BrianW

I work in a skilled trade. Been hearing from a lot of people new work is really starting to plummet off a cliff. I heard a few places have started to lay people off. It starting to sound like the COVID boom with people doing work around their house is coming to a end. There is also a huge drop in commercial work.

Its an early spring here on the CT shoreline. Was raking this morning and my Hydrangeas have leaves popping. I had stuff sprouting already in Mid January.

Lumber prices are through the roof again. They are even higher than last years peak. Just saw a single non PT 2 x 4 going for almost $8.

GON putting up an impressive 23 for a low. Was the 2nd coldest low in the state overnight.

Robins arrived here and are all over my lawn this morning.

To those with solar, March has been a epic month so far for production. Going on 11 straight days of almost full sun here.

Have you tried delta 8 thc yet? I picked up some distillate and made some edibles and vaped some. I have been enjoying it. Don't think its going to be legal much longer though.

Congrats Mexico for legalizing marijuana. This will put a lot of pressure on the US with weed now legal in both Canada in Mexico.

Its already underway.

Some low 60's in SW CT already. My van just said it was 63 driving on 95.

I'm on the CT shoreline and have a cabin in NW NJ. Both areas have had an insane amount of precipitation the last year. I expect this spring for the same area to jackpot as it has the last year.

Wonder how accurate of a trajectory they could get. I bet people are going to start searching for fragments. Meteorites sell for big money if I remember correctly.

Looks like the BTV airport camera caught the meteor. https://m.imgur.com/1AqNCIa

Hope everyone is ready for our favorite Canadian friends. Huge flocks of them just showed up Weds on the shoreline. Still out there today.

Get there if you can. I went 4 years ago and it was a quick flight from NYC. I think it's actually less flight time than flying to the west cost. What's incredible there is everything is geothermal. The power is like practically free and they send all the waste heat from the power plants to heat homes. Every person I asked said you basically just pay for maintenance on pipes and wires. They said it cost the equivalent of like $40 month for their heat and electricity.

Yeah he's told me some stories where like 5 miles of lines are like completely destroyed and only serve like 2 houses. He did say its like the top pick for lineman when they get sent out of state. Beautiful scenery and the people there are really nice to them and bring them food, drinks, etc. They deal with some terrible people here in CT and other states during outages. These guys work 16 hour straight shifts in bad weather dealing with deadly electricity to try and get your power back on. Though I would imagine most have generators there and are use to outages. Is losing power for like over a week common?

Whats up with Maine and power outages? I am guessing lots of rural areas and trees? My neighbor is a lineman for Eversource here in CT and he is sent to Maine all the time to help with restoration work. I saw him yesterday and he was being sent up there to do 5 days of 16 on 8 off. He loves it though as he is on the clock the second he gets in the truck. The out of state work is a goldmine for lineman. He said they get paid their regular rate of $52 an hour even when sleeping in the hotel and double time when actually working.

A lot of gypsy diseased oaks coming down in Tolland....

People are under the impression that everyone can get it. Some people appear to be completely immune to it. There are tons of studies on genetics and t-cell immunity playing a huge part. I can't tell you how many people I know that were living with someone that had symptoms and never got it. My wife has had the flu several times and I have never had the flu in my life. Same thing.

I would move it back to the first hole and clean up all the governor linkages including the top one. Spray them with carb cleaner. Get all the linkages on the outside of the carb as well. Its extremely common for those linkages to get all gummed up and siezed. All that heat and dust causes them to stick. It looks like it has a throttle cable? Does that not adjust the engine speed?

You ever do one of those dog DNA test? I ordered a wisdom panel dna kit and just got it yesterday. Will be cool to see what our rescue is. The vet thinks he is Dachshund and Chihuahua.