Good morning!!!!

mpham · Jan 29, 2022

Happy Birthday a day late Bird!
Sitting here drinking coffee waiting for the blizzard to start. It is snowing already but not hard. They expect it to kick in strong here around 8 am. Looks like I will be in the 12 to 18 range. Better than the over two feet the coast will be getting. At least it will be light and fluffy as it isn't expected to warm more than 20 today. Tractor, generator and shovels are all ready to go.
Nephew time was a lot of fun! We never had children so it was quite the experience! (still glad it's over and we can go back to normal though)
Hope everyone has a great weekend and stays safe,warm and healthy!

Looking4new · Jan 29, 2022

Good morning, low temp is -20 and the high should be 7° above zero. Wind ENE 5 mph. Sunny!

The wood stove is fed and I am not doing anything but feeding it until Junior gets up. 1 armload/hour.

Today is another energy conservation day.

Have a safe day all

wngsprd · Jan 29, 2022

28 and snow is done...only got 2-3 inches., will go measure in a short while...still had a few snow patches on the ground from the last one.

Mr. Bird, hope your birthday was a special one!

Kyle, so much fun reading your post today. Glad you are well.

BEF, glad you brother is getting better. Nice glacier...don't see any gators swimming out there!

Mostly, I was thinking of a twofer, too, but didn't have a safe angle...I rigged up a 500 lumen flashlight on my 12.

Took a nice hike back in the woods with my wife yesterday...surveying the storm damage from the Jan 2 storm, and cruising the trees to mark any dead ones for firewood cutting...actually found more than I wanted.

Nice New Mexico photos. PJ, just saw The Owl on a cooking/travel show this month...we had some fantastic meals in Santa Fe. PJ, did you happen to go to La Posada in Winslow when you traveled through? We had an unplanned day and found it while exploring. They were still renovating the old hotel while we were there, so we couldn't see all of it, but it's a masterpiece...fell in love and booked a room..."the Roy Rogers" room...and had what we thought was one of the best 5 meals in our life in their Turquoise Room restaurant.

Home - La Posada Hotel

bakerg · Jan 29, 2022

Good morning all, not use to getting up early anymore, love sleeping in being retired. Heading to my old job for shift coverage this morning, first time in more than a month. Just cannot turn down the money they pay me but it's nice when you can choose when you want to work.

RoyJackson · Jan 29, 2022

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5° right now...high in the upper single digits, so it's gonna be a cold one. Maybe snow showers, but nothing like you folks further south and east are going to see.
Dump run is the only thing on the schedule today...

daugen · Jan 29, 2022

late start this morning, no rush to get up and contemplate shoveling snow.
Very pretty out, 20 degrees and still lightly snowing, will for rest of morning then stop. But 10 degrees tonight so no melt

Phil, pace yourself, no slips, save time for warm cider when you get in.

now if I drive on this driveway before clearing it, will of course pack it down. But really want to go to supermarket, no one will be on the road, and I want
to see how the awd genesis does in snow. So it's a choice between work or play. Sigh. hard to be responsible....

my truck is set up like a tow rig with all the good tow straps stored away in the ram boxes. With new tires I know it will go anywhere. But need a little seat time with
new to me car. Has partly worn General Altimax all season tires on it, which I looked up on Tirerack and they were decent, not great.
Tires make a big difference in snow when you need all the help you can get.

I like to drive in snow, but worry that others just don't understand the basic concepts of momentum and friction.
Sometimes its wise to assume the other guy is going to lose control on a curve and then where can you place your car to avoid it.
All those youtube videos I've watched of folks crashing into each other. So much could be avoided with defensive driving.

time to go play, and even remembered to pack the snow brush in the car as I figure I'll have to clean it off in supermarket.

hornett22 · Jan 29, 2022

Good morning from East Tennessee!

19 F Feels like 13 F

Darn global warming!

Buppies · Jan 29, 2022

hornett 22 welcome

19 outside wind blowing about 2 inches of snow elevation does help Roanoke has one inch

we are getting huge power bills something not right and I mean huge

Prayers for all

Bird · Jan 29, 2022

Kyle_in_Tex said, "Happy B'day Bird. You are a special guy. How old where you when I brought my family up to Denton for your big B'day party? My wifey believes it was Jan 2010, just 2 months before my son was born in March of 2010. Got to meet a lot of people and see some old TBN poster friends like WroughtNHarv. Has anyone heard from him?"

As you can see, I was 70, and weren't you the one who gave me a wall clock that has a picture of a bird at each hour and sounds a call from that bird on the hour every hour. It's still working just fine in the living room.

And I haven't heard from Wroughtn_harv lately, but I see that he supposedly last posted on 8/21/2021. I remember when he said he'd been diagnosed with Alzheimers.

You know, I too, was diagnosed with Alzheimers a year or so ago. I take Memantine and Donepezil, prescribed by my doctor to hopefully slow the progression of the disease.