Hello, and Welcome!
The old diner is here:
http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/p/218130/2414708.aspx#2414708
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Morning coffee in the diner…
GOOD MONDAY MORNING!!!
Today is Monday, JULY 1, 2013!!!
I will light the prayer candles for those in need at 9 am.
MAKE IT A GREAT DAY!!!
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Forgot to tell you where the spiffed-up diner is…this month we want to stay cool, so I thought we’d check out a place we haven’t before, I don’t think.
SO, Without further a-do, to-do, or any other “do”, we are in MICHIGAN. There were tracks laid for Mr, Henry Ford, and tracks laid in to Mr. Kellogg’s organization {as well as competitor MR. POST’s production facilities}.
There are, I believe, tracks from Detroit right on into Chicago now-a-days. More research will show where.
According to Wiki: The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning “large water” or “large lake”. Michigan is the 9th most populous of the 50 United States, with the 11th most extensive total area. Its capital is Lansing, and the largest city is Detroit. Michigan was admitted into the Union on January 26, 1837, as the 26th state.
It is also the birthplace of Yours truly.
Trains:
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Ok, OK , stop badgering me!
I can read the handwriting on the wall!
Handwriting on the wall:
The quick and dirty explanation:
We know it today as a sign of some upcoming gloom and doom. The origin goes back to the bible when Belshazzar, the successor to King Nebuchadnezzar got drunk one night and drank from sacred vessels from the temple of Jerusalem. It is said that afterward a ‘mysterious hand’ appeared and wrote 4 strange words on the banquet room wall. Only Daniel, the prophet, could decypher this writing, which he said was ominous. So, any warning today is referred to as ‘the handwriting on the wall.’
Wiki says this:
Meaning:
“The writing on the wall”, or “the handwriting on the wall”, or “the writing is on the wall” or “Mene Mene”, is an
Prophetic, as Michigan is also “dividied” by the Great Lakes.
Good morning to all. July already. I’ll appreciate the 3-day week, although the weather seems stuck in a cloudy, humid pattern and I’ll likely hide in the AC much of the time.
It’s 68°. 84% humidity. high will be 90°.
I was feelng pretty bad last night and not doing much better this morning. I;m haveing a hard time concentrating and am feeling real tired. I think b egoing back to bed soon. Feeling bad last night that never signed off here. Seems it not noticed anyway.
Wow Galaxy,nice new digs in a cool locale for Flo and the girls![:D]
My sister, who now live in N.C., lived several years in Bay City Michigan before the railroad sent her to New Jersey. (She never could explain how that was not punishment.). I remember vacations, fishing on Lake Huron, fireworks at “the Shell” on the river on July 4th, and how ccccccold the lake was ,even in July! I can remember walking down the street in Bay City, on the radio they were broadcasting warnings for old folks and young children to stay indoors because of the heat. I had on jeans and a long sleeve Oxford shirt. They looked at me like I was crazy!! Nothing like a Baltimore summer at all! [:D]
Oh well, job searching then painting a clients engines on tap for today, catch y’all later![C):-)]
Good Morning!!!
Coffee and…[:D]…you know, I think I’ll have what Paul had from the food trucks please. Thanks.
Isolated showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 77. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Whew. Mr B’s right. July already. (shakes head) At this rate I best get the snowblower ready cause in a few days it’ll seem the snow will be flying.
Welp the celebratio…[:|]…WHOA!!! Sorry G. Just kinda startled me there for a minute. Say Zoe…., would you turn the fan down in here? Yah, it’s um…a bit breezier than it should be for some[:-^]. Thanks.
Anyway, as I was saying, the 4th of July in June Celebration went over well once again. Now it’s kinda rest for a month or two for Brenda and then the preperations for the Fall Festival on the 7th of September start to fire up as that roars to a full steam. WHICH just happens to be on our Anniversary of marriage by the way. Now, if it’d been me that scheduled something like that….I’d a died. It wouldn’t matter if I said but it’s always the first weekend in September. That’s an irrelevant fact. But she did, so it’s ok. I just say “they sure are throwing a big party for us. Can I invite the Chinese girls?” No response….verbally anyway. I don’t know sign language but I know what THAT means.[B)]
Ya’ll have a good day, ya hear!!!
Good Morning
Everything is all dull here…kind of. Supposed to get to 72F this afternoon…right now it is 64F.
Going out later this evening to get the firework display up and going…we have a couple of empty parking lots we can use for this…hopefully it won’t rain until after the thing.
No workie on the lair of doom today…but will have to come thursday…
Have a good one!!!
Morning All,
Have a bunch of errands to run today so I will talk to you later.
Hope everyone has a great day and prayers for those in need.
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Happy Canada Day, To all my fellow Countrymen and Women, may you have wonderful day of relaxation and Leisure with your Families. 
I be w**king today for all the fun and frivolity that will be going on around me, it should go pretty fast and be very noisy.
If I don’t get in again for a few days I want to wish all of you from south of the 49th. a very Happy and pleasant 4th of July. May you also be blessed with family and Friends around you.
Happy Independence Day
.Johnboy out…and preparing for W88K
Right you are, Todd. I was watching the Tour de France last night. This year, they started the Tour in Corsica, an island in the Mediterranean. I would have expected it to be hotter than my attic there, but it was in the 70s on the road and the helicopter pictures showed snow in the mountain valleys, presumeably on the north faces where the sun don’t shine.
A good thing about July - school is out and the commute is a lot easier.
Happy Canada Day! … Gotta love the Canadians, eh! …
I’ll have a Tim Hortons coffee and a Tim Hortons original donut, please!
Galaxy … Didn’t know MI was your birthplace. Thanks for moving the DIner.
Michigan! … That’s where I went to college and live most of my adult life. Many of my work years were with CN’s Grand Trunk Western and its affiliates DW&P and CV. Between school, the railroad, and other jobs I lived in several MI cities. … MI is one of 8 states where I have lived during my lifetime. … Two of our five adult children now live in MI with their spouses and each has blessed us with 2 grandkids. (other grandkids are in OH and they are here now. No grandkids yet from NC son or AZ daughter) … I may post a few MI railroad related photos when I can this month.
Canada Day and Independence Day are celebrated jointly by Detroit and Windsor. I have seen many of the spectacular fireworks displays.
Have a nice day, everybody!
Morning All,
Currently it is 78 with an expected high of 103.
I was able to wire up two toggle switches and get them installed on the layout yesterday. I have a mid-day shift today, so I should get the third one wired and installed this evening.
Prayers to all in need, especially the families of the fire fighters in AZ who lost their lives.
Paul
Mornin’ everyone!
Zoe, I’ll have a shart stack of blueberry pancakes with maple leaf brand maple syrup and lots of dark roast coffee. Oh, and I got the bill for our wonderful neighbors to the North today.
Happy Canada Day to all our friends North of the Border!
Today is one of Barry’s kind of days I think. ie: dull dark, damp, and dreary… Currently 68°F with light rain outside. High will get all the way up to 70°F today… Galaxy, are you sure it’s July? The total for the month of June on the solar panels was only 516 kWh. Month of May was 675 kWh… Only thing I can say is that it is still on target for the 4700 kWh it is predicted to make for the year with the current total being 2356 for the first half of the year.
Haven’t decided whether to head out to camp this afternoon or wait until later in the week to finish up the campsite that is overgrown… I certainly have enough things here to get done and since it is precipitation with thunderboomers predicted for this afternoon…
The lady next door called this morning with an apology for the damage done by the little kids in my garden… She didn’t find out about it until last night night when her husband told her. He didn’t want to spoil her one every three years party with friends… She had brought over a quarter of a home made strawberry rhubarb pie and some rolls for for me and left them on a chair on my porch. She also told me her husband said I was great talking to the kids about responsibility and respecting other peoples property… Believe me I had to fight back the urge to give them a good whack!!!
Well, I can see the handwriting on the wall, so I best get busy if I am
I believe I’ve found why I’m feeling so bad lately. Many of the meds I take have a long list of side effects. Not only that, many have most of the SAME side effects and different meds can have different side effects hit at the same time. Seems the effects I’m having problems with right now are light headedness, dizziness, confusion, muscle pain, cramps, weakness, drowsiness, memory problems, trouble concentrating, aggressive and even hostile behavior. And that’s not even getting into the real serious side effects. Well, it’s nice to know there’s nothing real serious wrong with me, just the result of a bunch of side effects hitting at once.
JEFFREY: yes, side effects can be hell on the body. of course, my temper and agressive comes form Bipolar and comes from "red hair and a temper to match" though my hair is now going mousy brown-gray and the red bead has long given up and gone gray! THEY don’t make a Red men’s hair and beard dye.
My hips {both} and left knee are telling me i did too much walking Sat. at the Scottish Festival!
Ah well, i have had largely a day of rest. NEEDED it.
CAn’t Wait till the kilt’s here…they make women’s “skilts” too which I don’t think is fair…first they get to wear pants and now a version of our kilts??? They wnat everything we have! TSK TSK.
RAIN ALL DAY, we MAY be facing flooding again!
WEll must start dinner…
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To celebrate Canada Day and independence Day …
Here are two photos in downtown Detroit, Mi with the GTW bicentennial GP38. I took the photos. You can see part of Detroit’s Renaissance Center under construction in one photo.
This afternoon we ended up with a couple of monsoonal showers…now we are jus’ plain ol’ dull …hopefully we can get the fireworks off tonight…otherwise we’ll wait until next weekend…sigh.
Well, well
RAIN RAIN RAIN RAIN RAIN RAIN RAIN RAIN RAIN RAIN RAIN RAIN RAIN RAIN RAIN
GET The picture??
IFF’EN you’all don’t hear form me for a couple of days…that is probably due to flooding!
WE don’t’ flood, bu the electric substation DOES. and it takes about 5 days to unflood and dry out!
THe gas genrator THe {5600 watt kind} doesn’t have surge suppressors for electronic items so we don’t run TV or computer on it.
Flash flooding is happening and with 7 days PAST of rain, and 7 days FUTURE of rain, it will FLOOD again!
So IFF’EN you’all don’t hear, you’all’ll know why!
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