Good evening , can’t stay on line much longer, I hear the thunder, and we have one vicious looking radar of red coming straight at us. There have been reports of many downed trees and power loss in the Berkshire county west of us, so I need to shut off power everywhere in a minute.
TOM: I love those creepers, I was think of getting one myself.
JIM: Yes, we broke more records today and the fresh lemonaide was going down by the quarts today.
Ok, I outta here that was a big one.
Howdy …
Those floods are getting bad, and it’s now reported that a railroad bridge washed out in Iowas. it’s in the area where my MRR friend, Gus came from He still has family there. I hope, they are okay. Corn production is now forecasted to be decreased 10% due to flooding; up goes corn prices.
Rob … feel free to express all the feelings about the fire and the family you want. It’s okay in the diner. Everybody cares.
JR … let us know how your fire clean up is progressing, too. I will look forward to those phiotos of your layout upon completion of the restoration.
Ryan … Frozen Custard !!! How’s the weight chart? [swg]
JimCG … How’s your local frozen custard establishment these days?
Happy Model Railroading!!!
Good Morning from Tipton IN ! [:D]
[:o)]
Morning All
just time for tea then off to the hospital
Good news is i drive right by Houston Roundhouse on my way home
Gotta be something i need
The store is closing at the end of the month and i’ll really miss it
The owner is moving to Colorado
Try to have some fun today !
Good morning.
It’s clear and 71 in the Sportsman’s Paradise. A high in the low 90’s is expected and it is expected to be mostly cloudy with a small chance of thunderstorms.
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Today’s Weather for:
Sundown, LA 71446-6114 6/11/2008
Heat Index: 76°F
Humidity: 92%
Dew Point: 69°F
So Far Today
High: 74°F
Low: 71°F
Rain: 0.00"
Rain Rate: 0.00"/h
Gust: 3mph SE
Today High: 92 Partly sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. South winds up to 10 mph.
Tonight Low: 72 Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds around 10 mph in the evening becoming light and variable.
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Speak for yourself! It has thundered, clouded, and then not rained! Could we steal some of your rain?
Oh by the way, I found a stock-buyers guide to all the railroads in the 1920’s. That huge library was helpful
Sorry I haven’t been around much lately. It’s been a strange week. My parents are leaving on a two week trip to Alaska, my son is at MDA camp, my daughter has been sick and she’s also trying to get registered for school as well as getting ready to go on a two month trip to Louisiana, my boss has left for the week for vacation, leaving all his work (that I used to do before he came along) to me, and then with the weather too, my job is NUTS! A crazy week to be sure. Nature can really mess with my job at the phone company!
Flooding hasn’t happened around here, but there is a lot of water. Our pond is a couple feet above normal, but not ready to overun it’s banks yet. Most of the flooding was to the west and south of us.
Ryan, Happy Belated Birthday to Monique. I do hope she had a great day!
Rob, I am just devistated for your loss! I’m praying for you and Barbara. I’m just glad you weren’t in it!
I promised everyone pics of my new “weight loss” machines, so here they are…
My wifes new machine, being modeled by my daughter and two of our dogs…
(Links, so I don’t kill the dial up folks!)
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j319/pcarrell/NewBikes6-10-083.jpg
It rides good and she doesn’t have to worry about tipping over. Since her knees are still recovering, this is a good bike for her.
And then there’s my new toy…
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j319/pcarrell/NewBikes6-10-081.jpg
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j319/pcarrell/NewBikes6-10-080.jpg
Thanks again for all the wonderful birthday wishes for Monique! Terry, Jim, Garry, Jerry, Dick, Duke, Paul, CN Charlie, and PC…she really enjoyed all the nice thoughts! Thanks again for thinking of her!
Dick and Duke, I know she would love to have a 4-6-2 especially one like the Southern 7.5 that makes a visit or two each year to Apex, NC. [;)]
Tom, that Topside Creeper sure looks like the ticket for reaching over the top sections of the layout.
Garry you hit the nail on the head with noticing the menu and eating trends and I have put on about 5-6 lbs. since before the trip. With all the 101 degree temps the past 10 days our outdoor activity has just about halted any exercise, but the temps are supposed to be cooler now and with all the celebrations behind us we are getting back on track (pun intended) very soon.
PC I like the new toys! Retro looks good too! Now we just need to see one of you and the misses riding that tandem “bicycle built for two…”
Rob, hope they find out the cause, I like Dick am always curious about the cause of house fires.
Thoughts and prayers to those in need!
Later,
Ryan
Mornin, coffee n a chocolate milk for me n KC please Zoe
Mostly sunny skies will be around today with light southeast winds and temperatures warming back up into the upper 80’s. Quiet weather and clear skies tonight with an overnight low in the mid 60’s and light southeast winds. Temperatures really warm up Thursday with daytime highs topping out near 90° under partly cloudy skies. Scattered rain and isolated thunderstorms move back in for Thursday afternoon with the greatest threat for more rain moving in through the day on Friday.
ROB,
Sorry to hear bout the fire and glad you folks be ok. We’ll keep in our thoughts.
Has anybody heard from JR on how things are going out his way??
RYAN,
Tell Monique a happy birthday from us, hope she had a gooden.
A little more on the flooding, Debs sister and 2 of my cousins had to head for high ground, when Otter creek flooded in N Terra Haute.
The north levy on the Embarras river at Lawrenceville when the river set a new record high of 42.9 ft crest. Deb has two cousins and an uncle who live on the high bottom ground, no word on them.
Heard about two more washouts for CSX. A 600ft washout up at Camargo [old B&O and a 1000ft washout over by Greencastle IN, which is the same line as here.
Work on the washout here is coming along here. We had a ballast train show up outback Monday morning from the west. I got on mowy and made a slow mile ride over for a pic.
That UP coal drag was still sitting there in the same place when I went over for the pic as Saturday. There were a couple more ballast trains during the day.
He was gone Tuesday. There were 4 [3 container and one mixed freight] more train during the day, but nothing moved thru this morning so far.
Best get moving, KC’s hollering to get dress, go outside. Hop
Morning all–
It’s windy out here in SunnyCal–yesterday we had gusts up to 45mph here in the Valley, and it set off some terrible grass and field fires–one fire to the south of us in Stockton burned an entire neighborhood to the ground–around 30 houses. There’s a huge fire to the north of us outside of Oroville that’s threatening the little town of Palermo, and several fires in the Sacramento area, one that’s burned about 6,000 acres of ranchland and is threatening a school for Autistic children. The winds are expected to begin dying down tomorrow–I hope we don’t have any more fires around here. There’s smoke in the air, so I’m staying in the house today–the last thing I need is MORE lung problems! I’ll spend the day tuning up some locomotives.
Between our fires and the floods in the Midwest, this is turning out to be QUITE an early summer.
Well, at least I got the Creeper assembled yesterday, so when the winds die down I can get to work on the Buttes. If I tried today, I’d get blown OFF the darned thing, LOL, since I can’t work on the Buttes unless the garage door is up. Several neighbors dropped by while I was assembling it, wanted to know where the ‘truck’ was that I planned on working on, LOL! My next door neighbor Jon is eyeing it kind of hungrily, I think he wants to work on his van this weekend. So the Creeper might be ‘creeping’ between houses. Should be fun. Somehow this little thing has made me very, VERY popular, suddenly, LOL!
Well, got to feed the cats, Spooky & Co. are sitting by the computer very patiently staring at me.
Best to all, and prayers to those in need.
Tom [:D]
Morning Diners, Zoe. I’ll have a cup of coffee and a cinnamon roll, please. Thanks, Garry.[:)]
Rob, I’d [#ditto] what Garry said - feel free to share in the Diner, whether good day or not. We are here for ya. [tup] I’d agree on not messing with telling the in-laws about the fire just yet.
Garry, our frozen custard place is doing well - I think it was just last Friday evening that I went by and got me a concrete from 'em. [dinner] I’m sure they’re selling a lot with the hot weather we had a few days ago (and will be having this week yet).
Dick, hopefully after those nasty storm fronts move through, your temps will drop some. Ours dropped about a dozen degrees (F) once the front got past us. [yeah]
TexasTerry, maybe you’ll find some things you need on the way home (and bargains, too!) by the LHS. Always a shame when a LHS closes up (well, with the occasional exception where a place was unfriendly and their prices were too high…). But sorry to hear your LHS will be closing. How close are your other LHS’es?
BridgeTom (hey, with your new tool, that name has a double meaning now…[;)]), how’s your garage organizing coming along? Need one of these?
I’ll have to look up the stock number for you, if you need one. Now, where did I put my 'Macro Mark’
Afternoon all
Garry and JimCG As to the custard,all I will say is Irma’s and Garry will know what I mean.
Dick Here is a pic of the 4-6-2 Southern I was talking about and the owner is Joe Holbrook (standing) and a friend from Delaware is sitting on it(Bill Lybarger). Ryan can show this to Monique so that she can remind him of what a really nice B-day present something like that would be. he he he [;)][:-^]
Ok,I think I have caused enough of a stir around here [:-,][}:)]
Best to all on sick call and those recovering [angel][angel][angel]
Talk to you later
Duke
Duke … Good to see you! …Irma’s! …MMMMMM … MMMMM… MMMMMMMMMMM… (those are my first three thoughts about Irma’s, Utica, MI
I guess the small attendance in the diner may be due to JImCG eating the entire food inventory. Jim! [dinner][:-^]
Jim:
I need TWO of them, LOL! Actually, the mess you saw is WAY DOWN from what it was before I rented the dumpster. I just have to get my act together and get in there and organize it. But, hey, isn’t that what the space under the layout is FOR, LOL?[:P] I mean, there’s a method to my mess–in case I ever have a part of the bracing collapse, the layout only has about an inch to fall–[:-^]
Tom [;)]
I was out looking at a new refrigerator today. My old one finally bit the dust after fourteen years of faithful service. If the new one lasts that long I’ll be happy. It will be delivered tomorrow afternoon. In the meantime I have the stuff that was in mine in one of my parents refrigerators.
I had a refrigerator go bad once. I wasn’t home at all that day. I had just gone shopping the day before. WHen it went bad it pumped heat into the freezer and fridge. The freezer was full. So was the fridge. Everything I had just bought went bad from the heat. Thankfully it doesn’t sound like you had that problem Jeffrey. If I still had it I would keep train stuff in it lol.
Good evening…what a storm last night!!! We had tremendous “down-bursts”, two maple trees up back snapped off at 10 foot height, but the rest of the town was hit hard, we made the Boston TV news today. More than 25 large trees blown down, many roads blocked, power ripped off 8 houses, the town highway dept. has been out working since midnight last night, no rest, still at, as some roads are still closed and power lines still down. Luckily, we escaped without any power loss or svere damage.
CAPE JIM: Yes, the temp dropped to low 80’s and the Dew Point to 56F, so it was warm and DRY today with stiff NW winds, very nice !!
RAILROADNUT675: We had rain coming down in sheets and blowing in every direction, some towns around us had hail the size of golf balls. Now that would hurt from 10,000 feet.
DUKE: I really think that RYAN should buy one for Monique…I hear there is a summer sale going on…did you hear that too?
TOM: We were watching the fires out your way on the Weather Channel and on Channel 4 here out of Boston. We saw that town all leveled, that is heartbreaking for your neighbors.
MIKE: The wife and I were looking at your photos of the flood in your area, it is just devastating. It is going to take the summer to rebuild some of those roads and bridges.
Later guys,
NOONE?!!!
grayfox: that is the ultimate FOOOOOOOOOORRRR
Nawwww, you guys are my friends! I wouldn’t subject my friends to that kind of abuse!
Evening Gang: My son in law just put in 2 gigs of ram and the puter is humming along. He also got rid of some stuff that wasn’t being used. I just hope that it wasn’t anything that I may need. I really need to unload some more stuff but I’ll have to look at it and decied what needs to go.
JR where are you? I hope that everything is going along and you will soon be getting the house repaired.
Rob: I think that not telling the in laws is a wise thing. No point in getting them up set when they can’t help anyway.
Well Daisy the dog wants to go out and then we can go to bed. It’s hot and windy here. I’d like to burn the brush pile but not in these conditions. I tried to mow the front lawn but the dust stopped me in my tracks. I’ll have to run the sprinkler and then mow.
Opps, I’m getting the eye from Daisy.
Good Night All
