Good Morning All. Cloudy and 60° and quite windy from the south. At 0500, there's a widespread area of rain just a mile south of me.
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Since this stuff usually moves towards the east and southeast, I may not see anything here. The Weather Underground station down the road is showing rain, but no wind, so his anemometer must not be working this morning. It's at least 18-20 mph. The wind will shift out of the north around sundown today and we'll drop to the mid-30's after reaching a high today of 76°. Partly cloudy and cold here until Tuesday.
Yesterday was a nice but windy day. I planted another partial row of radishes and carrots; and 46 more white onion plants. Some of the ones that I planted last month disappeared, I believe the excessive rain and possibly the hail did some of the white ones in. The yellow ones all seem to have survived though! I see little lettuce plants from the seed that I planted on 3-1. The green pea plants are about 3" tall now. Everything that I have planted will survive a light frost, peas can tolerate 26° and onions can tolerate 19°.
Time today once again for the weekly grocery/beer trek. Looks like corned beef briskets are still on sale, so I'll get a couple more this week to add to the ones in the freezer from last week. Plus one for tomorrow night. The Pope gives an automatic dispensation from "seafood on Friday" during Lent when St Patrick's Day falls on Friday. I noticed in the sales flyer that Jalapeno Peppers have gone up in price again; on sale they are now $1.39/lb, a 40% increase from their normal 99¢/lb price! Them poppers that I make are getting expensive. Still a cheap appetizer though.
Wife is going to our daughter's house this afternoon to make her a Birthday cake with our granddaughter's help. Hopefully the weather cooperates. I'll stay home and watch the granddog and dry her feet if needed. Unless it's really raining hard, she doesn't mind it.
Thanks for the comments and reactions regarding the weathered freight cars yesterday.
I didn't spend any time out in the train shed yesterday, just didn't feel like it. Some times that happens. That won't happen again today as I ended up missing the visit.
From the archives: A run-by of a scrap metal train going north past a grain elevator.
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Swal - It hurts me to see the picture of your car/driveway when I am wearing shorts and a tee shirt most days. Once again, best wishes for your wife.
Sherrel - In Texas, if one drives around a barrier/sign into flowing water, or just water over the road and get stuck, you pay dearly for the rescue. Not only a wrecker, but for police or fire rescue crews as well. Plus you might have to wait a while unless it's a severe emergency.
Good luck with the options trading. I somewhat understand shorts, but not enough to participate. For now I am sticking with ETF's T-bills and mutual funds. I do have a bit of Lockheed-Martin stock which should be profitable as they replenish defense supplies that are going to Europe.
Congratulations to you and Kate on the 32nd.
Joe - I can take the ups and downs of the stock market a whole lot better than my wife. If the Dow drops 30 points, she's all about "we gotta get out". I gave her complete control over her Roth IRA and it's made about 0.01% in the last 7 years. Meanwhile I control the bulk of our retirement accounts and have gone up almost 60% in the same time frame. I haven't made any additional contributions in that period and lived off the account for 2.5 years until SS kicked in. Last year was my first loser since 2009. I went down 4%. But like I posted yesterday, it was all a paper loss of paper gains! Tuesday was good! I made $2K before moving some stuff into money market. I wish that I could make all moves with that timing!
I saw a photo of that collapsed roof on the shopping mall in Duluth, man that's a really large accumulation of snow that was up there. Looks like over 3' judging from surrounding items.
Everybody have a great day.