Good morning!!!!

[kenmbz]

fence in, looks nice, I'm making believe those are waves on top...
ordered three climbing roses from Jackson & Perkins for the Spring.
feels great getting my privacy back
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Some blue and white paint and it can even look like waves!

 

[Looking4new]

fence in, looks nice, I'm making believe those are waves on top...
ordered three climbing roses from Jackson & Perkins for the Spring.
feels great getting my privacy back
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I wonder how long it will take the wingnut to bounce off it with his car?

 

[mpham]

Phil those are real interesting. In what did you embed the rock pieces? I have an Osage orange duck call, my favorite.

Used easy set epoxy in a 1/4deep x1/2 wide groove I cut into the wood. I wish the green and white rocks would have shown up better.

 

[daugen]

I wonder how long it will take the wingnut to bounce off it with his car?

hopefully not

light snow out, will flurry for hours, just a light coating of white

 

[Wagtail]

Good (Friday) morning. Overnight Low of 11.7C and it's presently 21.2C, mostly cloudy with a steady breeze.

The only thing planned for today is mowing/trimming with the Z-turn this arvo.

As to 'Military Service' organisations; my RSL (Returned Service League) has a small but steady membership... yeah, we're slowly shrinking due to age. The 'club' building has become an RSL/Citizen club to keep numbers (and finances) up. We do have a dedicated museum/meeting building next door with advocacy/information for Veterans provided.

Both the local Lions Club and Rotary Club have shut down due to the lack of membership. People just don't want to volunteer anymore.

That's about it, take care all.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Poured first cup of hot coffee. 10° with cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 22° with cloudy skies and westerly wind. Got house cleaned and laundry done. Even got it folded and put away. Off to semi annual dentist appointment this morning. Then see what shows up in when I get home.
Finally got as cloud free sight of January Wolf Full Moon.

Everyone stay safe and well.

Good Morning All.

Ron, beautiful pic of the moon. I can even see the "acne" on the eastern edge.

15 heading to 41, and the NWS says a chance of snow today.

Phil those are real interesting. In what did you embed the rock pieces? I have an Osage orange duck call, my favorite.

BEF, sorry your electric bill is so high. Rates have skyrocketed in much of the PJM grid due to retirement of coal and gas plants, reducing overall capacity, and the shift to solar rather than natural gas to add new capacity. Plus, as Rip testified, many new data centers adding demand. Rates are projected to have an even more significant increase this year. Next bill may be even higher since we've had a near record stretch of below normal temps to start the year. But as Buppies says, and I agree, cold is good for the soul.

Sorry about the high bills. I have heard that exporting LNG, will keep gas prices up or even higher.
I want some new nuclear plants here in Texas. The kind that works when the sun don't shine, or the wind don't blow, or if the natural gas supply lines that aren't winterized freeze over.

I heard that Microsoft is involved in a project that would get 3 Mile Island working again.

Work was busy today, got a lot of small tasks done. Setting up to make some small round disks of 1018 metal to make hardness testing samples. On Monday, our fancy Buehler Abrasimet cutoff saw's motor let the magic smoke out of the motor, and that called the fire department to the scene, despite my desperate attempts to call them off. Whole building evacuated for 1 small puff of burnt motor smoke. Seriously, the puff was no bigger than a guy exhaling a breath of cigarette smoke. Room needs better vent hood.

Stayed a bit late, to attend a mandatory safety meeting complete with Dominoes pizza. The new admin lady put bell peppers on almost every type she ordered, except for the cheese pizza. I can eat cooked or pickled jalepenos but my stomach doesn't like bell peppers. I might tease her and tell her "your fired". LOL

Stopped and got insurance for the motorcycle my buddy is gifting me. I'm stoked about getting it. They wanted about $200/year just for liability, but full coverage was $367 if I paid in full for the year, so I got the full coverage. Not a big fan of the brand of insurance, but not many underwrite motorcycles.

I have a full face Arai helmet that has venting all over. I bought it for summer/warm riding. While it has covers on most of the vents, there are 2 or 3 that I will have to cover with some tape for tomorrow's cool 2 hour ride.

Prayers for our team, the sick, the USA, Israel, and Ukraine.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

I believe most of the clubs are waning around here too. We have 2 local Lions clubs, not sure how well attended they are.

When I was a young little league baseball player, my home town's Elks Lodge sponsored our team. It was their first year to sponsor and boy did we have some nice new uniforms. We didn't win the championship, but the Lodge had us over for a BBQ at the end of the season. I don't know if the Elks Lodge is even still active or not down there. Hardly anyone knew what BPOE stood for. I only knew because they taught us that.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

They want to build new 765KV power line near me from PA, 3 mile island, to feed new data centers all around DC.

 

[mostly_gas]

Too tired to post, try again in morning.

 

[ronjhall]

Drinking first cup of coffee. 19° with clear skies this morning. Heading to 34° with mostly cloudy skies and westerly winds. Grocery shopping went good. Got home and cleaned up shop and pole barn. Snow finally stopped falling. Got tractor out and plowed snow off drive and walkways. Also did neighbors drive. Today is a conserve energy day.

Kyle, the acne on right side of moon picture is because sun is not giving a true full moon. It was a day and 1/2 off from full moon because of clouds taking that picture. A true full moon photo will not have any acne. It was a great picture though.

Everyone stay safe and well.

Good Morning All.