Good morning!!!!

[Looking4new]

Good morning, the temp is 36°F and that is the high for today. Wind ESE 19 mph. 60% chance of flurries. Raining right now.

I am not sure what I will get up to today. Maybe something, maybe nothing.


Have a safe day all

 

[Eric Salop]

Good morning, we are told there is very little chance of rain today and the wind will stay below 20 mph. Yipee - except the branches on a tree across the yard are still thrashing around, either it is having a fit, or the weather heard a different forecast :confused2:

Unkind weather has been giving me a chance to play at something I have been wanting to try for a while. I have accumulated a number of cartridge cases that are getting stiff to resize in the reloading press, the mouth of the cases need annealing. Electro-magnetic induction annealers have a lot of appeal, being a lot easier to adjust precisely compared to a gas torch, so I thought I would try and make one.

I have a friend who worked designing high frequency power supplies for many years. He retired last year, so a couple of weeks ago I showed him what I wanted to do, to see if it would get his interest going too. No it didn't, his satisfaction came from keeping things cool, not getting brass almost red hot. After a bit of web searching and looking at other's homemade devices, I soon realised the power components came to about the same cost as this cheap 1000W induction heater board.



It even came with that copper heating coil, though it is too big for my use, so I set about calculating how little energy it should take to heat my cases and how many turns it would need on a much smaller diameter coil. Haven't done that since our circuit theory classes back in 1974, although now the internet makes it easy to rediscover such things. Now came one of those inexplicable coincidences in life. I have been gradually getting rid of books in the woodburner that not even charity shops would want. As I tore out a few pages to light the fire from a book I haven't used for 46 years, there on the paper was the exact same formula I had been using the night before !

Two people in our county confirmed with the virus. It seems there are now two drive-through test centres within 25 miles of here, performing tests on suspected cases. No longer seems a question of if we get it, only when.

 

[riptides]

Good Morning crew.

Hope all are well.

50 this AM, with slight showers passing through. Highs into the mid 70's today. Not ready for the warm weather. Yesterday relocated a opossum that I trapped. Trying to get the ground hog that again showed up under one of my buildings. I'd like to shoot him, but just don't have a clear LOS.

Not much on the to do list today. Probably take it easy and just hang out. Need to figure out the burn pile, though....maybe Sunday.

VA declared a state of emergency yesterday. I made a beer run, got what I needed. The daughter and wife went to separate stores right after the declaration and found them to be "mad houses". Wife said it was like a scene from a zombie apocalypse movie.

I should have picked up more beer.

Have a good day all. Be safe.

 

[wngsprd]

50 now and 78 later. Rain has about ended, nice to get a little bit.

Rip, is that nice Kubota dealer Dickenson's in Fred. or the one in Culpeper? They sure treated you right.

Eric, you amaze me.

RNG, I never even thought of getting pix of the tree. My wife helped load the pickups and our friend was amazing at helping, non-stop, with the splitting and loading and unloading. He counted the rings in the oak and aged it at 116 years old. It had a rotten area at the ground and the ants had tunneled through that short section, but the tree has amazing size and weight. We maxed out after 4 to 5 hours and there is plenty of rounds left for another day. We plan to tackle when 2 more friends are back in town.

 

[riptides]

50 now and 78 later. Rain has about ended, nice to get a little bit.

Rip, is that nice Kubota dealer Dickenson's in Fred. or the one in Culpeper? They sure treated you right.

Eric, you amaze me.

RNG, I never even thought of getting pix of the tree. My wife helped load the pickups and our friend was amazing at helping, non-stop, with the splitting and loading and unloading. He counted the rings in the oak and aged it at 116 years old. It had a rotten area at the ground and the ants had tunneled through that short section, but the tree has amazing size and weight. We maxed out after 4 to 5 hours and there is plenty of rounds left for another day. We plan to tackle when 2 more friends are back in town.

Wngsprd,

Sounds like you did OK on that tree. I could use some oak. Haven't seen oak in the stove for years. Do have some big ones about that old down by the creek though. I'll leave them for future generations. LOL.

The wife and I went up to PA for the tractor. No dealerships in this area even have the 6000 on the lot. Even worse, a few dealers could not even tell us when they would be coming in.

I believe the Fredericksburg dealer had a 5800, but the price and model were just not right. We also looked and were negotiating in Stuarts Draft. But there again, it was the model.

The wife was seriously focused on the HP difference. Hey, what do I know. LOL.

 

[Buppies]

Riptides did you know ole peter possum consumes over 5000 ticks a year changes my outlook on them for sure
55 high of 70 rain showers thru mid morning one third of an inch so far still raining

Prayers for all

 

[Buppies]

Wow in the time it took to type above now up to one half inch

 

[riptides]

Riptides did you know ole peter possum consumes over 5000 ticks a year changes my outlook on them for sure
55 high of 70 rain showers thru mid morning one third of an inch so far still raining

Prayers for all

Yes on the opossum. Which is why I put them back in the woods, the back forty.

The ground hog, the marines get him, or if I have a clear LOS, well......

That rain will do you good. Send some up here.

 

[ronjhall]

Need to pour first cup of coffee. 39° with wind and clouds this morning. Heading to 42° with wind and clouds. Never got to yard work yesterday. Maybe today's winds will blow it all away. Grocery shopping today then take aunt home. Wish I could remember all the toilet paper jokes I have seen lately. Not a worry for me. My wife left me enough for next 3 years. :ashamed: We shopped at Sam's and Costco.
Schools here are closed for next 3 weeks. Announcement was made after schools closed yesterday. All kinds of problems from that. But at least virus will not be spread at schools.
My sons workplace has separated all departments and area's. He got the dirtiest area. Thinks he may the safest. Because they are always washing to get the dirt off.

Eric, neat project.

Jay, I have 2 sleep number beds. One is over 20 years old. Never had a repair. Hope your's gets fixed with new parts.
Vibrating mattresses, my nose starts tickling just thinking about putting a quarter in slot.

Randy, do you get overtime pay?

RNG, I need some exercise like you are getting. Wish you lived closer. I would be over helping.

Rick, I ordered a Lasermax for my LC9s from Amazon Monday. Never shipped even though they say it has shipped. Called customer service yesterday. What a run around. I think some kind of virus has hit Amazon. Looks like second order will not ship either. :mur:

Good Morning All.

 

[daugen]

good morning all.
Not a good morning for investment account, wow what a beating yesterday. What goes up surely must go down...

warm morning, foggy and damp, seems the rain system is just North of us, probably will miss me. Time to go water those five new trees I planted.
This week was supposed to be very rainy and didn't turn out that way at all.

going to Walmart to pick up a prescription, will try to touch nothing and not get close to anyone.

if they declare an emergency, are there any restrictions on going to supermarket for food? I would think food stores, drug stores, etc would be exempted.
I need a haircut but might put it off for awhile...

If rain holds off, intend to plant a few flowers in the ground, taking a chance on freezing but I have ground covers. Could not get into Wunderground this morning, not the ten day outlook, kept error messaging.