Good morning!!!!

[lostcreekranch]

Good morning. It's 37° and clear here this morning with a very light N. wind. High should be 61° this afternoon.

If winds stay down, I'll trim a tree or two and maybe light one of our four burn piles.

RNG ... about 15 years I was getting a haircut, at the barbershop on our Courhouse Square. There were a couple of older guys sitting in the barbershop, swapping lies, so I asked them about the old water tower across the street. Both had been present during the time they tried to blow up the old water tower. They loaded it up with dynamite .... boom .... and nothing.

A replacement water had been built, I believe in the late 40's, early 1950's as they were building out the city water system.

Drew ... glad you're feeling a bit better.

Don ... nice the compressor mystery is solved. Congratulations on your new trails.

Buppies ... hope you continue to heal.

Kyle ... I didn't get the day off either.

Hope everyone has a great beginning, to your week.

Prayers to all.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Somewhere on the section of the blue ridge parkway between Roanoke and I64 is an exhibit about the old narrow logging railroads that used to be in the mountains. Have taken pictures of the kids there a couple times, has a waterfall.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

18° and sunny. Floating holiday so I came to work to enjoy no traffic. Will take the holiday when it snows.
The big hype over last Saturday snow was a bust, with just some ice that melted overnight into Sunday. But fine with me.

 

[toppop52]

24° going to 36° today, cold for a couple of days. Other than the snow we had late autumn, I don’t see much coming until at least mid February, if at all.

Not much planned today, too cold and Ellen is off today. I hope everyone feels better. Prayers.

 

[dmottv]

Today started at 9 with a windchill of -1. We ended up with 5” of fairly light fluffy snow yesterday, out of the forecast 4”-8”. It provided an opportunity for some seat time from which a few neighbors benefited.

Several of us watched the football games at a neighbors house. I think Mahommes is an exciting player to watch.

Have a good week, everyone!

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Good morning to all! Low of 24, headed to 45. A front comes across tonight, a total mixed assortment of rain, snow, freezing rain, and mixed precipitation. Depends on elevation and location as to who gets what.

Spent yesterday getting some good seat time in, spreading all the gravel is done, all the RR ties were placed first to contain the gravel. When we got done with the gravel, we decided to just finish it off and filled the RR tie bordered landscape beds with mulch. The son is very pleased with how it turned out.
Now only if the garage door people could get their act together and get the door installed...... (long story.... stupid people)

After all the gravel work, I saw the neighbor hand shoveling dirt off of a 16 ft trailer. So, I drove the tractor over, unloaded it in about 15 minutes. He was very grateful. Asked if I could hang around while they got another load, I said sure. About 15 minutes later he came back with another load, unloaded that one for him and went back home. Put about 9 hours on the tractor.

BEF, prayers sent for you and family, hope they can find the cause of his illness.

Drew, hope the repair is not too expensive and the canopy operates properly. Take care, do not push it too hard....

Mostly, hope your knee heals up quickly.

I have always liked the windmill operated wells and elevated water tanks of the old west out on the Ranches. There were a bunch in this area, but over the last 25 years, most of them have been allowed to fall over or just fall into state of disrepair. All the new tanks are the big ugly steel tanks now. Of course, they put them on the high spots / hills of the area, so you see them for miles.

Not sure what is on the agenda for today.

Everyone have a great start to the week! Prayers sent.

Here are some pics of the gravel work.

 

[sodamo]

65°F and .02 inches rain.
Somewhat strange day ahead. Take wife to primary care for routine checkup and then dentist this afternoon. Her oral surgeon was able to reschedule her molar extraction.

Guys lost at cards yesterday. Mid game we were down over 14 thousand points,but managed a bit of come back and only lost by 7 thousand. Of course the girls loved it.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[jbrumberg]

A clear and sunny 8ºF for today’s low temperature; a breezy, clear and sunny 16ºF presently; and I anticipate similar conditions and an afternoon high temp ~ 21ºF. Shoveled out the cart path to the woodpile and access path to our propane tank and was able to walk Brogen with the existing snow/icepack. I see a dry and slowly warming temperatures this week and a possible mixed precipitation weather event over this coming weekend. This PM I will set up the solar powered battery charge maintainer for the tractor. It will be a good week for solar panels around here.

Randy- Your dinner looks like great eats. I do not cook with salt, but some foods (like steak) I will salt at the table. I still do a fair amount of brining of chicken, pork chops, and some types of fish.

BEF- My + thoughts and prayers for your FIL, your family, and you. I agree with Randy. I always suspected that my Aunt-In-Law suffered an undiagnosed deep seated stroke that caused her to become and remain in an unresponsive sleep state. Whatever the cause I hope that the specialists figure out what is going on and hopefully treatment.

Bill- Thanks for the laugh.. There was a removable plastic spittoon attached to the vial. They want a fair amount of spit for analysis; and I did not think a decent goober would work.

Kyle- I have been called a royal PITA. Maybe I am a missing link? I am curious about all the auto-immune stuff and genetic makeup.

Bruce- I hope that your knee starts healing.

Billy- With the hot sauce it might taste fairly decent. Your ingredient mix is not that much different from scrapple.

Only a few resident chickadees this year- I have been consistently counting 5 at the feeders simultaneously. It has been a good year for juncos I have been consistently counting ~a dozen, but yesterday I counted 27. Lot’s of Mourning Doves; I have been consistent counting around (2 apparent flocks) close to 30 birds. 15 different bird species in total so far. I’ve seen and heard them, but no ravens counted.

Don- That is great news.

Ted- Nice tractor work. I spent ~2 hours on the tractor yesterday, and I forgot about Santa’s gift of a seat warmer cushion. Thank you Santa.

My + thoughts, wishes, and prayers.

 

[PJSprog]

14°F and cloudy this morning with light snow flurries, going up to 23° today. Looks like we'll get back up above freezing tomorrow. Been a cold weekend here.

Had another one of those "got a whole lot of nothing done" weekends. Not helping to shorten the honey-do list.

Sorry to hear about your Mother, Randy. Lost my Father in '89, and my Mother in '11. Still miss them every day.

I suppose it's a bummer for you about your trip, Drew, but it sure is better than getting far from home and getting sick. Hope your doctors can get things sorted out for you.

I started drinking coffee in my teens, and always with cream and sugar. Got rid of the cream habit fairly quickly, and eventually the sugar as well. In fact, I pretty much gave up coffee all together back in the early '90s, as I used to drink so much it was making me a nervous wreck. Even to this day, I still prefer tea. I do occasionally enjoy a cup of coffee (Wife drinks it every day), but always just black for me.

Kyle, we feed our chickens a 2:1 mix of layers pellets and scratch grains. They seem to enjoy it. We have a metal trash can that perfectly holds two 50# bags of pellets and one 50# bag of scratch grains, with just enough room to get a small shovel in to mix it.

 

[sodamo]

Nice looking job, Ted. Really coming together.