Good morning!!!!

[jbrumberg]

Morning doves are skidding around landing today. I am hoping that all this rain today will melt the ice. My uncleaned Tundra is now only 50% snow-covered.

 

[lostcreekranch]

 

[sodamo]

66°F and .02 inches rain.

No big plans for the morning. Trip to PO

Both dogs and cat to Vet this afternoon for shot updates and annual exam.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[daugen]

Rick, funny pics, except for the person falling. There but for the grace of friction go I...

in from planting over a thousand seedlings, last of the transplant collards plus another tray of spinach.
Inch and a half of rain came down so fast greenhouse flooded again, a bid odd to be watering trays in there with my feet in half an inch of water. I have to ditch and/or mini-swale the whole area, my elevated floor clearly isn't adequate. Water goes away in a day, thankfully aluminum construction.

I have tried just about every sweetener out there, have stevia in the pantry. Just did not taste sweet to me.

Lakes of water all over the lawn, think I'm going to take a break and maybe go back at it later.
Back gave me shooting pains from leaning over too much, the garden shed work bench is elevated so no way I can sit at it. Unless I get a really tall chair, like an adjustable bar stool.

got exceptionally nice note from dealer owner saying he was tied up with Agco rep and tractor got out before he looked it over. Well, that's the second time, including initial delivery, and now both times it's created an issue. Always because Service is in a rush to get it back. Well, I understand that, but clear case of haste makes waste.

 

[RoyJackson]

jbrumberg
The driveway is an ice skating rink. I need to call the plow guy for a decent sanding after the rain tomorrow.
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Same here,enough so when the crows land they keep sliding.

I expect it'll be worse tomorrow morning...after all this rain and a low of 19 (in Bethel) tonight.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Sorry about your tractor dealer challenges, Drew. I completely understand, as I have similar challenges with my Kia dealer's service department. They either don't listen, or are too lazy to follow through. One of my long-running complaints has been my bright lights flickering when the turn signal cancels. They always told me they couldn't find it. Now, there's a recall for that very thing. Guess someone found it. Still waiting for the "recall" for the dash rattle I've been telling them about (which they also can't seem to find) since it was about three months old. They've actually made that worse. One guy recently suggested it would be very expensive to tear all that out and look for a rattle now that the warranty is expired. I reminded him that I've been telling them about this since the first service, and am not expecting to pay a single penny to fix a problem that has existed since it was nearly new and the warranty was in place.

I think all of us can tell horrid tales of being treated badly at the hands of warranty service people. I see warranties as a last ditch effort by manufacturers to assure consumers that products will reliably perform to expectations, one that seldom gets the factory priority that is given to the sales department. I figure the best way to not have warranty issues is to buy something that most of the buyers have had no issues with. That's why Japanese cars and trucks sell as well as they do, and why American companies flirt daily with bankruptcy. Unfortunately, problems do occur even in Japanese vehicles, and the American dealerships often couldn't give two hoots if they get fixed or not. It's an American disgrace that there's no pride in one's work anymore. Another sign of shifting social norms, shifting more and more down hill. :thumbsup:

 

[PJSprog]

... and the American dealerships often couldn't give two hoots if they get fixed or not. It's an American disgrace that there's no pride in one's work anymore. Another sign of shifting social norms, shifting more and more down hill. :thumbsup:

I completely agree. It's a reflection of the throw-away mentality we've nurtured. Nothing has to last an longer than the average retention time. It's going to be replaced eventually anyway, right? Why fix it? Just get a new one. [/sarcasm]

 

[jbrumberg]

Rick- Thanks for sharing. There are inherent risks clearing snow from roofs. Luckily for me most Winters is that my roof is almost flat and can be shoveled off rather safely. Every Winter I read about some unlucky roof clearing operation around here leaving someone badly injured. I did not do it, but one Winter I probably could have exited the roof by way of the piled snow rather than the window from which I entered the roof.

Drew- Good luck with the Massey. Some business appear too big to fail and too big to succeed.

"... It's an American disgrace that there's no pride in one's work anymore. Another sign of shifting social norms, shifting more and more down hill. "- RNG. Well posted and I agree. I sadly believe that we are seeing another "Fall of an Empire." Too many historical parallels.

 

[daugen]

this morning's exploration in the bottom of the veggie drawer was met with outstanding success, for an worm farm that is, and some seriously gross rotting sweet potatoes. Perfect for the job! One day's worth of coffee grounds, a variety of rotting potatoes (I wonder if the worms will get drunk on their version of homemade vodka, while sambaying away to their potatoes and bananas :dance1 So I mixed that thoroughly down through the worm farm dirt and that's the last of it. Time for worms.

Looks like one more week and the daffodils will pop.

so much of what I do in planting is repetitious...trying to get a little rhythm while poking 200 holes with the little green dibble.
Then you tap tap tap gently with the right forefinger on the little chute and try, attempt, to get just one little ball bearing seed to fall out.
My range is 1 to 4, averaging 2. Not exactly what the pro farmers call "singulation".

 

[Eric Salop]

Good afternoon. I'm struggling to get on TBN today, our broadband keeps dropping. We must be getting data corruptions too - Drew's post read as if he had worms drinking vodka and doing a Samba

I've been delivering hay, was hoping to find frozen ground to get the bales out this morning as it was -3C/26F at teatime yesterday. Instead woke up to rain and another play in the mud.

Most of our snow has gone, hope you get your snow melt wish too JB.
CWB, I imagine your white stuff is going to need more than a brief shower to make it vanish.

A bit of droving for me yesterday, just a mile along a small public road. I was helping friends who needed to bring in the first of their sheep. An old Fergie with a small trailer brought up the rear in case the steep hill was too much for any of the heavily pregnant ewes. Fortunately they all made it, despite ice making it tricky in places.

The fergie is hiding in this pic - somewhere.