Good morning!!!!

[Thomas]

13F sunny -10F dawn tomorrow morning.

Good day getting some of this and that done.
Plans for the rest of the day O to nothing.

Enjoy your evening all.
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Kittens keeping recliner warm for me...ah right.

 

[daugen]

You get more snow in Southern VA than what we get up here.
I was thinking the same thing...

nice visit with landlady, tea and cookies
she is still going through chemo and a real trooper.

turned the xmas decorations back on, and as expected, inflatable got hung up, legs every which way.
So I went out and got those rowdy inflatables in order and they seem fine now.

temps steadily dropping, 14 tonight

 

[rswyan]

26F and "Fair" @ 15:00 and calling for a high temp of only 27F ... which continues the unusual cold snap we are having. Clinton Station reports the low this morning was 20.3F.

Typically the average high temp this time of year is in the low 40's. Always a crap shoot as to whether it will be a White Christmas.

More de-burring and sweating of 1" copper pipe and fittings done last evening.

Got the hole drilled in the top plate to pass the flex conduit for the low-voltage wires to the outside AC unit and got the wires passed through. Need to connect those back up ... before I forgot which wire goes where.

Got the outside of the brine tank all cleaned off and then started on the inside. Had some of sort of greasy/fatty deposits on the interior walls, grey in color. Dawn with a little water wouldn't hardly touch it ... got after it with some of that new Low VOC mineral spirits I picked up which seemed to work a whole lot better.

Speaking of which, not really happy with the Sunnyside Low VOC product. Didn't think about the Low-VOC aspect at the time I ordered it - think it was all that Menards was showing as available in stock - but it doesn't appear to (completely ?) evaporate rapidly and leaves a bit of oily residue ... unlike the gallon of regular Kleen Strip thinner I had previously.

Also used some Xylene to clean off something that had got spilled on the lid of the brine tank.

Since I had the stationary tubs emptied at that point broke out the Nutra-Sol started working on cleaning out some old 1 1/4 and 1 1/2 gallon hand pump sprayers. Will let them soak for 24 hours and then repeat. Once they're done they can be moved up to the garage where they belong.

Sheet cake turned out pretty good, Woman now in the process of cleaning out the refrigerator for Trash Day tomorrow ... so garbage and recyclable will need to be run up to the cans at the road later.

Garage was @ 37F so I fired up the torpedo heater to warm it up a bit to keep things from freezing.

Probably head back out there and prep some seed and refill the hopper feeder.

Amazon dropped off another box of suet cakes yesterday ... just in the nick of time ... think we were down to only 1 or 2 left in the last box.

Looks like processing pumpkin for the freezer might be on the agenda for later.

Hope everyone is having a decent Monday ...

 

[ponytug]

26F and "Fair" @ 15:00 and calling for a high temp of only 27F ... which continues the unusual cold snap we are having. Clinton Station reports the low this morning was 20.3F.

Typically the average high temp this time of year is in the low 40's. Always a crap shoot as to whether it will be a White Christmas.

More de-burring and sweating of 1" copper pipe and fittings done last evening.

Got the hole drilled in the top plate to pass the flex conduit for the low-voltage wires to the outside AC unit and got the wires passed through. Need to connect those back up ... before I forgot which wire goes where.

Got the outside of the brine tank all cleaned off and then started on the inside. Had some of sort of greasy/fatty deposits on the interior walls, grey in color. Dawn with a little water wouldn't hardly touch it ... got after it with some of that new Low VOC mineral spirits I picked up which seemed to work a whole lot better.

Speaking of which, not really happy with the Sunnyside Low VOC product. Didn't think about the Low-VOC aspect at the time I ordered it - think it was all that Menards was showing as available in stock - but it doesn't appear to (completely ?) evaporate rapidly and leaves a bit of oily residue ... unlike the gallon of regular Kleen Strip thinner I had previously.

Also used some Xylene to clean off something that had got spilled on the lid of the brine tank.

Since I had the stationary tubs emptied at that point broke out the Nutra-Sol started working on cleaning out some old 1 1/4 and 1 1/2 gallon hand pump sprayers. Will let them soak for 24 hours and then repeat. Once they're done they can be moved up to the garage where they belong.

Sheet cake turned out pretty good, Woman now in the process of cleaning out the refrigerator for Trash Day tomorrow ... so garbage and recyclable will need to be run up to the cans at the road later.

Garage was @ 37F so I fired up the torpedo heater to warm it up a bit to keep things from freezing.

Probably head back out there and prep some seed and refill the hopper feeder.

Amazon dropped off another box of suet cakes yesterday ... just in the nick of time ... think we were down to only 1 or 2 left in the last box.

Looks like processing pumpkin for the freezer might be on the agenda for later.

Hope everyone is having a decent Monday ...

While I generally like low VOC paints and cleaners, I really dislike that Sunnyside Low VOC product. I made the mistake of adding it to an oil based paint for a project, and everything curdled. The paint didn't cure properly, the rather nice oil paint brush was toast, as neither solvents nor lye seemed to lift the gunk. Plus the project had to be completely redone from the beginning. Totally my fault, as I thought as Sunnyside markets it as paint thinner, it would work as paint thinner. i.e. It would be usable where paint thinner was usable, and it isn't. It does leave an oily residue behind. Plus, it has something very like water in it that separates out. (Methyl-Pentane-Diol?) I wasn't able to find a use for it here (doesn't clean, doesn't dilute oil based paints, so?) and sent it off to household hazardous waste disposal.

Not one of my better purchases.

All the best,

Peter

 

[Wagtail]

Good (Tuesday) morning. Overnight Low of 11.5C and it's presently 22.6C, mostly clear with strong winds [at times].

PO 'run' yesterday = my first Christmas card from my Aunt in Burlington, Ontario. She mailed it around the 9th of November, citing rolling postal strikes in Canada... at least it got here. Also were 'hard copy' tickets for my Brisbane friends & I to see my favourite musical group "Postmodern Jukebox" {PMJ} in Hobart for late June. Bought very early too get very good seats at the Theatre Royal.

Nothing 'pressing' going on at the moment.

That's about it, take care all.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Wife now making cookies, and she let me sample.
Made run down to pharmacy, keep forgetting and about out..
storing some stuff in the unfinished room without doing any work..
Snagglepuss now sleeping in basement, tiger is on the pellet stove, Pebbles still asleep in the same chair.
Have a bag of pellets staged just outside the door to snatch in when needed.
26deg, didn't feel too bad out with the proper coat on.

 

[Buppies]

Still somewhat loopy from yesterday. 25 now snowed all day 5 inches so far more this Friday Saturday. 10 inches for year way above average so far. Next week really cold air comes maybe.

Prayers for your BIL Don and Mrs TxDon

 

[daugen]

Buppies, how many fingers am I holding up?

 

[Engineer42]

Still somewhat loopy from yesterday. 25 now snowed all day 5 inches so far more this Friday Saturday. 10 inches for year way above average so far. Next week really cold air comes maybe.

Prayers for your BIL Don and Mrs TxDon

Careful with them there pills, Buppies.

 

[Buppies]

Engineer42 I was on phone drinking water saw pills in pill holder took and swallowed them the realized I took hers too late. I used to take 13 pills a day until insulin now 3. I need to pay more attention!

 

[Buppies]

Two I think Drew

 

[Looking4new]

Buppies, how many fingers am I holding up?

As he splays/spreads out both hands.

Eight says I. The other two are thumbs. The physiotherapist tried that on me before they let me out of the hospital after the stroke. Messed her right up.

 

[Looking4new]

1°F right now and rising to 5 overnight.

 

[LouNY]

6F heading for -1F, after a high today of 24-25F with a breeze.
Worked on the shelter-logic for my sand shed we got all the hoops up and mostly anchored down. And the ends are hung but not stretched out or tied down yet.
working on 3rd hoop,.....................................all the hoops up

Hopefully my contractor shows tomorrow and we get the ends secured and maybe even the main tarp up and over. Also going to add some diagonal cabling to help hold it square.

 

[ponytug]

6F heading for -1F, after a high today of 24-25F with a breeze.
Worked on the shelter-logic for my sand shed we got all the hoops up and mostly anchored down. And the ends are hung but not stretched out or tied down yet.
working on 3rd hoop,.....................................all the hoops up
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Hopefully my contractor shows tomorrow and we get the ends secured and maybe even the main tarp up and over. Also going to add some diagonal cabling to help hold it square.

That looks great! I think that diagonal bracing and anchoring is a great idea. Wind and snow can add significant loads to a shelter. On my 20' ShelterLogic, I used six 30" ground auger anchors.

FWIW: To get the cover up and over the hoops, I slid a plastic pipe in the pockets on one side and tied a rope to both ends of the pipe. The cover slid easily up and over. I was doing it single handed the first time. I'd recommend tying the other side to something solid so it doesn't follow the rest of the cover up and over.

All the best, Peter

 

[LouNY]

That looks great! I think that diagonal bracing and anchoring is a great idea. Wind and snow can add significant loads to a shelter. On my 20' ShelterLogic, I used six 30" ground auger anchors.

FWIW: To get the cover up and over the hoops, I slid a plastic pipe in the pockets on one side and tied a rope to both ends of the pipe. The cover slid easily up and over. I was doing it single handed the first time. I'd recommend tying the other side to something solid so it doesn't follow the rest of the cover up and over.

All the best, Peter

This one has tubes that slide into the pockets on both sides. Also I got the so called super duty cover at 21.5 oz.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good morning all. 29ºF for the start, mostly clear sky, light breeze. Light wind, mostly clear sky, and high temp was 53ºF. Made coffee to start day, cleaned kitchen, made Creme of wheat/Malt-o-Meal mix for breakfast. Took son-in-law to procedure worked on posting while waiting. Bike ride when got home, cleaned up for chapel pot luck.
resuming Monday morning post 214,924:
Buppies hope Monday went well. prayers sent.
nng. Hope you are giving both plenty of rest.
Drew hope RV trip to winter storage went well.
Dennis took several attempts to discern your post
Happy(nc) hope surprise was good, Dallas has been inconsistent. Sorry your leatherman trying to leave you
Thomas thank you
Mike hope you found Christmas lights, glad company gone.Hope you hardware store run was successful.
Thomas pickup bumper support fixed. Hope Covid shot and test went well.
ArlyA glad pods are on 6X6 and Kodiak.
Paul nice you got Drew's walnut done. Glad you got a new cutter. Nice job on the wrench. Sorry wife and son got bit by ferral cats. Hope you are snow ready.
Ken glad IR receiver now working. Hope presentation went well.
Friend(trac) nice looking blower, sorry so hard to level. Thanks for compliment. Christmas tree sounds cool.
Frits glad you were able to proved such a nice day for wife. Hope D's transition goes smoothly. Hope you got firewood moved.
Two_bit hope busy is a good thing. Hope you had good Thanksgiving as well.
Bill hope plowing went well.
David hope puttering and PO and HH all went well.
Drew glad RV vent on, sorry about rear tail light assembly. Sorry about extra trip to get cell phone.
Thomas glad agenda completed and snow ready. Hope game was worth watching.
Rand(wag) hope mowing went well.
Kyle good luck learning software for new printer. Sorry about problems with MasterCam, sorry about the B your son got.
Tuesday morning 1:52 AM CST
Drew sorry about weather trying to mess with your plans.
Ron hope walkway cleaning and shop projects in shop went well. Hope you had good day in house. Nice pic.
Phil glad you are ready for the snow. Sorry neighbor not on top of snow prep. Hope he can get water pump fixed. Hope doc was able to help you.
Scott(vt) hope you are ready for snow. Sorry long day at work. Hope drug test went well. Congrats on new identity.
Bill hope North Bay trip went well and was successful.
ArlyA glad getting plow on 6X6 easy. Hope grizzly work on pods went well.
Mike hope trip goes well. Glad beer run successful.
Billy glad no ice yet. Glad you got hike with Della. Nice pics
Happy(nc) glad you got some wife time. Hope you were able to warm the garage to be able to paint.
Drew glad you can get all the stuff and car in the garage. Have fun running snow blower.
Happy(NC) Texas not handle snow much better than NC.
Don Sorry about the cool weather there. Hope you can get new truck soon
Drew saw gas prices here as low as $2.179 per gallon. Good luck with fixing up the taillight assembly.
Frits glad less snow for you than forecast. Good to hear you got package for welding cart and were able to move it into welding shop. Hope blown fuse not serious.
Ken hope you don't get much ice. Glad presentation was well received and you have job for a while.
DarkBlack hope you are ready for weather.
Paul hope you were not disappointed little if any snow. Congrats on new welder. Glad you had quorum for Oddfellows meeting. Hope breakfast was good.
Newbury sad to see the lack of ability to drive on anything but dry roads.
ArlyA thanks for no snow closure story.
Buppies thanks for story.
David glad good HH. Hope mowing went well.
Dennis glad good lunch.
Lou glad wife's vehicle does well ins, sorry about the lack of range in the cold/snow. Sorry you are missing coal heat.
Drew glad lunch happened. Hope rest of day was quiet.
Bill sorry no snow squalls. Thanks for story.injector. Hope town run went well.
Thomas glad good day at work. Sorry bears gone for winter.
Randy(wag) glad you got you mowing done, and got chemist to explain how to use
Lou sorry you got the max snow.
Dennis glad Christmas show was good and roads clear for drive. Hope you got some sleep.
Kyle no TPMS programmer here.
Dennis nice pic, sorry no activity
more catch up later
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle /Daughter, /mom's breathing, /son's migraines, Mike /BIL in FL, Ron /heart, David(moss) /remodel, /divorce, Buppies /cancer, parathyroid, blood sugar /wife, Thomas /gout, Phil /reflux, Frits /veteran son with mental issues, /granddaughter with Evans Syndrome, Ken /chronic fatigue, Diet not working, Randy(wag) /sister stoke, Scott(vt) /wife's back pain, Steppenwolfe /son-auto immune disorder, Grev /wife's eye, Ted /knee recovery, /retirement & disability red tape, /family issues, /wife back issues and cancer, Lou /eye issues, /heart issues, /wife hip replacement, Doug and wife/health issues, / hand nerve and surgery, /fall and recovery, / wife headaches and heart eval, / David(sadamo)/Sophie's hip or leg pain, Eye recovery, /back issue, Scaredy/shoulder dislocation, /marriage dissolving, / friend stop drinking, Dennis /retirement, /neighbor issues, /brother's lymphoma, /dad surgery recovery, Drew /back operation issues, /friend's wife cancer diagnosis and recovery, Scotty /back pain, Helogabals /wife's friend situation, Fatjay /father broken hip, Ukraine war, Middle East War, and Country.

 

[rswyan]

8F and clear @ 00:30, was only calling for a low of 10F ... so it will be interesting to see where it ends up in the morning.

Got garage warmed up and prepped seed and then filled up the hopper feeder and scattered some for the ground feeders.

Hopper feeder again was not completely empty. Seems they really would prefer the good seed and not the cheap stuff I've been putting out.

But did have a bunch show up after I scattered the seed on the ground.

Woman and I collected up the trash and recyclables and ran those up and dropped them off at the cans at the road, collected the mail, dropped cardboard off up at the shop on the way back.

Then She headed down to DG for a couple of items.

Refueled torpedo heater and did some clean up in the garage and kitchen before She got back.

Got the large Mammoth Gold cleaned, baked, meat scraped off the rind, and processed:

Now cooking it down a little in the big pot to thicken it up before I measure it out and put it in containers and in the freezer.

Picked the seeds out, got a good amount of those, now spread out on a cookie sheet to dry.

The pot above with the lid on it has the stringy stuff and meat that the seeds were attached to. Going to cook that up and process it but package it separately and see if it is any good.

The directions I've read say to remove it (and the seeds) before making puree but say that you don't have to be real thorough as it's not critical.

Also got one of the Kentucky Field pumpkin (Dickinson) and 2 Hubbard Golden winter squash washed off. May do those later this morning.

Woman picked a little woven wicker basket the other day ... apparently just the right size.

... and Someone has already laid claim:

Hope everyone had a decent day.

 

[two_bit_score]

Two_bit hope busy is a good thing. Hope you had good Thanksgiving as well.

Yes it is very good Mostly. Thanksgiving was also great and I hope you and yours are doing well also!

 

[Buppies]

Cute Kitty rswyan