OT - What are you doing now? (2025)

keener75

poster said:

Almost done now other than a couple trim pcs. I have a rolled angle ring that will drop into the existing hole to pretty that up too. Just gotta steal it off my old table when the weather permits.

That's a great looking table and knowing your environment it's sure to last!

fishlessman

poster said:

Canugghead said:

@poster That's a beauty and smart to get it done before the 25% tariff hit 🤣

Lol ya. Not much steel in this one though, but the stainless was plenty expensive enough.

Edit: nevermind, looks like stainless has tariffs too, thought it wasn't included 

stainless has gone crazy in the last 6 months, kinda doubt its with the tariffs though with canada. i remember last summer that some of the big mills over seas where slowing down production out of fears that manufacturing would slow down this spring.

CPFC1905

No, I have no idea either why the mighty Eagles are not playing this weekend, and then it’s the international break - so in fact the question is, how do I cope?  The ‘also rans’  are playing, so let’s take a spin through this round of encounters which will simply affirm all we have learnt already.  And for clarity that’s; Liverpool have it in the bag, the bottom three are going down, Man City, Man Utd and Spurs remain ‘languishing’ in variously improbable league positions. 

Saturday 

Everton v West Ham, eight games undefeated for the Toffees and the Hammers are really not the lads you’d call upon to avert the ninth. 1-0, classic Moyes.

Ipswich v Forest, the Tractor boys show glimpses in every game but fails o convert that to points, while their guest just seem to keep the boiler stoked. Initialy close but ends with comfortable away win. 0-2

Man City v Brighton, sadly the filthy Seagulls have found reliable form and are back nudging against the top tier.  No one can’t trust cIty to turn in consecutive positive results. Way harder to call than I would prefer, but duty requires me to declare a home win, 2-1

Southampton v Wolves, you wonder what the point is for Saints now.  Save the pant and do this one on Zoom. 0-2

Bournemouth v Brentford, both teams are in the doldrums having mounted serious runs toward the higher echelons. Feels a bit like draw, so 1-1

Sunday

Arsenal v Chelsea, second host fourth but to no great fanfare.  Almost all results almost make no difference. Gunners without a win in the last three, Chels’ have back to back wins behind them, so 1-2.

Fulham v Spurs, no luck in these teams’ respective lower mid-table positions. Both are hoping to salvage something from the season but identical form across the last 10 matches suggests a draw, but given this is Spurs it could be a several dozen goal extravaganza. Meh 2-2

Leicester v Man Utd, should be a routine away win, even for Utd. 0-2

That’s your lot, lads.  Don’t forget Super Saturday in the Six Nations - can England really dare to dream? Not really as Ireland will whack Italy.

Foghorn

CPFC1905 said:

No, I have no idea either why the mighty Eagles are not playing this weekend, and then it’s the international break - so in fact the question is, how do I cope?  The ‘also rans’  are playing, so let’s take a spin through this round of encounters which will simply affirm all we have learnt already.  And for clarity that’s; Liverpool have it in the bag, the bottom three are going down, Man City, Man Utd and Spurs remain ‘languishing’ in variously improbable league positions. 

Saturday 

Everton v West Ham, eight games undefeated for the Toffees and the Hammers are really not the lads you’d call upon to avert the ninth. 1-0, classic Moyes.

Ipswich v Forest, the Tractor boys show glimpses in every game but fails o convert that to points, while their guest just seem to keep the boiler stoked. Initialy close but ends with comfortable away win. 0-2

Man City v Brighton, sadly the filthy Seagulls have found reliable form and are back nudging against the top tier.  No one can’t trust cIty to turn in consecutive positive results. Way harder to call than I would prefer, but duty requires me to declare a home win, 2-1

Southampton v Wolves, you wonder what the point is for Saints now.  Save the pant and do this one on Zoom. 0-2

Bournemouth v Brentford, both teams are in the doldrums having mounted serious runs toward the higher echelons. Feels a bit like draw, so 1-1

Sunday

Arsenal v Chelsea, second host fourth but to no great fanfare.  Almost all results almost make no difference. Gunners without a win in the last three, Chels’ have back to back wins behind them, so 1-2.

Fulham v Spurs, no luck in these teams’ respective lower mid-table positions. Both are hoping to salvage something from the season but identical form across the last 10 matches suggests a draw, but given this is Spurs it could be a several dozen goal extravaganza. Meh 2-2

Leicester v Man Utd, should be a routine away win, even for Utd. 0-2

That’s your lot, lads.  Don’t forget Super Saturday in the Six Nations - can England really dare to dream? Not really as Ireland will whack Italy.

Thank you as always.  With that said, I find that I don't have my usual enthusiasm today because Crystal Palace aren't playing - no... wait... that's not it.  

Maybe it's because, as you point out, there isn't really much point to many of the matches as the final results are largely determined.  It might also be because the most important issue in the sports world is determining if Cooper Flagg will be ready for the NCAA tournament as March Madness is upon us.

The only insight I might offer is that I think we are seeing the benefits of Chelsea having a massive roster as we get toward the end of the season.  The level of energy is always higher when you have more players who are competing for playing time and you can sustain injuries without much drop off in quality.

Mickey

Sitting my butt in Florida and a nice cool 70° instead of the 89° in Texas. I love this time of the year in Florida. 

Battleborn

I survived the Great Vegas Snow Blizzard of 2025 last night. There were actual real life snowflakes for like 10 minutes last night. 

Foghorn

Battleborn said:

I survived the Great Vegas Snow Blizzard of 2025 last night. There were actual real life snowflakes for like 10 minutes last night. 

Glad to hear you made it through that.  Thanks for checking in.  

hoosier_egger

Finally put my handle on. 

Botch

The "Great Timing Gods" normally hate me, but every once in a while they smile down.
The chain-link fence across the back of my property had some trees growing up along it, on both sides of the fence.  I should've gotten them cut down last spring, but pulled my back and it never happened; didn't look so bad but was a pain to mow around.  This spring I knew I had to get in there before things started budding, reserved a chainsaw at the local Home Depot but it snowed the night before.  
This morning I looked at the weather report and it looks like next Tuesday will be the only day snow-free and not raining, so I reserved another HD chainsaw.  This afternoon there was a knock on my door, the local power company, and they wanted access to my back fenceline to cut down the trees that would eventually interfere with the power lines above.  Sweet!  
They cut everything down, including two trees that were maybe 6 feet away from my fence that I wanted to leave (for eventual shade) but it is what it is.  They dragged everything out and chipped it all up, hauled away.  Sweet!  Every once in a while, They smile down.
 
I do have one question for any arborists we may have on the forum.  The small tree trunks/shoots that were all cut, turned a beautiful but unnatural blue:
 

 
At first I thought they sprayed the stumps with some kind of herbicide, but I can see that some of the chips to the right from the chainsaw were also blue (and I couldn't see any overspray).  Any idea if this is natural?  (the trees are cottonwoods).  tia.  

fishlessman

Botch said:

The "Great Timing Gods" normally hate me, but every once in a while they smile down.
The chain-link fence across the back of my property had some trees growing up along it, on both sides of the fence.  I should've gotten them cut down last spring, but pulled my back and it never happened; didn't look so bad but was a pain to mow around.  This spring I knew I had to get in there before things started budding, reserved a chainsaw at the local Home Depot but it snowed the night before.  
This morning I looked at the weather report and it looks like next Tuesday will be the only day snow-free and not raining, so I reserved another HD chainsaw.  This afternoon there was a knock on my door, the local power company, and they wanted access to my back fenceline to cut down the trees that would eventually interfere with the power lines above.  Sweet!  
They cut everything down, including two trees that were maybe 6 feet away from my fence that I wanted to leave (for eventual shade) but it is what it is.  They dragged everything out and chipped it all up, hauled away.  Sweet!  Every once in a while, They smile down.
 
I do have one question for any arborists we may have on the forum.  The small tree trunks/shoots that were all cut, turned a beautiful but unnatural blue:
 

 
At first I thought they sprayed the stumps with some kind of herbicide, but I can see that some of the chips to the right from the chainsaw were also blue (and I couldn't see any overspray).  Any idea if this is natural?  (the trees are cottonwoods).  tia.  

Never seen that blue thing.   Buy some lye, I think can only buy food grade now. Drill a hole down the center and add lye to kill it.   Then make pretzels with the lye

shtgunal3

Awesome handle @hoosier_egger

MasterC

hoosier_egger said:

Finally put my handle on. 

Sweet, that's nice. I need a new handle on  my large. Did you print that or purchase it from someone?

alaskanassasin

I am intrigued @Botch follow up if you ever figure that out.

lousubcap

Surveying the damage from this morning's hail storm.  Most intense I've experienced since moving here 27 years ago.  (Skylights held-trying to get a good look at the roof.)

And this is forty minutes after the storm passed thru and took out every window screen and punctured several shutters on the side taking the main brunt:

Always reminded that there are many in worse shape.  
Edit:  Outside ambient temperature 62*F.  Beware The Ides of March!

Canugghead

lousubcap said:

Surveying the damage from this morning's hail storm.  Most intense I've experienced since moving here 27 years ago.  (Skylights held-trying to get a good look at the roof.)

And this is forty minutes after the storm passed thru and took out every window screen and punctured several shutters on the side taking the main brunt:

Always reminded that there are many in worse shape.  
Edit:  Beware The Ides of March!

Wow @lousubcap, that's scary! is that teaspoon or TB?

Our D-I-L has a friend whose husband travels around in the US fixing hail damage on cars! Wonder if he'll have to start paying or collecting tariffs 🤣😂

WeberWho

lousubcap said:

Surveying the damage from this morning's hail storm.  Most intense I've experienced since moving here 27 years ago.  (Skylights held-trying to get a good look at the roof.)

And this is forty minutes after the storm passed thru and took out every window screen and punctured several shutters on the side taking the main brunt:

Always reminded that there are many in worse shape.  
Edit:  Outside ambient temperature 62*F.  Beware The Ides of March!

That doesn't look like fun! We had our roof replaced last summer from hail damage. Hopefully your insurance adjuster makes it some easy work on your end. I couldn't have asked for a better experience working with our adjuster and contractor through everything last year. I'm hoping you get the same treatment. A quality contractor makes a world of difference.

lousubcap

@Canugghead - teaspoon.  Still got some hail on the ground 5 hours later.  Outside temp in the mid 60's*F. 

MasterC

Glad you're safe cap and hope the damage is minimal 

ColbyLang

Just finished building son’s giant soccer goal in the yard and booked our trip to Charlotte in May for the PGA Championship @ Quail Hollow

johnmitchell

@lousubcap. Glad you are safe and hopefully the damage is not to bad

Battleborn

Took the wife and girls to lunch today. My youngest got a pepperoni pizza and had half left over when we were done. Tonight we decided to have an “everyone fend for themselves” dinner. I asked my daughter if she wanted her leftover pizza and she said no, she was stuffed. So I carefully arranged the pizza on a pan and put it in the oven to reheat for myself. Let me tell you, it was perfection as far as leftover pizza goes. Crust was nice and crisp. Cheese was melty and gooey. Pepperoni had a nice char and slightly greasy. As we sat down to have family movie night, my daughter looks over and says, “did you take my pizza?” 

Needless to say, I’m now sad because she took it back. 

Botch

Battleborn said:

Took the wife and girls to lunch today. My youngest got a pepperoni pizza and had half left over when we were done. Tonight we decided to have an “everyone fend for themselves” dinner. I asked my daughter if she wanted her leftover pizza and she said no, she was stuffed. So I carefully arranged the pizza on a pan and put it in the oven to reheat for myself. Let me tell you, it was perfection as far as leftover pizza goes. Crust was nice and crisp. Cheese was melty and gooey. Pepperoni had a nice char and slightly greasy. As we sat down to have family movie night, my daughter looks over and says, “did you take my pizza?” 

Needless to say, I’m now sad because she took it back. 

Turned off your Body Camera again, eh?    

GrateEggspectations

Cooking while Seasick Steve is blasting. 

poster

Headed to the camp for the weekend

SamIAm2

@DoubleEgger - just watched the day eight Grand Sumo Highlights program I recorded and was not surprised to see the shin Yokozuna Hoshoryu lose a third bout. His last two losses were kiboshi so monetary and prestige at the same time. 

fishlessman

mud season has begun.....building a duck pond in the driveway.  took these yesterday before the rain

johnmitchell

Lucky you got the Rover fish  to get in and out😳

fishlessman

johnmitchell said:

Lucky you got the Rover fish  to get in and out😳

just replaced it with a lexus gx 460 suv.....going to need a lift kit next

DoubleEgger

fishlessman said:

johnmitchell said:

Lucky you got the Rover fish  to get in and out😳

just replaced it with a lexus gx 460 suv.....going to need a lift kit next

And about 20 loads of gravel… 

fishlessman

DoubleEgger said:

fishlessman said:

johnmitchell said:

Lucky you got the Rover fish  to get in and out😳

just replaced it with a lexus gx 460 suv.....going to need a lift kit next

And about 20 loads of gravel… 

that could be a problem with the conservation people. as soon as the snow piles finish melting ill fix the drainage, i have it draining into a large pile of pine needles to filter it before it moves into the drinking water supply. its probably 30 loads plus of needles from raking under the pine trees they wont let me cut down. happens every spring, the town plows my yard every winter so they can turn the trucks around and everything blocks off the drainage. just dont get caught fixing the drainage