Good morning!!!!

[sodamo]

and for something on the opposite end of the scale of appetizing, here is the front "walkway" of my farmer neighbor.
He lives in the singlewide about forty feet ahead, and sadly, in front of the nose of the wrecker and in the not so far distance is the end to my home.
Not only has the nut orchard gone in between us now, but I have 25 hybrid willows coming in shortly to make a screen to totally block this view from either of
my porches. Approx 50 feral cats roam around these weeds, thankfully none come my way. No wonder there are no mice in the neighborhood.
He throws a bag of cat kibble all over the ground under the shed, and one has to walk through it to get to his home. Sigh.

My next door neighbor, the fireman, said only two things would cure this. Time and a D8.

Yuck!!!!!

 

[sodamo]

Pretty productive day. Tackled the last part of my solar upgrade - relocate the combiner boxes from on the roof to under it. So right now all my panels are disconnected. Cleaned up and partially painted the rusted areas of the combiner. Tomorrow I will determine the proper layout and reinstall. I left the new PV cables long enough for this relocation, but will have to extend the cables of the 8 strings of the old panels, not sure how I will do that yet, a couple of options. Should be exciting.
I was able to fully charge my batteries before disconnecting the charge controllers. Will be interesting if I can get enough reinstalled tomorrow to avoid having to use the generator. I planned to use the generator 1 or 2 days as a stop gap, but an interesting challenge to see if I can avoid completely.

 

[RoyJackson]

2017-03-13, 0310

9 degrees right now...about 27 as the high today...

 

[Eric Salop]

Good morning. Clear skies all last night, with the full moon almost outshining the lights of the temporary railroad construction compound. The workers there did a really good job in keeping the nighttime noise down to a minimum over the weekend.

After debating the merits of having a slightly long drawbar for over two years now, I finally plucked up the courage to remove a couple of inches of it yesterday. That may turn out to be foolish, but at least is wasn't impetuous.

It is just on freezing here this morning, with glorious sunshine and not even the most pessimistic forecast quoting more than 0% chance of anything wet falling from the sky. Good luck to all of you getting a visit from Stella.

Drew, Kyle. :licking: Your food descriptions and pics are making me hungry, maybe I will skip bran flakes today and see if anything tasty is left in the fridge for breakfast.

 

[riptides]

About 25 out this AM. Nice full moon over the pastures. Looks like the storm is approaching so today is diesel, gas and generator day.

Hope all have a good day, and fair well with this nor easter that is upon us.

 

[daugen]

the moon last night really was marvelous to see, huge and "right up there"....

rain starting this afternoon and continuing into tomorrow. Warmer but only for a day, then the bottom drops out, and I'm afraid my orchard blossoms will be dropping too...24 and 25 degree lows Wed and Thurs morning.

Minor milestone day for me, 67th birthday. But one is only as old as one feels and you might imagine some days how old I feel... Frankly I'm happy I made it this far. Every day is an adventure, every day is an opportunity for kindness, and life is good.

The pie was yummy...not goopy, the two teaspoons of tapioca seemed to firm things up inside. I can taste the nutmeg a little too much, but otherwise this pie did fine. And since pie only lasts at best two days, well guess what I'm having with my coffee this morning? Too bad pie is so fattening, but at least with sour cherries, lots of vitamin C and good antioxidants. The sour cherry juice I poured off is supposed to be super healthy, puckery but good without any sugar added.

 

[Thomas]

4F winds are calm for now might reach 30F today.

I am sure there will be some wanting to push panic button at work today because of coming nasty storm.
After work hitch plow to pickup diesel tractor...snow mold again.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[Buppies]

28 high of 42 increasing clouds storm on the way may be a lot of ice and that's not good

Happy Birthday Drew!

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Drew, Happy Birthday! I love to hear your tales of random acts of kindness....(and that pie still looks good). If I lived nearer, I'd bring over some ice cream.

Have a blessed day All!

 

[wngsprd]

25 going to 45. Snow, sleet, and rain today.

Very happy Birthday Drew! Well deserved delicious looking pie.

Would be hard to choose between the pie and the flambe.