Saturday coffee April 29

[5thDragoons]

Mowed the lawn 1st time this year yesterday. Didn't actually need it, but the lawn people were coming over to spray and fertilize. I figured it would look a little better if everything grew from the same starting point. I think we've still got snow coming - it snowed in Cheyenne yesterday - 90 miles away. All the trees aren't showing leaves, and still not much of an assortment of birds. Mostly ring neck doves and a few special needs robins.

Took Flop ears out for a short hike already :grommit: I meant to take bread for the Ca-nay-jun geese but forgot it at the last minute. Just as well - they were gone. A few ducks swam up to mooch, and that was it. No plans for the day or weekend except writing. All caught up on the house mouse stuff I do for wifey while her shoulder heals, so for now it's be quiet and cruise the interwebs. SW

[lyman]

local gun show weekend, sat up last evening,

hoping it is a good one,

headed out after the show tonight to pick up 70+ guns from a widower,

all stored poorly, so I will be spending a few days with a rag/ballistol/elbow grease next week

[Allen]

local gun show weekend, sat up last evening,

hoping it is a good one,

headed out after the show tonight to pick up 70+ guns from a widower,

all stored poorly, so I will be spending a few days with a rag/ballistol/elbow grease next week

Keep us updated on the 70. I assume there will be a lot of ammo and accessories also since you are buying the collection as a "whole" and the widower probably wants to get rid of everything.

Just goes to show you though that a collection of 70 or so isn't uncommon. The news media would be calling this an arsenal and accusing this guy as stocking up to supply terrorist.

[SDigger]

Big supply run to Hanksville Friday,got everything unloaded yesterday finally.......the unloading 55gal barrel’s were definitely a chore but mission accomplished,pizza & PBR beverage consumed afterwards.
Tidbit;PBR kinda similar to Hamm’s but not exactly & ain’t bad at all! & ain’t no tranny fluid either!......I’m good with that!!
Cheer’s today.:1948:

[Dragonsdad]

"tranny fluid"
I'll have to remember that one.

We're doing coffee up here now?
I'll try to remember that too.

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I'm so used to heading for the basement for my caffeine fix it's become second nature.

[Allen]

"Tranny fluid", no longer just for transmissions.

[5thDragoons]

Addendum to this thread: more signs of spring here. Like possums are moving around. One crawled under the fence last night and got to meet my possum-hating bloodhound. It took me a while, but I finally found 7 dead wee little possums this morning. Also a sizeable chunk of possum fur from their mom where battle was met.

Snuffers gets wind of them, she starts acting like she's from Hatey. I don't care much for them, either. SW

[lyman]

got one that ambles up on the deck looking for cat food,

when I see them walk on the driveway or yard now and again, they look like an old cripple going about, but the one that gets on the deck seems to be more like a drunk that has to hit every chair leg and table leg as he crosses,

I was in the kitchen one night and heard what sounded like someone on the deck, flipped the light on and saw nothing, then heard the same from the front porch,
looked out the side light and saw the possum, and the 2 rockers we have on the front porch out of place,

[Phloating Phlasher]

Definite signs here.
We bought 3 small citrus plants a while back, a Lemon, a Navel Orange & a a Key Lime.
Our original Key lime died horribly outside even though covered a couple of years back, so we brought everything inside this year.
They looked like hell, not a leaf on the bunch of them after a few months inside.
Once there were no more frost warnings & put them out hoping for the best, but fearing the worse they looked so bad.
They're all sprouting leaves & even branches like crazy now!

[Dragonsdad]

The Weather Witch failed to warn us we'd wake up to snow this morning.
There's talk of replacing her.

[Allen]

High today predicted to be 73F. Currently it is 90F and feels like 96F. At least this is what the weather channel is stating.

Rain prediction time and volume changes as it occurs. 2 hours ago rainfall was to be 2". Now it is predicted to be over 5".

The term "weather forecast" should be changed to "weather history" and only state what already happened and what we already know.

I know a lot of variables account to what weather we have and can't be predicted perfect but our forecasters come nowhere close usually.

A 10 day forecast changes several times a day, often dramatically, so why make a forecast at all?

[Doc Sharptail]

Been mid 40's to low 50's the last 4 days. Hauled out the bike 3 days ago, after almost 4 months of disuse. Still got my legs more or less, and the riding pleasure is still there.

Light rain in the forecast for overnight. We could actually use a good soaking- it definitely wouldn't hurt. Bluebells should be pushing up anytime soon now.

There was quite a bit of a snow-goose fly over last week. The spring hunt for them should do well in far north areas this year.

Regards,

Doc Sharptail

[Allen]

No matter how old we are or feel our coffee (origins) are much older. A brief history.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/morning-coffee-may-hundreds-thousands-145246307.html

[Doc Sharptail]

No matter how old we are or feel our coffee (origins) are much older. A brief history.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/morning-coffee-may-hundreds-thousands-145246307.html

Interesting short read. Thanks for posting. Wonder how the Colombian strain of coffee developed, but not enough yet to look for it.

Snow is completely gone. The last week has been steady mid 40's to low 50's. Temperature is actually dropping as I type this. We had about 1/2" rain overnight, and it was sorely needed. I still get surprised over how fast the elm tree buds open with just a bit of rain. There's a real apple tree down the lane from us- I'll get pix if it flowers this year. It didn't last year- it was too dry here.

Regards,

Doc Sharptail

[Allen]

This little fellow was passing through my yard yesterday. Picture was taken with my wife's tablet that has no zoom that we know of so I was only about 2' from him. Very tame and box turtles are about the only ones that are safe around kids.

His shell was about 7-8".

[Allen]

Rain predictions here (per Wundergrund.com):

Rain predicted for yesterday, last night and today (no rain so far).

This mornings prediction was changed to sunny with no rain though it was overcast with many black clouds > 2 hours later: 60% chance but 0.0" forecast.

Now: 30 minutes later > 15% chance but still 0.0".

Not complaining about the lack of rain (for the day) but the fact they can not predict ANYTHING but still do. Other weather stations (here) are no better. Local TV news reporters never give an apology or even an "oops" for their bazaar ridiculous forecast that seldom pan out as guessed.

I never had a job where I had zero accountability. I suppose being a weatherman is a prerequisite for going into politics.