Good morning!!!!

[RedNeckGeek]

Drove into Highland earlier to pick up pizza and stuff, and it was pretty dead there. Wondered where everyone was...

Yeah. the Stupor Bowel...

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 40ºF for the start, .7 inch in rain gauge, overcast, windy. Wind start at moderate and slowed way down, periods of rain, and high temp was 48ºF at 12:01 AM. High temp during day was 44ºF. Made coffee then Chapel to start day, then breakfast with the gang. Started fire in insert lunch and nap + conserve energy most of day. Made some queso, but let it get scorched . Watch some early SB then most of 4TH quarter and OT. Glad KC won.
Two_bit not familiar at all, closest I have been is Kerrville.
Ron sorry no chipping. Glad taxes are done. Glad Sassy got her walk. Nice cardinal.
Bill no reason to fight the weather to get tree done since it isn't in the way.
Billy glad Christmas family time was good. Just don't have a funeral just to get them back I didn't contribute to the 23 b.
Mike sorry about knee and jeans. Hope you did get durock finished. Hope you get concrete to to dump tomorrow.
Kilroy never fun to do your own taxes. Sorry Mrs feeling under the weather, prayers sent, glad soup good. Glad no rude surprises at work.
NHBX hope you are ready for more snow. Glad Mrs got extra lunch. Hope energy conservation successful.
Plowhog glad good trip to CA, and no trees down that you have seen. Nice bear pic.
Buppies sorry sleep not good. prayers sent.
Drew glad you are enjoying book and coffee. Sorry electric heater not cutting it.
Scott(vt) glad you got some work done on legs. Hope you get you truck in garage ahead of the snow.
Thomas hope you had good day and enjoyed the game.
Paul sounds like you have your work cut out on the progressive mower. Glad you got some R/C flying in. Happy Birthday to son. Hope spindle repair goes well.
Frits Sorry about SIL and cancer. prayers sent. Hope you had a good day. Neat pic of church.
Ken hope evening plans all went well, lot of driving. Hope Superbowl party fun. Good to hear Son vocals improving. Nice pics
Ted sorry GS ratted you out Hope she gets over it soon. Hope conserve energy day went well.
Drew love the pics, nice to see son on cub cadet.
David hope repair to pressure tank went well. Glad birthday celebration was good.
RNG good to hear raising hanging shelf went well. Glad equipment off trailer, sorry about PW wheels. Sorry about whacked in the forehead, hope no concussion. Hope the trampoline taker shows.
RS Glad dishwasher going well so far hope that doesn't change. Hope the fridge work went well.
Don soup looks good, and the nachos interesting.
Dennis sorry about the sitting in Vegas, did the at least put game on TV's ?
Randy(wag) sorry about the very warm weather and threat of thunderstorms. Glad all is well after CT scan. Glad you got veteran's discount. Hope you were able to conserve energy while hiding.
PJ hope pizza was good.
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.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Home just before 3am.
Flew over Kansas City just after the game, and got a firework show. Wonder who’s plane this is?

 

[Wagtail]

Randy(wag) sorry about the very warm weather and threat of thunderstorms. Glad all is well after CT scan. Glad you got veteran's discount. Hope you were able to conserve energy while hiding.

Ta, Mate. The top temp that I recorded at my place (Wagtail Park) was 36C... which was 102.2F @ around 1330.

We're not used to temperatures like that, especially for a predicted two days in a row. I needed to quaff a couple of Gin & Tonics to survive.

<woof>

 

[Helogabals]

Good morning !

For beginning - something between freezing rain and thaw. Roads become really dangerous

Anyway yesterday made "rancho run". Was rather productive morning at forest but then everything went south. Saw had issues on lows. It is so annoying. At the end starter rope snapped
Find in barn "vintage" Husqvarna. That has power issues. Last running saw was small Echo, with so short bar that doesn't cut trough. Few of logs had to break with crane
Probably that's clear message - no work on Sunday

Saturday helped kids to build stage decorations for their school party. Boys from daughter's class were looking on me like superman - man have plan, have tools, result are within +/- 1 mm. Showed them some carpenter tricks. Really productive afternoon. Felt that daughter was proud, too. For recent years she didnt talk too much to me, I was kinda old grumpy man, which doesn't understand nothing. Now that teenage madness is starting to vanish.


For both days lot of gym - on the knees, stand up, lifting etc. Now have sore muscles. But it's not a bad thing, no pain no gain, yeah ?

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Today should arrive new guy from supplier's HQ. Will visit few customers with him. market is not so active, let's see


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Interesting what farmers are doing in Europe ie demonstrations about strict rules on tractors BMW hydrogen powered cars wave of future maybe BMW synthetic diesel fuel interesting perhaps Helo knows of these

Prayers for all our Country

That's interesting topic.
Protests are different from country to country. Actually very minor part of farmers are protesting.

For beginning you have to know that most of farming in EU is super low efficient.

Properties are rather small, it's from history. Farms were split between heirs, wars, etc. I believe entire Netherlands or Belgium is smaller than biggest farms of NA
Then south-EU countries are subsiding farming, considering as it is "lifestyle". North (including us) is subsiding farmers too, to be competitive with southerners. And so it goes

Now govts are short on money, they are planning to subsiding less.
Ours are fine with this, while rules are fair. But they are not... Protest ...

In addition in market comes in lot of products from Ukraine. There they still have huge farms, can be very efficient. AFAIK lot of US farmers are operating there. Successfully and efficient. Obviously German or French farmer's "100 cow farm" can't compete with those monsters. Protest ...
And French are good at protests, they know how to make them look attractive. I mean, govt have learned that it's cheaper to let them blow off some steam rather than suppress and deal with even worse consequences

 

[ronjhall]

Coffee has been poured. 29° with cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 40° with partly cloudy skies. In afternoon got tractor and chipper and chipped about half the limb pile. Hope to get other half done today. No other plans for today.
Hard to get 2 Tufted Titmouse in same picture.

Buckeye, glad you made it home safely. Now get some sleep.

Everyone stay safe and well.

Good Morning All.

 

[NHBX]

Good morning,
24° now, highs in the mid 40’s and sunny today with west wind around 5 mph.

Quiet day yesterday and not much planned for today. The yard is to wet with the warm temps we’ve been having, almost all the snow is gone at least until tomorrows storm. The guessers started out at 1-3” now up to 8-12”,
Edit: 5:20 am, now down to 3-5” lol.
as long as it stays snow and doesn’t mix with rain I don’t really care. Oh well time will tell.

Enjoy your day everyone
Stay safe and healthy

 

[riptides]

46 outside this Am, heading to 50. Sprinkling again, more rain expected later. Don't need it. Ground is pretty saturated.

Spent all day yesterday hanging durock in the Milk House bathroom. Need to find a concrete drill bit to finish up some spots. Today will be skim and tape day. Not going anywhere with the rain.

Good game yesterday. Sigh, was hoping San Fran could pull it off.

Hoping all can have a great start to the work week. Be safe in your travels and doings.

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, 31 going up to 50 and cloudy. Calling for 4-5" of snow tomorrow.
Lots of driving last night, tired today, but lots of fun watching SB at cousins.
Son had fun at GFs house.
Even got some trim done in the basement yesterday morning.

Be well,

 

[m7040]

Good morning,

40 going to 49 rain in FC later tonight. Will see if driveway becomes a river again

Changing diet back to the normal low carb diet.

Did some clean up of tools and supplies in the barn. Tables are mostly cleared.

Picture of Ukraine children telling their stories of being kidnapped

 

[daugen]

good morning all
32 outside, 51 in greenhouse with setting on low. I don't think these tanks are going to last very long.
weather coming in is very cold
my goal is to keep it above 45 in there and hope that on sunny days Mother Nature will help out.

Ken, I hope we don't get that much, that might tax my latest project. Might have to go up to notch two
tonight. That full tank already feels much lighter after one day. I bet there's only 48 hours in a 30 pounder, less on full.
I suppose I should research a larger tank

going to drop off a set of those grab handles with suction cups you use in the shower for a friend later today.
I have found they work remarkably well, are reliable but you always test first. Every three or four months they pop off, vacuum breaks
I guess. This is for my friend with his two new knees. Will give him more to grab onto in shower. Not a good time at all to fall.
Hopefully he has a seat in there. I'll take him some apples too. I bought the big bag of assorted apples last time, more than I can eat.
They make great house presents. All apples are showing their age now, they've been sitting in that cooler a long time.
local ones still good, but you can tell the skins are getting tougher

Hope you all have a great Monday
Wagtail, 102 is just plain hot. How about sharing some of that heat?

 

[Thomas]

31F partly cloudy sky low 40's for high.

Outside chores done E muffin time.
Plans for today...Critter food run,walk around Kubota checking this and that 1-3 inches ??? arriving tomorrow morning,puttering.

Enjoy your day all.

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning.
It’s 32° with a high of 50 forecast under partly cloudy skies.

Yesterday was mostly spent on the mower. I found enough bearings to get two spindles rebuilt with the parts stash that came with the mower. Plenty of other parts, like LH nuts and shims, but only 4 bearings.
Like so many things I did it nice, because I did it twice. I had to press one apart because I put it in the housing upside down, the other one because I left a spacer out of it.

I attacked the deck with the needle scaler, but that was about as far as I got. I’ll get back on it today, but I made a huge mess digging through the tubs of parts. They were not organized in any way, just thrown into tubs. I should be thankful that they cleared their shelves and gave me all of it, rather than complain though.

Managed to make it out to lunch and make a HF run. Went to a Bojangles chicken place with a friend that wanted to go there. I won’t be going back…….

Today will start with going out to breakfast with my wife, then back to clean up the mess I made, and then get to welding the patches on the mower deck after I cut out a couple more pieces.

 

[plowhog]

Someone from Facebook Marketplace is supposed to come over this afternoon and pick up the trampoline. Fingers crossed they don't flake out.

Hope that works out. Some things of value are difficult to give away.

I gave away a nice acrylic portable spa. It took forever. I finally had to trailer it to someone in order to get rid of it.

26F going to sunny 50F in Beautiful Northern Nevada. Another foot of snow expected at Donner Summit on Wed/Thu which is good for the snowpack.

Most of my pictures are from trail cams at our CA property. This red tail hawk was from here in Nevada ...

 

[check]

Good morning. My team won! Taylor was so happy

What a nail biter. Even Taylor was biting her nails.

Slept well last night.

 

[plowhog]

Wonder who’s plane this is?

Not 100% sure because the registration number is not visible in the pix.

But, based on its distinctive paint, I think it is aircraft VP-BLK based in Guangzhou Baiyun in China. If that is correct, here is a pix of the same plane at its home airport.

 

[plowhog]

Hard to get 2 Tufted Titmouse in same picture.

If anyone can do it, you can! Great pix ron ....

 

[m7040]

Good morning !

For beginning - something between freezing rain and thaw. Roads become really dangerous

Anyway yesterday made "rancho run". Was rather productive morning at forest but then everything went south. Saw had issues on lows. It is so annoying. At the end starter rope snapped
Find in barn "vintage" Husqvarna. That has power issues. Last running saw was small Echo, with so short bar that doesn't cut trough. Few of logs had to break with crane
Probably that's clear message - no work on Sunday

Saturday helped kids to build stage decorations for their school party. Boys from daughter's class were looking on me like superman - man have plan, have tools, result are within +/- 1 mm. Showed them some carpenter tricks. Really productive afternoon. Felt that daughter was proud, too. For recent years she didnt talk too much to me, I was kinda old grumpy man, which doesn't understand nothing. Now that teenage madness is starting to vanish.


For both days lot of gym - on the knees, stand up, lifting etc. Now have sore muscles. But it's not a bad thing, no pain no gain, yeah ?

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Today should arrive new guy from supplier's HQ. Will visit few customers with him. market is not so active, let's see


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That's interesting topic.
Protests are different from country to country. Actually very minor part of farmers are protesting.

For beginning you have to know that most of farming in EU is super low efficient.

Properties are rather small, it's from history. Farms were split between heirs, wars, etc. I believe entire Netherlands or Belgium is smaller than biggest farms of NA
Then south-EU countries are subsiding farming, considering as it is "lifestyle". North (including us) is subsiding farmers too, to be competitive with southerners. And so it goes

Now govts are short on money, they are planning to subsiding less.
Ours are fine with this, while rules are fair. But they are not... Protest ...

In addition in market comes in lot of products from Ukraine. There they still have huge farms, can be very efficient. AFAIK lot of US farmers are operating there. Successfully and efficient. Obviously German or French farmer's "100 cow farm" can't compete with those monsters. Protest ...
And French are good at protests, they know how to make them look attractive. I mean, govt have learned that it's cheaper to let them blow off some steam rather than suppress and deal with even worse consequences

Another area of protest particularly in Denmark is that the gov has established aggressive goals for carbon emissions and pesticides that will impact the ag business. Farmers are saying it will force them out of business and result in imports from countries not subject to similar laws

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 41F @ 5:45, still in Orcutt, CA. Sunny to partly cloudy. High 63F. Winds WSW at 5 to 10 mph.

Managed to get the trailer mostly unloaded yesterday, leaving only the stacks of cardboard I'd brought down for recycling. Only banged my head on the trailer door once yesterday. Thinking I should start wearing a helmet.

Most of the stuff I unloaded stayed in the boxes they were packed in, but I learned that the small moving boxes are about 3/4" too long to fit inside the cabinets. So I'll head to Costco today to see if I can find some plastic bins that will let the cabinet doors close. I did get several boxes of cleaning supplies unpacked and put away, more of that for today as well.

The person that was supposed to pick up the trampoline flaked out yesterday, next guy on the list says he'll come over this morning. We'll see.

Hope everyone's week gets started on the right foot...

 

[two_bit_score]

Wow! What an interesting first glance at the GM thread! Wagtail is roasting at over 100F and Helo is still shivering in freezing rain and Plowhog is at 26F. The rest of us are glad the SB is over and Butkicker really did that by drilling a 57 yarder in the third quarter. (I read that this morning. I did not watch the game.)

I'm already on my second cup of coffee this morning at 41F and sunny at almost 8am.

M7040, your pictures of Ukraine children kidnapped by Russia reminded me of all the Israeli children taken hostage and murdered by *****. Many have not been returned to their parents. Maybe I will post some pictures of those atrocities later.

Looking forward to a very productive day today and I hope everyone has a great day!