Good morning!!!!

   / Good morning!!!! #102,982  
you guys are up early.

38F here, going to 72F, postcard picture day with low winds and humidity.

Wish I could stay home. But really busy at work.

Drew, Hope they figure out your truck and don't give you the runaround.... You guys have me wanting to buy an old truck like Randy and Ellen, with all the electrical gremlins.

Have a blessed day all. Prayers for our team.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #102,983  
Good Morning!!!! 55F @ 4:45AM. Sun and clouds mixed. High 63F. Winds light and variable.

Glad you're OK after your fall, Randy. Sometimes I get dizzy if I try to stand up too fast. Something to do with low blood pressure to the brain. Makes my legs weak at the same time. So like Kyle, I've learned to take it slow and steady, and be ready to park my butt back down if I start to feel wobbly. We don't bounce as well as we used to, eh? Ain't gitten' old fun?:confused2:

Good color on that chair, Bill. Does it come with a seatbelt? Maybe I should pick up a couple for the van? :laughing: We expect a full report from your first test drive!:thumbsup:

If the temperature rise in the sound deadening was significant, Kyle, the stuff in the van would've melted already.:laughing: Your daughter has a keen eye for color and shape. Thanks for sharing her work with us.

Had tubes in my eardrums when I was a kid, Drew. It was my first encounter with ether, and it took three people to hold me down on the operating table when they put the mask on me. Scared the heck out of me, and it's still a very upsetting memory. Hope your procedure goes better...:eek:

Spent most of yesterday gathering spec sheets and other information for the new solar system, and getting docs and emails put together for the building department. Sent it off and haven't heard anything back, and no response from a voicemail, either. Poor gal probably got hammered yesterday, being a Monday after a four day holiday.

Took me a couple tries to find the right breaker, but once I cycled the power on that wonky wall switch, it started working again. And it took the firmware update, too. Just have a motion sensor to replace batteries in today, and that little job should be done.

Replaced the three water filters under the kitchen sink yesterday, first time I can remember doing it in the ten years they've been under there. Found and downloaded the owner's manual, and now I see that two of them should be replaced every six months, and the reverse osmosis filter every three years. Then I went shopping for replacements, and the three of 'em cost a couple hundred bux! Might be time to start shopping for something that uses less expensive filters?:shocked:

In between I got all the old programming moved to the new DVR, a few shows at a time. One of 'em was A Charlie Brown Christmas, but it's still too early in the season to watch it.

Not sure what's on the agenda for today, but I'm sure I'll figure out something...
 
   / Good morning!!!! #102,984  
Good morning! 34˚F clear skies heading to the 60s. FireWise clearing on schedule for today.

Ron already took down the lights but not enough time yesterday to re-install. Had to get an estimate for the car - a lady crashed me, not bad just hate to get the first scratch. Estimate $1200. Her confessed cause - cell phone - not a SC resident.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #102,985  
Good morning,
Temp is 11 and going up to 23 °F. Wind N 9 mph. Sunny.

The storm that was supposed to happen didn't. All of it went south.
Once the overnight temps dip below freezing my tractor is always plugged in. I can turn the block heater on from the warmth of my kitchen, off too if need be.

It looks like today will be a sacrificial anode changing day. I'm not looking forward to it.


Have a safe day all

Well, we got it down near Dorset, but not too bad.

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More came overnight, but not much more. It was a nice soft fluffy ride back to town yesterday, at least for the first few miles early in the morning!
 
   / Good morning!!!! #102,986  
Morning all,

Got more snow the. Expected getting use to the tractor better now, I have a 5ft high by 6ft long pile I have been making. IMG_4607.JPG

Wife is having her first day at her new job she is very excited. Hopefully everyone has a good day and stays safe.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #102,987  
That is a good looking pile of snow Ramman666. It can take a few times to figure the most efficient plan to plow a yard/driveway/path. Looks like a good start on a significant amount of snow!
 
   / Good morning!!!! #102,988  
Morning all,

Got more snow the. Expected getting use to the tractor better now, I have a 5ft high by 6ft long pile I have been making. View attachment 631045

Wife is having her first day at her new job she is very excited. Hopefully everyone has a good day and stays safe.

Now that you have your pile established, push up and over the top. You can make your snowbanks as high as the tractor will climb + the height of the lift arms.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #102,989  
Don, sorry your car got messed up and glad you are ok.
must be the morning for that, I put a scratch in my truck trying to get around a dumb volunteer this morning who despite seeing me trying to turn around in a very tight space, parked right in the no parking zone, and it was super tight getting past. Too tight, thankfully I scraped wood and not concrete. His reply was I've been parking here for two years and tough. Really? His parting words to me were FU as he went in the door. Nice.
I believe my email to the President will get him escorted to the door. Nasty man, wonder why he's volunteering. Maybe he has to, lot of community service folks cycled through.

Ram dealer said coolant down by a pint and a half, not much in my mind...
made another appt to flush all the coolant, he said there was a residue in it and did I put Stopleak in the radiator.
Of course not, five year old truck under powertrain warranty, I know better. He had no explanation for residue on a 26,000 mile truck but thought
a flush might help. He also had no explanation for why transmission lost its brain one day and wouldn't go forward or backward. He said I might have a gremlin.
Great. No codes either. He said water pump runs all the time, and radiator cap looked perfect. Maybe the thermostat, but why would it always work perfectly after shutting off the truck for 30 seconds. Doesn't sound like a plug if it goes back to perfectly normal.

I think it's time to downsize my truck too.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #102,990  
It was my first encounter with ether, and it took three people to hold me down on the operating table when they put the mask on me. Scared the heck out of me, and it's still a very upsetting memory.

Yep, I still remember my first encounter with ether, too. It was just to have my tonsils out, but when they put that mask on there to suffocate me, I decided I'd better fight. Instead of using more people to hold me down, they just went and told my Dad, and he just stuck his head in the door and told me to lay down and do what they tell you. Now you'd have to know my Dad to understand that I immediately decided I'd rather be suffocated than beat to death, so I quit fighting.

It was several years later when I went into the hospital for surgery on my left foot and ankle to correct polio damage. So I was really dreading being put to sleep, but a few days before the surgery, I told the doctor about dreading the ether and he told me they could use ether but I preferred, they could put me to sleep with an injection. Naturally, that was a relief and I opted for the shot.
 

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