Good morning!!!!

[riptides]

46 heading to 56 today. Look at Buppies weather! That's crazy warm just down South.

Heading to the city, again. Drove up to Baltimore yesterday, flipping three hours, just traffic. Normally about one and a half hours. Things are just busy and this is the new normal.
Spent like five hours on the road for a one hour meeting. LOL.

Hope all have a great day. Be safe.

 

[Thomas]

LS mt125 owner
My daughter sent me this pic, she says my granddaughter wants to get it for me for my birthday [/QUOTE]
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:thumbsup:

 

[Thomas]

30F now upper 30's for high
As Roy said..."icy" all schools running 2 delay,Guess I better let pickup warm up get ice off again.
E muffin feed little critters slow roll to work.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[wngsprd]

54, more showers today and a high of 63.

Steppenwolfe, nice herd of orange.

Only did shift work as a senior in high school...worked swing shift after school and then into the summer...left the mornings open for going surfing, still got off by midnight, so had a reasonable schedule. Worked in a hot steamy factory making styrofoam coolers and plastic kiddie swimming pools...the temps on those presses to melt plastic beads was crazy. I remember getting my first raise...from $1.60/hour to $1.62 because I set a new record for production on my machine.

 

[daugen]

drive safely on the bad roads guys, be the turtle that wins the race.
Going up to 78 here today, silly warm except I think i'll get to see the daffodils bloom.

am taking part of the day off to be social and have a friend over for lunch. Drives me nuts thinking there are
all those collards waiting for me, the field is ready to plant, and I'll be sitting inside warming the quiche... probably good, I hurt pretty badly from yesterday. Plus my ear/tinnitus is worse this morning and it will be two weeks before my ENT appt. More drops in the ear today.

Buppies, sorry you still hurt, recovery is slower than you want I'm very sure. Billy, hope your head feels better this morning.
Maybe your wife can get your a kevlar reinforced floppy hat...I need one too.
And those of you with bum knees, may the pain and stiffness just disappear today and you once again are 21.
Hmmm, what is in this coffee?

this is not an ad...2500 for Super A and I have 4500 invested.
I should do that a few dozen times and put myself in the poorhouse...

Off to the grocery store this morning. Let's see, bacon or spinach quiche. If I read the ingredients, probably won't want
to eat it..but this is little old lady entertaining. That and some fruit salad and a store bought dessert, usher them out as promptly as polite,
and I might be able to get into my dirty clothes and get some planting done this afternoon. Gosh I wish I had invited them
on a rainy day...most gorgeous day yet and I'm stuck inside. But then I got more done yesterday than I thought we would, so it all evens out.
Food pantry trying to get me volunteers to help plant the collards. Let's see, 2500 plants, two per minute, how many man hours?
No wonder "real farmers" automate all this. Oh would one of those nifty transplanter machines come in handy now. Not in the budget, saving up for that potato harvester.

 

[daugen]

working in factories, seems a bunch of us did that.
For three years working my way through school I worked the graveyard shift in the Union Camp
multiwall paper bag plant in my small town. It got so hot in there even on nights shifts, over 90 on the floor,
that the local fire chief, who also worked there..., brought several trucks in and hosed down the metal roofs.
Not sure what that accomplished but it was appreciated.

What do they use in big factories today? When fans turn to swamp coolers and turn to giant HVAC?

I will always remember the old men in that factory lecturing me to finish my college, so I wouldn't
have to come back there for a job. Since I ran the strapper at the end of the production line, and could back the entire place up
if my machine went down, it was an interesting and physically very hard job, stacking piles of bags that likely weighed
at least thirty pounds each, onto a pallet for the shipping dept to take away.
They tore the whole place down anyway ten years later.

 

[ronjhall]

Drinking first cup of coffee. 31° with cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 49° with thunderstorms in PM. Got ice cleaned off walkway yesterday. Got some of the cleanup in buildings. Continue today. Need to get into cellar. But door are iced over. Hope today's warm temperatures melt the ice. Ortho Dr appointment this morning.

Internet went down yesterday. When it came back up. 275mbps downloads and 24mbps upload. I can tell the difference.

Worked in some very hot plants. Tire plants were the worst. Company I worked for installed machines in Korea. Had to make some parts with special fits because they did not have heat in plant in the winter.

Drew, enjoy the ladies tea party. You need the rest. Wish you luck with the ENT Dr. My 6 visits added up to no relief. :confused2:

PJ, Riptides and Rich, safe travels.

LS, nice shirt.

Those in the way of ice storms, stay warm and safe.

Prayers for all.

Good Morning All.

 

[Looking4new]

I think you would look good in that shirt, LS.

 

[Buppies]

Safe travels Riptides very busy area I try to avoid

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 38F @ 4:00AM. Partly cloudy skies this morning will become overcast during the afternoon. High 44F. Winds SE at 5 to 10 mph.

I worked lots of jobs in my high school and college years that proved excellent incentives to stick with my studies and get a nice, cushy, white collar job. Do they even call them that anymore in this new age of political correctness? :confused2: One that sticks out was babysitting a repair job on a basic oxygen furnace in Detroit. Graveyard shift, I was supposed to be there two days and ended up there a week. Had to visit the laundromat twice to have clean clothes, as everyone in there came out black from all the graphite in the air. And so noisy you had to shout into the person's ear next to you to be heard. A real Dante's Inferno of a place, one that OSHA would fine to death if it still existed today. Probably lots of He11 Holes like that still in the 3rd world, hard to compete against stuff like that on a global scale.

I'll join the mob encouraging you to take it easier, Drew. You'll be no good to plant or person if they have to put you in traction to straighten out that bum neck of yours, and you won't enjoy it even if there's a pretty nurse in there keeping you up all night making sure you're OK.:laughing:

But I'll join Drew in wishing all those that are ailing a rapid and full recovery and a springtime of happiness and productivity. It won't be long now before we're all seeing daffodils.

Spent time under the van finding out I'd been sent the wrong seals, and at this point I'm not even sure where the ex-mechanic got the component I'm supposed to be fixing. While under there I spotted a leaking hose on the coolant lines, and tightened a dozen hose clamps as a result. Spotted another oil leak on the engine side, and will be looking more into that as time permits.

Today's a town day; should be interesting trying to run errands while dragging a trailer full of motorcycle around.

Hang in there, gang, Friday's comin'.