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64 outside this AM, heading to lower 80's. Looks like another tree is dying in the front yard, a pin oak. The silver maple that came down died about two years ago exhibiting this same behavior. Started to leaf out, browned edges and....nothing.... More chain saw work, must have some fungal...

57 outside right now, not sure where the temp will end up later. Mid 70's if not high 70's. Busy day. Ended with real job stuff a few minutes ago. Got tractor time in yesterday, cut neighbors field. Had a long talk with other neighbor, some trees down on their shared property line. Too big for...

39 outside right now. Lower 70's today. No burn pile activity this weekend other than adding rounds to it. Finally cleaned up around the big trees in the front. Still have over 200 rounds to split, but they are all in the same place now in nice rows waiting for the splitter guy to show up. LOL...

50 outside right now, heading to mid 70's. Windy....very windy. Hope it dies down a lot so I can torch another burn pile today. I managed to get some more rotten rounds down to the back pile yesterday before I petered out. I think I can finally finish moving and collecting the remainder of the...

Dealer should have quizzed him. I feel bad for the guy. Time and comfort are precious.

He will find out the first time he is out cutting. Maybe a zero turn is in his future?

Not with motrin. I stayed ahead of the pain yesterday. This AM, it is catching up. I do need a better plan, the fence lines are too long. Maybe this is the year for chemicals.

Yeah, probably for some. This guy I have been dealing with for a good long time. The only thing I need from him is a chain saw one day. LOL. He even did some push mower maintenance for me. A good guy with a very highly rated business. A rare find these days.

66 outside this AM, heading to mid 70's. Slight rain coming down. Need to get busy with the animals. Behind schedule. Seems to be the norm these days. Slowing down I guess. Over 3 miles with the weed whacker yesterday. And more push mower. Just need one more spot by the house done....was...

Don't forget a few hats. Take lots of pics to share. Especially the hour meter.

I run about ten chains down to the local Stihl dealer every year. All at once. I let him do his thing while I oggle real saws. LOL.

57 outside this AM, heading to mid 70's. Rain expected late this afternoon. Drought conditions again. Funny, I still have standing water in spots in the pastures. Not moving very fast these past few days, still not 100 percent. Took the weed whacker and push mowers out for the first time...

I had a tractor flip over. Hit ice, back lifted up going downhill, load of wood in a trailer. As it was coming up, in that second I thought I could jump clear. My feet got caught in the peddles. I was crushed under it. Took a few hours to find me and get me out from under it. Air flight to...

48 outside right now, heading to the 80's today. More wood work and grass work today. At least the grass work will be over by the end of the day. Hope all have a great day. Be safe.

A serious question - How many of you have that inner voice speak to you just before you do something that resulted in a bad situation?

Two cups of coffee. Unless with company (people) I skip breakfast.

Sounds familiar, minus the shark thoughts.

48 outside this AM, heading to mid 70's today. Yesterday got sidetracked with a daughter visit so we all just enjoyed each others company and not much else got done. Today is more round work, moving wood scraps and branches to the burn pile and the grass needs cutting. Got the front "yard" to...

Nice, very nice truck? Clean and bold looking.

Funny, well not really, you should mention moles. They seem to have relocated to our property. I could count on one hand over the decades the tunnels and pop ups. This year someone let loose the moles of war. They are everywhere, front, back, sides, gardens, walkways, pastures, rings...

62 outside right now, heading to mid 80's today. Hmm....no rain showed last night, it was expected. Moved a few more rounds, around, cleaned up some more, but ran out of energy so I broke the mower out. Managed to get the back cut, before night time set in. Came in, made a pizza for all tuned...

Lucky to be alive and have all parts working.

Must be saying it wrong...not working. LOL. The log splitter has a flat, need to get that to the local garage. The tire not the splitter. Am in no hurry to split these, big, heavy and no place under shelter has any room. Snake visit while working, ended my day. More wood work later. Reset...

57 outside right now, heading to mid 70's today. Have about 130 rounds in the front that need splitting, all lined up ready to go. Some are 5 feet or larger in circumference. They may end up in a burn pile. Too big to deal with. HVAC system in farm house is not cooling, sigh, call to repair is...

Hard choice. I got partial to the MX. The wife said it looked beefy and simple as far as controls and instrumentation went. You looked at them both side by side? I don't think you will make a bad choice with either. Good luck!!

Happy Easter to all. 69 outside right now, heading to upper 70's. After services, more burn pile work for the big rounds and wood pieces in the front yard. Hope all have a great day. Be safe.

69 outside this AM. Heading to mid 80's today. Not yet cured of whatever... will take it easy today. Burn pile was turned over yesterday...still smoking. More feeding it today. Hope all have a good day. Be safe.

Been there, done that. Good intentions. My shocking electrical story, best one of many, I was tearing carpet out of a bed room when I came across an extension cord wire that eventually ended up in a wall outlet. Needless to say, the house got all new electric.

42 outside right now, may get into the low ------- 80's today. Yep. Still under the weather, but managed yesterday. Had to put a cat down yesterday. Lucky, his name, picked up under a culvert by my daughter and brought home. He had thirteen good years. Managed to get the back burn piles...

Wow....my radio is up a few notches but not at max. That's bushhogging too. Max PTO. A/C running too.

Maintenance and parts should not be an issue at 25 miles away. My nearest dealer is over an hour away, my purchasing dealer over two. Parts when I need them are either a day trip or mail order. Heck, I have had overnighter on delivery. A hydraulic hose on the RTV bed finally sprung a leak after...

38 outside right now, mid 60's expected today. Still under the weather, may do something easy like shopping or torching a burn pile. Hope all have a great day today, be safe.

What about the warrenty going forward?

Do a side by side compare of the MX and L and the beefier/bulky difference is readily apparent.

41 outside right now, heading to lower 60's. I seem to have caught something, not like buppies though, so it is a few days of taking it easy. Hope all have a great day. Be safe.

Depends on the cutter. Weight IMHO more important than size. I think the 6000 is around 2000 pounds lifting.

First off, nice idea for your dad. Don't take this wrong, but at 82 I'd go with comfort and maintenance as the deciding choices. That leaves out golf carts as the batteries require charging. My FIL never charged his, and it ended up sitting for a year before he basically forgot about it. If the...

We use our MX for pastures maintenance and FEL work. Anything like digging we call for help. I am at the age where I'd rather not be messing with attachments and having them sit around doing nothing. The tractor is turn key and go. The cab is the option for the wife to help too. LOL. And she does.

60 outside right now, may get to 66 a little later. Rain moved through, drizzle now. Thunderstorms late last night. Wow. Managed to finish cutting grasses, not in the usual pattern of timing though. Need to get it all done in two days and not three. LOL. will work on that. Need to get to the...

45 outside this AM, heading to mid 70's. Celebration of Life went well this weekend, all enroute back to home states. No drama, which was and is good. Traffic was a nightmare going North, my wife commented that it was just normal. Managed to do some yard work too this w/e. Second mow of the...

I am still on the fence between old and new. We are 21 years into a "renovation" of a 1920 farm and farmhouse. Originally I liked the land, the wife liked the smaller house. The house had major issues. Additions and whatnot over the decades were not done properly. Our friends all suggested it...

47 outside this AM, may click up a few more degrees. Rain expected on and off. Have a full house. Between people and wood, no more room to put everyone. LOL. Most will be hitting the road today for the final destination. BIL made it here in just under 15 hours. Not bad. Today will be another...

44 outside right now, may touch 60 today. Rain expected later. Moving out of towners around today for tomorrow. Need to make some supply runs this AM, between normal workloads and crazy real job. LOL. Hope all have a great day. Positive thoughts to those ailing and sympathies for those...

No way on the pool for potable water. No way. Sediment in well? Address the well pipe, depth and pump. Water quality? Start filtering and treatment. Safe water is a must.

27 outside right now, That's going to put the brakes on the fruit trees this year and snap the flowering spell we have going on right now. Too bad. May get into the mid 50's today. Family is starting to show up, lots of trips back and forth to the airports. Supplies for the w/e are also showing...

40 outside right now, may get to 49. Nice breeze/wind looks to be drying stuff out nicely. Real jobs will consume the day. Family all enroute to our place for staging for the final send off of the FIL this weekend. Trying to get the place in some semblance of order for that. Hope all have a...

48 outside, that should be the high for today. Raining finally. After numerous reports that it would rain all day yesterday, it finally shows up this AM. Managed to get one burn pile lit yesterday, three to go. Obviously have to wait now. More reclaiming the front yard from the tree rounds. If...

So sorry to hear this. Codolences to you and your family.

I have learned bigger is indeed better. I was looking at L's.....ended up with the M series.

62 outside right now. May get to 66...rain expected soon. Still dealing with tree rounds. Smashed another finger...wood shed is full...first grass cutting of season done. ZTR has fuel issue again. Time to dump tanks and maybe ditch my gas cans. Here is a pick of a ruined day a while back. Wire...

67 outside right now, may hit 70. Hit and miss crazy weather. Busy week, real jobs are real chaos. Home front is managing. Got the mower out for the first cut of the season, yesterday. Then got chased in by the weather. Only 1/2 through. About 1/2 through tree work in front yard. So far 6 (six)...

Stick with the pack, ditch the flock.

40 outside right now, may get to 70 later, with slight chance of rain. Need to tend to burn piles as number four is now underway as far as stacking goes. Got a lot of wood from the trees making their way to the burn piles. Managed to notch some rounds and get them into the tractor bucket late...

Cool. You can be the next WeatherTech for plane accessories. Definite market type stuff for this.

31 outside this AM, heading to lower 60's. Not much accomplished yesterday. Lots of things to do that I just did not manage to get at. My time management sucks. I guess. We shall see what today brings. I did manage to break out paint and got some things painted yesterday, door knobs and...

45 outside right now, heading to mid 50's. Rain expected? Is hit and miss season. Kind of puts a hold on firewood processing. Attempted and failed to move two big rounds to the burn pile area with the tractor. Wife did managed to move ten others that will not fit the splitter or are rotted. May...

45 outside right now, heading to lower 60's with more rain expected later. Still recovering from the city trip. LOL. Both the traffic and the work load. Brought the work load home, left the traffic where it was. It is probably still there. Where are all these people coming from and why do they...

45 outside right now, may get to mid 50's today. I think it is trying to rain. Need to run into the city today. It was a busy weekend with the real job and the home life. Managed to split the burn pile into three parts and torched one, ran out of time for the other two. Burn ban time allotment...

RIP George Foreman Quite a heavy weight...great grill merchant too.

We have three of them. Wife and daughter needed them because of their back surgeries. I got one because the wife demanded a matching living room set and because I am exhausted all the time. We have battery backups on all, they seem to be trouble free so far. They are comfortable for sure. A...

Look towards the future. I just had three trees, two massive ones come down. To get it all cut and removed was over 10k. My splitter will be busy for weeks. Is it a one and done event? Or can you see yourself cutting and splitting due to storm damage and general upkeep of your property. You...

39 outside this AM, heading to upper 50's. Windy. Some storms blew through last evening, chased me away from splitting wood. It was all good as I was tuckered out anyways. Reached the point of 1/2 full in the "wood shed". Had to start the ZTR and move it to an outbuilding in the back. First...

I would think any Pool store to be familiar with them and the installation process. I believe any custom pool design would have to be measured. Carefully.

I was quoted 5k a pole to bury. You can price it out yourselves, LOL, I am 1800 feet from the street. :)

45 outside this AM, heading to 70. Unfortunate rain is expected later this afternoon. More cutting, splitting, moving and stacking yesterday. Only about 1/2 cord done. Am slowing down from the day before. First time I have cut up an Elm. Wet and stringy. Messy splits. I came across a bone dry...

35 outside right now, heading to 75. Yesterday was busy, then got with my little friend the log splitter. More of that today and into the forceable future. Sigh. I will probably have to find another place to park the ZTR in a two days or so. In the allotted time yesterday I cut, split, moved...

POA means nothing now that your Dad has passed. What #alexpops said is the way.

40 outside right now, heading to mid 60's. Grass is greening up. Daffodils are popping, and the yard is a mess with the cut trees everywhere. It will be a while before all the work ends up in the wood sheds. Need to get on the one shed roof to redo some panels sometime today. And split and...

You have my sympathy. Hope it goes easy on you and your family

54 outside right now, that might be the high for today. Weekend was busy. Trees all came down with no issues. Good thing as yesterday we had lots of wind gusts in the 50mph range. Took a few panels off one of the equipment sheds. No other problems. With the trees down the chainsaw got a lot of...

45 outside right now, heading to upper 50's. Need to get busy, or busier this AM. Move some animals and vehicles around. Tree guys are showing up. Nothing like advancing the schedule a week or so. Gives wife the excuse to miss another company function. The big guy will give me an earful for...

It works. No problems, better than hunting for something different.

37 outside right now, heading to upper 50's. Today I will take it easy. Lots of changes going on at customer sites. I still have a few POC's left, but they are under the added burden of taking more responsibilities. Our contracts will not cover those, so it will be interesting to see how this...

Yep. I took a chance on a sawzall in a confined space with lots of dust floating about. I was using an angle grinder which threw too many sparks out for comfort. A welder was out of the question. To my surprise the sawzall was better than a hot knife through butter. Faster, lighter, no mess...

43 outside this AM. may make it to 60 today. Need to run into the city today. Not for fun though. Had a nice get together will all the daughters late yesterday. A nice surprise. Measured one of the trees that need to come out. 223 inch circumference. Yeah, it is a big tree. LOL. The two...

49 outside this AM, heading to mid 60's. Awesome day outside yesterday. Managed to walk not my dog a few times. Collecting game cam pics and viewing back properties. Nothing exciting. Returned to real jobs later in the day. We have a complete organizational breakdown at some of our customers...

31 outside this AM, may make it into mid 70's. Was in and out yesterday. More of the same today. Trees budding and daffodils almost ready to pop. Hope all have a great day. Be safe. Prayers for those with health issues. Stay positive.

29 outside this AM, upper 60's expected. Spent most of the weekend outside with the wife. Biggest burn pile ever. That's all I need to say. More today. Real jobs are rudderless. Lots of changes and well, people are losing their minds and track of time. Since I have lost my mind a while ago...

re -.1 Too funny. A great pop corn movie.

29 outside right now, should get to mid 50's. Another late night with the real jobs. Lots of traffic on the roads, in the evening and early morning. Lots of people moving about when it is unexpected. Odd. Wife did grocery run, no beer, sad. I'll have to run out this AM between stuff. Not much...

Hmmm...not getting the failures on Starship. Maybe to much forces are shaking somethings apart as it is going up. Too bad. Keep trying.

:) Gm, Scott.

I turn into a different person on the weekends. Friday is my transformation starting point. And yes, I howl at full moons.

Depending on the condition of the wire: Really old stuff: We folded it in 12 inch lengths until it snapped and placed it in a steel garbage can. New stuff: We found an old spool, rolled it onto that, either dumped the spool or carefully unloaded it into the steel garbage can. At which time the...

43 outside this AM, may get a few degrees warmer. Lots of rain yesterday, and wind. Just soggy and sticks all over the place. I see buds on most of the big trees surrounding the house. Snow cap flowers are blooming. Not much accomplished around the property yesterday. Vet most of the day, I...

LOL. On time to market and speed..... I introduced a customer to a faster network path. And everything that made that possible.

58 outside this AM, may get into the 60's. Lots of rain expected. Vet coming shortly for horse. Been an issue for a few weeks now. Lots of drama and not with the horse. LOL. Time to get moving, hunker down for the weather and do some real work. Hope all have a great day. Be safe.

This is the way. Best to deal with it by hand. Time consuming for sure. Be safe, for you and your machinery at some point in the future if you do it.

39 outside this AM. Should head up to 60 today. Dry, then the weather people say wet, real wet for Wednesday. Another late night with real jobs. Things are breaking all over. Not good. Not sure what I will get into today. May have to pay neighbor a visit. Dogs are howling like a wild pack of...

22 outside this AM, heading to mid 40's. Very smoky and hazy outside this AM. Big cloud over by the ranges. Probably another controlled burn. Hope all have a great start to the work week and a good day. Be safe.

25 outside this AM. Heading to 40 if we are lucky. A 20 degree difference from yesterday. Got more wood done. Then turned attention to finding material for a cabinet like cover I need to build for a water heater. That meant finding wood and drywall in an outbuilding that needed rearranging...

GM, Looks nice outside. Running behind. Should touch 60 today. Late night with a real job, after hours and what not. Rough. Over 50 people trying to figure out one problem that was actually broken down into three separate issues. Man can we make things - complex. Time to get into the woods...

Verified on twitter and bluesky. :)

42 outside right now, heading to mid 50's. Glad the week is over. Pretty tough on the real jobs. Looks like next week will be continuing the work loads. Schedule booked out already. More city time. Got my errands done. Took the better part of the afternoon. Scored on beer and lamb chops. Yum...

Morning back! My county is big on easements, visual, conservation under a Protect Development Rights program. So they grab what they can, when they can. A neighboring county, not so much. They have been rezoning, slicing, dicing, developing and trashing policy and rules that they had in place...

Probably will be felt in assessments to all adjacent home/lot owners over the next few month/years. I always looked at our homes as a home, of course the investment value is well documented in real estate, we took an opposite path.

Yeah, I am not a city mouse. Although my profile has a location of Northern VA, I never considered ourselves part of it. Geographically speaking. But in the years we have been here. it has absorbed us. Slowly...methodically...growing ever closer. It's not one house or two, it is entire lots...

55 outside this AM, heading to mid 60's. Got in late last night from the city. Surprised (not really) at how busy it was trying to get into the city in the afternoon. You would think traffic and people would be going in the opposite direction. Nope looked like all ways in and out were just...

Beware, usually one horse leads to another..... ...then pastures... ...then outbuildings... ...then barns... ...then more fencing... ...more buildings... ...redesigning water supplies... ...reclaiming more land for pastures... ...moving to a bigger farm... ...bringing the herd with you and...

31 outside this AM, heading to mid 60's. Looks to be a totally different day. Got called into the big city, so we shall see what this is all about. On the game cam front, we seem to have another fox under one of our run in pasture sheds. Got one pic before the batteries died. We had a den...

36 outside right now, heading to mid 60's. Those temps should stir up the wild life and bugs. Ran around towns doing errands and whatnot yesterday. Grabbed a bbq lunch with wife then took her home for a long walk. Found some more trees that are wood stove candidates this year. May go do that...

It is a BS distraction from more pressing things. Plus it lifts an ego.

Have both Fidelity and Vanguard no complaints on either. Fidelity can be more hands on if you like. And I find their analysis services a tad better. Don't think you can go wrong either way.

26 outside right now, heading to mid 50's. Spent the better part of the day yesterday in the woods again with the chainsaw. Then moved everything up to the splitter and split a few loads. Lots of trees down in the back woods and other than animal care nothing pressing on the agenda. Maybe more...

A few more movements in the markets like Friday.....throws off timing of retirement I suspect. Not rollovers. Or what constitues your investments. Bluntly...if one does not have a retirement account....one may not elect to retire.

Me too. I have got piles of sticks everywhere. I should take them to the burn pile this AM. The kicker is my great state now has a burn ban that now runs from 12AM until 4PM. My burn pile will continue to burn into that timeframe. I would need to move it to an area that has no "flammable...

30 outside right now, may get to 50! Spent all day yesterday in the woods with the chain saw. Then to the log splitter. Today is more of the same. Hope all have a great Sunday. Be safe.

I have a crow and a pry bar. And two chains and a rope. I am living on the edge...the back can go anytime. LOL.

There are quite a lot of people for sure planning exit strategies vs staying put if they are near retirement. I think a standard return of 7 percent means at least 3 years to make up a correction.

Those too. I am insulated from that hot mess for the time being. Although the eldest got canned and took another offer that was rescinded after she moved back across the country. My top two developers walked. In the middle of a project. Since it was being deployed we now have to go back to...

22 outside right now, heading to upper 30's. Could use some more warm weather. Feed the stove time, then animal care. Real jobs are turning to the dark side. Not a good time for a lot of people. Hope all have a good day, it is Friday and the weekend is here! Be safe.

We have a 300 foot limit on discharging firearms near occupied buildings.

Do not forget synthetic oil.

Ugh. Sound like what I am going/went through. My situation is elder fraud.

I think I will chime in, I took up karate in my younger years. As I aged the movements and mental disciplines, mediation while moving, helps immensely with life stresses. Maybe look into Qi gong, also known as chi gong as a starter for mental to physical health.

Sorry to hear this. Hope all is in order for you and your family.

23 outside right now, may get to 30 today. May also get some more snow. Yesterday was a winter wonderland, thankfully, only an inch. Powder type. Nice. Easy cleanup of walkways. New heat pump in other house. All day job. No issues going in, just a tight fit in the attic for the air handler...

19 outside right now, heading to lower to mid 20's. Looks like snow today and tomorrow. Heat pump install for other house supposed to show up in an hour or so. Will be nice to get some warm air over there again. Time to tend to the animals. Had a bad experience with a vet trying to pull a...

26 outside right now, heading to upper 30's. Another day to dry up stuff. Still working on trees. Got the water out of the electrical line to the panel yesterday. Drained for a few hours. Will need to find out why that started in the spring. Time to head outside and start the day. Hope all...

One also has to factor in how much money they are willing to risk at what percentage of return. If it meets your money goals. I will gladly take 3 percent on monies IF I have met my finacial goals. It goes back to risk and time.

Do you look years out with your money? Think long term, maybe 5 to 10 years out, and invest based on how much risk you are willing to accept.

ugh. What a storm, wind, and lots of rain, many trees down. 33 now, heading to mid 40's. Got a lot to do around here. Most interesting thing, and it is not good, we had water coming out of our electrical panel by the pool. That panel also feeds a few buildings. The ground is so super saturated...

The rains are very hard right now. About 46 outside and heading to mid 50's. Wind is starting to pick up too. Birds are actually on the porch because of the weather. We also have a washout on the driveway and front pasture. I imagine the back is probably over the banks. Hope all have a good...

36 outside and may get to 40 today. Snow and rain expected any minute. Running late with the morning chores and java intake. Talked with neighbor along the back forty yesterday. She has got some equipment trying to divert water and dry up her back lot. I reminded her, it is a flood zone. She is...

30 outside right now, heading into the 40's. The great melt happened yesterday. Wow. Talk about being water logged. More of the same today. Don't step on any mole trails, volcano mud comes out. Hope all have a great start to the weekend. Be safe.

I have an old UpRight TL33 lift. It was very useful around the houses and farm buildings for a while. Now it sits, unused. Two issues, I have become less fond of heights and the work that the man lift entails, I am even less fond of. It is a most useful piece of equipment when needed for certain...

34 outside right now, heading to mid 50's. Rain moving along and out of here shortly. Driveway is clear, pastures are still under a decent amount of snow cover. Looks like hay for the horses this AM. Snow and more importantly, no ice, looks like it will be gone in a day or so. Not like the last...

Interesting development. Could push SpaceX and chemical rocketry out of business. https://www.rdworldonline.com/russia-unveils-prototype-for-plasma-engine-that-could-reach-mars-in-1-2-months/

Looks like a good nine (9) inches. Unfortunate, a heavy snow. Great for snowballs and snowmen. Not good on the back. Bad move on not setting up the snow sticks for the driveway markers, Especially so on the curve portion which was....invisible. Getting around that...it is a straight shot to the...

I walked a lot on our properties before I went at them with mowers. Amazing what one finds and what pops out of the ground over the years. I wrecked a Honda push mower on some pipe that just magically appeared one day in an area I had thought was safe. Barbed wire is still showing up in places...

30 outside this AM. Need to get the ruler out on the snow total. More than expected. Roads were a mess last evening and into the night. Have not heard a plow since the incident last night. Hope all have a great day. Time to get the wood stove hotter, feed the animals and plow the driveway...

I surrender. The snow is coming down. Truck wiped out in front of house on road. Driver left with police. Truck has flashers on and is blocking half of road. Roads are bad. Lots of road closures. Now calling for 12 inches.it is messy here. ...edit...it is a snow plow off the road. Unbelievable....

Sorry to hear of friends and family losses. Hope all can reflect on and recall the good times shared.

28 outside right now, heading to mid 30's with snow expected anytime now. Should be anywhere from six to ten, like wngsprd. Big boss canned my meeting last night in the city, so that is a good thing. Time to tend to the animals and fill the wood box up. Hope all have a good day. Be safe.

Outside. No cover...no shelter. I see the paint difference already. Less than five years old.

Try a swipe with brake fluid. If that turns out OK...you might try the pastes route and buffers.

33 outside this AM, heading to mid 40's. Under a winter weather watch for tomorrow. Should be interesting next couple of days with the snow. Managed to clear some dead trees off my back fence line yesterday. Moved them to the burn pile which needs....burning. Oh boy, it's big. Dealt with...

Our cordless irons make good door stops. Other than that....gosh...no one ever ironed in our house.

35 outside right now, high for today. We are to expect a snow/ice/rain event starting within the hour and lasting through the day. If you listen to the weather people, they claim it will be an ice over in some spots and not to venture about. I will gather up some firewood and keep the wood...

38 outside this AM, heading to mid 50's. Yesterday was a soaker rain for most of the AM. But we have had enough water to actually flood the pastures, driveway and roads. It was a slushy mix to start, lot of power issues around us, then just an annoying grey sprinkle. The sun managed to pop out...

34 outside right now, rain, sleet mixture coming down. Getting the wood stove going again. Looks like we need a new heat pump in the other house. That's going to have to wait for a little while. Should be a quiet day, need to do some shopping and a dump run. Not too excited about going out in...

34 outside right now, heading to upper 30's. Seems an ice storm is coming tonight. Will have to watch the weather more closely. Indoor day, more chase downs for estates, heat pump looks to have died in other house. Sigh....expected, over 22 years old. It appears I have returned to the...

RIP bird. A lot of TBN reunions in heaven.

47 outside this AM, heading to mid 50's. Not much going on, I will take it. Hope all have a great day. Be safe.

30 outside right now, heading to upper 50's today. Hope all have a great day and a good start to the work week. Be safe.

47 outside and that is the high expected right now. A ditto weather report from wngsprd. LOL. One last ice spot remains on the driveway. Some pasture areas still have snow on them. Today should be the last of it all. Ground is now mushy for an inch or so depth wise, then frozen. Makes for...

And even with the fancy electronics, I still date label the windshield on the trucks, and date label the filters on the equipment. LOL. Just old fashioned...or old.. I guess.

yeah...I moved some twenty years ago in a situation just like yours. I hopped across a county line. Differences were night and day. Just crazy.

I'd be all up in someone's face about the wording of that notice. That is a bold statement to give to your residents.

Not LOL, but yeah.... It was a wake up call for AI, and the techs paid for it. More so than the rest of the market. I seem to have re-couped though.... It will get more interesting with the AI stock alignments now going forward.

Yeah...the trucks we have are overly complicated on menus. And control buttons are all over the place. Pretty soon I imagine some sort of certification course will be needed to operate. I do like the heads up display on the windshield though. And the control buttons for the sound system on the...

42 outside right now, heading to mid 50's with rain. Sprinkling now. Still have some ice sheets on the driveway. LOL. Should be melted by the end of today. Hope all have a great day. Be safe. The weekend is here! Yippie.

29 outside right now, heading to lower 50's. Rain expected the next two days. That should take care of the remaining snow and ice cover. Driveway by barn still has a big ice patch. Thought I heard that it has been four weeks since the snow storm? Anyway, it has been a long time since we have...

Sounds like the house is under control. Too bad about work. Those changes will stress you out. I sincerely hope you can fare well with all those changes.

I had the same sort of laugh with the power company and burying lines. They did my neighbors, took all the poles out, buried the lines, no charge. I needed an upgrade, they come out, I ask about the lines, they only bury from the last pole to the house. Some crazy figure for from the road to...

42 outside right now, heading to upper 50's. May touch 60! That should take care of the remaining ice spots on the driveway. Hope all have a good day. Be safe.

Fiber is another form of connectivity.....to the internet too. Wifi of course is another option. Most all cell phones and devices do Wifi these days.

Bird flu.

Yep. Advised everyone I know to look at local and state positions.

Same here. Lots of talk, lots of maps (no road details), lots of local effort, lots of some companies efforts, lots of people measuring things, lots of years gone by.... Lots of nothing.

It appears to be across the board, as her backup seasonal job, held for many years, all got pulled too.

Daughter just had her job rescinded with the Forest Service. Via eMail.

30 outside right now, heading to 50! THAT should melt some driveway spots! Hope all have a great day. Be safe. Too bad about the waste pipe, wngsprd. I know that feeling.

All this talk of mowing, I see my "lawn" stripes under a coating of snow and ice....still. LOL. But they are melting at a pretty fast rate now.

Not only companies, investment types. Diversify your holdings.

Need to act upon it. My bad experience, still dealing with it, my FIL was a pack rat. Now his kids are dealing with a lifetime of boats and cars some not titled at all. The stress is undeniable. If he had acted upon it, the sales, he would have benefited and his kids not be tormented by the...

Look into what classifies as a farm locally (business). Is a good idea but in some areas not an option. Zoning and other considerations (regulations).

LOL. We relate. We were in downsize house....up the land mode when we bought a long while ago. At the height of the last hosing (sp) market...lol. Anyway we just finished another project on the property which can be used as an in-law suite or retirement home for us. The big deal now is who ends...

I do not get a feeling real estate prices are going to drop anytime soon...or mortage rates for that matter either. I think 3 percent mortgages were an anomaly. Another farm up the road went to a developer. Looks like over 100 new homes on what was a very hilly property. I find it interesting on...

It's been "predicted" for a while. One has either to ride it out, or find a safe space....somewhere. I find it interesting that the "talk" of this futures downturn is some chip company in China saying they can do it cheaper, fast with less. Targeting Nvidia. So Nvidia drives/drove the entire...

22 outside right now, heading to upper 40's. Good for melting! The icicle is over, lasted until around 3PM yesterday, maybe close to three feet long. Time to get the downspout back up. LOL. Hope all have a great day. Be safe, stay warm.

What attracted you to Kioti to begin with?

Ahhh...37 outside right now. Heading to upper 40's. Should get some significant ice melt the next few days. Don't recall large portions of the driveway and yards being this icy this long in the decades we have been here. On icicle watch, will it come down today? How much will it grow. Points...

30 outside right now, heading to 40's. Good for melting! Driveway still really bad in long lengths. Late starter this AM. Hope all have a great day.

If you have two, sell one. I tried to get a delivery company to fix a bad delivery, after weeks of attempting, I gave up. I guess the person ordering it, just ordered another one. Or so I hope.

14 outside right now, heading to upper 30's. Still have an ice sheet for a driveway, still gorging the woodstove. Not much accomplished yesterday, moved some hay around, tended to the animals. Wife went out on her own. I deferred a shopping trip. LOL. Hope all have a good start to the day and...

5 outside right now, and it feels like 5 outside. LOL. May get above freezing today. No changes to status on melting. Monitoring icicle by Milk House. Thing is close to 2 feet long now. Pretty cool. LOL. Need to run errands today and maybe a lunch date with wife. We shall see. Hope all have a...

https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/fund/felv

I self manage. The tools at the major brokerage firms are pretty intelligent and through. I view the advisor as someone who can speak plain English instead of waddling through algorithms and statistical models. They have their place. I usually go into way back mode to see how things have...

I am the opposite. I "play" with 80 to 90% and parked 10-20% in bonds and a money market. Check out FELV under Fidelity. Right now I am thinking of having more "cash" available just due to another possible retirement effort and goals that have been met. But timing the market...well....

Sent you a PM.

One of the big deals at our customers sites was always recovery. We would have to do a recovery from tape, recovered from off-site stores, for testing. The PC LAN people would always crash and burn. In those days, they were just not experienced enough in large computer processes and well their...

Maybe, we left Stafford some 20 years ago. In the southern end of Fauquier now.

12 outside right now. Heading into the lower 20's and that is it. When the wind, expected, kicks in, it will be a lot colder. Need to tend to the animals and keep the wood stove going. Looking forward to warmer weather next week. Tonight is Dad and Daughters at our favorite sushi place. Been...

Tech...Banks...oil and gas...crypto. Same as it ever was. LOL. Bonds when I grow up. LOL.

Drew, My dealer is clueless in the service department. It's so bad that even when they air up the tires they forget to put the caps on the stems when they give it back. But when your trying to stay ahead of stuff, it is always best to have an official record of service from a dealer. I just...

Wow. THAT is a nice ride.

Sad. I was in software at that time. We forged deeper relationships with MS due to the Windows NT work. It kept a lot of us employed for a very long time. Recall some of those Alphas could run DEC's UNIX variant, DEC's OpenVMS and NT. And the clustering tech was way beyond anything else on the...

12 outside right now, may get into the mid 20's and that will be the high. Not much on the agenda, move some wood around, tend to the animals. Real job in the city calling so I need to figure that out. Or I should say, someone else needs to figure it out. LOL. Hope all have a good day. Be safe.

Is a good idea on the fall protection. I wiped out on ice a few years back. I really feel if I had hit my head...well.... I managed to stay conscious, and held on to a flash light. Unfortunate I could not get up, so after a few minutes of trying to figure out what was working, I started an SOS...

21 outside right now. Staying in the 20's today and dropping tonight into single digits. Suns coming out. Maybe we can catch some solar melting action. Hope all have a great day, be safe.

37 outside right now, that will be the high for today. Rain, snow mix coming down. Sure could use some more melting of the last snowfall. Driveway still pretty bad. Not much going on today, moved about a cord of wood around yesterday, after recovery and splitting. That should be enough for the...

Compaq acquired DEC in 1998. HP aquired Compaq in 2002. Quite a lot of DECcies made it through both aquisitions. Testamount to their skills.

Sorry to hear that. My finals are due in April. But I have other parties that are dragging stuff out. The lawyers are the only ones making out. IMHO, there should be more limits and time allowances than what is currently in place. I just had an ask for a paper or information from - 1974. LOL...

35 outside this AM, heading to mid 40's with a blast of serious cold air moving in sometime tomorrow. It's sprinkling right now, so it is not pleasant outside. Got some movement on my Dad's estate in multiple areas. Unfortunate both will require more time. So...we wait. More lawyers, but now...

Yeah, my wife wanted an Owl House. No problem I say....LOL. Scrape up some wood, hangers, assemble, easy peasy...hang... Built to specs, from some Owl Box "professional". LOL. Forgot to include how heavy that thing got, forgot to include Barn Silo silage opening was 2 inches short of...

Wife and I recovered our original circa 1920 farm house sinks. Both were found outside under piles of nature by outbuildings. You found out why they are not in some ones house. Super heavy. LOL. We sent both to a pro refinisher. One is in the Milk House now. The other remains in the dining...

31 outside this AM, heading to mid 40's. Wild temperature swings. Next week supposed to get into the single digits. More domestic stuff and paper work on the agenda today. Got another monkey wrench thrown at me with my Dad's estate. The lawyers are costing me serious money now. Just wow, what a...

Looks like a major malfunction today for SpaceX. Too bad. Keep pushing.