Good morning!!!!

[riptides]

Wear blaze orange in woods riptides cannot be too careful

miller b storm parent low transfers energy from mid west to off coast of eastern seaboard if transfer occurs NC Va no real snow here. Miller A storm comes up SE coast if cold air in place nice snows for us maybe a big one if conditions right

Always, especially so with a neighbors deer stand close on the property line sighted to my direction. Need to go talk with him about that. Find it odd that one would set up a stand facing and within eye sight (couple of hundred feet) of a fence line and horse pasture. With animals in it no less.

 

[m7040]

Always, especially so with a neighbors deer stand close on the property line sighted to my direction. Need to go talk with him about that. Find it odd that one would set up a stand facing and within eye sight (couple of hundred feet) of a fence line and horse pasture. With animals in it no less.

We have another new neighbor that seem to be into shooting into our direction yesterday. Also heard some shots after dark. Will have to go investigate this further today

 

[KilroyJC]

Good Morning!

God has gifted us with another day to get it right (or at least not screw it up too badly).

16.0F this morning in Appalachia, supposedly going up into the mid-50s. Yesterday it hit The mid-40s but is was a nasty, raw 40’s, so most of the outdoor activities were suspended for an afternoon on the couch catching up on podcasts and “potato chips for the brain” AKA TV.

I have to get into the crawl space and trace out a couple outlets to break off their main circuit and make a separate run for our new solar power setup. Our house has a huge 1300 10/12 pitch roof that would be AWESOME for solar - If it were oriented properly. . .

So, instead we have a small ground array of four panels for a system that will be used to keep the refrigerator and comms up if the power goes out, but the breaker that Teh InterWebz and TV are on is RIDICULOUSLY long and I have no idea how that many load points could be on one circuit, but then again, the house was built by someone who decided it was a good idea to put both HVAC units directly under the first and second floor bedroom windows. . .

and I should run an additional phone Jack to relocate the DSL/WiFi modem to a better location, and add in an Ethernet line to my desktop since the modem will be relocated. . .

and we still have those outdoor projects that were tabled yesterday.

Boredom is never an issue with us!

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Buppies, thanks!
Drew, enjoy the visits
Wngsprd, don’t think my geo aux kicked in because breaker is off. Which reminds me, I still need to fix geothermal circulation pumps to have a working spare. Here’s a bad one. I must have gotten dirt in a geo line when I was installing. I think I cracked the impeller on this one so probably should buy new pump.

I’ll have to look up the book.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Oops, wrong pic, that was the day I got GBS.

This is the pump.

 

[daugen]

a rifle bullet can go what, a mile? More?
Just because you can't see out there doesn't mean there's not a risk.
Doesn't the NRA teach this to hunters?

at my age 7 or 8 my father dug a rifle slug out of the stone wall one foot to the right of our front door. No more deer gun hunting after that. Of course it could have been someone at the next farm down. We allowed bow and arrow hunting after that. Club came in, with radio transceivers, well organized, they were wonderful.

it was still a nice pic BEF, you were pretty relaxed. Wish you were now. Feel better.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

miller b storm parent low transfers energy from mid west to off coast of eastern seaboard if transfer occurs NC Va no real snow here. Miller A storm comes up SE coast if cold air in place nice snows for us maybe a big one if conditions right

Miller B, I thought you’d get hammered in that case, as you’d be right in the bend of the collision.
It was interesting, never heard the Miller terms before.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

it was still a nice pic BEF, you were pretty relaxed. Wish you were now. Feel better.

I look like a fat Willie Nelson.

NRA has many great courses, yes it’s taught. I took hunter safety as a kid, and then as a teenager I taught rifle safety courses at 4H camp. Many years later with Boy Scouts they wouldn’t let me do anything with firearms, they are so **** about things.

I don’t own any hunter orange, I probably should get some.

Anyone know where this is, off of google?

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, the low is 23 and the high should be all the way up to 36°F. Wind S 17 gusting to 22 mph. Drifting snow.

I couldn't get the V plow hooked up yesterday. Don't know what the problem was other than I couldn't mate the two SSQAs together enough to actually lock it in place, so I went back to the old fashioned way with the BB and bucket.

I'm not sure what I will get up to today, but rest assured it wont be much.

BEF, what you've got is what I had right after my summer work got done. I usually take a weeks worth of holidays and clean out/up the truck before taking it back to Markham. This year I took 2 weeks just so I could be a very little bit healthy when I got there.
In that period of time I only smoked one pack of 25 cigarettes.
Probably it will take you about three weeks to a month to get back to feeling yourself again. Lots of rest, lots of liquids and not much of an appetite.

Have a safe day all

 

[Rich B1]

Good morning! 16 now, high if maybe 44 today. It was 14 when I got up. It is sunny now.

Never got to 35 yesterday. Highest I saw was 29.

Wife had to get some routine tests run this morning, so up early. She likes to get to the hospital early since there isn’t a line for testing. It worked.

Made a Menards run yesterday and got some odds and ends. Got a transition for the new bathroom floor. Got that installed. Put different cams in a 1952 BSA single I am S-L-O-W-L-Y rebuilding. Considerable upgrade from the stock cams, but still BSA cams. Wasn’t into setting valve lash when I got done, takes 3 wrenches, both hands, and steady stream of cussing trying to set the lash correctly. Maybe today.

If it truly gets warmer, got some stuff to do at the barn today. Rest of the week is looking warmer than the weekend.

Everyone stay safe out there!

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, 20 and going up a bit today in a warming trend.
See the sun coming up.

Son had a great time watching girlfriends band playing in the village (NYC).
He saw a few of my old hangouts while there, but many are gone, like Bleeker Bob's

Wife had a great time at the range and did pretty good for her first time. Glock 19 worked pretty well for both us us and I was able to hold my pattern together pretty well.
When I told the trainer that I hadn't fired a gun in 30 years he looked baffled. I was able to hit my own holes in the target pretty well even with my bad near vision.

Alien - hope the surgeries really help you out, heal quick.

Foam boards will arrive in 2 separate trucks tomorrow. seems they are coming from two different stores.

Be well all and BEF feel better soon.

Wife looking focused. She did great and fell right in with loading, unloading and just needs to relax more and her shooting will be good.

 

[m7040]

Walked down to check out the neighbor shooting last evening and found he had set up a cardboard box as a target that was riddled with bullet holes. The box was located on his side but backstop is the berm around our pond that is on our side. So he is filling up our pond with lead or going into our dirt around the pond. Here is a pic of the box taken from top of our berm at the pond.

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning
It’s 20 and sunny with a high of 35. A little warmer than yesterday.

Yesterday was spent inside for the most part. I worked on the recording of our Friday night get together. Did a few chores at the airport, but nothing particularly noteworthy.
Pulled the fountain out of the pond, had to break it out of the ice, it was still working, but it was completely encrusted with ice. It was interesting that the LED flood lights don’t make any heat, so they were blocks of ice as well. My role was as lifeguard, oldest son was in the boat doing the work, I just handled the lines to the shore to pull the fountain (or him) to the shore. It went pretty uneventfully except for the cold wind and the ice.

Today I think that I will make a small counter upstairs in the shop to replace the little table that holds the crockpot and electric kettle.
I found a nice microwave oven on FB marketplace that will go on there along with a toaster oven and the existing appliances.
Other than that, not a lot else planned, I’ll likely have to empty the trailer for my wife, now that her show is over, the door repair apparently held up just fine.

 

[kenmbz]

Walked down to check out the neighbor shooting last evening and found he had set up a cardboard box as a target that was riddled with bullet holes. The box was located on his side but backstop is the berm around our pond that is on our side. So he is filling up our pond with lead or going into our dirt around the pond. Here is a pic of the box taken from top of our berm at the pond.

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Well he sounds kind of lazy and dangerous.
Think he should be setting up his own backstop and not pointing in your direction.
Big (Thick) metal sign on your berm might help him understand?

 

[riptides]

Walked down to check out the neighbor shooting last evening and found he had set up a cardboard box as a target that was riddled with bullet holes. The box was located on his side but backstop is the berm around our pond that is on our side. So he is filling up our pond with lead or going into our dirt around the pond. Here is a pic of the box taken from top of our berm at the pond.

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That's dangerous. Any ordnance about firearm discharge around housing or property lines you could acquaint him too?

 

[txdon]

Walked down to check out the neighbor shooting last evening and found he had set up a cardboard box as a target that was riddled with bullet holes. The box was located on his side but backstop is the berm around our pond that is on our side. So he is filling up our pond with lead or going into our dirt around the pond. Here is a pic of the box taken from top of our berm at the pond.

In Texas it is against the law to shoot across property lines.

Texas Parks and Wildlife Code Section 62.0121 – Discharge of Firearm Across Property Line

In this section, "firearm" has the meaning assigned by Section 62.014 (Hunter Education Program)(a). A person commits an offense if, the person,…

texas.public.law

 

[wngsprd]

Buppies, thanks!
Drew, enjoy the visits
Wngsprd, don’t think my geo aux kicked in because breaker is off. Which reminds me, I still need to fix geothermal circulation pumps to have a working spare. Here’s a bad one. I must have gotten dirt in a geo line when I was installing. I think I cracked the impeller on this one so probably should buy new pump.
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I’ll have to look up the book.

Yep, looks like a bad one.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Yep, looks like a bad one.

I keep meaning to soak in vinegar to see if it will clean up. I think it would still work if cleaned up. Maybe vinegar in a container, drop motor in and use ultrasonic. I didn’t have that before.

 

[mpham]

Quick update. Smells great!:

 

[riptides]

Quick update. Smells great!:
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Not fair.