Good morning!!!!

[Eric Salop]

Good morning, little wind and lots of sunshine today, a good time to go and trim a few trees.

Bups, sorry to hear the doc found more.

PJ, a potential move to Texas sounds exciting. Have you been there many times before ?


Truly sustainable sources such as geothermal, nuclear and in some areas wave/tidal energy gets ignored , all they want to talk about is wind, sun rainbows and pink unicorns.

Randy, energy from unicorns ?? Do they put them on treadmills - or into bio digesters ?

 

[Thomas]

30F few more + degrees should be the high for today with gusty winds,with the strong gusty winds over night we needed to make room for the kittens so they could protect us....little bed hogs.

E muffin time :licking: soon outside chores.

Plans for today...town for 2 stop critter food pickup,fill feeders,clean wood furnace than see what the day brings.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[riptides]

45 outside this AM, heading to mid 50's. Yesterday was glorious, and I managed to get outside for maybe 10 minutes. Too bad for me.

Did the grill last night, yep, been a while. Chicken and fish. No one to share with, wife and daughter....car shopping.

Nothing new came home, so I expect more looking today.

Not sure what is on the agenda today, pricing out wood, contemplating delivery. Wife got estimates for run in, as expected 3 times more than price of todays lumber. Plus, delivery times are 4 to 6 weeks out. Looks like another build in my future.

Hope all have a great day. Be safe and stay healthy, my friends...prayers to you all.

 

[daugen]

Oshkosh Defense: New USPS delivery vehicle unveiled. It's a pretty radical change - CNN
Two immediate reactions.
Seriously ugly. A duck's head...
Has to be expensive. Oshkosh is the Rolls Royce of custom builds and makes a lot of our very expensive military vehicles, airport fire trucks, etc.
Would be interesting to know per unit cost of one of these, vs a modified Ford Transit. Wondering if this is a golden toilet seat.

 

[Looking4new]

good morning, the temperature is 4°F and the high will be 19. Wind NNW 11 gusting to 19 mph. 30% chance of flurries.
Sudbury is low 0 and high of 21. Wind NW 3 mph and a 40% chance of flurries.

Yesterdays ride was uneventful, caught up with the plow group going north about 10 miles north of SR. After I got past them it was clear sailing all the way. Instead of forcing my way through the group like a lot of drivers did when I plowed the highways (and I got charged for hitting them), I just rode along at 25 mph until they turned off.

DIL thought that yesterday was going to be extraction day. NOT! An x-ray and lots of yakking. She does have an appointment for next Tuesday, which happens to be shopping day, so we will kill two birds with one stone.

I got the neighbour to blow this place out yesterday so I could get that useless Dodge out of the driveway. When I got up at 7 there was no new snow on the ground. By the time we were supposed to leave there was 3". I will go out in about 30 minutes to clean up the neighbours that I do and that will be 'it' until the weekend.

After seeing what you guys use for hydro, I consider myself lucky, as much as I hate monopolies of which Hydro-one is.
Now there is some good grammar for you guys. Ending a sentence with a preposition (is).


Have a safe day all

 

[toppop52]

I was an Air Traffic Controller in the army in Vietnam - 210th CAB. Our flight detachment had U21 /King Airs. Definitely a luxury ride compared to Hueys which I got to enjoy a couple times.

Yep, like sitting on the floor of a bus in a paint shaker.

 

[toppop52]

Good morning, little wind and lots of sunshine today, a good time to go and trim a few trees.

Bups, sorry to hear the doc found more.

PJ, a potential move to Texas sounds exciting. Have you been there many times before ?


Truly sustainable sources such as geothermal, nuclear and in some areas wave/tidal energy gets ignored , all they want to talk about is wind, sun rainbows and pink unicorns.

Randy, energy from unicorns ?? Do they put them on treadmills - or into bio digesters ?

They turn the wheel that magically produces electricity.

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning
39 and only going to 44 today with clear skies. Yesterday was a glorious day, bright sunshine and got to 50.

Was working in the shop when the power went out, generator started and transferred just like it was supposed to. Power failure was about an hour,not sure what the issue was, but it was at least 5 miles around me. My generator is behind my shop, and the wire comes into the shop and then to the house via the conduit that powers the shop. I used to tap into the generator feed with a manual transfer switch to provide limited power to the shop. When I replaced the generator this spring, I added an automatic switch in the shop as well as the one in the house. So far the whole system works well.

Took advantage of the warm temps to clean up the ice that had formed on the lane from snow melt and refreezing. Went to Home Depot and got a batch of gutter hangers and fixed the gutters where they were pulling away from the soffit and letting water drip behind them. Nothing more annoying than water dripping on my bald head!

DIL and grandson came by to walk up and down the lane for exercise to fend off cabin fever, had a nice visit with them afterwards.

Spent some time torturing my hands with the new bass, I’m really enjoying it, but I’ve got to get my calluses back.

Still not vaccinated, but feel like I’m getting closer.

 

[daugen]

My lifelong reading of science fiction predicts we will have energy cells that don't require boiling water to make steam to make the magic turbine wheel spin.
No spinning. No rotational parts. Fraction of the maintenance. It will make all our electricity and it will power our space ships.
Some form of fusion. Another 30-50 years in our future.
We will all be driving electric cars by then, which will then convert over to mini fusion reactor propulsion.
Talk about Plaid mode...
Engage
The Jetsons will come of age...

meanwhile, back on the farm.

hopefully when they figure out how to make electricity better they don't use the new tech
to weaponize some new bomb and wreck everything before we get a chance to make use of it...
SciFi calls these bombs planet killers.

was always a concern with original atomic bombs, the big accelerator in
France, college labs, that the outcome would be far worse than expected or have
unintended side effects. Like black holes. Things we didn't understand well enough.

Can we be smart enough to use great power for just peaceful means?

 

[daugen]

Paul, have fun with bass. Because of curves in your driveway and slope pretty hard for water to not
run across it, particularly on that one curve. I slowed way down and had zero problems.
Glad your automatic gen worked great, very reassuring.

 

[Popgadget]

Paul, have fun with bass. Because of curves in your driveway and slope pretty hard for water to not
run across it, particularly on that one curve.

Agreed. Given the right sequence of freeze-thaw that curve can turn into a glacier.

 

[wngsprd]

50 and sunny breeze going to 54. Still snow/ice in shadiest areas even after yesterday's 69F.

Lots of little "weed" flowers blooming along with the crocus...daffodils are showing color, too. We gave a haircut to our out of control grapevines yesterday, but more to do today. Still cleaning up branches from the ice storm, and have 3 big trees along one of my trails to clear once it is dry enough. Our skunks have dug enough ground that if I could control them I wouldn't need to till the garden. Raccoons were out at the bird feeders again this morning before light. 3 chipmunks are out of their holes eating peanuts. Marsh hawks glide low over the fields everyday. Gave Coco a new frisbee for her birthday yesterday, but she's not up to running for it...still can catch it like a shortstop if thrown anywhere near her. Feels nice to be part of this.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 53˚F cloudy temp variance today only 2˚F, north wind.

The harvested beet crop only produced a gallon of beets about the size of ping pong balls. I sliced them and put them on three trays in the dehydrator. They were reduced to 2 cups and now will grind them to a powder to use in soups, @ 2 Tbs per pot of soup that will last for 12 pots of soup

My pepperoni spice will be here Saturday so Sunday will be pizza day. I debating weather to sprinkle it on top or bake it in the pizza crust.

Garden/compost day. I'll finish pulling the wilted Kale and try to get a bucket of undamaged kale.
My 60 gallon compost bin is near full and I will take out the compost at the bottom, from the lower door, and dry it out in the wheel barrow. After I mix the black gold into the garden soil I'll get it PH tested to see If I need to add sulphur and peat moss - it always needs acid here because the well water is alkaline. While the garden soil is being amended I'll cut and harden the seed potatoes and hopefully will be able to plant them at the end of next week.

 

[kenmbz]

mornin, 26 going up to 46 and sunny, more melting, quite a ways to go.
Got temp mount for tractor mirror and trimmed back clematis that was getting in under gazebo roof.

Drew - those martians sure don;t bother cleaning up their area
BEF - light from Amazon Ostwin- have the same lights in the apartment, working well so far. but when they die, need to replace whole unit
Co workers toilet in Tokyo had remote for heat and music as well as the bidet with about 20 types of water configs. My place just had bidet and heat , both auto up/down seat buttons

Stay safe and be well, it's been a rough week

 

[Buppies]

Glad to hear coco is out and about great parents she has

72 yesterday 65 today SE Ridge is winning

Thanks for thoughts prayers just so many of these cotton picking things waiting on results

Prayers for all our Country

 

[PJSprog]

30°F and cloudy this morning, going up to 48° today. Still seeing a little snow in some of the ditches on east-west roads, but for the most part it's all gone now.

Got 10 eggs from the feather butts yesterday, where we had been getting 2-3 a day. I guess they're liking the warmer weather as well.

I can handle the warmer weather, Mostly_. As I've noted from others who live in such climes, just stay inside on the really hot days, just like we do up here on the really cold days. We get some stretches of 100+ days here as well, and just regulate our outdoor activities to morning work. Like anything else, I'm sure it will take some adjustment.

I have been to Texas many times, Eric, and I've always enjoyed my time there. The oldest stepson, who lives there now, was stationed at Ft. Hood during his time in the Army, and we visited him several times. I'd also been there a few times for work-related stuff previous to that. It's a huge state. One can drive for 10 hours and still be in Texas. I believe only Alaska is bigger.

L4N, "is" is the third-person singular simple present indicative form of "be", so it's a verb. It turns out, after many years of my own chiding people over ending sentences with a preposition, that there is actually no hard and fast grammatical rule against it. It's merely frowned upon. (see what I did there)

Paul, I found the biggest torture to my hands when I first started playing string bass was my left hand. Totally different technique and muscle usage than on a bass guitar ... or even a cello, for that matter.

 

[txdon]

PJ. What type of place are you looking for in Texas?

 

[toppop52]

49-51 today, already missing yesterday’s 61. The flag is standing out in the NW breeze.
I got my usual morning stuff done but no coffee yet. My new propane regulator is due in today, I’ll probably install and test that.
I got the antique stool done and collected my strawberry pie It’s a great little stool, very symmetrical for hand made.
It was obviously hand made, you could see the ads and draw knife marks on the inside bottom edges.

I go for my second shot Saturday, I hope it’s as trouble free as the first.

I got the big enclosed trailer cleaned out yesterday and everything either stored or tossed. I just pulled the tractor inside and loaded the stuff in the bucket, better than toting it. I hooked it with the 3pt hitch and pulled around to air the tires so it would be ready. The new owner sent a service guy out to start the generator and test the overhead lights and A/C. I told him good luck, I’d never used either lights or air. They all worked though it could use some refrigerant. I just used it to haul classic cars and tractors, not for a workshop. Hopefully it’s leaving this weekend.
My leg and hip are sore from all the forward and reverse peddling filling those low spots.

Gotta get it in gear and get moving.
Have great and blessed day, stay safe.

 

[toppop52]

L4N, "is" is the third-person singular simple present indicative form of "be", so it's a verb. It turns out, after many years of my own chiding people over ending sentences with a preposition, that there is actually no hard and fast grammatical rule against it. It's merely frowned upon. (see what I did there)

Where did you hear that at?

 

[PJSprog]

PJ. What type of place are you looking for in Texas?

Similar to what we have here, Don ... 5-ish acres. We want to be not too far from a population center, because I'm still going to have to work for a few more years, and don't want to drive 100 miles to get to a job. We've been mostly looking along the I-35 corridor between DFW and Austin. Found a few potential places yesterday, closer to Austin. Wife found a really nice place near Waco (even has a guest house on the property), which would be perfect, but probably more than we want to spend.