Good morning!!!!

[toppop52]

Forsythias will bloom any time it’s mild after a cold spell, they ain’t bright!

33° here apparently stayed above freezing all night, great! I need to take more outdoor cats to the shelter but the easy to catch ones are gone except for my favorites, that’s going to be tough taking them.
Mid 40’s today so the snow should get mostly gone.

 

[Ed of all trades]

Good morning all, 32 this morning going to 46 and mostly sunny. Chance of snow tuesday, wednesday night and friday. Took it easy yesterday, plan to go to the grocery and do a little Christmas shopping today. We will see.

Rip, Prayers for your bobcat, and for you.

Roy, thanks, that was beautiful, will share with wife.

David, I have somehow ended up with 13 routers so I just get the one that is set up for what I want to do but often just use a chisel. It is more fun and a lot quieter.

Have a great day, Ed

 

[riptides]

29 this AM. House is all quiet. Snow was nice, got a few pics yesterday. Sniff, went by the pet cemetery as we added yet another one a few weeks back, and this was her first snow. That dog loved snow. Black dog, with a white snow muzzle and I'd swear a happy face. Made me sad for a moment not seeing her. Anyway, enough, on the positive side, the wood stove is nice and hot. The bobcat is as comfortable as she is going to get. What a headstrong and high tolerance for pain that woman has. One of those I wish I could be as strong as you types. I am sure we all have run, roomed, or lived with people like that. When God was handing out pain management, she either took doubles, or I don't know what.

I plan on moving a few pieces of furniture around today and calling it a day. Then checking the lists and plans again. I also need to run out for meds. Darn insurance companies throwing all sorts of road blocks up for over 30 day supplies and out of state prescriptions. And the bills have started coming in. And we have not even had the operations yet. Just testing. Oh, another new thingy, they recommended I call the list of doctors to make sure they participate with our plan. Man, that went not very well. Even with all the ID numbers and information I barely got by the square one person. Seems I know more about the medical plans than the front-line medical plan administrators. OMG.

Have a great day all, be safe!

 

[Thomas]

27F now low 30's for high.
Less than half work today than off until 1/2/18 looking forward to this break. :dance1:

As Roy said about storm arriving tomorrow,this time plow will be on pickup.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[Thomas]

Riptides.
Memories..cherish those memories.

 

[ronjhall]

Coffee has finished brewing. 21° with cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 30° with snow. Nice relaxing day yesterday. Spent most of the watching movies. Wife's birthday today. Going to take her out to dinner. Still have a few boxes of Christmas stuff to take out to barn. Our electric allow me to see hourly use of electric and daily use of natural gas. Electric is up 260% and Gas is up 450%. Do you think that has anything to do with being gone 5 months a every winter or was it that warm last winter?
Eric, nice flowers.
Riptides, Our doctors are great so far. Med's are another story. Spent over 2 hours on phone Friday to find out why Humana cancel a couple of my wife prescription that were on order. Hardest part was getting to someone to talk to and explain what help I needed. The system is set up like there is never going to be a problem that a robot cannot solve. :thumbdown::confused3:
Good Morning All.

 

[Buppies]

33 high of 50 today before cold comes back. Big snow for you Thomas 12 inches I think

 

[Buppies]

Riptides more prayers sent

 

[Thomas]

33 high of 50 today before cold comes back. Big snow for you Thomas 12 inches I think

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Now I have to clean keyboard after reading your heads up.
Heard towards end of the storm mix bag of nasty.

 

[toppop52]

I stand corrected it’s down to 28° now. But 40’s later.

 

[Looking4new]

Happy Birthday, ronjhalls wife.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 40˚ heading to 70˚ typical Texas December day. Happy birthday Betty!
Found an 11' Christmas tree yesterday, marked it to hold. The pick your own lots around here have plenty of 1-2' trees and 12-15' trees. The normal size of 4-7- trees are missing because of the drought several years ago.

The tradition of the church is that the Christmas tree is put up (late) so that the first time the Children see the tree is Christmas eve. Back "in the day" I think this was so their local cedar Christmas trees would be less of a fire hazard. They even had boys with buckets of water around the tree in the church since they had no electricity and the lights were candles. However this year the youth have a tree decorating party and it will be up a week early. Little electric lights are use now - some traditions and not worth keeping.

If you remember the vintage big bulb Christmas lights then you can picture the lights around the outside of the pointed arched church windows. I'll have to find some fuses after replacing many bulbs on the strings of lights we put up yesterday. Hopefully I can get the other half of the lights working. This may be their last year before replacing them with LED lights. There is some nostalgia putting 50 year old lights on a 150 year old church who's graveyard is full of relatives.

 

[Bird]

39 here, going for 77 today, and I'm already on my 4th cup of coffee. Guess I'll go have a bite of breakfast.

 

[300UGUY]

Going for my 3rd cup in a minute. Then I gotta get motivated, helping my sister today. Too much drama, but she’s family����

 

[daugen]

Bird you must have an iron stomach if you can have four cups of coffee before eating.
My stomach starts gurgling after two.

Resolved the tire issue, I was amazed someone had jammed 12.4 inch wide tires on a tractor that came with 9 inch wide tires. I was not about to take any chances with clearances
so I compromised with an 11.2-24 tire, still four inches more width total than original. I'm not pulling a plow or using the three point on this old tractor so maxing the rear tire just isn't an issue here.

Still is mighty cold out there and I need to redo those very cold three point lower arms today. Maybe in another hour...
Actually I could go light off the burnpile, a fine idea on a cold day.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Good morning. 23 degrees currently, high of 55 expected. Just saw the extended moisture forecast.... Bleak at best... No foreseeable moisture until maybe 1st week of Jan. The snow pack in the mountains is at 0% of what it should be at this time of the year. It has been 67 days since the last bit of moisture we got. That was only 0.14 of an inch... Talk about being dry. The fires in So Cal are unbelievable... No end in site.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 53F @ 6:45AM. Sunny to partly cloudy. High 64F. Winds N at 5 to 10 mph.

:welcome: LS. We could use a paramedic around here!:laughing:

Pretty as a picture, Eric. Looks a lot like the Scotch Broom that blooms in early summer around here.

I don't think I have as much traction with the wide R4 tires on the Kubota as my neighbor has with the R1s on his Deere, Drew. More isn't always better, especially when it comes to tractor tires.

I have a feeling the fires in California will get us all hikes in our property insurance premiums next year. Insurance companies don't like paying for losses, and seem to take it out on their customers.:thumbdown:

Didn't get the positioning right on the GPS buttons I "fixed" last week, and when I put it back together two of the switches were permanently depressed. So yesterday I broke them out of the silicon seal, cleaned everything up, and tried again. This time I put it back together while the ackenpucky was still soft, so hopefully the buttons'll end up in the right place.

Also got two big gouges welded up on the aluminum engine cover on the old bike yesterday, and most of the extra metal ground down flush with the original surface. Still have a little touch up, then shot peining and bead blasting to go today.

Also need to call the darn satellite internet company again. It's been a week and a half and still no repairman has called to set up a visit. Have I complained how bad Hughesnet service is this week yet? Oh, I guess I just did.:smiley_aafz:

 

[CWB Wyo]

The mornings low over weekend have been in the low teens with the highs in the 50's. It's going to be sunny and back up in the 50's today.

I liked all snow pictures everyone had.

The grandsons made it up for the weekend. I spent the last few days entertaining them.

A neighbor up the road is giving some stuff away and called me to see if I wanted some of it. Going up this morning to see what he has.

Hope everyone has a nice day.
CWB.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Buppies, you ever eat at The Homeplace over in Catawba? Good stuff.

I'm feeling good this morning, and thinking about food, which is good. Wife took a job today, left me to fend for myself. If i only had pizza delivery..

 

[Ed of all trades]

Finished breakfast, got the trashcans back from the curb and raked a path through the snow in the back yard. It had started to melt and refroze so it was crusty. The plastic leaf rake did a great job. :laughing: Likely going to the bank and grocery later, and maybe some Christmas shopping. Am I having a senior moment or has PJ been missing for a while?

Betty, Happy birthday!!!!

Ed