Good Morning!!!! 49F @ 4:00AM. Clouds and some sun this morning with more clouds for this afternoon. High near 65F. Winds light and variable.
Rain showers move in next Friday, lasting through the weekend, but accumulation is predicted to be less than a quarter inch.
This weekend temps will be in the low 70s. Looks like Old Man Winter is on vacation so far this year.
"Government Funded Stimulus" is in reality taxpayer funded, so in reality all the government is doing is giving us each a small loan we'll pay back next year after they raise the income tax rates.:thumbsdown: BTW, both were promises made during last fall's election campaign.
Glad the porch project is reaching pretty near the end, Mike. I bet that's a good feeling!
That's a fat little squirrel, Ron. I used to get six hundred dollar electric bills before the solar power system went in. Glad those days are over. In a way, that Covid map is deceiving. It goes by the percentage of the population that has been vaccinated, and states with large populations need more vaccine, which is in short supply. So those states will naturally fall to the bottom of that list. Still, though, there's not much progress being made when only a thousand injections are being given a day.
I got used to driving the F250 around town when it was my only vehicle, Drew, but I also did more walking. I always try to get a pull through parking place to avoid trying to back the thing up; too much chance of bumping into something, even when using the rear view camera. Those kind of spaces get rarer as you get closer to the door of the store. Try one of
these on your next wayward French fry.:laughing:
I have a lot to learn about indexable cutters, Kyle. I thought I ordered a boring bar that would use the inserts I already have, but the ones it uses are much smaller. I did order extra inserts for the other bar I ordered, but I still need to figure out what to order for the other new one. And run the gauntlet of "while I'm ordering, I might as well see what else I need."
Out here, Chris, those alerts are triggered by atmospheric inversions that trap smoke near the ground instead of letting it rise into the sky. They got really bad last summer during the forest fires.
There's one mineral, and I think it selenium, that is harmful to older folks, Paul, and they leave it out of the "silver" line of multi-vitamins.
Sorry to hear about the wind damage, Ted. Hopefully you're getting closer to your knee surgery?
The glass screen protector on the new iPhone keeps coming unstuck in one corner. It's not much of a problem now, but when dirt gets under there, the rear facing camera won't work very well. OtterBox has been great to deal with in the past, so they're on my call list for today.
I've been trying to chase down the salesman at the Reno forklift dealer to see when they'll have more of the pallet jacks I'd like to purchase, but the fella just doesn't return my calls. Apparently he's the owner's kid, and you know how that goes.:irked:
I did get some parts ordered for the new shotgun, or I should say backordered. Apparently they're in high demand.
Felt the need to get away from the desk for a while, so fired up the splitter and loaded another pallet full of wood. Instead of throwing the scraps on the ground, they went into the bed of the side-by-side, and when the splitter ran out of gas, it was nice to just drive over to the campfire ring and have plenty of wood to build the fire.
That FedEx from my insurance company came a day early, and for once it had a little good news in it. They've agreed to renew the homeowner's policy for another year, but warned that would be the last time. The letter came from their Chief Council, making it clear that they were trying to weasel out of the California Insurance Commissioner's stay on non-renewals. Maybe they figgered California had more lawyers than they did?
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Fooled around a little bit with the cameras on the new phone, and I'm likin' what I see. The color is closer to reality, not as orange as the old phone, and the 5x zoom is better, too. Framing the photo is a lot easier on the bigger screen, as is viewing the photos. Apparently Apple has come up with a new file format for the images, and it was selected by default. TBN didn't like the format, and I had to use the Preview application on the laptop to convert them to .jpg. The night time shots are nothing to write home about, but they're much better than the old phone. Still gonna have to pony up for a dedicated camera before I can post anything close to what Ron can do, though.:laughing:
TGIF gang:drink:
