Good morning!!!!

[wngsprd]

52 and raining hard. Should see 68 but more rain.

Don, good luck with your Whipper control. But, I'm not so sure about that pipe.

Randy, great looking cake...so real. You ever heard of Duff Goldman?...does fancy cakes out of Baltimore...now on Food Network shows a lot.

Changed the oil in my wife's vehicle yesterday.

Ordered something from TSC to be delivered (free delivery) for the first time. Will be interesting to see how they handle it. Promised as quickly as Amazon Prime, and half the price.

 

[Buppies]

49 high of 60 raining this morning lightly thru mid day I’m told

Prayers for all those in need

 

[Thomas]

29F now rain later today low 40's for high.

Gut feeling going to be long work week more so now clocks are set back 1 hour.
E muffin feed little critters slow roll to work.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 50˚ heading to 80˚ light SE winds.

All clocks except the thermostat clock are set back. I'll leave that one un-re-set because we don't use it.

Does anyone use their programable a thermostat or, do they do like us, and turn it up and down manually when needed?

 

[daugen]

rain has moved out and moving North up the coast. My friends home in DE has a gale warning all day, not a nice day for them to drive home.
They are taking the long scenic Eastern route, all the way to the shore, over one bridge to Outer Banks, up the island a ways, then back on mainland and heading home through Norfolk. Last bit of touristing after being on the road five weeks.

Haven't looked at rain gauge but guessing an inch of rain last night.

will spend morning paying bills and getting into right frame of mind for tractor finances. Little birdies on both shoulders singing different tunes...
Hope you all have a good start to your week.

 

[Buppies]

Don do ours manually auctually have done it both ways now just manually just easier

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Does anyone use there programable a thermostat or, do they do like us, and turn it up and down manually when needed?

I had a sort of programmable thermostat when I still had a job, Don. It was really nice to wake up to a warm house and know that shortly before I left for the day the temperature would scale back to economy mode, then warm back up by the time I got home in the evening. But I didn't use the timer on the weekend, prefering instead to use a little keypad I kept on the headboard to turn the heat on while I was still under the covers in the morning.

Now that I heat with wood, I crawl out of bed into a freezing bathrobe, slip on chilly slippers, and pick up a splinter or two shoving wood splits into the mouth of the stove before setting a match to it and crawling back into bed for another hour while the house warms up. Progress?:confused2:

 

[daugen]

RNG, what does wood cost a cord in California, and what type of wood is normally delivered?

Am surprised California still allows you to have lit flames...

 

[Buppies]

Drew it really comes down to wants over needs. If as you have worked hard all of your life saved wisely then this is the things (tractors) you worked hard for. When my Dad bought his last place on the coast he felt like it was a reach for him. He debated for weeks asking accountants lawyers those close to him what to do. Those close advisers all told him the same thing could he afford it with what he had yes would they tell him to go on and get what he wanted no. To my knowledge he and mother made the final decision what was right for him. None of us have a crystal ball to see into the future. Do what’s right for you my friend

 

[Buppies]

I hate to wake up to a cold house and diabetes makes it worse but thermostat is set to 69 for heat fireplace gas logs no wood for me but I do miss cutting the three or four cords we used to burn. A little nuts I guess but always enjoyed cutting firewood

 

[daugen]

A little nuts I guess but always enjoyed cutting firewood

me too. Our farm had 70 acres of mostly hardwood behind and around our home
and I grew up in the woods. Marvelous quiet place to be. Sitting on a big flat rock by our small brook
that went through our property down to the Delaware River. Crystal clear water, we used to lie flat on our stomachs on that rock
and just stick our mouths in the water to drink. Water was ice cold, tasted wonderful. Had to be careful of skeeter bugs while drinking,
wouldn't be good to suck one of those in...

good advice, thank you.

off to chop up a cantaloupe.

 

[Buppies]

What I was telling you Drew happened in 1980/81. By 2002 he had cancer in every body organ you can get that awful stuff in. A week before he died my dad asked doctors if he could go back to the beach one last time. Mother and I took him stopping every hour for dad to use the bathroom. Every morning we rolled him out in his wheelchair to the porch where he watched and listened to the sounds of the beach falling asleep numerous times. Once we returned home the next week he told us what a great time he had great life would not change a thing fell fast asleep and died peacefully in his sleep

 

[ronjhall]

Need to pour first cup of coffee. 47° with cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 53° with late pm rain. All papers are either burned or shredded. Bought wife a Sleep Number. It will be delivered today. Cleaning up the room will be at top of list today. No other plans.

Don, we have a digital thermostat. It is Honeywells top of the line thermostat. It is set for day time at 74° 6am to 9pm and night time 71°. Just a touch of the screen will allow temperature adjustments. It also works with our smartphones. It can switch between heat and AC automatically. But it is set to manual switch. It also controls humidity in house. Uses a outside temperature humidity sensor to help keep windows from having to much moisture collet on them when cold. We also use the circulate fan setting during winter to keep more even temperature in house.

Drew, sharpen that pencil.

Good Morning All.

 

[Looking4new]

33 and snowing, going to 45 with rain or snow. Wind E 17 mph.

I have a manual thermostat and it is set at 68 year round. Summer time we just shut the furnace off at the building code ordered switch but not at the panel.

I got the neighbours' load of dirt moved and placed. She seems to think that my 20' long tractor will articulate as well as steer. It sure was tight, moving that dirt. It took three hours, including travel time and many stops for instructions. Payment was enough enchiladas for two meals for three of us. She offered cash for the fuel as well and I requested 'nuns farts' for the fuel. I was going to charge her 'nuns farts' for the whole job. She is an excellent pastry chef and makes cinnamon rolls to die for. The left over pastry is what goes into the nuns farts. They are just mini cinnamon rolls.

Have a good day all

 

[txdon]

Ron, how does it control the humidity, does your system have a dehumidifier connected? I know the AC here dehumidifies the air just by the temp difference but on cold days we have a stand alone dehumidifier.

 

[ronjhall]

Ron, how does it control the humidity, does your system have a dehumidifier connected? I know the AC here dehumidifies the air just by the temp difference but on cold days we have a stand alone dehumidifier.

There is a humidifier attached to the furnace. No need for a dehumidifier in our climate. We run AC to control humidity in summer.

 

[lostcreekranch]

66° this morning with forecast to 82° this afternoon. The 1/2" of rain, that came with front yesterday morning, is just keeping pastures saturated. So, tractors remain parked for a few more days.

Might be a good day to wash outside windows, not my favorite job.

Before I retired, we used the programmable thermostats at the Ranch to get house comfortable by mid-day Friday until Monday a.m.

Hoping y'all have a great day.

Prayers to all.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Good morning to all! Low of 38 this morning, going up to 61. Breezy this morning, getting windier this afternoon with strong gusts as a cold front approaches. No precip is expected.

Randy, amazing cake, almost to nice to actually eat it. How long does it take to make / finish one like that?

Drew, just do it...get what will be right for you. You've worked hard for everything you have achieved, now is the time to enjoy doing what YOU want!

RNG, yes, I too can not believe they are playing Christmas songs already.... The wifey and I were talking about how we couldn't wait until the political commercials, pamphlets, and yard signs would be over with this week after Election Day. I was joking saying, "yes, but the Christmas commercials will start right after"....didn't think they were going to start earlier.....

Maybe it's just to help Randy get in the mood for his big upcoming Thanksgiving get together :thumbsup:

Buppies, touching story about your dad...peaceful

Everyone have a great start to the week, prayers out for all!

 

[PJSprog]

44°F and cloudy skies this morning, going up to 54° today. Expecting some more rain this afternoon, then dry the rest of the week. Saw a snowflake for next Monday on the iThingie weather app.

Wife and I moved furniture from our storage unit in New Baden for the new "spare" bedroom in the basement. We put in her grandfather's old four-poster bed, an old dresser, chest of drawers, and an antique dressing table. Put my cello in one corner for now as well. The tall dresser has a tilting mirror mounted on two arms, one of which broke off while moving. She grabbed it and snapped it right off. Fortunately, the wood broke across the base, and was easy to fix with a little wood glue and a couple of clamps. Remounted it and the mirror on Sunday.



Got the new television mounted on the wall Sunday morning. She found a relatively cheap 39" one of some Elements brand I'd never heard of. The thing is super light weight. got the wall mount installed and the TV mounted on it in about 10 minutes. Took longer to get the tools than to do the work. Hooked up the satellite box and Blu-ray player (had to run to WallyWorld to get a couple of HDMI cables), went through the unnecessarily complex setup process, and then we both laid there on the bed and watched some Discovery Channel show for a bit, marveling at the incredibly crisp picture on this cheapo TV. So now, I guess we have two televisions in the basement that we'll rarely watch. :confused3:

Spent the rest of our rainy Sunday puttering around in the studio, mostly getting song files set up on different hard drive partitions.

Rick, my Wife bought some of those hard-boiled egg doodads, too, and we still haven't used them. Last week, she bought some of those weird silicone rings to make round eggs for breakfast sandwiches. We haven't used those yet either.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

RNG, what does wood cost a cord in California, and what type of wood is normally delivered?

Am surprised California still allows you to have lit flames...

Split and dried oak is going for about $220/cord around here, Drew. There are a LOT of orchards being taken down due to the water shortages, and fruitwood can be found for less. East of here in the higher elevations of the Sierra, only pine is available, but I don't know what they charge for it.

There is a burn ban now, unless you're a farmer burning slash down in the valley, and those fires are HUGE! But they must only be done on days that the California Air Resources Board says it's OK to do so. If you have an EPA approved woodstove, you can also burn, and I'm under the impression you can do that even on days that CARB bans burning. But it seems like every week I read about the fire department being called to put out a brush pile in someone's yard or a grass fire started from an improperly operated lawn mower on a windy day, both of which are prohibited until it starts raining again and humidities return to more normal values.