Good morning!!!!

[Looking4new]

Good morning, temp is 9ｰF and going to a high of 21. Wind NNE 13 gusting to 22 mph. Periods of light snow today.
Winter storm warning in effect.The powers that be are threatening 4-6" by tomorrow morning and another 6" tomorrow.

I gotta take the DIL to the Dr.s' this afternoon. It is only in town so that isn't too bad.

Tomorrow is supposed to be the monthly trip to North Bay for groceries, but if weather dictates that I plow then NB waits until the next day.

While DIL is in the Dr.s' I will go to the post office and mail a package.

The blubber is coming off me nicely, 242 lbs this morning, naked. I was never a fan of getting weighed fully clothed. Nekkid is the only way to get an accurate weight.


Have a good day all

 

[ronjhall]

Buppies, don't know if Virginia is different but as a retired insurance person, very happy with BC/BS supplement. Never have a copay anywhere, Not cheap at 5k per year total with Medicare and Part D drugs, but I sure get my money out of it. That's one MRI to put it in perspective.

My BCBS supplement is costing me 4k per year. But like you no copays or other bills. Medicare will pay over $5K for my MRI last week. BCBS pays about $200. I told my Dr neighbor about cost keeps going up every year. He cannot understand why this is happening to people on fixed income. He will find out. He is 67.

 

[Thomas]

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Squirrel is checking me out.
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He/she could be thinking better tell Ron getting low on the chow here.

 

[Thomas]

34F foggy light misting low 40's for high steady rain early evening before changing to snow over night with strong winds.

Outside chores done E muffin time. :licking:
Plans for today...not sure what to do other than putter and I'm not asking the Mrs. either.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

David, bugs me the most when my plans are changed because item is not in stock. Now a days I look online to see who has the item I want in stock. With 3 big box stores within 5 miles of me I usually get what I want.

The internet, and especially Amazon, has created an expectation that most anything can be ordered and arrive within two or three days. But that's not always the case, as I've found with this solar power project. The latest delay is for the 2" diameter, 24" radius metallic conduit sweeps needed where the electrical runs from the generator and solar panels emerge from the ground at the house. The big box stores don't stock stuff like that, and I couldn't find an electrical supplier locally that had them, either. Google wasn't much help because I don't know enough about electrical hardware to know what they're supposed to be called. So I'm waiting on a very helpful local outfit to get together an order for enough stock to meet the minimum order for their supplier, which I'm told will be Thursday or Friday, so that my two parts can be delivered sometime early next week. Otherwise, it would be $40-$50 shipping to get them sooner.:shocked:

The generator was even worse: six weeks from the time I got the building permit until I was able to find one actually in stock that could be shipped, and even then it took most of a week to get here. Otherwise I'd be waiting 12-14 weeks for one to be made, and it would be the last batch because that model was going to be discontinued.

If there's anything I've learned from this project, it's to roll with the punches. I may have some preferences when it comes to when things happen, but they don't have much impact on reality.:confused3:

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 53F @ 4:30AM. Sunny. High near 75F. Winds light and variable.

BC/BS supplement? Had to look that one up! At those prices, Ron, my health insurance premium would almost double. If I understand correctly, that was for a MediGap policy that covers the 20% of the bill that Medicare doesn't pick up, right? I'm waiting on an MRI bill, too, and I'll be paying the 20% because it's still early in the year and I haven't met my maximum out-of-pocket limit yet. I'll be on Medicare next year, so I've got that long to come up to speed on how it works and what supplemental plans make sense. Where's a good place to start?

Last week as I was walking through the parking lot on the way into the grocery store, I watched a lady back out of a parking slot, cut her wheels sharply to the left, and swing her front bumper into the right rear bumper of the car next to her. I was standing right next to her as she backed up again and started to drive off. I yelled at her that she'd just hit that car, and all she did is turn her head to look at me as she drove off. I tried to get a photo of her license plate, but wasn't quick enough. And I didn't have a pen and paper with me to put a note on the poor guy's windshield that just got whacked. As if that would do any good anyway. But it still bothers me that there are people out there like that.ullinghair:

Got the 2" PVC conduit runs in from the generator pad and solar panel rack up to where they'll transition to metal conduit yesterday. I also got the propane pipe put together and inflated; if it's still holding pressure this morning I'll wrap the joints and call it ready for inspection. I still have some more digging to do at the shipping container before I can bury the drain line there, so I'll get started with that this morning. Then I'll start with some concrete in the post holes to get them all on the same level. That'll probably take the rest of the day, depending on how it goes.

Happy Hump Day, folks!

 

[check]

Good morning, temp is 9ï½°F and going to a high of 21. Wind NNE 13 gusting to 22 mph. Periods of light snow today.
Winter storm warning in effect.The powers that be are threatening 4-6" by tomorrow morning and another 6" tomorrow.

I gotta take the DIL to the Dr.s' this afternoon. It is only in town so that isn't too bad.

Tomorrow is supposed to be the monthly trip to North Bay for groceries, but if weather dictates that I plow then NB waits until the next day.

While DIL is in the Dr.s' I will go to the post office and mail a package.

The blubber is coming off me nicely, 242 lbs this morning, naked. I was never a fan of getting weighed fully clothed. Nekkid is the only way to get an accurate weight.


Have a good day all

Geez, Looking, whatever you do, don’t post a pic!

 

[LouNY]

Good Morning!!!! 53F @ 4:30AM. Sunny. High near 75F. Winds light and variable.

BC/BS supplement? Had to look that one up! At those prices, Ron, my health insurance premium would almost double. If I understand correctly, that was for a MediGap policy that covers the 20% of the bill that Medicare doesn't pick up, right? I'm waiting on an MRI bill, too, and I'll be paying the 20% because it's still early in the year and I haven't met my maximum out-of-pocket limit yet. I'll be on Medicare next year, so I've got that long to come up to speed on how it works and what supplemental plans make sense. Where's a good place to start?

Last week as I was walking through the parking lot on the way into the grocery store, I watched a lady back out of a parking slot, cut her wheels sharply to the left, and swing her front bumper into the right rear bumper of the car next to her. I was standing right next to her as she backed up again and started to drive off. I yelled at her that she'd just hit that car, and all she did is turn her head to look at me as she drove off. I tried to get a photo of her license plate, but wasn't quick enough. And I didn't have a pen and paper with me to put a note on the poor guy's windshield that just got whacked. As if that would do any good anyway. But it still bothers me that there are people out there like that.ullinghair:

Got the 2" PVC conduit runs in from the generator pad and solar panel rack up to where they'll transition to metal conduit yesterday. I also got the propane pipe put together and inflated; if it's still holding pressure this morning I'll wrap the joints and call it ready for inspection. I still have some more digging to do at the shipping container before I can bury the drain line there, so I'll get started with that this morning. Then I'll start with some concrete in the post holes to get them all on the same level. That'll probably take the rest of the day, depending on how it goes.

Happy Hump Day, folks!

If you are waiting on electrical bends,
call around to the electricians in your area.
Many of them should have the hot boxes to bend PVC and benders for ridgid or IMC they shouldn't charge a lot to bend up a few elbows for you.
For the long radius one a segmented bend works very well.

 

[wngsprd]

49 degree fog, going to 61.

Hawkeye, good to hear your FIL is better...bet those ribs hurt.

Ted, glad Max is doing better.

I agree on the going back to pick up more plumbing parts. I've done a few jobs, and had to go back...but last time I had a challenging well problem, called "the plumber"...they had to send a second truck to my house, and still one of them had to go back to their warehouse (25 miles one way) to pick up more parts. Scratched this company off my list.

RNG, I had the similar experience a long time ago of observing a car backing out and then cutting into the real nice sports car next to it and then taking off...My girlfriend and I wrote a note with the license, time, and model/color of the car and placed on the windshield. Got a call from the owner a week later offering to take us on a plane ride around the area from the airport where he kept his private plane. He had contacted the owner of the offender and got things worked out.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Good Morning. It's 42° and windy here .. 17 mph gusting to nearly 30 mph. It may get to 54° this afternoon but forecast is that wind will be with us all day then .. temps drop to just below freezing overnight.

With the wind .. there shouldn't be much of yesterday's burn pile left this morning. I did get some more tree trimming done while monitoring the burn pile.

Eric .. hope the flood barriers stay intact. As I recall .. you sit pretty "high and dry" ?

RNG .. a couple years ago I sorted all my "extra" PVC, CPVC, and PVC electrical conduit parts and put them into cardboard bins by size. It amazing how much can be accumulated over the years.

L4N ... yep .. no pictures required.

Roy .. hope your cold is resolved fast. I've not had a single cold since I stopped spending so much time on jet powered, germ tubes three years ago.

Hope everyone has a productive "Hump Day" today.

Prayers to all.