Good morning!!!!

[Green Acres Homestead]

Here in East Coast Canada we got a foot of snow on the first day of spring. I blew out the driveways.. Today it drifted back in until it cut over to freezing rain. To cold to drive my ATV without a windshield so I made one out of Lexan. This lexan is great stuff. Here is a quick video about working with Lexan. Would be great stuff to make a tractor cab with. Making an ATV windshield from Lexan - YouTube

 

[rswyan]

Partly sunny and 43F @ 10:30 ... heading up to a high of 52F today.

Got the last of the Melanochromis auratus moved down to the 20G Long last night.

Female:​

Male:​

The 55G tank seems decidedly calmer with them out of it.

Will probably move the Julies out of it next.

Wife and I worked some more in the basement.

Have a doctors appointment later today.

 

[sodamo]

66°F and no rain
Need to do some things up to the cottage today.

Be safe
Have a great day

 

[sodamo]

Glad to hear you are on the mend Buppies

 

[toppop52]

Get well there Buppies, don't over do it. I built a windshield for my Donzi in 1990 from Lexan. I didn't like how high the original was, and thought I could do anything back then. It turned out great! It was rounded, no square corners. I used a heat gun to help shape it, after I cut it out.

Dreary and mild, 50's so far, supposed to reach 60's but I don't know. Cold tomorrow and Thursday, then seasonal for a week or so.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

The endoscope from China showed up yesterday but I couldn't make the WiFi connect to the iPhone. Messaged seller through Amazon and received this reply:
We advice you to change another cell phone(not iphone) to check it if it can work or not, as before it being sent out, we test that it can work.

Admittedly their English is a lot better than my Chinese, but if it doesn't work with an iPhone, why did the description on the thing say it did? I'll try it with the iPad this morning, and if it doesn't work with that, it's going back for a refund. Too bad, as the unit looks nicely made and the LEDs at the camera end look like they'll provide plenty of light.

Update: Something didn't seem right in setting up the WiFi network on the endoscope. The instructions that came with it had a line that read:
Click phone Setting>>WLAN>>Scan, you can find the WiFi name "Jetion_xxxxxxxx", the initial password is "12345678".

It wasn't clear if they were referring to the configuration of the viewing app on the phone, or the phone's WiFi network setting. There are SSID and password settings in the viewing app, but no WLAN or Scan function. And it's possible to set the iPhone to join just about any network by adjusting the Wi-Fi setting. What wasn't clear is if the endoscope should be configured to join an existing WiFi network or if it was creating its own. So I went into the Wi-Fi settings on the iPhone and found that the endoscope was indeed creating its own WiFi network. Once the iPhone was set to join the endoscope WiFi network, the image appeared in the iPhone app just fine. I was also able to get it to work with the iPad Pro the same way.

Image quality for still photos seems pretty good. This was shot at a distance of about 2" using just the LED light from the endoscope. The label in the picture is about an inch long. Movies, on the other hand, are something of a disappointment. Maximum resolution is 480 x 640, and as a result they're somewhat grainy when displayed on a big screen. But in use the images displayed on the iPhone and iPad are plenty good enough to see where that blockage in the pipe is or if there's something in the way of getting through the wall. At 0.351", the maximum diameter of the camera housing is too large for my main use, so I'll very likely return it. If all I needed it for was for looking at things around the house and in the van and motorcycles I think it would be fine. It was advertized as being 5.5mm in diameter, and is actually almost 9mm. Had I known that I wouldn't have bothered ordering it to begin with.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Get well soon buppies. I need to make appt to get my skin checked.

 

[Buppies]

Get well soon buppies. I need to make appt to get my skin checked.

Please do not wait it is most important to get checked so you do not end up like me the human zipper

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 60F This morning, calm wind clear skies. Temps more restrained today only 84F, wind more restrained as well, and skies clouded just a bit late afternoon but no rain here. 2 more chances of rain, Friday and Sunday, need some rain. Started mowing today, after giving the blade a quick sharpening job and oil change. Because of Tuesday bible class and wife's nap won't finish till tomorrow.

 

[txdon]

We just got word of the size of our coverage area for our VFD. We cover 62 square miles. This is a nice small area with our most travel road a farm to market road, no major Highways. Our largest structure is a century old wooden church and every firefighter has a tractor.

Don't hog the rain Mostly_gas, send some of it South.

Kyle, as comparison Giddings VFD coverage area is 209 square miles.