Good morning!!!!

toppop52 · Nov 16, 2018

ronjhall said:
Randy, I have the 20' 4 section flagpole. Largest diameter is 2.5". 3'X5' flag. From what I can tell 25' pole has one smaller diameter at top.

That is correct, but 25 is too much, works better at 20.

toppop52 · Nov 16, 2018

Rained all night until about 4, wind gusted over 30 until noon or so. Got to 39 this morning, 52 today and 33 at 9:45 pm tonight.
RNG, I’m so glad you didn’t lose yorhome!

Buppies, hope the power is on, it’s a pain, even with a generator.

Didn’t do a lot today, did visit my mom and she was having a good day.

Have a great weekend everyone, God bless.

toppop52 · Nov 16, 2018

With Thanksgiving and Christmas coming up, we have a chance to be selfish and create big smiles for ourselves by helping some folks, that for whatever reason, can’t help themselves. If it’s dropping off a turkey or a bag of potatoes at the shelter, or making sure some kid that thinks Christmas is just for other kids, finds out Santa loves him too, or slipping $5 to a homeless guy that might buy a burger, or might by a bottle of wine. Either way, if do what we feel is right, what others do is out of our control.
We get the feel good and someone gets helped. We are all so fortunate while many are not. :thumbsup:

mostly_gas · Nov 16, 2018

Goos evening all. 43F for the start, clear, calm wind. Sky stayed clear. wond stayed light, high temp was 73F. Worked on removing rotting timber landscape wall, was more of a chore than we thought, several pieces were not as rotten, and held onto the rebar rather tightly. Subdivision has dumpsters this weekend for such projects, all gone now. 6 pieces of rebar left to remove, have jack to help. Tomorrow is Denton Turkey Roll ride, probably won't be far from Bird.
Farmer, that is some genny!
Hope those w/o power get it back soon.
PJ that was a scary conversation, like dingbat was not listening to boss!!
Kyle thanks for update on the deputy.
Paul Welcome to the thread.
Weather in Missouri was volatile as well PJ can confirm.
Prayers for all.

txdon · Nov 16, 2018

Evening bits and pieces and random thoughts:

Iphone mystery.
When the garage door opener is used a song starts playing on my wife's iPhone. Any ideas how to stop the music? Has this happened to anyone else?

Kyle, Deputy Lehman from LaGrange was on the 5:00 Austin FOX news. His face looks peppered from the ******* blast but he seemed in good spirits. He says he wants to get back to work. He was in very good spirits. He is still back and blue around his seeing eye. I hope his vision is not too impaired, he seems like a nice guy.

Eric, on The Great British Baking Show they always call cookies biscuits. Do you have anything called cookies over there?

sodamo · Nov 16, 2018

We have any electrical experts?

Waveform of my primary generator not looking good.

Load vs no load, no difference.
Changed out the AVR, no change

Should look closer to this

sodamo · Nov 16, 2018

Bird said:
I'm sure everyone has heard the old saying, "If you don't like the weather in Texas, wait a few minutes, it'll change." After a low of 21 degrees 2 days ago, this morning the low is 40 going for a sunny high of 71.

RNG, always glad to hear good news.

Here we say Drive 5 minutes. Quite often don’t have to go that far.

lostcreekranch · Nov 16, 2018

toppop52 said:
With Thanksgiving and Christmas coming up, we have a chance to be selfish and create big smiles for ourselves by helping some folks, that for whatever reason, can’t help themselves. If it’s dropping off a turkey or a bag of potatoes at the shelter, or making sure some kid that thinks Christmas is just for other kids, finds out Santa loves him too, or slipping $5 to a homeless guy that might buy a burger, or might by a bottle of wine. Either way, if do what we feel is right, what others do is out of our control.
We get the feel good and someone gets helped. We are all so fortunate while many are not. :thumbsup:

Nice thoughts Randy. Thanks for sharing.

sodamo · Nov 17, 2018

I have the Sunsetter telescoping flagpole, my 2nd. 20 ft but I can’t fly that high, usually 1 section lower due to wind. We go through 3-4 flags per year, the 4x6 embroidered nylon ones. They usually fray starting from the top stripe. Sometimes they fray yet don’t separate, so they almost look whole from a distance.