Banks: LODD is Line of Duty Death, meaning the firefighter/medic/police officer has died while on duty.
In the 30’s now, t’s SUPPOSED to sno-hio, 1-3" forcast. Sun is out and its a little breezy right now.
Everybody comes home Sunday and I’m getting the house cleaned up a bit prior. Tomorrow night is our department’s installation dinner. It’s the annual dinner/dance where all the line/executive officers installed (sworn) into office. I SHOULD finally get my 20 years of Service star…I’ve been trying since I left. 37 years of service for a 20 year star…go figure[(-D][banghead]. I’m just happy to get it!
Got a lot done at the fire house yesterday, my “new” storage room for the Engineer is just about finished and we moved all the equipment into it. Later on today, I’ll be tossing more stuff out.
Interview went well, I’ll know next week. It’s a take charge shop, so that’s what I’m looking for.
Doug, Good luck man looks like it is aimed at you guys up north of us. 18 degrees here and calling for a little snow. What did you do to Chuck to make him aim the cannon at you??? [swg]
The wife stayed home from work today because of the forecast in Will County. [*-)]
[xx(] As luck, or lack of it would have it my RW went up in a cloud of smoke last night but never quit working and I can’t find any reasons now that I took off the cover. Boy does it stink. [+o(] Don’t think I can trust the old RW anymore so I need to start looking for something else. I have kind of been looking at the MTH I think it is a Z4000. Anybody got any comments on them? Seems like a lot of $$$$ for one.
I can’t get SJ to cut one of his many ZWs loose so I am on the hunt.
Thanks for the PM Joe I will be getting back to you. Twist ties will work fine. [Y]
Dodged another weather bullet late yesterday afternoon and last night.
I had to drive 50 miles up to NH @6PM. Snow was to commence around 6PM-7PM with accumulations where I was going estimated at 4-6". No snow going there and coming back. ?!?! [tup]
Meanwhile, wifey was driving back from White Plains NY, leaving there at 5PM…220 miles and 4 hours barring traffic snafus. Worry? Yes. At 2PM gave her the forecasts over the phone for White Plains, Danbury CT., Hartford (half way back), Worcester MA 60 miles from home, and here. Told her to drive slow and steady and it would be an easy drive (AWD, new tires). No snow for her all the way back. [tup] She gets home and says “Jack, what is wrong with you? What forecasts were you looking at?” [banghead]
Revised forecast overnight as heard on the 11PM news, homestead was supposed to get 4-5" but awakened to just 2" [tup]
I sure am glad that the meteorologists have all of this high tech equipment they didn’t have 5 decades ago Gobs of money and an army of weatherpeople with nonstop “the sky is falling” media coverage to get less accurate forecasts and waste a lot of time with added angst for folks like us, looking at dire predictions that don’t materialize, or so it seems to this common man.
Boy, Jack, that sounds like one of my old math problems. “If a car leaves White Plains at 5 pm…” Kev, I must’ve done something to Jon, who is sending this from points west…
Rock Isl 52 commented on how the TV has the sky is faling coverage of possible bad weather. Rain is a big deal here and they act like its going to rain for sure when in fact there is a 50% chance of rain. or even less. annoys me to no end.
The blurb we got in the newest issue of CTT got a bit of buzz at the club meeting last nite. You know the old saying, any publicity is good but when it’s good publicity it’s even better. Thanks CTT.
Hang tuff you guys getting the less than nice weather, I can’t even get warm when the temps are in the 70’s let alone in the single digits. Seems almost like yesterday the Better Half and I used to enjoy snowmobiling
Good morning Chuck and all you Ohio folks as well as anyone getting fallout from the snohio. My goodness, you guys are having real weather! They predict some rain here for tomorrow but I will believe it when I see it. If I put the car cover on the old leaky Buick, it probably wouldn’t rain at all. That’s the way it usually works.
No report about the box yet today from the Chief. Get er done Chief!
Doug M. – there is a very narrow, heavy band of snow over the Cedar Falls area finally moving eastward. Just talked to the kids and they have about 6" of new snow and maybe 1" or 2" this afternoon, fortunately there is NO wind and that makes all the difference. So far we have NONE [tup] and that’s wonderful, last night on the 10:00 news it “appeared” that the end of the world was near with these clowns. We hope to enjoy our families here this weekend to celebrate a late Christmas, keeping our fingers crossed for the kids from MPLS – that’s a long drive with nothing in between. If no one makes it here this weekend we have enough food to make it to July 4 [8D]
The sons asked me if we could not have a traditional Christmas meal and pleaded with me to do smoked ribs – should be fun smoking ribs tomorrow with the starting temp of -2. I do have a nice sized custom steel building about 30’ from the house (lawn equipment storage) where I can get the smoker out of the wind and raise the garage door. It’s all worth it if they can make it here safely. For those of you who have my championship smoked bean recipe – it’s on the menu [dinner]
I have your championship smoked bean recipe, and your marinated chicken and turkey - ALL GREAT! Don’t have the smoked rib recipe. What time is dinner?[C=:-)][dinner]
Good afternoon. My father and I spent the better part of five hours working on the Peerless tractor getting it ready for the cutting season. Here that’s usually the end of February to to sometime in November or December. It needed the blades sharpened and the blade drive belt replaced. Those were the EASY things. Getting it up on blocks was the hard part. We had to use bottle jacks to accomplish that. We’d get one wheel on a concrete block then start jacking up the other wheel and it would start slipping sideways almost immediately. We ended up with one of us leaning against it to counter the tilt while the other jacked it up and put the block under the wheel. It sounds easy but old Murphy was having a field day. Because of the recent rains the ground was soft and even putting boards under the jacks didn’t help much. Why didn’t we move it to a part of the yard where there’s harder ground? Please come show me where that is and we’ll do it next time. There are concrete walks but they’re thin and aren’t designed to support that kind of weight and my father doesn’t like grinding his knees on concrete. Can’t say as I do either. Getting the new belt on was akin to figuring out a Chinese finger puzzle for the first time. The instruction book that came with the machine fifteen or sixteen years ago was nowhere to be found so I had to thread the belt around different ways until I found one that worked and it wasn’t rubbing against anything. After all that getting it off the blocks was a breeze. Just jacked up the front and pulled the blocks from under the front wheels, dropped the jack then let off the brake and pushed it forward off the blocks under the rear wheels. It;s big enough it can take a bounce easily. A future project will be replacing the front wheels as the bearings (built into the rims) are showing quite a bit of wear.
That’s all for now. We’re getting ready to make chili dogs.
Reworked garage power panel [feeds all the outside buildings 100 AMP service]. Code had changed some since 1986. That took longer than the box wiring. Got to run and take Wifey to steak house.