Good morning!!!!

[mpham]

Afternoon all!
Gorgeous day here. Sunny and high 60's!
Wife and I were in and out of the voting place in less than 15 minutes.
Rest of the day was puttering in the shop.
Meeting up with a logger tomorrow to see about getting some dangerous trees trimmed at the apartment house.
Spent the day leaf picking yesterday and I'm happy to say the yard even looks good now! Wind must be blowing them elsewhere. I put all of the tools away for the season except for my hand rake and tarp. Will do cleanup in the spring.
Tomorrow is forecast to be 75 and sunny here. Wife and I are going to goof off and enjoy it. Will be doing a few small errands and then maybe go out for lunch.
Made a winged box that wanted to chop my fingers off! Also was able to make a few more magic wands.
Hope everyone stays safe and healthy!

 

[Looking4new]

but Bill, now you can't drive it like you stole it! it's yours...

I haven't ever drove the Dodge like that. Now the Jeep, that was a different deal. It went through a snow covered ditch and clipped the community mail boxes. Cost me a fender flare and zero damage to the boxes.
Had 400 lbs of chicken feed in the back behind the rear axle and turned onto a snow covered side road and promptly lost it. It went left, then right, then around and I finally stepped on the clutch and it came to a stop. I crammed it into 4 wheel drive and carried on for the next two hours to the house in 4 wd. It had 4:10s on both ends with limited slip in the front axle and open diff in the rear. Most of that mistake was mine. I should have put 200 lbs of the feed on the passenger seat and moved the other 200 to closer to being over the rear axle. Live and learn.

 

[rswyan]

Beautiful afternoon, very warm and breezy.

Headed down this afternoon to vote at the local polling location, no line, no wait.

In and out in around 10 minutes, mostly because it was a longer ballot (4 pages due to multiple local issues)

Woman went down before I did, same deal.

 

[Wagtail]

Good (Wednesday) morning. Overnight Low of 9.3C and it's presently 24.8C, mostly sunny & calm-ish.

Beautiful day yesterday and the delivered wood got stacked. As I mentioned last week, I did a 'complete stretching routine' prior to tackling that job. I also put up a "Lest We Forget" poppy flag at my road-side gate/entrance as Remembrance Day is this coming Monday (11th November).

Today is 'into town' day for groceries & such.

That's about it, take care all.

and both the blanket and comforter washed just fine
in my washing machine.

Drew, you also inspired me to give my 'doona' (comforter) cover a wash yesterday.

Our Federal government agencies are moving towards newer technologies that allow for single sign on to multiple agencies. SS and IRS for instance are starting to utilize a service called login.gov. By registering with that service, one can use on-line services from both agencies. Sort of gets rid of having accounts at both and all the passwords to recall off post it notes.

We have that here. It's called MyGov and it's a one login/password with a text code verification website that is linked to your various government accounts... in my case, 4 of them: Veterans, ATO (tax), Medicare and, now, Centrelink (OAP).

It works very well in my experience.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Here is a commercial site that discusses that issue;
Switching from Medicare Advantage to a Medicare Supplement (Medigap)

thanks.

 

[LouNY]

Evening all;

Hope you all have voted, only 2 hours till the polls are closed.
My wife and I went down about 10AM one person in line ahead of us, went quickly.

Came home and I went and raked and blew leaves out of the ditches again so when it rains they won't plug up the culverts, blower, hand rake and york rake.

Then finished replacing the front work lights on the Branson had broken one this summer; and then noticed one of the rears is out.
One new (tractors left) and one old, low beam head lights, high beam headlights, then new work lights.

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All stay safe, get well and wishing the best for our country today.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 56ºF for the start, overcast, rain in area, .6 inch in gauge, breezy. Wind tapered of through day, Sky cleared, and high temp was 64ºF. Coffee to start day, grief Share, walked across hall and voted, no line. Bike ride, lunch puttered, nap, worked on bills and getting organized for tomorrow. Thawed shrimp for dinner, watched some election results, talked to you guys, Will watch more results before going to bed.
Scott(vt) hope you can sleep on plane and have a safe trip!
NHBX what is normal for temps for you in November? glad leaf work is mostly done.
Ron hope you accomplished the agenda for today. Neat feeder pic.
Buppies hope asphalt is up and running today. Hope you are getting enough sleep. prayers sent.
Bill hope good town run. The problem was not the deer did not hear whistle, they were too likely to cross road. SIL hit twp more deer after whistles installed. No new deer strikes in years.
Billy Hope you get some rain. Glad you and Della got hike in. Hope wallet not dented too bad at Costco. glad tire shop took good care of you.
Drew hope you fine a time for a short voting line. Hope shopping went well.
Thomas Boo has funny choices in what he plays with. Hope day went well.
Drew I got a similar letter a while ago now have a ".gov" login, accounts are being consolidated. Hope make bed went well, not a lot of room in RV.
Don nice rain amount. Sorry about the issues with the Tempest. Really sorry about A/C hope easy fix.
Happy(nc) good to hear leaf work about done. Good to hear you can still cross if conditions allow. Hope wait no long for voting.
Dennis good one about Boo
Plowhog Glad Rigby's new fence done. Hope he is not still testing it. Good to hear Rigby dealing better with other dogs.
Mike Hope you are done with trips for a while. Good luck with job search.
Dennis glad meeting good. Been through several preacher searches, not fun. Hope you get a good one! Funny to hear about restaurant confused by you showing up on "wrong" day. Happy b-day to youngest son. Hope shoulder surgery on oldest goes well.
Frits glad you are warm. Roast looks like it would make a good soup or stew. Hope you figure out a plan b for beam.
Kyle we only have small hospital within 30 minute drive. we got Care Flight helicopter service help the speed of medical care. Very glad you got some rain.
RNG hope you can get lights squared away on trailer. Hope you take car of some opportunities at new place.
Ken hope you got vote. Make the cassoulet in crock pot 30 mnutes to put together and 8 hours on low. Has a chipotle pepper in adobe sauce to give it zip Nice seat time pic.
Masseyrider sounds more like a nightmare.
David glad you got Dr appointment and home in spite of rain, Sorry about HH, I wouldn't cross that either.
PJ sorry about more rain on top of flooding. Glad pond is full. Hope voting went well. I am ready for politics to quiet down as well.
Bill congrats on paying off Dodge.
Frits glad plan B coming together.
Dennis good catch on finding loose bolt cause issue. Doesn't look like good access to nut.
Drew good catch on RV anode. I knew about half the election judges at polling place.
Phil glad voting went well, and more time in the shop. Hope bad trees get dealt with before they do something bad. Hope you and wife enjoy the nice weather together. Neat projects
RS glad no wait voting.
Randy(wag) glad firewood is stacked, and you survived without a lot of reminders. Hope good town run.
Lou glad no issues voting. Good to see lights fixed on tractor, not much daylight these days.
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle /Daughter, /mom's breathing, /son's migraines, Bird /aging issues,Mike /BIL in FL, 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, 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, Israel, Ukraine war, hurricane victims, and Country.

 

[NHBX]

NHBX what is normal for temps for you in November?

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, the low is 58 and the high to 57°F. Wind SW 14 gusting to 23 mph. Cloudy now with 60% chance of showers.

I'm up way too early, but there is nothing stopping me from going back to bed for a power nap or two. I woke up with the almost uncontrollable urge to park on the throne. It was a wasted dime. Can't take my pills until 6 A.M. at the earliest and can't eat until after I take them.

I will putz around on the net until I fall asleep in my chair, then go back to bed.

Have a good holiday Scott.

Have a safe day all

 

[daugen]

good morning all
a warm 62 out going up to almost 80 today, unseasonably warm

garden shed arriving this morning, need to go out and prune a few pine limbs too
close to its spot. Then I hope I'll have a fun time installing hangers and hooks inside, goal is to get all
garden stuff out of garage so that area can be woodworking and workshop only. And of course to park my car
in there before it snows.

as for headlines, oh my.