Good morning!!!!

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 43F @ 5:30AM. Cloudy skies with periods of rain this afternoon. High around 50F. Winds SE at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 90%.
The weather workers are talking Atmospheric River for this next storm, a Pineapple Express. Thanks, David...

Did some Black Friday shopping yesterday, but didn't buy much. The van needs an alarm system, and I thought I'd spring for one from Viper, but you get no warranty or installation instructions if you buy one online. I also learned that Python alarms are made by the same company, with the same screwy policies. Ended up reading up on one from AudioVox, that now call themselves Voxx. who a few years ago purchased another company and now markets their alarms under the Prestige label.:confused2: All the features of the big names, generous lifetime warranty, apparently good after the sale support, but we'll see how quickly they respond to a pre-sale inquiry...

Managed to get the dash put back together yesterday, and spent a lot of time on my back peering up at the space behind the glove box trying to figure out why it wouldn't close al the way. Found out it's still hitting the blower housing from the Vintage Air heater/air conditioner conversion, and short of tearing it all out, all I could do was whittle some plastic out of the glove box, which is really more of a vertical bin that pivots at the bottom, so not much space was lost. Turns out I have two of them, and the latch on the one that I've already painted to match the rest of the interior somehow got full of grit and dirt, and doesn't work well. Tried flushing with solvent and blowing it out, but it's still gritty. Got the other one out, and it actually works much better, and I think it'll be easier to just wait for a warm, dry day and give it a coat of paint and use it instead. In the mean time, it could use a good soaking to get all the mouse poop out of it.:yuck: Cold start problem has been caused on other people's Subaru engines by bad temperature sensors or fuel pumps, but the code reader app I'm using reports normal temperature readings and doesn't track fuel pressure. And like a lot of other things these days, the market seems to be flooded with crappy Chinese fuel pressure gauges to the point that the companies that used to make good ones are now out of business. I have a spare, brand new, fuel pump, so maybe I'll try that this morning before it starts raining.

Doesn't feel much like a Saturday, but here it is anyway. Hope everyone enjoys the rest of the long weekend!

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good morning! 71˚F gusty warm misty wind from the South and gloomy overcast skies. If it ever clears out I can start putting up Christmas decorations - I know after Thanksgiving is RNG approved and I agree. Some neighbors have had theirs up a month.

Drew that $35 tree sounds like a bargain. Lkng4nw I would also welcome snow even though I have no equipment to move it it would just stay till it melts.

Question? Is it legal to decorate a city streetlight?

Some folks around here just leave their Xmas lights up all year...

Thirty-five bux is a great price. I'm reading this morning that there's a Xmas tree shortage, something about a supply problem coming out of Oregon. Maybe due to all the fires they've had the last couple of years up there?

With regard to decorating city street lights, I guess it depends on if you get caught or not. :laughing: Maybe a case of better to beg forgiveness than ask permission?:confused2:

 

[ronjhall]

Forgot.
2 football games today. U of M and OSU. MSU and Maryland. Good luck Michigan teams.

 

[toppop52]

40 now, cloudy, windy and cold with a high of 44 today. Rain starting overnight and some chance through Monday night. Warm tomorrow high of 59.
I need to get decorations up but my motivation is lacking. My procedure is in less than two weeks and that is just 12 days before Christmas. I need to get busy!
Have a good day folks.

 

[ramman666]

Well mans best friends had me go out to realize winter is almost in full swing 11 out on this sunny morning. Wasn’t able to find our Xmas lights last night but got the tree up. but I have a few decorations I need to go set up and wife thinks I’m going to go shopping this weekend for lights because ours grew legs. Yeah right!!!! Well take it easy.

 

[txdon]

Ramman666 welcome to the good morning thread to let us know what's happening in your part of the world!

 

[ramman666]

Thank you for having me I have felt very welcomed so far.

 

[Thomas]

19F now clear sky upper 20's for high.

Outside to get chores done before day break 12F but the windchill got one attention real quick.
Plans for today...Good size wheel barrow load of wood keep wood furnace purring,afternoon walk about bog see what the critters are up to,watch some college football,then take rest of the day as it comes.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[Buppies]

Well mans best friends had me go out to realize winter is almost in full swing 11 out on this sunny morning. Wasn稚 able to find our Xmas lights last night but got the tree up. but I have a few decorations I need to go set up and wife thinks I知 going to go shopping this weekend for lights because ours grew legs. Yeah right!!!! Well take it easy.

Welcome to the Good Morning Thread sorry for it being so cold 60 here

 

[Buppies]

Thomas still enjoying retirement

 

[jbrumberg]

Good Morning Everyone!!!

I woke up this morning to a NWS MA/Boston-Norton Office issued Winter Storm Warning and increased projected snowfall amounts (17") It was a crisp, clear and sunny 20ºF for today's low temperature; a clear and sunny 24ºF presently; and I anticipate a clear and sunny afternoon with temperature ~30ºF. A great morning for the dump run and get ready for tomorrow's predicted snow. Interestingly my area has been consistently in the MA snow 都weet spot all week with the various models runs.

"... Bill, I have fond memories of putting on snowmobile suit and plowing snow then coming in to fire to warm up"- Bruce. Your fond memories will be my reality tomorrow.

Roy- Good luck traveling down to CT. It could be a mixed precipitation to rain event as you get closer to the coast.

Phil- Good luck with your snow management. I too am in storm prep mode. I need to preposition the vehicles and move the tractor to a more advantageous position in the driveway.

Ramman666- Welcome to TBN. Good luck with your NE weather with this pending storm.

I hope that everyone has a decent Saturday as planned without any surprises.

My + thoughts and prayers

 

[buckeyefarmer]

39° going to 42°. Calling for snow overnight before it changes back to rain. Son flies out around 3 pm tomorrow.

Welcome ramman to TBN and good morning. We are all certified sane by our in-house shrink Jay. Trust me.

According to my son Subaru got Apple car play in 2019 models, and not my 2018. I have starlink that didn’t seem to do much. My sons elantra has car play, so he can put google maps from his phone on the car display.

I only bought 1 garman well over 10 yrs ago. Never updated it, never saw the need. I guess if you have a lot of new streets it might be useful. I use google maps on my phone or Waze for long trips. Not to know where I’m going, but to look for backups and speed traps.

NC grows lots of Christmas trees in the Asheville area. That’s where a lot of sellers get their trees.
Lot of the tree farms near me have closed. Used to be a dozen in the county, now 2 or 3.

We brought leftovers home. We took a ham, got half of it left. My family always makes oyster dressing. Don’t know how it started, goes back to my grandmother at least. Only way I like oysters, it is so good and moist. Dressing, turkey, mashed Potatoes all covered in gravy is all I need. And some homemade apple sauce.

I took dad a gallon of fresh cider, cause he likes it. It went over well with the great grandkids as well. We had 24 people out of 36 there.

My oldest brother couldn’t come, his wife has MS real bad.

 

[sodamo]

69°F and .76 inches rain

Have to go to memorial service this morning. Wife of my concrete guy, George, passed a few weeks ago. Will be standing room only.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[sodamo]

good morning all. Lot of rain headed in tonight and tomorrow, what is going to dump snow on folks North of here.
went to bed too early, up too early, hope this will get back to normal in a few days. I get "off my feed" when I travel.
I might go out and get a christmas tree this morning, if it's going to rain all weekend, fun thing to do inside.
Trees in front of supermarket are 35 bucks, Boy Scout lot where I'd prefer getting them is $65. Too much for me for something I burn up in a month.
So off to Lowes or supermarket today to see what they have.

Washing machine running, about to cook some "natural" sausage for breakfast, though anything that comes in a box is suspect.

I can only imagine what David would pay for a fresh cut xmas tree in Hawaii.

LOL, David doesn’t. Too expensive. We keep ours in a box in the closet. But they are a news item here. Already seen some on car-tops. We do have a live one. It was a potted tree 1st year we were here. Planted it next to driveway, probably about 40 tall now.

 

[daugen]

I think Food Lion uses these trees as a loss leader to get folks there, but yes, the trees are from NC, likely around Asheville, about 4-5 hours West. So I'm sure someone drove a big truck of them across the State and dropped off at their supermarket locations.

Drew, Knights of Columbus sell Christmas trees in DQ parking lot. They start at $80. They do sell all that they have long before Christmas.
Ron, my very first job off the farm was at age 12 cutting Christmas trees for customers at a local farm where I did that for at least four years.
Lot of crawling under trees, needles and snow down your neck, sap on your hands, but I remember getting tipped a dollar, when a quarter or 50 cents was more usual, and
thought I was raking it in. Owners of farm were good friends of my parents and that very first job was a good one.
These trees aren't very fat, which is good, as mine is going in the main hallway when entering the house.
First I need to find the base and then trim the bottom branches off. I have lots of power saws for that but still like using the original hand bow saw,
just like I did when I was 12. I might not put lights on it, just go natural with ornaments, and whether I find a string or two that work will help
guide that decision.

 

[jbrumberg]

BEF- “Eternity is a ham and two people”- Dorothy Parker. (BTDT) 24 out of 36 family members getting together to celebrate anything is pretty awesome The food reads to be great eats. I am so sorry to read about your SIL. My + thoughts and prayers for her, your Brother, and the rest of family. I helped manage an MS unit. I never felt so powerless. I hope and pray every day that research finds a way to treat and/or even better cure all neurodegenerative diseases in my lifetime. Ice cold apple cider is one of my favorite nonalcoholic beverages

The only sanity I question around here is my own.

 

[Scrambler82]

I recently found my Tractor Forum Posting on my computer, they have been hiding under the Google Button, WHY... I still am trying to figure that out, "Why won't Google transfer my forum mail"..., not sure why to how !

"... So the squeaky wheel does get oiled, sometime !"- Grev

I am happy that your perseverence resulted in a surprising (to me) + (large) corporate response.

I like olive tapenade. We buy Trader Joe's brand. It's pretty decent.

Try this Fotis and Son Mediterranean Tapenade, it is really good, one of the best I have tasted, even home made.
I you happen to want to, I can get the numbers.

Scrambler, you are one persistent guy! :thumbsup:

ADD/OCD/PTSD/etc., etc., I really thing the word is PITA... and you have to pull the BIG strings !

might I humbly add that all of the big three have huge grills, Ford and Chevy are in a race as to who can come up with the largest grill, while
Denalis have always had the most attractive grills out there because they were actually minimalist. Enormous but not overdone. I'm a car guy so I follow this
and think David's truck, if he has a car wash next door, will look really good for a long time. Even the new electric trucks are miming the big front ends when they don't even need to. If you play in the big leagues you have to have a big hood and grill. Seems there is a huge I wanna be a Kenworth vibe going on.

I remember in the late 70's, Ford had a really nice looking Grille, I do like the '79 Ford Truck Grille.
The newer F150s have a good grille but there are different models, if you want to buy on the high end you get it, over wise they are lacking.
The new Test Truck, there first picture of the Electric Truck looked a lot like the Dodge Ram, and I said that could be parking in my driveway, but then the second pictures came out and WHAM-BAM, this new image looks like a "One Step Beyond"... not foe me !

Its like the new Ford Ranger, to looks like a Ford Edge, the crossover, with its back end cut out... why, why, why !

Ltr

 

[txdon]

Its like the new Ford Ranger, to looks like a Ford Edge, the crossover, with its back end cut out... why, why, why !

I don't think the 2019 Ranger looks anything like the 2019 Edge. I just looked in the garage and this pic is exact for the Ranger.
Ranger: https://www.addictivedesertdesigns....fficial/2019-ford-raptor-grill-headlights.jpg
Edge: https://st.motortrend.com/uploads/sites/5/2018/01/2019-Ford-Edge-ST-front-grille-01.jpg

 

[toppop52]

I don't think the 2019 Ranger looks anything like the 2019 Edge. I just looked in the garage and this pic is exact for the Ranger.
Ranger: https://www.addictivedesertdesigns....fficial/2019-ford-raptor-grill-headlights.jpg
Edge: https://st.motortrend.com/uploads/sites/5/2018/01/2019-Ford-Edge-ST-front-grille-01.jpg

I see the corporate resemblance, mostly the grilles themselves, but that’s as far as I see it going.

 

[Bird]

My family always makes oyster dressing. Don’t know how it started, goes back to my grandmother at least. Only way I like oysters, it is so good and moist.

This is the first time I've heard of oyster dressing in a lot of years. My parents used to spend the winters on the Texas coast, so they always had lots of all kinds of food from the ocean, including oysters. And Mother used to make the oyster dressing "good and moist" as you said. They liked it, I liked it, but my wife and daughters just don't want anything to do with oysters.