Good morning!!!!

[PJSprog]

25°F and partly cloudy this morning, going up to 49° today. Clouds made for a very colorful sunrise this morning.

Spent too much of yesterday waiting for a technician to show up to calibrate our CMM at work. Guy never showed. I found myself wondering if he works on VW Vanagons on the side. Going to take a little field trip today to drop off some smaller devices at another calibration facility.

Wife brought home a little dog Wednesday night ... well, it's more like a fuzzy little football. It's a poodle/yorkie mix. She occasionally does board-and-train sessions that she calls boot camps for difficult dogs. This one is a spoiled little brat, and does nothing but whine nonstop. It's owner apparently carries it around all day with her, and it's completely un-housebroken. They went to Mexico for a week and a half, so we have it until they return. She charges more money for doing this, but after the first couple of days even she is starting to wonder if this dog is already beyond repair. It will be an interesting 10 days.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 51˚ in the Great "Red" State of Texas. That's right no bluebonnets out yet.:laughing: All the color you see now are the red gravel roads.

Had to replace two batteries at Mom's her mower and pick-up. I'm getting a battery tender for her pick-up and her mower battery was 5 years old anyway. Her Pick-up battery was only 2 years old and both my battery checker and the Auto repair place where Dad bought the battery said it was bad. I did get $100 off the new battery because it was suppose to last 5 years. I was almost in a bind, my brother built wooden cabinets above the pick-up hood and I could not open the hood but a crack. The truck would not go in numeral with a dead battery and I was starting to think about dissembling the shelf when I managed to hook up a battery charger through the crack in the hood.

She has not driven the pick-up for a year but I still can't convince her to sell it.

At my place-
I put about 10 FELs of gravel on the low spots on the road and moved the rest of the gravel pile behind some trees. I also cleaned out a cattle guard with my little 3" shovel I bought last year, enough to fill the FEL three times - that's a lot of tiny shovel fulls.

RNG, I agree with Ron, you should take the some of the blame for assigning the wrong name. Don't forget to put that in your Amazon review - operator error!

Bad news from Mom's tax guy. He said we should have sold my parents cattle AFTER my dad died and we would not have to pay tax on the sale. Two thoughts on that: 1. We had no Idea when he was going to die and 2. I had rather been visiting with him than spending time doing all the stuff that his cows require.

 

[txdon]

She occasionally does board-and-train sessions that she calls boot camps for difficult dogs.

Ok, since your wife likes challenges, next time we go on vacation we will will drop Wipper off to see if she can get Whipper to fetch by the time we return.:thumbsup:
At least I'll know where to find her.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

RNG, I agree with Ron, you should take the some of the blame for assigning the wrong name. Don't forget to put that in your Amazon review - operator error!

I'm a weldor, Don, so I'm used to taking the blame. Especially for things with which I had nothing to do. :laughing: At first, when filling out the registration form for the Roomba, I called it Rosie after the robot maid on the old Jetsons cartoon. But I liked the sound of Hazel better, and changed it the next day. Not that it would have made any difference, but Lurch would have been a good male name, after the butler on The Adams Family. Works on several levels.:laughing:

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 48F @ 6:00AM. Sunshine and clouds mixed. High 63F. Winds SSE at 5 to 10 mph.

That's a LOT of snow, Thomas! Hope you used the tractor on most of it.

Almost unbelievably, when I stopped by to see the mechanic yesterday, he was still trying to figure out how to get a throwout bearing working with the heavy duty clutch he wants to use. I say "almost" because almost nothing he does (or more accurately doesn't) do surprises me at this point. After a painfully elaborate explanation of the problem (his stutter was especially bad yesterday for some reason), he said he's taking it to a machinist today, and will call me tonight with the results. If the machinist can't figure it out, I agreed to work with him Saturday to see if together we can piece something together. Failing that, we'll go back to using the standard clutch, which I think is what we should have done to begin with.:shocked::muttering:

Latest batch of parts for the old motorcycle showed up yesterday, so I'm hoping for a productive day out in the garage. Might start it off with a bowl of chili; there's still an Instant Pot full of it in the refrigerator that I need to get bagged and into the freezer, so I might as well start off by taking care of that first.

TGIF gang!:drink:

 

[RedNeckGeek]

In the FWIW department, today the Hendrix family has released another compilation of Jimi's work in the new Both Sides of the Sky album. The samples on Amazon sound really good, and is that Stephen Stills doing vocals on "Woodstock"? Guess I'll find out when my copy gets here...

 

[jbrumberg]

Good morning everyone.

A beautiful late Winter NE day here. All kinds of weather today. Still below freezing, sun and occasional snow showers. Enough snow to cover the new divots.

Ed- I hope that Mom is breathing better today.

The old generic walker has evolved.

We pick up the new Forester later today.

My + thoughts, prayers, and wishes for all especially the Moms

I hope everyone has a decent day today.

 

[txdon]

More Doctors are learning about the benefits and necessity of a Plant Based diet for cardio patients. Wouldn't it be nice to be offered an option of diet change over surgery? Kind of like Forks over (surgical) Knives. This article answers all the questions about nutrition concerns and benefits for patients who switch to plant based. To my friends,
http://www.jgc301.com/ch/reader/cre..._20170301012&year_id=2017&quarter_id=5&flag=1

 

[txdon]

We pick up the new Forester later today.

Did you and buckeye get a new Forester on the same day?

 

[Thomas]

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Don't you...don't you dare. :thumbsdown: