Good morning!!!!

[Bird]

Hopefully, our freezing weather is over for a while. 36 degrees this morning, going for a sunny 54. Almost all our snow has now melted, but we sure could use some more rain.

 

[Buppies]

21 this morning ice to miss us to the east

Nice z turn Alien

Prayers for all

 

[wngsprd]

32 and cloudy...rain this afternoon and 42.

Alien, congrats on your new ride...and your barn looks like it's been there a while..nicely kept.

Yesterday was another day of "making firewood." I finally fell a dead oak that was a bit of a puzzle, and it fell right where I asked it...what a difference a sharp chain makes...I worked on it Saturday until I felt it might be the best I've done and yesterday it went through red oak like butter.

Watched a little bit of the olympics...really like the luge...when I was young, a buddy and I would lie flat on our skateboards and ride down highway overpasses late at night to get a good luge-like ride. Rocks on the road were not our friends.

Eric, hope those lambs are okay this morning.

 

[Dftodd]

Yay! My new Kubota arrived. Already mowed about 2 acres. View attachment 732548

Is that the Z121sk. If it is, I have the same mower. I absolutely love it.

And yes, I've used the led lights on the front before to finish mowing at night

 

[toppop52]

36 heading to 44 later, cloudy with a light breeze.

I sold my Ram last week and bought myself a Grand Cherokee diesel. Much easier getting in with my bad back, and my father in law has a 4wd F-150 if I have to have a truck for something. My Jeep can tow about 7500lbs, so my trailers won’t be a problem. I wasn’t sure about the diesel until I drove it, quiet, no smoke and pulls like freight train. It sure is a big step up from old diesel Suburban. It should do well on mpg if I can keep my foot off the skinny pedal.

Has anybody heard from Ron?

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning.
It’s 28 with a high of 37 and good chance of a “wintery mix”.
Not a particularly nice day.

Yesterday was a nice day, cold, but sunny. I made pancakes and my grandson came up for breakfast and kept us entertained for a while. After I took him home, I spread magnesium chloride on the glacier at the end of my lane to make it passable.

Did get to the hangar and got some work done there, went out to lunch with oldest son, and called it a day.

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, snow/rain and 30F. Hope it warms up a bit so we don't end up with ice roads.
Seems like the weather is keeping us all from any outside work.
I just do dog walks and keep looking at the trees I need to take down, and know they will be there tomorrow.

Stay safe and be well,

Japanese architecture is always so interesting. Hundreds of arches (Kyoto), the more you donate, the larger the arch. And the arches are well kept and replaced when needed.

Every year these Bamboo die back and regrow. Make the tall trees look puny.

 

[daugen]

grand cherokee diesel a pretty rare and desirable car Toppop.
If the engine is the Italian diesel they have been using, it's definitely tough. Close friend
is purring along at 160K miles with the Jeep diesel in his Liberty. Rest of vehicle rotting and falling apart but that engine
is much tougher than I thought. I think Italy has good diesel tech, Iveco is huge.
And VM Motori sure builds a lot of different engines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_VM_Motori_engines

Now Italian gas engines are a whole lot different. Some of the most beautiful engines in the world.
But they really aren't known for lasting very long and the maintenance requirements are really expensive.
But the smaller Italian engines, that Fiat multi-air stuff, boy I bet Chrysler wished they had never put them in their cars.
But the Italians owned them now and Stellatlantis was feeding another division engine work. Too bad they didn't make a V6 Hemi. With twin turbos.
Instead we got at best what many would consider "foreign junk". And of course, along with all the other sedan makers, most of them are no longer here anymore.

I love the fact Chrysler is still making the 300 sedan. That was a popular car in Washington NC. A little gangster, had street cred. Built on an older gen E class Mercedes chassis.
Same chassis as current Dodge Charger, modified like crazy, but reason that car drives so well. Original suspension design made to hold up to taxi use and also be very comfortable.
Folks in that NC town just adored Chargers as police cars. Because you got the hemi, not many had V6's. Black chargers, always full black, would have been a lot smarter in that Southern heat to have white police cars but clearly there was a lot of testosterone in that dept. Three or four cars would swoop into local greasy spoon. All young, under 40 and they loved their rides.

I'll bet Bird remembers when he got the one with the big motor...

 

[txdon]

Don, although it doesn't sound like I sympathize with you over your fall on your rebuilt knee, I really do. I do know what happens when we get careless and the pain associated with said carelessness. Ice is a ***** to walk on at the best of times, and worse when your knees don't work right.

No worries, I was harder on myself than anyone could possibly be. Whipper had a bad fall earlier in the day right where I slipped. It had been so nice and warm that all the other ice melted except on that particular place on the patio and the porch light did not show it when I went outside at night I just forgot about looking for ice. We had 1" of frozen rain 2 days before - there is still ice on the patio this morning! It is on the North shady side of the house.

Alien nice Z. I was also eyeing the scooter in the garage for Mom. Could you tell us a little about it, does it work good in grass, she needs something to run around the yard in, to the burn barrel, propane tank, mailbox and she does not want a golf cart.

Good morning! 35˚F heading to the upper 50s, hopefully all the ice will melt on the patio today. I have a call to the dr. for an X-ray of the knee. It feels better but still a nagging pain that needs to be checked out.

 

[Popgadget]

But the smaller Italian engines, that Fiat multi-air stuff, boy I bet Chrysler wished they had never put them in their cars.

I suppose that explains what Fiat is an abbreviation for-

“Fix it again Tony”

 

[txdon]

2/7 ice left over from 2/3.

 

[Rich B1]

One of my favorites about cars....

"Why do Yugo's have electric rear window defrosters"

"To keep your hands warm while you are pushing it"

 

[toppop52]

grand cherokee diesel a pretty rare and desirable car Toppop.
If the engine is the Italian diesel they have been using, it's definitely tough. Close friend
is purring along at 160K miles with the Jeep diesel in his Liberty. Rest of vehicle rotting and falling apart but that engine
is much tougher than I thought. I think Italy has good diesel tech, Iveco is huge.
And VM Motori sure builds a lot of different engines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_VM_Motori_engines

Now Italian gas engines are a whole lot different. Some of the most beautiful engines in the world.
But they really aren't known for lasting very long and the maintenance requirements are really expensive.
But the smaller Italian engines, that Fiat multi-air stuff, boy I bet Chrysler wished they had never put them in their cars.
But the Italians owned them now and Stellatlantis was feeding another division engine work. Too bad they didn't make a V6 Hemi. With twin turbos.
Instead we got at best what many would consider "foreign junk". And of course, along with all the other sedan makers, most of them are no longer here anymore.

I love the fact Chrysler is still making the 300 sedan. That was a popular car in Washington NC. A little gangster, had street cred. Built on an older gen E class Mercedes chassis.
Same chassis as current Dodge Charger, modified like crazy, but reason that car drives so well. Original suspension design made to hold up to taxi use and also be very comfortable.
Folks in that NC town just adored Chargers as police cars. Because you got the hemi, not many had V6's. Black chargers, always full black, would have been a lot smarter in that Southern heat to have white police cars but clearly there was a lot of testosterone in that dept. Three or four cars would swoop into local greasy spoon. All young, under 40 and they loved their rides.

I'll bet Bird remembers when he got the one with the big motor...

Drew, mine is a Mercedes Benz diesel, same one they use in their vehicles.

 

[PJSprog]

19°F and partly cloudy this morning, going up to 33° today.

Congrats on the new mower, Doug.

Glad you knee is feeling better, Don, even if only a little.

 

[sodamo]

62°F and 69 inches rain.

Cottage tenant finally out and into their new house. Lived here less than 2 months shy of 5 years. Became good friends. What was funny they originally rented and prepaid for 3 months while they looked for a house. John volunteered that they’d be gone before the 3 months and not to be concerned about any refund. That was 58 months ago

So today our Canadian visitors will transition to the cottage for remained of their visit. I’ll help.
I want to change out the TV up there and Internet needs shone tweaking

Unlikely I get much time in Caretaker unit.

Zoom Happy Hour this afternoon.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Drew, mine is a Mercedes Benz diesel, same one they use in their vehicles.

What year? I thought all of the FCA (Stellantis) 3.0L Ecoboost diesels are made by VM Motori ?

 

[Buppies]

Toppop jeep love the diesel

 

[Buppies]

Toppop we had one in a E320 great car 30mpg lots of miles traded in car went to South America lots of interest there

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Good morning! Low was 12°, going up to somewhere in the low 40's. Temps slowly creeping up to the low 50's by the weekend. Lows will remain in the teens.

Maybe some trouble shooting of the shop power issue..... maybe not. I'm thinking it would be easier to run a new line.

Dinner last night was delicious. Pork loin turned out very tasty, considering it was just seasoned w/ salt and pepper. Very tender.

Might take a couple of 40# propane tanks to get filled. Will need them for the shop once I get the power restored.

Everyone have a great start to the week!

 

[daugen]

E320CDI was last of non emission MB diesels. Early 2000's I think. Considered most durable of all, well after the 240D and 300D but they were much older cars.
All built for taxi use. Also gussied up for lux models but super reliable.

Germans have had some really big V8 diesels, but few were brought over here. Audi, Benz and BMW always in power race.
All the new development money is going to electric.

watch your back/knee with those tanks Ted.