Good morning!!!!

[wngsprd]

27 going to 56.

Had a nice weather day yesterday except in the morning the wind was so strong that we lost power for an hour due to a tree. Got a little painting done outside.

Regarding shotguns, when I was younger I hunted with a borrowed side-by-side quite a bit. Always wanted an O/U but never pulled the trigger on buying one. The weather vane is a side-by-side, and got quite a workout from the strong winds we had Sunday and early yesterday.

Don't forget it's Valentines today.

 

[Thomas]

18F now might touch 32F...might.
Looks like old man winter will be arriving tomorrow...again.

Back to work after yesterday snow detail or should I say rest.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[Buppies]

35 high of 57 later not near as breezy today chance of rain tonight

 

[buckeyefarmer]

22° and less wind today.

 

[daugen]

31 going to 66 today, helper coming at noon, we are going to pick up sticks and then start powerwashing all the plastic fence posts. Many days of work there. Bought four gallons of no name bleach, going to dilute the bleach with half gallon to two gallons of water, should be strong but not kill the grass or shrubs. I did it without bleach last year and the mold came back remarkably quickly. Now we do it the old fashioned way.

Eric those multibarrel guns are really interesting. I wonder if they could make one with a 10 gauge shotgun and matching .50 BMG barrels. Pull all three of those triggers and one would land on the moon....
Walk in with one of those and you would have bragging rights. Definitely a gun for Arnie...go on his gun rack on the Humvee with the twin 50's up top. Talk about the utter opposite of the British gentleman going off to grouse hunt...
or Wingsprd!

 

[riptides]

25 out this AM. The winds stopped last night around 7. I spent the better part of yesterday on roofs repairing (pounding nails down) trying to secure the old metal. Both buildings will have to be replaced one day soon. Sigh....

Other than that, have a great day all. Be safe!

 

[Looking4new]

Good Morning people!
Temp is 16 and going to a high of 34 with 'periods of snow'.
I wouldn't go out and scrape the snow every day that it snows if it wasn't for the disabled people I look after and the Township snow plow goes by.

 

[bakerg]

 

[daugen]

Once again, Gary is the best

that lady should smile a little more... a little more come hither...
She looks like a Trump...

 

[daugen]

I wouldn't go out and scrape the snow every day that it snows if it wasn't for the disabled people I look after and the Township snow plow goes by.

You are a good man Charley Brown. Caring for those who can't care for themselves is a really good deed.
First you make it nice, then the plow comes and now you have a huge wall of icy crust balls to clean up again.
At my last home, I often did six driveways with my Gravely rider and snow blower. I did it as a kid to earn money, now I
did it just for fun. I learned to clean up a spot in front of the driveway so hopefully the guy would veer out.
But usually straight on through, my neighbor's snow now deposited in my driveway. Again.

Too bad they can't design a plow/snow combine that eats the snow, turns it to water and then hauls the water away to a sewer drain.
With the plow blade facing the middle of the road for sure.

 

[ronjhall]

Drinking first cup of coffee. 61° with partly cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 73° with partly cloudy skies. Yesterday I decided to work on a air leak in the air compressor air lines on the motor home. By the time I gave up compressor would not get over 70 psi. When it should get to 140 psi. Gave up and ordered all new push to connect fittings. Apparently these fittings do not like to be taken apart more than one time. Need to rest from yesterday's crawling under motor home.
Gary, good Valentine photo.
Good Morning All.

 

[PJSprog]

39°F and partly cloudy this morning, going up to 57° today. No precipitation in the forecast until next Tuesday.

We have a consultant coming in for a visit today here at work. Probably going to tie up my whole day with meetings. Gosh, how I love meetings. :yuck:

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning! 43F @ 7:15AM. Sunny. High 62F. Winds SE at 5 to 10 mph.

Cute puppie, David!

Drew, I think Savage still makes a 20 ga. .22LR over and over combination. Never understood why they didn't also make it in 12 ga. .22 LR, two of the most common cartridges ever.

Garry, that lass in the bathing suit seems to be scowling, asking "WTF are you lookin' at?". Funny, you'd think she'd know had she bothered to look at herself in a mirror.:laughing:

[FONT=&quot]Evacuation orders stayed in place for the low lying areas down gradient of Oroville Dam yesterday and last night. That had to be a very tough call for the sheriff, but after looking at the photos taken near the base of the emergency spillway weir, it was a good call. Some of those photos show that the bedrock supporting the weir was being eroded by the flow, and if it had continued the weir would have failed. That's where the "30' wall of water" expression came from yesterday, not from failure of the dam itself which would have been orders of magnitude larger. I don't believe that the reservoir water level will be brought down by the 50' officials would like before rains start here tomorrow night, in fact I think they'll be lucky to get half that. And the sixty-four dollar question is if that is enough to absorb the coming rainfall, which is now forecast to last the better part of a week. There's a lot of work being put into shoring up the auxiliary spillway weir with boulders and concrete, and that effort will be well made if they lose control of flows again. And that's the really scary part. If it had taken much longer for them to drop the water back down behind the weir last Sunday, the erosion would have progressed to the point of letting loose that 30' wall of water. They could have increased flow through the damaged main spillway, but the Feather River system below the dam is already running pretty close to capacity and that would have resulted in a lot of flooding. Some of the discussions at the Metabunk site (Oroville Dam Spillway Failure | Metabunk) have produced the operating regulations for the dam, and it seems clear they have been violated by the operators letting too much water accumulate behind the dam and compromising its ability to attenuate flows from additional storms. Now they can't let the water out fast enough to avoid more overtopping of the auxiliary spillway, and they're pretty much powerless to do anything about it.
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[FONT=&quot]What's more, dams north of Oroville that also empty into the Sacramento River are at similarly high levels, and the Sacramento River is also very close to flooding. If Mother Nature throws a major storm at Northern California before the operators can get the reservoir levels down, we could see an evacuation of Sacramento that would make the one in Oroville look like a day in the park.
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Finally got around to mounting that set of tires, then took the bike for a short ride up canyon to make sure everything is OK. Swapped out the brake rotors on the front as well; the old ones were thumping and worn out. Everything was fine, but I didn't get far as the road up through the canyon has been closed due to flooding. And the man at the barrier told me that even with the water going down, it's going to be a while before it reopens. It seems that the high water has undercut the highway along much of its length, and repairs are competing against the work at the dam for resources. The bike was still filthy after the return trip from San Diego last month, so it got a bath once I got home. Our club's annual campout at Death Valley is this coming weekend, and while I'd like to go, forecasts now call for two days of rain during the event and soggy tents aren't my idea of a good time. And the road closures south of the dam and east of here will mean another hour of detours to get where I'm going. So while I'm ready I'm still very much on the fence as to whether or not I'll make the effort.

 

[sodamo]

Happy Valentines Day
64°F and no rain since midnight

Busy day ahead.
New Aquion batteries scheduled for install today. A little sooner than expected and before I finished my PV upgrade but that's OK.
Semiannual dental visit this afternoon.

Be safe
Have a great day

 

[300UGUY]

73 and absolutely beautiful here in Englewood Florida!

45 at home.....

Be safe!

 

[daugen]

Lot of exercise today, worked with a helper on bleaching and then powerwashing the white horse fencing, bleach definitely makes it go faster.
Lot of lugging and dragging hose lines long distances. My helper is a fireman and I was one so not like dragging hose lines was out of the ordinary, we both chuckled about it.
Then I dug all the holes in the new nut orchard, dug two holes in the fruit orchard for two sweet cherry trees on the way, and then dug another dozen holes along the perimeter for other evergreens coming in.

Mr Willis of Willis Orchard Company called himself this time...apologized for their complete screwup and said they were starting all over with my shipment and were sending it out today. Good. Despite my having to go to the end of the lane tomorrow to ship out the wrong pallet, and back out maybe Thursday or Friday to get the incoming trees. Tomorrow might get a bit interesting here...my Woodmaxx 8800 chipper is due in by tractor trailer, and with just my luck, both these guys will show up at the same time on this country road outside my lane. And it is supposed to rain here tomorrow on top of it. Glad the tractor has a cab...sitting out at the end of the lane waiting for the semi to show up. They sure can't miss my orange tractor.

I have always found professional truck drivers to be both nice and competent. Maybe not 100% out on the road...but the delivery part always goes very smoothly. I always give them twenty bucks for lunch plus and they are always appreciative. They must know I'm from the North, no one else tips here. At a restaurant yes, but nothing else. If someone goes out of their way to make my life easier, I try to say thank you. If they don't, my hand stays in my pocket. Lots of different opinions on this, no right or wrong.

I'm excited about getting my three point chipper. Hydrostatic infeed, it just sucks it in, hopefully without me attached...
My burn pile is almost full of ash, need a different method of getting rid of pine junk, and I haven't even started the long trail back to the pond.
I have to build a bridge over the six foot deep culvert first, but ultimately I want this chipper to help clear that path and not leave all the cut limbs
in the woods. Want the path to the pond to be attractive and we will wind around existing nice trees. Maybe next Spring.

 

[farmer2009]

Only made it to 45 today. Some light rain this morning.

In the process of decrusting chicken coops. Taxes are done need to go pick them up. That check is never fun. May let wife write it. She about had heart failure when I told her what it had to be.

 

[toppop52]

Hey guys, hope everyone is ok, I got sick Sunday and went downhill big time Monday. Went to the emergency room and that doctor sent home with cough syrup. I got so bad last night I called my doctors on call guy, he prescribed antibiotics for me. I've had a few moments that I didn't feel like a doormat. Bronchitis that got out of hand before presenting many symptoms. Dry heaves, felt like a bad hangover.
Weather here has been cool, tomorrow is going to be warmer. That's all the energy I have for now.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 41 F and rain this morning, 1.6 in in gauge this morning. Hail at the beginning of the rain, mostly small size from photos I've seen. Temps flat, overcast stayed put, and some more showers today. Worked on project to hook a usb endoscope to a tablet. Also play with fire in the insert today.

 

[RoyJackson]

2017-02-15, 0309

25 right now....mid to upper 30's will be the high. The forecast is calling for 3-5 inches on snow today...