Good morning!!!!

[txdon]

RS, home depot sells 30% vinegar if you need more dissolve power. Most vinegar is 7- 10%.
Wngsprd, we gave Whipper some cdb oil to calm her down. It did not really work and just made her not care where she pooped - in the middle of a cement street.

Beautiful day to work in the park, about 15 people showed up so we had 4 haulers for every chainsaw. I like it when I can continue cutting without having to stop and pull branches to the piles. Went through 3 fill-ups on the Husqvarna chainsaw without a hickup.

 

[Buppies]

Only freezing rain here about 1/4 inch of ice 32 degrees now refreshed tonight

 

[Popgadget]

I’m probably the only guy on here to pack match heads in a chuck of pipe then light it off as a ground surface rocket. Pre Sputnik days, didn’t know I wassupposed to point it up.

Not in a pipe, we used spent CO2 cartridges and launched them out of a pipe like a mortar.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

7” of snow and now freezing rain at 28°. It was a light fluffy snow, now it’s wet and heavy.

 

[rswyan]

30F and still snowing, probably up to 2" at this point.

Hopper, both sunflower tube, deer, squirrel and nugget feeders refilled.

Birdbath now plugged in ... :thumbsup:

Earlier:

There were another 6 deer off to the left, just out of the frame ... :thumbsup:

 

[rswyan]

RS, home depot sells 30% vinegar if you need more dissolve power. Most vinegar is 7- 10%.

Thanks ... good to know ... :thumbsup:

Will have to check and see what we have here.

Wngsprd, we gave Whipper some cdb oil to calm her down. It did not really work and just made her not care where she pooped - in the middle of a cement street.

Beautiful day to work in the park, about 15 people showed up so we had 4 haulers for every chainsaw. I like it when I can continue cutting without having to stop and pull branches to the piles. Went through 3 fill-ups on the Husqvarna chainsaw without a hickup.

Glad you had some nice weather and got some time outside.

 

[sodamo]

HOT day there, don’t burn up.

I had cider in the fridge brewed like that, cloudy with sediment.

Oops, fat fingers...
Sediment almost expected in most fruit drinks I’d guess.
As explained this was the chocolate coming out of suspension. Also cherry, grapefruit and another citrus or two. Made a nice holiday change.

1st pic is about 3rd draw, after settling about 6 hours before hooking up. Yea, tried drinking some.


This pic is about 10th glass, letting settle about 18 hours


Was a bit unnerving to see beer fill the glass and suddenly a spurt of dark, almost mud out the spout.

Taste was difinitely off from sample.

 

[rswyan]

As I’ve said before, my late wife was an infectious disease specialist. I learned a lot from her and simple reading. One thing is that it is physically impossible to get the flu from the flu shot, it’s small particles of a killed virus and cannot replicate. You can have symptoms similar to the flu for a day or so caused by your body’s immune system reaction. And if you were unlucky enough to have been exposed just before or after getting the shot, then it won’t keep you from getting sick. The old nasal spray vaccine could and did cause flu in some, it was a weakened virus, not killed, that’s why they stopped using it.

I see these new vaccines as being overwhelmingly safe and effective, nothing is 100%, but I will get it ASAP.

:thumbsup:

I have not gotten the flu vaccine on a regular basis ... but having had pneumonia really, really bad a number of years ago, I rethought that this year and went ahead and got the flu vaccine. Pneumonia is not something I want to go through again.

Other than having a little pain in arm where I got the shot for less than 24 hours, no adverse reaction.

I will get the vaccine when it is available ... barring any reporting of significant adverse reactions (which I expect there will be very little of)

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I had pneumonia twice within a month last year, and got GBS the 2nd time I had pneumonia. Can’t get flu shot now. Not sure what they will say about CV shot. My Dr retired and I currently have no Dr.

 

[LouNY]

Hopefully won't have to actually replace any of them, just rebuild.

Sure would be nice to have some new 1/4 turn ball valves in there though ... but that could get kinda pricey, considering that it would probably require copper unions as well.

The thing I hate the most about this, is just the working in confined spaces.

There a big electrical cable that runs within a couple of inches of that one valve and it's live. No real way to move it much.

Pretty sure don't want to be melting the insulation off that ... :laughing:

Good luck on the finishing ... :thumbsup:

The new ball valves with the sharkbite fittings seem to be fairly good.
My water softner was installed using all sharkbit fittings and a mix of copper and pex tubing with no leaks,
it's been in about 5-6 years now.

No soldering required, just a tubing cutter.