10 year Service Award....

[Cinder & Smoke]

WOW!

TEN Years (and STILL There, too!) ... Way to GO!

Do you ever ... How many ~

* Eggs & Pancakes you've cooked for breakfasts?
* Hamburgers you've cooked for lunches?
* Steaks you've grilled for dinners?
* How many MILES you've traveled on the River?
* How many Locks you've passed through?

They otta give you a Golden Spatchula!

Congrats!!

[chocolatepuppy]

That clock is really nice! Congrats on 10 years.

[Laura's Babies]

Do you ever ... How many ~
* Eggs & Pancakes you've cooked for breakfasts?
* Hamburgers you've cooked for lunches?
* Steaks you've grilled for dinners?
* How many MILES you've traveled on the River?
* How many Locks you've passed through?

* Eggs & Pancakes you've cooked for breakfasts? Couldn't count them all!
* Hamburgers you've cooked for lunches? Burgers 12 to 16 every Saturday night.........
* Steaks you've grilled for dinners? We LOVE steak day, that's every Saturday!
* How many MILES you've traveled on the River? Hummmm.... I've done the entire Mississippi, upper and lower (The upper only twice, the lower I couldn't count), The Ohio, Cumberland, Illinois, Chicago.... Can't remember the rest.
* How many Locks you've passed through?.. All on the upper Mississippi, some on the Ohio and some in various other places that I have forgotten about.

One thing I tried this last trip was a BIG breakfast for supper and that was the biggest hit with the guys that I have had in a long time. So many love breakfast foods but don't eat breakfast.. They ALL ate that night and the Captain and engineer showed up a hour early wanting to eat! The stove was just about clean when they all finished eating... I gotta do that again!

The golden spoon award? I LIKE that idea... (make note to self "Must tell the company that one!)

[Daisy and Delilah]

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! The clock is beautiful!

I have to tell you that I think you have the most unique job I've ever heard of. It's so cool. I would love to hear more about it sometime. I bet alot of the new members would like to know what you do for a living. What kind of employer do you work for(if you can say it on here). No need to be specific I guess, Just the job description itself-not necessarily who you actually work for.

[Cinder & Smoke]

Laura's "Office" ...
The M/V John M. Donnelly / Ingram Barge Company



The JOHN M. DONNELLY, built 1980

Net Tonnage: 761 Tons (1119 GROSS)
Engines: GM 16-645-E7B | 9180 HP
Tow Size: 40 Barge Maximum Tow
Boat Height: 53 ft
Length/Width: 200 x 50 ft
Boat Draft: 9 ft

Laura's "Office" = the Galley (Kitchen) on board the John M. Donnelly >



Safe Trip! *** Don't *burn* the Biscuits!
_____________________________________________

Laura is the Chief Cook (and ONLY Cook) on bord the BIG Mississippi River
tow boat The John M. Donnelly. She goes aboard and lives on the boat for 28 straight days,
cooking 4 meals EVERY day for the Crew. Then comes home for 28 days "off",
drives back to the boat and hops aboard for another 28 day "sail" up and down
the Mississippi River - pushin barges.

NEET!

[Sevaede]

That is a pretty clock Laura!

You DESERVE that award!

[Daisy and Delilah]

Thanks Phred. That's so cool. I'll bet Laura doesn't mind going to work at all except for leaving the kitties. The boat is a home away from home.

What is the function of the crew on the boat?