Good morning!!!!

[Thomas]

15F clear sky upper 20's for high chance snow shower or two later today.

Outside chores done E muffin time. :licking:
Plans for today...dump run,store for critter food, vacuum house for the Mrs.,clean the wood furnace.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 38˚F heading to 70˚F mostly clear. Garden this afternoon and tackle the zerk problem. They want me put wood chips in the orchard but I think I need to aerate and mulch the trees first.
Drew what do you do with the ground around your fruit trees in the Winter/Spring?

 

[RedNeckGeek]

RNG....what brand of shield broke?

It was a Clearview. The replacement will be from Parabellum.

Good luck at the races, Rich, and enjoy the heck out of that weather while you're there!:thumbsup:

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Since electric car racing is now serious business, I wonder when there's a motorcycle class for EV. So much weight to batteries I would think power to weight ratio would doom electrics, but depends upon length of race.

They've been racing electric motorcycles on the Isle of Mann for several years now, Drew, and I think electrics are racing at Pike's Peak, too. I'm not aware of any AMA or FIM classes for them yet, though.

 

[ronjhall]

Poured first cup of coffee. 32° with partly cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 41° with sunny skies and wind. Not much got done yesterday. All Christmas stuff is put away. May be the same today. I am doing 20 + minutes each day on exercise bike. Usually 10 minutes at a time. But have done over 15 minutes keeping heart at 110 bpm.

Wngsprd, good you mentioned generator. I remembered that my whole house generator was sputtering a little when it first started up to do it's weekly run. Needs new plugs. It's on the list.

Good Morning All.

 

[toppop52]

They've been racing electric motorcycles on the Isle of Mann for several years now, Drew, and I think electrics are racing at Pike's Peak, too. I'm not aware of any AMA or FIM classes for them yet, though.

Most indoor go kart tracks use electric karts, acceleration. Is brutal!

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 48F @ 4:45AM. Sunny. High 58F. Winds light and variable.

I need to drain the gasoline out of my generator and mothball it for the winter, so thanks for the reminders, guys.

Cleaned hair out of the master bath sink drain, and put a baggie full of vinegar over the faucet end to hopefully dissolve the lime deposits enough to be able to remove the screen. It was bubbling yesterday...

The drain line for the water softener brine was clogged at the end, but it took the landscape rake on the tractor to find it. So I got a few minutes of seat time, and some shovel time in, too. Now the softener should regenerate and I'll have soft water again as soon as the pressure tank empties.

Burned another box of papers in the campfire yesterday. Glad I did it in the dark as these were all the records from the divorce, and held lots of bad memories. Now I'll start going through records from my parent's estate; most are more than ten years old now. Somewhere there's a box of family photos, all of them dead, and it should get the same treatment.

Hope everyone's week gets off to a good start!

 

[daugen]

Don, orchard is mowed as lawn, and next week I spray the dormant oil spray on the trees, then in May another organic fruit spray.
Basically I do nothing with the ground, just the trees. No matter what, no mulch within a certain distance to the trunks, just invites borers.
I pruned the whole orchard last week.

 

[daugen]

Burned another box of papers in the campfire yesterday. Glad I did it in the dark as these were all the records from the divorce, and held lots of bad memories.

that sure sounds familiar, burning up 7 years of medical records yesterday for my late wife, except had to pull out all the films, not burning that stuff, probably toxic.

nothing like electricity to give you full torque right now; am always surprised how fast my golf cart goes from start.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

that sure sounds familiar, burning up 7 years of medical records yesterday for my late wife, except had to pull out all the films, not burning that stuff, probably toxic.

I've been burning plastic pill vials to destroy the labels, plastic CDs and DVDs, and even some medications (the inhalers make a nice pop!). I just make it a point to stay out of the smoke.