Dan
Good Tuesday morning to one and all. Looks like things were very slow in here last night. Well, it is summertime and folks are busy when they get off work, aren't they?!?!
Dan, thanks for turning the lights on, and making the coffee. I've got fresh oj, oj-tangerine, and grape juice all ready for this morning. And to go along with the bear claws, I've got bagels set out on the counter, along with cantaloupe and watermelon chunks in the cooler.
Looks like we'll have another hot and muggy day here, with a 40% chance of afternoon thunder showers/storms; with a higher chance tomorrow.
Everyone have a good day. Think I'll head out to the garden, and wait for Mookie to show up! Hopefully, it's cool in the garden, this morning!
See the smirk on my mug! No bad noises today! The LFD was called here last nite at 7:40pm (remember I have a scanner) for same problem. They asked for history and were told an employee called in around 05:00 - I am yelling at the scanner - "No! 5:35!".....
Anyway - Houston Ed - I really would have liked to lean on that nice young man standing closest to me. "Sonny, could you help me down the stairs to my office chair. I am feeling a little feeble this morning!".... :)
Dan - I read an article in our local rag about teenagers detasseling corn. Not a job I would really want to tackle! But I think for a first job, it teaches them a whole lot about hard work.
CW - warm up the seats, I am on my way.
Willy - check your e-mail. (give me a little time this morning to get it to you.)
CW - BBQ beef/pork on a bun and a salad for supper? It is cooler and tons more humid (79% and 72 degrees!) - icky!
Ugh.
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
In my job I feel like I'm detasseling adults! Can be messy. On a positive note the guy who freaked on me came in this morning before he went to work and apologized to me for his behavior. That was decent of him.
I hear that CNW 8646 is somewhere in the state this morning. If it's around this afternoon I'm goin' a chasin' that rascal!
Dan good luck in your search.will take some quick breakfast then time for bed.hey mookie check in your desk drawer and make sure you have plenty of crayons.more detail will follow shortly.
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").
Good Morning!
Mookie - Got the email.
It is refreshingly cool outside this morning. Highs in the lower 80s and lows in the upper 50s for the rest of the week. For July, this is pretty nice.
Everyone have a good day! TTFN.
Willy
Mookie, I happen to have some beef barbecue, and I'm fixing some for lunch, and will fix more for supper, to go along with our TUESDAY MEXICAN FIESTA. As a matter of fact, we'll also be having some taco salads for lunch today. I even have some sweet pickle slices for the barbecue sandwiches. And if anyone doesn't like sweet pickles, we've got some kosher dill pickle spears, also.
For tonight's menu, we'll have more tacos, enchiladas, beef burritos enchilada style, Spanish rice, quasadillas, and anything else Mexican we can find to fix.
I am now putting everything out on the warmer bar, and the salads are in the cooler.
Tuesday Produce went fairly well. They brought us potatoes, zuchini, leaf lettuce, cauliflower, and spinach. We had about 75 people come today. That's been our biggest crowd since back in the winter.
edblysard wrote: Yup,Feel real sorry for the Mookie, having to hold on to "things", (like fireman, policemen, Battalion Chiefs and such) this morning...bet it just ruined her whole day....
Yup,
Feel real sorry for the Mookie, having to hold on to "things", (like fireman, policemen, Battalion Chiefs and such) this morning...bet it just ruined her whole day....
Yeah, cats love firemen, don'tchaknow...
LC
Make mine a shredded beef quesadilla with 2 soft tacos, 2 cheese enchilladas, rice and beans please...
Nothing like good Mexican Food to sweat off a few pounds...
We'd better not give it to MC though, he may just blow away. Perhaps if we keep his gatoraide IV all the way open he'll stay on Terra Firma...
Hot, Hot, Hot in the Northeast today. Getting my humidity knife out.
Could we have some good ol' Texas Hots and maybe some Coneys for lunch tomorrow. Fries would be nice too and maybe onion rings. I'll bring extra Lipitor...
Mookie wrote:Crayons at ready!
its in the mail and cat has been notified.
Cw will take a plate for work tonight hopefully it cools off.matt mamma and I are getting the gear together.we are going to see Nora,Rick and the boys thursday and friday.going to try to make it to altoona as well.Just depends on everyones schedule.anyway got some more gear to get around.
Joe
Willy,
Its 97 outside right now...might get down to the low 80 by midnight...we have some of LC's humidity too...
LC...Now that sounds like a good idea....maybe even slice up some avocadoes...do a watermelon or two for dessert...throw in some sweet tea and pecan pie...
(by the way, cholesterol is just another word for flavor)
I say we hook a fire hose up to a tank car of Gatorade for the MC, just in case.
Mookie...I don't think they would miss him for a little while!
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LC, let me know what exactly Texas Hots are, and I'll fix that tomorrow, along with some coneys.
As for tonight, our TUESDAY MEXICAN FIESTA IS NOW UNDERWAY! Everything is laid out on the warmer bar, and the lettuce, tomatoes, etc., are in the cooler. I'll have to make sure I go refill my cholesterol medicine in the morning!! Looks like I'll need it tomorrow.
And Ed, watermelon sounds really good for dessert!!
You all have a nice, cool evening, and enjoy your supper!!
cherokee woman wrote: LC, let me know what exactly Texas Hots are, and I'll fix that tomorrow, along with some coneys. As for tonight, our TUESDAY MEXICAN FIESTA IS NOW UNDERWAY! Everything is laid out on the warmer bar, and the lettuce, tomatoes, etc., are in the cooler. I'll have to make sure I go refill my cholesterol medicine in the morning!! Looks like I'll need it tomorrow. And Ed, watermelon sounds really good for dessert!! You all have a nice, cool evening, and enjoy your supper!!
Texas Hots are a large hot dog with special red "Texas" hot sauce. Below is a description from the Buffalo, NY area:
"The Texas Hot style hot dog is another regional delicacy, teaming a Sahlens or Wardynski hot dog with mustard, slivered white onion and Texas Style meat sauce on a steamed hot dog roll."
Hope that gives you the idea. "Sahlens" and "Wardynski" are local sausage makers in the Buffalo area. Texas Hots were always a great lunch when pulling pins on a cold night on the hump at Frontier Yard. The canteen there made great ones...
I SAW IT, I SAW IT, I SAW IT, I SAW IT....FINALLY!
I flew (figuratively) to Adams, WI today and got to see and take pics of CNW 8646 and a pair of ex-CNW -8's! Shots later, it's time for a nap!
CNW 6000 wrote:I SAW IT, I SAW IT, I SAW IT, I SAW IT....FINALLY!I flew (figuratively) to Adams, WI today and got to see and take pics of CNW 8646 and a pair of ex-CNW -8's! Shots later, it's time for a nap!
you're welcome
8646 is probably in Altoona right now, but i cant bike there at this hour. looks like i'm gonna miss it. oh well.
yeah those ex-CNW dash 8s are common sights on the UP around here. second most common after the ex-CNW SD40-2s. they're on every train i catch in Altoona. it's giving me CNW zombie fatigue
Your friendly neighborhood CNW fan.
Good Wednesday morning to one and all! Getting some light rain at the moment: thundershowers/storms are headed our way. Should be here very soon.
LC, thanks for letting me know what "Texas Hots" are!! They'll be ready at 12 noon EDT, along with some BLTS, fries, and whatever else anyone requests for lunch today.
Coffee is ready, hot water for tea, juices and lemonade are also freshly made this morning.
On the warmer bar, you will find: turkey bacon, sausage patties and sausage links, home fries, homemade biscuits, sausage gravy, scrambled eggs, and even some Spanish and Western omelletes, cantaloupe and melon chunks, sliced red and yellow tomatoes.
Everyone have a great morning, and I'll be back after the storms here are over.
Message From:The Cook
P.S. We will be celebrating a special birthday on Friday: our illustrious owner, JHH's birthday! Hopefully, I can get ahold of him, and request his presence for Friday morning!!
Hmmm....note to LC: Had Taco Bell last nite and they put some mighty hot onions on my chicken taco. Guess I am not going to do well on the spicy food tasting.
Tree: alarm still on "don't go off" mode. Wonder how long we will work w/o a fire alarm.....
Did you recover from all your "hookups?" (not sure that sounds quite right) Instead of your 5 min spiel, just bring up Trains and the diner. Believe me, they will be so impressed you will leave them speechless!
Cantaloupe sounds good. I think for supper we should do.......assorted kibble! Try something new for a change? Put milk on it if it is too dry.....
Must rest after all that!
Mook
morning
will take a quick breakfast then need to go to bed.got packing and things to organize. the mattmobile is going to get a bath and vacumed out later.had a big kaboom of thunder yesterday afternoon but no rain.can the yard get any browner?
....Paula: I see, on the weather map of the whole country a band of weather right across you, but then up by Ill. there is a big "H" system that looks to me, like it will be pushing that system east and south....So....looks like we're going to stay high and dry again, and still....!
We really need rain and today was to be a day we had a chance to get some but now....?? Hopefully, maybe the heat of the afternoon might stir up a few showers but to cover where....Only a chance. We are dry.....! And Hot.
Quentin
We have 56 degrees here in Sioux Falls, and the humidity here is sitting at 80%. It's supposed to warm up to about 78 here this afternoon, not too bad. It was quite hot and mugly here on Sunday afternoon when I walked home from my job at Wendy's. It's only a 20-minute walk for me at the most, but I had beads of sweat running into my eyes.......it was that bad. The weather here yesterday was a lot more comfortable. It sure is dry here though, people's yards here in Sioux Falls are turning brown, and I can't remember when we last had a good rain. I kind of feel sorry for the couple who do my yard, it's got to be awful doing yard work in 90 degree + heat.
Ray
Morning all. The weather is great today. Air temp is 68 and humidity is around 40% with a light breeze. Of course, now I have to go to work instead of enjoying it......but such is life and I can deal with it.
For those that didn't read my previous post, I finally got to see one of 'The Duo' of CNW -9s in Adams yesterday. I have not been that excited to see a CNW engine since I saw the 1385 steamer back in the late 80s. So I'm a happy camper for a while. I doubt if much could get me upset for the rest of the week!
Misty, my fiancee, was very patient with me yesterday. She came home to find me not home, then I came home later than I said I 'might' be...hehe...I'm pretty lucky to have her!
Limitedclear wrote: We'd better not give it to MC though, he may just blow away. Perhaps if we keep his gatoraide IV all the way open he'll stay on Terra Firma...
I resemble that remark.
BNSF blew-up a coal train near us Sunday night. 33 cars derailed at Hyannis, NE - east of Alliance. All the coal trains detouring over the single track line we are working on making 2MT.
The heat has been nuts and the weatherliar here is off by 8-10 degrees (too low)...Is it me, or is the local ABC affilliate here in need of a CALL-SIGN name change? ....KDUH?
Still trying to mix SPF-80 sunblock & Frost gatorade.
Scorched Feathers in the ballast.
(in the Southern Nebrasky Panhandle)
Well, Omaha got down to 55 degrees last night and our high today is only going to be in the lower 80s. Now that's nice! There could even be some rain coming for late tonight and tomorrow morning. I'm not so sure about that, though.
Dan - Congrats on seeing the unpatched CNW unit.
I don't really have any other newsworthy items this morning, so I'm off. TTFN.
Poor chicken. Read Willy's post and then give more consideration to coming to nice, quiet, cool Lincoln. And we haven't had a derailment in probably 3 weeks now!
Pass the cold Chickenade and I will hold onto it for his arrival.....
I'll make sure the fan is ready for when Sir Chicken comes back in later along with a cold, frosty mug for his Chickenade.
Thanks Willy. It's nice seeing something other than CN!
Mookie-the UP train that I saw the CNW unit on yesterday went over some of the scariest tracks I've seen. I swear the cars were swaying 2-3' from centerline either direction! When one would go left and it's neighbor right I thought it would derail. Not good for me as I wasn't too far from the tracks.
Lunch is now on the warmer bar/cooler bar: LC's request of Texas Hots, coneys, fries, onion rings; and Ed's request of sliced avocadoes and pecan pie and watermelon for dessert.
BTW, we didn't get the T-storms that they were predicting this morning. Just some more light rain, and now the sun is shining, and there's a very nice breeze outside. Our high later on this afternoon, early evening: about 83 or 84 degrees. I can live with that today!!
CNW 6000 wrote: I'll make sure the fan is ready for when Sir Chicken comes back in later along with a cold, frosty mug for his Chickenade.Thanks Willy. It's nice seeing something other than CN!Mookie-the UP train that I saw the CNW unit on yesterday went over some of the scariest tracks I've seen. I swear the cars were swaying 2-3' from centerline either direction! When one would go left and it's neighbor right I thought it would derail. Not good for me as I wasn't too far from the tracks.
They poked around a little on it, but never really did much for it. Then they put 4 full coal gons on the ground and after a whole lot of work and cleanup, they don't sway any more!
congrats on the catching those trains.ive seen plenty of track on csx that makes you wonder sometime.Dan please email me I have a picture to show you about patience.I am one of the luckiest guys on the earth.MC matt and I have seen the guys on 24 building the new road and kicking up alot of dust.do you need a semi full of gatorade now or do you want a unit train to come west?Cw need a plate for work tonight(please) then we are off.
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