Good morning!!!!

[ronjhall]

Drinking hot coffee. 23° with partly cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 43 with a mix of sun and clouds. Spent yesterday looking for my manual rain gauge mounting bracket. Looked in 4 buildings several time. After ordering a new one from Amazon. I did one more look. Found it stuck in a corner that was open to a good view from inside the barn. Got it set up on side of garden pond. Ready for the big rain forecast for tomorrow. More cleanup of garden pond today. Have to wait few more days to turn water on. Freezing temperatures are still in 10 day forecast.
Well fed squirrel.

Everyone stay well and safe.

Good Morning All.

 

[daugen]

good morning all
stormy night as thunderstorms went though but thankfully power stayed on.
1.39 rain in gauge.
I was pretty lazy yesterday, enjoyed my book, knowing today would be busy.
Need to take rv to rv campground in Hatfield, basically a small mobil home community, and give
it a full wash. This rain last night I'm sure black streaked the paint.
Will get rv all set up and staged, then come home and will put an online ad in rvtrader.com

several more cold nights ahead, including tonight. Planting outside before April 15 here is pretty iffy unless plants
are covered. Am pretty incorrigible when it comes to freezing plants, manage to do it every year.

lawn greened up yesterday and I need to get weedeater out to go around the raised veggie gardens.

went to oldest, smallest lawn mower dealer locally yesterday, an old Gravely dealer working out of a farm on Windybush Road.
how they stay in business don't know. They are a big Stihl dealer, but no money in that since so competitive. I didn't realize Stihl also
makes zero turn mowers, they seemed pretty hefty looking. 30+ years ago I bought a new Gravely garden tractor from them, not the one I have now, so
they have been Gravely dealers since forever. They did not have the headlights I was looking for, but did order them for me. 15 bucks a piece.
I was sure they'd have an old dusty box in the back but no.

hope you all have a good day and best wishes for a great day for Buppies.

 

[Thomas]

Hellooo Ms. April March was mostly loin month for us.

31F partly cloudy sky day low 40's for high.

Outside chores done E muffin time.
Plans for today...8 hours at part store afterwards yet to decide.

Have good day all.

 

[wngsprd]

50 going to 61. Good t-storm late yesterday.

Thomas, sorry about that ice damage. Ice storms aren't common there, are they?

I'm still working on a number of things, but the grape arbor has most of my attention.

Yesterday my wife drove me to an early eye doctor appointment for annual check up. Everything good, but I'm a mess most of the day when my eyes are dilated. We did have a nice lunch at the Mexican place, and hit Home Depot, the grocery store and Walmart while in town, while I'm wearing sunglasses inside because even the fluorescent lights were way too bright.

 

[daugen]

going back and forth with seller of firepit and chairs on Amazon. Very good customer service but three
different deliveries on three separate days for all the parts was ridiculous. At least it won't get hurt being rained on.
Chairs come two to a box, so looks like assembly ahead. I honestly don't enjoy that any more.

weather cover comes today for firepit, day late, over an inch of rain short....will blow dry the thing carefully before I cover it.
first might give it all a shot of 303 protectant, mostly the top.
Sides are plastic wicker. Teak top weighs 24 pounds, so I need to get rubber tips on leg bottoms and level that off carefully
before putting top on. First plastic cover goes on, then teak top on top. And a flower pot for a centerpiece.
not hard to take off and actually use as a firepit. Think I might use some industrial velcro to hold it all together.

I really hope that teak top arrives today without shipping damage. My teak oil is ready.
but this will have to sit waiting until I get rv done and ready for sale.
I'm renting space for a month at full rate to get good exposure, don't want to waste opportunity.
and it all starts today, no fooling...

 

[daugen]

on today's date, two years ago, Buppies and I

and tulips were coming up in NC ten years ago

 

[ronjhall]

going back and forth with seller of firepit and chairs on Amazon. Very good customer service but three
different deliveries on three separate days for all the parts was ridiculous. At least it won't get hurt being rained on.
Chairs come two to a box, so looks like assembly ahead. I honestly don't enjoy that any more.

weather cover comes today for firepit, day late, over an inch of rain short....will blow dry the thing carefully before I cover it.
first might give it all a shot of 303 protectant, mostly the top.
Sides are plastic wicker. Teak top weighs 24 pounds, so I need to get rubber tips on leg bottoms and level that off carefully
before putting top on. First plastic cover goes on, then teak top on top. And a flower pot for a centerpiece.
not hard to take off and actually use as a firepit. Think I might use some industrial velcro to hold it all together.

I really hope that teak top arrives today without shipping damage. My teak oil is ready.
but this will have to sit waiting until I get rv done and ready for sale.
I'm renting space for a month at full rate to get good exposure, don't want to waste opportunity.
and it all starts today, no fooling...

I like Teak. Sure looks good on somebody else’s Boat. Lots of maintenance. I replaced all the exterior teak on my last 2 boats with King Starboard.

 

[daugen]

Ron, I have a teak dining room table, small thing, a teak seat in my shower and now I'll have a teak
table top out back. Easy to care for if out of the sun, lot more work if in it. But you need to keep it clean and oiled or
varnished. This way over the winter I can just put the teak top in the garage.
Starboard is wonderful stuff, cuts/works more like wood than plastic.

 

[scott_vt]

Good Morning,
Vt, 28 to start going to 47, so no hurry to get outside with those temps. really hoping for some sun later and hopefully the wind isn’t too bad.

Sitting in front of the wood stove now with a cup of coffee. After breakfast I will start unloading the truck and plan my day as far as removing the deck.

Buppies, hoping Holly improves and you can finally get some sleep

Hope all have a blessed and safe day

 

[daugen]

yesterday in the rain a little bird decided he just wanted a real bath and went to town
in the bird bath

 

[scott_vt]

Good Morning Again,
I figured I should post a picture before I start, and right now it’s sleeting a bit

Drew, nice picture of you and Buppies and of course the beautiful flowers

 

[Buppies]

42 outside high in 60s very little rain jumped us one round of thunder east of here had 52 mph wind gusts. When Holly gets out have 2 weeks to line up doctors to see her. Tall task good ones booked up until June. Never left house yesterday just not up to it.

Prayers for all silent or spoken our Country

 

[NHBX]

Good morning, happy April 1st
39° now highs mid/upper 40’s and mostly sunny today.
Winds NW at 15-25 mph, gusts 40+ mph.

Haven’t posted for 5 or 6 days, nothing much going on and been feeling kind of generally crappy. No damage from ice, sleet and rain. I think frost is out of the ground, can walk around the yard without leaving footprints, should be ready for tractor soon. Did manage to get taxes filed, close to break even so no real pain lol.

Thomas, glad only lost power for 4hrs, your side of the state sure took a beating.

Buppies, continued prayers for you and Holly.

Should do groceries today but not sure, maybe another conserve energy day or ?

Enjoy your day everyone
Stay safe and healthy
Prayers for all

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning
39° and a high of 58 predicted. Partly cloudy and no rain.
We got 1-1/8” overnight along with a lot of lightning. Power went out, generator did its job. Not sure how long it was out, but the generator isn’t running now.

I didn’t accomplish much yesterday, I pretty much sat around being sleep deprived from my late night on Sunday. I did borrow son’s push mower to mow the new grass around the old folks home for the first time in its life. Of course I had to drain the gas from the carb to get it to start,as it didn’t have a gas in it, like it does now.

So today will be the pad for the shed. I’ve got a bucket on the loader, a 20 ton stockpile of 2a stone, the area is staked out, I’ll set up the laser and get it done today, even if it’s wet.

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, 40 going up to 54, about 1"+ of rain and big storm last night.
Truck is back $1300 all in Tires , inspection,some minor fixes.

Walked the shared road picking up sticks, lots of sticks, now pretty clean. Will need to reseed after last years drought.

Be well,

Pink dogwood

 

[Happy in NC]

Good morning TBN!!
Cool this morning at about 45 and should be 70 under sunny sky.
More work on the tank yesterday. Been putting off the pressure washing but little choice today. Going to be mostly wet the rest of the week.
I am on my own today. Wife took off for the day with the dog. She's doing whatever wives do when husbands aren't looking

Getting a late start but got to get moving. Second cup is gone.
Everyone have a great and safe day!!

 

[m7040]

good morning, 40 going to 55 some wind this morning and rain last night

Another infusion day for wife and picking up groceries in town

A load of firewood was delivered

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Almost an inch of rain last night from storms.
Lost internet, not power. It seems the ethernet link to the starlink went out. This morning i was able to temporarily reset the starlink as a router, so can get internet now direct to it. But it won't let me configure the router to another network, and it is the same as my mesh network, so can't connect the house mesh system to it right now. Will try again..... Ordered a new ethernet adapter from starlink.
Course, no cell coverage at home, so had to go into town to get a signal, which allowed me to see the starlink itself was working.

edit: my mesh system connected wirelessly to the starlink, even though it's the same network, which I guess is ok as there is nothing else to take the same IP using the starlink. Guess this will work until the new adapter comes.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

The Stihl ZT is a rebranded Ferris.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Good morning! 58F to start, going to 81F with 15mph south winds straight off of the Gulf of America.

Off today, taking mom to her cardiologist appointment down south.

Son left early for his JV tennis tourney about 35 miles away.

I like Teak. Sure looks good on somebody else’s Boat. Lots of maintenance. I replaced all the exterior teak on my last 2 boats with King Starboard.

Wouldn't teak last longer if a good polyurethane was applied? Like you Ron, I like things that are low/no maintenance.

Got the H7 bulbs in from Amazon. Need to go install them. They sure didn't make it easy to replace Suburban/yukon headlight bulbs. You have to take out the inner fender by the wheel along with half the front grill for each side. Still not sure the bulb is the actual problem.

That's a good load of firewood Frits, prayers for your wifey.

We need rain still down here. Maybe a tad more later this week.

Hope All of you have a blessed day!