Good morning!!!!

[Eric Salop]

Your area is wonderful!
We spent a week, several years ago, in the Shropshire-Union canal system.
Picked up our boat (rental) at Wrenbury Mill.
Saw mostly cows, but.... perhaps some of your sheep too?
A great little trip for us old folk!

You mean we can take a canal boat ride and go past Sir Eric's castle? ...

The little village of Wrenbury is only a few miles down the road from here. I actually live in a converted pig building (not quite the castle of Drew's fertile imagination !), but do consider myself very fortunate to have come to live in Shropshire. For those that enjoy slow travel, there can be no better way to take in the scenery than from a canal boat.

Did your travels along the Shropshire Union take you over to Wales on the Pontcysyllte aqueduct ? For others who probably have not heard of it, this is one of the finest pieces of engineering of the era and must still be one of the scariest boat trips in the world.



Pontcysyllte Aqueduct - Wikipedia

 

[Eric Salop]

Good morning, interesting to hear all the views on metal roofs. Kyle, whatever the color, hope you are soon watertight again. Although we have metal on commercial buildings, it is not often used on houses in this country, most roofs are slate or tiles, with a few still traditionally thatched with reed.

Buckeye, you lucky lucky man. Dare you to give it a mud bath.

 

[Thomas]

19F now upper 20's for high.
Looks like storm will stay south of us colder air on the way.

Weekend was blink Monday already w/new month knocking on the door.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[riptides]

27 out this AM. With a beautiful crunchy wet snow over everything except the sidewalk. Two to Three inches. From what I can see. With the spotlights on, the trees and bushes look stunning. Winter wonderland. If the sun comes out, it should be a postcard type day.

Be safe everyone. Have a great day.

 

[Buppies]

26 and snow this morning high of 35 today windy too. Like riptides postcard kinda of day

That aqueduct is an engineering marvel Eric

 

[wngsprd]

Got up at 3am to let the dog out...otherwise would have never known there was snow...all gone now..mostly got rain. 31 going to 41.

Cut an old dead oak down and into firewood rounds yesterday. Have some splitting to do. I'll be using a slightly different maul than riptides...one with a hydraulic cylinder on the end of it .

Eric, I saw that aqueduct on a TV program a couple of years ago. Looks quite amazing...ox blood!

 

[daugen]

I like water but I don't like heights, and never thought I'd be on the water and so far above ground level; that pic gives me vertigo. Safety railings?

40 degrees much cooler day, but no snow this far East, all stayed in Western NC and VA. And of course there is a special weather funnel that brings things in quite nicely to the Eastern Shore, where Toppop looks out at his beloved snow. Randy, are you missing your tractor?

Today should get up into high 40's with a lot of wind today and tomorrow, but warming up a little more tomorrow. All good, my big helper comes tomorrow and I have to lay out those big Tposts for him to drive in. Going to TSC this morning for a post driver. I know these heavy duty posts are made to hold metal or plastic fencing, that's what all those little nubbies do...thanks guys, but I'm likely to start with just a line of electric fence hooked up to a solar panel. More frankly to tell my neighboring farmer to stay ten feet off my line like I asked last time and got ignored.
That line of white topped steel posts isn't going to get ignored. Fences really do make good neighbors. At times... Probably should get another five posts while I'm at TSC. Once I measure them today and put down red pin flags, I may find I need more than five. This is only going in once I hope so I want to do it properly.

The prior owner of my place used to lay out fencing with his deer rifle and scope. He would sight down the line and a helper would put the posts in place. Not a bad idea. The far post is pretty hard to see.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Piranha Tooth Bar do a search they seem to be liked by most who have them.

What Don has is not the Piranha Tooth Bar.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Eric, I could just imagine the look on faces around here if I specified reed. I would suspect they would not fare well in a fireworks zone.

 

[lostcreekranch]

I like water but I don't like heights, and never thought I'd be on the water and so far above ground level; that pic gives me vertigo. Safety railings?

40 degrees much cooler day, but no snow this far East, all stayed in Western NC and VA. And of course there is a special weather funnel that brings things in quite nicely to the Eastern Shore, where Toppop looks out at his beloved snow. Randy, are you missing your tractor?

Today should get up into high 40's with a lot of wind today and tomorrow, but warming up a little more tomorrow. All good, my big helper comes tomorrow and I have to lay out those big Tposts for him to drive in. Going to TSC this morning for a post driver. I know these heavy duty posts are made to hold metal or plastic fencing, that's what all those little nubbies do...thanks guys, but I'm likely to start with just a line of electric fence hooked up to a solar panel. More frankly to tell my neighboring farmer to stay ten feet off my line like I asked last time and got ignored.
That line of white topped steel posts isn't going to get ignored. Fences really do make good neighbors. At times... Probably should get another five posts while I'm at TSC. Once I measure them today and put down red pin flags, I may find I need more than five. This is only going in once I hope so I want to do it properly.

The prior owner of my place used to lay out fencing with his deer rifle and scope. He would sight down the line and a helper would put the posts in place. Not a bad idea. The far post is pretty hard to see.

These insulators work well with T-Posts and electric fence Drew.

ElectroBraid Black T-Post Insulators - For Life Out Here