Good morning!!!!

[farmer2009]

Farmer, you should quarantine yourself as much as possible. Down here, if one member gets it, the whole family gets prescribed Tamiflu.

From the CDC:
Here are the tell-tale signs of having the flu, according to the CDC: fever and/or chills, cough, sore throat, a runny and/or stuffed nose, body aches, headaches, and fatigue (flu symptoms may present in groups of two or three or all at once). Some flu patients also experience diarrhea and vomiting.Jan 8, 2018

Maybe I actually have the flu and it wasn’t an over read. I don’t know. I do know that this is not like any other flu I’ve had in previous years. I couldn’t get up to pee without something to hold me up. I just got done changing the heating element in the dryer. Other than sweating a little easier than normal no ill effects.
My understanding of those chemical test is that they change colors and only when they make certain colors are they actually positive. We’ve had several instances where the kids are diagnosed with strep throat but when we ask for a cultured test they are negative. Something the ENT doctor had us start doing after we reported several cases of strep in our oldest with no tonsils. He says some doctors call it positive if it has any color change.

Wife wants me to stay in tomorrow. I don’t see what a couple of hours sitting on a tractor will hurt. Especially in the mid 40’s. Hay has to atleast get put out. And that means unhooking decruster. So a couple of hours getting done with it before unhooking won’t hurt. We’ll see what I do while unsupervised.

Youngest son went to ENT doctor today. Without me. I don’t miss many doctors visits with the kids. Especially when the doctor is deciding if he qualifies for tubes. In 2 weeks he gets tubes. Then wife went to the dentist. She has to have 2 teeth pulled. One is a 2 year old root canal. That is busted. The other is an abscess that she refused a root canal on. Then her and the dentist had a serious talk about the competency of the root canal specialist that this dentist sends patients too. Dentist was shocked at some things she had to say. It wasn’t just my wife’s opinion but she relayed the thoughts of a second opinion doctor she went to. He wouldn’t touch her because she was pregnant at the time and the test involved some dye injections. The dentist agreed with the second opinion doctor it wasn’t safe.

 

[farmer2009]

Sad news coming out of the western end of the state. Kentucky school shooting leaves 2 students dead, 18 others injured, officials say | Fox News

Thoughts and prayers with the families affected.

Been just over 20 years since last shooting here in the state. Heath high school in December 1997. Heath high school is one county west of Marshall in McCraken county.

 

[RoyJackson]

2018-01-24, 0340

36 right now...today's high will be lower (low 30's) as we have a cold front coming through. No precipitation though.

 

[Eric Salop]

High winds and near horizontal rain this morning. At least it has kept the frost away ...

All you guys with chainsaws stuck, two words. Felling Wedges.

I started using one of the orange plastic ones made by Stihl a few years ago when needed. It's light, and if the chain hits it, no chain damage. Being orange, easy to find.

Shiny plastic felling wedges look so cheerful, it's bad enough risking a scratch on them when felling, let alone use them once a tree is on the ground.
Timber wedges for me for everything except the felling cut - though Ron would no doubt advise cutting some before the saw gets stuck

 

[daugen]

I have a bucket for my chain saw supplies and in it are two bright orange Stihl wedges. Gotten lucky, so far they are gathering dust, but there when I need them. When you grow up splitting wood with a sledge and steel wedges, wedges become second hand. It would be great if one of you knowledgeable woodsmen, likely from the North, would start a thread on how to free stuck saws. I bet we would all learn something.

Much cooler day, 37 now going up to 57. Well, "cool" is relative, huh?

I replaced the batteries in my Precedent golf cart with six Trojan burgundy batteries three years ago and they are still like new and running strong. I worry more about the low tech ferro-resonant charger than those batteries; my understanding is that they are still the highest quality mainstream battery you can put in a golf cart. I bet part of the problem is folks don't check the water in them...am pretty religious about every two or three months I use the traditional Napa/Balkamp battery waterer and keep the cells filled. I expect 8 years out of these batteries. We shall see... Battery store also had Exide, and they were about 20 percent less. Lot of work lugging batteries, cleaning terminals, etc, decided to put the "good" batteries in there and haven't regretted it. I just wish there was a way to put a 8V battery on a smart charger; I'd love to get some desulphating going on but how?

Headed downtown for a haircut, buy some grass seed to fix where my ditch dweller ripped up my roadside for thirty feet, and finally, pick up a huge amount of cans and trash in the ditches. I take a long handled plastic pitch fork and scoop the junk out of the water, up on the banks, and try not to slide in the mud doing so. Pretty goopy out there still. Hard not to handle this junk, sure wash my hands when I come in. My ditches have become the public's trash can. Like many of yours. Hard to understand. Who raised these people?....

My onions are supposed to go in the ground Feb 1 here and with the second tray of seedlings, looks like I'll have about 500 to plant. Good thing I like onions...
Now if I could get my Super A back to make my hills...could do it with the little Massey and wreck my neck by turning around, and every time my neck turns the tractor heads off to the right, making a wavy mess. So I'll be patient and wait. Each tractor has its own job, don't want them unhappy and filing job actions against each other...need a happy family of all my different colored tractors.

 

[Ed of all trades]

Good morning all, 39 going to 46 and partly sunny, flurries tonight. Hope to get some more done in the shop today, very slowly changing it from a place with a lot of tools in it to a place where you can enjoy working. Places for things other than on the bench you are trying to work on. Also a lot of my hand tools are yard sale finds that I really like but need some TLC.

Farmer, praying you don't have the flu and what ever you have goes away.

Prayers for all of the families of the school in Kentucky.

Daily prayers for a lot of you, Kyle, for you and your family, Ron, you and your wife, Rip, you and wife, PJ, step son, Buckeye, healing, Don changes you are working toward. and more. May you each be blessed.

Have a great day. Ed

 

[toppop52]

Ed, prayers for you, you have a lot to deal with and always sound like you’re smiling.

 

[toppop52]

40’s now and later today. Near 70 yesterday after morning thunderstorms that dropped 2” if needed rain. Spent the afternoon on the tractor leveling the clam shells while I could see the low spots.

 

[Thomas]

34F w/wind gust 20+ upper 20's for high single numbers tonight.

Driveway like old coke bottle so I guess Iam leaving work couple hours early today for pickup load of grit to spread this evening.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[ronjhall]

I replaced the batteries in my Precedent golf cart with six Trojan burgundy batteries three years ago and they are still like new and running strong. I worry more about the low tech ferro-resonant charger than those batteries; my understanding is that they are still the highest quality mainstream battery you can put in a golf cart. I bet part of the problem is folks don't check the water in them...am pretty religious about every two or three months I use the traditional Napa/Balkamp battery waterer and keep the cells filled. I expect 8 years out of these batteries. We shall see... Battery store also had Exide, and they were about 20 percent less. Lot of work lugging batteries, cleaning terminals, etc, decided to put the "good" batteries in there and haven't regretted it. I just wish there was a way to put a 8V battery on a smart charger; I'd love to get some desulphating going on but how?

I replaced the 14 year old Trojan batteries in my cart 3 years ago. To make sure the Trojans are properly charged I purchased a Battery Saver Charger. It amazes me how fast the charger can charge the batteries back up. Plus it does desulfating.