Good morning!!!!

[wngsprd]

33 and foggy, going to 51. Got a little bit of ice early in the storm, but hard rain took care of that.

Decided to hike to the river while it was only light rain, hoping it would turn to snow. Nope, but at least got home before the hard rain. Didn't pass another vehicle on the road or see another hiker...was pretty dead for a Saturday morning.

Kil, all your talk about emeralds made be pull up Emerald Eyes by Bob Welch and take a listen...that led to Hypnotized, and so on.

Don, hope your knee is doing well after your pickleball...looks like springtime out there.

I've got a plumbing repair to do today. Why do I always find a leak, or some appliance break right before company comes?

 

[NHBX]

19° now highs in the mid 20’s with light NE winds picking up to 10-15 mph later this morning. So far looks like about 6” of white stuff on the ground, hardly coming down but it’s supposed to pick up again and continue until early evening.

Nothing planned for today, feet up and watch the world go by.

Enjoy your day everyone
Stay safe

 

[KilroyJC]

Boeing is going to be writing some big checks for that plane that fell apart.
Seems it wasn't a window but a fake door, a plug where the door is optional, and the plane
was only built ten weeks before. New plane.

my understanding was that jet engines have to have some kind of shrouds, (think top fuel dragsters) around the compressor so the blades
won't fly out upon explosion. I guess not.

my god daughter's husband is a senior pilot for SouthWest.
I get some fun insight from him. He also is a long time Air force weekend warrior,
flying military drones he can't talk to me about.
He flies the big stuff, Popgadget flies everything else.

I haven't flown on an airplane in 20 years but when I did
never had the masks drop down. Good thing.

one concept that I learned carefully when working in power plant industry for several years
was MTBF. Mean Time Between Failures
Note that it says between failures, not before failure.
with increasing use there is an expectation that machines will fail, wear points give way.
You just have to know when that will happen so you can fix it the week before with a planned outage.

MTBF is big in airlines
The mean time between failures on a commercial plane can be a very long time.
Just think of DC-130s flying in Amazon and Nepal still
or even all those B-52s still flying.
The 56 Chevies of the sky. or maybe the Checker cabs of the sky. Built to last.
Not wind up in a huge field in Arizona decomposing under the sun.

I wonder if those modern passenger liners are built as well
vs being incredibly complex to operate with many points of electronic and system failure.

stewardess, another drink please

my friend who I picked up at the airport Friday was on a similar plane out of the same airport the same day.

I’d say something about corporate hiring practices not prioritizing competence anymore and favoring other policies, but I don’t want to go to TBN timeout…

 

[scott_vt]

Good Morning Guys,
Ct, 31 to start going to 34 ! Looks like we got about 3” at best, wet and heavy, will deal with it later ! Hoping that church was not canceled! Will have to check my email !

Not a lot planned for today, snow and slush cleanup will be the big project ! Still doing a little bit of something outside ! Combination of must and small snow flakes ! Have not checked the Vt camera yet but I’m sure more snow up there !

Frits, have been tempted to buy a plow for my Polaris Ranger 570 ! My buddy has one on his Ranger and he lives it !

Hope all have a blessed and safe day !

 

[riptides]

30 outside right now, grey, overcast, blah.... upper 40's expected.

Not much on the agenda for today. More planning and paper work.

Eldest bought another camper, looks to be heading out, westward again, with the National Park Service, sometime in the next few months.

A bit of good news for the family. She looks to be recovering well.

Hope all have a great day. I hope it dries up around here, we had a lot of rain with that last storm. From nothing to a gully washer.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 34F @ 4:15AM. Abundant sunshine. High 53F. Winds NNW at 5 to 10 mph.
We picked up only 0.11" of rain yesterday, falling just short of the predictions. We'll get maybe another few hundredths during the coming week, then maybe, if we're lucky, another inch or so at the end of the week.

That level of reporting is something I'm going to miss in the solar power system down south, David. Sunrun has a website where I can look at kWhrs produced, and battery charge level, but there doesn't seem to be a way to tell how much of that power went back to the grid, or how much I had to buy. When I asked for that info, I got a ditzy reply implying all I really needed to know was how much CO2 I was preventing from reaching the atmosphere.

am enjoying some Peet's Major Dickinson coffee. Was a gift, got beans instead of ground, but gosh it tastes so much better. Almost naturally sweet. Good stuff.

I've been buying the same coffee at Costco for a friend that doesn't have a membership, Drew. They say it's much better than the Maxwell House they get at the grocery store, for about the same money.

Put together a punch list for the repairs needed at the Yankee Hill property, and it's long and a bit expensive. Started in on it by straightening out a crooked coax cable wall mount, then finding and using a bit of paint that was left over from 14 years ago when I repainted the interior of the home. It covered and blended with the existing walls pretty well, much to my surprise, and that saves me the trouble of taking a sample from some place inconspicuous and getting a gallon of paint mixed to match. Spent more time finding and ordering a wall outlet to clean up some network cables, and a sewer pipe jetter attachment for the pressure washer for cleaning out the drain line down south. Then took the lock mechanism off one of the sliding glass doors apart to find a broken plastic piece in the linkage that moves the bolt. The company that made the door is still in business, so more phone time next week to see if they have a replacement part. If not, maybe I'll be able to cobble together something out in what's left of the shop. All while keeping the woodstove humming.

Hope everyone enjoys the rest of their weekend...

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, the low is 13 and the high to 23°F. Wind E 8 mph. 30% chance of flurries.

Our promised couple of inches totaled 1". I can live with that. Not plowing today.

Up today at 3:30 to park on the throne with a sharp pain across my belly. Previous performances told me that I would be in there a while, draining. No strain but lots of pain, just sit and drain. Got the swets, too. Went back to bed after an hour in there and slept until 7. Feel much better now. I will have to ask junior how old the eggs were that we put into the 4 egg omelets. It might have been the eggs, or it might've been the cheese, although in my omelet we used some Welsh old cheese.

I am doing nothing today, not even the woodstove. The oil furnace can pick up the slack.
The oil I am using now is free, it is paid for.

Have a safe day all

 

[LouNY]

Well for all the hype it is a white morning outside looks to be a whopping 2 inches so still lightky snow and now they are calling for another 2-3 inches. Got the coal fire running good and hot (too warm for me) but my wife is happy so I won't cut it back very much. Looks like I may wait till tomorrow to plow and scrape snow.
Do believe it will be a sausage gravy and biscuit breakfast this morning,
so everyone stay safe out today.
Time to get a move on for me.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! Another surprise freeze this Morning @ 29, warming up to 60, as winds shift from the South, another nice winter day.

Covid seems to.be making the rounds here but so far we have escaped. It seems to be hitting the people who have never had Covid before but are well vaccinated.

 

[Thomas]

22F couple more degrees or so will be high for today.
Close 6" has fallen snow falling now increasing about 2pm.

Outside chores done E muffin time.
Plans for today...nothing until 2-3pm than do rough snow clean up which should keep me busy least 3 hours...Watch NY Giants last game of the season...going to be ho hum of day.

Enjoy your day all.

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning.
32° with a high of 35 forecast. Rain gauge says we got 1/4” of rain overnight, there is snow on the ground as well.

If you look carefully, you can see the driveway markers, the found their way out of the shop and into the ground. The tool I made last year sure made it easy.
Made decent progress on the speaker, and cleaned up some.

I hope to get the finish on the speaker today, I won’t get anything done tomorrow, I’ve got a drop off in Vero Beach and a pick up in Palm Beach. But it’s great to get two trips done in one day.

Not much else planned other than take the tractor for a ride up and down the lane.

 

[daugen]

had a nice trip to Lederach, kind of a waste of time, they had half the amount of snow there and
it merely looked cold and dreary instead of winter wonderland. No Kodak moment today.
I came back to light snow and 32 degrees with slush on the roads, had to pay attention to driving.
Fat tires on modern cars don't like those slush piles; you get out of the rut and start an icy hydroplane.
just can't justify real snow tires here. My Goodyears are snowflake rated and score well in light snow, but definitely are
not Michelin X-Ice or the Scandinavian one you can't pronounce the name of.

learned how to drive in snow in a 1966 VW bug with studded snow tires.
You had to do something pretty stupid to get that stuck.
It was my oldest brother's car at college and then he sold it to my father as his get to the train station car.
awful car in cold weather for anything but traction.
pulling those levers in the middle seemed to accomplish nothing
defroster was terrible also

those early studded snows sure put up a racket. Studded Firestone Town & Country's .
Noisy, but got Mom's station wagon home on windey steep country roads.

funny how the macadam crack repairs in my friend's parking lot are temperature sensitive and stand out.
good thing it doesn't spell something funny

 

[Buppies]

37 this morning icy til after lunch no snow but 31 degrees for a long time. Never lost power a good thing now waiting on one to 6 in of rain Tuesday. Ron your cold snow is coming fast, prayers for all our country

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, 34 going to 40 and snowing.

Yesterday got thrown into chaos, son came in and told me he had a gig today.
Well, local gig no problem, nope this one in North Philly.
Grabbed his amp and a bunch of bags and guitar and ran down there.
So rest of day shot, no sheetrock up.

And of course driving in snow on the way back, that wasn't supposed to be here.
Luckily in the Jeep, but others not too good at this driving in the snow thing.

Got home without mishap, but local PO told people to stay off the road after pulling a number out of ditches.
Rained on the snow and caused some good icing but was home as the rain started.
2" total, now icy slush.

Those planes are C-130s, I've spent over 100 uncomfortable, loud, hours in them on various trips back in the 80's

Hope to get some sheetrock up today and drill/cut more furring strips. Cutting the furring strips to size using the Makita 9.6v 3 1/2 inch circular is so easy inside the garage, as long as it's only 1 or 2 at a time. This saw is probably 30 years old and still works great, with replacement batteries.

Hopefully rest of snow will melt instead of form ice sheets.

Be well,

Was a pretty good crowd even with the snow predictions.

 

[Buppies]

Glad you made it hope safe Ken

If you buy ammunition in 250 to 500 rounds some saving there

 

[scootr]

Cold and wet this AM. Temps from 30-60 degrees forecasted all week. That's cold for us. A friend and I went to the gun store yesterday. I ended up plopping down the cash for a P365 and signing up for a safety course to get an CCW. Sign of the times. Time to make some eggs and ham.
Hope you all have a great day!

 

[LouNY]

A second post here this morning,
Still drinking coffee, will be regretting it later but it tastes good while sitting and watching it snow.
Got up and went over to look out the kitchen window to see a couple of turkey on the lawn;

And a close up. captured about 2/3's of them some in the woods and brush.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Good morning! Low of 18°, going up to 34° (maybe).... only up to 25° so far, heavy clouds. Snow supposed to start around noon. Snow predicted to continue overnight, up to 10" possible, 20" up higher above 8500'

The "future radar" shows a bit of rain first, then changing to snow.... I would think that will lower the snow amount. Hoping it will anyway.

More snow in the forecast for Thursday too.....

Pellet stove purring nicely, no rude awakening this morning. Need to bring up more pellets on the porch.

Going to be an inside day, didn't take down those decorations yesterday. Need to go out to the shop and retrieve the storage container.

Daughter didn't get here until after 19:00, didn't get home until 01:00. She'll get a short nap because she has to open the urgent care at 08:00 this morning.

Everyone have a great day!

 

[Buppies]

scootr nice pick up very soon those temperatures will seem balmy to you all

 

[kenmbz]

Son wants to go to girlfriends house, so I told him to walk outside and see if the private road is slippery I bet he finds the road just fine for driving

I have lost 22 pounds so far on the sickness diet.