Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

Don, they must put their equipment away very carefully so they can just jump right in.
Having a helper put SCBA gear on is always nice.
That turnout gear sure made my car trunk smell bad. It was not allowed in the house, just the garage
for cleaning. Hard to get that smell out. We found citrus spray helped. Now I bet that Australian tea tree oil
would help.

grocery run done, am buying one six pack of tp each time and now that I have two 6 packs in the basement,
I'll wait until I have to open the second six pack before I go shopping again. In a real calamity, I have a case of rv toilet paper
that I hung on to.

 

[Popgadget]

I don’t know about ports or airports, but the closest land is Cape Hatteras, a place I know well from my childhood.

That’s a common misconception that has gotten me many a free beer.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Good morning to all! Low of 25, high for today is forecasted to only hit 30. Started snowing sometime during the night, only a couple of inches so far. Lightly snowing now. Only supposed to get 4". Forecasted temp for tomorrow is 45, followed by 50 for Thursday, so won't last long.

Yesterday hit 52 degrees, so decided to manually water all the landscaping beds / pots. That took about 4 hours. While watering, I had a surprise visitor.... a very young German Shepard. It took me a bit to get him to come closer than 10', but after he finally gave in, I made a new friend. He apparently escaped from a neighbor's a few parcels away. I walked him back home and put him in their gated yard....

Then went over to the son's place to check out his new pressure washer from HF. It was very nice, came with a few accessories like a long neck funnel and surprisingly a high altitude carb kit. He got it all set up and did a trial on the back porch.... worked fantastic! Very powerful.

Brought some pellets in the house. The wifey had been making the monthly allotment of dog food, so then I cleaned up all the pots and stove. After that, called it quits for the day.

Roy, that list has more that applies to me than not.... I'll leave it there....

I remember those bunker gear drills.... we had to get completed in under 2 minutes. One glitch/ stumble and you won't make it. Many a time missed a sleeve on the coat or a strap on the SCBA ..... would make a good episode of the 3 Stooges..... We all had fun with the mistakes.

I just noticed the birds are looking for seed in the feeders.... forgot to do it yesterday, even though I told myself multiple times to fill them..... gonna go do it now while I am thinking of it....

Everyone have a great day!

 

[Buppies]

Charleston SC is my guess

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 48F @ 8:15AM. Sunny. High 67F. Winds N at 10 to 20 mph.
Highest wind here yesterday was 30MPH, a gentle breeze by New Mexico standards, but it was enough to get me a day off from wood splitting.
The 10-day is still showing rain by Friday, now dry Saturday, and a 50% chance of rain thereafter.

I've got 6 of the 8 pallets filled with wood, and only two of them are in the container. I'm headed to Sparks, Nevada, a Reno suburb, in a few minutes to purchase a pallet jack from the Clark dealer there, and do some shopping in the "big city" at stores we don't have locally. Then back over the hill by dinner time.

I was hoping to avoid buying a pallet jack, but without a side shift on the pallet forks, I can only put pallets down the middle of the shipping container. So the plan now is to wrap each pallet in that 2' wide plastic wrap stuff, then stack one on top of the other, holding them together with ViceGrip pliers. Then use the pallet jack to roll them into two rows. I should be able to get a couple dozen pallets in there like that, with lots of room left over for other indispensable junk. I've heard rumors that pallets will breed under the right conditions, but wonder if there's a way to breed the firewood, too?:confused2:

 

[pennwalk]

I'd say having this virus under control soon is not a sure thing. Here in Lancaster county we have vaccinated 15k out of 550k. I heard this morning that getting more than 30-40 percent vaccinated is going to be hard. So as far as making plans I'd be careful.

Chris

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Drew mentioned fires, and we're still getting at least one a day here and in neighboring counties. Yesterday there were three, all held to less than 100 acres, quite an accomplishment considering the winds we've been having.

To the south they haven't been nearly as fortunate, with the Santa Anna winds kicking up in the Los Angeles area, and much less rain from the SF Bay Area south. The fires there have been much larger and more frequent; it's fire season year round down there now.

Virus wise, I saw an article where one of the batches of the Moderna vaccine was having an unusual number of reactions, and health officials out here are calling a pause on giving additional doses.

 

[RoyJackson]

Roy, sorry about your wiper, glad you had a spare. And that's why you have a spare...good thinking.

When I replace wipers, I normally buy two sets...just a habit that worked out this time

One of my requirements for moving North/renting a place was that it had to have a garage.
I've done too much of what Roy is dealing with.
Today's trucks and tractors are tall enough it's difficult getting the roof clean of deep snow even with the long brushes.
No more of them for me now, the Audi is small and easy to wash. But if I replace the car with a truck, I need to go get
a pole brush. Pole brushes are old friends of mine after owning a boat for so many years. Yet another thing I owned and was sold off.

I've used a push broom...actually, never even heard of a pole broom. If one is clearing the roof of a truck, better do it before the snow freezes! Good chance you'd break the broom once the snow is frozen.

 

[Looking4new]

Oil guy has come and gone...$1.11/L = $4.20/US gallon. #1 coloured diesel.

It wasn't as bad a hit as I thought it would be. This load of fuel actually cost me nothing 'out of pocket', due to a $1200.oo credit.

 

[daugen]

Charleston SC is my guess

that's what it lines up with...but Wilmington NC might be same distance since the coast bears NE there.
Bermuda is quite a distance out there, at least 600 miles
Lovely island, pretty flowers, pink beaches
reminds me I need to renew my passport.

lot of cruise ship sailings out of Charleston. Next port North is Baltimore. And then Port Liberty across from NYC.
Most of my cruising has been out of the Baltimore and NJ ports. While the most choices are out of Florida cruise hubs, it also means
getting on a plane which I try to avoid. Looking for deals and enticements...
I'd like to cruise to Hawaii, from Baltimore...
that would be a long cruise, might gain a few pounds on that one.