Good morning!!!!

[riptides]

While working in the city one day..... the fire alarm went off....somewhere in the building...close enough for me. I noticed people carrying on as usual, on my way out I inquired as to why no one was leaving....."the alarm is not on our floor".

I left the building.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Happy Birthday George. Here's a plaque regarding his 1770 journey down the Ohio River, with his Indian Guides, to scope out the west Virginia lands owed the soldiers from the French and Indian war. At thirty-eight years old Washington had finally persuaded Virginia Governor Norborne Berkeley to make good on the promise Governor Dinwiddie had made sixteen years earlier to reimburse members of the Virginia Militia with land in the Ohio Country, in recognition of their service in the French and Indian War. Washington had been appointed to administer the disposition of 200,000 acres of land “on the Great Kanhaway” to the deserving veterans

 

[m7040]

good morning 38 going to 45. rain in FC again

yesterday was infusion day for wife. She feels better this morning. It is a monthly cycle she goes through and helps her function but at the end of the month she is in a lot of pain before next infusion

did some clean up with the excavator. getting good at picking up dirt with 36 inch bucket by pushing against the blade and curling up. Not having to get down to clean or lift by hand is the goal. Back dragging the blade and using the tracks to compress and smooth out works great. Also the smaller bucket together with the thumb can pick up anything from several 1000 lbs to very small items. One thing that helps is the ability to pick up large trees without having to cut it up and swing it close to the side so it can travel between narrow rows of trees and out to an area to deal with it

 

[mpham]

Morning all! 20 going to a sunny 40. Wind is blowing now!
Wife felt good enough to venture out to the part time job today!
I need to rough clean the pellet stove and maybe do a walkabout outside to remove some branches.
I felt better earlier so went down into the shop for a couple hours.

My sister is always using the excuse:
"Yah but" You know, yah but it was raining! Yah but it was on sale! Yah but it was blue! Yah but etc. etc.
One day I looked at her and said: What's a yabut? Are they little creatures that jump in the woods? Now it's a running joke every time she says it!
Today I caught one in the shop! I will surprise her hopefully this weekend.

That's it for now. I hear another coffee calling!
Hope everyone stays safe and healthy!

 

[daugen]

good story Phil.
nice breakfast at Chives in Lambertville, NJ, other side of the Delaware River, and it was great.
I had a lamb egg sandwich that was awesome.

went foodshopping, now back to play with plants until my school board finance meeting later this afternoon.

my scheduled "disrobing" of the rv will not go on Saturday, still too much snow up on top of rv.
pushed back to following weekend. we have warmer weather by then which I hope will get rid of it.
there is still almost a foot of snow sitting on the shade side of my garage.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

i repainted my first car with two dozen rattlecans I got on clearance at Kmart way back when…

Just a cream colored door from the salvage yard. The wreck: My Sr year of HS basketball, The bus taking us to a basketball game broke down along I77 heading south. Was in the middle of a big snowstorm. The bus was parked at a gas station at one of the exits. Eventually we never made it to the game, and the game was cancelled. My parents picked me up from the bus on their way home, and we were traveling north on I77 when a car came across the medium from the SB side and hit us right at the back axle. There were 4 people in the back seat, including me. Due to the roads being nothing but ICE, we spun like a top. Fortunately no one was near us from behind to cause any more excitement. We ended up able to drive the car home. This became my car for 3 years of college. We drove it with a cream colored door for about 2 years before I painted it.

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning
22° with a high in the upper forty’s and rain moving in.

Yesterday was pretty much a day in the shop. Spent a batch of time doing reports for the FAA and TSA. While I was at the computer, I noticed that the air compressor cycled a couple of times, and there was no demand for air. So I was off to find the leak(s).

I use a device that listens for the high frequency turbulence of a leak, and shifts the frequency down to where you can hear it. It works very well, I use it for refrigerant, air, nitrogen and oxygen.
At any rate the condensate drain and the swivel on the hose reel were the offenders.

The swivel was easily fixed by disassembling it, replacing the O rings, cleaning and lubing with silicone grease.

I replaced the petcock drain with a ball valve a nd a hose to put the condensate in a container.

Here is a plot of where Bose focuses their active noise cancelation, other mfrs will vary.

Just came back from breakfast with the wife and professor, dropped her aged RAV4 off a a friend’s shop to see if it makes sense to replace the rotten rear suspension and fix a recent transmission leak.
The alternative is pony up for a new one, which we are not excited about, but realize it’s inevitable.

Got my drawings back from the architect, he took my drawing and promptly made changes that raised the square footage to more than my variance allows. I wish people would listen. I engaged him for a design review and to produce stamped, permit ready plans from my drawings. The worst part is that I like what he did. Now I have to figure out where I can loose the square footage that he gained.

That’s all that’s planned for today, hopefully car shopping doesn’t get added to the list.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

my air compressor kicks on a good bit during the day.

 

[Looking4new]

L4N, in Canada, is it risky buying a truck that's not road certified?

In Ontario it is. I don't know about the rest of the country. They use a lot of salt and magnesium chloride on the roads in winter time.

 

[kenmbz]

Drew - what are Lamb Eggs?

Microsoft Teams now has the ability to "learn" your voice and isolate all noise in a call that is not your voice. So if someone where to talk to you while on a call, no one would hear them.
Not sure if this is cool or getting into the creepy mode of learning.