Good morning!!!!

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 43F @ 5:42AM. Mainly sunny. High 68F. Winds NW at 10 to 15 mph.

Sorry for your loss L4N. Good friends don't come along every day. Headed for a celebration of life tomorrow myself, and it doesn't seem like much of a celebration.

Moving the mill yesterday went almost without a hitch. The forklift at the seller's place didn't want to run, and there were some anxious moments when the engine quit at inappropriate times. A real forklift at the destination had brake problems, which made smaller problems, but we got 'er done.

Robot #2 now with UPS for his last ride. No more robots for me.

TGIF gang!:drink:

 

[txdon]

Drew, baby copperheads only have green on the end of their tails. The rest of their body is the brown colors.

 

[jbrumberg]

I like snakes. I go to great lengths mowing and weedwacking not to make mincemeat out of the resident snakes. We had a rather large rat snake living in our cellar. I was not happy to see a red shouldered hawk snatch it up.

Ron- Thanks for the laughs. I almost lost some decent Costa Rican coffee. There was a 200' foot trench dug from the house down to the solar panels. Brogen has left some impressive impressions in the mud there. There should be some bear tracks in that mud any day now. I should start bringing in the bird feeders before dusk now and chain down the lids of the metal ashcans containing birdseed on the deck.

Brogen needs some "work," but he is a basically good dog that was neglected and under-socialized. We've had our moments but so far he is manageable on a leash. He wears a 30" choke chain collar on leash, but rarely needs "correction." May 1 he loses the jewels. We are getting his feed mix and bowl shape figured out. So far we are not considering totally grain free and limited ingredient dry and wet dog food.

My wife and I go to far too many end of life "celebrations" than beginning of life celebrations nowadays. Fortunately our closest friends are still "relatively healthy."

Hazy sun so far today and there was no need to fire up the wood stove this AM. I anticipate a wet weekend with some icing, freezing rain, and sleet thrown into the mix and the wood stove going back into action Sunday.

I hope that everyone on the "mend" continues to mend and everyone has a decent weekend.

My + thoughts, wishes, and prayers for all.

 

[PJSprog]

Hazy sun so far today and there was no need to fire up the wood stove this AM. I anticipate a wet weekend with some icing, freezing rain, and sleet thrown into the mix and the wood stove going back into action Sunday.

We hit 85° here yesterday. I actually had the AC on in the car on the way home form work. Wife had it on at home as well. We'll have the furnace fired up again on Sunday. Always an interesting time of year.

 

[CWB Wyo]

Looks like 18* for the low this morning. All most 30* degrees different than yesterday morning low. It snow all day and it's still snowing this morning, we only got few inches. Today is supposed to clear up and be in the low 40's. But still calling for 20-30 mph wind.

I'll see if I need to move any snow or just let it melt. Not sure what else I'll get done today.

Hope everyone has a safe Friday the 13th.
CWB.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Good morning to all! Wind was ravaging all night. Still going strong, weather guesser still calling for gusts up to 60mph. I noticed an 8' high post on the end of a fence row is down and took down a 10' section of triple row fence with it. Like CWB Wyo, the temp this morning is about 25 degrees lower than yesterday, only up to 45 today....what's this all about? No precip happening at all.

Knee was actually much better this morning (yea!). I'm thinking I'm 'over the hump', and will improve day by day. PT doesn't start till next week. I'm still behaving!

There are several wildfires burning in the state, one on the east side just moved over into Texas. None near us now. There was a fire about 35 miles from us earlier in the week, but they got it contained in a few days before the wind kicked up. Going to be a scary fire season due to the drought.

Everyone have a great weekend! Stay safe, be warm or cool, depending where you are!

 

[RoyJackson]

I like snakes. I go to great lengths mowing and weedwacking not to make mincemeat out of the resident snakes. We had a rather large rat snake living in our cellar. I was not happy to see a red shouldered hawk snatch it up.

I'm OK with snakes too...in fact, all critters. It's a "Live and Let Live" thing...as long as they leave me be...I leave them be...

 

[sodamo]

67°F and .13 inches rain.

Have to run a few errands today, go to brewery for our gathering this Sunday.

Prayers for all

Be safe
Have a great day

 

[daugen]

Drew, baby copperheads only have green on the end of their tails. The rest of their body is the brown colors.

all I remember is the bright green and yes it was on one end, I thought more than just the tail, but almost fluorescent lime green.

Garden club went nicely, not the most informative about house plants though I did learn some things.
I took in some leftover seeds and exchanged them for a nice cutting from a Carolina Rose.
Time to get into grubby clothes and go plant.

put three trays of plants out on my back deck to harden, for all of four hours of indirect sun, and the okra looks very unhappy now.
In they came, back out tomorrow. I'm not having much luck with hardening.

 

[riptides]

Mowed more grass. First bottle of Gatorade down for the season. Very dusty and dry.

No snakes here yet. We usually we see the black snakes, biggest one is over six feet. I had a picture of me holding its skin up. I'll have to go find that.