Good morning!!!!

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Thankfully the days don't get much duller than this one, never ending low cloud with a fine drizzle searching out every scrap of once dry firewood.
I started making a weatherproof box to store firewood last winter, then when steel prices rocketed I "borrowed" the pieces that were to be used for the frame to use on another project - and never gave them back to myself .

Kyle, even if the flywheel broke, it was still a good try!

Somehow I doubt a man who tames Steiner beasts in his spare time will give up just yet on that project

Thanks for the guffaw laugh!

Not sure what I'm going to do. After looking inside the welding end cabinet, while it is fairly simple, it is OLD. I believe this thing dates back to mid 70's. Everything including the wires, is so dusty, there is no color to anything.

Drew Hammond B3 with a 122 Leslie!

My vote too. Not heavy Drew.

 

[Looking4new]

I have a sort of unwritten agreement with the plow guy that does my dead end road. If I see him coming and I haven't gotten to the mouth of the driveway I will wait for him. You know the drill, get out stretch my legs, check that the wheels haven't fallen off, take a p. If the driveway is already cleared, he will lift his wing a bit and I get nothing , no windrow at all.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 39F for the start, clear sky, light breeze with no heavy frost this morning. Light to moderate wind today, sky remained mostly clear, and high temp was 66F, DP 33F. Leaf pick up this morning, then bike ride, then leaf mowing and nap this afternoon. Chapel quarterly pot luck this evening wife made tart cherry pie. Some people that had been here for years come back for this meeting, and was fun visiting with them.
Covid update: Cooke 4270 confirmed cases, 67 active cases, Montague 2741 confirmed cases, 60 active cases, Grayson, 16,700 confirmed cases, 267 active cases. Cooke 7, Montague 6, Grayson 8, new cases.
Roy good to hear wife is progressing.
Ron what are the meters for? nice to see the project go from forgotten to almost done. Nice moon pic
Buppies good to hear you have some good work weather coming
Bill sounds like you are not plowing for anybody but you
Drew sorry about the fast, never that good at it myself.
Mike that is a lot of steps.
Don Marmalade look good, what else in a cherry/vanilla pie?
Ken sphere 2 should be piece of cake. looks nice with the mini lighs on. Glad bell ride enjoyable. horses are big
Ric bultaco must be getting along in the process. Did you keep a journal during Covid? I don't think I could remember all the detail you do.
Dennis thanks for the info
RNG must be dancing in the rain. Hope the paint cures, hope nap was good
David hope presurgery eval went well. Good luck with gutter garden rebuild
Eric sorry about the not so dry wood.
Drew glad you can go wash car now.
Dennis neat light display
Drew have been in several choirs, makes no difference if piano or keyboard, last choir, outside was keyboard, inside was piano. When I was in orchestra we tuned to the oboe, that instrument was supposed to be always correct pitch inspite of operator.
PJ good to hear tornadoes missed you. It is amazing how much farmland cuties have annexed in last few years!
Rich sorry about the steering wheel holder, maybe you can get on from Amazon
Thomas good progress on skidder, hope Santa no have supply chain issues
Kyle the real question is how good will welder be after motor gets fixed. It has sat for years, and If I remember correctly electronic don't get better sitting
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle's daughter/friend PT from Covid, Bird/aging issues/, Don/whipper, more tests/ Grey 2, RIP /ring bearer/back broken & infections, Don/ neighbors with Covid, Randy/FIL living alone adjustments /MIL covid, /cancer surgeries, PJ/FIL death, Dennis /wife wrist surgery and recovery, Roy/ palpitations/ angina, wife/ankle recovery, Billy/ wife fall, David(moss)/remodel/divorce, Buppies/new cancer on face /dehydrated, Thomas/gout, Phil/reflux/wife's eyes, Steppenwolfe/son-auto immune disorder, Grev/wife's eye, Ted/knee recovery/retirement, Doug and wife/health issues/nerve and pain/ wife's eyes, Ken/aunt fall injuries, David(sadamo)/Sophie's new eye surgery, Chris/neighbor's granddaughter and Covid issues, RS wife/ dog bite recovery, Scaredy/injuries from fall, Paul/ wife's disc issues, Mike/elbow pain, Bill/ getting care for DIL and Country.
stay safe and healthy you all.

 

[txdon]

Don . . . what else in a cherry/vanilla pie?

One bag frozen cherries (unless fresh is in season) Juice of one lemon, vanilla (1 tsp liquid, 1/2 tsp ground vanilla bean) 8 dates, 3 tbsp tapioca flour, water.

Crust - almond flour, ground flax seed and water.

 

[Bird]

Remember a few years ago the sink hole under the corvette museum in bowling green.

Yeah, I remember the pictures. And some years before that, my wife and I were in Bowling Green one summer during our full time RV living and the Corvette assembly plant had been shut down for retooling for the new model year and we saw a newspaper article about it reopening and public tours available, so we went out there. The weather that day was hotter'n blue blazes, a crowd standing around on hot concrete and only taking a few people at a time, with many already signed up for the tour. It looked like we'd have to stand around in the heat for hours if we wanted to take the tour. We didn't.

 

[Buppies]

36 high of 54 today

Prayers for all

 

[ronjhall]

Drinking first cup of coffee. 24° with clear skies this morning. Heading to 46° with increasing clouds in afternoon. Spent a little time on meter wiring. Had to redo some of it. Because wires inside transfer switch box was on opposite side of where meters are mounted. Want to get everything setup for when meters are hooked up. It does not take long for wiring up. House and generator power will need to be shut down when I finish wiring. Some more of that wire to do today.

Mostly, the meters are for monitoring Voltage, Watts and frequency from generator. It's an old project I started several years ago. Got pushed to corner of workbench. Not really needed. But something I wanted to do. I added set of meters for main line to project.

David, greenhouse looks good.

Bird, glad shopping with wife went well. I never shop on weekends. Stay away from stores on 23rd and 24th next week.

Popgadget, I have the same brake. great for 90° bends.

Don, marmalade looks good.

Ken nice light project and pictures.

Everyone stay healthy and safe.

Good Morning All.

 

[daugen]

good morning all
going to be a very nice day, 33 going up to 53 in sunshine.

Mostly, tart cherry pie, yum to the 9th

my morning is planned at church, trying to clean up some of my grouting done at the very beginning, when I wasn't neat enough with final wet sponge pass
and left mortar on the stone. Taking a small grinder with a flap disk on it, though first I'm using my Makita cordless drill hooked up to a steady progression of
softer bristles to metal brushes. Really don't want to scratch the underlying flagstone and sure don't want a "sanded" look. Will use water and softer brushes first
Thankfully my later work was fine. Other two guys doing the walkway were so happy to have me helping them I guess they didn't want to critique my work.
Wish they had before it all set up...lot harder getting this stuff off than putting it on. Live and learn.

didn't get the car washed yesterday, will do that this afternoon since the water is hooked back up.
Gotta remember to turn that off completely for sure when I'm done. Already wrecked one nice watering nozzle that froze up outside
even when I thought I had drained it. C'mon Melnor, make nozzles with internal drains...but of course now I have to buy another one.
I turned on the water and got quite the bath with this one. My bad.

a week late my specially ordered fancy Christmas cards came yesterday, the ones where you open them and a little building or object grows in front of you, and sending
them out this morning. I have four of them, going to a number of little old ladies, including my MIL. I hope they get there in time. I'm hand delivering them to post office
this morning.

Ron, gauges for gen a really good idea. I always wanted ones for head/cylinder temp and oil temp, with alarms...that's a lot more involved. I'm on a thread here dealing with generators and some of these guys have panels of gauges, great to look at. Most are for larger water cooled gens; I'd like more info on the air cooled ones. Most of us don't have larger than 22kw.

 

[ronjhall]

Yeah, I remember the pictures. And some years before that, my wife and I were in Bowling Green one summer during our full time RV living and the Corvette assembly plant had been shut down for retooling for the new model year and we saw a newspaper article about it reopening and public tours available, so we went out there. The weather that day was hotter'n blue blazes, a crowd standing around on hot concrete and only taking a few people at a time, with many already signed up for the tour. It looked like we'd have to stand around in the heat for hours if we wanted to take the tour. We didn't.

While we were traveling with our motorhome got to tour the museum and plant. Before they moved assembly to Bowling Green. It was in ST Louis, MO. I did service calls there on our machines. At the Bowling Green plant tires and wheels are done at a just in time outside vendor.

 

[RoyJackson]

2021-12-14, 0550

39° right now...high at 40°. Feels colder inside the house...

I'm hoping my stepdaughter gets up early enough to follow me to the shop to get my snow tires mounted. I don't have an appointment, but I can just leave the truck there for a couple days. Need to get the truck there before my "work day" starts...
As far as today, back to back webinars for an upcoming audit by the DCMA (Defense Contract Management Agency...DoD Quality Assurance group). These webinars will take up most of today through Thursday