Good morning!!!!

[ronjhall]

Poured first cup of coffee. 33° with rain and wind this morning. Heading to 42° mostly cloudy skies. Grocery shopping went well yesterday. Shelves were well stocked. Started installing a new Security System yesterday. Spent way to much time figuring out where I wanted to put everything. Took a afternoon nap and ended up no getting anything else done. Today I will be removing old system. May get some more done today. While typing at computer I heard the snap a trap makes when it goes off. Yup number 8.
Yellow ears is still stocking up for cold weather on its way.

Everyone stay well and safe.

Good Morning All.

 

[daugen]

good morning all
30 out, wintry system coming up the coast, snow starts in an hour, turning to rain all day. Yuk.
to add injury to insult, off at lunchtime to dentist to get two crowns and a bridge installed. Major infrastructure.
dental work very hard on my neck also, (worse on wallet...) have to wear soft collar and still I come out of seat pretty beat up. This afternoon will not be fun.

hard to believe gas is so cheap (?) in some areas and so much more here. 3.79 for regular, 4.79 for premium, 5 something for diesel.
Though I bet David and even Bill would like to buy gas at those prices.

coffee warming me up, heater and electric heater buzzing away
I've taken to wearing undershirts on these cold days, layering really helps. Not much of a sweater person so this works a little.
hope you all have a nice day

 

[wngsprd]

34 and rain. Going to 45. We're getting a lot of rain, so kinda glad this one is rain rather than snow, and much better than the ice folks are getting in western Virginia.

Split the load of wood that I cut Sunday, and then cut another load yesterday. Did some prep for this rain event and ran out of daylight. This is the third time in a week I've had to drive the tractor with the lights on by quitting time. One more week, then the days get longer.

 

[daugen]

some ramblings...

US unemployment 3.7%
China unemployment 5.7%

will be interesting to see in our interconnected global community how much China's shrinking economy affects us.
Sometimes nations with those problems tend to blame others for their own problems, particularly if government isn't transparent.

5.7% of 1.4 billion people is a lot of folks out of work.
1.4 billion people. Almost hard to comprehend. US is at 332M btw.

China's economic growth has been enormous. And now it is slowing down. makes sense.
Lot of leading indicators in US trending poorly.
But as they say, the appetite for the American consumer seems inexhaustible.
But I do think this Christmas sales season will be down a little.
My retirement account certainly is.

I still see a lot of Hiring signs up.
the quality of service at the lowest minimum wage retail level has been pretty bad for awhile.
Seems like they have more help now.
My local Wells Fargo still doesn't have more than two people at teller banks.
I'm tired of complaining to their branch managers who come and go.

and of course our leading indicator, how many decent sized brand new tractors are on the lots nearby?
Kubota dealer in Doylestown has had several L & M models out there for several weeks now. That would never happen a year ago.

 

[newbury]

how many decent sized brand new tractors are on the lots nearby?

On my recent drive from DC to MS on I81 the several tractor lots (3 or 4) seemed fairly well stocked.
And the local (northeast Mississippi) TV stations are having the usual tractor sale ads.

 

[KilroyJC]

Good Morning!

God has given us another chance to get it right (or at least not screw up too badly).

internet is back up - the technician switched us over to a completely different pair from the CO to the next-to-last appearance point. Speed is the same, but noise is down by about 1/2 dB and line stress is down out of the 20s to about 17, so hopefully that will finally help with the connectivity issues we have had for the last 7 years! 23,000+ wire-feet is a little bit more that spec for DSL. . .

We have had rain for 9 of the last 11 days, so not much is getting accomplished outside. We have also all been down with good old-fashioned garden-variety bronchitis. I guess it is better we’re we’re sick during lousy weather instead of good weather all in all. . .

The last of the WoodMizer parts are supposed to arrive tomorrow - YAY! I am glad we won’t have to take delivery in the rain. I am hopeful that by Saturday the ground at the woodlot will have dried enough to be reasonably user-friendly and I can drop some trees and possibly even drag&stack some logs to be milled.

I hope everyone has a wonderful, safe, and healthy day!

 

[KilroyJC]

some ramblings...

US unemployment 3.7%
China unemployment 5.7%

will be interesting to see in our interconnected global community how much China's shrinking economy affects us.
Sometimes nations with those problems tend to blame others for their own problems, particularly if government isn't transparent.

5.7% of 1.4 billion people is a lot of folks out of work.
1.4 billion people. Almost hard to comprehend. US is at 332M btw.

China's economic growth has been enormous. And now it is slowing down. makes sense.
Lot of leading indicators in US trending poorly.
But as they say, the appetite for the American consumer seems inexhaustible.
But I do think this Christmas sales season will be down a little.
My retirement account certainly is.

I still see a lot of Hiring signs up.
the quality of service at the lowest minimum wage retail level has been pretty bad for awhile.
Seems like they have more help now.
My local Wells Fargo still doesn't have more than two people at teller banks.
I'm tired of complaining to their branch managers who come and go.

and of course our leading indicator, how many decent sized brand new tractors are on the lots nearby?
Kubota dealer in Doylestown has had several L & M models out there for several weeks now. That would never happen a year ago.

Our W-F branch is a regional training site, so it is always staffed at all the windows, but generally the process is slow because all but two of the tellers are newbies. . .

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, low temp is 25 and going to a high of 30°F. Wind E 25 gusting to 36 mph. Snow coming but not here yet.

According to the Cadillac, MI radar it is just past Toledo, OH and stretching in a NW to SE angle. S.S. Marie, MI will be getting 'it' soon.
Hopefully we don't lose hydro again, but if we do I have my new backup genny fuelled and all ready to go.

Regular gas is $5.89/US gallon in South River, ON. If I need gas today I will only put in $20.oo or so. Just enough to get me to North Bay, where it is $1.359/L or $5.14/US gallon. Why the huge difference you ask? The cheaper stuff is tax exempt from the reserve. Esso/Exon gas just the same.

Today is an energy conservation day. IF the snow comes as snow rather than freeing rain then tomorrow after I get my running around, (dump, town run) done then I will plow. We are expecting about 4" minimum.

Have a safe day all

 

[daugen]

weather forecasts updated, quite a storm headed this way.
All rain down South, but snow line is West of Philadelphia and headed this way.
One to three inches of snow turning to rain through tomorrow, another inch of rain on top.
could be a whopper of a snow storm.

Phil, get ready....

somehow I don't think my Christmas inflatables outdoors are going to like this one bit.
Maybe I should turn them off first
nah, Christmas goes on...
hope to get some good pictures while it's snowing

 

[KilroyJC]

weather forecasts updated, quite a storm headed this way.
All rain down South, but snow line is West of Philadelphia and headed this way.
One to three inches of snow turning to rain through tomorrow, another inch of rain on top.
could be a whopper of a snow storm.

Phil, get ready....

somehow I don't think my Christmas inflatables outdoors are going to like this one bit.
Maybe I should turn them off first
nah, Christmas goes on...
hope to get some good pictures while it's snowing

This is the first year that we have done inflatables.

I am finding that they are better left inflated during precipitation, but YMMV. I also use wooden vertical supports and paracord guylines for wind stability, as our inflatables go on a platform I built on our deck railing, since that is the only way they would be visible due to terrain and shrubbery, so there is that to consider as well