Good morning!!!!

[Hay Dude]

Little late but I caught this stout buck on the PA/DE border this morning

 

[daugen]

signed storage contract with Village Scene rv campground in Hatfield, PA for three months starting Dec 1 to take my rv and get it out of my driveway.
85 bucks a month and close to their office. Once I get it back from the shop I'll take it down there and then organize my second annual
rv cover party. It is a clean machine and ready to be covered and unlikely I'll get to wash it again before it gets stored.
It's not a pleasant drive down the congestion of Montgomery Co but at least my coffee company friend now lives about three blocks from this rv campground in a fancy new over 55 Del Webb community. So I'll go check on the rv and check on him.

hmmmmm
Christmas is coming next month
time sure does fly

 

[PJSprog]

64°F and rain this morning, only going up to 72° today. We've had some pretty heavy rain here on and off all day so far, and it's really boomy out there right now. We'll take noisy rain.

First day for the new Quality Engineer at work. I gave him the extended tour of the place (he's new to electronics assembly), then ownership took him (us) to lunch. It will come as no surprise that I had the tacos, which were delicious. Seems like a nice enough guy.

Good afternoon, gents.

 

[daugen]

I couldn't resist...
a new blow up Santa this year, 12 feet tall

Amazon.com

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Good evening..... seems like I have finally found 5 minutes to post!

Fall has definitely arrived here.... temps have been going lower all week, with a high of only 48° today. Tonight's temp expected to drop to 26°. We may have our first snow overnight, maybe an inch.

Off and on sprinkles today, but only a trace of rain in the gauge. The guessers are predicting storms overnight, so maybe some more can get in the gauge. Hope so.....

It has been a difficult week.....apparently we weren't done with the bad luck.....
Finally got Dona into the PCP. They started panicking over a small lump found on her neck. Then her bloodwork is all out of wack.... which also caused an increase in the panic.....
Unfortunately, the provider she saw was Chinese and speaks very broken English. I can only catch a little more than half of what she says...(and I am fluent in drunk talk from the streets). Then she will ask you a question, but will then talk over you before you can even answer!

I literally had to yell at her " SHUT THE 'F+*' UP AND LISTEN TO WHAT WE ARE SAYING"..... it worked for about 4 minutes. We won't go back to that practice. The only purpose was to get referrals, xrays, and such started for her back. The provider has done NOTHING for her back except for initial xrays, focused solely on the bloodwork......

She now has an appointment at the spine and back center on Tuesday after getting the referral. Then, only after making a pest of myself calling them twice a day for 3 days.....

Going to run two gauntlets at once, in different cities. The one for the back is up in Santa Fe, the other for the abnormal labs and lump in Albuquerque. Each one at a different hospital/health network. We may try to consolidate to the system for the orthopedic services up in Santa Fe. That system is part of the Mayo network.

Unfortunately, Dona still can barely walk, has constant pain, and really has a hard time laying down. I wish I could post an xray on here..... L3,4, and 5 kinda look like this: //-\\-// ....

She can sleep for maybe 30 minutes to an hour. She's really dragging. I have become quite the domestic engineer.....

I'll try to check in when I get a chance. I need to keep everything moving, no one else will....

Everyone have a great evening!

LS,
first of all, Prayers For you and Dona.
Sorry for DR issues. Wish they would listen and be more helpful. The whole country is so messed up right now, shortages everywhere, from Doctors, workers, housing, etc... The cause is obvious, but too many heads buried in the sand.

 

[Thomas]

40F cloudy.

Been good day all in all...got all but 3 things done on my list to do for the outside.
Ready to bbq some ribs on the grill and Mrs. making country potato salad...gues I better use beach towel for bib.

Not much plan for the evening might watch some football.

Enjoy your evening all.

 

[Wagtail]

Good (Tuesday) morning. Overnight Low of 6.5C and it's presently 20.7C, clear with a gentle breeze.

As all would know, this Tuesday is a very important day as it is, of course, Melbourne Cup day ["The Race That Stops The Nation"].

The first 'ton' (ute-load) of split wood has already been delivered, so I'll need to get 'stuck in' to stacking this arvo. 8 more loads to arrive during the week or so, there's no hurry.

That's about it, take care all.

Those deer whistles I posted about really work at speeds over 35 mph. They work for deer, moose and black bears.

I use the same whistles, they do indeed work @ speeds 60 kph +.
Of course, for me it's primarily wallaby, padymelon and possum (bloody suicidal at the best of times!).
We do have a feral European deer population too.

 

[scott_vt]

Good Evening GS,

the CEO of my medical group that they are "negotiating" with my Medicare Advantage insurance carrier Humana for a new contract with "fair compensation". The current contract expires 1/1/25, which is after the open enrollment period. Hope I don't need to find another carrier, since this dr office and pharmacy are right here in town and I don't want to change.

GS, I decided that the straight Medicare plan seemed to be the best when we went on it ! The Advantage plans can save you some money up front but in the long run the straight Medicare seemed the most flexible, even though it was a bit more money ! JMO !
Best of luck working through all of that !

 

[Looking4new]

I just stumbled on a two ingredient recipe for biscuits. Whipping cream and self rising flour. Gonna try that soon.

 

[Buppies]

Asphalt plant broke only 265 tons try for more tomorrow base mix asphalt about 2100 tons total got a ways to go though two days 665 tons down.

It does look good Thomas will go up to building later on and get pictures

Good evening