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Re: Global Warming 

By: micro in 6TH POPE | Recommend this post (1)
Mon, 15 Jan 24 11:02 PM | 26 view(s)
Boardmark this board | 6th Edition Pope Board 		Msg. 49238 of 60008
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That is really cool! I like it. Never seen one before myself so this is really interesting.. Great purchase De!

Next time get ya a propane torch with a spreader and thaw out the ground. Its a lot easier . Especially iffen ya do that where the tire is stuck. Softening the frozen ground there would be the easy way to do it.. Just an idea...

Great buy on that piece of furniture De! It's really intriguing.. Thumbs Up




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Re: Global Warming
By: Decomposed in 6TH POPE
Mon, 15 Jan 24 8:15 PM 		Msg. 49232 of 60008

micro:

Re: “It is a blustery 7 degrees F currently here. May have to go outside and get a tan...”Wow. As my wife says, "That's colder than a witch's tit in a copper bra!"

A few recent "cold" stories:

First, it's been a warm winter. Our low so far has been 12°, and last night was 14°. Our high this week will be below 32°.

We drove to Nashua yesterday for two auction pickups, then to Lowell Massachusetts for a terrific Chinese buffet dinner. The "China Buffet" (clever name, eh?) in Lowell has the tastiest Chinese food of any restaurant I've been to, so we took our sweet time. I bet we were there for an hour and a half. We went in with nice weather and no clue about what was to come. When we left, the wind was howling like a banshee. Snow was coming in sideways, hitting with an impact I'd have expected from hail. I later heard it described as a "squall," something I'd never before been in, except perhaps while driving. It was unbelievable. Fortunately, the drive home took us quickly away from the squall and wasn't too bad. Sooo, my first ever squall. I'd say it and Virginia's 2012 derecho are the two most interesting weather events I've see in my short life. (You've been to Vietnam, so I bet you've seen a few interesting storms too.)

Today is beautiful. The sun is out and the high will be 30°. But we won a large hutch at an auction last night, and it's actually too big to fit in my truck. See the image, below. It's a little bit of a problem since it means we need the flatbed trailer... which is snow covered and has a flat tire (a slow leak... 0 lbs pressure when I checked it this A.M.) I pulled the compressor from the barn and found an extension cord... and the extension cord wouldn't unwind. Maybe it went lower than they said last night! The cord was hard as could be, and I had to pry it open.

I got the tires inflated, shoveled the snow off of the trailer, and called my wife to hook up the truck to the trailer. That went smoothly, but when we were ready to move the trailer into direct sunlight, I found that the rocks we were using as chocks were cemented to the ground, as was the cinder block propping up the trailer at its front (a beer for whoever can tell me what the thing that supports the trailer jack is called. It's got me stumped. Never mind, time's up. It's called a BASE PLATE.)

It was only a 30 minute delay. I tracked down a hammer, a chunk of wood, and a hand pick. Between the three I was able to scrape the mud and ice away from the cinder block then hammer it free without breaking it. The rocks were freed easily.

That's about it. We've been fortunate to have not had any heavy snowfalls this year - living as we are in a house with a very long driveway and no snow blower. Storms... and even outages... have been frequent, but so far we haven't had to deal with much snow at a time, usually followed by dry weather or actual rain, melting it away.

The hutch we're fetching later today is called an "Etergre." My wife was familiar with the term, so I guess it's not a rare item, but I'd never heard of it. It was $52. Believe it or not, the small picture below is the ONLY thing we had to go on as far as what it looks like and its condition. That may explain why we got it so cheap. Auction houses usually post numerous high quality pictures of merchandise, sufficient that you could read the author on a book spine, or see little dings on furniture edges, and from all sides. Not so this time, creating the distinct possibility that we'll be disappointed when we see it.



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