Wear ear plugs or muffs and get a battery powered snow blower(much quieter)
And my wood is otherwise free...
It's a shame that insurances are enough to drive people out of a place that they like.Good Morning!!!! 51F @ 8:00AM. Sunny. High 64F. Winds light and variable.
And you guessed it, still no rain in the 10-day.
Spent a fair number of days in Albuquerque. Had my first "Christmas" (red and green salsa) burrito at Golden Pride, then found Hello Delli and was hooked. Quarters was good for BBQ, and I could get a couple beers to go next door. I found a place called La Traviata in Santa Fe one night by following my nose off the plaza and discovered a New Mexican flavored Italian restaurant. But I went back a few years later and it had changed hands, and the magic was gone.
You make a convincing case for coal, Lou. But all that chopping, stacking, and hauling is so good for you!
If I woke up and saw that out the window, Randy, Ken, Drew, I'd roll back over and pull the covers over my head.
As expected yesterday, not much luck on the insurance front. I requested quotes from a broker that handled Chubb. Another broker refused to even quote anything but the FAIR plan, but a third that represented Lloyds among others at least sent out a request. So there's a slim chance of an alternative, but I'll have to wait until next week. Got to thinking this is maybe a good thing, another nail in the California coffin, and maybe the one that has me looking to move to someplace safer, and saner. And much more affordable. At over $7,000/year just for insurance, I'd feel more like a renter than a homeowner.
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Took the oil pan off the RT yesterday and found the quarter sized end off the lifter laying in the bottom. Looks like it didn't give up without a fight, and that dent has me wondering if it also bent the cam. Need to remove more stuff from the engine to find out, maybe later today.
Hope everyone enjoys their weekend, and that the snow doesn't pile up too high.
Hahaha ... no. I decided very early in that process that the best course of action would be to move forward with one arm, then switch to the other to return the table to the starting point. Both were equally sore that night.
It's an old Bugs Bunny reference. In one cartoon, he popped up out of a hole and wasn't where he expected to be. As he was looking at a map, he commented, "I knew I should have made a left at Albuquoyque."
No, we didn't do much exploring there at all. We had one day that we used for a bunch of miscellaneous adventures. While we were on our way to Meteor Crater, we heard a radio ad for the Winslow stuff, so we stopped there and took a bunch of pictures "standin' on the corner" next to the flatbed Ford, then left. The 11-year-old didn't get that either until we got back to the hotel that night and I found the song on YouTube for him. He responded, "So, all of that was over a couple of lines in a song?" Yes, yes it was.
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Well we didn't get any snow here. They got a little in the mountains and north of Knoxville.
snow blowing cross fields and lawn drifts driveway figures.
Wonder if Gronk will follow.
Wouldn't be a bit surprised, he spends most of his time hurt. Maybe they will be a sportscaster team. lol
Just rumors.
The small farm we live on now used to be my Wife's grandparents' farm. Her grandmother was fond of telling us that they used to raise rabbits here, and back in the '70s, had a standing order with the IGA store in town for 20 rabbits a month. It's been a long time since I've seen rabbit in a grocery store. We can find them in various meat markets, but not in any grocery stores anymore.
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