Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

Good morning! 44˚ and the WBS is on again.
Drew here is the Craig's List photo of the table we bought. It has 7 leaves with it so it will double in size.

Thanks Don. And others. Pretty clear to me I have to look very hard in CraigsList before I buy anything new. If they say nonsmoking house, at least that should mean no burn marks right? Just have to ask a lot of questions before I drive anywhere and hope folks are reasonably honest. Challenge is you'll never know if the seat wobbles from poor design or loose bolts until one sits on it and squirm around a bit. Some chair seats sit lower than others. Some seatbacks have some degree of lumbar support and some look like they do but don't. The table is easy, it's the chairs that concern me due to my arthritis and bad back.

Plus they are at the end of a long room and it's where your eye goes looking into the LR and DR so it needs to look more than utilitarian. And this is a table primarily for adults, not kids, so something slightly higher would be ok. Having said all that, I have to go run my hands over it and sit down on the chairs. See how heavy or lightweight the chairs are. And what happens when you rock back on one even a little. The prices on Craigslist look to be half or one quarter of new cost and sometimes, the really good quality stuff pops up for low cost due to a move or divorce or something. Really want solid wood furniture and want it locally made if possible.

Don, I can see that table loaded down with food at Thanksgiving with all the leaves in and a crowd of Texans stuffed around it.

And I grew up with a JD B, electric start, rubber tires, hand clutch, love the pic. pucka pucka

 

[bakerg]

Good morning, 28F here with about 2" of snow fall overnight. High today dropping to 21F this afternoon.

Also like the picture of the JD B.

 

[wngsprd]

28 with a nice sunny 52 on the menu for lunch.

Beautiful moonset this morning while hiking around with Coco and then feeding the birds. Dave, any birds hang around in the winter up your way?

Great love story, Dave...love at first sight.

Nice JD B pic. Ever watch the Mecum antique tractor auctions on RFD? Old JDs, Olivers, Allis Chalmers, etc.

I think we are now in the longest period ever without letting our woodstove go out...been burning continuously for a month. I know that's nothing for many of you, but around here we usually have a few consecutive warm days in January.

 

[wngsprd]

27 degrees going up to 57 today in clear weather.
Big work day here, hopefully the last one, new hanging doors going on rear of barn, just duplicated the ones in front, plus the window guys are coming to flash the last door installed, plus do some final caulking.
Meanwhile I have two helpers here today will keep busy keeping them busy,particularly the younger one to pick up sticks and brush. Am hoping I might get back in the woods while I have a helper and let him do the heavy hauling.

now on to more important things. I liked the joke. I thought it would go the other way,
his looking into her face and telling her his favorite comic character was PopEye.

well, you already have the groaner well greased....

finding a lot more interesting things on CraigsList, here's one in my home town:
Bassett Dining Room Set

Unless they took that photo back on the day they bought it, and then messed it up, that set looks great and sounds like a good deal.

 

[Eric Salop]

Nostalgia pic for a Wednesday morning. My uncle on his John Deere B picking cotton in central Texas.

Thanks for sharing picture, it's great to see older tractors in action.

Excuse my ignorance of the B model - has that tractor got twin exhuast pipes ?
I couldn't work out why, if they really are exhausts, one is silver and the other is painted JD green.
One gets hot, one doesn't get hot could explain but why would that be ?

 

[ronjhall]

First cup of coffee has been poured. 54° with mostly clear skies this morning. Heading to 77° with lots of sun. Going do a little drive up into the mountains today. Tortilla Flat. Now a days its a tourist trap. But still a great drive.
Drew, like the dinning set.
Dave, that caught my eye. :laughing:
All up north, stay warm.
Good Morning All.

 

[farmer2009]

35 this morning and headed to 52 today. Snow coming in tonight. Forecast is down from an inch and half to a quarter of an inch.

Txdon nice picture.

Drew don't work to hard.

Dave good story.

Eric. The green stack I believe is the intake. It's so they can drive through all the high water they have in Texas. Laughing.

 

[deerseeker001]

8 and sunny this morning with a high of 15.It looks like a little warm up by weekend.

 

[300UGUY]

26 and getting colder. Stopped snowing after another 2 inches? Need to go out and plow out a bunch.......

Have a good one!

 

[dave1949]

28 with a nice sunny 52 on the menu for lunch.

Beautiful moonset this morning while hiking around with Coco and then feeding the birds. Dave, any birds hang around in the winter up your way?

Great love story, Dave...love at first sight.

Nice JD B pic. Ever watch the Mecum antique tractor auctions on RFD? Old JDs, Olivers, Allis Chalmers, etc.

I think we are now in the longest period ever without letting our woodstove go out...been burning continuously for a month. I know that's nothing for many of you, but around here we usually have a few consecutive warm days in January.

Not a lot of bird activity to see here in winter unless feeders are used. Black capped Chickadees hang around all winter but they stay in the woods. Crows and Ravens but they move around the area quite a bit. Pileated Woodpeckers chisel wood all winter. Ruffed Grouse don't migrate. Blue Jays.

I've been thinking about about putting out a feeder.