Good morning!!!!

[scott_vt]

Good Morning,
Ct, 30 to start going to 46 ! Looks mostly clear but still a bit dark !

Ken , sorry to hear about your wifes cousin ! Prayers to your wife and family !

Don, looks to be quite a project ! By now you must feel like a coal miner !

Work today, at least the rain is gone so I won’t need a rain coat !

Paul and Dennis, everything looks cozy around the fire guys !

Hope all have a great day !

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 48F @ 4:30AM. Abundant sunshine. High 59F. Winds NNW at 5 to 10 mph.

A beeping smoke detector was my alarm clock this morning. Nothing like climbing to the top of an eight foot step ladder when you're half asleep to get your day started off on the wrong foot. Didn't even get a year out of the old Duracells.

Got all the lights in the house working yesterday, but still need to cap off some unused wires with wire nuts on the next trip. But I'm definitely out of the woods on that project now.

The turkey came out nice and moist and is resting in ziploc bags in the fridge. Definitely need more practice at carving.

Happy Hump Day, folks!

 

[daugen]

yes, nothing like warm feet by the fire
and I bet Popgadget's are made of super soft alpaca
grown down at the alpaca barn

my electric fake woodstove in living room is remarkably realistic
except it doesn't feel anything like the real thing

need to buy some apples this morning nearby and then have cardiologist visit this afternoon.
today's high is 54, perhaps this afternoon I'll get some outside time. Depends upon how late doc runs, they already
pushed back my appt from 11am, saying they were overbooked. I'll make sure to take my Kindle.

I made a turkey dinner last Saturday and have now had turkey for four dinners.
I am so turkeyed out...
And I'm not a ham person.
one of the best turkeys I've had was a deep fried turkey made by my boss at the time,
Richard Merritt of Merritt Yacht Brokers in Ft Lauderdale. He would have a cookout for all the staff
and first time I ever saw turkeys being deep fried in peanut oil.
It looked dangerous as could be, easy to burn yourself but it worked and the turkey reminded me
of one of those pigs you slow cook, where everything just falls off the bone.

I can only imagine how many grams of hydrogenated fat came with the turkey.
my overweight boss finally died of heart disease.
no wonder

 

[RedNeckGeek]

She settled on some blinds at HD, but unfortunate when we got home, it looks like a no go. Seems no one makes corded blinds anymore. The window heights are not conducive to fully opening a blind as one cannot reach that high. Motorization is the other option. Looks like more shopping is in order.

That is unfortunate. I have a cordless Levolor blind that has already been replaced once because the bottom won't retract back to the top. The warranty is only good for one replacement, and now the replacement blind is doing the same thing. I've had zero problems with the corded blinds I installed at the same time, so I was planning on corded blinds for the new house. The motorized options I've seen are obscenely expensive, and they're new enough I wonder about their longevity. I'm hoping to take advantage of another Black Friday deal, so need to figure something out pretty quick...

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Wngsprd, that looked like a nice hike you did the other day. If I looked at the right trail, looks like one I might try. We will be down that way this weekend.
Both geo units running ok yesterday. I had pellet stove running last night, so downstairs didn’t run last night. Upstairs keeping up at 42° outside.
Y’all have fun with white stuff.
Hope to beat traffic today, but might take back roads and stay off interstate. Takes longer but more enjoyable, and I’m in no rush.

 

[daugen]

travel safely Dennis

rain coming in tonight, will be raining most of tomorrow but then clearing up towards end of day.
Will be a nice day to sit by a fire. I'll be at my nephew's farm in New Hope, the one right next to the railroad line so I expect
to hear lots of train horn blowing
2 long 1 short 2 long
intersection ahead

yup, that's mighty close to the RR tracks, I wonder if his kids have ever put pennies on the track

 

[Engineer42]

A beeping smoke detector was my alarm clock this morning. Nothing like climbing to the top of an eight foot step ladder when you're half asleep to get your day started off on the wrong foot. Didn't even get a year out of the old Duracells.

I have felt your pain! I want to meet the SOB who designed smoke detectors to find out what he did to make them decide the battery is low between 11pm and 6am. Save for one instance, I have never had them do that while I was awake.

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, 44 going to 54 and sunny.
Have a head cold, so a bit out of it.

Drew, when house shopping here we looked at a house by the tracks. The couple were metalsmiths and put big metal sculptures by the tracks. The house wasn't right for us, but he had a fantastic shop I would have loved.

Back to the day job,

Be well,

More lights up, the Santa Sleigh is about 8 feet wide. Pic from upper back deck.

 

[sodamo]

68°F and no rain.

Lots of piddling around today in prep for tomorrow.

Expecting about 22 to enjoy TDay potluck.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[masseyrider]

I have felt your pain! I want to meet the SOB who designed smoke detectors to find out what he did to make them decide the battery is low between 11pm and 6am. Save for one instance, I have never had them do that while I was awake.

Couple months ago I woke to the cheery sound of the smoke detector around 4AM.
IT was in the bedroom hallway. Role out of bed all groggy grab a chair to stand on, climb up and take it down.
Pop the battery out.
It's still screaming. What the HE-double hockey sticks.
There's a second one in the main entrance close by.
Climb up, take it down, pop the battery.
Still screaming.
I'm finally fully awake and realize it's not the smoke detectors but the CO2 detector just below the first smoke detector.
Pull it out of it's plug.
Still screaming. No serviceable battery to pull out.
Threw it out the back door and went to sleep.
When I got up it was still going.
I got the 12 gauge and pumped a #8 into it.
True story.