Good morning!!!!

daugen · Jan 10, 2024

discovered my relatively new flag pole had snapped in half last night
will have to get a new one, something simple and sturdy.

grey day out, surprisingly warm at 47
I've been pretty lazy

LouNY · Jan 10, 2024

Well back in from a walk around the yard and trip down the driveway after last nights rain and high winds. It took down 3 pines on my lawn, but just a bunch of small sticks (under an 1 1/2") in the driveway so not bad. Only a few largertrees on the farms main fences lots of small ones.

The root ball is close to 5 feet above grade as it sits,
the larger one in the main yard it's 60-70' used to be tall.
They will be laying there for a while even walking around your feet sink an inch or so, so definitely no tractors for awhile

and a smaller one in the back yard

riptides · Jan 10, 2024

New laptop just showed....now I know why I am a Linux fan.

Sheesh, the amount of advertising and unnecessary programs on Windows boggles my mind.

How invasive for a "personal computer".

Now to transfer all the needed stuff from my other dead windows HD. Should be fun.

...and trying to scan from it, with a new HP printer, three HP programs before one finally had the feature I needed. Thanks HP. Another bureaucratic mess.

\rants off for today.

two_bit_score · Jan 10, 2024

Good afternoon!

They were talking about a light snow for Monday in Texas but as far as I've seen it did not happen. Maybe next week when the real cold weather gets here. So far looks to be kinda mild compared to what a lot of ya'll get routinely.

We have been busy with watching our granddaughter this week an not much of anything else. But, that is perfectly fine with me.

Best wishes for everyone with the weather where you are and get well soon if you haven't already! I have finally turned the corner on the stuffiness and coughing.

Prayers and best wishes for everyone here on GM thread!

two_bit_score · Jan 10, 2024

riptides said:
New laptop just showed....now I know why I am a Linux fan.

Sheesh, the amount of advertising and unnecessary programs on Windows boggles my mind.

How invasive for a "personal computer".

Now to transfer all the needed stuff from my other dead windows HD. Should be fun.

...and trying to scan from it, with a new HP printer, three HP programs before one finally had the feature I needed. Thanks HP. Another bureaucratic mess.

\rants off for today.

Yes, transferring computers is no fun. Good luck. You seem to be pretty adept at that.

scott_vt · Jan 10, 2024

Good Afternoon TBS,

two_bit_score said:
Yes, transferring computers is no fun. Good luck. You seem to be pretty adept at that.

My two sons and DIL's bought me a new laptop for Christmas ! I have not figured out how to make my commonly used websites stickies like the old laptop ! I guess I will need them to come over and show me how! I am guessing if I fooled around with it long enough I could do it,,,,

This laptop is much faster than my old brick !

It was in the 40's this afternoon, so I actually did a little more leaf cleanup around my garage !

Hope all have a good afternoon !

LS Tractor Owner · Jan 10, 2024

Lou, sorry about the trees going down. They looked really nice and healthy. A shame for sure.

Made it out of Costco under $300. Gas was at $2.37, so topped off a whopping 5.5 gals.....

I am getting disappointed with Costco. Now 5 items that we normally get are no more. It seems that they get a short supply of a really good item, flies off the shelves, then no more. Oh well.

Got a rotisserie chicken for dinner. Still can't be beat for $5. We get a few meals out of one, then soup from the carcass.

The knee is complaining about the walking, so time to go put it up on some pillows......

buckeyefarmer · Jan 10, 2024

LS Tractor Owner said:
Lou, sorry about the trees going down. They looked really nice and healthy. A shame for sure.

Made it out of Costco under $300. Gas was at $2.37, so topped off a whopping 5.5 gals.....

I am getting disappointed with Costco. Now 5 items that we normally get are no more. It seems that they get a short supply of a really good item, flies off the shelves, then no more. Oh well.

Got a rotisserie chicken for dinner. Still can't be beat for $5. We get a few meals out of one, then soup from the carcass.

The knee is complaining about the walking, so time to go put it up on some pillows......

I got out of costco at $203 monday, course I just went for a couple things....... cart creep.
son is setting up his new laptop we got him for christmas. His old DELL literally falling apart. still works, but screen is coming loose, case has cracked at the hinges. I bought (I hope ) a better grade DELL this time. My new Dell, only a couple yrs old now, is coming apart at the back left corner where the power attaches. screw keeps backing out.
I used linux a lot for work, but it lacks some of the programs I want to run at home.
Went with wife for a lunch / walmart run. Chickfila was over $40 for 3 of us (son rode along for a free meal also), all I had was a bowl of soup, nothing else.
Local river is flooded, I'll add photo from the phone after I post. so much easier to add photos that way. The river pics weren't good, this is a creek that dumps into the river. Creek itself back in the trees.