Good morning, the low is 32 and the high to 37°F. Wind SSW 13 mph. 70% chance of flurries or rain.
Yesterdays 2" of snow, by the time we got home was 4". The block heater for the tractor is turned on. I guess y'all know what I will be doing at about 9:30 A.M.
Junior is disabled, but not as bad as his wife was, so I don't need to get out there as early, as long as it gets done. My customers know I have a life too and are very understanding.
I still have 'summer' windshield washer juice in the jug under the hood. So after I get done plowing I have that to drain and put in some -40F juice. The summer stuff is a half and half mixture of -40F and bug removal soap. In the gallon bottle it looks purple instead of blue. That is the effect of mixing pink (soap) and winter stuff (blue). I could care less what the colour is, as long as it gets the bugs off the windshield.
I paid $1.499/L yesterday for regular. That works out to $5.63/US gal, in Canuck cash. Diesel is worse at $1.919/L or $7.25/US gal. I gotta get furnace oil/diesel fuel before Christmas. That one is gonna hurt. it is a good thing I have a 4 digit credit with the oil guy.
I have been working for the same company for 38 years. My attitude has always been, I was looking for a job before I came here and I will be looking for one when I leave. BUT while I am here I WILL do the best I can with what you give me to drive.
I was kinda hoping I could stay until 40, but the more I think about it, the closer I am to calling it quits. The big juicy income tax rebate in spring is one of the things that I will miss dearly. I am talking 5 digits to the left of the decimal point. Last year was 13 thousand.
We had the fly population down to 'hard to find', but I stopped using the wood stove for a couple of weeks, the flies that were hiding in the warm basement have migrated upstairs. So while we got the majority of them, as they come up to the warm upstairs we are killing them off with the alcohol, water and dawn dish soap mixture. When the flies get hit with this mixture, their wings don't work any more so that they jump up to take flight but their wings don't work and they fall like a rock to the floor. Then they either get smashed with a fly swatter or they die when the alcohol eats through their exoskeleton. Either way they are dead and I don't care which way.
The only event that happened yesterday was a guy with a Toyota got to entertain 2 cop cars complete with Ontarios' finest wasting almost one lane of the highway in North Bay. That cost me a couple of minutes to get around,but in the winter time I am in no big hurry.
Helo, I use spell check, every time I type something. I have used grammar check in the past, but not no more. Which by the way is poor grammar right there. "Not no more" should be "not any more".
You-ins have a safe day
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I'm going to start with the low hanging fruit. There are a bunch of bottles of waste oil in the corner that need to go to the farmer down the road who burns waste oil. I was thinking of actually moving everything out and cleaning but my big shopvac doesn't turn on so I need to figure that out. That should be a good way to start.
