Good morning!!!!

[ronjhall]

Drinking first cup of coffee. 30° with cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 45° with cloudy skies. Got shop projects done. Shop was warm enough to work with a jacket on. It not starter up gas heater. Need to put it on list. Have not used it for several years. Chipping last of the chip pile today. Then maybe a hair cut. Need one bad.
Tried to make a order with Zenni online. Needed a little help. 30 minute wait on phone. Never talked to anyone. Drove to Sams Club. Took a 1/2 hour to order 3 pairs of glasses. 20% off for Plus members. About $100 more than Zenni. But got to talk with someone. Maybe a good thing. Because I need the bifocal set low in lense. No option on Zenni for that.
Don, glad you are feeling better. Next Wednesday we go in for our annual Flu shots.
Buppies, hope the day goes better today.
Randy, get better soon.
Good Morning All.

 

[ronjhall]

Feel like going fishing and not baiting the hook so the fish won't bother me but don't have time or the weather. OK Rant over. Thanks for listening guys.

Is you workshop up and working yet?

 

[wngsprd]

Ed, you are a good man, coping with so much. Hang in there. Grab that mandolin and just make some sounds...so pretty even if not really playing music. I bought my wife a dulcimer years ago that we are still "planning" to learn to play.

 

[Diwali]

First coffee done. Cloudy day in Wales. She who must be obeyed wants to go shopping so that's my day planned. Maybe I'll get in some tractor time tomorrow.

 

[daugen]

Welcome Diwali. Will be nice to have a second person here who speaks proper English...
Have fun shopping. Don't forget to go past the tractor store too, fair's fair.

Another nice day here, my helper is coming today so that means a day of hard work. We have a dead tree to take down and a lot of tree trimming to do.

 

[daugen]

Just got a bit of a chill. My sister just emailed me to tell me her son bicycles over the Brooklyn Bridge each day going to work in Lower Manhattan.
Could have been him on that bike path. He stayed home yesterday for his daughter's Halloween festivities.

What ever happened to the Ten Commandments?
Sympathy and prayers for those hurt and the loved ones lost.

off to get some breakfast, avoid the speeders getting to school, and then back for my helper. Going to try to drop that dead pine tree without buying new parts
for my fence.

 

[ronjhall]

First coffee done. Cloudy day in Wales. She who must be obeyed wants to go shopping so that's my day planned. Maybe I'll get in some tractor time tomorrow.

:welcome:

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Tried to make a order with Zenni online. Needed a little help. 30 minute wait on phone. Never talked to anyone. Drove to Sams Club. Took a 1/2 hour to order 3 pairs of glasses. 20% off for Plus members. About $100 more than Zenni. But got to talk with someone. Maybe a good thing. Because I need the bifocal set low in lense. No option on Zenni for that.

Thanks for posting about Zenni, Ron. Always wondered how glasses could be fit and adjusted over the Internet. Maybe it's one of those ideas that sounds good on paper (or screen), then falls apart on implementation?:confused2: Been going to Costco for my glasses for a few years now, and so far, it's been working well and saving me big bux over Lenscrafters.

 

[ronjhall]

Thanks for posting about Zenni, Ron. Always wondered how glasses could be fit and adjusted over the Internet. Maybe it's one of those ideas that sounds good on paper (or screen), then falls apart on implementation?:confused2: Been going to Costco for my glasses for a few years now, and so far, it's been working well and saving me big bux over Lenscrafters.

I like Costco. But their scratch resistance does not seem to be as good as Walmart and Sams. Almost went to America's Best. But Sams Club is closer.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 50F @ 5:00AM. 0% Precip. / 0.00 in. Sunny. High 67F. Winds SW at 5 to 10 mph.

The schedule on the storm seems to be slipping, so we'll be able to enjoy another day or two of sunshine before winter arrives. Gutters are clean, wood and lumber piles are tarped, the wood stove is ready to go and there's firewood ready in the garage, but there's some caulking to do on the storage trailer still, and maybe another job for the bead blaster yet, so it's gonna be a busy day. Once the rain arrives Thursday night, it looks like it'll stay showery for the rest of next week.

The news people are reporting that work on Oroville Dam will be finished today, and the pictures I saw last night seem to indicate that is true. They've managed to pull the reservoir level down to thirty feet below where it started when last year's rain began, but that's forty-five feet higher than where it was in 2016 and this storm system is three weeks earlier than either of the last two years. I'm betting the folks running the dam are hoping they won't have to use that new spillway, but chances are better than ever that they will before it stops raining again next June.:confused2:

<RANT>Used to be an unwritten rule that Xmas stuff wasn't displayed in stores until Santa rode his sleigh in the Thanksgiving Day Macy's parade. Here we are on the first of November and the Xmas junk has already been on the shelves for weeks. Do people really buy Christmas decorations and presents that early, or are stores still trying to get rid of last year's inventory? Maybe if more people boycotted stores that break the "unwritten rule", the Holiday Season would go back to being something more than a crazy spending spree?</RANT> There ya go, folks, the first Bah Humbug of the season.:laughing::laughing::laughing:

Happy Hump Day, everyone...

 

[lostcreekranch]

I don’t wear glasses, had surgery about 15 years ago. But I do wear “readers” for reading and close work. I found readers.com a few months ago and am very satisfied. Their prices are reasonable and they regularly have 30-40% off. I’ve bought a few pairs of readers and several pairs of sunglasses with built in reader lenses.

Reading Glasses under $2 | Readers.com

 

[RedNeckGeek]

I like Costco. But their scratch resistance does not seem to be as good as Walmart and Sams.

Haven't had problems with the scratch resistance, but then I'm pretty careful to use only clean microfiber and real glasses cleaning solution on the lenses. Costco does guarantee scratch resistance though. Have you ever gotten scratched lenses replaced? I have, I think more than once. I do notice that the rainbow look of the anti-reflective coating wears off, but I'm not distracted by stray reflections in the lenses like I was before those coatings were available. Now if I could just keep the molten welding beads and grinder sparks at bay, I might be able to get more than a year or so out of a pair of lenses!:shocked::laughing:

 

[Bird]

Had our first frost a few days ago, and now tomorrow is forecast to be 63 to 91 for a low to high. I'm doing my Fall chores. One day in the last week, I used the Hoover Steam Vac on all the carpets in the house, another day I cleaned the outside of all the windows in the house. Another day I moved all the furniture from the deck into the shop, then cleaned the deck. So, if all goes according to plan, tomorrow I'll apply a fresh coat of Sherwin Williams SuperDeck (they used to call it Deckscape) to the deck and steps.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Welcome, Diwali! Well I remember back in '95, coming into Wales, fleeing the cold and rain of Scotland on an old Norton Commando. I'd enjoyed the TT races earlier that June, and had visited Lands End with the idea of making it all the way up to John o' Groats, thinking that summertime would be nice up there. That wasn't the case, and after three days of being waterlogged and frozen, I was hoping Wales would be a pleasant change. It was near noon, and the little BBBB road I was on had wound its way up and over a range of mountains, with more mist and sheep on the way than was comfortable. As I made my way back down and crossed over the border, the sun came out and shone down a beautiful white stone pub. I very much enjoyed the plowman's lunch and a pint of best bitter to wash it down. Never did get used to the names they gave things in Wales, though, since after the first couple dozen letters or so, they all seemed to blur together making navigation something of a challenge!:laughing:

 

[PJSprog]

37°F and light rain this morning, going up to 52° today. Weatherman says near 80° by Sunday.

Welcome to the thread, Diwali.

Pick up an instrument and start plucking, Ed. Music is a powerful magic that heals many things. I've long been telling people to learn to play a musical instrument. Once you learn, there's never a reason to be bored ever again. I currently play 14 instruments; guitar, bass, drums, piano, organ, violin, viola, cello, contrabass, trumpet, trombone, recorder, shakuhachi, and voice. Still trying to find a reasonable french horn for my next conquest.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I have a music room with baby grand, ovation acoustic guitar, two electric guitars, pump organ, homemade fiddle, trumpet. I can't play worth crap, but enjoy messing with them occasionally.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! Had .6" rain last night and THUNDER. Ms. Whipper gently tapped on the back door and she got to lay by the couch for a few hours. She barked for the fist time last night also since her wanderings. things are getting back to normal.

 

[MossflowerWoods]

Sorry that its been a month since I was here. New Laptop seems to almost have as many issues as the dead one had... Grrrr...

Very frustrated with non-responsive building contractors. Clearly they don't need any business so once again we are starting with a fresh round of builders to get quotes and find a way to build our new home.

Need to get the chainsaw and splitter running we will clearly be spending another winter in the current house.

I hope and Pray all are well here.

David

 

[PJSprog]

I have a music room with baby grand, ovation acoustic guitar, two electric guitars, pump organ, homemade fiddle, trumpet. I can't play worth crap, but enjoy messing with them occasionally.

Nice. I used to work for an organ builder, and had a small 2-manual pipe organ in my house before I got married. No room in the Wife's house, so I had to put it in storage when we got married. Sold it a couple of years ago. An organ builder I know in Virginia was trying to sell me a pump organ just last week. Wish I had room for another one, even if it's a pump. It's awesome having a pipe organ in your home.

My old organ, Wicks Opus 1384 ("Sonatina" model)

 

[Bird]

I guess everyone survived the spooks and goblins last night. I think we have fewer and fewer trick or treaters each year. Of course yesterday we had rain in the forecast for the evening, and we got about .03" but it was all over and gone before 5 p.m. That may (or may not) have had anything to do with us only having a dozen trick or treat kids last night. Sure have a surplus of candy left now.