Good morning!!!!

[Buppies]

27 high of 45 today not near as windy

Prayers for all silent or spoken

 

[ronjhall]

I was trying to remember which year it was that we visited the Bush 41 Library.
Great memories.

January 2009.
Here we are watching a video of a rocket launch. Almost 10 years ago.

 

[ronjhall]

Need to pour second cup of coffee. 28° with cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 32° with some snow flurries in morning. No accumulation. Listened to the eulogies while traveling around to my various stops yesterday. Very inspirational. This morning is that doctor appointment I have been waiting 8 weeks for. No other plans.

Prayers for all.

Good Morning All.

 

[Thomas]

19F now low 30's for high.

No real plans after work other than cut meat up for the little critters
E muffin feed little critters slow roll to work.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[Thomas]

ronjhall
This morning is that doctor appointment I have been waiting 8 weeks for. No other plans.
...................
8 week wait...hope results better than good news.

 

[daugen]

cold morning, 23 degrees going up to 50 today.
other than some field tilling, have nothing planned, need to run downtown to get an ink cartridge and a few errands
have a good day all

 

[wngsprd]

25 going to 46. Had some pretty snow yesterday, none stuck.

Ron, hope things go well with your doctor visit.

 

[Looking4new]

25 with a high of 28F. Wind S 14 mph. Snow now and in the forecast for all day.

I will go out and plow about 9 A.M. The tractor is 'plugged in' now.

I gotta take the DIL to the Dr.s in town today and back down to Sundridge for some more Christmas stuff. The food store down there has turkeys on sale for $1.39/pound. Can't beat that price. They also have bacon on sale. We will stock up.

I've got my big clevis. I will put that on while the tractor is warming up.

We are hard pressed to get natural lakes to warm up much above 80F during the summer.

What is really neat is to see the small communities that develop on the lakes when the ice is thick enough. Down on Lake Simcoe the ice some winters gets thick enough to drive your car/truck from one side to the other. I say 'some' winters and that means that the temps need to be near zero F for a month or more with not much snow. The locals know how thick the ice is and whether or not it is safe enough to drive on. As far as I am concerned, even if the ice is 10' thick you will NOT catch me on it in my vehicle.
4' of blue ice is good enough for a small car, only IF you don't care about the car. Remember that you don't have any insurance after you cross from shore out onto the ice.

Have a good day all

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 50˚ cloudy.

The refurbishing of Dad's strings of outdoor C-9 Christmas lights went South quickly when they popped and blew my breaker. Corrosion and brittle plastic doomed the project. Today I'll take the little white crumbling lights off the his wire star and put a LED wire rope on it and hang it above the garage.

Last night we went to the neighborhood Singers Club Christmas concert. Their club has 250 members. They have talent - especially the 4 pianists who played the dueling bells of Christmas simultaneously. The Sleigh Ride song was interesting also with a trumpet player making the sounds of a whinnying horse and an 80 year old cracking a whip for the sound effects. (Not a real whip - two flexible pieces of wood slung in a downward motion to clap hard together to make a loud pop.) The drummer had some sort of wooded discs that duplicated the clopping of a horse trot on a cobblestone road.

Tomorrow we are under a flash food warning with 3-6" of rain expected.

 

[daugen]

Remember that you don't have any insurance after you cross from shore out onto the ice.

fascinating, taught every word of the auto insurance policy in training center in Hartford CT for Travelers, and there never was a clause
for driving on ice, other than a general catch-all for not taking reasonable care to protect your property, and clearly local underwriters do
not consider driving on ice reasonable. Unless it's an intentional act of destruction, comprehensive coverage on car is pretty broad.
Plus it usually includes floods, so...perhaps it's just a moving flood...

Youtube is full of videos of guys wrecking their trucks in the ocean or the boat ramp.
I agree, if you can't afford to lose it, don't go out on the ice. That includes your life...
Though a lot of ice fisherman would disagree. Have to tell you, just can't imagine that being fun, but
for some it's that or no dinner.

Anyone have any ice fishing tales?