A snowy happy birthday to Quentin.
The first batch of appointments have taken a pass for the day. Less than a mile to the office, so I am going to go over and hang out-maybe get some of the backlog cleaned up, followed by a session with the snowblower.
good morning
the white stuff has arrived its also blowing around good too.The birds were grateful when we filled the feeders.We are going to be working inside today.Happy Birthday to our Indiana neighboor Modelcar.Hope you have a great birthday today.
stay safe
Joe
Happy Birthday Quentin[bow]
Greetings from the left coast it has been a pleasure sharing the forum with you.
Al - in - Stockton
Mook, if you look closely you’ll find a sizeable piece of that cake is gone and I am to “blame” along with two big scoops of chocolate chip ice cream and a big glass of cold milk from last night (consumed while watching TV on the couch). By the way, the cake was “sooooooo goooooood”, thanks.
P.S.: HAPPY BIRTHDAY QUENTIN.
[bday]From one aquarian to another and lets do it again next year.
Warming up in AZ mountains nbt still snow in the shady spots from the big one we had on the 9-10th.
…I’m reading quite a bit about snow this morning here…We {once again}, have been spared. Forecast for us was 1 to 3" from this system passing thru and it must have shifted a bit north…We received just a very light dusting {not even much on the grass}, over night and I believe that’s about it for today. And we’re greatful for that. Possibly some from the “wraparound” tomorrow, but again, shifting north now might have reduced that possibility to a very minimum.
Don’t need anymore snow here to supliment our water supply. Believe it’s in pretty good shape now. Once again, it’s fun to look out in the distance and watch for signs of upcoming Spring approaching. Much daylight time has already been added for us. Not too many more beautiful sights than when blossoms are in full bloom in our neighborhood. And yard mowing…ha.
Again, thanks all good folks here for birthday greetings. We’ll try to continue to stick around a bit longer. It has been and is my pleasure.
Happy Birthday [bday]Mr. Quinton,
May you have many more.
Happy Birthday and a tip of the Texas hat to you Quentin.
Enjoy your birthday!
Quentin and everyone else, the hot dogs are ready and on the warmer bar, keeping warm.
And, I’ll go ahead and tell you all what is for supper tonight: Quentin asked for roast chicken & roast turkey (dark meat) with creamed corn. We’ll also have green beans, your choice of cole slaw or garden salad, homemade dressing, and homemade buttermilk biscuits.
Dessert tonight: chocolate ice cream sundaes w/cherries on top (Quentin’s favorite dessert)!
It’ll all be ready and on the warmer bar at about 6:30, 6:45 EST (except for the chocolate sundaes: we don’t need the ice cream on the warmer bar, do we.) Now, everyone’s mouths will be watering the entire afternoon!!
Happy birthday, Quentin. May the day come many more times, with joy every time.
I had not heard of frying hot dogs; I’ll try one or two.
Paula, if the ice cream were in baked alaska, might you keep it on the warmer bar?
If there’s any of Mookie’s chocolate cake left, I’ll help finish it. She should not have to drage it anywhere else.
Johnny
Happy Birthday Quentin!
Johnny, Don’t forget about deep fried Ice Cream!
Today is a BEAUTIFUL day! Not a breath of the nasty 4 letter word, (I don’t dare say it or even type it) just above freezing. Too bad I can’t get out shooting photos today [:(]
Paula…Not only cherries on top, but all over the chocolate ice cream along with the cherry “juice” all over it. I know, that’s weird. Evening meal sounds really great.
…and more thank you’s for additional good wishes to me from good friendly members.
Item: Article in our Muncie StarPress this morning.
LOCAL RAILROAD HISTORY TO BE SPOTLIGHTED
The program will be presented at our local Ball State University this coming Monday evening by long time railroad buff, Larry Campbell.
Featured will be railroad history around Muncie including:
Muncie’s Citizens Street Railway…basically it was a streetcar service.
Also our legendary Interurban…which went out in all directions.
Norfolk Southern…CSX…New York Central…Conrail…Nickel Plate…Pennsylvania…and the C&O.
Some others were: Central Indiana RR…Muncie and Western…Ball Brother’s RR…Muncie and Western was a connector RR within the city.
The program will include historical photos acquired over the years.
One doesn’t read about very many activities such as this very often.
For those who might know, Mr. Cambell worked at OMI for some years…that was a business of brass RR models. Have talked to the owner in the past. Not sure if they are still here in town or not.
Some of you may have seen their add in TRAINS mag. some years ago.
I worked the entire day today without realizing that today was Quentin’s birthday. Silly me–I thought it wasn’t until Mongday. Oh, wait a minute…
We may have gotten some of your white stuff up here. We got two inches or so overnight, and thought it was going to quit. The sun came out, they changed the winter storm warning to a winter weather advisory…then the wind came up, the temperature dropped about ten degrees, and the snow started down again. Between the new snow and the overnight stuff drifting, we had a number of switch problems–poor calrods couldn’t keep up. Fortunately, we could–and kept everything on the rails.
That program Monday sounds interesting, Quentin–wish we could get down that way for it.
Hi Carl, yes…Muncie really does have quite a railroad history…long before we arrived here. I know some of it from conversations and reading and passenger trains went in many directions in and out of here some decades ago, plus the interurban and city streetcars, it all adds up.
Snow…We did not get what they were originally talking about for today…just about a half inch of very, very wet stuff…It’s above freezing so that kind of kept it under control.
The Ball State Un. program sounds great…doubt if we’ll get to it but hopefully many folks will take advantage of it.
Yes, another birthday under our belt so to speak…Actually not until about 10 pm this evening…I was informed many years ago.
Quentin - Happy Birthday! (And many more!)
Sat through our ambulance squad “strategic planning” session today. I think we got off on more tangents than even the curviest rail line. But we put together some decent ideas. Now we have to see if we can pull any of them off.
Biggest problem - they all cost money. Sometimes BIG money.
What’s for supper? I know birthday cake is on the menu…
Thanks Larry…Lots of good wishes today…Much appreciated.
Your profression reminds me as we were out and about several hours ago finding a bit of lunch we had to pull over for, first 2 normal type ambulances and a larger Emergency Rescue Vehicle heading out of town…Don’t know anything about the emergency, but guessing it was possibly over on I-69 and an accident…Some snow falling at that time.
Q - you must excuse Carl - he has a “punny” imagination. [:-,]
We went trackside and saw a lot of eastern visitors! Had one each - CN, NS and CSX! And some coal trains carrying snow out west. Nice of them wasn’t it…
Running late getting supper on the warmer bar, but everything’s there now. While you all eat, I’ll start fixing the chocolate sundaes with cherries and cherry juice all over at least one, for Quentin’s dessert! (And there’s still a couple of German chocolate cakes left on the back counter for anyone who doesn’t want a Sundae.
You won’t let me have both cake and a sundae? I don’t need a whole cake, just a decent-sized slice.
Johnny
Sounds like lots of good food this evening for diner patrons…and Johnny, just go ahead and have both…They’re good for you…for a while.
Hauling snow away {in any direcion is good}…J.