Bird
Rest in Peace
Hopefully, our freezing weather is over for a while. 36 degrees this morning, going for a sunny 54. Almost all our snow has now melted, but we sure could use some more rain.
Good morning!!!!
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Buppies
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21 this morning ice to miss us to the east
Nice z turn Alien
Prayers for all
Nice z turn Alien
Prayers for all
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wngsprd
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32 and cloudy...rain this afternoon and 42.
Alien, congrats on your new ride...and your barn looks like it's been there a while..nicely kept.
Yesterday was another day of "making firewood." I finally fell a dead oak that was a bit of a puzzle, and it fell right where I asked it...what a difference a sharp chain makes...I worked on it Saturday until I felt it might be the best I've done and yesterday it went through red oak like butter.
Watched a little bit of the olympics...really like the luge...when I was young, a buddy and I would lie flat on our skateboards and ride down highway overpasses late at night to get a good luge-like ride. Rocks on the road were not our friends.
Eric, hope those lambs are okay this morning.
Alien, congrats on your new ride...and your barn looks like it's been there a while..nicely kept.
Yesterday was another day of "making firewood." I finally fell a dead oak that was a bit of a puzzle, and it fell right where I asked it...what a difference a sharp chain makes...I worked on it Saturday until I felt it might be the best I've done and yesterday it went through red oak like butter.
Watched a little bit of the olympics...really like the luge...when I was young, a buddy and I would lie flat on our skateboards and ride down highway overpasses late at night to get a good luge-like ride. Rocks on the road were not our friends.
Eric, hope those lambs are okay this morning.
Dftodd
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Is that the Z121sk. If it is, I have the same mower. I absolutely love it.
And yes, I've used the led lights on the front before to finish mowing at night
toppop52
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36 heading to 44 later, cloudy with a light breeze.
I sold my Ram last week and bought myself a Grand Cherokee diesel. Much easier getting in with my bad back, and my father in law has a 4wd F-150 if I have to have a truck for something. My Jeep can tow about 7500lbs, so my trailers won’t be a problem. I wasn’t sure about the diesel until I drove it, quiet, no smoke and pulls like freight train. It sure is a big step up from old diesel Suburban. It should do well on mpg if I can keep my foot off the skinny pedal.
Has anybody heard from Ron?
I sold my Ram last week and bought myself a Grand Cherokee diesel. Much easier getting in with my bad back, and my father in law has a 4wd F-150 if I have to have a truck for something. My Jeep can tow about 7500lbs, so my trailers won’t be a problem. I wasn’t sure about the diesel until I drove it, quiet, no smoke and pulls like freight train. It sure is a big step up from old diesel Suburban. It should do well on mpg if I can keep my foot off the skinny pedal.
Has anybody heard from Ron?
Popgadget
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Good Morning.
It’s 28 with a high of 37 and good chance of a “wintery mix”.
Not a particularly nice day.
Yesterday was a nice day, cold, but sunny. I made pancakes and my grandson came up for breakfast and kept us entertained for a while. After I took him home, I spread magnesium chloride on the glacier at the end of my lane to make it passable.
Did get to the hangar and got some work done there, went out to lunch with oldest son, and called it a day.
It’s 28 with a high of 37 and good chance of a “wintery mix”.
Not a particularly nice day.
Yesterday was a nice day, cold, but sunny. I made pancakes and my grandson came up for breakfast and kept us entertained for a while. After I took him home, I spread magnesium chloride on the glacier at the end of my lane to make it passable.
Did get to the hangar and got some work done there, went out to lunch with oldest son, and called it a day.
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Morning all, snow/rain and 30F. Hope it warms up a bit so we don't end up with ice roads.
Seems like the weather is keeping us all from any outside work.
I just do dog walks and keep looking at the trees I need to take down, and know they will be there tomorrow.
Stay safe and be well,
Japanese architecture is always so interesting. Hundreds of arches (Kyoto), the more you donate, the larger the arch. And the arches are well kept and replaced when needed.
Every year these Bamboo die back and regrow. Make the tall trees look puny.
Seems like the weather is keeping us all from any outside work.
I just do dog walks and keep looking at the trees I need to take down, and know they will be there tomorrow.
Stay safe and be well,
Japanese architecture is always so interesting. Hundreds of arches (Kyoto), the more you donate, the larger the arch. And the arches are well kept and replaced when needed.
Every year these Bamboo die back and regrow. Make the tall trees look puny.
daugen
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grand cherokee diesel a pretty rare and desirable car Toppop.
If the engine is the Italian diesel they have been using, it's definitely tough. Close friend
is purring along at 160K miles with the Jeep diesel in his Liberty. Rest of vehicle rotting and falling apart but that engine
is much tougher than I thought. I think Italy has good diesel tech, Iveco is huge.
And VM Motori sure builds a lot of different engines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_VM_Motori_engines
Now Italian gas engines are a whole lot different. Some of the most beautiful engines in the world.
But they really aren't known for lasting very long and the maintenance requirements are really expensive.
But the smaller Italian engines, that Fiat multi-air stuff, boy I bet Chrysler wished they had never put them in their cars.
But the Italians owned them now and Stellatlantis was feeding another division engine work. Too bad they didn't make a V6 Hemi. With twin turbos.
Instead we got at best what many would consider "foreign junk". And of course, along with all the other sedan makers, most of them are no longer here anymore.
I love the fact Chrysler is still making the 300 sedan. That was a popular car in Washington NC. A little gangster, had street cred. Built on an older gen E class Mercedes chassis.
Same chassis as current Dodge Charger, modified like crazy, but reason that car drives so well. Original suspension design made to hold up to taxi use and also be very comfortable.
Folks in that NC town just adored Chargers as police cars. Because you got the hemi, not many had V6's. Black chargers, always full black, would have been a lot smarter in that Southern heat to have white police cars but clearly there was a lot of testosterone in that dept. Three or four cars would swoop into local greasy spoon. All young, under 40 and they loved their rides.
I'll bet Bird remembers when he got the one with the big motor...
If the engine is the Italian diesel they have been using, it's definitely tough. Close friend
is purring along at 160K miles with the Jeep diesel in his Liberty. Rest of vehicle rotting and falling apart but that engine
is much tougher than I thought. I think Italy has good diesel tech, Iveco is huge.
And VM Motori sure builds a lot of different engines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_VM_Motori_engines
Now Italian gas engines are a whole lot different. Some of the most beautiful engines in the world.
But they really aren't known for lasting very long and the maintenance requirements are really expensive.
But the smaller Italian engines, that Fiat multi-air stuff, boy I bet Chrysler wished they had never put them in their cars.
But the Italians owned them now and Stellatlantis was feeding another division engine work. Too bad they didn't make a V6 Hemi. With twin turbos.
Instead we got at best what many would consider "foreign junk". And of course, along with all the other sedan makers, most of them are no longer here anymore.
I love the fact Chrysler is still making the 300 sedan. That was a popular car in Washington NC. A little gangster, had street cred. Built on an older gen E class Mercedes chassis.
Same chassis as current Dodge Charger, modified like crazy, but reason that car drives so well. Original suspension design made to hold up to taxi use and also be very comfortable.
Folks in that NC town just adored Chargers as police cars. Because you got the hemi, not many had V6's. Black chargers, always full black, would have been a lot smarter in that Southern heat to have white police cars but clearly there was a lot of testosterone in that dept. Three or four cars would swoop into local greasy spoon. All young, under 40 and they loved their rides.
I'll bet Bird remembers when he got the one with the big motor...
txdon
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No worries, I was harder on myself than anyone could possibly be. Whipper had a bad fall earlier in the day right where I slipped. It had been so nice and warm that all the other ice melted except on that particular place on the patio and the porch light did not show it when I went outside at night I just forgot about looking for ice. We had 1" of frozen rain 2 days before - there is still ice on the patio this morning! It is on the North shady side of the house.
Alien nice Z. I was also eyeing the scooter in the garage for Mom. Could you tell us a little about it, does it work good in grass, she needs something to run around the yard in, to the burn barrel, propane tank, mailbox and she does not want a golf cart.
Good morning! 35˚F heading to the upper 50s, hopefully all the ice will melt on the patio today. I have a call to the dr. for an X-ray of the knee. It feels better but still a nagging pain that needs to be checked out.
