Good morning!!!!

[kenmbz]

Morning all, sunny and 46, hope all of you had a great Christmas.
Didn't get in from xmas eve party until 2am and then xmas morning, son wanted up early for presents.
Got a funny text from neighbor with two little ones, she said "they don't tell how its going to be as an adult" since as a kid it's all so easy and fun, now hosting family.....

Friend has two pot belly pigs- they sleep in his living room and are quite large, one is very friendly, one not so much.

Happy birthday Mrs. BEF

Ham came out good-first year doing that. Today BIL is coming out for dinner. This time wife is doing the cooking.

Made everyone omelets yesterday for breakfast. The toffutti sliced cheese is back in stores after a many year hiatus. For some reason, that makes the omelet better than the real aged cheese I usually use (aged hard cheeses are mostly lactose free).

Great to see some new people from other threads here.

Stay safe and be well,

 

[Rich B1]

Good morning! A sunny 44 now, near 49 later? The forecast is mild for the next week.

We had a quiet day. Wife made ham for dinner, was quite good. We saved Christmas gifts until last evening. Cats got new toys, but a gift bag and an empty box have been the favorite.



all you can eat sushi wilmington nc

Should get into something today, just not sure what.

Hope everyone who is ailing gets to feeling better

Everyone stay safe out there

 

[Eric Salop]

Friend has two pot belly pigs- they sleep in his living room and are quite large, one is very friendly, one not so much

Ham came out good-first year doing that

Ken, did the not-so-friendly one taste best ?

 

[Eric Salop]

Good afternoon all. It has been nice to have children running around the house for a couple of days, all is quiet now the grandkids have departed.

The youngest (4 yr old) was delighted yesterday to unwrap presents . A small toy truck fascinated him for a short while, then he decided what he would like to play most of all was hide and seek. Sometimes the best games cost nothing at all.

We were sat down enjoying our Christmas dinner of turkey and all the trimmings, when my wife asked "is Max on your side of the table ?". Nope, yet he is always guaranteed to circle the table at such times, ever hopeful that gravity will persuade some tasty morsel to fall off fork or plate onto the floor. After a few blank expressions we concluded that no one had seen him for hours. He didn't answer our calls and a quick check was made around the house. Nothing. Perhaps he had sneaked out when I went to get the sprouts? He wasn't waiting at the door and a bitterly cold gale was blowing outside. The meal was abandoned and we all started to search. I had drawn a blank at the last of the sheep pens and was beginning to fear the worst when my SIL called to say they had found the little dog alive and well. The indoor search party discovered he was still playing hide and seek - as quiet as a mouse inside a wardrobe !

 

[sodamo]

64°F and .09 inches rain

Likely take a slow day, watch some football, package some of yesterday’s leftovers, make big pot of turkey soup.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[buckeyefarmer]

So, guess what I got yesterday? Yep, a Red Ryder and a box of 2400 Daisy BBs. I found some old paper targets with a squirrel that looks just like yours, Ron. My son and I had target shooting contests for over an hour. Good fun, but my parents were right...we almost blew up the place with a ricochet off the propane tank.

Too funny !!

My MIL gave me her husbands Red Ryder and a bunch of BBs.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

58° and sunny

Had song leading at worship. The song computer had issues, so had to use the books today.

Ate out after worship at the diner on the mountain, with our friends from AR. They were up to visit their son and grandchild. We stayed a long time just chatting.

Stopped at orchard to get cider, sign said open, doors were locked. I guess only one car in parking lot, that was leaving, should have clued me in.

Sleepy.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Ha, I just went with water with my oatmeal this morning because the bean milk just looked like bean juice.
I can't give up after just one recipe failure. The machine works good for "milk" I just have to find the right recipe.
I'm trying to stay away from the nut milks because of the fat content. Some non-nut recipes include:
5 Hemp seeds milk recipes
3 Pumpkin seed milk recipes
2 sesame seed milk recipes
3 sunflower seed milk recipes
5 oak milk recipes
3 rice milk recipes
1 soy bean milk recipe

Thanks for being our pioneer on this one, Don.

How many gallons of oak milk do you get per cord of wood?

 

[daugen]

saw a fun video on the USS Kidd, yes the one in the Tom Hanks submarine movie.
It's been restored and they take the tour through the men's bathrooms.
Which on a boat of course are called the heads. Why?
I never knew; being a boater it was a common term, but why a head?

well....in the proverbial old days of sailing ships the bathrooms were all the way up front, at the head
of the ship, and were slats over big pipes leading right down to the ocean. Why in front of the ship?
If you are a sailboat, which until the last century they almost all were, the wind propels you, and is behind you.
So the prevailing wind blows the awful smell forward and off the boat. Today of course the heads aren't up front with modern plumbing.

and another little nautical gem. Unless you are a Navy man, you wouldn't know the real reason for the name hot seat.
Has nothing to do with heat at all, it's when the good seamen come back from the port of Manila with a wide variety of social diseases accompanying
them back, well you had to sit on the hot seat, the toilet in the bathroom painted red. No one but those who had clap or whatever used it. Roy I bet you have
some fun stories, not about you of course.

and speaking of communicable diseases, it was nice that the entire family I visited today all wore masks when they normally wouldn't have, for me.
Really for all of us, I sure didn't want to make these precious kids sick.
I never had kids of my own so my goddaughter's kids are the closest I've got.
One was playing with his virtual reality headset (didn't I mention that a while back...) building some rube goldberg device in some software sim.
His Dad said the headset made him dizzy and he's a professional pilot and AF weekend warrior. Been in the Reserves a long time.
He flies the big drones out of a base locally, and I got a small education on drones.
Sure not going to quote him, he's got pretty high clearance.
When I started asking him about the armament on the drone, that's when he hemmed and hawed. But it's all on Youtube anyway.

 

[txdon]

Thanks for being our pioneer on this one, Don.

How many gallons of oak milk do you get per cord of wood?

You ARE paying attention. Yeah.

My wife has started soaking the wood, excuse me I mean OATS, to make the first batch of oaT milk.
(good catch )

 

[Thomas]

27F cloudy.

Been good day...little over 2" frozen snow ice combo and back blade did job thank goodness for tire chains.
Afternoon decided to remove game cams until next spring,place cam viewing front lawn...hmmm.

I'll be on Roy time tomorrow so early to bed for pt job.

Enjoy your evening all.

 

[txdon]

The new Covid-19 pill cannot be taken with statins.

One of the two drugs in Pfizer's Paxlovid antiviral cocktail could cause severe or life-threatening interactions with commonly used medications, including statins, blood thinners and some antidepressants, and the FDA does not recommend Paxlovid for those with severe kidney or liver disease.

 

[sodamo]

Everything accomplished I wanted. Even finished field mowing with flail

 

[two_bit_score]

The new Covid-19 pill cannot be taken with statins.

One of the two drugs in Pfizer's Paxlovid antiviral cocktail could cause severe or life-threatening interactions with commonly used medications, including statins, blood thinners and some antidepressants, and the FDA does not recommend Paxlovid for those with severe kidney or liver disease.

I read that it’s very dangerous.

Is this going to be one that will actually eliminate the common cold? Like they eliminated the Flu with the CV vaccines + second vaccine + booster + ......?

 

[Buppies]

Great day high of 75 very nice on beach today. Very nice time had by all

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 57F for the start, fog, calm wind. mostly cloudy to overcast day, light to windy wind, and high temp was 75F. Chapel to start the day, made creme of wheat for breakfast, mostly light puttering, recharges other trolling battery. Ate leftovers and napped
Covid update: Cooke 4316 confirmed cases, 98 active cases, Montague 2780 confirmed cases, 79 active cases, Grayson, 16,816 confirmed cases, 243 active cases. Cooke 0, Montague 0, Grayson 0, new cases.
Roy glad you had a good Christmas.
Ron five hours on phone, wow. nice squirrel pic
Bird glad you had a nice Christmas. Enjoy your leftovers
Thomas hope you had success with clearing the driveway
Billy nice Christmas present. Have any BBs left?
Drew glad you did not have to cancel you visit. sorry you could not find someone that wanted the cookies and sweets.
Bill Glad Christmas meal went so good. Hope Queen's message was good.
RS sorry you were running short on sleep. sorry to hear wife not feeling well. Sounds like a nice Christmas.
Buppies hope health is ok.
Don sorry you lost sleep, and that sitting and traveling still painful.
Roy good luck with driveway.
Paul glad Christmas went well. sorry to hear about local family very rough time of year to lose loved ones.
RNG hope you get the pipes insulted again. hope ethernet cable easy fix. Sounds like quiet Christmas is good
Don good luck with the search for "milk"
Ken giggling at friend's transition to adulting Christmas
RS just like the kids, boxes make the best gifts
Eric either max was playing hide and seek or he had enough little grandchild attention. hope dinner was still enjoyable after the excitement.
Dennis did you have shooting match out back when you got it?
Dennis sorry about song computer issues. glad you had nice lunch after church
Drew glad visit went so well.
Thomas glad driveway went well. hope not a 10 hour day.
Don thanks for info.
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle's daughter/friend PT from Covid, Bird/aging issues/, Don/knee recovery /ring bearer/back broken & infections, Randy/FIL living alone adjustments /MIL covid, /new 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/good biopsy report, 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, 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.

 

[two_bit_score]

Good evening all. 57F for the start, fog, calm wind. mostly cloudy to overcast day, light to windy wind, and high temp was 75F. Chapel to start the day, made creme of wheat for breakfast, mostly light puttering, recharges other trolling battery. Ate leftovers and napped
Covid update: Cooke 4316 confirmed cases, 98 active cases, Montague 2780 confirmed cases, 79 active cases, Grayson, 16,816 confirmed cases, 243 active cases. Cooke 0, Montague 0, Grayson 0, new cases.

OMG! We must go to triple masking and total lockdown. Covid is running rampant!

No, wait!!! Those are the same numbers as last time!? Is this misinformation or just ......maybe it’s just nothing serious at all.

 

[txdon]

OMG! We must go to triple masking and total lockdown. Covid is running rampant!

No, wait!!! Those are the same numbers as last time!? Is this misinformation or just ......maybe it’s just nothing serious at all.

They probably took the week off like our county did and will start back up Dec. 28th. Why they take off during the most critical time is beyond me. Before the Christmas week break our numbers were almost doubling each day.

 

[two_bit_score]

They probably took the week off like our county did and will start back up Dec. 28th. Why they take off during the most critical time is beyond me. Before the Christmas week break our numbers were almost doubling each day.

Well, it is the season for the “common cold” I believe. And, from what I read and hear the new Omicron variant is almost exactly the same as the common cold. So, maybe the county health officials just don’t see it as that big of a deal.

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, low temp is 2 and high to 19°F. Wind ENE 7 mph. Light snow. A couple of inches expected. We'll see.

I am going out to plow off the driveway this morning and try to get the frozen slush moved.

The Queens message paid tribute to Prince Philip, she never mentioned the California branch of the family at all. I don't blame her there. I guess nobody ever taught Prince Harry that you NEVER air your dirty laundry in public.

The new wood furnace is really pumping out the heat. My basement has never been as warm and as dry as it is today.


Have a safe day all