Good morning!!!!

[ronjhall]

Poured first cup of coffee. 33° with light rain this morning. Heading to 38° with continued rain and possibility of snow. Got a lot done yesterday. But not with branch pickup. Helped burn pile stoking and trimmed some of my trees and neighbors. Weather is going to decide what I do today. May be able to get out later in day. Sure wish I was in AZ were it would be warmer.

Prayers and best wishes for all.

Good Morning All.

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, the low is 30 and the high to 34°F. Wind NNW 3 mph. Foggy.
It looks like the whole week the daily temperatures are going to be either at freezing or slightly above. I can handle that. I hope the maple trees don't wake up.

Now this is more like it. Went to bed at 0015 and up at 0500. No more of that 'sleeping in' for this guy. I can always go back to bed for a power nap.

Forgot to dip my fuel tank yesterday, but I WILL do it today.

Have a safe day all

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Morning, almost 1” of rain so far overnight.

 

[wngsprd]

43 and rain, going to 49, after another spring-like day yesterday.

RS, sorry to hear about your cat. Glad to see you posting again.

Ron, I know you miss those RV trips down south.

L4N, I'm noticing our red maples' buds are swelling, but not unusually so. The Sugar Maple Syrup Festival is early to mid-March in our Highland County. Fun to watch them make it on the farm. Also fun to watch Kil making it here on the forum.

Changed the oil in my wife's vehicle yesterday. Her's is pretty easy...already had the filter and 6 quarts of oil. My truck took 8 qts. I'm going through most of the oil I bought on sale at Costco already. I had ordered filters for my truck recently...got a 5 pack almost as cheap as a 2 pac, so lots of future oil changes are now covered.

Took a short hike and then roasted 3 batches of coffee. Will let them rest before tasting. Drinking a blend I made this morning from previous batches.

 

[Buppies]

44 high in 50s over 1.6 in of rain since yesterday afternoon very dreary outside.
not sure what we will do today. Heat still not fixed upstairs cannot depend on folks doing what they say anymore

Ron nice redbird and junco aka snow bird place yourself

Right eye still swollen stitches beside eye starting to itch long on on clavicle still very sore

Prayers for all our Country

 

[Buppies]

Mostly that stuff is really hanging on get well please

 

[daugen]

good morning all
raining heavily outside, looks like it will continue all day, about .6 so far

did not get to rv job yesterday, distracted by new seeds and ordering a lot of trays for greenhouse.
Did not get to building greenhouse when instructions said it took three people. ?? apparently lightweight enough has to be supported
while being built ??. I have a friend coming next week to help. And I thought it would be really easy, just like it says on the box....
my reality is as I have gotten older, I find building stuff less fun, more confusing, instructions seem to get worse each year.
Couldn't be me, huh?....

I am going to have fun with all these. Want to grow lots of flowers for friends
probably will start in March to plant these inside, transplant in April to greenhouse to harden, then plant in ground
late April
weather permitting.............
Tomatoes and peppers coming as plants from Burpee around then.

in NC I found a local company, Bootstrap Farmer, that made really nice seed trays, not flimsy as normal.
At one point I had 24 trays growing at one time, most with 72 plants. Times three "turns" of the plants.
Now I may do five to ten trays total

perhaps it's because I never had kids but my way of bringing life into this world is through plants.
I find it very satisfying and watering little plants just plain fun

I'm hoping when I get back from traveling end of this year, to research a much larger greenhouse.
this is more of an inexpensive standing cold frame.

 

[riptides]

42 outside this AM, Heading to upper 40's. Rain overnight, Flood watches. The ground is super saturated. More rain later.

More wall work this AM in the Milk House. Two down, one to go. Must be close to 400 pounds of concrete that's been removed. Sigh....anyways...

Hope all have a great day. Be safe.

 

[daugen]

this is for any of you firemen out there
short of a high rise fire, doesn't get any worse than this
ship full of naptha gets hit by a missile
amazing the whole thing hasn't blown up.

this craziness with missiles being shot at tankers is going to impact on all of us soon if these
ships have to reroute, and apparently that is already happening
I wonder how much AFFF they carry? On a tanker, hopefully a lot
we sure don't need any more pressure on crude oil pricing

good thing the Indian navy is out there
US has four destroyers out there, just not enough, thankfully other countries helping
but I bet more of our navy is headed there. We already have one big carrier there.

 

[KilroyJC]

sad news about Missy. We lost our Sandy about a year and a half ago and it still sucks.