January Greetings Thread

Happy new year's day 2014!

(in reference to having fireworks fired over my head....)

by RRCmdrBennett Today at 5:02 am
"I'm sure you've had worse fired over your head..."

Yeah.  But I ain't getting paid for this.

There's a difference between getting wounded for a reason and getting wounded for stupidity.

Happy New Year! Let's hope none of us have anything flying over our heads this year, but if we do, that we win...

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Claymore wrote:(in reference to having fireworks fired over my head....) by RRCmdrBennett Today at 5:02 am

I've never told my wife what the Marines did to me one day off the coast of Somalia.

Ooh. There's a story here.

(And we won't tell your wife, promise!)

I am working making Double times and a half... cha ching.
Going backpacking this weekend. woo whoo Rangers!

We're hitting the woods in a couple weeks! Can't wait. Let us know how it goes Mark.

Claymore wrote:Ooh.  There's a story here.

Remember when the Marines made a night amphibious landing on the beach of Mogadishu? And the CNN cameramen were shining bright lights into their eyes? Go back 45 minutes, just before they splashed from my well deck. I had 13 AAVs all revving up and loaded with troops, waiting for the green light to launch. There was a tremendous boom! so I had one of my guys walk up and down the catwalk to see what happened. Negative report. The AAVs splashed and the ship stood out to sea. After sunrise we turned on the well deck lights and found a hole in the steel vent ducting 10 feet from my head. Turned out that one of the AAV crewmen was checking his turret weapons and accidently launched a grenade. The vent duct contained all the shrapnel from the blast.  

OOH!

I'll bet that makes for an interesting After Action Report.

Happy Saturday everyone! It's good to be back home! 

Going to hang out with the family some today and then go butcher some chickens. I had a rooster I really liked get killed be a rooster that I didn't want to keep, but had put off butchering him just a little too long... Today is his day!

The problem is that I have more than one breed, which was fine as long as the one rooster was from the breed I want most. Then came along a little roo from one of the mixed breed hens. I really just need to cull any mix breed roosters as soon as they crow, but I allowed being "too busy right now" to get me into this situation. Luckily I know a lady who also has French Marans that is willing to give me a new rooster.

brrrr
mighty cold lately. below zero last couple of nights. Supposed to be even more cold this week with windchills close to -30 on Monday & tuesday

Allegedly, the Perfect Snowstorm is supposed to hit about right now. Rumors we may go level 3 emergency condition meaning only emergency vehicles and snowmobiles. Hopefully, I can put in my 8 hrs tomorrow before that happens I won't lose pay and I'm off Mon and Tues. Mon and Tues were supposed to be muzzleloader hunting days for me but that ain't happening.

Our sales hit over $450K and we're a low volume store; we were hopping. My dairy looked like a cyclone hit it and ai was filling milk constantly. Second half of the day I was on my own with some help pulling manual picks for all my outs and lows. Lots of eggs sold today. I think I heard the screams of a million chickens and suddenly silenced... Upside my mgr was more than glad o authorize me to stay over 2 hours as long as I stay under 40 for the week.

... screams of a million chickens.....

Nice slightly altered quote slide in there Dan!

Big snowstorm today.    we got 4" overnight & its still coming down. another 1/2" fell during church. We don't believe in closing church just because the weather is bad.  We are open for whoever can be there. Most of the other churches in town closed up We are supposed to get another 4" by morning.
Our guest Pastor for the day didn't make it. He would have had a 2.5 hour drive on good roads. But that's okay we had a good service anyway. We have a Pastor Candidate coming next weekend so we had lots to talk about. Plus we had a special prayer time & some extra worship on the end.  
After church an elderly lady from our church went into the ditch out front. So we went out hitched her car up to a 4X4 & pulled/pushed her out.  It was good fun & saved her a tow truck bill.  

here's the view from the upstairs window

Hey that looks like here.

Mark Jones

Hope you guys have some hot cocoa!

still coming down

Today was another busy day in the dairy. Ended the day with an empty floor in the dairy warehouse and all milk was loaded in the doors. Top it off we're not due for another delivery till Tues. Bread was wiped out too. First weekend of the month plus the storm generated $250k yesterday.

I'm gonna enjoy these next two days off.

Phillip Gross wrote:... screams of a million chickens.....

Nice slightly altered quote slide in there Dan!

I figured someone would notice. I was going off memory for the quote.

It was a tad cool yesterday. Everytime I got out of the truck to do some wire work... I wanted back inside the truck...hum.... One of the few days I wished I wasn't working. HA!

Mark Jones

Im not working today.    hate losing the pay, but in a way Im glad, as I am missing out on below zero temps in the warehouse (-30 wind chill)  

It was -10 degrees here this morning. My son stayed out in his hammock and under quilt in the back yard..just running a test..he said. GRIN!

BRRRRRR!

Its now 34 degrees and sun is shining and some wind.
Mark Jones

This is how bundled up I was yesterday for going out to the store.

Yesterday and today I had some car trouble getting started.  It start sometimes but stall out with an engine light.  I had the booster hooked up to it while starting it wasn't a battery issue.  Texted Chris today he suggested not enough gas or icy buildup in the gas line.  I got some more gas and gas line antifreeze still didn't startup.  I pumped the gas when I started it up before it stalled and that got the line moving I guess and works fine now.  I was fearing a dead alternator.

Car temp read -13 not counting windchill factor.