Good morning!!!!

[txdon]

Good morning! 58˚F heading to the mid 70's. I bought some lawn fertilizer before the big freeze, today is a good day to spread it. It looks like I have lost about 10 hedges to the freeze. I may just cut them low and see if they green up before I pull them up by the roots. there are a lot of dead palm trees in the neighborhood. It was too cold for too long.

Belated Happy Birthday to Momgadget.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 43F @ 6:30AM. Rain showers early will evolve into a more steady rain for the afternoon. High 53F. Winds SSE at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 90%.
Only 0.03" of rain overnight, more supposedly on the way today and tomorrow.

Try this one, Drew.
The USB ports will speed match, at the speed of the slowest port.

Sounds like good times, Paul. Music to your ears!

+1 on Anker. Been using their USB chargers, and also a USB 3.0 to video converter for the new BenQ monitor.

Rewired the photo eyes on the gate to run off the 12VDC from the solar panel, then used electrical tape to fix them pointed at each other. It works, but I'll keep poking away at getting rid of them altogether; two less points of failure if I'm successful. I also got the wireless keypad to work by putting in a lithium battery. It came with one, but I assumed it was a junker no-name and substituted a Duracel alkaline. Then read in the instructions that it needed a lithium. The controller still fails to unlock about one time out of three, so I'll call the factory today to ask for help. The thing's got a million tiny dip switches on it, and it's a very good chance one or more are not set correctly. Connected up the old exit loop sensor, but couldn't get it to work, either. I have a new one I'll try once it dries out a bit up there later in the week.

Housekeeping and maybe a nap for today...

 

[LouNY]

Lou, have a good trip, that's a big day for your SIL. And a long way down 95 on snow tires.

Yes it would be a long trip on snow tires. So I'll swap them off and save them for the next couple of years.
I detest driving on I95 from well before DC and well after it.
Therefore I add a couple of extra hours to my drive with a lot less aggravation,
NY I88 to I81 follow 81 down into Virginia then I64 back across.
Lets me avoid NYC, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington DC, I do have a bit of traffic around Richmond but not bad.
More nice scenery and usually less traffic and aggravation, then I stop for the night in Harrisonburg or Staunton
unless I feel like pushing a few more hours. One time just for the heck of it I did the trip without using hardly any interstate
highways took me a bit over three days but was a nice trip.

 

[Bird]

Don said, "I bought some lawn fertilizer before the big freeze, today is a good day to spread it."

I have not bought fertilizer yet; might do that today. But it's sure too windy here to spread it today. 56 degrees this morning, going for a high of 73 and a strong southerly breeze; currently 21 mph. I just finished (hopefully for the last time for this season) using the grass catcher on the lawnmower to pick up those blasted Live Oak acorns and leaves in my front yard. I use the big contractor bags from Home Depot and I moved the whole yard on 3/2/2021; filled two bags. Then I went over the front yard, under that live oak on 3/4/2021 and filled one bag, did that again on 3/5/2021 and filled 2 bags, again on 3/6/2021 and filled 1 bag, and once again this morning and filled 2 more bags.

Did I tell you that I hate Live Oak trees within a hundred yards of the house?

 

[Eric Salop]

Good afternoon, we seem to have lambs everywhere, another trailer load were in a rush to be born before the gales arrive tomorrow.

Drew, that's quite a spec for a PC. Are you planning on getting into the bit-coin "mining" business ?

Put a pair of new blades on the Grillo mower yesterday. While tightening the second blade, I stupidly turned the mounting bar half a revolution in the opposite direction to normal cutting. The drive belt took this as an opportunity to climb up the tensioning pulley that is hidden in a tight space beneath the engine, then escape through an impossibly narrow gap and jamb up on the far side. At this point the exhaust thought it would join in the fun, branding me across my wrist as I tried in vain to see if I could access the pulley from the rear. Half an hour of finger numbing pulling, pushing and tugging got me nowhere, I had to walk away before my frustration had me doing something stupid I would later regret (mowercide ? ).

After a good nights sleep the belt was feeling far more compliant, it let me twist and tease it out of the confined space in less than 10 minutes and now the Grillo is cutting as good as new. It has got me thinking though, we no longer need a machine that can traverse slopes, next year I will be planting trees in the steep places and the sheep can keep it tidy enough over this summer. For some time my wife has been saying we should trade in the Grillo and get something with less aggressive tires for her lawn - any recommendations for a small tractor style mower that will mulch cut in the range 1"-4" ?

 

[sodamo]

67°F and 10.97 inches rain last 24 hours. Hope today a bit drier. Forecast is 99% chance of rain.

A wait and see day.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[Bird]

LouNY said, "I filled my pickup yesterday, $2.999 so might as well say $3.00 a gallon."

That's even worse than north Texas. I filled up a few minutes ago at Buc-ee's (usually the cheapest place around here) and it was $2.599. That's the most I've paid since July 3, 2019.

 

[kenmbz]

Drew,
I think the drones passed over my house last night.

Pics from my past, I miss traveling and taking pictures:

 

[txdon]

LouNY said, "I filled my pickup yesterday, $2.999 so might as well say $3.00 a gallon."

That's even worse than north Texas. I filled up a few minutes ago at Buc-ee's (usually the cheapest place around here) and it was $2.599. That's the most I've paid since July 3, 2019.

Now that I'm in town The price of gas does not affect the monthly expenses that much.

Once the price reaches $4 a gallon is when people start weighing in the advantages of a hybrid. I know the Tesla factory is right down the road and they cheer every time the gas goes up another quarter. It still seems too early to consider a vehicle that is completely dependent on batteries, just not enough charging stations around for a road trip. In fact there is only 1 charging station in town and it's at an apartment complex. That sounds fun sitting around an apartment complex for 30-45 minutes waiting for you car to fill-up just so you can go another ? miles.

In the works are batteries that last one million miles and go 400 miles on a charge. Get the price down to $40K and I'll reconsider.

 

[txdon]

Drew, I just saw all Cruises will not start back up until June. Will this affect your cruise?