Good morning!!!!

[jbrumberg]

A foggy, drizzly, rain showery 35ºF for today’s low temperature; 38ºF presents with unchanged conditions; and I anticipate more of the same with the afternoon high in the mid to high 30ºF’s and all this moisture changing over to snow tonight into tomorrow with little to no accumulation.

Despite all the TV ProMet hype on warm temperatures and melting ice and snow it is not happening around here other than the ice is now off the trees. Footing and driving on*non treated non- managed*roads and ground surfaces is still treacherous. *My parked truck*decided to do a little sliding downslope on its own this AM in a driveway.

“Yep, I am teet-ering on the brink of greatness!”- Randy I am happy to read about your ongoing improvements and hope the +’s continue.

I lost a windshield wiper yesterday due to ice sliding off the roof = an unexpected trip to the Big City to replace the wipers. Actually both needed replacing.

Dump run completed I have no real plans for today other than bird counting and keeping the wood stove fed. I really am not that interesting in slipping and sliding around outside today.

I hope that everyone is having a decent Saturday.

My + thoughts, wishes, and prayers.

 

[sodamo]

67°F and .06 inches rain

Finish clean up at cottage this morning in anticipation on tenants return.

Energy conservation and watch football this afternoon

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[toppop52]

51° going to high of 55 before a gradual drop.

Buppies, rain and wind won’t be good for break heart orchards house build.

Wife had pellet stove running again last night, but just turned it off.

I found a Hungarian goulash recipe yesterday that I want to try in IP. So I picked up ingredients on way home from work.

Son is going to fix waffles for lunch, so I just had a banana for breakfast.

Decided not to go to dads. Didn’t feel up to long trip today and back tomorrow. They might get snow there tonight.

Nothing much else planned for today.

I’d like the goulash recipe, mine is a little bland, not enough stuff in it for me.

 

[sodamo]

Goulash soup always one of my favorites in Germany. Yummmmm

 

[LouNY]

A foggy, drizzly, rain showery 35ºF for today’s low temperature; 38ºF presents with unchanged conditions; and I anticipate more of the same with the afternoon high in the mid to high 30ºF’s and all this moisture changing over to snow tonight into tomorrow with little to no accumulation.

Despite all the TV ProMet hype on warm temperatures and melting ice and snow it is not happening around here other than the ice is now off the trees. Footing and driving on*non treated non- managed*roads and ground surfaces is still treacherous. *My parked truck*decided to do a little sliding downslope on its own this AM in a driveway.

“Yep, I am teet-ering on the brink of greatness!”- Randy I am happy to read about your ongoing improvements and hope the +’s continue.

I lost a windshield wiper yesterday due to ice sliding off the roof = an unexpected trip to the Big City to replace the wipers. Actually both needed replacing.

Dump run completed I have no real plans for today other than bird counting and keeping the wood stove fed. I really am not that interesting in slipping and sliding around outside today.

I hope that everyone is having a decent Saturday.

My + thoughts, wishes, and prayers.

We got the warmer weather here, most places the snow and ice are gone.
Some of the shaded areas and north facing slopes still have a bit and many of the plow piles are still here.
Most of the ground is thawed or semi thawed, a sloppy muddy mess.
I would prefer that it stay a bit colder and froze up or sunny and dry it out.
Our dirt roads are getting rutted and throwing mud all over the vehicles,
the field roads rutted, rough and hard on tires and equipment, feed lots are muddy and sloppy,
rough pock marked and hard for the cows to walk in, wet sloppy weather is rough on cows.
Foggy out here at noon today visibility only a couple of hundred feet, and a drizzly rain at 36F.

Best wishs to all for the New Year ahead.

 

[daugen]

Lou, you sound like a commercial for Tide detergent... Best wishes to you too.

spent four hours this morning cleaning up stored files, got about halfway done and left a big pile in office I have to clean up soon.
Decided to burn my confidential files, so on the burnpile they went and after things dry tomorrow, intend to add some significant accelerant
to burn the boxes of paper, otherwise it's too wet outside. Need the proper mix of motor oil and a very small amount of gasoline to get things moving.
Lot of cleaning up late wife's medical files, that was pretty depressing, including the pathology report saying she was clear of disease.
That sure wasn't the case. Tons of office files to burn up, now ten years plus since I retired.
Because I had a broker's license lot of rules to abide by, long retention periods, but that's all gone now.
One pile for the burn pile, one pile for GoodWill and one pile for dump.

Now for a rest. Gale warnings up for tonight but maybe end of rain.

 

[jbrumberg]

It's been a foggy, rain showery 38ºF here since midmorning. Not the "prettiest" Winter day outside today. Our driveway is not a very pretty sight with all the spread wood ashes and it is still slippery with the rain.

Drew- You earned some R&R today.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

I had a great deal of paper records to destroy a few years ago, Drew. I called several shredding companies, and none of them would let me watch while my documents were destroyed. I ended up feeding them to the camp fire ring in the back yard, a few sheets at a time, after the burn bans were lifted and the rain had a chance to wet things down and protect them from drifting ashes. It's time to go through those old files again, and round up another year or two of records to be destroyed. That should be good for an evening or two by the camp fire ring again...

 

[lostcreekranch]

Need the proper mix of motor oil and a very small amount of gasoline to get things moving.

Now for a rest. Gale warnings up for tonight but maybe end of rain.

“Need the proper mix of motor oil and a very small amount of gasoline to get things moving.”

Noooo!

Please don’t use gasoline Drew! The vapors you can’t see ... are what will get you. Just use a bit of diesel fuel instead.

 

[daugen]

Just use a bit of diesel fuel instead.

I use very very little, no whump noise, trying to use as little petroleum anything on the fire.

Good advice.