Good morning!!!!

[Buppies]

Sorry for the loss of your friend Bird

Getting ready to put bird feeder out since bear is resting spiny thing charging now yankee clipper

 

[kenmbz]

Good morning all, 27 going up to 37-sunny!
Maybe will dry out some areas for me to take the brush cutter for another stroll.
Today we drive around handing out some party buckets to family and friends for New Years.
Wife is putting together a Zoom New Years party.
First road trip in a while.

Bird - sorry to hear about your neighbor - 91 is a good long life

Well, off to get ready, stay safe and be well.

 

[sodamo]

Sorry for your loss, Bird. Blessings to you and his family.

 

[toppop52]

Bird, sorry to hear about your friend, Jack.

20-44 today, too cold for me. I guess we will leave all the decorations in place until my kids and grandkids come Friday and have our Christmas together.
I did the Saturday night lite church service last night.
Didn’t sleep well last night, Gracie had an emergency potty call at 4:30 and I didn’t sleep much afterwards. I didn’t get in bed much before midnight watching football. I don’t usually stay up late for that but the game was good. We have to go to my father in law’s house for a hopefully short visit, I’m about visited out for a few days, he was here yesterday but forgot something that Ellen needs to help him with.
I want to see a couple of games today, while napping.
I’ve got a big pot of soup in the crockpot for later.

Have a good one.

 

[Dftodd]

Roy, I watched that whole series a few years ago, very entertaining.

Good series

 

[rswyan]

Condolences on the loss of your friend Bird.

 

[daugen]

the tiny pond is icing up nicely.
Since I didn't want wet feet or socks, didn't test it.

The kitchen shelf is just a kit but with enough added glue,
it seems quite sturdy. Wanted a place to get the bulk water and iced tea
off the floor in this tiny kitchen. Found an old thick face towel that fit the top area
nicely so using that to protect the microscopically thin paint job.
Now there's a get to that I got to. :thumbsup:

I need to paint that coffee sign, it's bare metal and already showing fingerprints.
Or maybe just oil it down...but if I painted it, I could make the coffee mugs a different color.
Built by young friend who builds all kinds of stuff out of sheet steel and a CNC driven welder/cutter

I picked the two plastic water bottles out of my back lawn but shows how far up the water came. May take some squinting to see.

 

[rswyan]

36F and mostly sunny @ 13:00, heading up to a high of 41F for the day.

Hauled in 10' step ladder yesterday and got the ceiling fan in the living room vacuumed off before it started raining down dust bunnies. Still have wipe off the blades with a wet rag. Found out that the fan is a Charleston, not a Hunter. Was purchased on June 21, 1984. Also discovered that it was still set for the summer (blowing air down, not sucking it up) so I changed that. And that the pull-chain speed switch on the fan itself was not set on "High" - which it needs to be, for the speed to be controlled from a wall switch ... so we reset that as well. Bad news is still seeing some anomalies with kitchen lighting/wall outlets even with the fan shut off ...

The Woman worked on cleaning up the hall cleaning closet, got all the rags organized, folded up, and stowed away in a couple of plastic containers (Hallelujah !!!) The light in that closet has a flakey pull-string fixture (as do a couple others), so ordered some screw-in IR motion switches from Amazon so the lights will turn on when you open the door.

Much progress made in the kitchen ... the table top is in sight ... :thumbsup:

Agenda for today: refill feeders, clear some snow, possibly haul recyclables container and some trash up to the road, possible trip to The Depot as well for replacement panels for the ceiling in the kitchen as well.

Hope everyone has an enjoyable, productive, and safe day ... :thumbsup:

 

[Looking4new]

I picked the two plastic water bottles out of my back lawn but shows how far up the water came. May take some squinting to see.

Were you singing this?
Five feet high and rising - Johnny Cash - YouTube

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Good Morning!!!! 45F @ 5:30AM. A mix of clouds and sun. High 56F. Winds SSE at 5 to 10 mph.
The chances for rain coming in tonight and into early next week seem to have evaporated, but Wednesday night is supposed to be the start of rain that will last through next weekend. We've had only 34% of normal rain for this year so far, and are still in extreme drought conditions. And we're still getting call outs for our fire fighters.

The fellow I purchased my old BMW motorcycle from died on Christmas day a few years ago. I was hoping to get it running before he passed, but lost that race. He'd been working on it for more than ten years, and would have enjoyed at least hearing it go again, if not taking it for a spin himself.

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Yesterday was spent on house cleaning and paperwork, things that need done and are done best when the weather outside isn't very nice. The sun did break through the clouds in late afternoon, throwing a beautiful rainbow across the sky for a few minutes. I used that as an excuse to take down a tarp I'd put over the the ground where the splitter had sat, keeping all the kindling chips and camp fire wood scraps dry. The kindling got moved to the kindling box, the camp fire bits to the rest of that pile under still another tarp.

About then the body shop neighbor showed up with a bottle of wine to trade for the Makita tools I'd cleaned up. He'd just gifted his son with a new set of battery tools, and figured what I gave him might last a little longer as a result. It seems the young man isn't very good at putting things back once they're "borrowed", or fixing/replacing them once they're broken. Wonder where he gets that, and if I'll ever see the Have-A-Heart trap again that I loaned his old man last night? The rain that was making the rainbow earlier came for a visit, so plans for a camp fire were cancelled and instead we sat under the porch cover listening to the pitter patter and gurgling downspouts, sharing that bottle of wine and toasting to a better 2021.

Hope everyone enjoys the rest of their weekend!

I'm not so shy about asking for loaned stuff back....."hey are you done with that ________, I need it for _______" .....Hope you get more rain. We still have cracks 2" wide in our back yard.

Eric, sounds like quite the storm. I wish I had a fast greyhound or whippet, that could catch birds eating my fish....

One of the 45rpm vinyl records I found was Gary US Bonds Dear Lady Twist.....one of my favs as a very young boy.

Just got done with a bit of firewood.....that stuff sure warms you up plenty before you even burn it. I'm so sore.....just took 3 ibuprofen.

 

[Popgadget]

Good series

Yup

 

[sodamo]

Plumbing appears to have lost out to food.

Have a big pot of turkey soup on the burner. I like to take the misc pieces, boilem down, remove all the bones etc. I only froze half a breast, probably for a later curry. Separate out all the splintery bones for discard while the soft bones, cartilage, skin etc get taken out for the pups. The good meat is reserved. All the celery not used in the stuffing, onion, carrots, and eggplant from garden will get simmered down. A bit different this time, wife had me chop up some carrots in the vitamix for a carrot salad. I just couldn’t waste all that carrot water, so into the pot. After reducing to about half volume, I’ll hit it with the immersion blender, check the seasoning, but likely ok and then add the picked over turkey meat and peppercorns. Probably have some with just crackers, but maybe rice.

I had also separated out another bag of meat and will attempt to turn into a turkey pot pie.

Guess may indicate level of my game interest as I can see and hear as I cook.

I think we’ll be eating some variation of turkey until New Years

 

[Looking4new]

Our bird will be gone by tomorrow afternoon.

 

[pennwalk]

Roy, Phil, and others with black ice, stay vertical and be mindful of underpasses where water has refrozen.
And on curves. And on...
And here I am like a little kid waiting on the ice to freeze hard enough in the water retention area between this property and next that
I can go walk on it. Not the wisest idea with my spinal issues, but being out on the ice is a wonderful memory. Spent many winters as a kid
ice skating not far from here on the Delaware Canal that ran by/through our farm. There were and still are small wooden red painted bridges across the Canal, and you could tell how far you
had skated by how many red bridges you had skated under. Not much ice hockey here, that was more North of here. But at times there would be groups out on the ice
clearly playing a game with a puck. What a great way to take advantage of Mother Nature. Always a big to do about whether it was safe to go out.

the water of my interest is only about a foot deep. I can do this. And it would be skateable if anyone still had ice skates.
I'm just going to go take some pictures when the sun comes out which it's trying to do.
I'm sure the bird feeders need some help too.

Drew my father used to talk about skating on Neshaminy Creek. It must have been colder back then. The last couple of days I have dug out my silly hat for my morning walk. The one with the ear flaps that velcro under my chin. I may look odd but I'm warm.:thumbsup:

Chris

 

[toppop52]

My vegetable beef soup was great and plenty of leftover. Ground beef, broth, tomatoes, onion, garlic, limas, green beans, carrots and garden peas.

David, the turkey soup sounds good too.

Got to around 41 today. Not windy at all. Got stuff to do tomorrow, I’m hoping for a good day.

 

[sodamo]

Came time to eat and couldn’t chose so had some of both.
Pot pie came out quite well, never tried before, but then I didn’t exactly follow directions using left over gravy and mashed sweet potato as the binder.


Soup was excellent as well. Consistency is kinda like pea soup. I do the immersion blender thing because Sophie would otherwise try to pick out the onion and celery. Dog’s got a ladle over there stuff and licked the bowls clean.

 

[Popgadget]

Drew my father used to talk about skating on Neshaminy Creek. It must have been colder back then.

Chris

I used to skate on the Little Neshaminy, we would play hockey on the area between 132 and 611 behind the drive in theater.

 

[rswyan]

41F and cloudy, with showers in the area and heading in. Heading down to an overnight low of 36F.

At the rate it is going, I may be able to skate out of having to do any snow clearing ... at least for this round ... :thumbsup:

Temps mostly in the high 30's and 40's for the Ten Day, with 4 days of rain being called for.

Got hopper, two sunflower tube, deer, ear of corn, and squirrel feeders refilled. Four scoops of cracked corn put out for the ground feeders ... that caused hundreds of black birds to appear.

Trip to The Depot went well - got some 60w and 100w LED bulbs, another clamp light, 12-pak of Bounty paper towels, and 8 ceiling panels for the kitchen lights.

Ordered dinner from the Mexican place and swung by Lockwood United Methodist to drop off a bunch of paper/cardboard in recycle bins on the way over to pick it up. Also grabbed some half and half at Giant Eagle.

Got the ceiling panels put up in the kitchen after dinner. The light fixtures themselves really need to be remounted and centered on the light panels but it will do for now.

After that we went down and spent some time in the fish room doing a little maintenance.

Hope everyone had a great day.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all 48F for the start clear and windy. Windy most of day, clear sky all day, high temp was 68F. Front passed through early afternoon and was dry. 4 inch snow in forecast for Thursday, wonder if it will snow or rain. Chapel first thing this morning, made pancakes for wife and I breakfast and got to try stepdaughter's homemade pear syrup, good stuff :licking:. Nap and conserve energy filled in rest of day, except for watching good part of Cowboys game.
Covid update : Cooke 1868 confirmed cases, 208 active cases, Montague 1105 confirmed cases, 62 active cases, Grayson unchanged, local unchanged.
RS long way to go for pumpkins
Dennis How is it lazy if you made progress on identifying pics ?
DF Anchorage is warmer than much of Alaska, close to the ocean many days is close in temp to STL.
Kyle not the same record players, and I will bet many albums are well used
David did see most of Dallas game turned out better the I thought at the start!
Ron, does this mean they will fix the furnace and not replace? Glad Sassy can do his business, sorry about no seat time
Drew that would get my attention having sat in same room that got avalanche inside it
Paul neat pics did not realize master cylinder was on the plane.
Eric glad sheep ok, squirrels like playing dodge the vehicle, not the first on I have hit, none have caused any problem for me although had squirrel fur stuck to chain ring one other time.
Buppies great score on the paper towels
Drew great imagination!!
Roy have fun doing email
Bird interesting you had no wind, we really ended up with 15-30 early afternoon.
Dennis hope worship went well.
Rich never have slept well at hospital. Glad to hear recovery continues
Bird sorry to hear about your neighbor
Thomas hope the Mrs has more leniency
Drew enjoyed trip down memory lane
RNG nice pics, nice way to end the day.
Kyle not shy about asking for stuff back, sometimes it would get borrowed when I wasn't around
Bill thanks for snow pic, might get some snow latter this week.
David hope day goes well and weather cooperates
Randy let me know how watching while napping works, I have had no luck with it.
Drew water came up quite a ways.
RS sorry about light issues with fan off.
David your leftover plan sounds delicious. :licking: Our Christmas leftovers gone already. :ashamed:
Randy hope you get some good weather for Monday
David glad your supervisors like the soup, maybe they will cut you some slack?
prayers for all especially Jay/Peg, Kyle's daughter, David(moss)/remodel/divorce, RNG/fire, Ron/hearing/son/furnace, Jim/sister & family, Phil/wife's eyes, Randy/health, and Country.
stay safe and health you all.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Pulled down 2 trees today, here is 2nd tree, (first was much larger, but more rotted).

This one made for some pretty good firewood, Don's little electric splitter had trouble with the big rounds....It did surprise me and split some of them. I had to pull out the big maul with the pink handle.

Pulling down 24" dead post oak tree - YouTube