Good morning!!!!

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Welcome 3T and arto.

Ken, hope you get feeling better.

PopG, you might plan for a couple days of feeling blah after your shot. Maybe you'll be fortunate.

TxDon, I had an infestation last year for some reason. Killing hundreds around my property. They also hide in dead post oak tree hollows.

RNG, place is looking good! Congrats on the sale. A virtual "toast" is in order.

Off today. Wifey made great coffee this AM. Now she made a scratch chocolate cake, and chicken tortilla soup in the instant pot.

It is so windy outside, I'm having trouble getting motivated to go out and work. Tortilla soup smells good, I believe it wins out.

Have a blessed day all.

Kyle

 

[sodamo]

One does not have to be afraid in order to delay taking new vaccine which was rushed through in all time record, and you take 100% of the risk. Everyone else involved apparently takes 0 risk!

Each to his own.

I wish you marvelous recovery after the second shot!

I found this interesting

Luck, foresight and science: How an unheralded team developed a COVID-19 vaccine in record time

Credit for Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine belongs in part to discoveries dating back 15 years. The team behind it was inspired by two infant deaths.

www.usatoday.com

 

[rswyan]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1372293644162568198

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I found this interesting

Luck, foresight and science: How an unheralded team developed a COVID-19 vaccine in record time

Credit for Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine belongs in part to discoveries dating back 15 years. The team behind it was inspired by two infant deaths.

www.usatoday.com

I saw that before, very interesting.

 

[toppop52]

We’ve had 1.3” since 5pm and still pouring, only had about .3” the previous 24 hours. Might another inch or more. We’ve had 5-6 thunderstorms this evening. Good old March weather.

 

[rswyan]

37F and mostly cloudy @ 22:15, ended up getting around .92" which we needed. Headed down to an overnight low of 26F. High will be around 45F tomorrow, sunny for the next four days reaching 64F on Sunday. In the 60's after that, but it's looking pretty wet ... except for Monday.

Mostly a fishy day today (with a side of worms), but I also assisted with the bathroom cleanup.

Sheetcake inventory is critically low ... might have to do something about that later ...

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 41F for the start, overcast, windy. Windy all day but did slack off afternoon. Sky cleared off slowly during day and high temp was 58F. slow start, then trip to Sherman, wife was supposed to pick up ordered house shoes, but Co. discontinued what she wanted and what came in did not fit well. She was able to find a pair of hous shoes in stock and the store stretched them to help fit. Had similar issue with bike pick up, the Trek had an oddball rear derailleur and no direct replacements available. So no rear derailleir shifts reverse direction of what it did . Bike rid after we got home, no nap and fish club meeting tonight.
Covid update: Cooke 3097 confirmed cases, 30 active cases, Montague 1725 confirmed cases , 8 active cases, Grayson 10966 confirmed cases, 34 active cases, local 1 active case.
Ron I trust routine appointment for Sassy, nice pic
Billy Not sure I want to see you dress as the safety inspector was ! Hope you can get the pics to post, will be neat to se video of tree fall
Drew good luck with the deer control fences
3Ts Welcome and good luck with your driveway getting poured. not heard about cement plant in Dallas.
Paul congrats on vaccine and new speaker orders
Thomas you have to love their loyalty
Thomas sorry about your steps cracking
RNG congrats on selling old Kubota. Hope you got close to what you needed to get for it
PJ hope snow does not last long
Ken sorry about felling poorly for your first vaccine.
Don more clouds up here, and never saw the dust. sorry about the 10 year bond
Ken glad you got new appt so fast
Arto98607, Welcome, always tough to know who is honest in the media
Doug hop you can get your grass cut. Nice to hear you are getting more rain this year.
Bird just finished scalping mine, and have not had enough rain for it to grow.
Don thanks for pics, I can do without the scorpions.
RS interesting on feeding the opossum, not big fans of them as the would try to nest in master bedroom baywindow. Had to have it repaired several time after critters damaged it.
Randy that is a lot of water.
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, Buppies/cancer surgery, Doug and wife/health issues/nerve and pain, and Country.
stay safe and healthy you all.

 

[sodamo]

We’ve had 1.3” since 5pm and still pouring, only had about .3” the previous 24 hours. Might another inch or more. We’ve had 5-6 thunderstorms this evening. Good old March weather.

1.4 last 24 hours, 1.32 of it since midnight. 59.49 ytd - still have 6 1/2 hours to hit 60.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

One does not have to be afraid in order to delay taking new vaccine which was rushed through in all time record, and you take 100% of the risk. Everyone else involved apparently takes 0 risk!

Each to his own.

I wish you marvelous recovery after the second shot!

If you're eligible to get the vaccine and you're avoiding it, I admire your choice, but it's one I don't have and would choose differently. We're all free to make our own decisions, but it's usually better to not proselytize, especially here. $.02 (since we lost that emoji, too).

 

[RoyJackson]

2021-03-19, 0318

22 right now...high in the low 30's today. Nice steady rain yesterday...hope those wet roads aren't frozen this morning...just be a slow steady drive in...

Update: Roads were dry...no ice, fortunately. Windy here (work just outside of Claremont NH) so that dried the roads...but that wind is really cold on the 22° day

 

[NHBX]

Good morning folks

27 now high around 40, clouds this morning sunny this afternoon, winds NNW at 10-20 mph. Yesterday’s rain around 0.5”

Grocery pick up this morning and a stop at the meat/beer store on the way home.
Project for today is clean up the grill and fill the spare propane tanks.

Stay safe and healthy
Enjoy your day everyone

 

[ronjhall]

Coffee is brewing. 26° with clear skies this morning. Heading to 48° with lots of sun. Yesterday was a interesting weather day. Radar showed my place covered in rain. But no accumulation recorded on weather station or detected on ground. Winds 30+. Thought Sassy was going to get blown away when she went out for her afternoon walk. I stayed in and scanned some more film. Grocery shopping this morning. Then will see what happens after that.
Deer and other critters have most all the feeder droppings cleaned up.

RNG, great picture of old tractor leaving. Had to look up proselytize. Works good on GM.

Don, great pictures. I remember finding Scorpions when we moved paver bricks at your place. Muffin sniffed them out in Jinmas Kitchen. They make a crunching sound when stepped on.

David, did you make 60" by midnight?

Mostly, how does that work? Reversed gear selection?

Popgadget, glad you got appointment for vaccine.

Everyone stay safe abn healthy.

Good Morning All.

 

[daugen]

good Friday morning all. Woken up last night by wind and rain beating on roof, about a half inch but seemed like more.
Rain is out of here now and should be a nice sunny day and a dry weekend.

I have a foodshopping trip this morning like Ron.
Then back to put up first of electric fencing. Realized first box of stakes I bought
were too short, 30 inches, and had to reorder another box of 5 footers.

Then later this afternoon off to Doylestown to have a glass of wine with a friend and then my first restaurant dinner out.
Both of us have had both our vaccines, so...will be careful anyway. Since I bought the cruise tickets, she is buying me dinner tonight.
Good deal!

got an estimate on repainting this little 900sf cottage. 6 thousand dollars from local painter/contractor. He sure won't get the job.

 

[Buppies]

40 high of 45 today 1.5 in of rain from this one storm just a little light show. Ground got the water it needed

prayers for all our country

 

[Eric Salop]

Good morning, time for breakfast and a quick rest before I try and move some sheep over. Ewes will follow me anywhere at moment for food, lambs much more reluctant to be evicted from the field they think of as home.

Took my car in for a service yesterday. Previous dealership is no longer Subaru approved, so I opted for one just over an hours drive away, up in the hills in Wales. The scenery there is usually marvellous, unfortunately low cloud blotted out almost everything except the road. I had a four hour wait, which gave plenty of time to explore the area and discover a nice scorpion free walk by a fast flowing river. Lots of people in Wales still proudly use Welsh as their first language, the 12 month road worthy certificate was printed in Welsh, thankfully Sat Nav still talks to me in English.




Mostly, derailleur incompatibilities are a real pain - though anything is better than straining uphill on a fixed wheel

 

[Eric Salop]

With the last president, we had frequent airspace closures here whenever he golfed at his NJ club. With the current one, we get restrictions when he comes to Wilmington to visit his dog. Those go from the surface to 18,000 feet

Popgadget, heard his German shepherd was aggressive ...

hadn't appreciated it chases planes too. Perhaps it likes dogfights ?

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, the temperature is 11°F and going to a high of 41. Wind N 3 mph. Sunny!

I am going to make an attempt at cleaning up the basement. I spotted the army trailer at the basement window yesterday and I will hook it back to the Jeep as soon as I go out to load it.

I don't envy anybody that has to deal with scorpions, fire ants, rattlesnakes and copperhead snakes. I like my little safe spot in North America. The only snakes I get to deal with are garter snakes and their cousins, the copper belly water snakes.


Stay safe all

 

[toppop52]

RNG, you’re right, I’m a hard headed Carolinian and I don’t convert easily.

A little over two inches of rain total, about 1.9” after dinner yesterday. We needed the rain, been dry for three weeks, but we didn’t need it all at once. I seeded several freshly filled depressions in the back late yesterday while they were wet from the earlier rain, I guess the downpour will create a pretty green border around them in a couple of weeks where the seed all washed off. Looks like a repeat performance in my near future.
39-45 today, slow warmup starts tomorrow.

No word on UTV or stimulus. I can’t do anything about the latter, but I can tell them how to fit the former where the sun don’t shine.

Have a good day folks.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

33° and .8” rain yesterday, windy all night and still blowin. It is March.

 

[Thomas]

Good morning, time for breakfast and a quick rest before I try and move some sheep over. Ewes will follow me anywhere at moment for food, lambs much more reluctant to be evicted from the field they think of as home.

Took my car in for a service yesterday. Previous dealership is no longer Subaru approved, so I opted for one just over an hours drive away, up in the hills in Wales. The scenery there is usually marvellous, unfortunately low cloud blotted out almost everything except the road. I had a four hour wait, which gave plenty of time to explore the area and discover a nice scorpion free walk by a fast flowing river. Lots of people in Wales still proudly use Welsh as their first language, the 12 month road worthy certificate was printed in Welsh, thankfully Sat Nav still talks to me in English.

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Mostly, derailleur incompatibilities are a real pain - though anything is better than straining uphill on a fixed wheel

Bet the foot bridge could tell some stories of years pass.