Got my face in a mato right now! Like them as is - don’t need any add-ons.
Post office closed. Taking a postperson’s holiday. Work all done.
One meeting down, one to go.
Weather gorgeous! Finally.
Have workload down a little so I can maybe find a tad bit o’ mischief. Hmmm looks like everyone is playing hide-and-peek. My kinda people!
made some more lemonade for tonight.Cw thanks for supper.according to another spot on the web csx derailed q380 in garrett yard.just a few cars.2 more days then a nice weekend.
stay safe
joe
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.
On tonight’s supper menu, you have your choice of:
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.
Morse Code?
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”.[:)]
Gee, I’m so busy all day that I can’t check in, then I find out Ms Mook has been playing parlor games…
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”! [swg]
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!!
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.
//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?).
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…
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.
[banghead][banghead][banghead]
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.
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.
…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
I’m definitely coming over for lunch! [dinner]
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…[censored] 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.[(-D]
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.