Good morning!!!!

[toppop52]

Was just looking at Diesel Generators for Home Power or Off-Grid Electricity some diesel gens. If I ever get power to my barn, I should include a way to backfeed a generator from the barn to my house.

That’s how my generator is setup, 50 amp line to the small garage box, dropped to the big garage box. In the smaller building I have a twist lock connector and a cable to connect my generator. In an outage I turn off the main at the house and then backfeed from the generator through the 50 amp line. I know that’s wrong in so many ways, but it works. My generator is only 12500/10800, so no heat pump or oven, but pretty much everything else works, septic lift pump, water pump, burners, toaster oven, etc...

 

[toppop52]

I have never seen a female cardinal this light colored, I’ve seen a lot of bronze or light reddish orange but never this shade. In person it was almost a pale yellow color. This was at moms nursing home.

 

[toppop52]

 

[ronjhall]

For those that are having problems with Squirrels at their bird feeders. Try putting Safflower Seed in instead of sunflower seeds. Squirrels do not like Safflower Seed. Off course if there is no other food they will eat anything.

 

[txdon]

I have never seen a female cardinal this light colored, I’ve seen a lot of bronze or light reddish orange but never this shade. In person it was almost a pale yellow color. This was at moms nursing home.



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They are 1 in 1,000,000.
Rare Yellow Cardinal Photographed in Alabaster, Alabama

 

[wngsprd]

Got up to 38 today, but headed down to 16 tonight.

Running errands today, so didn't have time to read all your posts and reply this morning.

Kyle, hope no after-effects with your son.

RNG, great thoughts on safety. I always try to be safe, but the thinking of what can go wrong and preparing for it is a good tip.

I listened to a lot of early Poco (still do). I got to see them live in an old fancy movie palace in 1972...John Prine was the opening act...few people around had heard of them or him, so we got our tickets on the front row in the middle. Great show.

Yesterday was much discussion of pancakes and fry bread...made me hungry...today it was Tex-Mex, so we hit out favorite Tex-Mex for lunch.

Also visited 3 Independent Living/Assisted Living communities today for my wife's parents. Would be good to move them up here closer, but so many things to consider. I can see how hard it would for them to leave their farm and downsize into a 1 or 2 bedroom apartment. But they need to. Don, you might have the best idea...downsize while you are younger and can enjoy it...is their a facility in your retirement community you can transition into if you need assisted living or nursing care?

Randy, maybe that cardinal has jaundice.

 

[txdon]

They told my girls that the machine wasn稚 working at the window and took the cards back where they couldn稚 see them.

Same here, about a month ago a checker at Academy took my CC out of the machine and took hold of it because he said the scanner was not working. I was on alert but failed to act quick enough. I have a scan cover on it all the other times. 3 weeks later bogus charges came from that town. My wife and I both made a mental note of it but we should have immediately stopped him.

 

[hawkeye08]

We're going to have a mess if the warm weather continues (above freezing).. snow and ice are melting..

A couple years ago now, we got a call claiming to be from credit card company.. I told them no, I won't give them information figuring it was a scam. I hung up and called credit card company and they verified it was them that called and wanted to know if we had made purchases out of town (~400 miles away)? We replied no and when we looked at our credit card online, there were around $2500 in charges, plus another $2000 pending. None of them were ours, they worked with us to make sure the charges were removed.. When I called the internet provider a month later to give them the new credit card number for autopay, there was a new book keeper.. the old one had left on unfriendly terms... guess he took a bunch of credit card numbers with him..

 

[sodamo]

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Nice Randy, thanks for sharing

 

[Buppies]

Toppop never seen one that color we have four at the feeder everyday but nothing like yours