Good morning!!!!

[IXLR8]

Good Morning!! Happy New Year to all and may 2023 be better than last year.

Presently it is 50F and foggy after an overnight low of 48, forecast high of 53 with clearing skies.

Still under the weather from the Shingles shot. Never made it out to the shop to work on the chain saws. All I did was watch TV, slept and did a load of laundry. Not sure if today is going to be any more productive.

Let's all be safe out there.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Happy New Year.

Did stay up, had trouble switching the Direct TV channel at the In-laws house, so missed both the end of the game and the ball drop.

 

[Thomas]

That's heck of milestone Mostly "Year total now 6588 miles"

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Mostly, congratulations on the miles. Amazing.

 

[Thomas]

Welcome all to 2023. ...now I can start on my resolutions for 1967.
41F couple showers on/off coming to end late morning,high mid 40's breezy.

Outside chores done E muffin time.
Last 4 days of warm weather...January thaw???...melted LOTS of snow,southern areas bare ground and still warmth hanging around end of this week.
Plans for today...quick hike get 2 game cams from swamp and ridge,clean area around stack wood,watch some football,soon take Mrs. to town for things.steady putter day.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[scootr]

Awoke 3:30 am to the flood alarms going off in the garage. A super cell had dumped 2.5 inches around 1 am. The front yard drain had clogged with eucalyptus tree berries and such. Spent 90 minutes sweeping and vacuuming water out and up. It's a mess everything will have to come out to day for a big clean up when the sun comes up. Now is time for coffee and a break. Ugh

 

[m7040]

Repurposing old tools is always satisfying to me. Pics of two of them.

 

[Buppies]

Sorry about flooding scootr

Spent day in Charleston SC yesterday buying wife new clothes has had no new ones since 2003 but now fully stocked for a while took best part of 4 .5 hours in one place. 71 outside light rain showers. In bed by 11:00 Ga game wow

Prayers for all our Country

 

[ronjhall]

Mostly, congrats on yearly mileage increase. I think I got 6 miles on my bike this year.

 

[txdon]

Happy New Year! 46˚F to 77˚ today with partly cloudy skies and southerly winds.

Today will be the farewell day at the "farm" as most of us will be furloughed till the next festival. Today will also be perfect seat time weather and 1.5 holiday pay to boot.

According to the goat expert I talked with yesterday our very pregnant goat may not have her kids till next week. The goat expert said the handlers should have consulted her before they made the "any minute now" announcement on the web page.

Mostly, excellent achievement on the millage, looks like today's weather will help you get a head start to beat last years record.

 

[KilroyJC]

Forgot to mention that our little flock produced 988 eggs from May 3rd to Dec. 31st.

I a getting proficient at blond baking crusts for quiche!

 

[Rich B1]

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

 

[kenmbz]

Good New years morning, 50 going up to 54 and fog has finally moved out.
Didn't get home till well after one am after dropping off sons girlfriend.
All had fun, even the pigs.

Feel better IXLR8

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Good morning and HAPPY NEW YEAR!
low was 33°, going up to near 50°. No precip overnight, now not expected until this afternoon. 80% chance of rain showers this evening, then turning to snow in the overnight hours. Heavy cloud cover now.

Last night's festivities on tv were disappointing. We have 3 local syndicated channels, ABC, CBS, NBC. Only 2 had NYE shows, ABC had absolutely nothing!

Then to top it off, NBC was out of Miami.... with all the hip-hop and weird people... strange music if you can call it music.... and it was broadcast delayed, so essentially 2 hours behind....
CBS was a little better, coming out of Nashville. Got tired of the music / artists on there too.... At least there were a few 'older' artists that we liked. Again, broadcast delay, but only an hour.

The son and 2 GS were here, they had cookies and ice cream. We celebrated on our own at 22:00 (official east coast time). Went to bed around 23:00.

Wifey put the blueberry/cheesecake pie in the oven already. The official taste test of the ingredients give it a Should be even better later!

Homemade lasagna next to go into the oven. Haven't had it in over 10 months... all good things come to those who wait.....

Not sure what, if anything, I'll get into today.... probably just watch some tv.

Everyone have a great day!

 

[two_bit_score]

Wishing everyone a healthy and prosperous 2023!

 

[check]

Good morning and happy new year everyone! I had a lovely sleep last night despite the fireworks going off at midnight.

What a difference on the deck this morning, all of the snow that came around Christmas has all melted,, and even the driveway is now down to the gravel. it is because we were above freezing for a few days and got a good amount of rain. Morris to come on Tuesday, and then finally on Thursday back down below freezing for several days. (The snowmobilers must be really pissed. There’s a beautiful mess of snow over Christmas, but now all the roads are bare, and I’m sure the trails are really crappy.)

Time to clean up the garage, and make space to put the TVs in there beside the tractor, so they are finally out of the snow.

I think I mentioned before and then both my wife and I have Alligatoritis, which probably started on December 23 or so. The effects on my taste buds have been quite interesting. I do have taste, but many things taste different and in a very pleasant way. For example, our white wine has been tasting very good these days. Better than it tasted before. and the steak last night was amazing! so, maybe the taste issue will not be so bad for me after all.

Everyone have a great day, I look forward to a positive productive and happy new year.

Christmas view…

And now.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

I forgot to post a pic of the pie.... maybe a better shot once it comes out.

 

[sodamo]

Happy New Year

66° F and no rain

Pig inside the fence last night, so will have to find and fix point of entry

Otherwise watch some football, take advantage of holiday

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[m7040]

Dogs and kids at play this afternoon at our place:

 

[Popgadget]

Happy New year and Good Afternoon.
It’s 46 and will likely break 50 with clear skies. A big change from yesterday’s foggy gloom.

Today we should have all the kids here for an early supper, I have a ribeye roast in the oven at 210 for a slow cook to finish with a reverse sear at 575. Rubbed it with salt, pepper and olive oil and let it stand for a few hours before putting it in the oven.
Planning on steaming some broccoli and and some mashed potatoes for sides.

The talk of Potato cannons and Ben bag launchers had me go look in the shed, where I found these. They work as advertised.

For todays roast, I instrumented the oven with outboard thermometers to measure both oven and meat temps. The oven has its own meat probe, which I am using as well, but now I can check it for accuracy. I replaced the Range a couple years ago, this one seems to do much better at controlling the heat. The old one would make a sawtooth graph as it dropped below the set point and then heated up past the set point.
This one seems to plot a smooth line without the saw tooth pattern. It’s own temp probe is within a degree of my reference probe. The oven’s actual temp is about 12 degrees over the set temp, but doesn’t vary more than a degree or two.