Good morning!!!!

   / Good morning!!!! #139,671  
64 and more drizzle...nice moon shot, Ron, I'd settle to just see some blue sky...been cloudy for days. Should get to 75.

Kyle, that's a beautiful violin...so happy for you finding it for her.

RNG, was really hoping you'd post more beautiful pix from your latest trip...thanks.

Rip, hope you're feeling better.

Finished the faucet replacement. Always seem to run into extra challenges. After cutting the old one off, the new one was too large to fit through the holes in the cinderblock. So after not finding a good solution for enlarging an existing hole through block on the internet, I tried my own solution...I grabbed a couple of stone grinding bits I've had for years from the dollar store and put my drill in hammer mode...after several trips back and forth under the house, I had too smooth holes just wide enough, and sore knees. The new sillcock was a little too long, so cut off an inch of copper pipe...hooked it up, and no leaks...a bit of caulk and I was done. The faucet is the one my wife uses to water her herbs and flowers, so she will enjoy the pretty blue handle with the sharks fins.

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   / Good morning!!!! #139,672  
Good morning! 67˚F cloudy 65% chance of rain, clouds coming in from the South. FireWise has not been canceled it starts 30 minutes after sunrise so at sunrise they will send out an e-mail to cancel most likely, so on standby. Tomorrow we are under a flash flood watch as the tropical depression from the Pacific is heading straight toward us which has the possibility of making the Park cedercide a washout.

Got the garden planted yesterday. Beets, Broccoli and Kale. Let it rain.

Drew do ya'll use the plastic or the paper candle holders. The plastic holders stop the dripping. A lot less cleanup and no accidental candle drops because of the hot wax. We also provide battery operated candles for the smaller children.
Our covid numbers continue to drop in our county and in the State. Daily new cases are just double digits for the county, and plenty of ICU rooms available. Interesting new mandates are out for Texas, you can look them up if interested.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #139,673  
Good Morning!!!! 52F @ 4:00AM. Abundant sunshine. High 71F. Winds NW at 10 to 20 mph.
The north winds howled yesterday, reaching into the 20MPH range most of the day, with a 35MPH gust just past midnight. Several new wildfires in the area kept firefighters scrambling to stay ahead of the flames and limit their spread. One new start down San Diego way has quickly reached 3500 acres.

"Lubed for Life" was, and maybe still be, a BMW euphemism for "good 'till the warranty runs out", Drew. It saves them money on "included free maintenance", one less thing to do at tune up time. Flushing an automatic transmission that hasn't been maintained with fresh fluid and filters can lead to dislodged deposits clogging valves, causing shifting problems. Do your homework and see what other RAM owners say about flushing, and proceed with caution. May be a case of letting sleeping dogs lie.

Hope you get the right angle figured out for the chain, Bruce. Are you using one of those fancy Stihl fixtured sharpeners?

I've spent nights in tents with some pretty horrific weather going on outside, and been snug as a bug in a rug, Kyle. I misjudged how cold it would get that night, and chose not to put on a down vest and some sweatpants until Jack Frost showed me the error of my ways at about 3AM. Not sure I'd prioritize what a man needs quite like that, but I hope your daughter finds a way to let the sweet music out of her new violin.

Sounds like a good time out on the water, Paul, but those fishing regulations seemed pretty confusing. :oops:

How close was that 6.2, David. Loma Prieta at 35 miles was way too close for me way back when.
Fewer end pieces to cut means a faster job on that laminate, so long ways might be the easiest way to go.

I miss parking in the garage, but neither the truck nor the van will fit under the door opening, and it's so full of shop tools and motorcycles there's no room for them anyways. Thankfully we get very few frosts and snow is almost unheard of, but I do have to dodge raindrops once in a while.

A friend of mine was planning to travel a bit after this weekend's campout, but was having trouble with the clutch on his bike slipping. I said I had a shop and a bed for him if he made it this far north, but got a note yesterday that it was slipping even worse in the headwind, so he headed home instead.

The winds made it hard to hang onto my hat yesterday, and provided enough encouragement to stay inside that I mostly did that. Swapped the 4-in-1 bucket out for the pallet forks, and dropped the box blade off the back to get ready to rearrange the railroad track ballast, but that's as far as I got. Found more oil drops under the red bike, but I'm hoping it was hung up in the bash plate, instead of being a new leak. That's an inside job, so I'll look into that today. Not sure what other trouble I'll get into, but it's an opportunity rich environment.

The power's still out, due to return sometime tonight. Not that I've missed it much, other than running appliances during the day while the sun is shining.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #139,674  
Morning-gray and cloudy-calling for 80 degrees by end of week, had to look at calendar again to check the month??
Started doing some framing for Halloween display. I did some lousy cuts, oh well...

Today , maybe split some wood from the growing pile-still need to drop a lot of trees..

Stay safe and be well,
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   / Good morning!!!! #139,675  
RNG, was really hoping you'd post more beautiful pix from your latest trip...thanks.
Careful what you ask for, Billy. :ROFLMAO:

Morning comfort stop in an olive orchard. The GPS picked this tiny lane to get from one chunk of freeway to another, so now I'm wondering how it knew I had to go?😄

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Afternoon stop on the way down at a detour around a landslide that had closed the road. Seemed like the repair wouldn't have involved more than just shoveling a lot of dirt, but here we are many years later and the detour is still in place.
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That's it for photos this trip. Lots of miles and not enough time to stop and smell the roses.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #139,676  
Good morning, low 62° F and going to a high of 72. Wind SE 8 mph. Partly sunny, partly cloudy, showers with a chance of T-storms.
The weather gurus have it all covered except for snow and freezing rain.
Temps will start coming down to more 'seasonable' rates starting tomorrow.

Yesterdays T dinner was good! Stepson and DIL did up a ham with brussels sprouts, mixed veg, baked sweet potato for me and mashed potatoes for them. Pumpkin pie for dessert (for me), they don't like pumpkin pie.

I did absolutely nothing outside yesterday, no excuse, just did NOT want to do anything.
The good thing about being semi-retired is that if I don't want to do anything, then I don't do it.

I too, enjoy the pictures you all post.

ken, what are the odds of that turkey hanging around until November?

I looked into one of those electronic rust preventative gizmos they sell for elimination of rust on the vehicle. Waaayyy to expensive. $535.oo US + 20% exchange + 13% tax + shipping from down under...I will see what Canadian Tire has to offer.


Have a safe day all
 
   / Good morning!!!! #139,677  
L4N - glad you had a good thanksgiving. Turkeys are quite scarce by US Thanksgiving, though not bright, I think they know what's coming :cool:
 
   / Good morning!!!! #139,678  
I bet that olive orchard smelled nice RNG even if no time for roses

Happy Thanksgiving Bill. Yours comes early, but then so do your winters.

I love pumpkin pie if it's home made. Healthy pie if we didn't add so much sugar and fat
to it. Pretty sure anything orange is good for you. Carrots. Pumpkins. Sweet potatoes.
Orange sweet peppers. Acorn and butternut squash.
I bet Don can suggest an alternative seasoning vs butter and bacon.
Although a sweet potato or sliced carrots with a little butter and bacon bits sounds mighty good.
I get my comprehensive labs results back next week. Am on low dose statin I would love to get off, but
the numbers will tell.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #139,679  
56°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 79° today. Today is the only day this week with no rain in the forecast here.

Some small tornadoes spun up yesterday around the region. One in central Illinois threw a tree at and damaged the tractor trailer a friend of mine was driving. Fortunately, he wasn't injured.

The boy stopped by the house after work yesterday and got the dogs all stirred up ... just as I had pressed the record button in the studio. 🤬 Of course, he likes to jabber a bunch as well, which threw me behind on things I'd hoped to accomplish before it got dark. I did eventually get most of it done, but had to nix the opportunity to get some vocal recording done while the house was quiet. Maybe this evening.

BEF, Castle Walls has always been my favorite Styx song. I used to have that album on 8-track, and unfortunately the tape ended right in the middle of that song, so it would fade out, switch tracks with a "kachunk", then fade back in. :rolleyes: I don't miss 8-track cartridges at all.

Nice pics, fellas.
 

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