Good morning!!!!

[hawkeye08]

32F this morning with an inch of new snow.. driveway melted off by itself..

I've been trying to get some of the items checked off my to do list over the holiday break.

Replaced plastic nuts on recliner mechanism with steel (special order), chair works great again.

Installed SimpliSafe that we bought a couple years ago.. pretty straight forward.. found out they came out with new system in 2018 that uses encryption so old sensors won't work on new system (I was considering buying a new system with more entry sensors and making a nice big system out of the both of them, but that won't work. We have not activated it yet to call dispatch, want to see if it will work for us first.

Got the wife all setup to scan her families old pictures... too bad her sisters have taken so many of the photos without sharing. No worries, she still got some treasures. Her Dad doesn't want any back so she will give them to the sibling that is in the photo.. if more than one, then she picks who gets originals. She will make DVD/USB stick with all the photos for all her siblings, they can print whatever they want then.

 

[toppop52]

Hit 62 today, felt great! Took the deck off the tractor and the MF guy stopped by to check on why my bucket would jump out of float sometimes, turns out I didn’t have enough hydraulic pressure, bumped it up to 2000 rpm and cured the problem.

 

[sodamo]

Thanks for the zoo pics, RNG

Glad to read people are on the mend, getting off the meds, etc.

picked up 6, 60 lb bags of Quikcrete this morning. All mixed and in place, phew. Told wife I hope to never buy another bag. Need to check in an hour. Major clean up tomorrow.

Got to DMV 15 minutes before they opened this morning and was 7th the in line. Went pretty smoothly. When we traded the Tundra had to take off wife’s disability plates and DMV held them until we got the Ridgeline plates. Today we were able to swap them for $5.50. While it might seem a bit odd that we put the disability plates on the truck vs the Pilot, fact is wife is probably in truck 90% of time compared to the Pilot (has hanging placard). A bit silly the state will only plate 1 vehicle.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Evening. Fairly mild here in downtown San Diego, our last evening here.


Spent most of the day at the San Diego Air and Space Museum. It's located in Balboa Park, which also happens to be very close to the airport, which makes moving aircraft to and from museum super easy for them. The entrance is decorated with the skin of an SR71 and a Delta Dart. Pretty impressive start. The entrance hall is lined with portraits and biographies of famous aviators and inventors, then the airplanes, full size to miniature models, of the earliest days of aviation. Then on into WWII, a huge commercial aviation display, and a "4D" theater with seats that move and 3D glasses showing a space battle, soaring views of beautiful landscapes, and an Apollo space shot. Pretty sure no one slept through it. There was an extensive space display, but we missed it, unable to cram everything into one afternoon.


Started the day doing laundry in a shopping strip that also had a nice Mexican restaurant and a liquor store. That's what I call a win-win-win. Delicious food, and a nice bottle of Aberfeldy single malt found its way into my saddlebag for the trip out to the desert for tomorrow.

No cell service until past New Years, so I hope everyone's 2020 gets off to a great start!!!

 

[Looking4new]

Happy New Year to you, too, RNG

 

[buckeyefarmer]

BEF, Are you back up to speed?

Getting there.

 

[sodamo]

Happy New Year RNG and thanks for great pics. Would be a hard choice if I could visit only one.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Thanks for the pics RNG. I'm a sidelines propeller head too.

Got my son's frame glass bead blasted and primed today.

After I paint it Black, I can start putting it back together.

Need to paint the fenders too.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 51F this morning , fog, calm wind. Fog did not clear out very fast, trace amount in rain bucket, clouding up this afternoon, high temp was 66F. Slow start this morning, some putter, watched some recorded tv movies, wenr for bike ride, called bike shop. not till end of next week for return of Volagi. Good nap today, watched some bowel games tonight.
David, sorry about the quick-rete, have had the same issue myself, usually check bags before loading cart.
RNG great pics from Zoo and museum. Did you get charging issue repaired?
Bill hope you had successful day.
Eric Buckland the man who ate nearly everything?
Ted, not so nice to hear "previously favorite place" Glad family get together went well anyway. Had a nephew that lived in Albuquerque for several years.
Jay hope Peg recovers soon.
Randy hope pop-pop time went well.
David congrats on concrete finish.
Kyle looks like nice work on primer.
Happy new Year RNG.
prayers for all.

 

[Buppies]

41 high of 62 today rain moves in tomorrow thru Monday about one inch then low 50s rest of the week. Still lots of work left to do

RNG nice pictures always liked reading as much as time allows about WWII aircraft

New truck has 3400 miles on it now no issues so far averaging about 18.9 mpg pretty good for 7000 lb truck

Hopefully have 2 more weeks of decent weather to get done what we have to do

Strange winter so far or lack there of

Prayers for all in need