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did some youtube viewing on replacing Honeywell thermostat. Most folks replace with programmable model which being digital has better temp control too.
I don't need programmable, I'm home almost all the time but could be that wide temp swings are normal for mercury switch units. Original design was 1953 and basically
unchanged since then. And yes I will turn off power first.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #121,652  
A quick "good morning" from me, rain will be here by the afternoon and I would like to get in a couple of replacement strainer posts while the ground is still firm enough to tamp.

Lots of different thoughts from here to be reflecting on while I dig. What a varied mix of discovery, happiness, sadness, contentment and wonder a small bunch of people can get through in a single day.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #121,653  
63 and light rain going to 73 and heavy rain. Hope I don't get the 5 inches Buppies mentioned, but our weatherman says it's possible.

Prayers and thanks to our Veterans for our Freedom.

Got the trim primed nailed caulked and stained yesterday. Wanted to do one more coat but dew started falling. Also did some roof work...this rain will tell me how successful I was.
 
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Poured firs cup of coffee. 49° with some clouds this morning. Heading to 54° with lots of sunshine. Indian Summer is over. Yesterdays Dr appointment went well. Got a steroid injection in right ear. Plus appointments for 2 more. Some improvement in hearing already. But a long way to go. Said cutting coffee and salt is very basic control for ears. Not successful most of the time. Last of yard ornaments stored away in barn for the winter. Take my aunt to same Ear Dr I went to yesterday. Then take her home. Been great to have her here for a few days.
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Drew, you will like the digital thermostat. Most use furnace power. The ones I installed in my Motorhome used battery.

Eric, hope you win the race to rain with your project.

Roy, special prayers for your neighbor.

Randy, Gracie and you picked a good relaxing place and time.

Buppies, hope your paver get repaired soon.

Kyle, I think everyone is trying to give you payback for your help on other subjects for your daughter. :rolleyes: My 2 sons have done very well with the girls/ladies they married. Good parenting on both sides.

David, how could that be a drought in HI.

RNG, no bad weather forecast in the near future. Red shows up almost every morning. Clouds and timing are important to get pictures. It only last 10 minutes at best.

Thanks to all the VERTRANS for their service.

Everyone stay safe and healthy.

Good Morning All.
 
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Having 2 sons it’s hard for me to give advice from experience, except to say my sons want girlfriends and it doesn’t seem to work the same way. My oldest has dated a good bit, but nothing has clicked.

A friend, who was an army colonel gave the first guy who asked his daughter out an “application for dating my daughter” as a joke. Didn’t go over well. His daughter eventually dated and just married a guy the parents were not impressed with. Will be interesting to see how it works out.

My buddy at work says his rule was, the potential beau had to come and eat at the family table before there was any dating. Sounds good to me.

Mostly, I used to hate the wind while bicycling...then I got a sailboat....and now I am much more rotund. :) Thanks for the prayers.

Wng, sounds like another great hike.

Rip and Penn, I never got my pilot's license, but my first girlfriend's dad was a retired Lt. Col from the airforce with over 10,000 flight time including F4's. He took me under his wing and started teaching me, first in a small PA120, then he bought a Bellanca Citabria....and we did plenty of aerobatics. You could fly it inverted for a minute, with it's extra oil pump. Tragically, he was killed in it, along with another man (who had a failing business). Augered in. I was almost ready to solo. I have since found out that many Bellanca's have had wooden structural failures. I won't fly in one. Another church friend bought an older Bellanca. But he was getting up near 80 years old. I'm glad he lost his pilot's license before that plane had any problems.

My best friend has a cream puff Piper Cub, and a Super Cub undergoing a decade long restoration. ($$$). I love the Super Cub. It's been a long while since flying in it. It was parked at El Paso airport, and a wind storm broke one of the tether ropes, and it was flipped over.

My daughter is leading a student led service at our school's stadium tonight. She and another guy will both play their guitars. Our church's youth leader will speak. We were able to line up a fellow church member with a big PA sound system. I'm taking the day off to help gopher. Prayers for many to come. So I will not be praying for rain today, even though we've only had .23" in the last 30 days. Don was right, we are under burn ban again.

Need a battery for the Steiner. Called a junkyard yesterday. They want $33 for an "average" battery, and $45 for a "premium" battery. $12 core refund available.

Prayers for all our online team.
 
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Wife's neck and back are much better after taking ibuprofen yesterday. She liked the Bob and Brad videos. Thanks all for the chiropractic replies.

Thank you to all our Veterans!
 
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Drew, you will like the digital thermostat. Most use furnace power. The ones I installed in my Motorhome used battery.

Yes and when the battery dies the AC stops and it did at Mom's on a 100degree day. Not knowing what went wrong I called a Tech out and that battery cost $70. Need to remember to change it out once a year.

Happy Veterans Day to all the Veterans. No mail today.

Good morning! 48˚F heading to 77˚F clear skies. This most recent cold front came in yesterday at the last 10 minutes of FireWise clearing and was like a breath of fresh air dropping temps 10˚ quickly.

Today is park day and we will be working on crest of a hill where the overlook trail will be. Right now the cedars block the view overlooking the central Texas hill country. I missed the last two weeks one because of rain and one because of a dentist appt. so I rearing to star buzzing down those cedars.

When the front came in yesterday we had a very light rain - the first rainfall since I put out the the new additional attached rain gauge - both measured 0.0". There was only enough rain to get the surface wet.

Kyle glad your wife is feeling better. Brad and Bob are our to go to physical therapists for those annoying pains which seem to be more frequent as we get older.
 
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Good morning, the temp is 55°F and going down to 54. Wind SW 14 gusting to 22 mph. Rain with risk of T-storms.

Indian summer is about done, now onwards to winter.

I've got a few tiny jobs to do today. Don't know how far I will get on them.

A huge thank you to all the veterans left. If it wasn't for them, I don't think many of us would be here. I know for a fact that if Germany/Japan had won the war I wouldn't be here.

Have a safe day all
 
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Good morning

It’s almost 65 here with rain coming for today and tomorrow.
I chased the leaf blower around a little bit yesterday afternoon when I got home from my trip, looks like the trees around the house are almost bare now.

Changed the last fluorescent fixture in the shop to LED bulbs, it’s amazing how much brighter they are, and I used all 5000k so it’s a nice white light as well. All the fixtures were 8 footers, apparently they are no where near as popular as the 4 footers, LED bulbs were not as easy to come by, and they required bypassing the ballast.

Drew , if your thermostat was only for an oil burner, it would be unlikely that you could use anything other than a battery powered digital or your round Honeywell. If it also controls a/c, you might be able to put in a system powered thermostat, but would still have to connect a common wire to power it if there were enough conductors in the thermostat wire, but your old round one did not need a common. Also you made me chuckle about trying to achieve a consensus to move forward on a task at church. Been there many a time.

Kyle, the problem with the Citabria was that they had spruce wing spars and no access holes to inspect them. There was a directive to add inspection holes and do repetitive inspections or replace the spars with aluminum ones.
The rest of the airframe is chrome moly steel tubing with no issues.

Today looks like a good day to go mining for horizontal surfaces in the shop. I am pretty sure that they exist, but it will take some digging to expose them.
 

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