Good morning!!!!

[Ed of all trades]

BEF- Congratulations on your new Forester. I hope you many uneventful and boring miles together.

We went through the "tutorial" and picked ours up this PM. We ran through a snow squall on the way home that covered the highway with ~1" and it handled as expected. I like those steering activated headlights and fog lamps. Heavy fog, rain, and snow can throw off the gizmo sensors, but it did not happen with what we experienced. Wifey drove which did not exactly help my BP.

Before we left we had some visitors. Mixed gender(?) a couple of small beards, lots of buttons, lots of jostling at the feeders.

We hated to scared them. They may fly @ 45mph, but they can not run @ 35mph in this snow. Lot's of bottom bumping taking off and/or running. It always amazes me how these big birds can roost on branches thinner than a finger.

I used to hunt turkeys and the more you are around them the more you are impressed. If they want they can just jump into the air and fly away and without the snow run like a deer but they will run so that they are behind a tree or something and then go straight away from you. and the rather plain looking bird has some very beautiful feathers with incandescent colors shimmering through them. Ben Franklin wanted to make the wild turkey the national bird. And no dumb turkey jokes those birds are smart, the tame ones are dumb. Ed

 

[Eric Salop]

Good morning all. Looking like this will be a wet day for us, following on from a wet night. It came over yesterday afternoon, but I didn't get too wet at first as I was standing in a dry place when it started - the old underground water tank that I'm trying to bring back into use. I was there plugging the outlet pipe with a bung I'd made from a piece of alder. Anyone sensible would have gone out and bought a proper pipe fitting for little money, however my eye had caught sight of this piece of wood that looked just right and I couldn't resist the temptation to try and do this tank project mostly with what is already lying around. The tree it came from had been felled for firewood last year and after cutting a length out from the small branch I could see it was still nicely free of shakes. With the bark off it was 1/2" larger in diameter than the inside of the pipe, so I had spent a happy half hour the night before planing, then sanding, to make it tapered. When I got down inside the tank, the bung slid in the pipe easily with a few persuasive taps from a mallet. Rain soaked me as soon as I got out of the tank, but I didn't care, it's strange how sometimes simple things and the thought of what to do next can be so satisfying.

Next I need to find out how good the tank is at holding water. There is plenty of it at the moment in a pond a couple of hundred yards away, however it would be unfair to ask my little 12V dc bilge pump to attempt to fill such a big tank. I have a friend with a 110V pump that I'm sure he will lend me, so I just need to find a way to feed it with a few amps. Another friend gave me a 2.8KW generator a year or two ago that I've done nothing with, apart from confirm that it doesn't work, so trying to get that running is the next bit of fun.


Bird, great story - tell us another one soon.

 

[Buppies]

32 this morning light snow very close Sunday expect 3 to 6 but I'm not sure system coming in flat

Prayers for all of those in need

Congrats on new cars always exciting for 30 days

New doors in one was damaged in shipment panel replaced in two weeks otherwise very happy doors are 7-11 in tall added to view of mountains

 

[ronjhall]

Poured first cup of coffee. 15° with clear skies this morning. Heading to 35° with partly cloudy skies. Off to Sams club this morning. Hope it goes better than yesterdays $150 Costco trip. Stopped at TSC and took advantage of 10% coupon to buy another 100 lbs of bird feed. That make 350 lbs so far this winter. No other plans for today.

Jay and Buckeye, nice cars.

Ed glad your mom and wife are feeling better. Prayers for them.

Prayers for those in need. Sending extra paryers to Karen and Eddie.

Good Morning All.

 

[RoyJackson]

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25 right now...high should be in the mid-30's.

No real plans today...clean the back deck is about it.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Next I need to find out how good the tank is at holding water. There is plenty of it at the moment in a pond a couple of hundred yards away, however it would be unfair to ask my little 12V dc bilge pump to attempt to fill such a big tank.

Is the geometry wrong for a siphon?

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 51F ! 4:15AM. Sunshine and clouds mixed. High 61F. Winds ESE at 5 to 10 mph.

Subarus seem to be taking over the Good Morning!!!! thread! I wonder how many whole cars have been built since my mechanic started monkeying with the engine that will some year power my Vanagon? No word yesterday on his meeting with the machinist, just another in a long line of broken commitments...

The solid state charging system installed on the old motorcycle has a problem with the rectifier regulator unit: It's drawing enough current on its output leads to create a nice spark when they are touched to the battery terminal. The US importer says he's never seen that before, so here we go again.

Hope everyone enjoys a nice weekend!

 

[Thomas]

24F clear sky upper 30's for high.
Lamb back least for couple days last count between 3 squirrels 38 birds 1/2 gallon plus bird feed almost gone since 6am,going to have to refill shorty.
Plan for today not all that much...Take Mrs. to super market,shovel snow out of pickup bed,shovel path length of house to basement door,than take the day as it comes.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 65˚ cloudy. Today I'll try to get the potatoes in the ground, only three weeks late. I'll leave some room for Okra. Learned something new today - Okra is a considered a legume.

 

[Ed of all trades]

Good morning! 65˚ cloudy. Today I'll try to get the potatoes in the ground, only three weeks late. I'll leave some room for Okra. Learned something new today - Okra is a considered a legume.

That is a new one for me as well. Ed