Good morning!!!!

[riptides]

Incredible 62 degrees out this AM. With a huge moon peeking through the clouds showing me all those deer in the front pastures. Ahh... serenity and peace.

Hit 73 degrees yesterday, worked on the fence lines some more. Great day to be outside. More of the same today before the winter weather hits.

Have a great day all, be safe.

 

[wngsprd]

57 going to 74...hit 75 yesterday, but very windy.

Got a little painting done, may try for some caulking today...need to read the label to see how soon can it rain afterwards, since rain tonight.

David, those panels look great.

Randy, I've been seeing commercials for a big hot rod and custom car show at the state fairgrounds at Doswell this weekend. Might try to go since only about 12 miles away. Hope grandson gets well soon.

 

[MossflowerWoods]

Randy,

Prayers for grandson, blessings for Mom.
Now you be careful & good, trouble sometimes runs in threes...
Be well,
David

 

[Thomas]

29F now low 40's for high.
3" heavy wet snow pickup w/plow did good,but the tractor will get some run time this evening...scraping and plowing.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[daugen]

Thomas and Roy and others, have a safe drive in and home. Slow wins the race.

 

[ronjhall]

Coffee has been poured. 56° with mostly clear skies this morning. Heading to 75° with party cloudy skies. Another rest day on the patio.
Randy, best wishes for grandson and mom.
Good Morning All.

 

[Looking4new]

8 headed for a high of 10. The 10-15cm/4-5 inches amounted to 1". I need to go to town today, yesterday I busted the handle on my roof rake and the store doesn't have any replacement handles. The do have the whole rake so I will get one and have a spare.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning! 56F @ 6:15AM. Periods of rain. High 56F. Winds SSE at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 100%. 1 to 2 inches of rain expected.

David S. is being very generous with his rain. Huge plume arrived last night, another Hawaiian river of atmospheric moisture. Half an inch since midnight so far, and the biggest part is still to come. Another good day for inside jobs.

Hoping your grandson bounces back real soon, Randy!

Very mild temperatures yesterday so I got some garage time in and started on the headlight conversion for the van. So far the new headlight buckets don't fit as well as I'd hoped, so I have to decide to either modify them or send them back for something that'll fit better.

The third replacement video adapter for the new laptop arrived yesterday and seems to be working fine, but the first one was OK for a week or so before it flaked out. Number 2 didn't work at all right from the get go, but the manufacturer is sending another one. In a week I'll decide which one to keep and send the other two back. Amazon's 30 day guarantee makes dealing with things like this real easy.

Happy Hump Day, gang!

 

[Eric Salop]

A late Good Morning from me. No colourful sunrise this morning, only thick cloud that is refusing to let the temperature rise much above freezing. Not at all like Virginia or Texas.

Randy, hope your grandson gets better soon.

Yesterday I found contractors tipping stone onto the track and over the broken drain without repairing it. I had showed them the exposed drain the day before and they said they would repair it. That had me walking down the lane to their compound, where I had heated words in the site managers office. The first guy was about as ignorant and aggressive as they come, initially denying any damage had been caused, though he was at a loss to explain how it would be possible for dozens of trucks each carrying 20 ton of stone to pass over a clay tile without crushing it.

The second guy, who I have met before, seems a decent man. He agreed it was their problem and that they will fix it properly, but they can't stop the trucks for a day, so nothing will happen for at least 2 months until they have finished their work and are ready to leave site. I can see it from their side, however it would be foolish to rely on a verbal promise and with all the water, the track has deteriorated to the point where cars are regularly getting grounded, even though they keep adding and rolling in stone. I finally got hold of the railway surveyor this afternoon and he agreed to visit next week.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

With so much rain on the way and the reservoir so high, authorities were releasing a water at Oroville Dam yesterday. Flow rates at 55 KCFS, that's fifty-five thousand cubic feet per second! Things were going swimmingly until someone noticed that the water was shooting up into the air half way down the spillway. When they cut the flow they found this:



Looks like water undermined the concrete over on the right side and they didn't catch it in time to prevent the center from caving in during yesterday's high flow. They say they'll have it fixed in a week, and there's enough capacity left in the reservoir to prevent flooding during this week's rain, but I'll bet there are some people keeping their fingers crossed downstream of that dam!

 

[PJSprog]

32°F and cloudy this morning with some rain/snow mix falling on the Missouri side of the river, going up to 39° today. Some snow possible later today, too. Near 70° by the weekend, so it won't stay long.

Roof is covered on the sunroom now. They're taking the day off today because of expected snow. He called the Wife last night to let her know that the electrician and plumber will be there Friday.

 

[farmer2009]

43 this morning and headed to 53 today.

Half of birds are gone. Rest leave tonight. Have some equipment to move and then start cleaning up and getting ready for the next flock.

Wife and kids are home rest of the week. Schools are closed because of the flu. District wide attendance was at 71% yesterday when they called the rest of the week. We aren't the only county. Have had neighboring counties close over the last couple of weeks.

Toppop hope your grandson recovers quickly.

RLG I will check them out. Thanks.

Kyle. Some drivers just don't understand the challenges of hauling livestock. Until they loose the load. Takes a lot of manpower and time to clean up one of those wrecks. Usually loose most of the birds. It's been a couple of years since one was rolled around here. Landed on drivers side on top of guard rail. About cut his arm off. Just lucky he didn't land in front of guard rail as it looked like it went through windshield but was actually under truck. Companies don't tolerate turning over trucks here. Automatic job loss.

 

[toppop52]

Grandson seems to be improving on the new antibiotic, fever is gone, wife says that's what he should have had last week. Mom is doing well for almost 94, nobody believes she's that old, she worked every day in our upholstery shop until she was 90, carried one end of a sofa until she was 83 and had her first stroke. Hope I got some of those genes!

We get chicken truck wrecks here 3-4 times a year, but the Delmarva Peninsula is ground zero for chickens, Perdue, Tyson, and half a dozen others are either headquartered here or have major operations within 30 miles of Salisbury. My wife was the medical supervisor for Tyson Foods Mid Atlantic operations for a number of years, use to get all expenses paid trips to beautiful Northeast Arkansas once or twice a year.

Got to 66 yesterday, 60 now, 68 later, then cold for 2 days, then warming up.

 

[daugen]

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that dam picture is scary. Something either wasn't built right or maintained properly. Whoever signed off on the last visual inspection is going to be on the carpet for sure. They ought to reseal the whole thing.
Warm out, time to start the water cart project, and may work on that this afternoon. 10 percent TSC storewide coupon made me have a little fun. Told the store clerk who knows me that I was armed and dangerous. She laughed and said really? And I showed her my coupon and said I was armed with a coupon and dangerous.

Fedex called and said a semi would be here tomorrow to deliver my nut trees. Luckily on a pallet, because within 24 hours it's going to be 26 degrees here and I'm going to just leave them on the pallet in the barn for a little protection. They are dormant so some cold weather should not hurt them, unless they show up with buds on them. We shall see.

Think I'll work on the water cart and leave planting for another day. Though I did pick up two pineberry plants that look like fat white raspberries and allegedly taste like pineapple. They will go in my regular garden which will be electric fence protected. It's all out war this year, I have those beds looking like they were fenced for Alcatraz... I may even hook up the water hose gizmo that senses movement and starts hosing down the area. Last year the deer ate my blackberries down to sticks. And ruined my rose garden so many times the roses died. Not again unless they are in to electricity. I know, I should have a dog, but with no dog, it's deer off spray and lots of joules of energy.

 

[sodamo]

65°F and .11 inches rain last 24 hours. Storm not as bad as forecast but still a bit blustery, maybe enough to keep me off the roof.

Be safe
Have a great day

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

We have a high percentage of kids missing school here. My 6 year old boy missed a day, seemed to be getting better and now back down with fever. Antibiotics not working? Probably viral issue.

RNG, too bad they didn't see that issue during the years of drought. Hope they can patch that chug hole.

Today is another nice day here. Too bad I have to work.....

 

[RedNeckGeek]

RNG, too bad they didn't see that issue during the years of drought. Hope they can patch that chug hole.

Here's a nicer set of photos from the damaged spillway:

Oroville Dam | Spillway damage | A look at the break as assessed by the Department of Water Resources | The Sacramento Bee

We're due for a break in the weather over the weekend, so hopefully there's a plan in place for the repair soon enough to take advantage of it.

 

[PJSprog]

A coworker just walked by and asked if I'd looked outside recently. So, I walked down the hall and peeked out. Everything is now covered with a thin layer of ice and snow. That should make the drive home fun this evening. Temp has already dropped to 28°F. Going to get a tad chilly tonight.

Sure hope they check the integrity of the ground under the rest of that spillway, RNG. With that much water, there's surely been some serious washout under there. Looks like it will be fun getting in there to repair it as well.

 

[daugen]

small DC pump I got at TSC worked fine, now I need to secure everything and put the battery in a battery box,then
get an inline on/off switch. I found it very odd to find a big blob of white grease in the output side of the pump. I cleaned it out. ??
Cheesy suction hose that comes with pump kept floating on top of the water, I found a brick that made a good weight. Need to replace input side with larger ID hose.

 

[PJSprog]

... I found a brick that made a good weight.

So THAT's why they put those holes in bricks. :laughing: Nice bit of "repurposing" there, Drew.