Good morning!!!!

[Buppies]

Good one Ron thinking outside the box

 

[scott_vt]

Good Morning Guys,
Vt, 40 with fog and another strange day going to 44 !

..and a boulder in which I saw something.

GM, Wngsprd , I’m thinking a seal ?

Tmrw looks like we could get an inch of snow ! We shall see !

The house is loud this morning !

Drew, good luck with the foot issues !

Frits, many years ago I broke the tibea pleateau left leg ! A year later they took the hardware out ! Glad they did !

Hope all have a great day !

 

[buckeyefarmer]

1 year ago today BEF you turn the page started new chapter in life.

It’s working out well so far. Think I’ll keep doing it. Was singing Take this job and shove it.

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, 47 going to 53 and the sun is finally up.
Dinner went well last night.

Coffee maker in the apartment died. I got it open and reset the thermal switch. But then only power and no pump/heater. Not used very much as I only got it last year.
Shame the parts would probably cost more than a new one.

Today , may finish the kitchen undercabinet lights since it's too wet still to cut back the ornamental grass. Usually use the 4wheeled barrow to move the grass out back, but it's more than 10 5 foot high loads. But may have to do it that way as the ground is saturated.
When I went to pick up son late last night, the roads were thick fog and lots of puddles. They had to close off part of the road down the hill from me, but easy to get around.

Our New Year's eve party was canceled, friends helping move their son to a new place. Son will celebrate with GF family, so happy about him having a place to go.
Not sure what we will do yet.

Be well,

 

[LouNY]

Good morning ! Time to wake up already !

If yesterday roads were full with snow then today is +5C / 41 F
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All that beauty will be gone by evening
Anyway, that's nothing we can manage

Roadtrip was rather challenging. I took that snapshot where I could afford single hand steering. Most of the time driving required 2 hands on the wheel. Made 200 miles only, but rather exhausting

Tesla starts to play jokes. Cruise control does not engage. Service thinks problem is in cameras


Meetings were nice, discussed plans, future investments. Even operative situation is bad
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From here below starts my material interest
One customer of mine is looking to sell in US semi-finished drawer boxes. Birch, nice quantities, plain boards, with groove, lacquered. I am skeptical, as here that is not a thing, almost everybody uses metallic drawers, with hardware for soft-close and push-to-open.
Agent of my guy is claiming that US customers are conservative, you guys like that plain wooden box, no hardware, where wood slides on wood. That applies both to kitchens and wardrobes. Is it so ?

As far as wooden drawers on wood slides;
my thoughts are not very kind on those, they were fine for there day (50's and 60's).
We just finished up most of a project in and on our house here.
All of the kitchen drawers are soft close and self closing sliders. I did find that there are considerable differences in the soft close as far as quality and functioning. The cabinet maker only installed three pull out drawers in our pantry cabinet with light duty soft close slides the 2 addition pull out shelves that I installed have much stronger heavier and smoother operating slides.
We went with drawers in almost all of are lower cabinets in the kitchen instead of swing doors. The heavy duty undermount soft close slides are the better ones that we have the side hung soft close are not as sturdy or stable feeling.
These were all custom Hickory cabinets.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 52F, still in Orcutt, CA. Overcast. High 64F. Winds S at 10 to 20 mph.

Rain coming in tonight, lasting a little longer in Kernville, where I'll spend the weekend with friends. Back on the road New Year's Day for a return to Orcutt.

A buddy of mine has been fighting a bad case of tinnitus for the past year, Drew. Seen all kinds of doctors, had various procedures and treatments. None of them helped much, but he's not done trying. I'm not hopeful anything will help him, but if he finds a miracle, I'll post it.

FWIW, the ten dollar coffee maker I got at WalMart seems to be working just fine still, Ken. But it's been less than a year.

Hit HD for supplies for partition removal, was shocked to see the wire (Romex, etc.) all caged and locked. Even more shocked at the price of 25' of 14-2 Romex: $48.00! They must have shifted to gold wire... The lumber also got a LOT heavier; all of it was wet. Another case of costing more for even less quality.

TGIF gang!

 

[daugen]

I agree on soft close and self closing is even nicer. Quieter too.

headed out to rake part of the lawn, out by road, caused by storm runoff
hope there is nothing yukky in it
you never know...

 

[sodamo]

65°F and 1.07 inches rain and still coming down.

May not be much of an outside day today. Glad I got done what I did yesterday. New pump is all programed.

Off to Hilotown this morning and Friday Follies. A couple of items on sale at Safeway.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[gstrom99]

High of 41 today. What month is this? What state am I in? I'll take it.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I'm old school, stained wood.