Good morning!!!!

   / Good morning!!!! #85,481  
Much better this morning, a little grumbling but not too bad. Like the old cannibal use to say, Must have been somebody I ate! LOL
A bit tired but going to try the E City run, Joyce is meeting us for lunch. Randy, Ron, Ed and all the rest, prayers for my friends.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #85,482  
Good morning! 48˚ light rain, the heavy rain is further South with Kyle and Rick.
The refurbishing of my Dad's 4' Christmas star went well, replacing the little white lights with a 40' LED rope light. It now uses 22 watts and lights up the entire yard and driveway.

Happy Birthday Ed's Boy.

Randy what did you eat that was bad yesterday! Don't do that again.

I tested a new recipe yesterday with all my green tomatoes. The plant got killed by the frost a week ago. I grill them and made a salsa it turned out really good.

OK everbody - SLOW DOWN. Being in a hurry, taking short cuts, is causing all these accidents.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #85,483  
Good Morning!!!! 46F @ 5:15AM. Partly cloudy. High 53F. Winds ESE at 5 to 10 mph.

Winter seems to bring out the worst in us, health wise at least. I'm looking forward to better days for all of us, and soon!

Got a good seven hours of sleep last night, now the cough's back. Time for more decongestant...

UPS delivered the first package in almost a month yesterday. One step closer to normalcy. For some reason the Post Office is still holding off; I called yesterday and was told deliveries will resume once the current Evacuation Warning for my zone is dropped. That decision belongs to our overly conservative Sheriff, and it could be next summer before the danger of flash flooding in the burn areas passes. Until then, I get to stand in line once a week at the Oroville post office to pick up my mail. Yesterday the line took almost a half hour to get through, and it's a half hour drive each way. Nothing like having something you once took for granted taken away to make you appreciate it all the more!

The silver lining in that post office trip is I was able to take the van and see if the speedo fix worked. It did not, and the seller of the pulse frequency module seems to think I've installed it correctly.:confused2: At least the coolant level sensor didn't throw its error code, so the new relay seems to have cured the problem. At least there's some progress.:dance1:

I had the truck parked in the driveway the past few days, and when I moved it there was a fairly large oil stain left behind. I've been smelling transmission fluid for the past few weeks, but with nowhere to work on it, haven't done anything about it. Today's the day.

I also had a chance to look at the gate opener yesterday. Turns out the fire melted the top of the plastic battery box, fusing the lid to the battery and ruining it. It's such a tight fit there's nothing to grab to pull it out, and with the top gone the plates and acid are exposed. The bottom of the box is surrounded by about six inches of concrete, and a heavy chain runs under that and around a long bar that also buried in concrete. I had the chain wrapped over the top and secured with a lock to prevent the battery from sprouting legs and walking off. Of course I couldn't find the key to the lock, and ended up opening it with a pair of bolt cutters. Ever wonder why those Harbor Freight locks are so cheap? Those bolt cutters went through the hasp like a hot knife through butter. :shocked: I have a feeling I'll end up just throwing more dirt over the whole mess rather than trying to dig it up. I also need to line up a new battery and box, but the new box won't be plastic. I'll probably end up making up a steel box so if there's a next time, the battery has a better chance at survival.:eek:

TGIF folks!:drink:
 
   / Good morning!!!! #85,484  
Remember Pearl Harbor.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #85,486  
daugen
spent a fun two hours retilling the fields,
...........................
Seems each year your rows are getting longer and wider. ;)
 
   / Good morning!!!! #85,488  
Good Morning Everyone!!!

Ted- I hope your knee is mending.

Ed- I hope your arm/shoulder keeps on mending; take care. I wish your boy a happy birthday. I hope the day goes well for all.

David- Thanks for sharing your project.

Randy- Thank you for the “visuals”:eek: I am happy to read that your GI system is calming down.

Roy- Those frontal passage squalls were pretty decent. I got .25” this AM. Driving through snow squalls is not fun. You seem to do it with regularity.

Billy- I hope that you do not rejoin the “walking wounded” working that wood. Take care.

Ron- I am happy to read about your reprieve.

RNG- I am happy to read the slowly, ever so slowly, life is beginning to resemble normalcy. I hope your respiratory stuff is resolving.

Remember Pearl Harbor.- BEF

23F to start the morning. Presently 28F; probably today’s high temperature as this cold front settles in and the wind is increasing with gusts ~30mph. A smoky start to today’s firing up the wood stove.

I hope that everyone has a manageable Friday and there are no new additions to the "walking wounded" list. I hope that those mending keep on mending.

My + thoughts, wishes, and prayers.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #85,489  
Good morning to all! Low of 28° this morning, going up to 40. Some clear icing on the walkway with just a sprinkle of large snowflakes. Odd looking, even the dog went out, stopped, and was looking around like "what the ****".... Supposed to be a full mixed bag today.

Ed, Happy birthday for your boy!

Kyle, your daughter is still amazing...I remember her drawing...awesome!

Drew, only a couple hours of tilling? Hope they figure out the problem with your car and you get it back soon.

David, when you get done with your forms, you can come stay with us ....there's a bunch more that can be done here;)

Taking it easy today, knee is stiff this morning, probably due to the weather. Going up to Colorado to see the daughter / family for the weekend, so have to give the knee a break before being confined to a position for 4 hours riding in a car.

Everyone have a great weekend, prayers and thoughts sent.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #85,490  
This morning low was 10°, yesterday was partly cloudy and in the mid 30's. The forecast says it going be about the same till the first part of next week. With the temperature in the low 30's with some clouds off and on and with the lows in the mid teens.

Made it to town and picked up the paint and block heater.

Not sure how it happened but the dealer told me the the heater I was using was the wrong one for the tractor. The ones I have gotten was from a different auto parts store. My tractor dealer is also a NAPA dealer. The heater is the same manufacturer just a different model number. They told me that they use the Kat's because it is half the cost of getting one from Branson. I'm guessing that I some how screwed the hole thing up.

Eric ... Thank you for your help.

Hope everyone is looking forward too the weekend.
CWB.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #85,491  
"...... Taking it easy today, knee is stiff this morning, probably due to the weather."- Ted
Did you get those cane/crutch crampons yet? Do you have ice cleats for your footwear? 4 hours traveling is a loooong, looooooong time for a mending knee :(. wish you a safe trip and a great time with your family :cool: and a safe return with knee still intact. It always amazed me just how much a knee can swell from just sitting. :eek:
 
   / Good morning!!!! #85,492  
This morning low was 10ー, yesterday was partly cloudy and in the mid 30's. The forecast says it going be about the same till the first part of next week. With the temperature in the low 30's with some clouds off and on and with the lows in the mid teens.

Made it to town and picked up the paint and block heater.

Not sure how it happened but the dealer told me the the heater I was using was the wrong one for the tractor. The ones I have gotten was from a different auto parts store. My tractor dealer is also a NAPA dealer. The heater is the same manufacturer just a different model number. They told me that they use the Kat's because it is half the cost of getting one from Branson. I'm guessing that I some how screwed the hole thing up.

Eric ... Thank you for your help.

Hope everyone is looking forward too the weekend.
CWB.

Curious as to the difference, is the new one shorter? I have seen them go into the block to far and actually contact the cylinder wall and fail quickly because of that.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #85,493  
10F this morning, had relatively open work calendar yesterday so took most of the day off (using up some unused vacation time before I loose it at end of year).. Wife was wanting a 9mm so we went shopping.. She was settling on Glock 17 gen 4 (she has larger hands and likes the finger ridges on gen 4). We don't have any Glocks yet so have been learning about them. The Mom and Pop shop we were in yesterday has fishing/hunting/toys, often at good prices, but they had sold out of gen 4 glock and wouldn't have more in for a few weeks. He offered H&K VP9 to see how it fit her hand... oops, it fit perfectly, she likes the slide release lever, etc... so it followed us home.. seems to be well made.. perhaps we can see how it operates this weekend.. she also picked up a heavy metal target and some extra bullseye stickers.. Washington state laws are getting crazy so lots of folks adding to their collection right now before laws change next year.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #85,494  
65°F and .56 inches rain. Still raining. Doesn’t bode well for playing in the dirt today

Likely be an inside day.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day
 
   / Good morning!!!! #85,495  
Happy Birthday, Boy
Have a super day
 
   / Good morning!!!! #85,496  
May calmness and happiness reign at Ed's house.

A fine day so far. About a week ago I felt a tearing burning sensation in my right foot, where previously I had been told I had a plantar's wart.
Well it wasn't a wart it was fasciitis, something tore off the heel bone and easy cure, wear this boot. He laughed at me as we were talking about tractors, and said let's go to plan B, which in one third of the time works. Two novacaine type injections in my heel. Feel nothing down there now.
I had started to limp so I knew I had to get in there and he got me in the same day, actually one hour later after I called, nice lady, so I took her some extra Florida citrus I had gotten in yesterday and the staff was delighted. So like LS I'm supposed to take it easy. Un huh. Well not hard to ride in the cab and not use my right foot? I was thinking of running the subsoiler through the fields, probably hasn't been done in a long time.
Good seat time, helps drainage. I mean, what's the difference between sitting here and sitting in the tractor?
Well, of course, it's better out there...;)

Today reminded me of how much I am falling apart. Pieces of me are coming apart...:D

picked up a good supply of Bertie (County) peanuts as house gifts and I think I'm done my errands.

Car was back in front of my garage when I got home. Crazy cruise control issue thankfully was defeatable, it actually
was called Audi Assistant, or some such fluff, and in the vernacular of the day, I can tell this assistant that You're Fired!
I still have adaptive cruise and Lane Assist, so the car will steer itself, even around curves, but not all that well, nor do they say it will.
Really for keeping you from running off most roads, like in a falling asleep accident. I really don't like that function either because the road confuses the cameras and the steering is always making minute adjustments, ones I don't want. Sometimes you want to get over to the right of your lane like when an oversize load is coming. Or even another truck. System wants to keep you in the middle and it ping pongs too much for me. But if I were getting tired, I'd sure turn it on.

For US drivers Cadillac still has the best assisted driving car out there, though they just announced they were cancelling the only car that had that feature, but allegedly it will work its way into less expensive models.

Pearl Harbor sent both my Father and my Uncle into the war in the South Pacific. I am ever so grateful they both came home.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #85,497  
I had been told I had a plantar's wart.
Well it wasn't a wart it was fasciitis

Either way, you have my sympathy. I had a huge plantar's wart burned out of the middle bottom of my left foot when I was 16 years old. It was hard to keep from coming unglued when that doctor stuck that needle in the bottom of my foot to deaden it.

It was just in the last 12 or 15 years that I had fasciitis which I'd never heard of until then. But it did get healed.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #85,498  
daugen
A fine day so far. About a week ago I felt a tearing burning sensation in my right foot, where previously I had been told I had a plantar's wart.
Well it wasn't a wart it was fasciitis, something tore off the heel bone and easy cure, wear this boot. He laughed at me as we were talking about tractors, and said let's go to plan B, which in one third of the time works. Two novacaine type injections in my heel. Feel nothing down there now.
I had started to limp so I knew I had to get in there and he got me in the same day, actually one hour later after I called, nice lady, so I took her some extra Florida citrus I had gotten in yesterday and the staff was delighted. So like LS I'm supposed to take it easy. Un huh. Well not hard to ride in the cab and not use my right foot? I was thinking of running the subsoiler through the fields, probably hasn't been done in a long time.
Good seat time, helps drainage. I mean, what's the difference between sitting here and sitting in the tractor?
Well, of course, it's better out there...;)

Today reminded me of how much I am falling apart. Pieces of me are coming apart...:D
……………………………
Getting old not for wussies. ;)
 
   / Good morning!!!! #85,499  
"..... So like LS I'm supposed to take it easy.:eek: ..."I mean, what's the difference between sitting here and sitting in the tractor?...... Today reminded me of how much I am falling apart. Pieces of me are coming apart."- Thomas
I'd rather spend my time mending on the tractor. Fresh air is good for one's health.

To quote an old and former client- "One does not age gracefully nor well." And another-"Aging ain't for sissies."

No sissies here apparently. Myself included.

Rubber bands are keeping me held together at the moment.:( I slipped a couple of days ago walking Brogen on the snowpack. Now I am wearing compression sleeves, a heavy sock on my "good" knee and ankle, and lacing those boots up really tight. :( and wearing my YakTrax every time I go outside.

Sometimes this thread reads like a geriatric daycare center;):cool:
 

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