Good morning!!!!

[buckeyefarmer]

Sucks about your mailbox Thomas.

I hung up on some cylinder shop today. Guy simply would not listen to what I was trying to explain to him. He wanted to argue. He told me I didn’t know what I was talking about. So told him I couldn’t believe he wasted his time calling me when he obviously knew more about the product than I did, and hung up on him. My boss thought it was funny.

We had to say good bye to one of our cats several weeks ago. A local lost and found pets page has been trying to find the owner of a young cat for several weeks. No one stepped forward, this one is moving in with us

Gotta love short timer attitude.

Nice looking kitty.
Our new one is adjusting more, it’s taken awhile.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I found some VA land today I’m interested in. Waiting to hear back from agent. Told wife I wanted a small weekend cabin, but eventually move there. Only 5 minutes out of town, about 8 minutes to local hospital. Not many grocery stores though, just Kroger and food lion across town. Super Walmart on other side of town also.


Gas prices have me thinking too. Actually I’ve got some irons in the fire, had a good interview last week. Part of my retirement plan.
Will see what happens.

Owl hooting outside.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 30ºF for the start, overcast, light showers in area, light breeze. Light wind day, overcast in morning, fog, mist enough to make roads wet. High temp was 43ºF, DP 29ºF. Cleaned ashes and restoked insert, start work on mower maintenance, replacing rear drive tires, driveshaft bearings, drive dogs, air filter, spark plug and resharpen blade and change oil. Mower on saw horses, rear wheels off, removing the bearings, will inspect the drive belt. Did get stationary ride in, and nap. Also cleaned up my sink drain, it was goobered up. Have been trying to use less shaving creme, seems to be major contributor.
James sorry to hear about wife's fall. praying for a complete recovery
Doug hope rain is slowing down, and good to hear flail ready for action
Bill hope end of April will get you past the worst of winter. Hope you enjoyed your seat time.
Drew hope you took muffins with you as well
Buppies hope you sleep better, nice amount of rain. Was there a link to the story about the horses?
Billy goad wind slowing down, and congrats on rain. Dennis may use the old sling against the wall trick with the luck he is having with the audio.
Roy sorry to hear about UTI, prayers sent
Paul hope you get some drying soon, Good luck with conform process.
Drew you must be out of muffins
Ken nice to have generator, glad you can enjoy the fox, nice pic of supervisors
Don hope dental appointment went well, sorry about the lack of rain.
Rich weather same here ran insert all day. Work is really going to miss you. enjoy new canopy and kitty
Buppies so like that scene in Red. the rudeness of youth
Drew
Dennis sorry Dell has been no help on audio issue.
David glad Sophie got her ointment. glad caretaker unit progress continues
PJ your weather close to our weather. A lot of people will hold building entry doors but not car doors around here.
Phil nice to see your check-in. Hope you are successful at staying warm and dry.
Thomas no fun to come home to broken mail box. Expensive post!
Drew nice she gae you those freebies, sorry they were not to your liking.
Don sorry about no dentist visit and no new battery.
Rich won't miss "those" phone calls will you nice kitty
Rng glad trip going well so far
Bill that is a popular mail box post in the Ozarks, especially for engine repair outfits.
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle's daughter/friend PT from Covid, /mom recovery, living alone, Bird/aging issues/, Don /mom's pipeline process, Randy/FIL living alone adjustments /MIL Covid /son's FIL death /new cancer surgeries /cataract surgery, Roy /palpitations, /angina /UTI, Billy /wife fall, David(moss) /remodel /divorce, Buppies / 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 /5 year plan, Dennis/ brother "alligallyitus" and improving, James /wife's fall and recovery, Ukraine war, and Country.
stay safe and healthy you all.

 

[JDZ735M]

@check Sorry about the Mrs. arm. Hope it heals.

@RoyJackson try straight, 100% cranberry juice for about a week for that UTI.

 

[Alien]

I'm stuck. Should've known better. Tractor broke through the surface. If it doesn't rain anymore (haha) I should be able to get it out in 2 - 3 weeks.

4 needles in the hands today. Hope they help.

 

[txdon]

I went thru the same antibiotic thing with Dentist for a couple years after my knee replacements.

The problem is there is no science behind it.

Do people with artificial joints need antibiotics before a dental visit? - Healthy Debate

healthydebate.ca

 

[RoyJackson]

2022-03-09, 0525

20° right now...high in the upper 30's today...

UTI has alleviated somewhat and as some suggested, laid off the coffee and booze (except for beer, which seems to help, actually). I should be getting an antibiotic prescription filled today.
Still working from home for the next day.

 

[wngsprd]

41 and raining, going to only 46. Lit a fire in the woodstove this morning, for the first time in about a week. morning.

Glad you're feeling better, Roy.

Thomas, sounds like a real nice mailbox you had. Sorry it was damaged. Can you repair it?

BEF, thanks for the PC tips. I was able to finally get it to the point I could use the HP diagnostic tools, and it look like it is working normally now. The HP tools are awesome. I'll try roasting coffee today and see if everything works. It was a new version of roasting software that I loaded soon before the failure.

I had hoped to take advantage of the quarter inch of rain Monday night and bush hog yesterday. But by the time I got my implements moved and put the bush hog on, the wind had pretty much dried the field and so it was just as dusty as usual. I mowed over 2 hours. Since I had to move the zero-turn, mowed a little bit with that, too... the asparagus patch and some wild onions.

I haven't been anywhere in a week, so haven't seen gas prices...the local news says the average local price is 4.09, but my wife filled up at either Sam's or Costco yesterday...she said it was 3.88. I'll probably go up to the local country store after the rain and refill my truck and diesel jug...likely see a shocker price.

 

[wngsprd]

The problem is there is no science behind it.

Do people with artificial joints need antibiotics before a dental visit? - Healthy Debate

healthydebate.ca

Interesting article. I had to take antibiotics before a root canal years ago for the same reason...well not for an artificial joint, but because of the stated chance that bacteria could travel to the heart. Is that on one of your trusted sites for health?

 

[check]

Good morning, and thanks, guys, for all the thoughts and prayers! Sharon really appreciates the support.

She actually broke this arm before, and had a steel plate put in, in a very complicated surgery. Today the surgeons are going to put a longer plate in and they told her that this will be a much easier surgery with a shorter recovery time than last time. Fortunately, I can be with her all day every day, because I am still working online.

We are in Toronto now for a few days, and then will probably head back up this weekend.

The driveway is crazy right now, just like a skating rink. So, I took all the snow off and then I’m sprinkling all kinds of and he slips and then gravel, etc., and wearing spikes on my boots. Sharon has the same thing, but she will still be nervous heading into the cottage from the driveway.

In 20 years, I have never seen it like this. It rained quite a bit days ago, and since then the snow on top is sitting on the sheer ice. And it’s not warm enough for any new snow to stick to the ice, so we have to be very careful. Fortunately this coming week there will be quite a bit of time when it is above freezing, but not much!

Have to clear the snow right now to the ice, because the spikes on our boots don’t work if the snow is too deep, and you flipping fall anyways. That is what happened in fact with Sharon. She had spikes on her boots, but the spikes were not long enough to reach right down and touch the ice.

Will be picking up more sand on the way up, and spreading it all over the driveway. Hopefully, it will sink into the ice enough so that, when I clear the snow next time, the sand will still be there.

Have a great day everybody!