Good morning!!!!

[scott_vt]

Good Afternoon,

Scott,Christmas chaos is the best!

Drew,the kids had an absolute ball this morning !! we are just finishing cleaning up the carnage !

Hope all have a Wonderful Christmas Day !

 

[sodamo]

Mele Kalikimaka​

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

 

[Wagtail]

Good Boxing Day (Thursday) morning. Overnight Low of 11.5C and it's presently 22.0C, lightly overcast with a gentle breeze.

A lovely day, yesterday, spent with my neighbours for a Christmas Day feast. Leg of ham, pork roast, cray (rock lobster), prawns, oysters, roast carrots/potatoes/pumpkin... (I'm sure that there was salad somewhere) and pavlova for desert.

I was "as stuffed as a centipede's sock drawer"!

Today will be an 'into town' day for groceries, as practically everything was closed yesterday. I'll need to mow around the house/driveway/front paddock later on.

That's about it, take care all.

 

[Looking4new]

With there only being to the two of us and all the turkeys we could find were over 10 lbs, we opted for a 4 pound chicken. There will be less waste that way. Chicken leg and thigh for me with wholeberry cranberry, a sweet potato and stuffing.
For him was a breast (he doesn't like dark meat and I don't like white) cranberry, he doesn't like sweet potato nor stuffing. A neighbour brought over a banana bread, it is half gone, that was dessert.
Tomorrows supper will be the other half of the chicken with dressing and another can of cranberry and the other half of the bread.
All three cats are wasted, catnip does that to them.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

We cooked 3 roasts. Mashed potatoes, roasted asparagus, roasted carrots, cranberry/cherry fruit jello, pumpkin crunch, rum/chocolate pecan pie, dutch apple pie, home made fudge. I made a big pan of gravy.

If anyone left hungry, it was their own fault. Wifey made everyone Starbucks coffee, and some decaf coffee. Had maybe 16 people over, but I dropped out of Calculus 2 after 4 weeks, so what do I know about counting.....I'm better at making gravy.

Then we started our small bonfire (about 12 feet diameter 7 feet high). It was a crowd favorite. Our friend's son helped my son bring a bunch of fallen wood to stoke the fire.

We got maybe 1.5+ inches of rain with hail. I'm glad no tornadoes hit, there were plenty of warnings all around. Pray nobody got hit by one.

 

[txdon]

The backyard camera got another pic of the elusive Ringtail tonight.

 

[Buppies]

Don the Pacific roars across the country not sure its effect on Texas I will check. Still showing a lot of activity on the east coast after January 5th. Will get cold and stormy.

Hope everyone had a Great Christmas

Feel better Sodamo

 

[ronjhall]

Drinking first cup of coffee. 33° with cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 40° with morning rain and pm clouds. Got all my Christmas calls and text done. Then went to neighbors to watch their 2 1/2 year old open christmas gifts. Fun to watch. Another neighbor brought me a Christmas Dinner plate. Very good food. There was so much on the plate todays dinner will be leftovers. Off to Sam's club to pick up a new TV for my bedroom. Will get my some grocery shopping done while there.
Yesterday was a White Christmas. But by the end of day snow was melting.

Hope everyone had a good Christmas.

Everyone stay well and safe.

Good Morning All.

 

[daugen]

good morning all
should get up to 39 today in full sunshine.
headed to rv storage spot to install a solar powered battery maintainer on rv.
Also will get car washed, covered in road salt from all my driving around.

this weekend a very warm system comes up from South with rain for days and a high of 62.
When it's that warm out, definitely going to be working in garage.
only problem with warm weather is it makes all the metal in garage condense, which clearly is not
good for woodworking equipment. I keep the horizontal metal heavily oiled but it all needs a good cleaning.
I bought some 0000 steel wool and want to make it look nicer, then reoil.

one long delayed project is mounting my vise on new work bench. Before it was just sitting on top of plastic table making
it almost useless.
now that I can actually work in the garage again, think I might build a few more birdhouses. Can never have enough.