Good morning!!!!

[wngsprd]

28 going to 47.

Buppies, hope the healing is fast...that's a lot of work on the skin for one day.

Sodamo, I was gonna ask why Kekoa was looking so alert in the photo you posted...now I know...BEF was sneaking another burger. Looks like a great time.

BEF, enjoy your wonderful journey. We'll try to gen up some snow here for when you get home.

Brought in firewood and moved a pallet over for more splitting fun today. Cleaned out all the bluebird houses, did a little maintenance, and replaced one. Had to put up a new flag pole bracket...the extreme winds took the post down a couple of weeks ago.

MIL back to hospital. Wife was able to get her moved back to nursing home last night, and stayed the night...hoping to come home today for a visit.

 

[riptides]

31 outside this AM, heading to mid 40's. At least it is dry and sunny these past few days.

Nothing going on and the real job is back to the back of the list of things to do. LOL. Milk House got some furring strips back up and a few thousand nails pulled out of the walls where the metal mesh was used to parge the walls. I'll see if I can get some Durock hung today, but I don't have concrete screw handy.

Hope all have a great day, be safe in your endeavors.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 46F and raining at 3:45AM. Mostly cloudy skies early, then partly cloudy this afternoon. High 58F. Winds WNW at 5 to 10 mph.

Productive day yesterday. Dropped van off for warranty work at the dealer, but dealer's internet connection was down. They won't be able to complete some of the firmware updates, or even sell cars, until it's restored. On the way down we found traffic lights either weren't working or were out all together in several towns due to wide spread power outages. The lights were on at the dealer, but apparently it's effecting network services.

Made it up to Chico, snagged a nice Mexican lunch, then grocery shopping, more boxes from HD, and back home. Lots of wet roads, but we missed the showers, and was finally able to put the cover on a dry car. Skirt steak was good for dinner.

More boxes means more packing today, and some loading as well. Already have 41 small size (HD and Walmart) boxes to load, but that's just a drop in the bucket.

 

[daugen]

not a good trip to greenhouse
electric heater on 750W setting all night
outdoor temp 23
inside greenhouse 20
ok, more power/heat to the people
ordered a tank top propane heater, 13k variable, that comes tomorrow
will give that a test.
I fed my last greenhouse heater with a 1000 gallon propane tank
doing this with 20 pounders sure is different
if 13k won't do it, ?
then time for a real greenhouse I suppose
I may be kidding myself thinking I can keep this warm

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, 21 going to 43 and the sun is appearing
Got the last big panels cut and ready to go up, after that it's only trim.
Ordered an electrical box extension since one is too far in for my taste.

dresser/bed for son project delayed, he has a gig Saturday with his newer band.
PopGadget - pretty happy with my Combi Boiler- so far keeps up better than the old one and so far looks like 25% less oil. What fuel do you wan to run?

Drew -glad the dental work went well,

Great Hawaii pics!

Back to the day job
Be well

 

[scott_vt]

Good Morning Guys,
Deerfield Beach, 56 to start going to 68.
Hope to see a little more of the sun today than yesterday! Down to our last two days, but it’s time to get back to reality!

But I might add the food at happy hour,
prepared by David and several of his neighbors was very delicious.

Dennis, beautiful pictures ! Sounds like it was a great happy hour and get together with David ! We enjoyed our two weeks their last year ! First week on Maui and then the last week cruising the islands !

Drew, glad to hear that you got out of the dentist office with everything fixed !

Looking ahead, we are going home to some warmer temps but the following week will go back to normal !

Hope all have a great day !

 

[plowhog]

Not a Ron quality pic.

Ron's pix quality rocks-- no question.

25F and clear in Beautiful Northern Nevada this morning. The High Sierra mountains got 3 feet of snow recently, pushing the week's total to 5 feet. We were "behind" an average winter, and now are pretty close.

Hope everyone has a great day today !!!

Spent several days migrating digital photos from old computers, phones, etc. to a single network hard drive. OMG I have tens of thousands of pix. At least they are in one place now and somewhat loosely organized into folders.

There are far, far, far too many photos to evaluate individually. Anyone ever try photo management software that will do this automatically?

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 36˚F cloudless sky, wind changing from North to a South wind and 68˚ this afternoon.

It was just cold and windy yesterday so instead of garage cleaning I got a haircut at a new place, they were good but slow. It did not help that it was Monday around lunchtime.

Cards last night was well attended with 9 tables - 36 people. Won 2 out of 5 games of Hand and Foot. Maybe Garage today and getting tools together for Fence takedown party tomorrow at the county park - a real test for the new knee.

Good to see TBN members partying together. Thanks for the Hawaii pics BEF.

Drew Looks like you need more ideas on a plant starting set-up. May have to think outside the box. hmmm, a box with a plexiglass South sloping lid and heat, like heating pad underneath. Hmmmm.

 

[LouNY]

Morning to all,
Nice day out 20F but the sun is shinning supposed to get up to 35 today and be warmer then normal through the weekend then later in next week a return to more normal temps. I hope the trees don't get to confused and start thinking it's spring only to get froze again. I see a lot of sap lines becoming active this last week. Hope they have a good season. As I really enjoy Maple syrup, not to enthused with the fancy grade A lights, I much prefer the darker stronger flavored B's or cooking grades even on my pancakes.

Drew, thinking back on the photo of your greenhouse was the covering a single layer of plastic?
Many of the ones up here have a second layer at least draped over the inner, the fancier ones will have a blower creating and maintaining an air gap between the layers of plastic. Many have switched to the polycarbonate sheets;

 

[daugen]

Lou, thanks, I had thin polycarb sheets on the last one and it worked well.
honestly not sure this will work and am concerned for inadequate light transmission
it got a lot of positive reviews, not sure for what...

if the propane heater can't keep it above freezing, not going to waste more time on it.

plants know real daylight vs grow lights. My plants with grow lights come straight up, but soon start
leaning towards the big windows inside, they know the good stuff is out there. Plus there's just more light out there.

got a nice thank you from my local school for donating the Sawstop table saw for their shop.
new teacher loves it, probably not much different from their previous Delta, but we spec'd the 3.5hp motor on this.
not sure the kids (max is 8th grade) will get much time on it, high school shop kids sure would.
but at least this way no one gets their fingers chopped off.

I dropped off a package of Blackwing colored pencils for the Art teacher this morning, so she wouldn't feel gypped...
have any of you used Blackwing pencils with the Japanese wax graphite core?