Our Morning Coffee and Weather

[cooperhawk]

Fair, 27°F, Humidity 86%
Wind Speed W 5 mph
Barometer 29.91 in
Dewpoint 23°F
Visibility 10.00 mi
Partly sunny, with a high near 34.
West wind 5 to 10 mph becoming south 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
Winds could gust as high as 30 mph.
I need to drive the RV to town and fill it p with Winter Blend Diesel.
Maybe today.

[Sir Henry]

Ditto.

[Hatchdog]

40 with big winds earlier. We had gusts in excess of 60 mph and areas to the south had 80mph. So far the area around my home is damage free and later I’ll take a walk around the property and check. Hope my tarps on my burn piles are still in the county. I checked them yesterday and all looked to be secured well to me. Thankfully they are located in an area that is somewhat sheltered from the wind.

Lots of power outages around but I’m still good. My son who lives 10 miles to the east is in my den today working. Yep, his power is out and he works from home. Last report I heard said 80K locally are out and I think like 1.5 million in Oregon, Washington and Idaho are out.

[Hatchdog]

Mags, after loading the pic using the attachment tab I get that yellow triangle with the exclamation point in it. ...

Well how bout that, it worked. I wonder if it is just the pic I was trying to attach earlier. I try to attach it here.

No luck, must be that pic. Not important hopefully my pics will load going forward.

I think if you mouse over or click on the yellow triangle, it will display a brief error message.

Here’s another try…
Another failure and here’s the error message:


ERROR
The image must be at least 0 pixels wide, 0 pixels high and at most 4000 pixels wide and 0 pixels high. The submitted image is 4032 pixels wide and 3024 pixels high.



This is interesting as this pic is 2.1 mb and the screen shot I was able to attach was less than 2.0mb. It looks like maybe the pic size limit on the site has been reduced again????????????

[Mags]

Here’s another try…
Another failure and here’s the error message:


ERROR
The image must be at least 0 pixels wide, 0 pixels high and at most 4000 pixels wide and 0 pixels high. The submitted image is 4032 pixels wide and 3024 pixels high.



This is interesting as this pic is 2.1 mb and the screen shot I was able to attach was less than 2.0mb. It looks like maybe the pic size limit on the site has been reduced again????????????

I'll check the file size limit to make sure, but the error message says the picture is too wide.

[update: give it another go, now.]

[Mags]

Had a big blow about mid-night. Lots of downed limbs and at least 2 trees down somewhere nearby. Heard the thuds of them hitting the ground.
42' and damp this morning. Maybe 49' later with more rain.

[Hatchdog]

Here’s another try…
Another failure and here’s the error message:


ERROR
The image must be at least 0 pixels wide, 0 pixels high and at most 4000 pixels wide and 0 pixels high. The submitted image is 4032 pixels wide and 3024 pixels high.



This is interesting as this pic is 2.1 mb and the screen shot I was able to attach was less than 2.0mb. It looks like maybe the pic size limit on the site has been reduced again????????????

I'll check the file size limit to make sure, but the error message says the picture is too wide.

[update: give it another go, now.]

Another test pic post

Hold your cards folks, we have a bingo!

IMG_6337.jpeg (2.13 MiB) Viewed 54 times

[cooperhawk]

How did you do Gene? I got the ol DP out of the shed and went to town. Only one diesel pump worked for some reason and it was pre pay only so the guy at the register said, "How many gallons?" See they charge you for it and then if you don't use that much they deduct what you don't pump. I told him 75 gallons and said, "Man, that's a lot." I finally found a pump that worked and it shut off at 74 1/2, but I squeezed the other half gallon in.
I filled her up with propane and now she's sleeping in the shed till we decide to go South.
Twice I failed to fill up with Winter Diesel and she jelled up. Carol was most unhappy with me, so this time I got it done right. (I hope).

[JEBar]

today has come and is rapidly leaving .... that said, it sure didn't go as planned .... first up was a 50 mile round trip drive to pickup fresh oysters for get together with friends this afternoon .... we were surprised to learn that their delivery truck was running late .... bottom line, called our friends to figure out a new plan and due to a medical emergency, we had to postpone for who know how long .... basically, we accomplished little to nothing today .... 44 at 7:30PM with it anticipated to drop to 34 overnight .... oh well, its nice to have our low be above freezing .... for tomorrow they say, "Considerable cloudiness; breezy in the afternoon with occasional rain and drizzle"

[Sir Henry]

How did you do Gene? I got the ol DP out of the shed and went to town. Only one diesel pump worked for some reason and it was pre pay only so the guy at the register said, "How many gallons?" See they charge you for it and then if you don't use that much they deduct what you don't pump. I told him 75 gallons and said, "Man, that's a lot." I finally found a pump that worked and it shut off at 74 1/2, but I squeezed the other half gallon in.
I filled her up with propane and now she's sleeping in the shed till we decide to go South.
Twice I failed to fill up with Winter Diesel and she jelled up. Carol was most unhappy with me, so this time I got it done right. (I hope).

I filled with winter diesel when I came up four years ago. My problem is I haven’t driven it after the first year. It hasn’t been licensed for three years and sit in the RVport protected from the weather. It makes a great extra bedroom for my small house. I want to run an underground water line to it so I can use the restroom in the summer. For the grey water I’ll just dump it into the field on a sunny day letting ultraviolet light kill everything.