Good morning!!!!

[Thomas]

It looks like I will be plowing today.

Enjoy the seat time and your more than welcome any snow we get.

 

[Thomas]

In honor of National Take a Hike Day, here's the trail we visited...View attachment 4418000

The best time of year.

 

[Thomas]

25F partly cloudy gusty winds final decreasing.

3 hour Meeting in Mass. was interesting.
Putter in basement putting shelfs for chainsaw battery's tool boxes etc,hooks in floor joyces hang trimmer leaf blowers.
Afternoon little Boo kinds playful mood pulling branches limbs from the brush pile corner front field,couple vehicles stop take pictures.

Plans for the evening dinner soon pillow time will come early tonight.

Enjoy your evening all.

 

[daugen]

Thomas, put an honesty box out labeled
BEAR PICTURES
$5
see if we can make little Boo pay his way

 

[buckeyefarmer]

as long as it doesn't have a scope....

 

[mostly_gas]

Good afternoon all. 44ºF for the start, clear sky, light breeze. Light wind, clear sky, and high temp was 66ºF. made coffee to stat day, office work, reading, walk the beach to lunch, walk back, about a mile each way. Nap, email and posting on TBN. Now dinner time.
resuming Wednesday 11/12 8:22 AM CST post 214,066:
Paul glad breakfast with professor was good. Wish you wise guys could solve the world's problems. Glad shop clean up is progressing. Thanks for pics of plane retrieval from tree top. First time I have heard of rotors being that stuck.
Ken glad basement utility room cleaned out and floor cleaned. Filter does look purdy.
Frits bet D does not repeat that mistake again!!
Peter glad you picked up on water problem so fast, and Mr Fix-it showed up so fast. $900 for contactor takes my breath away.Hope you got your recovery day and no damage from solar storm.
Dennis sorry old pics still hiding.
David glad the M8 shear bolt worked. Sorry you didn't find a free Vet dinner, but sounds kike you both had a good dinner.
RS glad utility room insulation/remodel coming along. I hate it when I don't get something charged especially when I make it a point to get it charged. Sorry you haven't heard from driller.
Drew glad nice lunch, I did see Northern Lights down here in Texas.
Drew thanks for trip down memory lane. Sorry the motor got lunched so quick.
Thomas glad good day at work, good to hear shepard pie made and kitty got good chasing.
Bill glad BB moving free, and more snow plowing done. 4.5 gal about the capacity of the fuel tank of my 1700 Ford.
Randy(wag) sorry about power loss, did you get it back quick. Glad good town run, and geraniums cleanup almost down. Hope you had a good sit tight day.
Buppies sorry plant went down. prayers sent.
Kyle I didn't know that poodles are sometimes used as retrievers. Hope the tree project goes well at your mom's place.
Kyle sorry about the purge canister failure. Sounds like there was close to 50# of gas in the tank, hope you got the pellets out before tank got reinstalled.
Thursday 3:41 AM CST:
Ron hope sorry about all the down tree limbs. Hope you were able to finish the clean up Thursday. nice sandhill crane pic.
Bill hope dump run/ town run went well as well as quack appointment and remember to drop paperwork. Hope you got your nap.
Drew hope the landlady enjoyed the drive. Sorry about the vacuum fairy MIA I have same problem in Texas.
Billy glad you got to see the Northern lights. They were just a blob here too.
Drew thanks for the link. Way bigger than I need.
Happy(NC) glad good day yesterday. Good to hear fuel leak fixed on the buggy. Hope garage shuffle was fruitful.
Scott(VT) glad kids home safe. Hope your interval walking got the blood flowing.
Mike hope post op check went well.
WinterDeere If you looked north, you probably would have seen it. In Texas it was somewhat low in the north sky, trees interfered with viewing.
Frits hope you have most of the stacking done. Hope you got bee hive taken care of.
ArlyA hope appointment not too far out for Bronco. Sorry camp not in future this weekend.
Lou sorry you had trouble sleeping. Hope Dr appointment and tire change went well. Tires are not cheap anymore.
Ken your pic is what I saw for northern lights.
Frits thanks for sharing D's vac pics.
Peter I did not know that about beer.
David hope the rain helps. Sorry back is tweaked. Hope guys did well at H&F and back responds to rest.
RS glad progress, looks like getting close to drywall, hope leaf work went well.
Drew sorry wind messed with you. Hope you got some outside work done Friday.
More catch up after dinner.

 

[Wagtail]

Good (Tuesday) morning. Overnight Low of 10C and it's presently 22.4C, clear with a strong wind.

A lovely day yesterday which included a visit to my house of an echidna... just trundling along with whatever purpose was in its mind.

A great Parish Council meeting last evening. I did show up a bit early to conduct a couple of small 'repairs' and to do a personal survey of any future projects/concerns of the Church (corner stone laid in 1881). Home by 1750.

Today will be wood stacking out at the wood-shed.

Annoying 'sniffles' continuing. Oh, well.

That's about it, take care all.

 

[WinterDeere]

I have to be careful eating pancakes, otherwise in an hour I feel jittery and hungry.

I used to make pancakes every weekend morning, when my kids were young. What I noticed was that no matter how much I'd stuff myself full of them, I was hungry again by mid-morning. No staying power, even compared to regular old Honey Bunches of Oats or Raisin Bran.

And before anyone asks, I'd usually have three sausage links and real maple syrup with my pancakes.

 

[Looking4new]

Maple syrup, so good. Corn syrup so bad.

Pure Maple syrup all natural, corn syrup not so much.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

So I did manage to get the big fuel tank back in place. Ended up nearly having it installed and I had to lower it again to take off the side heat shield so I could get the last line connected. Then I managed to almost pinch a line when trying to get it up the final inch...Lowered it again, got that line OVER the cross frame rail like it belongs. Tightened the band strap bolts, had son put some gas back in it. Said a prayer and she started right up. Had a CEL for a few seconds but that went away on its on.
Ended up putting a China (I figure, from Amazon) fuel pump in it while I had it out. Mainly because they promised the fastest delivery, but they lied and the delivery came a day late...and so I waited. Had 5 star rating. All said the parts were about 300ish. I would figure if I had taken it to a reputable shop they would have charged me around $1500 to get all the fuel/evap lines from the engine to the back of the truck cleared of the carbon pellets.

Fire alarm chirped. Ten year battery only 18 month in. Took it up to the compressor and blew it out to see if that will fix it. Chirping stopped but will see if it returns

Not sure what I will get into today

Weird, I thought false fire alarms only go off from 1am to 3am.

Before we get to many questions, below is how google describes the German farmers who migrated to Russia, then later moved to the Midwest to homestead and farm. 55% of my home state of SD is these German-Russian's.

-------------- Below I'll add---------------

There was already people on the land that Catherine invited them to use and they did not like these German's who had more rights than them and paid no taxes either.. Their stay didn't last very long and after they found out about about the homestead act and the land, whole towns picked up and moved to the USA. Most ended up in ND SD, MN and NE and started up whole communities of these German-Russian's. In ND you can find onion domed churches built by these immigrates.

------------------------------------- google says below.
German settlers were invited to Russia by Empress Catherine the Great starting in the 18th century, who offered them land, religious freedom, and other privileges to colonize new territories. These settlers, known as Volga Germans, Black Sea Germans, and others, populated areas like the Volga region, the Black Sea coast, and the Caucasus. Over time, many faced a loss of privileges and were later deported during World War II, though German communities and their descendants remain in parts of the former Soviet Union and have also settled in other countries like the United States and Canada.

Interesting.

Happy, you have my condolences. I lost my sorry excuse for a dad on my bday, but I lost my female Golden Retriever on another bday. But no comparison to losing a son. You have my prayers tonight.

Buppies and Holly too, prayers.

Popgadget, I decided to knock the dust off of our Torchmate Plasma table today, to get it ready for demonstrations. The auto voltage height control is acting up. Lincoln says to check the set voltage, and the ground clamps. I believe maybe the wires are oxidized from sitting. What its doing is it will pierce the cut, then lower to start xy movement, but about 1/2" later it jumps up about 3/8" to 1/2" high and keeps cutting. It still makes a nice cut, but albeit twice as wide of cut kerf.
We have a benefactor who is willing to donate some money, and if we get enough, I hope to procure a new Langmuir Crossfire XR table to put our Hypertherm under. Need to order more finecut tips.