CHOO-CHOO TIME

MORNING CAME AND WE GOT AROUND TO GO BABYSIT our youngest grandson for a few hours.  We took with us a large storage box filled with wooden train tracks, trains and miniature objects like signs and buildings.

He loved it.  Anything with wheels, he really likes.

It amazed me how he contently played while rolling the small wooden train engines and cars along the wood tracks.  He pleasantly played as I sat there on the sofa watching him.

Several times he patted the floor and said, "Sit." wanting Grandma to sit on the floor with him to play trains.  

Grandpa showed him a short video of a real rolling train with sound effects on his phone that he recorded.  Have mercy, he loved it.  He wanted to watch it over and over.  He likes trains a great deal.

Our Saturday morning was wonderful.  After his mom and dad returned, we visited while sipping on hot tea, coffee and ate cherry kolaches.  Our conversation was interesting as we chatted about health info, conspiracy theories and politics.  It's best to not talk about some subjects.  Gotta remember that.

It was raining when we left.  Went HOME and took a nap.  Ate leftovers for lunch.  I don't believe today I will push myself.  A slow poke day.  Indeed.

SUNDAY.  I believe I can rest and read today as it is another rainy day.  I'll tink some with the placement of pots 'n pans.  This is challenging as I have to figure out where to go with the overflow.  This will be my weekly project.  Pots 'n pans in a new location.  I did finally successfully rearranged by switching the floor to ceiling kitchen cabinet with the pantry.  I had to try this out and live with the previous arrangement.  Did that and decided to make the floor to ceiling cabinet a place for small appliances.  The food pantry returned.  I LIKE IT and need to leave it alone.  Period.

Now I have to make peace with the pots.  Lord, help me.  Something so simple seems to require a great deal of thought as I have to make every inch count when dealing with a tiny KITCHEN.    

As I sit at HOME, real trains are blowing their whistles to where I easily hear them.  Train traffic has picked up in this area.  It's a treat to see our Grandson get excited when real trains blow on by their place.  He mimics their sound and delights in seeing them pass by between trees.  At a distance, they can be seen making their way across the prairie.    

~d

  

I HEAR A TRAIN A COMIN'

HEARING THE TRAIN WHISTLE AT ABOUT 10:08 this morning caused me to get excited about the BIG BOY No. 4014 rolling through my small town.  About a minute later, I stood at my kitchen sink looking through the garden window and watched the top of the train roll down the track at a distance.  For a very short amount of time and through a very limited space I got to see this train roll quickly through town.  

UNION PACIFIC's CELEBRATION of the 150th Anniversary of the completion of the TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD features BIG BOY.

Here’s a hype train you can get on, if only metaphorically: a restored Big Boy steam train will make a Wednesday morning stop in Manhattan as part of Union Pacific’s celebration of the 150th anniversary of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad.

The 132-foot-long, 1.2 million pound Big Boy No. 4014, a steam train originally commissioned in 1941, will stop between 9:30 and 10:15 a.m. at the South Manhattan Avenue rail crossing. The train is the only one of eight in existence that is still in operation.

https://www.wibw.com/content/news/Big-Boy-makes-it-way-across-Kansas-565238982.html?fbclid=IwAR3WCvE4n9NkT9zBA9vDBT-H_8LDr7XFI49gMqe0q1w5M2Uopr_8aooD1yg

Something special on a Wednesday.

A thrill for many to see and hear this 

BIG BOY,

d

Hot Tracks On The Choo Choo

We took time to ride the rails.
Hot that day, but we managed to ride around  
TOPEKA's Gage Park. 

All aboard to see the sights.

Gramps, Lil Miss and I had a pleasant SUMMER ride.

CHOO CHOO A WOO WOO.

granny d nanny

 

When Plans Change

Booga Booga....i'm human.  

There have been times in life that when plans changed I didn't go with the punches very well and would get irritated with not getting my way at the time.  You know what I mean?

When I can go with the flow and enjoy the direction life is going....I'm less agitated.

Tuesday was a different kind of day for me.  Daughter stayed home from work due to running a fever and head cold.  Lil Miss has a stuffed up nose and head cold as well and I'm praying I stay well.  The last cold I had was just in July with one in April.  Not a good record.

Wanted to watch ABC television and listen to Jackie Kennedy's recordings she made shortly after her Husband, President Kennedy died.  We don't get ABC here at Home Haven, so I will either wait till the Public Library has the recordings to check out or buy a copy for my personal Library.

BOOGA BOOGA

BOOGA BOOGA

Instead of getting disappointed, we watched the 1998 movie HOPE FLOATS and ate homemade cookie dough.  Oatmeal with raisins.  It was a slowed paced evening and I loved it.

A nice way to unwind after the morning we had.

Earlier in the day around 10:30, my daughter said she heard train noises that didn't sound right.  She had looked outside and said she saw cars going QUICKLY backwards down the street.  Then there was yellow Police Tape across the street. A train was stopped on the tracks.  I looked out the window and saw two of the older neighborhood ladies standing outside looking toward the tracks along with another lady that's remodeling a neighborhood house for a new Pastor coming to town.

A train hit a semi-trailer truck high centered and stuck on the railroad tracks not far from my home.  Took some pics.  No one was killed or physically injured.  Thankful to God.  The train stayed on the tracks.  No derailing.

Excitement in small town America!
I took an afternoon nap.  Needed it.
Booga Booga,
~Deanna~