Mrs.J

Sun is peaking through over here. Has heated up the solar panels enough that we just had a mini avalanche onto the drive. Will have to go out and clear that off. 

1 hour ago, cbmclean said:

In my Head i picture everyone as their profile pic.  Stormtraker let IS Beethoven.  You are Bob Dylan.  Mrs. J is Mrs. Slocombe be from Are you being served.  Maestrobjw be is a sentient treble cleff.  I get disappointed when I see peoples real pics and they look nothing like I pictured them.

Eta: Just noticed someone else Ninja-ed me.

I love that you know who Mrs Slocombe from Are You Being Served is. I have in the past had a turquoise peacock stripe in my hair. May have to get it done again as I lurch towards 50. 

1 hour ago, Shady Grove said:

Can we all just get together and have a Pot Luck @Mrs.J's, she's always making something tasty?

1 hour ago, nw baltimore wx said:

Exactly what I was thinking. BYO Beverage and dish to share.

Thanks all 

currently the snow removal for our neighborhood is having a blast with the little front end loader on my square. Live in the way back of the neighborhood where the townhomes are. As our road is not cleared by the county we pay to have it cleared. Always a way better job as when we get to the start of our street with the single family homes there is usually a one lane pass by plows. Clearing out the end of the drives as well. 

Making curry on this chilly gray day. 

18 minutes ago, SomeguyfromTakomaPark said:

Totally unrelated to the current drama but I did a marathon yesterday.  As some of you know I lost my wife last summer and now I’m a single parent of two small kids.  Running has been the thing that keeps me sane.  There were no real races to do so I just did my own marathon at east Potomac park. I did it totally unsupported and used my car as the aid station. I’ve never done a race before but this was really fun!  I want to do a real one now!

We all have that thing that keeps us sane. So glad you found running to be that thing. And showing your kids that is a good thing also. 

Mr J and I just cleared the drive. About a 1/4” sleet covered by about 3” of snow covered with about another 1/4” sleet. Felt like we were shoveling sawdust. 

Birds at the feeder keep coming grabbing some seed and taking off. They are probably like damb this stuff hurts!

24.2/22 with a mix of pixie dust snow and graupel here. 

Just now, H2O said:

If y’all can hold off on any picnic or gtg until tail end of July I’m in. I will have all the time in the world from mid summer on

Honestly by that time all who want a vaccine will have gotten it. 

6 minutes ago, KAOS said:

Used to catch white perch, yellow perch, pike, carp, sunfish, etc. all in around the Magothy. Later, when I lived on Stoney Creek, I would catch rock fish. I could net some grass shrimp and use as bait.

I also grew up with Walleye. I really like fresh water fish.

25 minutes ago, CAPE said:

Suggestion- Post in banter. When you have something relevant and interesting that adds to the discussion, post in the main threads.

This right here is a good suggestion. When in doubt always post in banter. That is what I do. 

24 minutes ago, nw baltimore wx said:

When we do our big AmWx Mid Atlantic picnic this summer, you bring the dessert and I'll try and get some fish for the fryer.

That's a deal. Would be nice to have one this year. 

Just now, nw baltimore wx said:

Chessy Bay creeks are full of them.

Ok I need to check that out. Older Miss J will be a senior next year and we are going to start looking at colleges. She wants to check out St. Mary's Honors College. We have never been down to that part of MD so looking forward to it. 

12 minutes ago, nw baltimore wx said:

I'd sacrifice a lot of snow for waterfront property on a quality crabbing and white perch creek.

Where can you get white perch?!?!? I used to live close to Lake Erie and we would go out and get a load of yellow perch and have a huge fish fry. Have not had perch in sometime though. 

25 minutes ago, mappy said:

I know its been mentioned before, but noticeable uptick in the birds at the feeder since this morning. Funny how they know weather is coming. 

So true. All the snow is melted off the deck now so just sent Mr J out to refill the cat cable. 

9 minutes ago, North Balti Zen said:

Um. you grew up in the 80s in Ohio and are into gaming and watching the weather channel?

 

Off to find a time machine to tell my central ohio growing up in the 80s self to paper the state looking for you for a prom proposal...

Never went to my prom. Was in band, an artist, and an introvert. Think of the Ally Sheedy character in Breakfast club. 

Game table mostly done. Need to still add the gear pulls when I get them. It is a used IKEA table I got off of FB marketplace for $40. $30 worth of milk paint and black wax, sand paper, and my design with help from Mr. J on the gear registry. Chairs are those outside aluminum type that I got an amazing deal on. It is the first time I have used wax to protect let alone tinted. But it gave the paint a nice patina especially on the top. 

55 minutes ago, clskinsfan said:

Man I miss TWC from the 90's. That was primetime TV then.

I used to get made fun of from my family when I was a kid and TWC launched. I watched it like a normal teenager would bing MTV back then. 

I will tell you what. The siren alert on Carrot Weather App can literally scare the crap out of you when it goes off!

35 minutes ago, clskinsfan said:

Pfizer. It's not awful. Just chills, aches and joint soreness. Almost feels like a bad hangover without the fun last night

35 minutes ago, mattie g said:

Getting my first today

Yea to you both! As a cancer survivor I am slated for phase 2. Mr. J will be in with the "healthy" folks. 

Was thinking about my most memorable winter event and realized it does not deal with snow at all. In college I was a commuter to BGSU in OH. Did not have the funds to be able to live on campus. Anyways was in my Jr. year and I needed to take a humanities class and found out that Severe and Unusual Weather was under that umbrella. Don't ask me why don't remember. I do remember the profs name though Dr. Glen Fry. It was just the start of spring semester around February. Growing up in NW OH I am used to snow every winter. But that one winter we had a huge sleet dump. I was driving back home on I-75 and remember slugging through about an inch of sleet that was raining down.

The next time I had my Severe weather class we spent the entire session on the sleet that piled up. Going to a university that had a cemetery in the middle of it, freight train tracks on one side of it, I-75 on the other, with bars just over the tracks. The National Tractor Pull every August and windy weather all year long, the sleet was the big thing. 

20 minutes ago, dailylurker said:

I'm opposite of most people here. I hate tracking events and only enjoy the actual weather. Once a storm starts I tune out and no longer even look at radar. 

Being that most of the time I just don’t understand all that goes into tracking, I am the same way. I am happy just being an observer at the ground level and letting my eyes help those confirm what they are tracking. 

2 hours ago, H2O said:

Unpopular opinion but lemon starburst are good

I completely agree with this statement. 

On another note darn today was brutal out. The younger Miss J had a lesson at an indoor arena this afternoon. The only thing an indoor does is keep you dry in the winter. I swear that wind seeped through the walls. My toes were numb. 

I can see the !!

11 minutes ago, vastateofmind said:

@Thanatos_I_Am -- go back a number of pages in banter to earlier this week, @Mrs.J posted some in-progress pics of her project. It's an awesome repurposing and refinishing of a game table...and as I mentioned earlier, the drawer pulls on it are particularly cool from a thematic standpoint. 

Here is the registry all placed and ready to paint tomorrow. I may even have it all finished by tomorrow. Minus the gear pulls on the side.  

1 hour ago, Thanatos_I_Am said:

Missed what you said you were working on. What is it? 

I am taking a table I got for $40 for a games table. I am working on painting it with milk paint and do a Steampunk theme. Hope to have it done the end of this week. 

Starting my project I showed last week. One of my favorite things hand cutting out a registry. 16 to do.