Good morning!!!!

[Dftodd]

Well, chores are done!
This is one of the few times I wish I had a bigger truck! Quite a bit of stuff (mostly cardboard) went to the dump, as well as a couple old appliances (air filter, and miscellaneous other items) that should have gone months ago. Pretty full load for a Tacoma!
Rest of the day...putter around a bit...maybe a movie or two.
Step Daughter is going to spend New Year's Eve with some friends, and she'll stay where she is tonight...good plan. I haven't stayed up to ring in the New Year's in several years and I don't expect tonight to be any different...same with the wifey

If the forecast holds, we're getting 5-7 inches of snow this weekend...I could enjoy that!

I try to stay up and ring in the new years........ But usually fall a sleep in my chair or give up about 11:00.

When the grandkiddos were younger we would look forward to having them over for new years so their parents could go out.

The boys are old enough to stay home alone now. So the only time they are over for the night is if their parents decide they want some piece and quiet Or we shang-hi them for a vacation.

 

[Dftodd]

Don, I was more than a little bit surprised at the lack of questions. I think there were 5 questions to just check yes or no; Have you been diagnosed with covid? Have you been exposed that you know of? Are you currently sick? And I forgot the others. They made a copy of each of our drivers licenses and insurance cards and medicare cards, so they had our address and phone number. I saw at least 3 other people that "appeared" to be much younger than expected. And they had fewer customers than I expected. But other than the little bit of paper work, the ONLY question I was asked was "which arm do you want it in?":laughing: Of course Margaret was carrying her oxygen bottle with the hose to her nose and it wasn't even mentioned by anyone. And I was wondering when we get the second shot, but Margaret says they told her they'd call to schedule it. So I'm assuming that with my bad hearing I just missed that.

Wife had her shot this morning. She got the Moderna. Her only issue was an upset stomach afterwards, but we are figuring a slight allergy to an ingredient.

 

[Dftodd]

Finally, the last day of a very strange year

67°F and .18 inches rain

Need to finish up my mowing but rain forecast until afternoon. No other definite plans. See what the wx brings.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[sodamo]

Speaker really came out nice, Paul. Excellent work.
Have just under 10lb roadt thawing for tomorrow. Will slow cook in the Primo.

 

[daugen]

success!
printed out UPS delivery picture and went up private lane with 6 houses on it next to me.
thankfully at first house there were my boxes sitting out in the pouring rain, which wrecked the outer boxes
but inside was fine. Assembled the saw, filled it up with chain oil, and charged the batteries.
All's well that ends well though lady's mother probably thinks I was a grouchy old man when I saw my packages
getting wrecked out side, where they had been for two days. Admit to a little eye rolling and tossing the "heavy" package
up in the air to make a point... Granted, I'm new and she doesn't know who I am. But if they were xmas presents for kids
I would have been pretty annoyed. Our mail boxes are right next to each other so my address is no mystery...

 

[rswyan]

31F and cloudy @ 12:00, headed up to a high of 34F with only a 3% chance of precipitation.

Installed IR light switch in hall cleaning closet. Seems to work well at factory default ... there's about a 1 second delay before the light comes on after you open the door, doesn't appear to have any issues with staying on while you are there, and turns off in fairly short order after the door is closed.

Refill feeders on the list for the day, still a little left in squirrel feeder.

Local grocery store is open until 20:00 today ... so I expect that somebody will have to swing by there for the sauerkraut and sausage for New Year's Day dinner ...

Disappointing to hear from our Governor that 60% of nursing home staffs have elected not to take the COVID vaccine.

Add to that, the news about a medical center employee up in WI intentionally removing 500 doses of the vaccine from refrigeration which caused them to have to be thrown away really makes ya wonder ...

Hopefully 2021 will turn out to be a better year than 2020 has been.

Hope everyone has an enjoyable, productive, and safe day ... :thumbsup:

 

[Looking4new]

That is all the plowing I am doing for 2020. Both neighbours done as well as this place. Tractor is full of fuel and for 2020 I used 48 US gallons all year. Now to track the annual fuel consumption with the straight pipe.

 

[rswyan]

That speaker looks like it was "Made at the Factory"!

Sure does ... very nice ... :thumbsup:

rs, I was told not to put cat poop in compost pile, because they eat meat.

Yup ... the poops go into the toilet and get flushed.

The urine clumps are what gets dumped into the compost ...

We are assessing new cell phone services, to see if there are better deals.

Good luck in your search ... :thumbsup:

 

[rswyan]

Happy birthday to fellow Capricorns Mrs. Bird and Roy's sister ... :thumbsup:

 

[daugen]

forgot to post these earlier. Local tourist train came through on Christmas Day, running on coal it appears.
I think the whole trip is 9 miles, train has been here longer than most of us. New Hope to Ivyland PA.
Now they run diesel during the summer to prevent brush fires from sparks.
I haven't been on this train in 30 years.