Good morning!!!!

[Buppies]

44 out this AM. Need to move some furniture out and start shutting down the farm house again this week. Hope all have a great day. Be careful in what you do.

Prayers for you and family

 

[Eric Salop]

About as dull as it gets this morning. Each time I attempt to stretch my time outside with artificial lighting, I usually regret the results. Filling up from my diesel tank in the dark I missing hearing the change in gurgle as it approaches full and didn't see it in time to preventing is spurting out, giving me and tractor an unexpected coat of winter rustproofing.

The young man I found to put the new fence in for me says he will be delivering the creosoted posts this afternoon. I gave him a big advance to cover all the materials a few weeks ago. In business terms that was a bit of a risk, however after seeing how helpful he was to others on another forum a couple of years ago and then meeting him when he came to have a look around, I think my faith in him has a good chance of not being broken.

God morning, went to a Christmas party Saturday night and won the Ugly Christmas Sweater (T-shirt) contest.:thumbsup:
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Gary, you know the the usual rule on TBN about it didn't happen without a picture ? Well some good news - next time you enter a contest, Muhammed says he's willing to make an exception

 

[Looking4new]

Good Morning, all.

Temp 44 and going to a high of 46F. Wind SSE 14 gusting to 22 mph. It is pissing it down rain. The pounding rain on my tin roof woke me up. Forecast is for more rain/snow for all week. Today will be the warmest day of the week.

I did some research on a new backhoe for the Kioti and I have pretty much settled on the one that Kioti markets for their tractors. I don't know what model yet. Kioti only sells 4 for all of their tractors. $9,600.oo all in, installed and sales taxed. I will do that in the spring, right after income tax comes back. I called DLL (the people I financed the Kioti through) and they told me that they would be tickled pink to finance the rest IF I put 5 g's down, which is the game plan.
The mileage one way is 168 kms or about 103 miles and the float service will charge me $40.oo to load plus $3.oo/mile. I don't know if that is for the return trip or just one way. I am going to assume it is for the return trip. Probably cost me about $700.oo each way. I will see what the dealer will charge me to do the same thing.

Have a good day, all.

 

[Bird]

NWS says the current temperature (5 a.m.) is 52 degrees, which is the LOW for last night, and they also show 52 degrees to be the expected HIGH for today. And they show that the Denton airport got .22" of rain before midnight. I just found about .09" in my gauge. Oh well, it's better'n nothin' I guess.

 

[ronjhall]

Need to pour first cup of coffee. 53° with light rain and wind. Heading to 34° with rain and wind as the cold front moves in. Comcast is completely down in my area. Using my iPhone.
Good Morning All.

 

[Ed of all trades]

Good morning all, 43 going to 62 and 100% chance of rain. Crazy day yesterday, slept late and then made 2 different trips to town for a bunch of little things. Dr stopped by for mom, said she is in good shape for the shape she is in. Read a few posts yesterday but no time to read through and post. Not sure what I will get into today, time will tell.

Drew, Randy, Glad to see you two had fun. :thumbsup:

Buppies, Parkway is always nice, haven't been that far south. Praying you continue to feel better.

Don, Here that is about a weeks worth of wood, maybe less.

Buckeye, Praying you will feel better and be able to sleep better.

Have a great day. Ed

 

[Thomas]

Balmy 37F mid 40's for high.
Nasty storm w/mix bag arriving late afternoon could be interesting to say the least,than BIG chill down...that should thick'n the ice.

Off to grind soon.

Enjoy day all.

 

[wngsprd]

41 and some light fog going to 64, rain tonight. Forecast shows a chance of snow Friday night.

Don, nice firewood stack. That's my job for this morning.

Went to meet with the county assessor yesterday on the reassessment of the farm where the solar farm is installed. They are going up next year from $2K value per acre of farm land to $3K, but to $11K per acre where solar is installed. I guess growing sunlight is much more valuable than growing crops. At least the forest and swamp are only $1K and $500 respectively. Everything but the solar is in a land use program that lowers the taxes for forest and farms.
I pointed out a couple of discrepancies on their paperwork, but didn't get a good sense of them being on top of things. At least the lessee of the solar acres will be paying the increased taxes. I talked with them, and they are meeting with the assessors, too...since they are leasing over 1,200 acres across about a dozen farms, they have a lot at stake. Speaking of stake, it makes me feel like grilling a steak outside this evening, if I can beat the rain.

Hope you are on the mend, BEF and Buppies. I'm still trying to recover from the terrible shock I received when looking at that sweater photo.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! I'm the hot spot this morning at 69˚ but that is the high as the cold front is at my front door. The front is heading your way Kyle should be at your place by 6AM and then on to Weimar.

L4N speaking of backhoe I need to put mine on and remove a huge stump. A Grapple/BH photo opportunity indeed.

 

[toppop52]

For the sake of openness, Drew and I first met years ago at a car show in Snow Hill.
Prayers for all who need them, that’s all of us I think!
Mid 60’s today light snow by weekend.