Good morning from hot Sacramento, CA! It's supposed to be 103° F. today.
Hope you folks make lots of cold drinks.
good morning
CW thanks for breakfast.I've seen my share of trucks stuck and see the driver and ask them what were you thinking? also have seen some parked in a parking lot close to the tracks and say I know what happened!!!! yes its friday and with the holiday do not need to be back until monday night.willy has the weather machine on nice.off to due chores.
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").
Quentin,
I rode once after that, about three years later...just managed to get around the block, and back into my buddies driveway before the creeping willies got me...never been on one since, and don't miss it at all.
Walt and CW...remember, this was 25 years ago, back when music still came on real albums, and a desk top PC meant the CPU was big enough to use as a desk!
Lots of neat stuff has been invented since then, and joint replacement surgery had advanced to the point they can fix a lot of problems with nothing more than a little laser work.
My father in law had a hip replaced two years ago, and if you didn't know about it, you couldn't tell from the way he walks and acts.
A month of every other day Physical therapy and that was that...no pain, no complaints, no cane or walker, he loves it...
Modelcar wrote: ....Ed....Did you give up on the motocycle.....? Sounds like you experienced a rather serious accident.
....Ed....Did you give up on the motocycle.....? Sounds like you experienced a rather serious accident.
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Good Friday morning to one and all!! Very nice and "cool" this morning, we're at about 68 to 70 degrees. Our high today is to be about 86, with much less humidity. Going to be a good day!!
Coffee, fresh juices, tea and lemonade are freshly made.
On the counter, you'll find all kinds of doughnuts and danish, bagels and bear claws.
Since it's going to be so nice outside today, think I'll fire up the grill, and instead of a FRIDAY FISH FRY, we'll make it a FRIDAY FISH GRILL.. Does that sound all right you everyone?!?! (Of course, I'll still deep fry the fries and hush puppies.)
Now, I think I'll take a couple of chocolate covered, cream filled longjohns and my coffee, and head out to the garden.
Mookie wrote:Mutt - I am a'gonna guess you sound like a bowl of Rice Krispies when you walk, at first.....
Only the "Crackle" and "Pop"; if anything goes "Snap" I know I'm in very big trouble!!
Joe, was by the one overpass here in our city today that gets over tall trucks, guess what?!
there was one there STUCK!! (actually don't know what he was carrying, but was one good can opener. (other than the news, (TV or paper) I think thats the first time I've actually witnessed a vehicle stuck there.
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!!
Joe, need new eyeballs myself! Just putting off going for an eye check-up.
Have containers in the fridge, ready for you and Lance to take to work tonight.
Warmer bar is replenished with both kinds of spaghetti, and the garlic breads. Desserts are in the cooler.
Everyone have a great evening, and enjoy your supper!!
afternoon
busy at work. they are looking for volunteers to work this weekend not to many are crossing the line.A truck had a close shave in town today.he decided he could fit between csx and the M&W on the southside.It is a split railroad crossing where there is a patch of road between the 2 sets of tracks.the M&W train missed him by less than a foot.the driver probably had to check his pants at the next stop.
brian glad Joanie is doing better.matt and i get new eyeballs on saturday.cw will take whatever for supper please.it is friday.
That sounds familiar...I dropped 1450 lbs on my left knee doing the leg press about 7 years ago. Took me that long to get back to 1125 today for 5 reps. If I have to get knees replaced, I'm getting hydraulic ones!
Dan
Quentin
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
Mookie wrote:Brian - she is going to get to Syn? And is Visc his first or last name?I am thinking the same thing re: boring. Surely we haven't figured out every facet of trains that there aren't some questions, somewhere. It is sometimes just getting someone to talk about them. That can be the hard part.Moo....
Brian - she is going to get to Syn? And is Visc his first or last name?
I am thinking the same thing re: boring. Surely we haven't figured out every facet of trains that there aren't some questions, somewhere. It is sometimes just getting someone to talk about them. That can be the hard part.
Moo....
Mookie, I thought we were ALL well educated in trains, or are we all still in "Training"!? (that doctors name is what sounds boring!)(or scary)
All this talk about several people and knee replacements is scaring me. I'm not sure whether to buy earplugs or the walker first. (and I have a problem with my right knee, the one I broke several years ago, and have a pinched nerve on that side.)
(Kathie Kube had broken her knee right before mine got broken. She had to have surgery then, I didn't.)
After CW get hers "fixed" I think, guess I should make a trip to the doctor myself.
(uh, nothing new, been procrastinating for several years)
(Ed, what's the sound a small cannon makes when it goes off?)
CW,
25 years ago, way back in the bad ole days when I wore a lot of black leather and rode motorcycles...discovered that when you drive a KZ 1000 into the rear end of a Chevy pickup, the truck wins.
Got a new knee out of the deal, along with a new nose...(which is much better looking than the old one, trust me) plus various assorted broken arms and stuff...
Here's a safety message for all of you who ride...if you don't wear a helmet, you're nothing but an organ donor waiting to happen!
Spent a year in and out of hospital and therapy learning to walk again, had a cane for about two years...managed to put up with the knee grinding for a long while...too long in fact.
Q, I am sure it was as much the doctor's technique as the injection itself, but having a needle that big slid between the plastic knee cap and the steel knee was not my idea of a pleasant afternoon, even with the Novocain injections numbing up most of the site...but the joint relief was almost immediate.
This type of stuff was still a new thing back then, along with the laser surgery, and the non invasive things they can do today.
Give them a few more years, and complete replacement of any joint will be as routine as a visit for a check up....
cherokee woman wrote: Gee, I 'm not sure if I should be glad to be having the knee replacement surgery, or what!! Apparently, they thought my knees were too far gone for the cortizone shots, or anything else, to do first! Brian, tell Joanie I'm praying for her!! Ed, how long ago did you have that done?!?!For lunch and supper today, I've fixed Italian spaghetti w/meatballs, and Italian spaghetti w/meat sauce (PLENTY of meat in the sauce, too), along with garden salads and Italian bread, garlic and regular breadsticks, and Texas garlic toast. And for dessert, we have all the regular dessert menu items.
Gee, I 'm not sure if I should be glad to be having the knee replacement surgery, or what!! Apparently, they thought my knees were too far gone for the cortizone shots, or anything else, to do first! Brian, tell Joanie I'm praying for her!! Ed, how long ago did you have that done?!?!
For lunch and supper today, I've fixed Italian spaghetti w/meatballs, and Italian spaghetti w/meat sauce (PLENTY of meat in the sauce, too), along with garden salads and Italian bread, garlic and regular breadsticks, and Texas garlic toast.
And for dessert, we have all the regular dessert menu items.
MC - surely you know that we find you anything but boring. I was reading Houston Ed's reply with interest and then I got to yours (hard couples) and cracked up laughing! Would like to hear from you more often!
Brian/CW - pretty soon it will be the rare person that hasn't had one or both knees "redone"....
H Ed - I will e-mail you what the Driver thinks about doctors and pain. It isn't fit for human consumption.
Q - I have found a couple of items I can get through w/o getting too lost. Trouble is, I am so limited in the subject matter, I have trouble following most of the threads too far. But, I keep making a stab at it.
Lunch - I am ready!
Brian (IA) http://blhanel.rrpicturearchives.net.
CW: BossHen may not be that far behind you at Knees R Us....Now if I could only do something about keeping dates straight.
Carl: Speaking of dates, 10 days to Chicago (Down in the loop) and counting. Understand that Kubed one, Bergie and crew may be in the area keepin an eye on us.
edblysard wrote: Brian,I hope you have hearing protection the first time Joanie has that done...way back when I had to go to Knees R Us for a tune up and had it done...well, lets just say if I could have gotten a good grip on the doctor before he bolted...I am sure the compound used today is some what different; back then is was made from horse ligament and a synthetic product, and injected with something that looked like a caulking gun.Was lucky, only need it once, but once was enough.It did work wonders though; no more of that "sand in the joint" feeling, and mobility was improved immediately, and I could get up in the morning with out my knee sounding like a small gun going off.
Brian,
I hope you have hearing protection the first time Joanie has that done...way back when I had to go to Knees R Us for a tune up and had it done...well, lets just say if I could have gotten a good grip on the doctor before he bolted...
I am sure the compound used today is some what different; back then is was made from horse ligament and a synthetic product, and injected with something that looked like a caulking gun.
Was lucky, only need it once, but once was enough.
It did work wonders though; no more of that "sand in the joint" feeling, and mobility was improved immediately, and I could get up in the morning with out my knee sounding like a small gun going off.
Actually, the doc claims that he does it exactly the same way as he did the cortizone shot, and Joanie was pleasantly surprised at how that went. She's had other cortizone injections in the past where she had the same reaction as you, though... apparently it's all about the technique!
Thanks for the prayers, CW. Joanie's main goal right now is to be able to wear heels to our daughter's wedding, and she doesn't care how it happens.
Enjoyed your report, MC.
cherokee woman wrote:For lunch and supper today, I've fixed Italian spaghetti w/meatballs, and Italian spaghetti w/meat sauce (PLENTY of meat in the sauce, too), along with garden salads and Italian bread, garlic and regular breadsticks, and Texas garlic toast.
I'm definitely coming over for lunch!
....Well J, the fellows have sparked it up a bit from the boring you were mentioning. They just laid down a variety of "new stuff".....Some sounds pretty interesting.
Surely Ed, the process must be more humane now with what you described for the knee fluid that does seem to help a lot of people
Mooks: The stuff that happens on my side of the fence would bore folks to death. Interests me, but few others (following in the footsteps of Kingman, Morley, DeReymer, McMurtrie, Evans, King [lost sheep], Dodge, Blauvelt, Sumner, Argo, Berthoud and many other mudchickens)
Looking forward to two or three nights in a row of decent ...Lurch needs a bath and to get rid of it's CO/AR/TN/MS/KS/OK/TX bug collection... (typical Ford, throwing belts already and the transmission is slipping)
Uncle Pete on the ground somewhere west of here on the Moffat Sub....Hulcher sending a large convoy of sideboom cats up the hill. Watched UP change curve rail in Glenwood Canyon earlier. Saw 4 BNSF trains (w/ CSX and KCS power in the consists)plus a UP coal train between Dotsero and Allen in 90 minutes.
Georgetown Loop #9 still missing its running Gear. #12 was under steam and rather smokey at 9AM up at Silver Plume. Looked to be cleaning out the firebox.
// grabs barrel of blue gatorjuice and a large advil horsepill. Must go do battle with clueless rubber-tired engineer today.
//comes in and plops down in a corner booth
(sigh) I'm bored. We need some more good threads started by Ed and Chris!
I'm also going through withdrawal here lately- no time for trainwatching, and probably won't get any over the next couple of months either (daughter's wedding in October, lots to do, gotta get the honey-do list whittled down).
Joanie's knees are doing somewhat better lately, her new Orthopedic specialist put an orthotic in her right shoe and gave her a shot of cortizone in the right knee. She's moving around pretty good without the cane, but still has discomfort. The next step will probably be Syn-Visc (sp?).
High 50's here this morning. Ah - good napping weather. Willy must be working his magic again!
Tree - I am not sure where I took a wrong turn, but this playing postoffice included some paper cuts. No wonder they raise the prices so often.
Would have been in earlier, but had to wait for a train or two. There seems to be quite a few on the forum. Nice!
Breakfast on the patio with CW. First football game of season this Sat. I am not thrilled with the schedule. Looks to be another very long season. Blah....but Monday and sleeping late will make up for a little of it.
Good Thursday morning, all! Looks like we might have a little bit of rain today. Sure hope so, because we really need some more rain. Everything is so dry around here. If we had more women in here, I'd say I'd get a bottle washed and ready, for us to play "Spin the Bottle"!
Fresh coffee, juices and tea are ready for this morning. On the breakfast/warmer bar, we have: bacon, sausage, scrambled eggs, biscuits, sausage gravy, large jars of newly made grape jelly and strawberry jam, cantaloupe and watermelon chunks.
Think I'll take my coffee mug, and a plate of food, and head out to the garden this morning. Anyone want to join me, is more than welcome!!
Mookie wrote: I am playing "post office" today!
Gee, I'm so busy all day that I can't check in, then I find out Ms Mook has been playing parlor games....
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...
spokyone wrote: Beef noodles sound good. Near a construction zone in Rock Island today, a loaded ambulance was trying to get to the trauma center at Trinity. With sirens blasting and lights a flashing, he almost came to a complete stop. Then he reached into his bag of tricks. Out came a horn that must of came off a SD-40.That did the trick. Away he went. CooooL.
When I was on the Fire Dept., all of our apparatus had all warning lights with both "Q" and electronic sirens along with Grover "Stutter Tone" Air Horns. Didn't usually have too much trouble getting people (idiots) out of the way.
Dan, Could be..............or at least "trainese".
locomutt wrote: CNW 6000 wrote: AMEN to the weekend! I love the 3 day variety especially when I get paid for one of them!Any reason for using the horn staccato style? I heard a CN this morning that sounded off in that fashion. 8 or 9 short, sharp blasts. Usually it's a warning for anyone (or anything thing) to get off (away from)the tracks.Although around here about three blocks from the house on the NS main line, whentwo trains pass each other, they seem to have a "running conversation"! At least 15+ blasts on the horn from each train.
CNW 6000 wrote: AMEN to the weekend! I love the 3 day variety especially when I get paid for one of them!Any reason for using the horn staccato style? I heard a CN this morning that sounded off in that fashion. 8 or 9 short, sharp blasts.
AMEN to the weekend! I love the 3 day variety especially when I get paid for one of them!
Any reason for using the horn staccato style? I heard a CN this morning that sounded off in that fashion. 8 or 9 short, sharp blasts.
Usually it's a warning for anyone (or anything thing) to get off (away from)the tracks.
Although around here about three blocks from the house on the NS main line, when
two trains pass each other, they seem to have a "running conversation"! At least 15+ blasts on the horn from each train.
Morse Code?
On tonight's supper menu, you have your choice of:
1. tuna melt2. beef noodles3. open-face roast beef sandwiches w/your choice of mashed taters & beef gravy or fries
Other side dishes: broccoli, brussels sprouts, creamed corn, tomatoes, cole slaw, and garden salad
Desserts tonight: along with the regular cakes and pies, you can also have Patriot Pops, ice cream sandwiches, orange or lime sherbet, chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, or peach ice cream.
Joe and Lance, containers are waiting for you guys in the fridge. Gave you all a little bit of each of the entrees and veggies for tonight.
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