Good morning!!!!

[riptides]

At least you are important enough to have a street view.

HAH!

When I first got this place, I had to go submit an edit to GoogleMaps, because it was showing my neighbors cow shed as my house. Now the two were pretty approximate in value back then, but really? Now with the tax assessments, I should have kept it that way. LOL.

And yes, I too do not show up on Street View. Which I think is OK by me.

 

[riptides]

...

I am shocked at what the albino turtles are selling for.
$4,995.00
...

For that kind of cash, I am swimming in after it. LOL

 

[rswyan]

If I were Squeak, I'd be in perpetual frustration. All those yummy fish....I can see the cat walking from one tank to the next; RS better make sure the tops are secure or Squeak will get in there like a heron fishing...with a paw.

She'll often hop up on the table that the 10G tank with the Julies sits on when I open the hood to feed them.

Gets up on her hind legs and puts her two little front paws on the edge of the opening and just watches all those lil' fishies swimmin' round and round ... is totally fascinated.

 

[ronjhall]

Ran into the Depot and exchanged the $7 bulbs that would not work with my lights for the $15 ones that I hope will. Hope to work on them this afternoon. Very windy here but nice out.

RIP, Praying for your wife and you.

Prayers for a lot more of you. Ed

I got my LED tubes at Menards. It was $59 for a box of 10. Sylvania bulbs. When I asked the floor person in the area he said I needed to rewire to make them work. Took a picture of label. Then looked them up on google. They were replacements for fluorescent tubes with no wiring changes. They have worked great all winter.
Not sure you have a Menards near you. But here is SKU 3532066

 

[LouNY]

And that's a good looking road!
The Google car probably did not want to get dusty or muddy on mine.

Jbrumberg my wife sounded like a kitten purring when she breathed - that can't be good. But we are finished with the "thing" and feeling great again after 3 weak weeks.

Yea, they paved half of it this last spring, we will have to see how well after the frost leaves this spring. I would have preferred they leave it dirt/gravel it kept some of the traffic down and some was slower.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Got him. This pic from 50 yards

Unusual, but if it was a true albino, wouldn't the neck and legs also be white?

 

[Looking4new]

I went out at 9A.M. to start plowing, did 4 driveways, stopped to talk to 3 neighbours and spent about 45 minutes on this place. There was 1/4" of ice on top of 4" of snow. I've been inside since noon and we've got another 1/2" of fresh snow. I'll probably go out again tomorrow and do it again.

July 27, 2012 google mapped my area and the lane to the house is just that. A lane but no house, nor shed. The neighbour across the street, her house doesn't show up either and she is within 100' of the road and clearly visible.

 

[PJSprog]

My old house was on a corner, the side road went to a high school, last day of school looked like a paper drop!
Where I am there痴 only 200 of frontage but I get my share of fast food and beer bottles, especially on weekends.

I lived on a corner at a busy intersection for a few years before I left Granite City. I was picking up garbage about every other day there. I never could understand why people think it's OK to do that.
We have 200' along the front at our place, too. It's not just us, though. It's everywhere. Seems like people think once they're outside of town it's perfectly fine to just chuck things out the windows.

 

[Buppies]

Really warm day here 61 but the wind was wicked 30 to 40 mph gusts. Ground is still very soft

 

[jbrumberg]

The rain stopped here early PM, but the fog has been sticking around intermittently all day even after when the sun broke out midPM. It actually made it to 40ºF for about 10 minutes. The driveway is still glaze ice; the rain did a good job smoothing the ice out. Luckily Wifey bought 5G of CaCl2 deicer during today's supply run which will address the ice near the entranceway. Tomorrow's anticipated sun + all the spread wood ashes should melt the driveway despite the temperature.

 

[daugen]

71 degrees here for a little while, with fog warnings now posted for coast and inland rivers.

Got a lot done this morning working on equipment, changed the fuel filters on my diesel tank and while it was all apart took the drain valve off and sure enough the guy who built it hadn't used any sealant at all. Cause of constant dripping. Now sealed with liquid Teflon sealer, no drips at all.

I thankfully remembered to fill a spare diesel can before I took the pump filters apart so I had some fuel to fill both filters before reinstalling. Really should keep a small amount in a can anyway. Cleaned the dirt off the DR tiller and am awaiting a replacement engine. When they said proprietary wiring harness I knew I was beat. It doesn't look too hard to replace, will start working on taking the old engine off tomorrow. I ordered another belt for it so I could replace that too and keep the original as a spare.

Then I moved equipment around in my constant board game of where to store equipment. Reminds me I have to call local rv dealer about selling my travel trailer. That will free up plenty of storage. By then I had done too much lifting and had to call it a day.

Meat loaf baking in the oven, starting to smell good.

 

[300UGUY]

Pretty crappy day here, off and on rain. Had lunch with a contractor friend, haven't seen him in months, we have known each other for 30 years. He has worked construction all his life, and says he feels every year of it. He is looking forward to retirement in a few years. Spent some time with the local pharmacist, the insurance didn't go thru. She got that worked out, then I had to go home and deal with them from my end, it seems they changed our id number, but never sent us new cards. Maybe porch pirates? New cards, new number on the way.

Farmer, when I had the flu, my doc told me to stay out of the chicken coop?

 

[300UGUY]

71 degrees here for a little while, with fog warnings now posted for coast and inland rivers.

Got a lot done this morning working on equipment, changed the fuel filters on my diesel tank and while it was all apart took the drain valve off and sure enough the guy who built it hadn't used any sealant at all. Cause of constant dripping. Now sealed with liquid Teflon sealer, no drips at all.

I thankfully remembered to fill a spare diesel can before I took the pump filters apart so I had some fuel to fill both filters before reinstalling. Really should keep a small amount in a can anyway. Cleaned the dirt off the DR tiller and am awaiting a replacement engine. When they said proprietary wiring harness I knew I was beat. It doesn't look too hard to replace, will start working on taking the old engine off tomorrow. I ordered another belt for it so I could replace that too and keep the original as a spare.

Then I moved equipment around in my constant board game of where to store equipment. Reminds me I have to call local rv dealer about selling my travel trailer. That will free up plenty of storage. By then I had done too much lifting and had to call it a day.

Meat loaf baking in the oven, starting to smell good.

With all the work you do, and you cook? Daym, I should marry you....

 

[Ed of all trades]

Ron, I tried that kind but they did not work with my ballast so the new ones cost 2 times as much and you take out the ballast. Thanks for the tip but no Menards around here that I know of.

Don, funny, the piebald deer that we saw last winter is back today. We only see it about 300, 350 yd away but it is nice to see. There have been as many as 30 deer out there this year.

Have a great evening. Ed

 

[RoyJackson]

I'm glad that's just rain for you Roy.

Unfortunately, it wasn't just rain...still a lot of ice on the highways before it started clearing up (just rain and wet) a few miles into Massachusetts. Slow drive in 4WD most of the way. The trip normally takes me about 3 hours (~180 miles) took 4 hours this morning. Hard rain in Connecticut really slowed the traffic going into Hartford.

 

[daugen]

With all the work you do, and you cook? Daym, I should marry you....

I want your Farmall H as part of my dowry!!!

Am trying to cook most of my food myself out of real ingredients, not processed food.
Too easy to eat pizza, stopped buying that over a year ago.

 

[jbrumberg]

"..... when I had the flu, my doc told me to stay out of the chicken coop?"- 300UGUY

300UGUY- Your doctor wanted to minimize your exposure to environmental auto-immune triggers to your immune system while your immune system is compromised by the flu. What I have is similar to Farmer's Lung, Brewers' Lung, Bird Fancier's lung, etc. There is a specific "Lung" that applies to chicken farmers too, but I forget. They never figured out my triggers so they now call it "Cryptogenic Pneumonitis." There were all kinds of "theories" as to what triggered me.

Histoplasmosis is a type of lung infection. It is caused by inhaling Histoplasma capsulatum fungal spores. These spores are found in soil and in the droppings of bats and birds. This fungus mainly grows in the central, southeastern, and mid-Atlantic states.


Around 5PM a UPS truck backs up our glare ice driveway, gets to the house, parks, and then slides 5' downslope. I went out to the UPS truck I do not know how I stayed upright and got the delivery.

With the degree of icing, "warm" temperatures present I had visions of my parked on ice Tundra starting to slide downslope into the Forester again. So it was slip, slide back to the Forester and moved it to of the way.

 

[txdon]

Unusual, but if it was a true albino, wouldn't the neck and legs also be white?

There goes my $5,000.00 dream.

Actually I was kind of thinking the same thing after I was able to see a dark head in the pic. All I could only see before the zoomed pic was his white shell.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

There goes my $5,000.00 dream.

How 'bout turtle soup as a consolation prize?

If it's a snapper, aren't they kinda hard on the other inhabitants of the pond (or do you call 'em "tanks")?

 

[jbrumberg]

That could have been dried clay on the shell. Nice picture. Turtles do not like getting photographed. My camera is never ready when I kayak and drift upon the resident fauna.