Good morning!!!!

[Kyle_in_Tex]

I woke up to a high wind warning. It was blowing all night. Sometimes if the wind blows just right all the leaves will magically disappear. No such luck today. Piles of leaves all around. Still a lot of leaves up in the trees.

I heard a Doctor on the radio say that it was beneficial to our well being to expose ourselves to some bright sunshine ( not that kind of expose you clowns) so maybe I will try to get some outside exercise this morning.

Chris

Hope you have good thick shrubs and privacy fences.

 

[wngsprd]

38 and sunny with ice in the bird baths again. Looking for 62.

We'll go vote around 10am. I used to get there when they opened at 7, but now that I'm retired, always hate to go places and take up a space that people in a hurry heading to work need. Our county sent an email that said IF you haven't already voted, best times are 10 to noon, and 2 to 4pm.

Rip, glad you got your siding figured out. Last night on the internet, I just stumbled on a vinyl siding that looks like cedar shakes...several styles, in 5ft lengths...pix looks real good...I might have spent 45 minutes checking it out. Don't know why I've never heard of it. I have a project where some might work...so I plan to look at some in person. I've never worked with vinyl.

Buppies, sorry about that $8K deer ding .

Ron, I've never seen a black squirrel. Interesting.

Had to take a return package to the UPS store yesterday. Across the highway was a Best Buy...haven't been inside one in a couple of years...big screen TVs stacked up everywhere in the aisles...but I only wanted to talk with the repair folks...bought a Samsung range/oven 4 years ago from them, and it's acting flaky...wanted to see how much a house call would cost, plus see if they'd fix a big sub-woofer if I brought it in, since they promote their Geek squad so much. Nope, unless you have a service agreement, won't talk to you. I understand their policy, but told the guy that this pretty much ends our relationship...they are offering the same level of service I'd get just buying it online. Wish Circuit City was still around. Haven't previously needed these kind of things fixed, so will be hunting from scratch for a good repair business. I'll probably take one more crack at diagnosing it myself, but seems beyond my skills.

We treated ourselves to sharing an order of fries at 5 Guys afterwards and finished our stops in town.

 

[wngsprd]

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Quite a wind. Beautiful lawn. Do you have the windsock for any kind of aircraft?

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 62F @ 4:30AM. Sunny. High around 80F. Winds light and variable.
More mild weather to the end of the week, but we go from 10-15 degrees above to 10-15 degrees below normal Thursday night, with a chance of rain and even snow in higher elevations. NWS says we're back in Extreme Drought conditions again, so we really need the rain.

Last year when I was running off the Honda generator during the power outages, I was paying $6.50 a gallon for E0, and there was only one place in town that sold it. That is if you don't count the Kubota/Stihl dealer selling the quart cans for several dollars each. I haven't purchased any this year, but it's time to take what remains of last year's stash and start burning it off in the Vanagon. Should probably siphon out what I put in the fire truck, too, but I'll wait for a little more rain since fires are still being started in the dry brush.

Glad you've got a plan now, Mike, and hope the wife approves.

Saw an ad from T-Mobile for their Home Internet service yesterday, and their website said it was available at my address. That was a bit of a surprise since Verizon's website told me that their LTE service was not. T-Mobile's offer has no contract, and no fees if cancelled anytime in the first 20 days, so I signed up. Worst case, it'll cost me a few dollars to ship the modem back to them. But if it works, I'll have faster service at half the cost, but one that is more vulnerable to interruption in case of a wildfire. So for a while, at least, I'll keep my satellite plan, then think about cutting down the size of the data cap to save some money. But that's counting chickens before they hatch.

Got the airbox and test sample painted yesterday, and under the LED light in the garage, the match on the test panel looks pretty close. If it's still good in today's sunshine, I'll order what I need to do the fairing and get busy with the repairs.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Ron, prayers for your son, and for your hearing.

Drew, glad your Dr. visit went well.

I have always used Avgas in seasonal equipment, it has an unlimited shelf life. It’s around $5 a gallon now. There is no road tax on it, so they won’t pump it into a car, but most, but not all airports will fill cans. It does contain lead, so it can’t be run in an engine with a catalytic converter, like the Honda 7kw inverter generator, but other than that there are no drawbacks that I have discovered.

I concur. And nice lawn you have there.

 

[Popgadget]

Quite a wind. Beautiful lawn. Do you have the windsock for any kind of aircraft?

No airplanes in a long time, trees have grown, and I don’t want to cut them. I will occasionally come and go in a helicopter, but I don’t keep anything here any more.

 

[Popgadget]

Ron, prayers for your son, and for your hearing.

Drew, glad your Dr. visit went well.



I concur. And nice lawn you have there.

Thanks. I bought a couple of Progressive 15-1/2’ pull behind mowers from a local sod farm that shut down. I got the two mowers and over a skid of parts for them at a price I couldn’t pass up. Sold one of them, kept the other and the parts. It does a really nice job. Doesn’t turn on a dime, but cuts great.

 

[daugen]

Paul/Popgadget, are you a pilot? I saw that lawn and thought a Cessna would love it...

successful trip downtown, except Giant did not have one checker at all, had to use self checkout, where they had an overseer, who apparently didn't want to check out groceries.
I asked where are your checkers at 7:45am? Oh, she never showed up. One checker and no backup? Doesn't sound well run to me...

nice trip over to NJ to get gas, 30 cents cheaper than PA, met both elderly father and son owners who both greeted me warmly, "heard you were coming back, great to see you".
So now I have gasoline and propane for my generator, and of course this morning got email from shipper, shipped Oct 22 from Reno NV, not arrived in NJ (??) and now not expected until
next Monday the 9th. More crummy service, likely blamed on Covid.

Looked over at polling place from road going by, wow, must have been 100+ people in line snaking around large building.
Sure going to wait a few hours before I make my way over there.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Good morning. It's 43° and clear this morning with a predicted high of 77° this afternoon. Needing some rain but .. not much in long term forecast.

Great weather for Election Day .. but I'm glad I voted early

Saw this interesting PC Magazine article about Elon Musk's Starlink Satellites. They've got better satellite coverage in the northern part of the country but .. as Spacex continues to launch satellites .. they're improving coverage of the south as well. They're getting in the range of 100Mbps down loads initially and that's predicted to improve .. to near 1Gbps .. as they launch more satellites. We feel lucky to get 10-12Mbps here at the ranch.

SpaceX's Starlink to Supply Free Satellite Internet to Families in Texas School District | PCMag

You can go here and sign up for future notifications. I'm hoping for a chance to be a beta tester.

Starlink

We get our non-ethanol contaminated gasoline at Buc-ees in Katy. The last we bought was about $2.65.

Pushed over a couple of deed trees yesterday and moved them to area besides burn pile. I'll take chain saw out, to cut them into 2-3 sections, then stack them onto the burn pile.

Then .. more outside window washing today.

Hope everyone has a peaceful Election Day.

Prayers for all.

 

[pennwalk]

Yesterday I watched the wind blow a steady stream of leaves down the driveway and the south across the road. Who knows where they ended up. Of course there was a steady stream of leaves blowing out of the woods behind the house.

I did get out for some sunshine. If it was supposed to reset my body clock so I could sleep until dawn that didn't work yet.

I mean to go see how long the voting line down at the church is even though I already sent in my vote. Sounds like there will be lines.

Chris