Mrs. Baird's?

#14 | Posted by Corky at 2025-11-16 02:38 PM

Yes, it was a Mrs. Baird's Bread plant in Fort Worth. I was there in September 1971. It was my first field assignment since graduating from engineering school. We were installing a couple of baked goods lines in a new building. Now one of these was a large, high production (200 loaves/minute) beard line. Our company supplied the flour handling system, the mixers, dough dividers, dough rounders, the intermediate proofer, the final proofer, oven and most of the conveyors. The other line was a cake line where we provided just the oven and most of the conveyors.

And speaking of rain, while we were in the final stages of getting these two production lines up and running, it started to rain, and we discovered that the building's roof leaked like a sieve. While the contractor was fixing the roof, we spent nearly a week trying to protect all of our wiring and drying out cable ways before we could actually test/start the machinery.

As I said, this was my first field assignment and I was there something like three weeks. The highlight of the trip was that on one of the weekends, Oklahoma was in town to play Texas, and while there was no way that I could've gotten into the game, I did spend the evening before the game in downtown Dallas, which was an experience in itself.

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent bleated that beef prices are high because immigrants are smuggling diseased cattle from South America across the border:

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-11-16 08:30 PM

I don't know about you, but I can't recall seeing any pictures of people swimming across the Rio Grande with a cow in tow or dragging a cow over a border fence or standing in line seeking asylum with a cow next to them.

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Trump just got three more candidates for pardons...

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Hit texas for the eclipse. never seen it rain so hard in my life.

#11 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-11-16 12:43 PM

Yes, our oldest son lives about 25-miles West of Houston. On one of our visits there, the night before we were to head home, it rained seven inches. Now the parking lot of the hotel was flooded, but not so that you couldn't drive out, and on our way home, many of the rivers which were virtually dry when we drove in, were full to their banks, but hadn't flowed over the highway so we weren't really inconvenienced.

And about 50-years ago, when I was on my first field assignment as an engineer, I was helping to start-up a bread line at a large commercial bakery in Fort Worth. Anyway, my boss called and they said that they needed someone to run over to Alexandria, Louisiana to mark-up a set of architectural blueprints for an older building that was going to be converted into production bakery. Anyway, on my way back, I had just crossed over into Texas from Shreveport, when it started to rain. It was the heaviest rainfall that I think that I have ever experienced. I had to pull off the side of the road and just wait it out, and I have to say, not a single car or truck passed me while I waited out the 30-minutes or so that it took for that storm to pass till where it had slowed enough that you could safely drive. If I never see rain like that again, I won't miss it. And I was in a Typhoon once that hit Tokyo where they shut the trains down. but that was mostly wind.

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This was probably not a particularly good time to bring this issue up...

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Yes, before this is over, we'll get perhaps three or four inches of rain. Last year we only had five and half for the full year (July to July) here in SoCal. And we had nearly an inch a few weeks ago, so it appears that we're heading into a wet winter. Now what's really important is that it snows up in the Sierras as that's the water we drink next year. Granted, this current rain will help to green up our lawns (at least for those of us who live down on the well drained flat lands), saving us from having to water the grass for the next couple of weeks or so.

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Only the best...

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Republicans can only lay the blame for this loss at the feet of Trump and his immigration policies. I suspect that this will not be the last such electoral result.

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Trump continues to behave in a manner which results in America becoming more and more isolated from the rest of the world.

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My wife and I were at a wedding this past weekend in Houston (granddaughter #2) and afterwords our oldest son, the father of the bride, flew to Houghton, MI with his youngest daughter (our granddaughter #4) on Sunday. He went so that he could participate in the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald on Monday. He was only five years old when it happened, but he always seemed to remember that event and of course Gordon Lightfoot's song didn't help. Anyway, despite the cold and snow, our son and his daughter, who's attending school at Michigan Tech, my alma mater, and a few of her classmates, went out to a beach on the shores of Lake Superior last night, lit a bonfire and sang along with Lightfoot's, 'The Wreak of the Edmund Fitzgerald'. They seemed to enjoy themselves (at least the video that they sent looked like they were even if it was dark and cold looking).

Our son flies back home to Houston on Thursday.

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And when the agent who was hit by the sandwich was testifying, he was asked how he was 'injured', and he said that the sandwich had been thrown hard enough that he felt it hit him through his body armor and that he could smell the onion and mustard.

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But Trump's press secretary claims that the AG department is moving ahead with providing partial SNAP benefits, which would seem to contradict what her boss has been telling everyone.

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What could possibly go wrong...

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