Good morning!!!!

[rswyan]

37F and mostly cloudy @ 13:30, heading up to a high of around 41F by 15:00 or so.

Sharp-shinned hawk was perched on hopper feeder this morning when I got up, went and grabbed my phone to take a picture, flew off just as I was raising the camera. Looked like the little birds had been harassing it ...

Woman is out for doctor's appointment, now apparently at the grocery store ...

Big project for today is to get the foam board moved from the van and pole barn around back to the basement.

Also will move the Cub Cadet over to the barn and radial arm saw and maybe table saw back over here to the garage.

Need to have a look at the fuel situation in the Cub and see how much ethanol gas is left in it. Probably should go out at some point and get some non-ethanol gas to stick in it.

Speaking of fuel, noticed yesterday that prices have dropped here significantly: on the trip to Menards yesterday I saw one station that regular for $2.65/gallon and diesel for $4.39. Prices on diesel have been pretty stubborn but good to see that they are moving in the right direction once again.

Beyond that not sure what all will be on the agenda for the rest of the day ... but pretty sure I'll find out in fairly short order ...

Hope everyone is having a good Hump Day ...

 

[daugen]

if you have a direct injection car, as many of us do, might be more risk with lowest price no name gas.
water, contaminants, lack of additives, not sure cheapest gas is the best gas.
Annoys me constantly I have to put top price premium in my car. Going to Super doesn't save much.
The savings are in regular gas.
with modern anti knock computer software, I put the 89 octane in once in a while. Always blended with 93.

I wish I could choose a regular gas mode, like putting car on eco setting. Because it is...

 

[Popgadget]

Mostly enjoying another Doors biography, this one by John Densmore, their drummer.

Here’s a picture I took of Robbie and John back in the day.
You can also see Ray in the background. This was the “other voices” tour soon after Jim died

 

[Thomas]

Speaking of fuel, noticed yesterday that prices have dropped here significantly: on the trip to Menards yesterday I saw one station that regular for $2.65/gallon and diesel for $4.39. Prices on diesel have been pretty stubborn but good to see that they are moving in the right direction once again.

Gallon gas $3.29...OTR diesel $5.29 slowly going down,but good hiccup I feel coming soon.

 

[m7040]

Spent some time collecting flammable liquid spray cans from around the shop area and placing it in the flame proof cabinet together with the gas cans and other flameable items.
Scheduled the service for the van for Tuesday next week. They need a couple of days to fix the oil leaks. At least I don't have to do it and they will pick it up and deliver it back.
Checked over the Honda generator and started it and let it run for some time in preparation for the ice storm tomorrow morning. Depending on who reports it could be an inch of ice likely causing tree and branches to come down and power outages.
Charging all batteries and getting battery powered lights ready
Found the ice cleats for the boots
Will not be able to run the well water pump if power goes but we have springs we can get water from if need be
And with wood firing and propane for cooking we will be fine as usual.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

We talk about Mission BBQ sometimes on this thread...might go there today...just saw them present a donation of $1,440,000 to the Global War on Terrorism Memorial Foundation this morning.

Saw that also. I’ve met the one guy in the picture.

No tips from me. Don’t know how that got started, never heard of it until recently.
Wife will give mail lady some cookies.

The weather hypsters working overtime. Apparently this is the first freezing rain event ever.

I don’t trust a word of anything from CNN. They have proven themselves unreliable for news.

Shoulder still very sore from the latest jab. None of previous has hurt this long.

Tiger has my chair instead of the stovetop. feet up on wife’s recliner.

15° this morning, lowest of the fall so far.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

It had a separate picnic shelter, horseshoes pit, deck with triple Adirondack chair, and shower, among other amenities. A lot of hard work by this volunteer AT club.View attachment 774536

I’ve seen a really nice one, but it doesn’t have a shower.

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

I found my old sliderule. I think I got it in 1962 and used it until 1968 or so when my company gave me a 1000 dollar HP calculator.That was a lot of money and I could not afford that.

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I'd like to find mine. I have a Wang calculator which was a big deal in 1969. The manual for it from my memory is 2"-3" thick. It uses nixie vacuum tubes for display. It's in two parts, keyboard/display then a cable goes to this "suitcase" of boards. Probably a museum piece now.
Engineering class had a 20-25 ft sliderule on the wall, the larger the more accurate (more decimal places). I'm not sure I still remember how to use one. Somewhere I've got a Timex-Sinclair computer. Now dollar stores sell better calculators.

 

[m7040]

I'd like to find mine. I have a Wang calculator which was a big deal in 1969. The manual for it from my memory is 2"-3" thick. It uses nixie vacuum tubes for display. It's in two parts, keyboard/display then a cable goes to this "suitcase" of boards. Probably a museum piece now.
Engineering class had a 20-25 ft sliderule on the wall, the larger the more accurate (more decimal places). I'm not sure I still remember how to use one. Somewhere I've got a Timex-Sinclair computer. Now dollar stores sell better calculators.

We used Logarithmic Tables for more accuracy when solving for complex formulas in design class. Keeping track of the decimal was the hardest part.

 

[rswyan]

Still 37F and mostly cloudy @ 17:30 but I think it went up a little and then went back down.

Got the 14 sheets of polyiso moved around back and stuck in the basement, also 2 rolls of unfaced R-11 and the bundle of unfaced R-13 (contains 11 batts)

Then went over and snagged 8 sheets of 2" pink EPS foam board from the barn and got that put into the basement as well.

Moved Cub Cadet over to the barn. Checked the tanks and both are near dry, so will probably run down to the Bell Stores location tomorrow and get 7 gallons of E0 so it can be filled up and topped off for the winter.

Then went back and got the Kubota and moved the radial arm and table saws over to the garage, also an extension cord and some other miscellaneous items.

Also moved a 4' x 8' of double wall polycarbonate panel up to the garage from around back.

Was going to take the pallet forks off and put the bucket on and get rid of all the cat litter but it was starting to get dark so I decided to put it off for another day.

Fed all the cat beasts.

Shrimp thawing for dinner.

Will go down and feed the fishes while that's happening.