Good morning!!!!

[Eric Salop]

Good morning. 10C/50F at daybreak, which is not bad at all for a dark December morning. If it stays dry I was thinking of cutting back some of the low branches that are growing out from the trees up by the roadside. Although the road is single track with a blind bend, some of the cars that use it go at crazy speeds. Sunday morning seems about the safest time for me as there is a good chance many of them will still be in bed when I walk down the road with a chainsaw.

David, it may have taken some time to skim out with a bucket, but that's still way better in my book than going at such a large area with pick and shovel. You must have done a good job as your supervisor doesn't look at all concerned.

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Gracie, hope you remembered what Ellen said about keeping Randy happy and let him win the tug occasionally

 

[Looking4new]

29 with a high of 34F. Wind ENE 23 gusting to 30 mph. Here comes the freezing rain! I sure hope it switches to snow quickly.
The good thing is that with the wind ENE all the trees that might be a threat to the house will fall away from said house. If the shed gets hit, that will be a blessing in disguise. The insurance can pay to take it down.

Have a good day all

 

[Ed of all trades]

Good morning all, 40 going to 63 with a 40% chance of rain. Computer keeps kicking out of google while on TBN so short this morning.

Have a great day, prayers sent. Ed

 

[wngsprd]

Nice sunshiny, dry day until just a bit ago. Dried out enough to pretty much get most of my pad prep by FEL done. Still some hand clean up for final elevations.
George, my concrete guy came by to look over the project. Pretty much on same sheet of music. Hopefully I can get basic forms in place and he値l come, drive pins, finesse, add rebar and mesh. Hopefully, not more than a day of labor then pour day with his masons. Told me concrete is running about $160/cuyd. Hoping to get poured by end of year.

Here痴 some 20ft 2x4s just laid out to help me figure out my forms. I値l be drawing those out tonight.

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Missed not having my backhoe for the digging on the slope. Digging with FEL on a multi directional slope is a challenge, especially when the clay gets wet and turns to grease. What you can稚 see is that is almost 2ft cut in places on left side.
Had thoughts of removing the control valve for rebuild but didn稚 get to it today, maybe Monday. I need to confirm it痴 a Nimco CV556.
All in all, a good productive day.

Looks like a very neat job. Are you using your dug out clay to fill in some of your dips?

 

[wngsprd]

42 going to 64...so let the woodstove go out. Rain has stopped for now.

RNG, I think this is the first time we've seen the wonderful site your house sits on...definitely can see the burn scars near you. Glad you got a chance to see your place, even if from a distance.

Buppies, glad Tech won...now bowl time.

Put up some Christmas lights yesterday...very pretty. Have some more to do today.

 

[Buppies]

40 high of 65 now showers till 2:00pm sure hope it clears out sooner

Yes VT won a made up game just to give them a chance to get in a bowl game not sure how I feel about that

Ed hope your computer issues get fixed

Went out yesterday evening to pickup something for dinner radio in truck acts funny then quits. Makes no difference what you punch or touch nothing. On way back from store it goes on and off on its own three times then goes into a mode I’ve never seen before. The letters sync come up the says updating and after about five minutes it’s back like nothing ever happened. I guess it needed to talk to the mother ship

Prayers for all

 

[Buppies]

Weather front for those interested upcoming week cold in the east till changes start and by the upcoming weekend good size storm for east coast up to Maryland maybe all the way up the coast. Depends on timing maybe snow or mixed bag depending on where you are. By the 12th impressive warm up begins and the west turns cold and stormy. The large snow cover in Canada will begin to melt impressive warm up lasting till Christmas or maybe a little beyond before cold comes back affecting even Texas. How about it Jay what do you think?

 

[ronjhall]

Drinking first cup of coffee. 42° with fog this morning. Heading to 51° with afternoon rain. Made wife a mount for her iPad that she can use while cooking. iPad has a clamp on it that she cannot take off easily. For those looking for a mount/stand that can be adjust while sitting in a chair or laying down. This one works well for wife.
Plans for the day. Cleanup the mess I made in shop. Then try to get as many leaves as possible off net that covers garden pond.

RNG, I also had to look at where you place is on G maps. It's where I thought it was. But maps show a lot of water. Your picture shows what looks like a stream. Lots of black/burnt trees surrounding your place. Hope you get home soon.

David, going to be a nice slab of concrete.

Randy, I was doing the same with our dog yesterday. Good entertainment for both of us.

Ed, hope you get computer fixed.

Looking, stay away from trees that may fall from the ice.

Drew, Tractor looks good waxed and shiney. I will have to admit I have somewhat of a slacker keeping my tractor clean and waxed this year. But it still is running good underneath the dirt.

Prayers for all in need.

Good Morning All.

 

[Looking4new]

Ron, a dirty tractor is a happy tractor.

Sometime soon we will be losing the hydro, yet again. The lights have been flickering for the past hour or so.

Maybe later today I will fire up the tractor and go for a cruise to see what trees I can plow off the road.

 

[RoyJackson]

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34 right now with a rain/snow mix coming down. The walks are covered (about a quarter inch) but with the high being about 40, I expect they'll be pretty clear by the afternoon.

I tried the EGO snow blower on some frozen snow....it got through, but was very slow. No doubt, the blower will work well on powdery snow and OK on wet snow...but frozen snow is tough on the machine.