Good morning!!!!

[Looking4new]

I've done absolutely nothing all day today EXCEPT for listening to 50s music on Sirius-XM and watch youtube.

Tomorrow is the month end (sorta) shopping trip to North Bay and a free lunch (ribs with sweet potato fries and cole slaw).
Only 8 stops including lunch. Leave here at about 8:15 A.M. and get back around 1 or 2 P.M.

Luckily the tractor takes the same 12" wiper blades that the Jeep took. I have a couple of spares for the tractor now that the Jeep is gone. Need to change the front one sooner or later this winter. New to the tractor on the front and the front one to the back. Go ahead, call me cheap.

 

[sodamo]

BX fuel tank flushed, cleaned, access plate installed. Just hope that fixes the problem.

 

[Popgadget]

thank you for reminder on hose reel, shame to wreck an Eley

Yes, thanks for the reminder. Just pulled it out of the shed and into the heated shop to blow it out.

Fortunately it was not frozen. But it was going to be soon.

 

[txdon]

Good evening! 43˚F now after sunset and staying in the 40s all night.
Late PT today, worked on balance. The final clean-up activities at the estate house and this week a meeting with the accountant rearranged my weekly PT schedule but still getting 3 days in. Hopefully this will be the last of the clean-up and my activities at the house will be finished and my cousins can move in and take over. However there goes my Home for the Holidays, sad but relieved. Emotions all over the place.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Needed a manifold, so I just made one.

Has 3 different types of ports, on 5 out of 6 sides.

 

[Buppies]

Impressive Kyle

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 31ºF for the start, partly cloudy, light breeze. Light wind, partly cloudy sky and high temp was 61ºF. Trip back home started 8:30 HI time, arrived 7AM this morning CST. Did get some sleep on plane. Puttered this morning with unpacking, weather station time and temp issues, unpacking etc. Did get short nap in, and bike ride. Remembered to take food out of freezer for dinner, Got some leaf control done. Need to get death certificates tomorrow, mowing and leaf control. Was going to do outside lights on Thursday but rain likely will nix that.
Ron Ron sounds like winter storm. Hope seat time good. nice pic
Drew hope drive hope went well. Sorry about the mice, does not take muck of a hole, which is why the blood thinners work so well on them. Mice will stay for shelter.
Thomas sorry about sloppy snow. Hope time at parts store goes fast. Hope snow control goes well.
Don hope you get house cleared out in time.
Scaredy sorry about sleep schedule issues, I have he too due to travel. Sorry about your hands tied, this too will pass.
Billy hope you were productive today.
Ron glad traps working, hope you find where they are getting in.
Frits hope wife medical appointment went well. Nice lioness.
Mike good luck finding new tile guy. Hope you get plenty of wood for winter
Kyle Glad mom is home. Glad you got to have fire.
Kilroy good to hear more wood for wood heat. Sorry you missed parade, hope sauna made up for it.
Bill sorry vplow not right yet, good luck with next round. Hope you had good seat time.
Masseyrider sorry about wind in your ears. I have Cat Ears for when bike riding to keep wind noise down.
Drew good to hear all the marbles there. If you change post count per page you can reduce number of pages unread. Type away.
Scott(vt) Hope pickup got washed. Have fun decorating fir Christmas. Nice pic.
Paul glad no problems other than headwind, and Philly stayed at minimums. Nice reward.
Ken hope day job going well. Good luck with mice.
Lou hope you got something else done and you get ready for winter on time.
Helo glad van did not get stuck. Sorry about argument between wife and mother. Not good situation. Sorry about no rest and runny nose.
Dennis sorry to hear son having girlfriend problems. Glad no on scratched during tick removal.
Frits glad you are happy with service guy.
David nice to hear easy day. Sorry about issue with parts for primary and no logon with secondary system.
Dennis glad Snagglepuss catching mice.
Drew hope leaf control was successful.
Frits nice hippo pic.
Ken glad hippo didn't get you.
Drew sorry about mouse in toilette.
RS I think interior cylinder needs clearance. Hope gas line continues to progress.
Scott(vt) good luck with pu tire rotation.
David sorry to hear about friend. My condolences on his passing and to his family. Sorry about parts for solar system on order.
David hope you get 6th chair, and customer service gets something usefulr done.
Randy(wag) glad Penelope hunting successfully. Hope hay delivery and storage went well.
Thomas glad Mrs do good job with driveway. Hope evening plans went as planned.
Buppies sorry no black rock tomorrow.
Kyle hope manifold went well, You do seem to have the touch. Hope you get another good hire.
Bill glad plowing went well and someone paid.
Dennis have made my share of 600 mile trips solo, and with wife Prefer the later.
Ron glad Christmas tree is up. nice moon pic
Bill enjoy your furies. Sorry about song.
Kilroy sorry about alloy unremovable rims.
Kilroy hope you can find better compromise. Interesting sleep position.
Helo glad you finally got plow back on.
Drew hope you can get toilette fixed. Hope no freezing water issues in RV. Congrats on weight loss.
Mike hope splitting and wood moving went well.
Thomas hope day at parts store went well.
Dennis loooonngg trip.
Billy nice lake pic.
Dennis sorry about leg cramp and headache, not conducive to getting much done.
Helo you have to practice Thanks for tire explanation.
Buppies sorry no energy yesterday.
Scott(t) hope tire rotation better today.
Mike good luck with moon pic taking.
Kilroy bald at 8K no wonder discontinued.
Frits hope infusion went well. Thanks for pic.
Drew sorry heater did not work hope no damage.
RNG glad turkey and dinner turned out well. Hope you can work out kinks on ebike. Hope you can catch waterfall with more flow.
Catch up tomorrow
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle /Daughter, /mom's breathing, /friends upcoming new baby, /son's migraines, Bird /aging issues, Ron /heart, Billy /mom hypertension & congestive heart failure, David(moss) /remodel, /divorce, Buppies /cancer, parathyroid,blood sugar /wife healing, Thomas /gout, Phil /reflux, Frits /veteran son with mental issues, /granddaughter with Evans Syndrome, Ken /dad possible dementia, /chronic fatigue, Diet not working, Steppenwolfe /son-auto immune disorder, Mark /sister liver transplant and recovery, Grev /wife's eye, Ted /knee recovery, /retirement & disability red tape, /family issues, Lou /eye issues, /heart issues, /wife hip replacement, Doug and wife/health issues, / hand nerve and surgery, /fall and recovery, / wife headaches and heart eval, / David(sadamo)/Sophie's hip or leg pain, Scaredy/shoulder dislocation, /marriage dissolving, / friend stop drinking, Dennis /retirement, /neighbor issues, /land development, /favorable winds not in the forecast there, Drew /back operation issues, /friend's wife cancer diagnosis and recovery, Scotty /back pain, Helogabals /wife's friend situation, Fatjay /father broken hip, ******, Ukraine war, and Country.

 

[Helogabals]

On my quick connects (Pioneer Ag type) I can usually just place the male connector against a piece of steel and shove the teat in to release a bit of oil and then get the connector to work. It does dribble just a bit of oil.

That was first thing I have tried
Couldn't. Should eat more meat, less chocolate

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Nice morning, -5 C / 23 F
Forecast has promised additional snow for tonight

Head is a little dizzy and the nose is running. It's my "standard" as I get cold. Sometimes even have a little blood from noose. This time too.
My FIL passed from cancer, like 3 years back. He was heavy smoker and for him first symptom was blood running from nose. My poor wife when she sees that my napkin is red ... After a while she realizes that it nothing, just cold, but that first horror in her eyes ...
Really sorry for her

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And I still would like to throw some drops of oil in y-day's discussion about language.
I like communicating with different people, sharing knowledge, diversity is great. As far we are +/- on the same page. OK, I have nothing to talk about with some future boy from big city

I am always fighting with my kids about correct use of our language, I like to use it in a neat, clear way, straightforward. Formulate your thoughts and express them clearly, that's is what I teach to kids and try to do myself as good as I can. Crippling language is great sin in my eyes.
And then comes tough part.
I know for myself, how easy is to make mistakes to translate to foreign language.
For instance "house" and "home" for us is the same word. And our people very often mix them. The same is with "weather" and "time"
I dont have great imagination, I am talking only about things I see. For instance word "plow" we use only in agricultural meaning. We "push" or "clean" snow. Which is kinda funny, because we should say that we are cleaning streets from snow, but we are "cleaning snow"


You gentlemen are by far most polite, inclusive, supporting internet gang I have seen in my life. Probably you are thinking that grammar **** is a kind of abuse. Make no mistake - it is. But not in my case

Have a nice and productive day !

 

[ronjhall]

Coffee is done brewing. 15° with clear skies this morning. Heading to 35° with partly cloudy skies. Yesterdays sun melt some of the snow. Even though it never got above freezing. Did a little puttering in shop. Never have been able to do a full conserve energy day without doing something. Take Sassy for grooming today. Will do some Christmas shopping while out. Dirt road I live on will to turn into a mud bath when it get above freezing. Hope to get home before that happens.
Blue Jay colors come out with snow on the ground.

Everyone stay safe and well.

Good Morning All.

 

[mpham]

Morning all! 24 going to 33 and sunny today. Have to take the wife to the airport today as she is going with the nephew to Florida for 6 days on a school band trip. I will hold down the fort till her return. Looks like lots of time in the shop for me.
5 day shows cold and rain/snow for here. Will take it as it comes.
Speaking of mice! I got one in my electronic trap out in the unattached garage. Will set more traps up to see what happens.
The snow we got melted so I was able to grab a rake and remove quite a bit of leaves from the normal blown in sections! This should help me out for spring clean up.
Have been playing more with ink and paint in the shop. Did a couple of projects I will attach. MRI on my neck finally will happen later this evening. Hopefully can get some relief soon!
Nothing else planned for a while. Just keeping it low and slow.
Hope everyone stays safe and healthy!
Ash dish about 9 1/2 diameter. This will be donated to our local museum for a raffle.
Christmas lights turned from maple with parachord used for wire.

 

[Looking4new]

Helo, in reality in order to speak 'proper' english I should be spelling 'plow' as plough and I should be also saying that I will clear the snow. My manner of speech is fast becoming Americanized, but I still don't speak y'all, thankfully.

 

[ronjhall]

Helo, in reality in order to speak 'proper' english I should be spelling 'plow' as plough and I should be also saying that I will clear the snow. My manner of speech is fast becoming Americanized, but I still don't speak y'all, thankfully.

I spent so much time in Canada work with my job and fishing. People would ask where I was from. I would tell them I was from North West of Detroit, MI, EH!

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, the low is 15 and the high to 32°F. Wind ESE 8 mph. Forecast is for a couple of inches of fluffy white s***. Snowing now, but only 1/2" on the ground.
In northern Ontario, where there are lots of Frenchmen, some say 'la marde blanc'. I will let you figure out the translation. I don't want to go to I-net jail for the translation.

I turned on the block heater for the Dodge as soon as I got up. About 3.5 hours of heat should be enough for today.

re: snow tires, I make sure mine are on before Halloween. Better safe than sorry.
Back when I had the Jeep Wrangler/TJ I had replaced the stock 27" tall tires with Pro-Comp 30x9.5x15 M & S tires, the "M&S" stood for mud and snow. They did not have the mountain peaks emblem on them, but the insurance company didn't know that. I kept them on year round. They howled a bit on dry roads, but that is what a good stereo is for, just turn it up.

That is about it until I get back from the city.

Have a safe day all

 

[Looking4new]

I spent so much time in Canada work with my job and fishing. People would ask where I was from. I would tell them I was from North West of Detroit, MI, EH!

Do you notice that I don't use eh in typed speech, but I also don't realize that I use it in every day speech.
Spell check is my best friend.
North West of Detroit, MI would put you somewhere around Alma, MI?

 

[daugen]

good morning all
Brrrrrrr, 22 out, winter is truly here
undershirt went on, plus my heavy jeans and LL bean chamois shirt.
ready for the cold.
the one gizmo I wish my car had was remote start. All my trucks had that, not the Volvo.
I only live ten minutes from town and car is barely warm by time I get there.
Thank goodness for heated seats and steering wheel.

dentist appt at 8am, then food shopping, then home to do a lot of wash.
and then a zoom school board meeting tonight.

just before dark last night, went out and carried Eley reel down to basement and squirted
antifreeze into the pressure washer. Better late than never... 22 degrees would have wrecked something.

Bill have a good shopping day and hope you get all you need.
then get home and get warm

took me about a year living in NC to have y'all come into my language.
gone now y'all...

 

[Buppies]

20 this morning high in low 40s today 50s tomorrow rain Friday maybe pond still down at record lows for us kinda sad.

Prayers for all our Country

 

[Buppies]

Y’all is a great word having lived in the South all my life

 

[ronjhall]

Do you notice that I don't use eh in typed speech, but I also don't realize that I use it in every day speech.
Spell check is my best friend.
North West of Detroit, MI would put you somewhere around Alma, MI?

Alma is about 60 miles too far northwest. Try New Hudson.

 

[KilroyJC]

Good Morning!

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

13.8F, allegedly going to touch 50 this afternoon. . . Sunny day forecasted.

firewood got unloaded and stacked, new metal firewood rack on back deck filled, the rest went along the fence line. All the firewood logs at the woodlot have been processed, so it is time to drop another tree or three. Plus, I am out of poplar logs to mill for paneling the cabin shed, so poplars are the target next.

Dog trainer finally got in her long-delayed shipment of E-collars, so she stopped by to drop off ours and take back her loaner.

While waiting for her, I dug out a couple boxes of Christmas decorations and Mrs kept busy with those for a couple hours. We decided that we would not put up a tree this year, due to Harry still being a complete wild child, but everything else is going up, plus a couple extra items to compensate for the lack of tree. I may get creative with a couple strings of lights on the outside of the house, we’ll see what happens…

Today may be some running around town, maybe staying in by the woodstove — it all depends on how Mrs feels when she gets up and pokes her nose out the door - I cannot imagine her being exceptionally enthusiastic about the current thermometer reading…

i hope everyone has a happy healthy safe blessed day!

 

[KilroyJC]

Good evening all. 31ºF for the start, partly cloudy, light breeze. Light wind, partly cloudy sky and high temp was 61ºF. Trip back home started 8:30 HI time, arrived 7AM this morning CST. Did get some sleep on plane. Puttered this morning with unpacking, weather station time and temp issues, unpacking etc. Did get short nap in, and bike ride. Remembered to take food out of freezer for dinner, Got some leaf control done. Need to get death certificates tomorrow, mowing and leaf control. Was going to do outside lights on Thursday but rain likely will nix that.
Ron Ron sounds like winter storm. Hope seat time good. nice pic
Drew hope drive hope went well. Sorry about the mice, does not take muck of a hole, which is why the blood thinners work so well on them. Mice will stay for shelter.
Thomas sorry about sloppy snow. Hope time at parts store goes fast. Hope snow control goes well.
Don hope you get house cleared out in time.
Scaredy sorry about sleep schedule issues, I have he too due to travel. Sorry about your hands tied, this too will pass.
Billy hope you were productive today.
Ron glad traps working, hope you find where they are getting in.
Frits hope wife medical appointment went well. Nice lioness.
Mike good luck finding new tile guy. Hope you get plenty of wood for winter
Kyle Glad mom is home. Glad you got to have fire.
Kilroy good to hear more wood for wood heat. Sorry you missed parade, hope sauna made up for it.
Bill sorry vplow not right yet, good luck with next round. Hope you had good seat time.
Masseyrider sorry about wind in your ears. I have Cat Ears for when bike riding to keep wind noise down.
Drew good to hear all the marbles there. If you change post count per page you can reduce number of pages unread. Type away.
Scott(vt) Hope pickup got washed. Have fun decorating fir Christmas. Nice pic.
Paul glad no problems other than headwind, and Philly stayed at minimums. Nice reward.
Ken hope day job going well. Good luck with mice.
Lou hope you got something else done and you get ready for winter on time.
Helo glad van did not get stuck. Sorry about argument between wife and mother. Not good situation. Sorry about no rest and runny nose.
Dennis sorry to hear son having girlfriend problems. Glad no on scratched during tick removal.
Frits glad you are happy with service guy.
David nice to hear easy day. Sorry about issue with parts for primary and no logon with secondary system.
Dennis glad Snagglepuss catching mice.
Drew hope leaf control was successful.
Frits nice hippo pic.
Ken glad hippo didn't get you.
Drew sorry about mouse in toilette.
RS I think interior cylinder needs clearance. Hope gas line continues to progress.
Scott(vt) good luck with pu tire rotation.
David sorry to hear about friend. My condolences on his passing and to his family. Sorry about parts for solar system on order.
David hope you get 6th chair, and customer service gets something usefulr done.
Randy(wag) glad Penelope hunting successfully. Hope hay delivery and storage went well.
Thomas glad Mrs do good job with driveway. Hope evening plans went as planned.
Buppies sorry no black rock tomorrow.
Kyle hope manifold went well, You do seem to have the touch. Hope you get another good hire.
Bill glad plowing went well and someone paid.
Dennis have made my share of 600 mile trips solo, and with wife Prefer the later.
Ron glad Christmas tree is up. nice moon pic
Bill enjoy your furies. Sorry about song.
Kilroy sorry about alloy unremovable rims.
Kilroy hope you can find better compromise. Interesting sleep position.
Helo glad you finally got plow back on.
Drew hope you can get toilette fixed. Hope no freezing water issues in RV. Congrats on weight loss.
Mike hope splitting and wood moving went well.
Thomas hope day at parts store went well.
Dennis loooonngg trip.
Billy nice lake pic.
Dennis sorry about leg cramp and headache, not conducive to getting much done.
Helo you have to practice Thanks for tire explanation.
Buppies sorry no energy yesterday.
Scott(t) hope tire rotation better today.
Mike good luck with moon pic taking.
Kilroy bald at 8K no wonder discontinued.
Frits hope infusion went well. Thanks for pic.
Drew sorry heater did not work hope no damage.
RNG glad turkey and dinner turned out well. Hope you can work out kinks on ebike. Hope you can catch waterfall with more flow.
Catch up tomorrow
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle /Daughter, /mom's breathing, /friends upcoming new baby, /son's migraines, Bird /aging issues, Ron /heart, Billy /mom hypertension & congestive heart failure, David(moss) /remodel, /divorce, Buppies /cancer, parathyroid,blood sugar /wife healing, Thomas /gout, Phil /reflux, Frits /veteran son with mental issues, /granddaughter with Evans Syndrome, Ken /dad possible dementia, /chronic fatigue, Diet not working, Steppenwolfe /son-auto immune disorder, Mark /sister liver transplant and recovery, Grev /wife's eye, Ted /knee recovery, /retirement & disability red tape, /family issues, Lou /eye issues, /heart issues, /wife hip replacement, Doug and wife/health issues, / hand nerve and surgery, /fall and recovery, / wife headaches and heart eval, / David(sadamo)/Sophie's hip or leg pain, Scaredy/shoulder dislocation, /marriage dissolving, / friend stop drinking, Dennis /retirement, /neighbor issues, /land development, /favorable winds not in the forecast there, Drew /back operation issues, /friend's wife cancer diagnosis and recovery, Scotty /back pain, Helogabals /wife's friend situation, Fatjay /father broken hip, ******, Ukraine war, and Country.

I am not sorry about missing parade — I don’t mind cold, but I cannot take cold and wet!

And those tires being bald at 8000 was primarily because I had waaaaay too much fun driving a land yacht like it was a rally car!