Good morning!!!!

[m7040]

Drew, I guess not having been raised in this country I may have missed the connection with religion and To Kill A Mockingbird. Maybe there is more to it than I can see or is that people are blind to the issues and pretend otherwise. In the spirit of Christmas I wish for the best in mankind

 

[mostly_gas]

Merry Christmas!! And Happy New Year.
Good evening all. 20ºF for the start, mostly clear sky, light breeze. Light wind, sky mostly clear, and high temp was 49ºF. Chapel to start day, Pancakes for breakfast, clean ashes and rekindle the fire. Then into energy conservation mode till noon. Helped wife make greenbean casserole for dinner at stepdaughter's house. Dinner was steaks, backed potatoes, the casserole, and salad, apple pie for desert. After presents and dinner everyone ready for nap, so we came home and napped. Grazed for supper. pic of 2 of my presents. Fishing pole is a lighter
Don thanks for the update.
Fuddy Happy Birthday!
Scaredy good luck with the snow control.
David mow job looks good, nice pic
Ron hope your ear and the phone survive the day. Tell Sassy thanks for the Christmas wishes, and nice Sassy pic. Have fun with snow control.
Bill looks like no plowing for a while.
Drew hope you get some visiting in as well.
Mike hope all is going OK and wife healing.
Jim sorry about the early wake up. Glad power is behaving again. Good luck with tree.
Buppies nice and cool, prayers sent.
Kilroy to bad no oak or hickory for overnight burns.
Paul hope grilling outside went well, SIL got accused of making jerk because the steaks were taking so long.
Frits hope you get a nice warm up.
RNG hope the burn goes as well today as yesterday. Enjoy your turkey.
Lou hope lasagna is good.
Bird I do think the cold spell is over.
Thomas enjoy your easy day.
Don sounds like great Christmas presents. Sorry about your neighbor.
Scotty nice pic.
Gale congrats on white Christmas. Good to hear some warm up occurring.
Gstrom hope family was fun.
Ted nice weather, wished it was not windy. Glad family is there, apple pie sounds good. Stepdaughter made areal good apple lie yesterday for today.
David glad you got chores done yesterday. Hope day was enjoyable as well.
Frits hope you were able to see some family.
Bill sounds like good plan.
RS hope driveway was in decent shape. Hope family gather was fun.
Ken glad it is feeling warmer. Good to hear insulation is working.Nice to hear good Christmas Eve party. Menu over next few days sounds yummy.
Dennis hope bous enjoyed their presents.
Kyle hope your Christmas was as good as it sounds, sorry about the sick one.
Paul sorry about the faulty plumbing in your hands.
Df it is nice he is getting quality help for his project Nice pics, thanks for sharing.
Frits thanks for video, wonder how long to preheat during cold weather?
Frits thanks for the info.
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle /Daughter, /mom's breathing, /learning new job, /friends upcoming new baby, /son's migraines, Bird /aging issues, Ron /broken arm and heart, Billy /mom hypertension & congestive heart failure, David(moss) /remodel, /divorce, Buppies /new skin cancer spot and treatment, /elbow healing, /wife knee healing, Thomas /gout, Phil /reflux, /wife's eyes and fall, Frits/ daughters hip replacement /veteran son with mental issues, Ken /dad possible dementia, /uncle's surgery, Steppenwolfe /son-auto immune disorder, Grev /wife's eye, Ted /knee recovery, /retirement & disability red tape, /family issues, /wife feeling bad, Lou /eye issues, Doug and wife/health issues, / hand nerve and surgery, /fall and recovery, / wife headaches and heart eval, / David(sadamo)/Sophie's new eye surgery recovery, Chris /neighbor's granddaughter and Covid issues, Scaredy/shoulder dislocation, /marriage not doing well, / friend stop drinking, Paul/ wife's healing from back surgery, Dennis /retirement, /coughing, /neighbor issues, /land development, / brother "alligallyitus" and back in hospital, Drew /foot heel issues, /friend's wife cancer diagnosis and recovery, mike /wife's surgery, Scotty, /back pain, Frits /daughter recovery from surgery, Helogabals /second opinion, /wife's friend situation, Mark /wife colon surgery, Fatjay /father broken hip, Ukraine war, and Country.

 

[two_bit_score]

I've fallen behind again.....will have to catch up later.

I just wanted to wish all of you Merry Christmas. Only 3 of us went to church this morning, youngest is sick. HEB store had large end rib roasts for $3.99/lb. I bought 2, 4 pounders. I just pulled them out of the oven and they are resting. mashed potatoes, asparagus, (and my son wanted steak fries instead of potatoes).

Don, I can't even begin to imagine losing a kid like that. Prayers for the familiy.

Prayers for our team.




Frits, I remember when the South Texas Nuclear plant was started by Brown and Root, but they had not had previous experience with nuclear plant builds. I believe it was Bechtel that ended up finishing the plans. IIRC it cost them over double to finish it because of B&R.

That was a huge scandal, er, ah, story at the time.

 

[daugen]

good morning all
hopefully many are sleeping in this morning

17 going up to around 30 today, cloudy
no plans but to meet friends for lunch at Perkins pancake house.

had a great family get together last night and did a big screen zoom with rest of family in California. It all worked and was fun

now what to do with all this fruit cake...............

 

[ronjhall]

Coffee has finished brewing. 12° with cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 21° with cloudy skies. I did spend several hours on the phone with family and friends. Some of them using FaceTime. Enjoyed every minute. Shoveled snow off walkways. Neighbor with his small Kubota tractor plowed my driveway. It did not really need it. He got his Christmas seat time. Have couple of projects to work on in shop today. Put pedal shut off switches on couple of my machines.
Birds are learning that they can share feeders. Another seed cake gone.

Drew, bird/critter food.

Everyone stay safe and well.

Good Morning All.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Forgot to turn off alarm.

Did get a call to dad in yesterday. He’s doing ok, on of the hunters brought him food. My sister was out there to visit also.

Will try to get more sleep.

 

[Buppies]

14 degrees this morning never got above 29 here but 60 by Thursday everybody’s going to be sick. Hope everybody had a wonderful Christmas

Prayers for all our Country

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, 4 right now and going to a high of 12°F. Wind NW 5 mph. 60% chance of flurries. We've not got any more snow than we had when I got done plowing the other day.

Long range forecast is saying 37 on Thursday, 41 on Friday and 39 on Saturday. I hope not. Temps like that will turn this place into a skating rink.

At below freezing temperatures I cannot do manual labour outside, so today will be an energy conservation day.

Have a safe and peaceful Boxing Day

 

[wngsprd]

11 going to 35. A little thawing out, I guess.

Hope Mrs BEF had a nice birthday.

and Fuddy, too!

Nice to hear your Christmas stories and meals. We had all the family here and a great time.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 25˚F heading to 55˚F with clear skies.

The weather predictions are over the place.
Tempest: south winds becoming northerly at 1pm today, tomorrow morning 28˚.
Fox: South winds all day today, low tomorrow morning 48˚.

Time to get some seat time and try out new long johns I got for Christmas.

 

[KilroyJC]

This was the type of tractors that I worked on when started as mechanic. It was single cylinder, two stroke diesel and was started by hand. Engine could run in both directions depending on how you crank it.

Aren’t there models that were started with a firecracker?

 

[KilroyJC]

Merry Christmas!! And Happy New Year.
Good evening all. 20ºF for the start, mostly clear sky, light breeze. Light wind, sky mostly clear, and high temp was 49ºF. Chapel to start day, Pancakes for breakfast, clean ashes and rekindle the fire. Then into energy conservation mode till noon. Helped wife make greenbean casserole for dinner at stepdaughter's house. Dinner was steaks, backed potatoes, the casserole, and salad, apple pie for desert. After presents and dinner everyone ready for nap, so we came home and napped. Grazed for supper. pic of 2 of my presents. Fishing pole is a lighter
Don thanks for the update.
Fuddy Happy Birthday!
Scaredy good luck with the snow control.
David mow job looks good, nice pic
Ron hope your ear and the phone survive the day. Tell Sassy thanks for the Christmas wishes, and nice Sassy pic. Have fun with snow control.
Bill looks like no plowing for a while.
Drew hope you get some visiting in as well.
Mike hope all is going OK and wife healing.
Jim sorry about the early wake up. Glad power is behaving again. Good luck with tree.
Buppies nice and cool, prayers sent.
Kilroy to bad no oak or hickory for overnight burns.
Paul hope grilling outside went well, SIL got accused of making jerk because the steaks were taking so long.
Frits hope you get a nice warm up.
RNG hope the burn goes as well today as yesterday. Enjoy your turkey.
Lou hope lasagna is good.
Bird I do think the cold spell is over.
Thomas enjoy your easy day.
Don sounds like great Christmas presents. Sorry about your neighbor.
Scotty nice pic.
Gale congrats on white Christmas. Good to hear some warm up occurring.
Gstrom hope family was fun.
Ted nice weather, wished it was not windy. Glad family is there, apple pie sounds good. Stepdaughter made areal good apple lie yesterday for today.
David glad you got chores done yesterday. Hope day was enjoyable as well.
Frits hope you were able to see some family.
Bill sounds like good plan.
RS hope driveway was in decent shape. Hope family gather was fun.
Ken glad it is feeling warmer. Good to hear insulation is working.Nice to hear good Christmas Eve party. Menu over next few days sounds yummy.
Dennis hope bous enjoyed their presents.
Kyle hope your Christmas was as good as it sounds, sorry about the sick one.
Paul sorry about the faulty plumbing in your hands.
Df it is nice he is getting quality help for his project Nice pics, thanks for sharing.
Frits thanks for video, wonder how long to preheat during cold weather?
Frits thanks for the info.
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle /Daughter, /mom's breathing, /learning new job, /friends upcoming new baby, /son's migraines, Bird /aging issues, Ron /broken arm and heart, Billy /mom hypertension & congestive heart failure, David(moss) /remodel, /divorce, Buppies /new skin cancer spot and treatment, /elbow healing, /wife knee healing, Thomas /gout, Phil /reflux, /wife's eyes and fall, Frits/ daughters hip replacement /veteran son with mental issues, Ken /dad possible dementia, /uncle's surgery, Steppenwolfe /son-auto immune disorder, Grev /wife's eye, Ted /knee recovery, /retirement & disability red tape, /family issues, /wife feeling bad, Lou /eye issues, Doug and wife/health issues, / hand nerve and surgery, /fall and recovery, / wife headaches and heart eval, / David(sadamo)/Sophie's new eye surgery recovery, Chris /neighbor's granddaughter and Covid issues, Scaredy/shoulder dislocation, /marriage not doing well, / friend stop drinking, Paul/ wife's healing from back surgery, Dennis /retirement, /coughing, /neighbor issues, /land development, / brother "alligallyitus" and back in hospital, Drew /foot heel issues, /friend's wife cancer diagnosis and recovery, mike /wife's surgery, Scotty, /back pain, Frits /daughter recovery from surgery, Helogabals /second opinion, /wife's friend situation, Mark /wife colon surgery, Fatjay /father broken hip, Ukraine war, and Country.

I have oak, Apple, locust, but it is not exactly organized. . . basically I just grasp what is stacked by WHEN - not by WHAT.

My biggest problem is MrsKilroyJC telling me not to put so much wood in —- and then the fire dies down and she complains when the HVAC kicks on. . .

 

[pennwalk]

Hope everyone had an enjoyable holiday.

Did you see this video? Creepy but kind of amazing.

I don't really know anything about coal stoves except my neighbor has one. I think there is something different about coal stoves compared to wood stoves and I think there may be some stoves that swing both ways so to speak.

Chris

 

[KilroyJC]

Good Morning!

God has given us another chance to get it right (or at least not screw up too badly).

Happy Boxing Day to all our friends under the Crown!

Family Festivities went well yesterday, ham came out perfect, gravy was salty but it wasn’t really needed anyway.

Allegedly it will hit almost 40F later today, so our dog will get her walk at the woodlot this afternoon - she gets doggie depression if she doesn’t go up and down the mountain for more than two days. . .

Otherwise it is the final overhaul of the last dishes that need to be washed by hand, and digestion recovery

I hope everyone has a wonderful, healthy, happy, blessed day!!!

 

[daugen]

some stoves that swing both ways

i believe the politically correct term, considering all appropriate DEIJB factors, would be to
say you have a multi fuel stove.

Now perhaps the stove door swings both ways.

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning
It’s 13 with a high of 25 forecast under clear skies. A carbon copy of yesterday.

I am very impressed with the Mitsubishi mini split in the shop with temperature of the wall that it was mounted on at 65 degrees it was blowing out 102 degree air, this was with an outside temp of 12.

We had a great Christmas yesterday, daughter and her dogs spent Saturday night here, and helped get everything going in the morning. Cooking sausage and bacon outside went well and freed up room in the kitchen for the rest of the meal.
Dinner at son’s was great, a reverse sear prime rib with lots of appropriate sides.

Today I’ve got to move some hay from the hay shed to the barn while the ground is frozen. Then we are going to visit daughter in her new house, of course she has some tasks for me, she asked that I bring some plumbing tools and supplies.
Zoe is adjusting to her new home quite well, she has the expected energy of an 8 week old puppy, but has no problem relaxing as she is while I type this.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

At midnight it was 19F and was 25F at 7 am and more snow than last week's blizzard.

Here on the KY TN border about 40 miles east MS River daily temps are 40/20F.

Thankfully we only have to get out to feed the animals today. Driving is optional until noon on Tuesday.

 

[scootr]

Clear and sunny again today. Need to clean up the drainage ditches on the road side today. Did a little weed abatement yesterday withthe land plane. The landplane excells at scraping the surface uprooting the millions of small mustard seedlings trying to fill the fire break.
Tomorrow starts a week of rain. We need it Cheers

 

[IXLR8]

Good morning,
It is presently 32F under clear skies after an overnight low of 22, forecast high of 34, winds light and variable.

I love it when a plan comes together....
Yesterday I cut down the 80' pine tree that was leaning towards where my shop was going. We had just over 1/2" of rain and then temp plummeted to 10F and froze the building pad solid. I had to fell the tree at a 70 deg angle from where it was leaning to miss the shop pad and clear some other trees. Tree came down within 6' of where I wanted it. Only a little of the tree top landed on the edge of the pad. Since the pad was frozen, it didn't mess it up and isn't going to need redoing before the contractor gets here in 2.5 weeks. Now to clean up all the debris and get the trunk of the tree cut up and moved.

I have been playing bachelor for a few days, wife due home today so it is time to clean up the house before she gets here, or I'll end up on her naughty list.

The entire creek is frozen over, first time I have seen that since I bought the place. Guess this officially marks the end of boating season.

Have a good day, stay warm and be careful out there.

 

[riptides]

22 outside this AM. Have a nice ice skating rink in the front pasture. I missed all that rain in this area since I was not here.

Brought wife home yesterday. Am in care giver mode for a while.

Hope everyone had a great Christmas and with hope, to all of us, a better New Year.