Good morning!!!!

[NHBX]

Good morning,
22° now highs around 40° cloudy with rain later today.
Winds S 10-15 mph gusts around 25 mph.

The usual Saturday morning dump run and just putter around the rest of the day.

Buppies, happy anniversary to you and the Mrs.

Enjoy your day everyone
Stay safe and healthy
Prayers for all

 

[ronjhall]

Coffee is cooling in cup. 33° with light rain this morning. Heading to 35° with mix of rain and snow in AM. Let Sassy out a few minutes ago. Everything is covered with a sheet of ice. Going to be a mess today. Made an meeting with a seller to buy a Quick Pin Attachment for my newer tractor. May not happen unless we get a quick melt of ice. Will do what is needed to make it thru today.
Hawk has been having a ruff time. Small birds keep leading it in to places it cannot fit. But it doesn't give up.

Everyone stay well and safe.

Good Morning All.

 

[mpham]

Morning all!
28 going to 38 and rain starting around lunch time.

Dealer couldn't program the key but gave me a contact. Guy will do it for 50 bucks! Lot better than Honda that wants 200+!

Wife is already feeling better.

Still waiting on insurance for final payout amount! They are definitely in no rush to get things accomplished!!
This months contest on a turning site is something long and thin. Prototype is on the lathe. Don't think I will win as my arthritis doesn't give me the fine motor skills needed to get it thin without breaking!

Don't tell or show my wife!! This is the final project. Shhh!
Making the heart was a lot of carving and sanding. Used cherry for that and walnut for the finials. I broke the bottom finial 3 times trying to make it.

Not sure what will be done today. Need to sweep up the shop and put tools back. Working on another 2 projects too. One idea isn't panning out so good but will keep working on it.
Pretty much ready for Sundays storm. Haven't moved anything since the last one that we just shoveled by hand.
Happy anniversary Buppies!
Time for another coffee!
Hope everyone stays safe and healthy!

 

[Buppies]

Amazing work Phil wife will really like that

33.8 this morning dew point and temperature almost equal precipitation very near.

Thanks for anniversary wishes all.

Up too early considering late night

Prayers for all silent or spoken our Country

 

[ronjhall]

Buppies, HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!

 

[daugen]

good morning all
warmest day of the week and that's not saying much.
going to rain this afternoon and it will turn to snow tonight and tomorrow
going to pick up new to me car today and then if Popgadget is home,will stop by his home on way home
(I just keep coming North on 611)

Now for a month and a half I'll have two cars in driveway, need to figure this out.
am taking lunch to old friends tomorrow who are recovering at home from medical issues, and definitely going to drive
the volvo in the snow. I trust it and the tires I put on it vs the new car with three mismatched brand tires on it.
I never mind driving in the snow, except if I'm stuck behind someone doing 15 mph.
so few folks put real snowtires on around here anymore that when a good snow comes, those all season tires even on awd
cars struggle. My tires are snowflake rated, which at least means they have some grip in snow.
a set of Blizzaks or X-Ice tires would be marvelous, but overkill in an area that only gets three snowstorms a year now.

at one time I had an Audi with Blizzak snow tires on it. Unless it high centered or pushed snow, simply unstoppable.
I bet EV tires are the worst, designed for lowest rolling resistance and probably less grip.

Phil, that turning is wonderful, your wife will love it.

 

[Thomas]

Balmy 30F might reach 40F rain shows starting around 2 ending around 6pm.

Outside chores done E muffin time.
Finally got the last 2 brush piles burnt yesterday afternoon decided to burn pile stumps once the pile started to burn snapping cracking amber flying I made distance for cover.

Plans for today...4 hours at part store,attach snowplow to pickup for Sunday pm snowstorm,watch football quite evening.

Enjoy your day all.

 

[daugen]

New Hope-Lambertville Bridge May Reopen Earlier Than Projected

Workers on Friday succeeded in installing a new steel pin connection on the closed New Hope-Lambertville Toll-Supported Bridge.

patch.com

glad to see our steel bridge will be back in operation soon.
we have three steel bridges over the Delaware River locally.
one in Washington Crossing nearer to Ken, and it is so narrow I won't drive on it any more.
This one in New Hope is wider and no problem, but the one over the river just North of here in Stockton is the widest
of them all. Most have been knocked down by one flood or another.

shutting the bridge down entirely for two river towns that have always been connected is hurting business in both towns.
my friend who owns Heath's Service in Lambertville was complaining of the hit his business has taken. Most locals buy their gas either in Stockton or Lambertville, NJ gas always being a little cheaper. Plus NJ is truly odd in that their state law requires station to pump gas for you.

actually what is really interesting is they now call it a toll supported bridge, has always been free since beginning.
no free bridge any more...I wonder how they are going to do that. Must be cameras, people are too expensive.

and then in a dream...
the uniformed attendant with the nice Sinclair hat asks if he can check your tires after he cleans your windshield.
and then I woke up...

 

[m7040]

good morning, 31 going to 44 feels like 44

Snow is on the way for Sunday and it is going to get colder starting Monday.
Plows are still on the RTV and tractor waiting to go to work

D has a cabin in Mount Jefferson, VA for the weekend together with a group of friends. Maybe the weather will cause some problems

 

[m7040]

Happy Anniversary Buppies

 

[scott_vt]

Good Morning,
Ct. 26 to start going to 42 with rain coming in early afternoon!

Buppies, Happy Anniversary!

Phil, beautiful job , that’s pretty thin, nicely done!

Thanks for the well wishes, still all plugged up with my sinuses ! Woke Kathleen up again around midnight, so I know she isn’t happy ! I went to bed right after 8 pm and other than the coughing fit at midnight I slept until just after 5 am, so not a bad sleep !

Today will be Energy Conservation Day !

It sounds like I will be cleaning snow Monday, so hopefully a little better by then !

Hope all have a good day !

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, the temp right now is 31 and it is going down to 28°F. -15 overnight. Wind S 11 mph. Getting breezy later in the day. NW 18 gusting to 30 mph later today.
Forecast was for 2" and we've got 3 so far with a lot more coming before this little storm is done. Block heater is turned on. Will plow about 1 or so.

There was only one winter that I ran without snow tires, that was waaaaayyyyy back in 1971, I put brand new bias ply Firestone summer tires on my Plymouth and ran them for the winter. Whenever I went to work I always ran the back roads.Smart? NO. Economical? Yes. Have I done it again? NO! Now I get 5% off my insurance if I use snow tires in winter.

My insurance company is saying that if I allow them to put a tracking device on my car that will lower my rate by 20%. I am saying NO!. Absolutely not. This tracking device is supposed to be an app on my phone. I wonder how that will work when quite often I leave my phone at home or IF I take it with me it is shut off.

Time to get breakfast into me.

Have a safe day all

 

[daugen]

Scott, feel better soon.
lot of bugs going around and sadly your grandchildren likely have lots of them...

20 percent off is huge discount Bill. That would save me 300 bucks.
total lack of privacy though, big brother to the max.
but if you rarely speed, probably not a problem

I wonder what our modern cars are tracking already.
I think there is some kind of basic "flight recorder" data held somewhere in a major crash.

 

[wngsprd]

33 going to 49. Maybe a little rain. Our snow forecast for tomorrow has dropped.

Scott, get well soon!

Took the tractor down the hill in the snow to cut down a big dead oak. I have R4s, but coming back up the hill with a heavy load of rounds, I needed 4WD to keep my grip. Because the temps had warmed up to 40, the snow was slush, and I was reaching the turf underneath, which I did not want to tear up.

Prayers for LS and Dona.

 

[Tinhack]

Wow, I guess the Clipper is due here sooner than I thought. It will be here tonight instead of Tuesday as I thought. We'll see wind chills in the 10–20-degree range. That's brutal for this far south. The garden standpipes have been wrapped since before Christmas. That's about all I worry about.

It's not too bad right now but the warning is already showing up.

 

[Spike56]

Good Morning from Central Texas.

5:30am, 52 degrees, cold front sometime today. Low 28 tonight (kid stuff for you northerners). By Monday High only 38 with a 60% chance of snow/sleet Monday night.
Will get the cattle fed today and move some bales for a friend up the road.
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Hope all have a safe and enjoyable day.

 

[Looking4new]

20 percent off is huge discount Bill. That would save me 300 bucks.
total lack of privacy though, big brother to the max.
but if you rarely speed, probably not a problem

I wonder what our modern cars are tracking already.
I think there is some kind of basic "flight recorder" data held somewhere in a major crash.

That 20% would sell out my privacy to the tune of $216.oo/year. The insurance would just find another way to jack up that 216 bux. In summer and on dry roads I am almost always 7 to 10 mph over the limit.
In a crash the cops can download the computer in your car and tell what speed you were doing at the time of the crash. They do it with big trucks often.

I ALWAYS take my phone with me when I plow. That would REALLY screw up the insurance snoop. NOPE I value my privacy more than that.

 

[Spike56]

Wow, I guess the Clipper is due here sooner than I thought. It will be here tonight instead of Tuesday as I thought. We'll see wind chills in the 10–20-degree range. That's brutal for this far south. The garden standpipes have been wrapped since before Christmas. That's about all I worry about.

It's not too bad right now but the warning is already showing up.

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Yes, just noticed that too (earlier than I thought). Lexington area

 

[Tinhack]

My insurance company is saying that if I allow them to put a tracking device on my car that will lower my rate by 20%. I am saying NO!. Absolutely not. This tracking device is supposed to be an app on my phone. I wonder how that will work when quite often I leave my phone at home or IF I take it with me it is shut off.

I was offered that "discount" too. Most modern phones now days know how fast you're going as well as your stopping patterns and acceleration. It's like having your insurance agent with you in the front seat. The insurance companies want to tap into that info to see how you drive. Can be good or it can be bad. I don't like it.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Happy anniversary Buppies!!