Good morning!!!!

   / Good morning!!!! #204,031  
Coffee is brewing. 13° with partly cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 43° with cloudy skies. Worked on getting my camera bird feed up and working. Need to mount a solar panel next. Picked up roofing supplies to put a metal roof on my garage. 30 sheets of 12' long roofing and a bunch of trim. Will be my spring project with help from neighbor.
Have to keep a good watch when Sassy is outside.
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David and Scotty, I did all the winter sports when I was a kid. But not skiing. Sledding, Ice skating, Fishing and snow removal. My 2 boys got the same. They got to ad snowmobiling, I still have my sled and toboggan.

Everyone stay safe and well.

Good Morning All.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #204,032  
good morning all
mighty cold, 19 out going to 38 in sun today, start of a slow warmup

in this town growing up there were two sledding hills, one the site of the new toll bridge, a place
called magill's hill, which I think kids still sled on, though likely not allowed. The other was a secret hill inside the
wildflower preserve this side of Bowman's Hill, where the hill was very steep, so you went down like a rocket, straight into woods.
if lucky, you made it through the woods and down to the stream there.

last sledding I've done was up at friend's cabin in Catskills. He has a mile long dirt road up to the cabin on side of mountain, and a few times we
could keep moving the entire way. Later on as we got older, the ATV would come out and haul all the kids back to the top with a long rope.
pretty sure one of my friend's kids lost a tooth on that hill, crashed into something.

when they start installing safety features on sleds, ???
nothing like a good old fashioned aluminum saucer, ours had quite a few dents in it.
today the early wooden Flexible Flyers are worth some money

sure is nice the sun is coming up earlier.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #204,033  
18 going to 47.

When the boys were younger, we'd clear the brush out at the bottom of the hill to make a great landing for sledding down our hill...There was one tree that was a problem if you didn't make the turn at the bottom, so I tied an old foam mattress around it...it really helped one time after a flip-over rolling crash...another time my son turned wrong and ended up breaking through the ice on the creek and got soaked and mad...claimed I gave him too fast a push. Our favorite thing was building a ski jump ramp of snow halfway down the trail and riding the sleds over them to get "air."
 
   / Good morning!!!! #204,034  
Good morning, the low is 8 and going up to 27°F. Wind SE 5 mph. 30% chance of flurries.

I guess IF I can get the car going, it will be going to the shop today for a new alternator AND serpentine belt. If you gotta take it half apart for the one, then you might as well do the other at the same time.

Time to get on with 'it'.

Have a safe day all
 
   / Good morning!!!! #204,035  
Good morning TBN!!
22 this morning going to the upper 50s under sun.
Nothing really yesterday. Wife went to do some shopping and the dog and I fended for ourselves.


I remember at about ten yo my neighbor had built a homemade sled outta wood. We had gone to a girl scout camp (I have 4 sisters) that had a fresh coating of snow. I got the sled to the top of the hill and decided I would take it on it's maiden voyage. Jumped on and down the fairly steep hill and was roaring along having a blast. Turns out the steering was nonexistent. Hit a tree head on. My Dad later said my eyes were going in different directions when he got to me. Definitely a concussion. Shook it off. :)
Not sure what I will get in to today but something I'm sure.

Time for a second cup and off to whatever.
Everyone have a great and safe day!!
 
   / Good morning!!!! #204,036  
:)
-7F clear sky 10-15mph wind low 20's for high,slow warm up starts tomorrow.

Outside chores done E muffin time.
Plans for today...AM town for critter food PM :unsure: going to be slow motion day.

Enjoy your day all.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #204,037  
Good Morning!!!!

King Edward Cigar Time is 4:32am Central


Looks to be shaping up for a nice day today, except a little cloudy.
66°F Currently going up to high 70's.
No precip in forecast.
Winds 9mph out of the south.
Humdity at 90%

Not too much went on yesterday except some extended napping. Guess I needed to catch up and that is why I am awake so early.

Need to run by the cleaners, grocery and stop by a county office and pick up some materials.

Hope everyone has a great day today! Pray for our Nation!
 
   / Good morning!!!! #204,038  
All these wonderful remembrances. Being a bit removed from today’s kids, granddaughter will be 19 next month, I have to wonder about kids having fun these days. Wintersksting, sledding, tobogganing, winter had as much fun as summer and I’d have to say parental/adult supervision was a rarity, but often greeted with, “Did you have a good time” when finally home. Didn’t fully realize at the time, but I guess by today’s standard we grow up on the poor side, just didn’t know it. Never had a new pair of skates, nor a new sled, but still never did without. Strange I guess. Seems if we needed (wanted) something it would usually appear, even if not new and it was exciting to get it in shape. Rusted sledrunner, sanded and waxed, you better. skates filed to get an edge, yup. Was growing up fun, you better. A funny aside, but I was oldest of 8 kids, next 2 younger brothers were close, but still our experiences varied greatly. Never learned to ski until stationed in Europe when in mid 30’s.
We had one old pair of men’s ice skates, and my sister had skates. We made homemade hockey sticks, had 1 puck my oldest brother got in college, and we played 1 on 1 hockey on our pond. I couldn’t skate well, but managed to ice skate when I could never stand up on roller skates.

We used to invite friends to skate on our pond, we would build a big fire nearby to warm up.
So much fun in the 70s. We had some serious winters then.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #204,039  
Good Morning from Central Texas,
At 5:15am 63.9 degrees / 63.3 dew point. Forecast 78.

Another day of miscellaneous project "to-do's". I was able to do some re-stocking of the pond with fathead minnows (5 lbs) and green perch (50) the other day. It usually gets too late in the year when I remember and don't get it done. My contact did not have any pond fertilizer available yet.

The USAF operates the Advanced Airborne Command Post (AACP) Boeing E4-A/B aircraft as a National Emergency Operation Center "doomsday plane". The design is capable of staying airborne for a full week if needed. Advanced communications with EMP protection can carry to 108 people.

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Wishing all a great day.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #204,040  
Good morning 65˚F heading to the mid 70s, S wind cloudy.

Perfect weekend for the "Farm" finally - sunny and the low 80s. With the tulip festival and the baby animals we had a bumper crowd - 5000 for the weekend. On my 5 hr. tractor shift yesterday I hauled 600 people, some of the trailers were full - 60 people.

The pic below does not give the tulip field justice. The best view was from the tractor road on the back side but I couldn't stop for the pic because I never had an empty trailer. At least you can see the photo opps the finished windmill, the baby grand piano and the bicycle. I was finally able to take this pic after closing.
 

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