Good morning!!!!

[txdon]

Good morning! 44˚ clear skies, no wind and warming up to 78˚.
Since the wind was out of the North yesterday I wanted to mow the south side of the pool but got carried away and mowed the entire yard and extended yard and the sides of the road up to the house. I had to actually start off mowing with a jacket - first time ever.

 

[Looking4new]

28 with a high of 36F Wind E 19 gusting to 34 mph. Wet snow mixed with rain. I'd call that a mixed bag.
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We got about an inch of sleet/snow/freezing rain here. Certainly not enough to plow. But there is more on the way, so I will keep the block heater on.

I gotta go to town later this morning and will check the other driveways I do and make a decision then.

riptides;
plexiglass might work on the roof AND keep you and the wife happy.

R.I.P. R. Lee Emory

Have a safe day all

 

[Bird]

Good morning! 44˚ clear skies, no wind and warming up to 78˚.
Since the wind was out of the North yesterday I wanted to mow the south side of the pool but got carried away and mowed the entire yard and extended yard and the sides of the road up to the house. I had to actually start off mowing with a jacket - first time ever.

35 degrees going for 76 today. And I, too, wore a light jacket to mow our yard yesterday morning, but it became a beautiful day later. I expect the same for today.

 

[toppop52]

I mow with a sweatshirt or jacket often in the spring. Sometimes in the fall.

 

[CWB Wyo]

Sunny and 38* this morning, yesterday was overcast in the mid 50's. Today is going to be partly cloudy in the low 60's and windy again.

Went for a ride over the hill yesterday, the road was open all the way around. One of the neighbors on top has a dozer and he had opened it up a few days go. You could see were he had to move some good sized drifts.The road had some pretty good mud holes that made it interesting.

One of the other neighbors is bringing his backhoe up today. He won't be able to pull it up the hill so I told him he could unload it and leave his trailer here. So I'll be helping him today.

Hope everyone has a good start to the week.
CWB.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 44F @ 7:15AM. Scattered showers and thunderstorms. High 51F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 60%.

The ruts and baby heads in the driveway needed grading, and with rain on the way yesterday I got in some seat time to take care of that job. Finished just as raindrops started falling. Body shop neighbor came over at the end of the day and we shared a couple beers, but didn't manage to solve any of the world's problems. Enjoyable time nonetheless. :laughing:

Put a borescope down the bad cylinder on the old bike and saw that the piston was clean and shiny, and the edges a bit melted, but no sign of the rod. The cylinder bore is scratched, but not badly. Finding out the true cause will have to wait for disassembly, but won't have time for that until after the coming weekend's Airhead wrenching session.

New neighbor up the street has a dog that likes to chase cars and motorcycles, so will have to have a talk with him about it before the gang arrives on Friday...

Hope everyone's week gets off to a great start!

 

[hawkeye08]

Careful with the 2018 version Bird, it will scramble your data if you try to sync with your mobile device. I gave up on that feature after I could not get nothing but computer generated spam from Quicken. I also cannot get a clear answer on why I have to constantly sign into my Quicken Account before I can enter data. All attempt to turn that off have not to date been successful. Still working on that and also looking for a Quicken replacement that will import Quicken data and use the Quicken data I have dating back to 1992.

I started using kMymoney a few years ago.. need to input my data more often, but seems to work.

KMyMoney - the BEST Personal Finance Manager for FREE Users, full stop.

 

[Thomas]

.....................................
Indeed the spring in the air for you folks and soon if not already sounds of peepers...wish jet stream would give us a break.

 

[jbrumberg]

Good morning everyone.

Drew- Nice place and extremely well maintained. Thanks for sharing. It a good thing that our house is hidden from the roadside, and we have no neighbors to complain about the property upkeep. We have a "New England" lawn = some kind of green ground cover vegetation that gets cut semi-regularly.:embarrassed:

I need to make another bird food run this week. The goldfinches are nailing the thistle seed. Some years we get decent sized flocks and some years very small flocks. This is a "big" year. I load and reload the thistle seed cage daily.

There were a couple of years that I brush hogged the lower field during snow showers. I did not have any problems with debris clogging up the air filters and radiators.

I started to pick up this Season's limb tree fall on the lawn. We still have patches of snow in shaded areas, and no bears not ticks seen yet. A few migrant species of sparrows have yet to arrive, as well as the tree swallows. Kingbirds and gnat catchers arrived the other day.

1.75" of accumulated snow that has changed over to all forms of frozen precipitation. Freezing rain presently. Nasty footing outside and I have seen very limited vehicular traffic on the road which was plowed, but not treated (yet). The wood stove feels real good this AM.

A crazy red squirrel shot between Brogen's legs from underneath the wife's car during this AM's outing. There was almost a "Nantucket Sleighride" event............ almost. Luckily I still have decent hand/grip strength and out-weigh the dog. Between today's weather and nasty footing and the "squirrel episode" I am starting to think about some enclosed dog fencing around here.

My + thoughts, wishes, and prayers.

I hope everyone has a manageable day.

 

[PJSprog]

31°F and cloudy this morning, with light snow flurries , going up to 46° today. We hit 85° on Thursday, and we have snow this morning. Crazy.

We had some severe thunderstorms roll through the area over the weekend, and they left a legacy of drizzly weather for much of it. Then it got cold yesterday. All of this conspired to delay the start of a couple of planned outdoors projects.

Got a bunch of the furniture and household stuff in the garage photographed and cataloged Saturday, en route to some for sale ads in local Facebook buy/sell groups. Seems like a better option than Craigslist at this point. We'll see.

Beautiful place you have there, Drew.

 

[hawkeye08]

Prayers sent for those in need,

Brother was a big believer in the CBD oils.

We're getting rains, hoping we don't go from rainy windy cool temps to hot summer and bypass spring..

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Good morning to all! Low about 45, up to near 72 today. Calm breezes right now but another wind event for this evening / tonight , through tomorrow. No precip whatsoever. Maybe a slight chance of sprinkles on Thursday and Friday, but wind then too! I hate spring here, always windy.

Knee holding its own, still swells a lot by the end of the day. All sorts of bruising still present. Pain getting better. Start PT tomorrow.

Drew that is a magnificent place there. Stupendous job manicuring the grounds, looks like one of the Bucks Co country clubs! Garden coming along well. Oh, the Mrs said two words about the house: "absolutely pristine ", then I had to clean the drool off the screen...:laughing::thumbsup:

Jay, with the freezing precipitation up there you could have used the opportunity to learn how to "power ice skate" when Brogen decided to pull.. Be careful, we used to have a Black Russian Terrier who would spot something 180 degrees behind and immediately turn and run, trying to spin us like starting a top..:shocked:

BEF, if you could return my helpers, I could really use them! :laughing:

Everyone have a great day, be safe. Prayer out to all.

 

[jbrumberg]

"...wish jet stream would give us a break."- Thomas

That is an impressive jet stream. The NWS posted this AM about this lower level jet stream as 4X the April "normal." Impressive moisture plume with some decent storm cells to go along with it as well.

Ted- That red squirrel has been taunting Brogen from the relative safety of the Forester's wheel wheel, 8' and a slider door window barrier since "the beginning." St. B's appear to be more smell oriented than visual for "prey." Usually I make sure "all's clear" and have the dog at leash commanded sit to start the "exit." That squirrel surprised me too. I scan the lower field prior to the "perimeter" walk. I do not like "surprises" during leash walks. Black Russian Terriers are beautiful impressive dogs. Aren't they "runners"? I am glad to read that the knee is healing. Good luck with the PT. It's too easy to overdo PT. Take care.

 

[sodamo]

68°F and .6 inches rain.
We were blessed yesterday with the rain holding off for our gathering. 62 people by my count, ton of good food.



Just a bit of cleanup today, otherwise an easy day planned.
Prayers for all.

Be safe
Have a great day

 

[Looking4new]

I got the town run done. Highway was 'wheel track bare'. Back roads not so much. I had to use 4 wd to get out of the driveway. Not because the snow was deep, but because of the thin layer of ice on top of the snow.
I am not going to plow until tomorrow, we will be getting another 2-4" today and overnight according to the weather guessers.

 

[sodamo]

Drew, beautiful place. I too suffer a tad of Drew envy, but realistically know my aspirations may never come to fruition. But I haven’t given up hope completely.

 

[sodamo]

I was a Quicken lover from back in the Apple ll days. Transitioned to Mac and downhill from there. At one point with a new release I lost a bunch of data - really ticked me off. I started building my own spreadsheets in AppleWorks, concentrating on what was important to me, less so on fancy reports. With the demise of AppleWorks I migrated to Numbers and have the ability to access from my Mac or IOS devices. What I like is the visibility and total understanding of the relationships (as I did create them) my only “report” is a dynamic financial statement that I use to update my financial advisor. I do miss the old AppleWorks function to link external files, but otherwise like my system which is free and not in a locked in file format I could lose on a whim.

 

[Bird]

I was a Quicken lover from back in the Apple ll days.

I have absolutely NO experience with any Apple computer, although a couple of my employees, back in the late '80s, used one in our office and thought it was great.

However, as I mentioned before, I bought and installed Quicken Deluxe 2018 on my notebook computer. It wasn't as simple as they'd have you believe, but I reckon not too bad. Now I bought that at Sam's Club and the CD came with a 16 digit "activation code" which I used to install it on the notebook computer. It was a bit of a nuisance but I got it working. So today I decided to go ahead and put it on my primary computer, a laptop. As I expected, entering the activation code got a reply that this code is already in use. So I called Quicken Support, the computer said an 11 minute wait, but a nice person responded to my text message in about 5 minutes. He (or maybe she, as far as I know, by the name of Cristian) talked me through getting it downloaded at no cost, got it installed, and working. That person stayed online with me for more than 30 minutes to be sure I had it working right.

Now I have all my Quicken files back to 1996, and one older file of my Dad's that is even older. But I did just finish getting all of them converted to Quicken Deluxe 2018, one year's files at a time. Whew!! It was slow, but it's done.

 

[toppop52]

I hate installing software or updates, they never go smoothly.

 

[Bird]

I hate installing software or updates, they never go smoothly.

It does seem that way.