Good morning!!!!

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 27F for the start, partly cloudy, light breeze. Light wind day, sky stayed partly cloudy, and high temp was 45F, DP 20F. Restoke insert, chapel, make breakfast, refilled wood cart, had a small work project, but could not log in. No nap today. Watched some football.
Covid update: Cooke 4302 confirmed cases, 92 active cases, Montague 2774 confirmed cases, 84 active cases, Grayson, 16,766 confirmed cases, 246 active cases. Cooke 3, Montague 4, Grayson 13, new cases.
Dennis sounds like nice day
David sorry about getting your phone flailed.
Roy nice snow, hope you enjoyed the seat time
Ron good to hear Sassy better. Hope today as good as yesterday. Nice wheels, and nice redhead.
Drew hope you enjoyed your snow.
Bill hope you enjoyed your seat time.
Billy sorry about messing with your outside work.
Paul glad you got some good family time in. Interesting recovery in video
Eric good luck with the jays
Roy glad the blowing went ok inspite of the wind.
Rich glad first trigger went well. Glad you have a better window install method. good to hear you are near the end of your saga. Hope it is still therapeutic for you.
Don that note is an eye opener!
Roy sorry about the truck snow.
RNG why are so many tree falling?
Lou good luck with driveway in that kind of cold
Kyle hope church went well.
RS good to hear electric fence working, hope you can get the stove hook up.
Buppies hope you slept better. prayers for continued healing
David hope H&F went well sorry about the rain.
Don sorry for the slow down. hope swelling goes sown
Dennis understand about watching grease bucket dump. safe trip home
David hope you can get new phone soon,
Doug sorry about the fall, glad she likes the scooters. Hope you can get the phone warrantied.
Drew hope your reading went well tonight.
Phil sorry no snow and seat time.
Bill enjoy your seat time
Buppies glad you felt well enough to get some jobs done
drew good to hear corals went well.
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle's daughter/friend PT from Covid, Bird/aging issues/, Don/knee recovery /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, Chris/neighbor's granddaughter and Covid issues, RS wife/ dog bite recovery, Scaredy/injuries from fall, Paul/ wife's disc issues, Gale and KY/ tornado victims, Bill/ getting care for DIL and Country.
stay safe and healthy you all.

 

[check]

2021-12-19, 0400

29° and that's where it's going to stay all day. Looks like a good 8" of snow. I haven't been out but looking at the accumulation on the deck railing. Still a fine snow steadily coming down.
Too early to go out now...I'll plug the tractor in around 0500 and get outside around 0600. I actually like snow blowing early (0400) but it'll wake my wife and, especially Margeaux (who's a sweetie, but barks at almost everything, including falling leaves, birds and squirrels.
Margeaux, who is primarily Great Pyrenees, really enjoys the snow. If only I could focus all that energy into snow shoveling!!

Added:
After clearing the snow, which should take an hour plus a bit (driveway, walks and part of the back deck), nothing else planned...just help the wifey out. Looking outside again, the snow is really got some branches hanging low and has stuck to the chain link fence...wet snow. If this had been a dryer snow, reckon we'd have gotten closer to a foot. Definitely going to spray anti-stick on the snow blower chutes!

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That is a very lonely looking tractor, Roy!

 

[Alien]

Doug
Glad Lesley isn’t hurt.
You mention scooters, care to share a pic as to what they are?

Yeah, I actually posted elsewhere so might just redirect you David. Link to the Scooter Website.

Now we can take the dogs walking/riding.

As some are aware my wife and I both have bad backs. Just two days ago I was confined to bed which is very frustrating. I have had 2 laminectomies and suffer sciatica as does my lovely wife. There are good days though. We just need to learn to take it easier at our age. I'm a slow learner. A...

www.tractorbynet.com

I have a 2 wheeled one as well I bought for the grandys when they come. I can ride it OK but it's very hard on my hips and back.

 

[sodamo]

Thanks Doug, those must be awesome.

 

[RoyJackson]

2021-12-20, 0335

8° right now...high about 30 today.
Got to make a run in to work this morning to sign some paperwork. As soon as that's done, I'll be heading back home so stepdaughter can go to work.

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, low temp is 16 and high to 30°F. Wind SSE 9 mph. Periods of snow.

I'm not sure what I will get up to today, so might as well conserve energy.

Have a safe day all

 

[Alien]

Thanks Doug, those must be awesome.

We are both very happy with them. Been using them for a few days now and batteries are still showing near full. Dogs love them too.
I bought them on a recommendation of a friend who has one. And they are red so they go fast......

Just had word, the electrician and plumber are both coming tomorrow, a day earlier than planned.

Been mowing paddocks on the tractor this afternoon. NOT in the good books. I broke one of her frangipanis when it caught on the ROPS. OOPS!
Also been doing earthworks clean-up around the new barn.
7 meters of gravel coming maybe tomorrow if I'm lucky. Sick of sweeping sand out of the barn from tyre tracks.

 

[ronjhall]

Poured first cup of coffee. 27° with mostly cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 38° with snow flurries in AM. Then some sunshine. I did conserve energy yesterday. Except for meeting my neighbor to exchange small gifts. Gave them a bird feeder. They got me a floor mat for Mule. Nice visit on a kind of gloomy day. I have been watching some old mystery shows on TV. Sassy is eating with no indigestion since Vet visit. Need to rap some gifts for later this week.
Got a chunk of suet.

Alien, glad your wife is OK after fall. Likes using the Scooters.

Don, hope the swelling goes down. Wife left you a good note. Do you have emergency numbers set up on your phone?

Drew, good that people showed up for carol singing. I remember those from when we lived in the city.

David, wish I have a good suggestion for a phone mount. I have one on my bike. But it is made to mount on handlebar.

Buckeye, best wishes your trip home is trouble free. Congrats on your son's graduation. Does he have a job yet?

Everyone stay safe and healthy.

Good Morning All.

 

[daugen]

good morning all. Much colder out, 22 degrees only going up to high 30's today.
woke up with headache and neck ache after not sleeping as well as I thought I would. Oh well.
Long hot shower will take care of both.

off this morning to get oncology report, an every six month treat that always makes a cancer survivor a little nervous but
I have a very positive outlook. Then off to lunch with childhood friends, who want to go out to a restaurant. Between the oncology office
and lunch, I'm breaking out one of my unused N95 masks.

Doug, those are seriously cool mobility devices. When I had my farm I could not survive without my golf cart. But yours is way cooler and looks
super comfortable. And being electric it's quiet which is a biggie for me. I like the way you've been asked if you can put a three point hitch on them...
I have a truly collapsed back by now and can't walk more than half an hour. 22 years ago my first ortho said I'd be in a wheelchair in ten years.
Medicine has gotten better, though I now have some titanium in my neck to help out and likely more rods going into lower back.
Funny, with all that back damage rarely had leg pains, no shooting pains down the leg like sciatica. In fact my surgeon won't operate until I have leg pains, which
I found interesting.

many of us have been very active all our lives and seem to have simply worn parts out. I'm at the 100k point and starting to need more parts...

think we ought to get born with two medical devices implanted. One a port for all shots and second a grease zerk at L5. L5 seems to be the most common
back failure point. Food grade grease of course...

 

[Buppies]

22 high of 41 today kinda chilly this morning

Slept some last night

Prayers for all

 

[Buppies]

BEF what part of Virginia

 

[wngsprd]

25 going to 43. Woodstove feels good. Ended up with a quarter inch of rain.

Glad you got some sleep, Buppies.

BEF, have a safe remainder of your trip. The light display sounds pretty cool.

Roasted coffee yesterday, but not enough for gifts...just enough to resupply, so more roasting this week. Got a short hike in during the last hour of sun.

 

[daugen]

speaking of coffee, just opened big Amazon box dumped outside my door last night.
Opened box and saw a bunch of things including a coffee grinder.
Nope, not mine.
This time I looked at the label carefully and sure enough, a next door neighbor, so this will be the third
mis delivery I've had to do myself. Must be temp drivers for Amazon, it's pretty bad.

 

[rswyan]

23F and "Fair" @ 07:00, headed up to a high of 42F with sun for the day.

Hopper, two sunflower tube, and one suet feeder refilled yesterday, plus some cracked and whole corn laid down for squirrels and deer.

Got old flue pipe removed, was in really bad shape ... probably from over-firing when burning paper. Will need to watch that in the future.

Also managed to extract the old damper which appeared to be in decent shape.

A good bit of vacuuming to clean up all the mess from that, but still more to do directly behind gas furnace. Other vacuuming done as well.

Plugged the entrance to the chimney with old plastic bags.

Got stainless steel sheet metal screws (and string for tin cans for fence) from out in the garage and brought them downstairs to screw the pipes together. Still having trouble getting the seam on one pipe to seat.

Local hardware only had one elbow, need two ... so a trip later over to their other location which is a little further away. Supposedly they have six of them in stock, but will call to verify before I head over. Looks like I may need another two foot section of flue pipe as well.

Scrubbed and hosed down old squirrel feeder. Had intended to spray it with bleach, but the spray bottle I put the bleach in wouldn't spray ... will have to find another one today.

Got angles cut on boards for new hopper feeder, also slots cut for the plexiglass.

Mounting board attached to roost box and roughed up the dowels for the perches with some sandpaper.

Some kitchen clean up and dishes done.

Did some labelling on the plant labels, pen tip is plenty small/fine enough ... now just need to see how the paint holds up out in the elements.

Tried the Moo Shu Shrimp for dinner from the local Chinese place, was actually very good. Woman even commented on it after having some (and she said she wasn't hungry ... )

Broached the subject of the possibility of staying home for the Holiday and not going over to relatives. We'll see ... but it's not looking good.

COVID-19 cases in Ohio are way up ... approaching the peak in 2020, with the worst of it concentrated here in Northeast Ohio. Governor has deployed 1,000 National Guard to help with hospital overload.

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

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning.
It’s a balmy 20 degrees outside and going to climb all the way to 37 under clear skies.

Yesterday was another lazy day of puttering around in the shop.
Youngest son and daughter stopped by again for lunch.

Today the little plane has to go to Allentown for its biennial radar transponder check, but I think that my oldest son will take it, so I will likely have another day of puttering around here.

 

[Bird]

NWS says it was 35 degrees here at midnight, has warmed to 39 degrees by 5:30 a.m., with a 30% chance of rain and/or sleet this morning and going for a high of a sunny 51. How's that for covering all the bases?

Today is our regular garbage collection day, and they always come rain or shine, so I just took out one bag of garbage AND the recycling bin that was about full. Slight sprinkles when I went out and radar shows more rain nearly here.

I did a little grocery shopping yesterday, so today looks like I'll just be staying in, on the computer or watching the boob tube. I might even start my annual chore of cleaning out the file cabinet instead of waiting until after the first of the year.

 

[rswyan]

Sassy is eating with no indigestion since Vet visit.

Good to hear ...

Got a chunk of suet.

Nice red-belly ...

 

[riptides]

21 outside this AM, heading to mid 40's.

Weekend blew by. Wife said all she wanted for xMas was an owl box. So I built her one. Believe it or not, I did not even have to run to the hardware store. Got rid of some scrap wood too in the process. All that is left is to paint/stain it and hang it in the silo. The hanging part should be fun. LOL.



Hope all have a great start to the week. Especially so in this Holiday season, may you all find peace, health and happiness.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Yeah, I actually posted elsewhere so might just redirect you David. Link to the Scooter Website.

Now we can take the dogs walking/riding.

As some are aware my wife and I both have bad backs. Just two days ago I was confined to bed which is very frustrating. I have had 2 laminectomies and suffer sciatica as does my lovely wife. There are good days though. We just need to learn to take it easier at our age. I'm a slow learner. A...

www.tractorbynet.com

I have a 2 wheeled one as well I bought for the grandys when they come. I can ride it OK but it's very hard on my hips and back.

Did you get the FEL option?

Nice scooter, not what I pictured in my mind.

 

[Buppies]

Ron glad sassy is better

Nice bird house riptides