She's in the books now.

Good Morning All!

Nearly. And then we March on.

Still got my azz parked in hospital.
Hopefully the old man wants to exit before March.
Been a long week.

Here comes the lion.
I hope

Never been a fan of February for many reasons. Bring on March.

Rocky caught me jummpin' the gun, close.

Raining big time here. Also had a tornado warning off to the west about an hour ago. Way too early for that stuff.

Hope so! For everyone's sake.


My grandma hung on a while.

I sure hope the spring rains don't skip us again. We've had several dry ones in a row and really need the water. There are a few spots in Idaho that have about average snowpack but most of it is well below average.

We had a relatively dry November, December, and January, but February has been wet, and it's rained about 2 inches overnight, with more on the way today.

My wife says February is the longest month of the year.

It’s been busy with all the freeze BS.

Robins showed up this morning, things are looking up.

Tulips are coming up👍

Overall a pretty mild February in Fargo

Our 10 inches of snow about gone, well above 40 w sunshine.

Let the floods begin.

I dont do the saugeye deal at local res when first flood drops. Pretty much stay out of the water til May and rhen bowfish for carp.

But I know some hardcore saugeye chasers that will.be out trying after first flood drop

Usually March is when the @#$%^& burr buttercups start coming up. They 1st showed up here maybe 6 or 7 years ago and they've taken over everywhere. It's warm enough for them but Roundup and 2-4-D don't work very well in these temps.

Wab's.

You need to check your calendar, man!

Jeezus, that's depressing.

God Speed.

After a warm fall like January, February felt more like winter! March, will hopefully bring moisture that we could use.

Day 8.
Sucks.
But this should be the last one.
BP low.


Get the old man in the ground Wed by his brother and get back to work.

I consider it good to bury parents.
Parents burying children.....nope.

Last day in Feb seems fitting.

I hope the ticks aint bad this yr.
Give me the willies in turkey season.
Mild temps proly end up w bumper crop of em.

Could still get some wicked temps/ weather.
I aint taking any bets against March.

Well, I'm feeling pretty good.fine Sunday morning! Have to go do some snow blowing at the rentals, and I'm off the rest of the day. I feel the need to mess with a gun!

30+ inches of snow on the ground, 18 degrees, sun is coming over the trees, with clouds in the sky. Wife wanted to go snow machining today, now that I've got the old '93 AC back together, but I was resisting for several reasons concerning weather, roads, projects, timelines, mechanic's skills . I want to run that thing a few miles around home first. See if anything falls off, jams up, or explodes.

Replaced all the undercarriage bearings, spring slides, driven shaft bearings, removed, cleaned up and greased up all the undercarriage bogie shafts, repaired some damage to cowling (ain't pretty, but it'll do), new carbide wear bars on the way, found and fixed a coolant leak (replaced that too) by tightening a hose clamp, replaced in-tank-to-fuel-shutoff fuel hose (nothing wrong , but it was 27 years old, and I was in there....), put in new track -tightener blocks - one was a bit worn.

The speedometer wasn't working........

Still isn't - looking for a driven shaft adapter, no longer OEM carried. Mine has the little square springy thingy (adapter-to-cable key) broken off and jammed in there. I guess that happened when the bearing came apart..... Don't need no stinkin' speedometer anyway. All in all, I got off light for 27 years of no maintenance beyond head light bulbs, wear bars, a voltage regulator, in-line fuel filter, a few spark plugs, and insufficient greasing.

But I'm off the hook for now. We had 2nd covid shots yesterday and she is under the weather. My shoulder is a little sore - no worse than 1st shot. I have wallpaper trim to put up anyway, so I can get that damned scaffolding out of the stairwell. More better we go next week about Thursday. Maybe spend 2-4 days down there and make it worthwhile..

Good chance her fancy overpowered snow machine will be fixed (not by me!) by then anyway - that will make her happy. It'll make me happy if she doesn't set it on fire again.

Who hurt you?

Christ you are a cold SOB.

Back home from church, had dinner, and, two cups of coffee.

I aint hurt.
Have a sick kid and came close to losing her last yr
Rather bury a parent than a kid.
Also think dementia and medical system, plus this covid stuff to be make the exit more cruel, to the person leaving and those left behind.

You may think differently.

Learned a lot more than I wanted to about medical facilities, hospice and insurance.

Experiences/ situations may differ.

It sucks no matter what. But the system doesnt help.

Dark Horse only brews Double Crooked Tree in the month of Feb.

Get your local boozeguys to order stuff while its available.

Warm winds in VT tonight - probably means 8-12” in the next 2 weeks but we’ll enjoy the change. February stinks - nobody likes February.

I'm sorry for your troubles, Hookeye. Truly.

Trekked over 11 miles in some rough terrain. Nice way to close the door on February.

Hope the weather gets consistently better overall. It’s been a harsher than normal winter in the banana belt of Colorado.

Creeks up but no flood.
Last snowfall of 9" has all melted.
Looking fwd to turkey hunting but i fear ticks had it too easy this winter.