Good morning!!!!

[KilroyJC]

good morning all
up too early
rain coming in around noon today

fun seeing my xmas lights up, made fun little color flashies coming through curtains.
I have a blow up Santa I'm going to fire up today, in my living room for a test.
I'm hoping it comes with tie downs or wonder how it keeps from blowing away.
Sure isn't going to stay in my tiny living room...

fake xmas tree comes upstairs today, hope to get a friend to help me decorate.
and then I might wrap some presents. All good inside stuff while it rains

when i found last year the cheapest smallest live cut tree anywhere in this area was 65 bucks, I bought a fake tree.
If I still had a tractor and PHD, I'd buy a live tree and plant it afterwards.

my winter beard is all white and I trim it at short setting. Only thing I don't like about beards is getting food in them, and
trimming hair around mouth is tiresome. Sure does keep me warmer though.

woke up sneezing and grabbing for tissues. Oh boy, hope it goes away.

The inflatables we got this year for Halloween and Thanksgiving all came with tie downs.

the nylon cord is -ok-. . . The stakes are laughable. You’d really better off with the classic yellow plastic tent stakes, or even bushcrafting some wooden ones!

feel better!

 

[riptides]

48 this AM, heading to mid 50's. Supposed to be raining according to weather app. It is not.

Managed to work on the milk house yesterday. Turned into an all day event, more framing, more concrete work (no sidewalk repair) and more wiring. Still not happy with the feed to the building. Will call another electrician in and see what we can do to lower it. Not only is it six feet high, it is not straight. Time to find another electrician.

Will have to examine Xmas lights today, and rest up a little for the work week.

Hope all have a great Sunday. Be safe.

 

[Duds13]

Mornin everyone!

 

[Buppies]

Morning Duds13 nice picture

Raining this morning cool outside wife sleeping

Prayers for all our Country

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning
It’s 36 with rain coming before lunchtime and a high of close to 50 by 10 tonight.

Yesterday was a good day. Got some cleaning up done, trash and recycling toters back in the garage, emptied and loaded the dishwasher, all the basic household chores before heading over to the shop to do essentially the same stuff over there.

Was able to stop on my way to the airport and pick up the countertop, and let copilot tour my buddy’s wood shop.
Trip to Hyannis went very well, weather was great, we saw the ferry pulling into the harbor with our passengers as we approached the runway, they got to the airport about 20 minutes after we did.
The ride home was a beautiful view of the lights of Long Island and NYC, as it was a stunningly clear night with unlimited visibility. I apologize for not taking any pictures.

An interesting phenomenon of LED runway lights is that they have awful off axis performance, they are far from omnidirectional. To the point that if you look at a runway from 90 degrees to it, you can barely see the lights, but once you are lined up with them they are very bright.

We had a nice dinner at mission BBQ, but they were out of the prime rib, which was a disappointment for both of us. When I got home my trusty copilot helped me get the countertop upstairs. I’ll attach it today.

He lives farther from the airport than me and comes to my place to carpool when we fly together. The Prius gets better than triple the mileage of his Jeep.

Speaking of pictures, here is the my wife’s display at the Holiday Market with the work light Velcro’d to the collar tie.

I’ll have to go there after 5:30 today to pack it all up and bring it home for her.

I’ll take some pictures of the counter when I finish it today as well.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 42˚F clear skies no wind, heading to the 60s.

Since my garden still has room might make a run to Home depot to see if they still have some winter veggies, too late to plant seeds. The pepper and egg plants are coming out today.

Yesterday at the "Farm" they planted hundreds of small saplings replacing the 10% of Cypress Christmas trees that did not make it through the Summer drought, even with irrigation. The new saplings were not labeled so I could not confirm if they were Leyland Cypress trees.

They had already disced up the pumpkin patch and planted rye grass, before the rains. I should see a field of green next week instead of a field of mud. The gingerbread decorations stayed on the roof during the 1" rain Friday night.

 

[m7040]

Wondering if the cab is heated?

 

[scootr]

Wondering if the cab is heated?

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Cold 37º this am. Going to 70º though. Todays project is Xmas lights.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 46F @ 7:15AM.
Abundant sunshine. High 64F. Winds light and variable.
Looks like a cooling trend toward the end of this week, with rain coming in Thursday and into the weekend.

That's a nice worklight, Paul, but knowing me, I'd forget and leave it up on that ceiling strut.

Beautiful sunrise, Duds13. Welcome to the GM thread!

Didn't get much done yesterday besides documenting the work completed on the new-to-me red motorcycle. Kinda worn out from the past week.

Not sure what I'll get into today.

Hope everyone enjoys their day of rest...

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, 44 going up to 55 again.
Calling for rain later. Still need to get the ladder up for lights, maybe during the week.

Got the temp firepit, benches and straw bales put away. Those cement blocks are heavy.

Got a few more panels cut and up.

I found a carbide burr on the dremel (craftsman version about 30 years old) works well to take out the cement nails in the electrical boxes.

Going to pick up xmas tree if wife and kid can get themselves together before the rain.

Have fun and be well

 

[Thomas]

Thomas glad wind slowed down so you could burn. We always were supposed put out burns at sunset in

We are allow to burn with permit 5-9pm and nothing 6" dia. or more.

 

[Thomas]

34F partly cloudy rain arriving around 4pm upper 40's for high.

Out the door at day 2 place 2 new game cams at pinch point of swamp number tracks mostly deer and moose,I spook something on the way in and it let be known it wasn't happy.

Burnt 3 brush piles last evening Mrs. and I had some yummy hotdogs and sausages when flames were low...have extra to munch.

Plans for today...just putter watch some football and if the rain holds off grill some pork chops,other than that feet up.

Enjoy your day all.

 

[sodamo]

65°F and no rain.
No big plans for the day. Continue piddling from yesterday, a dump run, watch some football.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[buckeyefarmer]

47° and rain.

Chilly in house, should start the stove.

Watched service, but no one turned on the mics so no sound. No matter how many people I show, if I’m not there, or my son, then it just doesn’t get done. I texted and called my wife, but she never looked at her phone.

Church computer also flagged a virus last night, so got a full scan running on it.

Son got to hotel about 12:30 am, he’s now heading towards home. I stayed on the phone with him most of the trip.

Wife is bringing home lunch from our normal Italian place.

Need to pay some bills.
Still got cough and head congestion, but feeling much better.
Thanks for all the get well wishes.

Nice fire Thomas. I’m looking at another cellular game cam for VA. The one at dads cost $700. I’m afraid one might get stolen in Va. another $150 for solar backup, which really shows camera location. It can be disabled if stolen.

 

[daugen]

light rain coming down, as expected
got the xmas tree up and decorated and wrapped a few presents.
Tiny tree, easy to do.

94yo MIL in hospital in delirium. Spoke with her son, they are on watch today, I'll go to hospital tomorrow.
They didn't think she would recognize me so I'm not in a hurry to get there until she is stabilized.
She's been in pain and fairly unhappy, this may be for the best.

less than a month til Christmas.

 

[scaredychicken]

i'm about to watch the online service for our Church, no vehicle yet so i'm staying home ... i'm only calling for favours, rides when i absolutely need to plan that out

Working on my Goal-Setting, as life has changed recently ... Personal, Spiritual, Physical, Financial, Social, Emotional, Professional, and I'm adding Stuff (property) GOALS for the next year. It's a process ... I have done this for many years, but not recently, Family / Kids kept me busy for awhile and I just ran with it. Now I need to focus again.

have a good Sunday everyone

 

[rswyan]

57F, wet, and cloudy @ 13:15, calling for a high of around 59F for today. It reached 52F for the high here yesterday.

Rain came in overnight, one LWS is reporting 0.47". Could be raining now but if so it's very light.

Got hopper feeder refilled first thing yesterday.

Took Cub and dump cart around back for The Woman, then talked Her into using the bucket on the Kubota instead.

She filled that up with leaves and weeds She had pulled and I stuffed it further with the leaves from the planting area on the back side of the frog pond and took it up and dumped it on the compost pile. Also did a little work raking off and covering the green stuff growing on the pile itself. Still more to do there on that.

Got the leaves all blown off that east planting bed.

Cleaned the leaves out of the big dump cart and reloaded the stuff that was in it plus stuck some foam board insulation and the wading pools in it. Also got all the poultry netting cages pulled up out of the garden and put those in there as well and then parked it parked it in the barn. Still have to pull up the weed barrier in the garden.

Chain was missing from the box blade where I usually hang it so I wasn't able to pull the pole for the nyjer feeders, did get the one feeder that was still back there brought up to the house to be cleaned though.

Got hose that was feeding the water supply over to the barn disconnected.

Drained Water Buffalo all the way and put it over in the barn, Woman was not happy with that so I may have to drag it out again if we don't get much rain in the coming days.

Brought over another tote from the barn for soil storage.

Woman made good progress on trimming back irises, but still a ways to go. She's already talking about having to figure out a solution for supporting the peonies and irises when they come up.

Had Turkey Day leftovers for dinner again yesterday.

After dinner we watched the next two movies in the Hunger Games series, still have one to go. Might catch that one tonight.

Didn't get around to the dahlias or any mudding so those will be on the agenda for today. Probably also finish working on the gladiolus corms and get those into storage.

Hope everyone is having a great Sunday ...

 

[Buppies]

Prayers for MIL Drew

 

[Wagtail]

Good (Monday) morning. Overnight Low of 6C and it's presently 20C. Mostly clear with a moderate breeze and no rain.

Just a dhobi-day for me, although I'm waiting for a more calm day to wash the outside windows.

That's about it, take care all.

 

[PJSprog]

53°F and light intermittent rain this morning, and the temp has been slowly falling all day. Down to 45° at the moment.

Chickens decided to break the the new heat lamp bulb in the henhouse. Jerks. Picked up a new one at Rural King today, and mounted the lamp up a little higher.

Laundry Day here, too, Randy.

Back to work tomorrow after four days off, never any fun. However, at least this time there's a light at the end of the now-shorter tunnel ... and it's not a train.

Good evening, gents.