Good morning!!!!

PJSprog · Nov 15, 2017

45° and rain this morning, going up to 57° today. Rain moved in sometime after midnight, and was coming down pretty good when the alarm went off at 05:00. It was, however, kind enough to stop briefly while I walked the two trash cans down to the road before leaving for work.

Never driven in the DC area. Been to Baltimore a few times to work on an organ there. I honestly didn't find it all that bad driving from BWI through the city to the Overlea area. Seemed no worse than driving in St. Louis most days.

CWB Wyo · Nov 15, 2017

The low this morning was 24*, yesterday's high was 55*. It's going to be mostly cloudy with a high around 50 today. May get some rain and snow by tomorrow night.

End up working on the plumbing for most of the day. But did get a chance to go out and look for a elk . It was the last day of the season, didn't see anything.

Today's plan is going to town and getting the bench back together.

Hope everyone has a nice day.
CWB.

daugen · Nov 15, 2017

chewed my dentist out this morning for not catching my serious problem two weeks before when I was in there complaining of tooth pain.
He ground off a little and said I was fine. I was not.
After the final touchup of the tooth this morning, that was no charge for today's visit. :thumbsup: 150 bucks saved.
I guess I got him feeling bad enough about the situation. Twice in one year. I was ready to walk out of there for good if he had not
resolved things satisfactorily. With a seemingly genuine I'm sorry and a zeroed out bill, that was good enough.

And then my 91 year old MIL called just to check up on me. She was a nurse too...
She had called last week when I could hardly talk and I think I worried her, since I never get sick. We both have horrible arthritis
but rarely get sick so she knew something was off, and that I lived alone. Nice of her.

Ok in the sun but quite chilly in the shade, need to find a sunny task; just have to get out of the house, out of doctor's offices, out of everything and just breathe clean air.
Which in these parts I can. Tomorrow when it's a little warmer I'm going to walk back to the pond, it's quite a trek through the thicket, and see how it looks. It's been dry so water level should be way down and I hope to get some good pictures. Cyprus knees (knobby tree roots) lined up in a row like some archaeological dig showing its finds. I intend to go back there with the little Massey and my new bush hog on order, just a little five footer, so I can get around in dense woods. Want to clear an elevated section looking down over the pond, and elevated here might be ten feet, whole area is very flat. Plus I'd like to clear out some junk trees and let light in and also so the migratory fowl can see the water and c'mon down.
Where I will shoot as many as possible, with my camera....though the locals would prefer birdshot. Have to wonder where all those bb's are going to land...number of houses not overly far away on one side. I've been talking about this pond since I got here, time to get that project moving. If it stays drier and warmer this winter, just might get done.

ronjhall · Nov 15, 2017

txdon said:
Good morning! 65˚ heading to 80˚. Can't decide which project to do, paint porch railing, caulk outside house trim or tractor dirt work.

Costco has their kitchenAid stand mixers on sale and I always wanted one to make bread so I picked one up yesterday. I was looking on youtube at several attachments to knead the dough and there appears to be the J hook or the spiral hook.
It came with the spiral but I can see some definite advantages with the J. Does anyone use a mixer to mix and knead bread? Any preference?

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I seriously think I may need some help. I've been buying more kitchen appliances last year than tractor implements.
I wonder If I should list these under my avatar with the tractor implements: tamale making machine, dehydrator, air frier, stand mixer

When there is a choice of projects to do. The one with tractor use should always move to top of list.
We have a kitchen aid mixer. But have not done bread or anything else with it in a few years. I call it a cement mixer. It has the J hook. There were some problems with them a few years ago. Something to do with speed switch. Why not use a Bread Machine?

Thomas · Nov 15, 2017

Call into work at 3am this morning.

34F partly cloudy might reach 40F snow/rain mix later tonight.
Snow still covering the ground at home also small pond still have ice.

Enjoy the day all.

sodamo · Nov 15, 2017

67°F and .96 inches rain.

Likely more concrete power washing today.
Would really like to find some application to kill and prevent future mold/mildew then a good, non slip exterior grade sealer. Thought I had found one a couple years ago, but it didn’t ship to Hawai‘i.

Be safe
Have a great day.

txdon · Nov 15, 2017

ronjhall said:
When there is a choice of projects to do. The one with tractor use should always move to top of list.
We have a kitchen aid mixer. But have not done bread or anything else with it in a few years. I call it a cement mixer. It has the J hook. There were some problems with them a few years ago. Something to do with speed switch. Why not use a Bread Machine?

There was a warning on the spiral hook that the speed should not exceed 2 (out of 10 speeds)

As far as using bread machine, I like to do a double batch and make dinner rolls out of half and cinnamon rolls (with date paste instead of butter and sugar) out of the other half.
Kind of like this quirky youtube with a few modifications in the recipe: Awesome Holiday Dinner Rolls with Bonus Cinnamon Rolls Recipe - YouTube (she is using the J dough hook)

RedNeckGeek · Nov 15, 2017

Good Morning!!!! 50F @ 8:30 AM. 100% Precip. / 1.37 in. Rain. High 53F. Winds SE at 10 to 15 mph.

You're gonna have fun with that Brush Hog, Drew. But you might have better luck backing it into the heavy brush instead of trying to run it over first with the tractor. It'll make a lotta noise when it's workin' hard, too!

Managed to get to Palo Alto Monday without getting rained on, but did run into a heavy mist at the top of the Coast Range on La Honda road, enough to slick things up and provide the quintessential Santa Cruz Mountain winter driving experience. My friend Louis had a new Instant Pot, and oh my what he did to a pork shoulder sure was good! Nice red blend wine to wash it down, and an evening recounting old motorcycle riding stories was a great way to round out the day. I'd started off in Cambria under brilliantly sunny skies, having to head inland due to the mudslide still covering Highway 1 north of there at Ragged Point. Got to travel over back roads I haven't seen in many years, and enjoyed them and the scenery as much if not more now. Cut back to the coast on the old Naciamento-Ferguson Road through the Hunter Ligget Military Reservation, getting a giggle at the western border as a ground squirrel ducked its head back down into a hole in the road as I passed by, just like a GI in a fox hole. Alas, the tank ranges were empty and I didn't get to see any of Uncle Sam's finest practicing with heavy ordinance. The views at the top of the ridge overlooking the Pacific were beautiful, but I could see the clouds that I'd meet later were already gathering. Colorado enchiladas with what was supposed to be mole sauce was what was for lunch. When asked how they were, I replied that I had a hard time tasting the chocolate, and was told it was "an American recipe". Ugh. Nice ride up the coast with little traffic, likely due to the road closure, and didn't lose the sun until Santa Cruz. The roads stayed dry and clear of traffic all the way to the old San Gregorio General Store, where the wet patches from rain earlier in the day became more numerous and the steady trickle of commute traffic grew into a steady flow.

The sun was back in the sky just as predicted yesterday morning, so we lingered over a long breakfast to let the traffic let up, then planned an escape route using the Google traffic maps hoping to avoid a major San Francisco Bay Area traffic backup. Made Dublin OK, stopped for gas, and again marveled how many changes there'd been since I moved away from there in 2010. Traffic islands and no U-turn signs everywhere made getting back to the freeway almost impossible if you didn't know your way around, and reminded me of another reason why I left there. Took the back way over the old Altamont Pass out of Livermore to Stockton, then I-5, CA99, and CA70 home. Everything was just as I'd left it when I got home, except for the empty hummingbird feeders.

Here are a few photos from the trip. Seems I could post sometimes using the web browser on the iPhone during the trip, and at other times not. The TBN app doesn't work at all now.

Sunset over the Salton Sea with the Airheads: