Good morning!!!!

[rswyan]

Good news - that reported fire was not actually in the reactor:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1499566442609614850

No indication though whether hostile activities in the vicinity are still occurring.

Let's hope they aren't.

 

[Buppies]

Beautiful day today high in 70s still breezy blue birds sighted in nesting box my favorite bird

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 40º for the start, clear sky and light breeze. Light wind, partly cloudy sky with high cirrus clouds, and high temp of 76ºF, DP 27ºF. Slow start to work on wood pile, Wood is split and stacked, large downed branches finished, and 1 trash can full of small branches. Also got bike ride in and nap. Wood pile getting closer to done.
Doug glad you got home again and that you have power back. Also good to hear no big hail.
Roy sounds like you are getting good opportunity to check out new blower. hope you got a good nap
Bill hope town run and seat time went well
Billy sounds like a good visit and fix loose ends.
Mike hope your day went well.
Drew just volt meter, gas cart. Went to use it couple of weeks ago and after reversing out of garage would not start when switched to forward. Battery acts fine after charging. The cart charging system is working because the voltage was higher after use. Just not sure why battery was flat
Ken good to hear progress on dead tree removal. Neat pics, again
Don glad Pilates went well, hope freeze does not get garden. next Friday and Saturday have freeze temps for me.
PJ any place in MO you can fill up? In TX 3.25-3.30/gal, Sherman slightly cheaper.
Rich sorry about meeting. You can't make them learn this stuff. Good retirement practice time
RNG hope you get rain tomorrow, and those are some crazy prices.
Drew Putin may not have expected Ukraine to put fight at all.
Ted good luck with Dr visit and getting some moisture.
Paul glad trips went well, getting home at midnight must have been a drag. Cool pic
David hope Sophie got good news.
Drew did you ever stop and think the B-52 is older than the pilots that fly them? Good of you to remember both the ladies, muffins will be a treat.
Ken Russians never have had the success for most people that we have.
Dennis, I download pdfs from Fidelity all the time.
Don sorry to hear about your EGO
Chris nice link, thanks
Thomas you are really hanging in there with pt time job.
Bird that always is an interesting decision, do it yourself or pay. I do it my self for the exercise.
Ted good to hear they are think of a path forward with the knee.
David when you told she looked cute in glasses did she take a swing at you ?
Don replaced already.
Buppies enjoy the blue birds.
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle's daughter/friend PT from Covid, /mom recovery, living alone, Bird/aging issues/, Don/knee recovery, /mom's pipeline process, Randy/FIL living alone adjustments /MIL Covid /son's FIL death /new cancer surgeries /cataract surgery, Roy/ palpitations, /angina, Billy /wife fall, David(moss) /remodel /divorce, Buppies/surgery infection / wife head wound healing, 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 /rib /brother leaving Ukraine, Ken/aunt fall injuries, David(sadamo)/Sophie's new eye surgery follow up, Chris/neighbor's granddaughter and Covid issues, Scaredy/injuries from fall, Paul/ wife's disc issues /dog seizure, Gale and KY/ tornado victims, Mike /5 year plan, Dennis/ brother "alligallyitus" and improving, Ukraine war, and Country.
stay safe and healthy you all.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Worked on cleaning up more quicken files. Too much filed against misc category. Had some duplicate categories also. I’m getting there. I have records back to 1990.

In the end, we spend too much. Going to be interesting talking to financial guy.

Gotta go to dentist in morning, yuck.

 

[Green Acres Homestead]

The morning sunrise always motivates me to head to the woods. It is 4:30 a.m. -17 c but can't wait for the sun to come up. Here is a view from my couch here in east coast Canada.

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, low temp 4 and high to 25°F. Wind WSW 8 mph. 30% chance of flurries.

Green Acres Homestead, it looks like you might get some snow today. (Red sky in the morning.)

There are rumours that Ontario might be lifting the mask thing. But individual businesses can still demand them. The old 'my house, my rules' thing.

Today is an energy conservation day, maybe.

Have a safe day all

 

[RoyJackson]

2022-03-04, 0510

-6° right now...high in the upper 20's...

 

[Buppies]

34 this morning high in low 50s warm again tomorrow but cold stormy weather lurking close by winters last shot

Prayers for Ukraine

Prayers for our Country

Prayers for all

 

[wngsprd]

26 looking for 51. Clear with lots of stars out a little while ago and no moon.

Finally finished the early January snow/ice storm clean up yesterday...ground has gotten very dry, so used most all the tools...loppers, chainsaw, pole saw, and grapple to cut and pull broken cedar branches from the front yard cedar...a big tree that many of the birds love to stage in as they approach the feeders. Some branches were 6 inchers...reached as high as the FEL would go to grab some of them with the grapple and pull them down...most completely broken a couple had a bit of bark/wood left holding on. Ended with 5 grapple loads to take to the brush piles. There is still a lot of tree left, so birds will be okay.

 

[riptides]

First,

Prayers for Ukraine.

23 outside heading to upper 40's.

I will be on the splitter and working the saw these next few days. Wife completed her final design of the Milk House, so I will be returning to cleaning that building out. Since the inside is all concrete, I will tear the outside siding off to rewire the rewire and put new plumbing in. I am thinking it is best to work with wood, than metal mesh and concrete. A few years ago it took about a day just to hang some shelves in it. The inside walls are well constructed. And, I have gotten good with siding. LOL.

Praying for peace.

Have a great weekend all, be safe.

 

[daugen]

good morning all
cold 17 this morning
have breakfast on the stove and since I can smell it I know I have to pay attention, home fries slowly cooking in a pan.

it's hard to believe anyone would be stupid enough to shoot at a nuclear power plant. I wonder if they want to shut it down.
Like we are shutting them down.
I read this:
Russian tanks, equipped with thermal imagery, are shooting at the atomic blocks. They know what they are shooting at. They've been preparing for this (attack)," Zelensky said in the post, adding "our guys are keeping the atomic power station secure."
The very fact Russia is launching attacks in the vicinity of Ukrainian nuclear plants is extremely dangerous, said Zelensky, while referencing the Chernobyl tragedy and its victims.
"There are 15 nuclear reactors in Ukraine. If one of them blows, that's the end for everyone, that's the end of Europe. All of Europe will have to evacuate," he said.
"No country besides Russia has ever fired upon an atomic power plant's reactors. The first time, the first time in history,"

Now if they blew up the training building, they were sure sending a message.

war among the nuclear reactors. Each day's headlines gets worse.

Getting a haircut at lunchtime, long overdue, and I'm getting it summer short. Then later today brother picks me up and we
go have a glass of wine at 1740 House in Lumberville just North of here. His best friend owns the place so we always get a nice spot to sit...
Brother sounds tired, middle of tax time. But at least he said this would be his last year. Time to smell the roses.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 60˚F cloudy heading to the mid 70s.

Bird I'm cutting the thick dead grass from level 5 to level 2. There will be a lot of grass to dispose of but the next cutting will be easy for a while. About 3/4 of the yards here are cut by lawn companies. If it's something you can do and enjoy then continue mowing, when it becomes too painful hire it out. What do lawn companies charge this year? Have they taken advantage of inflation and higher fuel and labor cost?

A half mile connecting trail where I walk Whipper in the evening has been approved by the community. I'm just waiting for the call for more trail making. It will be a pretty trail next to the creek, but it will flood, at least in the summer it will be under trees.

 

[daugen]

Don, do you make a trail a certain way knowing it will flood?
Hopefully more seat time for you

 

[Thomas]

-1F clear sky upper 20's for high.

Outside chores done..brrrrr, E muffin time.

Plans for today...3 stops in town for goodies after that not sure until date night.

Enjoy your day all.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 50F @ 4:45AM. Light rain early...then remaining cloudy with showers in the afternoon. High 63F. Winds WSW at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 70%.
Hmpf. That 0.3" of rain forecasted for today has evaporated down to 0.01", not even enough to settle the dust. And only a trace of rain in the 10-day, for a week from Sunday. Our mountain snowpack is down to only 63% of normal, and farmers are being told not to expect any water allocations from the big federal water works. Get ready to pay more at the grocery store.

So much bad news in the headlines these days. Maybe it's best to just quit reading and watching for a while? And concentrate on the good things we still enjoy in this country. There are still a lot of them.

Bluebirds are some good news. Thanks for sharing, Buppies.

Beautiful sky, GAH. Is rain/snow due in later?

I hope the doctors are finally onto something, Ted, and your patience with the knee will be rewarded.

There's a third option for the yard, Bird: Zeroscape it and save on water, too.

Beautiful music and unique technique, Chris. Thanks for sharing.

Spent some time on the phone yesterday catching up with a wood cutting buddy that lost his home in Paradise, CA and moved to Eugene, Oregon. It seems the grass isn't always greener, and now he's not so sure he'd make the same move if given the chance. He's had to deal with higher property and income taxes, which aren't offset by the lack of sales tax. And he's still dealing with wildfires, and now has huge Douglas fir trees in his back yard, similar to what cost him his house in Paradise. Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it, I guess.

I'm playing phone tag with a forester, not one from Subaru. His VM last night said he can help, and I'm looking forward to a conversation with him today.

Still more housekeeping to do, but getting closer to done. I might get the transmission oil and filters changed on the tractor this afternoon if it stays dry.

TGIF, gang!

 

[txdon]

Don, do you make a trail a certain way knowing it will flood?
Hopefully more seat time for you

In the lowest places we use course rock so it will be passable as soon as the water level drops. During a flood the creeks are usually out of their banks only a day because of the hills they drain fast.

 

[wngsprd]

Thomas, enjoy date night!

RNG, I was afraid your hopes for a move north would be met with disappointment. Hope you can find a great home if you do decide to leave your special place.

We saw our first forsythia and quince blooms yesterday while working in the yard. We used to have an apricot tree that always bloomed in mid March...most years we'd get no fruit because of a later frost, even if I covered it with old sheets.

 

[Popgadget]

Good morning
It’s 16 and going up to the middle 30’s. Another day of blue skies.

Yesterday was a slow paced. Did some paperwork, changed the oil in the wife’s car. Had a nice lunch, stopped down at my son’s to check on his project. The contractors working were both old friends of mine. He moved out of the house back in July, and it’s beginning to look like the end is in sight. It’s all coming together nicely. After that stopped for a short visit with grandson and DIL. When I went to pull out the Carryall to take the trash and recycling to the street, the battery was dead, so I got a nice walk in, rolling them down the lane. But the Carryall on the charger, hopefully it will be ready to bring them back up today.

Today is likely to be a repeat, with no firm plans, but plenty to choose from. No music tonight, as several of the usual suspects are unavailable.

Gas jumped another $0.30 overnight, it’s now $4.29 for regular gasoline.

 

[RoyJackson]

Gas jumped another $0.30 overnight, it’s now $4.29 for regular gasoline.

What's JP cost per gallon now?

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all 19 going up to 41 and sunny.

Fox followed me up the shared road today, keeping about 50 feet behind us, and stopping when we stopped.
Then into the woods in the same spot wife sees it go in the mornings, maybe some new foxes on the way?

Got more brush cleared and cut up some more fallen leaners. Now into the swampy area which will be much harder to clear up with the vine tangle on small trees and large bushes.
The hybrid cutter blade is getting pretty dull, but has a lot of hours on it. Time to order a new one.

LS - hope the knee problem isn't too bad. I have had nerve operations to fix, takes a while to heal, but all good many years later.

Stay safe and be well.

Anyone for Albatross, they need to jump off a cliff to take flight and fly for long periods at sea and don't land for days.

Penguins really are fast underwater, could only get still shots on land. Too fast for my camera underwater.

We were surrounded by sea lions and turtles on every trip into the water.
They all seemed curious and hung around to watch us.