Good morning!!!!

[JDZ735M]

Dad used to bust thru the ice on our springs with a sledge for the cows to have water.

We had an old rusted up ax that was the dedicated Ice Breaker at the water trough.

 

[ronjhall]

Drinking first cup of hot coffee. 4° with clear skies this morning. Heading to 22° with lots of sun. Got last of my pile of pictures scanned yesterday. Still have a old pile of film to scan. A lot of them are from my parents collections. Not sure what I will get done today. But I am sure it will be inside.

Drew, hope you got a good nights sleep.

Buckeye, nice pictures. Geese that I saw heading south this week must have finally made it to your area.

Everyone stay safe and well.

Good Morning All.

 

[RoyJackson]

2022-01-21, 0527

-10° right now...low teens for the high today.
Couple online meetings this morning...might make a dump run today, if time permits

BTW, I bought an old (1955-1956) British war movie and watched it a couple days ago. It was "The Man Who Never Was", based upon a true WW II incident.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Never_Was

 

[daugen]

good morning all
no, not much of a good night's sleep. Reclining seat not all the comfortable, neck is not happy at all, but it sure beats driving. Wifi works and it's warm in here. Now if they would have the coffee ready on time. Supposed to be a coffee station in each car but there are no cups. ?
I'm dying here without coffee....

I think I'm around the Florida line, can't tell, still dark out and train tracker doesn't seem to work.
going to try to book a larger room on way home with real bed in it. No clickety clacks but lots of jiggling around. They must have changed engines in the night, some back and forth bumping.

12 degrees at home with high of 27

 

[daugen]

coffee arrived, strong, hot, good
the day can commence
very nice lady attendant, took it on her own to make coffee, Amtrak had cut out coffee service
and it would have been a five car hike for me. As soon as I saw her, and saw how nice she was, I gave her a good tip and told I'd love some coffee. And the coffee pot was turned on this morning, yeah.

 

[RoyJackson]

coffee arrived, strong, hot, good
the day can commence
very nice lady attendant, took it on her own to make coffee, Amtrak had cut out coffee service
and it would have been a five car hike for me. As soon as I saw her, and saw how nice she was, I gave her a good tip and told I'd love some coffee. And the coffee pot was turned on this morning, yeah.

Is the train pretty full?

 

[daugen]

I can't tell Roy but I don't think so.
which is probably why they cancelled the express train, not enough passengers
and more likely not enough staff.
I'm in a sleeper car so I don't see the rest of the train and I'm sure not touristing down those aisles

went and saw the larger room, if they have one, I'm going to see if I can book it. Biggest challenge is my one suitcase is really too big for this room and every time I move I have to move the suitcase. Larger room is twice the size and has its own bathroom, which might also be nice.

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, low temp -17°F and the high will be all of 12. Wind SE 5 mph. Sunny.

I go to bed anytime after 8 P.M., I have no idea when junior goes but in the morning there is always a good bed of coals to relight the wood furnace. No matches and fire starters necessary. Most of the time I don't even use kindling.

I used to enjoy riding the train, but now with freight and passenger travel on the same tracks and freight taking priority not so much.
Many, many years ago the powers that be set up a commuter train service between Whitby, Ontario and Toronto. I used to be 'fun' when you were in Toronto and missed the last train East. It is a good thing then that I knew the streetcar and bus routes.
Now I have no, zip, zero use for Toronto and wouldn't go there on a bet.

Today is an energy conservation day, as the weekend will be.

Have a safe day all

 

[Rich B1]

Good morning! 12 now, high today is supposed to be 19. Overnight low is predicted to be -4. Wood burner is gonna get a workout.

Took a vacation day. Not sure what I will get into. Staying warm will be high on the list!

Coffee and bagels for breakfast. Not sure what I will make us for supper. Thinking chili and corn bread.

Everyone stay safe out there!

 

[riptides]

18 outside this AM. Heading to upper 20's.

No severe weather this week or this weekend. Seems the weather people walked back on their predictions.

Could use a good dry spell, the place is turning into a mud pit.

Ugh on the work front, picked up some more jobs, due to retirements. Wife says I should back out, again myself. Kind of agree, just don't like the work anymore. Plus I have not been truly employed in a long while, so going full time is - hard.

Could be worse.

Hope all have a great weekend, be safe, be safe in your travels too. See you next week sometime.

Stay warm.

Oh, what is up with LED light bulbs? I have replaced three in the last month, just outside lights. I thought they lasted forever? All three are less than a year old. Maybe the cold got to them? Or poor quality? Something to think about.

 

[Buppies]

19 this morning high of 26 snow went south. The models really messed up

Sounds like a good movie Roy

Drew a bigger room sounds nice

Prayers for all

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, 14 going up to 27 and partly cloudy-it's crunchy out there without snow.
Working on my international license and all the hoky for visiting europe.

BEF - Didn't you wear you gang colors so hospital neighbor felt more at home?

Boss meet was strange- I hope she is more seasoned then this meeting showed.

Stay safe and be well,

 

[wngsprd]

Breezy 21 going to 28...muted sunshine through thin clouds. Ground is really frozen. Snowed most of the day, but melted on contact...still have a little on the ground from the last storm.

Roy, I read that movie info...sounds interesting based on a true story.

Raccoons stole the cedar bird feeder I made for peanut butter/suet/corn meal that I make...I found the other two feeders they took down last night. They've been well behaved until now, just eating seeds off the ground.

Buppies, seems that weather models that are looking out only a day or two and climate models looking out years aren't always correct. Mother nature and the big yellow sun like to fool us sometimes.

Did get a short hike in during the snow...surveying more of the tree damage from the storm back on January 2...plan to take the tractor and chainsaw and work on it today.

 

[Bird]

With all the talk about riding trains, I guess I'll chime in a bit.

When I was still a baby in 1940, my Dad took a job with the Social Security Administration in Baltimore, MD. He went there alone from Ardmore, OK on a train, found a place to live, started the job, then sent for Mother (remember no telephones, no cell phones in those days, just the US mail, or telegrams, for contacts) so Mother took me on the train to Chicago, changed there, and on to Baltimore, hoping Dad got her letter and would meet the train; he did. Now my sister was born only a year and a half after I was, and before she was born Mother took me on the train back to Ardmore, OK. And as soon after my sister's birth as Mother felt able to travel, we went back to Baltimore. I'll never forget someone asking Mother if it wasn't a terrible job traveling on the train with 2 babies, and Mother said, "Nope, the trains in the early '40s were always full of soldiers and they played with the babies and i was able to relax."

Very shortly after my wife and I got married, her aunt and uncle, with whom she had been living in Dallas before our wedding, moved to Denver, CO. He told us that if I would drive one of their cars from Dallas to Denver for him, he'd buy us train tickets back to Dallas. So in 1965, we took an overnight train ride from Denver to Dallas; the only train TRIP I can remember.

But I sure spent a lot of time close to train engines. My paternal grandfather met every train passing through Ardmore, OK for many, many years, put the outgoing mail on the train and took the incoming mail from the train back to the post office. I went with him many, many times as a youngster and as the train stopped, he'd pull right up beside it to off load the outgoing mail and load the arriving mail. In later years, when I worked for the post office in Dallas, I sometimes had to go meet the train (wearing a pistol that I'd have never used under any circumstances) to receive or send vauable registrered mail.

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning.
It’s 12 outside, clear skies and going all the way to 24.

Yesterday started with my breakfast date, then the rest of the day in the shop, except for a lunch excursion. Got a lot done, air system is holding up great. Finished up all the documents I was working on, now just have to wait for the review. Picked up an improved air filter for the new compressor and the last chore was to exercise the carryall and the trash toter lifter to put the toters out at the end of the lane.

Today, I drew the short straw and get to go to Ogdensburg, NY where it will be -12. The good news it that they don’t have either a heated hangar or ground power unit, so we are dropping the passengers off, and going to Burlington, VT to wait until 8pm for the return trip. It’s far more civilized there, we will be able to get a car and go out to dinner, and wait in a nice lounge.
Other than that trip, which departs at 1:30 I’ve got nothing planned for the morning. Probably get gas in the car which will add to the hour drive to the airport, so I won’t get into anything complicated.

 

[Thomas]

-10F single numbers for high.

Outside early get chores done than loaded E muffin.
Did food shopping so now it's all indoors puttering,date night,plan on sneaking nap with out kittens finding out.

Enjoy your day all.

 

[txdon]

I think I'm around the Florida line, can't tell, still dark out and train tracker doesn't seem to work.

Drew on my short train ride I just hit the "map" on my iPhone and it told exactly where we were and even moved as the train moved.

Good morning! 23˚F mostly sunny heading to the 40s. Getting mentally prepared for an Egore session.

 

[Buppies]

Wngsprd no one in the weather world wants to discuss the SE ridge. . It is very strong this year. Cold fronts come warm up happens pretty quick afterwards. I do not see this changing. Snow comes snow goes or doesn’t come at all. The American model is doing much better this year than the once king euro.

Notice; The strength of the high in the Atlantic, arctic front stalls out on coast kinda of unusual leading to possible ice storm in coastal SC

Hopefully I did not bore anyone with this

 

[Buppies]

Don has the definition of what your iPhone shows improved significantly with find a friend recently

 

[RoyJackson]

Wngsprd no one in the weather world wants to discuss the SE ridge. . It is very strong this year. Cold fronts come warm up happens pretty quick afterwards. I do not see this changing. Snow comes snow goes or doesn’t come at all. The American model is doing much better this year than the once king euro.

Notice; The strength of the high in the Atlantic, arctic front stalls out on coast kinda of unusual leading to possible ice storm in coastal SC

Hopefully I did not bore anyone with this

Not at all!