Good morning!!!!

[wngsprd]

9 going to 40. Looks like our snow forecast for tomorrow is now sleet.

Randy, great outhouse story.

Don, you could have the oak cut into boards and make into an outhouse...you already have the hole! or just let Rick drive his tractor over and pick it up...he volunteered.

Ed, hope wife and mom are doing better when they get up.

Costa Rican coffee sounds good.

RNG, once you get that VW-aru running you'll have to make a cross country trip and visit each of us so we can see it. If you come here first, and tow your BMW, I wash and wax it while you travel...don't forget to leave the keys.

E, sounds like a great plan on the carry all. I built a firewood carrying box on mine to bring rounds from the woods to the splitter...flip it off and then use it to lift and carry pallets that I put the split wood on...works great, but since the carry all is angle iron, it makes it tricky to slide into the openings of the pallets like forks would do.

Popcorn and pecan ice cream...how you feeling today, BEF??

 

[Buppies]

14 high of 37 today a snow to sleet to freezing rain to rain mess shows up tonight thru tomorrow hope I do not lose power

Prayers for Eds mom Buckeyefarmer Riptides and his wife Toppop and all other silent requests

Still have the crud I guess it likes me

 

[Buppies]

Toppop funny story enjoy that tractor perfect size

 

[daugen]

good morning all. Mighty cold here, says 16 on the thermometer. Although honestly I think Accurite is an oxymoron. This weather gauge isn't accurate at much of anything. Yeah, I know, I got what I paid for at a hundred bucks.

Attaboy Toppop! Back in the drivers's seat, and what a great tractor. My first tractor was an IH like that, about the next model up at 23hp, and a Mitsubishi diesel too. That engine was the smoothest diesel I ever owned, and is still going doing odd jobs at my church in PA. It was such a good tractor I honestly regretted giving it away. Mitsubishi makes great equipment and IH red is a fine color. Best of luck with it; am sure you will have fun.

I don't have to give Randy any lessons on painting, he's a motorhead too and will have that equipment humming.

Ok, out to turn on the propane heat in the rv and hope there's enough in those tanks to keep it warm until 9am when the buyers arrive.
No, no fresh baked bread, but a great idea. Actually the oven in the rv is new, never used...

Otherwise too cold to do anything today. Will be planting a few trays of zinnias and cornflowers to make my own planters, plus each inside corner of the new garden will be a flower garden plus sunflowers will be planted along the long sides. Flowers and veggies always do well together.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Wife and I are up most of the night, my middle little girl is sick with nausea and a low grade fever. Always seems to happen on weekend with no Dr coverage here in town. I guess I'll have to take her to a clinic in another town.

Need another hour of sleep.

 

[Buppies]

Kyle prayers for your daughter

 

[Buppies]

Drew hope your travel trailer sells today

 

[toppop52]

It was all fun til you realized it was going to wipe out an out house. Did you build the new one over the old smelly pit? P.U.



I have personally witnessed a vanagon fire. My buddy had a part time job at an Exxon station while in college. A man drives up with a vanagon loaded to the gills with mexican curios, even tied about 2 feet high on the roof too. Tells us he smells gasoline, and asks where can he get it repaired? We sent him 2 blocks south on the opposite side to a gas station with a "mechanic". A few minutes later (it was night) and we saw this huge fireball/mushroom cloud shooting out the engine compartment, catching all the curios on fire. I was even scared for the fireman who had to get close enough to try and put it out. I was hoping another huge fireball wouldn't shoot out. Another friend, a city cop came over to talk to me after they got out the fire and I told him we had told the guy that the place he took it was probably the only place in town that might work on it at night. He went back over and made the proprietor of the station take the guy to a hotel and told him to pay for it too.



Get one of those really long drills like electricians use to cut thru 2x4's in a house and drill baby drill. Then put some fuel on it and torch it, but make sure we aren't under burn ban....There's this retired VFD guy who lives in northern Lee county that will write you up!



That thing looks like new. Did Drew paint it up for you?

Prayers for Ed's mom, Rip's wifey, Bird's wifey, Randy, and Bef. And any other old coots that need it too.

Statler and waldorf (excellent) - YouTube

Of course not, we took the backhoe and dug a nice new pit! Used front loader to move the debris and filled the old hole with the dirt. Now that was a sloppy smelly job.

 

[daugen]

Here's some new weather info. Now we need to know all about a MJO...

The latest long-range runs of the GFS and European models and NOAA’s 3 – 4-week temperature forecast agree on a continuation of the cold in the north and warm in the south pattern during February. The latest 3-month forecast for February - April from Columbia University's International Research Institute for Climate and Society and from NOAA's Climate Prediction Center (CPC) show a similar pattern of cool in the north and warm in the south, but with warmer than average conditions spreading into the Northeast U.S. by March and April. Cold weather tends to shift westward across the northern U.S. as a La Niña winter progresses, so it wouldn’t be too surprising if the rest of the winter trended chillier in the Pacific Northwest and milder in the Northeast.
However, the long-range forecast for late February has more uncertainty than usual. A massive pulse of the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) is currently over the Western Pacific. It’s the largest such event in 40 years of recordkeeping for the western Pacific, according to NOAA. As this MJO pulse moves east through the Pacific, it may help drive a chain reaction of events, including severe cold over parts of eastern Canada, very mild air sweeping toward the North Pole, an unusually strong surface cyclone across the Arctic, and a split in the stratospheric polar vortex by mid-February. Computer models have been struggling more than usual in their longer-range forecasts for North America during recent days. In short, we can expect some big weather events over the next several weeks, but where and when they’ll unfold remains uncertain. “Perhaps this enormous tropical signal [the MJO] explains the angst-inducing and soul-crushing volatility of recent model runs,” tweeted Todd Crawford (The Weather Company) on Thursday.

soul crushing volatility? Someone likes to read their prose....

 

[toppop52]

Ed, I take prednisone daily at 5mg. When I have to increase the dose to 40 or so and taper off, I feel like Superman for a couple of days, well like I’m not 65 anyhow...