Good morning!!!!

[jbrumberg]

Good Morning Everyone!!!!

5ºF was today’s low temperature, 12ºF presently, and it will not be getting much warmer today. Light powder snow predicted for tonight (20:1 snow:rain); 1” - 4” predicted. The NWS has issued a Winter Weather Advisory.

Eric- I hope that Julie mends quickly. I am sorry to read abut your thumb. Cuts and burns are the facts of life in the kitchen. Stay safe.

Ron- Thanks for sharing the iced over tower picture.

Ray- Thanks for sharing your man cave/studio picture. Your cloud deck outside looks like more snow is coming. I have a similar cloud deck this AM.

Buppies- I hope that your bloodwork provides no - surprises.

Randy- That tree looks awful close to your house.

Ted- Thanks for the + thoughts and support. As you know from your own knee rehab challenges there are good days and not so good days. All the ice and snow outside is saving me from stupid so far. It will be a long +3 weeks until my next ortho appointment. I do not see much real thawing going on the next 3 weeks either.

Lynn- Good luck on the repairs.

I hope that everyone has a decent day.

My + thoughts, wishes, and prayers.

 

[daugen]

54 going up to 61 in light sprinkles and some rain at dinner time.
Ten day weather forecast sure opened my eyes. 21 forecast for next Thursday morning.
So...spent an hour yesterday putting up row cover hoops, ordered more online, ordered more plastic online,
I am not going to lose these veggies....what a lot of work though, hoped I'd get lucky but no surprise here.

spent a few hours transplanting more flowers this morning, think I have enough to plant a long row of flowers down the middle of the veggies garden, plus already have a dozen or more little pots of Burpee Pollinator mix growing.

Was really aggravated by DR sending me the wrong pulley for my Rotohog pull behind tiller. First I had to replace the motor last year, uh, I'll say my error. Engine sits in frame on an angle, and I was running it on an angle anyway, tilling sides of foot high rows. Clearly I didn't have enough oil in it as with a clatter, it said that's it. DR suggested I overfill the crankcase by several oz of oil, sounded like they were familiar with this problem.

Then the the axle broke two weeks ago, and I ordered an entire new assembly. That came in three days, most impressive. Could not get the pulley off, bought a 90 dollar US made puller at Napa and promptly bent the pulley. Sigh. Called up and ordered another one and they sent the wrong pulley. Got an email this morning with apologies, don't send the old pulley back, keep it, new one in the mail. Can't ask for more than that and mistakes happen. But I sure did tell him the right size pulley because I had to measure it to buy the puller, an 8 inch very weak pulley I might add, but no stronger than it had to be assuming one wasn't doing the wrong thing, which I did despite the best of care.

I put the manuals for my Kubota F mower in a very secure place. Too secure...now headed back to barn to go through all manuals, plus it would have been on top, since it was recent. Sure need them to sell mower. No response to CL ad yet. I'll give it a month and then I guess I'm forced to deal with local Kubota dealer for consignment sale. Massey dealer sold my L5740 within a week, no surprise there... but wasn't too interested in this admittedly low demand mower. I just need to be patient. Not one of my strong points...

 

[Looking4new]

L4N, if by lower branches, you mean those that are now in contact with the ground, it is probably easier to leave those alone between ground and the trunk until last as they will be under a lot of force from the weight above and will want to pinch your shiny new saw. If the tree is not hung up in others and for the most part down on the ground I would clear away branches that are hanging in the air first as they are easy cutting, remove weight and let you get a clearer view of what is left. At that smashed stump, my first job would be to cut away any vertical spiky bits that are waiting to impale you if you lost your balance.

You have plenty of time at the moment, so instead of worrying about cutting that trunk, put the chainsaw away and have some fun instead. Pile some dry branches underneath, light a fire, then we can have a competition to see who can guess how long before it burns through and drops to the ground

With only twenty feet to the rest of the bush I am a little reluctant to light any fires. Also the tree was only half dead. The top half still had green on it.

I can't do anything with it until at least 4' of snow leaves. I think I know of someone that will take the trunk IF I can get it out of the back yard. If not then I will just shove it into the bush to rot. That is where the tractor comes in.

PILOON; I am going to invest in a couple of wedges, just in case.

Randy; you had better get a powerball ticket.

 

[PJSprog]

49°F and clear skies this morning, going up to ... well, actually falling through the day into the lower 20s tonight. Weather guy suggesting we may get some freezing stuff overnight and into tomorrow morning, but not too specific on what that might be.

Was quite amused on the drive home yesterday by the normally all-business traffic reporter throwing in sarcastic remarks about the terrible driving of some people. Comments like "Congratulations on messing that up" and "Well, that was inevitable" and "How can this happen in such nice weather" had me almost crying in laughter. It was entertaining to hear someone else voice the things that go through my head every day.

Nice of that limb to not crash into your garage, Randy. Very considerate.

 

[sodamo]

61°F and 2.00 inches rain last 24 hours. Forecast to be sunny this afternoon but will have to wait and see. Hoping yesterday’s painting dried enough before it started raining

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[Bird]

More crazy weather for us. 56 degrees for a low this morning with a heavy mist in the air and going for a high of 62 today. BUT the forecast is for 32 tonight. Yesterday, I noticed the blossoms on one of my Bradford Pear trees. This morning, I had a couple of places to go and I noticed quite a number of trees in the area with white blossoms. And I had to use the windshield wipers only intermittently. So everything is wet, even though my rain gauge hasn't had more that .01" in it.

 

[toppop52]

That tree looks awful close to your house

That is my single garage I replaced the burned building with, if it had fallen that far in the opposite direction it would have hit the house though. I had one fall on my main garage two years ago, but it was a small cherry limb.
But maybe I will buy that lottery ticket though!

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Good thing i delayed filing taxes, company said they have mistakes on the W2s and will reissue them.

Hawksbill at sunrise will only happen if im camping up there, lol.

My first date with my wife was on the skyline drive. We hiked a lot of trails when dating.

Eric had best suggestion for that pine, light it up.

I need to order a grapple to help me get things cleaned up.

 

[jbrumberg]

And tomorrow I could count this Barred Owl for the bird count, but not today

Sorry for the picture quality. I was hiding behind our Ficus

 

[PJSprog]

Nice, Jay. The "picture quality" makes it look like oil on canvas.