Good morning!!!!

[Mark P.]

Good Morning - currently 38° going to 44° with rain today

We are doing well health wise today..Better everyday..

Kilroy - thanks for info.

Daugen - stay as long as you can, your in the only place thats nice and comfortable right now..

Have a great day everyone..

Mark

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 33˚ F.

Heavy rains and thunder came last night but the ice did not melt it DOUBLED. A big limb is broken on my only tree, an oak in the front yard. Before the ice storm I cut all the branches 6' from the ground, this morning they are all on the ground, weighted down with ice.

Lost internet for 6 hours this morning just came back on.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

I think I will just use the hard wired connection to connect tv to the pc for now and lock out the WiFI on the TV. Will the AppleTV4 require Ethernet cable connection or will it work on WiFi? Any known security issues? Should allow easy screen mirroring from all apple phones iPads etc?

The AppleTV4 supports WiFi and Ethernet. I had buffering issues using the WiFi, and switched it over to Ethernet, but that may be more a function of my wonky network here than the AppleTVs fault.

I stick with Apple because when a security problem comes up, they're pretty good at realeasing quick patches to fix it. Anything I store on their cloud is encrypted on my device before it goes off site, so I feel comfortable about data security, too.

For mirroring, all you need to do is go to the Airplay icon on your device (looks like a rectangle balanced on the tip of a pyramid), click it, and you'll see a menu of AppleTVs that are set up for mirroring. Sometimes when I travel, I carry an old AppleTV so I can watch movies on the motel TV. I just hook the AppleTV to the HDMI port on the TV, bring up settings and join the motel WiFi, then go to my laptop and mirror the screen to the AppleTV/motel TV.

The AppleTV also has apps for Netflix. Amazon Prime, Paramount, Hulu, etc. so you can stream video from the internet with it, too. And it can access the hard drive on your Apple laptop or, if you have a NAS that supports AppleShare, audio/video files stored there as well. Yeah, it's all limited to the Apple ecosystem, but if that's the way you roll, it's pretty straight forward to get it going.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Good morning to all! Low of 19°, going up to 45° today, sunny and dry. Light breezes.

Not sure what I'm going to get into today, probably just putter a bit.

Had trouble falling asleep last night, then woke up about every 2 hours until dawn was starting..... fell asleep for another hour. Kinda dragging a bit.

RNG, glad you got a ride in. Nice to hear that the switch is pseudo working.... maybe is will start working once it "breaks-in" ?

Fritz, good to hear the wifey is getting around and nothing broken.

Doug, neat video of feeding the parrots.

Hard to believe all the ice in Texas. We saw a news clip of kids playing hockey in the ice coated street---- actually wearing ice skates!
Then clips of the roads with cars just sliding off onto the shoulder.... all in slow motion! Why would anyone try and drive on that stuff?

Everyone have a great day!

 

[sodamo]

67°F and no rain.

Could be interesting day ahead. Need to get back on the laundry remodel. Neighbor has given me his aquaponic setup he quit using a few years ago. 4 tanks, a bunch of pvc piping, a pump, and I don’t know what. Some disassembly required. Whether this will take a hour or several I don’t know. Hoping this can be the start of my own hydroponics I set aside last year due to price of pvc.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[two_bit_score]

wish I could send some heat to Texas and melt that ice

Thank you and others for your good thoughts. Won’t be long until we will be hitting highs in the 99* plus range. I’m enjoying the cool weather while I can.

We have some broken limbs from ice but not too bad. Some who couldn’t say home got into accidents on the roadways. My condolences to them.

Hopefully most ice will be gone by noon today.

 

[Looking4new]

The tractor has gone to the shop, $250.oo flatbed charge to take it up there. Another 250 to bring it home. The line that is leaking is the one from the pump to the joystick controller. It is a hard line, but soldering wouldn't work and that is all I can do. 250 is cheaper than the $400.oo the dealer wants for freight (come and get it and return it again) or the $150.oo/hr from the time their mechanic leaves their shop (3 hours away) until the time he gets back, brazes the hole and then another return trip to install it + hydraulic oil.

It was snowing pretty good when I was out at noon, 1/4 mile visibility if I was lucky. The maximum speed limit on the roads I was on was 35 mph, so I wasn't too worried about the dump/town run.
Paid the tow truck guy for the north bound trip while I was there.

All I can tell you about Toyo GSI 5 snow tires on my Dodge Journey is they suck. Teats on bulls have better uses than those tires. I wish I could get Pro-Comp mud and snow tires in 19".

I feel for you guys that are suffering with the freezing rain, oh how I hate that stuff.

Stay safe all

 

[buckeyefarmer]

39° and sunny
Spent time at the church building troubleshooting why the preacher couldn’t print. Ended up being firewall settings. Also got the copier now set as a printer. Took awhile to figure it out. One printer still loses it’s connection with the router.

Installing TurboTax now. I hate that as soon as it installs, it has to update itself, and you have no choice.

 

[txdon]

Just got back from a store run. Roads are free of ice but still have low hanging ice branches and broke limbs that I had to drive around. Most of these were on private properties. However, I suspect it will take a few years to clear the tree damage on the neighborhood trails.

 

[m7040]

The Bill Moran museum and black smith academy is now open. He is a very famous knife maker from Middletown Maryland.
He had his little shop for years on the road into Middletown until he passed away and now a foundation was established to preserve his legacy.

WF Moran Museum Home | moranmuseum

www.williammoranmuseum.com