Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

David, good luck with the fire ants. Now there's something I'm glad I left back in NC.
Huge amount of nasty chemicals including Amdro dumped every year on ground trying to kill them, and all those poisons that
affect your nervous system are getting washed into the creeks, lakes, bays and oceans.
But I had to go on patrol every two days with the golf cart or the farm would be overrun with mounds.
Worst was the floods, then they started popping up in unusual places. I was bit dozens of times by them, nasty
itchy welts.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

24 degrees now. 20 mph NW wind. Today will test my resolve to walk every morning. Some kind of winter event coming this weekend.

Have you been following the How's Eddie thread? Scary! Hope all those folks have a full recovery.:thumbsup:

Chris

No, have not seen that one.

 

[rswyan]

A Twitter thread with a good take on exactly what we could be facing with COVID-19 from Ashish Jha, Professor and Dean @ Brown University's School of Public Health:

Heard of SARS-CoV2 variant from Japan?

No?

How about one from South Korea?

No?

Surely variants from New Zealand & Vietnam?

Of course not

Because these places haven't given rise to scary variants

But what places have.....has big implications for ending the pandemic

Thread

https://twitter.com/ashishkjha/status/1354995265426616321?s=20

 

[rswyan]

23F and mostly cloudy @ 14:00 ... but I sure see a lot of sunshine here ... :thumbsup:

Lots of feeder activity today, The Woman reporting deer moving through early this morning ... personally, I haven't seen them for a while. But I have seen the hurt they have put on that one rhododendron on the west side by the squirrel feeder ...

No big plans for today, other than schedule some bills for payment, work on grocery order and kitchen clean up.

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

 

[rswyan]

Also forgot to mention: looks like very good news on the Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccine.

:thumbsup:

 

[rswyan]

duplicate

 

[Alien]

Hi everyone.
Lovely warm morning, (6.00 am) few clouds, no wind. Going to the club today to fly my RC planes. I haven't flown for several weeks due to health/weather. Hope I remember how to.
I will just take a large petrol engined one today. Can't be bothered packing and unpacking more than that at present. Got word that quite a few will be attending. It is a great friendly club. We all enjoy the social side as well as flying.
This evening my stepson and his partner are coming for the night. We get on well with them. They live near Brisbane.
So my day is planned and should be a great one. Had a good nights sleep but we watched a movie until 12.30 a.m. I usually fall asleep well before then.
Best wishes to all.
Downunder Doug.

 

[toppop52]

My wife cut my hair last night, best barber I’ve had, she doesn’t have much to work with but she gets it done.

Very good preliminary report in my echocardiogram, EF is up from 30% to 55%.

Weather Channel forecast is for 3-5” of snow on Sunday, changing to rain with 3/4” of rain changing back to snow Tuesday morning
Accuweather and Weather Bug are saying a little snow and not much rain.
Both are saying strong winds, we have those now, gusts to 37 this afternoon.

 

[Bird]

Looks like I'm going to have to hunt for that second vaccination. They no longer are giving it where my appointment was suppose to be

That really is a shame; for you to have so much trouble getting your vaccinations after you helped others of us, including me, of course, to get ours quicker.

 

[toppop52]

Looks like I'm going to have to hunt for that second vaccination. They no longer are giving it where my appointment was suppose to be, and of course trying to get info on the phone is impossible with 136,156 people still on the waiting list trying to get their appointment to get the first shot.

Did they give you an appointment for the second dose when you got the first one, then cancel on you?