Good morning!!!!

[Looking4new]

22 right now and going down to 21 for the high today. Wind NW 16 mph. 40% chance of flurries.

The Electric fuel pump is in and working. Now today is the kitchen gray water pipe.

re; license plate/validation sticker renewal, costs me $75.oo/ year and I get them on 2 year rotations. That is for generic off the shelf plates, which we own.
Down south they pay more but I don't know how much more.

I get to 'conserve energy' for the next 6 hours until junior gets his butt in gear. He doesn't know it yet, but he is doing all the work. I will help him carry the pipe out and put the new pipe in, but that will be the total of my involvement in the project.

Have a good day all

 

[wngsprd]

42 and rain going to 50. Maybe some snow mix Thursday. Yea!

LS, glad you rescued your daughter. With temps that low, could be a dangerous situation to be stranded so far from help. Nice snow.

RNG, hope you can go home soon, and find things okay.

Eric, why so expensive? Virginia DMV sells over 250 different style plates, all for a small extra fee, some of which gets donated to foundations, scholarships, etc. and that portion is tax deductible. Personalized plates are an additional fee, but not much. I don't have one but my wife does. What I also find interesting is that some states, like NC, only require one plate, on the rear of the vehicle, while others require both front and back...like Virginia.

Took Coco for a nice long hike in the battlefield forest yesterday. It seems like we get a second autumn leaf color season when the beech trees turn beautiful yellow and copper and light green. Then did some caulking and raked leaves away from the obstacles like tree trunks and outdoor chairs before I mowed/mulched them. Started raining while I was mowing, but that helped keep the dust away.

 

[Thomas]

30F now upper 30's for high.

Heard highway plow go by 4:30am 2"+ could make it to 3" before turning to rain good thing storm clears out before dark.
Just before dark last evening 6 deer feeding side field least 2 vehicles did slow drive by checking.....hmmm.
E muffin feed little critters slow roll to work.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[Buppies]

Thomas I did forget 7 deer came by Sunday evening looking for nuts after I blew leaves looks nice still but kinda painful

Wngsprd wife is checking out website you sent thanks a bunch

 

[daugen]

good morning all.
A wet and warm morning, 63 out, Accuwrong says 2.36 inches overnight, that means about 3 inches will be in the glass rain gauge. (udometer )
A break in the rain this morning, then it comes back in this afternoon, but not much. We often get ten times what they predict, makes planning a little chancy. That much rain last night should have just gotten sucked up, will be interesting to see how it affects the cotton farmers who are out harvesting their fields now. One of the prettiest times of the year, a field of white. And then lots of little white fuzzballs along the road, for once not chucked out of cars. There is a special cotton picker which looks like a smaller combine, but new they are many hundreds of thousands of dollars, so you see some old stuff out there. They pack them in giant white rectangular bales, put a tarp over them, and then when all done pick them all up. That part I haven't seen, wondering what picks up those very large heavy bales.

Just finished putting chocolate icing on a triple layer chocolate cake I made for the volunteers at the food pantry; it's Tuesday morning and I'm headed there first with some vegetables I bought at Food Lion and a big cake. Always hard to transport something like that, disaster at ever turn, visions of layers just sliding off...which is why it's in the refrigerator now getting as stiff as possible. I put these cakes on oversized plates and say a gentle prayer...Between the cake mix and the chocolate icing, this cake is about the most unhealthy thing one could eat. All chemicals and sugar. But I've learned, repeatedly....don't go bringing apples and oranges, no one wants that...bring the chocolate.

I personally can't eat much icing, leave it all on the plate. While I'm sure one could make healthy icing, what comes out of that can
is an exercise in the finest food engineering through chemistry. When the chemical name is so long on the ingredient list you can't pronounce it, sort of a red flag for healthiness.

which reminds me that the icing on my day's cake is actually later when I go to the dealership to see my new tractor for the first time. :dance1:
It came off another dealer's lot and I need to be sure it has all the build features I asked for.

RNG, stop jinxxing the stock market. I'm getting crushed here.

 

[Bird]

30 degrees this morning, going for a high of 39 with 24 forecast for tonight. Looks like we're going to have a colder than normal winter this year.

LS, glad to hear that you rescued your daughter. Things can do downhill in a hurry in that kind of weather.

I just got off the phone with FedEx again. Last week I ordered some MagniLife from Walmart that my wife and daughter say is really good, but I couldn't find it in the stores here. So the Walmart AND FedEx websites both showed it would be delivered yesterday. It was not delivered. And this morning, the FedEx website showed it to not even be scheduled for delivery. So I called and their automated system told me it would be left at ????? some place I didn't understand for me to pick it up. I kept trying until I finally got a human on the phone and he said he would change that and it will be delivered to the house today. I sure hate to have to deal with FedEx even more than UPS.

 

[ronjhall]

Coffee has finished brewing. 28° with cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 32° with cloudy skies. Got a little over 2" of snow overnight. But it melted on hard surfaces. No need for the tractor. Did not get home from picking up cousin at airport until after 11pm. Snow was coming down so heavy it made seeing the road difficult. Take wife to doctor today. NO other plans for the day.

Drew, when I was younger cake was my thing. Now it's pie. Got any of that apple pie left?

Looking, good luck with drain fix.

Buppies, Thomas, deer were out along local roads last evening. Managed to miss all that thought it would be a good idea stop in road to see what them bright lights were shining on them.

Eric, we can get personalized license plates here. $30 for first year. Then $15 for each year renewal. May take a while to find one that will say what you want and is accepted.

Prayers for all.

Good Morning All.

 

[ronjhall]

I just got off the phone with FedEx again. Last week I ordered some MagniLife from Walmart that my wife and daughter say is really good, but I couldn't find it in the stores here. So the Walmart AND FedEx websites both showed it would be delivered yesterday. It was not delivered. And this morning, the FedEx website showed it to not even be scheduled for delivery. So I called and their automated system told me it would be left at ????? some place I didn't understand for me to pick it up. I kept trying until I finally got a human on the phone and he said he would change that and it will be delivered to the house today. I sure hate to have to deal with FedEx even more than UPS.

FedEx does not deliver to residential homes on Mondays here in Michigan. My problems are with Amazon Delivery. Since they opened a delivery depot on the eastside of Metro Detroit. All kinds of missed deliveries. I think FedEx and Amazon hire people that cannot read. :confused2:

 

[txdon]

Good morning! First freeze of the season at 32˚,windy and cloudy heading to the 40s.

Eric no personal plates here also too cheap. I'm not quite as bad/good as my dad who had one farm exempt ($5) trailer plate for two trailers and just moved the plate to the trailer he was using on road. Even after he died I was trying to figure out which trailer the plate belonged to and could not.

The Girls are coming to town to play cards with my wife. That means I'll have to find a project outside the house for a few hours while they party. Guess I'll hit the pool and Home Depot.

LS good rescue, good dad. Does your daughter have a 3 hour drive to work every day?

Bird, Fedex lost my package for 2 days last week and the last tracking they had was on my porch - NOT. Finally someone that did received it put it on my porch. Customer service was a dead end, all they did was call the sub-station and left a message but got no call back. They said I had to wait 72 hours and then let the sender know.

 

[Bird]

FedEx does not deliver to residential homes on Mondays here in Michigan.

I was surprised when both Walmart and FedEx website showed it would be delivered Monday, since Monday was a holiday. I don't know whether they delivered anything elsewhere or not.

Don, I hate to order anything anymore because of the poor service. The USPS lost the business to UPS and FedEx because of poor service and now those two are as bad as the USPS ever was; maybe worse.