pennsylvania's Franklin Field (South St. & S. 33rd St.). But what I really like was that the southern end of the upper-level concourse looked down on the PRR's elevated "High Line" freight bypass of 30th Street Station and other urban congestion. Once in a while I'd get to see from above and close by a train pulled by GG1's or E44's. Plus, on the bus to and from the game, we went by the northern ladder and approach tracks to 30th Street, as well as some of the RDG tracks and yards up towards Manayunk.
*I wasn't missing too much. The Eagles often lost under the 'coaching' of Joe Kuharich.
- Paul North.
Super Science Saturday display (local amateur radio club) went well. Discovered after the fact that we were advertised as teaching Morse code. It's a good thing we had a Code activity! Offered the kids an opportunity to key their name on a practice key. Some of them were pretty good!
One of our fire trucks went to the dealer this past week for a check engine light. After some pretty heavy repairs, it arrived back at the station - with the check engine light back on. It's going back to the shop first thing Monday AM.
Still cold - a little snow this morning, but not enough to stifle travel.
Granddaughters B-Day party isn't until 5 PM Sunday - I get much of the day off!
worked this morning.Ns had an eastbound stack and 2 westbound frieght when I got off work.Picked up Matt and went to Deshler.CSX stack train went west on 1 followed by a bnsf powered empty coal train off the NW wye.He was met west of town by an eastbound powered Up empty coal train with csx hoppers.He had to wait as west Deshler as q 365 turned left at Deshler to go south.Q 365 also had some chessie kitty boxcars near the end of the train.Sunday school and Church tomorrow.Also making G+G dinner for a happy happy 49th anniversary.Well maybe I'll just help with the dishes.
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