Good morning!!!!

[LS Tractor Owner]

Good morning to all! Low of 26°, going up to 48°. Sunny, no precip, no wind! Should be nice the next couple of days. Another band of storms possible on Tuesday, but this was the first mention of weather changes..... still too far out for them to make a guess.....

I didn't get to the pond heater yesterday.... still too much ice. I'm going to try and break it up this afternoon, at least enough to get the heater in and running.

Couldn't run the drip either. The lines that I tried were still frozen. One of the main supply lines cuts across in front of the house --- which stays in the shade until late afternoon. I think that's where it's still frozen. I may try to bypass that area if I get energetic enough..... highly doubtful, could be more trouble than it's worth.....

Need to go to the grocery first this morning. Hopefully the lines will defrost while I'm out. Then, since the Feast of the Epiphany is past, the Christmas decorations are due to be taken down. Shouldn't be too hard, didn't put up the magnitude as in years past.

Drew, sorry that the RV didn't match the requirements. There are tons of different floorplans in the 'small' category. Maybe an internet search can find you the 'dream RV'.

Mostly, have a safe return trip. Enjoy the scenery!

Ron, that is one big lens .... 500-1000mm zoom?

Rip, hope you find access into the wall space. Sounds really weird that you keep getting blocked..... Really neat barn / milk house.

Scaredy, hang in there! Prayers and thoughts heading your way!

Gonna get going... daylights wasting....

Everyone have a great day!

 

[sodamo]

That’s looking good, Mike.

 

[ronjhall]

Ron, that is one big lens .... 500-1000mm zoom?

600mm

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

OK, part of the list completed.... grocery run is done. Had to go to 2 different stores. Wifey wanted "bread flour" and Wally World didn't have even 1 bag, plenty at the other store.

Success getting one zone of the drip going, that continued while I was at the store. Second zone going now.

Broke the ice on the middle section of the pond and got the heater going. I'll turn the pump back on in a couple hours and then see how it does overnight.

Since today's agenda is moving forward, I might try and detail the cab of the truck. It still has a nice coating of dust/dirt left over from the summer.....

 

[rswyan]

33F and cloudy @ 15:00, calling for a high of around 35F for the day with some flurries and snow showers.

Up very late today after a long day out in the garage. Spent over 12 hours out there working on it, didn't knock off and come in until 04:30 AM.

Top of bench along north wall now cleaned off except a little bit at the west end. Shelf and floor below mostly cleaned and vacuumed.

Oil drain pans drained into 2 1/2 gallon jugs and cleaned up and stowed away under the bench. Oil jugs staged at the overhead with the rest of the junk that's headed up to the shop.

Stihl blower, chain saw, and pole saw stowed under/next to bench.

Got a bunch of growers pots boxed up into two boxes and stowed under bench on the floor, also stowed the larger pots there as well. Still more pots to stow though.

Good progress made on cleaning the junk off a long folding table that's out there, also starting cleaning off the work bench on the west wall. Once I get that table cleared off it will get moved up to the shop in the next few days for the big sort out that needs to occur up there.

Starting to get into sorting out all the little pieces/parts which is always time-consuming. Most of that is either headed down to the basement or up to the shop.

At any rate, it's getting to the point that you can actually move around out there without tripping over something and breaking your neck.

I'm sure that the hopper feeder needs refilled, so that's on the agenda before it gets dark.

Fishies need fed as well.

Other than that probably continue on with the garage.

Hope everyone is having a great Saturday ...

 

[Wagtail]

Good (Sunday) morning. Overnight Low of 13C and it's presently 17.9C, overcast at the moment, fairly calm. There's got to be something in the gauge which I'll check after Church. (0.5mm)

Thai food was lovely and a good night home filled with laughter & conversation/banter.

Penelope the pussybeast wouldn't come in at bedtime, so I left the door cracked open for her... felt her by my side at around 0330 so I got up and shut the door. As it turns out, a brush-tailed possum had 'followed her' inside! At about 0400 it was trying to find a way to leave and woke me up... they're a very gentle creature and, after some low-voiced encouragement + a broom I was able to coax it outside. Penelope went outside whilst all of this was happening so I just shut the door... she could just stay outside for another hour 'til I got up to get ready for Church.

After Church we're going into town to get fish & chips for a late Lunch. My Aunt will pack as tomorrow we'll leave around 0700 to drop her off at the Launceston airport. Then my Mate and I will head into Launie to make a few purchases/tasks, before heading home.

That's about it, take care all.

 

[Thomas]

one egg English mufffin does very little to sugar level.

Good to know.

 

[Thomas]

31F cloudy mid teens over night.

Been good outside day getting things done couple boo-boos plowing driveway.
While having lunch with Mrs. we noise coming from the bedroom,kittens were having grand ole time playing in Mrs. jewelry box Mrs. let sharp "what do you two think your doing" ears and tails running down the hallway heading for the basement,now I have 2 laps kittens.

Plans for the evening...dinner shorty feet up watch some football slice of home made blueberry pie.

Enjoy your evening all.

 

[KilroyJC]

28 this morning, so fired up the woodstove for the first time in over a week. Looking for 51, maybe a snowflake tomorrow.

Phil, sorry to hear your wife is still suffering...prayers said.

Buppies, I've been doing stick-pick-up off and on all week. Found two trees, one big cedar, that completely blew over from that December 23 storm.

Kilroy, DSL here, too. I was just talking with our new provider, Brightspeed (bought out Century Link, who was Embarq, who was Centel, who was GumTree Telephone Co) yesterday, since they made a billing error when they took over...while they corrected the error, they upgraded me free from 10 to 20 meg...not effective for 2 more weeks, but I'll bet my speed doesn't really change much up from the current 10. Even at 10, never have any trouble watching movies, or doing what we do on the web.

Well, we'll be taking down all the Christmas decorations now that the 12 Days of Christmas are over. Also, need to get the outside ones before tomorrow's precip.

The precipitation we were NoT supposed to get today means our inflatables will be up for a few more days. . . Indoor stuff coming down slowly. . .

 

[KilroyJC]

And you can do this Drew without adding oil IF you have a good ceramic non-stick frypan and heat it before you put in the potato patties. I would add some onion to really add flavor.

It is if you have heart disease.

Wise move.

Good morning! 63˚F heading to 70s until the cold front blows in then will drop to the 60s again this afternoon, and 40s by morning.

If it does not rain (40% chance) I'll plant my new Yaupon bush, hand digging through clay and rock, may need hammer and chisel. At least I still have the last of my compost dirt to give it a good start.

There ya go, ruining the humorous quip. . .