Good morning!!!!

[lostcreekranch]

Here’s a little known video of txdon laying his driveway.

This Is How You Lay Bricks || ViralHog - YouTube

 

[Looking4new]

My Dad didn't serve overseas. He was a 'gun plumber' in the R.C.A.F,. stationed at Baggottville, Quebec.

My Uncle ( Dads brother) tried to get into the air force, but they wouldn't take him because he was honest and told them he'd had scarlet fever. The next day he went to the Army recruiter and lied. He was in the tank corps and in Europe somewhere. He never talked about the war. He is dead now and that just makes it harder to track down his whereabouts while in the war.

Mum worked for DeHaviland aircraft in Toronto, Ontario. She was a riveter.

I know a couple of women that worked for Dominion Industries, later to become CIL industries, in Ajax, Ontario. They made ammo.

 

[jbrumberg]

^^^^^^ Everyone did their part..... Everyone sacrificed. Each in his/her own way helped win the War.

My Father memorized the eye chart to enlist successfully. He was not alone.

As I understand the usual European tank encounters, it was usually a 3:1 loss:kill ratio when Allied tanks met German. In close and crowded with the German long guns encumbered by obstacles the Sherman tanks were superior. The Allies still usually needed due to German armor, a rear shot or bounced round underneath. It was also volatile gas vs German diesel. It did not help to have those nice pretty white stars on the front of our Sherman tanks (in the beginning).

We won War II despite ourselves...... And look at which countries now are some of our best Allies.

 

[Einthewoods]

I'm glad I cleaned up that two inches of snow in the drive today as it is looking like Friday it will be 39f out. That would have ruined all my fun of using the tractor.

Proves that whole put off today what you can do tomorrow thing as rubbish!

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. Don pushed you down 1 more on the list as it was 12F for the start here, wonder why Bird was so cold. Some clouds and light wind. High temp was 41F, wind stayed light and sky cleared off.
WBS duty today, Men's meeting this morning, then go pick up two free ink cartridges for printer, and coordinate felling a tree for firewood.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Still cold as a polar bear's nose here to me...

Took off yesterday due to icy conditions.

Don, I noticed more ice on the roads here in Giddings than in Lincoln, and as I headed towards Dime Box, the ice just disappeared all the way to College Station.

Grandfather was in the 4th Infantry Division. IIRC, he was assigned to the Patton group that "rescued/relieved" the Bulge guys. His vehicle road over a mine and he got shrapnel to his legs. They patched him up and kept going.

 

[check]

Still cold as a polar bear's nose here to me... Took off yesterday due to icy conditions. Don, I noticed more ice on the roads here in Giddings than in Lincoln, and as I headed towards Dime Box, the ice just disappeared all the way to College Station. Grandfather was in the 4th Infantry Division. IIRC, he was assigned to the Patton group that "rescued/relieved" the Bulge guys. His vehicle road over a mine and he got shrapnel to his legs. They patched him up and kept going.

Hey, that happened to my Dad in a Jeep! Jeep went one way, he went the other. Landed on his feet, running. Stopped pretty quick once he calmed down a bit and realized he was in a mine field. LOL - not a scratch on him!

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Still cold as a polar bear's nose here to me...

Took off yesterday due to icy conditions.

Don, I noticed more ice on the roads here in Giddings than in Lincoln, and as I headed towards Dime Box, the ice just disappeared all the way to College Station.

Grandfather was in the 4th Infantry Division. IIRC, he was assigned to the Patton group that "rescued/relieved" the Bulge guys. His vehicle road over a mine and he got shrapnel to his legs. They patched him up and kept going.

Dad saw patton once. Said patton took all their fuel for his tanks. Lol

 

[Jim Shooz]

What a morning……

8:00 I made a snowman.

8:10 A feminist passed by and asked me why I didn’t make a snow woman.

8:15 So, I made a snow woman.

8:17 The nanny of the neighbors complained about the snow woman's voluptuous chest.

8:20 The gay couple living nearby grumbled that it could have been two snowmen instead.

8:25 The vegans at No. 12 complained about the carrot nose, as veggies are food and not to decorate snow figures with.

8:28 I am being called a racist because the snow couple is white.

8:31 The Muslim gent across the road wants the snow woman to wear a headscarf.

8:40 Someone calls the cops who show up to see what’s going on.

8:42 I am told that the broomstick of the snowman needs to be removed because it could be used as a deadly weapon. Things get worse after I mutter : "Yeah, if it's up your a***"

8:52 My phone is seized and thoroughly checked while I am being blindfolded and flown to the police station in a helicopter.

9:00 I'm on the news as a suspected terrorist bent on stirring up trouble during this difficult weather.

9:10 I am asked if I have any accomplices.

9:29 A little known jihadist group has claimed it was their plot.

Moral: When it's this cold, stay inside.

 

[RoyJackson]

2018-01-18, 0256

5 degrees right now...high in the upper 20's today.

Cleaned up the drive, walks and cul-de-sac last night after yesterday's snow. Wasn't that much snow (3-4 inches locally, more south (I work 50 miles south)), but boy! was it slick! Going to work wasn't too bad since when I drive south, there's not much traffic. Coming home...although not real heavy traffic, I counted 5 vehicles off the road including a pickup truck on it's roof.

 

[mpham]

We have 10 above this morning. Looks like we got 6-7 inches of wet snow. Used the tractor once ,used a shovel for final cleanup. Temps were nice all day @33,34.

 

[Eric Salop]

Good morning all. Strangely calm here this morning after last night gales that had my wife resorting to ear plugs before she could finally get back to sleep. Lots of things scattered around but fortunately no obvious damage and I was really pleased to see the new greenhouse survived intact. I was lucky no glass was broken as I had stupidly left several off-cuts of galvanised sheet leaned against a wall. Only casualty was a tub of sheep nuts that had been upturned and soaked, though the ewes certainly didn't complain at this unexpected breakfast treat.

 

[wngsprd]

10 heading to 42. Only got 2 inches of snow yesterday, but pretty, and already did some animal tracking.

Eric, why do you cut off the sheep nuts?

Rick, how did you find such an odd video? Don sure looks good for his age .

My dad and his twin brother volunteered into the Army as soon as they were old enough and went to Japan at the end of the war. They had rules about treating them right, and I'm glad we are friends with the Japanese now. The GI Bill helped put them both through college when they returned.

Roasted some dynamite coffee yesterday. Enjoying it now.

Einthewoods, still need those tractor pix.

 

[Thomas]

8F clear upper 20" for high.
Started clean snow from paths roofs driveway little after 5pm before I knew it was 8:30 pm,it was quite and warm felt good to be outside putter....just little 5" of fluffy snow.

After work plan on little puttering in the basement.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[Ed of all trades]

Good morning all, 10 going to 42 this morning. Ended up with about 1 1/2 in of snow. Plowed the drive with the snow blower, would kick on the blower every now and then. hope to make it to the shop today, we will see. Dad very proudly showed me a paper framed from the goverment saying that he was needed to stay on the farm and produce all of the food he could. He was by then the only one to help Papa run the farm as his brother had died when young. Dad showed me that with great pride, wonder what happened to it.

Drew, I grew up on an A and when I started driving cars wondered why they did not put the shifter on the left, to me it just worked easier. :laughing: then I figured it would make it hard to get in and out of the door. The funny things you remember. Thanks for the pics.

Rip, still praying for you, wife and car.

Randy, Buckeye, others, still praying for you too. Ed

 

[daugen]

21 going up to 41 today, snow has moved out, looks like an inch or two, going offshore so should be done.
Planted another tray of onions yesterday, as these are growing just fine.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! it was 19˚ when I woke up now it's 25˚. My WBS must be heating up the outside because the sun is not up.
Rick, my back hurts just looking at that video.

 

[Looking4new]

21 going to a high of 27. Wind WSW 9mph. 30% chance of flurries.


Dad was a city boy born and raised. Summer weekends he would spend on the farm (his Dad gave up any rights to the farm when he went to University to study pharmacology)[become a druggist], summer days he delivered prescriptions for the drugstore his Dad owned.
Fast forward to 1942 he enlisted (volunteered), was sent to Baggotville, Quebec after basic training. Out for a walk in the northern Quebec bush one day with his Sargent buddy and came across a cute black puppy. Well, it turned out that the black 'puppy' wasn't a puppy at all and Momma bear took exception to Dad messing with her cub. Up a tree he got chased and his Sgt. buddy scared the bear off with his Thompson.

The dump run didn't happen yesterday. It WILL happen today as I need to get some grub in and some fresh greens as well.

Have a safe day all,

 

[ronjhall]

Drinking first cup of coffee. 11° with partly cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 31° with mostly sunny skies. Got yesterday's projects completed without to much cussing. Maybe I should start calling a plumber for these jobs up under a vanity. High on my list today is a haircut.
My dad was in the Merchant Marines during WWI. When he went to enlist for service during WWII he was heckled by the young men. Calling him Grandpa. He just smiled. They did not take him because of a work injury and age. He was working at Briggs Manufacturing at the time. They were making military equipment for the war. He was a engineer at Warren Tank Plant when he retired in 1964. He talked very little about his experiences during WWI.
Ed, a Farmall A is how got my first tractor experience.
Our prayers and well wishes are paying off. Glad of that.
Good Morning All.

 

[ronjhall]

Rick, my back hurts just looking at that video.

My same thoughts. I cannot bend over very long like that guy. But I realized from that video you did not have everything prepared as well as that guy. You should have had them stacks of bricks all laid out ahead of time.