Good morning!!!!

[buckeyefarmer]

31° got up to 38°
Roads were good, stopped to get gas at station that GasBuddy said was $2.39. Sign said $2.79 so went to Costco and got $2.34

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Wifey and I both have the smallpox scar... I remember being lined up at school, and watching everyone in the line get that gun punch in the arm....

Today, I'm sure someone would complain that it is cruel and unusual punishment.....

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 9F for the start, overcast, light breeze. Light wind today, overcast morning cleared up in afternoon, and high temp was 37F. Plenty melting going on have leak around chimney in back porch and backflow prevention valve needs work. Cleaned ashes in insert this morning, stoked fire, and conserved energy. Did get nap in, went to supper and roads and temps will be rideable in next day or 2. Gas stations are having delivery problems as well
Covid update: Cooke, Montague, unchanged , Grayson 10613 confirmed cases, 159 active cases, local no update.
David nice you could pull firemen out of the muck, progress with internet project
Bill hope DIL get better
Drew hope you don't need to go out in the worst of it
Ron hope grocery stores in your neck of the woods in better shape than ours, nice pic
Work hop you don't get flooded again
Rich hope day goes well for you
Mike what is the 4th project?
Buppies we have so little spring to begin with
RNG hope you can get your PG&E claim finished
Paul sorry about diesel tank, can you move it just before refill?
Thomas have fun moving snow
Don last of the cold mornings and it is not -2F You guys have so much more ice than we did will take longer to melt. Interesting news on vaccinations
Billy hope you can get back to hiking soon
RS I know goose and mayo make a mean sandwich as well. terrible story
Drew no slip off the road, no fall
Bird love cornbread with chili
Drew but driving UTV at 60 is usually off the road
Dennis both capacitors do not look bad, Had TV with capacitor issue, these 2 don't look like the bad ones. Do have one copper strip blown , and one with varnish overheated.
RNG thanks for mask info.
RNG our bodies immunity to other Covid virus such as cold are short term as well
Randy good new on Ellen getting first dose
Ken the board "decided" to run defrost or cooling cycle. Neither works on fridge at this point but light comes on. The funny looking area is where there was a copper conductor, now blown. the varnish is discolored next to it. Not sure what the black box is, or how susceptible it is to surges.
Drew glad you could get out and get so much done.
Ted hope you can work out sleeping better, glad PT is closer to done. Sorry about Facebook hack
Kyle will be interesting to see if we get an honest review of the power issue and lessons learned actually get implemented. There should be a way to copy flies from one hard drive to another.
Don will be nice to have more research done so everyone won't change mind every so often
Ted isn't that the truth, what we endured as a matter of course will now be deemed cruel and unusual punishment
prayers for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle's daughter/sister & family Covid/friend's grand baby/son&wife Covid, David(moss)/remodel/divorce, Ron/hearing/son/aunt, Phil/reflux/wife's eyes, Dennis/older brother/son, Grev/wife's eye, Randy/family, Bill/DIL, Ted/knee recovery,and Country.
stay safe and healthy you all.

 

[sodamo]

My first small pox was the dipped needle. Sugar cubes with eyedropper dosage of vaccine. We’ve progressed a bit.
I remember the injector guns from Army days.

Jet injector - Wikipedia

This Moderna injection - I’ve had more painful mosquito bites.

 

[ronjhall]

Waiting for first cup of coffee to cool a little. 14° with light snow this morning. Heading to 28° with mostly cloudy skies. Shopping yesterday went well. Shelves were full and hardy anyone in stores. Kind of normal weather for Michigan this time of year. My aunt did not go with me. She got her second shot. Was under the weather. Got to thinking, did I make a mistake buying Mule. So measure it's height to make sure it would fit in animal barn and garage doors. It fits. About 8" clearance above roof LED lights. :blink:
Michigan covid cases 635,446. Deaths 16,274. Oakland County cases 73,653. Deaths 1,965. 10.6 million have been test in the state. 1.2 million have been tested in county. Daily state new cases have averaged below 1k all this week.

Kyle, good to here you and family are making it thru Covid attack. I do not have the scar on my arm. My wife had one.

LS, be careful doing PT. My neighbor had knee replacement in December. In January she was doing one leg PT when new Knee collapsed. Ended up with another surgery and concussion. Keep support close by until full recovery.

David, glad you are getting out to work on network.

Ripties, hope the projects list gets smaller.

Everyone stay healthy and safe.

Good Morning All.

 

[daugen]

good Saturday morning all. And it looks like nice weather finally, yeah.
Definitely a warming trend, 32 today, then 37, 45, 49, 53
That will definitely melt all the snow so I think lawns will be off limits to most tractors for awhile,
everything is soft and squishy.

today is baking day, fruit muffins to make for a variety of folks.
If Popgadget is home, might take a plate of them over to him this afternoon
in thanks for his fixing my snowblower.

Need to get my car washed, what a salty mess

have fun this weekend, remind your loved ones you love them, and find a kindness to do

no slips
no falls

 

[daugen]

Ted, that's tough news, but not surprising. It's a very physical business,
where at least as a fireman we get in spots where you are struggling as hard as you can with a charged large line,
or crawling on your hands and knees trying to stay below heat of the room. And all the time you have to be able to rescue/pull out
your partner/buddy who with my luck was usually a pretty obese fellow. I got to the point where my back hurt enough I couldn't be sure I could
pull my buddy out of a building, then I knew I had to do something else. Drove the trucks for several years until one day my back gave out trying to lift
hard suction hose up to its holder on side of fire truck. That's about when I had to start going to the orthopedic guys, about 25 years ago.

Now your knee will hopefully heal up well enough you can do pretty much what you want, just not overstress it or put a lot of weight on it.
Which your job can truly include so best you ride a desk. You are too high up just to drive a rig...besides EMT rig guys usually have to do everything.
Meanwhile keep building that beautiful furniture.
Maybe they can plop you in a chair and let you give vaccine shots.

 

[toppop52]

My first small pox was the dipped needle. Sugar cubes with eyedropper dosage of vaccine. We’ve progressed a bit.
I remember the injector guns from Army days.

Jet injector - Wikipedia

This Moderna injection - I’ve had more painful mosquito bites.

I doubt the county in from could have afforded a jet gun.

 

[mpham]

Morning all! 21 here going to 28 with cloudy skies.
We had about two inches of powder for early Friday morning so I just hand shoveled the main driveway. Looks like we got a few inches more during the day and overnight so I will fire up the tractor and do the rest after morning coffee.

Lost a school mate to Covid Thursday night. I can't get on the vaccine list yet as it is locked to 65 and older here. Unless you have a medical condition on their list of qualifying illness. The part that burns my butt is obesity is considered a qualifier!

Wife's car is stuck in New York state somewhere on a rail car waiting for clear weather and more new vehicles heading this way. Dealership has put an express order in to try and get it here ASAP.

Not much planned for the weekend. Will putter as much as I can and see what gets done.
Hope everyone gets through this weather ok! As always hope everyone stays safe and healthy!

 

[toppop52]

Wife's car is stuck in New York state somewhere on a rail car waiting for clear weather and more new vehicles heading this way. Dealership has put an express order in to try and get it here ASAP.

Had that happen December 1979, we ordered a new Grand Am, it got stuck on a train in Pittsburg in the snow. But we liked the car so much we kept it 25 years and put 44000 miles in it, the last twenty mostly weekend cruising and car shows. It’s 1/1647 built. Wished many times I still had it.