Good morning!!!!

[lostcreekranch]

Same here Bird, I was looking for some baby tomato plants last weekend, then I heard about this weekend, and that cancelled those plans.



Hope y'all didn't make too big of a mess inside.

I just tested positive. Talking with the Physician's assistant, I've probably had it for a few days now. I feel fine. Oxygen at 97% (which is normal for me). Aside from a bit of congestion, I feel great. PA said I might just have cold like symptoms, as I seemed to be healthy. I have been taking Vitamin D3 and Senior vitamins for almost 2 weeks now. Glad I got the firewood chopped on Wednesday. My work has allotted me some extra Covid sick time, but the weather is too crappy to go do something productive outside for the next week.

I'm thankful I don't have an icy driveway with an incline. I am hoping our pond will freeze over, to kill the floating duckweed.

Someone said 30F is nothing. Maybe so, but when it's windy, and sleeting, feels like 25F I'll let them come hang outside and take out the garbage. Haha.

Eric, hope it's a female. They make much better long term mousers. That's why I invested in our "Waffles" orange and white kitty. She likes our barn.

Wifey is making Taco/Nachos today. We had homemade hamburgers yesterday.

This freeze may weaken your duckweed Kyle but .. likely won't eliminate it.

How to Control Giant Duckweed | AquaPlant: Management of Pond Plants & Algae

Herbicide is the quick way and you'd need to start spraying, as soon as it starts to get warm, in sections of the duckweed on about 2 week intervals to avoid oxygen depletion that comes with decomposition of large areas of the target plants.

Sonar, used properly, will give good results.

https://aquaplant.tamu.edu/files/2018/08/Sonar-Label.pdf

Read the label. The label .. is the law.

 

[lostcreekranch]

14 year old Gray2 says he's a better mouser than any girl.

29˚F. the Ice just won't melt. My truck got hit by flying ice from an "outside" car going down the road. I was going in the opposite direction when the sheet of ice flew off his roof, over 3 lanes and hit the hood and grill of my pickup.
No damage but you Northern guys did not warn me of flying ice and frozen mailboxes. Any non-obvious other hazards to watch out for?

Yep .. don't lick your flag pole Tuesday morning.

 

[lostcreekranch]

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[ronjhall]

Don’t eat yellow snow.
Most of us that are retired stay home in that kind of weather.

 

[PJSprog]

28 dollars.
Wow.
Maybe I'll go every two months instead...

daugen, look at the money you would save if you never got your haircut again.

You can get a jumbo bag of hair ties for less than $10, Drew, and if you get the good ones, that'll last you for years. (AMHIK)

 

[PJSprog]

Wifey is making Taco/Nachos today.

My Wife sent me a text earlier to let me know she is making tacos tonight as well. :thumbsup:
You can't go wrong with tacos.

 

[Dftodd]

the viking.
All this talk of old cars got me sentimental about my 1952 Chevy. It was my first truck I bought in 1972 for $250.00. Traded it in 1973 for a 1969 GMC 4x4 which I put a new motor in last year. Original motor had 500k miles on it. It is now a rat wood, ranch truck but purrs like a kitten. Sure wish I had kept the Chevy!View attachment 686250
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Ahhh yes yesterday's pickup remember fondly,my was Dodge 1972 D100 short bed slant 6 3 speed on the column with wing windows and AM radio cost extra,fuel tank right behind the bench seat,D100 never let me down great starting -10 to -20....wonder how many would know to operate column shift now...after 13 years finally had to take off the road because of rust.

You couldn't beat those old slant 6 engines. Brother had a 62 Plymouth with the slant 6 and 3spd on the column.

 

[sodamo]

Kyle - best of thoughts and prayers for you, son and rest of family.

 

[toppop52]

It would be fun for awhile.
Not very practical but fun.

As far as overloading a car body one of mine was a 64 Chevy II convertible with a 396 shoved into it,
didn't handle worth a darn but sure could roast the rear tires.
And then I built a sand rail using an Olds Toronado drive train, that was a wild ride.
Only had that running for less then a month and someone wanted it more then I did.
I think that was the only ride I came out ahead on.

Sounds like fun! I only had the Olds about three months and traded for a ‘69 Firebird and a pocketful of cash. But the Olds was very well built with a Dana 44 rear, etc...