What did you do today 2026

[YellowSubmarine]

Wish I could say the same...

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I remember those days all too well. Being from OH, I was a regular in Pgh, Cleveland and that whole region. Retirement said no more. I used to hate March, my worse month of the year when up north. 'In like a lion, out like a Lamb'...if all goes well. In any case it will be smooth sailing real soon...cause I'm heading north for Easter; hence, my expectations.

 

[jollystomper]

Friday night date night! We went to a dance club for an hour lesson/refresh of the cha-cha, then danced the night away (or at least until 11, we are old ).

This morning I converted my desktop tower Win 10 hardware into a replacement NAS server. One of my NAS servers' motherboard had gone bad (when there are I/O errors on *all* of the drives, it probably is not a drive issue ). One less server in the home computing center. For now. I also continued organizing the piles of metal/wires/electronic/computing stuff from our winter cleanup that I plan to take to a local recycling company for big bucks (HA!) sometime next week

Late afternoon we met up with friends at a VFD in a nearby town for a fund raiser luncheon. They also had bingo afterwards, but DW and I are not yet ready to join the staid bingo crowd. After we finished eating we decided to walk around and explore the town (fortunately lots of downtown sidewalks that connected to parks and trails), and walked about 6 miles.

 

[grasshopper]

Yes, western diamondback. It was very laid-back and in no rush but always moving from one end of the pool fence to the other. Nobody was there but our group of five so no danger.

Friday and Saturday I spent some time cleaning up our fence line around the homestead. I do a snake check in the morning and evening now through October. Both dogs will let me know if a buzztail gets in the yard.

 

[1242Vintage]

Very horrible travel day yesterday. After numerous aircraft maintenance issues,
weather and flight delays, slept on a cot in the airport. Wasn’t fast enough online to book a hotel!

Praying today goes better, and when it does will be back in the comforts of home tonight.

 

[athena53]

Very horrible travel day yesterday. After numerous aircraft maintenance issues,
weather and flight delays, slept on a cot in the airport. Wasn’t fast enough online to book a hotel!

Praying today goes better, and when it does will be back in the comforts of home tonight.

Where is this? You're scaring me- I take off for DFW this afternoon, connecting to a flight to Rio after a 3.5-hour layover.

I hope you get home soon.

 

[1242Vintage]

Where is this? You're scaring me- I take off for DFW this afternoon, connecting to a flight to Rio after a 3.5-hour layover.

I hope you get home soon.

The picture is from IAH Houston this morning.

We are scheduled for a late afternoon departure. Currently relaxing in the United Airlines lounge.

 

[Pointby2]

Finished our quest to hike every trail in our local park, Santiago Oaks. Finished up with a big climb up Mountain Goat, then down Chutes, the last trail to mark off on my map. Penny, our four pound rescue, did every trail with us.

 

[pacergal]

Heading out later to pick up youngest grandson for his afternoon with us, He wants to go to Cold Stone ice cream on the way back after lunch, and if it does not rain, will go play at the park nearby.

 

[ArmchairMillionaire]

Adjusted the time on 19 clocks today, including two watches, three bedside clocks, (one digital, one with hands, and one flip-clock) a two-sided station clock, (two clocks) a gymnasium-style clock, a few assorted battery-powered clocks with hands, the clock on our programmable thermostat, the clock on our answering machine, the digital clocks on the stove and microwave, the digital clock on my iPod dock radio, a wall-clock in the garage, and three digital clocks outside in vehicles. Our newest vehicle changes time by itself and our two vintage vehicles stay on daylight-saving-time year-round since we only drive them in the summers.

We also have an indoor-outdoor thermometer which uses some type of radio signal to automatically adjust the time. The clocks on the laptops also adjust themselves. There are clocks built in to our TV and our VCR, but they are hidden during normal use so we don't bother to even set those.

At least moving them one hour forward is easier than moving some of them 11 hours forward like I have to do in the fall.

 

[Walt34]

Well, I hope I haven't jinxed myself, but I drained all the fuel out of the snow blower and put it down in the shed. I'll leave the gas cap off for a week or so and let the last of the fuel fumes dissipate and then move it to the unfinished part of the basement where I can do the rest of the off-season maintenance at my leisure in a climate controlled environment. I can only work on it in increments of 20-30 minutes at a time because of the back and joint issues. Today's high was 70°F and later in the week is forecast to be 76° so it seems the odds of snow are minimal.

 

[ArmchairMillionaire]

Well, I hope I haven't jinxed myself, but I drained all the fuel out of the snow blower and put it down in the shed. I'll leave the gas cap off for a week or so and let the last of the fuel fumes dissipate and then move it to the unfinished part of the basement where I can do the rest of the off-season maintenance at my leisure in a climate controlled environment. I can only work on it in increments of 20-30 minutes at a time because of the back and joint issues. Today's high was 70°F and later in the week is forecast to be 76° so it seems the odds of snow are minimal.

I'll be snowblowing on Tuesday/Wednesday most likely. We usually get dumped on and wake up to 12+ inches on the ground at the end of March or beginning of April. I usually try to deliberately run the snowblower out of fuel at the end of the season. It's usually sometime in April.

I didn't change the oil the last couple of years, so I'll probably do that this spring. We'll see, though, as it's getting pretty rusty. I've had it 12 years, though, and I got a great deal on it, so I've got my $399 back out of it.

 

[Gumby]

Flew home from Chicago this evening. We flew out on Thursday so the young wife could see a special exhibit of costumes by Paul Tazewell, a costumer designer who recently won an Academy award for his work on the "Wicked" films. So Friday we spent almost all day at the Griffin Museum in that specific exhibit. I did sneak in a short visit to the captured German submarine U-505, but mostly I looked at costumes. We took in the Chicago Art Institute on Saturday, where I was surprised by Seurat's "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte". I have long seen pictures of it, but I had no idea it was physically that large. This morning we went to the Navy Pier. It was a pleasant and sunny day and we enjoyed a nice walk and the views of the city from the end of the pier.

 

[skyking1]

I have been at home for the weekend while a sheetrock team has been working on the new place.
I took a hack at the taxes and need to print up some worksheets to get them done.

 

[Hyper]

Finished the day yesterday evening making the concrete form for hopefully the last piece of walkway behind the cabin.
We built a concrete walkway last fall that is a foot off the ground the length of the cabin that wraps around the sides a bit.
It's worked out excellent and has kept us from walking on solid ice all winter.
Thank the Lord, I don't think I've fallen once this winter.....yet!
It's rough textured with rock large rocks in the top for better traction.

 

[street]

Another day at the ranch hiked about 6 hours in rough country. I found two more horns and an old 6 to 7 foot steel runner sleigh. The wood is pretty much rotted away but all iron is there. It will be my next project to pack the iron and sleigh runners out. I will rebuild that ranch work sled/sleigh at some time. I was pretty excited to find it!!!

 

[CO-guy]

Skiing in the backcountry today. Just a mellow solo excursion. Conditions were spring like.

 

[Surewhitey]

Started installing the screen room to an existing covered patio. Doggie door was an afterthought...

Taking a week off in Florida and returning to finish trimming & build the screens.

 

[Ronstar]

After 25-30 years, my sprinkler pump hut has fallen apart. So I did a renovation. Part 1 of my 2026 back yard reno project.

The best part about projects in your 70’s is not needing to overbuild to make it last a lifetime.

 

[street]

Ronstar, how deep is your well there? Simple and effective construction. Keeping weather/hot sun off of those pumps is a big deal.

 

[Ronstar]

Ronstar, how deep is your well there? Simple and effective construction. Keeping weather/hot sun off of those pumps is a big deal.

street -This sprinkler pump doesn't connect to a well - it pumps water from a lake about 10' from the pump and send the water to our lawn sprinklers - no connection to house water. Our house well is about 500' deep, with initial water level at 140'.

 

[Jeffman52]

We spent the morning volunteering at the local food pantry. I have a few projects in the works just waiting on some stuff to show up to start. My back window on my F150 needs replacing so I have one coming in within a few days. Also I have a 12 ft Jon-boat that I have owned for about 35 years. I am replacing the carpet which is dry rotted (this will be the third time in 35 years replacing this carpet) and putting a new light kit on it. Getting ready for some fishing this year with my wife.

 

[Mark1]

After 25-30 years, my sprinkler pump hut has fallen apart. So I did a renovation. Part 1 of my 2026 back yard reno project.

The best part about projects in your 70’s is not needing to overbuild to make it last a lifetime.

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I'm curious if you have some sort of filtration system, as I don't see one.

 

[Walt34]

Started on the off-season maintenance on the snow blower. This was supposed to be an easy task of just removing the shear pins in the auger shaft so I could grease them and then spin the augers on the now-stationary shaft to spread the grease around. But one shear pin was bent, I think from the auger biting into a chunk of ice, which prevented it from leaving the shaft. So I cut off the end of the shear pin with a hacksaw and had to drive it out with a punch and a 5 lb. hammer as it was still bent inside the shaft. Then I could grease the augers via the zerk fittings and replace the shear pins.

For you southerners who have only seen snow blowers in pictures, the shear pins look like ordinary bolts but are made of softer metal and have a groove cut into them, and are designed to break, thus protecting the expensive gearbox from breaking if an incompressible object like a rolled up newspaper, brick, or hard chunk of ice gets stuck in the augers. The shear pins are about $2 each and replacing the gearbox is about $150 or so for the part and several hundred in labor if you don't do it yourself.

 

[street]

street -This sprinkler pump doesn't connect to a well - it pumps water from a lake about 10' from the pump and send the water to our lawn sprinklers - no connection to house water. Our house well is about 500' deep, with initial water level at 140'.

Gotcha! After I posted the question that maybe where the water was coming from, your lake. Yep, Thanks Ronstar.

 

[Flieger]

Flew home from Chicago this evening. We flew out on Thursday so the young wife could see a special exhibit of costumes by Paul Tazewell, a costumer designer who recently won an Academy award for his work on the "Wicked" films. So Friday we spent almost all day at the Griffin Museum in that specific exhibit. I did sneak in a short visit to the captured German submarine U-505, but mostly I looked at costumes. We took in the Chicago Art Institute on Saturday, where I was surprised by Seurat's "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte". I have long seen pictures of it, but I had no idea it was physically that large. This morning we went to the Navy Pier. It was a pleasant and sunny day and we enjoyed a nice walk and the views of the city from the end of the pier.

That submarine is so cool, and VERY similar to the Diesel Fast Attack subs that my Dad was on and took me on tours of many times!

Flieger