Good morning!!!!

[Looking4new]

daugen, the ounce of weight you lost was your beard.

 

[rswyan]

Cheapest gas in the area here is $3.19/gallon (as of 5 hours ago), most stations in the low to mid $3.30's though.

Lowest diesel was $3.38/gallon ... but that report was a day ago, most other stations report a little over $4.00/gallon today.

No idea what off-road is currently going for - haven't priced it since I stuck 150 gallons in the off-road tank back when it really dipped a couple of years ago.

That's got to be getting low at this point so will start paying closer attention to it in the coming months.

 

[Dftodd]

Cheapest gas in the area here is $3.19/gallon (as of 5 hours ago), most stations in the low to mid $3.30's though.

Lowest diesel was $3.38/gallon ... but that report was a day ago, most other stations report a little over $4.00/gallon today.

No idea what off-road is currently going for - haven't priced it since I stuck 150 gallons in the off-road tank back when it really dipped a couple of years ago.

That's got to be getting low at this point so will start paying closer attention to it in the coming months.

Sometimes they will go really cheap on a tank to empty it in a hurry. Local truck stop did that when they were fixing to upgrade there tanks.

 

[LouNY]

On road diesel today was $4.499 per gallon,
unleaded $3.899, plus $4.099, super (ethanol free) $4.699

 

[RedNeckGeek]

According to this website, I'd be paying $4.85/gallon for Diesel #2 in Chico, CA today. That's up almost two bux a gallon over what it was last year. Yes, Virginia, elections do have consequences...

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Still 62° but it is real windy now.

My wife was cleaning in our bedroom today, getting rid of stuff.. she picked up a pair of leather shoes of mine, apparently not worn in a long time, as the soles totally fell off the bottom. .
They had cedar shoe keepers in them, which she threw out with the shoes, so I had to retrieve those from the trash. She got rid of another old pair also.

 

[Popgadget]

Good Evening.
It’s 57 and raining.

I’m glad I don’t have any pressing outside chores, it’s a swamp out there. The lane from the road to my house is long and winding, with 2 ninety degree bends, so it’s impossible to see one end from the other. The standard procedure for a conflict is for the outbound traffic to back up, as it’s not a great idea to back into the road, and pulling off the pavement would put you into the quagmire. However, my wife had a student from DelVal University helping her with the alpacas, walking around in the muddy barnyard. Well, when he was leaving, he encountered my daughter coming up the lane, and he pulled off to let her pass, and immediately submerged his Saturn sedan to periscope depth. I’ve got no idea why he thought that ground would be any firmer than he was walking around in all day, but I think he’ll pay more attention going forward. I brought the tractor down with a chain and a tow strap. There was not much to hook to on that Saturn, but I assured him whatever he hooked to would come out of the mud. I took a look under from the pavement and suggested that he lay on his belly in the mud and put the strap around one of the rear control arms. I pulled the control arm up onto the pavement, and fortunately for him, the rest of the car was still attached to it.
But that’s about the only tractor work I see for a while.

Today’s trip to Washington County had no hiccups, was rainy and overcast but a decent ride.
Tomorrow is to Martha’s Vineyard in a turboprop. Forecast is pretty windy and low ceiling there. Just windy here.

Our Diesel fuel is $4.25 on each of the nearest 3 corners. I’m glad that my off road tank got filled when it was under $3.

 

[rswyan]

Sometimes they will go really cheap on a tank to empty it in a hurry. Local truck stop did that when they were fixing to upgrade there tanks.

Yeah ... it periodically happens around here, where one or two station's price will be significantly lower than the others. Not sure what all drives it.

 

[rswyan]

According to this website, I'd be paying $4.85/gallon for Diesel #2 in Chico, CA today. That's up almost two bux a gallon over what it was last year. Yes, Virginia, elections do have consequences...

Indeed they do.

Unfortunately, so do worldwide pandemics ... (among other, similar disruptive events of a global nature):

Old economic rule:

Demand > Supply = Prices tend to go up

Until worldwide production catches up to demand, they'll probably remain high.

Barring any other disruptive events of a geopolitical nature of course.

 

[Looking4new]

Yeah ... it periodically happens around here, where one or two station's price will be significantly lower than the others. Not sure what all drives it.

I would hazard a guess that they want to get rid of the gas in a hurry or they are starting a gas war.
We've had gas wars up here and they are fun especially when the gas dips cheap enough. The last one the gas was .799 cents/imperial gallon, way back before Trudeau senior was the PM, he was also the one that shoved the metric system down our throats. To make us more competitive with Europe. I think he did it to snub the U.S.

 

[rswyan]

Still 58F and cloudy here @ 20:30 ... temps about to take a dive here though, once the front moves through (around midnight)

Woman finished up dinner this evening and said She sure wished She had some chocolate cake ... so I sprung into action ... :

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Used the JIF Natural Peanut Butter in the icing this time, be interesting to see how that works out.

Had a taste of it (cleaned off the spoon) seems better than the regular ... but still not as good as Smuckers Natural.

 

[rswyan]

I would hazard a guess that they want to get rid of the gas in a hurry or they are starting a gas war.
We've had gas wars up here and they are fun especially when the gas dips cheap enough.

Yeah ... we get that here as well.

It's mostly between two stations, on the same road about 1/2 mile apart, each owned by a different brother.

One particular one is often cheaper than the other ... although he's usually the one that is out of fuel.

The last one the gas was .799 cents/imperial gallon, way back before Trudeau senior was the PM, he was also the one that shoved the metric system down our throats. To make us more competitive with Europe. I think he did it to snub the U.S.

¯\_ (ツ)_/¯

FWIW, I'm still having trouble with US Customary Weights and Measures System ... let alone mastering metric.

 

[Alien]

Jeez!!
What brand flail mower do you have...and how wide?

I paid $1900 for my 73" Caroni flail mower 3 years ago..

It is a heavy duty Hayes 1500. New shaft is about $1100, bearings $120 and I am getting a spare set of hammer blades for it while I am at it. 24 hammers. And freight of course.
The mower cost $1800 over 4 years ago and now they are $2500 + $500 delivery. The rest of the mower is like new so well worth it and I will find someone to straighten the old shaft when I get time so I will have a spare. The original hammers are still pretty good but I wanted spares. It has 24.
My buddy recently bought another brand and paid more then $5000 and it does nothing but break the hammers. He has decided to buy a different brand and sell it. He couldn't get a Hayes without a long wait and he is regretting not waiting.

 

[toppop52]

Cutting North American oil production is a major cause I dependent of other caused.

 

[rswyan]

Cutting North American oil production is a major cause I dependent of other caused.

Well, since the previous chart I posted dealt World Oil Production, allow me to post this one which is specific to the US:

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Here's a link to the interactive graph that produced that chart:

U.S. Crude Oil Production - Historical Chart

I set the chart to show a 5 year time frame for the image I posted above (same as previous charts I posted)

Using your cursor at the chart at that link and hover over the line on the graph, you can see that US Production started a steep dive in March of 2020 and finally bottoming out in August of 2020.

Since that point in time, production has been on a fairly steady uptrend, save for another steep drop in February of 2021 (which may well correspond to another wave of ... alligators ? ... )

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 37ºF for the start, overcast moderate wind, 1.7 inch in rain gauge. Just standard thundersorms, have not had that much rain in a long time. Windy day, Overcast started breaking up late morning, temp recovered to 40ºF.
Low temp forecast to be 28ºF, and high temp was 62ºF at 4am. Temps plunged earlier than forecast, really changed today's plans. Did get the two limbs cut up, and was going to use golf cart to go to fish stocking event. It decided battery was 2 discharged to crank engine, so after trying to use engine starter battery, just took SUV. 71 bass, and 2000 copper nose bluegill later event was over. Bass were tranquilized to tag, measure, and weigh before release. Before truck left bass were swimming off. Got battery on charger, was below 12 volts got nap in. Had to take wife to dinner and grocery shopping, supermarket was a madhouse. No bike ride today will make it up tomorrow.
Doug that was an expensive stump. Sounds like rib is better but not healed. Hope wife likes new dog
Roy glad all ok health wise. Hope you got your dump run and diesel run in.
Randy sorry to hear ribs not 100% yet
RNG long trip, sounds like you had some fun outside of the home prices. Glad you enjoyed your hikes, lost my insulated waffle stompers to the same malady. Let me know what you find.
Bill that is one roller coaster I do not want to ride.
Dennis not here on the whistle. Can you plant a shrub sound barrier? Just plan thunderstorms last night and plenty hail.
Billy sounds like nice hike, looking forward to the pics. Hope you can recoup enough to get wood done.
Drew thanks for update on fire. 15 amp 110V trying charge an EV got a giggle out of me.
Buppies sorry to hear you are so worried.
Dftood sorry you had so much trouble getting your rib healed
Drew good to hear no major upset on investments
Ken hope no one in household allergic to PI. Hope wallet survived mall trip. nice pics
Dftood sorry the intense rain while commuting.
Billy now that is a view, very nice pics
Kyle, thanks for showing setup.
David hope eye exam goes well. I don't care fo eye dilation either.
PJ hope you can leave from your place, I64 will likely be in good shape.
RS glad snow is melting, good to raw materials for sheet cake in good supply. Bet the critters are hitting the feeders hard
Thomas think of all the seat time
Thomas pt job has been good at keeping you at 8 hrs per day. Kitties have movie or ice cream preference?
Drew I thought the port weighed more than that
Trails good to hear from you.
Bill Sorry about the freezing rain, our turn tomorrow. They always get their revenue
Dennis sorry about the shoe keepers.
Paul good story on the perils of leaving the driveway.
Doug hope you can get shaft straightened. Can you get aftermarket hammers?
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 / wife head wound healing, 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.

 

[Bird]

NWS says it's now 27° and going for a high today of 29° with a 30% chance of some kind of precipitation. And then it's supposed to get bad the next two days.

 

[RoyJackson]

2022-02-23, 0451

Up too early, but here I am...

56° (!!!!) right now...high in the mid-50's, so it's not going to change much. Supposed to drop to 10° tonight.

I got involved in a customer questionnaire...believe I brought this up yesterday. Pretty lengthy and not really something I should be doing, but here I am. Also had a few webinars.
Anyway, didn't get out yesterday, so definitely today for diesel.
As far as the dump run, called the township office and asked if it was open...never got a response, so no run. Per the schedule, the dump is closed today. Only 2 bags and a bunch of recycle (thinking about just burning the cardboard)

 

[daugen]

good morning all
Bird I think our weather is reversed, you should be warmer....
57 now going to 65 before cold plunge over next week, with all the cold weather finally moving in

looked at calendar and nothing for today. Yeah. Means a trip to supermarket and then hope to stay outside in this
warm weather while it lasts. Might do some leaf raking. Lot of rain coming in also, more than an inch.
Paul, not going to help your lawn a bit.

 

[daugen]

well no leaf raking for me, remember doc said no lifting or exercise for a week so as not to pop a stitch.
Darn, 65 out, no way I'm staying inside.
Nurse yelled at me for opening/reaching up a little privacy screen in room yesterday, didn't we just tell you not to do xyz? Geez, never felt a thing but
I remained properly chastised and will try to be good. My late wife said the medical term was compliant.
Do what you are told....

by the front door of my house is a corner of the house which just collects leaves all the time. maybe I'll just take the Makita blower and move then out into the lawn.
So they blow somewhere else....though more likely to come right back. Flower gardens around house a winter dead mess, really want to clean them out. Next year I'll do a more
thorough job in the fall but didn't want to pull anything out when there was some life left. I should have.
This year more perennials.

just a tractor pic. The joys of a new machine coming in. Sure miss the farm.