Good morning!!!!

[sodamo]

Is it at the Puna Gardens? Puna Gardens is located on the Big Island of Hawaii in beautiful “downtown” Kurtistown, a small town that sits on the slopes of Mauna Loa at an elevation of 900ft

Puna Gardens

Selling the best Heart of Palm from Hawaii

punagardens.com

Nope

Try heartofpalmhawaii@live.com

Or

Heart of Palm Hawaii

Heart of Palm Hawaii is here to provide the freshest produce possible. Nothing is canned. Our hearts of palm are shipped fresh to you via next day air. You should receive the heart of palm within 1-2 days. We ship them chilled, wrapped in plastic, and in a cardboard box to retain freshness.

www.heartofpalmhi.com

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all 46F for the start, mostly clear, and light breeze. Windy day, mostly clear during day, and high temp was 75F. Cleaning lady prep to start, then worked on finding a gopher tunnel. Then worked on getting paper to burn better, no happy with results so put matches on list. Went for bike ride, then lunch and grocery shopping. Short nap, dinner then to wanted to fire off bunch of matches only to find gopher resealed tunnel More gopher antics tomorrow.
Covid update: Cooke 3112 confirmed cases, 16 active cases, Montague 1735 confirmed cases, 8 active cases, Grayson 11032 confirmed cases, 38 active cases, local 0 active cases.
Ron Glad you are happy with furnace. Nice red wing pic
Drew, depends on how warm ground is. fuel filters have been gone for years
Bill 31F does not sound like BH weather. Now 30C on the other hand ...
Eric either way not good lamb weather. You mean people want ruin out Cha-ching?
Drew wonder if they are turning over their premium fast enough?
Randy sorry about your dreams
Thomas meatloaf yum
Don new guy is always in trouble
Paul speaker business sounds good. nice pics, makes me hungry.
RNG watched that video yesterday, thanks for the link. Hope you get last pallet done
Luther that never gets old does it
PJ hope the maiden voyage goes well.Gas is much cleaner than it was when I grew up, but injectors are much less tolerant of foreign material
3Ts congrats on your new concrete, should let is set a day or 2 before walking on it to avoid tracking concrete
Phil quite the rig to get to oak down safely
Drew good to hear onions in
Davis sorry about the DVRs do they have a fuse?
RS have fun with Mini-Ex
Don nice looking "crab" cakes
prayers for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle's daughter/sister & family Covid/friend's grand baby/son&wife Covid, David(moss)/remodel/divorce, Ron/hearing/son/aunt, Phil/reflux/wife's eyes, Dennis/older brother/son, Grev/wife's eye, Randy/family, Bill/DIL, Ted/knee recovery, Doug and wife/health issues/nerve and pain/ wife's eyes, Ken/uncle, and Country.
stay safe and healthy you all.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

On the Ford Ranger you have to remove a panel in the wheel well to change the oil filter.

On the Kia Stinger you have to remove the spare tire to get to the battery under it.

On an Altima, you have to pull out a plastic inner fender for the oil filter.

Three weeks after the Texas Mask Mandate order was lifted covid cases are still falling in Texas. Some news media do not like this - no doom and gloom to report.
Starting Monday all adults in Texas are eligible to get vaccinated.

Surprised to see the cases coming down. Brazos county is adding thousands of previously unreported cases. I'm guessing the college students didn't bother getting tested maybe?

Wifey got her 1st shot today. She said it hurt, and arm is sore. Now saying she feels a bit feverish tonight. I read that you shouldn't take NSAIDS if you get fever after the shot. Said they could reduce body's immune system's abilities. She took a tylenol. I wanted her to tough it out.

Eric, Muhammed is getting rich off of weather system adds.

Popgadget, cool gadget. Pork shoulders is the new fajitas, often on sale for $1/lb. Now fajitas are upwards of $8/lb.

Prayers for our team, and our country.

 

[sodamo]

Kyle from CDC site

Helpful tips
Talk to your doctor about taking over-the-counter medicine, such as ibuprofen, acetaminophen, aspirin, or antihistamines, for any pain and discomfort you may experience after getting vaccinated. You can take these medications to relieve post-vaccination side effects if you have no other medical reasons that prevent you from taking these medications normally.

It is not recommended you take these medicines before vaccination for the purpose of trying to prevent side effects.

 

[ronjhall]

Poured first cup of coffee. 36° with mostly cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 59° with cloudy skies and rain later in day. Grocery shopping went very well. Very few people out shopping. Must have been the weather. Helped son install a new Reese hitch on his truck and trailer. Off to Port Huron to visit my aunt and uncle today.
Michigan covid cases 718,455. Deaths 17,023. Oakland county cases 84,210. Deaths 2,052. Michigan is reporting over 5,000 new cases everyday. So much for lock down cutting back on cases. Last week numbers were in 1K's.

Don, hope the setting in phone setting stop the unwanted calls. It will help if you have all your cousins in your contact list to not miss any calls from them.

Drew, I have been looking at new vehicles. Probably not buying. But I am surprised by how many have suggestions that premium fuel be used for best performance.

3Ts, good to hear you got your concrete down. Any pictures.

Eric, cannot help with your weather reports. Had a total rainfall of 1.46" yesterday.

Mostly, have you watched Caddyshack lately?

Everyone stay healthy and safe.

Good Morning All.

 

[daugen]

good morning all. Temps have cooled down from yesterday, I think it hit 79 here, and will be about 70 today in nice sunshine. Then rain comes in tonight and tomorrow.
Unlike some of you there is no shortage of rain here, just plenty of Spring showers.

this was not the message I wanted to get from Honda:
There has been a minimum 2 week interruption imposed on production due to the global microchip issue.
When production resumes, we will get back into the queue and have a better idea on your availability to move forward

So who knows when they are going to build my truck at this point. Audi sure did run nicely on all four cylinders...

going to be a busy day. Having my cruising friend over for dinner, we are splitting the pulled pork I picked up at Popgadget's yesterday, and then we will look
at cruise line info. Another mystery there too...CDC articles all over the place about not letting ships leave US before July.
I really want to cruise earlier in the season vs later due to nicer weather but looks like covid is running the show here. The only positive part of this is if Celebrity has to postpone
my cruise, they will automatically rebook it with a 125% credit. Maybe enough to get a nicer room or maybe keep the credit for next year.

Don, thanks for recipe, I bookmarked it and sent a copy to my sister who will also want to try it.

So food shopping this morning, then major cleanup of house, need to carry all the shipping boxes I brought home down steep steps to basement and wanted to wait until
I was rested this morning to do that. I have pallets on the basement floor to stack things though some of the boxes are plastic bins and they can go anywhere. Several of these boxes have
high school and college memorabilia and they have already gotten wet once in a prior house when basement flooded. Am a lot more careful now.

I'll find my second grade report card, my favorite, and while I did get all A's, the teacher wrote on the back under comments (remember when they still did that?)
talks too much

heh heh but then you knew that

 

[Eric Salop]

Thinking the Tempest reports w/m2, so if I know my m2 I can figure theoretical watts?

WU reports light intensity in W/M2. In order to correlate that with solar panel output, I can get a real time value for the solar array output from the OpticsRE monitoring system.

The technical data sheet for your solar panels will have graphs showing output v irradiance (it is non-linear).

Another thing you could take account of when relating weather station info to panel output is the air temperature and strength/direction of the wind. That is because solar panel output power decreases as they get hotter. It is typically 0.3 to 0.4 % less for each degree Celcius.

 

[NHBX]

Good morning all

39 now highs in the mid to upper 50’s and sunny today. Winds 5 to 10 mph.

Yesterday was another windy day with gusts close to 40 mph, so more pick up sticks.
The usual Saturday dump run and enjoy the sun today.

Stay safe and healthy
Enjoy your day everyone

 

[Eric Salop]

Good morning, we had a few snow flurries last night thanks to the wind moving around and bringing a short cold snap all the way from Greenland.

After spending some time reading about deterring cormorants I have come to realise that I won't be able to keep them away. The best I can do is to make some refuges where fish can safely gather without the birds being able to catch them. Yesterday I put my new neoprene waders on and went for a paddle, to try and learn a bit more about what is below the surface.

With the pond not showing up on maps before 1970 I hadn't expected to find too much silt, however there are many places where I couldn't get much more than 10 yards from the bank before I would soon sink into 6" or more of soft mud. Even with a wading stick to help balance I find it tricky to turn around in mud while wearing waders. I was doing a slow shuffle turn at one point when the wind suddenly gusted and put small waves on the surface, luckily the water didn't spill over the top of the chest waders or trigger my self inflating life jacket. I will need a calmer day - or a boat - before I attempt piling alder posts into the bed.

Mostly, did you once mention having fish refuges on your lake ?

 

[daugen]

I forgot some excitement yesterday. Wow was it windy, just as predicted. Driving home from Popgadget's farm, on a main road (413) car in front swerves violently to the left.
I hit my brakes not knowing what was in the road and good thing I did. As I watched a tree fall right into the road, blocking it entirely. Thankfully not a big trunk, just a huge pile of smashed
dead limbs, mother natures's pruning. There was no way any of us could drive over this so guy facing me stopped in traffic and I had a little let's roll moment and out we went and hauled all the brush off the road so two long lines of traffic could now pass.

Then later on way to brother's home he called me and said don't take this road, trees down blocking it. I think 202 itself was blocked, saw lots of fire trucks and equipment in road thankfully just past entrance to brother's community. Talk about picking up sticks, they were everywhere. Spent two hours at brother's having glass of wine and munchies while his Generac ran constantly, the whole neighborhood was buzzing with gens running. At first I thought someone was powerwashing their house but it was dozens of gens running at once. Just before I left power came back on and the neighborhood was quiet again. My brother lives right next to woods and it was nice to hear the birds again.

 

[wngsprd]

49 going to 75 and sunny. Saw a fox in the driveway when I went out with Coco this morning. Was beginning to think the coyotes had moved on, but got one on a trail cam yesterday before light not too far from the house.

NHBX, also too windy to get much done outside yesterday, but late in day when it slacked off, I hiked back in the woods and picked up sticks.

Baseball season is almost here! Will be drafting my first team this morning. Last year I managed 3 and it was a handful, but enjoyable for a short season. My favorite player was out all season with colon cancer, but is back strong in spring practice.

 

[toppop52]

43-72 today and not as windy as yesterday.
It got to 85 yesterday, supposed to be in the 40s two days next week. Spring on Delmarva.
Trip to Carolina kept getting put off for various reasons, looks like next Friday now.

Before my first shot the recommendation was wait two hours after the shot then only Acetaminophen.

Ron, new cars try squeeze as much power as possible in the smallest engine, that requires high cylinder pressure from boost, compression ratio or both. In order to that you gotta have knock resistance or you have an expensive hand grenade.
My STS required premium or you got a noticeable drop in performance. My son’s CTSv is the same way.

 

[daugen]

Billy, my Dad took us boys into NYC as kids to see Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra several times.
We were definitely Yankee fans. I think of baseball and I think of my Father asleep on the couch on a Saturday afternoon
with the television still on and the game playing. It was the only time he got to take a nap, otherwise he worked a 60 hour week.

I wonder how many young people today are willing to work a 60 hour week. Then you have the flip side of the coin in Japan where those folks
sure take their jobs too seriously and have all kinds of alcohol problems because of it.
Am pretty sure my grandfather worked six days a week for most of his life. It was just the way of things, particularly if you owned your own business
and knew what it was like for the world to fall apart in 1929.

 

[RoyJackson]

2021-03-27, 0713

37 right now...high in the mid-50's today...

Definitely a dump run today...didn't go last weekend, so a pretty good quantity to go. Snow's pretty much gone, so I think I'll drop the snow blower and front blade...hook up the bucket. The flail mower is still pretty inaccessible, so that may have to wait for next weekend.
Since the field is also pretty clear, I'm going to run the Gator down there...quite a bit of standing water on the field though. I want to see is how much branch trimming I need to do before running the tractor down there. IIRC, I written I don't want any of that very expensive cab glass busted when mowing. I expect it'll be too wet to get down there with the chain and pole saws though

If you're a dog lover, as I am...got two very sweet stories to share...read the links in order...

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If those don't make you feel good, check your heartbeat...you're probably dead

 

[daugen]

of course any farmer would just laugh at 60 hours a week. That would be like being on vacation for a dairy farmer.

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, a tad cool this morning at 26°F and the high should be 41. Wind calm. Cloudy.

An energy conservation day.


Have a safe day all

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning
47 and climbing to 65 today. Yesterday’s strong winds have subsided, looks like a nice day, with rain tonight. Highest gust that I recorded was 37mph, with the Tempest and Davis in agreement.

Pork came out quite good. It went in the smoker around 6pm and came out just before noon.

I had the QC manager watching me shred it....

And ended up with a good amount when I was done. I gave about 2/3 of it away, but I’ve got enough in the fridge to last quite a while.
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Made good progress in the shop, there’s 3 speakers in process now, so I’m figuring out how to most efficiently work on them. I’m a long way from Henry Ford, but it does save time.

Today I’ve got to go to Hilton Head again, hopefully I can get a little done in the shop when I get back.

It’s nice not to start each day with a search for a vaccination appointment!

 

[Thomas]

37F cloudy low 50's for high.
Between 30+ mph winds thunder lighting with heavy rains snow all but disappear except for the snow banks.
About 2 miles forms we heard the peepers first time this years.

Outside chores done E muffin time.
Plans for today....Refill deer feeder one more time,short walk about,if ground not to soft more lawn raking,other than that putter.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[Buppies]

49 high of 66 to rain this afternoon and Sunday

upstairs heat pump on the fritz not cooling

all of our cars run on 91 or better and they average between 24 and 30 mpg

prayers for all our Country

 

[ronjhall]

Billy, my Dad took us boys into NYC as kids to see Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra several times.
We were definitely Yankee fans. I think of baseball and I think of my Father asleep on the couch on a Saturday afternoon
with the television still on and the game playing. It was the only time he got to take a nap, otherwise he worked a 60 hour week.

I wonder how many young people today are willing to work a 60 hour week. Then you have the flip side of the coin in Japan where those folks
sure take their jobs too seriously and have all kinds of alcohol problems because of it.
Am pretty sure my grandfather worked six days a week for most of his life. It was just the way of things, particularly if you owned your own business
and knew what it was like for the world to fall apart in 1929.

My scheduled work week was 58 hours for most of my working life. It has paid off in retirement. Not rich, but comfortable.