What did you do today?

[Ed Kennell 45,197]

Rolled into the Delaware Beach house yesterday  amid heavy rain and warnings oy 75MPH winds.  Lucky the winds peaked out at 45MPH but the temp dropped to 28* this morning. 

 

 

I made the girls (Mrs. K and her two sisters) a deer hunters breakfast this morning.    Venison scrapple, sausage, and puddin with home fries and eggs.

 

 

Then took a walk on my crowed beach to walk off a few cal.   t'wis a short walk at 28* and 45mph wind.

 

98.6* in the tub warmed the old bones up.

 

 

 

[SylvanLakeWH 30,735]

9 minutes ago, Ed Kennell said:

 

I made the girls (Mrs. K and her two sisters) a deer hunters breakfast this morning.    Venison scrapple, sausage, and puddin with home fries and eggs.

 

 

 

Lucky girls!!!
Can I be your kid? 

[Ed Kennell 45,197]

Last day at the beach house.

An anchored ship at dawn waiting for a Bay Captain to take her up river to Philly.

 

Sun Up

 

Fishing for breakfast.

 

 

[ebinmaine 77,659]

We're planning on having the excavator back in the next few weeks.

Several different projects. 

Some clearing of trees to the right of the house. 

Also more opening up the forest and felling some specific trees. 

A larger area beyond & behind the barn & shed. 

Fell several trees around the current frog pond. 

Recut the stream up and downstream from the pond. 

Flatten out a large area behind the barn. 

[adsm08 4,236]

Haven't done much yet today, but we took the kids, (daughter, son, and son's "She's not my girlfriend") skating last night, for the second Friday in a row.

 

Something tells me we don't have long before that title gets shortened a bit.

[Ed Kennell 45,197]

 

 

 

 

 

Spent a couple hours at a local  fire company Mud Sale.   

 

 

 

          Probably 15-20 auctioneers selling everything.  farm equipment, cars, trucks, furniture, produce, feed, flowers, crafts, guns, livestock, etc.

 

                            This pony had a $1300 reserve and did not sell at $1100.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited yesterday at 08:02 PM by Ed Kennell

[ebinmaine 77,659]

Spent 4+ hours off n on starting the clearing on the right of the house. 

 

These first two pics are after about 90 minutes of work. 

 

 

 

 

You can see the difference in what we did by looking at the cluster of 3 beech trees to the left of any pic. 

Notice that in the first 3 they're surrounded by small hemlock trees. 

 

 

Now see the cleared area.  

 

This pic shows a broad view of the project. Near the right side of the pic is a large white tree (birch or poplar).

Starting there and going off to the left most of the visible trees will be removed. 

One of the reasons to clear here is to get the growth away from the house. 

Some trees are for firewood. Some mulch. Some buried. 

 

 

 

 

[MainelyWheelhorse 2,358]

I laid low after my colonoscopy yesterday. I’ve got work tomorrow, so getting things back to normal is a must. The colonoscopy went well though. It may take a few days to get back to normal 

[cleat 8,804]

I have had a colonoscopy every two years since I was 28 ( I am 61 now) due to having ulcerative colitis. 

The first two I was awake for and all the rest I have been sedated. 

The worst part is the prep.

 

You should feel normal on the second day afterwards. 

 

[cleat 8,804]

2 hours ago, ebinmaine said:

Spent 4+ hours off n on starting the clearing on the right of the house. 

 

These first two pics are after about 90 minutes of work. 

 

 

 

 

You can see the difference in what we did by looking at the cluster of 3 beech trees to the left of any pic. 

Notice that in the first 3 they're surrounded by small hemlock trees. 

 

 

Now see the cleared area.  

 

This pic shows a broad view of the project. Near the right side of the pic is a large white tree (birch or poplar).

Starting there and going off to the left most of the visible trees will be removed. 

One of the reasons to clear here is to get the growth away from the house. 

Some trees are for firewood. Some mulch. Some buried. 

 

 

 

 

Looking good.

Where did the snow go ?

 

I am doing a bit of clearing hopefully in April if the snow finally melts.

[SylvanLakeWH 30,735]

4 minutes ago, cleat said:

Where did the snow go

Oh that's typical @ebinmaine exaggerating about snow amounts... it's been sunny and high 60's all winter at his place... 

[Beap52 2,077]

Field Day for our local Amateur Radio club was in February and it was bitterly cold so we called it off.  No sense of a  bunch of (mostly) old men getting pneumonia trying to be tough guys.   

 

So we had it today--of course there wasn't much in the way of contacts with other hams via radios, but the focus is practicing setting up in an "emergency situation" where as we have to provide own power source and equipment.  We had several folks stop by and shoot the breeze about ham radio-and that is a secondary goal as well.  

 

It's interesting that we have three or four guys who are interested in Morse Code so there was some of that practicing going on as well.  Fortunately for guys like me, Morse Code isn't required as part of the test any more. Mom was in her late 70's when she and I got our license eleven years ago. 

 

Sure different than Feb temperatures.  It's 7 pm and still 88 degrees out. 

[MainelyWheelhorse 2,358]

1 hour ago, cleat said:

I have had a colonoscopy every two years since I was 28 ( I am 61 now) due to having ulcerative colitis. 

The first two I was awake for and all the rest I have been sedated. 

The worst part is the prep.

 

You should feel normal on the second day afterwards. 

 

Thanks, I’m getting there. I was sedated too. I’m feeling much better today.

[ebinmaine 77,659]

1 hour ago, cleat said:

Where did the snow go ?

It's OK. Coming back tomorrow 

[ebinmaine 77,659]

I've been fasting for about 38 hours - not counting coffee. 

 

 Down over 4 lbs. 

 

 What's different this time is that I've been low carb for about 3 weeks so I'm not storing water in my cells like I used to.

 

This weight will be easier to keep off, provided I stay low carb, which is the plan. 

[ebinmaine 77,659]

 

Snowing out so we're back indoors for the day. We'll plow later. 

Still making decent progress on the tanker trailer in between waiting for paint, supplies,  or different parts.  

Click below....

 

 

 

 

[adsm08 4,236]

1 hour ago, ebinmaine said:

Snowing out

 

70 and sunny.

[ebinmaine 77,659]

30 minutes ago, adsm08 said:

 

70 and sunny.

 

 

29⁰ and snowing 

 

 

[adsm08 4,236]

10 minutes ago, ebinmaine said:

 

 

29⁰ and snowing 

 

 

 

You know there are places to live that aren't Maine, right?

[Blue Chips 708]

 

3 hours ago, ebinmaine said:

Snowing out so we're back indoors for the day. We'll plow later. 

 

Three inches of white heavy glop here in Brunswick so far, and it's still coming down. Good day to work on my old Dodge M37 project.

 

18 hours ago, Beap52 said:

It's interesting that we have three or four guys who are interested in Morse Code so there was some of that practicing going on as well.  Fortunately for guys like me, Morse Code isn't required as part of the test any more.

 

Speaking of Morse code, I just finished restoring an old British Army heliograph, which was used to send Morse code messages by reflected sunlight. I don't know Morse code, except S-O-S, but if I did, I'd be ready to send some kind of message about something to someone.  It's a WWI heliograph tripod with a somewhat later heliograph mounted on it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited 2 hours ago by Blue Chips

[ebinmaine 77,659]

1 hour ago, adsm08 said:

 

You know there are places to live that aren't Maine, right?

 

WHY?????

 

I'll keep the long winters. 

 

Too danged hot already where most of you are. 

[cleat 8,804]

13 minutes ago, ebinmaine said:

 

WHY?????

 

I'll keep the long winters. 

 

Too danged hot already where most of you are. 

I figure that as climate change continues us northern folk will be living in the best place as far as temperature and hurricanes go.