Good morning!!!!

[Dftodd]

Nieces wedding was good today. Although with their luck it almost didn't

Here's the back story..

Niece and her husband tried to do a destination wedding in Florida back in April. Two days before they were to get married, the venue called them and canceled due to Covid. So they enjoyed their honey moon stay down their but never actually got to get married.

So this morning, the judge who was a family friend who was gonna perform the ceremony called...... and canceled do to an illness and not feeling well.

They were able to scramble and thankfully an uncle who is a minister was able to step in and perform the ceremony.

It was a great ceremony with a comic ending when one of the kittens that was running around (solid black) decided to invite itself into the ceremony and decided the train and vail of the brides dress was the best thing to play with

The kitten exited stage left with a quick toss by the maid of honor

 

[Jim Shooz]

Reminds me... I had a favourite cookie too. Now 72 but I have loved them since I was a toddler. THEY STOPPED MAKING THEM!! Arghhhh!!! Griffins Round Wine. Couldn't get enough of them and now NO MORE.... New Zealand Cookies that were sold in some shops in Oz.
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Kyle in Texas..
Thanks for the thoughts and prayers for my Buddy. He just retired from the Air Force recently. He is a Wing Commander and a brilliant bloke.

All is not lost: They now make a Super Wine. Looks the same but as a diabetic I stay away from all.

Griffin's Super Wine Biscuits 250g
2 49 ea
ea
$1.00 per 100g

Contains Wheat, Gluten, Milk Products. Made in a factory that also processes Egg Products, Sesame Seeds, Peanuts, Other Nuts, Soybean Products.

Product of New Zealand

 

[Alien]

Yes Jim They sell Super Wine here in the supermarket But it is a bit stronger and I don't like them as much as the round wine. I am quite devastated. Really.... I used to visit NZ frequently and always bought back lotsa packets. We had a couple of shops here that sold NZ products including the Wine biscuits but last time I rang to order they told me the sad news.

 

[RoyJackson]

2020-12-06, 0512

26 right now....high at 30 today... No snow (storm tracked further east). Too bad...would have been nice to get 6-8 inches
No chores today so I'll just putter around...

Up too early...I'll read the news and such while I drink my coffee, than back to bed

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, the temperature is 17°F and going up to 25. Wind N 6 mph. A mix of sun and cloud.

An energy conservation day for sure.


Have a safe day all

 

[daugen]

good morning all. Chilly out and not getting much warmer, 41 going up to 45 today and down to 25 tonight.
at least no rain in forecast for almost a week, hopefully things will dry out.
Sounds like Toppop got more rain than anyone, about 1.25 inches here.

friend coming over this morning to pick up a birdhouse, then I'm off to lumberyard to buy more cedar boards.
This time I'm going to be a lot fussier on what they give
me and check for dents and cracks. Thankfully the longest board I cut is 12 inches
so I can work around most of the bad spots but at 7 bucks a linear foot, those cracks are expensive...

My church has decided not to open until at least mid January. Next weekend I'm going to attend Solebury Meeting, which is right down the road from me, and I
know lots of their members anyway. Zoom just doesn't do it for me, except for business meetings. 90+ percent of the service is silent prayer, so not much
to "watch" anyway.

all of the birdhouses I shipped by UPS have now arrived, all in good condition. :thumbsup:
Took two days to get to Virginia, three days to Delaware and over a week to get to California.
I still have four more to build, whatever no one claims I'll hang here. Total of 14 built, mostly houses (nesting boxes...) vs feeders.
Several folks mentioned that squirrels ate all their seed so they wanted houses instead. I always found those Chinese coolie hat looking things
worked pretty well on a vertical pole, but anything hanging was fair game, those squirrels are mighty agile.

looking forward to hearing a snow report from our Northern members.

 

[ronjhall]

Drinking hot cup of coffee. 25° with cloudy skies this morning. Got a few more things cleaned up on book shelves. Today I will get all the leftover books organize into one book shelf from 4.
Talked to son yesterday. After tomorrows Dr visit he is ready to go back to work.

Drew, no snow to report for Michigan. All that fell last weekend has melted.

Roy, sorry you have to wait for another snow forecast.

DFT, glad nieces wedding went with them getting married.

Phil, cookies look good. I need chocolate chips in mine.

Kyle, when I burned wood for heat. It was Oak then Maple.

Randy, nice looking pond.

RNG and RS, you tow have more projects on you list than I get done in a couple of years.

Prayers and best wishes for everyone.

Good Morning All.

 

[Bird]

Our favourite wood for burning is Ironbark as it burns very hot. However, we have no fireplace as it is not required where we live. We use a reverse cycle air-con if it gets down to about 60 deg F. That is chilly here.

Our current home, in which we've lived the last 15 years HAS a fireplace and I carefully vacuumed out all the ashes right after we oved in, closed the flue, and we've never used it. The first two homes we had with fireplaces was also when I could go cut my own firewood, and both houses had natural gas with gas starters in the fireplaces, and we used the fireplaces. We now have a total electric home.

 

[Buppies]

38 high of 45 today maybe a snow flake tonight

I busted on storm up north strange weather patterns

Wngsprd you might get an inch of snow

Cool wedding story

Prayers for all our Country

 

[toppop52]

38-45 today with a little less wind, 29 tonight. A few cold days ahead then back to normal or above.

Church service after breakfast then the inside decorations go up.

Have a good day folks. God bless.

 

[Thomas]

Dftodd.
"Nieces wedding was good today. Although with their luck it almost didn't"
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Third time charm...congrats to young couple.

 

[Thomas]

After giving it much thought, I have decided my favorite wood to burn, is the kind that someone else has cut, split, dried, and stacked. :shocked:
:thumbsup:

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Lot of truth there. :thumbsup:

 

[Thomas]

24F cloudy low 30's for high 1" of snow and that's enough of what weather station said to get ready for.

Outside chores dome E muffin time. :thumbsup:
Plans for today...might start cleaning up limbs/branches this afternoon when wind decrease,other than that putter maybe watch some football.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[NHBX]

28 now high in the low 30’s and partly cloudy today. Wind still blowing at 18 to 20 mph with gusts around 30.

Rained yesterday morning and turned to snow around noon. We got about 3” of heavy wet slop. This will be a pain to clean up. No hurry to head outside still enjoying freshly brewed coffee.

Stay safe and healthy
Enjoy your day everyone

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning. Almost 35 here and headed to 45. It’s breezy though, gusts over 30 are expected, but no precipitation.

Finished up the geo install yesterday, went pretty smoothly. A friend stopped by to borrow my wire puller, we figured out that it was almost 40 years since we were last face to face, although we were actually mask to mask yesterday.

Wife has a few chores around the house for me this morning, then I can head over to the shop to see what mischief I can find there. Still lots of cleanup to be done, but I’ve been pretty good about postponing it so far.

 

[LouNY]

Well morning all,
to those that got all the snow from the big "nor easter" good luck getting it cleaned up.
We had snow and rain with no accumulation and a dry week in the forecast, sounds good to me.

Stay healthy, have fun as much as possible.

 

[riptides]

41 outside this AM. Looks to be clearing ski. Upper 40's today. Drying out from the unexpected rain event from a day ago. Had "beach front" property again on the back forty. I think that's at least the fourth time this year the pastures have flooded out. That's definitely different.

No porch work this weekend. Fantasy island life and car/truck shopping gets in the way. Went looking for diesel fluids yesterday, stopped by dealer, saw a 2019 2500HD Allison/Duramax for 69k. Think I will hang on to my 2011 a little longer. Next up was a 1500. If we can moves some finances around, we may go with that. It will be the wife's truck. To go with her tractor.

Tomorrow, the septic guys are suppose to come out and start the process for diagnostics. Since the system is over 50 years old, and has no records at the county level, we are probably looking at a new system. Such is the deal when you buy an old house.

Man, we have some big ticket items on the plate. I am blessed that we can even do this stuff, especially so at this time.

I hope all have a good day of rest, be safe, stay healthy my friends.

Alien, I hope you friend recovers well with the retina issues. Been there. Done that.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 49F @ 5:00AM. Partly cloudy skies. High around 65F. Winds NW at 5 to 10 mph.
Rain still showing in the 10-day, but not as much as was there yesterday. Power company still saying lots of folks'll be in the dark come Monday and Tuesday.

Only one CoVid case in the whole country, Doug? That's amazing! Did the authorities impose a travel ban, and if so, when did it take effect?

Usually that kind of firewood, Kyle, comes with a pretty high price tag. I can see a fresh piston not having much compression, especially if there's only one ring. BMW is somewhat notorious for supplying rings with big end gaps, so I don't think that would cause the problem you're seeing.

Good to hear things going smoothly with the pickups, RS. I have two or three versions of those endoscopes here, and they've saved punching big holes in the wall/ceiling several times already. Also helped me find mouse damaged wiring on the van, and confirmed a healthy gearbox on a motorcycle or two. Just be sure to put the password for their WiFi networks in a safe place so you don't lose it...

Oatmeal raisin, one of my faves. But I miss Mom's almond balls dusted in powdered sugar the most, especially the ones with a candied cherry in the middle.

Thanks to the contractor's guidance, the work on the new solar panels went smoothly and so far it looks like the array is making about 20% more power. Still selling back to the grid more than I use, which is nice considering we're closing in on the shortest day of the year.

I'll put a dent in that today when I fire up the welder and grinders to do surgery on the new oil pan for the van.

The neighbor's steam cleaner has a couple of issues, including a bad fuel pump. Could also have a bad flow sensor, which keeps the controller from pumping Diesel into the burner to heat the water, but he needs to fix the fuel pump first. I did get an arc going on the new-to-him TIG welder, but couldn't get him to try it. He's afraid of getting shocked, and wants to read up more on how to avoid that.:laughing:

Hope everyone enjoys the rest of the weekend...

 

[pennwalk]

After giving it much thought, I have decided my favorite wood to burn, is the kind that someone else has cut, split, dried, and stacked

Not a problem. There are usually guys who will deliver cut split firewood for cash. One of my neighbors cuts firewood. I think he mainly does it to keep busy. I doubt he makes anything like minimum wage not even the old minimum wage.

Chris

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Good morning to all! Low of 22, going up to 52 today, sunny and calm.

The son got inspired ( I think at the persuasion of his wife) to put up Christmas lights. They went out yesterday afternoon and only came back with a few strands of lights... after going to 3 places... he said he wasn't standing in the Walmart line that stretched around the corner of the building. I mentioned that is why I had told him to "go early and be there waiting for them to open". He said they set the alarm already for this morning. Hopefully he got what he wanted to get...

I was able to get out in the shop yesterday and get the boards planed .... only to realize that I still needed to cut and glue up 2 more narrow planks.... I don't know how my count came up short....especially after doing it multiple times... I'll do them today, maybe by this afternoon I can plane them. There is another project on the list to be done for a Christmas gift.... a jewelry/ trinket box for my older Grandson (17), for his watches, bracelet, keys, etc... I first said "no, not enough time", but after wifey was going to buy one, I gave in.... especially after hearing the price!

Wifey is decorating some gingerbread man decorations.... both sons attempted to eat them when they came in smelling and seeing them spread out....with a loud "NO!, they aren't edible" being exclaimed by the wifey... they do look tasty, but truly are not edible... (I would have let them try and take a bite)



I still need to bring the inside decorations in... that will be first on the agenda.

Everyone have a great day!