Good morning!!!!

[check]

Merry Christmas everyone!!

 

[Looking4new]

Merry Christmas everyone!

 

[NHBX]

Merry Christmas to one and all.

 

[Portuguese Farmer]

Bom dia feliz ano novo!

 

[ronjhall]

Drinking first cup of warm coffee. 30° with cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 34° with cloudy skies. Did not clean walkways. Snow on top of 1/2" of ice was safer than removing snow. Started piecing pipe and fittings together for new whole house filters. After making family and friend phone calls may get back on filter project. Planned Christmas get together had to be canceled because to many have flu and other winter illnesses. Hope to make it happen over the weekend.

Have a Very MERRY CHRISTMAS​

Everyone stay safe and well.

Good Morning All.

 

[mpham]

Merry Christmas everyone!
Currently 23 out with light wind. This will be the high for the day. We have a white Christmas here. About 3 inches fell yesterday. I shoveled the 3 driveways as it's good exercise. About 9000 steps.
Dinner with family today.
Hope everyone sick or ailing feels better!

 

[daugen]

Good morning and Merry Christmas!
should be a nice sunny day with high of 38

had fun last night at inlaws but wore me out.
new baby fun and I got to hold him, he seemed fascinated with my glasses.
nice dinner and nice to see my 98 year old MIL.

going to slowly make myself a nice breakfast and open a few presents.
My sister sent me some piece of kitchen equipment, I can tell from size and shaking it.
She doesn't seem to remember I don't have room for anything else here but perhaps a motivation
to reorganize kitchen wall shelving. I'm guessing it's an air fryer. something healthy...

got a nice note from elderly neighbor across the street thanking me for inviting them over and the xmas gift.
Unfortunately, and I'm glad she was honest, neither one of them likes smoked fish. So my very fancy tins of gourmet smoked trout and salmon
were returned to me, and I swapped them for a box of locally made chocolate pretzels. Those were appreciated.
works for me.

I can understand not liking fairly strong tasting fish.
Pretty sure it's very healthy to eat and on a cracker, a little goes a long way.
my Father used to cook kippered herrings for Sunday breakfast once in a while, what a horrible smell that made.
kippered herrings, scrapple and bacon. No bland food at our house.
not very healthy either... though we had steamed vegetables every night, often from our own garden.
I think we have all gotten smarter about what we eat.

now off to enjoy a second cup of coffee with a yummy piece of Popgadget's apple nut loaf.
always say I'm going to freeze them but so good they disappear in a few days.

special Christmas wishes to those ailing in body and spirit, may the love of the day lift you up.

 

[Happy in NC]

Merry Christmas TBN!!
May it be healthy and Happy!!

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, the low is 10 and going to a high of 27°F. Wind S 5 mph. 30% chance of flurries. From Friday through Monday the high is going to be above freezing.

Getting sick sux anytime, but at Christmas it seems to be worse.

Sunday mornings growing up was almost always sardines on toast. I can't stand the smell of sardines now, although I still like a good tinned salmon salad sandwich as long as it is made with Miracle Whip.

Have a very Merry Christmas all and stay safe

 

[daugen]

not sure who is close to this but it sure looks nice

https://weather.com/travel/video/tiny-north-carolina-city-transforms-into-christmas-town-usa?cm_ven=hp-slot-1

driving home last night was fun to just slow down and look at all the xmas lights and decorations.

 

[Happy in NC]

I used to work in Gastonia. Right next to it. Been through it and it is nice but crowded. Usually backs up traffic at the exit from I-85

 

[wngsprd]

Merry Christmas!

 

[B7510HSD]

Merry Christmas Everyone!

 

[riptides]

Merry Christmas to my TBN friends and families.

 

[Thomas]

14F sunny day mid 20's for high.
Outside chores done E muffin time.

Yesterday late afternoon plow clean 5" of snow,early evening attendant wife's small Christmas Eve get together and I felt like cat in room full of rocking chairs,nobody had tractor nor interest in wildlife it was long 4 hours.

Plans for today...slow putter day might clean snow off the roof since rain in the forecast other than that watch some football and feast.

Have safe pleasant Christmas all.

 

[txdon]

Merry Christmas!
55˚ heading to 65˚ with cloudy skies N wind becoming Easterly.

The neighbors that gave us the Australian Plant based cookbook were treated with three types of no bake cookies: peanut butter/chocolate and ginger/lime and chocolate/cranberry/coconut

The severe weather never materialized on Christmas Eve (SE of us got it) and the candlelight service was very good.

Today the 3 golf courses are closed for golfing but open for walking, which we will take advantage of.

 

[scott_vt]

Good Morning,
Merry Christmas to all my TBN friends !
Ct,18 to start going to 36 supposedly! Sky looks clear but sun has not risen yet !

All the kiddos come over at 9 so it looks like I will be making breakfast and bacon along with that ! Should be total chaos after that with unwrapping of all these gifts !.

Hope all have a wonderful Christmas Day !

 

[daugen]

Scott,Christmas chaos is the best!
Don, chocolate cranberry coconut cookies sound marvelous

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning and Merry Christmas to all.
30° and overcast. Supposed to become partly cloudy with a high of 35 before the temp dips into the 20’s.

Yesterday started out with breakfast with the professor, then into the tractor plowing the driveway, then shoveling the walks and hard to get areas. This time my son was out there with the shovel getting most of that done while I was in the tractor.
Next was to clean out the fireplace and try to put a dent in the endless tufts of dog hair that Zoe leaves us. Fortunately, she doesn’t shed like this year round, but it’s impressive to say the least.
Did some more chores like repairing a fiberglass snow shovel handle by turning a Delrin insert and slathering it all with cyanoacrylate glue and the pressing it back together with a couple of #10 through bolts for good measure.
Then it was time to head out and deliver more baked goods.
That kept me occupied until about 3.
Once I got home it was back to the shop for some more chores, then start a fire and make dinner.

 

[daugen]

Amazon.com

I don't know why this popped up but looks like you can now get one larger lithium battery to replace all six 8 volt
lead acid batteries in a traditional golf cart, for less money.
I looked at other higher power models at twice this cost but this looks like
"standard" power. Was thinking something Buckeye should investigate in about three years when those Trojan batteries in his
new to him golf cart start nearing retirement.

And if the drivetrain in Popgadget's utility cart ever dies, he can get the high performance lithium package
or maybe build something custom for his grandson. Quiet electric zipping around won't upset the alpacas

does make you wonder when this world will run out of lithium.
better invent something else.
lot of folks working on their version of the holy grail of storage batteries.

if I got the story right from my BIL, two Teslas locally crashed into each other and both caught on fire,
and fire company could not put it out for hours.
I think caution is the name of the game.
I leave all my cordless tool batteries out of the tool until I need them
on a metal shelf or concrete
things that can spontaneously combust, no matter how unlikely, deserve some care