Good morning!!!!

[toppop52]

We got 4” but it was all Sunday, by Monday morning the 40° temps and all the rain, you couldn’t tell it snowed. Another light dusting this morning but it’s pretty well gone now too. Thankfully. My friends near the Jersey shore have 10” + and still falling.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

34°. Was snowing earlier, might be done now. Probably 6-7” total, have not been out.
Road looked good from the window view.

Noticed another late fee, this time AT&T for the mobley bill that came late. Got on a chat and asked them to remove it, and they did. Also asked for the PUK codes for the mobley, and got those. The last time I tried they wouldn’t give to me.
So I put the sim in a netgear LB1121 LTE modem, reset the pin, and it works. Now I don’t need the GL router connected to the mobley. The netgear has remote antenna ports, so one of these days will try a yagi direct to it.

Need to check in with work, but probably just take leave again today.

 

[sodamo]

64°F and 0 rain.

First must do is get the deck belt back on the scag.

Still need to paint the cable trims from my antenna run

If carpet dry put back of truck together for dogs. Everything got a good power wash yesterday. May spritz with Fabreeze.

Need to be on watch for a FedEx delivery.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[kenmbz]

Spoke too soon, this wet snow took twice as long to clear up than the same amount yesterday.
Still need to do by the garage with the snow blower.
Looks like it finally stopped.

Sodamo - how did the belt come off, something get caught up like a stick?

 

[the viking]

Good morning from the cold north. Accidently posted this in "How's Eddie" thread and was justifiably accused of thread drift, so sorry! Went from bare dirt to 42" of snow from the storm the east is now enjoying. Froze my swimming hole at the creek real good. Took awhile for winter to arrive but it did, with a vengeance. More snow tomorrow!

 

[Popgadget]

I’m a little north of Drew and Ken, looks like we got about 16” since Sunday.
It was generally a heavy snow due to the periods of sleet. I’m glad that I went out four times to keep up. I’ve got R4 tires without chains, and with the 8’ blade angled, I need decent traction to keep steering. This is my first winter with the L6060 and plow, overall, I’m pleased with it.
I was able to back drag out of the garages, and left little if any shovel work. Here is what it looked like before picking up a shovel.


I’ve got lots of bare blacktop showing now, so the sun will do a good job of finishing up once it makes an appearance.

 

[sodamo]

Nice postcard, Ken

 

[kenmbz]

I can't back drag with my plow, Maybe someday I'll weld it to the back plate, too many other projects. So Snow blower will finish.
You do good work PopGadget!

Viking - that's quite a pile up!

Looks like Town plow pushed over our mailboxes :-(
Another project - always somethin....

 

[sodamo]

Dennis, how does AT&T see your Mobley sim? The one I put in Unite Explorer shows as Unite Explore on my AT&T web page. Never been a problem, but hesitant to move my other Mobley to Mofi for that reason and have AT&T suspend or cancel. That said I get good performance via my Mobley \ Glinet AR 300M router, currently 19.4/5.6. With the 4GAS terminated this is my primary right now so can’t lose it.

Probably should add, the Mobley is connected to Yagi antenna. I followed the instructions on Howard Forum.

 

[sodamo]

Ken, not exactly sure why belt came off, possibly just a sudden thick spot as I didn’t see anything unusual.

 

[sodamo]

Neat job, Paul.

Another postcard, Viking

 

[RedNeckGeek]

David, and maybe others, may be interested an a new video posted by the Crosstalk Solutions guy. This one is on terminating Ethernet cables, and he demos a couple of tools that save time and ensure better results. The neatest one is the UnTwist tool, used to unwrap the wire pairs and then straighten the wires. That'll save a lot of sore fingers.

 

[sodamo]

RNG, yup interesting video,so were the comments.
Interesting tool, but I liked suggestion to use the piece of sheathing.
The app tester was nice, but a bit pricey compated to mine.

I found if I remember to cut the cable about 1/2” longer than needed I can better keep the wire alignment. I don’t have the EZ connectors.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

RNG, yup interesting video,so were the comments.
Interesting tool, but I liked suggestion to use the piece of sheathing.
The app tester was nice, but a bit pricey compated to mine.

I found if I remember to cut the cable about 1/2” longer than needed I can better keep the wire alignment. I don’t have the EZ connectors.

The sheathing might work for unwinding, but I've tried the screwdriver trick for straightening, and it's still hard in my fingers. Looking forward to trying the UnTwister.

I found wire breaks in some of my long runs using the Pockethernet tool. I was going crazy trying to figure out why the devices on the other end weren't working. Now I use it on every connector, and I'm still finding problems.

I'm going to have to up my game and get the sheath up into the connector before applying the crimp. What I've been doing is working so far, but it ain't right. I'm using the Unifi shielded male connectors, and they don't have the pass through feature, either. But I've had problems in the past with hardware store connectors that have the ends of the tubes open to each other, and some of the strands shorting between the wires. So I'm gonna snag a pair of those snips he recommends, as I don't think the diagonal cutters I've been using sever the wires very cleanly.

 

[PJSprog]

27°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 37° today ... which is where we are now.

Stopped at Menard's on the way home yesterday looking for a longer dowel rod for The Wife to use to roll up her quilting project wall, which is really just a large piece of flannel that she sticks her quilt blocks on for design layout. It would seem that no one sells dowel rod any longer than 36" or 48". Probably going to have to go a different route, like maybe thin-walled pvc pipe. I just don't want to buy 10' of it when I only need 64". It's becoming a quest now to find a solution.

Put about four miles on the stationary bike later in the evening.

I generally don't talk much about Fiats, Roy. I have a scar across my forehead, the left side of my nose partially caved in, a rebuilt chipped front tooth, and no curve in my neck anymore from slamming my face through the windshield of a '79 X-19. Tree 1, Fiat 0. (That tree ended up about 6" from the windshield, or what was left of it.) April 6, 1985 ... I remember that pain like it was yesterday. Excruciating. I don't recommend it.

Those are some seriously delicious looking pizzas, gents.

We haven't had any groundhog problems since we put a radio in the barn a couple years ago, wgnsprd. We keep it on a local AM talk radio station, KMOX. Apparently, they aggravate the groundhogs, too.

 

[ronjhall]

27°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 37° today ... which is where we are now.

Stopped at Menard's on the way home yesterday looking for a longer dowel rod for The Wife to use to roll up her quilting project wall, which is really just a large piece of flannel that she sticks her quilt blocks on for design layout. It would seem that no one sells dowel rod any longer than 36" or 48". Probably going to have to go a different route, like maybe thin-walled pvc pipe. I just don't want to buy 10' of it when I only need 64". It's becoming a quest now to find a solution.

Would a piece of hand rail work?

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Stopped at Menard's on the way home yesterday looking for a longer dowel rod for The Wife to use to roll up her quilting project wall, which is really just a large piece of flannel that she sticks her quilt blocks on for design layout. It would seem that no one sells dowel rod any longer than 36" or 48". Probably going to have to go a different route, like maybe thin-walled pvc pipe. I just don't want to buy 10' of it when I only need 64". It's becoming a quest now to find a solution.

Used to be able to buy wooden closet rod by the foot at HD and Lowes. Maybe they still sell it that way?

 

[buckeyefarmer]

How was the pizza BEF?

Better than frozen pizza, but could use improvement. Of course we didn’t have the right cheese or enough cheese. The dough rose too much. Needed more sauce added.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Used to be able to buy wooden closet rod by the foot at HD and Lowes. Maybe they still sell it that way?

I got some 1” at Lowe’s a few yrs ago, sold by the foot.

 

[Thomas]

25F finally stop snowing but the wind kicking up so plow still on pickup in case of drifting. ...did half clean up morning rest afternoon,good chance heavy snow squalls over night sooo do it all again tomorrow but this time Kubota will get work out.

Beginning to think neighbor couple french fries short of happy :confused2: he been warn not to put snow in the road,I'll be dang he blew snow into road again today.

Recliner dinner recliner watch movie pillow before 10pm.:thumbsup:

Enjoy your evening all.