Good morning!!!!

[Thomas]

36F might reach 50F
All outside chores are done before old man winter comes a knocking..except hitching snowplow to tractor and placing snow shovels at doors :cool2: subject to change w/out notice.

Looks to be long 40 work week,hope it goes by quickly like 2015 has.:confused2:

Enjoy the day all.

 

[ronjhall]

Need to pour first cup of coffee. 30° with clear skies this morning. Heading to 60° with mix of sun and clouds. Got last items picked and put away for the winter. Garden pond is ready for the winter. Time to start getting motorhome ready for winter trip.
Farmer2009, I have always done the heated safety pin. Takes a steady hand.
Chad22, I want to go back to when I was 55. Retire at that age instead of waiting until I was 62.
Good Morning All.

 

[Eric Salop]

I did a lot of stupid stuff. But now I am reluctant to talk about it. I think, was I really that dumb?

At least you have grown out of it. When I was younger the words "why didn't you think before ..." were often heard.

Nowadays I think of things that sound stupid, but I can't be sure - so have to try it anyway . This happened yesterday. I have been waiting for calm conditions for days now to seal a deep gap around the last window frame, before applying mastic and yesterday my patience finally gave in. Now only an idiot would try and spray expanding foam outside when the wind is over 20 mph - yes, that's me. I never did find where the first squirt landed when I tested that I had the trigger screw set to give a decent flow, but after that it surprisingly all stayed around the frame as normal. :cool2:

Doing something dumb that turns out ok is so satisfying sometimes. When that happens though, there is always a wouldn't-you-know-it around the corner. Less than 24 hours later, we have sunshine, no rain and no wind...

 

[Buppies]

41 this morning high of 66 later today. Yesterday chores only one accomplished
Took skid loader to friends house moved 1800 pound outdoor wood stove backed it about 400 yards down and around building and onto concrete slab much slower than I had hoped but no damage and set down perfectly.

Back to work today McDonalds parking lot is flavor of the week

Good Morning

 

[KevT]

Good Morning, 56 now and headed to 79 with sunny skies. After unloading the bounty we purchased last week, we saddled up the horses and went for a ride. My wife has decided that she wants my horse and to sell hers next spring. Wants to buy a Draft for me :confused3: only problem is I like my horse, or I want a quarter as well. I don't want a draft to ride, only to drive. Took her to the grocery and went buy a friends house.

Today I have a couple of little jobs to work on and the design a "Goat Cart" out of wood. This girl wants one to have her child pulled down the isle in her wedding early Dec. Also have to start Christmas gifts, guess it is time to clean up the wood shop.

The pastures really grew while we were gone, can't wait to get back on the tractor and get the next one ready for spring.

 

[rswyan]

38.3F and clear @ 06:45 ...

Went back into town for round two yesterday ... blew the boiler system out again, got a little more water out of it. Something's not entirely right and I'm not sure we've got it entirely blown out ... but the compressor is due back this morning. The boilers themselves are empty, that I am sure of.

The system appears to hydro-lock for some reason ... you open a combination of valves that should provide a pathway to daylight (out one or both of the boiler drains) and you get nada ... no water, no water vapor, no air ...

I'm beginning to have a sneaking suspicion that the other, older boiler may not even be functional. Part of that stems from the drain cock on the boiler itself being plugged with sludge and having to be replaced, as well as a section of line coming apart upstairs. And my former tenant's apparent inclination to avoid doing any maintenance whatsoever unless he absolutely had to.

Since the upstairs floor of that building was essentially unoccupied - except for when someone had to run upstairs to get an exhaust pipe - I'm thinking that he may have had one of his employees shut off the upstairs loop at some point to avoid heating it. If so, who knows how long that has been going on.

The other possibility is that the second boiler failed at some point, and he didn't inform me about it, because he didn't want to pay to have it repaired/replaced.

Thinking about the way it is plumbed (two boilers in series), the spider's web of piping makes sense: with two boilers (rather than one) you have some redundancy - if one fails, you still have the other one to fall back on. Might not be all that comfortable, but you can still heat both floors of the building and at least keep it from freezing.

Wife got the front lawn mowed while we were there.

 

[daugen]

a chilly 39 degrees going up to mid sixties today.
Concrete truck arrives around 8:30am. Camera in pocket at the ready.
forecast remains the same, precip coming in Wed and Thursday but not much.

RS, you got the boiler blues...one would think at least your unit at home would cooperate perfectly with all the agg the commercial ones are giving.
I guess you have to be a pipe detective to trace what goes where, and more importantly, where are the low spots where water collects...

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Enjoy it and hope you don't get a lot of flash flooding. Maybe you'll get a few more like it to fill up those reservoirs that are half empty.

Most north state reservoirs are below 25% of capacity, some much lower. Since the majority of the state's water storage capability resides here, this doesn't bode well for solving the drought problem. Yesterday's 0.44" of rain fell far short of the nearly one inch predicted, and there's no more on the horizon for at least a week. So much for El Nino...

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Then call doctors office and see if they can drill my thumb nail.

Usta drill my own nails and really hated it. Then a friend showed me how to use a red hot paperclip. Instant and painless relief.

 

[bakerg]

Good morning, looks like it is going to be a beautiful for mid November, 37F heading to 57F.