Today is the last day of summer.Ns was clear when I left work.Chores to do here.
stay safe
Joe
Fall officially arrives at 9:21 AM (EDT) Tuesday. Our temperatures have been fall-like of late, but tomorrow is supposed to be more summer-like. Not complaining. As usual, I haven’t started some summer projects until now, but that’s just how I am.
We’re also a getting a not-so-autumnal weather streak through the weekend, highs in the upper 70’s and lows in the mid 50’s. No complaints here, either.
Good morning
Ns had stack train go east.They also had some cars to shuffle uptown after work.Helped neighbor yesterday.Fall weather and temps are coming next week according to the guessers.
stay safe
Joe
Another nice day yesterday, and looking pretty good for today.
Working on getting all those projects I should have been working on all summer worked on. Actually making progress, though.
evening
Ns had tonka toys uptown when I left work.Got errands ran.Also finished up neighbors project.Today was much eaisier.Getting things around for Saturday.Time for supper.
stay safe
Joe
evening
Ns was clear after work.Csx had a couple stack trains each way when I went into town to do errands.Put most of the outdoor items in the shed.Glad tomorrow is Friday.
stay safe
Joe
evening
Ns was clear after work.Saw a westbound csx coal train as we went south to run an errand.Tomorrow going to give air hugs and then go to Deshler.We’ll see what csx can do.
stay safe
Joe
Spent several hours at our local PBS station tonight for their auction.
Normally the auction is done in the spring and involves a plethora of volunteers and staff in the studio, presenting the items, etc. Most of the nights I volunteer there are as a camera operator (I do pretty good…).
This year it was me and the floor director, plus a couple of tech support people in case someone had problems with the on-line bidding. I read the scripts for ten items each of the five times I was on. All bids are being submitted on-line vs via phoning in.
Apparently they are getting a good response - this may be the shape of things to come.
Fall opened with temperate weather here, but unfortunately a Red Flag Warning has been issued for the next two days - temps into the 90s with very low humidity.
A sure sign of fall is when the largest oak tree in the community starts raining acorns on my roof - the squirrels are busy and thankful. Also thankful we don’t have these large critters digging burrows here:
Back to topic, I had never come across the recently produced BBC Great Railway Journeys series on cable or OTA, but a good selection is available on YT. The hosts clothing reminds me of movies produced in Technicolor.
good morning
Just got home from deshler.Csx was jammed up as usual.Good to see old and new friends.Gave hugs as well today.Time for sleep.
stay safe
Joe
Groundhog loves the apples!
afternoon
Ns was clear after work.Mother nature has sent us some rain and a cool down.Was putting something in my wallett and oops there goes a spare key right down a register vent.Got out the vaccum too to clean them out before heating season could be starting Friday.
stay safe
Joe
Yesterday, I was called to recrew a train out of my away from home terminal. They had only been on duty about 6 hours, so that usually means something is wrong. It was. Once on duty we found out they had been in a grade crossing accident.
Initially we were told they had struck a semi truck but once there the engineer described it as a tractor (the agricultural kind) with a pull behind road grader. No one was hurt, but it ended up with the tractor on one side of the tracks, the grader on the other.
The guy driving the tractor had his girlfriend with him. They must’ve got out to look at the damage. Then the guy took off with the tractor, leaving his girlfriend behind. Once the responders arrive, including a deputy sheriff, they figure out who the driver was and where he went.
The deputy turns out to be a former neighbor of the engineer, who grew up near there. The deputy informs the engineer that they did find the guy. Not only do they have him for leaving the scene of an accident, the driver was high on Meth. His girlfriend didn’t fare much better. She had an outstanding warrant for her arrest from Arkansas. She was taken into custody to be extradited back.
You can’t make this stuff up.
Jeff
I would expect to find Meth Heads many places, but farm tractors in rural areas is not one of them.
(I’d be concerned about where they were making the stuff and dumping the byproducts - NASTY. Farmhouse may well be condemnable … and you would be surprised where the damn stuff may be found or used.)
Feel bad for the train crew.That’s why it’s hard to find people for road clean up.Portable labs all along the backroads.
stay safe
Joe
We’re about as rural as things get and we regularly see reports of meth labs around here.
“One pot” seems to be the choice these days.
It doesn’t get reported much here anymore, but it’s still around. Some years ago they restricted the sale of an over the counter cold medication, and possibly now require the cold medications that still have the ingredient only by prescription, needed to make Meth. After that they said production in the rural areas fell because they were making less arrests.
I personally think to make it look like the ban on the cold medicines was working they just stopped looking as much. That leads to less arrests, too.
Jeff
afternoon
Ns has some cars to pick up uptown.Did some more putting away for the winter today.Left the snow shovels in the shed.Chores to do inside.
stay safe
Joe