Good morning!!!!

kenmbz · Mar 7, 2023

m7040 said:
Thanks , turned it off so will give it a try The dropped calls happens at our place and I am not noticing dropped calls when on the move. Wife has an old flip phone that she had forever and she never have any problems with dropped calls

I have poor cell connection at home, so WiFi calling is enabled.
WiFi calling is great when it works, but as PoGadget stated, it drops calls all the time for me.
it's technical, no QOS built in, so sometimes just bite the bullet and step outside in the front yard where I have better cell reception (and I have a repeater inside, but that is only a partial solution)

sodamo · Mar 7, 2023

66°F and .08 inches rain

Off to HD this morning. Pick up those items I didn’t get last week and Canada Dave needs a replacement window for the cottage to replace the one the wind broke. I also need to pick up my CO2 bottle for my kegerator and make a stop at the Credit Union.

UPS brought my barn door hardware a day early, 3 heavy boxes. Open up 1 and have to say I’m pleasantly surprised. Every insidiously part wrapped or boxed then double boxed and sealed with plastic. I suspect every USPS would deliver intact UPS did.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

daugen · Mar 7, 2023

Nuiqsut · Alaska 99789

Alaska 99789

www.google.com

little town of Nuiqsut in news, Indian inhabitants worried about impact of planned huge expansion of drilling in that area.
Google Maps/Earth is very cool, zoomed in to check out the town and then started zooming over to the right, heading East to Prudhoe Bay.
Seems Prudhoe is down to the last quarter of its oil reserves and now the oil companies want to keep heading West where there must be a lot more oil.

It's very interesting to zoom down on the oil industry up there. It does come right up to the village in question. There is a lot of infrastructure up there, and
a lot of support for expansion. Most Alaskans seem to want the jobs but the locals have a real concern. They hunt caribou, not barrels of crude.
I wonder if the critters run free among all those wells drilled.

you have to zoom down to a certain level but you can follow the pipelines heading South

not an easy place to work or live

Thomas · Mar 7, 2023

27F cloudy not as windy like yesterday and over night.on/off snow showers most of the day.

Work day flew by

gave Mrs.wood furnace heck of good cleaning.
Mrs. made lasagna for dinner darn sure I won't be late.

Enjoy your evening all.

KilroyJC · Mar 7, 2023

Looking4new said:
Good morning, the low temp is 16 and the high to 30°F. Wind N 14 gusting to 23 mph. Increasing cloudiness.

Nice moon shot.

I got a e mail of money Sunday and couldn't deposit it into my bank account. Had to wait until yesterday to talk to the help line from the bank. Within 5 minutes all was good (I hadn't changed my email address on the account since 20 years ago, my bad). Got hold of the guy that sent me the loot and he resent it. All is good. I will be plowing him out until the end of March 2024. Even though I say a one year (365 days) contract, I go to the end of the month of the following year.
The only people that I let slide on their plowing contract is the ones on the corner. I have known them for 25 of the 29 years I have been here. They had some Mother troubles and a huge move for her (80s) from the city to up here, so I let them slide on the payment, knowing full well that when they remembered I would get paid. I got paid. They have gotten quotes from other snow plowers, but they wont plow between the garage and the house. I will. My 5' back blade does it nicely with about 6" on either side clearance.

The roof on the shelter logic shed I keep the tractor in is toast. I will replace that in Spring after the snow is gone. I have a spare roof.
The snow and ice is slowly leaving the parking area up near the house, but not in the driveway yet.

I have been pricing out Quonset huts and I had better 'pick the right 6 numbers', win the lottery IF I want one any time soon. About 100 grand for the hut plus the 52x28 concrete pad plus the contractor to install all of it. Then there is the electrical and the plumbing to go into it (I can do that myself). I want a Quonset hut because you don't need to worry about the snow load on them. If I got a regular square walled building, then it would have the be a A frame roof and would make the building too high in comparison to the house.

As for what I will get up to today? Not much.

Have a safe day all

What about a Nissen Hut? There is a difference. . .

daugen · Mar 7, 2023

home made lasagna, yum.

old friend's son, who I have mentored for most of his life, has started a new business using his plasma cutter.
He already does coastal inlet youtube videos, and figures folks whose boat he took a pic of would make great clients.
And he is right.

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I have a one of a kind coffee wall art he made. He built it, I painted it. Red, white and blue mugs

rswyan · Mar 7, 2023

42F and sunny @ 15:30

Did not get feeders filled yesterday prior to departure. Maybe today if I can get moving ...

Woman volunteered to accompany me to Menards ... if I placed the order at the Massillon Menards. Going to the one in Kent is probably a little further and involves driving on the interstate and there are construction zones.

She managed to pick up a new bucket and a couple of boxes of Kleenex.

In addition to the critter food, I got a 1" x 48" solid red oak stair tread, another six Plano storage boxes (smaller ones this time), and a 24 piece foam brush assortment.

The kitties got a 7 lb. bag of IAMS dry cat food which was on sale, which they seemed to like (chicken and salmon, first time they've had it)

Stopped on the way back at the cheap station down in Massillon and picked up another 5 gallons of diesel for the torpedo heater.

Saw several lightning strikes on the way back and tried to beat the rain before it got to the house, made it ... just barely.

Once we got back The Woman went inside and started warming up the leftover Mexican food from the other night while I refueled the torpedo heater, unloaded the car, and stowed the critter food in their respective containers.

Winds came up and rain started just as I started to unload.

After dinner I got the last bracket for the high shelf over the pegboard installed.

Went to put in the last screw (in the last hole on the last bracket) and ran into a screw that was under the pegboard holding the furring strip to the wall ...

Moving the bracket over 1/8" solved that problem.

After that I the piece of ply for the shelf down off the lumber rack and vacuumed it off and started applying the first coat of poly.

Once I had that on, I headed down to the basement and fired up one of the old computers and started laying out the design for the workbench. Took a bit to get back into the flow of that but it went ok. Still have a ways to go but making progress.

Came back after a while and checked on how the poly was drying and it seemed to be dry so I threw another coat on:

Still need to check it today and see whether it has dried up all the way. (I turned off the torpedo heater once I had the second coat applied)

If it seems hard, I may flip the board over today and get started on the other side.

Ran into this on the tabletop for the workbench:

Fortunately, it is on the left side (facing that side of the table) and I am right-handed ... and is almost the exact width of the back jaw on the face vice + the 1" thick stair tread (some of which will get used as a jaw face) so it can be trimmed out, allowing the back jaw + face to be flush with the edge of the table ...

Need to get moving so I can get those feeders filled ... before it get dark ...

Hope everyone is having a great Tuesday ...