Good morning!!!!

[scaredychicken]

I am automatically drawn to motorcycles ... a buddy at church has a motorcycle museum / cafe, in the area. Very interesting.

i am not able to ride bikes, dirt bikes, motorcycles etc, but i do have an Arctic Cat 400 ATV.

I have had opportunities to ride on the back of a bike or trike on occasion. The Christian Bikers Association took me out during the Christmas Toy Run in Vancouver, BC for several years. Very cool memories. One day i might get a Trike - Honda Goldwing 1800GL or a Harley maybe. The custom VW trike with the bikers, was pretty unique.

this thing was a monster ... my late younger brother took me out for a ride on his 1984 Suzuki Katana 1100 a couple of times. That was the quickest machine that i have ever been on ... yikes, had to change my shorts i'm sure. apparently it is a very rare bike, highly sought after by collectors ... who knew ?

 

[check]

Where does the air come from that replaces the air the vacuum takes out?

Down the chimney?

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 56ºF for the start, overcast, light breeze. Moderate wind, sky cleared up some then back to overcast, and high temp was 74ºF. Chapel to start day, made hot cereal for breakfast, the into energy conservation mode. Did get front porch cleaned off, and wheelbarrow and wood wagon refilled, wife wanted fire tonight. Watched Dallas game slowed work on TBN way down. We have Simplicity upright vacuum.
Billy sorry about skunk, hope he does not hang around. Hope you got finished with assembly.
Bill that is a lot of wood, hope plowing went without problems.
Ron bracket sounds like a fun project. neat moon pic. Thanks for bracket pic
Drew hope your next vacuum sucks big time
Buppies thanks for explanation. Brown recluse nasty spider. Hope you don't wash away. prayers sent.
Chris very nice boat. sorry about the lights chewed.
Don had to chuckle at your yankee reference. Nice pics, love the apple cannons.
Dennis it is a lot of work burning wood. Looks like good view of fire while burning.
Buppies those boats are expensive, I can't afford to play Santa.
Thomas sorry signal so weak.
Paul sorry about the hassle to change oil. Hope flight went well.
Thomas hope you earned dinner.
Frits sorry about the early wake up, I bet Cody was asleep by time everyone awake. Good luck with new stove project.
Scotty glad you are having nice weather. Hope you get drain pipe finished.
Frits that looks yummy.
RNG Thanks for video. Thanks for follow up om stove. Nice rain, Lake going up
Frits thanks for link.
Kyle sorry to hear about your mom, prayers sent. Good to hear getting some time on CNC.
Rich good to hear '52 BSA coming along.
Scaredy good luck catching up.
Ted nice rain. Sorry to hear pizza such a fiasco, how does one get edges cooked and center raw? I understand your frustration
RS good to hear fish work catching up. Hope your Sunday goes well.
Scaredy sorry to hear about nose bleeds.
Frits those are high boots.
Ken glad wedding and visiting went great. Nice pic and view.
PJ sorry about the ceiling job, and also sorry culprit still in hiding.
Rich bike looks great. First ride before or after paint?
Scaredy Katana got great reviews when it came but was poor seller.
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle /Daughter, /mom's breathing, /learning new job, /friends upcoming new baby, Bird /aging issues, Roy /passed away, /wife ankle,recover from getting sick, Don /brother medical procedure, Ron /broken arm and heart, Billy /mom hypertension & congestive heart failure, David(moss) /remodel, /divorce, Buppies /new skin cancer spot and treatment, /elbow healing, /wife knee healing, Thomas /gout, /wife's pain, Phil /reflux, /wife's eyes and fall, Frits/ daughters hip replacement /veteran son with mental issues, Ken /dad possible dementia, /uncle's surgery, Steppenwolfe /son-auto immune disorder, Grev /wife's eye, Ted /knee recovery, /retirement & disability red tape, /family issues, /wife feeling bad, Lou / eye issues, Doug and wife/health issues, / hand nerve and surgery, / wife headaches and heart eval, / David(sadamo)/Sophie's new eye surgery recovery, Chris /neighbor's granddaughter and Covid issues, Scaredy/shoulder dislocation, /wife not feeling well, /marriage not doing well, / friend stop drinking, Paul/ wife's healing from back surgery, Dennis /retirement, /coughing, /neighbor issues, /land development, / brother "alligallyitus" and back in hospital, Drew /foot heel issues, /friend's wife cancer diagnosis and recovery, mike /wife's surgery, Scotty, /back pain, Frits /daughter recovery from surgery, Helogabals /second opinion, /wife's friend situation, Mark /wife colon surgery, Fatjay /father broken hip, Ukraine war, and Country.

 

[Bird]

Is Winter over already??? 52° for a low this morning and forecast to go to a sunny 78° for a high.

 

[Helogabals]

Good Monday morning !

Was crazy week, and this one seems no better.
Just a quick check in.
For beginning it's -2ºC, cloudy. And it's all about perception. Few weeks ago anything below 0ºC was deadly cold. Then some nights it went down to -10ºC. Now it feels that -2ºC is a bless. Almost warm. LOL
We have got some snow. Not critical, but good 10 - 15 cm is on the ground
Yanmar with broom does good job. I am super happy. My neighbors either. I am becoming popular person in our commune


My twin boys are almost 9 years old. For 2 1/2 years they have basketball training 3 - 4 times a week. Two hard weeks basketball summercamp. To me there are no ambitions or whatsoever, it is just for their health, but coach is pushing to participate in tournaments. At the end I agreed with coach, all their team and boys including has worked really hard, why not to give it a try ? Will be better motivation for training. Maybe
C19 restrictions has spoiled fun for previous years, so just this weekend was their first official tournament.

At first they were playing against local village "official" team and one big & fancy basketball club kids team. Adults of that club are State's Top 3 for years, so kids should be no less. Should.
But our "no-name" team was just crashing and smashing both of them. We won with like 15:55. Before games I thought - my boys has worked hard, they are good, we have not bad chances against even those superstars. But turned out they are hopeless.
At the end our "farm boys" won 4 games out of 4.
I just hope coach will be able to pack their first pride and they will continue to work hard

 

[ronjhall]

Poured first cup of coffee. 19° with clear skies this morning. Heading to 41° with cloudy skies. Wind died down enough to blow all the leaves out into east field. Harbor Freight had a clearance sale on a 1" bench sander. Drove over to local store and bought one. Works good deburring small items. Finished up Lynch Clip Brackets. Painted in shop. It will take awhile for them to dry at 50°. Did a repair on neighbors garbage can. Should be good for a few more destruction trips of the garbage truck hydraulics. Not sure what I will get into today.
Do not normally see European Starlings at my feeders this time of year. This one stayed long enough to pose for a picture.

Drew, painted brackets Kubota Gray.

Scaredy, I should get rid of a couple of them. But hate throwing things that still work away.

Everyone stay safe and well.

Good Morning All.

 

[daugen]

good morning all
lots to read and great pics here

Ron I meant paint the pins yellow so he doesn't lose them. He'd better not lose the bracket...

Helo, not many of us use a broom for snow, municipalities for sidewalks but I hear they work really well if snow is not too wet.
glad your boys did well.

little high school here only graduated 53 when I was here. Too small for football, didn't even have running track. Not any more, one of everything with
expected school taxes. Basketball team went almost three years without winning a game. My next older brother played, must have been pretty depressing.
But we did win the tri-county award for soccer. Don't have to be tall or huge to win at that.

Bird, now you just send that nice warm weather up here please, don't hog it.

 

[ronjhall]

Drew, I never lost a Lynch Pin that I didn’t find while mowing grass.

 

[daugen]

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/05/us/power-outage-moore-county-what-we-know/index.html

gosh, how stupid can you be?
if they find out this was done to thwart a local drag queen show starting at the same time, as social media is reporting,
the Feds will get involved.

before or after it took a hunk out of your blade Ron? Heavy enough probably dropped pretty flat.
I learned it here but two years into the farm in NC I bought a rolling magnet. I lose stuff all the time, put it down, like on the rear tire tread
or hitch. I kept buying these really nice hitch pins, we all know the 50 cent ones (probably two bucks now) but I got some "nice" ones. They grew
legs and hiked out too. Found some with magnet. Not all...

If you all remember the drunk farmer next to me in NC, with the Farmall A that was a complete wreck. usually in front yard with battery charger on battery and
battery charger uncovered in middle of yard. Rains a lot there.... He was drunk and crazy, and parts would fall off his tractor out in the field. His three point hitch was a hodge
podge of all kinds of strange bolts. Later on when his health got worse and he couldn't drive the tractor, I would disc and mow that field for him and always had to be on the lookout for
parts of machinery out there. His whole place was a dump, sadly still is with him in nursing home, a penniless ward of the state, drunk himself into oblivion.
He never thanked me for doing anything I did over there. Pretty useless individual, ran the family farm into the ground, literally. All needs to be bulldozed now.
This is why you plant a lot of evergreens on the edges of your farm...sometimes you need a sight barrier.

I have an old picture of my drunk farmer neighbor. Had lost his license, could only drive his tractor, and this was after he crossed over the treeline, broke one of my underground
water pipes going through my garden area, and not finding me, turned around and went home, leaving tracks in my lawn of course.
He was a fool but I learned his Super A was what I needed for potatoes, and went out and got a decent one, with cultivators

 

[Buppies]

27 this morning high of 48 rain tonight thru Friday maybe one quarter inch each day

Prayers for all