Good morning!!!!

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 50ºF for the start, mostly clear sky, light breeze. Light wind, a few cirrus clouds, and high temp was 87ºF. Made coffee to start day, grief share, bike ride, town trip for lunch meds, and groceries. Got short nap in Have not made progress on thank you notes
Resuming yesterday morning 8:05 AM CDT post 204,892:
Ken good to hear garden being prepared for spring. Sorry GF has not finished with funeral home. Hope you can get her to let them come to her. Glad your son's trip to Philly for GF birthday was good. Thanks for pic
Engineer glad tire replacement went quickly.
Drew sorry pavers you wanted were internet only, glad you found a suitable substitute. Sorry about checkout fiasco.
Drew thanks for vintage pics, ditches are big, and filters ready to be changed.
RNG glad you were able to get downed trees to burn pile. Hope you are near done with processing firewood fo old house.
Happy(NC) I see daylight through the tank. Glad you almost done with cutting ends off. Hope you get the tank cleaned out soon.
David hope you get your taxes done, and break even or get some back. Hope HH was good.
Frits sorry scar tissue had to be broken, Good to hear finger could be made to move full range. Hope PT loosens it up Sorry you can't process firewood yet. Hope you find some firewood of suitable quality.
Bill don't let the chair get away
Thomas chowder looks and sounds good. Hope snow melts quickly. Like your pics
Drew glad you got good rain. hope good walk.
Randy(wag) hope electrician didn't take too long. Good to hear election prep done for now.
Dennis nice progress on deck. Happy birthday to Pebbles. Glad Snagglepuss helped you on the deck.
Dennis good luck finding what you need for the deck.
Today 3:36 AM CDT:
Ron good to hear mailbox adapter stained and sealed. Hope it was dry. Hope pond cleanup went well. Hope good progress on limb cleanup. Sorry cardinal having bad feather day
Thomas Hope you can just hold chair in place after 8 hours at parts store. Plenty of deer.
Drew sorry shed is getting splashed, hope pavers work. Hope you got the gravel today.
Bill sorry no plw today. Hope you conserved plenty of energy.
Happy(NC) good to hear progress continues. Glad dog getting his exercise. Hope you get tank dropped by weekend. How long to finish bridge?
Drew hope the grease gun works as advertised. Thanks for link.
Billy thanks for your prayers. Glad you got more firewood processed, a hike and swim, and coffee roasted.
Drew interesting thoughts.
Mike glad you were able to bring some work home. What a nice surprise when you got home. Glad it fit the frame you built Hope you were able to get more wood processed and out of the yard.
Don glad more progress on river bed. No rain here yet, moisture in system is lacking. Hope we both get some rain, we both need it.
Scott(vt) glad you got some rain. Hope splice goes well.
Frits sorry you wern't dressed for city yesterday. Hope groceries and firewood go well.
Paul sorry you couldn't get pad ready for shed. Looks like you're not the only one in front of the fire. Hope breakfast was good, and wire pulling went well.
Dennis hope you can get the length you need.
Ken glad you talked GF into letting Funeral home come to her. Hope you can get the front areas raked out soon. Sorry to hear about your big monitor, hope you have a cap to replace the bad one.
RNG glad you are getting some of the little jobs done. Sorry still fighting with the 3 & 4 way switches. Hope ceiling fan piece of cake to replace. Glad last tree on burn pile. Sorry to hear listing delayed.
David sorry about password issues. Hope you were able to finish taxes today. Glad HH good.
Drew my experience closer to yours on lock and lube so no rock throwing here. Hope you find place for roses. Nap sounds good to me.
Bill hope you get the size refund you are hoping for.
Randy(wag) glad electrical work at church went well. Nice you ran into an arborist, and he should up at Wagtail park and gave you a show up date.
Paul starting from scratch sounds like more work, but considering you don't know what you have eliminates the rabbit holes to disappear into.
Dennis sorry you couldn't find what you needed. Hope chicken was good at BBQ place.
Fuddy thanks for story.
Buppies sorry they ran you off and Holly not having good day. Hope tomorrow better. prayers sent.
Don sorry HD couldn't get color right. Glad paint store got color right. Nice patch job and paint.
Bill sometimes discretion id good thing
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle /Daughter, /mom's breathing, /son's migraines, Mike /BIL in FL, Ron /heart, David(moss) /remodel, /divorce, Buppies /cancer, parathyroid, blood sugar /wife, Thomas /gout, Phil /reflux, Frits /veteran son with mental issues, /granddaughter with Evans Syndrome, Ken /dad dementia, /chronic fatigue, Diet not working, Randy(wag) /sister stoke, Steppenwolfe /son-auto immune disorder, Grev /wife's eye, Ted /knee recovery, /retirement & disability red tape, /family issues, /wife back issues and cancer, Lou /eye issues, /heart issues, /wife hip replacement, Doug and wife/health issues, / hand nerve and surgery, /fall and recovery, / wife headaches and heart eval, / David(sadamo)/Sophie's hip or leg pain, /back issue, Scaredy/shoulder dislocation, /marriage dissolving, / friend stop drinking, Dennis /retirement, /neighbor issues, /brother's lymphoma, /dad surgery recovery, Drew /back operation issues, /friend's wife cancer diagnosis and recovery, Scotty /back pain, Helogabals /wife's friend situation, Fatjay /father broken hip, ******, Ukraine war, hurricane victims, and Country.

 

[NHBX]

Good morning,
27° and cloudy, may see a few peeks of sun early, showers possible by late afternoon. High temps in the upper 40’s, wind W 5-10 mph.

Not sure where yesterday disappeared to, only thing accomplished was getting a pizza for supper.

No real plans for today, just putter around and see what comes along.

Enjoy your day everyone

 

[ronjhall]

Poured first cup of coffee. 28° with mostly cloudy skies. Heading to 44° with some sun in afternoon. Other than checking mailbox adapter and taking Sassy for a walk. Not much else got completed yesterday. Hope to get more completed today. Will start off with getting trash out to front of house.
Got to be away to get up to feeder for a photo shoot.

EVeryone stay safe and well.

Good Morning All.

 

[daugen]

good morning all
40 going up to 50 today in clouds
I see 80 something this Saturday but temps will continue to hop up and down.

my only plans for today are to plant the two rose bushes I got yesterday

door looks nice Don.
reminds me I have a few outdoor windows starting to peel, need to touch them up with white paint.
I told landlord if I could reach them on a step stool, I would do. Anything more than that, not my job.
I don't think they have had too many tenants touching up their paint...

have the replacement DC led ceiling light for the rv to replace a flickering one.
Problem is old one won't screw off or pry off, cheap plastic thing I know I'll break, but at least now I have the
replacement. I currently have black tape over the light, not the best presentation for sale so knew I had to fix this.
youtube instructions say to pry off. ok.

 

[Buppies]

40 this morning feels chilly heat running. Yesterday wind blew again threatened rain 8 drops was all so dry here.

Prayers for all our Country

 

[Happy in NC]

Good morning TBN!!
39 this morning. Coolest day of this week. Only about 69. I too see 80s in the forecast.
Not to much yesterday.
Changed the forks for the 4-n-1 Got some seat time spreading sand around the tank to contain oil. Also picked up some brush the wife created .
Unloaded the truck and the put genny and Plasma back on it. That should be all I need to finish. Still have to figure out how to get oil and sludge out. Any suggestions appreciated. Going to be a really sloppy job!!
Dr.s appointment this morning. Not really sure why but suspect it's more of a wellness check.
After that I may try to quit procrastinating and just finish cutting tank up.
Nothing else planned but we will see what the day holds.

Time for a second cup.
Everyone have a great and safe day!!

 

[Thomas]

27F partly cloudy day low 40's for high.

Outside chores done E muffin time.
Plans for today...couple stop in town looks like putter day...getting itchy do more yard work but weather not looking good least couple more weeks.

Enjoy your day all.

 

[riptides]

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 have to get the chain saw out again on the big rounds. They are only five feet wide, but are too bulky for me to move (small area for big tractor). Heavy too. We shall see what today brings.

Need to do household chores today too. Dump runs and big box store for plumbing parts. Should also start on taxes, but we always owe, so no rush.

Hope all have a great day. Be safe.

 

[m7040]

good morning, 39 going to 46 wind later on

Household chores today and working the finger. Also have an appointment set up for PT early next week.

Found some firewood to be delivered next week to get a start on next season

Drew, that island sounds like a wonderful idea

 

[scott_vt]

Good Morning Happy,
What my boss does, is after tank removal from basement we cut the tank in half with a sawzall and dump Speedy Dry in and just keep mixing that with a shovel until all the oil and gunk residue is dry. Then bag that and bring the cap metal in to the recycler. Works well, hope that helps

Still have to figure out how to get oil and sludge out. Any suggestions appreciated. Going to be a really sloppy job!!

 

[Happy in NC]

Good Morning Happy,
What my boss does, is after tank removal from basement we cut the tank in half with a sawzall and dump Speedy Dry in and just keep mixing that with a shovel until all the oil and gunk residue is dry. Then bag that and bring the cap metal in to the recycler. Works well, hope that helps

Thank you!! I will give it a try but won't be cutting it in half

 

[scott_vt]

Good Morning,
Ct, 31 to start going to 46. Sun was out but it looks like clouds moving in.

My friend that also owns a house in Vermont was kind enough to bring a bed extender over yesterday after noon. This thing slides into the tow hitch and then tees off to support longer boards. The Trex boards are 12ft so they stick out the back past the tail gate over 3 ft.

Ok my other big question is that I see online that all SS recipients need to show up at their SS office to prove they are still alive. Is this more fake news? Because I haven’t heard anything about this until this morning

Hope all have a good day

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, the low is 19 and going to a high of 34°F. Wind NNW 8 mph. Periods of light snow.
We've got about 1.5" since the last time I plowed. Tomorrow maybe flurries and Saturday is the one to watch out for...Freezing rain.

My 'winter home heating oil' is getting down almost to the point of needing to top off the 500 gallon tank. Trouble is that I probably wont be able to top it off until maybe May, which is after the refinery changes over (change over is mid April) to summer fuel. So I have been looking at anti-gel formulas for the furnace oil. I have settled on Power Service in the white bottle. 2 jugs (64 oz) of it should treat 500 gallons of #2 diesel/home heating oil. I am thinking that the first jug should bring the gel point down to about -1F and the second one will bring it down to -40F. Correct me if I am wrong.
So, I top off the tank in summer (when the price should be cheaper) and come late October dump in one jug and coast on that until the temps get down near 10F then dump in the other jug. I do have a means of circulating it.
I think this will work, what do you think Scott?

Town and dump run today and maybe fill up my empty fiver with high test gas for the genny. That will bring me back up to 15 gallons on top of the 5 that is already in the genny.

There is my day planned out.

Have a safe day all

 

[Looking4new]

Good Morning,

Ok my other big question is that I see online that all SS recipients need to show up at their SS office to prove they are still alive. Is this more fake news? Because I haven’t heard anything about this until this morning

Hope all have a good day

My guess is IF you've got a few hours to waste and your immune system is up to snuff, then why not? Can you phone them and ask them that same question?

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning
37° and overcast, high of 47 predicted, with continued overcast, but no rain.

Yesterday’s breakfast was good lots of conversation about the topics dominating the news cycle.

Got the fireplace cleaned out, did some 3D printing and drawing, definitely getting faster at design work.
I removed the ashtray from the little plane and designed a cup / phone holder to go in its place.

I was pleased with the way it worked out. I am realizing how important 3D modeling / CAD skills are to fully benefit from a 3D printer.

I did help neighbor get wires to his pond, that project was the textbook example of a CF.
It started when he called and said that he couldn’t get the string through the conduit. I had instructed him to tie some binder twine to a plastic shopping bag and suck it through the conduit, a little over 300’ of 3/4” PVC.

So I packed up my trusty Stihl vacuum and the adapters that I had made for conduit and headed over. It made short work of the task at hand. I think his problem was trying to cram an entire shopping bag into the 3/4” conduit.
While I was there, I figured I’d continue and get the wires pulled, so I dispatched him to get a pair or jack stands and a pipe or bar that would fit into the reels of wire while I pulled a rope through the conduit with the binder twine.

The first piece he brought to support the reels was aluminum and bent like a banana before I had the last spool on it. He couldn’t find anything stronger, so I used a step drill to open up the spools to accept a broomstick.
The bundle of wires (4 number 10’s) was right between the two sizes of pulling grips that I brought, but i figured the bigger one would work fine as long as we kept tension on it.
And it did right up until the person pulling the rope got tired. When he resumed, the last 30 feet of rope came out with the grip and no wire. (My wire tugger was locked in another friends garage). So I had to pull all the wire out and repeat from sucking the twine through. I ultimately prevailed just before sunset.

Be interesting to see what today brings.

 

[NHBX]

Ok my other big question is that I see online that all SS recipients need to show up at their SS office to prove they are still alive. Is this more fake news? Because I haven’t heard anything about this until this morning

Nothing would surprise me but this is from ssa site

What to Know about Proving Your Identity | SSA

What to Know about Proving Your Identity

www.ssa.gov

 

[LouNY]

Good morning TBN!!
39 this morning. Coolest day of this week. Only about 69. I too see 80s in the forecast.
Not to much yesterday.
Changed the forks for the 4-n-1 Got some seat time spreading sand around the tank to contain oil. Also picked up some brush the wife created .
Unloaded the truck and the put genny and Plasma back on it. That should be all I need to finish. Still have to figure out how to get oil and sludge out. Any suggestions appreciated. Going to be a really sloppy job!!
Dr.s appointment this morning. Not really sure why but suspect it's more of a wellness check.
After that I may try to quit procrastinating and just finish cutting tank up.
Nothing else planned but we will see what the day holds.

Time for a second cup.
Everyone have a great and safe day!!

Saw dust and a match.
Could shovel it out, then burn it.

 

[LouNY]

Good Morning,
Ct, 31 to start going to 46. Sun was out but it looks like clouds moving in.

My friend that also owns a house in Vermont was kind enough to bring a bed extender over yesterday after noon. This thing slides into the tow hitch and then tees off to support longer boards. The Trex boards are 12ft so they stick out the back past the tail gate over 3 ft.

Ok my other big question is that I see online that all SS recipients need to show up at their SS office to prove they are still alive. Is this more fake news? Because I haven’t heard anything about this until this morning

Hope all have a good day

Fake news.

 

[scott_vt]

Good Morning Again,
NHBX, thanks I see that you only need to appear in person if you’re trying to change your DD bank info.
But thanks for the link .

I think this will work, what do you think Scott?

Bill, that sounds like it will work to me, especially if you have a way to recirculate as you just said. We use a product called Hot, it comes in a pint bottle and we use it during the winter months on all outside tanks. Especially those that are on the north side of the customers home. Usually one bottle every delivery during winter on a 275 gallon tank. If it’s a larger tank then 2 bottles.
So I think your plan is a good one.

 

[scott_vt]

Good Morning Paul,
Beautiful hob on the combo cup holder/phone holder. Looks perfect sitting there.
Nothing like CAD when creating new parts.