Good morning!!!!

[rswyan]

54F and mostly cloudy @ 19:30, overnight low will be 53F.

Ran Cub over west side and back this afternoon, grinding and blowing the last of the leaves. Also did the north end of the east side that I didn't get to yesterday plus about 1/4 to 1/3 at the bottom end of the lower front. Woman assisted by picking up sticks and branches. Used the Stihl to blow off the Cub when I was finished.

Pretty much all the leaves are down now, so that should be the end of it ... but unfortunately the big storm that's headed our way has high winds accompanying it, so unless it rains first (not likely according to the forecast) we may wind up with more on the lawn.

Also got the last tensioners taken off the two bottom rows on the electric fence. Was not able to pull the t-posts with the Cub ... will require the loader on the Kubota for vertical lift. The "Plan B" at this point is to just grab a couple more t-posts out of the barn tomorrow morning and use those.

More evidence of digging out in the planting this afternoon so need to get the electric fence up plus other counter-measures. I think it is the deer since it seems to occur at night.

Deer corn I put out yesterday was all gone by the time I got up today.

Woman also worked on cleaning up the pots I brought in today and trimming up the plants.

She made spaghetti and garlic toast for dinner, was good.

Big Orange cat seems to be doing ok.

Got email sent to customer service on the eight hosta that are still MIA.

Heading down here in little bit to staple screen on back wall of roost box, stain mounting board, and feed fish.

Hope everyone had a great day ...

 

[txdon]

Our Applesauce Christmas Cake

2 Cups Sugar (Substitute 2 cups blended dates)
1 Cup Butter (Substitute 1 cup unsweetened applesauce - so a total of 3 cups)
2 Cups Applesauce (canned sweet) (Unsweetened)
2 Cups Raisins
1 Cup Walnuts or Pecans (chopped)
2 Tablespoons Cinnamon (ground)
2 Tablespoons Cloves (ground)
2 Eggs (Large) (Substitute 4 Tbsp ground flax seed soaked in 4 Tbsp water)
3 Cups Flour (Substitute Whole wheat flour - may need 3 1/2 to 4 cups because of date substitution will have more moister than sugar)
2 Teaspoons Baking Soda

And Don, I look forward to hearing how you'd replicate it to fit you diet; just might be a recipe we'd want to try.

I would first change it to the substitutions in bold above and the tweak it as I go for consistency and taste. I can see the cinnamon, cloves and pecans giving it that Yule time flavor.

Oh, I sat next to a guy in our plant based group that had a heart attack when he was 39 years old. He is 83 now. He said he did not have the option of a stent or bypass in his hospital back when he had his heart attack and basically they just put him on bedrest with one foot in the grave. (The same was done with my grandfather in the late 60s) he had 90% blockage in one of his arteries. He found out about the Pritikin clinic from some of the rich people in Florida (he was a school teacher) and he went there for several months learning how to re-eat and cook whole food plant based meals. After 4 years of the diet and biking like Mostly (130 miles a week) he was doing good and his cardiologist wanted to do another coronary angiogram, he told his doctor he really did not want to but his doctor insisted and said he would not be charged. So for a free angiogram he went ahead and did one. He said his Doctor compared the before and after and the 90% blockage was reduced to 40% blockage, The doctor was blown away and signed up for a class at the Pritikin clinic. He told the Dr. to be prepared to be brainwashed but it works. He is still in good health but no longer rides on the roads. I think he will be a speaker in one meeting next year, he really has an amazing story.

 

[Buppies]

Toppop prayers for results

Don prayers for your knee and recovery

Happy Birthday Mrs PJ wish I was still 29

Happy Birthday Rich tomorrow

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 68F for the start, overcast, windy. Windy today, sky cleared to mostly cloudy and high temp was 78F, DP 60F. Men's meeting to start day, then putter in garage, made 1/2 gal of premix gas, serviced golf cart, did nap after lunch.
Covid update: Cooke 4274 confirmed cases, 72 active cases, Montague 2750 confirmed cases, 70 active cases, Grayson, 16,710 confirmed cases, 241 active cases. Cooke 2, Montague 3, Grayson 6, new cases.
Buppies prayers for surgery and bathroom issues.
Ron nice job on meters. have fun cleaning up shop. nice feeder shot
Bill enjoy the fact you can stay inside
Roy get the snows on! good luck with webinars and audit
Drew good luck with delivery and pickup. hope you get a good quote on shed.
Mike are you a glutton for punishment?
RNG sorry about your feeders and live oak. have fun with wood stove and inside work
Thomas hope you got the branches done
Ken good to hear rack is filled. Nice pic
Rich glad the shipping issues are so entertaining. Neat story about the racer. Happy b-day
Billy glad you had good visit with mom.
Paul bet it is nice to get bunch of little jobs taken care of. Have fun with FAA stuff
PJ happy b-day to your wife. Hate when I stay up too late and have to get up in morning.
Don sorry about not getting home yesterday prayers for knee recovery. Peugeot now over 2K miles
Dennis thank for the Bio on your dad.
Desert nice pic and cold.
David thought you might enjoy a few distractions hoping for good progress
Bird we had similar tradition with fruitcake. I did most of the heavy lifting for several years, now wife younger sister is doing it.
Rand hope you take care of mm mower soon
Don good to here ice machine working, sorry about pain, prayers sent
Bird thanks for recipe
Don thanks for the substitutions and the the guy nest to you story. One of the Saturday morning group is 80.
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle's daughter/friend PT from Covid, Bird/aging issues/, Don/knee recovery /ring bearer/back broken & infections, Don/ neighbors with Covid, Randy/FIL living alone adjustments /MIL covid, /cancer surgeries, PJ/FIL death, Dennis /wife wrist surgery and recovery, Roy/ palpitations/ angina, wife/ankle recovery, Billy/ wife fall, David(moss)/remodel/divorce, Buppies/new cancer on face /dehydrated, 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, Gale and KY/ tornado victims, Bill/ getting care for DIL and Country.
stay safe and healthy you all.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 71˚F at 3:30A.M. Trying to get the pain management on less than maximum dose is not working for me. Waiting for second pill to take effect then hopefully back to sleep. PT comes here at noon, I hope she is easy on me the first day, I plan on having pills on-board during her session, just trying to time them right. The first two weeks are the most important, she needs to let me know how much to do without doing any damage. I can get around easy enough with the walker but can't carry anything but have realized from the coffee machine to the table I can move things on a trail along 4 countertops.

I was going to post a pick of the knee but did not want everyone to flinch besides I like the serenity of Ron's pics much better.

Everyone have an interesting day with projects and returns - still waiting to see if Drew gets two more rubbermaid sheds.

 

[txdon]

Don thanks for the substitutions and the the guy next to you story. One of the Saturday morning group is 80.

One more thing thing he told me that will be of interest to you. He believes along with the diet the vigorous bike riding also help his body grow collateral arteries around the blockage as the angiogram showed. However, exercise cannot do it alone. My marathon/triatholon training and competition was not all that was needed to prevent my heart attack. That is one thing we both agreed on completely and both referenced Fixx, who wrote "The Complete Book of Running" but died at the age of 52 from a heart attack.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Fixx

 

[daugen]

Good morning all. A warm nice day today, 50 out now going up to 60.
Need to run a few errands today, get a quart of oil for both vehicles to keep in trunk, but not before
I wait for the shipper from Rubbermaid.
So since it's nice out already, think I'll wash the car this morning waiting for shipper to show up.

Don, hope you got back to sleep, I saw your post and wondered why it wasn't Roy...you are up way too early.
Hope you feel much better soon. You too Buppies and Toppop.

Hands and wrists very sore from all that flagstone scrubbing yesterday. I may take a run over to church this morning on way back from errands
to inspect my work, since hard to tell when it's wet. I sure hope it looks better or my first attempt at grouting will not end well. sure learned one thing, more time
with the wet sponge at the end means a lot less time doing what I'm doing now... Live and learn.

currently at a loss for finding someone to play Christmas carols Sunday night. I guess less and less folks are learning how to play the piano, and I got feedback from one
person that playing an electric piano/keyboard is different than a piano. Ok, but for Christmas carols? We are going to sing outside, 35 degrees, brrrr, but kinda like the old
days when we went caroling. In years past the program went for about an hour, but I think folks this time will be frozen after half an hour.
My next challenge is finding someone to bring hot chocolate in a thermos to keep it hot.
Plus some apple cider and ginger snap cookies. And I bet the ladies will bake a whole bunch of stuff.

 

[RoyJackson]

2021-12-16, 0529

40° right now and raining fairly steadily. Should hit the mid-50's today.
Today, pretty much a repeat of yesterday...webinars, webinars and webinars

Added:
Truck's in the shop...snow tires are mounted (might be a good thing since the latest forecast is for 7" of snow this weekend), front brakes and rotors (no complaints as they have 137K plus miles on them) and a tune up.
Should pick it up later today or tomorrow

 

[ronjhall]

Drinking first cup of coffee. 50° with cloudy skies and wind this morning. Heading to 60° by noon with winds and clouds. Temperatures will drop to 40° by late afternoon. Got tools put away and shop cleaned up. Not sure what I will do today. May be a conserve energy day.
If I had not seen this Hawk fly into the pile of limbs. I would not have know it was there.

Rich, Happy Birthday !!!

Drew, have you tried local high school for piano player.

Don, hope the pain goes away soon. Are you using blue ice packs in your ice machine?

Everyone stay healthy and safe.

Good Morning All.

 

[Buppies]

34 high of 68 today

Prayers for all

 

[riptides]

Ditto with the Buppies weather. 34 outside, heading to upper 60's.

I might wash a truck or something today.

I did eyeball the second story lights yesterday, just could not get the courage up to try that. Annoyingly, in my mind, I should do it.

Still have not recovered the game cams.

Prayers for Buppies, Toppop and txdon. ANd speedy recoveries to all.

I'll go make some coffee and plan out the day until the sun comes up.

Be safe, all.

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, low temp is 44 and the high will be 52°F. Wind SSE 13 gusting to 20 mph. 40% chance of showers or drizzle.

Happy Birthday, Rich!

Another energy conservation day.

Have a safe day all

 

[daugen]

Rich, oh what a difference a year makes! Happy Birthday and many more to come.

I looked up where the shipper is coming from to pick up this shed. Scranton, 100 miles North of here. ??
Really fine old established mover too; looks like the A team was called! I'm calling them at 8am sharp to see if I can confirm
they understand they are picking up, not delivering, and that this is all handwork since unless they have an off road pallet jack, my rough
gravel will not work. Last time my neighbor said the HD.com van at least had some markings as to who they were. Now they have hired some real
pros. The Cadden Brothers are coming all the way from Scranton.
I wonder if Rubbermaid actually wants that mess of parts back to figure out what went wrong, or this is just HD providing really good service.
I'm going to ask the shipper who hired them.

I'm now out 300 bucks paid to my helpers on three occasions and have accomplished nothing but installing the wrong size foundation in that spot.
And I think I'm going to get a heart attack when the quote comes in on the Amish shed. If the guy lives outside Princeton, that's like the highest rent area around,
and the local inhabitants are very well paid and can afford all the really nicely crafted, ooh look at this sheds. I just want a basic one and told him that as well as I could,
without saying I want his cheapest price. The only other option is finding a prebuilt one on a lot at a big box store or shed store.

If his price is too high, like 6k, I'm going to ask him how much shed he can build for me and deliver for four grand. My lawn mower will live under its actually quite nice full cover
if the shed is more expensive than that. I'm getting tired of high prices. Means you have to look harder for bargains.

Rubbermaid may be strike one. Amish shed may be strike two. But I will find a shed if I'm patient.
It's just stupid to pay too much for one when I'm only renting, even if long term.

 

[toppop52]

43-66 today, busy day. Bank to open three new accounts since my current bank is closing the only branch in the whole area. When I started with them thirty years ago they were locally owned and had 6 branches within fifty miles, went through 3-4 new owners, each bigger than the last and each closing some branches. I’m going to another locally owned bank and hope they stay that way. Family owned for over a hundred years and four branches within 5-10 minutes.

After that it’s doctor, groceries and frozen chicken pick up at Perdue’s main office.

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, Partly cloudy and 52, quite the temp change from 30 each morning.

Got apartment cleaned up for guests and finished moving lights around yard for decoration.
Need to help wife clean house up.

Rich - Happy birthday!
Don- hope the PT goes well and you can soon start reducing the pain medicine
Buppies - how are you doing today? Hope you got some rest.

Stay safe and be well,

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 42F @ 5:00AM. Rain showers this morning with some sunshine during the afternoon hours. High around 50F. SE winds at 15 to 25 mph, decreasing to 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40%.
The latest storm added another 0.88" of rain yesterday, mainly in the afternoon. Lots of wind, too, which rattled windows all night and made sleeping difficult. And it's still blowing.

Looks like a nice healthy turkey family, Ken.

Hope your shed saga has a happy ending, Drew. I used a haze remover from HD to get grout remnants off tile. Worked pretty well with just one application. Maybe it would work on mortar, too?

I had to look twice to see the hawk, too, Ron.

Speaking of knees, Don, has anyone heard from Ted lately?

There are four of these feeders out now, yet all the birds seem to love coming to this one. And there are more staying over this winter than ever before. Wonder if they're just late leaving, as up until now we've had pretty mild weather. I'll know today if the ring and carabiner combo holds up, it's been really windy all night. Had to take one feeder down because the wire it hung from was long enough to let the feeder hit a window. Oops.

More paperwork today, probably interspersed with some housekeeping to help stay warm.

Hang in there, gang, Friday's comin'!

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning
It’s 49 and might see 60 today.

Yesterday was spent mostly in front of computer, took a break to go to neighbors tree farm and rewire his Christmas tree baler.
Other than that, pretty mundane day.

Today doesn’t look to be much different, except a Dr appt before lunch. High point might be putting the trash out this evening with my new mounts for the Carryall.

 

[daugen]

nice chat with owner of moving company, yes his men coming, and yes despite what they emailed me they know it's a pickup only.
So now maybe headed outside in a bit to wash the car.

Hmmm. 15,000 posts. Started when I was sitting in a chair using a laptop with my wife in the hospital, almost ten years ago. Kept me connected when
my world had become so stressful with wife in and out of hospital. But after she fell asleep I would fire up the laptop and with my trusty Verizon hockey puck I'd
be on the Internet and reading about Kubotas. And studying implement websites.
And in that hospital, when the news was not good, she looked up at me and said
Honey, I think you should get that tractor now.
And I did, and that Kubota was a light years difference from the Case IH 245 I had first.
Some of you remember that before it was delivered I had a paint shop paint a small red heart on the rear side window
with her name in the middle. I have a picture of her pointing up at that heart with a smile. That's a memory worth keeping.

 

[Rich B1]

Good morning! It is 55° right now and may break 60°. Temperatures are supposed to start falling and be in the low 30's tonight.

Thanks for the birthday wishes. Today is the start of my 67th lap of the sun.....

Yesterday was relatively quiet day. Got some parts in the mail that have been sitting in a mail sorting center for over a week. Now I have something to do for sure this weekend...hopefully this makes the trigger of one of my revolvers nicer.

See how today goes, got a feeling it will be calm.

And to continue my saga, hope I am not boring anyone.....

Last year, today was a turning point. It still amazes me what happened starting today and ending Monday.....

I think this one of the nights I had gotten some sleep. I was figuring out how to twist around in the bed and get sorta of comfortable and sleep. And with the NG tube off, it made it easier to drift off.

Started with the early morning blood draw and the ****** Youth. Waited for a while for the results to post.

Get ready for it, the blockage had shrunk since yesterday! Finally! Now for Dr. Deb A to show up and move forward with the rest of her program of restarting my GI tract. Figured I would get a visit around lunch time.

Met my new day shift nurse, Kelli. She was a lot different than Kandi. Very businesslike, not real personable, but not unfriendly. She was just very to the point. She came in, did what was required, then was gone. It was different, but I didn't mind it. I still had Mikaela as the day shift nurses aide and she more than made up for the social interaction.

Kelli was a bit disturbed that there was nothing on my notes about taking meds by mouth. She was also really irritated the NG tube was off for over 24 hours and was still in place. She also noted it had moved out of position a fair amount. She finally called the doctor and came in and removed it from me. Yea! Finally the hated NG tube was gone. The day was getting even better.

And the wait was on. Lunch came and went, no Dr. The afternoon drug on....no Dr. Then it was dark and I was in a funk as she never showed up.

I was sitting in the bed watching something mindless on TV around 7:00 PM when someone literally came running into my room. It was Dr. Deb A! Finally. She was still in her surgical scrubs and apologized for being late. She had to do 2 emergency surgeries that afternoon and had just gotten done. She looked tired, told me she had been at the hospital since 4:00 AM for another emergency surgery.

I told her I knew she had good news for me. She laughed and said yes. I still remember the conversation, mostly one sided.

"There is a written plan for what will happen over the next 5 days. This is my last shift for the week, I have hand picked the 2 doctors who will take care of you until I am back on Tuesday. I have also hand picked your charge nurses who also have a copy of the plan. There will be some rough patches, but that is part of the plan and will be addressed during the treatment"

"Within an hour you will be given a pill to restart your stomach and intestines. You will get one every 4 hours until they are functioning"

"You will begin a clear liquids diet tomorrow morning, you are allowed normal amounts of water and chipped ice effective now."

I had a few minor questions, she assured me I was gonna be alright, and told me she would see me Tuesday. With that, she left the room. I would never see her again. I stood her up for the date on Tuesday...

About 40 minutes after she left, the nurse was in with the pill. I actually forget the name of it, but it was intended for people with slow stomach/intestines due to major abdominal trauma. I only ever took 2 of those little pills....they definitely worked. Maybe too well.....

Everyone stay safe out there!

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Morning all.

Prayers for Buppies, Don, top pop. Hope all recover well.

My 12x16 shed was around $1000 back in the day. Some assembly required.
It was over the size for no permit, but the inspectors for the house never said anything.
It needs new siding, the osb is falling off in a couple places. Had planned to get rid of it once barn was built, now both stuffed full. I even added a 10x16 lean to off the back of shed with one end open. Full of more junk. A bunch of old double hung windows I was going to use on a barn some day, never used. Parts to an old swimming pool that never got assembled, old pipes, an old bikes, stack of pallets, buckets of builders sand. Groundhogs have dug under it all.
Before my barn, I could get my last kubota in under the leanto. Used to park the Massey in the shed.