Good morning!!!!

[Thomas]

26F clear mid 40's for high made ice over night.

Outside chores done E muffin time.
Plans this morning....Hospital for couple test,pick up some critter food,clean or replace pickup air filter clean both road culverts and date night.

Enjoy your say all.

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, dark 32 going up to 53. Got tractor out and moved the benches and rounds back from movie night.
Finished trimming Maple in prep to down big Ash with new bar/chain on pole saw.
Practicing with throw rope, got within 2 feet of where I need to be, sooo close.

Stay safe and be well,


This area used to be dense with Ash, still a few left to take down.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 50F @ 5:00AM. Cloudy skies. High 64F. Winds light and variable.

That's funny, Billy. Hope you're not using the hedge clippers on your wife.

Back in my days as a road warrior, Drew, I seldom ate in restaurants. Instead, I'd get a meal to go, then swing by a liquor store for a beer or two, then enjoy a quiet evening in the motel room. That strategy makes even more sense in these Covid times.

Pretty leaves, Ron. Thanks for sharing the photo.

I started with 3M spray glue for the sound deadening on the van, David, and now it's letting go. I switched to Barge Cement, and so far it's been fine...

Sounds like a pretty fancy machine, Paul, but you know what they say about happy wives. I have my hands full just getting a bobbin wound on the old Consew, not to mention trying to get the needle threaded correctly. That usually ends up turning a five minute job into a mostly wasted hour.

More bucks than I've seen all year.

Yesterday started off on a rude note when the water stopped flowing in the shower just as I'd lathered up my hair. Turns out I had the valves on the new water tank set wrong, and the bottom tank was dry. Took about an hour to fill it, then the pressure switch started acting up again. Today I'll take it and the valve on the resin tank apart and clean them. Another job I've been putting off for most of a year.

I spent more time filling out paperwork at Costco yesterday than waiting for the pharmacist to give me a booster. Felt fine afterwards, but now my arm is sore, and I'm a little feverish. Good sign that it's working.

Before that I finished off the tank bag move. Worked a lot better after I found a missed connection.

TGIF gang!

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning
It’s 27 outside and supposed to hit 50 before the sun sets.

I kept busy all day yesterday, went to staples for inkjet ink, had lunch with some friends, but nothing notable other than that except for the failure of a 4TB USB drive that had a lot of music and recording data on it. And…. It wasn’t backed up. I’m looking at data recovery software now, as the drive does power up but does not have a recognizable partition. The issue was caused by a power failure while writing data.

Today started with an early trip to the hospital to drop wife off for colonoscopy. Have to make the return trip shortly. Then I’m not sure what will take up the rest of the day.

Here’s what the new machine looks like.

 

[LouNY]

Pretty snazzy bird, it's been many years since I set foot in something similar, would have been early 74 at Cherry Point in a Sabreliner.

 

[riptides]

I just finished up paying for my new toy! A family member was downsizing, and was gracious enough to offer me this equipment. I stole his chain too in the process, and the SO wrote the check a while back.

I'll test it out this weekend on the barn siding, and milk house roof. On the milk house I have some lightening rods that need to be looked at, and a chimney that needs a squirrel screen. The tree rat figured out the frizbee cover on the inside and decided to enjoy my tool shed these last few days.

I plan on setting it up, far away from trees and buildings until I get use to "driving" it.



Should be fun, or at least.....interesting.

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, low 26 high 45 F. Wind SE 6 mph. Mix of sun and cloud.

The motherboard and cpu went out of my 'puter yesterday, so I am stuck with this laptop until the new parts get here from newegg.

Not all that sure what I will get up to today.


Have a safe day all

 

[txdon]

Good morning! We got as close to the first frost as we could get. So Close I had to go outside and feel the grass to verify it was not frost. 34˚F clear skies heading to 60. Central Texas usual first frost day is November 15th.

Today I will remove mom's street mailbox now that she is getting yard delivery. I heard that propane prices are doubling this year and will find out today after mom's propane tank gets filled. I'll report back if they do indeed fill the tank today.

My wife did not win at her H&F table yesterday until I added up the score of the person that finished ahead of her. Apparently when moving down a total the player made a 1 into a 7 giving her 6,000 more points. After subtracting the 6K points my wife won.

 

[Bird]

Almost the same here, Don. 34 degrees for a low, but going for 62 for a high today. I, too, was tempted but did NOT go out in the wet grass to feel to see that it only looked white instead of being frost.

 

[PJSprog]

30°F and clear skies with some light fog this morning, going up to 55° today.

Nice weather forecast for this weekend will help a lot with all the outside stuff I need to do. Lots of tree debris from recent storms that needs to be collected and burned. Will probably mow one last time on Sunday, then get the machines cleaned up and ready for winter. Still need to clean and store the kayaks, and figure out where to store the trailer so it's out of the way for the winter. Should keep me busy and off the streets.

FIL is still in the hospital. He had some substantial swelling earlier in the week, which the staff there attributed to his medication, but seems to be showing improvement the last couple of days. Wife and I seem to have both caught a head cold this week, so she's aggravated that she can't go see him.

RNG, This machine has an auto-threading function. She threads the machine and ends it with a little device near the needle. She pushes a button, and it's threaded within about half a second. Her previous machine had this feature as well, but it wasn't nearly as slick or as fast as this one. It's actually amazing to watch.

I live with that fear playing in the back of my mind every day, Paul. I don't have a backup for my studio computer, just the 1TB HDD in the machine itself. I need to add that to the list of things to do this weekend. I'm starting to get a lot of projects on there that need a permanent home anyway. Hope you can recover yours.
Nice-looking plane, too. Congrats.

 

[LouNY]

I just finished up paying for my new toy! A family member was downsizing, and was gracious enough to offer me this equipment. I stole his chain too in the process, and the SO wrote the check a while back.

I'll test it out this weekend on the barn siding, and milk house roof. On the milk house I have some lightening rods that need to be looked at, and a chimney that needs a squirrel screen. The tree rat figured out the frizbee cover on the inside and decided to enjoy my tool shed these last few days.

I plan on setting it up, far away from trees and buildings until I get use to "driving" it.

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Should be fun, or at least.....interesting.

nice addition a very handy piece of equipment

 

[toppop52]

30 early, 50 now, 55 later.

Lost internet about 2:30 pm yesterday and got it back about 8:30 this morning. Tractor that mows the ditches apparently got too close to the pole and cut the cable in two.

I’ve threaded so many sewing machines in my 37 years in the upholstery/window treatment business that I could thread most of them blindfolded. Singer, Consew, Juki, etc…The most fun one was an old Merrow serger. Three spools that had to be routed through convoluted tubes, holes and needles, and each one had to be perfect. But I loved that old machine.

My mother in law tested positive on Thursday, wife and father in law visited her last Saturday, she tested negative on Tuesday. Not much chance they were exposed, but they got tested, if either of them are positive, then I’ll get tested. All were vaccinated and she is showing no symptoms.

I went to the plastic surgeon yesterday, one kind of likely cancer on my shin and another type on my forearm. Get them removed Dec 2.

Not much planned for today, but I’ll get into something.
Have a good day.

 

[toppop52]

Line of rope clouds late afternoon.

 

[rswyan]

Good Morning.

40.6F and sunny @ 11:30, headed up to a high of 50F.

Low hit 27F again last night, noticed yesterday that the freezing temps from the night before had put a hit on the plants in the garden. Last night has likely finished them off for sure. So fence can be taken down and that can be cleaned up and tilled in the coming days.

Noticed yesterday when I went back out to mow that the Cub was almost empty so The Woman ran down to the corner for some gas before she headed off to pick up the cat while I continued to mow. I still need to run down and pick up some non-e gas for winterizing.

Did some more mowing on the east side down around the house, also got upper front about 90% done. After I had had enough put the Cub away and closed up the garage.

With two straight nights of below freezing temps it has turned into a steady rain of leaves falling here. Areas that I cleaned off yesterday are now completely covered again ... so might run over them today, also finish up upper front.

Found a drowned chipmunk laying next to bucket trap out front yesterday and need to dispose of him today, not sure who fished him out of the bucket. Will resent bucket traps front and back.

Also relocate bird feeders further away from planting bed.

Need to bust up more of that plastic siding today and get it put in the can up at the road (forgot last week until it was too late)

Maybe get electric fence taken down and t-posts moved over to planting bed.

Refill feeders.

Hope everyone has an enjoyable, productive, and safe day ...

 

[kenmbz]

PJS- hope your FIL keeps improving.
I have a bunch of 1TB USB drives that I backup to and put in the apartment so not in the main house.
I have a network storage box with High availability to store everything live and then to backup USB drives.

The biggest issue I have is the changes in file formats over the years, means some I have to get clever with in order to see them.

Randy- hope the removals work out well.

Break over- back to work :-(

 

[sodamo]

68°F and .2 inches rain.

Guys squeaked out a win at H&F in last round, a fun, close game.

Only a couple hours work in Caretaker Suite this morning as I have to take my truck in for servicing. Oring for fuel pump finally arrived. Service rep told Sophie it was longest wait for a part. Expect a couple hour procedure.

Then off to HD and a couple other errands will fill rest of day.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I just finished up paying for my new toy! A family member was downsizing, and was gracious enough to offer me this equipment. I stole his chain too in the process, and the SO wrote the check a while back.

I'll test it out this weekend on the barn siding, and milk house roof. On the milk house I have some lightening rods that need to be looked at, and a chimney that needs a squirrel screen. The tree rat figured out the frizbee cover on the inside and decided to enjoy my tool shed these last few days.

I plan on setting it up, far away from trees and buildings until I get use to "driving" it.

View attachment 719749

Should be fun, or at least.....interesting.

Nice toy!

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Our 3rd straight morning of heavy frost, was 24° when I left for work.

 

[sodamo]

Good morning! We got as close to the first frost as we could get. So Close I had to go outside and feel the grass to verify it was not frost. 34˚F clear skies heading to 60. Central Texas usual first frost day is November 15th.

Today I will remove mom's street mailbox now that she is getting yard delivery. I heard that propane prices are doubling this year and will find out today after mom's propane tank gets filled. I'll report back if they do indeed fill the tank today.

My wife did not win at her H&F table yesterday until I added up the score of the person that finished ahead of her. Apparently when moving down a total the player made a 1 into a 7 giving her 6,000 more points. After subtracting the 6K points my wife won.

Congrats to your wife, Don

A while back I built a spreadsheet for scoring, use it in Numbers on my ipad. Could send you a copy for local adaptation.

 

[Thomas]

42F few clouds still froze on the ground in places sun does shine upon and in bird bath.

Put good dent in things to do list for outside before cold weather sets in for good...2 left.
Lab tech you might say had sense of humor,after finishing with MRI she said good news is we MRI didn't vaporize any women parts and she had couple more 1 liners.

Well about that time time to clean up try get comb thru my brush before date night.

Enjoy your evening all.