Good morning!!!!

Looking4new · Dec 11, 2017

My day usually starts about 5AM and by 11 I have run 2 quarts through me, after that it is only water for the rest of the day.

sodamo · Dec 11, 2017

daugen said:
50 degrees, got all my todo's done by noon. Nice day to be out in the sunshine. Got the little Massey three point hitch put back together properly, remounted the carryall and then took a ride across the fields to my neighbor who asked to borrow my impact gun. I will only lend him my old corded one which I dropped off.

So David...a play date for dogs is to socialize them? In case they normally don't interact enough?
Or is this only for puppies, which would qualify.
Sounds like a great idea. I bet the owners were whupped by the time you left also.

More for benefit of the host pup, Zelda, who is an only child. She had to drop out of puppy training due to car sickness. She is a month younger than Kekoa.

Owners did well, a couple of beers, snacks and socialize. Mark shared his shelving project in his workshop, a really nice metal clad structure he designed and built. Tall enough that the new shelving is what he calls mezzanine level. You can still stand even though floor is 8 ft up.

Buppies · Dec 11, 2017

Happy Birthday to Mrs Ron and many more as well. Almost 59 degrees almost balmy

RedNeckGeek · Dec 11, 2017

ronjhall said:
RNG, what kind of GPS do you have? I have 2 that I have no use for. Garmin 2620 and 2820.

I used to have a Garmin 26XX something or other, and sold it on eBay quite a few years ago. This one is a Zumo 550 with satellite receiver. Much less configurable than the last one, but being able to listen to XM radio and get real time traffic alerts is nice. Garmin no longer supports it, either with repairs or technical questions, but there's a large user community with writeups for the common stuff (like these flakey buttons), and parts are still available on eBay. It kinda frosts my cake that Garmin would abandon this unit after only nine years, and I'll be darned if I'm gonna give 'em another k-buck to get the same functionality in today's gadget, which the reviews say can't be read in direct sunlight.

toppop52 · Dec 11, 2017

I’ve got a couple old Garman units, one newer than the other. It has lifetime updates that I bought, so if they stop supporting it I’m looking for a refund. Of course I might never know since most of our vehicles have had factory nav for several years.

sodamo · Dec 11, 2017

12 jamb mortises done

But, upon reflection, I wish I had built my own template as I think it actually would have been quicker. I can see where the Rockwell would be excellent for new work, but was more tedious matching old work. Old butt plates are a tight fit, sure hope they line up well with their other halves mounted on the doors without major adjustment.

RedNeckGeek · Dec 11, 2017

toppop52 said:
I’ve got a couple old Garman units, one newer than the other. It has lifetime updates that I bought, so if they stop supporting it I’m looking for a refund. Of course I might never know since most of our vehicles have had factory nav for several years.

So far, the Lifetime Maps updates have been working, but for a long time now the entire US mapset hasn't fit in the Zumo's memory. I've taken to loading it onto a flash card, but have to be very careful not to load any maps to the internal memory. When that happens, the Zumo can't figure out which one to use and freezes, requiring a battery removal to fix. If you read the fine print on those map updates, they're for "useable lifetime" and I guess that means whatever Garmin wants it to mean. The company I love to hate...

farmer2009 · Dec 11, 2017

56 today. Still 50. 30 by daybreak.

Buckeye good to hear you and Buppies are doing better. Keep going.

Happy birthday to all I’ve missed.

Spent day with wife today. She had a biopsy done on a mole between her shoulder blades. It came back as pre-cancerous so she had it cut out today. For the next month or so I get to call her Grand Canyon. Hey, if I have to wash and pack it, she’ll listen too it. Doctor just cut an inch circle around it and about 3/8” deep. Much deeper than I was expecting. Hopefully they get clean margins and no recutting. No stitches and no restrictions.

Then we knocked out a bunch of Christmas shopping. As I was with her and she didn’t have to lift. Got my birthday present early. Just 5 days. A drywall panel lift. I need something to put the ceiling in new building this winter and being by myself I figured it was the only way it would get done.

The oldest boys communication device came this weekend. Speech therapist is setting it up.

Chickens are doing good. Feeding hay to cows. Only flurries out of that last system. Buppies are we going to stay this dry?

farmer2009 · Dec 11, 2017

Instant pot owners.

Any tips or advice for buying one. Wife is wanting one for Christmas. Size? Location? Pricing?

I know it’s been answered and I should have paid attention.