Friday Morning

Good morning, GoGo. After a high of 70 yesterday, it's 22 this morning in Louisville. Only going to 30 today. Mother Nature was fooled, too because yesterday I had a few purple crocus blooming in the yard and saw a robin working on this spring's nest. I kept one eye on the sky all day yesterday as high temps in winter and a strong high pressure front often create tornadoes here in Kentucky. We did have strong winds, but I haven't heard of any damage.

Charlie, my two-month-old electric smoker seems to have gone belly up after only 3-4 uses. I waited online for 15-20 minutes yesterday to talk with customer support. A nice young lady talked me through the removal of a circuit board, but I think she was looking at a troubleshooting doc for a different model as some of the things she described weren't exactly what I was looking at. Basically she had me pull a power-control module and unplug the power wires. First time I've run into locking spade connectors and that slowed me down for a bit. I was told to unplug that unit for 15 minutes, then put it all back together and see if it comes up. I'll reassemble and try it sometime today. Then I'll most likely get to spend another 20 minutes waiting on the phone to tell them the procedure didn't fix the problem. I was planning to smoke and reverse sear some ribeyes, but now I guess I'll have to just grill them as usual. Not a bad problem to have all in all. As others have recently said, "Where's Skruske when I need him?"



Y'all have a good'n, throw another log on the fire, and be safe out there.

good morning folks. It's 42º here with light rain. Supposed to rain this morning then clear off as the front blows in. Big winds come with the cold air. Ah well, hopefully Phil was right and spring is coming. Hasn't been too bad a winter up here, but I'm ready to go fishing. Taking a trip to Savannah in 2 weeks to escape the cold. Tybee Island to be exact. Ran into some customers at the shop yesterday from that area and found what to see and do and more importantly, where to eat. Hopefully we get decent weather and do a fishing charter while there. We shall see.

Had some rewards points and gift cards to use so I got a new GoPro style camera (cheapo off Amazon). It arrived last night. Very little instruction, but the manual covers 5 different languages. Think I got it figured out though. I hope to be able to mount it to the boat this summer and video the action. Have to get Big G to get me up to speed on u-tube.

Well, I better get busy. Prayers offered. Have a good one!

Charlie

Good morning everyone....in the shop late this morning as I slept in a few then checked my snares.....nothing in there for a while now. I picked up all the steel for the dump truck yesterday but not without incident. My 1999 ford f450 puked a ton of oil out yesterday. I put a new turbo on it recently and took the crankcase vent from the valve cover that went back into the intake and relocated it to the atmosphere....it was collecting oil vapors in the intake track pretty good. The hose has come loose from the frame where I had it tied to and was dragging the ground so I just grabbed it and shoved it up out the way not knowing I had put a kink in it and closed it off. Well let me tell you that was not good the engine built pressure and puked out about a gallon and a half of oil to the point to where the engine still had oil pressure but the injectors didn't have enough oil to work properly....luckily a Walmart was within chugging distance....un kinked hose and no more problems.

Going to try to get a good bit of stuff done today so I don't have to be here most of the weekend.

Have a good day!

You damn right JR, Toiville is staying by the fire. -22 on the damn prairie, with a 10mph wind giving us a -42 windchill. The wind laid down last night so the blizzard is gone. This deep freeze we got is going to be with us a few days. Supposed to get to + 4 on Sunday, heat wave.
The order of today is to continue to clear the snow out. We are running out of places to put it. We are going to have to start hauling the snow out of the farm yard if we get to much more.
Interstate and state hi- ways are open this morning, but now the problem is the county and township roads aren’t open yet. All the schools are closed yet today because of the plugged roads. That is going to take awhile to get them opened up.
The hired man took the Cat loader 6 miles out to the high way and opened up the road this morning. That road had some huge drifts to bust through. We need a bunch of Hay ground today for the cows. Talked to the man who owns the grinder early this morning and he said that he would come if county road was open. It’s open now and he will be coming shortly. Those cows are eating an awful lot this last month in this cold.
Although we complain about the weather, this is a normal winter her on the prairie. For the last 5-6 years we have had some very mild winters. We got spoiled, got used to it and now Mother Nature is kicking our ass. As my late wife Renee would say, “Suck it up and get over it”
Hope all of you have a safe and good day. Throwing another log on the fire.