Good morning!!!!

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 53F @ 5:00AM. Sunny to partly cloudy. High 66F. Winds NNW at 10 to 15 mph.
Still no rain in the 10-day. Looks like maybe winter will be delayed this year by an extended fall, as high temps will continue to hover in the mid 60s.

That's a LOT of daffodils, RS!

The ranchers say they're not cashing in on the high beef prices, Mike, so it must be the packers. If supply and demand is still in effect, and enough people feel like us and stop paying outrageous prices for over priced meat, the prices will eventually come down. In the mean time, "I eat more chicken than man ever seen."

The company that picks up trash here doesn't provide a separate recycle bin, and doesn't have drop off recycling either, Drew. And Waste Management in town shut down their collection site, as did the one helping developmentally disabled people. Truth be told, I've read that it actually costs more to recycle glass than make it from raw materials, so in reality, recycling it is just another tree hugger feel good thing.

Double checked all the measurements on the transmission yesterday, cleaned everything up again and reassembled, and it still turns with what feels like too much resistance. Put it in the oven at 250F for a few hours, and when hot, everything feels like it should. And now that it's cool, it freed up some but it's still a little stiff. The handbook I'm using suggested using grease between the shims to hold them in place, but it very well could be that the stuff I used is too thick and is taking up too much room. If that's the case, it'll eventually squish out and the resistance will go down. I'm tempted use it like it is, but it's very likely I'll take it apart one more time and adjust the shimming on the input shaft to give it just a few more ten thousandths of an inch more clearance. And use oil instead of grease to hold the shims in place. Hard to believe that that small of an amount could make such a difference, but it apparently does. The specified tolerance range is 0.002" - 0.004". Live and learn.

Hump Day already...

 

[RoyJackson]

Roy, which tree did you choose?

Haven't picked yet...stepdaughter is working today, and we want all hands participation in choosing
One she picked is from Home Depot and has multicolored lights. The one I ordered is from Amazon and all white lights. The Amazon tree was considerably more expensive and probably easier to return...
So, ask me this question Friday...should have the answer by then

 

[txdon]

Just when you thought you have seen every type of cake, along comes a raindrop cake. Yes it is vegan.

https://www.uncommongoods.com/product/diy-raindrop-cake-molecular-gastronomy-kit

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, low 29, high 41°F. Wind SSE 12 mph. Sunny!

My trailer is loaded with scrap wood all ready for the dump. I will get it today and bring it home and take it in on Friday. Friday is payday, that is the reason. I am dead flat broke! Last three trailer loads at $15.oo each killed whatever extra money I had this month. That on top of the last $25.oo worth of gas I put into the Dodge got eaten up by a trip to Huntsville Hospital to retrieve the DIL. This is one of the times I wish I had a diesel AND the goobermint didn't check for using coloured fuel on the road.
I save my silver over the summer for just these occasions. So I guess I will be rolling quarters today.

I really like seeing and hearing woodpeckers. I have one that parks on the TV tower right behind my bedroom wall. I think it is the same one that I hear off in the bush.

I think the farthest I am going today is the mail box.

I have three of the harddrives up and running all virgin drives. The ones that were in the box, we haven't done anything with due to the upset of DILs meat wagon ride.

This I don't understand; she wants to do the 'assisted suicide' thing in January, so yesterday morning she wakes up nauseous and when I got up she was on oxygen (she has her own tanks here), then called the meat wagon to go to the hospital. Gets to the hospital then refuses a chest x-ray, refuses any sort of treatment and we have to waste all that precious gas to go get her. That is besides the time that could have been spent doing something else other than going get her had she stayed home. In the mean time she could have croaked yesterday and not waited until January.
I do NOT agree with assisted suicide, suicide in any form as far as I am concerned is the cowards way out of life.

Happy turkey day to all you guys down south (U.S). My next turkey will be at Christmas.


Stay safe all

 

[pennwalk]

27F here this morning. The sky is blue and the sun is shining. Yesterday was as cold and windy as I feared. At least the wind blew the dust away. I moved a lot of leaves. I saw right away that it would be worth the time to put the cart bagger on the mower. Still there were a lot of trips to the compost pile. I thought I might be seeing some snow flakes late in the day.

"Too bad they don't have single stream recycling here. At least my current trash company does a separate recycle
pickup."

When we were up in Maine this Summer the guy at the transfer station told me that while they had a separate bin for recycling they just sent it to the incinerator because nobody wanted the recycling. They kept the bin so people would keep recycling in case recycling came back. Sort of discouraging. I suspect that it is much the same here in Lancaster.

I hope you will all be safe through the Holiday.

Chris

 

[pennwalk]

I thought maybe a road rage incident took 5 cars out?

I'm convinced that the pandemic has unhinged more than a few people. Sure is a lot of crazy going on.

Chris

 

[PJSprog]

40°F and partly cloudy this morning, going up to 62° today. Nice. Expecting some rain overnight. Temps will be warm in the morning, then falling through the day tomorrow, only to warm again for the weekend.

Wife is starting to cook today; cranberries and pies are on the list.

We'd noticed a change in the activity level at the neighbor's place about a week ago. We weren't seeing the horses out in the pastures, and very little of people moving about either. Wife said there had been some fairly regular traffic of trucks pulling horse trailers during the day the previous week. She told me a few minutes ago that she saw a for sale sign out by the road this morning. None of their kids liked it here, and the oldest daughter moved out two weeks after they moved in. The wife told my Wife that their son recently got busted for possession of pot, had taken their truck for a joyride on a few occasions (no drivers license yet), and was generally becoming a rebellious problem child. We're guessing they decided to move to their other property near Farmington MO. Bummer. We liked them.

We looked at that property when it went up for sale last time, but opted to stay put and sink some money into what would eventually be our house instead. He's put a lot of money into that property, too, not the least of which is a big new horse barn, and new fencing around the whole property (which is 7 acres, I believe).

Doug, were your guy not overweight, and probably not sporting a mid-western American accent, I would say it might very well be the same guy. Was his name Glen, by chance? Our guy had our carpenter tear out the top part of the wall in the stairwell so he could sit on the steps to install the wiring for the second switch at the bottom of the stairs, instead of just going into the storage area under the stairs where he would have had full access to the inside of that wall. Lazy, and creating more work and expense for everyone else.

 

[daugen]

PJ, one would think the guy would discuss that with you ahead of time.
Clearly your electrician did not understand tread lightly. Sorry you lost a good neighbor.

time to chop apples into very small pieces, and mix with extra blueberries into a whole grain
blueberry muffin mix. I add some Ceylon cinnamon, ground flax seed and vanilla also.

Trick for me is to give them all away and not eat too many myself...

Chris, it is discouraging. It is cheaper to dump it all in landfill, no question. I think we've figured out how to recycle
tires and batteries but certainly not household waste.

We make a path through life. I don't want mine represented by another six inches in the local land fill.

 

[PJSprog]

When I still lived in Granite City, they started a then-new recycling program. They gave every household a small recycling container for plastics and glass. The first two weeks I put stuff out, it seemed like they were only taking one or two things out of it and leaving the rest. I talked with the guy doing the pickup on the third week (they only picked up recycling every other week), and asked why he was leaving everything. He told me that he was told not to take certain items. When I showed him the list that the city had sent to everyone, he chuckled and said 90% of the stuff on that list is the stuff he was told not to take, for various reasons regarding it's recyclability. I never bothered to put anything out after that. I've used that container for a storage container for the last 25 years.

 

[sodamo]

67°F and no rain

Today marks my 75th trip around the sun Bo, whodda thought? I remember back when thinking 75 was really old!

Today’s focus will be TDay prep. 18 fully vaccinated friends will be here tomorrow for a potluck dinner. I’m responsible for the ham and turkey.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day