Good morning!!!!

[LS Tractor Owner]

Heres the finished results View attachment 679617

Mmm, mmmm .... I started drooling....

 

[rswyan]

34F and cloudy @ 22:30, headed down to a low of 32F.

Now treating old toilet bowl with CLR/water mix - looks like it is having some effect ... :thumbsup: ... but pretty slow going ...

Worked on shower pan curb ... which was painful. Looks like the tile guys from the old country used thinset or white grout where the walls met the curb ... lots of scraping and sanding to remove it. Still have a ways to go. Need to pick up a tube of Lexel from Ace tomorrow.

Got tile saw mostly assembled, still need to square the blade to the table and move the whole thing downstairs. With the legs on the stand fully extended it's not as low as I thought it would be. I would prefer it a little higher though ... but it should be workable at the height it's at now ... at least for time being.

Pulled canister filter on the aquarium in the living room and got that all cleaned out.

Ran down to the local pizza joint and grabbed some hot wings and garlic rolls for dinner. Don't usually get the hot wings - usually go with the Garlic Parmesan - the hot wings were might tasty this time around though.

Still working tracking down electrical issue mystery ... :confused2:

Hope everyone had a great day.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 37F for the start, rain start about 7AM, light to moderate most of day. Wind picked later in afternoon, got some snow mixed in about 5PM. High temp was 38, temp now falling 34F predicted overnight. Chapel first thing this morning, then made wife pancakes for breakfast. Fired up insert, about 15 min. after ligting fire insert quit drafting, closed air intake, opened window and door and after 2 minutes started drafting again. No issues since. Watch Cowboys game and was amazed at score. Did get nap in, and we were going to have dinner at Mexican restaurant, they were closed so just pieced at home.
Covid update: no new numbers available.
Eric glad you got some washing in, nice job on the toast
Phil hope you enjoy your white Christmas.
Ron nice squirrel pic
Bill enjoy your seat time
Billy enjoy your snow. Done that more than once on chain saw, then wonder why it does not cut
Drew had to laugh at your description of your father's cooking
Paul hope your trip went smoothly, I thought you had new engine on hand already.
Thomas sound like nice day
Drew have fun planning your future.
Buppies ice storm does not sound like fun
Check welcome back, some storms are like that.
Dennis my stepson taught me that trick (backwards blade).
Randy hope you get work done in time for cookies :licking:
Kyle would like to meet the Texas gang. Got to meet Don when I bought his bike (400 miles ago)
Bill neat trick will have to try that.
Don sorry about the disappearing rain.
RNG good news on rain. Have some good wool socks and toe warmers to help keep feet warm have fun on your trip
Lou hindsight always 20-20, fore-sight and winter, not so much.
DF hope meat turned out good :licking: thanks for the update
Ted sorry the snow blew away, good luck finding your legs
David sounds desperate, breaking out upholstery cleaner
RS hope your day goes as planned, understand about sauce, wife's sauce takes 2-3 hours to reduce. :licking:
Rick that was some serious soup making. Hope you get the Polaris in and door closed
Bird sorry about brisket, I have never tried one
DF so how did brisket #1 turn out?
Doug steak house I went to in STL did Texas Toast on open BBQ grill
Don thanks for link, quite the show
Drew use smartwool for biking socks during warm weather, have heavier wool socks for winter.
Randy sounds good
Bill glad you like your new exhaust. What size did it end up?
RS sorry about issue with tracking power problem down.
Don that is some slick ice
RS hope the shower pan rehab starts going better, hope saw works well.
prayers for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle's daughter, David(moss)/remodel, RNG/fire, Ron/hearing/son, Jim/sister & family, Phil/wife's eyes, Randy/health, and Country
stay safe and healthy you all

 

[sodamo]

Not sure that I’d label my Bissell time as either fun or rewarding.
Fabric maybe cleaner, but also more worn than expected. Might be more beneficial to look into getting it reupholstered. Will see what it looks like after it dries.

 

[RoyJackson]

2020-12-14, 0315

32 right now...high in the mid-30's today.

Garage clean up went OK...got some stuff staged for next weekend's dump run. Didn't really gain much space though

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, low 18ｰF and high 28. Wind E 7 mph. Snow.
Another inch or two. The wind although slow/light right now will be swinging to the south and increasing to 18 mph and later out of the west and gusting to 30 mph. The wind chill factor overnight may hit -30.

I was going to go to North Bay this morning, but with those temps and the wind (a cross wind), it is not a 'life or death' situation so I am staying put. Tomorrow is supposed to be sunny.

Alien, how would you fare in -30ｰF temps?

mostly, 3" diameter and the tip is just above the cab by about 1".


Have a safe day all

 

[Buppies]

41 this morning high of 46 up to an inch of rain before ending then wait to see what Wednesday bring mostly a mixed bag for us. Christmas is getting close

Prayers for all

 

[Buppies]

L4N skied at 20 below had a ball only 6 of us on slopes till they ran us off

 

[mpham]

Same as Roy here except we have snow in the forecast today. Not sure how much yet.I believe it will be flurries to an inch.
I need to get out to the tractor garage and check the mouse traps. Will check the battery maintainers on all the vehicles while I'm out there.
Will top off the fuel tank on the tractor and go fill the jug up today before the mad rush mid week. Need to decide if I'm putting on the blade or leaving the bucket. Depends on how much were going to get and if it will be heavy wet or not. Guess I will have to keep an eye on the forecast.
Hope everyone stays safe and healthy.

 

[daugen]

good morning all. Very cold weather coming in this week, I see 10 one morning, 15 another, and they still are predicting a foot of snow
on Wednesday. Today will be rainy later on, possibly with some snow mixed in. I need to remember to take my glues and car wash stuff out of unheated garage and
bring them inside.

Might make a trip to supermarket this morning to beat the crowds tomorrow. Really don't need much, milk and bread primarily.
If it's raining this afternoon, going to bake some cranberry scones. I'll try not to overcook them this time...
A mug of Earl Grey tea and a warm buttery scone. I can do this.

It might be fun to make some Christmas cookies even if I don't eat them.
Take them into hardware store or similar to stay thank you. Maybe even give some to trashmen. (along with 20 bucks for each of them)
My trash cans get put back nice and straight...plus nice to always support the front line workers. The guys who likely are to come out in that snowstorm
on Wednesday just to pick up my trash. If they are smart, they'd come Thursday.

With this snowstorm coming, I enjoy driving in the snow, have done it all my life and even driven firetrucks in it.
One gets a serious appreciation of the concept of grip...

There will always be someone out there unfortunately wanting to test their limits.
We all need to know our limits, no joke. So we can operate within them...but you get someone
who wants to go 35 in the snow behind someone doing 20 and then the unsafe passing starts.
They hit the snow in the center of the road and lose control, spinning out to who knows where.
I find it educational to watch the Russian winter time car crash videos, there are lots of them online, seems everyone in Europe
has a dash cam. Australians too. Those I enjoy because I can enjoy the words since they speak English.
Well sort of... The term wanker and the old fashioned f word is sure used a lot by the Australians.
And they burst into howls of appreciative laughter when the police pull over someone for a ticket.
Of course I have no idea what the Chinese guy is saying when he is screaming at the other driver.

I put Vredstein Quattrac 5 all season, severe winter rated tires on my car. Got to study the
tread pattern in a curious way when I parked on my rubber mat in the garage.
Wanted the Michelins but these tires were almost as good and much less expensive for a set of four.
Stock Continentals were poorly rated particularly in winter. So I knew they had to go.


Biggest problem I have is the oem width of the tire, a 255 tire, which is pretty wide for the size and weight of the car.
Probably why dry weather handling is so good plus full time awd. A set of dedicated winter rims and snow tires like Roy has might be
in the cards for next winter. This year the all weather tires have deep enough tread I should be just fine on local roads.
But for a snow tire, I'd go down to 235 or 245 width.

 

[Eric Salop]

Good morning ! Forecast for today is sunshine and showers. Technically accurate, though with only 3 minutes of sunshine so far, not quite what I was hoping for.

I bet you played with your food when you were a kid

That has prompted an interesting conversation with my wife.
We both grow up knowing what day of the week it was by the food that was served up at teatime, the most memorable being Thursday, which for both of us was Meat & Potato Pie day (she hated it, I loved it). Sometimes I would be allowed to take mine into the living room to watch tv and I must confess I then occasionally arranged the pastry into a scenic mountain range, with a gravy river flowing in the valleys. :ashamed:

 

[Eric Salop]

... or make a mashed up "mud mountain", complete with caves. :ashamed::ashamed::ashamed:

 

[wngsprd]

Rain started when I was outside, and temps dropping a few more degrees this morning from 45.

So much tasty looking food and great chefs you are. Inspirational (except maybe frozen toast . Rick, I plan to show my wife your kitchen, although it may cost me big $$$.

Pop, those caulk plugs look pretty cool...better than my homemade attempts at plugging.

Got some outside chores done yesterday afternoon with the 67F temps, but ran out of time before doing the caulking I had planned.

 

[check]

11.9 inches of snow still predicted for Wednesday.
Perhaps I should go buy six loaves of bread tomorrow.
Actually I have a cranberry scone recipe I'm going to make tomorrow since
today was half spent doing my last two birdhouses.
That's it, I'm done. Ho ho ho.

Took a birdhouse across the street and chatted with neighbors, sitting masked but too close at kitchen table.
Too exposed for my tastes...but still fun and left with a freshly baked pound cake.
Which will clearly live up to its name by adding a pound to me.

my winter go to socks for cold days have been the socks my sister gave me for Christmas three years ago.
Almost too thick but comfortable to wear, these Smartwool socks have been pretty durable. Of course now
I might have to add some heavier weight alpaca ones...

nothing to do and nothing planned for tomorrow. How nice.

Perhaps only one project, need to move the generator over next to the house, test it, then install the cover for it.
I want to see how noisy it is in the corner area where it lives, facing a large open yard and the woods.
Am going to try to install some noise abatement fencing/baffles. Who knows, maybe build a little house for it.
Lots of fun threads on TBN of guys who have built amazing generator enclosures, some true little power plants with
powerful diesel engines. If I ever move out of here, I might sell this gen back to landlord and definitely go whole house again at
next place, which I would own instead of rent.
I particularly like the 25-50kw gens one can run off their tractor pto as a backup.
Just drive over and plug in.
Definitely a satisfaction in being self reliant.

oh gosh, it's oh nap thirty.

Yes! Let’s hear it for generator sheds!

 

[check]

The dusting of snow we got overnight turned out to be 12". Took me 4 hours to do two driveways. But I did stop and chew the fat with one neighbour.
When the tractor lugs down she sure has a bark. Straight pipes will do that.

Wow - and we got practically nothing here near Dorset!

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 57F @ 3AM here in Cerritos, CA.No chance of rain.

I don't know about Audis, Drew, but the BMW car guys really go for those European snow tires with funny sounding Nordic names. Can't remember what they are, but a little googling will turn up lots of posts. And most have a set of steel wheels they swap to in the winter.

I've had pretty good luck with Lysol bowl cleaner on the hard water deposits here, RS. CLR never did much I could tell.

Uneventful drive down yesterday, but rain most of the way wasn't much in the way of fun. Partly cloudy skies in Los Angeles, not postcard weather by any means. I'd forgotten that the GPS clock was off an hour, so the late arrival time it predicted caused me to hurry a bit, and I ended up here at 3PM. Did some googling and found out how to reset it, and see that the time zone was two off. So it was actually two hours off. Fixed now, but had to dig through several menus to do it. Very nicely appointed room, no problems checking in, and the BBQ joint across the street had good food and sure was convenient. But I had to wait for it and it was cold when I got it.:grumpy: Biggest complaint is the noise in the room; sounds like a wind tunnel even when I turn the HVAC system off. Hard to get back to sleep after nature calls, which explains why I'm posting this so early.

I see that the propane heater I ordered off ebay was delivered yesterday; I didn't know FedEx delivered on Sunday. And now the Makita chainsaw is supposed to show up today, and I wonder where it'll end up if the FedEx guy locked the drop box. Maybe I can make it home by 3PM, but it's unlikely I'll get as early a start, depending how smoothly the loading goes. Then there's morning traffic to deal with, but it looks like I might be headed in the anti-commute direction. If there is such a thing in LA.

One thing's for sure. The high cost of living in California sure isn't going into maintaining the roads. I hit a pothole on I5 yesterday that almost ripped the steering wheel out of my hands, and the sections in LA county were almost as bad. Glad I was driving a truck instead of the van; might have lost a wheel!

Hope everyone's week gets off to a great start!

 

[RedNeckGeek]

... or make a mashed up "mud mountain", complete with caves. :ashamed::ashamed::ashamed:

I knew it! But then what kid can resist playing with mashed potatoes and gravy, especially at Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner?:laughing:

 

[RoyJackson]

A set of dedicated winter rims and snow tires like Roy has might be
in the cards for next winter. This year the all weather tires have deep enough tread I should be just fine on local roads.
But for a snow tire, I'd go down to 235 or 245 width.

Yep, looks like PA is going to get hit pretty hard...this is the kind of snow to stay home.
I normally run all-season tires year round...even in Vermont. They can be a ittle dicey sometimes, but I've only gone off the road once...and that was on the cul-de-sac I live on. The motivator this year was I was running a spare tire on the right rear....you may recall my chainsaw wrench in a month old tire escapade 6-7 weeks ago. Since the local dealer couldn't find a replacement, figured I'd go with snow tires this year (new snow tires, new cab tractor...guarantees no snow this winter).
Haven't got rims yet...I'll have OEM rims by the time it's time to swap out the snow tires with all-seasons.

Drew, have you got somebody to clear your driveway/parking pad?

 

[check]

good morning all. Very cold weather coming in this week, I see 10 one morning, 15 another, and they still are predicting a foot of snow
on Wednesday. Today will be rainy later on, possibly with some snow mixed in. I need to remember to take my glues and car wash stuff out of unheated garage and
bring them inside.

Might make a trip to supermarket this morning to beat the crowds tomorrow. Really don't need much, milk and bread primarily.
If it's raining this afternoon, going to bake some cranberry scones. I'll try not to overcook them this time...
A mug of Earl Grey tea and a warm buttery scone. I can do this.

It might be fun to make some Christmas cookies even if I don't eat them.
Take them into hardware store or similar to stay thank you. Maybe even give some to trashmen. (along with 20 bucks for each of them)
My trash cans get put back nice and straight...plus nice to always support the front line workers. The guys who likely are to come out in that snowstorm
on Wednesday just to pick up my trash. If they are smart, they'd come Thursday.

With this snowstorm coming, I enjoy driving in the snow, have done it all my life and even driven firetrucks in it.
One gets a serious appreciation of the concept of grip...

There will always be someone out there unfortunately wanting to test their limits.
We all need to know our limits, no joke. So we can operate within them...but you get someone
who wants to go 35 in the snow behind someone doing 20 and then the unsafe passing starts.
They hit the snow in the center of the road and lose control, spinning out to who knows where.
I find it educational to watch the Russian winter time car crash videos, there are lots of them online, seems everyone in Europe
has a dash cam. Australians too. Those I enjoy because I can enjoy the words since they speak English.
Well sort of... The term wanker and the old fashioned f word is sure used a lot by the Australians.
And they burst into howls of appreciative laughter when the police pull over someone for a ticket.
Of course I have no idea what the Chinese guy is saying when he is screaming at the other driver.

I put Vredstein Quattrac 5 all season, severe winter rated tires on my car. Got to study the
tread pattern in a curious way when I parked on my rubber mat in the garage.
Wanted the Michelins but these tires were almost as good and much less expensive for a set of four.
Stock Continentals were poorly rated particularly in winter. So I knew they had to go.


Biggest problem I have is the oem width of the tire, a 255 tire, which is pretty wide for the size and weight of the car.
Probably why dry weather handling is so good plus full time awd. A set of dedicated winter rims and snow tires like Roy has might be
in the cards for next winter. This year the all weather tires have deep enough tread I should be just fine on local roads.
But for a snow tire, I'd go down to 235 or 245 width.

Yup. Winter tires are a must up here. Just got Michelin X-Ice for the wife’s new 4Runner - the best! (Have them on my F 150 as well.)

Here is the rim we got from Canadian Tires for the new winter tires:

 

[RedNeckGeek]

One last comment, then I have to see if I can't get a little more shuteye. The internet speeds here are just obscene! 172/185 down/up, only 9 ms ping! And that was the free version; I can't imagine what the deluxe ten bux a day version would have been like. Those speeds are something like 50 times what I get on the satellite at home. But there's still a noticeable lag, showing that the servers most of us hit during our online adventures are over subscribed, too.