Thanks for all the birthday wishes.
46F, cloudy, and steady rain @ 14:00, currently under a Winter Weather Advisory. Had heavy rain earlier, LWS reports total 0.60" accumulation so far. Precipitation will change over to snow later as the front comes through.
Got hopper feeder and the two tube feeders refilled on Monday, also three suet feeders. The mix for the hopper feeder had some dried apricot bits added to it.
Five bags of garbage/trash hauled up to the road and put in the cans, also recyclables bin which was full.
Started a fire in the double barrel stove up in the shop on the way out to the road, was 42F inside when I lit it. Also got a bunch of cardboard burned.
Got several loads of crap from the garage hauled up and put inside shop including several jugs of drained oil which still need to be drained into the 55 gallon drum. Hauled two empty jugs back down + about 40' of 3/4" copper pipe that I'll probably use for the reconfiguration of the water softener and pressure tank.
Temp inside the shop had reached 60F by the time I knocked off at 17:00 to get cleaned up for dinner and that was without running the squirrel cage blower for circulation.
Did not get pallet moved down to the barn.
Was over at relatives for birthday dinner by 18:00. Had a great dinner then watched a movie we had never seen.
Came home around 22:00, ended up catching the last episode of the first season of "Three Pines", an Amazon Original crime drama series The Woman has taken a liking to.
After that started to watch another movie - Woman wasn't able to stay awake for that last one and headed to bed. She was asking how it turned out this morning. Will probably have to cue up the rest of it at some point so She can finish it.
Scored a very nice fleece blanket for keeping warm on the couch from the relatives.
Tuesday did end up being an energy conservation day mostly ... but I did get that pallet moved down to the barn and forks up to the shop.
Started up the Cub and ran it for a bit while I was doing that to clear whatever ethanol gas was still in the lines. Might do that a little more next time I'm over there just to be sure.
Checked in shop while I was up there and it looks like I should have enough 1/4" x 1 1/2" flat stock for the "wings" for all the loader implements (light material bucket, shrub bucket, pallet forks, and grapple) ... but forgot to grab the drill guide and Jacobs keyless chuck and bring them down to the house ...
Got another 2" foam board panel trimmed to height for the south wall in the utility room in the basement, also made a cut that needed to be done to accomodate some duct work.
Was unable to locate the combination square I had down in the basement. Got thinking about that last night and remembered I had one up in the dining room for the project there.
Did get all the fishies fed. The Julidochromis marlieri have cleared out an area under their rocks and look to be getting ready to spawn. Going to need to do some relocating of other fish to larger tanks due to growth.
Woman got on a tear cleaning out the pantry yesterday. Seems we have pantry moths again and She commented She needs to pick up some traps. I scored another box of raisins for the birds out of that, looks like there will be some more dried fruit of various types as well.
She headed off to Her neighbor friend's last evening for dinner and their regular get-together.
Took some hot water out and flushed out the deer feeder and stuck some whole corn in it. Hopper and tube feeders have been holding up, will likely need to refill hopper by tomorrow if not later this afternoon as the cold weather will have them feasting.
Got a couple of mounting holes drilled and counter-sunk.
More work done out in the garage, more stuff stowed away and more collected to be moved up to the shop.
Middle to north end of the workbench on the west wall cleared off and cleaned. Got the top screwed down in one spot where it was warped and uneven with the adjacent panel. Still have some more work to do on that.
Fishies all fed again.
Unsure what all will be on agenda for the rest of the day, certainly no shortage of items though.
Hope everyone is having a good Thursday ...
