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   / Good morning!!!! #90,061  
I remember the Alamo, 7 years ago my family was in San Antonio during "Fiesta Week". (son's graduation from basic training at Lackland AFB) What a rat race! Couldn't get anywhere and parking was outrageous. When it was over, they literally needed snow plows to clean up all the garbage left behind. I don't want to sound negative about the whole thing but the garbage issue was ridiculous. We did have a good time on the Riverwalk and at the Alamo.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #90,062  
Roy's post about snowfall predictions got me thinking. about the precipitation fields so I did a "mosaic" of the 3 surrounding NWS offices. Actually the MA/Norton office has upped snow accumulations for MA

What saddens me is the way our State, Federal, and Religious Holidays are cheapened by non-civic minded individuals' behaviors. From what I've seen the offenders come in all ages, shapes, sizes, colors, genders(?) and probably from a wide assortment of ethnic, religious, and socio-economic groups.
 

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   / Good morning!!!! #90,063  
Well I like the forecasted 4-5" better then your 13",
sorry your still bunged up with that forecast.
I'll be glad when the snow and mud season is done this year.

Lou
 
   / Good morning!!!! #90,064  
What saddens me is the way our State, Federal, and Religious Holidays are cheapened by non-civic minded individuals' behaviors. From what I've seen the offenders come in all ages, shapes, sizes, colors, genders(?) and probably from a wide assortment of ethnic, religious, and socio-economic groups.

Yes, but they all have one thing in common: They're all SLOBS!

I have a special hatred for the folks that throw lit cigarette butts out the window, especially in the dry summer months. I usually photograph their license plate, then double back to make sure that the butt is out. Then I call the cops.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #90,065  
Ortimber- I hope you get your power back soon.

RNG- People who throw their trash roadside and drivers who park in disabled parking spots deserve a special “final reward”. That is crazy about the lit butts in your area.:eek: I hope that your efforts at ID were successful. BTW- Awesome picture. I missed it earlier. Thanks for sharing. You picture motivates me to someday climb down into my grotto w/o a dog, but with a camera and try to take a picture. I hope it is not trashed by slobs.

Randy- I really like your picture of your dog. She’s a beauty.

Lou- Thanks for the laugh. I bung up my weather predictions with regularly. One can not be thin skinned about less than totally accurate predictions. I believe I am still slightly ahead of Phil the PA Weather Rat and a couple of the local TV ProMets in accuracy. This Winter is getting old; being an observer participant even older. I am waiting to see the first of the migrating bird species.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #90,066  
Wife had to run to town at noon, so we had a late lunch breakfast at a diner.
Brakes were making noises, so checked them when we got home and needed new pads. Ran back to town for those.
Just got them on, tired now. Was going to change oil today, but too tired.
Got into 40s today, melted the snow/ice from last night. Storm warning for tomorrow 4-8" snow.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #90,067  
I remember the Alamo, 7 years ago my family was in San Antonio during "Fiesta Week". (son's graduation from basic training at Lackland AFB) What a rat race! Couldn't get anywhere and parking was outrageous. When it was over, they literally needed snow plows to clean up all the garbage left behind. I don't want to sound negative about the whole thing but the garbage issue was ridiculous. We did have a good time on the Riverwalk and at the Alamo.

Yep, not the quietest time to be in SA. Fiesta honors the hero's of the Alamo and the Battle of San Jacinto. It goes on for 10 days and easily 3M+ visitors to celebrate.

Thank your son for his Service! I was at Lackland in February of 1967. My brothers went thru there in 1970 and 1971. For about 2 weeks all three of us were on USAF active duty.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #90,068  
Ya no kidding, parts will not get here until March 6-8. Waiting patiently. :)

Beautiful pics Cat. How do snow mobile pilots keep from getting decapitated from barbed wire?

29°F and light flurries this morning, going up to 40° today. The weather voice on the radio this morning is suggesting 4-8" of snow for Saturday night / Sunday Morning.

Lots of wild life encounters at various places on the drive to work this morning; skunk on the side of the road decided to stay in the ditch, possum ran across ahead of me, deer jumped out in front of me and I just missed it, and ABS saved me when a school bus jumped out in front of me from a jr. high school parking lot. Always an adventure when driving, but today was a little more adventure than I normally care for.

Welcome to the GM thread, Ortimber. Good luck with all that snow.

Eric, my Wife also has a specific order that she puts things on the conveyor to ensure the cashier or bagger bags them properly. And just to aggravate her, I'm going to start using the word trolley when I'm shopping with her.

We usually have a similar arrangement as Ron; she shops and unloads to inside the sunroom door, and I take them from there.

You got to watch out for those wild life bus drivers.....I probably have about a dozen dead skunks right now on my commute.

Yes, maybe that circus class is also known as Poli Sci. :)
LOL...

rain is about to start from system moving through, looks like some sleet for NW Maryland.

long day, fun having camera poked up my nose I swear until it came out my ear...weird looking at inside of head, but came
back ok, other than finding out I had a deviated septum which I didn't know, plus CT scan was clear.
He is still guessing, more tests ordered, but he thinks Meniere's disease, which at least is treatable.
Sure beats brain cancer...
Need to cut back on caffeine, now that will be very hard... Need to buy couple pounds of decaf tomorrow.

Drew hope they figure it out. Deviated septum means one side of your nasal passages is bigger than the other. Mine from a broken nose at age 20.

Got the 12 tomato plants covered with some plastic. Well 11, but the last got it's own 1 gallon milk jug.

Finally bought a new Channel Master antenna. Works much better so far. Now get the VHS Fox 7 channel out of Austin (about 50 miles away). Waiting for this foggy funky clammy moist weather to subside someday to see if it works even better. Signal has more than doubled on most channels.

This late freeze we are getting the next few nights is rare for us. I was looking at southern Saskatchewan and they are -10F I guess they won't be planting tomatoes this weekend outdoors.

PJS, I'm trying to talk my daughter into learning a cello.... Any pointers or factoids I could use to catch her interest?

J- Thank you for the thoughts and prayers for our daughter. They want to keep taking her into the mainstream classrooms for short periods daily. Her austism is so debilitating because she fears the teachers or other kids will say her trigger words. She told my wife that when they say it, it makes her whole head hurt. We butted heads over her going in those classes. She does better in a quiet room, with limited people in it. I thought of an analogy that I believe I'm going to type up and tell the coordinator. I'm going to tell her that I'll take her to the circus next year, and put her in the same cage as the lions and tigers with an assignment to do, and then we'll see how she likes it and if she can get her best work done....

San Antonio is much nicer on a cool day, with no major functions going on.

The original Texan settlers were allowed in by the Mexican gov't, unbeknownst to themselves, to be human bait and give the Indians someone else to raid. Texas' Original Human barrier.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #90,069  
Pretty good day. Roof over new diesel storage area.
Interesting: 6 pieces of repurposed roofing of various sizes, 3 partial rattle cans of a couple shades of blue. Takes a bit longer than the new stuff but should do the job quite nicely.

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   / Good morning!!!! #90,070  
Kyle prayers for your daughter
 

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