Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

RNG you are never going to run out of tunes, that's quite a collection.
Thanks Buppies. Headed to Salem this morning, will go to Walmart first to get some tylenol and my last batch of chopped fruit for breakfast.
hard to believe I'll be home day after tomorrow.
I'm ready for my leaves, though I bet lawn guys have it all cleaned up.

45 degrees in Blountville TN in Rocky Top Campground.

Buckeye, that trip sounds wonderful. Sounds like all the best of the West.
if you aren't sure about your camper tires, factor in cost of a new set of tires before you leave on a long trip in the mountains like that.

 

[LouNY]

me too
same guy or his wife have been working polls a block from my house for 40+ years.
In a super deep voice that everyone knows is just his, Clifford welcomes me with a hello Drew.

I really liked the mechanical machines. These fill in the dots stuff seems inefficient.
just as long as our chads don't hang...

remember hanging chads?
yet another election uproar

A hanging chad is a fragment from a punch-card ballot paper which has not detached fully, resulting in an incomplete and therefore invalid ballot paper. Punch-card voting machines require voters to punch holes in their ballot papers in order to indicate their voting preferences. The small discarded fragment of paper is called a “chad”. “Hanging chads” result when ballot papers are not completely punched through and the small piece of paper or card prevents the ballot paper from being marked down as a definite vote for a particular candidate.

Hanging chads were partly responsible for the unusually high proportion of invalid votes recorded in Florida during the 2000 US Presidential election. As Chads weren’t completely punched through, many ballot papers recorded people voting for fewer than the minimum number of candidates required. The US invested heavily in electronic voting methods such as voting machines, but still faces significant difficulties with elections.

I preferred the old mechanical machines myself also, throw that lever over to close the curtain behind you, flip all the little levers down then shove that lever to open the curtain and tally your votes. A good solid sense of accomplishment. Not fill in the dots and feed it into a document feeder for it to scan or kick back to try again.
If I recall correctly the hanging chads were from those ballots that sat in holder and you had to poke a hole in your selection and supposedly some people didn't press hard enough to penetrate the paper completely.

 

[wngsprd]

45 working up to 80. Kyle, yesterday we had a 40 degree swing.

Scott, hoping your wife feels better, and you haven't caught it.

Beautiful pix Ron, Buppies and Lou. Lou, I hope that $912 included the brakes, although that's still high.

Ordered new tires for the Tundra...need good traction for all the snow we're gonna get this winter...and going off road a bit in the mountains. Been happy with the current tires, so just another fresh set.

Decided my wife needed some fresh air so took her up to climb a mountain with me and Della yesterday...great time, beautiful colors, chipmunks and squirrels everywhere to delight both of them.

I treated her to an early dinner and wine flight on the way home at a restaurant associated with a vineyard named "Well Hung."

 

[wngsprd]

Nice snack spot. The witch hazels were really loaded.

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, the low temp is 53 and going to a high of 72°F. Wind SE 7 mph. Sunny!
Today is the last day of indian summer and then we get back to more seasonable temps.

I'm not sure what I will get into today. Probably not much.

Have a safe day all

 

[Happy in NC]

Good morning TBN! 46 this morning with a high of about 80. No rain in the 7 day at all and low will be 50s with upper 70s and 80s through the whole forecast. Rain could be ab issue before long. But I will take it for now. News just said it's been 20 days since rain. That was Helene!!
Wife worked with appeal to FEMA and they will have an appraiser out in a week or so. The rep added gas for the genny and water to our request! They had offered to put us in a hotel until Dec. I don't need all that. Just give me some $$$ for the bridge. And point me to a decent steel tank.

Nice weekend visit with niece and her hubby. A few good days of hiking catching up and football. They headed back to Ohio yesterday and arrived safely.

Went and cleared a few of our downed trees yesterday but that was about it for working. Took it easy for the rest of the day. I may try and tackle my air compressor again today. And my throttle.

I too have a lot of music. Near 800 0n vinyl and another 500 or so CDs. Decent turntable with an Onkyo receiver and I usually just have TV on or listen to Itunes! I don't want to get rid of them because I doubt they will bring much.

Colors are starting to pop but I think it won't be a stellar year due to Helene blowing everything off.

Well the coffee is about gone and the sun is starting to rise, so I should get dressed and find out what the gorgeous day ahead has in store. Have a great and safe day!!

 

[daugen]

I think I'll be locking the rv door tonight for sure at Dixie Caverns campground.
I always like to check out the surrounding area
great big jail on other side of Roanoke River.
bet it's going to be noisy with all these roads and trucks on 81 but it's convenient.
next stop will be super quiet.

Dixie Caverns · 5753 W Main St, Salem, VA 24153

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www.google.com

 

[LouNY]

A question for all of you, been getting a pop up from bit defender recently on this website;

"The page https://qvdt3feo.com/sync?nid=33&gdpr=0&gdpr_consent= has been detected with suspicious activity. It is not recommended to continue browsing this website."

Anyone else seeing this?

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning
51° high in the 80’s and clear sky, the new grass is loving this weather, and all the water I’m giving it.

Thanks for all the replies about music. My collection (and tastes) run from Little Walter to Pink Floyd to Willie Nelson to Pokey LaFarge to Social Distortion to Guy Clark, to the Dead to the Sons of the Pioneers to Bob Wills to the New Riders to the Stones to John Prine, Steve Goodman or David Bromberg Not to mention the more mainstream classic rock like the Allmans or Moody Blues or Fleetwood Mac. That should give you a rough idea.
After trying Spotify for one day, I think it might be just the solution for me. The subscription cost will easily be made up by not having to digitize and supply hardware to go the digital route on my own, or build the furniture to store all the media and set up the turntable if I went that route. What ever I do, I’m not going to get rid of anything, it will all be stored in the shop.
We did move a few pieces of furniture, and the wife is starting to fill the closets, so we are getting closer.
I stopped by the township building to see if my CO was ready, or there were additional hoops I needed to jump through. It was all printed, but needed to be signed, so no more hoops. They told me that I could start moving in if I wanted to.


On to today.
Gonna start with breakfast with the professor. Then come back home and clean up all the left over building materials and take the dump trailer full of the remaining trash to the dump/recycling center.
The manure bin is also full to overflowing, I’ve sorted of pretended it didn’t exist (like a lot of other chores) while focused on the OFH. But I think after the trash gets dumped, the dump trailer will be hauling manure to a neighboring farm.
Then it will go pick up a load of mulch.
Someone told that staying busy keeps you young, I hope that’s true because I sure keep checking days off the calendar. It’s curious that while I’m growing new grass, I haven’t had to mow in weeks. Shows what the irrigation does.

 

[Happy in NC]

digitize and supply hardware to go the digital route on my own, or build the furniture to store all the media and set up the turntable if I went that route.

It is a PITA to digitize vinyl. I have done it a few times with Audacity. It takes about 5 times longer then just putting the album on and you lose sound quality!