Good morning!!!!

[ArlyA]

Good morning tbn folks from Houghton MI. A overcast morning which is normal winter thing here with a North 18 mph wind with 28 mph gusts. Kinda breezy. I've had a sore and swollen foot but I finally got in a 1.5 mile BC ski with dearest and mutts last night. Skiing was quite good. Put the Yamaha atv up for sale and thinking about the weekend trip to camp Covington. Nothing very exciting happening here...

 

[Rich B1]

Hope you enjoyed the Age of Steam Roundhouse @buckeyefarmer. I live about 9 miles from there and have not yet managed to check it out.

Odd, as one of my favorite museums when I was traveling the world was “The Train Museum” in Mulhouse France.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Any idea what they are? Things like grubs and snow mold can both leave perfect circular dead patches in the lawn, which also regrow in a different color depending on which species of a multivar recover most quickly. But I don't think that's what you have here.

The ring with the center and outside both being the same color makes me think of the old buried foundation footers I see telegraphing thru the frost on my lawn on cold mornings. Our property is an old farm, and I can still see the outline of the old long-gone buildings in the frost patterns in my lawn, when the conditions are just right for it.

Was there ever a silo in that location?

I know exactly what causes them, just don't know why... It's called a Fairy Ring, where mushrooms grow in a circle. I have 3 of them in the field. The mushrooms are round, bigger than a softball. When I hit them with the mower before they turn brown, they just slice up. After they turn brown, you get a big dark cloud.
Here's a pic of some when smaller, this is different spot than the other picture.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Hope you enjoyed the Age of Steam Roundhouse @buckeyefarmer. I live about 9 miles from there and have not yet managed to check it out.

Odd, as one of my favorite museums when I was traveling the world was “The Train Museum” in Mulhouse France.

I knew you were close. First time there, was really great, except I was starting to feel under the weather, and towards the end I just wanted to leave.
Their turntable is from Hagerstown MD, close to me here.

 

[daugen]

very cool railroad pics buckeye. A turntable is a pretty interesting piece of machinery

this is for Wagtail.
apparently Neil the seal lives nearby and is a local favorite.
a true tub of lard in the middle of the road, would you move please
reminds me of an athletic manatee
Neal is so popular he has his own Wikipedia page

Neil the Seal - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[ponytug]

@Popgadget Sorry about the leak.

FWIW: I've been buying couplers from Summit Hydraulics (direct & from Amazon). The quality seems reasonable and I've had a few for eight years or so. No leaks, no stuck couplers.

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All the best,

Peter

 

[buckeyefarmer]

up to 38 deg.
stocked up the pellet box with 14 in and 3 more on top. Will find out later the damage to my shoulder, tried to keep most weight on right side, but hard to do.

 

[Buppies]

Ron hope you feel better soon and that it’s nothing serious

AutoCar a name from the past nice trucks

White another name from the past

23 for low 42 now great weather for getting sick

Prayers for all our Country

 

[daugen]

took my nephew's son to tennis practice since his sister had his mother going in another
direction. He'll get his license in a year so I'll have plenty of paybacks coming.
raining lightly out

waiting for estimate from car shop. He lubed my three zerks and they are a little quieter.
He needs to price the parts for the drip and will give me an estimate.
he said once you open the thing up makes sense to replace both gaskets.
ok, waiting for the magic number.
I brought them a dozen Entemann donuts and the work today was no charge.

seems a little counterintuitive to be guzzling barium solution tonight and tomorrow morning, which
is radioactive, in order to get the best CT scan tomorrow.
well if you didn't have cancer before...
what doesn't kill you will make you stronger I guess.

I already got my labs back, happy to get a 97 glucose reading. Some weird blood tests were slightly out of range, but
they are sometimes. Lot of red herring potential.
what is more important is what the radiologist writes afterwards.
thankfully they put that online, don't have to wait.

let's see how many "possibles" they come back with...