Good morning!!!!

[wngsprd]

57 going down to 20, and snow is promised.

Sorry your cat is sick, L4N. Sounds like you are taking good care of her.

PJ, congrats on the Guitar of the Month. Do they award a G of the Year? Hopefully you will win the 2019 award.

Sassy in the snow is so cool...I wonder what the world looks like from 10" all the time (except when in you lap).

Drove to southern Virginia to bow hunt yesterday. Went to the "Hole" treestand...was a favorite of my late father-in-law...I sat there running memories through my mind and got pretty emotional for a moment. Had a small buck wander around me for about a half hour and came back 2 hours later. Pulled SD cards from 3 game cams and have only looked at a bit of the 6 months of photos and already seen some nice bucks and turkeys.

Had 3 mature bald eagles flying low over our field and landing in our trees Sunday. Quite a beautiful sight. Never could find a food source, but I didn't go look until much later, once they were gone.

 

[Thomas]

30F cloudy light mist mid 30 for high,about 1" snow mix with freezing rain.

Outside chores done E muffin time. :licking:
Plans for today...clean off steps deck side walk of snow other than that play it by ear.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[Thomas]

628361[/ATTACH].

Wish that would be our total for the year here.

 

[daugen]

good morning all. Hope none of that snow comes my way...forecast for today is showers turning to steady rain and getting colder.
At least tomorrow when I drive North the weather will have cleared up, but I'm definitely getting out my undershirts and warm socks.
Seems strange to hear it so cold in Texas.

headed out to drop off a small bag of poblanos I picked yesterday, not happy after recent freezes, small but still good.
I also have to pick up ten pounds of carrots at super market and take them to food pantry.
Then home for an inside day in the rain.

 

[Bird]

21 degrees this morning with a northerly breeze, but going for a sunny high of 40. Just gonna stay in and have a big pot of chili today.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 27˚F cloudy and windy. The 17mph wind brings the chill factor to 16˚F. Warming to the mid 40s but the wind is making it very uncomfortable. FireWise clearing has been canceled this morning.
There was ice on my truck after cards last night but no snow. The heated seats felt good -1st time I used them but I forgot about my remote start and could had a warm truck waiting. About 1/4 of the players decided to stay home but I could only manage 3 out of a possible 5 wins. Before these games I had moved up to 5th place.
Fitness center is opening at 10am today instead of 6am so people can see the possible ice. Big bowl of veg chili today.

Ron, looks like Sassy will not clear that height without platform shoes or, or doggie show shoes, do they have them up there?

 

[PJSprog]

8°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 24° today.

Snowed here much of the day yesterday. Fortunately, the ground was still too warm for most of it to stick. We ended up with about 1-1/2", which stopped right about afternoon drive time. The traffic damage was already done, though, and it took me an extra hour to get home ... 55 minutes of that was getting the seven miles from the work parking lot to the Musial Bridge over the Mississippi River. Once I got into Illinois, the roads were much better, just mostly wet.

Thanks for the guitar comments. My "pride" in its winning is mostly tongue-in-cheek. I really don't care much about such things, as it was made as a tool. Honestly, compared to a couple other instruments completed last month, I have no idea why they picked mine. Here's a link to the actual contest thread. Those first two basses are amazing work. They used to have a GOTY contest as well, Wngsprd, but I have no idea if they are still doing that. As the winner this month, I get to be a guest judge for next month's contest. It's playing well, mostly_, and I'm enjoying it every bit as much as I suspected I would. It's the most comfortable guitar I've ever played. Still doing a bit of tweaking on the action setup, but it's coming along nicely.

Hope everyone is faring well in this cold weather.

 

[daugen]

successful visit downtown, picked up new glasses, oh yes, new prescription is definitely better. Ordered a pair of sunglasses and a pair of reading glasses, which
I've never had before, but doc said my astigmatism was bad enough I should have them. I'll try....most of my reading is on a Kindle.
Reminded them of how many pairs of glasses I have bought from them and gosh 40 percent just went off my bill... My limit was 300 bucks for a pair of polarized sunglasses, and it came in at 295. Sold.

Decided if I was going to go North this winter to visit friends, I needed better tires on the Audi. Didn't want snow tires, just all seasons with good winter ratings.
Ordered a set of Vredestein Quatrac 5 tires, top rated on tirerack.com and much less expensive than Michelin. With my low miles they will likely be on the car as long as I have it. OEM Continentals are awful. Will make my last trip on them tomorrow, at least I'm not driving into snow.
It would be nice to drive to Asheville in the winter and see the mountain sights, but not without good tires.
Good tires on an awd car makes for a much more relaxing trip. And most oem tires are not very good.
What is nice about tirerack.com is if you look up all the reviews on the tires, you can sort by your model car, so I read four reviews first
from folks with the same car I have give their experience with the tire. That's pretty focused and helpful info.

I find what I want online, and then hand the printout to my local tire guy, who has to order them from some warehouse, he had problems recognizing
Vredestein..., clearly not a normal line for them. They are big into winter tires, like most of the Scandinavian tires are.
And he matches the online price. Between tractor tires, lawn mower tires, car tires and truck tires, I've been a good customer of his. And he always
treats me right.

Rain has been late coming in, just passing through Raleigh now headed my way.
Might do one more trip around the place in the golf cart, kill some ants, get some fresh air,
and then I have plenty to keep me busy inside.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Good Morning. It only made it down to 33° here this morning but, with wind still at 18-20 mph, the chill factor is 21°. We might see 45° this afternoon and hope the wind dies down.

We didn't get any of the predicted "wintery mix" overnight and I'm not disappointed either.

Plan today is to work on some projects, in the shop, with the doors closed.

PJS ... congratulation on GOTM!

Don ... remote start is your friend in both Texas Winters ... and especially ...Texas Summers.

Mr. Bird ... chili really fits the bill today!

Drew ... safe travels in your Audi!

Hope everyone has an excellent "hump day eve".

Prayers to all.

 

[jbrumberg]

Last night’s misting/drizzling/rain showery 36ºF was today’s high temperature which remained constant until 7:00AM. Snow/sleet started to mix in with the drizzle ~8:30AM with the temperature dropping to 32ºF by 9:00AM and the precipitation became all snow and started to stick just as this frontal system passed through. Total accumulation = a dusting . Low temperatures around here the next 2 days will be in the single digits with below 0ºF windchills. I guess that I’ll be breaking out the long undies again.

Rick and Eric- Thank you for sharing those powerful poems.

RonJH- I would have liked a little more than a dusting of snow.

Bill- I hope that Smokie does not make it to the freezer anytime soon.

Bird- It is definitely chili weather here; enjoy.

Drew- I wish you safe travels.

My + thoughts and prayers.