Good morning!!!!

[txdon]

Good morning, low was 36°F and the high will be 43. Wind N11 gusting to 19 mph. 60% chance of rain/snow mix.

I would like this weather for one day.

Good morning! Warm and muggy. 72˚F heading to the mid 80s, cloudy. 10 years and a day for the GM thread, I'll have to look back to see when I jumped in. The Meyer lemon tree is doing good this year with 27 lemons almost ready to pic. For some reason I can't edit this post to add a phone pic so I'll have to make another post from my phone.

RNG, Apple has the new MacOS Monterey (also known as MacOS 12) out are you going to update?

Drew, does your neighbor have blue eyes? My wife's eyes are very sensitive to light also. The neighborhood has a restriction on lights at night. The street lights do not go out but everyones patio lights are out over night.

 

[txdon]

Meyer lemon tree, survived the great Texas freeze of 2021 - outside.

 

[txdon]

Drew I got this for the "bright" nighttime lights on the appliances and clocks. My wife loves them. I bet your neighbor would appreciate this as a peace offering that you understand.

Amazon.com

 

[ronjhall]

Drew, All my outside lights are motion sensed. Except for pond and flag lights. These lights are pointed towards ground. Flag spot light points away from everyone’s view.
Only problem with motion lights. Is keeping everyone from turning switches off that control lights. Put masking tape over switch. People still try to turn them off.
East facing flood lights and camera caught a couple hunters walking along my lawn the other day. Camera came on then flood lights. They made a 90° turn into field. But got their picture taken. They have not taken path again. I have seen them walking other side of field. They are welcome to walk along edge of my lawn if they ask.

 

[daugen]

if it wasn't for the flag for sure motion sensing makes the most sense and least "light pollution" but I always want one light on no matter what.
are you veterans offended if the flag stays out without a night light? I was trying to explain that to my neighbor and I might have been speaking Martian.

 

[txdon]

if it wasn't for the flag for sure motion sensing makes the most sense and least "light pollution" but I always want one light on no matter what.
are you veterans offended if the flag stays out without a night light? I was trying to explain that to my neighbor and I might have been speaking Martian.

"Flag protection Act - failure to properly light a flag at night can result in a fine of up to $100,000 or imprisonment of up to one year.

However, chances are you will never be fined or imprisoned, as much as you would upset Veterans, or those who pass by your flag and realize it has “Fallen Into Darkness.”"

https://synergylightingusa.com/led-flagpole-lighting-fixture-flag-pole-lights/

 

[PJSprog]

39°F and clear skies this morning with some spots of light fog, going up to 61° today.

I have been noticing more and more lately that one of the "benefits" of aging is my increasing inability to sing in the higher registers as I have been accustomed to for most of my life. I was always the guy in various bands who got stuck with the squealy high stuff, because I could sing it. Not so much anymore. I have been trying for a couple of days to record a high harmony that I used to have no trouble hitting these notes. I've been trying to go a little easier on my voice, moving more into falsetto, and it's just not working. So, as a last ditch effort, mostly out of frustration, I backed off the mic and tried just belting it out full force ... approaching a primal scream kind of thing. It worked, and I nailed it on the first take. Go figure.

Mostly_, deaf and blind dogs aren't really all that hard to work with as you might think. Dogs are smarter than many of us give them credit for. My Wife picked up that dog on Friday morning, and by the time I got home from work it already knew it's way around the house and the back yard. It knew where all the steps were when going across the deck in and out, and would start high-stepping just a few feet away knowing that it was coming. The only real difference is that you have to use physical contact with them instead of voice or motion queues.

I had one of those "four-legged tick machines" run across the highway in front of me on the way to work this morning. Definitely raises the pucker factor, not knowing if there are more right behind her in the dark.

 

[LouNY]

if it wasn't for the flag for sure motion sensing makes the most sense and least "light pollution" but I always want one light on no matter what.
are you veterans offended if the flag stays out without a night light? I was trying to explain that to my neighbor and I might have been speaking Martian.

As a former active duty Marine and Viet Nam Veteran while I would like the Flag to be light up at night and in inclement weather,
if the choice is the Flag flying or not , then fly her proudly.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

RNG, Apple has the new MacOS Monterey (also known as MacOS 12) out are you going to update?

The non-beta version of Monterey was released only yesterday, Don, and I don't think I'm adventurous enough to take that plunge. As I review the feature list, most of it is focused in increasing your ability to share data and screens, so nothing jumps out at me as a must have. I also see that it's a 13 Gb download, and would take most of a day. With my current data caps, I don't really have that much to spare. Maybe some day if I ever get a new laptop with Apple's M1 chip in it, it would make sense. But for now, at least, I'll stick with Big Sur, which I'm already running on this laptop.

 

[daugen]

thank you Lou. That's why I've left it unlit until I can find a win win solution here

The flag on the back of my big boat would always get curled up in the wind, as it was in the picture awhile back.
Once docked or stopped, I would always walk to the back of the flybridge and untangle the flag. Up front was a little Maryland flag but it was on a good
swivel hook and it never had a problem.
I think that big flag on the back was one of the reasons my boat, I and a lot of my family were not stopped as we went up the Potomac River on a family cruise.
South of DC there were spotters up on the ridge,black suburbans, whole thing.
And we puttered on by, clearly not fitting the description of persons of interest. I read later that some days 90 percent of the boats were stopped and boarded.

lunch is ready, house is clean, sitting here resting watching the pine needles fly by in the wind. 2.06 inches on gauge.
Rain has stopped for awhile, later tonight after dinner storm will keep heading North and should get windy and another shower.