Good morning!!!!

[wngsprd]

I had quite the guffaw laugh over that one Eric. Wng, I'd recommend you park that log splitter on a hill, so that you and coco can push start it next time...

We live on top of a hill, but hadn't thought of push starting the splitter. Can you do that with an automatic transmission?

Hope things stay better with your daughter.

 

[wngsprd]

31 and crunchy frost outside, after yesterday's rain and this morning's freeze. But clear as a bell, and star-filled heavens. Hard to believe it is supposed to rain up to an inch later today and tonight.

Time to fire up the woodstove again after a few days of relative warmth, and then roast coffee. Plus found a leak under the kitchen sink...plastic drain pipe, so may need a trip to town.

Have a great day.

 

[daugen]

I tried growing sweet potatoes and they didn't do all that well, small and bug bit.
A great vegetable, good for you, and if you don't glom it up with unhealthy add ons, not that fattening either.
I like light sour cream with mine.
Really should have brought more home, put them in the air fryer as mentioned.
14 cents a pound means some farmers are just giving them away, maybe not covering costs.
Not too many things you can buy for 14 cents where someone is making much money on it...

 

[Buppies]

34 high of 42 rain today heavy at times very windy too

Nice cars Toppop

Prayers for daughter Kyle

 

[RoyJackson]

back is going to be hurting tomorrow but we boxed up just under a thousand pounds of sweet potatoes, seconds, mostly due to being big, but who cares when you cook them...all comes out the same, perhaps just not restaurant sized.

Very pleased to report potato giveaway was well organized, but started an hour later than we thought. So there was a line, and then the head guy there, who has a voice that could carry ten miles, started preaching, and the clapping started, and the singing started, and my ear was going nuts so I had to go back to truck. We were the only folks not of color there this morning. Here was this giant pile of 22 tons of potatoes, and after awhile our reaction was all the same, we aren't making a dent in it...
Then they stopped taking names and having a line and it became a free for all. All very nice and very polite, but think of big city
airport baggage carousel, off a really big plane, and way too many people trying to pack in to get the luggage going by. Well these potatoes weren't moving but we were running out of elbow room for a while, and you step out and someone steps right in. A good time was had by all, and those potatoes will be gone in days in the local community. I wonder what that pile will look like tonight or even if it's there.

We had to drive out in the opposite direction because so many parked cars had jammed the street.
I only went down a no exit street once... but we turned around fine.

That is a great post of a great time, Drew!!!
I'd loved to have been there!

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning.

Temperature is 26 and going to a high of 39°F. Wind W 8 gusting to 19 mph. Mainly sunny.

I have a dump/shopping run today. Mine and the neighbours' garbage to go to the dump, then off to the grocery store.
Turkeys are on sale at $1.49/lb. I'm going to get a piece of that action.

I got a phone call yesterday, the hardware store is telling me that my anodes are in. I think they are mistaken. Normally it takes at least a week to get anything that was ordered, it has only been 4 days.

Sweet potatoes are my favourite spud. I cook them whole in the microwave. I can eat them cold as well, skin and all. I'd rather have sweet potatoes than white ones.


Have a good day all

 

[RoyJackson]

2019-11-23, 0619

25 right now...high about 40...nice day, it appears.

Chores are a dump run, program a couple new garage door remotes and, if Suzette wants to hit the store, do that.
Also, fuel the tractor and maybe get 5 gallons of diesel. Looks like some snow coming in tomorrow...

 

[txdon]

This is great news Don, now, if you only had so much success with hand and foot.

Actually I have moved up to 3rd place (out of 63) for the continuing quarter ending Dec 30. I haven't been having a lot of wins but more wins than losses and apparently more than the people in front of me.

Good morning! 39˚F clear skies heading to 67˚F, going to be a very nice day.

Mom call yesterday and wanted me to pick up some sweet potatoes for her. She saw the HEB add that said 7 pounds for $1 and thought it was a typo.

 

[ronjhall]

Drinking second cup of coffee. 18° with clear skies this morning. Heading to 42° with PM clouds. I was able to do a lot energy conserving yesterday. Today I need to change batteries in alarm system sensors and smoke/carbon dioxide alarms. Should have done it when DST ended. May get out and blow some leaves away from house and garden pond.
Not sure I can go with the sweet potatoes. I still remember them from when I was a kid. Candid sweet potatoes with marshmallows. Didn't like them 70 years ago. Hard to change my mind on them being good in Air Fryer. :ashamed:

Don, good news on Dr report. Good pictures.

Randy, nice cars. Wish I had taken pictures of my many muscle cars. Top ones were a 56 Chevy with 63 327 vette engine. 64 Plymouth Fury with 426. 68 Corvette. 1974 El Camino SS. 1970 AMX and others.

bunyip, 40+°C is way too hot in what we would call spring. I remember being in Toronto in the late 80's when temperatures hit 40°. Only consolation was I had my boat out on Lake Ontario fishing for some relief. Lots of fog from water temperature difference from air temperature.

Drew, good report on hauling sweet potatoes.

Hawkeye, special prayers for your daughter.

Kyle, prayers for your family.

I am sure I missed some reply's. But Sassy is barking about something.

Good Morning All.

 

[daugen]

Ron, any chance you have a pic of that '64 Fury? That is a long time favorite of mine.

hope all daughters are doing better today.

wading through junk in storage, found a brand new high capacity laser toner cartridge that matched one of the units I have in there, so
that for sure does not go to dump. Actually, I'm going to swing by the donation place first and see what they take. What they don't take unfortunately
goes into a landfill. At least I remembered to take the paper out, got almost half a ream of perfectly good paper. I worked out of my home for the last ten years and
collected a fair number of units, going from individual function to all in ones. What really got me was high ink prices due to six different cartridges in some cases in one unit.
They should have to publish cost per page as part of the specs...

I must have twenty full big boxes of paperwork in there. That's going to take a while plowing through.
Multiple businesses, one I can finally shred, it's been ten years.
I need to get an asst to help me, likely a woman, who since she's on the clock I can't dawdle looking through memory lane, and never get done.
Plus if the whole box needs shredding she can sit there and do that while I sneeze from box dust.