Good morning!!!!

[kenmbz]

Hi all, been busy, nothing fun.
Fixed microwave, was a switch. 2nd one to go, easy fix.
Gathered some more firewood from the big stack and brought it up.
Had some good aged steaks on the grill last night.
Got my medicine from the pharmacy. One medicine rejected by insurance, doc is appealing..
House alarm sensor batteries are starting to go, new ones ordered, but a pain to bypass sensors each time to set the alarm.

LS- glad to hear your back home. Hospitals are terrible places to get rest and recover
Randy - when my Mom got sick she hung on and passed the day after my new wife and I got back from our honeymoon. Maybe she is waiting for more visits
DFTodd - sounds like your getting walloped with snow-stay safe
Sodamo - glad your shot affect seems to be wearing off

Calling for rain, snow, ice, 20's 50's - seems like the weeks weather here will be ...... random

Did a run by the next town overs hardware store, real nice old place with a whole aisle of hardware. Every time in Newtown, I drove by it , first time I stopped in. Will go back when I need something more.

Stay safe and be well.

 

[daugen]

US oil rises above $6 as Texas gets pummeled with ice and snow - CNN
this cold weather is having quite an effect on Texas in many ways, including shutting down the main
refinery due to cold temps.
Prices already starting to climb at the pump

It's been a quiet day, got all my paperwork and various ID's ready for trip tomorrow morning to Warrington PO to get my renewal passport.
Hope weather warms and turns to rain by breakfast. I don't have to be there until 9:30am so gives them time to put down even more salt.

Anyone with a snow plow and salt spreader in Colorado, Texas or Arkansas next few days will be a busy fellow.
Just supposed to be ice here.
Let's all stay out of the ditch.

 

[daugen]

Ken, if same ancient hardware store downtown in Newtown, problem for me was finding out where to park behind the place, not many spaces.
They were the closest hardware store to me in Holland, and I always enjoyed shopping there when I could.
Am lucky the hardware store in New Hope is good, owned by someone I have known forever, who now owns four hardware stores run by next generation including this one.
I'm going to get a Weber grill from there when the weather warms. They will assemble it and deliver it which is nice.

 

[Alien]

Please tell me why smoke alarms go off about 1.00 - 2.00 a.m. every time. Why can't they do it during daylight hours? Stuffs up my sleep every time. Have to get a ladder to shut the darns thing up. Grrr

18 deg Celcius this morning. Coolest it has been for a loooong time.

 

[Bird]

If it ain't one thing, it's another. I've been letting the faucet in the kitchen sink drip, or run a tiny stream, but I went to wash a couple of dishes and found that opening the faucet didn't do anything. Wide open gets the same tiny stream that I already had. I'm inclined to think that, instead of any of my plumbing having a problem that the problem is the city's pressure system needing some service. Anyway, I called the city, and got an answering machine so maybe they'll call back eventually.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I seem to recall one of you Texans bragging on how warm it was there compared to the rest of us, well our forecast high tomorrow is 61.

33° with light rain, freezing rain in some area’s our forecast is 48° tomorrow, then get cold again, 8” snow comes again on Thursday.
Left work a little early due to weather.
From the looks of the crowd in Costco, you would think snow was tonight. I went for windshield washer fluid, then forgot to look for it.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

If it ain't one thing, it's another. I've been letting the faucet in the kitchen sink drip, or run a tiny stream, but I went to wash a couple of dishes and found that opening the faucet didn't do anything. Wide open gets the same tiny stream that I already had. I'm inclined to think that, instead of any of my plumbing having a problem that the problem is the city's pressure system needing some service. Anyway, I called the city, and got an answering machine so maybe they'll call back eventually.

If in doubt, shut off where it comes into house.

 

[rswyan]

100 lbs whole corn, 50 lbs cracked corn, 20 lbs shelled peanuts, 16 lbs safflower seed, and ten suet cakes unloaded from van brought around back the Kubota and stowed away.

Hopper feeder, two sunflower tube, two nyjer tube, squirrel, deer, and two suet feeders refilled. Five scoops of cracked corn put out on the ground.

Also refilled nugget feeder with a mix of whole corn and shelled peanuts.

Washed out birdbath and refilled.

Modified mealworm feeder by removing screws that hold the can the mealworms go in to take the Menards "Mega Suet Block" and put that out:

The Woman reports that a Red Bellied Woodpecker has already visited the refilled suet feeders outside the living room picture window. Saw a squirrel on its feeder and numerous birds at the rest. Black birds were hitting the refilled deer feeder hard.

Did not get ear of corn feeder refilled ... cob was too hard to screw it on the screw. Suet feeder at window over kitchen sink still needs refilled.

Got a few flurries while I was out filling things up but it's back to nothing at this point.

Warming the toes before I venture out to the garage to get The Woman some more potting soil, then heading out to get the fowl and meats.

 

[Buppies]

Gas and diesel prices have been going up for over a month here. The price for liquid used in asphalt has been seeing steady increases since December. I think CNN is leaving something out. Asphalt prices to increase pretty substantially if these prices keep going up

Grocery prices are going up too been noticing that for a while too

Just observations mind you on my part

 

[wngsprd]

It feels nice to join civilization again...power has been restored so we have running water again. Snow and ice still here, but melting...many trees and limbs down and will need to clean up once things dry out (August?). I thought we had it bad, but you guys in Texas always go big...hope it warms up soon. Tell The Whip that Coco was sliding on the ice, too. We've been tracking animals while the power's been out, and of course feeding the woodstove.

...and BEF, tell bumblebee "Hi!"

Buppies, hope you have power now...still lots of outages in our district. Glad your big propane tank got filled.

LS, glad you are home safe and sound before the storm hit and hope not too much pain.

Thomas, what a huge snowpile you can make!

Randy, I was living between Lynnhaven and Cape Henry when the Bay froze over in the late 70s, and we walked the beach a lot marveling at such a sight...huge icebergs washed up and then froze together and we walked/climbed over them.

Dftodd, cool that you got the wife a Sig for Valentines...I got a box of ammo.

Eric, I read your "agitation" post to my wife and we both laughed hard...but won't work as well as Randy's carpetbagger post.

Kyle, prayers for your family.