Good morning!!!!

[toppop52]

LS, take care of the knee, as you know the first 24 hours usually hurt the worst. If you get through that without opioids or Tramadol or any of that nasty stuff, you can usually get by and your respiratory system and brain function will thank you. I’m not belittling your injury, but trying to put the best face on avoiding the drugs, prayers for you my friend.

 

[toppop52]

Prayers for you guys, we all need them.
Down to 31 from yesterday’s 60s, 40s and rain later before warming up tomorrow.

I got the tail lights working on the IH yesterday, haven’t tackled the turn signals yet. The work light doesn’t work, looks like brand new and has 12v, guess I gotta open it up and see the bad bulb inside.

 

[mpham]

18 this morning going to the 30’s. Looks like 3-5 inches of snow possible. Sure hope the ground freezes back up. LS-hope your knee gets better. I know to well how that feels. Have had 5 knee surgeries with one partial replacement. Prayers for everyone else.

 

[daugen]

slept until 5:30am, something of a record for me. First cup of coffee going down, and so has the thermometer, down to 45, with high of 51 today, 61 tomorrow. This must be the cold weather the Texans have sent us.

My fireman neighbor fired up his z turn yesterday, must be the mowing itch in the air. I admit I ran my JD deck for a little bit, mostly flinging dingle balls (gum tree balls) back into the tree line along with the pull behind leaf blower. I really hate gum trees, had one in my rear lawn at last house, and my wife was not dead one week before I had cut that thing down. She was sentimentally attached to that tree, I sure wasn't. My sentiment was to say Yippee when it came down. Green balls, brown balls, spikey balls, miserable tree that drops on you all year long. Only thing worse I've seen are horse chestnut balls. Now those spikes will go through your skin.

I have so many things I could do today I don't know where to start. Really should spend time fixing the garden plastic fence, patching all the holes so my very limited security prison has a security upgrade. Rain is on and off today so will see what happens. If rained out, I have about 100 pepper plants to pot.

Major disaster last night. One of those sit there in shock and think to yourself I can't believe I did that.
Hooked the chair roller on an electric cord for the seedling tray heaters, and I heard, but did not see, an entire tray of 32 just seeded tomato plants fall off a shelf, flip upside down from three feet up, and land upside down on the, thankfully, plastic covered floor. All that work, everything came out and all got mixed together. Huge mess, water everywhere. Oh well. Two kinds of tomatoes, now I have no idea what is marked what. So I just started over, reseeded the little pots, and now I'll have a bunch of pots with two different kinds of tomatoes in them. Mutts...

Three other trays totaling about 110 tomato plants. Will likely be more when all the transplanting is done. That's a whole lot of tomato sauce, Mr Heinz called me last night for a progress report! This weekend I need to do the peppers, should be over a hundred of them also. Mostly sweet but a few mild hots. Poblanos for the local Hispanic market. Thankfully the Food Bank office is fifteen minutes away, he said with cautious optimism.

Lots of freebie veggies here, just come visit. And be put to work....

have a great weekend, hope colds and flu are going away.

 

[ronjhall]

This weekend I need to do the peppers, should be over a hundred of them also. Mostly sweet but a few mild hots. Poblanos for the local Hispanic market. Thankfully the Food Bank office is fifteen minutes away, he said with cautious optimism.

Lots of freebie veggies here, just come visit. And be put to work....

have a great weekend, hope colds and flu are going away.

I guess I missed starting peppers early. That another one we did.
I did not get started making a garden last fall. May do it this spring. But I will be purchasing the tomato plants and like from the local vegetable market.

 

[Bird]

Bird, weren't you talking about Sears and Roebuck a while back?

How about ordering a tractor from them for $495? Here's a 1938 Economy Model A. The museum also has a tractor from Montgomery Ward.

Yep, you used to be able to get just about anything you needed on the farm from Sears Roebuck and Montgomery Ward. Not only mechanical equipment like tractors and motorcycles, but even some live critters, such as baby chicks and honey bees.

And you've certainly posted lots of nice pictures. I'm sure we all enjoyed them.:thumbsup:

 

[RoyJackson]

2018-02-17, 0627

10 degrees right now...high in the mid 30's.
Definitely a dump run this morning...after that, we'll see how it goes...

 

[Buppies]

36 and falling into low 30s freezing rain most of the day ypnto 1/4in yuck

Prayers for all those who need them

 

[Looking4new]

-4 going to a high of 23. Wind SE 8 mph. Partly sunny with a 40% chance of flurries.

I prefer to buy my goodies at a local brick and mortar store, but when I called up the store and told them what I wanted, a either 12V or 110V pump for pumping diesel with 3/4" inlet and outlet, they emailed me a picture of a 110V water pump with 3/8" fittings. Now I wonder what part of the conversation they missed? Was it the diesel or the 3/4" fittings or both. And to top it off they wanted $120.oo + tax for it!
I got exactly what I specified off amazon for $94.oo tax and shipping included.

Right after I got the tractor in 2012 I had Northern Ontario engineered a pump off my HHO tank for filling the tractor. The trouble is that the hose I used is too stiff to use in the winter and a p.i.t.a. to use in summer. All connected to a rotary barrel pump. So it takes two to fill the tractor or one to make a mess. That is why the electric pump and the proper hose and pump handle.

With the price of fuel going up the way it is I figure I have another two years and I will be coming home with about a gallon of fuel for my $20.oo in each jerry can. At that rate I would be further ahead to NOe a pump off the HHO tank.

See, I don't just sit around, putzing around on the 'net all day in winter. I cook up spring time projects for me to make my life easier.


Happy Saturday all, stay safe

 

[daugen]

L4N, geez I'm glad it's you up in -4 and not me. I lived aboard my boat in South Florida for three years and when I came home to Eastern PA,
I could not get warm. Every winter thereafter I'm freezing. I think I broke my thermostat...

After having six feet of snow five years ago in Philadelphia, I headed as far South as I could get back to PA in one day's drive. And by the water and not in the water.
Which landed me here in my little farm a ways from the River, which is a ways from the Bay, which is quite a ways from the Ocean. I'm up the proverbial River...
And even in NC we get -2 weather. Plumbers here are like CPA's at tax time, racing from one frozen leaking pipe, or lack of water altogether, to the next.
Despite global warming, still get some two to four inch snows here. Enough last year to almost get my golf cart stuck in. Though I admit it's great fun doing donuts in the snow, in the golf cart...

You must have a snowmobile, doesn't everyone "up there"? Am still looking for the action shot of the winter. The winner might win a TBN hat if Mohammad was impressed. Gosh I have a hard time remembering how to spell the boss's name. As someone with a difficult last name, I try to not guess at others' names. And I'm always hunting down a thread where he has posted so I
make sure of the spelling. So this time I used spell check. And I didn't double check.
There are such touchy religious issues with some names, particularly one that could be considered a God.
you usually don't want to misspell God's...
Thankfully Thor is short
And so is Jesus.
Think of all the Hispanics today named HeyZeuss.

So if I disappear to the big hook in the sky, you'll know I got the spelling wrong.