Good morning!!!!

[LS Tractor Owner]

Good morning to all! Low of 35, going up to near 52 today, steady wind at 25-30, gusts to 50 mph. It was wet this morning, so got a shower overnight, but didn't register anything in the rain gauge. North of here, about 100 miles, got over 12" of snow so far. It can stay up there!

Drew, good luck on your presentation! Never knew that info about onions.

RichB1, glad your torture at the dentist is over for now!

RIP, hope the vet is able to help your horse and it gets better quickly.

Don, just IMHO, woodworking is far more fun than pickleball! Plus you get to make something!

Eric, hope the "kissing gate" works out for you....what does the wifey think?

Buppies and Ron, I hope you both continue healing / mending, take care!

Jay, good luck with your ortho appointment today! Hopefully good news will be delivered!

PJ, sorry to hear that your surprise didn't materialize....hopefully somebody else didn't get them.... "WoW! I got chocolate covered strawberries!....Who is PJ?":laughing:

Everyone have a great Friday! Stay dry and warm and out of trouble! Prayers sent!

 

[jbrumberg]

Good Morning Everyone!!!!!!!

19ºF with light snow falling earlier, 27ºF with freezing rain showers presently with mid 40ºF’s anticipated later. It looks like a cold and dry weekend.

Mike- I hope your horse is feeling better.

Like a lot of you all my newly installed LED’s are flickering. I had this happen when my solar panel inverter started tripping and it was determined that the roadside lines were running excessively higher voltage than 110V. That finally got resolved when the electric company put in another transformer roadside. Now it is happening again and I suspect my neighbor’s solar field is adding more voltage than the lines can handle. “His” system is ~100X the size of mine . I have no clue what is going on.

Drew- Nice job on the birdhouses.

Don- Thanks for sharing the shop picture. One of my buds taught woodworking and has a really nice home workshop. He would give “the jewels” to have a shop like that.

It seems that snowblowers like to find stuff that they can not ingest. My Bud’s fancy blower found a large phonebook that he, his wife, and 2 kids failed to pick up before the snow.

PJS- I am sorry to read about the dropped chocolate strawberry delivery order. FTD did a similar failure with a bouquet I was sending my late Mother. Wifey made some seriously good chocolate cookies last night. My blood sugars will probably reflect the number of cookies.

Ted- Thanks for the + thoughts and wishes.

I want to thank everyone for their input regarding the tree work. We ill proceed with the plan.

My + thoughts, wishes, and prayers,

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 41F @ 7:30AM. Overcast with rain showers at times. Thunder possible. High near 45F. Winds SSE at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 60%.

Beautiful shop, Don. It shows a lot of pride in it by those that use it, keeping it nice and clean. Any chance they have a metal shop, and a paint shop, too?

A public speaking class instructor once told us "just remember everyone in that audience puts there pants on one leg at a time, just like you". I think that was said to keep us from getting nervous in front of a large audience, but I'm not sure it applies so well to a garden club of mostly ladies...:laughing:

Definitely refund time, Paul, along with a coupon for a free batch next year.

Yesterday I replaced the pressure switch on the jet pump and still had low water pressure. Turned the water off at the house, and still no pressure out at the pump. We had a little spell when it wasn't raining about then, and that's when I noticed water welling up in the front flower bed and running over onto the driveway.:shocked: Turned the valve off for the sprinkler system and all of a sudden there was plenty of water pressure. Looked like the water tank was down a couple of feet, about 500 gallons. It appears the feeder pipe to the sprinkler system valve box is broken, but I'm not sure I'll bother repairing it. Fire wise, those plants are too close to the house, and I'll end up xeriscaping that bed with rocks and gravel. Let the next guy deal with it.

Disconnected the driveway loop sensor and the gate opener started working again, too. I purchased a new sensor with a longer lead already and just haven't gotten around to installing it yet. With the plans to re-contour the driveway, I think I'll hold off until that's done.

I have a face-to-face meeting with the electrical contractors this morning, both the generator guy and the solar guy. I hope I can point out the shortcomings in their proposals without being too blunt, but engineers are challenged in that department and I'm a good example. We shall see.

TGIF gang!:drink:

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Like a lot of you all my newly installed LED’s are flickering. I had this happen when my solar panel inverter started tripping and it was determined that the roadside lines were running excessively higher voltage than 110V. That finally got resolved when the electric company put in another transformer roadside. Now it is happening again and I suspect my neighbor’s solar field is adding more voltage than the lines can handle. “His” system is ~100X the size of mine . I have no clue what is going on.

Just yesterday I was looking over the electric utility's rates for buying back excess solar power: $0.02 - $0.04 / kWh. Once one switches to solar power, they are subject to a time of use rate that varies between $0.31 - $0.37 / kWh. Hardly seems fair, does it? Anyway, that got me wondering how that excess power gets back into the lines. Seems like the only way to do it is to up the voltage of the solar system to something above that of the utility lines, just as you'd have to up the pressure in a garden hose to get water to flow back into the hose bib sticking out of your house. If that's the case, it could very well explain the problems you're seeing with your LEDs, Jay. Time for a call to the local electrical utility and ask for an on site visit.

 

[PJSprog]

PJ, sorry to hear that your surprise didn't materialize....hopefully somebody else didn't get them.... "WoW! I got chocolate covered strawberries!....Who is PJ?":laughing:

PJS- I am sorry to read about the dropped chocolate strawberry delivery order. FTD did a similar failure with a bouquet I was sending my late Mother.

Definitely refund time, Paul, along with a coupon for a free batch next year.

Already sent that nasty-gram, RNG. I had ordered flowers from ProFlowers for many years, and started getting the Shari's Berries several years ago. The flowers stopped when she got already dying flowers two years in a row. One year, they sent replacement flowers that were even worse than the ones they replaced. The berries she got the last couple of years were no longer the giant delicious ones they'd always sent before, but had become average size and rather tasteless. This year, they didn't even ship them at all. I was already aggravated by the shipping costs anyway. Standard delivery = $16.99, "Guaranteed" delivery (on the 13th) = $4.99, Rural area surcharge = $3.99, and they applied the tax ($4.88) to the product AND the delivery charges . So, $30.85 just to deliver a dozen strawberries.
And they still couldn't get them here.

Very disappointed.

Not sure what's happened to that company, but they've definitely lost my business.

 

[sodamo]

61°F and 3.7 inches rain
No painting yesterday, but I did get a dry area set up in tractorshed and will be able to paint today.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[sodamo]

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The Woodworkers club just doubled the size of the wood shop, I'll meet you there at 10:00 am 2/15/2022.

That could be a serious challenge to seat time.

 

[jbrumberg]

"... I hope I can point out the shortcomings in their proposals without being too blunt, but engineers are challenged in that department and I'm a good example. We shall see.

TGIF gang!"- RNG

RNG- Thank you for the explanation. Intuitively I understand, but I'll need to process this information through both brain hemispheres. It is not (yet) an official diagnosis in the psycho-labels, but there is definitely an "engineer's syndrome" ; probably due to a more utilized left brain operation. Good luck with the meeting of minds.

I highly suspect there are a lot of left mind thinkers here.

I have no problems "wasting" electricity around here anymore. The electric company makes a decent profit off the excess production that I can not utilize. I still turn off the room lights by habit, but I'll use a lot more power with all the 10 CFL's "seasonally" running in the cellar and the mini-split for heat.. The ability to both produce and store electricity fascinates me. I appreciate the information shared here about new battery technologies.

Off to see the ortho-people and belatedly celebrate Valentine's Day with Wifey at a decent sub shop afterwards.

BBL

 

[daugen]

presentation went fine, got a lot of compliments, then picked up my new orthotics and a prescription and was glad to get home.
Sunny afternoon, not sure what I'm going to do.
Somewhat depressed by rainy long term forecast.
Need to get the potatoes in by end of month and can't plant in mud for sure.

 

[toppop52]

67 breezy and mostly cloudy, no rain or snow now until Sunday night. Cold over the weekend, but not below normal.
Had a meeting with Social Services today, mom’s status was changed and they cut her SS payment with no explanation, come to find out it was a computer glitch, they already knew it and were rectifing it. But her benefit will suffer a retroactive two month reduction this month, only to be replaced next month.