Good morning!!!!

[riptides]

Sorry to hear of the passing.

She done raised a fine family. Thanks for sharing your wonderful amazing mom.

 

[rswyan]

Sorry for your loss Top.

She sounds like she was quite a lady.

 

[txdon]

Good evening! 14˚F now, clear skies, heading for our coldest morning tomorrow.
My mom's central heater broke and part is on order. Good thing we designed the house with split AC/heat systems and the other is heating part of the house. She has had about 20 rolling blackouts today lasting about 15-30 minutes each. my Brother near Dallas has had 11 rolling blackouts. We have not had any. ?? Took the down time to do a first in my life time event. Shoveled Snow. It stayed in the teens all day.

 

[rswyan]

rswyan do you throw cracked corn in piles or sling it about

When I put it on the ground I usually sprinkle it around with a scoop ... and usually only right around the base of the feeders where the critters have packed the snow down.

This can result in as many as 50 - 100 birds at a time at the base of each feeder pole.

Probably have seen as many as 300 birds at a time combined (all feeders) out back.

 

[PJSprog]

Condolences to you and your family, Randy. Wonderful fortune that you got to enjoy your mother's presence for such a long time. 98 is a lot of life to celebrate.

 

[Rich B1]

Condolences toy you and your family Randy.

We got far less snow this morning than predicted. So far this evening, we are getting freezing rain....not snow. Gonna get up early and decide if I need to run the the snow blower or have an extra cup of coffee.

Had rolling outages of any business system involving a computer today. Company I work for is owned by a TX based company. The rolling power outages was affecting the servers in TX.....and productivity in Ohio. Phones were quiet today.

Everyone stay safe out there

 

[PJSprog]

Took the down time to do a first in my life time event. Shoveled Snow. It stayed in the teens all day.View attachment 686616

You guys shoveling snow for the first time, be careful. There's a very good reason the wet, heavy stuff is called "heart attack snow."

 

[Dftodd]

Good evening! 14˚F now, clear skies, heading for our coldest morning tomorrow.
My mom's central heater broke and part is on order. Good thing we designed the house with split AC/heat systems and the other is heating part of the house. She has had about 20 rolling blackouts today lasting about 15-30 minutes each. my Brother near Dallas has had 11 rolling blackouts. We have not had any. ?? Took the down time to do a first in my life time event. Shoveled Snow. It stayed in the teens all day.View attachment 686616

When living in the south, you can tell if someone moved down from the north. The first thing they do is clear out the driveway, after a storm

I spent about 1.5 hours today shoveling the driveway. Got a good workout in the process and can sure feel it now.

I started a trend though. Neighbor across the street was met by his wife and handed a shovel when he got home.

But then we are supposed to get another 8" to 10" of snow this week. With 16" of snow in the driveway, his wife wouldn't be able to get out of the driveway with her car.

 

[NHBX]

My condolences Randy
Prayers for you and your family

 

[lostcreekranch]

Good evening! 14˚F now, clear skies, heading for our coldest morning tomorrow.
My mom's central heater broke and part is on order. Good thing we designed the house with split AC/heat systems and the other is heating part of the house. She has had about 20 rolling blackouts today lasting about 15-30 minutes each. my Brother near Dallas has had 11 rolling blackouts. We have not had any. ?? Took the down time to do a first in my life time event. Shoveled Snow. It stayed in the teens all day.View attachment 686616

We had four RBO's at LCR today. All began on the hour and lasted exactly 40 minutes each time. Patricia had none but .. was surrounded by areas with power out most of the day .. some still out.

Part of this .. is a result of about 25,000 megawatts of wind turbines, in W. Texas, being frozen up from ice storms, and non-operable. This demonstrates that reliable power generation MUST be from all available sources. Relying on Solar and Wind only is the biggest fairy tale ever.

Natural gas fired power plants .. are still the most efficient/ effective / reliable source of power we have.

 

[Buppies]

Thanks rswyan got two 40 bags to unleash to keep the four legged animals happy

 

[B7510HSD]

Sorry for your loss Randy.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Sorry and condolences Randy and family.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

We had four RBO's at LCR today. All began on the hour and lasted exactly 40 minutes each time. Patricia had none but .. was surrounded by areas with power out most of the day .. some still out.

Part of this .. is a result of about 25,000 megawatts of wind turbines, in W. Texas, being frozen up from ice storms, and non-operable. This demonstrates that reliable power generation MUST be from all available sources. Relying on Solar and Wind only is the biggest fairy tale ever.

Natural gas fired power plants .. are still the most efficient/ effective / reliable source of power we have.

Preach it!
Give me clean burn coal and NG.

 

[Looking4new]

Sorry for your loss Randy.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Sorry to hear about your mom Randy. Prayers for you and the family

 

[lostcreekranch]

Preach it!
Give me clean burn coal and NG.

Facts .. are facts.

 

[txdon]

Another First today. Our first rolling blackout. They finally found the switch to our neighborhood to cut the power tonight. Outside temp 10˚F. Not too bad, blackout only lasted 45 minutes. House stayed at same temp 68˚F. UPS kicked in so wifi phones and internet stayed up. Water still has good pressure.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

We now have Harbor Freight in town, just opened.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 1F for the start, overcast, windy. Sky cleared quickly, windy all day, and high temp 11F. Cold water froze up at sink in Master bathroom as well as shower. Trickled hot water till cold water came back. usually it the hot water side that freezes. Kept losing power in morning about once an hour for 10 seconds or so, less often this afternoon, several people in neighborhood have it worse. Shoveled driveway and walk in -13F windchill, wore insulated boots for second time since in Texas, along with lined jeans rest of day napped, fed fire and puttered on computer. Pic is from yesterday, looks similar just whiter today .
Covid update: Cooke, Montague, Grayson, unchanged , local no update.
Rick good luck beta testing
Roy what are you doing being warmer than Texas?
Eric how to get a pond agitated, that is the 64 dollar question
Drew you got it, no slips and no falls.
Ron we had to be careful with all of mom's stuff, she would $20 and $50 in craziest places. I still have trouble believing squirrel beat out hawk even with the pic
Mike good to hear progress on barn. hope ice melts soon
Rich good luck with snow control
Bird old timers here talk about the year the lake froze over, and this stretch will not do it
Luther sound like you are ready for the bad weather.
Bill nearly the same temp here, and more snow
RNG nice work on the winch, get hardware for the ballast attachments?
Bupies you have had a rough time of it last few weeks hope you get power back
Don had on last night have not figured out what it was.
Paul safe trip and moving tomorrow
Randy my mom was same way, some of close by family went and worshiped with her than said ok to go and she finally did.
Thomas if she waved that would be good enough for me too. We should get better temps tomorrow.
Bird Will be warmer tomorrow and not near as cold tomorrow night. Monday near normal
Michael that is more than a life time of snow here
Randy have a safe trip.
James did not get to 12F all day!
Kyle glad you are hanging in there.
Ted takes 24 hours for all the anesthesia to process out the body as well the narcotics. hop pain and swelling go down, and you get your medication worked out.
Kyle that is cold inside when pet water freezes
DF good thing you were at work! You are getting more snow than I did.
David enjoy your zoom
PJ 5 inch snow here with the wind extensive drifting
Don having same issue here, snow so dry and so much wind, I am just going with the minimum fore cast
Rick glad you were only w/o power for 40 minutes, your brother brought the weather with him, don't let him back
RS good to hear from you glad blower ready to go.
Ken love hardware stores like that.
Drew plan is not to go anywhere, that should keep me out of ditch
Doug don't know why alarms go off in middle of night.
Dennis I hate when I have a short list, then don't get all on it.
Billy glad you have power back.
DF sorry about the transfer issue and no tractor. I know what it is like to not have tractor but need it.
Randy prayers for you and family
Don nice job for first timer.
prayers for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle's daughter/sister & family Covid/friend's grand baby/son Covid, David(moss)/remodel/divorce, Ron/hearing/son/aunt, Phil/wife's eyes, Dennis/older brother/son, Grev/wife's eye, Randy/mom, Bill/DIL, Ted/knee recovery,and Country.
stay safe and healthy you all.