Good morning!!!!

[Thomas]

9Fcloudy high today was 11F,1-3 inches snow before daybreak.

Good day at work just the CEO and I.
Afternoon did food shopping stop for critter food 2 wheelbarrow loads wood in the basement.
Plans for the evening feet up going to numb let wood heat soak into old bones.

Enjoy your evening all.

 

[m7040]

Accident with fallen tree near us on Harp Hill road. Apparently women survived

 

[rswyan]

Now up to 50F, still foggy ... with rain.

Gallon of Zerex G05 picked up @ NAPA, radiator topped off and heater fully functional in the van ... which was a very welcome development.

Run to Menards in Kent made, fifteen 4 x 8 sheets of dry wall picked up, one 4 x 8 sheet of FRP, three 8' pieces of edging for the FRP, a 4.5 gallon bucket of drywall mud, a Type T conduit fitting (to accommodate the feed/supply to the subpanel and the wiring to the outlet for the compressor) and a double pole 20 amp breaker (for the compressor)

Best part was a couple of strong, young bucks loaded all the drywall.

Worst part is I still have to unload it and get it moved inside ...

Heading downstairs now for a bit until dinner.

Will get the bracing on the foam board pulled down and probably start cutting more unfaced fiberglass insulation and get that put up.

 

[Wagtail]

Good (Saturday) morning. Overnight Low was another chilly 4.8C and it's presently 21.1C, lightly overcast with a bit of a breeze.

A very relaxing day was had, yesterday. The only excitement was when the 'Mad Agisting Horse Woman's' Daughter noticed that the water in the trough was low. Yep, with 4 horses on the small 5k litre tank, it had run out. I needed to swap them over to the 'house tank'. However the connections to do that needed to be replaced... fortunately (as we do) I had spares on-hand. I even knew where they were!

Of course they'll now need to be replaced.

Another 'not much going on' kind of day.

That's about it, take care all.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Accident with fallen tree near us on Harp Hill road. Apparently women survived

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Daughter of a Friend of ours lives near there and knows the lady who got hit by tree. A second either way she would have been crushed.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Was about to fill pellet stove and kicked a chair, dropped pellet bag, almost wiped out the lazyboy grabbing it to keep me from falling head first into the stove and wall.
All is well, no apparent toes broken, no spilled pellets from open bag. Fortunately stove not hot enough on top to provide a burned hand.
Sitting with foot propped up.

Still light freezing rain. Wasn’t bad on drive and road when I got trash can in, but frozen on vehicles

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Wow, thankful the lady wasn't crushed.

We have been running the A/C in the house the last week.

Put my fuel line guard that goes under the Steiner Beast back under it. It had worked loose and came off, breaking 1 of the bolts. I gave it some Thor hammering and got it back in shape and also tucked up closer to the bottom floor so it won't snag. Then I blew the leaves off the deck, greased it, replaced 1 zert, and pressure washed it and parked it.

Got the son on the smaller tractor and me on the bigger tractor. While the pond is down a few feet, I cut the weeds back along the bank as close to the water as I could. Then I knocked down a bunch of taller weeds here and there.

New Milwaukee compressor works fine. Used it to fill up the GT 80 rear tire and go play a few minutes...ring ding ding ding ding.

Have a great evening all.

 

[ponytug]

@daugen Yes, I'm always careful around uphill hazards, as I've lived with cliffs above me, and in several very geologically active areas, and once ended up on the wrong side of a 1,000 year flood. (Think hurricane Helene type damage) I have a healthy respect for landslides, debris flows, falling rocks, hydroplaning, and tree limbs. "Who me, belt and suspenders?"

Gosh, whoever was in the car in the photo that @m7040 posted sure seems to have been very lucky. For a number of years, I used to commute by some of the very first eucalyptus (blue gum) trees planted in the US, with 10-15' diameter trunks that dropped 2-3' diameter limbs in most storms, closing the road. They were monsters, but they did smell amazing and made for a wonderful tree line boulevard that never failed to brighten my mood. Eight or ten years later they were all cut down one by one due to liability reasons (the risk of having the whole 150' tree take out very expensive homes, and anyone in them).

@Wagtail your story made me laugh. When we bought this ranch, the selling realtor joked that the prior owners were known as the local plumbing supply shop, having converted a former 10'x10' horse stall into a plumbing "store" with every type fitting from 1/2 through 3" in every size, in both galvanized and PVC. The realtor followed that comment with "and we will have the place emptied at sale", i.e. junking the spare fittings. It took several rounds of pleas/requests to not trash the spares, followed by releases, and counter signatures that we were ok with the shops not being cleaned to the statutory "broom clean" standard. The wall of fittings has saved me many, many times, and these days, I find it so convenient to buy 5-10 fittings in bulk, and toss them in a nicely labeled wall bin, ready when needed, which is usually some emergency. Over time, I've phased out the galvanized as it does not well in our soil/water, plus I have PTSD from dealing with old galvanized pipe from when I was a kid. The SOP then was a pair of old 60" pipe wrenches and extender pipes. I do not miss it.

Between the storm, wind, and being rousted in the middle of the night for an alarm, today was a quiet day. The elderly relative's return flight was delayed for five hours due to greater aircraft spacing slowing incoming and departing flights. (Ground delay.)

All the best,

Peter