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Posted by Willy2 on Saturday, July 14, 2007 3:42 PM

CW - I'll be praying for you over the upcoming months so that your knee surgery in September goes well.

Ray - Sorry to hear about the accident at work. Sounds like a nasty mess.

Hot day in Omaha today with highs in the lower 90s. Tomorrow looks about the same. UP has three of their heritage units at Omaha's Durham Western Heritage Museum this weekend so I think tomorrow I will go and get pictures of them. Hopefully the pictures will be good enough to post!

TTFN.

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Posted by cherokee woman on Saturday, July 14, 2007 4:58 PM

Okay, I know I'm back about an hour ahead of schedule, but here is tonight's PIZZA FEST MENU:

1.  anchovie
2.  Canadian bacon
3.  cheese - extra cheese
4.  Goetta
5.  Hawaiian
6.  pepperoni/sausage/mushroom
7.  hamburger/Italian sausage
8.  supreme
9.  dessert pizzas:  1.  apple; 2. cherry; 3.  peach

As usual, I've made three extra large of each pizza, so there should be plenty of everybody.  Including  three extra large of each of the three kinds of dessert pizzas.

And thank you to each and everyone who has wished me well, and given me advice regarding my upcoming surgery!!  

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Posted by JoeKoh on Saturday, July 14, 2007 5:18 PM

did someone say pizza????? bring it on.we are happy to be home.we have bags to unpack and stuff to sort out but its good to be home.I want to say thanks to Nora rick jay and Charlie for having us over.the action at cresson,galatzin and altoona was awesome!!!If we ever lose the lease on the diner I found a place in Berea we can go.

stay safe

Joe

(ps cw you will be in our prayers)

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Posted by CNW 6000 on Saturday, July 14, 2007 8:24 PM

Glad you didn't get hurt Ray, but that couldn't be fun.  Once I had to take some 40 gallon trash bags from big cans to dumpsters.  I have a heave and the bag let go!  It was a garbage shower...yech!  I can appreciate the feeling at that moment.

CW I'll take one of whatever's closest and be devouring it in the corner.  One more day of lathe and plaster...Censored [censored]...is two too many!

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Posted by Limitedclear on Saturday, July 14, 2007 9:05 PM

Large Hawaiian to go please!

Cold front moving through lots of lightning and thunder. Tree, it's headin' your way...

On the plane with the rod, hooks, line and flies tomorrow, goin' west...

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Posted by JoeKoh on Sunday, July 15, 2007 6:29 AM

good morning

juice coffee and lemonade are ready to go.I also found some cinnamon rolls too.LC good luck with the fishing.back to unpacking.

stay safe

joe

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Posted by cherokee woman on Sunday, July 15, 2007 6:35 AM

Good Sunday morning, everyone!  Joe, glad you all had a fun trip, and glad to know you made it back home safely!  And Joe, thanks for taking care of breakfast this morning.  I had intended to fix pancakes and waffles this morning, but looks like you've got everything taken care of!  

LC, hope you have a great vacation, and also hope you catch lots and lots of fish!!  

Anybody have any requests for Sunday Dinner today?

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Posted by Railfan1 on Sunday, July 15, 2007 7:10 AM
Good Sunday Morning everyone. Mmmmmm.....cold pizza......
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Posted by cherokee woman on Sunday, July 15, 2007 11:17 AM

For Sunday Dinner today, we will have a smorgasboard:  on the menu:

1.  cold pizza

2.  Fried chicken w/mashed taters, milk gravy, shellie beans, homemade biscuits w/gravy, choice of cole slaw or garden salad

3.  Meat loaf, mashed taters and beef gravy, baked taters w/plenty of butter or sour cream, shellie beans, cream style corn, cornbread, cole slaw or garden salad

4.  Salmon patties w/pinto beans, fried taters, cole slaw or garden salad, broccoli w/cheddar cheese sauce

Desserts today:  chocolate cake, chocolate pie, lemon merainge pie, pecan pie, cherry cobbler, Dutch apple pie, peach cobbler.

Beverages:  milk, soft drinks, iced tea (sweetened & unsweetened), lemonade, fruit punch, Gatorade.

I hope everyone enjoys the dinner selections today, and also hope everyone has a terrific afternoon!!

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Posted by CNW 6000 on Sunday, July 15, 2007 12:09 PM

 Railfan1 wrote:
Good Sunday Morning everyone. Mmmmmm.....cold pizza......

+1!  Dinner [dinner]

Joe-I sent you an email with some more pictures.  Hope you and the family enjoy them!

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Posted by JoeKoh on Sunday, July 15, 2007 2:03 PM

thanks Dan for the pics.will take some supper for tonight but I'm going to eat it on the back porch.won't go back to work until tommorow night.

stay safe

Joe

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Posted by Willy2 on Sunday, July 15, 2007 3:31 PM

Well, I wasn't able to get any of my pictures today due to some rule changes at the Heritage event at the Durham Western Heritage Museum. The 3 heritage units on display are right up against the side of the museum with just a narrow little platform to walk on alongside them. Yesterday, people were allowed to go on the other side of the engines so they could take good pictures. Today, they wouldn't let people on the other side, thus good pictures were impossible to take due to a person's extremely close proximity to the engines. Also, yesterday they were letting people into the cabs of the engines. That was a big no-no today also. In other words, I paid 10 dollars for nothing. Don't get me wrong, I'm happy to have seen them and to have gotten that close to them, but it is not what I was planning on. I figure that if people yesterday were allowed into the cabs, than the people today should have been also. It was a big disappointment.

I'll live with it, but I'm really pretty unhappy this afternoon. Hopefully everyone else's day has gone better than mine.

 

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Posted by blhanel on Sunday, July 15, 2007 7:38 PM

Willy, I feel your pain.  It sounds like the kind of luck I would have at an event like that.Banged Head [banghead]

I'm currently watching an episode of Extreme Home Makeover that was filmed in Lincoln, NE- Ms. Mooks, do you know the recipients, the Mahachek/Fullerton families (now combined)? 

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Posted by jeaton on Sunday, July 15, 2007 8:29 PM

Willy

Looking at the pictures posted yesterday, I noted people standing on the units and I thought "That's nice."  The BNSF engine on display at Galesburg was fixed with portable stairs and plastic safety fencing to keep people (and kids) from falling and getting hurt.  Someone "in charge" was sitting on the left side, but the engineer's seat was available for anyone to play pretend train driver.

It didn't look like the Heritage Engines were set up that way.  I suspect that someone may have fallen or some suit decided "Hey, somebody could fall down, get hurt and sue for millions!"  That's life.

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Posted by JoeKoh on Monday, July 16, 2007 3:42 AM

good morning

juice coffee and lemonade are ready to go.we also have some freshly made doughnuts and biscuits and gravy(cw left the recipie out).mookie have driver stand by at the mailbox.here is your coffee mug.

stay safe

Joe

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Posted by cherokee woman on Monday, July 16, 2007 6:18 AM

Good Monday morning, everyone.  Hope everyone had a great weekend!  Now, it's back to the grindstone. 

Joe, thanks for making the coffee, juice and lemonade this morning!  And it looks like you did a great job making the gravy.  It' not too thin or too thick.  You did it perfectly!!  

Has anyone heard from Emmar lately?!?!  It's been quite awhile since I've seen her in here!!  Sure hope she and family are o.k.!!

Think I'm going to take my coffee, and a plate of biscuits and gravy, out to the garden, and wait for Mookie.   Everyone take care, and have a good day.

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Posted by mudchicken on Monday, July 16, 2007 10:29 AM

CW: You gonna be out back for a while? Methinks mooks is off Mon and Thur..... (I'm off today to make up for working 10 days in a row - Go back to Gering late Tue to resume the tour-de-nebrasky.)

Sleepy [|)]Sleepy [|)]Sleepy [|)]

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Posted by cherokee woman on Monday, July 16, 2007 11:59 AM

Mudchicken, I ended up not staying out too long;  had to go do some errands, and wanted to get them taken care of before it started getting hot outside.  And it looks like you and I have been the only ones in here today!

Makes me glad that I did so much cooking yesterday.  There are plenty of leftovers from Sunday Dinner, warmed up and on the warmer bar.  Everything's labeled and covered, so all you all need to do is look on he lid, to tell what's inside, lift the lids, and fill your plates.

So everyone have a good afternoon, and stay as cool as possible!!

 

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Posted by CNW 6000 on Monday, July 16, 2007 3:02 PM

Leftovers sound great today!  CW I'll just grab a well-rounded plate and munch in the corner for a while.  I think I finally got the plaster dust out of the hair: I was demolishing most of the 'rents house for them over the weekend.  The big hammer came in quite handy! 

Joe those pics you sent are pretty sweet.  I finally had some time to go over them more closely...good job!

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Posted by JoeKoh on Monday, July 16, 2007 3:18 PM

dan

not a problem.Cw will take some leftovers for supper tonight.its been thinking about raining but we haven't got any yet.

stay safe

joe

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Posted by CANADIANPACIFIC2816 on Monday, July 16, 2007 4:05 PM

Left overs for dinner tonight sounds pretty good to me. I'll stop in within the next couple hours to see what I can find in the fridge. It's 90 degrees here in Sioux Falls and it's going to be a while before it even begins to cool down here.

I just got home from work about 20 minutes ago and I had one of "those days", and as a result the manager at Wendy's sent me home a bit early to cool off. I lost my temper with another employee who is constantly whining about having to do the tasks that are asigned to him, and yesterday he was nearly five hours late in showing up for work, which is not fair to the rest of us who want to work and are always on time. He was using the company's phone for his own personal business, which even the manager told him he should not be doing. He was on break, but has his own cell phone. Earlier in the afternoon I told the manager that I was about ready to strangle this kid. I finally turned around from what I was doing and in a voice as loud as thunder, I yelled to him "Get off the phone, you ( you fill in the blanks) !!!!! I did use the "F" word in this, which I will admit was a bit uncalled for, but I was really steamed. It was like an eruption of Mt. St. Helens. I'm sure that I left the other employees in a state of shock, because they never expected an "explosion" of this magnitude from little old mild mannered me.

Hopefully, the MT. St. Helens within me will be quiet and much more subdued tomorrow.

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Posted by blhanel on Monday, July 16, 2007 4:52 PM

//makes mental note to be very nice to Ray

The weather has been pretty exciting around here today, so far we've gotten over half an inch of rain, and Iowa City is currently under a tornado warning. 

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Posted by cherokee woman on Monday, July 16, 2007 5:22 PM

Ray, hope you feel better tomorrow.  I know how it is, when you finally reach the boiling point:  then this little Cherokee goes on the warpath.  That hasn't happened for a long time, but you never know when it'll explode!!  

Joe and Lance, there are containers in the fridge, with your names on them, for work tonight.  You both have a good assortment of leftovers, so you should have plenty to fill your tummies!

For everyone else, I've heated more leftovers, and they are on the warmer bar.  Everyone have a great evening, and Brian, I hope CI and the rest of the state doesn't get any bad, bad weather!  

 

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Posted by blhanel on Monday, July 16, 2007 10:36 PM

(glub, glub)

WOW... Anybody have any scuba gear I can borrow?

In the last hour we've received 2.24 inches of rain.  My weather station also recorded the highest wind gust that it's seen so far- 34.5 MPH, which in this neigborhood full of hills and mature trees is SMOKIN'.  From what I can see out our windows, there are alot of not-so-small tree branches down.  At this point, though, the only casualties in our house are a slow drip coming out of the bathroom ceiling fan and a very damp three-seasons porch (not a problem, just outdoor furniture and carpet out there). 

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Posted by CNW 6000 on Monday, July 16, 2007 11:34 PM

 cherokee woman wrote:
Ray, hope you feel better tomorrow.  I know how it is, when you finally reach the boiling point:  then this little Cherokee goes on the warpath.  That hasn't happened for a long time, but you never know when it'll explode!!

Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Sigh [sigh]

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Posted by mudchicken on Tuesday, July 17, 2007 12:07 AM
 blhanel wrote:

(glub, glub)

WOW... Anybody have any scuba gear I can borrow?

In the last hour we've received 2.24 inches of rain.  My weather station also recorded the highest wind gust that it's seen so far- 34.5 MPH, which in this neigborhood full of hills and mature trees is SMOKIN'.  From what I can see out our windows, there are alot of not-so-small tree branches down.  At this point, though, the only casualties in our house are a slow drip coming out of the bathroom ceiling fan and a very damp three-seasons porch (not a problem, just outdoor furniture and carpet out there). 

Water hog! (and we are looking at 100 again.....// Heads off to find weather machine with 16# circuit breaker in hand.....)Sleepy [|)]Sleepy [|)]Disapprove [V]Disapprove [V]Sad [:(]

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Posted by cherokee woman on Tuesday, July 17, 2007 5:51 AM

Good Tuesday morning, one and all.  Looks like it was very slow in here last night.  Brian, hope everything has calmed down now, and that everyone is all right.

Mudchicken, I'll keep praying that you all get some much needed rain and slightly cooler temps!!

Coffee is just about through brewing, and there's fresh juices made, along with tea (both sweet and unsweetened), lemonade & limeade.

On the warmer bar/breakfast bar, you will find:  turkey bacon, sausage links, and western omelletes, along with various melon chunks, and other fresh fruit.

Hope all our MIAs from yesterday are back today.  Wish I could visit the garden for a few, but, since this is Produce Tuesday for me, guess I'll have to wait for tomorrow morning.  See you all later!!

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Posted by CNW 6000 on Tuesday, July 17, 2007 6:29 AM
Morning all.  We found our humidity button again...I think I'll send it so someone else.  Sir Chicken, you need some extra?

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Posted by locomutt on Tuesday, July 17, 2007 9:49 AM

 CNW 6000 wrote:
Morning all.  We found our humidity button again...I think I'll send it so someone else.  Sir Chicken, you need some extra?

Dan, you can take the humidty back and give the Chicken Ours also,


The "Humid-O-Meter" here, is "Pegged Out" on very high!!

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Posted by Railfan1 on Tuesday, July 17, 2007 10:26 AM
Good morning everyone. We've got a comfortable 82 degrees right now down south.
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