Good morning!!!!

[scootr]

It's cold in So Cal. I put the heating pad on the bed tonight. Then the flannel sheets on top...It'll be good sleeping tonight.
Spent a chunk of today at the DMV. California says happy 70th birthday by making you come in for an eye test, a license renewal test, and a picture. Stupid drivers test was riddled with law questions... like how many years in jail do you get for leaving the scene of a fatal accident? Multiple choice...really? What?
How about should you stay at the scene of an accident, yes or no? WTF is the matter with people. Anyway - I passed - even passed the motorcycle renewal. Although it's been 20 yrs since I sold the Road King you never know when the urge to scratch that itch will resurface.
Have a good night and stay dry and warm.

 

[Looking4new]

scott, I made the genny location a permanent location until I can afford a whole house automatic switch genny. The cables all run under the driveway and into the house through 2 60 amp outside boxes. I go out and fire up the genny, wait for about 2 minutes or when the choke opens and then throw the breaker switch on the genny. Go back into the basement and switch the power plugs from mains to genny. There are two low power clamp on desk lights hung from the floor trusses that are on the genny circuit all the time. One over the sump pump and the other one at the wood furnace. That way I don't break my leg/neck getting into the basement without the house lights on.
I need an electrician to hook up the well pump (220V) to the same system. Then I would just throw the 2 position center off knife switch and have power to the well pump, too. With the cables burried I can drive over the wires until the cows come home and wont do any damage.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 32ºF for the start, partly cloudy, windy. Very windy with very brisk gusts. wind decreasing through the day, partial clearing sky, and high temp was 46ºF. Motivation was hiding well today, between wind and temp, did not ride. Did make it to lawyer for probate consult, we are looking at having to reconstruct the trust document. Won't be cheap
Post Thursday 10AM :
Scott(vt) hope you made some progress on Christmas lights removal.
Ted sorry about low fuel. Hope Max got his zoomies. Hope roads weren't too bad.
David good to hear progress on Sophie's eye, sorry it is so slow. Hope H&F went well for guys.
Scotty nice upgrade the weather would tear the lights up here.
Drew good luck with the multi ask conversation. Have fun with 1 into 4 usb gizmo.
Mark sorry to hear your mom was sick, glad she got better. Congrats on getting caught up.
Scott(vt) congrats on lights down. Sorry about not bringing all legs, nice taper.
Phil that is a lot of snow. Hope the remodel brings all the benefits you hoped for. God luck getting good pic
Dennis wonder if anyone was correct on the forecast.
Drew yes they wear it phrases out so fast because the storm doesn't live up to the hype.
Dennis that would be fun.
NHBX
Lou hope you are ready for NHBX forecast
NKBX ain't it the truth.
Kilroy good luck scoring the cow horn.
Kilroy sorry about the bug level in the software.
Kyle I like classical music for check out audio, full symphony better than the more limited piece such as chamber music.
Kyle thanks for update on prayer list.
Drew glad you got 3 mice one night sorry that messed with your sleep. sorry about the rush hour driving.
Friday Morning 3:49 posts:
Ron glad car wash found your car hope walk and exercise went well Nice feeder pic. Glad you are not overworking the plow.
Billy hope wife is healing ok. Indoor hike are good on bad weather days.
Drew never used electric vest or socks when snow plow.
Thomas hope you got date night in!
Frits hope no chains doesn't come back to bite you.
Kilroy sorry you are having to debug the software. Hope you got dump run and fuel run done.
NHBX glad you got errands done Thursday. We did about half the trips to town to get lunch
Paul sorry about the alpaca. Glad you were able to get client there on time. neat pic. Sorry timing of pickup trip did not work out. Hope you get driveway markers out.
Frits hate when schools won't deal with bullying.
Bill you like that straight pipe don't you
More catch up later.
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle /Daughter, /mom's breathing, /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.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Awake early. Rain is gone. Still hear some wind, but not as strong. Still got power. 1.44” rain, not too bad.

 

[ronjhall]

Coffee just finished brewing. 31° with light snow this morning. Heading to 34° with snow and wind. Little bit of everything yesterday. Snow, Sleet, Hail and rain. .76" of rain for the day. A ten minute job of installing a bolt in tractor step took over an hour. Got it done. Spent rest of the day in house. Dentist appointment this morning for cleaning. Then while I am out will do some errands and grocery shopping. No other plans yet.

Everyone stay safe and well.

Good Morning All.

 

[NHBX]

46° now, highs near 50° today.
Rain should be done by mid morning, around 2.25” total.
Winds SW 10-20 mph gusts 30+ mph, last night highest 43 mph.

No plans for today, just putter around.

Stay safe everyone.

 

[daugen]

good morning all
did not sleep well, but at least the power did not go out.
3.65 inches of rain, back yard will be underwater this morning

no plans for today other than repotting some indoor plants
a warm 48 going up to 50 today

 

[Buppies]

36 high of 42 today winds up to 25mph. A do nothing day yesterday, pond is full. Three in of rain helped. Very cold next week.

Hope neighbor comes up with solution m7040, hope PopG feels better

Prayers for all our Country

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Our high was 55 at midnight, now 44.
I need to get a rain gauge to compare with my weather station.

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, the low is 26 and the high to 34°F. Wind NE 9 mph. Snow.
We got our promised 6". I WILL be plowing starting about 9 A.M. Block heater already turned on.
NHBX, I am paying over $6.oo/US gallon for my diesel fuel and I want to get more 'mileage' out of it. Straight pipe does it nicely. A 2 hour increase per 7 gallon tank is worth it to me. There are enough bends in the exhaust that I feel the back pressure issue is being dealt with, not that diesels need much of that.
I don't get the black soot all over my loader arms now either.
Also, keep in mind that I did not do this until the warranty was finished.
Some people like to turn up the pump, not me I leave that to the experts. Straight pipe is as far as I will go when it comes to messing with a diesel.

Many years ago I straight piped a 671 Detroit diesel, when my boss seen it he told me that "he distinctly remembered there being a muffler on the truck the last time he saw it and I had a month to get one back on". The next weekend I opened up the muffler I took off the truck and gutted it and put it back on the truck. The boss was happy and the truck was 10 times as loud as it was before putting the can back on. lol
He had to chase me from Redcliff, Alberta to Brooks, Alberta and finally caught up to me when I stopped to get my load of raw cement. The exhaust wasn't the only modification I did to that one. The truck had a 13 spd and right behind it was a 4 spd transmission. 1 was under drive/deep reduction, 2 was direct drive, 3 was the first overdrive and 4 was the second overdrive. With three and four, you had to drop back to 7th on the 13spd for it to work. The same with 4th. Truck was capable of over 100 mph. That was back in the late '70s. The speed limit going across the prairie was just a suggestion. This was also middle of the night driving. We had freedom up here in Canada as there were no log books.

Enough of the good old days.

You guys dealing with this fluffy white sh*t, try to stay vertical, we aren't as flexible as we were when we were kids.

Have a safe day all

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 40˚F heading the upper 60s with a South wind.

There is snow in our forecast for Monday and then Tuesday a low of 15˚F. I wonder what type of exaggerated words the news media will be using to get clicks.

Starting to get prepared for the big freeze, patio plants in garage here, and drain the water pipes in the estate house and fill up the propane tank. It was supposed to be sold and occupied by now but my cousin insisted on implementing her survey where the property was split so her son could buy part of it. This has caused some unfortunate delays in the closing, but we are both hanging in there. If it closes at the end of the month it will be a success, if not, my first mistake as executor.

I use this rain gauge to doublecheck the weather station. It is accurate to 1/100"

Amazon.com

 

[wngsprd]

47, rain stopped. Going sideways to 49 and more wind. Need it to dry out. Will check gauge at dawn.

Several local roads flooded and some trees down. Glad I don't need to travel today. Light flickered, but no outage.

Thomas, that was my first time there...saw only birds (winter wren, Carolina wren, juncos, pileated woodpeckers) and two hikers along the trail. They have bear, deer, coyotes and others.

Don, I've been using that gauge for 12 years. Don't forget to take your funnel and inner tube out for your snow.

Wood rack at the bottom, so will need to wheelbarrow several loads up to the porch.

 

[Buppies]

Hope Thomas is ok this morning

 

[KilroyJC]

Good Morning!

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

32.2F going to low 40s, partly/mostly sunny day. We had some snow accumulation overnight -

work is getting more and more entertaining (for varying values of “entertaining”) —- suffice to say that the CD players are getting packed for work this morning… drop in/tune out .. .

anywho, Time for coffee.

i hope everyone has a happy healthy safe blessed day!

 

[Buppies]

Wngspred I still do not know what snow looks like

Don i agree weather has become another false news story

 

[daugen]

lot of power outages here, including down the street.
am amazed mine didn't go out last night but I don't think we got the expected wind.
about 400 out of power downtown

 

[riptides]

44 outside this AM, heading to upper 40's.

Lots of rain, no power loss for us....roads all flooded in area. People are attempting to pass through our road, some turn around, some don't. Makes for a quarter mile backup. Just a matter of time before a water rescue is needed. There has to be at least a foot of water on the road....

Should make for an interesting commute. Lots of traffic this AM, I guess people just don't really know where the creeks and flood areas are.

Hope all have a good day. Be safe.

 

[Thomas]

38F now mid 40's for high rain ending around 10am.
Almost 5" wet heavy like cement snow,winds were howling 9pm-4am now 20mph.

Took Mrs. to work roads were poor traveling hardly any traffic both ways 25mile round trip and deep ponding on the road.

Plans for today...clean roofs soon, afternoon Kubota will get good work out removing snow.

Enjoy your day all.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Good morning! 40˚F heading the upper 60s with a South wind.

There is snow in our forecast for Monday and then Tuesday a low of 15˚F. I wonder what type of exaggerated words the news media will be using to get clicks.

Starting to get prepared for the big freeze, patio plants in garage here, and drain the water pipes in the estate house and fill up the propane tank. It was supposed to be sold and occupied by now but my cousin insisted on implementing her survey where the property was split so her son could buy part of it. This has caused some unfortunate delays in the closing, but we are both hanging in there. If it closes at the end of the month it will be a success, if not, my first mistake as executor.

I use this rain gauge to doublecheck the weather station. It is accurate to 1/100"

Amazon.com

I’m looking for $5 accurate, not $40 accurate.

 

[Buppies]

Saw some flurries just a bit ago so at least I saw that