Good morning!!!!

[Popgadget]

Good Evening
Never got to post this morning wife had an early colonoscopy appointment at the hospital, and I am her chauffeur. Came home took care of Zoe, ate a bowl of cereal and built a couple of crossovers before I had to go pick her up.

When I got home again it was back to work on the speakers, fit the handles, finish sanded and started finishing them.

Cooked a meatloaf for a late dinner and called it a day.

 

[sodamo]

Interesting day mixed with rain.
But dry enough for the Scag to get picked up late morning.

Also spent some time fiddling with the espresso machine. Gosh, didn’t realize what an involved deal espresso is. Learned that the beans I wanted to use are too old. But I did make us a milk drink (latte or cappuccino with cinnamon) that both Sophie and I enjoyed it.

Probably spent too much of rainy afternoon watching YT, oh well.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 34ºF for the start, overcast, very windy. Winds were 25-35 mph early then dropped during the day, Sky cleared some during day, and high temp was 45ºF. Made coffee to start day then Men's meeting, then start fire in insert. Put away dishes that were washed yesterday. After lunch got more suggestions on login at work, but no success. Tech said He could remote in after 4. Too late to ride bike, ordered battery for laptop should be here tomorrow. Got short nap, got problem resolved by tech, changed login at gateway. Dinner group was 4 instead of 8 but still good time. Tried login after tech gone, it worked start my file updating and found file names changed, so will sort that out tomorrow. Fidelity called and they will issue final report on wife's holdings in a week.
Dennis neat pics. Any idea what that railroad name was?
Helo glad you finally got heater working! Hope son's teeth are ok. Hope trip with new salesman goes well.
Buppies sorry about the pain, but glad you are feeling better overall. prayers sent , hope you get more sleep.
Ron had a nice day yesterday, glad you got gravel cleaned up and more branches burned. Sorry about thunderstorms last night. Hope nap was good.
Billy hope you had an indoor plan.
Drew hope greenhouse does ok. Hope you get a ride or drive in vette. Nice looking car.
Lou sorry about headache hope aspirin worked. Everyone doing the temp seesaw. Sorry about the cost of seal kit.
Frits Happy Birthday to your wife. Good to hear D called and excited. Glad to conflict resolution is working.
Billy nice to hear violets blooming. Sorry about the hand splitting. Hope you have enough wood on porch.
Don front went through here about 11PM, wind gusts blew trash can over. Sorry no progress on shoulder. Nice job on picking up finger spelling. I am on Facebook.
Bill hope snake removal goes well. Hope you got Jr to appointment. Hope YouTube was good.
Drew hope deer don't eat all the flowers.
RNG glad you got help unloading trailer and getting admin done like address and CC changes. Hope insurance hunting goes well.
Drew I don't of any Texans on GM thread from panhandle.
Scott(vt) Happy Birthday to your son. hope good progress on mailbox pole.
Ken sounds like garage work about done. Hope you got shelves painted. Hope taxes paperwork goes well. Nice pic
Plowhog glad meeting canceled, and you can stay in NV. Quite the snow forecast.
Thomas thanks, that is some serious sap gathering.
Thomas sorry to hear Mrs got food poisoning glad she is resting with kittens, I don't eat sushi. Hope you could stick to plan
Plowhog cool pic, thanks for sharing.
Gstrom sorry temp is under achieving.
Dennis I would not go in that tunnel.
David sorry about the rain, hope learn the espresso machine.
Kyle less wind smarty pants login fixed now. Sorry about side effect of meds Hope you get well soon prayers sent.
Scott(vt) had a 500cc H-1 for about a year, I do remember breaking the handle bars on it.
Dennis sorry about tornado. Glad no injuries.
Two_bit good to hear you are doing well.
Bill hope town run successful.
RNG hope you get help moving lathe and mill.
Randy(wag) sorry to hear about funeral. Hope meeting goes well also.
Drew hope taping job helps greenhouse.
RS sorry about UPS power going off. Good to hear progress on conduit, with no collateral damage. Glad metal mostly recycled. Hope you made progress on bathroom.
Lou 250 better than 300.
Paul never have seen that model before, where when was that taken?
Paul hope wife had a clean bill of health. Speakers coming along nicely.
David glad Scag now picked up. Hope learning espresso machine not too bad.
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle /Daughter, /mom's breathing, /son's migraines, Bird /aging issues, Ron /heart, Billy /mom hypertension & congestive heart failure, David(moss) /remodel, /divorce, Buppies /cancer, parathyroid,blood sugar /wife healing, Thomas /gout, Phil /reflux, Frits /veteran son with mental issues, /granddaughter with Evans Syndrome, Ken /dad possible dementia, /chronic fatigue, Diet not working, Steppenwolfe /son-auto immune disorder, Grev /wife's eye, Ted /knee recovery, /retirement & disability red tape, /family issues, Lou /eye issues, /heart issues, /wife hip replacement, Doug and wife/health issues, / hand nerve and surgery, /fall and recovery, / wife headaches and heart eval, / David(sadamo)/Sophie's hip or leg pain, Scaredy/shoulder dislocation, /marriage dissolving, / friend stop drinking, Dennis /retirement, /neighbor issues, /land development, /favorable winds not in the forecast there, /dad surgery recovery, Drew /back operation issues, /friend's wife cancer diagnosis and recovery, Scotty /back pain, Helogabals /wife's friend situation, Fatjay /father broken hip, ******, Ukraine war, and Country.

 

[sodamo]

Mostly, interesting you mention Fidelity. Back in 1987 we got involved in some investing, mutual fund stuff. Fidelity was one. We set up an account for our son, with me as Custodian. Eventually Sophie and I transferred everything to a different FP, everything except that account. He never really knew about that account. When he got married, we gifted it to them as sort of a wedding present and mostly forgot about it, until recently when talking about their finances we asked about that account. A vague memory, so I told him he needed to get sorted out. Seems I am still the custodian. My guess is they must have not really paid attention to the forms given earlier. Apparently the phone calls have a bit entertaining when the agents see that i’m still custodian and he turns 52 next month as it should have transferred when he turned 21. Sophie and I are pleased to see that it has grown very nicely, especially since there haven’t been any contributions, just growth in over 30 years. Fidelity has asked I sign a release/transfer, but I told them not a blank one, had to have the new owner (son & wife joint) listed. I was able to get it setup online and they see it in their budget app.

 

[Buppies]

Again awake told said basically deal with it

 

[ronjhall]

Coffee is brewing. 19° with partly cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 39 with mostly sunny skies. Weather sure did change yesterday. Dropped to mid 20's before noon. With brisk winds. Did get out and got a badly needed hair cut. Took a 1 hour nap. Still feel like I need more sleep today. Grocery shopping this morning. Then will see what I will get done.
Even crow does not like weather change.

Buppies, you got it. Getting up early is in my genes. I could call my mother at 4 am any morning. She was having her first cup of coffee. Hope you get back to normal for you soon.

Kyle, get well soon.

Everyone stay well and safe.

Good Morning All.

 

[mpham]

Morning all!
24 going to 30 with high winds today.
Stay in and hug the pellet stove kind of day!
Bit of a relapse for me with pressure in lungs and coughing. Not bad but enough to just feel lousy.
Wife is doing ok so far.
Off to the tax accountant today to turn in paperwork. Should find out the outcome in a few days. With only me getting a monthly check I'm hoping we don't have to pay!
Can't remember what I posted from the shop. Hopefully these pics are new. Haven't been down there much as it's cold and I'm not well enough to tough it out!
Hope everyone stays safe and healthy!

 

[m7040]

good morning, 27 going to 43, rain yesterday but dry today, windy and feels colder

Results came back for Cody with positive results. Set up appointment for next week for Ultra Sound. He is doing fine

Taking Cody to the groomer this morning

 

[riptides]

30 outside this AM, heading to mid 40's. A quick cold/rain front moved in and will move out in a day or so. Bring on the warm and quit teasing is what I say.

Nothing on the agenda, I managed to get a haircut yesterday, I hate getting haircuts. Never liked it. Don't like shaving either. But I have to be presentable....I guess.

Hope all have a great day. Be safe.

 

[daugen]

oh my what a night
Drew hope greenhouse does ok.

no, it did not.
wind was howling last night, sounded like a freight train coming through the trees.
I kept an eye out on the greenhouse thermometer and saw it start to drop quickly.
not good.
went outside to find one end of greenhouse blown out and flapping in the wind, surprised it didn't tear off.
lovely
used up a lot more tape to get it back together, and thought I had it licked.
no
lit burner and ten minutes later the wind blew it out.
repeat two more times over an hour.
At midnight I gave up, and brought all the plants back inside.
this exercise proves to me why I need a better greenhouse next year, this is too high effort.
lost sleep. coffee working slowly.

need to run downtown early to get some pastries, friend is coming over around ten for coffee.
then not much planned other than trying to get this heater to be reliable.
it doesn't have a tip over switch on the bottom, needs more eyeballing.

tomorrow afternoon three guys come to help me take the cover off the rv.
I took another dead mouse out yesterday, will see what the catch of the day is

last day of February

 

[KilroyJC]

Good Morning!

God has given us another chance to get it right (or at least not screw up too badly).

27.5F going to low 50s today, mixed sun&clouds.

yeaterday morning, because our overnight temps were in the mid 50s, I let the fire die out and cleaned the chimney before work, so now I am even further behind on GM reading!

work is really picking up, the two job queues on the servers both are staying in the 1000+ count, and it is only going to get busier the next four weeks — March Madness is upon us…

Today is some administrative stuff in town, after coffee I put the last bit together on our taxes to drop off to the accountant. Yay…

I am looking forward to chiro appointment tomorrow — I am not cut out for sitting in an office chair anymore — put me in the tractor seat or excavator set instead!

I hope everyone has a happy healthy safe blessed day!

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, we are in the cold snap again. -5 and going to a high of 18°F. Wind W 5 mph. Sunny!

Of the 8 stops today 2 are in South River one at the bank and the other at the PO.
Then rock 'n' roll to North Bay. 6 stops there. The jewelers and the PO are the only additions to the trip. It is not like it used to be when the D-I-L was alive. It was like punching a clock, always a what took you so long? The only ones that get upset with us now are the cats. The dog is always overjoyed to see us.

I don't know about you guys but I play a lottery and so far it hasn't been good to me. It is worth 2 million for the jackpot and the encore is another 1 million. Ticket costs me $1.oo/line + $1.oo for the encore number. The draw is twice a week.
Other than driving up the highway once a month in winter, the lottery is the only gambling I do.

I am back up at my normal time again.

Have a safe day all

 

[DarkBlack]

20F right now clear with gusty winds. Going to a high of 27F today

 

[KilroyJC]

don't know if any of you were affected by AT&T's outage yesterday
not external, an internal screw up
looks like the "upgrade" sure didn't roll out well.
I ran a database company for a while and Monday mornings were always tense when you
found out if the weekend's update worked

"execution of an incorrect process used as we were expanding our network,”

that sounds about right...
some IT tech is not going to get free donuts this morning

The hologocile did not sagatiate confirmly…

 

[KilroyJC]

Good Morning! 'spozed to get up to 70 today. Wow, the winter that hardly was, is almost over. I've had flies and moths flying around already! I spent an hour or so, and two sawzall blades and 4 1/2" grinder wheels, the other day, on some implements that have been sitting here for years. I was left with iron that survived the WW2 scrap drives, and the trees have grown around/over/inside this stuff. The junk is not hurting anything, but it bugs me. I bought a HF 7" angle grinder and cutoff wheels and will go after some again. I thought about using my oxy/acetelene torch, but I don't want to catch my woods on fire. Grinder sparks are less of a risk. I'm going to save stuff, if I can, but it's mostly just junk, needing to go to the scrap yard. There is a 24" steel tractor wheel (the old kind that only had riveted lugs), that a tree has grown up inside, which I will leave alone.
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Try listing it on Craigslist or EBay — you can make more than 2cents/lb AND APthey will pick it up from you

 

[KilroyJC]

Good morning all!

Starting Thursday, the forecast is for 81 inches of snow over Donner Summit. More than 6 feet of snow with most of it on Thu, Fri, and Sat.

That much snow will fully erase our "mild winter" into a normal winter.

Unfortunately I'm going to get stuck on the CA side. Probably sneak back over Donner Summit on Sunday when only 4" of snow is forecast.

Everyone have a great day!!

Bring enough snacks for everybody. . . Just sayin’. . .

 

[KilroyJC]

I retired at 62.

Learned to back trailers with a tractor, no problem doing it with a truck, but short ones are harder to back because of short wheelbase,

Cool downstairs this morning, wife said because I turned off the stove. I had to remind her she turned it off yesterday. Anyways it just lit, room temp already up to 69.

The amount of overhang on the towing vehicle also makes a difference! The further the hitch ball is from the center of the rear axle, the more your steering movements are amplified to the trailer…

 

[newbury]

<snip>Was wondering how others in retirement are doing. This is my 20th year of retirement.

Good, this is both my 14th year and my wife's 14th year of retirement. Long winded answer follows.

If we had had our druthers we'd still be working for another couple of years. But her 2 strokes (which she fully recovered from after about 5 years) kicked us out of the workforce.

Retirement has been good up until the last few years. Then my wife came down with wet AMD, her mother passed, our son and daughter squeezed out 2 more children and her main reasons for us retiring to Mississippi went away.
Reading of others trials and tribulations here is helpful to put all in perspective.

But today we finally made it to our 10th official February 29th anniversary day.

My Dad used to tell me (frequently when I was very young) that life was like your hand in a bucket of water or a small pond. You could swirl it one way, swirl it another, splash it about. But after you took your hand out it would go back to calm, level water.

Sometimes I'm pretty sure we are doing things wrong, but we are doing it her way and she seems happy about it.
And there has been a lot of joyful splashing in this bucket over the last 40 years.

So to all of you other TBN travellers on this blue marble hang in there, March is coming.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 50F @ 4:00AM. Mostly cloudy skies with some morning fog. High 59F. Winds SSW at 10 to 15 mph.

5 cylinder Kawasaki, Paul? Gotta be a story there?

For the past few days there's been a crow with an injured wing hopping around in the back yard. Its buddies have been hanging out in the trees and yard, too. The first day I chased it down with a shovel, but couldn't bring myself to dispatch it. Yesterday I was back there again and decided to put out some water and dog food in bowls I keep for my buddy's dog. Not sure what else to do, except check to see if there's a wildlife rescue outfit in the area.

Wasted most of yesterday chasing insurance quotes. Most of the big outfits are no longer selling homeowners insurance in California, and the ones that do are very proud of their auto insurance. I knew that taxes and insurance would be my largest expenses going into retirement, but increases like this were impossible to predict. My current carrier is willing to provide coverage for the old house and all my vehicles, but won't insure the new house. And I'm told the new insurer will not renew the new house policy when it expires in August. What a fine mess.

With what little time remained of yesterday I fired up the table and chop saws and cut some shelves for cabinets in the kitchen and bonus room. Took what is probably too much of a shortcut with the kitchen shelves by just drilling holes in the drywall and inserting four pin type supports, so I'll probably redo it with wall anchors and headless wood screws. I won't be putting much weight on those shelves, but you can never tell what the next owner will do. And I'm still finding shelves and other wall ornaments here not mounted to studs or proper wall anchors.

Spa guy is supposed to drop by this morning with a new pump and motor. Looking forward to hot bubbly water in a few days, and am curious how well the solar power will keep up with it.

Hang in there, gang, Friday's comin'!

 

[KilroyJC]

I watched a YT video on coal mining last night and had to turn it off as they showed how tight and dark those mines are,
very claustrophobic. No caves, no mines for me.

Thomas, hope your wife feels better.
You too Buppies.

This is a worthwhile day trip for you:

Lackawanna Coal Mine Tour