Good morning!!!!

[Buppies]

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[Buppies]

The hobbit

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning.
It’s 63 and going into the 70’s before we get thunderstorms and rain.

Yesterday was another relaxing day, didn’t go anywhere or accomplish much. Had a nice breakfast with my daughter. She just got back from an 8 week travel nurse assignment in a western PA ER.
Did spend some time organizing maintenance logs for a visit to the FAA tomorrow. I’ve got to print out a hundred pages or so of reports and summaries for them, hopefully I’m nearing the finish line on this project.

Today I’ll finish that stuff up, maybe get back to the hangar to make some progress on the small plane, and start on the biplane.
Still to wet to do anything with a tractor, todays rain won’t help much, and I’m sure that the warm temps are going to green everything up and get it growing.

 

[NHBX]

You can’t talk about drummers without mentioning Joe Morello!

Yes, he was fantastic with the Dave Brubeck quartet.
Buddy Rich was another.

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, going to be warm and possibly wet later.
Not a good day for felling :-(
Put together the patio heater. and out on the patio. Tested and fired right up.
Now to find a cheap tank somewhere.

PopG- Can't the FAA take electronic reports, oh wait it's the FAA

Stay safe and be well,

Quito Ecuador. We got there a day late after a forced stopover in Miami for a plane malfunction.
They put us up at a golf resort which is attached to Miami airport. Not sure of that business model...
This is one of the main drags in Quito, quite a nice town, one of the people I work with is from there.
This is a high altitude city at over 9000' up. So those hills in the background are actually the tops of tall mountains.

The Opera House.

Thankfully we did not book the cheap cruise ship:

 

[LouNY]

Morning to all;
Been an aggravating morning so far.
Temperature is nice for early March it was 36F at 6:30 this morning.
Then about 9 the power went out, took a drive around and saw several generators running.
Came back home and fired up the IH 574 on the pto generator and she is purring away as I type.
After I started it, I logged into National Grid to report the outage.
Then seeing as how I hadn't had breakfast went ahead and made biscuit sausage and egg sandwiches,
now just sitting and drinking coffee #3 for the morning, expect I'll be making several trips to get rid of it later
Everyone stay safe and enjoy.

 

[toppop52]

Yes, he was fantastic with the Dave Brubeck quartet.
Buddy Rich was another.

Buddy Miles was another good one. It’s a bit cliche but don’t overlook Ringo Starr.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

60 wind blowing wind chimes singing storms coming later.

mostly the group name Cream Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker drummer name of song Toad good drum solo

I am not sleeping

Prayers for All

Prayers for our Country

Prayers for Ukraine

Hope you get some sleep.

I liked Cream.

 

[PJSprog]

34°F and light rain this morning, going up to 43° today. Looks like we get another cool down at the end of the week, and possibly snow on Friday.

We had some thunderstorms pass through late evening yesterday. I know we needed the rain, but I surely am not looking forward to the return of the muck. Everything had just started to firm up again.

Got 100% egg production from the chickens yesterday. First time in a long time.

Started digging into a problem The Wife said she had with one of the track lights over the piano. I couldn't get it to fail ... which is OK after some research found that replacements are not readily available. Sure wish we'd known that when we bought it.

Good to see you popping in here, David (MFW).

 

[sodamo]

63°F and no rain

Another Monday

Start final painting in caretaker this morning.

Zoom Happy Hour this afternoon but might not make it. Awaiting notification from Safeway on Sophie’s dermatology prescription which should be available this afternoon

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Started digging into a problem The Wife said she had with one of the track lights over the piano. I couldn't get it to fail ... which is OK after some research found that replacements are not readily available. Sure wish we'd known that when we bought it.
(MFW).

Our church building has LED downights in the auditorium ceiling. Some of the LED panels are going out. Can’t replace the LED only, looks like the whole fixture (above the drywall) has to get replaced. These LED fixtures sure won’t save any money.

 

[PJSprog]

Our church building has LED downights in the auditorium ceiling. Some of the LED panels are going out. Can’t replace the LED only, looks like the whole fixture (above the drywall) has to get replaced. These LED fixtures sure won’t save any money.

We have some fixtures like that, too, BEF. This one has one LED mounted on a board in each unit, with a plastic lens over it, and a plastic bezel mounted around that to hold it in place. She told me it had started pulsing. I let it run for a couple of hours yesterday after removing all the plastic it's encased in, and it never had any problems. I'm thinking it's heat-related. It's the light over her piano, so she got annoyed when it started pulsing over her sheet music ... which I can completely understand.

I looked on the Lowe's website to find replacements, and found a plethora of bad reviews commenting on the same thing; units go out and replacements aren't readily available. The distributor did reply on a couple of them offering to get them parts, so I'm going to contact them to see what they can do. We like the light, but may have to eventually replace it with something more serviceable. For now, I'll see if I can get parts to keep it working.

Naturally, it's 5-year warranty has just expired.

 

[Thomas]

36F steady rain until late night.

Another 10 cents more gallon for gas over night.
Starting to get muddy now,wonder how far frost line is under ground.
8 hours at pt. job now kicking back with one of the kittens,feet up kinda evening.

Enjoy your evening all.

 

[daugen]

weren't we all sold on the 1/10th the amps and 10 times the life for LEDs?
They should have more easily interchangeable lamp modules, uh, think flourescent bulb but easier...
Now it's all built in and almost disposable apparently.
Good to know.

had a nice trip with the truck this morning to local garden place, on a 74 degree day just had to do something in the garden.
So I got four bags of organic compost, which is half cow manure, and spread that over the small raised gardens.
Then brought the tomato and pepper cages out and put them in different spots than last year. Birds like to perch on them

I expect this will make it snow...

 

[Bird]

The "official" rules say our garbage men will take up to 10 bags of garbage on collection day. Now I usually have 1 in the Winter and 3 in the Summer when I bag clippings. But today . . . I had 16 big bags out there and they didn't hesitate at all about taking all of them.

I know some people, some places, complain about garbage collection, but we now have $11.94 a month on our city water bill for once a week garbage collection by Community Waste Disposal and I've NEVER had any reason to complain.

 

[Looking4new]

The "official" rules say our garbage men will take up to 10 bags of garbage on collection day. Now I usually have 1 in the Winter and 3 in the Summer when I bag clippings. But today . . . I had 16 big bags out there and they didn't hesitate at all about taking all of them.

I know some people, some places, complain about garbage collection, but we now have $11.94 a month on our city water bill for once a week garbage collection by Community Waste Disposal and I've NEVER had any reason to complain.

I pay zero for my garbage collection and NEVER have any complaints, either.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I know some people, some places, complain about garbage collection, but we now have $11.94 a month on our city water bill for once a week garbage collection by Community Waste Disposal and I've NEVER had any reason to complain.

I agree, the $20 month I pay for trash pickup is a bargain. Especially after seeing the line of trucks waiting at the landfill last week. I love trash day when it all disappears.

 

[newbury]

weren't we all sold on the 1/10th the amps and 10 times the life for LEDs?
They should have more easily interchangeable lamp modules, uh, think flourescent bulb but easier...
Now it's all built in and almost disposable apparently.
Good to know.

Yeah, I had a major addition about 10 years ago. Probably 30 new point light fixtures all told. Everyone was bragging on LED fixtures. The fixtures only cost slightly more than A19's but obviously included bulbs.
At the time A19 bulbs (60 watt equivalent LED bulbs, 9 watt, 750 lumens) were like $5@ and higher lumens astronomical.
I said NO WAY and had quality A19 fixtures put in.
Now I can buy 2,000 lumen bulbs for about $5, and the 750's for < $1 and the fixtures will probably last decades.
Or I can buy wireless "smart bulbs" for ~$12 and control them from my Android phone.

 

[Bird]

I pay zero for my garbage collection and NEVER have any complaints, either.

OK, I'll bite. What happens to the stuff you neet to dispose of?

 

[Fuddy1952]

weren't we all sold on the 1/10th the amps and 10 times the life for LEDs?
They should have more easily interchangeable lamp modules, uh, think flourescent bulb but easier...
Now it's all built in and almost disposable apparently.
Good to know.

had a nice trip with the truck this morning to local garden place, on a 74 degree day just had to do something in the garden.
So I got four bags of organic compost, which is half cow manure, and spread that over the small raised gardens.
Then brought the tomato and pepper cages out and put them in different spots than last year. Birds like to perch on them

I expect this will make it snow...

My wife wants a small easy to water garden this year, and your pictures gave me good ideas (thanks!). Few questions: for raised beds do you use ground contact treated boards? Do you till area first, I assume you do, or not necessary?
I have loads of horse manure mixed with straw.