Good morning!!!!

[RoyJackson]

We have great recycling and trash handling at our transfer stations...individual bins for cardboard, paper, can/bottles/plastic, used oil, paint, anti-freeze, batteries, old propane tanks, metal, etc. On my many visits, I've observed most people using one or more of the recycling bins when they bring their trash.

Where I used to live, they made the largest city park out of the landfill...it is the highest point in the city, used for sledding in the winter, fireworks on Independence Day, and has a huge playground, skateboard park and lakes for the rest of the year...Mt. Trashmore...

Yep, I remember Mount Trashmore from my time in the Navy!!

 

[PJSprog]

36°F and cloudy this morning, going up to 62° today.

The knucklehead factor at work seems to have ratcheted up to an abnormally high level over the last couple of days. Holiday stress maybe? Dunno, but it's not making my workdays any brighter. So it goes. Part of the territory when you're a Quality Jerk. May help me enjoy having tomorrow off even more.

 

[ronjhall]

Drew, the garbage trucks here are not the auto pickup type. A has to take my trash can out to back of truck. There is a hydraulic mechanism that catches a bar in front of trash can. It is then lifted up and over to dump. Then returned to ground level when empty. There is some control of speed. Getting it done as fast as possible is the way it is done. Which slams trash can to the ground on return. This can is the one I got when they started pickup some 30 years ago. I keep repairing it. I hauled my own trash for 20 years. To cheap to higher a trash hauler.

 

[ronjhall]

Randy, hope meds get you better soon.

 

[sodamo]

67°F and .34 inches rain. Even a bit of redness in sky this morning. Hopeful.

Not sure what I’ll get into today. Wx depending.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[daugen]

home and glad to be here.
But some excitement, a loose Burmese mountain dog running around in our yards.
Nice dog, friendly, tail wagging, collar but I'm not grabbing on to any 130 pound dog to investigate.
It's having a ball across the street playing with their big standard poodle. Two very nice dogs, but this one
got loose and needs to go home. I've never seen it before. I called the Township building across the street and down a little bit and told them this beautiful
dog was going to get hit by a car right outside their office, and neighbors were worried, could she do something. On yes, will get right on it.
So should be a show out here shortly when we'll see who was given the job.

I'm off to take my fully charged battery and see if I can find the old one. If not I'll have to bribe Ken with an apple pie for his help...but I am determined
to figure this out by myself. And then I have to really organize the garage and create some space for car. But of course some leaves have to be sucked up as long as I'm
moving the mower out.

 

[rswyan]

Currently 33F and cloudy, heading up to a high of 39F supposedly. Calling for warmer temps in the Ten Day, including a high of 65F on Saturday (but rain ... )

Can see hopper feeder is about empty, so a refill there will be on the agenda, along with the sunflower tube feeders. Probably put some corn out for the deer as well. Some birds and squirrels on the ground out around the feeders searching for tidbits.

Other than that, not sure what else will be on the agenda for the day.

May get back into more cleaning/organizing in the basement.

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

 

[Alien]

We Have 2 wheelie bins for trash. 1 is a recycling bin and is collected every 2nd week. The trash is every week. They have never spilled any. I drag 1 at a time out to the road using my ride-on mower. We have a local dump about 6 klm away but it is only open on Sundays now.
If you dump metal or green waste it is free but a load of trash which goes into huge industrial bins will cost you $11. The system works pretty well although the dump in the local town now has a limited life so not sure what will happen then. We need a volcano to dump rubbish in.
Must go check my Powerball ticket.

 

[daugen]

successful afternoon. Sucked up the leaves, cleaned up the garage so car could just wedge in there, and got the battery replaced
on the snowmobile. Turned the key and vrooom. Only one little problem. Couldn't get the old battery out of hidden position. I cut the two
zip ties holding it but it would not pull out. Before I got more creative, decided to just make sure it worked so found the battery lead, only heavier gauge red
and black wires, and sure enough worked fine. So I tucked it back up underneath where on Saturday I will try to secure with more zip ties.

Now the bad news. Dealer wants the old battery back for warranty claim. I'm wondering if they really do since this is a known problem with this engine/battery.
I don't care, the thing finally runs.

 

[Thomas]

We're about 1.5" so far...not snowing hard, but pretty steady. Traffic or Route 12 is moving pretty slow

We just reach 3" this morning at 5am...fluffy.

 

[Thomas]

Buppies time you took some me time for while...feel better real soon.

 

[Thomas]

This guy keeps hanging around scraping up all my trees.

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Three years ago neighbor hire company plant fruit trees...cherry,pears,peaches,apples...next 2 years 2 bucks whittle them all down to tooth picks.

 

[Thomas]

28F cloudy.

We work the skidder most of the day got more done than we plan on sooo we taking tomorrow off.
So call trace to inch we ended up with 3" and looks and feels like more snow on the way over night tomorrow I'll finish detail plowing weather station saying rain this weekend.
No plans for this evening...feet up dinner feet up watch old movie than early pillow hugging.

Enjoy your evening all.

 

[Boss 302]

It was 23* here this morning with a very heavy frost, looking forward to seeing a little snow.

 

[newbury]

RE:Amazon -
I've been trying to get some parts for fixing my trailer wiring.
Little $10 parts.
Some were to be delivered Tuesday, whoops Wednesday, changed to Friday and Saturday when I checked an hour ago.
Now some of those parts are out for delivery.
These parts were coming from about 40 miles away. The local suburban supply chain is messed up.

 

[Alien]

successful afternoon. Sucked up the leaves, cleaned up the garage so car could just wedge in there, and got the battery replaced
on the snowmobile. Turned the key and vrooom. Only one little problem. Couldn't get the old battery out of hidden position. I cut the two
zip ties holding it but it would not pull out. Before I got more creative, decided to just make sure it worked so found the battery lead, only heavier gauge red
and black wires, and sure enough worked fine. So I tucked it back up underneath where on Saturday I will try to secure with more zip ties.

Now the bad news. Dealer wants the old battery back for warranty claim. I'm wondering if they really do since this is a known problem with this engine/battery.
I don't care, the thing finally runs.

You may find that the battery is stuck in with double sided tape so it will need a bit of pressure to get it out.

 

[daugen]

You may find that the battery is stuck in with double sided tape so it will need a bit of pressure to get it out.

thanks. Now that I know the thing runs fine the way I've juryrigged it, I might tug a little harder on those wire leads. Worst they can do is pull out of the dead battery.

 

[mostly_gas]

Should have posted yesterday. Good evening all. 35F for the start, partly cloudy sky, light breeze. Light wind today, variable cloudiness, high temp was 51F, DP 48F. No fog here but fog reported in DFW area just to south.
Covid update: Cooke 4236 confirmed cases, 35 active cases, Montague 2709 confirmed cases, 29 active cases, Grayson, 16,593 confirmed cases, 199 active cases. Cooke 5, Montague 8, Grayson 2, new cases.
Drew good luck with your hunting
Ron hope you can recover the bench space. nice pic, sorry about the more recent delivery issues
Buppies hope the runs are gone
Billy glad you got hike in
Don condolence on loss of Gray2
Mike sorry about the trip, nice to hear wife had wood stove going.
Bill helping the DIL does not sound like fun , prayers sent
Thomas hope branch cleanup went well, as well as town run.
Eric hope your day goes well.
Ken nice lights, thanks for pics
RNG yea rain. Brackets look nice, like bottle opener on the bag
Paul glad your daughter was there for you.
Rich When you realize the airlines don't always follow the manual for maintenance (DC10 crash) not too surprising people can't be bother to take care of their machine
Rich then you read the link and shake your head.
PJ will be close to 80 on Friday, 25 or so degree drop Saturday.
Thomas glad day went well.
Roy hope you got driveway markers out
Randy sorry about leg, praying for no more surgery needed.
RS busy day
Buppies sorry about the poor ending.Hope you can rehydrate. prayers sent
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle's daughter/friend PT from Covid, Bird/aging issues/, Don/whipper, more tests/ Grey 2, RIP /ring bearer/back broken & infections, Don/ neighbors with Covid, Randy/FIL living alone adjustments /MIL covid, /cancer surgeries, PJ/FIL death, Dennis /wife wrist surgery and recovery, Roy/ palpitations/ angina, wife/ankle recovery, Billy/ wife fall, David(moss)/remodel/divorce, Buppies/new cancer on face /dehydrated, Thomas/gout, Phil/reflux/wife's eyes, Steppenwolfe/son-auto immune disorder, Grev/wife's eye, Ted/knee recovery/retirement, Doug and wife/health issues/nerve and pain/ wife's eyes, Ken/aunt fall injuries, David(sadamo)/Sophie's new eye surgery, Ron/neighbor Covid issues, Chris/neighbor's granddaughter and Covid issues, RS wife/ dog bite recovery, Scaredy/injuries from fall, Paul/ wife's disc issues, Mike/elbow pain, Bill/ getting care for DIL and Country.
stay safe and healthy you all.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Here’s a before and after of a calcium encrusted shower head. I’m still amazed at how well it works.
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You just sold my wife on one.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

21° this morning.

Felt like I ran a marathon at work today. Busy, which I prefer over not being busy.

Moved exercise bike in front of basement tv, but nothing worth turning it on to watch.

Buppies, hope you get better soon.

I rode 7 miles just catching up on good morning thread.

Glad you all are getting the snow and not here.

I think every county has a mount trashmore.
I think ours now gets trucked out of state. Landfill now just a transfer station. Don’t know where it goes. I gladly pay trash pickup, one of my least expensive bills.