Good morning!!!!

[Frankenkubota]

They don't call them storms any more. Now it's a RAIN EVENT.
pouring now, 14 hours of solid rain ahead followed by a 30 degree drop in temp and tornado warnings.

Other than that Mr Lincoln, how did you like the play?

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 31˚F. clear skies heading to 55˚F. Christmas Eve, I need to start my Christmas shopping . . .
Tonight we have a candlelight service. It was by reservation and limited seating to keep the social distancing, and mask worn. They also are having two services to space people out more.

Kyle good to see the bike running and enjoyed.

 

[ronjhall]

Rich, happy to hear you are recovering from Covid. Prayers and best wishes you continue too full recovery.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

39° and periods of heavy rain. Major snow meltdown yesterday, the rain will take most of what’s left.

My garage and barn have shrunk. The more space you build, the more that accumulates. Can only get 1 car in garage, with wheelchair ramp blocking other side. Can’t fit truck in barn anymore since I got the ranger and ZT. Still need to get rid of go kart and riding mower.

 

[ronjhall]

Rick, the reflection pictures were great.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Rich, been wondering about you. Sorry you got the China flu, Glad you are doing better.

 

[txdon]

The unattached garage holds just the toys. It is 30X30 foot with 20X15 foot storage above. It was built for the Crossfire and the tractor. . . .
My attached garage 24X24 holds the work vehicles.

You have your tractor in the wrong garage.

 

[Bird]

My Christmas was Monday after being in the hospital for 3 weeks due to severe complications from Covid.

I think most folks can't even imagine what 3 weeks in a hospital would be like. Glad you're out now and I hope all is well.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Good morning. It 37° here this morning and very windy .. our high will just get over 50° this afternoon.

Yesterday's "FryDay" went very well and our proceeds will easily put us over 50% of the total cost for our new building.

Fryers ready!

Turkeys getting their FryDay Vaccine!

The finished product .. cooling.


We decided that next year we will moving this back to the weekend before Thanksgiving. Our decision to hold our FryDay was decided on too late .. to make it happen earlier this year. We also decided offer smoked turkeys as well .. smoked the weekend before Thanksgiving. Now .. with our "first annual" behind us we'll go bigger next year. All our turkeys, this year, were pre-ordered and we'll continue that in the future .. eliminating the "unknowns".

We also took pre-orders for Berdoll pecan pies .. which were a big hit and generated addition proceeds.



A local garden shop brought boxes and boxes of poinsettias for all us volunteers putting on FryDay. Nice gesture from our community.

This morning I'm taking one of my pressure washers and foam gun down to try to remove most of the spilled peanut oil from our fryers. We're not too concerned .. as the present building and slab will be recycled / demolished as soon as our new building is complete. We'll eventually have an outdoor covered kitchen, next to the new building as part of our phase 2 plan.

We're having a small Christmas dinner in Richmond tomorrow then .. a few will come out to the ranch for the weekend.

I've got a 5# standing rib to wrap in cheesecloth and back into the refrigerator this morning.

Hope everyone has a safe and joyous Christmas Eve.

Prayers to all.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Rick, the reflection pictures were great.

Not bad .. for an iPhone 8 Plus.