Good morning!!!!

[toppop52]

Don't use a floodlight, use a "Narrow beam spotlight". They are sold on Amazon.

I’ll do that.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 51F for the start, mostly clear, light breeze. Moderate wind day, Some clouds and high temp of 78F. Cleaned connections on trolling motor batteries, then had one battery not charging. Problem turn out to be fuse connections, Deoxit to the rescue, still need to replace fuse holder. Refilled one gopher tunnel need to order sulfur, I think he will tunnel under house did get good nap in today.
Covid update: Cooke unchanged, Montague unchanged, Grayson unchanged.
Davis misread the tea leave, thought you were unhappy with the paint. My bad
Billy hope Coco is ok, glad you could get through.
Eric you are not the only slow learner.
Drew enjoy your slow day. My wars have not been the same after 20 hours in car in 3 days
Mike and it is worse when it is someone you know and love, and they still don't turn around.
Ron glad all your family came back, please pass along my thanks for their service.Good to hear Covid cases are improving. nice squirrel pic
Bill hope you finish winter prep in time
Don sorry about the Covid levels, glad cedarcide went well and you got me hungry for cinnamon rolls now
Paul there should be a chapter of clutterers anonymous near, they help, don't ask how I know
Ken Kevlar slowed the glass down, but will not stop it. no flats yet.
DFTodd nice pics welcome to GM. :welcome: Never had car trouble like that on vacation
Ted thought you knew by now that plans go out the window 5 minutes after you put them together
Drew that will keep you busy for a while
DFTodd that sounds like me when I get passed by a girl on a bike
PJ grew up near Lambert in Berkeley, MO, Guy need an attitude check.
David hope phone update goes well.
Don best looking socks I have ever seen.
Ted looking nice.
Randy 4+ inch rain is a lot of water, glad flooding is not too bad.
Dennis son must have wanted it bad
Don different looking asparagus
prayers for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle's daughter, RNG/fire, and Country
stay safe and healthy you all.

 

[sodamo]

Trip to town took a bit longer than expected. Good vet visit for Makani. Next up is his neutering in Jan.

Got to AT&T about 10 minutes early. They have someone meet you outside the door to check you in. Finally got in about 40 minutes later than my appointment time. No idea why. Only took about 10 minutes to get plan changed and questions answered. Hopefully a good thing except now I’m into AT&T for another $20/month. Will be interesting to see how the monthly credits work out.

After we got home got emails saying the new phones expected on Monday will actually arrive tomorrow.

Still had time to remove paint maskings and get some cleanup. Started cutting trim but quit when it started sprinkling enough to get everything wet.

 

[RoyJackson]

2020-11-13, 0315

27 right now...high in the low 40's...rain on and off this morning becoming steady this afternoon
Boy! Glad it's Friday (even if it is the 13th!!)

 

[riptides]

36 outside this AM, heading to lower 60's. We got a LOT of rain the last few days. Lots of water rescues. Weather peoples big map shows 4.9 inches. Well my creek was over the banks and 1/4 the way up my back pasture...so yeah..it was a lot of rain. No damage to anything, and our new fence line seems to be just about right, it was about 30 feet outside of the water.

Will continue drying out the fish mobile today. From the looks of it, water did not go over the mirrors on the passenger side. I checked the oil, no water looks to be present. I will have to jump it though, battery is dead.

Hope to get back to the front porch, decking and supports is on order this weekend.

Sorry about Mr. Gopher, mostly. Hope you get him soon.

Hope all have a great day. Be safe.

 

[Eric Salop]

Good morning, we both woke with a start last night at the sound of heavy rain hitting the window. At least it was considerate enough to pass over by daybreak, nothing but clear blue sky now for the next couple of hours. Nice weather to take a chainsaw for a walk.

I am hesitating before saying this as I certainly don't wish to cause offence to those of you who are proud to fly a flag and illuminate it at night. Here is my thought for today....

However narrow the beam, if you point any light upwards, my guess is that a large proportion of the light will miss a flag and travel upwards into the night sky. Some of that light may go straight on into space and travel for millions of years before it hits anything, however most of it will be scattered and reflected back to earth. Most of it will not even come back down to your property, it will spread wide over miles. This light pollution may not be enough to turn the sky orange, as we see around cities, however it all adds up and makes a difference to those who enjoy looking into the night sky, making distant galaxies more difficult or impossible to see.

If you can make do without lights, or arrange all lighting so that it points down and not upwards, I am sure any astronomers in your area would appreciate it.
:whiteflag:

Good luck with the dry out Rip, if it starts you probably want to stand upwind for a while.

 

[Buppies]

57 high of 67 hope to dry out today 6 in in rain gauge lots of flooding

Prayers for all our Country

 

[Buppies]

Hope car is salvageable riptides

 

[ronjhall]

Poured first cup of coffee. 37° with cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 43° with some AM rain. After Dr appointment stopped at Menards for a new battery for whole house generator. Got that installed. Then put up new TV antenna and programed TV for the channels that I get. Cleaned lenses on all outside motion sensing camera's. Cleaned leaves out of gutters. Nice day to be outside. Take old battery to Menards for core money back. Then some grocery shopping today. Need to blow out water line to animal barn. No other plans for the day.
Why woodpecker is well fed.

Don, is that Lee County Asparagus. :laughing:

Dftodd, :welcome: to Good Morning Thread!!! Nice pictures. Sorry about Jeep engine. Encore is a smaller version of my Chevy Captiva.

PJ, place is looking good.

LS, cabinet is looking good. Is it going to be for a TV?

David, which phones are you getting?

Eric, my spotlight overshoot light shines into wood to east of flag. About 50' beyond flag. Squirrels may like the night light in their 30' high nest.

Riptides, hope car dries out without major repairs.

Everyone stay safe and healthy.

Good Morning All.

 

[Buppies]

Mostly I do believe sulfur will work

 

[toppop52]

Eric has me thinking, maybe I can use my new light to communicate with aliens!
52 going to 62 today, no more 80s. Ended up with a two day total of 4.94”. Glad there wasn’t more.
I have to go to the insurance office and turn in a form, not sure what else today. Ellen has a bunch of appointments that don’t include me.
Y’all have a good one.

 

[daugen]

good morning all
47 going up to high 50's today, drying out I hope.
Other than a short trip to Giant for salad material and fruit, don't have much planned for today.

Ron, that's a powerful light and great job of illuminating flag. Whole grain bread for the woodpeckers?...

Buppies, six inches of rain sure makes a mess, hope you dry out today and had no further problems with septic system

today I replace the Honeywell thermostat, expect it to be easy. Going to study dip switches and manual to make sure it is set up properly.

Found a Black Friday special on a 3/4 hp Genie garage door opener for 78 bucks. Couldn't resist that, door is simple 7 footer but will still use a garage door installer
in case things like springs need to be adjusted.

I was born on the 13th of March, and was always kidded it was a Friday. Then I looked it up and found out it was a Monday...

 

[Popgadget]

43 and still drizzling here. Third day of rain, but total for all three is only 1.3 inches, so no flooding.

Got distracted yesterday by a call from the local restaurant that has adopted me as their maintenance man. (I work for food). They had a Bain Marie that wasn’t getting cold. It’s all good now, and I had a nice chicken parmigiana lunch.

Not much planned today, I’ll continue my clean up effort, there is visible progress now. Son got tied up yesterday, maybe do his barometer project today.

 

[ronjhall]

Drew, it’s C&S suet.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 62˚F heading to the mid 70s, cloudy and foggy this morning. I might get to test the dual rain gauges tonight for the first time as we have a 40% chance of rain. Yesterday was neighbor's day as I mowed one neighbors yard and changed the batteries in another neighbor's smoke detectors.

The cinnamon rolls turned out very good. The three day fermenting process to get the 6 month sourdough starter just right seemed to be the ticket. The raisins in the cinnamon rolls taste like little sweet lemons. They make a fine breakfast.

My wife also experimented yesterday making a Turkey roll. We will make a few good revisions and pics next week. She wants to add a layer of her homemade cranberry sauce on top of the stuffing layer for color and flavor. It will look like a big cinnamon roll when cut with swirls of yellow and maroon.

Saw this show last night. Lampasas, TX | The Daytripper

It inspired us to take road trip today to Lampasas TX to Rustler Junction. In that store they had the perfect vase for the hutch. It was filmed recently because of the facemasks so we might be able to snag the Pottery we saw on the TV show if they are not too proud of it. If nothing else a nice 45 minute road trip.

Eric my wife likes it very dark at night also and has put tinted stickems LightDims Black Out Edition - Light Blocking LED Covers/Light Dimming Sheets for Routers, Electronics and Appliances and More. Blocks 1% of Light, in Retail Packaging. - Light Dims Led Light Blocker - Amazon.com The neighborhood already has a all dark rule at night so all the flags come in at sunset.

 

[Buppies]

Septic system is fine Drew thanks for asking

 

[kenmbz]

Good morning, 39 going up to 57 today, Rain - it's spongy out there
Day job kept me from doing any real work around here yesterday

Rip-glad to hear no damage and fence line in the clear. I hope the car come out ok

Stay safe and be dry

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, the temp is 32°F and going to a high of 43. Wind SE 8 mph. Showers.

I picked up a solar panel for a battery maintainer for the Jeep. We will see if I can keep a full charge on the Jeep battery over the winter.

IF it is not raining too hard, I may make another dump run today.

Other than the dump run, I think I may declare today an energy conservation day.


Have a safe day all

 

[daugen]

isn't drying out like I thought, light rain coming down, forgot my hat, sure felt cold on my baldish head...
nice to see paper towels back at Giant, whole aisle was empty last time, now about a dozen packages spread out over big area.
Also nice to see Clorox disinfectant wipes back.
I ordered a case of paper towels on Amazon, wasn't sure if they would show up, now I'm sure they will since I bought some...

Don, does the turkey roll have turkey in it or a substitute? I love the taste of fresh cranberries, or at least the whole ones mixed in with turkey.
The jello stuff is pretty fake in comparison

believe it or not, Christmas trees up outside the supermarket today, 13th of November. They will sure be dried out fire hazards by Christmas...

 

[txdon]

Don, does the turkey roll have turkey in it or a substitute? I love the taste of fresh cranberries, or at least the whole ones mixed in with turkey.
The jello stuff is pretty fake in comparison

Homemade substitute. The cranberry sauce is made with real cranberries (from the produce aisle) and apricots.