Good morning!!!!

[Looking4new]

I went from 3 french presses (1 Quart each) of French Dark Roast coffee to water overnight. I don't bother with coffee at all now.

 

[sodamo]

A pretty good day. One roof done.

 

[toppop52]

I think I know Salisbury perhaps the jail

You know not!

 

[toppop52]

I like dark roast coffee, and scoop for scoop it’s lower in caffeine than light roast, but Oz for Oz dark roast has more, it’s so confusing, I just drink what I like.

Caffeine Myths: Dark vs. Light Roast - Which Has More?

 

[paulfun9]

Just finished a little while ago going through a stack of 56 job applications, and ... oh, my ... now, there's a skill they obviously need to be teaching in high school; how to fill out a job application. Some scary, sad stuff in that pile.

That is funny! Only because I know exactly what you are talking about.

Sadly if you take half of the good applications and set the applicant in a room by themselves you would be surprised at how many of those applicants clearly needed someone else to fill out the application for them.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 30F for the start, overcast, calm wind. Overcast all day, wind was light, and high temp was 41F. Stove duty today, and did get a bike ride in. Forecast for Monday says we won't break freezing all day
Lynn great sunrise pics.
David nice progress on roof while fighting the rain.
Drew, sorry about your deviated septum, I think mine is as well. Be nice if they can clear up your ear issue.
Use Garmin with traffic reroutes, don't know who wrote the routines.
Ted, I understand your frustration, I just dont understand how those guys get elected :confused2:
Wifey does not care what I call the cart/trolley as long as I push it, then help store stuff when we get home
RNG good luck with sorting out the linkage, and the top seal.
prayers for all.

 

[lostcreekranch]

44°F this morning and it finally got up to 58° by late afternoon. Not nearly as damp cold as yesterday.

A neighbor came by first thing this morning to pick up the 8' fluorescent fixtures I took down and replaced with the LED fixtures, in my shop last month. He has hunting land in New Mexico, near Las Vegas NM, and a 40' container that he will installs the lights in. for recycling!

Ventured into town for a haircut, a few items from Walmart, and groceries from HEB.

Still haven't got around to installing the no drill mudflats on my truck yet. Maybe ...... tomorrow .... or Sunday .... or .....

Yesterday I hooked up my SSQA post / tree puller on our 55 HP tractor and went to my nearest neighbor's place and pulled old fence posts out of about 300 yards of an old fence line he's replacing. He had already pulled the wire fence material off the posts so the job went quickly. It's still so wet here that the post holes were half full of water within minutes.

I went back to our ranch, dropped the tree / post puller and hooked up the grapple. Went back and picked up all the old posts and dumped them on his burn pile.

Just under two hours start to finish.

Hope everyone has a great weekend.

Prayers to all.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

rain is about to start from system moving through, looks like some sleet for NW Maryland.

long day, fun having camera poked up my nose I swear until it came out my ear...weird looking at inside of head, but came
back ok, other than finding out I had a deviated septum which I didn't know, plus CT scan was clear.
He is still guessing, more tests ordered, but he thinks Meniere's disease, which at least is treatable.
Sure beats brain cancer...
Need to cut back on caffeine, now that will be very hard... Need to buy couple pounds of decaf tomorrow.

Not sure that's good news, Drew, but it could be worse.

I like coffee, but the caffeine undoes me. Peet's roasts a pretty good Columbian decaf if you can fine it. If not, lemme know and I'll send you some.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Yesterday I hooked up my SSQA post / tree puller on our 55 HP tractor and went to my nearest neighbor's place and pulled old fence posts out of about 300 yards of an old fence line he's replacing. He had already pulled the wire fence material off the posts so the job went quickly. It's still so wet here that the post holes were half full of water within minutes.

I went back to our ranch, dropped the tree / post puller and hooked up the grapple. Went back and picked up all the old posts and dumped them on his burn pile.

Just under two hours start to finish.

I hope your neighbor appreciates the torture his back was saved by you and your tractor. That two hours of seat time probably translated to two weeks of farm jack and spud bar, and lots of heavy lifting and dragging. He may have been healthier and stronger for it, but he certainly wouldn't have enjoyed it.:laughing:

 

[daugen]

43 going up to 61 in clouds this morning, then clearing.
Going to be a busy day with helper here, lots of work in garden.

First job is to put down 34-0-0 on the collards, which are growing nicely and hopefully will survive this week's
coming deep freeze. Rows are intentionally very wide, so i can pull a cart/drive the golf cart, between rows, so today
I'll simply pull a cart with bags of fertilizer in them and side dress the plants.

Sure would like to rig up something with a long
pipe on it so I could drag it along ground for concentrated application vs sprinkling fertilizer on top. A manual version of the fertilizer down pipe that the old Super A uses would be nice. I might fiddle with that flex pipe and see if I can adapt it. Not sure how plants will like
all that nitrogen dumped on top of them, wondering if it could burn them, so prefer to side dress, like I will/have done with the potatoes.
Collards like lots of nitrogen and they say to keep applying it every two weeks. Not doing that but maybe two applications. I don't want to overdo it because this field slopes nicely down to the main drainage ditch for the area, which leads right to the Pamlico River. We all know what fertilizer does to rivers and bays, not good.

Ron, I cut back on the amount of coffee used this morning, and yes, it tastes a little weak. But still ok.
Going to try to use less, and mix it half and half with decaf. I really need the caffeine to counteract my arthritis meds, lots of muscle relaxers and other neurological pain killers so honestly not sure how this will work out. But clearly I have to try.
I think I'm like many, get up, head for the coffee pot...
Cutting down on coffee will also cut down on sugar/Splenda used, which in itself is a good thing.

The good news is I have a close friend who owns a coffee business, and going to ask him to get some of that Peets decaf blend, thanks RNG.
The Food Lion decaf is pretty bad, plus I think the process likely messes up the flavor anyway. I think the water based decaf is supposed to be better for you vs chemically processed decaf. I'm sure if I bought decaf beans and roasted them like Wingsprd does, they would taste totally different, actually have some aroma, which I find decaf lacks.

Hope you all have a nice weekend. I see some snow on radar coming down in Eastern PA and Northward, the winter that doesn't stop for our friends in New England. And for sure the MidWest and even the West. The mountains in California (and Washington I think) have had amazing amounts of snow.