Running Bear's August 2023 Coffee Shop

[Snowman]

Let's have a moment of silence for Willie's pork chops.

A mere moment!?! I think it demands...one and a half minutes. Times three.
, ,

 

[Boris]

Good evening. Currently 70° and cloudy. Couple lines of rain squalls passed through earlier, enough thunder to scare the cat into her safe place in the basement. 1.36" of Rain recorded. never got above 82°. Tomorrow, after the fog lifts, promised to be sunny and warm.
As Louis previously reported, Baltimore's baseball team beat Houston 5-4 to again avoid being swept. The Phillies beat Washington, and Boston won. The Yankees and Mets didn't play, so neither team could lose... No joy and less hope in the Rotten Apple this season...
The media seems to be hyping the Jets this season, what with the reject from Green Acres for a QB....Can gang Green do it? Last time they won the Super Bowl, they were still called the Titans, and the panty hose and Medicare insurance salesman was the QB...time will tell.
I did not run any trains today.

 

[bnsf971]

A mere moment!?! I think it demands...one and a half minutes. Times three.
, ,

Okay, how about 12 minutes at 350 degrees?

 

[Bruette]

Can gang Green do it?

It reminds me of the Ravens in 2006 when they traded for Steve McNair. The Ravens finished 13-3 in the regular season. By the playoffs teams realized McNair could no longer throw deep outside of the hash marks. In the Ravens first playoff game the Colts played a "dome" defense ignoring the deep pass to the sidelines. The Ravens lost 15-6.

Bottom line: if Rodgers still has enough arm strength at the end of the season the Jets have a chance.

Winning in any sport is not easy and never guaranteed. The US women's world cup team is the latest example.

 

[Bruette]

Sad day today on the SFW estate. Before I left for the weekly grocery trek, I took three 1 1/2" thick pork chops out of the freezer for grilling tonight. Imagine my dismay and surprise when I got home and found that while I was gone, my wife stuck them in the crockpot with onions and mushrooms! While the meal itself wasn't anything to complain about, it should have been made with some of the 1/2" thick boneless ones that were still in the freezer. I guess it's my fault (her words) that I didn't let her know ahead of time. It wasn't worth arguing! On the other hand, 1 1/2" thick pork chops never deserve to be in the crockpot! That's the difference between men and women.

Willie, I'm sorry for your loss.

In the grand scheme of life if that was the worst part of your day, thank God.

Personally, I like thin bone-in pork chops with lots of fat! My wife cooks them in a frying pan with garlic and black pepper. I leave nothing but a bone so clean a dog would reject it on my plate! Now I want pork chops!

 

[Bruette]

Good evening, all. Not a lot to report on from H-Town. I had the WEG laser surgery this morning and with my eye dilated most of the day no progress on the Motrak warehouse. I sat quietly with my eyes closed. Yes, I got several cat naps in. I guess because the cloudy vision comes on slowly one doesn't seem to notice until it's gone. Quite a difference. Groceries tomorrow and time allowing a little train time.

STAY SAFE
LATER

I'm glad to hear all went well!

Now you can watch the Astros make their run to defend their World Series Crown. They are the team I hope the Orioles don't meet in the playoffs!

Dusty Baker is now seventh all time in wins by a manager.

 

[Bruette]

Good morning, Everybody!

MLB Gameday: Orioles 2, Mariners 9 Final Score (08/11/2023)

Follow MLB results with FREE box scores, pitch-by-pitch strikezone info, and Statcast data for Orioles vs. Mariners at T-Mobile Park

www.mlb.com

No chance I will see the first Inning of these late west coast games. Better chance I wake up in time to see the end of the game.

 

[troyphoto]

Well, howdy there internet peeps and former pork chops.

It's Troy again...

Prepping to hit the road today. Got the neighbor lady set to watch the house and give the fuzzbutt his treats. I've cleaned out (bleach, followed by vinegar) his water fountain, and he's got fresh water. Need to clean out the litter robot next, so the neighbor lady doesn't have to mess with that unless he gets it stuck somehow.

The worst part of vacationing is the initial travel. That's today. We'll be leaving NE Indiana and heading via Detroit to Ontario. My desire is to use the Windsor Tunnel under the river. Been across the bridge 30 years ago, so we'll go for the tunnel this time.

at the moment AQI looks better in Hamilton Ont (SW tip of lake Ontario) than here.

Lake Erie in the lower half, Lake Ontario right middle. Niagara Falls between those two, and on our itinerary.

I'll be playing games tomorrow and Sunday. No idea what the wife will be up to. She'll have a car, and a credit card. Fortunately, she's not a shopper. But, there will probably be a museum or two in her future.

 

[santafewillie]

Troy - Safe traveling today.

 

[Boris]

Winning in any sport is not easy and never guaranteed. The US women's world cup team is the latest example.

This was a prime example of a team losing focus as to what their mission was. Their focus was on gender politics, not soccer, so they were vulnerable to a less talented team that wanted to play soccer and win .

 

[TLOC]

It reminds me of the Ravens in 2006 when they traded for Steve McNair. The Ravens finished 13-3 in the regular season. By the playoffs teams realized McNair could no longer throw deep outside of the hash marks. In the Ravens first playoff game the Colts played a "dome" defense ignoring the deep pass to the sidelines. The Ravens lost 15-6.

Bottom line: if Rodgers still has enough arm strength at the end of the season the Jets have a chance.

Winning in any sport is not easy and never guaranteed. The US women's world cup team is the latest example.

Rodgers has the arm and at the end of the season has always had a strong arm. Defense and special teams is actually what won the Super Bowl he is credited for. He is an awesome QB in the regular season. Come playoff time he becomes very timid and becomes a short zone passer, not at all liked the Pack played in the regular season. Season after season through 2 different coaches this occurred so it wasn’t a one time thing!

Saying all this, as a former Packer season ticket till 2018, he was much better than Farve and will do well in New York if he can stay healthy. Like Farve he plays hurt sometimes to the determent of the team. The Packers for years to protect Farve and then Rodgers had excellent players in the offensive lines. Not all the Packer failings in the playoffs though were Rodgers fault. Even when he played super the defense generally let them down or as in years 2020 and 2021 they were destroyed by terrible special teams play.

If Jets management kow-tows to his demands he can/will thrive in New York, but that offensive line will be an issue.

 

[santafewillie]

Good Morning All. Clear and 86°, somewhat warm this morning. It was just 101° yesterday, a lot closer to a normal August 10th temperature. The weather geeks at the NWS are really going out on a limb by predicting the high next Tuesday of only 98° and an overnight low of 71°. Seeing is believing. That could mean turning off the A/C's when I get up in the morning. Otherwise 108° by Sunday and 106° later next week.

The weekly grocery trek pretty much went as planned yesterday, but I noted that the grocery store prices had crept up on many items, especially produce and canned goods. Pork products seem to be very slightly lower while beef prices were stable. Chicken went up considerably a few weeks ago and has not come down. It will go up again very soon now that Tyson is shutting down four processing plants. In years past, they would keep plants open and prices went down for everyone due to oversupply. Not any more! Gasoline was up for the 4th or 5th week in a row, now at least 30¢/gal more than a month ago. B**enomics is not working for me.

Out in the train shed yesterday, I did get some more fencing installed, completed the north (layout point of view) and part of the south side.

Hmmmh! I need to clean off the camera lens!

The farmhouse that I am using has a screened in back porch, along with several screened windows.

Unfortunately it blocks the view of the couch and refrigerator that I have on the back porch.

Tom O - I have been reading about the devastation in the Lahaina area, near total loss. and the number of deaths is overwhelming. I am sure that our president will send them some of our money, since that state is run by his party.
Is your pool indoors yet? It seems that I read that it would be the plan.
Curt - I have used toothpicks many times before, but they're usually only good for larger holes. Sometimes losing track of the hole location when either inserting the toothpick or the ultimate fence post has been an issue. Maybe the new eyes w/Optivisor will help in the future.
Hughie - Good luck with the recovery.
Louis -

Willie, I'm sorry for your loss.

In the grand scheme of life if that was the worst part of your day, thank God.

It definitely beat out the severe lack of eye candy at the grocery store yesterday morning. But that was my fault for going 30 minutes earlier than normal, didn't have to wait on my wife to get ready!

Looks like a warm weekend here. Everyone have a great day and a wonderful weekend. Stay safe and hydrated.

 

[bnsf971]

Good morning. It’s sunny and 87, with a heat warning. “Feels like” is 118.

 

[kbkchooch]

Good morning fellow carnivores!

Y'all are eating good I see! Tomahawk steaks, pork chops and ball park franks too!

Flo, Steak and eggs for me today please, after all it's FRIDAY!!!

Willie I'm gonna have to check out that barbed wire fencing, I like it. That's all we ever had on the farm, board fences were for fancy folks!

BBL

 

[TLOC]

Good morning sports watchers, travelers and modelers. So. Central Wisconsin’s 90% chance of rain did happen at around 5:30am as predicted. My morning walk scheduled for then turned out needing to be done on the machine that goes nowhere. The rain though only lasted no more then 10 minutes from start to finish. Basically a non weather event.

Talked to my brother Thursday at noon WIsconsin time and 7am Maui time. He said they were still doing ok but when he went to the grocery store on Wednesday he said supplies were low. Most of the local places were on reduced hours for lack of staff and products. He was saying things locally for him were fine but food stuffs could become a problem with the harbors messed up. Said he has enough food for at least a week. Terry’s greenhouse is producing and they have plenty of fresh green beans, lettuce, kale, tomatoes, zucchini, squash and whatever else she grows in there. Terry has taught his girlfriend a few years ago how to tend the garden there and he says she has really gotten “into it”. He says he doesn’t want to but could handle salads and veggies to eat so they will be fine. The son told me tried his uncle last night and said he got a message that lines were busy. I tried before bed last night around midnight and I just got a buzzing sound. Sounds like the cell service on Maui near him is having issues. I will try again in a couple of hours.

I am waiting for my DCC system to show up. Ordered Sunday and I have an acknowledgement of the order but nothing indicating it been shipped yet. I also purchased some more sulfur cars on Tuesday and also have not seen anything about them being shipped.

Questions and some thoughts for the day…

Good to see the Supreme Court stop the stupid settlement in the Pharma case.

Would you take a Robo taxi? Not me…

I recently started selling HO weathered freight cars via EBay to minor success. My Facebook 1st time buyers are way way down. So I am trying EBay. Question is to the EBay buyers here. DO YOU check anywhere else before buying on Ebay. The items I have sold are a minimum $30 more than the prices I list on FB? On one car the bidding made the car $110 more then what a very similar one I sold on FB. I am happy but has society become this lazy?

How can it be that College players are not allowed to gamble but the conferences can let the companies that take legal bets be team and conference sponsors? The NFL is the same way. Can we say DOUBLE STANDARD. I think if any of the suspended players went to court to overturn the suspensions they should win

enjoy the day

 

[TLOC]

Good Morning All. Clear and 86°, somewhat warm this morning. It was just 101° yesterday, a lot closer to a normal August 10th temperature. The weather geeks at the NWS are really going out on a limb by predicting the high next Tuesday of only 98° and an overnight low of 71°. Seeing is believing. That could mean turning off the A/C's when I get up in the morning. Otherwise 108° by Sunday and 106° later next week.

The weekly grocery trek pretty much went as planned yesterday, but I noted that the grocery store prices had crept up on many items, especially produce and canned goods. Pork products seem to be very slightly lower while beef prices were stable. Chicken went up considerably a few weeks ago and has not come down. It will go up again very soon now that Tyson is shutting down four processing plants. In years past, they would keep plants open and prices went down for everyone due to oversupply. Not any more! Gasoline was up for the 4th or 5th week in a row, now at least 30¢/gal more than a month ago. B**enomics is not working for me.

Out in the train shed yesterday, I did get some more fencing installed, completed the north (layout point of view) and part of the south side.
View attachment 172745
Hmmmh! I need to clean off the camera lens!
View attachment 172746
The farmhouse that I am using has a screened in back porch, along with several screened windows.
View attachment 172747
Unfortunately it blocks the view of the couch and refrigerator that I have on the back porch.

Tom O - I have been reading about the devastation in the Lahaina area, near total loss. and the number of deaths is overwhelming. I am sure that our president will send them some of our money, since that state is run by his party.
Is your pool indoors yet? It seems that I read that it would be the plan.
Curt - I have used toothpicks many times before, but they're usually only good for larger holes. Sometimes losing track of the hole location when either inserting the toothpick or the ultimate fence post has been an issue. Maybe the new eyes w/Optivisor will help in the future.
Hughie - Good luck with the recovery.
Louis -

It definitely beat out the severe lack of eye candy at the grocery store yesterday morning. But that was my fault for going 30 minutes earlier than normal, didn't have to wait on my wife to get ready!

Looks like a warm weekend here. Everyone have a great day and a wonderful weekend. Stay safe and hydrated.

Willie, the steel is here for the lap pool. Yes, eventually it will be covered and hopefully by November 1. The current hold up is the steel erection crews are busy and this is a 1 day job for them. They just finished erecting the steel and wall panels at the local ice rink addition here in town. I was told once that is done they had a few 2 to 3 days jobs and they would come and install. They did have a person come by and double check last week that all the materials are here. They were. Everything else is on the ground here waiting for that to happen. The roof is about a 4-5 day job and the side of glass on the south wall is 1-2 days. The other 3 walls my contractor says should be around 5 days. Those materials are in his warehouse out of the weather.

please remember as Mr. Trump stated many times on the visits he made to devastated areas. Heck he even delivered the toilet paper to Puerto Rico! It was the duty of the President to make as many government resources available to those in need. I don’t see anything different with this regime.

 

[kbkchooch]

I recently started selling HO weathered freight cars via EBay to minor success. My Facebook 1st time buyers are way way down. So I am trying EBay. Question is to the EBay buyers here. DO YOU check anywhere else before buying on Ebay. The items I have sold are a minimum $30 more than the prices I list on FB? On one car the bidding made the car $110 more then what a very similar one I sold on FB. I am happy but has society become this lazy?

Tom, what you have experienced is the best thing to happen to an eBay seller. 2 or more people fighting over an item with a bidding war. When I used to sell on eBay it amazed me how this happens. Have people lost their minds? Is it a game of one upmanship played with dollars? Or is it a fear of losing out on something that drives people to keep bidding? I don't know, it just made me happy as a seller when things went higher than expected.

I quit selling on eBay when they had a drastic increase on eBay's fees, especially when FB market place had no fee. How bad percentage wise have they gotten by now? IIRC it was around 17% with listing fees and final value fees.

 

[TLOC]

Tom, what you have experienced is the best thing to happen to an eBay seller. 2 or more people fighting over an item with a bidding war. When I used to sell on eBay it amazed me how this happens. Have people lost their minds? Is it a game of one upmanship played with dollars? Or is it a fear of losing out on something that drives people to keep bidding? I don't know, it just made me happy as a seller when things went higher than expected.

I quit selling on eBay when they had a drastic increase on eBay's fees, especially when FB market place had no fee. How bad percentage wise have they gotten by now? IIRC it was around 17% with listing fees and final value fees.

Thanks for the response Karl. I am selling by auction with a buy now option. The minimum acceptable bid covers my costs and ebay fees. I stayed away until a few months ago because of fees. One of my weathering clients talked me into trying it and the first car I put up did not sell. He said cover the EBay fees with the acceptable bid and hope for the best.

I just don’t understand though folks not checking around before bidding. But, I am happy for it. Of the 7 items I have now listed, 2 did not sell, 3 went at the buy now crazy $ amount, 1 went to the end with bids and 1 is out there now.

TomO

 

[chadbag]

This was a prime example of a team losing focus as to what their mission was. Their focus was on gender politics, not soccer, so they were vulnerable to a less talented team that wanted to play soccer and win .

They went to a protest and a soccer* game broke out.

*Football for you heathens (though the word "soccer" comes from Britain)

 

[kbkchooch]

Thanks for the response Karl. I am selling by auction with a buy now option. The minimum acceptable bid covers my costs and ebay fees. I stayed away until a few months ago because of fees. One of my weathering clients talked me into trying it and the first car I put up did not sell. He said cover the EBay fees with the acceptable bid and hope for the best.

I just don’t understand though folks not checking around before bidding. But, I am happy for it. Of the 7 items I have now listed, 2 did not sell, 3 went at the buy now crazy $ amount, 1 went to the end with bids and 1 is out there now.

TomO

Just out of curiosity, what is your item number?