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Yep. I took a chance on a sawzall in a confined space with lots of dust floating about. I was using an angle grinder which threw too many sparks out for comfort. A welder was out of the question. To my surprise the sawzall was better than a hot knife through butter. Faster, lighter, no mess...

43 outside this AM. may make it to 60 today. Need to run into the city today. Not for fun though. Had a nice get together will all the daughters late yesterday. A nice surprise. Measured one of the trees that need to come out. 223 inch circumference. Yeah, it is a big tree. LOL. The two...

49 outside this AM, heading to mid 60's. Awesome day outside yesterday. Managed to walk not my dog a few times. Collecting game cam pics and viewing back properties. Nothing exciting. Returned to real jobs later in the day. We have a complete organizational breakdown at some of our customers...

31 outside this AM, may make it into mid 70's. Was in and out yesterday. More of the same today. Trees budding and daffodils almost ready to pop. Hope all have a great day. Be safe. Prayers for those with health issues. Stay positive.

29 outside this AM, upper 60's expected. Spent most of the weekend outside with the wife. Biggest burn pile ever. That's all I need to say. More today. Real jobs are rudderless. Lots of changes and well, people are losing their minds and track of time. Since I have lost my mind a while ago...

re -.1 Too funny. A great pop corn movie.

29 outside right now, should get to mid 50's. Another late night with the real jobs. Lots of traffic on the roads, in the evening and early morning. Lots of people moving about when it is unexpected. Odd. Wife did grocery run, no beer, sad. I'll have to run out this AM between stuff. Not much...

Hmmm...not getting the failures on Starship. Maybe to much forces are shaking somethings apart as it is going up. Too bad. Keep trying.

:) Gm, Scott.

I turn into a different person on the weekends. Friday is my transformation starting point. And yes, I howl at full moons.

Depending on the condition of the wire: Really old stuff: We folded it in 12 inch lengths until it snapped and placed it in a steel garbage can. New stuff: We found an old spool, rolled it onto that, either dumped the spool or carefully unloaded it into the steel garbage can. At which time the...

43 outside this AM, may get a few degrees warmer. Lots of rain yesterday, and wind. Just soggy and sticks all over the place. I see buds on most of the big trees surrounding the house. Snow cap flowers are blooming. Not much accomplished around the property yesterday. Vet most of the day, I...

LOL. On time to market and speed..... I introduced a customer to a faster network path. And everything that made that possible.

58 outside this AM, may get into the 60's. Lots of rain expected. Vet coming shortly for horse. Been an issue for a few weeks now. Lots of drama and not with the horse. LOL. Time to get moving, hunker down for the weather and do some real work. Hope all have a great day. Be safe.

This is the way. Best to deal with it by hand. Time consuming for sure. Be safe, for you and your machinery at some point in the future if you do it.

39 outside this AM. Should head up to 60 today. Dry, then the weather people say wet, real wet for Wednesday. Another late night with real jobs. Things are breaking all over. Not good. Not sure what I will get into today. May have to pay neighbor a visit. Dogs are howling like a wild pack of...

22 outside this AM, heading to mid 40's. Very smoky and hazy outside this AM. Big cloud over by the ranges. Probably another controlled burn. Hope all have a great start to the work week and a good day. Be safe.

25 outside this AM. Heading to 40 if we are lucky. A 20 degree difference from yesterday. Got more wood done. Then turned attention to finding material for a cabinet like cover I need to build for a water heater. That meant finding wood and drywall in an outbuilding that needed rearranging...

GM, Looks nice outside. Running behind. Should touch 60 today. Late night with a real job, after hours and what not. Rough. Over 50 people trying to figure out one problem that was actually broken down into three separate issues. Man can we make things - complex. Time to get into the woods...

Verified on twitter and bluesky. :)

42 outside right now, heading to mid 50's. Glad the week is over. Pretty tough on the real jobs. Looks like next week will be continuing the work loads. Schedule booked out already. More city time. Got my errands done. Took the better part of the afternoon. Scored on beer and lamb chops. Yum...

Morning back! My county is big on easements, visual, conservation under a Protect Development Rights program. So they grab what they can, when they can. A neighboring county, not so much. They have been rezoning, slicing, dicing, developing and trashing policy and rules that they had in place...

Probably will be felt in assessments to all adjacent home/lot owners over the next few month/years. I always looked at our homes as a home, of course the investment value is well documented in real estate, we took an opposite path.

Yeah, I am not a city mouse. Although my profile has a location of Northern VA, I never considered ourselves part of it. Geographically speaking. But in the years we have been here. it has absorbed us. Slowly...methodically...growing ever closer. It's not one house or two, it is entire lots...

55 outside this AM, heading to mid 60's. Got in late last night from the city. Surprised (not really) at how busy it was trying to get into the city in the afternoon. You would think traffic and people would be going in the opposite direction. Nope looked like all ways in and out were just...

Beware, usually one horse leads to another..... ...then pastures... ...then outbuildings... ...then barns... ...then more fencing... ...more buildings... ...redesigning water supplies... ...reclaiming more land for pastures... ...moving to a bigger farm... ...bringing the herd with you and...

31 outside this AM, heading to mid 60's. Looks to be a totally different day. Got called into the big city, so we shall see what this is all about. On the game cam front, we seem to have another fox under one of our run in pasture sheds. Got one pic before the batteries died. We had a den...

36 outside right now, heading to mid 60's. Those temps should stir up the wild life and bugs. Ran around towns doing errands and whatnot yesterday. Grabbed a bbq lunch with wife then took her home for a long walk. Found some more trees that are wood stove candidates this year. May go do that...

It is a BS distraction from more pressing things. Plus it lifts an ego.

Have both Fidelity and Vanguard no complaints on either. Fidelity can be more hands on if you like. And I find their analysis services a tad better. Don't think you can go wrong either way.

26 outside right now, heading to mid 50's. Spent the better part of the day yesterday in the woods again with the chainsaw. Then moved everything up to the splitter and split a few loads. Lots of trees down in the back woods and other than animal care nothing pressing on the agenda. Maybe more...

A few more movements in the markets like Friday.....throws off timing of retirement I suspect. Not rollovers. Or what constitues your investments. Bluntly...if one does not have a retirement account....one may not elect to retire.

Me too. I have got piles of sticks everywhere. I should take them to the burn pile this AM. The kicker is my great state now has a burn ban that now runs from 12AM until 4PM. My burn pile will continue to burn into that timeframe. I would need to move it to an area that has no "flammable...

30 outside right now, may get to 50! Spent all day yesterday in the woods with the chain saw. Then to the log splitter. Today is more of the same. Hope all have a great Sunday. Be safe.

I have a crow and a pry bar. And two chains and a rope. I am living on the edge...the back can go anytime. LOL.

There are quite a lot of people for sure planning exit strategies vs staying put if they are near retirement. I think a standard return of 7 percent means at least 3 years to make up a correction.

Those too. I am insulated from that hot mess for the time being. Although the eldest got canned and took another offer that was rescinded after she moved back across the country. My top two developers walked. In the middle of a project. Since it was being deployed we now have to go back to...

22 outside right now, heading to upper 30's. Could use some more warm weather. Feed the stove time, then animal care. Real jobs are turning to the dark side. Not a good time for a lot of people. Hope all have a good day, it is Friday and the weekend is here! Be safe.

We have a 300 foot limit on discharging firearms near occupied buildings.

Do not forget synthetic oil.

Ugh. Sound like what I am going/went through. My situation is elder fraud.

I think I will chime in, I took up karate in my younger years. As I aged the movements and mental disciplines, mediation while moving, helps immensely with life stresses. Maybe look into Qi gong, also known as chi gong as a starter for mental to physical health.

Sorry to hear this. Hope all is in order for you and your family.

23 outside right now, may get to 30 today. May also get some more snow. Yesterday was a winter wonderland, thankfully, only an inch. Powder type. Nice. Easy cleanup of walkways. New heat pump in other house. All day job. No issues going in, just a tight fit in the attic for the air handler...

19 outside right now, heading to lower to mid 20's. Looks like snow today and tomorrow. Heat pump install for other house supposed to show up in an hour or so. Will be nice to get some warm air over there again. Time to tend to the animals. Had a bad experience with a vet trying to pull a...

26 outside right now, heading to upper 30's. Another day to dry up stuff. Still working on trees. Got the water out of the electrical line to the panel yesterday. Drained for a few hours. Will need to find out why that started in the spring. Time to head outside and start the day. Hope all...

One also has to factor in how much money they are willing to risk at what percentage of return. If it meets your money goals. I will gladly take 3 percent on monies IF I have met my finacial goals. It goes back to risk and time.

Do you look years out with your money? Think long term, maybe 5 to 10 years out, and invest based on how much risk you are willing to accept.

ugh. What a storm, wind, and lots of rain, many trees down. 33 now, heading to mid 40's. Got a lot to do around here. Most interesting thing, and it is not good, we had water coming out of our electrical panel by the pool. That panel also feeds a few buildings. The ground is so super saturated...

The rains are very hard right now. About 46 outside and heading to mid 50's. Wind is starting to pick up too. Birds are actually on the porch because of the weather. We also have a washout on the driveway and front pasture. I imagine the back is probably over the banks. Hope all have a good...

36 outside and may get to 40 today. Snow and rain expected any minute. Running late with the morning chores and java intake. Talked with neighbor along the back forty yesterday. She has got some equipment trying to divert water and dry up her back lot. I reminded her, it is a flood zone. She is...

30 outside right now, heading into the 40's. The great melt happened yesterday. Wow. Talk about being water logged. More of the same today. Don't step on any mole trails, volcano mud comes out. Hope all have a great start to the weekend. Be safe.

I have an old UpRight TL33 lift. It was very useful around the houses and farm buildings for a while. Now it sits, unused. Two issues, I have become less fond of heights and the work that the man lift entails, I am even less fond of. It is a most useful piece of equipment when needed for certain...

34 outside right now, heading to mid 50's. Rain moving along and out of here shortly. Driveway is clear, pastures are still under a decent amount of snow cover. Looks like hay for the horses this AM. Snow and more importantly, no ice, looks like it will be gone in a day or so. Not like the last...

Interesting development. Could push SpaceX and chemical rocketry out of business. https://www.rdworldonline.com/russia-unveils-prototype-for-plasma-engine-that-could-reach-mars-in-1-2-months/

Looks like a good nine (9) inches. Unfortunate, a heavy snow. Great for snowballs and snowmen. Not good on the back. Bad move on not setting up the snow sticks for the driveway markers, Especially so on the curve portion which was....invisible. Getting around that...it is a straight shot to the...

I walked a lot on our properties before I went at them with mowers. Amazing what one finds and what pops out of the ground over the years. I wrecked a Honda push mower on some pipe that just magically appeared one day in an area I had thought was safe. Barbed wire is still showing up in places...

30 outside this AM. Need to get the ruler out on the snow total. More than expected. Roads were a mess last evening and into the night. Have not heard a plow since the incident last night. Hope all have a great day. Time to get the wood stove hotter, feed the animals and plow the driveway...

I surrender. The snow is coming down. Truck wiped out in front of house on road. Driver left with police. Truck has flashers on and is blocking half of road. Roads are bad. Lots of road closures. Now calling for 12 inches.it is messy here. ...edit...it is a snow plow off the road. Unbelievable....

Sorry to hear of friends and family losses. Hope all can reflect on and recall the good times shared.

28 outside right now, heading to mid 30's with snow expected anytime now. Should be anywhere from six to ten, like wngsprd. Big boss canned my meeting last night in the city, so that is a good thing. Time to tend to the animals and fill the wood box up. Hope all have a good day. Be safe.

Outside. No cover...no shelter. I see the paint difference already. Less than five years old.

Try a swipe with brake fluid. If that turns out OK...you might try the pastes route and buffers.

33 outside this AM, heading to mid 40's. Under a winter weather watch for tomorrow. Should be interesting next couple of days with the snow. Managed to clear some dead trees off my back fence line yesterday. Moved them to the burn pile which needs....burning. Oh boy, it's big. Dealt with...

Our cordless irons make good door stops. Other than that....gosh...no one ever ironed in our house.

35 outside right now, high for today. We are to expect a snow/ice/rain event starting within the hour and lasting through the day. If you listen to the weather people, they claim it will be an ice over in some spots and not to venture about. I will gather up some firewood and keep the wood...

38 outside this AM, heading to mid 50's. Yesterday was a soaker rain for most of the AM. But we have had enough water to actually flood the pastures, driveway and roads. It was a slushy mix to start, lot of power issues around us, then just an annoying grey sprinkle. The sun managed to pop out...

34 outside right now, rain, sleet mixture coming down. Getting the wood stove going again. Looks like we need a new heat pump in the other house. That's going to have to wait for a little while. Should be a quiet day, need to do some shopping and a dump run. Not too excited about going out in...

34 outside right now, heading to upper 30's. Seems an ice storm is coming tonight. Will have to watch the weather more closely. Indoor day, more chase downs for estates, heat pump looks to have died in other house. Sigh....expected, over 22 years old. It appears I have returned to the...

RIP bird. A lot of TBN reunions in heaven.

47 outside this AM, heading to mid 50's. Not much going on, I will take it. Hope all have a great day. Be safe.

30 outside right now, heading to upper 50's today. Hope all have a great day and a good start to the work week. Be safe.

47 outside and that is the high expected right now. A ditto weather report from wngsprd. LOL. One last ice spot remains on the driveway. Some pasture areas still have snow on them. Today should be the last of it all. Ground is now mushy for an inch or so depth wise, then frozen. Makes for...

And even with the fancy electronics, I still date label the windshield on the trucks, and date label the filters on the equipment. LOL. Just old fashioned...or old.. I guess.

yeah...I moved some twenty years ago in a situation just like yours. I hopped across a county line. Differences were night and day. Just crazy.

I'd be all up in someone's face about the wording of that notice. That is a bold statement to give to your residents.

Not LOL, but yeah.... It was a wake up call for AI, and the techs paid for it. More so than the rest of the market. I seem to have re-couped though.... It will get more interesting with the AI stock alignments now going forward.

Yeah...the trucks we have are overly complicated on menus. And control buttons are all over the place. Pretty soon I imagine some sort of certification course will be needed to operate. I do like the heads up display on the windshield though. And the control buttons for the sound system on the...

42 outside right now, heading to mid 50's with rain. Sprinkling now. Still have some ice sheets on the driveway. LOL. Should be melted by the end of today. Hope all have a great day. Be safe. The weekend is here! Yippie.

29 outside right now, heading to lower 50's. Rain expected the next two days. That should take care of the remaining snow and ice cover. Driveway by barn still has a big ice patch. Thought I heard that it has been four weeks since the snow storm? Anyway, it has been a long time since we have...

Sounds like the house is under control. Too bad about work. Those changes will stress you out. I sincerely hope you can fare well with all those changes.

I had the same sort of laugh with the power company and burying lines. They did my neighbors, took all the poles out, buried the lines, no charge. I needed an upgrade, they come out, I ask about the lines, they only bury from the last pole to the house. Some crazy figure for from the road to...

42 outside right now, heading to upper 50's. May touch 60! That should take care of the remaining ice spots on the driveway. Hope all have a good day. Be safe.

Fiber is another form of connectivity.....to the internet too. Wifi of course is another option. Most all cell phones and devices do Wifi these days.

Bird flu.

Yep. Advised everyone I know to look at local and state positions.

Same here. Lots of talk, lots of maps (no road details), lots of local effort, lots of some companies efforts, lots of people measuring things, lots of years gone by.... Lots of nothing.

It appears to be across the board, as her backup seasonal job, held for many years, all got pulled too.

Daughter just had her job rescinded with the Forest Service. Via eMail.

30 outside right now, heading to 50! THAT should melt some driveway spots! Hope all have a great day. Be safe. Too bad about the waste pipe, wngsprd. I know that feeling.

All this talk of mowing, I see my "lawn" stripes under a coating of snow and ice....still. LOL. But they are melting at a pretty fast rate now.

Not only companies, investment types. Diversify your holdings.

Need to act upon it. My bad experience, still dealing with it, my FIL was a pack rat. Now his kids are dealing with a lifetime of boats and cars some not titled at all. The stress is undeniable. If he had acted upon it, the sales, he would have benefited and his kids not be tormented by the...

Look into what classifies as a farm locally (business). Is a good idea but in some areas not an option. Zoning and other considerations (regulations).

LOL. We relate. We were in downsize house....up the land mode when we bought a long while ago. At the height of the last hosing (sp) market...lol. Anyway we just finished another project on the property which can be used as an in-law suite or retirement home for us. The big deal now is who ends...

I do not get a feeling real estate prices are going to drop anytime soon...or mortage rates for that matter either. I think 3 percent mortgages were an anomaly. Another farm up the road went to a developer. Looks like over 100 new homes on what was a very hilly property. I find it interesting on...

It's been "predicted" for a while. One has either to ride it out, or find a safe space....somewhere. I find it interesting that the "talk" of this futures downturn is some chip company in China saying they can do it cheaper, fast with less. Targeting Nvidia. So Nvidia drives/drove the entire...

22 outside right now, heading to upper 40's. Good for melting! The icicle is over, lasted until around 3PM yesterday, maybe close to three feet long. Time to get the downspout back up. LOL. Hope all have a great day. Be safe, stay warm.

What attracted you to Kioti to begin with?

Ahhh...37 outside right now. Heading to upper 40's. Should get some significant ice melt the next few days. Don't recall large portions of the driveway and yards being this icy this long in the decades we have been here. On icicle watch, will it come down today? How much will it grow. Points...

30 outside right now, heading to 40's. Good for melting! Driveway still really bad in long lengths. Late starter this AM. Hope all have a great day.

If you have two, sell one. I tried to get a delivery company to fix a bad delivery, after weeks of attempting, I gave up. I guess the person ordering it, just ordered another one. Or so I hope.

14 outside right now, heading to upper 30's. Still have an ice sheet for a driveway, still gorging the woodstove. Not much accomplished yesterday, moved some hay around, tended to the animals. Wife went out on her own. I deferred a shopping trip. LOL. Hope all have a good start to the day and...

5 outside right now, and it feels like 5 outside. LOL. May get above freezing today. No changes to status on melting. Monitoring icicle by Milk House. Thing is close to 2 feet long now. Pretty cool. LOL. Need to run errands today and maybe a lunch date with wife. We shall see. Hope all have a...

https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/fund/felv

I self manage. The tools at the major brokerage firms are pretty intelligent and through. I view the advisor as someone who can speak plain English instead of waddling through algorithms and statistical models. They have their place. I usually go into way back mode to see how things have...

I am the opposite. I "play" with 80 to 90% and parked 10-20% in bonds and a money market. Check out FELV under Fidelity. Right now I am thinking of having more "cash" available just due to another possible retirement effort and goals that have been met. But timing the market...well....

Sent you a PM.

One of the big deals at our customers sites was always recovery. We would have to do a recovery from tape, recovered from off-site stores, for testing. The PC LAN people would always crash and burn. In those days, they were just not experienced enough in large computer processes and well their...

Maybe, we left Stafford some 20 years ago. In the southern end of Fauquier now.

12 outside right now. Heading into the lower 20's and that is it. When the wind, expected, kicks in, it will be a lot colder. Need to tend to the animals and keep the wood stove going. Looking forward to warmer weather next week. Tonight is Dad and Daughters at our favorite sushi place. Been...

Tech...Banks...oil and gas...crypto. Same as it ever was. LOL. Bonds when I grow up. LOL.

Drew, My dealer is clueless in the service department. It's so bad that even when they air up the tires they forget to put the caps on the stems when they give it back. But when your trying to stay ahead of stuff, it is always best to have an official record of service from a dealer. I just...

Wow. THAT is a nice ride.

Sad. I was in software at that time. We forged deeper relationships with MS due to the Windows NT work. It kept a lot of us employed for a very long time. Recall some of those Alphas could run DEC's UNIX variant, DEC's OpenVMS and NT. And the clustering tech was way beyond anything else on the...

12 outside right now, may get into the mid 20's and that will be the high. Not much on the agenda, move some wood around, tend to the animals. Real job in the city calling so I need to figure that out. Or I should say, someone else needs to figure it out. LOL. Hope all have a good day. Be safe.

Is a good idea on the fall protection. I wiped out on ice a few years back. I really feel if I had hit my head...well.... I managed to stay conscious, and held on to a flash light. Unfortunate I could not get up, so after a few minutes of trying to figure out what was working, I started an SOS...

21 outside right now. Staying in the 20's today and dropping tonight into single digits. Suns coming out. Maybe we can catch some solar melting action. Hope all have a great day, be safe.

37 outside right now, that will be the high for today. Rain, snow mix coming down. Sure could use some more melting of the last snowfall. Driveway still pretty bad. Not much going on today, moved about a cord of wood around yesterday, after recovery and splitting. That should be enough for the...

Compaq acquired DEC in 1998. HP aquired Compaq in 2002. Quite a lot of DECcies made it through both aquisitions. Testamount to their skills.

Sorry to hear that. My finals are due in April. But I have other parties that are dragging stuff out. The lawyers are the only ones making out. IMHO, there should be more limits and time allowances than what is currently in place. I just had an ask for a paper or information from - 1974. LOL...

35 outside this AM, heading to mid 40's with a blast of serious cold air moving in sometime tomorrow. It's sprinkling right now, so it is not pleasant outside. Got some movement on my Dad's estate in multiple areas. Unfortunate both will require more time. So...we wait. More lawyers, but now...

Yeah, my wife wanted an Owl House. No problem I say....LOL. Scrape up some wood, hangers, assemble, easy peasy...hang... Built to specs, from some Owl Box "professional". LOL. Forgot to include how heavy that thing got, forgot to include Barn Silo silage opening was 2 inches short of...

Wife and I recovered our original circa 1920 farm house sinks. Both were found outside under piles of nature by outbuildings. You found out why they are not in some ones house. Super heavy. LOL. We sent both to a pro refinisher. One is in the Milk House now. The other remains in the dining...

31 outside this AM, heading to mid 40's. Wild temperature swings. Next week supposed to get into the single digits. More domestic stuff and paper work on the agenda today. Got another monkey wrench thrown at me with my Dad's estate. The lawyers are costing me serious money now. Just wow, what a...

Looks like a major malfunction today for SpaceX. Too bad. Keep pushing.

I worked in NASA communications for a while. They had a photo lab on the same floor. I was fortunate enough to get a lot of Kodak prints from various landmarks around the world. I was also fortunate enough to be in communications for ground control and flight control for various spacecraft and...

Looks pretty bad, eh? Our properties are total electric. Running three HVAC systems and two mini-splits. Even with a renovation on the Farm House, it's still cold in certain rooms. Circa 1920 build. The newer parts are toasty, though....

True story.... Called in by a major Global Bank, seems the network was having issues to Asia. Tracked probable cause to a Data Center in NJ. Went to Data Center, looking for issue. Was leaning on a small computer called a microVAX looking at network diagrams. Person says not to lean on...

I was a DECie. Then Compaq bought us out...then HP. Same job...same customers...different t-Shirt.

Gateway, Compaq, Xerox.

13 outside right now, heading to mid 30's. Cold, but calm this AM. Need a lot more sun and higher temps. Driveway still sheet of ice. More domestic stuff on order. May make a beer run today. Just because. Hope all have a great day. Be safe. So you all feel better about your power bills...

YouTube does have a commercial free offering. YouTube TV - depending on the "channel", bounces against the network over the air carriers that have paid advertisement that cannot be avoided.

20 outside right now, if it hits 30 we will be lucky. No wind though, and the Sun should be out. With the cold weather, my driveway is just not melting. It is a dangerous ice sheet. I have tried to put down some eco-friendly melt, but it melts and freezes. LOL. I hit the ground hard a few years...

Depends on the rim size and tire size. https://www.toyotires.com/tires-101/plus-sizing-tires/

27 outside right now, high today may get to upper 30's. Cold, but calm. No wind helps. Real job, lawyers, paperwork and domestic stuff on the agenda. Sigh... The moon is nice these past few mornings, and nights. Fitting they call it the Wolf Moon. The coyotes were having a ball last night...

19 outside right now, may hit 50 degrees later. Yep. 5 0. Hope all or some got to enjoy the moon this AM. Quite a sight, from here. Hope all have a good day. Be safe.

24 outside this AM, similar to yesterday, heading to upper 30's. Could use some snow/ice melt. Did domestic stuff yesterday and that was about it. Will set up game cams this AM and of course do the animal care. It's a routine I am getting tired of. The animal care. Especially with the snow on...

23 outside right now, heading to lower 30's. More snow, maybe close to 2 inches last night. Had to rescue daughter from driveway as she got stuck coming up to the house last night. It helps if you stay on the path that was cleared over the last few days. This AM I still see her attempt at coming...

vitreous detachment - has different types of approaches to treatments of a problem. In your case drain and refill with saline. Vitreous treatment with retinal detachments depending on where the detachment is, gas is an option. The issue here is one cannot see for a while until the vitreous...

15 outside right now, heading to lower 30's, snow (slight) expected this evening. Had to work on the animals water heaters yesterday. Not fun, water, ice, high winds, low temps. LOL. Frozen hoses too. Not blocked, but the plastic just cracks. Took a good part of the day away. Today need to...

23 outside right now, may make it to 30. Clear and thee wind is picking up again. Will tend to animals and load up on firewood this AM. Maybe some grocery shopping is in order later. Hope all have a great day. Be safe, stay warm.

22 outside right now, heading to lower 30's. Don't think we will get much melting with these temps. Not much of anything done yesterday. Took the chainsaw for a walk to cut up some limbs, could not play pick up sticks. Just walking in the snow is exhausting enough, sticks all disappeared in the...

Condolences.

24 outside right now. Heading to mid 30's. Broke out the tractor yesterday to do the driveway. That was fun. Keeping up with clearing sidewalks and walkways, not so much fun. This AM, the wind showed up. And I mean it showed up. Lots of branches down, looks like a chain saw day. And then a...

Spounds like it all went well. Chaos sometimes follows people.

Ugh...sleeting and tiny hail balls coming down now. Went to get some firewood on the side deck, well I left the shovel on the back porch. Both of them. LOL. At least six inches now, and it is a heavy wet mess. Barn has already started shedding parts of roof. Should have covered the tractor...

Hang in there Kyle. It's a solemn duty.

29 outside right now. That should be the high for today. Looks like 5 inches of snow already and more to come. Will be inside for the day. Yesterday we went exploring on the back forty. Took a few hours out of the day. Found an old sewing machine, a few bottles, jars and some sort of creamer...

13 outside right now, heading to upper 30's. Nice and sunny, clear sky so far. Weather reports and NWS warnings of serious snow late this afternoon into Monday. Late start this AM, there was a party up the road, maybe a mile and a half, the low bass beat was under my skin most of the night...

27 outside this AM, heading to lower 30's and that is about it. The talked about storm is upon us. The winds are pretty strong right now. Yesterday a few snow showers moved through. Sunny and dry, cloudy and snow, sunny and dry, cloudy and hail... left just a trace of snow on the ground before...

Do an internet search on WWII tanks in basements. Hefty fines for the hobbyist or memorialist.

LOL on the insurance policy. So do you have one? Asking for a friend. LOL.

25 outside right now, heading to lower 40's. Seems the weather people are all excited about some significant snow. LOL. For this area that is anywhere from an inch or more. People around here lose their heads if the roads are not clear and dry. We shall see. Not much on the agenda today. More...

Bring up the bureaucratic and family inconveniences that NOT having a will, will entail to survivors left to deal with her passing. It is not pleasant. Even simple things, like bank accounts, can be a nightmare to manage. Then you get into local, state and federal government dealings...oh...

We stopped haying a few years back. And that meant putting up the hay ceased too. The time and energy just to get the bales up there was too much. I'd actually just hop in the hay wagon and muscle them in through the door. The hay hook was of no use, and the grain elevator was a three person...

35 outside right now, heading to lower 40's. Had to make an airport pickup run. Another earlier than expected arrival. Unfortunate this one did not update in time as to what gate was used, so when I got into the airport arrival was at opposite end. Got my steps in this AM for the day, LOL...

FIrst floor is 12 foot ceiling. Hay loft is at least 20 feet up. Hay hook still works. At most we had about 2,500 bales at one time up there. And had room to spare. New roof about two years ago. Should be good for another 100 years.

Thanks. The barn was the reason we bought the farm. Way better shape than the house. The real estate lady, a friend, would not show me the house. Said...it needed...way too much work. WIfe had other ideas. Lol.

Just take a look around what else needs trenching around your property and rent a ditch witch for a few hours. Make sure you know where all the utilities are and have at it. A simple drain tile laid in the ground should suffice for years if not decades.

Thanks. That may be the last of the hay delivery in the old barn. The wife and I are rethinking the animals in 2025. Her business is the last of the "our choice" boat anchors. Both of us are in the simplify mode. I think that is a great way and idea to start a new year.

46 outside this AM, heading to 50 and not much more. Dry day ahead. 2024 went out with a lot of bangs last night. Wow. Major t-Storm rolled through the area. Lots of lightening strikes and thunder. Guess someone wanted a clean slate for the area for this year. Impressive display. Happy New...

31 outside right now, may touch 60 today. With rain expected to usher in the New Year. I plan on being up to welcome in the New Year. I want to slam the door on this one. 'nuff said. I putzed around yesterday, did some real job stuff too. Looks like I will be busy with the real job for another...

50 outside right now, heading to 60 today. Should be dry today. Did not get the talked up rain event for yesterday, another inaccurate forecast for my area. Managed to get outside for the better part of the day. Wife is ill, so I am staying away from her. Maybe flu, maybe the alligator, who...

President Jimmy Carter has passed. A good man. RIP.

54 outside this AM, heading to mid 60's. Balmy, warm, wet. Weird. More rain later. Not much planned out, yesterday was a blur. Today more of the same. Need to get wood stocks assessed and replenished for sure. Airport was super busy last night, as were the roads. On tick bites, the worry...

So I ordered another beacon, to extend the mesh a little farther. I am looking at another 50 feet to the barn, so the current mesh services out to there, but of course the signal is weak. I am hoping this will give me a workable (stream, browse) network out to about 300 feet covering 2 houses...

42 outside this Am, heading towards the mid 50's. With rain the next few days. Guess that makes it an indoor day and weekend. That is OK, plenty to catch up on and track down with paperwork. Still dealing with estate stuff. What a flipping bureaucratic mess. Especially with one state my Dad and...

33 outside this AM, heading to mid 40's with rain expected later this evening. Looks like the weekend will be a washout too according to the weather reporters. Here is hoping the hay delivery makes it this AM, guy has been having delivery issues and cannot stick the time. Need it today, not...

I am using an eero mesh setup on our farm. I have a firestick in another building at 150 feet away picking up the network. That is going through two walls and into a concrete old style mesh parge wall and a wall mounted TV. I also pick up the network in there for browsing. I would try a mesh...

32 outside right now, heading to mid 40's. Hope all have a great day, be safe.

Use SAP to find out how broken your internal systems and processss really are.

Merry Christmas to my TBN friends and families.

24 outside right now, heading to upper 30's. A mix is expected anytime now. Road trip this AM for the day, wife's MD family get together. Hope all have a good day. Merry Christmas.

Yeah, me too. Been to the doc's over the years because I am always cold around this time of year. They say I have no issues. Ok. But I am always cold. Hands are like ice right now. Wearing two sweat shirts. LOL. I guess it is just the way I am wired....and the season. Seems over time this area...

First off, thinking of those not doing well, Fuddy, LS, Buppies. Here is hoping some positive news and actions can come your way. It's cold out this AM, 16 heading towards upper 30's. I don't have any plans for today. That worked out well for yesterday too. I managed to get a lot done. Got the...

We gave up on giving directions. The way our houses sits to the driveways, four doors are visible for drop off points. The USPS people are the only ones consistent enough to drop off at an outbuilding not the houses. LOL. It's like a treasure hunt when something gets delivered....where is it?

23 heading to 33 this AM and the rest of the day. Cold and dry, hopefully the wind will be less than yesterday. Awakened this AM at 2AM due to a chirping fire alarm. Didn't we just talk about this? Must be a defective battery as it was replace a month or so ago. Weird. Nothing like finding a...

35 outside and that is about the expected high for today. Dry and cold. MIL has relocated. Airport pickup went smooth. Most people trying to get out of the city. FLA flights were not even full coming in. Plane way early but no gate space available. Lost an hour sitting around waiting to...

36 outside this AM, heading to mid 40's and that is about it. Colder air settling in for the next few days. Should be warmer here at the farm with the MIL expected tonight. I get to brave the roads getting to the airport for pickup. That will be fun, considering it is a weekend and the holiday...

My neighbor had one of those on my property. One day we shall have to talk of it. Soon.

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Speaking of deer, My dear wife noted five carcasses between our house and a big main road we use to get everywhere. A little more than 1 dead deer per mile. I missed a black and white dairy cow in the middle of the road a few years ago. It was hoofing down the road and just at the edge of my...

40 outside this AM, heading just a little higher. Dry out. If the winds don't pick up I should do the burn pile soon. Visited it yesterday with not my dog and it is just ten times larger than it should be. Will be an area warmer when it goes up. Will have to alert the local FD and neighbors...

You work hard on that property. What do you mean by stabilizer? The rear hitch bars? If so, that is a lot of stress on the backend and the PTO in the general, no?

I wish I never read this thread. Ouch...

It takes some time and thinking, but I run some Virtual Machines that are "sort of" configured to avoid software changes and operating system updates. Some of my tasks include time based research, so these machines and configurations allow us to set that moment in time and not worry about all...

31 outside right now, lower 50's expected. Rain supposed to move in later today. Still doing prep work for MIL relocation. Good news is that all the stuff accumulated from their place and my Dad's is starting to sell on Market Place. It was the best of stuff left over from Estate and Yard...

Just came in from evening chores. The weather is warm and the fog is rolling in over the side pastures.

Condolences to all. Lost my Dad one year ago at this time. Lost my FIL just a few weeks ago. All I know is I don't want to put my kids through what they went through. We found a lot of people in the family to not be on the same page when it came to elder care. Indeed, both fathers plans...

56 outside right now, heading to lower 60's today. Sounds nice doesn't it. More paper work is the order of the day. I'll try and sneak outside sometime. Maybe go play with not my dog and pickup sticks. MIL coming to town, this week. It ain't Santa. LOL. I'll still be nice. Hope all have a...

37 outside this AM, heading to upper 40's. Rain/snow/sleet mix at times yesterday, no accumulation. Just a not nice day to be outside. So it was mostly indoors, except for horse chores and feeding. Looks like today is another indoor day with paperwork. Hope all have a good start to the work...

33 outside right now, heading to lower 40's. Precipitation moving in. Looks to be an indoor day shaping up. No problems with that, lots to do. Got to the hardware stores to get lights and stains. Managed to swap out the Christmas light strings that went broke. Got back on the roof to take one...

Catching up with my wifes late night adventures. Seems she caught the moon. Cool pic.

23 outside this AM. WOW...the moon is fantastic looking setting. I just stood there for a while and marveled at it. Looks like today will be in the 40's. But a nice day. So I found the Christmas lights, tested them, got them hung (before dark) and of course, two strings have issues. Funny how...

Maybe... it has been a long time. The Keurig is fairly recent though. As is the new supplier.

Flat out booming in my immediate area. The housing market seems to be strong. Still seeing lots of sales and renovations. Commercial is too, it's called data centers, roads and feeder infrastructures. But my area is not reflective of the country. Being outside the DC area....

Have two methods: 1 Keurig... when I have no company and need some java fast, almost daily. 2 grind and drip...I have an old style hand operated coffee grinder. Beans are from two places in Africa and my nephew who has his own import/export coffee business. I grind the beans and place them in...

23 outside this AM, heading to lower 40's. No precipitation expected. Maybe a good day to hang the Christmas lights. Since, you know, the holiday is right upon us. Wow, time flies. Managed to get out with the wife yesterday and find a nice piece of cherry for the shelf. Local lumber yard that...