Good morning!!!!

[Popgadget]

Good evening
25° and descending.
Today started with a service call on a heat pump for my pal the mechanical contractor. He is swamped with this cold spell. We did meet up for lunch at Mission BBQ though.

I made it home in time to take care of a few chores before the band showed up for the rehearsal that was canceled last night. I still had a get together here with some guys that are local (and good musicians).

Afterwards I had to deal with a recalictrant hard drive from my recorder. It captures 24 track of audio in a proprietery format on to removable hard drives. I can pull them out of the recorder and transfer them to a FAT32 drive as .wav files, with special software that reads the drive and does the conversion. The issue was a drive that would hang up before completing the transfer. I won in the end.

Came back to the Old Folks Home to connect the BluRay player that FedEx left for me while we were playing. Wife came home from Farmers Market to Diana Krall on the big screen, we watched Roy Orbison in Black and White Night after dinner.

I had hopes of cutting some parts on the plasma table and doing some welding, but tomorrow’s another day.

 

[PJSprog]

23°F and cloudy this morning, got up to only 30° today. Forecast is calling for the end of times to start around 3am with rain/freezing rain/sleet/snow/locusts of 1-3-or-maybe-12+ inches predicted. Radar shows the snow part at least will be here in about an hour or so.
Let "Snowmageddon2025" commence.

Wife and I knocked a few outside tasks off the list this morning. Finally got the kayaks off the trailer and put away, as that season is clearly over for awhile. Emptied the outside fountains and stored them for the Winter. Dragged the dingy out of the pond before it freezes this coming week (highs only in the 20s for the foreseeable future).

Got a few inside things done as well, and still found time for a nice nap.

Hope everyone is well.

Good evening, gents.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 52ºF for the start, overcast, breezy. Light to moderate wind, brisk to strong gusts, overcast all day, and high temp was 61ºF. High temp tomorrow will be around 63ºF at 3 AM then temps plunge like a ski jumping run! Still have faucet covers and Boat battery to remove tomorrow afternoon. Made coffee to start morning, Bike ride, 63 mile, lunch and nap. Got leaf piles off roof, wheel barrow and wood wagon filled, more kindling cut and split, new tarp over wood pile. Mexican for dinner.
Dennis hope you get the fluids changed on the ranger.
Ron sorry about temp in the pole barn. Glad house is clean, hope you conserved plenty of energy. Neat pic
Bill hope good trip to Sundridge. Hope lot of energy conserved.
Thomas hope you found something after critter food.
Billy Glad good visit and progress on your Mom's estate. Sorry you missed a hike in the snow. Hope Della got some exercise today.
Don hope you got ready for the temps next week. I think they are rolling on floor with laughter and unable to close door or window
Mike hope you are ready for the snow and cold.
Drew hope you made progress on piles today.
Frits hope you are ready for the cold and snow.
Scott(vt) hope you were able to take care of the Christmas lights.Glad busy day at work, sorry about trip in traffic to fill tank up. Have fun with new wood working tools.
Spike5 hope you got ready for the temps.
Happy(NC) hope the guinea pig session went well for DIL for ultrasound eval. Good you passed with flying colors. Hope dog enjoyed the walks.
Ken hope you are ready for your guests. Hope the slab becomes straight enough.
David hope gate project progresses well. Sorry you are losing some friends, hope party fun.
Don good questions.
Thomas stirring the pot?
Bill that's right blame it on the Yanks
Dennis hope you can get tubes to get insulation into and around the door frame.
Drew glad you are not getting too much snow.
Dennis sorry you are getting cut back on snow.
Scott(vt) glad you have a home
David thanks for explanation on why you are losing some friends.
Paul glad you are helping people stay warm. Hope some music got played at get together. Glad you won the battle with the HD. Glad BlueRay hooked up and working and watched some video on it. Hope you got parts cut and welding done today.
PJ hope you survive the Snow mageddon 2025. We actually have snow coming later in week .
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle /Daughter, /mom's breathing, /son's migraines, Bird /aging issues,Mike /BIL in FL, Ron /heart, David(moss) /remodel, /divorce, Buppies /cancer,parathyroid,blood sugar /wife, Thomas /gout, Phil /reflux, Frits /veteran son with mental issues, /granddaughter with Evans Syndrome, Ken /dad dementia, /chronic fatigue, Diet not working, Randy(wag) /sister stoke, Steppenwolfe /son-auto immune disorder, Grev /wife's eye, Ted /knee recovery, /retirement & disability red tape, /family issues, /wife back issues and cancer, Lou /eye issues, /heart issues, /wife hip replacement, Doug and wife/health issues, / hand nerve and surgery, /fall and recovery, / wife headaches and heart eval, / David(sadamo)/Sophie's hip or leg pain, /back issue, Scaredy/shoulder dislocation, /marriage dissolving, / friend stop drinking, Dennis /retirement, /neighbor issues, /brother's lymphoma, /dad surgery recovery, Drew /back operation issues, /friend's wife cancer diagnosis and recovery, Scotty /back pain, Helogabals /wife's friend situation, Fatjay /father broken hip, Israel, Ukraine war, hurricane victims, and Country.

 

[Looking4new]

It is only getting down to zero tonight. Snowing right now. I will be plowing tomorrow, probably go out about noonish. it being Sunday and all, I don't want to bother people before at least noon. I have the same attitude when I cut the grass in Summer.

I cannot blame the cold weather on the Mexicans. lol

I have cat hair on everything both upstairs and in the basement. 3 cats and one dog.

The cold weather that Texas is going to get actually comes from Alaska. Mine in Ontario comes from the Northwest Territories. Our worst (most accumulation) snow comes from either Alberta or Colorado. Both called 'clippers' The worst is when they both arrive at the same time. The worst one we've had here in 30 years dumped 18" overnight. I had to go out first thing in the morning, so fired up the Wrangler, warmed it up good, stuffed it into 4 wd and went for it. Out to the road, turned around and back in to the house and picked up my two passengers and carried on. [No tractor then.] Jeep was lifted 2" with Pro-Comp 30x9.5x15" tires.

 

[jyoutz]

It is only getting down to zero tonight. Snowing right now. I will be plowing tomorrow, probably go out about noonish. it being Sunday and all, I don't want to bother people before at least noon. I have the same attitude when I cut the grass in Summer.

I cannot blame the cold weather on the Mexicans. lol

I have cat hair on everything both upstairs and in the basement. 3 cats and one dog.

The cold weather that Texas is going to get actually comes from Alaska. Mine in Ontario comes from the Northwest Territories. Our worst (most accumulation) snow comes from either Alberta or Colorado. Both called 'clippers' The worst is when they both arrive at the same time. The worst one we've had here in 30 years dumped 18" overnight. I had to go out first thing in the morning, so fired up the Wrangler, warmed it up good, stuffed it into 4 wd and went for it. Out to the road, turned around and back in to the house and picked up my two passengers and carried on. [No tractor then.] Jeep was lifted 2" with Pro-Comp 30x9.5x15" tires.

I would take more of your snow any day. We are having a miserable week with no snow but cold high winds (40mph). I can take snow and cold, but cold and windy will drive me indoors for the day.

 

[Buppies]

Cold air started in China Japan having record snows. Cold will have several waves possible more snow next weekend not sure where yet but still showing up.

We will get 2 to 4 then 1/2 in of ice. Got to store today that’s about it.

Prayers for all our Country

 

[Looking4new]

I would take more of your snow any day. We are having a miserable week with no snow but cold high winds (40mph). I can take snow and cold, but cold and windy will drive me indoors for the day.

I have a theory...When you are enduring -40°F. It has to get warmer to snow. 0+F is warm after -40F.

 

[ronjhall]

Drinking hot cup of coffee. 11° clear skies this morning. Heading to 23° with cloudy skies. Got christmas tree down and stored away in pole barn. Then cleaned up front porch. Spent some play time with Sassy. Chasing each other from living room to kitchen. Snow is to deep for her to do our normal walks out to back of my place. Need to do cook a batch of Spaghetti for the freezer today.

Prayers and best wishes for everyone.

Good Morning All.

 

[daugen]

good morning all
22 out now going to 33 today
good shopping trip to TSC yesterday, used up my xmas gift certificate mostly on bird feeders.
next year going to ask anyone considering giving me a gift certificate to choose Harbor Freight instead.
I find convenience and not value at Tractor Supply.

Ron, have fun playing with Sassy.
Air sure was cold today. I came out of store yesterday and wind was howling and wind chill so bad my eyeballs
actually started to hurt.

I didn't realize we had another member from Edgewood NM, JYoutz, send some good vibes to LS/Ted and his wife please.
I bet it's mighty cold at night in the desert as soon as sun goes down.

PJ, don't send any locusts this way please. I have enough bugs in my lawn.
Which reminds me I need to buy a hundred pounds of slug killer and apply it all over back lawn.
If I pick up the turf, it pulls up like a bad hairpiece. Seems like the roots have been eaten, which the grubs do.
And then other critters come along to eat the grubs and rip up the crappy lawn.
time for some chemicals. Think I'm going to weed and feed also.
That should rack up some steps for me with my push seeder.
I could only find little bags of grub killer last year, need to start researching big box stores.

 

[wngsprd]

14 going to 40, then snow is supposed to start tonight...6 to 11 inches total depending on who you believe...maybe ice, too Haven't had a good snow in a while, so we're looking forward to some.

So, have some outside chores to do before it gets here, and need to roast and grind coffee in case we lose power, since I'm getting low. Wife's gonna make a big pot of chili. She joined the crowds at the grocery store yesterday.

Took Della for a long hike and even at 35F she still jumped in the river for a swim yesterday.

Ron, spaghetti sounds good. We had that last night, and enough for leftovers today.