Good morning!!!!

[hawkeye08]

The middle daughter and SIL came today (they had other plans for Christmas).. Wife wanted to use the Traeger so rolled it out of garage filled up with pellets, fired it up and put a Harbor Freight welding blanket over it to help maintain the heat.. It worked well, for those that might do this, remember the handle on the lid will be hot when you lift the welding blanket off.. remember to use a potholder.

Steaks were great, opened presents and then played games after dinner.

 

[sodamo]

Step painted and temporarily in place. Will replace the 4x6 wooden blocks with concrete blocks. Not sure of final length yet.

Concrete basically done except the cleanup, then need to work on placement of the carport supports (red line). Setting too close to the cottage and the verticals become obtrusive, too far away and the end post is potentially a problem in tying into number 2, but I will have to modify regardless. Won’t do anything permanent until pieces are in hand (ships Jan 2). Verticals are spaced 5,5,5,5, & 4 ft. Similar to below with 1 more section


This last piece of concrete ties in pieces from 4 previous pours over 15 year period:

#1 was part of original construction to give a dry place out of the mud for generator, batteries, washer & dryer, etc.
#2 was for initial solar panel install, just 6 post slanted frame. Latter enclosed and roofed to house washer & dryer, water pump & tank.
#3 was part of driveway pour for walkway.
#4 was this summers driveway expansion.

A very different vision from 2004

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Back home. Foggy drive. Brought back enough food for at least 2 more meals. I don’t think I mentioned white cake and red velvet cake. And the cookies. Here are some of her cookies.

 

[sodamo]

Quite a treasure trove of cookies.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 41F for the start, overcast sky, no fog and light wind, 3/4 in rain in bucket. Wind was moderate today, sun peaked out about noon, and high temp was 48F. Low for the day will be upper 30's at midnight. Was up for about 2 hours last night, and did not wake up for chapel this morning . Did do some consulting for work today, got the document system updated. Did watch Cowboys and nap this afternoon. No ride today and stepdaughter's boyfriend smoked brisket and spareribs for dinner :licking:
Bill, I never did work out whether I hated freezing rain or sleet worse. An inch of either brought STL to it knees for days.
Billy hope your rest was top quality
Ron, sorry meds did not work out.
Thomas, no e muffins? :confused2:
Ted things back to normal is a good thing right?
Buckeye, are you complaining about leftovers?
Thomas, thanks for pic, cute sign!
David thanks for pics and explanation, don't you wish you knew in '04 what you know now :thumbsup:
Buckeye, was afraid to view pic full size, did not want the blood sugar to go up any more!!
prayers for all

 

[RoyJackson]

It's 0245...up long enough to drink something

Snow is coming down pretty steadily...doesn't look like much accumulation though. The prediction has dropped from 8 inches or so down to 3-4 inches over the next day

 

[sodamo]

David thanks for pics and explanation, don't you wish you knew in '04 what you know now

Sure do. In fact I wish I knew better in Sep when George did the expansion. If I did he could have done what I did easier if not cheaper.

 

[Looking4new]

good morning,
temp here is 24°F and going to a high of 32. Wind E 26 gusting to 34 mph. Freezing rain warning in effect.
The hydro has been going off (like flipping a switch) for about 10 seconds and then back on again all night.

I have a town run to do today and that is about it. Energy conservation after that.


Have a safe day all

 

[wngsprd]

64 and drizzle heading up to 71 and showers and wind.

David, I knew there are vintages of wine, but didn't know same is true of concrete. You've certainly made your place comfortable and amaze me how you live off grid.

Ron, I love your bird pix. We had a lot of fog yesterday, too.

Put all the flattened boxes in the back seat floor of the truck yesterday, and threw all the bags of trash and recyclables into the bed and went to the dump (transfer station) yesterday...amazing what we produced over the Christmas week with guests. Since I was half way there, went to the gym, too.

 

[DABSGT]

Good morning 35 and rain all day.
Moving my mother in law to a new memory Care facility today, smaller, closer to family and specialize in dementia hope it's the right move for her.