Good Morning!

[WVNed]

Good morning. We got some snow.

 

[ReefGrammie]

Good Morning!
The snow is just starting to fall. We are expecting 5-6” today. It only takes ~1” to shut down the state of Tennessee so this should be an adventure. Temps by tomorrow morning expected to be in the single digits with wind chills -0*.
The plow is all gassed up and ready to clear the driveway and the salt spreader is filled also.
I have a Drs appt tomorrow morning which may not happen. The truck will get me there but who knows if the staff will show up at work.
Hope Y’all have a great day. Looks like indoor chores for me this morning and plowing/ salting this afternoon.

We got nothing, but our Nashville son 2 hours away picked up 7 inches! They were excited. Little Teddy had a blast....they had to drag him inside at 5:30 after it was dark.

 

[ReefGrammie]

Very good point about the side walls. I'm hoping it can hold enough water to completely cover my tallest pieces of scape. Should be good I think.

That was one of the challenges of my transfer. The 46 had been in place for 5 years, so I had rock encrusted together with coral growth. I had to take the rock out in large chunks. Everything did ok when I moved everything to the 90, but the rock was challenging again with placement in a larger tank. We added more base rock before adding the sand/water and kind of built everything back up over the base rock.

Here is a picture pre-transfer. I had to take off that top section with the monticaps in a huge chunk. Incidentally, this tank was set up in 2008 and there is Baby Clown, who still lives in the 90 today!


The biggest calamity was my prized brain coral in the lower right. I had had that piece for at least 4 years and somehow during the transfer, it split in half. My ICU nurse daughter-in-law proceeded to do "brain surgery" with superglue. It always helps to have an ICU nurse handy.

I hope yours goes well. The transfer day was one of my most stressful days ever!!

 

[sp1187]

Good Morning Reefies.
snow finally stopped sometime last night.
more coming a few days.
look who showed up 5 days late....


doc is on holiday so no test results till tuesday.
last time a nurse told me.
hope you all have a great day.

 

[ReefGrammie]

Good morning all! Happy Friday! I managed to suffer through 11 hours yesterday so I didn't have to work at all today! It was worth it. High of 35 today, so I think I'll stay inside (have I mentioned that I'm a cold weather wimp?? ;Hilarious)

Have a great Friday! This may be a good day to check some water parameters.

 

[MrsBugmaster]

Good morning. It’s 3 degrees here this morning. (Insert teeth chattering brrrr emoji here). When it’s this cold out I have to put my dog in his coat and boots or he just layers down and rolls over on his back. Poor old doggie.

 

[vetteguy53081]

 

[Paul B]

I took my normal walk this morning. After half a mile or so I realized it snowed about 5" and was still snowing.

 

[Just John]

Good morning! About all the snow, I used to live in Charleston, SC and it never, ever snows there. One day they predicted "light accumulation" overnight and they decided to shut down absolutely everything just in case. It never snowed and there were lots of jokes.
The following day it was snowing when everyone got up, but they didn't shut anything down after all of the embarrassment. It was a disaster. Any white at all on the road can paralyze a southern town!

 

[sp1187]

Good morning! About all the snow, I used to live in Charleston, SC and it never, ever snows there. One day they predicted "light accumulation" overnight and they decided to shut down absolutely everything just in case. It never snowed and there were lots of jokes.
The following day it was snowing when everyone got up, but they didn't shut anything down after all of the embarrassment. It was a disaster. Any white at all on the road can paralyze a southern town!

yankee entertainment

 

[Just John]

yankee entertainment

This also made me laugh - a friend of mine from PA had managed to leave a snow shovel in their trunk during a visit home. There were people trying to guess what it was for when she took it out.

 

[dbowman5]

Good 'let it snow' Morning! nothing here but i 'm not complaining. complaining is the reason campfire smoke comes your way no matter which side of the fire you are on. wait a minute, maybe my logic tree needs a little shake.

 

[Paul B]

 

[sp1187]

did that fish clear qt?

 

[WVNed]

Good morning.
We are headed south to see the new grandson today.
RUSALTY reshipped my order Thursday into the snow storm. I guess I can make shrimp and crab soup on Monday when it gets here.

 

[Paul B]

Good morning. I went out for my morning walk today and it was about 20 degrees below zero. OK, maybe not, but it was cold. The wind was howling like a herd of howler monkeys in Africa when they come across an open truck full of bananas. ;Wideyed

I treeked across the wilderness (of Long Island NY) And with the wind chills in the double digits and going down by the second, I was tired and hungry. It was dark, very dark, so dark even the bats were afraid to come out. ;Droid

I felt like Lois and Clark.



Birds were dropping out of the sky all around me as they froze solid while flying to Boca Raton in Florida with one or two bathroom stops in Georgia.

I was so hungry I was thinking of eating my dogs. Then I realized, I don't have any dogs and besides, I gave up dog for Lent. ;Drool

I slowly bent my arm and could hear the ice crack on my sleeve but I managed to take out my phone to see if my GPS could get me back.

The phone slowly came on. A message started to appear. I could barely open my eyes to read it.
The words started to appear:

"Like Seriously!!!!.......Put me back in your pocket" ;Snaphappy

I knew immediately my phone would be no help.

Fierce looking animals with bared teeth began to run past me like they were being chased by a rabid Yeti. They were large, noisy and hairy and at first I thought they were caribou or maybe buffalo. On closer inspection I saw that they were squirrels. But I could tell by their beady little eyes that they wished I would fall so the Yeti could get me.

I walked and walked and in the distance I could finally see the sun rise near my warm home.



I knew my wife would greet me with open arms and help me remove 4 or 5 layers of clothing.
Then she would hurry over to the stove to make me a nice hot pot of cocoa and ask me how my morning was.

She was sleeping.

 

[dbowman5]

Good Morning, thanks, Paul for the shivers. but the coffee is helping with my vicarious chill.

 

[sp1187]

Good Morning Reefies
it feels like Lambeau Field.

 

[Mike from TN]

Good Morning Everyone!
Woke up to the sound of the Inkbird singing this morning. Temp dropping rapidly in my tank.
Here is the scenario over the past few days:
I was out plowing and salting the driveway on Thursday after the 8.5” of snow that fell. I was freezing and expected the house to be warm when I returned indoors. The house felt chilly so I went to turn up the heat. The thermostat had a blank screen so I pulled it off the wall to check the batteries, none there because it is “hard wired” in. I Put in batteries and the screen was still blank. Bad thermostat that was replace less than a year ago. I called the HVAC guy but they were closed for the day so I left a message.
Thursday night, it got down to 2* outside and the house was freezing. We have a really nice Dyson space heater so we set that up in the bird room and slept with coats, beanie hats and gloves on.
Woke up yesterday morning and the temp in the bird room was 76*, nice and “cozy” for our parrots. The rest of the house was 52*, BRRRRRR!
At 8:01, the HVAC guy called and said he would be out ASAP but all of their vans were snowed in and the roads were still impassable. He couldn’t promise that he would be out yesterday but I was first on his list.
4:00 this morning the Inkbird alarm was going off and when I checked, the tank was down to 73.2*, the house was 50* (16* outside).
I heated 2 gallons of salt water in a huge soup pot on the stove to 100* and am currently doing a slow drip in with the hot and out with the cold. Corals are opening and fish are begging for food. The Inkbird has finally shut up. Very annoying but I’m glad it did it’s job.
Its supposed to be in the 40’s today by late morning so I should be hearing from the guy saying he’ll be out to fix it. This is our third thermostat in five years. He’s going to replace it and install a surge protection device to prevent them from failing in the future.
FYI:
When it’s 50* in the house, the toilet set is an adventure to sit on.

 

[WVNed]

Good Morning Everyone!

I would get a spare one and keep it in the house. I am comfortable changing parts like that though. If it is like most thermostats all you would have to do is snap the front off and put a new one on the baseplate where the wires are connected.
Just an idea.