Good morning!!!!

[buckeyefarmer]

30-53 so far today, very breezy and bright blue skies.
Looks like cold three days or so coming up before we get some warm weather. My grass is greening up and some of the tiny weeds are blooming. I haven’t seen my first groundhog yet, but anytime now.

I hit a groundhog this week with my car, it seemed pretty dazed, or was on a suicide mission, as it strolled out in front of my car. I almost came to a stop before I hit it, it never ran.

 

[PJSprog]

No groundhogs here yet this year, but I have seen (and smelled) a ton of skunk road pizzas in the last week.

 

[Thomas]

26F clear sky winchill hanging around 9F-14F.

Day started out on gray side unable view TBN and I even try my TBN decoder ring which had no effect was able to send Muhammad message from iphone once again he work his magic all good..

Did BIG dump run,got good load of critter food,brought and deliver lunch to Mrs. at her job,spent couple hours cleaning up branch/limbs the rest of branches/limbs will have to wait later date,breaking thur the crust than sinking couple feet wasn't fun.
Not much plan for this evening just kicking back.
Enjoy the evening all.

 

[daugen]

RS, does your cat ever look hungrily at the fish tanks?

 

[Alien]

After a chilly 63 deg start to the day it has warmed up to a pleasant 78 deg at 8.30. Supposed to get up another 7 or 8 degrees today.
Family coming to stay tonight. Bought a bottle of Drambuie and a pack of Woodstock so looking forward to a fun night to take the aches and pains away.

 

[Alien]

David, probably too late now but I know there is a rule about warranty that if it is a known manufacturing fault then even if it is out of warranty it should be covered.
I had issues with Ford F Series manifolds cracking and took it up with them. They replaced all manifolds that cracked from there on for free. The vehicles were well out of warranty. (I looked after a fleet of them once)

 

[daugen]

Alien, did you feel the earthquake? Apparently more than one.

 

[rswyan]

RS, does your cat ever look hungrily at the fish tanks?

Hard to know exactly what is in their minds, but yeah ... all of them will scope out the tank from time to time.

Squeak more so than the others ... but less so now that she's a little older.

She'll still jump up on top of the 55G tank and try to stick a paw down through any openings. Don't know that it's so much fish, as it is just a general fascination with water.

If there's a bucket around with water in it, she'll find it and paw at whatever is in it.

Supposed to pick up 14 of these on Monday - Cyprichromis leptosoma "Utinta":

Adult size about 4.5" long - they are top water swimmer and a mouthbrooder, they school by the thousands in Lake Tanganyika. The ones I'm getting are juveniles - about 1.25"+ long.

 

[Alien]

Alien, did you feel the earthquake? Apparently more than one.

No mate, we never have earthquakes around here. Been the occasional one in Oz. Was a big one in Newcastle many many years ago but that's a long way from me.

 

[toppop52]

history, whether embellished or not, has Washington crossing the Delaware not far South of New Hope
at a place naturally called Washington Crossing. They crossed over and then marched South to Trenton NJ to attack Eric's relatives.

Allegedly spotters for the Continental Army used Bowman's Hill to watch over Trenton
which was next big town down the River.
There is a state park right below my old farm that had an exhibition hall with the famous painting we all know in it. Probably a copy now.
All of us with really old homes (ours was 1720) used to joke that Washington slept here. He would have needed many lifetimes to make up for all
the nights he slept over...

not very warm out and weather ahead is not very warm either. Was going to go out and build another birdhouse but I'll wait until next week when it warms up again.

Those pesky Hessians had to go!