Good morning!!!!

[buckeyefarmer]

Mostly, we stayed right next to Polynesian center, walked there to eat. Drove thru Hauula several times. Did not eat shrimp. Did like the Korean BBQ.
They were having pro surfing around sunset beach, road on that side very slow traffic.
My Army buddy (used to live here) met us at kahuku one night for dinner at seven brothers.

 

[ronjhall]

Poured first cup of coffee. 26° with cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 36 with a little of everything. Sun, Clouds, Snow and no warmth. Sassy does not look like a Rag Mop any more. Back to being a little Cutie. Grocery shopping today. Weather Guesser claim it will snow tomorrow. No need to get car dirty.

Mostly, my RV friend has been in Maine for a few years taking care of his mother. She died this summer. Stayed one more winter finishing cleaning up her estate. Plans to be someplace warm next winter.

Everyone have a Happy Valentine Day.

Good Morning All.

 

[NHBX]

Good morning,
26° now high around 30° and sunny today. Winds NW 20-25 mph, with gusts 40+ mph.

Yesterday’s snowstorm was a huge bust, got a minor dusting that was gone by early morning. Ran some errands and picked up a grocery order then just chilled.

Not sure about today, the yard is a muddy mess and too windy to play outside.

Enjoy your day everyone
Stay safe and healthy

 

[KilroyJC]

Good Morning!

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

From dust, to dust.

Mrs took another day off yesterday, probably will again today, still dealing with her good old-fashioned winter cold. Lots of soup, sofa time, and tea with honey

Uneventful day at work, but not at the new facility in Virginia — apparently there was a fistfight between a new hire and a line supervisor! Seems like the new office is not working out as well as intended. . .

Happy Saint Valentine’s Day! Be careful around garages in Chicago….

yesterday morning the higher elevations had snow, and the schools on the other side of the AT were closed - here is a pic from my commute yesterday, the snow on our side finally melted around 2PM:

The views on my commutes the last decade are vastly improved from my previous decade of the NJ Turnpike exits 15E to 7A or US 1/1&9…

i hope3 wry one has a happy healthy safe blessed day!!!!

 

[KilroyJC]

37° at 1 pm.
Slept in till 10. But was up last night till about 3am. Need to adjust back.
3” snow but a lot melted now now, driveway now clear. Started with 1.25” rain last night.
My health ins co sent about a dozen benefit statements while I was gone. Each lab test, each prescription, etc was 3 pages in a separate envelope. They used to mail them quarterly and all combined in 1 mailing.
Going thru bills today
Got couple more tax documents.
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You go from the Seven Day Calendar (M T W Th F S Su) to the Three Day Calendar (Yesterday-Today-Tomorrow).

 

[daugen]

good morning all
32 out now going only up to 37 in bright sunshine
extra propane tank never showed from Amazon, now they say tomorrow.
so...guess I'll take the tank off the heater I have in the garage and use that one.
actually worried I ran out of gas last night, so headed out shortly. At least I can open a little view
window and feel if there's heat in there. If not, still have a little left in another bottle.
Don't like to let my propane supply get too low, it's what runs the generator.

Dennis, looks like you had a wonderful time in Hawaii.
I'd love to go back but not flying makes that very challenging.

NJ Turnpike exits 15E to 7A or US 1/1&9
bad air, bad traffic, nothing nice to look at

 

[Buppies]

35 this morning high in low 50s

very little sleep last night

Prayers for all our Country

 

[riptides]

36 outside this AM, heading towards mid 40's.

What a weather event yesterday. We had all the forms of precipitation that came down. It moved on rather quickly too. It would be nice if it could dry up as the grounds are mud most everywhere.

Hope all have a great day today. Be safe.

 

[wngsprd]

27 and starry, going to 51. Happy Valentine's Day to the wives/girlfriends!

Glad I fired up the woodstove again.

Hey Scootr, tell your Dad Happy Birthday from Virginia!

Buppies, sorry about the bad night's sleep.

Muddy here, too. Only got rain, and then sunny wind yesterday.

Did a trip into town...surprised gas had jumped 40 cents since last fillup. Got a test hike on my ankle and dump run, too, on the way. Grabbed a bite to eat since my wife was staying with her mom last night.

 

[wngsprd]

The little yellow crocus has a new, 4th bloom.

The daffodils are also up, about 6", but not blooming...although I saw some blooming on the way to town.

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, the low is 6, high 18°F. Wind W 7 mph. 30% chance of flurries.
Between yesterday and last evening we got about 3", so far.
We are supposed to get freezing rain tonight and tomorrow. I will leave the snow until after the freezing rain is done.

Not much going on today, so I think I will 'medicate' my knee.

Have a safe day all

 

[daugen]

one of the interesting consequences of the war in the Ukraine is the theater
going on with the superyachts of the Russian oligarchs. They have been impounded, they have raced out in the middle
of the night (Putin's yacht) to safe ports, they are tracked obsessively by lots of folks all over the world.
They turn off their AIS transponders frequently to not be tracked.
probably the best YT channel who stays on top of this is this guy, who I have watched for several years.
his videos of ships in the world's fanciest harbors like Monaco are fun to watch.
but you likely need to be into boats.

I think several of these huge yachts (300-450 feet long) have been impounded, several up for sale.
Some just go from foreign port to foreign port. I like the fact Putin's yacht has a drone jammer.
have to wonder what that does to the captain's bridge instruments...

old Amish saying of when you lay with dogs you get fleas
these oligarchs all have a lot of fleas on them
they would say this is our system, have to play the game
it always gets back to greed.
Anyone who has a 450 foot yacht is all about ego.

just like the alpha silverback gorilla pounding on his chest

I always liked the mafia approach. Be very quiet, speak softly, carry a big stick/persuader.
Except for Gotti, few liked the limelight. Russian oligarchs really like their flashy things.
of course look at our US tech billionaires; some of them have multiple huge yachts.
as a boater, who like most has had twofootitis, going larger is usually a good thing.

146 trillion dollars a year of world gnp; lot of opportunity for folks to get very wealthy

I guess if they sign up for this, they should have whatever size boat they want...
note the countries involved, or not

The Giving Pledge - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Thomas]

14F clearing sky low 20's for high,winds gusting 30 mph plus from the north into early evening.

Outside chores done E muffin time.
Plans for today... 2 stops in town,least 4 wheelbarrow loads wood in basement,maybe cut up some kindling if not too windy.

Enjoy your day all.

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning.
It’s 30° with clear skies and a good breeze making it feel quite cold.
It’s not forecast to get above 35, so it will be a cold one.

Yesterday I puttered around in the shop until the snow stopped, and then it was into the tractor to push snow. It was about 8” of heavy wet snow. It wanted to push the tractor sideways when the blade was fully angled. Admittedly it’s an 8 foot blade on a 60hp compact tractor, so it’s at, or possibly past the suggested limit.
But it all got done, even a few neighbors as well.

After getting that taken care of, it was lunch time, after that it was back to the mower, fitting stainless patches to repair rusted areas.

This is what it looked like-

And with a patch fitted-

I used the latest CAD technology to cut out the patch.

Cardboard Aided Design.

Today will start with breakfast with the professor before getting back to the mower. I’ve got two more patches to cut out, and then change the wire in the MIG welder to 309L stainless and get it all welded up.
I’ll probably have to enlist an assistant to get the gearbox and spindles mounted, they are heavy, and I can’t reach both sides to get the nuts on the bolts. I was able to disassemble it my self by tacking the nuts on, and breaking them off later.

 

[scott_vt]

Good Morning Guys,
Ct, 20 to start going to 32 ! We got about 9 or 10” of snow yesterday! The wet heavy stuff ! Bright and sunny out there but pretty cool ! Kathleen wants me to grill steaks tonite, so I need to clear part of the deck to get to the grill !

Scootr, happy birthday to your dad ! Got some serious longevity there ! My Pop made it to just shy of 94 and they were married 71 years ! So a pretty good run !

When I came home last Friday after working my one day, Kathleen tells me she can’t change the channels on the TV ! So I Googled Dish support and called the number that came up ! In actuality I was connected to a third party firm that tries to recruit new customers into a contract for Direct TV and AT&T ! I didn’t realize I wasn’t talking to a DISH representative!! So to make a long story short, we were on the path to getting scammed ! It ended up all I needed to do were to replace the batteries in the remote ! We have since signed up for Life Lock ! When I finally did get a DISH representative on the phone, he told me that this outfit was putting their phone number into Google under DISH ! We have had Direct TV and didnt like it ! We ended up putting a fraud alert on our CC ! I’m sorry I fell for this whole thing ! So beware !

Hope all have a great day !

 

[scott_vt]

Good Morning PopG,
Nice job on the deck repair ! I like the state of art CAD repair on the irregular patch plates !

 

[daugen]

what was nice about yesterday's snow here was that the ground was still warm from prior days, and by yesterday afternoon, my
gravel driveway, like Popgadget's, was totally clear
I just have to be careful of ice spots on way back to greenhouse.

not so wonderful in there this morning, setting one not enough, zinnias near one side unhappy from cold, 43 in one spot, 50 in another.
I cranked up the heater to setting two, that should solve that

no plans for today

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 37˚, South wind heading to the mid 60s, clear, becoming cloudy.

Celebrating our 53rd Valentine's Day.

 

[m7040]

good morning
colder but snow is gone, 29 going to 40
No rain and some sun may even return later

Worked on the pond overflow to channel it across the driveway and then out through a gap in the oak board fence. Kept scraping with the 36 inch bucket on the excavator and the since the water was flowing heavy it was easy to channel it in the right direction and get immediate results. Also scraped off the grass curbs inside the fence next to the pavement to help direct the flow off the pavement. Wanted to send neighbor a text with pictures but he had blocked it.
Made a mess for sure and but used the V plow on the RTV to at least scrape it off the pavement.

 

[plowhog]

We had bottom freezer replaced it with side by side I was afraid as we get older one of us would fall in head first

I will never walk past our chest freezer again without thinking of you! Hope you are feeling better Buppies .....

32F headed to 51F in Beautiful Northern Nevada.

After the storm passes, we will make a sad trip to CA. A little over a month ago, our beloved Golden Retriever passed. He was only 8 1/2 years old. My wife and I still grieve his loss.

We last saw his brother when both were 7 weeks old. My wife got to decide which puppy to choose. For years we had wanted to reunite the "brothers," but now it is not possible. So instead we are going to visit his full grown brother without being able to bring our own dog.

Here is a visitor my trail cam caught in a rural part of our property ...