Good morning!!!!

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 20ºF for the start, 6ºF windchill, clear sky, light breeze. Moderate wind with some stronger gusts, some cloudiness later in day, and high temp was 31ºF. Start coffee and the insert to start day. Made some progress on estate paperwork, almost ready for lawyer, worked home paperwork, still some catching up to do. Got the tire changed on the trek, chain cleaned and lubed, the owner parked after 250 miles of gravel riding without cleaning it . Got it in the stationary stand and got a short ride in. Then the fun police stepdaughter warned of the evils of working out too hard before over virus No bike ride tomorrow, too cold.
Thursday morning 8:28 AM posts:
Paul I don't worry about BTU efficiency, I don't pay for my wood. A friend has acreage close by and he wants the wood gone. So for about 30 hours of chainsaw and splitting work I get to tinker with fire, and keep heat pump off most of the day
RNG glad you made it ok. Having towed the boat to Bull Shoals, 400 mile over half in the Ozarks, it slows you down, guzzles more gas and more pee stops
Drew will be interesting to see your route back to PA.
RNG I hear you on the droning voice. Tried audio books but too many were shorten from the print version.
David sorry about the ongoing struggle with the algae.
Ted sorry about your snow blower experience. Hope you got the shelves stained.
Phil thanks for the finish and wood questions.
Two_bit got cold here again, barely out of the freezing mark today, not much better tomorrow.
Bill that is a fuel efficient tractor. Yes I think you won the lottery on the BOM stock.
Dennis thanks for the details on car. Glad you got extra when you got the Chinese
Drew it was good, had the rest of it today. Good to hear ice melt worked.
Ted sorry about the pulled muscle, prayer sent for it's healing. Nice o hear wind has slowed down.
Randy(wag) good to hear loo situation is solved. 55+ is nice size party, hope prep goes well.
David good to hear you found a program that will work for your situations.
David that is an old shrinkwrap is it floppies or CD?
Bill nice dinner.
PJ glad you can make when you can. Hope cold snap does not last long, ours will be gone by Monday.
Scotty my BIL does some nice grill work with tri-tip marinade and a charcoal grill.
Two_bit glad it is warm somewhere in Texas.
Friday morning posts 12:38 AM CST.
Scaredy glad you are hanging in there, Good luck with getting a awd SUV.
NHBX have fun with snow control if needed. Hope wife opted for lunch.
Ron have fun playing with the snow. Tat is a big beautiful woodpecker. Not surprised appetite to match.
Drew thanks for reaching out to helos.
Drew I agree you should run the blower.
Dennis maybe waitress didn't want to see you since it wasn't Sunday Chili for supper sounds good.
Thomas I need more kindling and too lazy to split it Hope not too cold for date night.
Billy thanks for software info. Glad you got a hike in yesterday. Neat pic
Mike glad wife time and food, sorry not much new ideas. Hope the talk with the owner helped the stove issue
Buppies sorry about the wind, hope you can get heat fixed soon. prayers sent.
Ron I need to start doing that, will need a total overhaul.
Plowhog good thought on safe combo.
Drew Good thought on executor. Multi Generational Family need on going lawyer and CPA work. Not a lot of projects here that are waiting on me to get to it. Just no room.
Bill glad you had a come back from cocaine addiction.
Ken(tin) sorry about wind and hail in your forecast.
Scotty(vt) have fun in Florida. I am not feeling bad, I think the Covid piggybacked on the bronchitis/sinus I was dealing with.
James have fun with snow control. Nice snow pics.
Mike have fun keeping stove fed.
Scotty hope rock collecting went well.
Paul sorry about the airplane not rolled out and fueled, just curious what is their excuse? Glad weather did not mess with the flight much and airplane was picked up. I guess you remembered how to fly the turboprop as you are back
Ken have fun getting some seat time. The sheet that goes between the doors will be interesting. Good luck sealing garage doors.
Don sorry you are getting same cold front. Thanks for Helo update.
Mark if you wanted to work the livestock show and retire, I sure something could be worked out
Billy sorry about the demotion to distraction. enjoy the snow.
RNG Good luck with the remodel. Hope the box unpacking went well. Thanks for pic
Ted glad you are getting a nice day. Good to hear the rice bag therapy worked.
Drew glad trip to DMV worked out. nice pic.
David congrats on guys victory. Sorry you will miss out on the follies.
Two_bit sorry about all the property damage , hope tit all gets fixed.
Buppies hope you get more than 10 flakes.
Ken thanks for the pics, dog does look like it is enjoying the snow.
Drew glad the snow blower did well. Meat loaf sounds good.
Two_bit glad they are cleaning and repairing. I have a GGD 2 1/2 yo. Enjoy your time
Scott(vt) nice pic
Randy(wag) glad prep is almost ready and rain no interfering much. Hope the prep gets finished and party good.
Thomas good to hear day went wel and kitty so willy to help you with ice cream.
Scotty glad good day on the rock pile
Two_bit thanks for links
Catch up is complete, thanks for your patience.
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, /dad surgery recovery, 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.

 

[scaredychicken]

snowed all day, probably another 20 cms / 8 inches - it stopped at 8 pm, but there was a vehicle in my way and blocking access again. (people are dumb) I'll get to the tractor tomorrow

I could probably push the vehicle out of the way, but that would complicate things ... I have no where to be tomorrow.

the roads are terrible right now. in 4 major snowfalls this season, I have only seen the road crews / truck down the street once. I'm used to beating them to my corner of the world.

decided that for next year I want ballast weights, chains, rear blade

 

[NHBX]

9° now, cloudy with a high around 17° today. Winds NW 10 mph, gusts around 20 mph.

Dump run this morning and that’s about it for today, to cold/windy to play outside. May play with taxes a bit if get ambitious.

Enjoy your day everyone
Stay safe, healthy and warm

 

[ronjhall]

Drinking hot cup of coffee. -0° with partly cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 18° with cloudy skies. Spent most of yesterday conserving energy. After it warms up some will get out on tractor and cleanup snow drifts in drive and around barns. Bought a new microwave. Will remove old one and put new one in its place.
First Full Moon of the year. Wolf Moon will happen around 1:00 pm on Thursday. It is also known as a long Moon. It will stay around for several days.

Everyone stay well and safe.

Good Morning All.

 

[Buppies]

17 very windy now know problem with heat up stairs strip heater blowing small fuse on unit in attic part comes in Tuesday. Very cold today high in 20s. Pretty good snows west of here flurries here. Another dead pine ready to fall tend to that after wind dies down wind chimes constantly singing and a pretty song it is.

Ron some of the names of the moon I know some not, thanks for sharing

Scotty nice picture of grandkids

Prayers for all our Country

 

[Buppies]

Texas folks due a lot of rain next week flooding type and much warmer to be careful

 

[Thomas]

1F partly cloudy low teens for high.

Outside chores done E muffin time.
Plans for today...4 hours part store afterwards stop for critter food,not sure what the afternoon will offer.

Enjoy your day all.

 

[plowhog]

Wolf Moon will happen around 1:00 pm on Thursday.

Had to look it up-- learn something new all the time!

It's again the ... "Perfect 36" ... this morning in Beautiful Northern Nevada. Headed to a cloudy 53F today. Here is a before-sunrise pix not long ago ...

 

[KilroyJC]

Good Morning!

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

13.1F allegedly breaking into 30s later, mostly sunny forecast.

Did a bit of administrative runaround, dump run, chiro visit, it was intermittent flurries and wind all day, so upon returning home we ensured the couches stayed put.

During the running around, a quick trip into the habitat ReStore yielded a drop spreader for $10, which I used to neatly distribute a layer of ice melt up and down both driveways and around the vehicles and house. The spreader is probably better suited to pellets rather than the crystals we have, because of the consistent small size vs random sizes, but I just dumped the too-large
crystals in a bucket when the smaller material had passed. On the plus side, I used far less material than I normally wood have, since it was deposited exactly where I was needed in a highly controlled manner, and I was able to cover approximately 1500 linear feet with about 30lbs of crystals. That is probably close to half of what I would normally use for the same area. That was a good purchase!

today is a work day, so time to get ready for whatever fresh adventures IT and the programmers have in store for us…

I hope everyone has a happy healthy safe blessed day!

 

[wngsprd]

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...and don't forget about Suzi.

 

[wngsprd]

20 going to 30 and windy. Snowed most of the day yesterday, but most melted on contact until evening when it got back below freezing.

Might be a good day to join you on taxes, NH.

 

[Buppies]

Beautiful sunrise plowhog

 

[riptides]

17 outside right now, and looking at the rest of the day, 17 it is.

Need to get the woodstove fired back up again.

Have a nice blanket of snow outside, that dusting turned into a few inches. No big deal, still not enough to get the tractor out.

Not sure what we will get into, today. Winter weather has us in a negative mood.

Hoping all have a good day, stay warm, be safe.

 

[ronjhall]

With some snow melting and winter ending in a couple of months. Thought we may need some warning about getting tractor stuck.
Music to wake up with. Not!

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 24˚F heading to only 40˚, sunny early and then partly cloudy, North wind.

Yesterday I trimmed some bushes and ornamental grasses back that froze and when I finished I mowed the front yard. I was thinking of ya'll with the snow. It was 39˚ when I finished mowing, definitely the coldest temp I have ever mowed in. Now the brown grass looks even. I still need to cut it very short at the end of February so when Spring comes all the brown grass is gone.
We are ready for the rain Buppies, need to get the town lake filled before Summer.

Have you noticed, we have 10 million views on the Good Morning thread.

 

[daugen]

good morning all
12 degrees out, 62 in living room, 71 in kitchen. Insulation in this cottage leaves something to be desired...

looks like a dusting last night, enough to clean off car again, but now some nice cold clear weather.
Then on Wed apparently a warming system comes in with five straight days of rain.
if that was snow, oh my...

will head out this morning to nearby apple orchard. In winter they are only open on Saturdays so likely a crowd there though maybe the snow
will keep the tourists away.

no plans for today other than waiting for CD player to get delivered. Then I'll start cleaning my collection of old cds and see what I want to keep.
Bought a storage stand for 26 discs, will put discs in there I want to keep after I play them.
good project for a cold day inside.

hope you all have a nice weekend.

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, the low is zero and the high to 9°F. Wind NNW 9 mph. 30% chance of flurries.

I can tell you guys from experience that a SUV with all wheel drive and new snow tires will get you stuck faster than you can read this post, in only 4" of snow. You are better off without the AWD.
The first opportunity I get this Dodge Journey will get traded for a Jeep Wrangler.

I had good luck with the Jeep I had. If the frame hadn't rotted out of it I would still have it. The guy I gave it to has a son in law that is a Jeep mechanic and a welder.

I already know what I am going to get into today....Nothing.

Have a safe and warm day today

 

[WVH1977]

Upper Teens with wind expected. Highs in the 30's. Going rabbit hunting in a little while. Nothing beter than freezing your hind parts off in a thicket jumping up rabbits!!! I asked one of my ol'timers why we do it and he said "its something we have always done since childhood". I guess it just gets in your blood.

 

[scott_vt]

Good Morning Guys ,
Ct, 9 to start going to 21 maybe ! At least the sun is out !

I find that hard to believe.

Thomas, actually Nana does most of the spoiling, I guess I am considered an accomplice!

Ron, wow those tractors are seriously stuck ! Good video with music !!

Plow hog, beautiful picture thanks !

We only got about 1 1/2” yesterday, so just need to sweep the walkway ! Son came by last night and ran his plow down the length of the DW !

Not too much planned for today other than staying warm ! May go for a quick walk later this morning !

I may look into a propane torpedo heater for the garage here, so I can take the chill off and get some work done out there ! We will see what Nirthern has in their catalog!

Hope all have a blessed day !

 

[daugen]

Sun is out here too Scott, looks like the winter wonderland you have, snow in the pines,
sun hitting the snow, very white out

time to go scape the car, again. I had it clean before last night but got a flurry
that froze on it. It is really annoying that the relatively expensive Volvo doesn't have remote starting.
That is the most wonderful thing on a Ram hemi truck.
You sit inside, push that button, wait for the BBAAARRROOOOOOOMMM
and then the twin plumes of smoke at the back.
marvelous

biggest challenge is remembering if wipers are off or on, particularly if they had been on intermittent.
don't want them trying to move while frozen on windshield.