Good morning!!!!

[RedNeckGeek]

Spontaneous fires have to have an oxidizer and a heat buildup. Examples would be a green hay bale or linseed oil soaked rags in an uncovered container.

Last summer it got so hot here one of the compost piles at the local worm farm spontaneously combusted. It was a HUGE pile, and since there wasn't anything combustable near it, the local fire department just let it burn. Took a week for it to go out. Wheeeeeeew, had to hold your breath for a minute when you went by it on the freeway...

 

[RedNeckGeek]

I almost convinced the diabetes specialists treating me that my body was set up for ethanol. :wink:

The internist I ended up with when I moved here is a Scotsman. We spent more than half our time that first physical talking about Scotch, and the best places in town to find it...:thumbsup::laughing:

 

[buckeyefarmer]

One last thing, thought you all might get a kick,


Senior Greeter

You just have to appreciate this one. Young people forget that we old people had a career before we retired.....

Charley, a new retiree-greeter at WalMart, just couldn't seem to get to work on time. Every day, he was 5, 10, 15 minutes late. But he was a good worker, really tidy, clean-shaven, sharp-minded and a real credit to the company and obviously demonstrating their "Older Person Friendly" policies.

One day the boss called him into the office for a talk. "Charley, I have to tell you, I like your work ethic, you do a bang-up job when you finally get here; but your being late so often is quite bothersome."

"Yes, I know boss and I am sorry and am working on it."

"Well good, you are a team player. That's what I like to hear.”

“Yes sir, I understand your concern and I will try harder.”

Seeming puzzled, the manager went on to comment, “I know you're retired from the Armed Forces. What did they say to you there if you showed up in the morning late so often?"

The old man looked down at the floor, then smiled. He chuckled quietly, then said with a grin…….

"They usually saluted and said, 'Good morning, Admiral, can I get your coffee, sir

Good one, i have a good friend down in dublin va, retired Army Col, who is working in a hardware store, just for fun... He tinkers around, rebuilds and repairs small engines, and some woodworking.

 

[txdon]

What part of the second paragraph was missing here? Every fire in the world has to have those.

You are right , I'm sorry, I should have added that when referring to the cause and origin of a fire, spontaneous combustion means it starts from an organic source and has an self-heating or increase in temperature due to exothermic internal reactions.

You did not say spontaneous combustion, just spontaneous, but I jumped on the definition of spontaneous combustion. But we still do not know the exact cause of the fire if accumulated oil from past cooks is ruled out. It's odd that oil has to be looked at in an appliance that is advertised as oil free cooking.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Big difference when the lake is full vs. low.

In the fall of '14 and again in the fall of '15, the level of Lake Oroville dropped below 650'. The top of the reservoir is 900'. Even when the lake is full, that bridge is still a long way above the water.

CDEC - Data Application

Interesting plot of lake level vs. time. The operators of the Oroville Dam shouldn't have been surprised at what happened last spring. The same thing almost happened the year before, but that one last storm didn't materialize. If it had, the spillway would have given way a year earlier.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Today on the calendar, one month ago, I was at this time, fearful and dreading the hours as my best friend underwent surgery. In just one months time I can see the immense progress she has made. Prayers, love and a positive attitude are powerful influences in her continued recovery.

It's great you can step back and get some perspective on the situation, Rip, and can appreciate the progress that's been made. Hopefully, in another month, things'll be even better!

 

[300UGUY]

Finally caught myself up here. Lots of posts in the last week! We are doing well, going to a funeral this afternoon for a friend. 67, cancer got him. He did smoke for a long time, but a lot of us old factory rats seem to get cancer. Been inside a lot, cleaning house, organizing stuff. We have lived here 30 years, you can accumulate a lot of “stuff”. ��. After doing the kitchen, including about 100 coffee mugs, we have decided that we will not renew our Costco membership. Just the 2 of us, we don’t need large quantities of anything.

Suicide. I had a good friend of mine do that when I was young. Never expected it, the guy had a lot going for him. He went into the woods with a 12 gauge, left a note for his family, where to find him. Never did understand it.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

LOL, very good advice!

A question for ya'll.

I was going to buy a couple new fuel cans just for diesel/tractor, though I only live about 1.5 miles from a fuel station. Would you bother with the cans or just drive the tractor down and fill it up when needed? I suspect I'll grab a can to have some fuel on hand for back in the woods, but seems silly to drive the truck with a can down to the station when it is the same as taking the tractor and not messing around with more cans.

Do you have a truck that runs on Diesel? If so, Harbor Freight makes a pretty good 12V transfer pump that makes refueling the tractor from the truck pretty easy. I think driving a mile and a half down the road and back to get fuel would get old, but not as quickly as the six miles it would take me to get to fuel here.:laughing: I keep one five gallon fuel can here just in case I screw up and run the tractor out, and to have something to help start the campfire. Diesel isn't as volatile as gasoline, and lasts a lot longer in the can. Even so, I try to change it out several times a year.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

If the tractor talks to me and says paint me, well, I will. But I don't think so. The old look with good insides is just fine.

We should start a pool on how long it'll be before Drew repaints that tractor. I'll give him two weeks from when the weather's dry and warm enough for the job.:laughing:

If, in the meantime, Drew, you decide to spruce up the old paint with some 303 or Wipe New, it'll play heck with any new paint you might try to apply later unless you can get it all off. And I mean really off, as in scrubbing hard with a strong solution of Dawn dish soap, sanding it all with 800 wet'n'dry, and scrubbing it again with the Dawn.

 

[jbrumberg]

Eric- The last time used my my Browning 12G BPS pump shotgun was to retrieve a "wayward' "drone" from the pine tree that grabbed it. It took two deer slugs. The first shot blew the top of the tree off, but the tree's recoil did not release the "drone". I trisected that poor tree with the shot below the branch holding the drone. That section of the tree dropped to earth, but the "Drone" was unharmed.

I am embarrassed to report that the cost of those two rounds exceeded the cost of that little drone.

Rip I too truly hope that in time you and your wife will be able to put this part of your lives together far behind and focus +ly together on the future.

RNG- My PCP and I talk beer talk.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

"They usually saluted and said, 'Good morning, Admiral, can I get your coffee, sir

:laughing::laughing::laughing::laughing::laughing: Thanks, Top!

 

[buckeyefarmer]

The last Windows 10 update sure messed the computer up.

 

[ronjhall]

You are right , I'm sorry, I should have added that when referring to the cause and origin of a fire, spontaneous combustion means it starts from an organic source and has an self-heating or increase in temperature due to exothermic internal reactions.

You did not say spontaneous combustion, just spontaneous, but I jumped on the definition of spontaneous combustion. But we still do not know the exact cause of the fire if accumulated oil from past cooks is ruled out. It's odd that oil has to be looked at in an appliance that is advertised as oil free cooking.

Old Arson Inspector!

 

[rswyan]

37F and partly cloudy @ 11:00, high today supposed to hit 41F.

Looks like a couple day dip in temps after this 4 day warm up and then back into the mid to high 40's for daily high temps.

Another trip to The Depot yesterday ... this time to get some drywall mud and an old work electrical box that I forgot the first time.

After I got back last evening The Woman informs me that the handle/knob for the door that I picked up is too big around and she will have trouble gripping and turning it with her arthritis so it will have to go back.

Got hinges installed on closet door, door hung, and the room side mudded up with the first coat. That will likely still be too wet today for a second coat but I can get the first coat up on the closet side of the door. Then probably sanding the lumber for the tank racks.

 

[CWB Wyo]

What a difference a day makes.We got the storm they said we would get. I looked out side and we have 12-14 inches of new snow. And still have a winter storm warning tell 5 am tomorrow and it says we could still get 10 more inches of snow. It looks like the light fluffy kind.

I'll get out there later to day and start moving it around. I was starting to think that I wasn't going to be using the blower this year.

Kyle_ I would think about it, but who would help the neighbors up here?

Glad to hear that most everyone is starting to feel and do better health wise.

Everyone enjoy the weekend.
CWB

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 41F @ 8:00AM. Plentiful sunshine. High 53F. Winds NW at 5 to 10 mph.

Looks like it's gonna be a nice day, nice enough to BBQ some ribs. I like the KC Masterpiece, and the Sweet Baby James, both hickory style. Been buying the SBJ lately, though, 'cause it comes in 64 oz. jugs that seem less expensive than the smaller bottles. The local big box grocery, WinCo, carries it.

I think I've had okra a time or two, and to me it didn't have much flavor. And after all the slime talk, I think I'll leave that one to you okra experts out there.:laughing:

Uneventful trip to town yesterday, even at the mechanic's. No transmission yet, seems he's finding more parts he didn't order yet. I told him I wanted to use it for a camping trip on Super Bowl weekend, but he didn't seem to sure it would be done even then.:shocked:

Went to Costco to get one of their rotisserie chickens. Went to the shelf where they keep them and it was empty. Picked up some cherry tomatoes to finish my shopping, and still no chickens on the shelf. They had a whole bank of 'em that looked done, but there wasn't anybody there to unhook 'em. Remembered I needed TurboTax, so I went up to the front of the store to the TurboTax shelf and got one. They just put out the empty sleeves, and you have to wait at the checkout stand for someone to run and get the rest of it. I guess that's to make sure you pay for it. Got back to the chicken shelf and still no chickens. So I wandered around and found a big box of organic raisins and put that in my cart. Got back to the chicken shelf and still no chickens. Just down the isle was a big display of boneless pork chops, so one of those packages jumped into my cart when I wasn't lookin'. Got back to the chicken shelf and still no chickens. Turned around and there was one of those nice little old ladies givin' out free samples, and somehow a twelve pack of smoked hot links found its way into my cart. Got back to the chicken shelf and still no chickens. By now there was a line of people and their carts in front of the chicken shelf. Circled back around through the cheese isle, and some French gouda looked good, as did a big box of crumbled Feta. Got back to the chicken shelf and still no chickens. The beer isle was just around the corner and I hadn't been over there yet, and they had a case of Guinness that needed to go home with me. Got back to the chicken shelf there was a guy messin' with the door on one of the chicken cookers. And he had a buddy that was fillin' up a table with those tubs the chicken comes in. By now there were even more people lined up for chickens, and some of 'em were lookin' kinda desperate. I pushed my cart up the isle aways and then turned it around so's I'd have some protection in case there was a riot. The first guy got some big rubber gloves on and started taking the spits out of the rotisserie machine, plopping chickens into the tubs as fast as he could. His buddy was followin' along behind slapping lids on 'em and sliding 'em onto the chicken shelf, and people was elbowing each other and bangin' carts to get up there and grab 'em faster'n he was puttin' 'em out. I took another couple steps back so I wouldn't get trampled. After a few minutes the line wore down and I was finally able to get close enough to snag my chicken and make my get away. While I was standin' in line to pay for my chicken I thought maybe Costco had come up with a new strategy to increase sales by makin' people wait for those chickens to cook. I went in there to get a five dollar chicken and ended up bringin' home a hundred and forty five bux worth of other stuff I didn't even know I needed.:shocked: Maybe I should buy a big slug of that Costco stock. I figure any company that can increase their sales thirty times in as many minutes by timing how they cook chickens is gonna be worth a fortune not too far off into the future. Who knows, maybe if I buy enough stock, I can afford to keep shopping at Costco!:laughing:

Hope everyone enjoys the heck out'a their weekend!

 

[lostcreekranch]

It started getting foggy here about 9 p.m. yesterday. By about 8:30 a.m. this morning fog was clearing, now fogging in again? What the ......

 

[jbrumberg]

RNG- Based on my experiences at Costco and BJ's I believe you to be correct. Last time I was in BJ's I was the only patron at the counter and no one behind the counter would acknowledge my existence until I took a numbered slip.

Rick- If you have snow cover right now that is normal. The snowpack here causes a lot of fog this time of year.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Wife bought a precooked chicken at safeway, $5.

 

[lostcreekranch]

RNG- Based on my experiences at Costco and BJ's I believe you to be correct. Last time I was in BJ's I was the only patron at the counter and no one behind the counter would acknowledge my existence until I took a numbered slip.

Rick- If you have snow cover right now that is normal. The snowpack here causes a lot of fog this time of year.

Nope, we’re in south central Texas, no snow here, just fog.