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Congratulations, and tell her we don't require that she and that baby be dressed up for a night on the town to post pictures.:D

66 degrees for a low today going for a forecast high of 79. And I noticed the first of the catkins yesterday from the live oak tree in the front yard. I think live oak trees would be great in the pasture for shade for your livestock, but I'd never recommend having one within a hundred yards of...

I may have posted this before, but when I was growing up we had breakfast, dinner, and supper (and NO eating between meals). I guess I was grown before I ever ate "lunch". Breakfast ALWAYS included eggs (fried or scrambled) and biscuits (my Dad did NOT eat any of that store bought bread until...

At 6 a.m. yesterday it was 68 degrees here and this morning 36. Winter is trying to hang on I guess. But it's clear and sunny.

NWS now says we're under a wind advisory; may have winds up to 40 mph, 20% chance of rain, and the current temperature is 80 degrees and sunny. In reality we have a very slight breeze; quite a nice day for sitting outside in the shade. And I'm tired after mowing, trimming, and edging the...

Very odd weather this Spring. Yesterday, the temperature ranged from 39 to 49, just enough mist yesterday to require using the windshield wipers occasionally, but then later in the day, the temperature started to rise, and by 4 a.m. this morning, 68 degrees with a 20-30 mph southerly breeze...

All this talk about different drinks and no one has mentioned Thunderbird or MD 20-20.:laughing: In the mid '60s, Thunderbird was the wine of choice of the street people in Dallas, but then it was replaced by MD 20-20. I guess I was always a bit surprised by the change from a white wine to a...

I've not had much experience with horseradish EXCEPT . . . I've always liked Arby's original sandwich with their "horsey sauce". I'm also quite fond of shrimp cocktails and a lot of years ago, one night I found that I had shrimp on hand, but no cocktail sauce. So I mixed about 50/50 ketchup...

In the days before I drank any alcoholic drinks, an older friend told me that scotch was an acquired taste; that no one likes it at first. Well, he was wrong. The first time I ever tasted scotch (Johnny Walker Red Label), I knew that scotch would be my preference of the whiskeys. And seltzer...

Club soda! Now there's something I've never found a use for. Of course I'd heard of scotch and soda, so the weekend after Labor Day, 1969, my wife and I drove out to Carlsbad Caverns. When we arrived in White City, we checked into the motel, then walked across the road to the White Buffalo...

Yep, Eric, it's been awhile since I had any Glenfiddich (or any other scotch), but that's hard to beat.

Tastes do change over the years, but not all our tastes.:laughing: Many years ago when we bought a new house that had a wet bar, I stocked that bar with a wide variety of things, including a bottle of Jack Daniels. That bottle set there for years, unopened, before I finally found someone to...

My wife periodically fusses at me to get a new chair to replace the one I'm now sitting in. Yep, it looks pretty bad and worn, but it's actually quite strong and quite comfortable, so I see no need to replace it.

We do watch Fox 4 News in the morning, but seldom watch any other news casts. I still watch the old Gunsmoke reruns; doubt that there's any episode I've seen less than 3 or 4 times at least. And I still watch the old John Wayne movies that I recorded on the TV. Of course in a previous life, I...

Yep, cool front has us down to 54 degrees this morning, going for a high of 60. And it appears that the rain might be over for us, so I just went out and poured about 2.18" of rain out of my gauge; puddles standing everywhere. So now the yard needs mowing, but I don't know how long it'll be...

You certainly have my sympathy. I did the same thing with my mom 12 years and 25 days ago.

64 degrees going for a high of 72 today AND WE'VE ALREADY GOTTEN A LITTLE MORE THAN A HALF INCH OF RAIN THIS MORNING.; More to come today AND tomorrow.

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I don't know about you guys who took so long to marry your gal.:laughing: I met my wife one night in July, then didn't see her again until October or November, and married her the next April; so about 9 months from first meeting until marriage. Of course, the night when we first met, when we...

When I met my wife, she was living with an aunt (her father's sister) and an uncle in Dallas. The rest of her family was in West Virginia. Her Dad was a welder for the railroad, so they could travel via rail at no cost. However, we'd been married more than a year and had a baby before I met...

68 degrees this morning, going for a high of 79. Our weather forecasters keep forecasting rain LATER TODAY or TOMORROW. So it keeps changing and doesn't happen. MAYBE it'll actually happen tomorrow.

65 degrees this morning, clean and sunny, going for a high of 85. Then a fair chance or rain every day for the next week. My 88 year old next door neighbor went in the hospital night before last with some chest pains and a big spike in his blood pressure. He hopes he might come home today...

I noticed the first bluebonnets of the year in my neighborhood yesterday.

Yeah, it shows to have started on March 21, 1998. I got my Kubota B7100 on June 30, 1995. Then I got my first Internet connection on August 24, 1998. And a year later, on August 12, 1999, I traded that B7100 for a B2710. But I'm not sure of the exact date that I first found the website that...

We could use some rain; yard needs to be watered.:D Right now, the NWS says for Denton, TX, a 20-30% chance Saturday night thru Monday, then a 50-70% chance Monday night thru Tuesday. We can hope.

I almost never look at that patient portal, but just out of curiosity I find that for my physical on 3/30/2017, my doctor has the "standard range" shown at 3.4 to 10.8 and mine was 6.9.

Yep, Kubotasource.com.

I see that lists my start date as 3/20/2000. How many remember the name of TBN before it became Tractorbynet? I bought my Kubota B2710 on 8/12/1999 (the date it was delivered), but I had a B7100 before that and started using TBN's predecessor for information way back then. And dial up...

The neighbor is 88 years old and can barely get around with a walker. I've got to take him to get a prescription and do some grocery shopping today. I know I've posted it before, but growing up in the country, I made my spending money from my hogs, selling okra, pecans, and plums. But we...

And the first time we met some folks from Baton Rouge who became good friends, and we got to talking about fishing, he said his favorite was sac-a-lait fishing in a batou. I finally learned he meant crappie fishing in a jon boat.:laughing:

How many of you knew that our host, Muhammad, got married around the first of the year? I thought we'd see some wedding and/or honeymoon photos before now, so I haven't mentioned it earlier. I don't think:cool2: it's supposed to be a secret; at least I hope not.:rolleyes:

I surprised myself today; got all of my yard mowed, edged, and trimmed AND ALL of the one next door. If anyone had told me I could do both in one day, I wouldn't have believed it. I bagged the clippings from my yard, then did the side discharge on the yard next door. In the past, the EGO side...

50 degrees going for a high of 80 with a chance of rain this afternoon. So I've got to get to mowing, edging, and trimming the lawn as soon as it's light enough this morning.

We're just the opposite; my wife is going to be in a hurry to answer either phone anytime it rings. I'll take my time and look to see if it's from someone I want to answer.

64 degrees early this morning, going for a high of 84. Dallas TV weatherman thinks they might break the record of 88 today. And in about an hour my wife and I both have appointments for eye exams to see if we need new glasses or not. I got new ones a year ago, but she didn't need new ones...

Yep, Ron, I sympathize with you. It's always struck me as odd that Medicare (and Medicare supplements) are for older people, but they try to make it too complex and difficult for many of us older people to understand or use. Your wife has a problem with phones because of her speech, and I have...

I probably use cruise control more than anyone else; even on some 30 mph city streets at times. But NEVER if the street is wet. Of course I also supervised the safety officers on the police department, and I received a 20 consecutive years safe driving award myself. And before I became a...

I reset both of our cars (Fords) yesterday. They are very different, and either one is simple after I get the manual out and read the instructions.:laughing: And I always forget how to do it until I look in the book. We're having some unusual weather. It was 63 degrees this morning at 6...

Me, too, as long as the "cold" is above freezing. I'd love for the temperature to always stay at 40 to 50 degrees fahrenheit.

Yep, our thermostat stays on 76, my wife sits on the sofa under a blanket and I sit in a recliner under the ceiling fan.:laughing:

I bought a Mantis direct from the company several years ago, and it was good. But with age, it had gotten a little contrary about starting, and the grease seal was leaking at the gear box. So I gave it to my grandson, who is a truck mechanic, and I bought a new one a year ago last month. This...

Old age is tough. I only worked on the yard for 4 hours and was worn out. But at least no effects from the fall yesterday. And I still have 4 to 6 hours more lawn work to do. But it'll just have to wait for another day. The thatch was really bad in the part of the yard that has St...

60 degrees going for a high of 81 today. I started working on the lawns yesterday, doing some dethatching with the Mantis tiller dethatching attachment, and mowing with the bagger. I also made one small error and fell on the concrete steps at the back of the shop and did a back flip off there...

Kyle, I said it was against departmental rules; I didn't say it wasn't done. I guess I can tell on myself, since all the other participants are dead now. I had just about 3 years on the department, when one slow night about 2 a.m., I was working with an older partner, I was driving, almost no...

Same here. I have a BIG one; rated to handle up to 500 lbs. And the main reason I bought this particular one was because of the bigger wheels and bigger, higher, more comfortable seat. My wife's is much smaller with smaller wheels, seat, etc. But both have the hand brakes and we always lock...

I have no idea what the rules are today, but back about 50 years ago:laughing: . . . we could, and did, stop motorcycles and issue citations when appropriate. But if they ran, we were not supposed to give chase.

We've got a couple of rollators and one walker, but have never seen anything like that UPWalker; never even heard of such before now.

Several years ago, I bought a used pickup truck that had the aftermarket tint on the windows; tint that was far too dark. And it was tough, alright; took me half a day to get it off and clean the windows.:laughing:

Almost right, Ron. On this 2017 Ford Escape you have to press that start button twice. You reminded me enough that I didn't have to get the manual out.:laughing: That Start button even has "2X" in a circle on it. I figure most northern folks use that feature in the Winter to let the car warm...

That's another option, or feature, I would not want. I've always said I'd pay more for a car without a hole in the roof than I'd pay for one with a hole in the roof.:laughing: But that was something the elder of our two daughters just had to have on the last new car she got.:confused3: My...

My wife likes the heated seats in our Ford Escape, but I've never turned on the heat in my seat, probably never will. When I saw that the car had that feature, I thought that was the silliest thing Ford ever did. But with my record for predicting, apparently I was wrong again.:laughing: Of...

Just what I was thinking.

Me, too! And if the fresh ones are not available, canned ones will do. And I never even heard of the kind of peas some of you have been talking about; Marrowfat?

It just depends on what they're eating. I've eaten eggs from "free range" chickens that tasted just like store bought eggs. On the other hand, my parents used to have eggs with yolks that were a much darker orange than any you've ever seen in a store bought egg. And those eggs had a much...

Eggs are so cheap, and my wife doesn't eat them, so it would not be worth it to me. But then, I grew up out in a family that always had at least a couple of dozen hens..:laughing:

Sure sorry to hear that, but we'll be praying for her, and hope it can be cured.

One class I took, years ago, was by an SMU college professor, Phd in English. He was teaching a class of police officers, and said all our reports should be written as the Reader's Digest wrote; 9th grade English, short sentences, no big words, but grammatically correct, with correct spelling...

Yep, we skinned squirrels out right over the head, washed it thoroughly and fried the head, too. At the table, split the skull, ate the brains, a bite of meat on each cheek, and the tongue. I haven't seen any in grocery stores or restaurants since the mad cow scare, and supposedly some folks...

We had that when we butchered hogs and we had calf brains and eggs when we butchered a calf. There also used to be one all night restaurant in Dallas in the 1970s that had calf brains and eggs on the menu. I always liked'em.

He had a girlfriend about 2 blocks west of here, and he moved in with her when we bought this house. Of course I don't know how long that relationship went on before he sold this house.:D Same here, except ours is a Hamilton Beach because the last one was a Cusinart and died early, so I...

In 1968, I had a moonlighting job on some nights at the Marriott Hotel in Dallas. The restaurant stayed open 24/7 and the day cook (or chef) baked a big batch of biscuits every evening before he left. And at night, you could pop a cold biscuit or two into the big "Radar Range" in the kitchen...

We, too, still don't have an Instant Pot although we have eaten a meal prepared in one at our former next door neighbor's home.:laughing: But we do have two crockpots.:laughing:

Yep, Kyle, that young lady has a real talent. My paternal grandmother did some great oil paintings, our eldest daughter was a pretty fair artist . . . . . and I'm lucky if I can draw a straight line with a ruler.

It used to be that way here, but they passed a state several years ago requiring 100% of actual value. Now of course, they miss their guess very frequently.

The temperature got all the way up to 59 this afternoon, and the sun finally peeked out just for a little while. After 7.06 inches of rain with 11 rain days last month, we hope it starts to dry out a bit. So I took both cars to the car wash this afternoon.

Your sign reminds me of some earlier trips to Alaska. "Frost heaves" can play havoc with the Alaska Highway (Alcan) at times, and we'd see much smaller temporary signs than your "SLOW" sign, just off the right edge of the road, with one word "DIP". And when you saw one of those signs, you'd...

Good luck! Hope everything checks out OK.

My partner and I answered a call about a prowler one night about midnight and besides the older lady who had called, there was a pretty little girl sitting there in the den. I first thought she was a teenager, but somehow in the conversation, the older woman (aunt of the younger one) mentioned...

Haven't heard the Opel mentioned in a while. In 1973, I bought a new Winnebago Brave; smallest class A motorhome made back then. So I needed a little car to tow behind it. The VW was the most popular back then, but even older ones also cost too much. I found a "new" (never been sold), three...

WE'VE GOT SUNSHINE THIS AFTERNOON!

We've had Hoover, Electrolux, Bissell, and Eureka, have used my parents' and grandparents' Kirbys, and we now have a Shark; hands down the absolute best vacuum cleaner I ever used. No experience at all with things like the Roomba but might like to try one.

Just looking at all those pictures makes me tired. Looks like you've been doing an awful lot of work.

A lot of people in my neighborhood still don't use the recycling bin, but in our case, they've made it so convenient that we do use it. The company that does the garbage pickup weekly (Community Waste Management) provided each address with a large 2-wheeled recycling bin. We do not have to...

45 degrees for a low, going for a high of 64 today. Still raining a bit this morning, but the weather forecasters think it'll all be over by the middle of the afternoon today. As of yesterday afternoon, I've gotten 5.8" of rain this month; all but .49" of it in the past week. And now there's...

NWS says we still may get more rain today, but right now it appears to have all been over since about 6 p.m. yesterday. With rain off and on yesterday, I figure I've gotten about 5.01" for the month of February; most of it yesterday. Only got .15" last month. The temperature yesterday ranged...

Weird weather around here; temperature yesterday was 70 or more, and overcast, when I took my neighbor to a 10 a.m. doctor's appointment. Then we had a downpour as we left the doctor's office. But by yesterday afternoon we only had about .9" inch of rain in my gauge. And this morning, it's 31...

Long ago, we spent the month of January, 1990, in Tucson, AZ, beautiful weather, did a lot of sight seeing in shirt sleeves, played a lot of shuffleboard since the Voyager RV Park had the best courts and equipment I've ever seen. And on January 12, we drove up Mt. Lemon, ate lunch in the ski...

Very good answer, Randy.:laughing::laughing:

Incredible weather we're having this year. Our LOW for the night was 61, currently 67 at 6 a.m. and going for a high of 75 with a 60% chance of rain. And we're all getting older and in worse health I guess. Tomorrow we have a forecast for a 90% chance of rain. And I have to take my 88 year...

A man after my own heart.:laughing:

And when it IS open, do you have to pay to go in and dump something?

Rain is gone and it's cleared off. Looks like we got about .27" of rain this morning.

42 degrees going for a high of 61 today AND IT'S RAINING! I don't expect very much rain, but we're thankful for what we do get.

Yep, you used to be able to get just about anything you needed on the farm from Sears Roebuck and Montgomery Ward. Not only mechanical equipment like tractors and motorcycles, but even some live critters, such as baby chicks and honey bees. And you've certainly posted lots of nice pictures...

Been a long time since we had Cornish hens for dinner; need to do that again soon. And our cookstove is a KitchenAid stove and has the convection feature that we've never used.

As you said, it's a complex problem with no easy fixes. I imagine most of us have some opinions as to the cause and the best "fix". So my opinion, for what it's worth:o, is that our court system is ONE of the problems; perhaps the biggest one. I remember being taught many years ago that it...

Be careful what you say. You know Katie Couric got in hot water over a comment about that.:laughing: NBC's Katie Couric apologizes for Olympics snafu that offended Dutch citizens | Fox News

We're sure having some crazy weather; more freezing weather than usual this winter, lack of rain, etc. And NOW . . . 65 degrees at 5 a.m., going for a forecast high of 80. Yesterday morning started at 44 and forecast to go to 69, but it actually went to 79.:rolleyes:

44 degrees this morning with a forecast high of 69. But now at 2:25 p.m., it's 76 degrees. I had to turn on the A/C in the car this afternoon.

Our last rain in December was about 1.15" on the 22nd. And this year . . . I got about 0.15" on Jan. 7 and 0.48" on Feb. 6 with about 0.01" on Feb. 11. In other words, it's too dry around here, but at least we're not nearly as bad off as Cape Town, South Africa.

I just spread blood meal fertilizer around my garden and did not water it in. Of course, after each rain, I usually spread a little more. It kept the animals out, and also made the grass around the garden to grow beautifully:laughing:. 40 degrees and overcast this morning with a forecast high...

I used to like riding a bike to work in downtown Dallas because there were places I could park at no cost, while it did cost me to park a car or pickup. But no way I'd do that now. I got rid of my last bike (R80RT BMW) when I retired and we took off for 6 years in an RV. That was 1989.:laughing:

The younger of my two brothers currently rides a 1500 Honda Goldwing, but I don't remember what year model. Being a golfing nut, he had to make his own rack to carry his golf clubs. Of course, that kid will only be 72 next month.:laughing:

I guess I was the exact opposite. My favorite was my 1985 Honda Aspencade with a nice bracket for my coffee cup, cigarette lighter, wool seat cover, driver's backrest, cruise control, auto volume stereo, crash bars with the extra foot pegs, trailer hitch, fairing and windshield of...

24 degrees this morning, 38 now; 39 forecast this morning for a high and now that it's up to 38 they've change the forecast to 40.:laughing: Around the mid morning, we had sleet and enough mist that a little ice formed on the concrete blocks at the end of the patio. I figure my rain gauge got...

I don't know about any valid recommendation, but IF I were going to buy a new pickup, that's what I'd want.

We haven't shopped at Aldi a great deal because the stores aren't as big and don't have the huge variety that Walmart, Kroger's, and Albertson's have. However, I think Aldi has the best canned chili and canned soups that I've found anywhere, and their ice cream is just as good as, and cheaper...

I didn't know that, but yesterday morning, Sam's Club had something new in the freezer section; BBQ chicken pizza, so I decided to try it. They are small, think crust, cost just a little bit more than the DiGiorno pizza that they always have, so you actually get about half as much. However...

My mother had that hiatal hernia repair surgery done many, many years ago and it was great for her. One of my own doctors, some years later, was watching mine on a scope and told me, "Years ago we'd have done surgery to fix that, but not anymore." He said the problem was not as bad as heart...

I took a Gaviscon tablet every night before I went to bed for years. That started when I learned that I had a hiatal hernia about 1974. But after 10 or 12 years, a doctor recommended that I stop that. And I've learned that the terrific chest pains I get can be relieved very promptly with just...

I used TurboTax and have used it for a lot of years. This year, I got about the same refund as I've gotten in the past. However, the amount of withholding that the pension system holds out of my pension each month came down this year (January 2018), even though I have not changed anything and...

Yep, when I sold my B2710, I asked for cash, and of course my bank told me about that $10k rule, which I already knew about, and I didn't mind the tiny bit of extra paperwork.:laughing:

29 degrees this morning going for a high of 45. We got a fairly brief heavy rain yesterday evening before dark and this morning I found about .48" or .49" frozen in the rain gauge. The Denton Airport, 10 miles from here, shows to have only gotten .03" around 6 p.m. yesterday.

Randy, I'm sure there will always be those who do not want to be vaccinated, and some who will say it's just the companies who want to get rich, etc., etc. But I, too, believe what you just posted. So my wife and I will continue to get the shots, as we have done for many years.

Granddaughter seems to have gotten over the flu; daughter was admitted to the hospital last night. So we'll see what happens. I've forgotten what the NWS forecast was, but at 6 a.m., they show our temperature to be 20 which sure surprised me.

I did mine early, so both the IRS and my credit union show the refund will be deposited tomorrow.

I think I must have "hay fever"; winter allergy to cedar, maybe. The last couple of days, I can't quit sneezing and blowing my nose; no fever, no infection, not sick, don't feel bad, but a runny nose makes me the best customer Puffs facial tissue has. I woke up sneezing about midnight sneezing...

You, your wife, and especially that little girl, certainly have our sympathy and prayers. I know when our little girls were sick, we'd have rather it be us instead of them.

No, no. We don't use that kind of language on TBN.

Sounds good, Ron. I had to have Margaret to the surgery center this morning at 11 a.m., but they had 2 doctors, one representative from the company that sells the equipment, and I'm not sure how many nurses. Margaret also has "restless leg syndrome" but one of the doctors told me she kept...

Yes, it was a Saturday. My wife and I were just leaving the nursing home where I had taken my Mother some reading material that she liked.

I'm sure having some weird back problems; been having them for a week or more. No pain in the spine, or down low. The pains extend all the way across my back and just below the ribcage. No pain when I'm lying in bed or relaxing in my recliner, but when I'm standing, walking, etc. the pain...

I've never played it, but we do have some popular courses in this area, and our grandson plays them.

I sure wish I had the will power to lose 55 or 60 pounds. What method did you use to do that?

Good luck, Ron. Hope all turns out well. I just turned 78 and have an appointment Tuesday for a "wellness visit" as Medicare calls a general physical. But tomorrow I have to get my wife to the surgery center at 11 a.m. for the doctors to implant a neurostimulation system. They ran the test...

I went out about 6 a.m. and the moon was about a quarter covered, I guess. I don't know whether it was beginning or ending.:laughing:

There was a time when I was a lieutenant, "watch commander"; i.e. shift supervisor, in the city jail. At that time, my boss was a retired commander from a state penitentiary system. And he was convinced that we could expect to be busier than usual any time we had a full moon. It did seem...

I just can't get used to some of the new vehicle maintenance schedules. I seldom check the oil in the cars anymore, but thought I ought to do that this morning. The 2017 Ford Escape has 8518 miles on it, is 10 months old, and the oil level showed on the dipstick to be almost down to the "MIN"...

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Anything that "moves"? Or did you mean anything that "doesn't" move?:laughing:

Drew, since I've owned one slide-in cab over pickup camper, two conventional travel trailers, one fifth-wheel trailer, and two motorhomes, everything you said sounds perfectly normal to me; just what I'd expect. Unfortunately.

I have an attachment for my Norelco razor with which I do my eyebrows myself, and I do the nose myself, but my wife does my ears. Of course, now-a-days, I can do my own haircut because we just cut it all off that the shears will take off; just don't shave it then like some do. But even doing...

If I go more than a week, it's just too uncomfortable; maybe I could get accustomed to it, but I doubt it.

Good Grief! I had no idea haircuts had gotten so expensive. I think the last time I paid a barber, it was either $3 of $4. Of course, our small town was probably cheaper than a big city, and it was just over 18 years ago. That's when I bought the hair clippers and started letting my wife cut...

The red spots on the side of his head/neck and the appearance of the tail, makes him look to me like a huge version of the little turtles we used to have in our aquariums instead of a snapper.

Yep, I've known several that lived up to their reputation, and Dee was just unbelievably the opposite. I never knew losing a dog could hurt so much.

Thanks to all of you for your comments. It's been a very sad day here.

I never thought I'd shed any tears over the loss of a dog . . . . but I was wrong. I figure our Chihuahua was just about the best dog in the world, and the reason I say that is because she NEVER growled, snarled at, or bit anyone. It made no difference to her about your race, sex, or age, she...

40 degrees going for a high of 59 today, and all the rain forecast for the last few days went east of us, so it's still dry around here.

And that should be ALL THE TIME; not just during the government shut down. I've never understood why people throw their trash out. With all the grocery stores using plastic bags now, we have no shortage of "litter bags" to carry in the cars. That's my understanding, too, for the flu. But...

Me, too. And . . . 2 doctors in the same office had different opinions about whether one pneumonia shot was good for a lifetime. So I had the PPS23 pneumonia shot on 2/9/2007 AND on 9/10/2013. And then they came out with another version; the Prevnar 13 which I had on 2/3/2017. Of course I...

Hate to be paranoid, but my wife has advanced COPD, using oxygen a great deal of the time, etc. and she's scheduled for surgery on the first for arthritis caused back problems. She'll have a battery powered nerve stimulator installed/implanted. So with so many cases of the flu, and since the...

We still haven't paid for a Costco membership, but we do shop a lot at Sam's Club and that's where we get our precooked chickens.

That's a fact! Tremendously slowed the computer down. And then a couple of days ago, Adobe Acrobat disappeared from my computer. I found it online and downloaded the "new" version which still doesn't work right. So I've made an appointment to take this computer to the Geek Squad (Best Buy)...

Never heard of doing that; sounds worth trying. Okra was my first money crop in my preteen years; used to cut it every other day and sold it to the grocery stores in Healdton, OK. I grew up with my mother cooking it, as someone else has said, cut, mixed with corn meal, and fried. But now, we...

I've been using KC Masterpiece Original Sauce for a long time, but I've noticed in Walmart at least, for some time now, they have a lot more Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ Sauce than any other brand. Of course they also have several different flavors or versions. Anyway, I finally tried one of them...

I "assume"? by "Southern" everyone is talking about the southeast part of the country; not Oklahoma or Texas where I've spend most of my life. The one and only time I've been in a restaurant that didn't have unsweetened tea was in Canada. My mother was with us and was diabetic and we ate lunch...

I don't think I've ever heard it said quite that way, but that's been my experience when I was a police officer. I don't think I ever handled an "attempt suicide" in which the (victim?) seriously attempted to kill himself/herself. The actual suicides that succeeded were always people who had...

That's what I use now-a-days. I never heard of parboiling a brisket. When I was raising rabbits (New Zealand White), shredded newspaper was the best nest material I ever found. And after use, I tilled it into the garden. 29 degrees going for a high of 55 today; supposed to be clear and sunny.

I'll confess to an almost phobia where scorpions are concerned. I think I was 5 or 6 years old when, something stung me one night in bed. I thought it must be a wasp in the house, so I pulled the covers up over my head, and then got stung on the one hand that wasn't completely covered, so I...

My parents moved to Anchorage, AK, in 1965 and they were raising one of my little nieces at the time, so that little girl started school in Anchorage. Mother always thought it was hilarious that they closed schools because of snow in the lower 48, but not up there.

I've now got my latest paper electric bill with all the details. As I said before it's $178.65 for 1851 kWh and 34 days. So the details are: TXU Energy Smart Deal 12 Base Charge $ 9.95 Energy Charge (1200 kWh x $0.0640000) $76.80 Energy Charge (651...

Yesterday evening, the NWS was forecasting a low this morning of 18, but at 5 a.m. they were showing the actual to be 10 and an hour later up to 13 going for a high of 45. I'm sure ready for some warmer weather . . . . and lower electric bills.:D

A little good news here, I guess. In spite of TXU's estimate of $226 to $227, our electric bill for the last 34 days is just $178.65 for 1851 kWH, or $0.0965154 per kWH. Oncor just got some tax relief from the State and is passing it on to the consumers, but I don't know much about that plan...

:laughing:Yeah, Bird slept late this morning; latest in a long time. But the NWS says our temperature at 6 a.m. was +4 (already started up and now 5 degrees going for a high of 32 today) so Ron still has the coldest.

24 degrees here, but clear, sunny, and dry and forecast to possibly go on up to 26.:laughing: NWS forecast is for 8 tonight.

Hard to believe now, but there was a time when I liked that job when I was about 13 years old because it gave me a legitimate excuse to driver the tractor.:laughing: I'd hook that little 1940 John Deere L to a little trailer, back it up to the chicken house door, load it, then go spread it on...

I suspect all the "Co-op" electric companies are about as good a price as you can get; maybe better service, too, in many cases because they are owned by the customers and controlled by local residents. We used to have the Navarro County Electric Cooperative. Navarro County Electric...

None of the forecasted rain, snow, and sleet has yet arrived, and now the NWS has even taken it all out of the forecast.:laughing: So, it's 17 degrees going for a high of 30, but a low forecast for tonight of 8 degrees.

Don, I guess that's $0.11012 per KWH. Ours can vary month to month a bit because the more we use, the cheaper it gets per KWH, but overall for last year, ours was $0.101654291 while this year, for the first 11 months (I should get a new bill today) it's been $0.111992955. Because of the high...

Ron, we have lots of companies to choose from. You can read a bit about it here: Texas Electric Rates | 855-387-6819 | Your Power to Choose

I will readily admit that I don't know just how it all works, but I do know that the distribution company is Oncor and they have a huge office facility and many, many trucks about a mile from my house. English (United States) Home But the bill comes from TXU Energy and I pay then...

In the discussion of electricity costs, I haven't seen anyone mention changing companies (may have overlooked it). Anyway, nearly all the providers in Texas have several different "plans" available. Naturally, they'd like you to take the most expensive. However, the last few years, when my...

We used to see the meter reader walking from house to house every month, but then they replaced all the meters with what some call "smart" meters so they're supposed to transmit the data back to the power company and we never have a meter reader anymore.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY! We are total electric; no gas. Our last bill was $122.39, and TXU Energy is predicting our next one (to be available tomorrow) to be $227 to $231. I'm tired of Winter already. 28 degrees going for a high of 51 today, but a low of 10 degrees forecast for tomorrow night.

Had to take my wife to a doctor's appointment, but if was a beautiful sunny day, but 37 degrees with a north breeze at the time.

Very nice video, even if it did take a while to download.

That is really surprising. I thought every government employer went to direct deposit many, many years ago. When the City of Dallas first started direct deposit, I was one of the first to sign up for it . . . AND I was one of the first to cancel that.:laughing: In those days, the deposit...

We had some nice, pleasant, almost warm weather for awhile, but that changed yesterday. The north wind arrived about 11 a.m. (28 mph gusting to 40), about 5:15 p.m. I noticed just a few tiny snowflakes in the air (didn't last long and no measurable precipitation), and this morning it's 20...

NWS says it got down to 51 early this morning, 52 now and heading for a high of 56 before 3 p.m., then falling temperature with a change of sleet and snow.:eek: I don't really expect it to happen, but I reckon it's possible.

Now I remember which one you're talking about. It was my cousin, and he got it fixed. It was an odd situation in which the replacement tires he first bought, showing to be the same size as the OEM tires, didn't fit. But the same dealer exchanged them for tires labelled with a different size...

How long ago are you thinking of.:laughing: I did put a tube in one rear tire on my last lawn tractor. But I went back to walk behind, self-propelled mowers. I had a good Toro, but gave it to my grandson, and now I use an Ego self-propelled that I really like.

45 for a low this morning going for a high of 56, cloudy, and a little foggy. And I'm just about to leave to take my elderly neighbor to do his grocery shopping.

Many years ago, I had an unmarked home storage squad car that I parked in my driveway (rear entry garages in that neighborhood). It was a slight up hill grade to the garage. And one icy morning, I went out to start the car to let it warm up. And I never even realized that I had slipped at...

And after we had a few days of freezing temperatures, it's hard to believe the low this morning is 52, going for a high of 64. The weather forecasters seem pretty sure that we're going to get some rain before the day's over, and I hope they're right. It was warm yesterday afternoon and we saw...

It's the same in Texas. I never served on the grand jury, but I testified a few times. It usually took me as much as 20 or 30 seconds.:laughing:

A low of 20 degrees this morning, going for a high of 47 according to the NWS. But it was up to 29 degrees, clear and sunny, about 9 a.m. when I went out and got the lawnmower going with the bagger, just to get the leaves up. It only took me a couple of hours, during which the temperature came...

Same here. I've tried to get her more interested, but without much success. The odd thing is that the first 3 years we were married we were assistant managers of an apartment complex. She collected rent, wrote receipts, made bank deposits, etc. and always insisted that I check everything. I...

The same plumber installed a Delta faucet in the kitchen sink some time ago, but the faucets he put in the bathroom today are Wolverine Brass. I don't think I'd heard of them before, but they're sure heavy. And in the past, I, too, have had great luck with Moen, and terrible luck with American...

132018 is getting off to quite a start. Yesterday, my wife saw her pain doctor and he removed the wires that were inserted in her back a week ago, and the controller (or whatever they call it). The doctors had said that IF this didn't do more than a 40 or 50% improvement in her back pain, they...

I read, many years ago, that Robins were the first bird protected by law in this country because they were so easy to kill, and the pioneers moving west were killing so many of them for food, that it was feared they might become extinct. I can't vouch for the authenticity of that. 14 degrees...

Don, my last electric bill was $122 also in an all electric house, and unfortunately, I, too, expect it to just about double this next time.

The new year is not getting off to a good start. We have double sinks (or lavatories) in the master bath and one faucet leaks a bit, but not much, around the handle when the water is turned on. And yesterday we discovered that the water is dripping in the other sink. So both faucets need to...

We now have clear, sunny skies and it's warmed up to 20 degrees. We've got some cabbage cooking, and got the tomatoes and onion sliced already, just have to make the cornbread, and get the corn, blackeyed peas, and beets on the stove, and we'll celebrate the New Year the way I like to...

Yep, Don, as expected the heat strip just activated a few minutes ago. Gonna start the year with a big electric bill.:mad: But I'll pay it to stay comfortable.:laughing:

Just got my 3rd cup of coffee. NWS says it's 15 degrees going for a high of 27 today, with a northerly breeze around 15 mph, gusting to 20 mph. I may just do a lot of TV watching today.:laughing: My wife thanks everyone for the birthday wishes.

Sure hope that's not the case with our heat pump since it's supposed to go down to 14 tonight.

You made me have to go out in the cold just now to look at my heat pump, but no ice on it.

So our high today was supposed to be 30, but it was actually 31 about midnight; been slowly going down ever since. Now down to 24 and the north breeze has picked up to 17 mph, gusting to 24, and just enough mist in the air to freeze on the streets and on our deck. As the weather girl on...

It's just been hovering around the freezing mark since about 6 p.m. yesterday, 28 right now, going for 14 tonight and not supposed to get above freezing before Wednesday, 1/3/2018. Nothing like it is up north, but too cold too long to suit this southern boy. When it warms up enough outside...

Almost never have collard greens at our house; usually have turnip greens when we have greens, but we definitely always have black-eyed peas and cornbread New Years Day. That pork and kraut sure sounds good to me, but my wife won't have anything to do with kraut.

NWS forecast HIGH for today of 43, even though it's currently 44.:laughing: But they think it'll go down to 29 tonight and then turn cold for a few days; low of 14 or 15 the next 3 nights, so we'll see. I had 3 cups of coffee, then went and filled both cars with gas this morning, and now...

It does in the Triangle Mall in Denton.

Nope, you ain't crazy. I had the same experience, except mine was between 1972 and 1977.

Worked for me just now.

I had told my wife that I expected insurance premiums to go up nationwide after the California fires, but I didn't expect insurance companies to be cancelling policies, or declining renewal. I don't even know what companies write policies in California, but so far I've not been able, in Texas...

Ron, hope your heating problem is solved soon. The NWS is predicting a high temperature of 26 for us New Years day with a northerly breeze, then a low of 15 that night. I just hope there's no snow or ice since I have to take my wife to a doctor the day after New Years.

Been a long time since I saw that town square in Jackson Hole; 1993 if I remember right.

You and your wife certainly have our prayers and best hopes and wishes, riptides. Maybe the pain doctor will get it right, and soon. And buckeyefarmer, hope it goes well for you today, too.

40 degrees last night at midnight, came up to 42, now down to 41, but forecast to continue down to 34 by 9 a.m., with a 40% chance of rain. 9 a.m. is the time that I have to have my wife to a day surgery place to implant a device to try to relieve her back pain. Even though it only got up to...

27 degrees, north breeze, going for a high today of 45 according to the NWS. Just doesn't seem much like Christmas this year. This is the first year in the 52 years we've been married that we didn't put up a Christmas tree in the house. And it's the first time in many, many years that I did...

That's the reason I liked the one I had. I had a flood light on the back and front, a rear view mirror, and a tiltmeter mounted on mine. Unfortunately, you can see where I backed into/under a big strong limb one day.

I used to drink iced tea with every meal except breakfast; no sugar in it. But now . . . I'm not even sure why, but the only time we have tea is when eating in a restaurant. Never have it at home. My wife uses the K-pods for her coffee; currently using Victor Allen Donut Shop Blend. But...

You have both my sympathy and prayers.

For my use, here in the house, my TBN mug is just the right size to suit me. If I had a bigger one, I'd probably want a lid to keep it hot longer.

I had no idea any Kuerig coffee makers went that high. I think ours is pretty normal, but the 3 buttons are for 5.25, 7.25, and 9.25 oz.

I, too, wondered if they were still available, and like you, found none in the TBN store yesterday. I don't like "cups" with the base a smaller diameter than the top or lip of the cup. Clumsy as I am, I'd be almost sure to knock it over or spill it someday.

Don, I was just fixin' to mail it to you when I figured out (with lots of help from our other members) how to post the photo.:laughing: