Good morning!!!!

[riptides]

Ditto with the Buppies weather. 34 outside, heading to upper 60's.

I might wash a truck or something today.

I did eyeball the second story lights yesterday, just could not get the courage up to try that. Annoyingly, in my mind, I should do it.

Still have not recovered the game cams.

Prayers for Buppies, Toppop and txdon. ANd speedy recoveries to all.

I'll go make some coffee and plan out the day until the sun comes up.

Be safe, all.

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, low temp is 44 and the high will be 52°F. Wind SSE 13 gusting to 20 mph. 40% chance of showers or drizzle.

Happy Birthday, Rich!

Another energy conservation day.

Have a safe day all

 

[daugen]

Rich, oh what a difference a year makes! Happy Birthday and many more to come.

I looked up where the shipper is coming from to pick up this shed. Scranton, 100 miles North of here. ??
Really fine old established mover too; looks like the A team was called! I'm calling them at 8am sharp to see if I can confirm
they understand they are picking up, not delivering, and that this is all handwork since unless they have an off road pallet jack, my rough
gravel will not work. Last time my neighbor said the HD.com van at least had some markings as to who they were. Now they have hired some real
pros. The Cadden Brothers are coming all the way from Scranton.
I wonder if Rubbermaid actually wants that mess of parts back to figure out what went wrong, or this is just HD providing really good service.
I'm going to ask the shipper who hired them.

I'm now out 300 bucks paid to my helpers on three occasions and have accomplished nothing but installing the wrong size foundation in that spot.
And I think I'm going to get a heart attack when the quote comes in on the Amish shed. If the guy lives outside Princeton, that's like the highest rent area around,
and the local inhabitants are very well paid and can afford all the really nicely crafted, ooh look at this sheds. I just want a basic one and told him that as well as I could,
without saying I want his cheapest price. The only other option is finding a prebuilt one on a lot at a big box store or shed store.

If his price is too high, like 6k, I'm going to ask him how much shed he can build for me and deliver for four grand. My lawn mower will live under its actually quite nice full cover
if the shed is more expensive than that. I'm getting tired of high prices. Means you have to look harder for bargains.

Rubbermaid may be strike one. Amish shed may be strike two. But I will find a shed if I'm patient.
It's just stupid to pay too much for one when I'm only renting, even if long term.

 

[toppop52]

43-66 today, busy day. Bank to open three new accounts since my current bank is closing the only branch in the whole area. When I started with them thirty years ago they were locally owned and had 6 branches within fifty miles, went through 3-4 new owners, each bigger than the last and each closing some branches. I’m going to another locally owned bank and hope they stay that way. Family owned for over a hundred years and four branches within 5-10 minutes.

After that it’s doctor, groceries and frozen chicken pick up at Perdue’s main office.

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, Partly cloudy and 52, quite the temp change from 30 each morning.

Got apartment cleaned up for guests and finished moving lights around yard for decoration.
Need to help wife clean house up.

Rich - Happy birthday!
Don- hope the PT goes well and you can soon start reducing the pain medicine
Buppies - how are you doing today? Hope you got some rest.

Stay safe and be well,

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 42F @ 5:00AM. Rain showers this morning with some sunshine during the afternoon hours. High around 50F. SE winds at 15 to 25 mph, decreasing to 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40%.
The latest storm added another 0.88" of rain yesterday, mainly in the afternoon. Lots of wind, too, which rattled windows all night and made sleeping difficult. And it's still blowing.

Looks like a nice healthy turkey family, Ken.

Hope your shed saga has a happy ending, Drew. I used a haze remover from HD to get grout remnants off tile. Worked pretty well with just one application. Maybe it would work on mortar, too?

I had to look twice to see the hawk, too, Ron.

Speaking of knees, Don, has anyone heard from Ted lately?

There are four of these feeders out now, yet all the birds seem to love coming to this one. And there are more staying over this winter than ever before. Wonder if they're just late leaving, as up until now we've had pretty mild weather. I'll know today if the ring and carabiner combo holds up, it's been really windy all night. Had to take one feeder down because the wire it hung from was long enough to let the feeder hit a window. Oops.

More paperwork today, probably interspersed with some housekeeping to help stay warm.

Hang in there, gang, Friday's comin'!

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning
It’s 49 and might see 60 today.

Yesterday was spent mostly in front of computer, took a break to go to neighbors tree farm and rewire his Christmas tree baler.
Other than that, pretty mundane day.

Today doesn’t look to be much different, except a Dr appt before lunch. High point might be putting the trash out this evening with my new mounts for the Carryall.

 

[daugen]

nice chat with owner of moving company, yes his men coming, and yes despite what they emailed me they know it's a pickup only.
So now maybe headed outside in a bit to wash the car.

Hmmm. 15,000 posts. Started when I was sitting in a chair using a laptop with my wife in the hospital, almost ten years ago. Kept me connected when
my world had become so stressful with wife in and out of hospital. But after she fell asleep I would fire up the laptop and with my trusty Verizon hockey puck I'd
be on the Internet and reading about Kubotas. And studying implement websites.
And in that hospital, when the news was not good, she looked up at me and said
Honey, I think you should get that tractor now.
And I did, and that Kubota was a light years difference from the Case IH 245 I had first.
Some of you remember that before it was delivered I had a paint shop paint a small red heart on the rear side window
with her name in the middle. I have a picture of her pointing up at that heart with a smile. That's a memory worth keeping.

 

[Rich B1]

Good morning! It is 55° right now and may break 60°. Temperatures are supposed to start falling and be in the low 30's tonight.

Thanks for the birthday wishes. Today is the start of my 67th lap of the sun.....

Yesterday was relatively quiet day. Got some parts in the mail that have been sitting in a mail sorting center for over a week. Now I have something to do for sure this weekend...hopefully this makes the trigger of one of my revolvers nicer.

See how today goes, got a feeling it will be calm.

And to continue my saga, hope I am not boring anyone.....

Last year, today was a turning point. It still amazes me what happened starting today and ending Monday.....

I think this one of the nights I had gotten some sleep. I was figuring out how to twist around in the bed and get sorta of comfortable and sleep. And with the NG tube off, it made it easier to drift off.

Started with the early morning blood draw and the ****** Youth. Waited for a while for the results to post.

Get ready for it, the blockage had shrunk since yesterday! Finally! Now for Dr. Deb A to show up and move forward with the rest of her program of restarting my GI tract. Figured I would get a visit around lunch time.

Met my new day shift nurse, Kelli. She was a lot different than Kandi. Very businesslike, not real personable, but not unfriendly. She was just very to the point. She came in, did what was required, then was gone. It was different, but I didn't mind it. I still had Mikaela as the day shift nurses aide and she more than made up for the social interaction.

Kelli was a bit disturbed that there was nothing on my notes about taking meds by mouth. She was also really irritated the NG tube was off for over 24 hours and was still in place. She also noted it had moved out of position a fair amount. She finally called the doctor and came in and removed it from me. Yea! Finally the hated NG tube was gone. The day was getting even better.

And the wait was on. Lunch came and went, no Dr. The afternoon drug on....no Dr. Then it was dark and I was in a funk as she never showed up.

I was sitting in the bed watching something mindless on TV around 7:00 PM when someone literally came running into my room. It was Dr. Deb A! Finally. She was still in her surgical scrubs and apologized for being late. She had to do 2 emergency surgeries that afternoon and had just gotten done. She looked tired, told me she had been at the hospital since 4:00 AM for another emergency surgery.

I told her I knew she had good news for me. She laughed and said yes. I still remember the conversation, mostly one sided.

"There is a written plan for what will happen over the next 5 days. This is my last shift for the week, I have hand picked the 2 doctors who will take care of you until I am back on Tuesday. I have also hand picked your charge nurses who also have a copy of the plan. There will be some rough patches, but that is part of the plan and will be addressed during the treatment"

"Within an hour you will be given a pill to restart your stomach and intestines. You will get one every 4 hours until they are functioning"

"You will begin a clear liquids diet tomorrow morning, you are allowed normal amounts of water and chipped ice effective now."

I had a few minor questions, she assured me I was gonna be alright, and told me she would see me Tuesday. With that, she left the room. I would never see her again. I stood her up for the date on Tuesday...

About 40 minutes after she left, the nurse was in with the pill. I actually forget the name of it, but it was intended for people with slow stomach/intestines due to major abdominal trauma. I only ever took 2 of those little pills....they definitely worked. Maybe too well.....

Everyone stay safe out there!

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Morning all.

Prayers for Buppies, Don, top pop. Hope all recover well.

My 12x16 shed was around $1000 back in the day. Some assembly required.
It was over the size for no permit, but the inspectors for the house never said anything.
It needs new siding, the osb is falling off in a couple places. Had planned to get rid of it once barn was built, now both stuffed full. I even added a 10x16 lean to off the back of shed with one end open. Full of more junk. A bunch of old double hung windows I was going to use on a barn some day, never used. Parts to an old swimming pool that never got assembled, old pipes, an old bikes, stack of pallets, buckets of builders sand. Groundhogs have dug under it all.
Before my barn, I could get my last kubota in under the leanto. Used to park the Massey in the shed.