Good morning!!!!

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Good morning from Houston. Well for us southerners it is Cold 29* sleet and snow. Second time this winter. All the overpasses are freezing over and traffic is getting crazy. I could not get up to the ranch today if I needed to. So I値l just hunker down and try to recover form a sinus infection.

Welcome kittyhawk. It's cold all over. My friend in Victoria says 30F and ice on his grass.

 

[sodamo]

62°F and only .01 inches rain.

Off to vets this morning. Time for the pups to get check up and shots updated.

Back into town later to swap out empty 5 g keg at brewery.

Hmmmm may have forgotten to hit send

 

[rswyan]

We have an Energy Choice program here as well. We were on it at one point quite a while ago for the gas, don't think electric was available at the time.

In fact, there was a guy that stopped by a few months ago from IPS - the company we used for gas previously - telling me he could save us all kinds of money on our gas bill ... until I told him our gas was free. Didn't slow him down a bit ... he went straight for the electric, asking "What are you paying ... XX cents per KWH ?, quoting some number. I was on the way out to an appointment and running late, but told him I thought that sounded high ... told him I'd really need to check into it.

At that point he wanted to keep talking - after I had just explained that I was running late - pretty much killing any chance of getting my business. Nonetheless I took his card ... mainly just to get him to shut up and go away.

Turned out the number he gave me was several cents higher per KWH.

This past month it was 5.75 cents per KWH, down from 5.76 cents the month before.

 

[sodamo]

65°F and .02 inches rain

Piddle around getting ready for trip Friday

Be safe
Have a great day

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Here's a pic of the freezing fog still left on the mountain. Most of it all gone already down here.

 

[toppop52]

Toppop.

This is what we use between flock. Housekeeper Dump-Body Model 2 LP | Lewis Brothers Mfg.

Now remember I have 80,000 sqft. under roof. We use a service for total clean outs once a year. They use skid steers.

I imagine something like that is what they use here now. Use to be a couple of 300’ houses was normal, now the smallest one I know is 5-500’ houses, some are 15-20 houses.

 

[toppop52]

24F, hazy sun with light snow falling. An easy day planned moving some firewood, feeding the wood stove, harassing the squirrels at the bird feeders, and prepping for my anticipated 7" of snow tonight/tomorrow. No big deal. It usually takes me about the same amount of time to move snow (~2 hours) if it's 4" (minimum) or +2'.

We had 6 male (probably overwintering) robins in our Russian/Autumn olive trees going after the berries this AM. Those berries are nasty bitter. They are some of the last "native" fruits to be eaten by the birds around here during the Winter.

"..... I'm going to save this small useful piece of 'whatever' because I might need it later for something" has to stop."- LS_mt125_owner. I wish you the best. I can not stop. I get anxious thinking about getting rid of all my "stuff." If there is an Hoarders Anonymous Program I should join. Wifey would see my membership as a needed household expense.

CWB- your anticipated snow may become my rain early next week.

I have whole flock of robins that rolled in here Sunday, there are probably over a thousand birds. Also had a flock of blackbirds come in Sunday and a large flock of starlings today. All three are around a month early, no idea if it means anything.

 

[toppop52]

Toppop, pics of the tractor please. What model?

It’s a little Kubota B7100HST-D, perfect size for my needs and will fit between the trees in my holly grove.

 

[newbury]

This month's electric bill was $193.99 ... but it was only an estimated bill.

Their estimate was that we used 1,922 KWH ... vs 1,745 KWH last year (an actual reading)
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What's it going to be like when you start warming and lighting your expanded tropical fish exposition?

I suspect all the "Co-op" electric companies are about as good a price as you can get; maybe better service, too, in many cases because they are owned by the customers and controlled by local residents. We used to have the Navarro County Electric Cooperative.<snip>

Co-op can be good and bad.
Some turn into local fiefdoms.

We've our Mississippi water coop - Over the last few years -
They discovered the guy "testing" the water at umpteen sites had been sending in multiple samples from his own tap, saved him travel time.
Several thousand dollars embezzled.
For a while the water had been so terrible that a lot of local property owners had deep wells drilled their own money.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

31° overcast, snow starts later.

Having some pain today, so working from home. Having problems with my program im working on.
Already told work I'll be home tomorrow.
Cat wants to lay on me, i won't let it. So its been sleeping in front of pellet stove. It just got up, gave me a nasty look, and jumped on the other layzboy.
Other cat sleeping on couch, it will not lay on people.