Pellet heads!! What's up today?

KITTY SHOW
Chupi helping with the electronics
Chupi keeping guard..
Perched on the mantle

Little fur friends

 

I just can't justify in my mind getting one to move a few pallets 20-30'. Not like I could use it to move them from the garage into the basement or from the yard to the garage. Give it another few years and that option may look more attractive

 

Looks like the next 10 days are going to be in the upper 40's and low 50's around here. Maybe finally turning the corner into spring. Of course it is New England so anything can happen on any given day. I remember one year in the 1980's we had like 10-12 " of snow on my ex's birthday, April 17th. Then it went back into the 60's and it was all gone in a day or two.

sam

 

Fair enough. I'll remind you in 3 years - "In the year 2025" ..

 

According to AAA, average price for gasoline in NH is $4.01/gal. Saw some $3.99/gal in Exeter Friday, price has gone up almost $.50/gal in the past 7-10 days.

sam

 

Where at 3.89 for regular and 4.79 for diesel.

 

April 17th 1982….

 

1982....I was high.

 

I was in High School, LOL.

 

1982 I was married for 9 years at that point and we had a warm spring
with lots of rain

 

I was 1

 

1982....My daughter was born ....Married one year....Just celebrated 41 together on the 4th
Time flies

 

Francestown, NH, April 29, 1987, we got 18" and Boston received more. The ex and I moved from KS to NH, arriving a couple of days before the storm and had to return the uhaul to Middlesex, MA the day after the storm hit (the closest terminal at the time).

 

In 82 we'd been married for 5 yrs, daughters were 6 & 3, had moved from Milford to Manchester 6 months prior. Had gone thru a govt job training program (CETA) to get retrained in electronics and in Dec '81 got a job as the store service tech at the new Chuck E Cheese in Manchester. CETA programs weren't that great but started me on a 35 yr career as a field service tech in vending/amusement, payphone and copiers/printers/networking. Worked for me anyway, of the 20 people who were in the program with me, I ended up being the only one who got a job working with electronics.

sam

 

Since yesterday the AAA avg NH gasoline price went up from $4.01 to $4.07. In California , LA county price hit $7 this weekend.
Read a NH Reddit post that heating oil went from $4.09 to $4.54 in 1 week. Diesel is around $5 most of the country, that's going to effect prices on just about everything shipping costs will go up.

Looked on Fallons web site to check pellet prices. Since last April Vermont went from $320 to $335/ton, Wood & Sons from $310 to $320. Wonder if they will have their spring sale this year.

sam

 

$4.54 for off-road Diesel this am. Rob's getting his pellet-roasting ash in gear and getting the RV80 up & running this week.

 

For those who use Over The Air (OTA aka an antenna) for TV this may be of some use.

Over the past couple years a lot of TV stations had to change the actual VHF or UHF channel they broadcast on thanks to the wonderful FCC selling off the UHF bands above ch 36 for cell phone channels and some lower VHF channels in the ch 2-6 range. This was referred to as the "Repack". As this forced stations to have to do transmitter work it took a couple years to get it all done (some stations are still waiting for techs to do the work, covid and all). So every few months you had to do a rescan of channels.

We noticed some stations didn't come in as well, some were gone. Saw a YouTube video on the Antenna Man channel where he reviewed some new antenna from Televes that have been redesigned to focus on the high VHF (7-13) and UHF up to ch 36. Also comes with an amp and a new 5G filter. Decided to give the DATBOSS LR Mix HI-VHF UHF 149884 a try. Expensive ( $210) but made quite a difference in both stations received and signal strength. Went from 43 to 52 channels received (got back the CH 68 ION stations we lost after they did their frequency change) and all the stations are now 4-5 bars on the signal meter. Old antenna was the ChannelMaster CM 4228HD.
Even though we're half way up a hill and only 45 miles from most of the transmitters, we have a lot of trees in the path and this antenna makes a difference.

sam

Harman P43 Dec 2013, hopper extension 2016

 

I bought the $18 Amazon OTA flat antenna to have as a back-up in case of dish/cable outages. I get approx. 30 channels, although I have not done a re-scan since I bought it back in Dec. '19. https://tinyurl.com/4m4uvsy5