Tuesday Morning...coffee time

[Mugwump]

...great coffee....MMMmmmmmm.....

..it's cold...brrr...temp around 9-10deg's...and it won't get much warmer either.....some putz'n and staying in for us.....except maybe for a Sassy romp, and that will be brief....we watch her closely when she's out there in the extreme cold...

now for more coffee...

[wsantia1]

Coffee is great. Sopposed to be the last of the decent weather with sunny skies & the temps going up to the high 40s-low 50s. The bottom will fall out tonight with the temps plunging into the teens. No precip yet. Hopefully we make it through the New Year dry.

[Mugwump]

Coffee is great. Sopposed to be the last of the decent weather with sunny skies & the temps going up to the high 40s-low 50s. The bottom will fall out tonight with the temps plunging into the teens. No precip yet. Hopefully we make it through the New Year dry.

  I'm not sure that we'll get that lucky here. It's supposed to drop 5-8" of snow here on Friday, then change over to another 1-3" Saturday of snow/ice pellets/ice?......it won't be pretty, that's for sure...

...makes ya feel like a bear...ya just want to hibernate....

[wsantia1]

Coffee is great. Sopposed to be the last of the decent weather with sunny skies & the temps going up to the high 40s-low 50s. The bottom will fall out tonight with the temps plunging into the teens. No precip yet. Hopefully we make it through the New Year dry.

  I'm not sure that we'll get that lucky here. It's supposed to drop 5-8" of snow here on Friday, then change over to another 1-3" Saturday of snow/ice pellets/ice?......it won't be pretty, that's for sure...

...makes ya feel like a bear...ya just want to hibernate....

It's too early to hibernate. There's still January and February coming.

[Mugwump]

Coffee is great. Sopposed to be the last of the decent weather with sunny skies & the temps going up to the high 40s-low 50s. The bottom will fall out tonight with the temps plunging into the teens. No precip yet. Hopefully we make it through the New Year dry.

  I'm not sure that we'll get that lucky here. It's supposed to drop 5-8" of snow here on Friday, then change over to another 1-3" Saturday of snow/ice pellets/ice?......it won't be pretty, that's for sure...

...makes ya feel like a bear...ya just want to hibernate....

It's too early to hibernate. There's still January and February coming.

...HMMMmmm..... ....it still might work tho.....

[Mugwump]

...great tune....

[waterboy]

Coffee is great. Sopposed to be the last of the decent weather with sunny skies & the temps going up to the high 40s-low 50s. The bottom will fall out tonight with the temps plunging into the teens. No precip yet. Hopefully we make it through the New Year dry.

  I'm not sure that we'll get that lucky here. It's supposed to drop 5-8" of snow here on Friday, then change over to another 1-3" Saturday of snow/ice pellets/ice?......it won't be pretty, that's for sure...

...makes ya feel like a bear...ya just want to hibernate....

It's too early to hibernate. There's still January and February coming.

...HMMMmmm..... ....it still might work tho.....

Lots of times if we get snow and cold in December then Jan and Feb. are pretty mild.  Here's hoping.  Thermometer on the patio said 6 this morning.

[Charlotte]

What a relief.  Mom turned the key and I went vroom.  We drove straight to uncle Chip's.  Wow, was he ever in a good mood.  He even offered to drive mom to work.  He generally makes her hoof it.

[Ron Sower]

What a relief.  Mom turned the key and I went vroom.  We drove straight to uncle Chip's.  Wow, was he ever in a good mood.  He even offered to drive mom to work.  He generally makes her hoof it.

Must have been your smiling face, Charlotte!

[Ron Sower]

...you guys sure are getting the weather these days!!!  ..I won't be trying to trade y ou for our  current 58 and this afternoon's 75...!  Have I said I love it here yet???

...I hope all the workers show up today...Dean and I'll install the shower stall...waiting on the town to approve my carport cover so the shed builders can finish that...waiting on Lowe's to get the flooring in.....so close yet so far away ....and Miss Lucy's getting a little edgy to have it done...

[Mugwump]

...you guys sure are getting the weather these days!!!  ..I won't be trying to trade y ou for our  current 58 and this afternoon's 75...!  Have I said I love it here yet???

...I hope all the workers show up today...Dean and I'll install the shower stall...waiting on the town to approve my carport cover so the shed builders can finish that...waiting on Lowe's to get the flooring in.....so close yet so far away ....and Miss Lucy's getting a little edgy to have it done...

...it'd be nice if you could get finished up before the holidays.... ...good luck

[LizStreithorst]

Don't tell Charlotte, but I almost ruined her new heart   Chip first said that the battery was bad, the alternator was bad the battery cable was bad, and the sensor wire was bad.  I owed him $650.  I was ready to suck it up and give him my credit card when he said that he was pulling my leg.  The good news he gave me was that I only owed him $40.

Then he scared me to death when he told me what was actually wrong.  Her belt had come off and I was running her without a water pump or anything else, for that matter.  OMG, If this had happened while I was in Hattiesburg I'd have cooked her engine!  I'm surprised that I made it the 12 miles to Ellisville without over heating, but I did.  I was very very very lucky but I'm still spooked.

[Mugwump]

Don't tell Charlotte, but I almost ruined her new heart   Chip first said that the battery was bad, the alternator was bad the battery cable was bad, and the sensor wire was bad.  I owed him $650.  I was ready to suck it up and give him my credit card when he said that he was pulling my leg.  The good news he gave me was that I only owed him $40.

Then he scared me to death when he told me what was actually wrong.  Her belt had come off and I was running her without a water pump or anything else, for that matter.  OMG, If this had happened while I was in Hattiesburg I'd have cooked her engine!  I'm surprised that I made it the 12 miles to Ellisville without over heating, but I did.  I was very very very lucky but I'm still spooked.

..you dodged a bullet....cool...
...a good habit to get into is checking your oil once a week....because you'll naturally do a visual of the engine compartment....washer wiper wash check, anti-freeze reservoir full, and you'd see any belt issues.....I normally do it all while getting gas....plus kick'n the tires...
...it doesn't mean that a belt can't flip between checks, but you might notice that it's looser than normal?.....

[LizStreithorst]

I'll do it.  Chip told me to pull over anytime a light came on and check.  I can't believe it even happened.  Once in a while I had a belt squeal when I started her up in the morning but it wasn't bad and it didn't happen often.  It was so minor and infrequent I kept forgetting to buy belt dressing.

I think that may be God smiled on me this time.  It is the time of year for kind deeds.

[Ron Sower]

...you guys sure are getting the weather these days!!!  ..I won't be trying to trade y ou for our  current 58 and this afternoon's 75...!  Have I said I love it here yet???

...I hope all the workers show up today...Dean and I'll install the shower stall...waiting on the town to approve my carport cover so the shed builders can finish that...waiting on Lowe's to get the flooring in.....so close yet so far away ....and Miss Lucy's getting a little edgy to have it done...

...it'd be nice if you could get finished up before the holidays.... ...good luck

...it really could happen....today I got word the flooring vinyl is at Lowes's ,s o tomorrow I'll go pick it up....the electrical guy finished today....and I called the gall at the city safety dept and asked if she could give me a status of my permit for the awning over the concrete pad, and she said it was behind 7 others but she would see if she could shuffle it a little further up the stack....

......tomorrow we will finish the shower stall and then I will call the guy to hook up the rest of the plumbing...maybe Thursday we can start installing the vinyl flooring ( they're click-together planks)...and then while we're gone (leaving here the 20th) Dean can finish the baseboard trim...!