Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

Eric, the tractor picture made me immediately think of being cold and the second picture
made me want to go ice skating. Of course if I fell that would be bad news.
But to see a pond like that in such a gorgeous setting, full of families with kids skating, well
those are some happy times.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Next fire, I'm hauling every basket case beemer I can find out there.....I heard about the electric company declaring bankruptcy. I have mixed feelings on this. Sure, my place didn't burn down. But those like you have my respect for doing due diligence to keep your stuff unburned. I would place most of the blame on whichever departments don't clean up the pine needles or have regular controlled burns. But suing gov't entities is like shooting yourself in the foot on a scale this big. Not so cut and dried like having flood insurance or not, and then there is a flood. I know out here around Bastrop Texas since the fire, they have cut down wide right of ways for all their power lines. I believe the insurance companies are/should take a big percentage of this. And stop building zero lot line homes on top of pine needles.

Not every old Beemer is worth the big bux, Kyle, but if you chase down some /2 pricing, especially the R69S, get ready for a nose bleed.

PG&E was convicted a few years ago of diverting funds from line maintenance and brush clearing to prop up shareholder profits. The judge in that case is now making them prove they haven't broken the terms of their probation, and I think they're going to fail miserably. So in addition to the new lawsuits, they'll have to pay the full penalties that were suspended in the original suites. To add to the circus, Erin Brockovich, yeah, that Erin Brockovich, has teamed up with a local scum sucking ambulance chasing lawyer to sue PG&E on behalf of the Camp Fire victims willing to sign with them. His fees will likely be 33%-50% of any winnings, something I bet the fire victims haven't been made aware of. I get two or three letters a week from other lowlife lawyers, and am now even seeing ads for them on Facebook. The amount of damages from such suits is now far more than the company's cash holdings, so they really didn't have any choice but to file for bankruptcy if they were going to try to keep the lights on. But since the filing rumors started, many companies that were removing trees and brush from beneath power lines have packed up and gone home for fear that PG&E would default on their bills. So just the opposite of what needed to happen to make the power lines safe has come to pass due to the lawsuits. If that doesn't make you mad, I don't know what will!

 

[lostcreekranch]

36°F this morning and forecast says 52°F for this afternoon. It was 72°F yesterday.

It’s been raining and windy here all night but, seems to be clearing now.

Looks like Kyle may be getting some “wintry mix” this morning.

Thanks for the kind comments on my out feed / assembly table. The top is 44” x 62” and I designed it around the large flat file cabinet.

It’s new casters make it really easy to move around again.

I’m moving it to a cleaner part of the shop for assembly of projects and picture framing. I’ve sketched up design for a new table saw out-feed table that will be similar, but smaller than the big table. New one will be about 42” x 42” and obviously same height as my table saw.

With cold day ..... thinking I’ll work on the shop audio system today, with shop doors closed. Present system is an old Aiwa compact system, about 20 years old with AM/FM, dual cassette, and 5 CD player. CD and cassette quit working sometime ago so really down to FM only. It has great sound. I think I’ll move it to one of the tack rooms in the horse barn and just let FM play 24/7. Horses and donkeys like country music.

Hoping for an excellent “hump day” for everyone.

Prayers to all.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Wngsprd, good job on the tree.
Don, nice floor

 

[RedNeckGeek]

RNG, nice camera work to capture the eagle taking off.

I'm pretty sure I spooked the bird when I came back out the door with the camera. I was zooming the lens and trying to keep it pointed when he took off, so I mashed the shutter button and that's what showed up in the photo. Not what I was expecting at all, as it had been sitting on the very top of a very tall pine, and I was going for a closeup of his regal head.:confused2:

I bet it felt nice and cozy in that cab once you got the heater blowin'. Kinda made it hard to get down from there when it was time to quit, didn't it?:laughing:

 

[toppop52]

Thanks for the suggestions on the opener. I’m going to start on it later this morning, once I’ve done some things I’ll check in and let you know what if any of it works.
I had a circuit board short in another opener just before Lynn died, we were luck to have been in the other side airing a tire on her Edge. She smelled and saw flame coming from it and yelled at me. I turned off the main and hit it with CO2. I wrote about that one last year on here.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

RNG, great shot of the eagle. I always get excited when I see them soar overhead or land here.

I do as well. His calls were quite loud in the office, but he was too high in the tree to see from the window. I couldn't believe he had landed so close to the house, and left the camera inside because usually they're so high in the sky they just show up as little dots in the photos.

One of life's pleasures - getting a tree to fall exactly where you wanted it to. I spent more time than usual yesterday sizing up a tall dead tree for where I should try to fell it, especially based on the big dogwood nearby that I wanted to avoid, and based on its tricky lean one direction down low being opposite of the lean up high. It fell one inch from my mark.

I have a feeling I'm going to be getting lots of practice at that in the not too distant future as fire damaged trees become obviously dead. I've only cut down a few trees following the instructions in the Stihl owner's manuals, which seemed to work OK. Got any tips or things to watch out for that a newbe should be aware of?

 

[Bird]

PG&E was convicted a few years ago of diverting funds from line maintenance and brush clearing to prop up shareholder profits. The judge in that case is now making them prove they haven't broken the terms of their probation, and I think they're going to fail miserably. So in addition to the new lawsuits, they'll have to pay the full penalties that were suspended in the original suites. To add to the circus, Erin Brockovich, yeah, that Erin Brockovich, has teamed up with a local scum sucking ambulance chasing lawyer to sue PG&E on behalf of the Camp Fire victims willing to sign with them. His fees will likely be 33%-50% of any winnings, something I bet the fire victims haven't been made aware of. I get two or three letters a week from other lowlife lawyers, and am now even seeing ads for them on Facebook. The amount of damages from such suits is now far more than the company's cash holdings, so they really didn't have any choice but to file for bankruptcy if they were going to try to keep the lights on. But since the filing rumors started, many companies that were removing trees and brush from beneath power lines have packed up and gone home for fear that PG&E would default on their bills. So just the opposite of what needed to happen to make the power lines safe has come to pass due to the lawsuits. If that doesn't make you mad, I don't know what will!

And the bottom line . . . . your electricity rates will be going up.

 

[toppop52]

Drew, when I was a kid in South Mills, NC, my worm farm was an old dish pan with holes I drilled using a hammer and 20d nail. I filled it with that black Carolina dirt and as many worms as I could find, every day after supper I poured the dish water in it, the water ran out through the holes and the particles of food fed the worms. Most of the boys around there had one similar to it. We fished a lot.

 

[toppop52]

34 going to 54, already feels like spring out there.

Buppies, I bought Lynn a Z28 convertible for her birthday in 2002, it cost less than that watch! LOL

Prayers for everybody to be comfortable.