mudchicken wrote:There will be a moment of silence in the diner now.Mudchicken's faithful steed, "Trigger" (2003 3/4 ton Chevy P/U) is retired and put out to pasture today at 123,570 miles. Trigger is replaced by "Lurch", a 2007 Ford 3/4 Ton Super Duty P/U with a face only a mother could love. Lurch already comes with surprises, like it does not fit in the office garage (2" too tall), highway tread on an off road vehicle, manual locking 4WD hubs, lumber wagon ride and a bench seat that doubles as a torture rack.Happy Trails Trigger, long may you run (Neil Young tune in there somewhere).....ps - The new truck was assigned Unit # 711, ominous?? // 'scuse me for a while while I take out my angst on the corporate beancounter who got to play vehicle god and ordered this thing because "it was a good deal"
There will be a moment of silence in the diner now.
Mudchicken's faithful steed, "Trigger" (2003 3/4 ton Chevy P/U) is retired and put out to pasture today at 123,570 miles. Trigger is replaced by "Lurch", a 2007 Ford 3/4 Ton Super Duty P/U with a face only a mother could love. Lurch already comes with surprises, like it does not fit in the office garage (2" too tall), highway tread on an off road vehicle, manual locking 4WD hubs, lumber wagon ride and a bench seat that doubles as a torture rack.
Happy Trails Trigger, long may you run (Neil Young tune in there somewhere).....
ps - The new truck was assigned Unit # 711, ominous??
// 'scuse me for a while while I take out my angst on the corporate beancounter who got to play vehicle god and ordered this thing because "it was a good deal"
At least is wasn't 666!!
Mook, have you come down off your chocolate/catnip high?!
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!!
//bows head and says a prayer for Trigger.
I know how that feels. My condolences.
Dan
//slides down rope
Today we've got a plethora of liquid sunshine but could use it so it's not too bad of a thing. I do, however, want a bit more warmth. That chicken and dumpling lunch sounds great right about now.
Anyone seen Chris?
Well, I made it back from the library, and stopped at the grocery for a couple of things on my way home.
Lance, welcome back: just thought you had a busy weekend of trian watching/railfanning.
On the menu today: chicken and dumplings, salad, sliced tomatoes, and anyone who doesn't want chicken and dumplings, we also have a small Mexican Fiesta: enchiladas, tacos, chips and salsa and con caso dips. Even with several muching down on the chocolate chip cookies yesterday (?), there's still plenty for dessert today, along with chocolate cake and pecan pie and apple pie.
Everything's on the warmer bar, so come on and help yourselves. Even really nice outside, so if you want, head on out to the patio, or the garden.
CNW 6000 wrote://Reads the above and climbs back up the rope to the ceiling after leaving all the chocolate I can find for the kitty!
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
Mookie wrote: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!
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!
Mook, be very careful about sleeping in the "hammock" without "tin boots"
anyone can come by and "spin" the hammock!!!!!
"Big Z" wake up and smell the Smog. and lets not talk about weight here. I've been accused of
turning sideways, sticking out my tounge and looking like a zipper!!!! I'm skinny!!!!!!
Mook, you must have gotten that piece of "chocolate cake" that had the "catnip" in it!!
Jay, my last visit to Kings Island was about that long ago also; and I did more watching
than riding also!!!!!! Hum..75 miles east? Lexington,Versailles,Nicholasville, Harrodsburg,
Danville, Winchester, Mt. Sterling????
edit// forgot Shelbyville & Frankfort, they're a bit closer than the 75 mile limit.
locomutt wrote: 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?!?! 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.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!! Larry, PLEASE SAVE SOME COOKIES FOR THE REST OF US!!!!!
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?!?!
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.
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!!
Larry, PLEASE SAVE SOME COOKIES FOR THE REST OF US!!!!!
Walt That visit to KI was made 20 years. I was living about 75 miles to the east of you and it was during one of my previous lives. If I were to go there today, lines wouldn't matter as I would be watching rather than riding.
"We have met the enemy and he is us." Pogo Possum "We have met the anemone... and he is Russ." Bucky Katt "Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future." Niels Bohr, Nobel laureate in physics
Brian (IA) http://blhanel.rrpicturearchives.net.
Mookie wrote: 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!
Chocolate cake.
Chocolate cookies.
Dark chocolate.
Ya know, you folks are not helping my diet any!!!
Just like my wife...last night she decided to bake a cake for her coworkers; great idea--except she filled the entire house with the wonderful aroma of her baking (the reason I need the diet in the first place), and now you tempt me with all of those extremely delicious sounding treats!
Good thing the diner only serves virtual calories.
BTW, feel free to congratulate me. I met my first dieting goal. I started on December 1, and as of May 31, I have lost 100#!! (Please don't ask how many I started with, but suffice to say, I have many pounds to go. 15 years of neglect had finally caught up with me.)
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
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").
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.
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..."
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.
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?
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?
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..."
Mook!
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.
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
jeaton wrote: Question! Does MC need the boots? I thought he had asparagus.
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.
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.
Ray CANADIANPACIFIC2816
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. 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
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. 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.
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...
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.
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.
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...
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!!!!!!!!
blhanel wrote: Chocolate chip cookies???//ignores rest of menu
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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