Good morning!!!!

[sodamo]

Stay safe, RNG

 

[check]

Hope your feeling better now than yesterday Check.

Thanks, Thomas. Feeling about the same, but the new development is my sense of taste went! Really pissed me off because we were just about to have some of that delicious turkey from Christmas and I may as well have eaten cardboard!

I hope this phase doesn’t last long!

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 20ºF for the start, clear sky, light breeze. Light to moderate wind, Clear sky all day, and high temp was 46ºF. Clean ash and rekindle fire to start day, then putter until wash dishes, got call from VFD to pull codes on Tender, found no active codes. They suspect still having algae issues in fuel system, they have been using algaecide but same problems with tender as last time. Trip to town for lunch and groceries. Restoke fire and go for bike ride. No nap today.
Dennis yes way too early
Ron glad 2 switches installed, hope parts come in soon. Hope you are able to conserve plenty of energy.
Drew nice you are getting above freezing. Glad nice lunch, does sound like you friend has serious problems. Sorry about Amtrak pricing, did you reserve the whole car?
Buppies going ice skating? prayer sent.
Kilroy hope you get opportunity to change orientation of the wood.
Bill hope you get your snow. I have neither garden or snow.
Don glad you are getting out of the freeze zone. We do not take done Christmas decorations and lights until New Years Day or later.
Frits glad you are taking precautions. Not much activity around hear did get the flu shots.
Jim glad wife home safe. Hope honey do list not too long. I had imagines boat looking more like open cockpit fishing boat. Nice boat.
Mike sorry about sleep, hope wife healing up nicely. prayers sent.
RNG Sorry to hear about the wind damage. Sorry about the delay in finishing burn pile, hope porch cover an roof repair are quick.
Paul sorry to hear about gift card. Glad you fixed drain, sorry about the no heat.Nice Zoe and Grace pic. Stepdaughter has a mini Australian Shepard pup(Bonnie), and a older Beagle Jack Russel mix(Scooter). The puppy has been "herding" Scooter until Scooter get tired and laws down the law.
Chris growing up in STL skating opportunities were sporadic at best.
RNG hope roof not damaged too much by wind. Glad you not hurt.
Ken glad good visit and crabcakes. Most of the Crape Myrtles hear did ok in the below 0ºF stretch 2 years ago with no wrapping. Hope gap repair goes well. Hope you can reach BIL soon
RNG that is a serious wind. Wife was working VIH wind gust went over 60 mph. DC3 parked on the ramp fly backwards about 15-20 feet in the wind.
Rich glad trip ok, sorry about driver nozzle frozen. FIL had a 12V heat gun for that kind of issue, no idea what happened to it.
Kilroy Wise men appeared months after the birth.
Kilroy thanks for more details on making pierogi.
RS glad you are getting caught up on sleep. Hope you made some progress on agenda.
Ted hope you get some moisture out of storm. Sorry about sleeping issues. Guy was nice because more tax to be paid. Hope you got propane refilled.
Drew glad shopping went well and ice had no injuries
Scaredy don't beat yourself on keeping up, you have enough on your plate.
Mark Good Christmas here.
Mike glad you could get some outside work done.
Dennis I think we paided over $4 for egg last time. Gas $2.63/gal
Thomas you can;t trust the kitties to behave all the time
Kyle Sorry about the illness. hopefully it is a 24 or 36 hour bug. Prayers sent. Have not heard much on alligators in this neck of the woods. Thanks for BB Texas update. Thanks for new machine update. What are you using to generate 5 axis cutter path files. Can you do simultaneous 5 axis moves?
RNG wow serious damage. Good to at least one roofer looked at it, and insurance and another quote lined up. Have fun on you next bike trip.
James sorry about loosing taste.
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle /Daughter, /mom's breathing, /learning new job, /friends upcoming new baby, /son's migraines, Bird /aging issues, 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, 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, /fall and recovery, / wife headaches and heart eval, / David(sadamo)/Sophie's new eye surgery recovery, Chris /neighbor's granddaughter and Covid issues, Scaredy/shoulder dislocation, /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.

 

[two_bit_score]

Turns out the base was only nailed to the roof sheathing. And to think I'd been leaning a ladder against it to clean the flue!

WOW! You may actually be lucky the wind blew it down.

 

[Wagtail]

Good (Wednesday) arvo. Overnight Low was a surprising 18C and the High was 27.6C. A wee sprinkle of raindrops and the wind kicked up later on.

Now that my Mate from Brisbane is here we were able to truly attack the vine, especially as he's the only one of us who's nimble enough to go up on the roof. We accomplished the task, loaded up & dumped the debris and put all of the ladders/tools away in the shed... as we walked back and admired our work, of course that's when a long-handled secateurs was spotted still on the roof. (reset the ladder and retrieved)

The rest of the day has been spent in in great conversation, a few libations and watching the Test Cricket match.

That's about it, take care all.

 

[Buppies]

RNG hope insurance is fair and you are made whole, glad no personal injury

loss you lost taste Check

Kyle hope you feel better soon

 

[daugen]

good morning all
oh my RNG, so sorry for all that damage. You take such pride in maintaining and improving your place, hard to see it get messed up.

waking up to first cup of coffee. Watched a number of medical videos last night. Most of them showing damage done by sugar to our bodies.
And things like going to bathroom three times a night. Hmmmm. I thought that was BPH, etc. Maybe it's my liver talking to me.
one thing videos said was to try to get off as much medicine as possible, seems counterintuitive, but liver has to filter everything, good and bad.
And none of us want a "fatty liver". I can only wonder what the steroids I have to take are aggravating other issues, like wack a mole.
One video reminded me to refill my niacin supply.

this morning off to pick up a friend and go to Costco. I'm on the hunt for lasagna for the freezer. I might get some gas there if line is not too long.
Not sure if Costco is "certified" gas.

24 going up to a balmy 44.

 

[ronjhall]

Coffee is brewing. 27° with partly cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 37° with sun shine in afternoon. Stuck to my conserve energy plan yesterday. Off to see finance guy this morning. Then a trip with neighbor to Williams Gunsight in Davison, MI. I want to get a replacement sight for my Remington 510-P. That should fill the day in.
Friends?

RNG, hope repairs get done quickly.

Drew, get off as much meds as you can.

Everyone stay safe and well.

Good Morning All.

 

[wngsprd]

Kilroy
I have been watching older TV programs during relaxing times. Dragnet, Jack Benny, Burns and Allen, laugh-in and others. Some of them would not be allowed because someone would be offended. I like Highway Patrol. Seeing cars from the 50s.
I get 60 Local channels from roof mounted antenna. Now that I have it tuned in. About to dump cable TV.

There is a Classics Radio channel on satellite radio that I listen to often...yesterday on the way to the mountains I was laughing out loud to the Jack Benny Radio program broadcast originally on New Year's Eve, 1939.

 

[KilroyJC]

Good Morning!

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

16F, forecast said mid-20s overnight, MrsKilroyJC said “Don’t put in too much wood because it isn’t going down so low tonight” again, HVAC came on around 3am and has been cycling ever since. Stove can’t heat without fuel, but she only thinks it adds temperature, not duration. She’s a Jersey Girl and doesn’t pump her own gas. I think she has done it TWICE since we left Jersey in almost 9 years ago, so I cannot even use the “gas tank/logs vs gas pedal/damper” analogy all that effectively. . .

The final part of my WoodMizer order arrived yesterday - YAY! Original order was placed April 6th. . .

Yesterday was basically another couch day, but we did take the dog up to the woodlot and up and down the mountain. I had to bring home a 4x4 to make legs for a platform to put beehives on, and it was too long for the roof rack on the Subaru and needed to be cut in half for transport, so I pulled out a bow saw someone had given me a couple years ago and proceeded to find out that the blade was dull. I then pulled out my vintage Homelite Super XL (originally a UHaul rental -“PROPERTY OF UHAUL” is cast into the metal body). I think it was started last in June. . . Three pulls, nothing. Fourth pull (and a little ether (hey, I have carpal tunnel - gimme a break)) fires right up, make the cut, strap it to the roof, no problem.

So, after breakfast, I will dig a couple 3” depressions on the dirt and pour a little concrete for the legs to sit on, and put the stand together because nucs should be arriving in just a couple weeks.

I would really like to drop some trees this afternoon, but that all depends on what MrsKilroyJC has planned for the day.

I hope everyone has a wonderful, healthy, happy, productive, and blessed day!