Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

saw a confirm for an Amazon delivery that must have come in after dinner last night and I never heard them.
And sitting out in the cold all night were my packages, thankfully the cold wouldn't bother anything.
Garden seeds and tools coming in, feels strange to have to buy this stuff all over.

Four O'clocks going into garden planters I intend to build along driveways to fill in a few of the holes where prior shrubs/trees died.
Hoping they attract hummingbirds. Not sure they will overwinter, dicey, they might if I cut them back and put covers on them.

 

[wngsprd]

25 and clear, going to 52 and sun.

You guys have done a great job clearing your trails and drives. We've let the ground warmth and sun tackle our snow since it never got over 5". I drove to the park yesterday, and was surprised how much has melted everywhere...but still some on the trail in the shade of the trees and bluff.

Ted, sorry to hear you need a new septic tank. Is this a better time of year to dig where you are?

Kyle, how is your son? Hope not hurting from his crash.

Don, that looks like a Rick-sized brush pile at your park. Will they burn it, or just let it rot/compost? That's how I do mine. I lay brush on top of logs placed to create wildlife homes for rabbits and foxes...unfortunately the skunks found them, too. The foxes will sometimes tunnel underneath them and within several years the brush rots and makes a great organic soil additive. Of course, we have more rain, so our decomposition will be faster here.

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning.
27 with sunshine and 40 degrees forecast.

Yesterday found me shoveling quite a bit of snow. First was around the heat pump condenser for the shop, it was almost buried in a drift next up was the access to my old generator shed which is used for storage now. Then off to the airport to clear in front of the hangar, as the snow removal crews have strict instructions not to get any closer than 3 feet to any building. In this last storm that left me a 60 foot long 3 foot wide strip of heavy wet snow about 18” deep. Fortunately I only had to move it away from the doors, then they would move it with a plow.

Cant tell if I’m sore this morning from the shoveling or the fall I took in the shop carrying a 5 gallon jug of fuel and talking on the phone.
The fall shattered the sacrificial glass on the Apple Watch which asked me if I fell and was I Ok. I guess if I didn’t acknowledge it, it would have called my emergency contacts or 911.

Made some progress on the speaker project and had a pretty good day overall.

Kyle- hope your son faired better than his bike from the crash. I know that I don’t bounce anywhere near as well as I did when I was younger. In well over 50 years of motorcycling, many of those in competition, I didn’t break a bone until after I was collecting Social Security.

Still no word on vaccination.

 

[Buppies]

20 high of 41 today still a little breezy

Sorry about the septic LS

Kyle hope son is doing better prayers for him and your daughter

wngsprd everything with green on it around the house is gone leaves that is deer are really hungry

Waiting on estimate on gate $$$$

Call garage door people today see what is up with it

Hope Rick got his door glass fixed

Prayers for all

Prayers for our Country

 

[Popgadget]

Don’s land clearing project reminds me a project that we did here last fall. We reclaimed an area that had been allowed to grow wild and was completely overgrown.
My neighbor (the one with the big Cummins Generator, on the farm that has the old drag strip on it) has a MeriCrusher, which is best described as a cross between a roto tiller and a pavement milling machine. He has it mounted on a New Holland TV-140 articulated tractor..
Here’s the area that we cleared-

And here’s what it looked like in progress

After the MeriCrusher was done, we went over it with a Harley rake and seeded it. It’s all green now.

 

[daugen]

Paul, hope you are feeling alright.

I'm headed downtown and will feel good to get out of here, first time in three days.
Waiting until hardware store opens at 8am for birdseed and then will go to Giant supermarket.

Ted, sorry your septic system truly crapped out...better let the pros do the install and you do the landscaping.

Kyle, please tell your son we are all rooting for him, to have fun and do it safely.

sky is getting bluer, going to be a nice day.

 

[ronjhall]

Bad news on the septic inspection.... the tank is shot. Well, just half of it.... doesn't matter, have to replace it. Apparently having a water softener created an imbalance of PH .... neutral or slightly acidic water on the inside, alkaline soil on the outside.... took 26 years, but it messed up the concrete bond. The leach field is fine...Whew! Still going to cost $3 grand. I /we were going to attempt to do it ourselves, but materials /permit would cost $2500 for us.... definitely not worth the hassle! That should happen next week, depending on when the permit comes through.

My softener runs into it's own pit. I did this on a recommendation from the guy that pumps out my septic tank. Not sure it is legal here. But it's been that way for 40 years.

 

[Thomas]

LS
Only conflict is the daily aspirin regimen.... surgeon wants me to stop taking 5 days prior, cardiologist wants me to continue until evening before.... mmmm.... I think I will follow cardiologist advice. He also wants aspirin to begin again the day after surgery.
.........................
Dang if you do dang if you don't :confused3: sounds like our local hospital. :confused2:

 

[Thomas]

saw a confirm for an Amazon delivery that must have come in after dinner last night and I never heard them.
And sitting out in the cold all night were my packages, thankfully the cold wouldn't bother anything.
Garden seeds and tools coming in, feels strange to have to buy this stuff all over.

Four O'clocks going into garden planters I intend to build along driveways to fill in a few of the holes where prior shrubs/trees died.
Hoping they attract hummingbirds. Not sure they will overwinter, dicey, they might if I cut them back and put covers on them.

Drew when it comes to growing indeed you have a green thumb. :thumbsup:

 

[Thomas]

Kyle...tell your son we are pulling hard for him speedy recovery.