Good Evening,
Well grannys at the Red Wings game, a birthday gift from #1 son. She loves hockey for some reason. Me I got the snow blower done, ran some trains and had a short nap. it’s still 57 out but rain is coming so they say, a whole heap of it.
Brutus, banilla is waiting…S.J.
40’s and cloudy here today. Spitting rain from time to time.
Not a good day at the plant. Had a wreck in the press just after day shift started. That crunched up somewhere between $5,000 and $10,000 of tooling. A couple of other things kept me late, so I didn’t make it out in time to stop by the hobby shop on the way home. The shop will be there tomorrow…
Snow Removal - Something I learned growing up in Michigan - don’t start thinking about putting the snow removal equipment away until at least the middle of May. Even though I’ve moved down south to Missouri, I leave my snow shovel and bag of salt on the deck until Memorial Day.
Cast iron cookware - well aged cast iron skillets and the like are not a southern exclusive. Ours is only about 25 years old. I enjoy cooking in it. My favorite is the cast iron dutch oven. Pot roast - beat with tenderizing hammer and seasoned flour, sear on gas grill, throw in dutch oven with potatoes, onions, and carrots, let cook on gas grill for a couple three hours over indirect heat. Need to leave the dog in the yard to discourage the neighbors living down wind, too.
Hominy - heard somewhere that there is lye involved in processing the corn to make this stuff. True?
Tractors - first lesson my 8N taught me - 28 HP worth of torque at the PTO or axle can do a LOT of work. Just don’t get in the way ‘cause the tractor does not care if it works on you or the job at hand. This lesson involved a dead furough, a 5’ disc, and the bad jugement to stop with both back wheels in the furough. The 5’ disc is an excelent wheelie bar and leaning forward in the seat DOES NOT help.
Evening all. Been raining for some time now. Pam and I went to the new Khol’s up the street. Came home to push carts [garbage and recycle] to street and feed deer, ducks, geese and birds [at the pond] in pouring rain. Thanks to good Gortex jacket, shoes lined with Gortex and a felt western hat. Stayed fairly dry. Just got an email out to the biggies at Time Warner. Digital phone service has been messed up all day. Internet and email works off and on. TV fine. Guy came this afternoon, worked for 2 hours and finally said its on the pole. Sending a different service guy. Guy never showed. Been using cell phone for Town Business. Gotten 4 calls about Town “stuff”. Mayor’s job is 24/7.
Debating on tomorrow’s schedule. Got to get Mom’s taxes done but can not find any documents. Really want to take a day off. Saturday we drive to Wilmington for Grandson’s [flying motorcycle king] 2nd birthday. BTW: Youngest called and said this one due Aug/Sept is a boy too. Pam and her had been hoping for a girl.
Glad it has really rained good as neighbor’s garden would have been brick clay clods. Wetting it down good before it dried any will help desolve them. My garden is looking good. Now for the next dry spell, disk again and make beds. Got plants getting too big in greenhouse [and started them late this year].
Back to westerns on Westerns Channel. Two good one tonight. Later
OH, got a great new in the box scale high cube NS box car by UPS. Got it cheap on OGR Buy and Sell. Lionel, so its really a good one. [:-^]
Dennis - congrats to your son! [tup]
Doug M - last dress? Ha ha! Wait until her friends start getting married or [:O]
Sorry man - had to do it [(-D]
Well Chief, another friend from work is moving to NC. She’ll be working in Winston Salem. I haven’t asked her about Grits - hominy or other kind yet. Apparently her parents moved there a while back and she is moving closer to them and also to her kids and grandchild. We’ll miss her - great lady and a good manager. Prayers for you and Pam of course.
Mike - prayers for that hand too! Nothing sticks out like a sore thumb, be careful!
Had a little chat with Rich tonight, also with Kurt, Sir James and Charlie. No problems of the world solved, but just some nice chatter.
RT - hope you are getting better man!
Tardis is ready, I think it’s Patrick’s turn to drive? I’ll come get you first man, then we’ll cruise around and pick up the others. Time to do a flyover Don’s neighbors again - might see something interesting, they all have hot tubs right? [;)]
Morning to All,
Just stopping in for a quick cup. Wednesday night got a call from one of my train buddies. He picked up a beautiful MTH 10E set at York a while back. I would have snapped it up myself if I had seen it first. Well, he is jonesing for a new shotgun of some kind, so he offered it to me for a sweet price that I couldn’t pass up. Will meet him tonight to complete the deal. Of course that will shrink the York train budget substantially, but what the heck. I really have been wanting a standard gauge set to put under the Christmas tree.
Well, got to go, Try to post some pics to Sunday Photo Fun if I get a chance.
Take care,
Mitch
HI GYZ,
53 and lots o rain here,to get to 57. Opening of trout season tomorrow at 8 AM. Me and BRO start our season at 3PM, then of course its the begining of outdoor beer season. Dogs, burgers, and you guessed it beer by the outdoor fireplace. Can’t wait.
DOUG, CUTTLER might be the answer? Gotta shore up the defense.
MITCH, nice score on the MTH. Welldone.
Stay frosty,
laz57
PS. TGIF BUCKEYE!!!
Good Morning from wet 59°F Southern
Bride still on her way home. She was traveling east of the storms.
Hominy, we grew up on it. My grandma who raised me was from the hills of and hominy was a staple as was cornbread and beans and lots of potatoes. Meat was a once a week thing as we were poor.
I got the ruts from moving the camper filled in last night, eight wheel borrows worth. Next truck will be four wheel drive.
Jack - I did get the house cleaned up. I can identify with the coveting every square foot. It took a fair amount of groveling before I the unused bedroom for a train room, and then it was with the condition it could easily be a bedroom again. With the grandkids here they have been in the train room so not much training going on, even if I had the tim
Good morning all,
It is cloudy and cooler in SE Indiana after an all night rain with temps in the 40s. F-1 and IRL are on tap this weekend. Hopefully Vitor can start AJ’s team off with a win this weekend. Did weights at the YMCA, visited with my dad a little bit, came home, took a pain pill, showered and went to bed. Slept very well and thumb is feeling much better. Work is incredibly busy. Mitch, enjoy the 10E. Dweimer, congrats on your son’s award and good for you on all the violinsts in the family. Normally, being in the public health area, I would be against family “violinse” but I will make an exception in your case(s) 
I had the regular fare on the dining car before sending it to “Points East”. Brutus, good comment on the thumb as well and the Beacon is lit. Maybe I can drive. Patrick did a good job last night, but made too many stops for grits. I know some good places for some great pork tenderloins (real Hoosier food). I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Mornin’ boys. Mornin’ Enlgish. Wet & 55 here in the Mid-Atlantic region. 3-day weekend for me, that one of the children ruined for me right at quittin’ time…[V]
SAILBOAT…welllll, let’s just say my feet are back on the ground again. I’ve set a new course—>patience.
cnw1995 - We have two proms to worry about in fifedom. Middle princess wanted me to go along, as my eye agrees with here taste. Picked out yellow gown that makes her look like a knock-out…maybe that back-fired…
cheapclassics - At least the thumb took your mind off your toe…
Morning all. Yawn. Sun seems to be coming out. Got a call at 8:30 this morning from Time Warner [who calls folks at 8:30 AM and wakes them up] checking to see if the phone was fixed. Seems my late email woke someone up and the night crew came by in the wee hours of the morning and fixed everything. Lady said they were suppose to come within hours after the first repairman could not clear. Oh well, its fixed.
TGIF ??? What is so great about Fridays? No different than any other day. I guess Saturday and Sunday are different. Sunday you go to Church. But the thing I notice is all these folks running around during the day that normally during the week I do not have to put up with. Maybe we should have a 7 day work week. That would help stimulate the economy. Regular workday on Saturday and say a couple of hours of on Sunday to go to Church [or whatever you do in that line] and back to work the rest of the day. Hey, that is a great idea. More money in the SS account for us retirees. [:-^]
Coffee and breakfast time. Later
Morning from a cold, grey, rainy, but spiffy Chicago where all stops are pulled out to ‘impress’ visiting free-loaders from the International Olympic Committee. Ran trains last night - the Susie-Q is a great car that fits right into the various consists. Laz, Cutler’s going to miss his o-line.
Not thrilled with the daughter’s prom dress - I never am, but she’ll never know. [;)]
Chief, Friday is a true day of reverence for those of us who still ‘work’
Good Morning from Blueberryhill…
It is a rainy 50 degrees. Going up to 60 today, with rain all day.
Today is a usual day. Chores to do and one errand to run. Then, I will relax the rest of the day.
Buckeye…TGIF
Dining car arrived from “Points West” and we had the usual for breakfast.
Y’all have a great Friday.
Chuck
Chief, while everyday has the potential for a workday for me, I’d prefer to have at least a glimmer of hope for a easy weekend. I vote NO on the ballot.
Mike, thanks for the thoughts. I’ll keep the family violinist towards minimal damage. I think Chief will want me to keep my practice to the homestead…BTW, I broke my first string on a violin last night…it was startling!
Thanks for the kind thoughts about my son guys. I know we are not supposed to be proud, but I certainly am about him. He has done well. He can still be a pain in the backside, but then again, so can I.
Just one case today, but I have plenty of paperwork to do. Sun is finally out this morning, but more rain is expected. They closed several roads down and evacuated a few areas of town. Nothing close to the folks in North Dakota, but trouble enough. Supposedly, some girl called her aunt to say that she was in her car on Wed. and that she got washed off the bridge in the flood. The aunt panics, calls 911. Fire Dept. spends an hour at night, looking for this girl. She then calls her mother to tell her how she played an “April Fools Joke” on her aunt. Fire Dept. was not amused. We have a term for that, but idiot seems to fit.
Well, Friday is upon us. I hope that everyone has a blessed weekend.
Dennis
Listen to the whinning. Mayor’s job is 24/7. That is why I am paid so much. [(-D] Dennis understands as he is on call all the time too. But folks like Buckeye, who go around with some local government job sitting in meetings and going to conventions should just do that seven days a week. Then there is Don Baker, he tries to work 7 days a week [with the weekend shows he works]. Set your example after him. [:O]
Don … I love that stuff !
Pat … no wife would go ballistic if I put in the bacon and eggs … she’s watching me close … LOL .
Believe me Pat if you’d see her … my Doc …you’d volunteer for a full physical … [:-^] She takes jokes in stride though … you should of heard her laugh when I told her I thought I may need a check for a possible rupture … which I don’t have …
You all should try my homeade corn fritters … another southern delicacey … all scratch made … my mother in-law would make a 28 mile round trip to eat them … everybody loves em .
RT … I think it was … did you ever get that smoke unit conversion in ?
SPMan … yea am going to try the flavored ones … some sound pretty tastey .
They make hominey by pouring lye water over corn … at least back in the pilgrim days … yea that’s when it was first produced . Forgot who asked …
Good Morning
Rain all nite, seems to have stopped now. 57 degrees but going down and wind is coming.
Bacon and egg sandwich was breakfast. Already had chat with Kurt and Charlie this morning so got to move along.
TTFN…S.J.
BUCKEYE, and anyone who GOLF’s. Here is a hole for YUZ GYZ…
Check it out.
laz57
Laz-- That was the best thing I’ve seen on the internet all week, THANK YOU. Can we get a foursome together and organize a road trip? I’ve haven’t played golf for a few years but I would sign up for this one!
We’re all meeting in Baltimore on Fife’s new boat — The USS Magnum Force [(-D]
We can play 18 at the Congressional…it’s closer and I don’t have a passport…[banghead]
Up to 73 Breezy Sun has made a re-apperance nice today and tomorrow worse Sunday, Monday & Tuesday, getting cooler every day. This after multiple Severe Thunderstorm and Tornado Watches were posted throughout the night, very LOUD T-BOOMERS last night as well.
No word on the HD - yet. I’ll check with them after work…though the salesman already called me
Worked on the GG1 for the LTS, I’m thinking the motor & truck are bad, so I’m just waiting for Lionel to get back with me. On the flip side, MTH is sending me 2 chips for 2 CSX SD60M that don’t do anything but idle. Real quick response (hey Jon & Mike at Lionel — you listening? [:-^])
Nice chat with Brutus last night!! He surpised me on my “farm”.
See ya inna while…
Morning…again!
LAZ: I’m in! We sat through the time share blah blah to get on the $220 courses, for free. That course may be worth paying for! I haven’t played in a few years, but I don’t think practice will matter there. Passport shined up and ready to fly!
Nice chat with Charlie, and SJ this am! Charlie, package shipped USPS! You should see it tomorrow!
Kurt