4 hours ago, kdxken said:

ESPN

Aaron Judge sets MLB record with fourth, four-strikeout playoff game

The Cleveland pitching coach knows how to pitch to Judge and not walk him, pitchers have been executing his plan perfectly.

1 hour ago, CoastalWx said:

BTW.  New England oil prices.com ftw.

 

https://www.newenglandoil.com

 

 

$5.60 at my guys place, not the cheapest.

1 hour ago, CoastalWx said:

I don’t have an oil provider, just have rolled with cheapest one. But yeah I’m sort of screwed not locking in based on having a contract ( I think that’s needed?)  Seriously looking into wood stove or insert to see if it’s economical. Mini splits an option too. 

I did both, I have a heat pump, wood stove and oil heat, I choose the cheapest which is usally wood especially when it's free but putting the heat pump on this morning for a couple hours won't kill me.

7 hours ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

Yes. I guess people want to stray from the usual spot?

Where we thinking? I have that weekend open so Im game for anywhere.

31 minutes ago, Spanks45 said:

Definitely not as vibrant as the color to the north, but really nice yellows around here. Better than brown....

I don't have a lot of bright red and yellow where I am either, the north had a really good year.

12 hours ago, Whineminster said:

He's saying 24% is dry enough that it won't sizzle.  If you season wood in a shed you can get below 15%, no? 

I get my wood down to 20% or less and it burns great with very little creosote or ash in my flue.

12 hours ago, kdxken said:

You rarely find wood at 15%. Locust wood won't even sizzle at 24.

My favorite firewood, not much here in Central Mass.

2 hours ago, CoastalWx said:

I may look into those as well. Mini splits right? I just don't want pipes running up and down the sides of my house.

I already had a forced hot air system so they just added to that, same idea as a mini-split.

1 hour ago, powderfreak said:

I will say the new heat pump works great here for very efficient heating on electric now. And locked in $2.50/gallon propane for the winter (last winter I paid $4).

Going to be a much cheaper winter at least monthly bills, but also factor in the thousands for the A/C, Heat mini split, haha.

We've been using out new heat pump too, just enough to take the chill out and not touching the oil at all.

Great pic Ken

1 hour ago, TauntonBlizzard2013 said:

Same.

This lot was the last lot to be built on, so all kids of junk was thrown here while the other houses were being built I’d imagine.

Every time I dig a hole for any plants or whatever it’s a Herculean effort because of all the rocks and what not.

That's New England, you wouldn't believe the amount of rocks I dug up when I put my lawn in.

1 hour ago, dryslot said:

That's why i asked, I'm not sure there's a savings burning wood.

There's a huge savings burning wood where I live, wood might be more expensive near the bigger cities but I never spent more than $880 for wood in one year. I've spent triple plus that on oil before I had the wood stove.

2 hours ago, dryslot said:

How much a cord? How many cord's will you burn?

I got them free this year, just had to cut and split myself. I have two years worth. I usually burn 3 1/2-4 1/2 cords a year. When  I last bought it was $220 a cord.

7 minutes ago, weathafella said:

Agree!  The change from last week to this week is significant.

I've been seeing some nice reds this week.

1 hour ago, mreaves said:

This will get through to March/April at least. 

I'm fortunate I got filled below $4.00 and I'm all set for the year with my wood stove and heat pump, though electric jumping up isn't helping. I guess I'll burn more wood.

21 hours ago, IrishRob17 said:

Me too

Me three

1 hour ago, Snowcrazed71 said:

To those of you who don't realize how scary of a situation this is. My folks, and my brother his wife and their three young girls live in Cape Coral. They're in direct path of the storm. They were not notified of an evacuation until yesterday around 5:00 p.m. and it was too late at that time for them to evacuate. Roads were already flooded.. didn't want to risk driving with sporadic tornadoes. The point is, the evacuations weren't put up for them until late afternoon yesterday. Now they're hunkered down in their home and they're contingency plan is to go into the Attic if the flood waters get too high. For those of you were saying let's go... bring on the storm.. or can't wait to see what kind of damage it does, I tell you to pray instead. I'm one of the biggest Weather Geeks you'll ever find, and I find every storm fascinating and exciting. This time, I'm terrified. They're very responsible people put in a very unfortunate circumstance. And I'm guaranteeing you that most people are in the same shoes as they are. The storm is no joke, and all I'm praying for is that they're safe when this is over. Please pray my friends, please pray for them.

Similar thing happened to my brother in law and his family, they thought they could go to a shelter where it's safer and they're all closed so they're forced to hunker down in their house and pray, my wife said this is pretty scary for them and they've been through a few bad storms living down there. He's especially worried about the storm surge where he lives.

23 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

The line are to delineate between more and less preferred regions for landfall, and the arrow adds emphasis.

I thought that was self explanatory

5 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

My grass is growing the fastest since May.

Mine is too, hasn't looked better all year.

3 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

20” of rain in 2 months will do that . Looks good 

All my grass came back nice and green too, been mowing every week.

27 minutes ago, Cold Miser said:

Closing camp for the summer.  Snow and 30s this a.m. and sun and 40s in the afternoon.  Stacking and storing firewood, and of course, putting to sleep more super uncomfortable Adirondack chairs that no one uses.

That barometric pressure gauge is from 1920 or so.

I have an old barometer from my grandfather, well made and is still accurate.

18 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Capicola? 

Gabba Goo

Im 68/63, nice with the car windows down a bit

8 hours ago, dryslot said:

Hit up my buddy yesterday for some crab meat and scallops, This was today's lunch at work, Nothing like fresh picked.

 

I prefer crab over lobster, when I went to the Nordic Lodge in Rhode Island I probably ate 5lbs of crab legs, my brother in law had 5 lobsters.

41 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

That is one of the most underrated winters..one of  my favorites. 93-94 gets all of the accolades because it was better for the densely populated CJ zone, but 92-93 had two immense signature events. And its not an IMBY thing because I wasn't anywhere close to a jack in either one.

Also was the first good winter after a long string of duds. The Dec storm really set the tone.