Good morning!!!!

[buckeyefarmer]

Down to 35° with 20 mph winds. Was surprised how cold it was when leaving work.
Took hr to get caught up on GM.

More nice pics, nice bike ride.
Bird, hope wife gets better.

Dad got a price of $2500 to have one dead ash tree cut in his yard. I told him don’t park under it and let winter bring it down.

Time is flying by.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 37F for the start, clear sky, calm wind. Light wind, moderate gusts, sky stayed mostly clear and high temp was 72F. Slow start did not get on the bike till noon. after lunch took a nap too tired to fish. Wife made a delicious cassoulet for dinner.
No gopher activity today. Think it is a different gopher as current behavior is different than last one.
Covid update: Cooke 665 confirmed cases, 38 active cases, Montague 433 confirmed cases, 47 active cases, Grayson 3547 confirmed cases, 321 active cases.
RS sounds like a good day
David thanks for the update.
Roy at least no ice
Phil 19 sounds cold
Thomas enjoy your hike
Bill hope you hear on the rock bucket glad you got some wood in the basement
Billy enjoy the wood stove fire
Mike your just full of "good" news sorry.
Luther understand the lack of motivation
Ron very nice pic of the feeder, hope Dr appt goes well.
Paul nice mount on the altimeter.
Drew nice story about the area, McDonalds changed to billions decades ago
Chris always fun with leaves.
Billy why is the world so hard on me?
PJ interesting story
Ken was trying to remember the author who used to talk about the NJ Pine Barrens
Ted I was wondering where all the leave came from. Treasure chest sounds neat!
Randy slow time of the year?
Ted looks like a southern mansion
RNG welcome back, quite the trip. Some nice pics and not too many disappointments. Hope long term electric fix is not too laborious. Great to hear you are getting some rain.
RS hope rebill goes well. volatile weather.
David hope Dr appt goes well, and you get some time to get trim the way you want it.
Mike had that happen at last house, and the soil was known for poor perc characteristics. Tried some RidX and that worked for us.
Bird not good news, wife has a lot of trouble with being cold at much higher thermostat settings than she used to like. Nobody has mentioned O2 yet but with the COPD it is a matter of time.
PJ sorry you missed out on the visit
David please tell Miss Sophie nice pic, the eye dilation is never fun
David(moss) money and horsepower to manage leaves like that
Drew hope you enjoyed you nap.
Don good for Gray2, nice pic
Randy neat pic looks like they want to give present in person
Kyle quite the job making a precision profile with no data. Hope the thread does not need to seal.
prayers for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle's daughter, David(moss)/remodel, RNG/fire, Ron's/hearing/son, and Country
stay safe and healthy you all.

 

[sodamo]

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Gray2 brought me a present this afternoon.

Good for Gray2

 

[sodamo]

Bird
Extra thoughts and prayers Margaret is doing better.

 

[sodamo]

Good eye appnt, slight vision change but will go back in Feb for new prescription. New eye insurance kicks in Jan.

Refilled all the empty gas cans, 22 gallons. All E0.

Came home to find out the water heater at cottage was not working. Of course with the dilation I was out of commission. Thankfully my tenant John took the initiative to troubleshoot, even talking extensively with the manufacturer reps, performing their diagnostics. Potential fix work cost almost half the cost of replacement with no guaranty. Not a great gamble on 15 yo equipment.

Found updated replacement at local plumbing supply and Sophie offered to drive me back to town to get.

Eyes close to recovered by time we got back home about 5. Eye tech had told me 8 hr recovery from dilation was common and seems to match my history. Sophie seems to recover much more quickly. But she is supportive of me

 

[RoyJackson]

2020-11-18, 0310

22 right now...high right about 30...my kind of weather! Needs some snow though.

Most of Vermont is officially under drought conditions: Despite a Rainy Week, State Still Grappling with Drought: Crowd-Sourcing Tool Helps Public Report Water Shortages | Agency of Natural Resources.
Having a well and living with 2 women can be problematic...I take "Navy Showers" so my water usage is pretty low. I'm going to have to caution the women to minimize water use...such as not washing one single item instead of a whole load...and not flushing every time they urinate (I'll pee outside, if necessary)
We (wife and I) lived with a bad well in PA...really sucks when the water goes off until the well recharges (normally a few hours up to several hours). We did put another well in shortly before we sold the house and moved here
We have had a pretty wet Fall and we need a solid winter with plenty of snow...but I'm not sure that's going to happen this winter

Interesting little video

 

[NHBX]

Good morning all

28 now high around 32 and sunny with 10 to 15 mph winds today.

Grocery order pick up went as I expected yesterday no paper goods available. Not sure of the attraction of hoarding TP and paper towels.

Did some shed cleaning yesterday for a dump run today. All the stuff that was to good to throw away seems to have transformed into why did I save this?Must be an age thing. In a few months I’ll spend a day looking for something I know I have at least 1 of!

Roy- I do not really like going into winter with this drought hanging over us. My area has been down graded from extreme to severe with not much expected for relief anytime soon.

Stay safe and healthy
Enjoy your day everyone

 

[daugen]

good morning all.
heater humming to keep me warm, which it does easily, small house to heat, about 29 outside,
only going up to 43 today in sunshine, and down to 23 tonight. Brrrrrr. Time to get out the heavy coat.

Prayers for Margaret and Bird this morning, hope things look better there.
And hope David's eyes are fine this morning so he can focus on hot water heater repair more easily.

Roy, I never knew a turtle could move that fast.

Off to local farm orchard this morning to shop for gifties to take to my brother's family over thanksgiving, farm makes a lot of home made jams and jellies.
Then after lunch headed downtown (all of 12 minutes to get there) to tag agency where my title finally came back and now I can get my car registered and tagged
in PA.

got my solar powered Christmas lights in, will wait until next weekend to put them up. And get a tree at a different local farm.
There are three Christmas tree farms within a few miles of here, lots of choices, though some are very pricey. I've read that Charley Brown
trees are back in style, not sure why.

 

[Eric Salop]

Good morning all. With so many dull wet days, when a good one comes along like yesterday, it is nice to catch up a little while staying dry.

I decided I could spare an hour to finally bolt down the supports for that octagonal water tank cover before winter gales come along. Hadn't expected such a simple job to give so much exercise in the process, I lost count of how many times I had to walk back to the workshop, such as extra extra trips for smaller diameter plugs, then back for longer bolts, then back again for larger washers ... Took twice as long as I expected, although on the upside my consistently poor planning saves a fortune on gym membership.

Bird, sorry to hear about Margaret, hope they can see her sooner.
My MIL used to suffer from Raynaud's, she eventually got relief from gloves with electric heating wires. She would have loved one of RNG's heated biker jackets

...I take "Navy Showers" so my water usage is pretty low. I'm going to have to caution the women to minimize water use...such as not washing one single item instead of a whole load...and not flushing every time they urinate (I'll pee outside, if necessary)

Roy, never thought before you said what it is like to live with a bad well.
Night time water saving sounds a challenge - waking up half asleep and forgetting to open the window first :laughing:

 

[Thomas]

19F with 10 mph wind might reach 30F for high....should make ice still water areas.

E muffin :licking: than outside to do chores.
Plans for today...Wife handed me errands list so it's off to town around 9am,other than that take day as it comes.

Enjoy the day all.