Good morning!!!!

[RoyJackson]

Have I mentioned in the past, more than 15 or 20 times, that I hate live oak trees. I have a lot of tiny acorns to rake up each year, and I do believe that this year might be a new record for number and weight. This is the third time, and I hope the last for this year, that I've raked up and bagged acorns for the garbage men. Last week I put out 2 bags of them that were so heavy I was afraid my garbage men might not take them. Today I put out 3 bags and hopefully each one is a tiny bit lighter than the ones I put out last week.

Our squirrels do a fine job picking up the acorns....maybe I could send a few to you, Bird

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 37F for the start, clear, calm breeze and steam fog on lake. Bike rid this morning, after lunch a nap then take wife to town for dinner and shopping. She appreciates your birthday wishes.
Covid update: Cooke 4190 confirmed cases, 18 active cases, Montague 2662 confirmed cases, 16 active cases, Grayson, 16,330 confirmed cases, 102 active cases. Cooke 9, Montague 4, Grayson 13, new cases. Grayson number still don't add up, but getting closer
Desert eagle nice pic
Ron glad you got what you wanted, any idea if anything resulted from turkey/crane meeting? nice pic
Drew sounds like you are getting to make the rounds.
Drew routes are short but look interesting
Roy good that you are not facing a intense agenda.
Thomas thank you for birthday wishes, good luck with leaf work
RNG glad water pressure is improving, hope replace the bladder is not too hard.
Bill good luck with your agenda, hat it when I loose tools
Dennis hope not too hard to winterize camper, nice pic
Don hope you had good shopping at the Craft fair today.
RS sounds like productive yesterday.
Buppies thanks for birthday wishes will pass them along
David glad pickup repair went well. CU coming along, sorry about appliance shortages. thanks for birthday wishes
Don neat phone amplifier
Chris prices are up in the supply chain so you and i get to pay for it.
Bird sorry about your acorn issues, squirrels here have been hiding the walnuts and acorns at a furious pace.
Chris sorry about no Caddy under the tree, good idea on the acorns
Don neat pic
Dennis sorry about not finding outside camper light issue
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle's daughter/friend PT from Covid, Bird/aging issues/, Don,whipper/more tests,ring bearer/back broken, Randy/FIL living alone adjustments /MIL covid, /cancer surgeries, PJ/FIL fall and stroke, Dennis /wife wrist surgery and recovery, Roy/ palpitations/ angina, wife/ankle recovery, David(moss)/remodel/divorce, Buppies/new cancer on arm /intestinal issues, Thomas/gout, Phil/reflux/wife's eyes, Steppenwolfe/son-auto immune disorder, Grev/wife's eye, Ted/knee recovery/retirement, Doug and wife/health issues/nerve and pain/ wife's eyes, Ken/aunt fall injuries, David(sadamo)/Sophie's new eye surgery, Chris/neighbor's granddaughter and Covid issues, RS wife/ dog bite recovery, Scaredy/injuries from fall, Paul/ wife's disc issues, Mike/elbow pain, and Country.
stay safe and healthy you all

 

[daugen]

groan
forgot DST and now up way too early.
Looks like I'll be reading my book for awhile, hope to leave about 6:30am as light starts coming in. Weather looks better than expected but likely very windy ride. Going over Chesapeake Bay bridge in high winds is always fun. Slow and steady, kind of hope this is last 9 hour drive I have to make, going to try Amtrak next time

heading home is always good

 

[ronjhall]

First cup of hot coffee has been poured. 31° with clear skies this morning. Heading to 62° with a few clouds. Great fall weather day yesterday. Planted Lily Bulbs yesterday. Little late. May not bloom next year. But that OK. Went for a nice walk in back fields. No plans for today. Some NASCAR in afternoon.

Mostly Happy belated Birthday for your wife. No idea what was achieved from Sandhill Crane and Turkey gathering. Cranes stayed. Turkeys went across the road.

Drew, have a safe trip home.

Buckeye, good luck solving RV lights.

Don, always something going at a HEB store. I need to get a set of those wheels/tires. My 4 wheel cart hose cart from Sams club is still going good are 6 years. I put hard rubber wheel on it a few years ago.

Prayers and best wishes for everyone.

Good Morning All.

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, low temp 40 and high 50°F. Wind S 9 mph. 40% chance of showers.

I've got some tulips and daffodils to plant today and swap the BH for the BB.


Have a safe day all

 

[Thomas]

25F clear sky low 50's for high.

E muffin than soon afterwards outside chores.
Plans for today...finishing blowing leaves,place walkway snow threads,check game cams and place scrape rope also game came to see what action takes place,watch some nascar and football,other than that enjoy the weather day.

Enjoy your day all.

 

[RoyJackson]

2021-11-07, 0616

25° right now...high in the mid-50's today.
Other then doing some rearranging in the garage (so stepdaughter can park in there), no other plans today...other than caring for my wifey, of course

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning
27 and going to twice that today.

Yesterday was a beautiful day to be outside. We went to a good friends funeral in Newtown, and his burial at the Middletown Friends Meeting. He was a 76 and suffered a slow decline from dementia. He was a larger than life person that helped everyone that he met, and always gave someone else the credit for his good deeds. He will be missed by a lot of people.

Today I’m going to a celebration of the life of another friend that passed away last November. Another real character. One of the downsides of getting older is that you loose friends at a greater rate than when you were young. A good friend told me that at funerals there will usually be a mention of either “It’s a shame that he left us so early” or “He lead a full life”. And then he pointed out what would be said about us.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Popgadget, sorry about your loss. Guys like that are rare. 76 is too young.

 

[Bird]

Our squirrels do a fine job picking up the acorns....maybe I could send a few to you, Bird

Funny thing happened yesterday. I occasionally, but fairly seldom, see one or even two squirrels in the front yard. But yesterday while I was raking up acorns out front, I stopped to go get another bag out back and just dropped the big old leaf rake on the ground. I nearly always stand it up against something so I don't haver to bend over to pick it up later but this time I just dropped it. When I came back around front, I sat down on my rollator in the garage door for a brief rest, and a squirrel came from somewhere on the south side of the house, slowly looking around, and went to that leaf rake, got on it, on the tines, then sat up there. Made me wish I'd had a camera handy. But in a few seconds, that squirrel got off the rake and went on up the tree.

40 degrees here this morning, going for a sunny 74.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

25° this morning. Worship first, then don’t know what I’ll get into. Maybe mow leaves? Pick up antifreeze? Plant a post?

 

[Buppies]

33 high of 55 today warm most of week high in 70s

Prayers for all

 

[check]

Good morning all. Drinking my first big cup of coffee. It’s just below freezing here, but it’s going to warm up quite a bit today and even more so tomorrow so I can do lots of outdoor work.

Somebody (I can’t remember who) was asking what you need to winterize on a JetSki. (My JetSki’s are the Sea-Doo brand.)

It is a bit of an operation, but the main thing, especially with the supercharged models, is to get all the water out, and put antifreeze in. Here is a link for those that are interested:

Winterizing your personal watercraft or pontoon - Sea-Doo

A few simple, yet critical, winterization steps will have you ready to live the Sea-Doo Life full throttle when the waters warm again next spring.

www.sea-doo.com

Have to get the pontoon boat covered and Tucked away today, while the in-laws are here to help. Then the docks have to be moved out to deeper water so they don’t crack as the water rises and drops over the course of the winter. (On our lake, the water level changes by as much as 4 feet over the course of the year!)

Finally, time to change all the tractor fluids (a big PITA), and switch out the backhoe for the rear blower. Snow is coming!

Have a good day everyone!

 

[wngsprd]

Good breakfast with 2.5 other couples. Sat around and chatted a good while.

Stopped by church building and updated the computer and some other stuff. And put the picnic tables away in the storage barn.

Drained and blew out the camper water lines, but don’t have any RV antifreeze for the traps.
Tried troubleshooting the non working outdoor lights, but no luck yet. They are fed from same circuit as main indoor lights which work. 2 switches in panel, main indoor and outdoor with common hot. Switch works. 2 hot wires, one for each light comes off the switch. Pulled light off under camper, it has good ground but couldn’t trace back the hot wire by myself. I need some jumpers and clips. The other light is caulked around on the side by the door, so didn’t pull it. Only way to test hot wire is in the light socket.

Too tired to continue, wife wants me to grill burgers for supper.

was the .5 the top half or the bottom?

 

[wngsprd]

43 going to 56 and mostly sunny.

Hope Mrs Mostly had a great birthday, and your son, too, BEF.

Don, great to see that group of young folks playing at the HEB. I haven't seen Wegman's do that...I'll have to suggest it.

Rip, congrats on that manlift...last time I was at Home Depot, I had the rental guy walk me through the one they have since I'm seriously thinking of renting one for a week...but I may have let cold weather sneak in and put that part of the plan off until spring.

Bird, we had live oaks in our yard when I lived at the beach...they were very pretty and full of Spanish moss...since the yard was just sand dunes and pine needles, I didn't have to mow, plus the squirrels were all overweight. I gathered up some pecans and acorns this week to feed the chipmunks in our yard.

On the way to the mountains early yesterday, my low tire pressure warning light blinked. I'd read that the first freeze of the season could trigger a warning...but pulled into a gas station in Charlottesville to check. I have a trustworthy gauge and all 4 tires checked out great...but I was surprised to see that the air machine at the station had a credit card reader and charged $2 for air...it even had a warning that the time started as soon as you paid, so you better have everything ready. The warning light went out when I restarted (rebooted) the truck. The stations where I live have free air. Costco puts nitrogen in the tires, but not sure that's all that much better.

I completed the longest hike with the most elevation climb I've done in many years yesterday. It was much more than I had planned, but I felt almost like I was visiting Heaven while on the trail...crisp 30F, clear blue skies, leaves at the very peak of colors, stream flows that filled the pools, cascades and waterfalls, but not so deep that you couldn't rock hop across the stream crossings

without getting wet...many friendly hikers and dogs. Hiked a loop trail called Riprap-Wildcat Ridge along with a segment of the Appalachian Trail. I'll post a couple of pix if I can get them to upload.

 

[wngsprd]

Here's the biggest pool...it has a rope swing up in a tree (Don, can you find it? clue: it's blue and hanging from a tree above me), although it is more than 3 miles from the parking area...one young man I talked with said he was planning on going swimming and I believe he was serious.

 

[wngsprd]

Here's a cascade...over to the side had steep rock canyon walls going up quite high...

 

[wngsprd]

Last picture, up near Chimney Rock.

 

[Eric Salop]

Good afternoon, thermometer says it is not cold, a good few degrees above freezing, yet it feels much chillier thanks to a wind that is determined to suck away all the heat it can get (random thought - was the salt sucking monster in Star Trek ever sated ?)

Tried to help a friend with an electrical problem on his Fergie this morning. He had bought a new solenoid that was causing a few sparks to fly when he connected it up. Positive earth connections always have me thinking why that was done in the past (I'm sure there would have been a good historical reason), once I got my head in gear we made a bit of a wiring modification that fixed the solenoid, just a shame the starter motor itself looks to be the problem. If he can't get a local rewind we are still fortunate that brand new starters can still be had for tractors that are now well over 60 years old.

Beautiful places Wng, although not the sort of places I would pick to go swimming at this time of year - it wouldn't be just the rope swing that was blue !

Other than that, get some fuel for the mower's winter hibernation

Roy, do you buy a special fuel for winter storage ?
I have used an additive in the past. Heard of others using alkylate fuel as an alternative and wondered if it was worth trying that instead as we now have a local stockist.
Aspen Fuel

 

[rswyan]

47F and sunny @ 10:30, headed up to a high of 62F for the day. Low this morning hit 30.7 ... so not quite as cold as the previous two mornings.

Did more leaf work on west side yesterday, still quite a few leaves up in the trees, particularly the oaks which usually hang on to theirs until well into winter.

Got the 4 new peonies and 5 of the new day lilies planted yesterday, no further evidence of digging around the irises.

Also refilled hopper feeder.

Today I have to take Frank in - which is what the abandoned cat has been named - to drop him off with the placement service. Hope that goes smoothly. He has not been liking being penned up in the basement all that much and would really, really like to go outside. Hopefully they can find him a "forever home".

And hopefully we can interest them in yet another cat ...

Beyond that, will likely work on getting more plants in the ground, including the last two day lilies.

Five more days of warm weather before the bottom drops out and way too many things still left to do.

Hope everyone has an enjoyable, productive, and safe Sunday ...