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I'm feeling better than I have in years and I am so far behind on stuff that it borders on silly. The trouble is this egg-sucking weather we have been having is keeping me from most of what I really need to do... I can look out my back patio doors and see my sawmill sitting out there in a snow bank. If the mill was all clear I still couldn't get to the woods for logs or firewood either one.
I have a tractor sitting in a similar snow bank on a jack with one rear tire off of the rim waiting for it's replacement. I took the old one off just before I went into the hospital. Had I known ahead what was going to transpire I wouldn't have jacked it up sitting in the way of getting anything into the farm shop.
The list just keeps going...
FINALLY!!! the temps are supposed to climb out of the deep freeze a bit and they are putting days in the 50's in the 10 day forecast... I can't wait...
We have been moving stuff all over the house and I think I have rearranged the woodshop about 4 times one piece at a time. I have other shop stuff to move in from the farm shop but I can't because of the snow banks and all of the %$#& ice everywhere.
I'M READY FOR SPRING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



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robinson46176 wrote: I'M READY FOR SPRING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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You and me both! After more than a year of virtually no rain (I live in a place where rain is usually a continuum from Oct-Apr), we are getting hammered all this last week and forecast is for heavy rain at least through this weekend…great news for the rest of the state, which is in a nasty drought, but it comes right as I was ready to get a bunch of fruit trees planted. If I go dig the holes now, they will turn into swimming pools faster than I can get trees planted…so many projects and I'm pacing around the house…sigh.

robinson46176 wrote: The trouble is this egg-sucking weather we have been having is keeping me from most of what I really need to do... .

Perhaps you are going nuts because it is a short trip for you. Consider your logic: You have egg-sucking weather yet the weather channel reports that you have high winds constantly in your area. How is it that high winds suck eggs? Just lay low, sit on your winter's nest, although you would like to showing the neighbors that you are still the cock-of-the-walk. We look forward to your crowing about projects completed, which we envy and admire. So, stop bitching (wait, dog term, not chicken). Your chickens will soon come home to roost and you can lay another egg (wait, that was derogatory, wasn't it?) Well, ask your spouse about chickens coming home to roost.

Now, something everyone has been dying to know. Why is it that American (not British) English is so hard for non-native-born to really learn? Because we have more idioms than all the major languages combined.

db5 wrote:Perhaps you are going nuts because it is a short trip for you. Consider your logic: You have egg-sucking weather yet the weather channel reports that you have high winds constantly in your area. How is it that high winds suck eggs? Just lay low, sit on your winter's nest, although you would like to showing the neighbors that you are still the cock-of-the-walk. We look forward to your crowing about projects completed, which we envy and admire. So, stop bitching (wait, dog term, not chicken). Your chickens will soon come home to roost and you can lay another egg (wait, that was derogatory, wasn't it?) Well, ask your spouse about chickens coming home to roost.

Now, something everyone has been dying to know. Why is it that American (not British) English is so hard for non-native-born to really learn? Because we have more idioms than all the major languages combined.

Scotch? I'm a Bourbon drinker, myself.

I was thinking about the egg sucking thing.

If one were to drill say a 1/4" hole in the egg, about the equator or so and then blow a lot of air across the egg would that be enough to remove the contents of the egg?

Think Bernoulli's.

I can see a science project for someone here.

On the other front I just checked my to do list and found I have line with "go crazy" as the subject. Just not to that yet point, yet. I can by pass that item if it warms to above freezing in the next 10 days. If not then expect some more non-sense postings from me.

Ed

robinson46176 wrote:I'm feeling better than I have in years and I am so far behind on stuff that it borders on silly. The trouble is this egg-sucking weather we have been having is keeping me from most of what I really need to do... I can look out my back patio doors and see my sawmill sitting out there in a snow bank. If the mill was all clear I still couldn't get to the woods for logs or firewood either one.
I have a tractor sitting in a similar snow bank on a jack with one rear tire off of the rim waiting for it's replacement. I took the old one off just before I went into the hospital. Had I known ahead what was going to transpire I wouldn't have jacked it up sitting in the way of getting anything into the farm shop.
The list just keeps going...
FINALLY!!! the temps are supposed to climb out of the deep freeze a bit and they are putting days in the 50's in the 10 day forecast... I can't wait...
We have been moving stuff all over the house and I think I have rearranged the woodshop about 4 times one piece at a time. I have other shop stuff to move in from the farm shop but I can't because of the snow banks and all of the %$#& ice everywhere.
I'M READY FOR SPRING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



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Francis, sorry to do this, but remember what my summers are like.

80 degrees today, with this weekend's temps to (possibly) hit in the low 90s.

What is a "snow bank?" Are they better than my current (Chase) bank?

Seriously, I remember my days in Oklahoma, going to my unit, in the morning, and being sent home at noon, because we just got 16 inches that day. Oh, rode the motorcycle in that day. I lived 2 miles from Ft Sill's airstrip, and was in a helicopter unit. Took me almost 45 minutes to get home. Left the bike in second gear, and used my feet as skiis, just to make some headway.

Another time, we got hit with black ice, and I had never experienced it. So, I decided to pull my 15 passenger Dodge van into an empty church parking lot, to see if I could figure the ice out. Took me 20 minutes to get out. Never moved faster than walking speed, but the speedo hit 35 a few times. Didn't touch a thing, didn't get a scratch, but I still fear black ice. (Luckily, Mesa RARELY sees any.)

steve

robinson46176 wrote:The trouble is this egg-sucking weather we have been having .

Makes me think of the lyrics of a Jimmy Buffett song
as best as I can remember
"I think I got cabin fever... I just shot six holes in my freezer"

I don't remember a time that I was not familiar with the "egg-sucking" expression.
Johnny Cash sang about his "dirty old egg sucking dog"...
I believe that the expression goes back a very very long time. As far as I know it has always been derogatory in nature.
A good number of my family lines came from Yorkshire at the north end of England near the border with Scotland. My paternal Robinson's were originally Norse Vikings (Clan Gunn) who moved to the Scottish Highlands when they inherited lands there in the 12th century. Several lines came to the new world in the 1600's mostly into tidewater Virginia. Like many earlyish arrivals they were planters and politicians but a few may have been honest.
After the American Revolution some migrated to lands they held in Kentucky and many later moved on west to Arkansas and Texas. My great grandfather moved to Indiana around 1870, married, then moved back to KY, then later still back to Indiana. Many of the pioneer families moved west in groups and settled in groups. Many in those groups were distantly related with a common history.
I include that paragraph to indicate why as recent as my grandparents a lot of their vocabulary included a lot of outdated words and expressions that date all the way back to England and actually sometimes sounded almost Shakespeare-ish.

As in the movie "Gone With The Wind" my wealthy southern planter ancestors generally married cousins. I can't help but be nuts...



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skou wrote:Francis, sorry to do this, but remember what my summers are like.

80 degrees today, with this weekend's temps to (possibly) hit in the low 90s.

What is a "snow bank?" Are they better than my current (Chase) bank?

Seriously, I remember my days in Oklahoma, going to my unit, in the morning, and being sent home at noon, because we just got 16 inches that day. Oh, rode the motorcycle in that day. I lived 2 miles from Ft Sill's airstrip, and was in a helicopter unit. Took me almost 45 minutes to get home. Left the bike in second gear, and used my feet as skiis, just to make some headway.

Another time, we got hit with black ice, and I had never experienced it. So, I decided to pull my 15 passenger Dodge van into an empty church parking lot, to see if I could figure the ice out. Took me 20 minutes to get out. Never moved faster than walking speed, but the speedo hit 35 a few times. Didn't touch a thing, didn't get a scratch, but I still fear black ice. (Luckily, Mesa RARELY sees any.)

steve

Steve
I used to race motorcycles in the snow. The deeper the snow the faster you could go. I also did a small amount of ice racing on the bike.
On ice it gets scarey because most of the bikes have spikes so if you go down in front of another bike you need to know which way to roll and roll quick.

But snow racing is a riot. No spikes just shift the weight to rear for go traction and to the front for steering. You would actually be surprised how much traction you do have once you get above about 35. At about 60 you can do anything you want if you take into consideration a certain amount of slide. If you fall off you just go poof into the snow.

I was in the race in Ohio and at one part you have to cross a frozen stream. On about the eighth lap or so the ice let go just as I was on it. My buddy said all he could see was the my helmet. He said I looked like a turtle. By the time I got the bike out and restarted my clothing had frozen solid. I rode to the truck and tried to put my foot down but it was frozen to the peg so I just fell over. My buddies pulled me out from under and stuffed me in the truck with the heater blazing.

Having two kids before and none afterwards. I always contributed my lack of children after that incident to certain things being frozen.

Ed in Tampa wrote: Having two kids before and none afterwards. I always contributed my lack of children after that incident to certain things being frozen.

Nothing much worse than having a frozen peg...


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