Good morning!!!!

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 42F for the start, overcast, breezy. Overcast all day, wind light to moderate up and down, and high temp was 48F. Bike rid this morning, was on the Trek. 50 miles. nap in the afternoon. Cooke county is getting 600 doses. find out next week if wife or I get one. :listen:
Covid update: Cooke 2910 confirmed cases, 118 active cases, Montague 1632 confirmed cases, 43 active cases, Grayson 10112 confirmed cases, 260 active cases, local 8 active cases.
Bill sounds like fun weather
David thanks for the answer
Bill enjoy your seat time
Drew hope you can get your office supplies safely. I use Jennie-O turkey bacon, bake it and pat dry with paper towels to remove more fat oils. Not on par with real bacon but somewhat less fat.
Ron good luck with computers. Nice woodpecker pic
Paul nice work on the AK glad speaker is near done.
Buppies at least propane tanks should not run dry this trip. Have fun
Rich good luck with your port matching, never tried that. have fun with splitting
Thomas sounds good not sure wife is that adventuresome
Roy have fun shopping
RNG glad trip ok so far
Ken snowing for super bowel, sounds nice
Roy glad snow control done.
Randy glad you are cleaning up for new furniture, and no winter storm
Bill any room for coffee in that cup of Kahlua?
Drew glad progress is made
Ted glad you got some sleep, nice progress on chest
Dennis sorry about traffic, glad I don't normally deal with it.
Don Park pics are great thanks for links will watch later. interesting chips
Ted nice work and pics
DF Wichita colder than here and after Tuesday will be below freezing more than above freezing. :cold:
Billy enjoy the mountains
Rick you and me both, grease and dirt magnet here
prayers for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle's daughter/sister & family Covid/friend's grand baby, David(moss)/remodel/divorce, Ron/hearing/son/aunt, Phil/wife's eyes, Dennis/older brother/son, Grev/wife's eye, and Country.
stay safe and healthy you all.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Good evening. It was 47° this morning and finally got up to 67° this afternoon.

We held our "groundbreaking" this morning, for our new VFD building. It was well attended by neighbors, Colorado County officials, and a majority of the other VFD Fire Chiefs in our County.

Monday we start our dirt work in earnest.

I spent the afternoon chopping yaupon, trimming trees, and had to start a new burn pile. It's been too windy to burn .. for about a week.

One of our neighbors, who's husband passed away a couple of years ago, has a good sized burn pile. I'm going over tomorrow to mow a clear area around it .. to prep it for burning. Whenever we get a calm day, I'll go get our VFD Brush / Grass fire truck and light it off.

Don .. that's sad that Mason County lost their Court House. We're very proud of our renovated 1890 Court House in Colorado County. Ours .. is not so ornate but, we're a poor county.




Hope everyone has a peaceful weekend.

Prayers to all.

 

[Looking4new]

I got my plowing finished, took all of 5.5 hours. I was stuck for an hour and had to get the local towing company out to winch me out, $80.oo what the heck, they gotta eat too. No pics, but I was buried. Right front wheel completely buried and the right drive tire I could just see the top 2" of it. Bucket was no help as the hydraulics weren't strong enough to push me backwards until buddy started hauling me backwards. Came real close to rolling it.
There is one thing I have learned about tire chains, they are a good traction aid but when you get as stuck as I was they are a hindrance and will help you dig yourself down to China. That is twice I've done that on two different spots on this property.
I will take pics tomorrow in daylight and post them.

 

[Looking4new]

I got my plowing finished, took all of 5.5 hours. I was stuck for an hour and had to get the local towing company out to winch me out, $80.oo what the heck, they gotta eat too. No pics, but I was buried. Right front wheel completely buried and the right drive tire I could just see the top 2" of it. Bucket was no help as the hydraulics weren't strong enough to push me backwards until buddy started hauling me backwards. Came real close to rolling it.
There is one thing I have learned about tire chains, they are a good traction aid but when you get as stuck as I was they are a hindrance and will help you dig yourself down to China. That is twice I've done that on two different spots on this property.
I will take pics tomorrow in daylight and post them.

 

[daugen]

good morning all.
31 out now going up to 37 with about three inches of snow expected this morning

Don, nice pics, like the turtles sunbathing
Bill, sorry you got stuck.
DFTodd, stay warm and don't get those comfy socks wet

looks like a lot of cold air coming in next week for most of us.

made good progress on paperwork yesterday, will keep working on it today while the snow comes down.

 

[Buppies]

Pretty good rain down south cool though 32 degrees at home not sure how much snow forecast busted dryslot

Prayers for all

Prayers for our Country

 

[Buppies]

Was 69 where we set it presently 67.5 wngsprd

 

[daugen]

township plows out brining the roads

went to clear a path in back lawn to generator and boy the snowblower worked poorly. Figured maybe the snow had
settled too much in the rain, but that wasn't it at all. Apparently I put blower away last time with a broken shear pin caused by
a piece of gravel getting wedged between auger and frame. Took me a while to change it since part of the old pin had jammed in the hole.
Put a big piece of cardboard down in snow and got it all freed up. Pretty easy actually, have had much worse.
Including years ago when I gobbled up an entire Philadelphia Inquirer Sunday section in a neighbor's snowdrift.
I never did another neighbor's lane again until I asked carefully if there were any IED's out there. Took me over an hour to get that jammed newspaper out of the
rear of the blower. Have a nice supply of spare pins now.

 

[Buppies]

From what I am reading winter should stick around thru March

 

[daugen]

we ought to have a little contest here...what was the worst thing you ever ate and didn't spit out with a snowblower?
Or maybe the worst thing you hit with your blade. Time to fess up and give the rest of us inspiration!

Buppies, I was planting potatoes the last few years on March 1. Am having a hard time being patient this year