Good morning!!!!

[lostcreekranch]

39° here this morning and forecast is for 71° this afternoon. A "Chamber of Commerce" day in Colorado County.

It's sunny and not a cloud in the sky!

Hope to finish grading driveways and ranch roads today. I got a good start Wednesday but, was running low on diesel and daylight.

Welcome to Paul in Florida and thank for your USAF Service! My alma mater is USAFSS.

Glad your property did well RNG! Hope you get home soon.

Hoping everybody has an excellent day!

Prayers for all!

 

[Larro Darro]

Good morning. We had our first frost of the season this morning. The TV weather said it was about 30-32F here, but the closest Weather Underground station said we got down to 28F. Not sure I'm believing that, although it was a thick white frost. The w/underground station at Blountstown middle school is no more, so the Altha weather page takes me to a station 20 miles to the west.

No real plans for the day other than taking pictures of the damaged timber. The deadline to file for cleanup and replanting cost sharing is still a couple weeks away, but I have to get them before our loggers show up. Two weeks ago they said 2-3 weeks, so I had better get on it.

I went into work on Wednesday and ran the chainsaw all day. We have some first responders staying at the Civic Center. They are only a 3 man crew, but they have a tractor and grapple. They work with a 13 man Amera-Corp crew who is staying out of town, so they have an hour every morning that they can help us before the other crew gets there. I don't want them to run out of wood to move. Sunday is their only day off, and they worked all day clearing a path back to the tractor shed.

 

[Larro Darro]

And my secret to a stuck chainsaw? Another chainsaw. I never got one of them so stuck I couldn't use the other one to get it loose. {although I did take a small spill jerking one of them loose to keep it from sticking. I was cutting trees off the tractor shed, and I stepped back too far. There is a three foot drop off where the grounds and swamp meet. I kind of slid down it in slow motion, with the saw still running}

 

[Thomas]

Buppies
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Heck of way to start the day.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

It's a dull start to the day, with damp ground after a few overnight showers. Time I brought under cover some of the little piles of firewood I left out in the field to dry over the summer, before it starts to rot. I already have plenty of wood for this winter, so what I collect now can have at least another full year to season.

RNG Thanks for telling the full story. You have some good friends.

Kyle, have you heard how Deputy Lehmann is doing ?

WNG, you got me - not seeing anything on screen, I clicked on your attachment, expecting a 2,000+ year old artefact, not something so :licking: . :laughing:

Deputy Lehmann's right eye is working at a reduced level. He lost his left eye. Turns out he was shot with a shotgun. The thug has a long rap sheet, from Galveston Texas, and had changed his name and moved to Lagrange. Lehmann and his family live a few miles deeper into the country from my house. His kids ride the same school bus as mine. I don't know him personally, but he said in a news interview that he wants to get back to work ASAP.

BEF's "artifact" looked pretty yummy to me, except the purple cabbage.

Oh, and count me in, to the cheapskates' club.

Good Morning!!!! 37F @ 4:15AM. Some clouds this morning will give way to generally sunny skies for the afternoon. Expect widespread areas of smoke and haze, reducing visibility at times. High 68F. Winds light and variable.

Hope the power comes back on ASAP for those of you without. This time of year is no time to be without!

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Got a phone call yesterday about noon from a firefighter that said he was standing on the front porch of the house. He reported that everything looked fine; vehicles were unhurt and there was no damage to the house. Plenty of burned grass and shrubbery around the house, though; all that decomposed granite ground cover did it's job well. I couldn't tell if my wood pile or tractor survived, but I'm hopeful. I should go out and buy a handful of lottery tickets. Then again, I've probably used up all my luck for some time to come.:shocked:

I asked him to please let me know the next time he and his crew was in town, and I'd buy 'em all dinner!

Thanks for sharing, we have been praying for you. I'm so glad all your pro-active clearing hard work has paid off. I'm guessing your fire proof roof had a lot to do with it too. Like Don says, smoke damage can be awful. My wife's cousin and wife had bought a home in Bastrop just before the fire. They cleaned up ALL the pine needles when they moved in, in order to put up a privacy fence. He cleared them out for maybe 15' all around their property and back yard area. Their home was the only one standing after the fire because of that they said. But they couldn't move back in due to the smoke damage.

So much to catch up with. You guys are prolific. I will keep repeating that every time I miss a few days.

PJ, sorry about your preamp, hope you can get it going. Our chickens do the same mob race when you open their coop in the morning.

Ron, nice ramps. Hope your shoulder gets better.

You guys be careful in that wintry mix.

Drew, nice tractor.

Sorry if I missed anyone.

 

[ronjhall]

Randy, I have the 20' 4 section flagpole. Largest diameter is 2.5". 3'X5' flag. From what I can tell 25' pole has one smaller diameter at top.

 

[sodamo]

67°F and no rain

Off to town, breakfast with wife, a few errands.
Friend coming over later with oscilloscope to check my big generator. Of course I know nothing, especially how to fix whatever might be wrong other than replace the automatic voltage regulator. He’s also bringing some homemade sausage from pig he killed this week.
Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[PJSprog]

24°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 44° today.

Finally got the wall sconce light replaced in the basement hallway. It turned out to be a bigger story than was necessary. It started about a month ago when the boy was arguing with his Mother, and in his overly-dramatic fashion, started waving his arms around and smacked the glass shade shattering it. We decided not to replace it until he moved out. The light still worked, just the shade was broken. She found the part number for the shade and stopped one day at Menard's to order one. They apparently had no idea how to do that, and instead tried to just sell her a whole new unit. She contacted Patriot Lighting and talked with someone there who gave her instructions for Menard's on how to order the part. When she went back and spoke with a manager, they finally figured out how to order it. They also figured out that this quarter-sphere piece of glass was almost $25. The whole light assembly was $34. Wife said no thanks. The manager told her to bring in the light and she'd just exchange it as defective. My Wife reminded her that it was just the shade that we broke. The manager insisted this was the best way to resolve the issue. So, I removed the old light base and she took it in to them. The same manager told a dingbat employee to remove all the contents of a new box and give them to my Wife, then put the old one in the new box and mark it as defective. After the manager walked away, the conversation went something like this:
Dingbat - "So, which parts do you need?"
Wife - "All of them."
Dingbat - "So, like, you want me to take them all out?"
Wife - "That's what your manager just said."
Dingbat - "So, like, what about that one?"
Wife - "Put it in the box and mark it as defective."
Dingbat - (blank stare)
Wife - "Here, let me do it for you."
Dingbat - (stares at loose parts on counter)
Wife - "Can I get a bag for those?"
Dingbat - "Oh, yeah, that's a good idea."

We really like Menard's, but ... wow.



Mostly, that snow storm hit the area exactly the opposite of what the weather guessers predicted. The heaviest stuff was supposed to be in Illinois. We got about 2-1/2" at our place, and Wentzville MO got a reported 9.8".

Welcome to the Good Morning thread, Paul. Always good to have another Paul here. :welcome:

That's great news on your property, RNG. Awesome that that firefighter took the time to do that for you. Must be a huge relief to actually see it.

Larro, that tree devastation is incredible. Looks like your chainsaws are definitely earning their keep now. Hop you have some local help with that. Looks overwhelming.

 

[ronjhall]

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Looks like not only am I feeding the normal wild birds. I have 2 Sand Hill Cranes to feed for the winter.

 

[txdon]

Looks like not only am I feeding the normal wild birds. I have 2 Sand Hill Cranes to feed for the winter.

Ron, did they miss the bus heading South?