Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

another great pic Ron. Like having Audubon visit with us each day...

a cardinal in snow, something I'm pretty sure we have all seen. He looks like a happy fella
surrounded by his food. Of course most birds are also looking up at times.
Where is Mr Hawk? Where is Mr Owl?
raptors overhead not conducive to relaxed dining

Eric, seems we are all cold at the moment, well except for Alien.

I have a very cool short video my sister just sent me of two birds on her porch with the Pacific coast and surf in the background.
It's a .mov file and apparently I can't upload it here. Short of uploading it to Youtube and providing a link, is there any way to
do this simpler?

 

[Buppies]

29 high of 37 today left at height of snow storm in the sunny south cold dreary 42 but change of scenery good. Threat of snow in NC where we were never materialized nice trip. Several things to take care of while here

Sons car new tires he is good to go

What is wrong with truck Riptides?

Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country seems lost now

Prayers for Kyle and his daughter, Jay and wife, Rich and recovery, wngsprd and back, riptides, new grand baby, all others

Our Country

 

[Bird]

I called in two prescriptions this morning, lady even called back and confirmed the price under my new plan, however when I called to check if they were ready, no record of my call. One had to get doctor to ok as the refills were out. I called the doctor and they emailed him, still nothing. Finally they got the one refilled and gave me enough of the other to get through the weekend.

The city changed our health insurance provider for this year, and so far it's a nightmare. My wife has been getting some pretty expensive COPD medications from a mail order pharmacy and it's cost us nothing. But that pharmacy doesn't take this new insurance that the city says is going to be so great. I got a new insurance ID card for myself, but my wife, covered under the same plan did not. I contacted the insurance company two days before the end of the year and the lady said she send a new card, but we haven't gotten it. I've talked on the phone, after holding 15 to 30 minutes each time, to 3 different people, all of whom claim the card has been send.

Of course we have a different mail carrier almost every day now, and yesterday we didn't get any mail . . . . until a neighbor brought our mail to us because it was put in his box.

 

[wngsprd]

I will agree until I get the first vaccination. But then the questions about it's effectiveness without the second shot or delayed second shot will come up. Where is the science? - too new to know. With a delay we will be going against manufactures directions at that point.

I'm with you. Doesn't seem to make any sense.

 

[Thomas]

mostly_gas.
About how many miles before changing bike tires?

 

[wngsprd]

Scroll compressor at work has been working great, with the temp bypass we did on the thermostat.

GT80, the kid has been sad that he can't ride on weekdays, because I get home after dark. We quizzed him about his first day back at school after the holidays. It went something like this. Wifey asked him "Did you tell anybody you got to ride a horse bareback?"....."Noooo" he said. I asked, "Did you tell anyone you got a minibike for Christmas?" He answered fast and firm, "YES, because it is COOL!"....Made my day.

That's special.

 

[ronjhall]

another great pic Ron. Like having Audubon visit with us each day...

a cardinal in snow, something I'm pretty sure we have all seen. He looks like a happy fella
surrounded by his food. Of course most birds are also looking up at times.
Where is Mr Hawk? Where is Mr Owl?
raptors overhead not conducive to relaxed dining

I see a hawk somewhere on my place everyday. Everyone at feeders heads into the woods immediately. Where they hide for up to an hour I have no idea. Never seen an Owl at my place. At times I can hear them. But never seen one. At the park about 2 miles to west of me. People post pictures of them everyday. There is a nature center in the park. Put bird seed in you hand and many breeds of bird will land on your hand to eat the seed.

 

[Thomas]

15F clear sky upper 20s for high.

Outside chores done E muffin time. :licking:
Plans for today...check out 7' snowplow for sale,couple wheel barrow loads wood in basement,watch some wildcard playoffs other than that. :confused3:

Enjoy the day all.

 

[wngsprd]

32 going to 47 and windy.

BEF, enjoy your trip to H'burg...let me know when you're well enough for a hike.

Coco was growling at the back door soon after we came in from a walk this morning...I went out with the flashlight expecting to see a skunk, but was a woodcock a few feet from the back steps, making its loud peent call. I never heard it inside, but dogs are good at pointing out at unusual sounds.

 

[riptides]

I will agree until I get the first vaccination. But then the questions about it's effectiveness without the second shot or delayed second shot will come up. Where is the science? - too new to know. With a delay we will be going against manufactures directions at that point.

Seems the manufacturers have figured out how-to mass produce. Now it looks like the issue is getting it in arms. It looks to be a rather complicated balancing act of distribution vs injections at this time.

I thought I saw something that said even the first dose gets a person to 60-70 percent effective? Need to track that down.