We used to go watch trains on Cima Hill, on the Cal/Nev border area back in the later 70's to early ‘80s. We were paranoid as hell, and had with us at all times:

I wish I could live long enough to see what becomes of the whole PSR period in the train history books/sites say 50 years from now. I think it’s going to be remembered as a period of management greed gone off the deep end. I personally wouldn’t be shocked if the railroads get a lot of regulation again. Not at the old…

I agree with not pushing them, IF they actually have real anxiety, but with my friend’s kid, I think she was just trying to milk the being driven everywhere by mom or dad thing, and not having to deal with little bro and sis alone in a car and dealing with waiting for them, etc. Once she realized that all the useless…

Time to set a cut off date for her. My friend’s oldest daughter decided when she was about to turn 16, “I don’t think I want to get my license...yet”.Well, mom and dad told her, “OK, but as of your 16th birthday, no more rides unless it’s someplace we are all going anyway, or to school. Oh, that goes for trips to…

The first time I saw pavement buckle was when I was in the 5th grade. I came home on the ancient “Community Traction Co.” buses that were bought not too long after WWII. They rattled and shook and broke down all the time, so when the bus’ front end suddenly dipped down on the right side as we came to the stop at the…

I want my Jif Chunky, I really missed it during the pandemic, but nuts in brownies and ice cream is a hard “HELL NO!”. Same goes for fudge. We had a relative who made fantastic fudge every year and sent it out as a holiday gift. My mom tried and tried to get her to leave out the damn walnuts, and finally, she seemed…

My former GF and I came to the conclusion that Smucker’s Natural was the peanuts that were originally roasted for Jif and they screwed up and left them in the roaster too long. It’s not as bad as the all time champ, IMHO, Shedd’s, but it’s not even “OK”, like Skippy is. 

We basically did the same thing, except Jif was our pick. Only when we went to Chicago every year was Skippy involved. The store across from the place we always stayed only had Skippy. We finally nagged mom into buying a damn jar of Jif before we left and no more Skippy. I didn’t have Skippy from about 1969 until…

A friend’s mom used to put their PB(always a store brand that was pretty bad, but better than the worst PB I’ve ever had, Shedd’s) in the fridge and I finally asked her why. “We always put it in the refrigerator, so I still do!”. She was shocked when I told her she was the only person who I had ever seen do that. My…

Wow, I had some Skippy during the pandemic, along with several others and I don’t see how it would be possible to compare Skippy with Jif. Jif crushes all others, and it’s not even close. 

I bought a couple of jars of SC Dark Roasted Crunchy back when it was hard to find my “normal” PB, which is Jif Crunchy. It was, at best, highly disappointing, but not awful. I ate it a few times a week for several months, and it never really “made it”. It made my first sandwich made with Jif after I found some at…

Vegas should tell F1 if they do what this article claims they will do, there won’t be a race, period. Let F1 sue, who cares? LV can drag out court cases with the best of them. 

No mention of the cinnamon waffle cones? A lot of places used to have them, I don’t know if they still do, as I normally buy one of the ice cream with chopped up candy in it. I think the last cones I had were back when my dogs were still around. The dog before the last two, Gus, was the champ, able to eat a large cake…

I can’t say they are the worst, but they are definitely at the top of bad produce. GBP’s ruin anything they are in. To me, the worst things in the grocery store are in the condiment aisle. I pretty much am disgusted by almost everything in it.

I’m sorry to see the wafers go away. Like so many other foods and candy that have disappeared from shelves over my lifetime, I have great memories of them. With the wafers, it was being used in a friend’s mother’s peanut butter (Jif), the Nabisco wafers, Duncan Hines devil’s food cake mix, and who knows what else…

I passed by the Ice Cream Truck storage yard about an hour ago, it was full of returning trucks as usual this time of year. At least in NW Ohio, the trucks are alive and seem to be well.

Yeah, the cuts on my chin were pretty bad. No stitches though. I don’’t scar very much and all I have from it is a little shiny spot on my chin. 

I burn my mouth on stuff all the time. I can’t seem to wait for whatever I am eating to cool down much at all. About a week ago, I had some frozen Catfish and a couple of egg rolls for dinner. I ate the egg rolls first and I had skin hanging from the roof of my mouth for a couple of days. 

The only injuries I’ve gotten from appliances and power tools was one time I got my beard hooked by the hand blender’s blades, and another time when I had a brand new circular saw blade shatter. The blender was totally my fault, I had a Letterman type beard and bumped the switch and not only had a wad of beard yanked…

I was going to mention that. I have cut myself a couple of times very badly slicing bagels. I don’t remember ever cutting myself at all cutting up an apple, which I do every time I eat one (With a paring knife as I eat it). The worst cooking cut I ever had was splitting a hunk of steak so it would fit the hunk of…