Random Thoughts 14: I can see clearly now 2020 edition

[SaraV]

Happy things for the day...

1) Thinking a Visa gift card is $0, but it has $55.xx on it. Need to find something I want. New sports gear? Hmm. Which team?
2) My niece, who has a learning disability, just shared a post on FB of pics her mom (my sister) took on her first day of HS last year. She commented on it "I love high school!" with hearts and smiley face emoji. I'm glad to see her say that.
3) Seeing my husband's 92 year old grandpa comment on his grandkids' posts on FB as they share pics of his great-grandkids. Love him.

 

[BoxsterCy]

It would be good to burn off some of that stale gas and build up in the engine. It's probably outside, just hang out by the runways and the planes will blow the Covid off you.

Just fueled it up. 280 miles on 15 gallons is the worst mileage since I bought the Boxster a dozen years ago. It's not a mileage monster, of course, but usually gets 23 mph but not on little city trips of five miles or less.

Here my wheelage miles since Covid-19, proving I have no life and don't have people to see, places to go, things to do

Das Audi = 211​

Dat Boxster = 602​

De Bicycle = 666​

666? Not worried, the real **** number is now 2020.

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[BCClone]

Just fueled it up. 280 miles on 15 gallons is the worst mileage since I bought the Boxster a dozen years ago. It's not a mileage monster, of course, but usually gets 23 mph but not on little city trips of five miles or less.

Here my wheelage miles since Covid-19, proving I have no life and don't have people to see, places to go, things to do

Das Audi = 211​

Dat Boxster = 602​

De Bicycle = 666​

666? Not worried, the real **** number is now 2020.

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I have more miles than that in my lawnmowers.

 

[SCyclone]

Going to buy a pellet grill, leaning toward the Green Mountain Daniel Boone model. Any input/experience would be appreciated.

 

[NWICY]

Going to buy a pellet grill, leaning toward the Green Mountain Daniel Boone model. Any input/experience would be appreciated.

Somewhere back in the archives there is a thread on that. No recs from me I'm still using a 22.5 Weber kettle grill that I've had to replace the handles and top grate on, also need a new bottom grate I noticed that when I started a batch of coals in it earlier this wk.

 

[BCClone]

Going to buy a pellet grill, leaning toward the Green Mountain Daniel Boone model. Any input/experience would be appreciated.

I have a plain LP grill and an electric smoker. Have heard good things about what you're looking at, but having used it myself.

 

[Cyclones_R_GR8]

Going to buy a pellet grill, leaning toward the Green Mountain Daniel Boone model. Any input/experience would be appreciated.

Here are some past threads

https://cyclonefanatic.com/forum/threads/pellet-grills.237460/

https://cyclonefanatic.com/forum/threads/grills-grills-grills.255904/

https://cyclonefanatic.com/forum/threads/smoker-questions.251225/

 

[ScottyP]

Going to buy a pellet grill, leaning toward the Green Mountain Daniel Boone model. Any input/experience would be appreciated.

Just got a Traeger this past week. One piece of advice I received is to shop vac out the inside regularly to clean up the pellet residue.

 

[wxman1]

Unfortunately we didn't get going early enough to get up to Mason City/Clear Lake (Happy BCC ). Add on that we ran into a quirk with starting the Arrow that lead to flooding the engine before finally getting it started using the flooded start procedure. Apparently you have to push in the key while you turn it and keep pushing it while it starts (usually only 2-4 blades through) but my dad accidentally let up and then didn't do that on the retry which lead to the flood.

On the bright side I probably won't forget how to start a flooded engine anytime soon. Mixture Idle/Cutoff, throttle full, boost pump off, crank and adjust mixture until it fires.

 

[BCClone]

Unfortunately we didn't get going early enough to get up to Mason City/Clear Lake (Happy BCC ). Add on that we ran into a quirk with starting the Arrow that lead to flooding the engine before finally getting it started using the flooded start procedure. Apparently you have to push in the key while you turn it and keep pushing it while it starts (usually only 2-4 blades through) but my dad accidentally let up and then didn't do that on the retry which lead to the flood.

On the bright side I probably won't forget how to start a flooded engine anytime soon. Mixture Idle/Cutoff, throttle full, boost pump off, crank and adjust mixture until it fires.

Just taking a small cruise around town and the area with pops then?

 

[jcyclonee]

My kinda woman back in college. Except for that wedding ring thing, I was no homewrecker (marriage wise).

Agree. Who wanted to date the gal that studied on Friday Night?

In hind sight, that probably would have been a good idea.

 

[oldman]

I was in like Kindergarten when I watched that, while I can tell you what my sandbox equipment looked like I only remember liking the smoking guns from the intro of gunsmoke.

We are now rewatching Gunsmoke on WeTV -- Perry Mason, Andy Griffith, Hogan's Heroes, and The Rifleman are also on our DVR list.

 

[wxman1]

Just taking a small cruise around town and the area with pops then?

Flew to Marshalltown to check out damage over there and take some pictures of some of our families farms near there and came back.

 

[NWICY]

Flew to Marshalltown to check out damage over there and take some pictures of some of our families farms near there and came back.

Pretty darn rough wasn't it?

 

[BoxsterCy]

Unfortunately we didn't get going early enough to get up to Mason City/Clear Lake (Happy BCC ). Add on that we ran into a quirk with starting the Arrow that lead to flooding the engine before finally getting it started using the flooded start procedure. Apparently you have to push in the key while you turn it and keep pushing it while it starts (usually only 2-4 blades through) but my dad accidentally let up and then didn't do that on the retry which lead to the flood.

On the bright side I probably won't forget how to start a flooded engine anytime soon. Mixture Idle/Cutoff, throttle full, boost pump off, crank and adjust mixture until it fires.

Electric starts are nice. If the Sopwith Camel doesn't start after a few tries I am done cause Woodstock is too small to keep pulling the prop repeatedly.

 

[wxman1]

Pretty darn rough wasn't it?

One of the first things that got me as we were climbing out of CID was the lighter color of the corn from laying down. Numerous times was all WTF is with that random pattern of nothing in a field only to realize it was from parts of bins and stuff that rolled/bounced through the field. The Mid-Iowa Co-Op north of Tama took a HARD hit.

 

[wxman1]

Electric starts are nice. If the Sopwith Camel doesn't start after a few tries I am done cause Woodstock is too small to keep pulling the prop repeatedly.

Dad and I quickly agreed that there is no chance we are hand propping a 200HP Lycoming. I have done a 160HP Continental on a 172 before and that was dumb enough.

 

[ImJustKCClone]

One of the first things that got me as we were climbing out of CID was the lighter color of the corn from laying down. Numerous times was all WTF is with that random pattern of nothing in a field only to realize it was from parts of bins and stuff that rolled/bounced through the field. The Mid-Iowa Co-Op north of Tama took a HARD hit.

We've driven across 30 several times now (picked up the new (to us) RV yesterday afternoon), and what fascinates me (from ground level) is looking at a field where nearly all of the corn is laying flat, but random stalks are upright...maybe 1/100 or so. How did those individual plants survive when everything around them is dead? To give a better mental image, it looks like the upright stalks are social distancing.

 

[wxman1]

We've driven across 30 several times now (picked up the new (to us) RV yesterday afternoon), and what fascinates me (from ground level) is looking at a field where nearly all of the corn is laying flat, but random stalks are upright...maybe 1/100 or so. How did those individual plants survive when everything around them is dead? To give a better mental image, it looks like the upright stalks are social distancing.

TWICE you come over here without saying hi. I see how it is.

Also I hope you enjoyed the cluster of 151 around Fairfax right now. Hopefully 80th street is back open now. My in-laws live right over there and it SUCKED getting there last week.

 

[madguy30]

We've driven across 30 several times now (picked up the new (to us) RV yesterday afternoon), and what fascinates me (from ground level) is looking at a field where nearly all of the corn is laying flat, but random stalks are upright...maybe 1/100 or so. How did those individual plants survive when everything around them is dead? To give a better mental image, it looks like the upright stalks are social distancing.

Kind of like how some buildings get blown up by these storms or tornadoes but then the one next to it has nothing at all.

When we de-tassled if there was knocked down corn, we still had to de-tassle it and for whatever reason it was always way harder to pull those plants like they were binding their whole strength in survival mode.

Thinking of a whole field like that is a nightmare.