Well, I figured something out for today’s lunch and supper: I’ve put leftovers from the “Ed’s Birthday Mexican Fiesta”, and there’s also all kinds of chips and dips, and other healthy snacks out for you all. Figured we’d just make this a lazy day around the Diner/CS. (And I figured this would be good for any of you who are watching the bowl games!)
I’ve got to be at work two hours early tonight so I am going to have to get ready to go. Once again Happy 2008 everyone.
Cabbage and Corned beef here for the first supper of 2008.
(along with a couple of leftover burritos.)
Okay, you Northern people, (and some mid-westerners) have done it to us here
in the Ohio River Valley, temps. right now about 18 degrees with slightly measurable
snow fall. (less than an inch, just enough to screw the roads up and the other idiots
that drive on them that don’t know how too.) According to the “WeatherGuessers”,
we are supposed to be COLD the next couple of days, and then back into the 50s.
Has been a lazy day around here, not many trains running to get out and take any pics. of.
Hey - Not my fault! It’s those people in the old “northwest territory” (Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota). An area sometimes known as the “midwest” (much to Ms Mook’s chagrin).
We’re on tap for snow until morning. I’ve seen about a foot here in the past few days. Many roads are still treacherous - something some drivers on the Interstate don’t seem to have figured out, based on the number of dispatches I’m hearing on the scanner for cars in the ditch and the like.
I’ll take a burrito or two. CB&C isn’t a menu item I’ll normally pick.
…Hey guys…it’s not our fault {midwesterner’s}…Sorry J…But we have to assign blame to the jet stream dropping waaaaay down to Florida, letting all that northern cold air blast down and all the way down to the south. Our morning paper forecasts Orlando Wednesday morning to be 29 degrees…!! And it sure can do it…I’ve been there when it was in the 20’s.
Right here a bit before 10 pm it’s 16 degrees. It’s stopped snowing. Can’t tell how much we received today as the wind has been whipping it around briskly to say the least. My guess is 1 1/2"…maybe 2.
Might even see some sunshine tomorrow afternoon but tomorrow will be cold. To be 10 here in the morning and about the same or a bit colder Thursday morning and then the warm up starts again…
I don’t understand why we get called for having the name assigned to us as midwesterner’s…Out farther west, they have been assigned a name too…The open Plains…So they weren’t left out.
Good Wednesday morning to everyone. Very, very cold (freezing) here this morning: 12 degrees, with a wind chill of 1 degree. (brrrrrrrrrrr)
Coffee, hot chocolate, hot cider and hot tea are ready, along with freshly made orange juice, orange/tangerine, apple, and pineapple.
On the warmer bar this morning: turkey bacon, sausages (links & patties), scrambled eggs, homemade buttermilk biscuits, milk gravy w/bits of sausage in it, hash browns and home fried potatoes (you get a choice of potatoes this morning), strawberry preserves, grape jelly, orange marmalade (sp?) and bagels and bear claws.
Hope everyone has a great day, and stay as warm as possible!!
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Blah! Sissies - I braved 2 above to get here. Drug my fur coat through the clean sidewalks of the city, flapped my arms to brave off the cold, sneered at the 40’s we will get this weekend -
ok - I bundled up and climbed in a toasty Millie and made the Driver bring me here so I could become a human again!
AARGGG - I hate these “vacations”!
Been watching the weather east of us and it hasn’t been pretty. It all missed us - except for the extreme cold.
Have no clue what I missed, and no time right now to go back and catch up. But have 3 full days this week to try and make a dent back into the “good life”…
One thing hasn’t changed - must find coffeeeeeeee…
Welcome back Mookie. I’ll take a plate of whatever’s hot as it was 4 this morning with a brisk wind making it feel ~ -15 or so. Snow I like, but this stuff isn’t as fun. Wait…it’s not the heat, it’s the humidity. [:D] How could I forget? [banghead]
Anyone know of any power-generating windmill projects in WI or MN that may have some new windmills on the way? I spotted a couple trains worth of them the other day heading north from Neenah, WI. Pretty neat to see.
Back to the regularily scheduled grindstone…for now!
…This is to be one of the two cold days this week…Right now: 7.3 degrees. Not snowing. Maybe some sunshine today too…{We’ll need it}.
My first observation to the weather instrument this morning indicated: 73 degrees inside and 7.3 outside…Just a little weird. But sure glad I’m on the side of the larger figure.
good morning
well we got our snow from lake michigan and further north you go the more snow you have.matt is on a 2 hour delay for now.he keeps asking what we are going to do with him.I say maybe he can get a mookie student loan and go to nebraska now.bird feeders are full and the trash is by the curb.as far as windmills go if they are to make more we will have to keep an eye on the q500.
stay safe
joe
Can’t help you with Cheeseland, but am working on several in central Illinois…including the recovery and retracement of several abandoned rail lines (GM&O, IT, IC, PRR). Also worked on a former Thrall railcar plant at Clinton, Illinois last year being converted to make the steel towers and wind turbine blades.
Mutt & CW: Hows about those basketball redbirds?[:-^] (BossHen got the message, she/we were out with visiting family)
Anyone seen the trailer for the new Will Smith movie [Hancock]? I do feel sorry for that poor unsuspecting SD-9 (LA Harbor Belt in drag) that gets trashed along with its train because somebody wandered into the stupid zone and gets stuck. (the site gags, especially the whale look good)
Heat wave here as we just got back to double digits. We’ll hit the beach on Friday when 50 + degrees shows up and eastern Colorado can melt off the x-mas snow.
Serves Them Right for not knowing how to play.[}:)] Pitino needs to learn that he can’t
win Every Game!
(you do know that we aren’t Lou. fans, don’t you? Ky. yes, Lou. NO!)
At least both the Basketball and Football Wildcats won their respective games![:D]
Welcome back Ms. Mookie, hope Santa and Baby New Year were good to you and Driver!!
…Bright sunshine is really pouring down on us…so bright here It is trying to overpower my computer screen. But it is still a tick below 8 degrees…up from 7.3 earlier. We’ll not set any heat waves today. But bright sunshine sure does make things look better. We might hit 20 today. So they say.
How - do - folks!
Looks like them cold temps are being shared by many, heck we even had a few light snow flurries here in the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area this afternoon, high temp today is supposed to be 39 degrees. Looks like tomorrow is even colder…
I’ll have a bowl of tomato basil and parm soup and a grilled cheese sandwich please, thanks CW!
Cheers,
Ryan
Good afternoon, folks. Sorry about getting back here so late, but things happen, you know.
Welcome back, Mookie!! Missed you! MC, glad you all got the message!!
There’s plenty of soup, and grilled cheese sandwiches on the warmer bar. Also made some beef vegetable soup, and cream of potato soup. Ryan, is that tomato basil soup w/parmasean cheese?!?! Have to admit, you’ve got me stumped.
Also beginning to work on supper menu. Thinking about sirloin beef tips w/sauteed mushrooms & onion, cheesy scallopped potatoes, and green peas w/carrots, and cole slaw. How does that sound to you all? Or maybe a chicken and rice casserole w/cream of mushroom soup poured over the chicken and rice? Or how about both? Let me know, as I’m working on a deadline here, this afternoon.
…Boy Ryan, that tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwich sure looks good for lunch…One of my favorite combinations.
Hey CW, yep you got it right, just sprinkle a bit of fresh grated parmesan cheese on top of the hot tomato soup and now ya talkin! Supper looks like it’s shaping up nicely too! [C=:-)]
Quentin, that lunch combo is just what’s needed with this chilly weather eh!
that grilled cheese and tomato soup looks good for supper tonight.I think I hear my brother yelling from florida.seems florida has a wind chill advisory.Matt had a good day at school so its back to the routine.
stay safe
joe
More tomato bisque soup and grilled cheese sandwiches are now ready for you all to have for supper! Everything is on the warmer bar. Joe, I heard that they (in Florida) are concerned for the citrus crops. Guess that’ll mean we’ll all be paying more at the grocery for fresh fruits. And I’ve got containers ready for you and Lance for work tonight.
CW, thanks for the grilled cheese. It’s one of my favorites. I had a good report at the quack’s this morning, and don’t have to go back to him for a month! Fraulein Mookie, welcome back to the real world. I am glad to note that you and driver survived the season OK and intact. Good to have you back. By the way, it’s supposed to get to 12 deg in Carolina tonight, but no snow, here at least. Cheers