Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

good morning all.
A little warmer today, 37 going up to mid 40's with some possible snow flurries this morning from a small system working its
way through here later this morning.

headed back to local orchard this morning, hope they still have some apples left. Bought some organic gala apples at Giant
and they were awful, pulpy, brown inside, etc. I try to eat an apple a day for dessert and what I bought at store barely qualifies as a pie apple.

Ron, hope your heater gets fixed today.

 

[RoyJackson]

2020-12-30, 0513

13 right now...high in the lower 30's today...
Wifey and step daughter made the store run...I just paid for it...
My chores today...dump run, no doubt...assuming it's open so I need to check the schedule.

I'd like to do something with the tractor...just can't think of any chores and I hate just starting and letting it idle (1500 RPM)...****, must be getting bored!
Writing about the tractor, my neighbor sent me a listing (Facebook, I think) for a used hydraulic front (loader mounted) snow blower. I contacted the seller who wasn't very responsive...out of curiosity, I looked at the manufacturer's (Quick Attach) website...expected pricing for a 72" blower and hydraulic power pack...about 13K (+/- 500). The manufacturer's sales guy called me...looks like the package is on sale for $10K. Technically, the sale ends 01 January, but the sales guy told me the sale would probably go on through January and maybe February (guess Quick Attach had a bad year in 2020). Of course, the way Minnesota and soon, Wisconsin, is getting hit with blizzard conditions...surprised those snow blowers aren't flying of the shelves. I told the sales guy to contact me (phone, but preferably e-mail) in January. It'd be nice snow blowing driving forward rather then in reverse. My 3PH blower, a Frontier (Deere brand), has been an outstanding implement these last 5 years and it's paid for... Well, something I'll think about come the New Year. Nice thinking about it though...

 

[Eric Salop]

Good morning, a smattering of wet snow on ice is making it tricky to cross over the concrete parts of our yard. I am thankful that most of our hard surfacing is gravel, higher maintenance but at times like this, much less of a potential bone breaker. Pandemic or otherwise, fields always seem a lot safer place to be than city streets when the weather is like this.

One of today's new years eve kit drop offs was a friend who is a nurse working most nights in Covid ward.
She told us numbers are going down, finally.

, Covid numbers have dropped to numbers that were being reported before Thanksgiving here. Still over 2.5K per day But not 8 and 9K.

Ron, Ken, that is very encouraging, it suggests most people must be doing a good job of keeping well away from one another.

Another vaccine got approval in the UK this morning and will start to be used next week. This is the one developed by AstraZenica/Oxford University which does not need to be kept at such low temperatures. They have also approved an increase to 12 weeks between receiving the first and second dose. Initial immunity comes 2 weeks after the first jab, this extra delay maximises the rate at which it can be rolled out before receiving the 2nd jab which is needed for longer term immunity. I understand the American government has also pre-ordered a large supply of this one at just $4 per dose.

 

[ronjhall]

No coffee this morning. 28° with light snow this morning. Heading to 41° more snow then rain. Got 2" of snow overnight. Shoveled walkways.Dr appointment this morning. No plans for rest of the day.
Hard for a redheaded bird to hide from the camera.

Drew, furnace is on order I think. My wood stove that has gas logs in it has been doing the major portion of house heating for over 2 weeks now. I can make furnace run by manually telling furnace that a flame has be detected. Kind of like keeping a wood stove running without having to carry any wood. I can wait awhile to get new furnace. I want a new furnace with all the features that were on old furnace. Warranty company is paying the bill.

Roy & David, Sassy is a lap/bed dog. More like wherever I am at she is there. Never had a dog large enough to take up a whole portion of the bed.

Eric, todays news says 71k have been vaccinated in Michigan. There is a long way to go to get to 10 million in the state.

Roy, front snow blower dreaming. :thumbsup:

Randy, flag back up. :thumbsup:

Everyone stay safe and healthy.

Good Morning All.

 

[Buppies]

25 high of 46 today still working on parking lot

Prayers for all

 

[RoyJackson]

Thought you folks (especially, Canadians, and folks in the upper Mid-West) might get a kick out of this...

 

[wngsprd]

23F going to 47.

Roy, always interesting to watch how the world looked and worked decades ago.

Don, I replaced the heating element in our dryer about a year ago, $22 part, and was tempted to replace the moisture sensor while I had it all apart, but was too cheap. YouTube helped a lot. Good luck with yours.

Worked on the house siding some more yesterday, and brought in some cherry wood to burn in the woodstove...my wife commented on the aroma when she got home.

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning
It’s 24, headed to 40, snow showers, the mostly clear by 10am.

Emily likes to get up on the bed, when she first gets up, she will literally lie on my chest for me to scratch her head. But once she has had enough she will move to the foot of the bed. If you encroach on her space, she will get up and sleep on the floor.
In the morning, as soon as one of us vacates the bed for any reason, she hops back up. And she is not a small dog.


Yesterday, I did make progress on the speaker, all that’s left to do is the testing and to install the corners and grill. Then I’ve got to pack it up for the trip to Quebec.
I actually did some shop cleanup as well. I got the lane cleaned up, but didn’t make it to the windsock. So it was a generally productive day.

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, the temperature is 19°F and going up to 32. Wind SE 11 mph. Snow! Another 6" or so coming.

Thanks for the video Roy, other than the snow clearing I do for myself, I have always worked for private contractors. The 401 East of Toronto, the 400 North of Toronto, two City of Toronto yards/camps and York Region, North of Toronto. We call them 'sand camps', there are guys that live right in the camp (that would be me and 8 other guys) and then there are guys that are called in. When the snow starts to stick on the roads, the salters go out first and shake salt for one or two rounds. Then the plows go out, but we didn't have truck mounted snow blowers. I have plowed with tandem drive trucks and on city streets with a grader. I much prefer the grader.
Snow removal was always a treat to me. I had a sidewalk plow, a 450 John Deere dozer with street pads and push it off the sidewalk. A following grader (on the street) would pull it away from the curb and into a windrow. A second grader would push the first ones windrow back into the lane and a huge snow melter would come along, scoop it up and melt it and down the storm drains it would go.
Torontos' snow melter went to buffalo on a couple of occasions to bail them out from a big dump. As far as I know, Toronto never got paid for that.

Today is an energy conservation day.


Have a safe day all

 

[daugen]

Nice speaker Paul. Big voice coils, what will the bass go down to +/- 2db?
Does the speaker have an orientation, like voice? percussion? bass?
What ohms does the amplifier see?
Cone material?
I started reading Stereo Review and HiFi 50 years ago, it's been fun watching
the industry change, yet much remains the same in speakers. Amplifier
and switching electronics now have so many acronyms
used to market their design, so much of which I think is overkill since the speakers have more
of an impact on what you hear.

Which is why a 300 dollar pair of headphones has amazing sound, 1/10 the cost of comparable speakers.