Good morning!!!!

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 17F for the start, overcast, light breeze. Light wind day, some peaks of sunshine, and high temp was 24F. Friday will be above freezing for first time in a long while. Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday of next week look near normal.Cleaned up ashes and stokes insert. Finished cleaning out fridge, set garage up as temp fridge, room in garage freezer for the frozen stuff. Was able to remove old defrost board, one lead looked funny, another lead looked fried. was able to order new board and get overnight service but no tracking yet. Water came back late morning, most air out of pipes by early afternoon so turned water heater back on. No power outages today, stepdaughter house was still doing rolling blackout. Napped and conserved energy for rest of day.
Covid update: Cooke 2999 confirmed cases, 60 active cases, Montague, 1675 confirmed cases,.19 active cases, Grayson unchanged , local no update.
Dennis is your brother doing any better? Thanks for update on your dad. You you get your tweaks finished
MossRoad sounds like a neat memory
David hope Sophie passed the vision test and insurance goes smoothly
Roy glad snow under control
Luther thanks, adaptive defrost control board has burnt lead, should have one tomorrow
Ron sounds like plenty of seat time yesterday. great pic
Rich sorry about Billy Bob, good luck with emu, somebody tried raising emu in Kansas, they spent more time on the run than on the farm
Buppies understood about media, thanks for prayers.
Mike sorry about the new fence, hope you prepping is done before storm hits
Paul glad move went well, sorry about headwinds, at least your not a C172
Work gas tractors?
Thomas enjoy the putter
Bill above freezing, you will be in shorts and a tee shirt
Ron great catch
Don sorry about no power, hope they beat their estimate.
Randy hope land deal is clear up without too much upset.
James hope move goes well for FIL, glad you avoid the bad windchill
RS going stir crazy yet?
RNG don't use cutoff wheels as a rule of thumb, good luck with voltage sage
Rick sorry your black outs continue, glad your pump warmer worked
Billy glad your winter is more normal, and getting the down limbs squared away.
Mike glad your temp fence is up.
Drew good to hear you are ready for the storm. We were 40+ below normal for a day and a half
David how cold is your cold front ?
RS you are making sound cold up there
Billy long time Rush fan
RNG thanks for the links
Thomas great cartoon
RS Glad snow blowing went well, that was one big duck!
Ken hope you get a window to fix chimney cap
DF sorry mini fridge died, I know how that goes. Worse thing about snow storms are the other drivers!
Ron wrong brand for Cha ching. Already has snow on it. nice looking machine
DF softener slat wins again, good job saving neighbor
prayers for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle's daughter/sister & family Covid/friend's grand baby/son Covid, David(moss)/remodel/divorce, Ron/hearing/son/aunt, Phil/wife's eyes, Dennis/older brother/son, Grev/wife's eye, Randy/mom, Bill/DIL, Ted/knee recovery,and Country.
stay safe and healthy you all.

 

[txdon]

I considered that one but went with the other. I like having the windshield, especially with rain and cold.

It is a windshield.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

It is a windshield.

I know, I went with fixed windshield instead of the tilt up one you showed.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Dennis is your brother doing any better? Thanks for update on your dad. You you get your tweaks finished
.

Brother is doing the same, according to his son who returned home to MI today. One of my sisters might go down next. This is brother who’s wife just passed away.

Hope you get fridge fixed soon.

 

[RoyJackson]

2021-02-18, 0332

12 right now...high in the upper 20's today...

 

[daugen]

woke up and surprised no snow yet, but looked at radar and looks like it will be going over Popgadgets, Ken's and my home in less than an hour.
Actually it's here now, flurries just started.
5-8 inches today, several tonight, several tomorrow
At least it's not terribly cold here.
Roy and Phil, sending it up your way.

no slips
no falls

 

[Eric Salop]

Good morning all. We are lucky that it is well above freezing here, with an expected high of 10C/50F thanks to some air kindly pre-heated by Africa.

Took my wife for her first Covid vaccination yesterday. With my jab the day before that makes it 2 outings together in 2 days, the most we have been out together in many months :laughing:

Ron, terrific squirrel-in-snow pic !

Mostly, not heard of an "adaptive defrost control board" before. Sounds like you are the one having to do all the adapting to conditions, you must really be looking forward to Friday's promised thaw.

RNG, for angle grinders my favourite cutting discs are 0.75mm (0.029") thick , made by "Tyrolit". They are an Austrian company and make these super thin discs that are about as close as it gets to "hot knife through butter" on steel tube, bar or plate. Norton also have an " ultra thin", "Quantum" range at 0.8mm(0.031") for the European market, although when I looked down the USA product range, I could only see 0.045" (1.14mm) listed, which is not going to cut as fast.

Wng, 40 years is a good life for a wheelbarrow :thumbsup:

Don't think you can ever have too many wheelbarrows, at the moment I have two in good health and constant use, one just past repair on the scrap heap and this one that is now somewhere over 30, having been patched a few times and for the last couple of years has been on it's side awaiting a new tire while serving as a wind break shelter for lambs. LS, would you by any chance have been tempted to spray yours blue ?

 

[daugen]

prayers for all the folks in Texas in dire condition

The family, with no heat in their home, has resorted to burning
their toddler's toy blocks as firewood.
"A lot of people don't know the severity of what's going on.
People are tearing down their fences to burn," Garcia said, in tears.


at least here it should melt fairly soon, 41 tomorrow, and low to mid 50's mid next week.
until then going to be a lot of slippery spots and frozen melt

 

[mpham]

15 here heading to 26. Thanks for the snow daugen! I would rather that then the rain/ice we got last storm. Weather guessers can't decide if we are getting 3-4 or 8-10. Should be a long duration storm as it starts this afternoon for us and goes till Saturday.
Still no word on the wife's new car. I imagine it is stuck on a railroad car or delivery truck somewhere. Might take a ride today to the dealer and see if they can locate it.
Not much planned for today as my acid reflux is back in high gear for some reason! Need to stick with bland food till it goes away. Sure sucks not being able to eat what you want! I'm on the strongest meds they have for this and still having issues. Need to get it fixed before the meds do more damage then the relief. Oh well! Maybe the camera check in May will finally see something.
Hope everyone can get through this wacky weather! Stay safe and healthy everyone!

 

[riptides]

27 outside this AM. Heading to 30. Ground is already covered. Anywhere from 2 to 10 inches is expected. Then ice on top of that.

Got the temp fence done yesterday and two more horses showed up. CFO is making some moves.

Here she is inspecting the fence line. I was only off 100 feet on the plot. LOL.
Hey it is temporary.

Hope all have a great day. Be safe...and stay healthy my friends.

BTW nice rides. They are work vehicles too. LOL.