Good morning!!!!

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 62ºF for the start, overcast, windy. Very windy day, overcast all day, and high temp was 70ºF, DP 68ºF. Rain tonight, forecast amount has gone up, looks like it will all come at once next week will have a series of small amounts hopefully most will soak into the ground. Men's Meeting to start day. Leader forgot to designate stand-in, nobody prepared to lead discussion, we broke up early. Just putter rest of day. Found two big limbs down in neighbor's yard, need to cut them up. Have not bought that many new cars, Truck and SUV first new vehicles since Saturn was closed down.
Don did not realize potatoes were that deep. Congrats on being in first place, did you take wife out another evening to compensate?
David cabinets looking good. Interesting homework
Dennis must have had defective factory image to load. Sorry about Amazon issue.
Drew sorry about the hassle of getting another car
RNG Sorry about the battery, good to hear progress on wood pile.
Paul good but expensive day yesterday. good to hear Emily doing better.
Don good to hear she got books, would be interesting to see the slide show.
Rich where is all hydraulic oil going?
Ken shame places like that have to change for the worst. nice pic
Drew how many car dealerships have you seen go broke?
PJ saw a map wit 8-12 inch snow headed for STL area. Good to hear no new drips. I miss Saturn.
David sorry about unplanned trip. Hope nothing serious with Sophie. Is H&F bring your own table and chair?
Ted you have been getting some moisture lately. Have fun with storage hassock project.
Drew sorry about snow shovel failure, glad you got done early for the day.
Thomas good to hear log skidder almost done.
David still have to order mine, good new not too many alligators around here. Shelve look great.
Don hope you get to do the quality sampling !
Buppies know what you mean, Murphy loves for you to have the the words "I will never do..."
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle's daughter/friend PT from Covid, /mom recovery, living alone, Bird/aging issues/, Don/knee recovery, /mom's pipeline process, Randy/FIL living alone adjustments /MIL Covid /son's FIL death /new cancer surgeries /cataract surgery, Roy/ palpitations, /angina, /shoulder, wife/ankle recovery, Billy /wife fall, David(moss) /remodel /divorce, Buppies/surgery infection, 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 /rib, Ken/aunt fall injuries, David(sadamo)/Sophie's new eye surgery follow up, Chris/neighbor's granddaughter and Covid issues, Scaredy/injuries from fall, Paul/ wife's disc issues /dog seizure, Gale and KY/ tornado victims, Mike /nephew - Covid /5 year plan, Dennis/ brother "alligallyitus" and improving, and Country.
stay safe and healthy you all.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

My alligator thingymabob supposed to come Friday, a month after ordering.
USPS sure isn’t Amazon.

 

[JDZ735M]

My alligator thingymabob supposed to come Friday, a month after ordering.
USPS sure isn’t Amazon.

They are doing away with all the alligators anyway. Polling shows that people don't like them. With real polls coming up alligators are nothing but problems.

 

[Alien]

I ordered some Wuloo intercoms from Amazon on Friday last week. I thought they had to come from America but they arrived today. (Thursday) Very surprised.
Tried to do some mowing on the tractor today as my rib was feeling better. I hit a low stump and now it looks like I am up for a new rotor mainshaft for the flail mower if I can get one. Otherwise will have to try and find someone to straighten it. Still works but shakes the poo out of me. Not good for the bearings methinks. I have emailed Hayes to see what they say about it.
Only other happening is I had to remove a snake from a tree near the house. All the wild birds were going crazy at it. Only a meter long python but first snake we have seen for about a year.
Managed to spray some paspalum but ran out of the Paskill. Need to buy about 10 or 20 litre drum to do the rest.
Hope you are all keeping well.

 

[sodamo]

Mostly
We did bring chairs
Looks like their stuff won’t be delivered until 1st week of Mar.

Guys won H&F

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, low temp 32 and the high 32°F. Wind NNW 6 mph. Rain.
There is only one driveway I am concerned about if the rain is of the freezing variety and that is mine. I have 5 buckets of ashes for the top of mine.

A town run for today and a trip to Powassan for some carb cleaner to see if I can get the MAP sensor in the Jeep cleaned up a little. She is idling at about 1,000 rpm fluctuating to 1250, a tad high. She should be idling about 5-600 rpm.

Hydro came around yesterday and change my meter. Some cock and bull story about the 'smart meters' being defective and changing all of them. My neighbour didn't get hers changed, no tracks in the snow near her meter.
I think they did that because I just recently went off of the 'time of use' plan and onto 'block' pricing where if I use less than 1,000 kw hours a month I pay $0.082/kwh and over 1,000 hours I pay $0.112/kwh. I consistantly keep my usage down around 700 kwh/month. We will see when the next bill comes in.

After that it will be an energy conservation day.

Have a safe day all

 

[RoyJackson]

2022-02-17, 0558

37° right now...high in the low 50's

 

[Bird]

61 degrees for a low this morning, going for a high of 66, and we're currently getting some needed rain. But a forecast low of 26 tonight. Seems we just alternate between nice Spring weather and back to cold Winter weather.

And I see lots of talk here on TBN about cars and dealers, and I just got my 2017 Ford Escape serviced yesterday afternoon; oil & filter change, state inspection to renew registration, and changed the coolant as recommended every 5 years. The dealer's property has fewer new vehicles on it than I've EVER seen. Sure glad I don't need to trade or buy another vehicle.

 

[wngsprd]

53 going to 70. Not my favorite February weather...but winter will return tomorrow night.

Buppies, nice dream car. I volunteer to drive you and the Mrs. back and forth to the beach house.

Yesterday was another firewood day...split a load, picked up another load I left in the woods, and split that. I'm close to having replaced all that I've burned this winter already. Then did a little more storm clean up. Much more to do.

Need to take a hike today to get an upper body rest day.

 

[Buppies]

52.5 this morning very windy wind advisory up for us rain tonight high in 60s both days. The last of February first of march setting up to be cold and brutal Even Texas

 

[Buppies]

I cannot stand snakes Alien best one is dead one

Welcome anytime wngsprd

 

[daugen]

good morning all
warm morning, warm day with rain coming in tonight.

my grandfather hated snakes. Since we had lots of rocks on the farm, that meant copperheads.
And a ton of little garter snakes. Poor garter snakes...he would beat them with his cane or if my father was anywhere nearby,
a sharp shovel would come out. We didn't know better and my grandfather did not want the kids bit by a copperhead for sure.
Our farm was not snake friendly at all.
When I got to NC, totally different. I had two nice black snakes that lived near the barn. And I only saw a copperhead once, little baby one
with bright green rattle on it. Neighbors taught me black snakes were great on the farm so while they spooked me at times if I saw them slithering around, I
figured I was on their turf too.

Problem is snakes are like mushrooms. Really hard to figure out which are bad for you.

think I'll make a grocery run this morning around 9, then finish doing laundry, all killing time before I head off to hospital to get port taken out.
Just a local, nothing to do, they said in and out in ten minutes. Yeah right. I take my Kindle so waiting a little doesn't bother me any more.
Took a long shower this morning, they said don't bathe for two days. Hopefully they will steri strip me so I don't have to go back for stitches removed.
An interesting way to lose weight. Maybe an ounce...

hope you all have a good day

 

[Dftodd]

Darn, another thing to stock up on.
If we thought not being able to get T6 was bad wait until all the delivery vehicles start breaking down because of no hydraulic fluid.

I've had a 300 gallon tote of DEF on order since November.

Only thing that has showed up so far is the air powered pump, dispenser, and hose reel.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 55F @ 4:15AM. Sunny. High 68F. Winds W at 5 to 10 mph.
Same old story in the 10-day.

Sounds like a spot of rough sledding, Doug. Maybe a drive line shop could straighten the shaft?

I wouldn't feel safe traveling in Mexico, even Baja, these days either, Ken.

Headed south again on the touring bike today; somebody had a birthday and we're celebrating this weekend. Weather looks nice, but it'll be a windy return on Monday.

Hang in there, gang, Friday's comin'!

 

[Buppies]

Drew I’m with your grandfather but there is one large black snake I try to ignore

 

[Buppies]

I have not checked but wonder if Amsoil has hydro fluid?

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning
It’s 51 and might make 60 today. It was single digits a few days ago.

Yesterday was productive, I went to a buddies shop and picked up some steel for my inventory. Got some 1/8” plate and various 1/4” flats. All from his scrap, so the price was right. Made some progress in the hangar, but not without frustration. They are wired so there is at least 6 hangars on each 20amp circuit. Which is not usually a problem, as the main use is lights. However with the cold weather, some tenants are running electric space heaters to keep their planes warm. The bottom line is that when I turned on my lights, the breaker tripped. When I went to reset it, I opened the panel and measured the load with a clamp on ammeter. 19 amps on 20 amp breaker, with my lights off. I was the only one in the entire complex of hangars, and couldn’t turn my lights on. I wasn’t altogether happy.

Today is the day to get anything done outside, but the ground will be sloppy. I’m planning on going back to the airport today, but I’ll bring my trusty Honda Eu2000 generator.

Emily seems to have stabilized, she still stumbles and occasionally falls, but she is happy to be by my side, and I’m happy to have her there.

 

[Popgadget]

Here’s the picture that didn’t post-

 

[Popgadget]

I have not checked but wonder if Amdoil has hydro fluid?

My local Tractor Supply has plenty of their “Traveler” brand, both in 2 gallon jugs and 5 gallon pails.
I’m glad that I bought 5 pails of the Kubota synthetic UDT when the local dealer had it on sale in the fall. It was like $25 off on each pail.

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, a very warm partly sunny 48.

Alien pasaplum? - Hope the flail damage isn't too bad. I have to mark the stumps in the woods or I would do the same, bought some orange marking paint. Usually the rocks that get my hammers chipped though.
We have lots of garter snakes, corn snakes every now and then. No Pythons here.

Jeep is off getting inspection, brake check and oil change. New place, hope they are good. Tired of the old place having to redo their work 2-3 times (hence the brake check).

Drew - hoping all goes according to plan and it don't hurt much. If you need any help send me an email or call.

Have fun RNG - Shame how mexico is going, now stopping avocados due to dr#g lord interference and threats.

PopG -emily does look happy, hope it stays that way for a good long time.

Stay safe and be well,

Found this picture right, this was right before my FIL sold the house. Needed too much work for us to take it.
Was built starting in the late 1700's and if you walk across the street you would be in the Delaware river.
New owner has done a lot of work and he has been fixing it up for 3 years now.
This house was on TV, Stone house revival.