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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, February 28, 2004 1:07 AM
Didn't Dan say his California weather was a "little" rainy? lol lol [;)] [}:)] [;)]
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Posted by cherokee woman on Friday, February 27, 2004 2:26 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by erikthered

Spring is almost here in Georgia. You can tell because my wife's school system is doing a series of "severe weather drills" which look a lot like the old air raid duck and cover bits. These drills are for tornados.

My wife says her school was supposed to have a drill yesterday, but it was cancelled due to....(wait for it, wait for it)...rain.

A sure sign that the end times are near is that they had snow in northern Georgia last night. I know I moved down here from Connecticut for a reason... oh yeah, shoveling snow. Hate it.

Oh, and I love biscuits and gravy. Chicken dumplin's, too. My wife, born and raised "suthin'" is working on the grits thing. She eats grits. The dogs eat grits. I fill potholes with the dang things. Speakin of speakin suthin, y'all ain't been properly fussed at till yew hear the words "Bless yore heart." As in, "Erik is one depty who ain't carryin all the cards in the deck, bless his heart." In her more reasonable moments at trackside, my wife will tell passersby "He's just fixin to waste some film on that there train, bless his pea pickin lil ol heart." I'd pitch a hissy fit but it knocks off mah focusin'. She's a good ol gal for a GRITS(girl raised in the south) who lost her head over a dangyankee, bless her heart.

(Y'all are supposed to nod your heads wisely and pity the poor woman.)

By the way, one of the best eatin spots in the south is the "Fried Green Tomatos" restaurant outside Birmingham, Alabama. They's plenty of trains a goin bah and the food is jest pure heaven on earth.

Erik




Erik,

Don't feel like you're alone! Some of us "suthners" don't like grits either. As a matter of fact, I wouldn't feel grits to my worst enemy: I'd wish grits to NO ONE. Do like stewed tomatoes, put in the oven with home made biscuits and sugar over them. UM UM GOOD![:D]

And I don't care if you northerners make fun of me, either. You just don't know what's good:
except for one thing: yankee pot roast. That is good.
Angel cherokee woman "O'Toole's law: Murphy was an optimist."
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Posted by cherokee woman on Friday, February 27, 2004 2:26 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by erikthered

Spring is almost here in Georgia. You can tell because my wife's school system is doing a series of "severe weather drills" which look a lot like the old air raid duck and cover bits. These drills are for tornados.

My wife says her school was supposed to have a drill yesterday, but it was cancelled due to....(wait for it, wait for it)...rain.

A sure sign that the end times are near is that they had snow in northern Georgia last night. I know I moved down here from Connecticut for a reason... oh yeah, shoveling snow. Hate it.

Oh, and I love biscuits and gravy. Chicken dumplin's, too. My wife, born and raised "suthin'" is working on the grits thing. She eats grits. The dogs eat grits. I fill potholes with the dang things. Speakin of speakin suthin, y'all ain't been properly fussed at till yew hear the words "Bless yore heart." As in, "Erik is one depty who ain't carryin all the cards in the deck, bless his heart." In her more reasonable moments at trackside, my wife will tell passersby "He's just fixin to waste some film on that there train, bless his pea pickin lil ol heart." I'd pitch a hissy fit but it knocks off mah focusin'. She's a good ol gal for a GRITS(girl raised in the south) who lost her head over a dangyankee, bless her heart.

(Y'all are supposed to nod your heads wisely and pity the poor woman.)

By the way, one of the best eatin spots in the south is the "Fried Green Tomatos" restaurant outside Birmingham, Alabama. They's plenty of trains a goin bah and the food is jest pure heaven on earth.

Erik




Erik,

Don't feel like you're alone! Some of us "suthners" don't like grits either. As a matter of fact, I wouldn't feel grits to my worst enemy: I'd wish grits to NO ONE. Do like stewed tomatoes, put in the oven with home made biscuits and sugar over them. UM UM GOOD![:D]

And I don't care if you northerners make fun of me, either. You just don't know what's good:
except for one thing: yankee pot roast. That is good.
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, February 27, 2004 1:32 PM
Beautiful this week, Sunny, couple of clouds, temps in the -8 to -5 C range (25 to 30F).
Last Thursday: 95cm (38")of snow in 24hrs, winds gusting to 90kph (45mph), province wide State of Emergency. Sort of what Mookie had in January.

AND I missed the Russel plow backed by three RS23's punching through seven foot drifts near the local feed mill cause my 4-wheeler couldn't plow out my driveway! [banghead][banghead]

Life ain't fair!

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, February 27, 2004 1:32 PM
Beautiful this week, Sunny, couple of clouds, temps in the -8 to -5 C range (25 to 30F).
Last Thursday: 95cm (38")of snow in 24hrs, winds gusting to 90kph (45mph), province wide State of Emergency. Sort of what Mookie had in January.

AND I missed the Russel plow backed by three RS23's punching through seven foot drifts near the local feed mill cause my 4-wheeler couldn't plow out my driveway! [banghead][banghead]

Life ain't fair!

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, February 27, 2004 1:03 PM
Spring is almost here in Georgia. You can tell because my wife's school system is doing a series of "severe weather drills" which look a lot like the old air raid duck and cover bits. These drills are for tornados.

My wife says her school was supposed to have a drill yesterday, but it was cancelled due to....(wait for it, wait for it)...rain.

A sure sign that the end times are near is that they had snow in northern Georgia last night. I know I moved down here from Connecticut for a reason... oh yeah, shoveling snow. Hate it.

Oh, and I love biscuits and gravy. Chicken dumplin's, too. My wife, born and raised "suthin'" is working on the grits thing. She eats grits. The dogs eat grits. I fill potholes with the dang things. Speakin of speakin suthin, y'all ain't been properly fussed at till yew hear the words "Bless yore heart." As in, "Erik is one depty who ain't carryin all the cards in the deck, bless his heart." In her more reasonable moments at trackside, my wife will tell passersby "He's just fixin to waste some film on that there train, bless his pea pickin lil ol heart." I'd pitch a hissy fit but it knocks off mah focusin'. She's a good ol gal for a GRITS(girl raised in the south) who lost her head over a dangyankee, bless her heart.

(Y'all are supposed to nod your heads wisely and pity the poor woman.)

By the way, one of the best eatin spots in the south is the "Fried Green Tomatos" restaurant outside Birmingham, Alabama. They's plenty of trains a goin bah and the food is jest pure heaven on earth.

Erik

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, February 27, 2004 1:03 PM
Spring is almost here in Georgia. You can tell because my wife's school system is doing a series of "severe weather drills" which look a lot like the old air raid duck and cover bits. These drills are for tornados.

My wife says her school was supposed to have a drill yesterday, but it was cancelled due to....(wait for it, wait for it)...rain.

A sure sign that the end times are near is that they had snow in northern Georgia last night. I know I moved down here from Connecticut for a reason... oh yeah, shoveling snow. Hate it.

Oh, and I love biscuits and gravy. Chicken dumplin's, too. My wife, born and raised "suthin'" is working on the grits thing. She eats grits. The dogs eat grits. I fill potholes with the dang things. Speakin of speakin suthin, y'all ain't been properly fussed at till yew hear the words "Bless yore heart." As in, "Erik is one depty who ain't carryin all the cards in the deck, bless his heart." In her more reasonable moments at trackside, my wife will tell passersby "He's just fixin to waste some film on that there train, bless his pea pickin lil ol heart." I'd pitch a hissy fit but it knocks off mah focusin'. She's a good ol gal for a GRITS(girl raised in the south) who lost her head over a dangyankee, bless her heart.

(Y'all are supposed to nod your heads wisely and pity the poor woman.)

By the way, one of the best eatin spots in the south is the "Fried Green Tomatos" restaurant outside Birmingham, Alabama. They's plenty of trains a goin bah and the food is jest pure heaven on earth.

Erik

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, February 27, 2004 12:36 PM
In the 40's today in the Mid-Atlantic. Lows in the 20's tonight. This week we will hit mid 50's or higher!!!!

I even heard some birds the other morning. Spring is almost here.
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, February 27, 2004 12:36 PM
In the 40's today in the Mid-Atlantic. Lows in the 20's tonight. This week we will hit mid 50's or higher!!!!

I even heard some birds the other morning. Spring is almost here.
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Posted by Mookie on Friday, February 27, 2004 11:29 AM
windy and in the 50's with full sun today. Near 60 tomorrow, windy and then rainy on Sunday with highs in 40's.

This weather report has been brought to you by station BORE and meterologist Mookie

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Posted by Mookie on Friday, February 27, 2004 11:29 AM
windy and in the 50's with full sun today. Near 60 tomorrow, windy and then rainy on Sunday with highs in 40's.

This weather report has been brought to you by station BORE and meterologist Mookie

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, February 27, 2004 10:23 AM
Hop aboard the "Do Not Die Special". [:p]

Coming from "Oblivion" to a monitor near (actually yours) you. [:D]


This winter is absolutely crazy here. Wednesday we had 1 hour of sleet. Just as the sleet was beginning to stick the sleet became snow. It snowed hard for about 30 minutes. All the time it was sleeting and snowing the air temp was 37 to 38 degrees. It did not stick. Now the snow and sleet happened around noon to about 2 in the afternoon. At midnight when we got off work the ground was dry but the temperature was around freezing. This is the second time this has happened here this last 2 weeks. On a Saturday it began snowing heavily about 3 in the afternoon. Around 7 pm it had accumulated to about 5 inches. It snowed more. The grocery stores had their usual "run" on milk and bread and other grocery items. I was sure we would not have church the following day and stayed up late that Saturday night. Around 2 in the morning I walked the dog and heard train horns. The snow had stopped, the trains were moving but nothing else was moving. Later that morning I noticed the snow was melting. By noon the roads were clear. By about 2 or 3 in the afternoon all the snow was gone.

This is the craziest winter I think I have ever seen. Every time we have snow it is above freezing. After the snow melts it turns cold. It is good for us that the two don't seem to get together. Now the snow that was here on Thursday is in Atlanta and other southeastern states. They are having problems. And Dan H was telling us of the rain in California. Rain, snow, warm, cold, crazy times we are having. [8D]

And how is YOUR weather. [:p] [?]
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, February 27, 2004 10:23 AM
Hop aboard the "Do Not Die Special". [:p]

Coming from "Oblivion" to a monitor near (actually yours) you. [:D]


This winter is absolutely crazy here. Wednesday we had 1 hour of sleet. Just as the sleet was beginning to stick the sleet became snow. It snowed hard for about 30 minutes. All the time it was sleeting and snowing the air temp was 37 to 38 degrees. It did not stick. Now the snow and sleet happened around noon to about 2 in the afternoon. At midnight when we got off work the ground was dry but the temperature was around freezing. This is the second time this has happened here this last 2 weeks. On a Saturday it began snowing heavily about 3 in the afternoon. Around 7 pm it had accumulated to about 5 inches. It snowed more. The grocery stores had their usual "run" on milk and bread and other grocery items. I was sure we would not have church the following day and stayed up late that Saturday night. Around 2 in the morning I walked the dog and heard train horns. The snow had stopped, the trains were moving but nothing else was moving. Later that morning I noticed the snow was melting. By noon the roads were clear. By about 2 or 3 in the afternoon all the snow was gone.

This is the craziest winter I think I have ever seen. Every time we have snow it is above freezing. After the snow melts it turns cold. It is good for us that the two don't seem to get together. Now the snow that was here on Thursday is in Atlanta and other southeastern states. They are having problems. And Dan H was telling us of the rain in California. Rain, snow, warm, cold, crazy times we are having. [8D]

And how is YOUR weather. [:p] [?]
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, February 13, 2004 6:25 PM
I found out Joe, it was a Simpsons episode.
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, February 13, 2004 6:25 PM
I found out Joe, it was a Simpsons episode.
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Posted by locomutt on Friday, February 13, 2004 5:45 PM
Hey Jim, you're making me hungry for biscuits & gravy!!

Come on over, I'll get some sausage, make a big skillet of gravy, and we'll go to the tracks.

No, we haven't taken sausage and gravy train watching: just sausage biscuits from Mickey D's.

cherokee woman

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Posted by locomutt on Friday, February 13, 2004 5:45 PM
Hey Jim, you're making me hungry for biscuits & gravy!!

Come on over, I'll get some sausage, make a big skillet of gravy, and we'll go to the tracks.

No, we haven't taken sausage and gravy train watching: just sausage biscuits from Mickey D's.

cherokee woman

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!!

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Posted by JoeKoh on Friday, February 13, 2004 4:44 PM
Ah no the censors wouldnt allow that kev
stay safe
joe

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Posted by JoeKoh on Friday, February 13, 2004 4:44 PM
Ah no the censors wouldnt allow that kev
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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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, February 13, 2004 11:34 AM
Totally off topic

If anyone knows Huckelberry hound, in one of his episodes did he say to himself

"I was so Gay, But i couldn't tell anybody"

Did he really say that
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, February 13, 2004 11:34 AM
Totally off topic

If anyone knows Huckelberry hound, in one of his episodes did he say to himself

"I was so Gay, But i couldn't tell anybody"

Did he really say that
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, February 13, 2004 11:16 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by jhhtrainsplanes

QUOTE: Originally posted by edblysard

My wife cant catch the icebox thing either, she calls it a fridge.
You left out three Southernisms,
Outyonder, raitch here, and youno. like in, "youno, if I had me some bait, I'd be outyounder fishing, and you could sit raitchere side me".
Stay Frosty, yall hear!
Ed


How well I know them Ed, yes I do. We could go on for days with these. Along the lines of outyounder is backyounder, and one of my favorites is yea tall. It's about yea tall. Years ago, I worked in a restaurant and a Yankee ordered biscuits. Hey everyone down South knows that sausage gravy goes with biscuits. There is nuttin finer than sausage gravy and biscuits. NUTTIN ! ! ! This country boy LOVES em. But anyway, I carried a plate of biscuits and gravy out to the yankee and he wanted to know what it was. It turns out yankees don't put gravy on their biscuits, they put jelly. Some people just don't know whats good for em. [:D]



I bet locomut and cherokee woman like eating sausage gravy and biscuits while watching trains.
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, February 13, 2004 11:16 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by jhhtrainsplanes

QUOTE: Originally posted by edblysard

My wife cant catch the icebox thing either, she calls it a fridge.
You left out three Southernisms,
Outyonder, raitch here, and youno. like in, "youno, if I had me some bait, I'd be outyounder fishing, and you could sit raitchere side me".
Stay Frosty, yall hear!
Ed


How well I know them Ed, yes I do. We could go on for days with these. Along the lines of outyounder is backyounder, and one of my favorites is yea tall. It's about yea tall. Years ago, I worked in a restaurant and a Yankee ordered biscuits. Hey everyone down South knows that sausage gravy goes with biscuits. There is nuttin finer than sausage gravy and biscuits. NUTTIN ! ! ! This country boy LOVES em. But anyway, I carried a plate of biscuits and gravy out to the yankee and he wanted to know what it was. It turns out yankees don't put gravy on their biscuits, they put jelly. Some people just don't know whats good for em. [:D]



I bet locomut and cherokee woman like eating sausage gravy and biscuits while watching trains.
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, January 15, 2004 3:05 PM
Jim pulled a NO DON'T DIE special!

yeah its REAlly cold!

my eyelashes froze today
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, January 15, 2004 3:05 PM
Jim pulled a NO DON'T DIE special!

yeah its REAlly cold!

my eyelashes froze today
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Posted by Mookie on Thursday, January 15, 2004 12:31 PM
Believe me - having waded thru snow up to my waist, been thru a week of no electricity and tree across driveway so can't leave; bitter, bitter cold and the wind that goes with it - I really, truely do have lots of sympathy for you that are in the deep freeze. I had a cold nose thru a 2 hour staff meeting and had to have a pity party for myself!

Just keep remembering - July 4th is only 171 days away! Gotta warm up by then!

Mookie

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Posted by Mookie on Thursday, January 15, 2004 12:31 PM
Believe me - having waded thru snow up to my waist, been thru a week of no electricity and tree across driveway so can't leave; bitter, bitter cold and the wind that goes with it - I really, truely do have lots of sympathy for you that are in the deep freeze. I had a cold nose thru a 2 hour staff meeting and had to have a pity party for myself!

Just keep remembering - July 4th is only 171 days away! Gotta warm up by then!

Mookie

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, January 15, 2004 12:15 PM
BRRRRRRRRRRR!!

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, January 15, 2004 12:15 PM
BRRRRRRRRRRR!!

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, January 15, 2004 11:13 AM
as Kev says,

"NO DON'T DIE"

Keep the fire going. Our east coast friends are in the fridge lately. [}:)] [;)]

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