Good morning!!!!

[PJSprog]

My nearest dealer has a new 4 door Ranger in the show room. It's beautiful, but . . . it's too larger for a Ranger, and the window sticker is over $43k. So while I'd like to have one, it ain't gonna happen.

That's just insane, Bird. I know it's a sign I'm getting old, but it seems to me it was not all that long ago when Ford advertised that you could get a full-size F150 for under $10K. $43K for a Ranger?! No thanks.

 

[Thomas]

supposedly not in this state since around 2005, sure hope not.

This is one reason to live in the country,
this morning from my back room, there are also 3 deer between the Spruce and the shed
back in the brush, the window screen sure effects the picture quality
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Where all the snow.

 

[riptides]

That's just insane, Bird. I know it's a sign I'm getting old, but it seems to me it was not all that long ago when Ford advertised that you could get a full-size F150 for under $10K. $43K for a Ranger?! No thanks.

As I look out the window and see my Danger Ranger sitting with Farm Tags, thinking, wow, I paid a whole two grand for you a long time ago......

 

[daugen]

Drew, if you keep it up they are going to put your picture on the oatmeal box.
this one stumped me but then I remembered that oatmeal box...
thank you.

had to come in and sit down, been on my feet since 7am. I was the waterer, one pair was very fast and one kinda slow but that was
the autistic son and he did a great job poking holes in the very soft dirt with his finger. We got six out of ten trays done, and I'm headed back out
to get one more done. I really enjoy it, easiest planting of the season, but managing four volunteers kept me busy. Going to be a lot of collards in there if they don't get frozen. Gambling on a warmer February, cold hardy, just no zero degrees like last year please.
That killed a lot of shrubs here and one dogwood planting.

I admit sitting here in this comfortable office chair makes me feel less and less inclined to do much more than water the other garden, which hasn't been done since transplanting, but it was pretty wet in there and the ground is dark from moisture just looking at it. But all seedlings need TLC.
80 degrees out, 15mph breeze blowing over the warming earth, just spectacular planting weather, several of us said we felt like we were on the beach feeling an offshore cooling breeze. And as the hours wore on and our senior backs starting giving out, both pairs of volunteers sprinted for the end of the row they were working on and decided that was enough. For me too.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Anybody have deer with wasting disease in their county? It has spread to 26 states and is very contagious.
Disease Threatening Deer Population Has Spread to 26 States - WSJ

Chronic Wasting Disease

 

[ronjhall]

Here is a CWD page from MI DNR. Scrolling down will bring up a video about CWD.
DNR - Chronic Wasting Disease

 

[LouNY]

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Where all the snow.

We have had two warm spells with rain got to almost 60 one day, melted most of it, the north and east facing sloops
still have some, plow snow one day, sand ice the next, mud the next.
Having to waste feed to give cows a drier spot out in the winter feed lot fields.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

My nearest dealer has a new 4 door Ranger in the show room. It's beautiful, but . . . it's too larger for a Ranger, and the window sticker is over $43k. So while I'd like to have one, it ain't gonna happen.

I feel your pain, Bird. In 1985 I bought a stripper Ranger brand new for something like $6500 out the door. It ran fine for the first year or so, but by the time it had 20K miles on it had accumulated such heavy deposits on the intake valves it ran on after the ignition was turned off. Numerous trips to multiple dealers, none of whom did anything more than pour magic elixers down the intake manifold, did anything to solve the problem. I got rid if it and bought my first Toyota, and never looked back at Ford again until a friend of mine persuaded me to buy the 2000 F250 I have now. The only reason he was able to do so was the 7.3 liter Diesel engine in it, designed and built by INTERNATIONAL!

 

[Bird]

I have regretted letting my Ranger go. In December, 2004, I bought a 2001 Ranger extended cab with 36k miles on it. My mistake was trading it off in November, 2015, with 114229 miles on it. It had the biggest V-6 engine and averaged 18.361 mpg while I had it. It was a very good little truck, and in fact, when I traded it off, the salesman at the dealership wanted it himself.

 

[Rich B1]

Good evening. Wow, what a change from Louisiana and yesterday in Ohio. It was about 72 every day in LA, 56 when I got home yesterday. Today, the high was 25. Supposed to be mid teens tonite. The woodburner is cranking out the heat this evening.

After the incredibly long day Monday and another mid nite Tuesday.....I simply took today off. I was dragging all day. Did some odds and ends around the house, worked on the taxes, and dabbled with some stuff on a bike. Then made supper. Time to wind down for the evening.

Everyone have a good and safe weekend