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Posted by blhanel on Saturday, June 2, 2007 4:37 PM
Sign - Welcome [#welcome], csxt30!  Just got back from a shopping foray- took Joanie to Wal-Mart, where she willingly took advantage of one of their electric carts.  Looks like we might get some more rain here this afternoon, the radar is really starting to pop.  Also looks like Duff got a nice dousing last night, and the fires north of her should be good and out by now...
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Posted by cherokee woman on Saturday, June 2, 2007 5:16 PM

John, good to see you dropped in for a spell!  Hope you'll come back by a little more often, along with being in the CTT forums.  

On the SATURDAY PIZZA FEST MENU TONIGHT:

1.  anchovie
2.  cheese
3.  goetta
4.  all veggie pizza
5.   pepperoni/mushroom
6.  Hawaiian
7.  pepperoni/sausage/mushroom
8.  supreme

Hope everyone who needs rain, is getting it.  Everyone have a good evening, and enjoy your pizzas.

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Posted by CNW 6000 on Saturday, June 2, 2007 6:01 PM
I'll take some Pepperoni and Sausage along with some Mt. Dew then off to the patio.  It's a nice night!

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Posted by blhanel on Saturday, June 2, 2007 8:09 PM

#8 for me please.  Here's a shot of the Muscatine tornado, courtesy of our local ABC affiliate, for your enjoyment...

 

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Posted by locomutt on Saturday, June 2, 2007 9:18 PM

Brian, VERY NICE shot, hope the "news crew" was very far away from. (Telephoto lenses do wonders)

John (csxt30) come back and visit with us any time you want. Very glad to see you over on this side of the Forums again.

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Posted by blhanel on Saturday, June 2, 2007 9:22 PM
 locomutt wrote:

Brian, VERY NICE shot, hope the "news crew" was very far away from. (Telephoto lenses do wonders)

Actually, proper credit goes to Betty Kracaw, who submitted the photo to Channel 9.  Local resident, I would guess? 

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Posted by locomutt on Saturday, June 2, 2007 9:31 PM
 blhanel wrote:
 locomutt wrote:

Brian, VERY NICE shot, hope the "news crew" was very far away from. (Telephoto lenses do wonders)

Actually, proper credit goes to Betty Kracaw, who submitted the photo to Channel 9.  Local resident, I would guess? 

 

Hmmmm....... Got some Ba...............................!!!!!!!!!! 

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Posted by JoeKoh on Sunday, June 3, 2007 5:31 AM

good morning

juice coffee and lemonade are ready to go.we also have some cinnamon rolls.our local station has a feature see it snap it send it but if i saw saw that I'd be headed for the basement.

stay safe

Joe

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Posted by tree68 on Sunday, June 3, 2007 6:52 AM

 JoeKoh wrote:
...if i saw saw that I'd be headed for the basement.

All depends on which way it's headed...  Of course, I'd have the cell phone in one hand (calling NWS) and the fire radio in the other (keeping dispatch up to date) while I drove with my knees...Wink [;)]

Nice day yesterday on the railroad - the A/C car felt really good later in the day!  Too nice a day for people to ride, though - if it weren't for the bus tour trip first thing in the morning, we'd have been pretty low on our numbers.

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Posted by cherokee woman on Sunday, June 3, 2007 6:53 AM

Good Sunday morning, everyone.  Joe, thanks for the coffee, juice, lemonade, and the cinnamon rolls.  

Think I'll fix some beef, mushrooms & onions, with brussels sprouts, corn, green beans, and salad for lunch, along with a some lasagna and Italian bread for Sunday Dinner today.  How's that sound to you all?  

Everyone have a good morning, and see ya later.

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Posted by csxt30 on Sunday, June 3, 2007 7:04 AM

Good Morning Everyone !!  Thanks for all the warm welcomes yesterday !!  You might know I'd be back in time for breakfeast !! Laugh [(-D] I'm usually up on the toy train forum & can't even keep up with everything there sometimes !! There's a lot more food here !! I know Walt sure eats good !!  Laugh [(-D]

Thanks everyone & hope everyone has a nice day !! Here is short clip of the business train that went by me the other day ! Turn your volume up !!  http://s94.photobucket.com/albums/l112/csxt30/?action=view&current=DSCF0860.flv

 

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Posted by locomutt on Sunday, June 3, 2007 9:08 AM
 csxt30 wrote:

Good Morning Everyone !!  Thanks for all the warm welcomes yesterday !!  You might know I'd be back in time for breakfeast !! Laugh [(-D] I'm usually up on the toy train forum & can't even keep up with everything there sometimes !! There's a lot more food here !! I know Walt sure eats good !!  Laugh [(-D]

Thanks everyone & hope everyone has a nice day !! Here is short clip of the business train that went by me the other day ! Turn your volume up !!  http://s94.photobucket.com/albums/l112/csxt30/?action=view&current=DSCF0860.flv

 

 

Hey John, Very Glad to see you back in here, come in more often!!

As far as getting fed, I should weigh a ton, but am still "skinny as a rail"

With ALL The good cooks here, CW,Emmar, Duff, Dan, Lance, Larry, Joe, and

all the ones I didn't name. (especially like Larry's Fire Dept's. Barbequed chicken!!) 

 (definitely not a Mud Chicken, that's too tough!!)Smile,Wink, & Grin [swg]

Thanks for the video link, enjoyed it, both today, and the other day you sent it to me.

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Posted by cherokee woman on Sunday, June 3, 2007 11:42 AM
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Good Sunday morning, everyone.  Joe, thanks for the coffee, juice, lemonade, and the cinnamon rolls.  

Think I'll fix some beef, mushrooms & onions, with brussels sprouts, corn, green beans, and salad for lunch, along with a some lasagna and Italian bread for Sunday Dinner today.  How's that sound to you all?  

Everyone have a good morning, and see ya later.

The beef, mushrooms, onions, etc. are now ready, and on the warmer bar.  Desserts today:  chocolate chip cookies, chocolate cake, and apple pie w/ice cream.

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Posted by blhanel on Sunday, June 3, 2007 2:47 PM

Chocolate chip cookies???

//ignores rest of menu

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Posted by Limitedclear on Sunday, June 3, 2007 2:49 PM
 blhanel wrote:

Chocolate chip cookies???

//ignores rest of menu

AND CAKE. Quick, break out the insulin...lol...

I'll take from 12 o'clock to 3 on that cake please...

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Posted by locomutt on Sunday, June 3, 2007 3:12 PM

Brian,

 

Are your "Tin Shoes still available, or do you have extra pairs of??

I think LC is going to be running into the"Mookster" while talking about

chocolate no matter what form it's in!!!!!

I would say I'd like to watch that battle, but I don't want to watch a friend get "Mauled" by a cat.(whom is a friend also)


NOW, WHERE ARE THE COOKIES!!!!!!!! 

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Posted by blhanel on Sunday, June 3, 2007 7:28 PM
All I know is, I offered the Mookster the real thing (chocolate chip cookies from Perkins, IIRC) back when we met in Rochelle a couple of years back, and she DECLINED!  So I feel safe pouncing on them and leaving the cake for her.  LC can have the boots.
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Posted by tree68 on Sunday, June 3, 2007 7:32 PM

Good thing these chocolate <munch, munch> chip cookies <more munching> are virtual - I don't need <munch> the real <munch> calories....

Willy is in New York (the city), but he seems to have dragged in some weather with him.  While I was working on the railroad today we got a storm here at home.  The hourly observations by my home weather station recorded hourly totals of  .61", .59", and .47", for a total of 1.67" in three hours, beginning around 2 pm.  My wheelbarrow, dry when I left this morning, looked half full...

We got some rain at the RR station just before our second trip of the day, but when we reached our usual turnaround point, they'd gotten no rain at all.  Just 10 miles (by curvy rails) away.

Per usually for this time of year (and partly due to the beautiful weather, before it rained) our ridership was down for the weekend.  In fact, in keeping with the last days of passenger rail, pre-Amtrak, crew outnumber passengers 4 to 2 on our last run today.  It will pick up.  It  always does.  By the time we get to the fall foliage runs, we'll be turning people away.

I'm pooped.  Quick walk with the dogs to the store and I'm probably done for the night.

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Posted by jeaton on Sunday, June 3, 2007 7:45 PM

Larry

I have noted that the weekend after Memorial Day tends to be slow for all kinds of public entertainment activities.  I attribute it to "holiday weekend burnout" or "darn, we spent all our fun money last weekend".  Add to that the first round of HS graduation parties, throw in a little iffy weather and things might be slow.

I once went to Kings Island on the Sunday after Memorial Day did not have to wait in line for any ride.  Got my money's worth that day but also bruises for multiple turns on The Beast.

It is coming in dribs and drabs, but we have accumulated about an inch and a half here.  One can hear the grass sighing with relief.

Question!  Does MC need the boots?  I thought he had asparagus.

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Posted by CANADIANPACIFIC2816 on Sunday, June 3, 2007 7:50 PM

 blhanel wrote:
All I know is, I offered the Mookster the real thing (chocolate chip cookies from Perkins, IIRC) back when we met in Rochelle a couple of years back, and she DECLINED!  So I feel safe pouncing on them and leaving the cake for her.  LC can have the boots.

Hey Brian, chocolate chip cookies from Perkins are NOT the real thing UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. If I had home addresses for both you and Mookie, I would ship a couple dozen of what I make here in my own kitchen to both of you, and I think you and Miss Mook would at least conclude that I make a pretty darned good cookie. Chef [C=:-)]  Sarah got a sample of my chocolate chip cookies roughly a year and a half ago, and she would tell you that I make a mighty good chocolate chip cookie. I've been thinking about eventually shipping a care package to a very nice couple in Louisville, Kentucky........I just gotta find the time to put it all together and get it into the mail.

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Posted by blhanel on Sunday, June 3, 2007 8:02 PM
 CANADIANPACIFIC2816 wrote:

 blhanel wrote:
All I know is, I offered the Mookster the real thing (chocolate chip cookies from Perkins, IIRC) back when we met in Rochelle a couple of years back, and she DECLINED!  So I feel safe pouncing on them and leaving the cake for her.  LC can have the boots.

Hey Brian, chocolate chip cookies from Perkins are NOT the real thing UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. If I had home addresses for both you and Mookie, I would ship a couple dozen of what I make here in my own kitchen to both of you, and I think you and Miss Mook would at least conclude that I make a pretty darned good cookie. Chef [C=:-)]  Sarah got a sample of my chocolate chip cookies roughly a year and a half ago, and she would tell you that I make a mighty good chocolate chip cookie. I've been thinking about eventually shipping a care package to a very nice couple in Louisville, Kentucky........I just gotta find the time to put it all together and get it into the mail.

Ray   CANADIANPACIFIC2816

Well, yeah, the Perkins cookies are certainly not as good as my grandmother's chocolate chip cookies.   But they were "real", not the virtual kind like we have here in the Diner.  I'm half-tempted to take you up on that offer, except that I eat too many of them as it is.  At least the Diner's cookies don't have any calories...

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Posted by CANADIANPACIFIC2816 on Sunday, June 3, 2007 8:50 PM

I know the pitfalls of eating too much of what one likes, Brian. Last week I baked myself a batch of oatmeal cookies with chocolate chips in them, and it isn't unusual for me to sit here and eat six, maybe eight cookies within the space of an hour or less. And as a result of some of the eating binges that I go on, right now I've got an ice pack on my foot. It's called gout, and you don't want to know how painful that is or how ugly it can get. And to add to all that, I'm a type II diabetic.I will be able to see my doctor about the darned gout on Thursday of this week, I've thought about making a trip to the emergency room at the hospital in my neighborhood if push comes to shove, but that would cost me a few hundred bucks, whereas a visit with my own doctor would cost me roughly $70.00.

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Posted by mudchicken on Sunday, June 3, 2007 10:02 PM
 jeaton wrote:

Question!  Does MC need the boots?  I thought he had asparagus.

Answer: There are those times when he's on the wrong side of no-chicken's land - like next week (after the cast iron shorts debacle to be)

...anyone seen Copcar? Just about got all the parts for his new-used set of legs.

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Posted by Limitedclear on Sunday, June 3, 2007 10:46 PM

Jeez. I only wanted a hunk of the cake...lol...

I make a pretty mean chocotale chip cookie myself, although I really enjoy peanut butter cookies with a Hershey Kiss in the middle. I am currently experimenting with those caramel filled kisses on the cookies. They work well, but you have to be careful when you put them on the cookies so they don't melt leaving a sticky mess. Of course, NEVER microwave them. The explosion is VERY messy...

LC 

 

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Posted by locomutt on Monday, June 4, 2007 12:20 AM

LC, you're supposed to microwave things like that for 15 seconds, not 15 minutes!!!!!

No explosions that way.(not supposed to anyway) 

MC, keep your "Aspergrass" out west, we don't need it imported this direction.

 Cast Iron shorts? Are you in trouble, or what?!?!Laugh [(-D]

 Ray, send a batch of those cookies, we'll be sitting here with mouths a'drooling!!

Brian (Ia) got a special on those  tin boots?  I have a strange feeling that I might need a pair of them.Smile,Wink, & Grin [swg]

Jay, you were at King's Island? that's only about a 130 miles away from here, and you didn't stop to say HI!! Dead [xx(]

Larry, PLEASE SAVE SOME COOKIES FOR THE REST OF US!!!!! Wink [;)]

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Posted by cherokee woman on Monday, June 4, 2007 6:08 AM

Good Monday morning, everyone.  Looks like a nice day today, except for when the thunder showers roll in sometime this afternoon.  All we got yesterday was a little light shower, about 1:30, 2:00, for about 10 - 15 minutes.  

Coffee is ready, juice and lemonade are made, and there's hot water for tea.  On the breakfast bar:  sliced tomatoes, turkey bacon, sausage, biscuits, toast, hash browns, sausage gravy, cantaloupe & watermelon chunks, and about a dozen bear claws.  

Everyone have a good morning, and see ya later.

 

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Posted by Mookie on Monday, June 4, 2007 6:20 AM
 tree68 wrote:
 Mookie wrote:
 CNW 6000 wrote:

Congrats on the new job Sarah.  Willy be safe! 

Mook I thought (oops sorry-I'll whisper) Mook I  thought you'd find that interesting.  I just didn't know what it was.  I think you can see the placard in that pic.  What was in that car?

  my book is in Millie - and she is several miles from here.  Will have to look it up but won't be back here before Monday.  If Houston Ed or Sir Chicken travel through here, they will tell you, for sure.

Ms Mook - Hope you read back this far on Monday - and anyone else who is interested - the "book" is available on-line at http://hazmat.dot.gov/pubs/erg/gydebook.htm.

In hazmat classes we sometimes refer to "methyl ethyl awful", or if it's really nasty, "methyl ethyl death..."

Tree - I did find it on line, and verified it through the book later.  That will be a good source for Dan and others who don't have the book to look up the placards.  Will scare some of them silly when they find out what is in some of those tankers!

Mook!

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Posted by zardoz on Monday, June 4, 2007 6:33 AM

It's Monday morning, the fog is so thick I can't see across the street, everything is damp.

I'm going back to bed.  Wake me in July.

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Posted by Mookie on Monday, June 4, 2007 6:35 AM

Speculation runs rampant. 

So the facts are - Chocolate cake is always good.  Chocolate cake with raspberry filling is the ultimate.  Dark chocolate if it is any candy. Candy is a take or leave thing.  Chocolate chip cookies - the Tollhouse variety with english walnuts and soft - a major requirement - are a favorite.  Don't eat any of them, since it is too hard to stop.  However, Mookie can eat all of them.

Now everyone hand over the left overs and no asparagus will be leaving the diner and Brian won't need his tin boots.  I will await in the hammock - clipboard in hand!  Kisses [:X]

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Posted by JoeKoh on Monday, June 4, 2007 6:49 AM

wow best be careful.sounds like the mookie wants to play. yea we look at those placards on the takers and can read too.wouldn't want any of that stuff to spill.mookie sent us her rain and we got a good soaking.once it dries i'm going to need to mow.Jay we rode the beast one time and got caught in a rainstorm.found out what a windshield felt like.we got an ovation when we got back to the platform.Cw thanks for breakfast.

stay safe

joe

 

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