Good morning!!!!

[sodamo]

61°F and .9 inches rain. Looks to be another wet one.

Nothing too serious accomplished yesterday. I did get a 240v outlet installed to power my external battery charger. This is powered by my smaller generator.

I’ll replace the plastic cover with proper metal plate.
Have to make a run to HD today. After the garage fridge broke Sophie suggested maybe we consider replacing with just an upright freezer. The numbers favor that. HD has an 11 cf upright and price gave me both a Pro and Military discount. I think I can sell the repaired (new compressor) fridge and nearly break even. If only I could buy meat like Ted

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning
It was 28° when I got up this morning, still snowing. Now it’s partly cloudy and 34. Another 5” of snow.

Yesterday I got the mower deck project finished and ready to mount back on the mower. Also freed, greased and cleaned the driveshafts, so they are ready to be re-installed. Cleaned up the majority of the mess that I made, got a Costco run in and played music before calling it a day.

Today started in the tractor plowing snow.

Got everything cleaned up, and had a nice breakfast with youngest son. We are going to my daughters to shovel her driveway while she is at work. I’ll probably stop at the airport and clear out in front of the hangar for the little plane if I have the energy. Not much else planned.

 

[kenmbz]

back in plow mode. All done including neighbors driveway and round about.
Can you imagine when I first moved here I used the snowblower to do the whole road and driveway.
Hadn't driven a tractor in decades when I bought this little sub-compact.
Will need to clean up the plow frame welds as they are getting a bit rusty and make sure their is no cracking, but the plow works well enough to speed up the cleaning.

Hope everyone is having a great Saturday.

 

[two_bit_score]

Good Morning! (it's still only 11:52am here)

Ron that 19f makes the 39f I woke up to this morning seem tropical. I just now finally found my pair of flannel lined jeans so I'm now ready for a little cold weather.

BEF, hang in there I think it's going to get worse then better in no time.

Buppies, it's good to hear you got restful sleep last night!

scott_ and everyone still getting snow, just enjoy it while it's there, sunny days are coming!

We are going to be running back and forth between the Piney Woods and the Hill Country for the next couple weeks.

Two weeks of EV starts Tuesday Feb. 20th and then Election Day is March 5th. Super Tuesday!

An old friend of mine used to pull this on people around Elections.
Him: Did you vote yet? Other: sure did.
Him: Well, if you didn't vote like me you voted wrong. Other: Uh, how did you vote?
Him: Like I wanted to.

It's always darkest before the dawn.

Everyone have a great Saturday! Stay warm and well-fed, be happy and pray for our Nation.

 

[m7040]

Plowed the driveway and cleaned up around the house. Sun is doing a good job drying up

D is sounding a little better. She has been sick most of the week with a cold.
Reviewed her resume that she had someone prepare. Very impressive. Nice clear inspiring format. Several interviews next week

 

[sodamo]

To do my 240v outlet yesterday I had to drill appropriate hole in the metal cover. Bought a set of carbide tipped hole saws off Temu. Worked great except near the end the drive belt was jumping off the pulley of my 2007 Delta 17-950L drill press. Never had that happen before. Seems pulley is held in place by a nut which had come off. Found the nut, no problem just reinstall. Not quite as the threads appear a bit bunged up ???? Strange as I’ve maybe changed speeds (belt position) maybe 3 or 4 times since 2007 and that doesn’t involve removing pulley. Rather exhaustive internet search showed both nut and sleeve no longer available. Further research showed both are some special size LH thread. Did find a forum where some guy machined his own, not within my skill set. Thinking maybe some sort of collar with a set screw would work. I surely can’t justify replacing the whole DP.

 

[Engineer42]

feel better Dennis.

but perhaps don't eat what my friend's friend who ordered this at nice restaurant in DE last night.
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muskrat
really?

I'm not sure this is overly appealing:

Must have been at Southern Grill

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Ate a bowl of soup for lunch, then my stomach has been hurting since. I felt great taking amoxicillin, this new one is tearing me up. 1 a day for next 4 days. Azithromycin.

 

[scott_vt]

Good Afternoon Guys,
David, maybe you can talk Kyle into machining a LH nut ! Or better yet find out if NacMaster Carr stocks it ! English or metric ? I could do it for you if I still worked at Pitney Bowes ! Unfortunately don’t have those capabilities any longer !

muskrat
really?

Drew, all I can think of now is Captain and Tenille singing Muskrat Love !

scott_ and everyone still getting snow, just enjoy it while it's there, sunny days are coming!

TBS, yes indeed, don’t think that I’m not thinking about spring right about now !

 

[buckeyefarmer]

35° and sunny. Snow is melting fast.
I about lost it on that picture.

 

[LouNY]

Afternoon all;
It's up to 30F outside now. Got back from grocery shopping, there went a quick $200 the only meat being some Italian sausage. I feel sorry for working families.
We got another inch of snow this morning, now going to bother plowing much. I am going to run the backblade backwards down the driveway then I've accumulated almost a full 35 gallon trash can of coal ashs so will spread them just spilling out of the bucket to get some color so it will pull the sun in to melt of during the week. Otherwise it'll be ice from the tires and don't need that.

Stay healthy or get well

 

[daugen]

Must have been at Southern Grill

Brother Rick - last night at Southern Grill. He gives it 4 stars!

 

[daugen]

I've never seen a muskrat I loved and that one was a bit well done

something tells me it doesn't taste like chicken.

sorry Buckeye, Tums for you

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I've never seen a muskrat I loved and that one was a bit well done

something tells me it doesn't taste like chicken.

sorry Buckeye, Tums for you

I wish, can’t take tums with this antibiotic, because that’s what I need.
Body Temperature is 99° now.

 

[scaredychicken]

Good Morning Everyone, I missed you guys. (I'm 150 pages behind on this thread, so no idea what is going on). Anyways, It's good to check in.

It's been a busy, somewhat difficult month, and some internet issues keeping me offline and away from TBN etc...
I'm doing Okay. Managed to get through most of the snow in the past month ... I think that I had 12 hrs of snow-plowing on the tractor. No changes in the Separation status. Things have slowed a bit due to sciatica / pinched nerve issues (extremely painful), but the worst of that is over. Trips to town are limited because I'm still struggling to get into my truck. I'll check in later again. Have a good day.

 

[rswyan]

A chilly 26F and currently sunny @ 15:00, only calling for a high of 25F ... so we've beaten that already ...

Low this morning was 19.8F ... warmer temps can't get here soon enough.

A couple inches of snow from yesterday to today, at least enough to cover the ground.

After checking the compression nut on the saddle valve last night I brought up the HF hammer drill and started on the shower pan in the master bedroom.

Couldn't find the point bit so I used a long 1" (?) drill bit instead and it was enough to get some holes drilled so I could get the end of crowbar driven in and start breaking it up with a hand sledge.

I think the old pan is a Swanstone ... probably around 4" thick and very similar to terrazzo/concrete. Don't think they make them exactly like that any more ... the new ones appear to be molded under pressure and weight quite a bit less: 40 lbs versus the probably 100+ lbs the old one weighs.

Managed to get it all broken up and mostly loaded into three gallon buckets. Will wait until warmer weather to get it moved outside and disposed of.

Next up will be removal of the subfloor in the shower and around the toilet.

Woman has been working on gathering and packing stuff in the 3rd bedroom, which has become a bit of a catch-all area. Plan is to take a lot of that to Goodwill once it warms up.

Hope everyone is having a decent Saturday and is keeping warm ...

 

[rswyan]

RS glad you got cabinet down and new fridge in place.

You and me both.

Going to shorten cabinet and replace?

No.

Woman floated that idea but not really worth the T and E since that cabinet was really never used regularly or all that much.

Planning on replacing all the kitchen cabinets.

They are the original "builders cabinets", so quality wasn't all that high to begin with.

After 50+ years of use they are showing their age and some wear.

Glad you got nap in.

Guard that beef ...

 

[KilroyJC]

feel better Dennis.

but perhaps don't eat what my friend's friend who ordered this at nice restaurant in DE last night.
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muskrat
really?

I'm not sure this is overly appealing:

Isn’t it time for the big Annual Muskrat Dinner in Mickleton?

 

[Engineer42]

Isn’t it time for the big Annual Muskrat Dinner in Mickleton?

There was a local VFD close by that had an annual dinner with muskrat and greens, gizzard soup, and fried chicken livers. It was normally well attended.

 

[Wagtail]

Good (Sunday) morning. Overnight Low of 13.8C and it's presently 16.8C, somewhat overcast & calm.

I'm off to Church In a half hour, however I have a meeting to attend this arvo. It's in Campbell Town so I'll need to leave here by 1230 and should be home by 1900 if all goes well. THEN the rest of the day will be His.

That's about it, take care all.