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   / Good morning!!!! #26,651  
Our new pet...my fiancee's kitten...a rescued calcico female who was the runt of her litter but has the biggest heart of them all...guys, meet Misty !!!

Nice looking kitty!
55 now, 60's later, 33 tomorrow and windy.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #26,653  
Well, the ol' Simplicity made it up to the shop and back ("You don't think you're gonna drive that thing up there do ya ?" ... :rolleyes:)

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Got the fire - which had gone out overnight - restarted ... should be nice and toasty up there in an hour or so.

Need to button up the overhead door on the shop before the temps really drop and the wind starts blowin' ... have some weather seal but I need to run over to The Depot and pick up a couple of pieces of trim.

Need to get the feeders refilled for Tweety too before it gets really nasty.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #26,654  
I am not sure of the rules in your location but it is not within code here if the junction box is hidden, safe or not. You should remove the fixture and disconnect the wire from the switch box and remove the switch box as well. The method you described would make it safe for you but if you move and the new owner decides to figure out what is happening, could make it unsafe again. Not trying to be the safety police but there are also insurance issues to consider and you don't want to give them any excuses.
Former Electrician Albeit North of the Border.

By the way its cold here today with 2 cm of snow, no coffee yet, drop the wife off at the bus stop and then off to Starbucks for my coffee.

Thanks Charlie. I think you are correct for our codes too.

The light fixture is a Juno IC-rated recessed can, the only fixture on that switch. Removing that will leave a 6-1/2" inch hole in the ceiling to patch. I confess I'm going to bypass that project--given the 2' of blown cellulose in the attic.

The wall switch for the light fixture shares a box (set in a tongue & groove finished wall) with a duplex outlet that is on a different circuit and will remain accessible and functional; it won't become a buried junction box. I could remove the switch, if I can find a double outlet wall plate that is blank on the switch side. Wire nut and label the hot and fixture switch wires in the box.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #26,655  
JDgreen.
Looks like Misty knows how to pull someones heart strings. ;)
 
   / Good morning!!!! #26,656  
27 this morning and headed to 29. Maybe that's already been then high. Wind chill 15. The front came through last night. About an inch of snow. A couple of hours northwest and they had 5 inches at 5am.

Going to be a slow day today. Have a cold or something and I don't get sick days. May go to town and order doors and windows for the building.

Wayne that is a nice deer you boy has there.

Murphy you have a nice place.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #26,657  
Wayne.
Congrats to your son on mighty nice buck...enjoy the tender eats.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #26,658  
My guests were off this morning in clear weather at 5am and I have been up since 4.
my friend is taking my two Land Pride implements sized for a sub compact back to PA where they will be installed or used on
my old tractor that I gave to the Quaker Meeting. Long story, boring by now, sorry, but now they have a fully equipped Case IH 255 with only a thousand hours on its Mitsubishi engine and a nice collection of implements. The amusingly ironic part of this is that I'm going to be buried there with the rest of my family so if my tractor far outlasts me, which it will surely, then it will be used to keep the graveyard grounds in top condition, along with our zero turn mower of course.

So it's a goes around comes around sort of thing and I'm happy with the long term result. And my buddy can borrow the implements for his JD 1050, same tractor as Farm Girl. A lady who is surely missed here. Though my friend's is set up for the blueberry fields of NJ.
so everyone wins. The charity gift value will nicely reduce my income tax also. Sure miss that tractor though. Like giving a favorite dog to a friend.

and for a little aside...
Mowing around graves is quite an experience. very distracting...but one does not get a tractor near the stones. Too much historical damage from mowing the graveyard with a Cub and a belly mower. That big Woods mower did some damage to those invaluable stones. Some three hundred years old.
So now we tread much more lightly, but even the weedwacker has its damage issues and we sure won't use poisons out there. Not in the land of Prius's and Subarus...;)

Rippppp, Snap, grrrrrr, snapppp. bang bang bang tap tap tap tap tap
vibrating up through the floor as I hide in the second floor office to escape the carpenters installing the replacement windows.
It's pretty wet outside so it's time to clean up after the guests, do laundry, boring stuff.

some pics to follow later of our trek back to the pond, armed with loppers and clippers so that no vine was safe.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #26,659  
Wow
that's all I can say about those snow pictures
already?.....

ok kids, get out those sleds while Pop heads for his tractor.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #26,660  
Send snow down here. I would like it for two day's only please.
 

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