Good evening everyone. (grabs bowl of beef stew and cornbread [dinner] )
That does it–I’m getting a DVD burner drive. I just backed up files on my hard drive today and it took 20 CD-R’s and over two hours’ work just to do the backup. [tdn]
Consider getting an external hard drive. USB connection, upwards of 300Gb. You can set it up for regular backups.
Good Tuesday morning to one and all! Rain hasn’t started in our area yet, but it’s to the west and southwest of us. Just what I need on PRODUCE TUESDAY.[:(] At least the thundershowers aren’t supposed to arrive until later on today.
Coffee has just finished brewing, and there’s hot chocolate and hot tea available.
On the warmer bar this morning: muffins (blueberry, chocolate, and bran), turkey bacon, sausage, scrambled eggs, cantaloupe chunks, bagels, bear claws, hash browns, biscuits, sausage gravy, country-fried ham & red-eye gravy. Should be a little something for everyone.
I pulled a “Mookie” last night: was so tired, I went to bed at 8 p.m., and slept until 5:15 this morning. Guess I needed the nine hours sleep! Will be back in after Produce is over, and will get started on our Tuesday Mexican Fiesta.
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Well by the rain holding off CW you have time to get your umbrella/galoshes ready. I’ll grab a plate with a bit of everything this morning. I feel like grazing…
Yesterday I submitted applications to be a volunteer at two RR museums. Mid Continent at North Freedom and the National Railway Museum in Green Bay. We’ll see what transpires.
good morning
well cw it could be snow instead of rain! hope mutt is feeling better today.maybe if it dries off by this afternoon I have more leaves to rake up.
stay safe
joe
Joe we’re supposed to get some this weekend. I can’t wait. Should help with deer season.
OK - I finally have something on my mind that will keep it from blowing away!
Our local news!
If there is ever a train story (derail, accident, whatever) they show a still picture of a NS engine behind the news person. This is a BNSF town and while I love NS as a step-child, why would you use an eastern railroad picture on a BNSF home.
Last nite, they had a natural gas leak in an apartment complex. Someone got excited on a backhoe with predictible results. So the video showed the area (north end of UNL campus and fairly close to the main line for the BNSF), the nominal viewing of the firetrucks blocking off streets around the leak and a quick flash of a tanker car, all by itself in the general square mile area - probably parked on a holding track.
Sigh…
They just finally got a proofreader for their misspelled words in the crawl at the bottom and now this.
I think hot tea and a cool cloth will be all for me this morning.
Moo…
Welcome back, Mookie!!! Good to see you back in, in the morning! Rain had started, before I went out of the house at 7:55 this morning. Now, it has stopped, at least for now. They didn’t bring a lot, produce-wise today; cabbage (which I have plenty of, right now), potatoes, and carrot sticks. That was it.
Our TUESDAY MEXICAN FIESTA is now under way. On the warmer bar, you have: tacos, beef burritos, beef & bean burritos, quasadillas, tamales, Spanish rice, and everything else I can think of, Mexican, including desserts. And let’s see, looks like there’s plenty of Joe’s pumpkin pie left, also.
Now that Produce is over, and I have lunch ready for you all, think I’m going to take a nap. Really feeling wiped out, with no energy left at the moment.
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mookie
the horsey unit was visiting??? Cw thanks for supper.matt saw the csx commercial on the weather channel.they are putting the car onto an auto rack.matt said that looks like csx q 200.Also more words of wisdom from the newspaper.apparently you should not use a 12 guage shot gun to loosen the lugnuts off a car.you just can’t make this stuff up.(southworth washington)
stay safe
joe
Yeah, this poor guy who used a shotgun to loosen that one stubborn lug nut is certainly a candidate for the “Bonehead” awards. [D)] He is fortunate that his injuries were not more extensive.
Ray
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I heard that he had shrapnel from head to toe. At least he didn’t die but I hope he learned his lesson.
Good evening everyone. (Grabs one big beef & been burrito, some Spanish rice and a slice of pumpkin pie)
Speaking of which, I really miss the old Nathan P124 (P3) horns that I hear often on Southern Pacific locomotives. They’ve all been replaced by higher-pitched K3LA horns I hear on a lot of Union Pacific locomotives, unless it’s the distinctive K5LA used on the SD70ACe’s UP has been running a lot through Sacramento lately.
microwaves some enchiladas, and takes it to the corner to eat, and watch trains go by
Hmm…spicy beef…
TacoTacoTacoTacoTacoTacotacotacoTacoTacoTacoTacotacotaco…Ahh…
Greetings from Huntsville, Alabama, where I’m attending a hastily-planned meeting with Boeing and Raytheon co-horts and a cast of many others. The trip down on Delta Connections was pretty uneventful (I have a new nickname for them- Comedy Air!); thanks to multiple delays, I spent nearly six very boring hours in the Cincinnati airport. Hopefully they won’t need me all day tomorrow, and I can talk my travel partner into checking out the rail scene around here.
Taca-taca-taca-taca-taca-taca Taco Bell![:D]
Sounds like fun! What’s down there-CN and…UP/BNSF?
I’ll get some bagels and juice out. I feel like snackin’ plus I think I hear CW coming in soon. Don’t want to spoil breakfast!
Joe - have seen several “horses” through here lately. Maybe doing some Xmas shopping? And their horns are very mellow - unlike the screech from the BNSF ones.
Have a new entertainment - they have now closed the main drag viaduct and provided two alternate routes - albeit - a little more out of the way. So the people that are trying the shortcuts end up in our watch area and they are learning to watch trains. Maybe I should hold some short seminars on what they are glaring at for sometimes up to 45 min.
And I am sending some greenies both east and south! BOL…
//…Cat having a bad hair/ er-um fur day? Into the windswept look?
Wind (30-60 MPH) and flying dirt all day yesterday working between Denver & Scottsbluff. Saw plenty of tumbleweeds heading east to Lincoln at a high rate of speed. I’d wave to Copcarss headed east to Chicago on Amthrax this morning, but I’m working on the next BNSF (old CB&Q) line to the north (Valley Sub.- about an inch of fine coal on top of the dirt on the R/W up here near the sugar factory. Anybody who thinks coal fines aren’t a headache ought to see some of the fouled ballast up here.)
Yikes! I better get some more coffe going before claws come out!