DavisStraight

1 hour ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

I’ve had to have the woodstove going the first 4 days of April after having open windows the week before. 

Same here

3 hours ago, S&P said:

SI am always looking for teacher tips, I follow this guy on insta, mike bender, does a nice job . I have a problem with the sway on the backswing, this particular lesson he teaches the turn to avoid the sway. He is based out of Lake Mary Florida. Gonna have the wife gift me some lessons from him when we get down there. 

Can’t seem to get this link to work 

https://www.instagram.com/p/CNK7NFoMjdf/?igshid=3zxvdzcx9d56

I have that problem with the sway too, lose a lot of distance.

 

15 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

On another topic, there was a big boom felt and heard across our town about a half an hour ago. Shook the house.  

Same as the link you posted earlier today Dave?

37 minutes ago, PhineasC said:

I saw a family member this evening I haven't seen in 12+ months. She was masked-up and kept her distance, but she really wanted to see my kids and wish them a happy Easter, etc so she asked to meet outside at a relative's house.

She was asking about all of the traveling we have been doing between NH, MD, and DE (including many flights) over the past 12 months, and now we are also adding FL into the mix. She asked me point blank, "Aren't you scared to catch COVID? How are you doing this?" 

I was kinda taken aback by it. She is double, perhaps triple masked while asking this and like 10 feet away. This is a relative I have known my whole life. It was just a surreal experience. It really drove home for me how differently I am living right now compared to other people. There really are people out there who will not travel until the CDC/Fauci say they can. I find that just crazy.

I just said, "I am not scared of COVID." I couldn't think of what else to say. She seemed really concerned about this. We also talked about the vaccines, and my answers there were not compelling to her. I doubt I will be seeing her again soon.

It's going to take a long time for society to heal from this.

I know someone just like that, terrified of covid.

8 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

Did anyone figure out what had caused the booming/earthquake like event in SE Mass a couple of days ago?

Where did you read that dave?

1 hour ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

We all lack consistency though. I can go into a several hole stretch of good golf then completely lose it. Part of the fun is figuring out how to get it back. Sometimes it’s not until I’m driving home from the course though when I think I know what to do to fix i...then the next round rolls around and I already forgot ha. 

I've played good golf for 8 holes and lost it on the ninth. I was at 34 with a par 4 ninth to play and got a 9 for a 43, should have broke 40 easily.

3 minutes ago, WinterWolf said:

Start it about 10-15 minutes before you’re going to leave...that way you jump in and it’s running and warm, and off you go.  That’s the way you do it...then there’s no cold car..not even for 8 seconds lol. 

I think his 8 seconds is the walk from home to the car. We bought my mother one one year.

29 minutes ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

I’m usually better early in the season after a winter of watching youtube videos and working on my body movements in the mirror lol...but then I start tweaking too much mid season so I eventually go out of wack fading down the stretch. 

Are you one of those guys that watch the golf informercials and buy the latest great club? I have so many of those useless clubs, I have a bag full.

9 minutes ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

It’s usually playable above 50 with minimal wind and clear skies. 

I pray for that. Couple of years it was 40 and drizzle and it was miserable as much as I love golf. Hoping to hit the nice days in between the glop this year.

7 minutes ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

I don’t like it at all for spring activities. Sure there will be some 60+ days but overall, it doesn’t look good for consistent spring. 

Going to have to wear my winter gloves for golf I think. As long as there's no drizzle it's not too bad.

2 hours ago, Professional Lurker said:

I find that my game typically peaks in June. ...by August, sometimes I feel like I forgot how to play.

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Funny you say that because I'm similar, I seemed to lose it and struggle through August but usually find it again by the end of the year.

7 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

I had a dream last night that when I checked the GFS it was showing over 5,000 CAPE here towards the end of the run and so I checked this morning and it has nothing  

Only a wienie would have a dream like that, I had a dream too but I won't post the details.

9 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

Flurries in Putnam Ct at my Drs

Same here, we flurry

Projected low of 26, 34 right now, have the wood stove cranking.

1 minute ago, mreaves said:

I always look at it as if I just forgot all the bad habits I developed over the previous season. 

Good way to look at it but I pick up the bad habits easy, I'm going to try and hit the range more often this year, really helped my game when I used to stop by a couple times and week and hit a bucket.

12 hours ago, Professional Lurker said:

Played my first 9 yesterday. Missed a 5 footer for a birdie on the first hole. Got a triple on the last. Lol.

Made good contact and was able to work the ball surprisingly well considering i haven't swung a club since early November.

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Seems the first couple of weeks I stay true to fundamentals, nice easy swing, slow everything down. Then after a decent round or two I try ramping it up and it ends up making things worse.

3 hours ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

Ah... gotcha... do you think there will be a second gen?  I don't know how those work...      

I need to get the shingles one.  My primary care doc hasn't ever mentioned it and I keep forgetting to ask him.  I'm in my 50s...

People have told me that one sucks, but having had close family that got shingles...nasty

My wife just her second one last friday, she felt like she the flu for a day.

34 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

How much were tix?   I saw some crazy prices for bleachers

Have you've seen the tic prices for Sox opening day?  Crazy

20 minutes ago, weathafella said:

I remember opening day 1972-Sox/Yankees.   Temps in the mid 30s with thickening clouds and 3 inches of snow that night.   But the game got in while it was dry.   I couldn’t move my limbs for awhile after sitting there and I was in my 20s.  Boston won 2-1 but it was bullshit.  I was sitting in the grandstand behind the plate and Horace Clarke was definitely safe trying to score the tying run.

1976 got snowed out. I was laying in a hospital bed in Boston sox looking forward to watching the game.

20 minutes ago, ineedsnow said:

My dad lives in Baldwin Mills Quebec on lake lyster.. Perfect summer weather and amazing in winter.. That would be my top choice.. 

you parlez vous Francais?

4 minutes ago, weathafella said:

You should consider living in Eureka,CA

Or maybe Oregon or Washington state. I like 80 and dry, don't even mind 90+ and dry, just hate humidity.

28 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

@dendrite is pretty knowledgeable on this stuff. Or at least used to be...lol. We are all getting old now. 

I used to know some good cheap ones back 10-15 years ago but I haven’t kept up. 

Ambient is a decent company for that price range. I also recall AcuRite being good. I think they still make solid stations in that 100-200 range. 

If you’re willing to splurge just a little higher, I think you can get a lower end Davis for 250-300. 

I have an accurate, got it for Chritmas one year, it's pretty decent.

1 hour ago, tamarack said:

Flying Pond in Vienna and Mt. Vernon had 17-18" when I fished there on 3/20 but by the following Tuesday afternoon meltwater from tribs had lifted the ice away from the shore.  I could've stepped onto the good ice that afternoon but scrubbed my Wednesday plans because I might've had to wade/swim to get ashore after another 60° day.  Will likely float the canoe in early May, either at Flying for bass or "alligator hunting" for pike at North Pond in the Belgrades.

My uncle and his friend out in Conn one year at this time of year, walked onto the middle of the pond and fished, called it a day and when they got near shore there was about 6 feet of open water sale place they walked on ice that morning, they their gear across the water and just walked through it.

1 hour ago, Ginx snewx said:

Yea thats not good, either the impeller is shot or the float is or the on off differential is set too short. Short circuiting like that will burn a pump out fast. My parents finished basement flooded to 7 feet in 1983 and 2010 when power failed. 

I went into a house once that had water up to the top basement step, I almost walked into it but caught it in time. Indoor swimming pool.

2 minutes ago, TauntonBlizzard2013 said:

I’ll have to talk to you more about this, but you get money for selling the power? I’m pretty confused lol.

It's the excess power your panels make, they buy it back.