Good morning!!!!

[buckeyefarmer]

Yep. Started out in Winchester to go to Frederick through Harper's Ferry. That was shut down, so I back tracked out 9 to 81N to 70... What should have been an hour took 8 hours... Thankfully, wifey had packed me a care package and it was all good... Hint... always carry a P cup. :wink:

That was a big detour. Thursday was the bad traffic day, friday was good. WB. If 340 is backed up bad I either take 9s and go up thru Brunswick, or go up to sharpsburg.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Glad for those that got power back.

 

[Green Acres Homestead]

I don't like the bike tube valve stems you have to unscrew. I have both types on my bike, cause i replaced one....

Here in East Coast Canada there were sighting of some as well some of whom I know that are very credible people. DNR denies the fact.

 

[Green Acres Homestead]

Yikes, We need to be more careful Ron. I also fell on hard tile on my hip stepping over Whippers inside baby gate fence. Are we getting old or what? What's with this taking a week for the soreness to leave?

Good morning! 41˚ My neighbor in the country who has moved also to a private care home is celebrating his 100th birthday today. His mind is sharp but he needs a walker to walk. We went to his sisters 100th birthday 2 years ago and then she died a month later.

Man that is how quick a guy can get hurt.

 

[Green Acres Homestead]

Work delays and behind due to high winds and rain during the fall and now winter came early.

Here in East Coast Canada our fall had many days of 60 miles per hour (100km) hour winds and pelting rain. Add a couple of hurricanes resulted in 10000 without power in the province of NewBrunswick. Power now restored but it was a lengthy outage for some so I guess people should be prepared. To put my work plans back even further winter came early this year. For my seat time today I was on snow removal duty. After 6 hours of plowing snow with my new HLA snow plow, I used my backhoe implement to erect a sign for the local trails group.

 

[Eric Salop]

Good morning, I thought we were in for a frost last night, then some kindly cloud came over and trapped in enough heat to keep us above freezing. Very little wind at the moment, so a good time to clear out the weeks worth of ash from the kitchen range without getting a face full when I take it outside for the raspberries.

Hope all who have taken a fall recently are not feeling quite as sore today.

Kyle, balloon-inside-balloon for higher pressure air is quite ingenious. Coupled with ultra low rolling resistance mason jar lid wheels, you and your daughter make a formidable team :thumbsup:
Only problem is that the parents of the kid who stole the axle have spent this weekend looking at the competition rules and will be hiring a lawyer on Monday :laughing:

 

[Looking4new]

1 and going to a high of 28F. Wind WNW 11 mph. Flurries expected.
Many years ago the weatherman predicted overnight 'flurries'. In the morning I shoveled 18" of 'flurries' off my deck. So as far as I am concerned, 'flurries' is a catch all phrase for anywhere from a skiff to two feet.

WOW! I used the new 'fill right' fuel pump yesterday to fill the tractor. So far it is well worth the $675.oo + tax I paid for it.

There is a new couch coming on Tuesday. I am going to get rid of the rocker that I have never liked and keep one of the 'lazy boys' while the other goes into another room.

I think I shall 'conserve' energy today.

RNG; do you have 'Service Master' down there? It might be worth it to have them come in and clean the smokey smell out of the house.https://www.servicemaster.com/company/about/

Have a good day all

 

[Buppies]

34 high of 54 today get to see carnage from tree cutting yesterday but power is on

Hope everyone has a great day

Prayers for all

 

[Buppies]

Something came the other night knocked off bird feeder broke top and plexiglass tube and left with feeder sides and bottom no sign of it anywhere. I hope Bear is not back

 

[Buppies]

gaproperty nice pictures

 

[Ed of all trades]

Good morning all, 29 going to 51 and partly sunny. Got up at 2:30 with a head ache and have been watching Utube. Will need a nap today for sure. Better now and having a good time watching Mark Lowry interview people. Hope to take it easy today.

Prayers sent, have a great day Ed

 

[wngsprd]

29 going to 55. Frosty outside.

Glad power is back on and no broken bones from the "fall gang." I had a close call, but stayed upright.

Kyle, nice father/daughter story. Sounds like a future engineer/scientist.

Had a good wildlife day yesterday. Met my son in southeast Virginia and hunted on opening day of shotgun season. Saw 4 bucks (smaller than what we shoot, but 2 were 8 pointers) a few does, a gray fox, a pileated woodpecker, 3 turkeys that walked up then flew up into a tree nearby to roost, and a barred owl flew up and landed 20 yards from my tree. Amazing watching them turn their heads so far around with no lower body movement. Almost forgot, I almost stepped on a skunk walking in in the dark. Got about 5 steps from it and it raised its tail and ran off.

 

[PaulWS]

48 going to 77. In FL sometimes it cannot decide if it wants to be cool or warm. Today our church is having it 's Thanksgiving meal looking forward to the food and fellowship, some really good cooks. Our church is 167 years old. Hope all have a great day, stay safe and warm.

 

[toppop52]

28 and heavy frost, going to 54 later. Ellen told me it was take a friend to church day but they were all busy so she’s taking me! LOL
I haven’t seen a skunk on the property in a couple of years, but I do smell one now and then. No turkeys nesting in my woods lately either. Only one groundhog this year and she burrowed under my smaller garage, Ellen put some kind of oil on a rag and stuffed it in the hole and we never saw it again. I still have to fill the hole.
Gotta get moving, grocery pickup and breakfast before church. Have a good one, God bless.

 

[ronjhall]

Poured first cup of coffee. 31° with cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 37° with slight chance of snow in AM. No real plans today. Watch last NASCAR race of the year in afternoon.
Couple of notes on falling. Harvey brought up a good thing. Cleats on slippers. Never heard about those before. But I have a pair of Sloggers that I slip on to make quick trips to shop or barn. But they have been around for awhile. Tread is almost worn off. They went in the trash yesterday. Got new pair out of closet. They stick to the snow. Wear proper footwear when it may be slippery out.

Ed and Buppies, glad you got power back on.

Kyle, good story about daughter and race car. Got any pictures?

Gaproperty, what is sign going to say? Does your looking like new tractor really have 2000 hours.

RNG, hope you get home soon.

Ed, good youTube selection on a Sunday morning.

Wngsprd, never get to see Owls here. Maybe I am looking in the wrong place.

Prayers for all.

Good Morning All.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Poured first cup of coffee. 31° with cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 37° with slight chance of snow in AM. No real plans today. Watch last NASCAR race of the year in afternoon.
Couple of notes on falling. Harvey brought up a good thing. Cleats on slippers. Never heard about those before. But I have a pair of Sloggers that I slip on to make quick trips to shop or barn. But they have been around for awhile. Tread is almost worn off. They went in the trash yesterday. Got new pair out of closet. They stick to the snow. Wear proper footwear when it may be slippery out.

Ed and Buppies, glad you got power back on.

Kyle, good story about daughter and race car. Got any pictures?

Gaproperty, what is sign going to say? Does your looking like new tractor really have 2000 hours.

RNG, hope you get home soon.

Ed, good youTube selection on a Sunday morning.

Wngsprd, never get to see Owls here. Maybe I am looking in the wrong place.

Prayers for all.

Good Morning All.

I told her to make the axles wide for stability.

 

[Buppies]

Ron hope your bruises go away soon

Kyle you have a very special daughter

Toppop nice to have a lady ask you to go to church

PaulWS sounds like a nice spread of food and welcome to the group

Ed some say in 14 days we are going to get hammered

From Texas thru the SE up the eastern seaboard will participate

 

[Buppies]

Not sure if I’ll blow leaves or cut some trees they left whichever one my left arm allows me to do

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Glad for you guys to get your power back on.

Ron, need some stainless steel cleats. And hope your shoulder gets better day by day.

Stepp, were the roads just clogged with wrecks? I'm glad we don't have to deal with ice/snow too often down here. 4 hours is a lot of time to waste. Glad your wifey packed you a goody basket.

wng, that skunk woulda spoiled what was a great day. Glad you didn't get his shotgun blast! I really enjoy watching pileated woodpeckers. They are some beautiful birds IMO.

Eric, hoping they don't hire lawyers. I was thinking of buying some more mason jar lids and axles and sending them to the kid. They are going to display the balloon car in the library for a few days.

Speaking of mason jars, I do still have about 6 quarts of frozen dewberries in the freezer. Might have to make a cobbler for Thanksgiving. Our family makes a dessert in lieu of pumpkin pie. It is called pumpkin crunch. (Don, skip the rest of this paragraph here.) Basically you put a big can of pumpkin filling mixed with some evaporated milk as a base layer in a cake pan. Then you sprinkle a yellow cake mix over it with a stick of salted butter. Next is a layer of pecans on top. Then you cook it in the oven for over an hour. My wifey just watches until the pecans are a nice roasted color to pull it out of the oven. At least an hour or more....

I'm glad I got about 6 acres worth of weeds mowed yesterday. It just rained again, maybe an inch, and we are already soaked.

Pray for some rains in California. And prayers for hoping the displaced people on the list are alive and OK. There will be nothing left to burn in Paradise for years and years. So sad about all those deceased people. I see the videos of those homes just burnt to the ground, row after row, street after street. I know this will have a lasting effect on my mind for keeping the yard and fields mowed around my home to limit the chance of a grass fire hazard. But once a fire gets so huge and out of control, it takes on a whole different proportion of extremeness. Lightning cracking from the dust and dust devils, localized winds getting whipped up to storm levels, fueling and pushing the fire across 12 lane freeways. Just horrible. Wonder if there is a low cost way to promote pine needles into composting faster? The fire in Bastrop often went just through the treetops in many places, leaving the ground sometimes unscathed until the embers fell into the pine needles, setting off ground fires.

Drew, we need some big tractor action pictures!

Prayers for a blessed day all. That your aches and pains subside. And for your children and spouses to be lifted up and have a great day.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Ron hope your bruises go away soon

Kyle you have a very special daughter

Toppop nice to have a lady ask you to go to church

PaulWS sounds like a nice spread of food and welcome to the group

Ed some say in 14 days we are going to get hammered

From Texas thru the SE up the eastern seaboard will participate

Thank you.

And OH NO, about the pending weather. It was middle December last year that we got our 4-6"( rare as hen's teeth) snowfall.