Good morning!!!!

[two_bit_score]

At least your postman isn't stealing anything that can be easily fenced. We turned in a complaint online back just after Christmas on a stolen card worth $200. Still haven't heard a word from the post office. We have rec'd envelopes torn open (looking for cash), packages torn open looking for easily sold goods. I believe it's local...or possibly in the Austin unit that handles our mail prior to it getting here.

I think it’s one of those situations where 10% are doing 90% of the work and then another 10% are the bad apples causing trouble, stealing, etc.

Several, several years ago I had a major problem in a branch at the Austin PO which required the involvement of Postal Inspectors to resolve. I did get a good glimpse into the problems management was having with some individuals, who were employed solely because of preferential treatment and were quick to manipulate the system.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 45ºF for the start, .5 inch in rain gauge, raining. light breeze. light wind, rain heavy at times, and high temp was 51ºF. Men's meeting to start day, trip to town to get VFD bottles filled, lunch and groceries. Nap when got home, Stepdaughter joined us for dinner.
Buppies hope not too cold, prayers sent.
Ron hope hot tub removal was smooth and no issues. Thanks for link to article. neat pic.
Spike hope your guy's trucker gets his act together. Neat pic of F-35.
Drew hope neck is doing better today.
Kilroy hope you were able to get more wire up. Good luck fixing coffee machine. Hope shift fork replaced and cabbages do well for you.
Billy glad wife was able to do so well reconstructing grocery list. Sorry about the cool down.
Mike sorry you lost power glad you had generator to take up some of the slack. Hope you got more firewood ready.
NHBX hope hunt for new furniture goes well.
RNG hope you find drier weather. The magazine sure got mis-delivered.
Frits sorry turning off WiFi didn't help with dropped calls.
Ken glad you are feeling better. Nice buck
Bill hope start up meetings go well.
Phil impressive collection on mantle.
Frits hope you got somewhere with ATT.
Don that pic reminded my of the drives to Kerrville for the Easter Hill Country ride.
Gstrom what happens to the wood, doe the river get high enough for it to float over dam?
Drew the video is a hoot.
Ted glad less wind, sorry no precip. Glad your Costco trip went well. Nice you got more irrigation supplies. Hope you got last zone repaired and watered.
David hope you made progress on painting and maybe mowing.
Dennis nice pics and sorry about the kitties misbehaving.
Straight how late do you normally get snow? mice pic
Drew hope battery maintenance went well.
Paul that is one busy airport diagram. Happy birthday to Mrs popgadget. Glad you were able to do something for her birthday.
James I would settle for the back seat in an F-4
Kyle cute.
Thomas glad short work day. sorry about boo boo during snow blow.
Drew hope dinner was good.
RS sorry about the hole omission in the wonderboard. Twice? Sorry road blocks on wood bench drawers. Router table drawers look good.Hope progress continues today.
Randy(wag) glad you found rattle. Glad yu can recycle the coop roof. Sorry about tree.
Kyle I thought MIC Alley had MIG 15s . Checl laptop for missing rubber feet and vents are clear when in use. Both my Toshiba and works Dell fans are very quiet, wife's dell you can hear if HVAC not running. Check battery to see if that is what is hot.
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 /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, Frits /veteran son with mental issues, /granddaughter with Evans Syndrome, Ken /dad possible dementia, Steppenwolfe /son-auto immune disorder, Grev /wife's eye, Ted /knee recovery, /retirement & disability red tape, /family issues, Lou /eye issues, /loss of brother, /heart issues, Doug and wife/health issues, / hand nerve and surgery, /fall and recovery, / wife headaches and heart eval, / David(sadamo)/Sophie's and David's new eye surgery recovery, Chris /neighbor's granddaughter and Covid issues, Scaredy/shoulder dislocation, /marriage dissolving, / friend stop drinking, Paul/ wife's healing from back surgery, Dennis /retirement, /neighbor issues, /land development, / brother "alligallyitus" and back in hospital, Drew /foot heel issues, /friend's wife cancer diagnosis and recovery, mike /wife's healing from surgery, Scotty /back pain, Helogabals /second opinion, /wife's friend situation, Fatjay /father broken hip, Ukraine war, and Country.

 

[Looking4new]

Kyle, I have one of these for my hot running Toshiba laptop.https://www.coolermaster.com/catalog/coolers/notebook-cooler/notepal-u2-plus-v2/

 

[Wagtail]

Randy(wag) glad you found rattle. Glad you can recycle the coop roof. Sorry about tree.

Yeah, there's not a lot anyone can do about that. I noticed that this particular tree was dying about 6 months ago... oh well, that's nature, eh?

A 5th of it is still alive but it's only a matter of time. At least I can plan for its takedown. These blackwoods are a unique type of tree. Sometimes, as in this case, there're several 'trunks' growing out of what would look like the common.

 

[Buppies]

Happy Birthday to Mrs PopG

33 high in 50s today rain snow Friday Sunday high in 30s

Prayers for all silent or spoken our Country

 

[Buppies]

Moon is still bright tonight

 

[sodamo]

Moon is still bright tonight

Yup

 

[Looking4new]

Yeah, there's not a lot anyone can do about that. I noticed that this particular tree was dying about 6 months ago... oh well, that's nature, eh?

A 5th of it is still alive but it's only a matter of time. At least I can plan for its takedown. These blackwoods are a unique type of tree. Sometimes, as in this case, there're several 'trunks' growing out of what would look like the common.

Have you thought of making pipe chanters out of them?

 

[KilroyJC]

At least your postman isn't stealing anything that can be easily fenced. We turned in a complaint online back just after Christmas on a stolen card worth $200. Still haven't heard a word from the post office. We have rec'd envelopes torn open (looking for cash), packages torn open looking for easily sold goods. I believe it's local...or possibly in the Austin unit that handles our mail prior to it getting here.


Korean war term. You get the blue star!

Work, work, work, makes the day fly by. I need 48 hours in a day. I worry about what slips thru the cracks, not getting done.

Son's 2nd track meet tomorrow, daughter's tennis game tomorrow, would like to see both, can't be in 2 places at once. My boss said take off, and don't even consider reconciling with vacation.

Refurbished laptop sitrep: I upgraded it to Win11. It took a while. Then plenty of Win updates also installed. Next, Dell's website recommended I install an app that keeps it updated as far as Bios and drivers are concerned. That took a while. We only have about 14mg down internet. My son was complaining about it getting too warm. I need to make sure the fan is coming on when the temp is high. I can't actually feel it humming or hear it. But haven't checked now after all the updates. It was built in 2019.

Had to struggle with mom’s new laptop we got week before last, it wouldn’t let me install Brave or Thunderbird… until I found it had something called “S-Mode”. (I am a member of another website that is considerably more ”free-wheeling” than this one and can use the particular language that truly applies over there instead of here - use your imagination…) The Nice People at Morosoft really want to ensure they have access to all your data.. .

I converted my laptop to Linux (ubuntu) two years ago, and I am quite happy that I did.

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, the low is 19 and going to a high of 28°F. Wind N 11 gusting to 30 mph. 30% chance of flurries.

Went to bed last night at ten and was wide awake at 01:00 hrs. I think I will go back to bed for a power nap, now.

Have a safe day all

 

[KilroyJC]

I did get a good glimpse into the problems management was having with some individuals, who were employed solely because of preferential treatment and were quick to manipulate the system.

Those @#$& military veterans and their preferences are nothing but trouble!!!



(/sarc)

 

[KilroyJC]

Good Morning!

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

currently 42F, going to low 60’s, possible precip later, though if pattern holds most (if not all) will pass south of us.

Up too early, about 45 minutes ago woke up with today’s ear worm: The Beatles’ Heavy, but it is the instrumental version by Booker T and the MGs. I have a wild jukebox in my head. . .

We got the other two strands of barbed wire up, and neither of us drew blood, so that was pretty cool. There are a couple spots that need some additional short pieces due to terrain, and I have to do a short 90° leg about 30’ long, and then the withies need to be inserted. I also need to do some bracing at the corner post to keep everything tight.

got an ISS pass notification but it will be too low -but in about 80 minutes the next pass should be decent, based on the current position (It just passed over Montauk heading SE-ish) As long as no clouds decide to move in. .
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I saw my first carpenter bee out yesterday - time to mix up a fresh batch of juice and start spraying the house again. Yay.

I hope everyone has a healthy happy safe blessed day!

 

[ronjhall]

Coffee is brewing. 27° with partly cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 41° with mostly cloudy skies. Did not remove hot tub. Neighbor had something else that needed to be done. I decided to clean out my old rolltop desk. That took most of the morning. In afternoon got neighbors tractor out with pallet forks and moved desk to garage. It is heavy. Looked on FB marketplace to see what it is may be worth. Not much. Lots of rolltop desk selling for $100 to $200 with no buyers. May just donate. Grocery shopping this morning. Then cleanup front porch where desk sat for over 30 years.

Everyone stay well and safe.

Good Morning All.

 

[riptides]

34 outside this AM. Heading to upper 50's. No rain expected, but another storm front is closing in.

Managed to recover a few nice loads of firewood from the back 40 yesterday. Used up a chain in the process. Used up the back too. Did not managed to get it any of it split. Need to do that today. Most all trees were all leaners so the wood is fireplace ready. A particular area back there lost a lot of trees a while back. Downburst of wind must have got them as they all went in the same direction. Either that or an alien mothership attempted a landing.



Hope all have a great day. Be safe, stay or get healthy.

 

[daugen]

Have you thought of making pipe chanters out of them?

had to look that up...

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good morning all
30 going up to about 50 today in sun, nice day, rain coming back tomorrow.

Riptides, nothing better than a nice leaner. That firewood should smell really nice when you burn it. Cedar?

 

[riptides]

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Riptides, nothing better than a nice leaner. That firewood should smell really nice when you burn it. Cedar?

One nice cedar, two oak pieces...tree is too big, need to take splitter down to it, and a lot of poplar. A good mix to get fires going before the last of the walnut and oak get thrown in.

Still have one poplar hanging on trail, going out in a few to see if the back can handle it. Muscles are not cooperating on one side.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Happy B'day to Popgadget's wifey.

Prayers for our team, our country, and for Ukraine.

Beautiful pics!

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 57˚F but the cool front has fizzled and the winds have shifted back from the South. It will be in the 80s today.

Working in rock garden replacing 2 dead hedges with 12 new ones and 2 raised beds. Hand PHD and pry bar are slow work. Need a trip to HD for yard fertilizer and good soil for the raised beds.

 

[Spike56]

Good morning! 57˚F but the cool front has fizzled and the winds have shifted back from the South. It will be in the 80s today.

Working in rock garden replacing 2 dead hedges with 12 new ones and 2 raised beds. Hand PHD and pry bar are slow work. Need a trip to HD for yard fertilizer and good soil for the raised beds.

What type of hedges are you planting?

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning
Bright and chilly out this morning.

Yesterday went by in a hurry. Did manage to get finish on two out of three speaker cabinets, as well as assemble two crossovers, one of the cabs doesn’t use a crossover, it runs the drivers full range.

The big project of the day was the drainage. I had some hired help, which made it go much faster than I expected, it was too wet to use a machine so it was all hand work, we removed a 12” steel pipe and installed a twenty foot 12” diameter PVC pipe. Corrugated exterior, smooth inside. This swale takes water through a concrete pipe under the driveway and gets it to the pond, the new pipe crosses a lane used primarily for equipment and pedestrian traffic. Once it dries up a bit, I’ll have to get a couple of buckets full of dirt to finish covering and grading, then seed it. But I had to take advantage of the help while it was too wet for much else.

Lunch break, pizza from one of the ovens I maintain, they wanted chicken, bacon and ranch dressing on it. Didn’t appeal to me, but they loved it.

Last chore of the day was the heat pump in the shop. It was iced up again, the defrost control coil temp sensor was reading about 60 degrees high, so it would call for defrost. When I looked at it last week, I assumed that my choice of programming was too aggressive, and that’s why it iced up. I looked into it a bit deeper this time and found the actual problem. I’ll get the parts today and get it taken care of. In the meantime, it’s on propane heat downstairs, and the new mini split upstairs, which contributes greatly to the downstairs heat as well.

Back in the shop today, working on the speakers until I get the parts for the heat pump.