Good morning!!!!

[riptides]

It was 62 when I left this AM. Yesterday we hit 73. I was working in the yard picking up branches and chain-sawing, in a tee-shirt. They say after today, it is suppose to get cold again.

Merry Christmas everyone. All the best for you and your families in the New Year.

 

[Thomas]

30F more than mist falling w/thin coat of ice on all surfaces,expecting more rain w/warmer temps..sure hope rain stop early w/higher temps before cold temps come moving in.

 

[daugen]

good morning all, just pouring here, and looks like it will continue for awhile. Well, look at the bright side. All that salt is now washed off the road for awhile.
Of course the bad news is sooner or later it will all wind up in the Chesapeake Bay...

get my stitches taken out of my back this morning, I have no idea how many, can't see anything, but he put in four layers of stitches and I'm assuming/hoping only the top ones are coming out. The whole area is still puffed up with fluid, I'm wondering if I'm trying to "spit a stitch" down below; I've rejected the dissolvable ones before.
Sorry, too much info for this early in the morning.

Hoping that as things get colder after Christmas that I'll be able to get back to wood splitting. The whole area was a swamp a couple days ago, needs a hard freeze and then I can get back to work. Need to get a bunch split before they operate on my right arm in January. And then boy will I be glad to get away from doctors. All this stuff I've put off for too long; need to get my 100,000 mile rebuild done so I can leave on my rv trip in April in good health. or at least as good as I'm going to get.

Charlie, nice to hear from you, don't be a stranger.

 

[toppop52]

I had meant to say today was the first full day of winter, so you guys up north can start with the snow and ice now. What, wait..... It has already been cold?




My Daddy and Granddaddy both worked during the day, so most folks knew to come in the evenings for their drinking whiskey. But when someone would come to buy liquor before the men got home, if my Granny was the only one home they would have to come back later. She wouldn't have anything to do with it. But if Mamma was there she would put the hose in the five gallon can and siphon out however much they wanted. She was not as calm when it came to delivery though. They traded three car loads for an almost new '56 Ford. They took out the back seat and stacked cans in there, covered them with a quilt and put my little 2 year old cousin on it. They would take it through Marianna during the noon rush hour so the fact the car was weighted down wouldn't stand out. Her nerves were bad, but Daddy made her ride along so it looked like a family outing.

Larro

Whiskey is why I'm from NC. My grandfather and uncle Bill along with their families and a couple of friends, moved to NC to get away from the feds in northern Alabama. Grandpa had already spent a year as a guest of the feds. That was in the early 40's. They struck a deal with a local bus company to deliver the goods from around South Mills, NC, up 17 about 30 miles to Norfolk, VA. One Alabama family opened a store and supplied the corn meal, yeast and most importantly, the sugar. They had quite an operation. By the time I got out after the summer of '73, I'd been away in the service the previous 2 years, we were running a 500 gallon cooker and 500 gallon boiler, all stainless and buried in the banks of the George Washington Canal under the Dismal Swamp. Corn was a major cash crop around there!

Warm and rainy today, cold and blustery the rest of the week.

 

[daugen]

boy you guys with moonshine in your DNA need to get together and
make up a big batch for "internal consumption" as in TBN only.
Now I would probably choke and gasp, but I'm game...

For over forty years I've been making an annual or more often trek to a little cabin on the side of a mountain in the Catskills, owned by my closest friend.
A wonderful tradition for us, as we've worked our way through snowmobiles, ATV's and now UTV's to get up to the cabin in the winter. We're just too old to walk slightly over one mile in snow which frankly feels like straight up after about half way when it really gets steep. But anyway..., at the bottom of the trail to the cabin was the closest neighbor, a retired Polish guy who made his own slivovitz.(sp?) He was so proud of that stuff, and every time we visited, he trotted it out and we all had to have a small glass. Brutal stuff. I'm sure it would take off paint. Took me a while to get to the bottom, since I drink very little, but I would dutifully polish off that homemade hooch.

So yeah, when you good old (senior) boys make up your first batch, pack it in mini bottles and sell it/err...give it away to all of us.
And we will donate to your favorite very local charity. Hmmm. I bet the IRS/NSA is fiddling with their dials right now....
Hmmm. I guess that means a drone in my back yard next.:dance1: I might feed it something different than the birds though.

 

[ronjhall]

First cup of coffee is poured. 47° with clouds this morning. Heading to 63° with clear sunny skies all day. Not much to do but enjoy the sun today. Looks like the power outages up north at our home missed our place. To all those that are without power. Hope it gets put back on soon.
Good Morning All.

 

[RoyJackson]

2013-12-23, 0825

33 and drizzling here now...80% chance of rain and like Thomas, I hope it ends early...the cold front moves in tonight.

 

[wngsprd]

Toppop,
I canoed some of the Dismal Swamp canals in Chesapeake back in the mid 70's and quail hunted an adjacent farm across 17...sure wish I had found your stash. At least it is nice to now know there was hidden treasure so close.

 

[txdon]

Good Morning! Bright sunny day, 32˚ heading to 52˚.

My chain saw chain quite spinning so I watched a youtube on how to replace a stripped out sprocket using the rope method to disassemble it and it worked! The new sprocket will be here soon.

 

[deerseeker001]

15 this morning with snow showers through the day could get a trace to 1-2 inches.i plowed yesterday got everything cleaned up.