Good morning!!!!

[ronjhall]

My third function upgrade on new to me tractor is fairly easy. Kubota provides outlet ports front and rear of B27-2910 tractors. All I need to do is mount valve to tractor fender. May do that today.

 

[KilroyJC]

Good Morning!

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

53.3F going not much more, rain allegedly ending soon.

We did a really good job of keeping the sofas from wandering off into traffic yesterday, I did make two frittatas which I am cubing and freezing for easy meal/snack once we start working with the tax stuff next week, which also means my posting here may become a bit erratic for a while. . . As in timing, not content

I also won my ePrey auction, out-sniped another sniper and still paid considerably less than my max bid. I pirchased a Horton Vision 75 crossbow when they first came out. It was the first “reverse draw” crossbow on the market, and with my dislocated shoulder issues it was a game-changer for bow hunting for me. But since it was so new, few accessories were immediately available, primarily a crank-còcker and a case, and they were always either back ordered or sold out. This auction had the crank, case, NIP spare limbs, standard pull-cocker, and a complete crossbow ready-to-go, for the price of the crank and case new 20 years ago, if it was even obtainable (which it was not for me). So that was a good win!

About a dozen years after that, Horton sold out to a competitor, which also means no parts are readily available, so that second crossbow is a complete spares package for me

Mom has to go for Prolia shot today, so a little admin running around this morning, and I may try a sunset hunt today as I don’t think I will have time to do any sunrise hunting before the season runs out. It should be a muddy mess, but the deer will have been bedded down for two days with the rainy weather, plus with the wet leaves my lumbering fat-@$$ won’t make as much noise wandering in the woods…

I hope everyone has a happy healthy safe blessed day!

 

[Helogabals]

Helo, your snow may be frustrating, but it's pretty. I have a question for you...I read recently about the % of households that own stock...that is, equity shares of publicly traded companies...Estonia was number 1 in the world, with Lithuania and Latvia in the top 6. Does your country have a financial or cultural tendency to be savers and investors? Finland and Denmark were also in the top 8. I think this is very wise.

Frankly - I am surprised about that fact

I would like to look on that from several POV

* personal. I am not stock owner. Never have been. I have my my own company, recently invested heavily in new office building.
+ have 5 kids, you can imagine spendings for them.
OK, my family, we are not poor even by USA standards, but also don't have that much free cash to think about where to invest it.
I am proud that I don't have any loans. Once I will recover from this construction affair I will thing about some stocks.
Wife have not bad salary, but looking on her responsibilities I would say - not that big. Still - good enough to live decent life. She always have been more keen to invest in real estate. Now looking from perspective have to admit that was not a mistake. We are owners of our own house and apartment in Riga. Rather worthy assets. And as I wrote - credits are paid.

* historical. I am not yet 50. But me myself already have seen:
- sovjet rubles (at end of their regime there was "reform" - comunists just re-printed 100 rub note and almost overnight everybody had to exchange their savings to new notes. If person had more than 10 notes (1000 rub), milicija have asked tough questions).
- Then was Latvian rubles. 1991 + few years.
- Then was Latvian Lats.
- Now since 2014 we have EUR.
Now people believe in EUR, but tradition to not to keep cash at home / account is very much live

* statistical. Per capita.
I like it when people of Iceland say they have most Noble prize owners. Per capita. One. But as entire population of Iceland is 300k, this is very true ...
Latvia is less than 2.000.000. Estonia is even smaller - 1.500.000 something souls.
What I want to say - for us it's rather easy to reach high figures "per capita".
Baltics are not match to very rich Scandinavian countries which are the wealthiest countries in the world. But we are not that bad either. + Nord EU have rather good wealth distribution. For example living in gated community here is considered bad style.
And our figures are very transparent. People here can't hide their assets without risking to loose them.

* general, public sentiment.
politicians, opinion leaders are promoting investment in JSC. It's rather easy to do, banks are open for this affairs.
Baltics are small and open economics. We have had the same issues you had - inflation, overheating of economy etc. And with that recent bull run of inflation investment in stocks is one of safest moves. IMHO

 

[Popgadget]

May I recommend Michelbob’s Ribs right across Airport-Pulling Road tomorrow? Absolutely fantastic baby back ribs! One of the places I miss going to since leaving Naples…

We have been there often, and the food is good, but we’re dropping off people and plan to get refueled and leave as quick as possible so I might get something done at home. If the fuelers are backed up, we’ll likely walk over.

 

[Buppies]

49 this event 2.56 in of rain in 2009 this was snow. Temperature not paying attention

Ron wish I could give you a good forecast but none to be had snow always 7 to 10 days out never happens

Interesting facts Helo

All who are sick recover PJ Kyle wngsprd wife

Prayers for all our Country

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning
43° and raining, probably go up a few degrees as the rain continues throughout the day.

Yesterday was consumed entirely with the Palm Beach trip, started with a 2 hour delay due to the volume of traffic going to Florida. We got rerouted along the way due the traffic, took us inland instead of over the water. Longer route and more head wind as well. Ride home was better from the delay standpoint, but we were capped at 37,000 feet instead of the 45,000 that we filed for, and would have been above all the clouds and with more favorable winds, and a better ride. But we got where we wanted to go regardless.

Today’s trip to Naples looks like a likely repeat, except this time I filed for a departure time an hour before my planned departure, hopefully that will absorb a lot of the anticipated delay if I guessed right. But I have no hopes of accomplishing anything else for the day.
On the bright side, if we are delayed in Naples, we will go get some BBQ!

 

[daugen]

if that was all snow Buppies you would really be socked in.
And I'd sure find out how my snowblower works
actually with rv and car hogging up the driveway, not much to clear...

light rain here, lot more coming
sounds like an energy conservation day

 

[masseyrider]

Heavy fog for the last few days. 45 today and rain. Don't know the quantity but steady.
Even the ducks are asking for a little sun.

 

[KilroyJC]

We have been there often, and the food is good, but we’re dropping off people and plan to get refueled and leave as quick as possible so I might get something done at home. If the fuelers are backed up, we’ll likely walk over.

Safe travels and a quick turnaround!

 

[Popgadget]

Safe travels and a quick turnaround!

I just checked, we have a proposed departure slot at 13:47, almost four hours later than I filed!
I don’t think there are delays going to FT Meyers, if that’s the case, we might take them there and let them rent a car and drive to Naples, as that will save them at least 3 hours. We will see.