Good morning!!!!

[300UGUY]

Thanks. I've applied my Mfg Engineering/repairman motto to it...."A model T with air conditioning"...
Ended up getting a Whirlpool 20.? cubic foot (all that would fit the cutout). In Stainless, plain jane analog temp dial. Besides the compressor, the only moving part is the light switch.



sorry to hear about your wifey. Also sorry to hear about your temporary promotions. Hopefully, wifey will get well soon, so you can be demoted. My friends are over at Oxford. He sent me a photo of a marker showing that Robert Boyle figured out Boyle's law there.



Maybe the wind carried off that common sense, along with mine...

Got the 2 orings I needed at work. Fixed the faucet's spigot leak.

Went to doctor. Of course my BP was just right. (He saw it at it's worst last Thursday afternoon) Figures, since my previous medicine was good, it's just that it blocked more things than I believed I needed blocked... I'm just thankful that the BP is back down. The DR ran my labwork through a Mayo Clinic piece of software as an analysis tool. He said this will show my probability of having a heart attack in the next 10 years. It came back with a 5% chance. He said that part of it is numbers based on parameters of being a male, at my age of 58. He then adjusted some of the parameters to show worse case scenario, such as not being on any BP's or statin type drugs (I'm still not on statins because my triglycerides and cholesterol numbers are actually pretty good) and the worst case showed 7% chance of heart event in next 10 years. He said that's pretty normal. He mentioned a drug called Finasteride? It looks like it has plenty of drama potentially associated to using it. It is for keeping testosterone from reaching the prostate. Some men take it for male pattern baldness, but I've got a pretty good head of hair still....so don't need it for that.

RNG, Buckeye, you guys are wearing me out with the wood cutting...

Time for prayers and bed.

Good night team.

Kyle, I致e been bald for a long time. Hair is highly overrated. Plus I致e not spent a penny on shampoo in 30 years. Haircuts are also very cheap.....

I’ve been on statins for 30 or so years. I’ve managed to keep my blood chemistry in check, I haven’t observed much in the way of side effects. But I did start taking the statins in the morning, I feel better that way.

 

[PJSprog]

28°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 50° today. This will be the only mild day this week, as we are headed back into the 20s & 30s for highs.

Buppies, I grew up in a quiet little blue collar steel mill city of about 40K people. In the '60s and '70s, we could leave the house to go to dinner or wherever and not worry about whether or not we closed the garage door or even locked the house. Petty crime was rare, and violent crime was simply unheard of back then. That was the stuff that happened over in St. Louis and East St. Louis. As time progressed, though, that all started to change. When the steel industry started to tank, so did our city. Crime went up, drugs became more prevalent, and at one point there were even prostitutes walking the streets of the downtown area. By 1995, I'd had enough and finally moved away. The steel industry has been making a comeback recently, and there has been genuine effort made to clean things up, especially the downtown area. However, it's still not the same as the place where I grew up. I suppose it never will be again. I guess my point it that places change. The little town of 800 where I originally moved has almost three times that many people now, and are starting to see similar growing pains. I hope your area isn't experiencing such a change, because it almost never reverses itself once that starts.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Kyle, I致e been bald for a long time. Hair is highly overrated. Plus I致e not spent a penny on shampoo in 30 years. Haircuts are also very cheap.....

I’ve been on statins for 30 or so years. I’ve managed to keep my blood chemistry in check, I haven’t observed much in the way of side effects. But I did start taking the statins in the morning, I feel better that way.

My only prescription is a statin and doctor told me best effect is to take before going to bed.

 

[Thomas]

Strong winds.
A Tower At Sugarloaf Was Crushed Under Strong Winds On Monday

 

[jbrumberg]

Good Morning Everyone!!!!

A windy night here with 16ºF the morning low; 18ºF now which maybe close to days high temperature. 60 mph gusts based on reports and observed tree debris on the ground. I never saw a flock of morning doves scattered by wind gusts like what happened yesterday; a couple of the doves were cartwheeled over the ground w/o injury. Wind should be dying down later today and tomorrow will be colder with low temperature ~0ºF.

Drew- I am sorry to read about the MRI scan; good luck with the CAT scan.

David thanks for sharing your chicken soup recipe. We call it Jewish penicillin here. I use our pressure cooker a lot, but never for chicken soup. I just cook a mix similar to yours until the carcass breaks down. I think that I'll try your pressure cooker the next time. Brogen loves the soup byproducts (- onion and peppercorns). I hope your sore throat is resolving and not moving north and/or south.

Ted- A great skunk story. Thanks for sharing

Kyle- Great news about the BP and the predictive testing.

Roy- Thanks for sharing the + news about Suzette.

"L4N, be careful, can be a widowmaker if trunk flies out from tension. If you aren't sure, put a rope on it.- Drew. It could also bind the bar seizing it.

Buppies- I hope the $ invested pays off with your truck.

Lynn- I am sorry to read about your sled; good luck with the wood retrieval.

I hope that everyone has a manageable day today.

My + thoughts, wishes, and prayers

 

[LouNY]

RNG, the center of the tree is supported on its' limbs on top of a mound of dirt about 20' wide. I am thinking tie the tree off on some others to keep it from rolling my way and get to the lower limbs on top of the mound first and lop off the top there. Then work my way towards the stump after I reposition the ropes, still cutting the lower limbs and maybe cut a 10' log or two out of it. I have no intentions of salvaging any of it. 10 footers will be more manageable, is my thinking.

What I have done with trees under tension that could split is wrap a chain around it,
then fasten the chain with a bolt and washers thru the links.
If it does try and split the chain will stop it, bolting allows removing the chain with less aggravation then trying to get slack to unhook a hook.

 

[Looking4new]

What I have done with trees under tension that could split is wrap a chain around it,
then fasten the chain with a bolt and washers thru the links.
If it does try and split the chain will stop it, bolting allows removing the chain with less aggravation then trying to get slack to unhook a hook.

Thanks for that. I never even thought of using a chain on the lower part.

 

[sodamo]

61°F and .02 inches rain.

Taking it easy and chicken soup may have been right approach yesterday. Still some head congestion but feel better. Maybe some metered productivity today.

Prayers for all
Be w
Have a great day

 

[Jim Nelson]

2019-02-26, 0323

14 right now and that's about where it's going to stay today...

Suzette's lungs have cleared up (had liquid in her lungs) and off oxygen. I hope they'll release her soon!

Eric, take care of your wifey!

Pretty stiff winds yesterday...seemed like snow squalls driving home yesterday afternoon...

Roy, I have had 2 heart surgeries and after the first the doc sent me to a cardiac rehab group which I thought was a bunch of hooey.But after the first session I realized it was the best thing that ever happened. I ,and most of the others in the group, had no idea of how really insecure we felt until the nurses that ran the program started pushing us a little and we realized how much more we could do than we thought. This is important because one of the most important post-op things is exercise. If your wife is not already scheduled for a rehab program I would sure recommend it for her long term recovery.
Good luck and best wishes for a quick recovery.

 

[Looking4new]

The promised pics.

 

[daugen]

productive morning on a beautiful day. Got a great number of zinnias and marigolds repotted, worked on them since before sunrise,
then went to spray the orchard.
As usual the sprayer had some issue. This time both plastic fittings on the end of the spray hose had given up, one I salvaged and one
I had to replace. Then it worked without issue, sprayed all the fruit and nut trees and ran out after the last tree. Then back to clean out sprayer and put pink antifreeze back in for next week.

I guess from the machinery running, ear is roaring away, loud as ever. Sure hope this is just a nuisance...

 

[jbrumberg]

Lou- Not that I cut much anymore, but that is a great idea. Thanks.

David- You need another day of rest and chicken soup. Take care.

Jim- I am happy you are still amongst the living and thank you for your shared experience. "Learned helplessness and dependency" is common with any life changing medical/physical event.

L4N- Thanks for the pictures.

 

[Thomas]

Looking4new
The promised pics.
………………………………..
No cabin fever for you.

 

[Looking4new]

Looking4new
The promised pics.
………………………………..
No cabin fever for you.

I don't get cabin fever. I am the ONLY driver in this house. So when the mail comes to the end of the road, guess who gets it? Me. When the DIL wants something from the store I am the one that gets to go get said item/s. Most weeks I am outside 3-4 hours/day, every day. Of course, when I am not outside or sleeping I am on the computer and conserving energy.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Confused about the wood cutting comments. I was sitting on my couch watching them work out my back window.

Here is the tree that caused the outage. My property follows this road to the right. Tree was in ROW, not on my property. It broke a pole also.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Wngsprd, maybe we can meet in SNP sometime for a hike. I am way out of shape..... A few yrs ago i was doing lots of 10mile hikes on the AT with the scouts.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

PJ, had to laught at the "little" town of 40k people. The largest town where i grew up was 3500 people, more like 2500 now. The whole county is 14K.

 

[toppop52]

I grew up in South Mills, NC. Current population 454. When I lived there it was about 1200. Nearby Elizabeth City has around 18000.

 

[ronjhall]

I grew up in Sterling Township, Michigan. Mostly a farming community. Maybe 1000 population in the late 40's. Then GM, Ford and Chrysler started building plants there. By the time I moved from that side of town. Population in 1972 was close to 100k. Today it is almost 130k. 4th largest city in Michigan. Not much left of the little farming community I grew up in. 14 miles north of downtown Detroit. At one time it was known as the Rhubarb capital of the USA. Mostly grown in dark hothouses. Most of the area was settled by English and German immigrants.
Today it is the city of Sterling Heights.

 

[Looking4new]

The town I live in now pop 600.