Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

28 degrees, hard frost everywhere, glad I picked the last of the roses yesterday; found this single yellow rose, smells wonderful, probably a Peace rose.

back down to barber this morning.
let's see, truck has remote start and heat up, car doesn't....hmmmm. Well, both have heated seats and steering wheel, and I sure remember when such options were just a dream in a car designer's mind. Then again the older cloth seats weren't so cold...
I know, we are getting soft. And a bit spoiled.
As I was reminded this morning of the seasonal change by sitting down on a very cold toilet seat. Turned the heater on in the bathroom; electric heat works wonderfully until you get your bill.

And while suffering through said cold toilet seat, I was reading the Massey manual and to my dismay found about four zerks I knew nothing about. Clutch pedal, brake pedal, not critical stuff but I sure have to look more carefully. I got a set of those cute little bright yellow zerk caps so now when I grease a unit, unless the zerk is recessed like on a loader arm, on goes the cap. Helps to remind me where to look and for grease points rarely used, which ones I can basically ignore since the yellow cap says it had been thoroughly done. With the air powered grease gun, easy to pump grease but sure seem to be going through those grease cartridges more often.
Though growing up with a 55 gallon drum of grease and having to scoop it into a grease gun manually in my youth sure tells me how far I have come...

a little grease for you
a little grease on me
a little grease for you
a lot of grease on me

 

[PJSprog]

34°F this morning and partly cloudy, going up to 52° today. Looks like we're going to get some rain later this evening.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 65˚ cloudy might rain later.

I got a process going on the metal blade brush weed eating, I only work as long as two fill ups of fuel will last, that way I'm not too sore to work the next day. I can see the end maybe 2 more days. That will complete the front 1/2 mile frontage. Ron, not to worry, there are another 2.5 miles to do on the other 3 sides . . .

 

[daugen]

Good morning! 65˚ cloudy might rain later.

I got a process going on the metal blade brush weed eating, I only work as long as two fill ups of fuel will last, that way I'm not too sore to work the next day. I can see the end maybe 2 more days. That will complete the front 1/2 mile frontage. Ron, not to worry, there are another 2.5 miles to do on the other 3 sides . . .

3 miles of road frontage, wow....I'm never going to complain about weedeating my ditches again
I bet we both wish we had one of those neat hydraulic arm mowers...

 

[MossflowerWoods]

Very cold last two mornings, 25 and 23 I think.

Good thing this last weekend I moved the "seasoned" firewood closer to the house with the grapple and started cutting firewood for the winter, because I was gonna need it!

Got a good fire going in the wood stove since Sunday evening, and that's the last time the heat pump has come on!

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Be well all & count your blessings twice!
David

 

[toppop52]

Disconnected the hoses from the frost free spigots, I lost one 2 years ago, they ain't frost free if the water can't get out! Around freezing this morning, the darn wind is just persistent and tiresome. Corn shucks everywhere, usually no problem because harvest is 5-6 weeks earlier and the wind is still out of the south, not the west like now. They pile up behind every building and are a real fire hazard! Got to get moving, a lot of people coming for Thanksgiving and a bunch are staying here, think I'll move to the garage until Sunday!

 

[sodamo]

68°F and 2.38 inches rain last 24 hrs.
Better than the snow I see sweeping parts of the country but hopeful for a dry and sunny TDay.

Off to town later this morning, a friend called an invited us to lunch.
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning! 46F @ 9:30AM. Mostly cloudy skies. High 52F. Winds SSE at 5 to 10 mph.

Almost .3" of rain yesterday as a front passed through around noon time. More on the way overnight, then maybe drying out for the Thanksgiving holiday.

Didn't get started running the new Ethernet cable yesterday due to the rain, so I'll give that a shot later today. Not looking forward to the bunny suit part up in the fiberglass insulation stuffed attic, but if I can't get the cable snaked through the underground conduit first, I won't have to worry about it. :confused2:

Still not having much luck with the motion sensor controlled lamp, so gave the vendor tech support a call. The first level man didn't find anything wrong, so the "case" is being elevated to 2nd level. I'm supposed to get an email back within 3 business days, but I'm not holding my breath. This kind of thing is why I like buying through Amazon, returns are soooo easy. I did find a replacement for the broken dimmer switch in my electrical spares box, and got it installed, so the day wasn't a total waste.

Screened the first two episodes of Nat Geo's Mars series last night, and was very pleased. Really liked the way they interleaved the si-fi future drama with real world footage of Elon Musk's SpaceX activities happening now. The point being that the groundwork for the sifi part of the show is being laid by private industry, and it's a huge enterprise that's making good progress.

I see we're back to not being allowed to edit our posts that are older than 24 or so hours?

 

[buckeyefarmer]

My wind damage. Post is about 10 yrs old.



A section of land is a sq mile, 640 acres. So if don has 3 miles of fenceline...
Too much weedeating for me..

 

[txdon]

My wind damage. Post is about 10 yrs old.

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A section of land is a sq mile, 640 acres. So if don has 3 miles of fenceline...
Too much weedeating for me..

Thanks, Buckeye you just made my job easier. Since I don't have near 640 acres I looked at my survey plat and I have less than 3 miles only 10700', I feel a load has been lifted. I have a long rectangle the front fence is just 1500' but then I have to weed eat the inside, outside, middle outside and next to road outside - 4 passes each pass is about 3' wide.

 

[txdon]

I was in town so I stopped by BestBuy to see how many SE iPhones will be available for the mad Black Friday rush. I showed them the sale on my iPhone4 that I was interested in and asked if it was available today, and to my great surprise it was! There was no one in the store. So my wife's Christmas shopping for me is done. $10 mo for 24 mo. and no lines, Yea!

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Don, glad i could help reducing the mowing.

 

[ronjhall]

Good morning! 65˚ cloudy might rain later.

I got a process going on the metal blade brush weed eating, I only work as long as two fill ups of fuel will last, that way I'm not too sore to work the next day. I can see the end maybe 2 more days. That will complete the front 1/2 mile frontage. Ron, not to worry, there are another 2.5 miles to do on the other 3 sides . . .

Think WE can get it done in 5 days.

 

[txdon]

2 days

 

[ronjhall]

 

[daugen]

2 days

what a slave driver!
err, sorry, guess that's not pc anymore, sigh.

put up my first xmas lights, one of the two big pine trees guarding the end of my lane.
Solar powered led lights, 72 linear feet, under twenty bucks, and lots of tiny led ends, the size of matchheads.
Well....I just headed out in the dark and whoa baby disco time. They are changing into all kinds of shapes, have no idea how they do it
since the shapes are much larger than lights and lights are strung with some purpose but not much precision. No matter apparently.
Wonder what kind of miniature computer chip is in that thing. Cars are slowing down to look. Four color leds, lot of variations possible.
four to the forth power? I was not good at that kind of math...

not sure how well these pics will turn out. I took a big picture of a plate of tonight's cooked chicken breasts, just for Farmer's benefit, might have
been his chickens...mighty good, eat more chicken! but the pic turned out blurry. You can imagine a big mound of baked chicken breasts,
nicely brown and seasoned. Eat more chicken! End of commercial.

 

[PJSprog]

First less windy day in awhile today, so I finally got the barn door fixed this afternoon. It's been out of the guide channel for at least the 13 years I've been around. Now that it's ours, time to get it fixed. Had to remove the existing guide (a piece of old 2x2) by prying it off, as the screws were stripped and rusted. Didn't have any treated wood, so I made a temporary piece out of regular untreated 2x4. It'll work fine until I can make a permanent piece for it, or find a small wheel to mount there.

 

[toppop52]

Thanks, Buckeye you just made my job easier. Since I don't have near 640 acres I looked at my survey plat and I have less than 3 miles only 10700', I feel a load has been lifted. I have a long rectangle the front fence is just 1500' but then I have to weed eat the inside, outside, middle outside and next to road outside - 4 passes each pass is about 3' wide.

Don, it's called Ortho Groundclear... I actually do use a weak mix of Roundup in about a 6-8" wide band under the rail fence and against the stockade section. It turns it more yellow than brown and kind of stuns the grass rather than killing it. It cuts out all but 2-3 weed whackings a year.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 62F this morning, overcast, sprinkles in area, made it to 71F trace of rain at the house, more elsewhere. More errands and shopping today, got approve for partial reimbursement for storm shelter, getting fireplace insert installed week of Dec 6. Only got 1 lap (10 m) in before wet roads encouraged me to quit, coming in drive way jammed left hand into car to avoid going down :ashamed::thumbdown:

 

[300UGUY]

Boring day today. Not much done, the weather is cold outside.

Have a good one, good night guys!