Good morning!!!!

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 37 degrees @ 5:30AM. Plentiful sunshine. High 56F. Winds N at 10 to 20 mph.
Picked up another 0.66" of rain yesterday morning, and had blue skies for the sunset. More due in next Friday.

Exciting news, Ted!

If it's that hot and muggy in January, Drew, what happens there in the summer?

Finished up on the transmission spline lube yesterday, and somewhere along the way a new starter found its way onto the bike, too. Brake flush today, maybe a test ride if I feel really ambitious.

Need to get someone out to check on the deep well pump. It stopped working over the weekend.

Wonder what happens when you don't have receipts for personal property losses with actual cash value insurance? Guess I'll find out.

Found a 2019 Sprinter for sale at a Los Angeles area Mecedes-Benz dealer with only 10 miles on it, listed at about MSRP. There seemed to be several from that year and mileage in the area. Found out it had about 40 NHTSA recalls on it, one of them still open. Turns out '19 was a change over year, with two new engines and lots of other "improvements". Many vans sat for months in dealer parking lots waiting for replacements for recalled parts. Some of the problems involved the lane departure system automagically driving the van OUT of the lane, almost causing an accident. Four years sitting in the hot California sun can't have done it any good, either. Uh, think I'll pass on that deal.

Hope everyone's week gets off to a great start!

 

[check]

Good morning all. Only 5° here, going up to 12 today. There’s going to be a number of much colder nights for the next little while, culminating in -22° Friday night! We’ll have to put the paw covers on when I walk the dog. He certainly doesn’t like them, but he reluctantly tolerates it when I put them on. I just have to catch him and put the leash on before he sees the paw covers! Otherwise it’s a big chase throughout the living room and dining room with him barking and jumping up on the couch and everything - he creates quite a scene!

Spent a good amount of time on the tractor yesterday blowing out our driveway and parking area, plus the 500 foot driveway and parking area over at the rental property. The snowblower performed magnificently, even though the snow was quite deep at times. (It is a rear mounted blower on a Kubota BX 25.)

Discovered something interesting by accident. I can smooth out all the ruts and little bits of what not after blowing by simply lowering the blower to the ground and driving forward!

Dog started crying in the middle of the night, at 2 o’clock in the morning, so I had to take him out to pee. That was strange because I just walked him for a nice pee and a dump about three hours earlier. Good thing that was the only thing he needed to do, because it was way too cold to take him up the road for another dump. I was worried he may have some kind of problem because the little rat got into the brand new unopened bag of dog food while I was out blowing snow. Don’t know how much he ate, but I only gave him a tiny bit of food for supper. Just in case. now I have to hide the bag from both him and the mice!

Speaking of mice, I put out traps in the kitchen, but I only got one mouse. Will try putting some more in the basement tonight to see if there are any more. It would certainly be nice if it was just the one!

Have a nice day everyone!

 

[Looking4new]

You know check, if you had a cat that you only fed once a day you probably wouldn't have any mice.

 

[check]

You know check, if you had a cat that you only fed once a day you probably wouldn't have any mice.

Yes, and it would be fun (I like cats), and I am sure Jasper would enjoy it. Only problem is, I am very allergic to cats. Too bad, because I used to have them many many years ago!

 

[riptides]

...
Wonder what happens when you don't have receipts for personal property losses with actual cash value insurance? Guess I'll find out.
....

We had photo evidence and bounced all items up against various google provided links for replacement values.

 

[sodamo]

65°F another .26 inches rain and raining

Off to Hilo airport 1st thing, dropping off Pedro. He’s returning to mainland, house having passed final, but doesn’t expect to return for a year. As a result, I also become the new owner of his 2022 Subaru Crosstrek.

Weather will determine what I do upon return, either laundry room remodel Orr wire PV panels.

Zoom Happy Hour this afternoon

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Good morning to all! Low of 20°, going up to 46°. Sunny, no precip. Last week, we had a storm system supposed to be here tomorrow/Wednesday. Now not showing any chances of precip..... apparently it's skipping right over us and dumping snow in Texas --- just not right.....

Need to take the wifey on a few errands today. Maybe get to finish the welding this afternoon.

Rip, is the chimney masonry? If it is, there would be a supporting 'shelf' in the attic holding it up. A bit more complicated to remove, but doable. Wood will be simple.

RS, I feel your pain.... hard to have tools spread around.

Drew, hope you enjoyed the sunrise over the water this morning.

Everyone have a great day!

 

[IXLR8]

Good morning all,
It was 45F with rain and fog when I got up this morning. Forecast is for a high of 50 with clearing skies by late afternoon. Rain due back in tomorrow.

Concrete truck showed up at 8:30 this morning and he just left. It took that long to fill all the pole holes with concrete. They moved it all with wheelbarrows and it took a while.

More internet parts due in tomorrow, as well as more harness parts so I think today will be another energy conservation day.

FedEx has been delivering my packages to my garage, which is far enough away from my house that you can't see one from the other. Called FedEx for them to put a note on delivery instructions to put packages at the house not the garage. I also put a note on the garage to not leave packages there but to deliver them to the house. We shall see what happens.

Have a good day all, let's be safe out there.

 

[pennwalk]

"If it's that hot and muggy in January, Drew, what happens there in the summer?"

I have been wondering what conditions make a place uninhabitable? Are there places where people can't live?

Chris

 

[RedNeckGeek]

We had photo evidence and bounced all items up against various google provided links for replacement values.

Finding replacement values was fairly straight forward. Determining the age of things that were already on the house when I purchased it is impossible. And I don't tend to keep receipts for small value items like light fixtures, hose hangers, or BBQ covers.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

KY is catching the TX winter weather moving to northeast. Will need to check on our new baby mule.

 

[sodamo]

I hear ya brother.



My problem is I don't have a place where a lot of them "should" be ...

Stuff gets scattered all over ... mostly in four different places:

1. Shop

2. Garage

3. Basement

4. Barn



Glad you found some motivation ...

And congrats !

Unfortunately, I can relate.

 

[Thomas]

34F cloudy mid 20's over night,snow showers arriving around 4pm for 3 hours.

Busy at work today whew and I'm pretty darn sure feet up tonight.

Enjoy your evening all.

 

[Popgadget]

Good Afternoon
It’s 50, which will likely be the high for today under sunny skies.
Snow in the forecast for next 3 days, not sure how much, or if it’s just flurries.

Today has been alternating between keeping Zoe occupied and cleaning up in the shop. Wife had a doctor appt this morning and PT this afternoon.
Still finding WI-FI devices that were connected up old WI-FI, it’s amazing how many things were connected. I still have the old network online, so it’s not an issue, but I do plan to decommission it at some point.

Zoe and I are waiting for my wife to get back so I can get back to the shop. Also waiting for staples to deliver a filing cabinet. She is more patient than I.

 

[m7040]

Today is very nice weather. 55 and sunny
Worked on greasing the excavator. The cordless grease gun earned its keep.

Excavated out an area to use as fill dirt for the pad for firewood

 

[txdon]

Just got the "official word" from the "Farm" today. Winter vacation is over in 30 days.
Spring events are coming up back to back so I'll have to jump on the tractor and pull those happy people around.

*Baby Animal Festival [March]
*Easter Festival [March-April]
*Flower and Food Fest [April-May]

No snow yet but the mailbox has a coat of Ice on it and FireWise has been canceled for tomorrow. The schools in town are closed tomorrow.

 

[sodamo]

Still searching for my motivation after such an early start this morning.

Here is my “new” Crosstrek

Will ship to our son in March, likely have for his birthday.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Paul, Zoe is sure getting bigger by the day! What will she top out at?

David, that Crosstrek sure was a great find.... how much to ship from the island? Does your son know yet?

 

[Popgadget]

Paul, Zoe is sure getting bigger by the day! What will she top out at?

Around 140lbs.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Nice day today. Started out overcast and chilly, but sun finally came out and it warmed up. Unlike Saturday morning where 12° is predicted. No snow in the forecast.

Bought 10 ft step ladder at Lowe’s. Perfect fit for the church attic. Pushed 3 Ethernet cable’s up thru hole in sound room ceiling, got 2 to their locations. Drilled hole in soffit of porch/entryway. Walked on trusses in attic to get cable down the hole. To get to it from the access, I have to go over a duct, walk on truss , go under another duct while on trusses, get over some bracing, and walk the truss over the porch ceiling. Piece of cake. The 2nd one was close to the attic access, but straddled a duct there. For it I made hole in drywall (above drop ceiling) and ran a fiberglass chimney rod up. In attic tape Ethernet cable and feed back down thru the hole. Got a camera mounted and working on that one.
I got the new box for the porch camera later today, so just got the camera all mounted. Will install it tomorrow. Simple plug in the Ethernet cable, screw backplate to the wall and attach. Because of nothing to attach to on the soffit, Mount goes against the wall, and a short section of Ethernet cable is open against the box. I should drill a new cable access hole on top of the box, to hide and protect the cable. But it is about 11 ft above the ground, so not easy for someone to take out the cable. If they do, next camera at the door would catch it all.
The 3rd cable is up in attic, but a longer trek across the trusses to where it goes. I left that for another day.
The camera going up tomorrow will get all vehicles coming into our lot. A 4K camera.
The 3rd camera will look opposite direction at the parking lot.
We have people parking behind the building and drinking, some have done donuts in the yard. The door camera sees the vehicles but not getting as good a view.
When we got to the building, loud noise on the PA system. Still not sure what, but think it’s the mixer causing it. Unplugging all mics still has the noise. Noise is also passed to the PC audio input from mixer. Didn’t think to check the headphone monitor on the mixer.

Got the new 4K projector today, will play with it soon.