Good morning!!!!

[wngsprd]

47 going to 68. Got up early...owl making so much noise that Coco started barking. Coffee made and enjoyed already and ran off one coon and one possum.

PJ sorry to hear about your poor Soul. Some good news...new car!

Sadamo, your ocean view is a million dollar one, but your view of Mauna Kea, the biggest mountain on earth, is a two million dollar one for me, especially snow covered.

Corona is a bad disease, but to keep it in perspective, last year there were about 2000 deaths per week in the US from the flu during flu season, and 20,000 per week from medical and hospital mistakes (sources: CDC, NPR, CNBC).

Too windy yesterday to do much of what was planned, but still got some seat time moving some pallets of firewood and bringing in what me be the last load of the season onto the porch.

 

[Eric Salop]

Good morning. We had an almost completely dry day yesterday and a good amount of sunshine. It was wonderful to be able to do things outside without wondering when the next soaking would come. Showers have returned this morning, though on the positive side they have chased the light frost away.

David, apart from the occasional molten rock episodes, I thought your paradise couldn't get any better, then you reveal that you also have views of distant mountains capped with snow. Wow !

Drew, great to hear you finally got the path in to your hidden pond :thumbsup:

PJ, a car that gives no trouble at all, then dies completely after 175K faithful miles sounds pretty good to me. Better that than lots of smaller things fail that keep having you stranded. Just a shame you now need to arrange it's farewell service so far from home.

Wng, I have a tip for our next investment. Forget about 3M and all those mask sales, instead think about how often people are now washing their hands - sales of hand cream for dried, cracked skin must be set to rocket !

 

[Bird]

Snow, as it should be.

Pretty, and in the distance.:laughing:

Sure is some pretty pictures.

 

[daugen]

good morning all.
Much warmer morning, 57 going into mid 60's today, rain most of day into tonight.

RNG, I thought antibiotics "cured" Lymes, but it's been months since I was exposed. With severe arthritis already, symptoms may have been masked. Just guesswork until tests come back in a few days.

going food shopping this morning, sure will find the antiseptic wipes first and will wipe down cart handles.
Then a day inside trying to make headway on decluttering, still have one room upstairs full of xmas decorations I don't want..
Need to bag them up and take them down to Goodwill downtown.

Not sure how pics will turn out in somewhat dark woods but tomorrow when it dries up will take some. Pond is much higher now due to rains. When it got low, always wanted to explore in there, find those chests of pirate gold...:thumbsup:

I think 175k on an economy car is pretty good. Older trucks, Mercedes diesels, older Volvos, etc seem to do high mileage regularly.
My five year old Ram truck with the hemi didn't get past 20k without having parts of valve train replaced...today's complicated engines have a lot more to break. I wouldn't dream of owning my Audi past the four year warranty period, German cars seem by design to be unnecessarily complicated. I probably will sell the Ram next year, and thinking of getting a 10-20 year old smaller truck to replace it.
Only draw of new vehicle to me is the safety tech. I won't drive anything without air bags.

Buckeye, good point about Bernie.

 

[ronjhall]

Drinking first cup of coffee. 28ｰ with mostly cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 49ｰ with mostly sunny skies. Went for a walk outside for my exercise yesterday. Very nice. Dog trainer this morning. Then see if I can get net and support poles off garden pond. From what I can see there is a layer of ice under 4" of water.
ON my community bulletin board page this email was posted about Covid-19. Seem to me to be some of the best advice.

Drew, hope you do not have Lyme disease. Waiting for picture of path to pond.

David, fantastic pictures.

Looking, what did you find for oil leak.

Bird, I could give you my ice maker. It is taking up space in freezer. Do not use it. Wife used it all the time. It is hooked to Reverse Osmosis system.

RNG, hope your inspection goes good today.

Prayers and best wishes for everyone.

Good Morning All.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Good Morning. It's 66° here this morning and getting foggy. Our high today will be about 77°.

I took advantage of low winds last couple of days for more tree trimming.





I'm staging all the tree trimmings, until we get some rain and I can cleanup the ash, from last burn.







Had to quit early yesterday, as we had monthly Apparatus Check at our VFD last evening.

Today will be more tree trimming if winds stay calm.


Hope everyone has a great "hump day eve" today.

Prayers to all.

 

[wngsprd]

Corona is a bad disease, but to keep it in perspective, last year there were about 2000 deaths per week in the US from the flu during flu season, and 20,000 per week from medical and hospital mistakes (sources: CDC, NPR, CNBC).

I was telling my wife about these numbers and realized I got my math wrong...it's 20,000 deaths per month from medical and hospital mistakes.

 

[Thomas]

37F partly cloudy sky low 50's for high rain arriving late afternoon.

Outside chores done E muffin time. :licking:
Finally saw my robin yesterday afternoon mile from home.
Plans for today...Fill the feeders,clean the wood furnace,quick trip to town,Kubota dealership owner coming to give dollar quote on tractor,putter in basement.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[wngsprd]

Wng, I have a tip for our next investment. Forget about 3M and all those mask sales, instead think about how often people are now washing their hands - sales of hand cream for dried, cracked skin must be set to rocket !

Great idea! I was watching an old 1959 episode of The Price is Right with Bill Cullen as host, when they did commercials as part of the show...had a cosmetics lady show how Dove was a beauty cream as well as used for soap.

 

[LouNY]

RNG, I thought antibiotics "cured" Lymes, but it's been months since I was exposed. With severe arthritis already, symptoms may have been masked. Just guesswork until tests come back in a few days.

Around here they seem to be having lots of issues with the lyme testing, with many inconclusive and false negative tests.

 

[Buppies]

Seem to remember that wngsprd. My dads memory was very good remembered his delivery room nurse

 

[Looking4new]

Ron, I am not sure about anything at the moment. The pan bolts were tight. The only other cause would be the valve cover gasket and I haven't gotten around to that yet. I will keep an eye on the oil level. I check it EVERY time I fire up the tractor anyway.
I have one other option open to me, send it to the dealer and let him pull his hair out.

 

[Buppies]

Raining pretty good here might take us out of work today

 

[toppop52]

Seem to remember that wngsprd. My dads memory was very good remembered his delivery room nurse

LMBO!!!!

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 62F @ 5:00AM. Plentiful sunshine. High near 80F. Winds NW at 5 to 10 mph.
If it breaks 80F today, it'll be the first time this year, and one of the earliest times it has done so.

I don't know what's in this stuff, but it works really well. I had one of those split skin things on my thumb, next to the nail, before I started the concrete work yesterday, and by the end of the day, it was larger and really sore. Three applications and a good night's rest later, the soreness is gone and the wound has closed up.

Yesterday's market rebound put a quick end to my attempt to do some bottom fishing. But with four more deaths in Washington state, I don't think CoVid-19 is anywhere near done with us yet. Thanks for posting good, practical, advise, Ron. No more handshakes for me, at least for the foreseeable future.


Got an early start yesterday, at least for me, and was mixing concrete again by 9AM. Would have started earlier, but I took some time to make a sheet metal collar to form the concrete at the top of the post hole. It came out surprisingly round, up until a bag of concrete slid in the bed of the side-by-side and turned it into an oval, and remained somewhat misshapen in spite of my best efforts to repair it. Didn't end up using it anyway, and just dug out a little dirt from the edge of the hole when it got almost full, and 80 bags of concrete later, all the posts have nice round pads of concrete around them, with the posts mostly centered. Used every bag I had on hand, and could have used a few more. But by the time I was out of concrete, my butt was making a third track and my back was looking forward to a strong adult beverage or three. for purely analgesic reasons, of course.

The old concrete mixer pretty much ran all day yesterday, with only one hiccup when the lever used to tip the drum came off. All that vibration loosened the nut on the bolt that secures it, but the junk bin held a nyloc replacement that should be more permanent. I think a couple of tack welds could also quiet some of the rattling the things makes, so maybe I'll find time to do that today, too.

With the warmer temperatures over the next few days, I'll try to get a few things on the van painted, if the wind ever stops. I'm already seeing 20 MPH gusts this morning.:confused3:

Think I'll get the braces off the solar grid posts today, and get the drain line laid and buried out at the shipping container. Somewhere in there the building inspector is supposed to show up; maybe they'll have a time window posted on their web site a little later.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 64˚F heading to the mid 70's cloudy high humidity.

Muggy in the mid seventies yesterday and when I came home from Cards last night (won 4 of 5, back in my grove) the AC was on for the first time in months. My wife reported no mildew smell so the UV light we had installed in the ductwork right above the evaporator coils works.

Did a run to Mom's yesterday to restock her groceries and did her taxes, missing out on a trail blazing day, just too many things all at once. Still waiting for the morning e-mail to see where on the trail we will meet today.

Drew I know lyme disease is terrible but felling bad without a cause is worse.

RNG those bags of cement sound like a good days workout.

I usually get a new vehicle after 125K miles or 10 years whichever comes first. Since moving to town the 10 years will come first, in the country the millage hit in about 6 years.

 

[toppop52]

52 going to 65, sun giving way to clouds and showers later.
Broke my phone screen yesterday. Put my hand on my pocket and bent down, felt it pop. I’ve done it a thousand times before.
Great pics Rick.
I hope all are feeling better and have good days.
Prayers.

 

[txdon]

LMBO!!!!

Now-a-days (new word) Buppies dad could remember his delivery room nurse if he was . . . .
Male pregnancy - Wikipedia

 

[RedNeckGeek]

52 going to 65, sun giving way to clouds and showers later.
Broke my phone screen yesterday. Put my hand on my pocket and bent down, felt it pop. I’ve done it a thousand times before.
Great pics Rick.
I hope all are feeling better and have good days.
Prayers.

My phone almost got nailed yesterday too, Randy.

Had it in a front pocket and caught myself leaning on the wheelbarrow with the phone caught between it and my leg. Then later, a bunch of concrete powder spilled and a handful ended up in that same pocket. The Otterbox case saved the phone i both instances, but I had to strip the phone out of the thing to clean it up.

 

[PJSprog]

41°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 60° today.

Started shopping around a bit yesterday. Cast a wider net than just the Kia dealer in O'Fallon IL that we usually use. Probably going to get another Kia. Not sure what, yet, but I know it won't be the Telluride. That's way more vehicle than I either want or need. The Soul was just about perfect. Big enough to haul plenty of music equipment, but still small enough to get decent gas mileage. My daily work commute is about 90 miles roundtrip. Previous job was 120 r/t. So, yeah, the miles pile up quickly. They have a new small SUV/crossover/whatever they want to call it called the Seltos that appears to fall somewhere between the Soul and the Sportage. Looks interesting, but not sure I want to be a new model guinea pig.

Lost in all the vehicle hoopla was the storms that passed through Sunday night. Was supposed to just be a little rain, but turned out to be some rather energetic storms. Lots of rumbling and flashing, and apparently some wind, as The Wife told me yesterday morning that the flagpole was on the ground. She said she went out and picked up the flag, and noted that it had only been buried maybe a foot deep. This was one of those jobs last summer she asked her nephew to do when he was staying with us, so I wasn't surprised at all.

More rumbly stuff last night again, but the severe stuff stayed to the south of us. Hope anyone here in the Middle-Tennessee area survived unscathed. They got really hammered.

Hope your doctor can get your issues sorted out for you, Drew. Sucks to not know what's going on.