What's everybody doing today?

[montanabill]

Just having memories tonight and ...feel a bit sad

sometimes you just need a fat and furry horse hug.

 

[Mountain trapper]

Went down and picked up another load of stove oil to mix with the diesel. Still having problems keeping the generator running. I'll change out the fuel filters tomorrow and see if that helps.

 

[sonya123]

the nice weather is over, more rain coming and maybe some snow. I hope not. I want my nice weather back...

so chores today: put up plastic on the barn windows , we do that every year since the original windows were broke when we got here, easiest fix. Clean out some gutters filled with leaves, thinking about combining the goats and putting the bucks back together but maybe not, they might fight and hurt each other and we don't want that a week before they get sold, but its much harder trying to put them all somewhere separate in bad weather

will do some laundry before it rains again too

 

[snappy1]

Woke up early since I had no need to get up today.
Will walk first.
Pick up parking lot at Church and shovel out gutters at road.
Walk dogs.
Take ebay photos.
Label office folders for next year.
Nothing else on list, but it is going to be a beautiful day, weather wise!

 

[Pearl]

My only day off, so I need to get my rear in gear and catch up around here ( ha ha, that rhymes)! Lots of laundry, need to clean the house, bring firewood inside for next week and cover some from the upcoming rain. A lot of little things on my list too!! I took on a new client recently, but I'll be losing a widow man soon, he is moving to assisted living closer to his son! That will give me a little breathing room!

 

[Amish Heart]

the nice weather is over, more rain coming and maybe some snow. I hope not. I want my nice weather back...

so chores today: put up plastic on the barn windows , we do that every year since the original windows were broke when we got here, easiest fix. Clean out some gutters filled with leaves, thinking about combining the goats and putting the bucks back together but maybe not, they might fight and hurt each other and we don't want that a week before they get sold, but its much harder trying to put them all somewhere separate in bad weather

will do some laundry before it rains again too

Have not put our plastic up on the coop windows yet, but maybe next week. I do the same to keep some of the cold out.

 

[Tommyice]

Oh, one interesting and useful tidbit of knowledge gleaned from my trip... I didn’t take my laptop. At the hotel I realized it’s carry bag has all my travel cables including the charging cables for both my phones, bummer. However, I keep a universal charging cable in my truck so I can charge while driving. The truck cable connects to a plug into the cigarette lighter receptacle.

What I discovered last night… The lighter receptacle always has power, even with the engine turned off and the key in my pocket. So, I can charge phones, even my laptop in the truck while it’s sitting in a parking lot. Just lock the doors and walk away. I guess cigarette lighters were still important in ‘02 when my truck was made.

Is your truck a GMC/Chevy? I discovered that during Hurricane Sandy. My neighbor drove a Honda and she had to be driving for her phone to charge. Mine was sitting in the truck in the garage. Mine's an 05 Envoy.

 

[Tommyice]

Took Dad for his consult with the oral surgeon for his PET scan reading yesterday. The squamous cell carcinoma is stage 3 with some lymphs in the neck area affected (down to level 2--there are 5 levels of the neck). He indicated that the surgery would be to remove what's left of the tumor (not much) and some good margins (he'll probably still have teeth in the area) and clean up the lymph area. Maybe some chemo or radiation (not too intensive). He said what's cooking in dad is remediable.

He gave the names of two doctors/surgeons that he would trust himself to do the surgery and aftercare. One is in Mt. Sinai in NYC and has over 20 years doing this type of work. The other is in a hospital close by us and is younger--only about 10 years experience. The second one is also associated with Rutgers University oncology research. I'll be researching these two and we'll make a decision. He's already telling me he thinks he would want to go to the one closer to us. Easier for my brother and I. My brother spoke to him last night and told him to the one that will do the best and if that's NYC, it's NYC. We'll deal with it. Either way, at the end of the day, life's a crap shoot.

Needless to say, yesterday he was very low. The doctor gave a prescription for better pain management than just Tylenol and he wasn't in pain when I went over to check on him. It's not a screaming pain more of an annoying "I'm here" type of pain. He was feeling so good, in fact, he wanted to go to Harbor Freight. He got an email that showcased a small tool chest that he wanted to get for his wood turning tools. Also a new splitting maul that I would be able to handle to split some wood for the stove.

Me? I'm exhausted thinking about all of the crap I have to do.

 

[Peanut]

Is your truck a GMC/Chevy? I discovered that during Hurricane Sandy. My neighbor drove a Honda and she had to be driving for her phone to charge. Mine was sitting in the truck in the garage. Mine's an 05 Envoy.

Yep, a silverado. It's actually a useful feature for me. I combine plant hunting with trips to town for groceries etc. Sometimes I drain my phone or laptop pretty low. Now I know I can charge them while I'm in a store shopping. Or as in your case during an emergency. No need to waste fuel running the engine just to charge a phone.

Glad I noticed this handy 'feature'. I was charging my phone driving a few blocks from my hotel to a restaurant. I parked, turned off the engine, pulled the key. Was about to unplug my phone from the cable when I noticed the 'charging indicator' was still displayed. So I tested it in a couple scenarios, yep, the lighter port has 12volts at all times.

Forgot to mention yesterday, got good news about my eye that got hurt back in sept. It checked fine, no damage could be found. Doc thinks it was a combination of several little things causing slight blurring. The big one, the new lens they put in during surgery “settled” over time causing a slight vision change. This was an expected and measurable change they forgot to warn me about. Or if they did I forgot… So… my new glasses should arrive in a few days. This should fix the issue.

Nothing major on my schedule, just laundry and other household chores. The overnight trip to the big city always wipes me out so I'm moving slow today.

 

[Hooch]

I had a great day yesterday..
Went down below to bimart and a big grocery store ridleys. Got a few things then drove back up the mountain , dropped off stuff..made some important calls, then loaded up pups n went to town to get car serviced. Walked pups around town while that was going on.
Then back home to deal with stuff, laundry, broke my storm door handle so now I have to fix that today.
I managed to stay up till 9pm!
But I still got up at 0430..gah..

Today...

Dump run,
replace door handle on storm door,
walk pups,
meeting group at 2,
Probably another dog walk
Get laptop on hook up external drive n get my book writing software onto laptop
Get wood stove going..going to start snowing tonight I think..it's cold..
Enjoy a quiet night writing by the wood stove with snowing outside

 

[Tirediron]

Went down and picked up another load of stove oil to mix with the diesel. Still having problems keeping the generator running. I'll change out the fuel filters tomorrow and see if that helps.

Modern fuel sometimes builds a gell that needs to be flushed out of the tank and lines, it actually resembles snot, conditioners don' t seem to do much, I usually drain the tank , run the fuel through a strainer to get the worst of it out,add fresh fuel (stove fuel would be ideal) then circulate it through a 10 micron fuel/water seperator for a couple of hours, its a bit of a pain, but well worth the effort IMO

 

[Peanut]

Went down and picked up another load of stove oil to mix with the diesel. Still having problems keeping the generator running. I'll change out the fuel filters tomorrow and see if that helps.

Everyone here is complaining about fuel quality. I can't store gasoline more than 30 days. Diesel is worse! Every logger I know is complaining about it.

The oil companies changed something fundamental, seems they removed something that stabilized fuel. The epa was probably behind it... my op... it's a top down control measure... to control the population. If fuel is no good after 30days it gives them control over the population, making us dependent. They can say who can or can't have fuel if no one can store it for more than a few weeks.

That part is my opinion. What isn't my op is that gasoline and especially diesel is crap right now.

 

[zannej]

Yesterday I got up early to go to the appointment to get my new tires on. Got there and found out my appointment had been canceled bc the tires weren't there. I rescheduled for 4pm. Long story short, that appointment didn't go through, there was a mixup, and they worked on the tires of people who came in after me and didn't even start on my tires until around 6:45 and didn't finish until around 7:30. The clerks were very apologetic. I think my tires would have been done sooner if the one clerk hadn't gone home for the day and next person changed the order of the jobs. At least I think that's what happened. There was a customer who raised a stink and delayed them on getting work done. Her appointment was canceled too. Another customer also had his appointment canceled. I was there before others but somehow my job got put to the back of the line and very last.

Today AT&T tech called asking for directions. I assured him the problem wasn't on my end. He checked and confirmed it showed a break 6 miles away. After about 30min my landline rang. He found a box on the highway with the wires dangling in the wind and the lid not on right and someone had disconnected my line. He reconnected it and put the lid back on right. Sound quality is garbage but at least it rings.

Currently waiting for my friend to get off work so I can take him up to get some stuff from HD.