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Post by mrlunting on Dec 23, 2020 11:22:05 GMT -5
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Post by Ronv69 on Dec 23, 2020 11:51:52 GMT -5
Ain't it the truth! Happy birthday! 🎂 |
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Post by Gypo on Dec 23, 2020 12:26:37 GMT -5
Headed to town today first time since I joined the forum. I will let you all know how it went when I return. If you don't hear anything then it did not go well. (I made it back home in one piece got what I needed to do done and back home)
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Post by Goldbrick on Dec 23, 2020 12:36:37 GMT -5
Happy Birthday, Username, and also MERRY CHRISTMAS...now stay safe and well and have many more!
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Post by toshtego on Dec 23, 2020 16:57:48 GMT -5
Day high of 20 degrees. Winds blowing at 15 MPH. Wind Chill of +6 degrees (F). Mighty cold over at the village waste transfer station emptying the garbage cans. I had to wear a cap!
Air temp tonight supposed to drop to -4 degrees.
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Post by mrlunting on Dec 23, 2020 17:46:19 GMT -5
Taught my daughter to play lean on me. On the piano. 😀😀😀😀
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Post by toshtego on Dec 23, 2020 18:12:04 GMT -5
Taught my daughter to play lean on me. On the piano. 😀😀😀😀 The Bill Wither's tune? Excellent taste. |
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Post by taiguy66 on Dec 23, 2020 18:14:21 GMT -5
Beautiful sunny day here. Out with my buddies for 18 holes. Gotta love it!😁🏌️♂️
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Post by lizardonarock on Dec 23, 2020 18:53:38 GMT -5
Daughter snuck into town from UTAH so the wife and her are out and about.
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Post by Gandalf on Dec 23, 2020 19:29:28 GMT -5
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Post by Plainsman on Dec 23, 2020 19:40:22 GMT -5
Snow on the ground this morning. Not much, but any is too much if you ask me. Cold, nasty wind, too. The doggos disappointed that Ol’ Guy didn’t take them for their run this afternoon. Eli solaced himself by spending long hours at the dinette window obsessing over all the squirrels that gathered for cracked corn. He has a lot of patience, when he wants to use it. Jack is bored by squirrels so spent his day in the bedroom until I started a fire in the fireplace and then he came in and flopped on the couch. Tomorrow is another day and maybe will be warmer so they can have their run.
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Post by Ronv69 on Dec 23, 2020 20:10:36 GMT -5
It was a hot humid day in NE Texas today. We had to go to Walmart to get a new battery for the wife's car and took care of the Christmas dinner shopping while we were waiting. This Walmart is pretty nice. People are polite and decently dressed. We were dreading going there just before Christmas, but it was actually nice.
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Post by adui on Dec 23, 2020 20:22:41 GMT -5
username Add my wishes for a happy birthday with many more to come! Merry Christmas everyone!
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Post by trailboss on Dec 23, 2020 20:22:51 GMT -5
Happy birthday, Mike!
I hope that you had a wonderful day.
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Post by toshtego on Dec 23, 2020 20:36:18 GMT -5
It is 2 degrees (F) at 1830 hours.
I bet the temp drops to -12 or colder. That is not too bad. When it gets to -20 degrees then I cannot go to bed. I have to spend the night in a chair next to the wood stove so I can stoke it every couple of hours. That makes for a long night. The worst I seen was was -35 degrees. I had a a gas fired boiler then so it was not too bad. Now, it would could be fatal if I slip up. Hoping we do not see that temperature low this year. LOL!
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Post by Ronv69 on Dec 23, 2020 20:45:51 GMT -5
It is 2 degrees (F) at 1830 hours. I bet the temp drops to -12 or colder. That is not too bad. When it gets to -20 degrees then I cannot go to bed. I have to spend the night in a chair next to the wood stove so I can stoke it every couple of hours. That makes for a long night. The worst I seen was was -35 degrees. I had a a gas fired boiler then so it was not too bad. Now, it would could be fatal if I slip up. Hoping we do not see that temperature low this year. LOL! It's going down to 30 tonight, but it will feel like 20. Guess I better turn off the AC and turn the heat on before bed. Couldn't you at least use a milk house electric heater just to keep above freezing? When they are running on high it costs about 12 cents an hour. |
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Post by toshtego on Dec 23, 2020 21:01:06 GMT -5
It is 2 degrees (F) at 1830 hours. I bet the temp drops to -12 or colder. That is not too bad. When it gets to -20 degrees then I cannot go to bed. I have to spend the night in a chair next to the wood stove so I can stoke it every couple of hours. That makes for a long night. The worst I seen was was -35 degrees. I had a a gas fired boiler then so it was not too bad. Now, it would could be fatal if I slip up. Hoping we do not see that temperature low this year. LOL! It's going down to 30 tonight, but it will feel like 20. Guess I better turn off the AC and turn the heat on before bed. Couldn't you at least use a milk house electric heater just to keep above freezing? When they are running on high it costs about 12 cents an hour. Could help. I have a couple, they do not seem to put out much heat. We are at about 26 cents per KwH here. A 1500 watt heater would be 39 cents an hour, I guess. that is not much. |
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Post by lizardonarock on Dec 23, 2020 21:17:11 GMT -5
Or you could buy a modern Honeywell ceramic heater or radiator style and throw away the milk house toaster element heaters.
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Post by Yohanan on Dec 23, 2020 21:24:56 GMT -5
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Post by Ronv69 on Dec 23, 2020 21:57:10 GMT -5
Or you could buy a modern Honeywell ceramic heater or radiator style and throw away the milk house toaster element heaters. All electric heaters put out exactly the same heat per watt. Just depends on your needs. |
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Post by Legend Lover on Dec 24, 2020 4:01:16 GMT -5
It's Christmas Eve, babe...
Have a great one, folks...I've a wedding to conduct this afternoon, and then might go for a walk on the beach, before getting ready for tomorrow.
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Post by lizardonarock on Dec 24, 2020 6:44:47 GMT -5
Or you could buy a modern Honeywell ceramic heater or radiator style and throw away the milk house toaster element heaters. All electric heaters put out exactly the same heat per watt. Just depends on your needs. It is really about what you are heating up and how long it stays hot we are not heating water in our cell for coffee.  |
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Post by lizardonarock on Dec 24, 2020 7:23:05 GMT -5
Enjoying a cup of coffee in my toasty warm cell via efficient electric room heaters. Slept wrong so left side is numb but still functional and no this is not a stroke just my normal underlying medical issues from nerve damage. If I had known I was going to have to hang out in this body this long...………….. Looking forward to lunch with my daughter and I bet she lets me pay. The kids caught a HOPS flight at the last minute so the flight was free via uncle Sam. Dustin runs the server farm for Dugway proving grounds doing cyber security stuff. He told me all about it last night and I just nodded my head and did not understand a darn word of it.
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Post by Ronv69 on Dec 24, 2020 10:03:48 GMT -5
All electric heaters put out exactly the same heat per watt. Just depends on your needs. It is really about what you are heating up and how long it stays hot we are not heating water in our cell for coffee. The radiators are great. We keep one on in the bathroom. But in the barn and the "plant house", and the laundry room the milkhouse heaters just make more sense. I forgot that electricity in New Mexico is 4x the price of Texas. Our co-op is currently 8.5 cents. Natural gas baby! |
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Post by toshtego on Dec 24, 2020 11:23:58 GMT -5
Or you could buy a modern Honeywell ceramic heater or radiator style and throw away the milk house toaster element heaters. I have an oil filled radiator in the bathroom and one in the outside mechanical room. I have a ceramic heater in the kitchen in place of the kiva I used to use. Along with the truck engine block heater I am consuming all the Kilowatts I can afford. LOL! |
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Post by toshtego on Dec 24, 2020 11:26:36 GMT -5
It is really about what you are heating up and how long it stays hot we are not heating water in our cell for coffee. The radiators are great. We keep one on in the bathroom. But in the barn and the "plant house", and the laundry room the milkhouse heaters just make more sense. I forgot that electricity in New Mexico is 4x the price of Texas. Our co-op is currently 8.5 cents. Natural gas baby! Our electricity is expensive owing to a very strange rural electric cooperative. |
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Post by Plainsman on Dec 24, 2020 11:29:04 GMT -5
It is really about what you are heating up and how long it stays hot we are not heating water in our cell for coffee. The radiators are great. We keep one on in the bathroom. But in the barn and the "plant house", and the laundry room the milkhouse heaters just make more sense. I forgot that electricity in New Mexico is 4x the price of Texas. Our co-op is currently 8.5 cents. Natural gas baby! With a lash-up like that who needs Ol' Sparky? |
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Post by Ronv69 on Dec 24, 2020 11:48:56 GMT -5
The radiators are great. We keep one on in the bathroom. But in the barn and the "plant house", and the laundry room the milkhouse heaters just make more sense. I forgot that electricity in New Mexico is 4x the price of Texas. Our co-op is currently 8.5 cents. Natural gas baby! Our electricity is expensive owing to a very strange rural electric cooperative. Our co-op has the advantage of being on top of the gas fields. I remember when my friend lived between Jemez Springs and the caldera in a log cabin. He had baseboard heaters, but he said it was 50 bucks a day to run them. He heated with a coal stove. Now he has a pellet stove and says that the pellets are pretty cheap, and it feeds itself. He's north of Albuquerque off Highway 14 at 7200 feet. |
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Post by toshtego on Dec 24, 2020 12:45:06 GMT -5
Our electricity is expensive owing to a very strange rural electric cooperative. Our co-op has the advantage of being on top of the gas fields. I remember when my friend lived between Jemez Springs and the caldera in a log cabin. He had baseboard heaters, but he said it was 50 bucks a day to run them. He heated with a coal stove. Now he has a pellet stove and says that the pellets are pretty cheap, and it feeds itself. He's north of Albuquerque off Highway 14 at 7200 feet. My neighbor has an outdoor pellet boiler heating water which is circulated through radiators in the house. Good system for large spaces. I like plain old firewood as it is always available. Pellets mean storage in sheds and haulage on pallets. They do solve much of the short term refilling issues. I used coal for years overnight and that was great but no longer available here it seems. Heat all night without much attention. Ditto hardwoods. |
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Post by pepesdad1 on Dec 24, 2020 13:40:55 GMT -5
Big front moving through this area...storms and heavy lightning before the weather drops to 30° tonight...This is Florida!!
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