Good morning!!!!

[riptides]

Sorry to hear of the passing.

She done raised a fine family. Thanks for sharing your wonderful amazing mom.

 

[rswyan]

Sorry for your loss Top.

She sounds like she was quite a lady.

 

[txdon]

Good evening! 14˚F now, clear skies, heading for our coldest morning tomorrow.
My mom's central heater broke and part is on order. Good thing we designed the house with split AC/heat systems and the other is heating part of the house. She has had about 20 rolling blackouts today lasting about 15-30 minutes each. my Brother near Dallas has had 11 rolling blackouts. We have not had any. ?? Took the down time to do a first in my life time event. Shoveled Snow. It stayed in the teens all day.

 

[rswyan]

rswyan do you throw cracked corn in piles or sling it about

When I put it on the ground I usually sprinkle it around with a scoop ... and usually only right around the base of the feeders where the critters have packed the snow down.

This can result in as many as 50 - 100 birds at a time at the base of each feeder pole.

Probably have seen as many as 300 birds at a time combined (all feeders) out back.

 

[PJSprog]

Condolences to you and your family, Randy. Wonderful fortune that you got to enjoy your mother's presence for such a long time. 98 is a lot of life to celebrate.

 

[Rich B1]

Condolences toy you and your family Randy.

We got far less snow this morning than predicted. So far this evening, we are getting freezing rain....not snow. Gonna get up early and decide if I need to run the the snow blower or have an extra cup of coffee.

Had rolling outages of any business system involving a computer today. Company I work for is owned by a TX based company. The rolling power outages was affecting the servers in TX.....and productivity in Ohio. Phones were quiet today.

Everyone stay safe out there

 

[PJSprog]

Took the down time to do a first in my life time event. Shoveled Snow. It stayed in the teens all day.View attachment 686616

You guys shoveling snow for the first time, be careful. There's a very good reason the wet, heavy stuff is called "heart attack snow."

 

[Dftodd]

Good evening! 14˚F now, clear skies, heading for our coldest morning tomorrow.
My mom's central heater broke and part is on order. Good thing we designed the house with split AC/heat systems and the other is heating part of the house. She has had about 20 rolling blackouts today lasting about 15-30 minutes each. my Brother near Dallas has had 11 rolling blackouts. We have not had any. ?? Took the down time to do a first in my life time event. Shoveled Snow. It stayed in the teens all day.View attachment 686616

When living in the south, you can tell if someone moved down from the north. The first thing they do is clear out the driveway, after a storm

I spent about 1.5 hours today shoveling the driveway. Got a good workout in the process and can sure feel it now.

I started a trend though. Neighbor across the street was met by his wife and handed a shovel when he got home.

But then we are supposed to get another 8" to 10" of snow this week. With 16" of snow in the driveway, his wife wouldn't be able to get out of the driveway with her car.

 

[NHBX]

My condolences Randy
Prayers for you and your family

 

[lostcreekranch]

Good evening! 14˚F now, clear skies, heading for our coldest morning tomorrow.
My mom's central heater broke and part is on order. Good thing we designed the house with split AC/heat systems and the other is heating part of the house. She has had about 20 rolling blackouts today lasting about 15-30 minutes each. my Brother near Dallas has had 11 rolling blackouts. We have not had any. ?? Took the down time to do a first in my life time event. Shoveled Snow. It stayed in the teens all day.View attachment 686616

We had four RBO's at LCR today. All began on the hour and lasted exactly 40 minutes each time. Patricia had none but .. was surrounded by areas with power out most of the day .. some still out.

Part of this .. is a result of about 25,000 megawatts of wind turbines, in W. Texas, being frozen up from ice storms, and non-operable. This demonstrates that reliable power generation MUST be from all available sources. Relying on Solar and Wind only is the biggest fairy tale ever.

Natural gas fired power plants .. are still the most efficient/ effective / reliable source of power we have.