Good morning!!!!

[ronjhall]

Shhh...it's a surprise...a new Frisbee, and tennis ball.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY COCO !!!! Enjoy your new toys.

 

[Ed of all trades]

Good morning all, 51 going to 67 and 70% chance of rain. Instead of a drone I think I would get a mosquito chopper. That way I would at least know where it went.

Praying that RIP, Don & RS are doing great and having fun.

Prayers for others in need. Ed

 

[ronjhall]

Poured second cup of coffee. 34° with cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 40° with cloudy skies. Survived another DR appointment. While I felt good early in day. Afternoon was a total lose. Well not completely. A 2 hour nap does count? No plans today. Last Mondays list is still full. Will look at that and see what I want to do.

Randy, Great pictures.

Prayers for those in need.

Good Morning All.

 

[RoyJackson]

2018-02-24, 0629

35 right now...high about 40 or so...

Plans...dump run, definitely since I've had the trash in the truck all week. Last week's dump run was aborted due to the dump being closed for President's Day. After that, going to assemble a walk-behind salt/ice-melt spreader. It's late in the season...I should have got one of these months ago. I'm thinking about getting a tailgate spreader (mounts in the trailer hitch receptacle), but before I spend that kind of money ($400 and up), I'll see how a walk behind unit does.

You folks know we have a 55" 4k TV...family Christmas present. Anyway, I picked up a Blu-Ray of "To Kill a Mockingbird" and watched it last night. Even though the Blu-Ray was a 4k version...still an outstanding picture...and, a great film...truly a classic!

My eczema is abating somewhat...what a relief!

Boy! You guys have been busy...three pages added to this thread since I was last on.

 

[daugen]

Ron, you and I are about to get a change...and not birthdays. I had to hunt around to find someone, Kyle, who had over 10k posts.
Didn't know what the next contrived title was. Super Star. Well yippee. I did not like Elite, never liked the sound of that.
Fun is one thing, pompous is another. Sorry to all you Elites, nothing personal.

Geez, PJ could be the first guy to get a new title, Rock Star! :thumbsup:

I particularly liked the combo of Kyle's Texas star and the new title.

 

[Buppies]

Sounds like Coco got all the good stuff

 

[toppop52]

Really nice pics, Randy.

I’m in awe of the shots I do get just here at the house, especially the videos

Jeff has some great videos but they’re posted on Facebook and I can’t unlink them from his account. I’ll get him to email them.

 

[toppop52]

That's what I was thinking. Hope that's the case.

Besides RIP and Don, RS is missing, too.

RS was posting in Friendly Politics but I haven’t been there in a while, thus my 120/60 BP!

 

[daugen]

RS was posting in Friendly Politics but I haven’t been there in a while, thus my 120/60 BP!

boy that is sure the truth. Like going into a mental combat zone at times.

 

[toppop52]

Wng and Buppies, those shots are all near Front Royal.
50 and foggy as a hungover co-ed. 65 later, 73 tomorrow.

 

[ronjhall]

Ron, you and I are about to get a change...and not birthdays. I had to hunt around to find someone, Kyle, who had over 10k posts.
Didn't know what the next contrived title was. Super Star. Well yippee. I did not like Elite, never liked the sound of that.
Fun is one thing, pompous is another. Sorry to all you Elites, nothing personal.

Geez, PJ could be the first guy to get a new title, Rock Star! :thumbsup:

I particularly liked the combo of Kyle's Texas star and the new title.

It has taken me 18 years to get to my current count. I do not look for it to get to that Elite status this year.

 

[Thomas]

38F now mid 40's for high...partly cloudy day.

Not plans for today other trip to town for goodies,maybe tidy up my little room.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY COCO

Enjoy the day all.

 

[Bird]

45 degrees for a low, going for a high of 64 today. Still raining a bit this morning, but the weather forecasters think it'll all be over by the middle of the afternoon today. As of yesterday afternoon, I've gotten 5.8" of rain this month; all but .49" of it in the past week.

And now there's some green showing in the grass, and I really need to do some serious dethatching on my back yard, I guess I need some dry weather, so I can see how much hard work I can stand.

It has taken me 18 years to get to my current count. I do not look for it to get to that Elite status this year.

I never think about it or look at that count until someone else mentions it.:laughing: But I've been told all my life that I talk too much.:laughing:

 

[Looking4new]

27 to a high of 34 with 30% chance of flurries. Wind NW 11mph.

Special weather statement, a fast moving low from NM will spread over the great lakes tonight and bring either freezing rain or ice pellets. Hopefully it will stay south and Toronto will get it.

My taxes are all sorted and ready to go to the accountants'.

I've got nothing I am doing today, so I will get right at it

Have a good day all

 

[daugen]

But I've been told all my life that I talk too much.

by now Bird you should have earned one of those prize TBN coffee mugs...
I think those of you who are kind enough to be moderators stay quite busy here.
I have a favorite second grade report card somewhere boxed away
where the teacher comments on the back was talks too much
yup

 

[freedomlives]

Good afternoon! ;-) Coffee time.

In the fall I made a garage/workshop space-- there is a thread somewhere about it here, as I was asking some questions about concreting. By December everything was finished but the ceiling. There are joists over it, and OSB on top of the joists for a floor above, and all the gaps are sealed, but no insulation there all winter. The walls are insulated-- OSB - fiberglass - OSB. We've had a not so very cold winter, and its stayed above freezing there from the heat that gets out of the shared wall with the house, but still cold. I have a propane heater to warm it up some-- 10°C and I feel OK out there, the dog would be happier if it were warmer as well, but he isn't complaining so much, since other dogs here don't have dog doors in to garages at all.

I made a resolution for Lent to give up having a mess everywhere, so last night I was working toward that, putting together a shelf and sorting tools out, and it hit me, that I have a bunch of 2" polystyrene boards for insulating the walls of our house (which we didn't get to last year), and they've been sitting outside all winter. So for the last weeks of winter, I've spread them on the floor above the garage, which ought to help a bit. I sure wish that had "clicked" sooner.



My mom got the kids one of those cheaper RC helicopters for Christmas. It uses IR for remote control, and they just fly it inside. It is incredible how durable it is. My two year old gets it, and his method of flying is to jam the control forward and watch it fly straight up till it hits the ceiling, which causes it to loose stability and go careening across the room. One thing with it is that the transmitter is contanstantly transmitting, so I think for outside, if it would get out of range, it would just drop down.

I got another one from China on eBay, it has more advanced controls, though still IR. I tried flying it outside and it was trying to get away. I think the IR has at most a 30' range, and it seems like on that one it isn't transmitting continuously. I had to run after it to get back in range and bring it down.

A drone with camera would be really cool. I'd love to have aerial shots of the four seasons on our land, and capture the changes we are making over the years. Actually, what I'd love even more, would be a GPS programmable drone. Sometimes I stick the goats in an overgrown area quite a distance away-- it would be nice to send the drone up to photograph them and photograph the water trough. But anyway, our current plan is to get cattle this year and do intensive grazing with multiple moves for day, so this lazy approach of sticking goats on an acre and leaving them for several days is coming to an end.

 

[freedomlives]

Freedomlives, Welcome, I imported my German Shepard from Senica Slovak Republic are you located any where near there

That's on the other end from where we live. My wife's family is from a village on the Ukranian border, so when we married we ended up moving in to her grandmother's old house. It is a lot easier for a Slovak to have her foreign spouse immediately get permanent residency than for an American to import a foreign wife to live there, so that's how we've ended up-- you live somewhere a bit, at least in the countryside, and you get used to it.

 

[daugen]

successful first run to local recycling center, 15 minutes from house it turns out, super easy, got there just after it opened at 7am. Talked to very nice young guy, likely a local college student, who works weekends there, who talked with me about bringing in that huge pile of greenhouse plastic that is piled up behind my neighbor's home. I could grapple it and put it on a trailer, the guy said single axle only interestingly, and they would help unload it. Actually the bins are just very large dumpsters nicely placed for dumping, they are at a lower level with their tops just about at road level.
Nice to get those blue bags of plastic and cans out of my garage. And very pleased to see that my local transfer station picked up mixed stream recycling, so my blue bags of mixed
stuff was just fine. No bottles here and plastic there.

Sadly if you don't make it easy to recycle, many won't do it at all.

At the very bottom of Bucks County, PA is the GROWS landfill, bordering the Delaware River. If I went upriver from Philadelphia with my big boat I could give river tours all the way up to Trenton NJ where you had to turn around. But going past that enormous land fill constantly really woke me up. I had to stop being part of all those trucks working their way up to the top of the pile.
Just a mountain of trash.

We need to get rid of landfills and find a better way.
And take the time to recycle all those alkaline batteries instead of chucking them in the trash.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Welcome Freedomlives, as has been said we all post as it is convenient.

I have had some time on RC aircraft, 2 and 3 channel. My last boss in Rolla had a aeronautical engineering degree degree and designed RC aircraft. Most of my stick tim was on a 6 ft wing glider called Drifter II, had the 049 Cox power pod with an oversize fuel tank. Got about a 10 minute burn, would get 15-30 minutes of flight time. Had many a crash caused by poor construction, or overconfidence, and lost one when a blabby guy on an overboosted CB radio came by, and lost radio control. Never did find that one and it was yellow!!

The drifter II was a great glider. Sailplanes were a way to get a long flight time. My son flew one so high that he was in and out of clouds, only way to spot it was when he lifted a wing up and we got a glimpse of the sun reflecting off in a brief flash. It had a 500 size elec motor, but he ran the batt down too low to fire it up. We lost sight of it over a hill about 40 acres away. Did the typical "fan out and search pattern" for about 3 hours. We did find it probably about a mile downwind up against a chola cactus, pretty much unscathed. Still have the plane today. I'm lucky, never "lost" a plane from fly-away, only from smashing them into pieces!

 

[ronjhall]

We need to get rid of landfills and find a better way.
And take the time to recycle all those alkaline batteries instead of chucking them in the trash.

I am sorry. But at our house everything goes in the Blue Trash Can. If I believed that it was going to save the planet I would use the recycle box.
As for the Batteries. If it such a bad thing (maybe it is). When are they going to provide a way to dispose of them. My :2cents: is if you sell them. You should provide a way to dispose of them like used oil.