so waht ya doin today?
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Kinda strange, haven't seen one here in over a month. Come next spring you'll need to make sure there are no nests on, in or around the house. You've got way too many of them things for some reason. Maybe I shouldn't have given them your address.
This has been the coldest fall weather here since I moved here, rather strange. This afternoon you'll not need to worry about the wasps for the next few months.Go to the paint store for some custom, Black Green oil based enamel and come home to,no power.
Just gets me going,and gotta say,in a good way. Heck,30+ years ago I built half my house with "no power". Folks have gotten so used to being on the teat that they can't leave home without say,a cellphone. Which,I did leave at home this a.m. to go get coffee and paint.
My wife calls our insurance guy,"knob polisher".... this coming from the mildest,wouldn't say sh*t for a bucket full. But she's right. Me and "knob" had a discussion 20 sumthin years ago that amounts to the same as above.... told him I was about 2 minutes from self insuring after State Farm screwed us over on the only claim we ever had. It was right after Katrina and the insurance biz was reeling.... to the point of denying claims. Lightning blew a large trashcan sized hole in our roof. And yes,I took it all the way to the top,complaining. Will stop there cause there ain't enough expletives for even this redneck on my opinion of "knob" and the industry as a whole.
So,no power?....uhhh. Bunch of wankers. I'm painting outside. There's enough light flooding in,honest to goodness windows that I can reload. Get bored with any of that? I'll go kill something down in the woods. Bad arse,$$$ propane logset I gave wifeypoo last year works too. Heck,our wood furnace will work,albeit at 1/2 burn with no power.
Just killing time.... did the prep work on the porch roof and wiped her down with MS. Waiting for it to evap and it's paint time.
Just gets me going,and gotta say,in a good way. Heck,30+ years ago I built half my house with "no power". Folks have gotten so used to being on the teat that they can't leave home without say,a cellphone. Which,I did leave at home this a.m. to go get coffee and paint.
My wife calls our insurance guy,"knob polisher".... this coming from the mildest,wouldn't say sh*t for a bucket full. But she's right. Me and "knob" had a discussion 20 sumthin years ago that amounts to the same as above.... told him I was about 2 minutes from self insuring after State Farm screwed us over on the only claim we ever had. It was right after Katrina and the insurance biz was reeling.... to the point of denying claims. Lightning blew a large trashcan sized hole in our roof. And yes,I took it all the way to the top,complaining. Will stop there cause there ain't enough expletives for even this redneck on my opinion of "knob" and the industry as a whole.
So,no power?....uhhh. Bunch of wankers. I'm painting outside. There's enough light flooding in,honest to goodness windows that I can reload. Get bored with any of that? I'll go kill something down in the woods. Bad arse,$$$ propane logset I gave wifeypoo last year works too. Heck,our wood furnace will work,albeit at 1/2 burn with no power.
Just killing time.... did the prep work on the porch roof and wiped her down with MS. Waiting for it to evap and it's paint time.
Winelover
North Central Arkansas
Wasps and yellow jackets were out, Saturday and Sunday, due to highs in the 70's. Was 55 degrees, when I got up at 5 AM. Temps already starting to fall, suppose to bottom out in the high teens by tomorrow AM. Raining now, suppose to change to sleet/freezing rain, then snow by mid afternoon. 
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335 is good for 30/30, 308, most all if you don't download it below min. Yellow jackets were out in force last month in the box stand,spray and they just fall from the ceiling for an hour. Cleaning the reloading room(garage) so she can get plants in, old towels for the out side plants I just put in. Trash can over the oleander - roots didn't freeze so it made it last year. . Got caught in the bad ice storm about this time years (70s)ago. It's TX. Then the time we were below 10F for a week (80s) or so, MILs heat went out and she couldn't get outside to bang on the breaker so I used an old space/propane heater for her. It's TX.
Inlaws here for a week so gotta clean everything, probably a crowd of 30 Sat. Then the kids come for a week.
Inlaws here for a week so gotta clean everything, probably a crowd of 30 Sat. Then the kids come for a week.
fiver
Well-Known Member
chuckle.
ain't checked the weather but I know the big lake has already rolled over and froze.
I been wanting to go check the one I trout fish on mainly to see if it still has any open shoreline.
if it does I can usually coax a couple of decent ones out right on the edge of the ice line.
the final one I got doing that last year was about 6-1/2 lbs, and the one I lost right before that was 4lbs. or so.
it's a nice change from catching 6-7 little 12-14" ones that rob my bait 4 times before I hook one big enough to keep.
ain't checked the weather but I know the big lake has already rolled over and froze.
I been wanting to go check the one I trout fish on mainly to see if it still has any open shoreline.
if it does I can usually coax a couple of decent ones out right on the edge of the ice line.
the final one I got doing that last year was about 6-1/2 lbs, and the one I lost right before that was 4lbs. or so.
it's a nice change from catching 6-7 little 12-14" ones that rob my bait 4 times before I hook one big enough to keep.
Shirt sleeve weather here on the SE side of house. Must be global warming?
Looking at weather liar,impending doom map on the boob tube this a.m. ,I swear.... it looks like the ice age,better go get milk N bread is going N of us by 75 miles.... and S by about the same. To the West it slams into the Blue Ridge and stops?
Power still out... porch roof and front doors painted though.
Looking at weather liar,impending doom map on the boob tube this a.m. ,I swear.... it looks like the ice age,better go get milk N bread is going N of us by 75 miles.... and S by about the same. To the West it slams into the Blue Ridge and stops?
Power still out... porch roof and front doors painted though.
Winelover
North Central Arkansas
Helped Cindy bring the outdoor potted plants into the insulated (ICF) main garage, last week. Temperature inside, rarely falls below 50 degrees, in there There are three windows, in a row with one continuous sill that is @ 12" wide, facing north. Use plastic shelving to stack as many pots on the window sill, as possible. Bigger ones go on the floor, just below. All have made it through the winters, over the years.
CZ93X62
Official forum enigma
You guys in the USA have to put in work to prep for cold weather. Not much of that where I'm at, though we had one freak winter (Feb. 2007) where it got down to 7* F at night for almost a week, and stayed below freezing all day long during those days. WAY ABNORMAL for here. Burst pipes galore; the two foundation water leaks we have had here--and the recent re-piping--were likely the result of that year's winter that strained (but didn't quite burst) the water pipes at that time. Much of California IS NOT BUILT to manage winter conditions. Of course, a lot of the rest of the nation isn't meant for 115*-120* temps, either--sometimes for weeks at a stretch.
Ian
Notorious member
We have to be prepared for both extremes, but rarely do we see single digits. Have a genset for keeping the heat tape on the pipes, heat pump, and water heater going if it gets stupid cold and ices. Last big ice storms we had were in the mid-eighties, took out power but that's about the only thing that does....right when you need it most. Genset is more for summer outages to keep the freezers and AC going.
Kevin Stenberg
Well-Known Member
Yupper the 450 did its part.
Monday morning. The daughter from Florida could only take the heated stand for 2.5 hrs. We are heading back out in 1.5hrs to try and find her a bamby. Same stand but 1 more heater. It was -1 at 6am. But not 1 hornet to be found.
Coyotes had completely devoured the gut pile from my deer.
Monday morning. The daughter from Florida could only take the heated stand for 2.5 hrs. We are heading back out in 1.5hrs to try and find her a bamby. Same stand but 1 more heater. It was -1 at 6am. But not 1 hornet to be found.
Coyotes had completely devoured the gut pile from my deer.
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smokeywolf
Well-Known Member
John, if you and Cindy get a little short on paper products, we still have at least a half dozen cases of TP on the shelves in the basement pantries. Extra bread and cartons of milk in the freezer. Same of course goes for Rick.
One in the afternoon, temp still dropping and a pretty good rain falling that's now starting to freeze, not snow, sleet so far. Uh oh, that could be bad, we don't need an ice storm. I'm however sitting here felling pretty good about myself having put in the stand by generator and now propane heat. I'd lite a fire in the fireplace but somehow don't feel like going out in freezing rain to get the wood.
I'd lite a fire in the fireplace but somehow don't feel like going out in freezing rain to get the wood.
JonB
Halcyon member
sunny & 10º with a light breeze here in MN...can't complain, The wood stove is roaring and the car/truck still starts.
I wouldn't leave the house today, except I need to ship some 6.5 GCs to a fellow caster.
Pork roast and squash in the oven.
My Texas neighbors left MN, to go home today.
because three days ago, the canning plant, where they work, has shut down for the season.
I wouldn't leave the house today, except I need to ship some 6.5 GCs to a fellow caster.
Pork roast and squash in the oven.
My Texas neighbors left MN, to go home today.
because three days ago, the canning plant, where they work, has shut down for the season.