Good morning!!!!

[buckeyefarmer]

Wife just said we are down to less than a whole pack of paper towels, and asked if she should get some. I said “too late”

We are planning to have mother in law and one niece and her husband come for thanksgiving. Still expecting wife’s sister to mess things up.
Wife got a 20 lb turkey at aldi for $.89 a lb.

Worked part at home, part in office. Thought we fried a test unit today, turns out I was able to re flash it and it was a software problem.

We got .2” of rain yesterday, this morning was warmer wind, now a cold wind.

 

[Buppies]

Thanks for offer L4N

Nice button buck Ron

Maybe she will behave BEF

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Maybe she will behave BEF

Well, she’s not on the invite list.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

We have inlaws and outlaws coming over for Thanksgiblets. Actually I don't know if anyone of them have ever had to go down to the bighouse.

Making some filter adapter rings for a special forces nightvision scope with a Larue attaching base. Part of a project at work.

Yamaha GT MX 80 sitrep: I asked about compression ratios on another forum and a guy tested his 80 and got 115psi. I wonder why my 80 runs so good once it's started with only 30psi? My Shindaiwa only shows about 3 to 5 psi.

I went to the junkyard to get a battery. They saw me coming I guess. Anyway, I picked the biggest top post they had, that checked good. It is about a year old. It will be for the Steiner. Paid an extra $3 for a 30 day warranty.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 35F for the start, clear, calm wind. Light to moderate wind today, mostly clear sky, and high temp was 68F. Started with leaf sucking, for 3 hours, then was dragging so bad came in for lunch then nap. No gopher activity today, think the castor oil is working on the critter, sulfur on order.
Covid update: Cooke unchanged, Montague unchanged, unchanged.
David, change windows or how you trim the window?
Luther, St Charles County, MO was one the fastest growing counties in the US for years
Bill hope the town run goes well and your power comes back
Thomas hope you find something to putter on
Drew have fun planning lights and woodworking
Mike glad RTV repair went well. hope you get your porch posts
Billy glad you had fun playing in the creek.
Ron how do these people get elected? nice spike buck
Billy seems like anything that burrows knows how to deal with lots of rain water. Could not flood out gopher
Paul progress sounds good.
Don will get together with stepdaughter and her new hubby.
RS nice to hear the Squeak cares
Randy glad front through quickly
Ted, good to hear not much wind and shop time for you
PJ Not surprised at East side growth of STL. Stepson built a house just west of Old Monroe in Lincoln county. Amazing how many seer lived near Mississippi River and got flooded out in '93
Chris down here most oak leaves still on trees although lot of oak leaves fell last week.
David that is more than wife and I are doing.
Ken hope fox does not get any pets. stay safe in NYC
Bird hope your family get together happens
David, nice you not need generator for so long glad you were able to get the generator started
Dennis hope family circus not as bad as expected
prayers for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyles daughter, David(moss) remodel, RNG/fire/trip, Ron's /hearing/son, and Country
Stay safe and healthy you all

 

[rswyan]

39F and cloudy @ 22:30. Headed down to a low of 34F for the overnight.

Just got back from picking up Menards order a little bit ago. Only thing they didn't have were the driveway markers ... will get those at Massillon later this week.

Refilled tube feeders first thing this morning as they were getting low, and stuck another ear of corn out on the squirrel feeder. (It was picked clean within an hour or two, with a pair of beautiful bluejays cleaning up what fell to the ground)

After filling the feeders I noticed there was a bird hoppin' and squawkin' outside the back door ... looked a little closer and it resembled a nuthatch but was mostly reddish brown ... possibly a house wren I guess. Then I noticed that there was another one that had managed to enter the sparrow trap which was sitting on the concrete. So I went back out and set the trap up on the sawhorses and opened the door and coaxed it out.

Put a coat of BLO/beeswax on the lid of the second squirrel feeder and melted it in with a hair dryer.

Mixed up a bucket of whole cracked corn, black oil sunflower, shelled peanuts, walnuts, raisins for the squirrels. Still need to add some peanuts in the shell and maybe some acorns if there are any still out there, might look tomorrow or day after. With how quickly they seem to go through the ear corn, I think I may limit feedings to only when the weather gets really bad out ... or limit how much or often I fill the feeders ... otherwise I can see them emptying a feeder in a day or two ... and stashing food in places they don't remember ... :laughing:

Neighbor came down yesterday morning. He's putting up a pole building and wanted to know if the delivery truck could come up the drive to the gas well and across our property to drop the materials to avoid tearing up his lawn. Sure ... no problem. Looked out there this morning and saw this:

So I grabbed the chainsaw, cut it up into a couple of pieces and hauled the larger ones over to one of the wood piles to be cut up for firewood. After that The Woman and I cleaned up all the small sticks and I put that on the burn pile. Then I gave the neighbor a call to let him I had located the key for the padlock on the gate. So barring any further wind events or tree falls he should be good to go for material delivery.

After some French Toast for brunch we spent some time discussing the bathroom remodel and then I worked on finishing up the Menards order.

Went over to another neighbors this evening and had a look at a couple of couches and stove/oven she is looking to get rid of. All were in good shape, will probably take one of the couches, and possibly the oven ... depending on how wide it is.

After that we made the run up to Menards and The Woman looked at tile while I loaded the order into the van. Unfortunately not a real big selection on the tile front ...

All in all a reasonably decent day though.

Hope everyone had a good one ... :thumbsup:

 

[sodamo]

Mostly
I like the windows, just not the way the trim sits on the flange.


But I can fix it.

 

[RoyJackson]

2020-11-17, 0329

37 right now and it's not going to hit 40 today...upper 30's at best
Not much else to report...

 

[mpham]

32 going to around 40. Should be a sunny day with little wind. Hopefully will get one more round of leaf pickup in. Hoses and faucets are picked up and shut off for the season. Need to put the hoses and reels into storage. Looking at a low of 19 coming on Wednesday and Thursday night so I need to round up all the freezable stuff and get it stored away. Will have to head to the store for some 2 cycle oil and a tank of gas. I like to always have some on hand for the chain saw. Back pack blower used up all I had left.
We should have the same core family members as always over for Thanksgiving. One of the good things about my wife having such a small group. I will be calling my 8 brothers and sisters thru out the day. No other family members are left on my side.
Hope everyone is safe and healthy!

 

[Thomas]

31F cloudy upper 30's for high.

Outside chores done E muffin time. :licking:
Plans for today...not sure yet maybe short hike with camcorder.

Enjoy the day all.