The Coffee House

[CherylL]

Guess it was the 2013 ice storm that made me a bit of a winter prepper. Nothing radical but enough food, water, fuel, alt heating and cash to hold out for 5-7 days.

We've been buying extra each week for the last 2 months. You never know when the next storm or supply chain issue will pop up. I donate weekly to a food pantry stand alone little box. If I end up with too much then I'll add items to my donation. I would say we have a healthy supply and not hoarding. A relative is a hoarder and I tried to help her unpack when she moved. Too many can goods! Probably most expired. If someone is a hoarder then there is no where to unpack items. I gave up after 2 days trying to help.

 

[nerwin]

It's too cold. Today's high was 9f.

That's too cold for me.

I had some errands to do and was gonna grab an iced coffee but instead got a small hot chocolate because it was frigid!

 

[jeffashman]

Fine! We'll go ahead and join y'alls frozen party... night temps will be in the 20's all week. Chance of actual snow on Thursday, but it probably won't stick. Had to laugh at one of the hysterical weather apps predicting 11 inches... yeah, right... we do have plenty of resources, so we've avoided the folks who are going to go out and buying 100 rolls of TP and 100 gallons of bottled water... I think we have enough of both for the one day we might actually have snow...

 

[jeffashman]

Hey ho campers! Got a new cookbook, The 30-Minute Mediterranean Diet Cookbook. Saw something similar advertised "for free" on FB, but the spelling was suspicious, so I decided to look on Amazon. Found the suspicious one, but also founs this one, and decided that spelling matters, and that the other one appeared to be a knockoff. We had an awesome Mediterranean Fish Stew, cod and grouper cooked in onions, roast peppers, garlic, white wine, mushrooms, diced tomatoes, and Spanish smoked paprika. Absolutely scrumptious and no carby foods added. Took less than 30 mins to prep and cook, and once again the house smells amazing.

 

[nerwin]

I know this is mostly a photography forum and I been sharing tractor stuff but I enjoy sharing things here on this thread with y'all. I don't have many friends so it's nice to feel like we're all friends here.

Today was a cold one. I decided to work on the tractor in the warm-ish garage. Only has the best set to 60f..way better than the 7f it was outdoors haha. But I bought some LED work lights for the machine since the headlights weren't gonna cut it.

I can't believe how bright they are. $40 for a pair of these lights, they seem good quality. Even had a breather in it so moisture shouldn't be a problem and they draw very little. These are only 36 watts a piece so if my math is correct...on a 12v system they should only draw around 3 amps. The tractor has a 10 amp built in circuit for work lights.

But yeah a fun little project on this cold day.

I had some extra stuff left over from other projects so I used these, good quality switches too. Nothing special true but they light up blue, isn't that enough? I modified a switch bracket to mount on the range selector guide..figured why not. It's a good place for it, I considered adding the switch in the dashboard but I'd have to do a lot more work than it's worth. Way more wire too. What I did is keep it pretty short and it's a easier to work on if something goes wrong. Plus I already have a cut out when I add in some rear lights!

 

[jeffashman]

I know this is mostly a photography forum and I been sharing tractor stuff but I enjoy sharing things here on this thread with y'all. I don't have many friends so it's nice to feel like we're all friends here.

Today was a cold one. I decided to work on the tractor in the warm-ish garage. Only has the best set to 60f..way better than the 7f it was outdoors haha. But I bought some LED work lights for the machine since the headlights weren't gonna cut it.

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I can't believe how bright they are. $40 for a pair of these lights, they seem good quality. Even had a breather in it so moisture shouldn't be a problem and they draw very little. These are only 36 watts a piece so if my math is correct...on a 12v system they should only draw around 3 amps. The tractor has a 10 amp built in circuit for work lights.

But yeah a fun little project on this cold day.

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I had some extra stuff left over from other projects so I used these, good quality switches too. Nothing special true but they light up blue, isn't that enough? I modified a switch bracket to mount on the range selector guide..figured why not. It's a good place for it, I considered adding the switch in the dashboard but I'd have to do a lot more work than it's worth. Way more wire too. What I did is keep it pretty short and it's a easier to work on if something goes wrong. Plus I already have a cut out when I add in some rear lights!

Pretty cool!

 

[terri]

@jeffashman - that dish sounds delicious! I think you did the right thing by avoiding the suspicious misspelled copy. This cookbook sounds like it will be full of interesting recipes!

@nerwin - of course, you can post pics and talk about your tractor in here! Not only are you among friends, this thread's in the Off Topic section and we can chat about just about anything. Sounds like today's project was time well spent.

 

[nerwin]

@jeffashman - that dish sounds delicious! I think you did the right thing by avoiding the suspicious misspelled copy. This cookbook sounds like it will be full of interesting recipes!

@nerwin - of course, you can post pics and talk about your tractor in here! Not only are you among friends, this thread's in the Off Topic section and we can chat about just about anything. Sounds like today's project was time well spent.

Just glad I'm accepted here

 

[Rickbb]

Fine! We'll go ahead and join y'alls frozen party... night temps will be in the 20's all week. Chance of actual snow on Thursday, but it probably won't stick. Had to laugh at one of the hysterical weather apps predicting 11 inches... yeah, right... we do have plenty of resources, so we've avoided the folks who are going to go out and buying 100 rolls of TP and 100 gallons of bottled water... I think we have enough of both for the one day we might actually have snow...

Will be in the mid teens here for the next week or so. Too bad I’m leaving for phoenix Sunday. Lol.

 

[snowbear]

So, retired and spending a couple weeks at the new old house. I brought some things to do and keep myself busy: Kindle books (756 days in a row), watercolors, sketchpads, a couple scale models, a woodworking project, and a jigsaw puzzle. Yeah, focus is out, a better one when I get further along.

 

[CherylL]

One week with the new pup and I had forgotten about razor sharp teeth. I have a few puncture wounds. Puppy will puppy so all ok. I will start on training of the sit and stay in about 2 weeks. Let him get acclimated to the house routine first.

 

[smoke665]

forgotten about razor sharp teeth

Yup like large hypodermic needles!

 

[smoke665]

Weatherman so confused, saying we could get anywhere from a 1/4"-5" of snow Friday. Only thing they do know is it's COLD!

 

[nerwin]

Weatherman so confused, saying we could get anywhere from a 1/4"-5" of snow Friday. Only thing they do know is it's COLD!

That's quite a range haha. You may get a dusting or half a foot!

 

[nerwin]

I am def tired of the frigid temps here. Next week looks like it finally goes back up in the upper 20s so that's better. Not sure about any incoming snowstorms...it's been a hit or miss kind of thing.