Good thin’in’, Baba.
I thought so too...
And on an other note, completing an epistle from yesterday for anyone interested in the continuing saga of.. Once the glowing orb resumed its location above the horizon bringing light to the darkness, and once the rain stopped, and once the puddles in the gravelrockdirt of the drive oozed into the ground, I managed to complete the half hour oil change that took almost two hours to not complete in the darkening gloom of yesterday. Being able to see greatly helps in devising fortuitous work-arounds...
Then to complete the list of stuff to do before the snow falls Wednesday (and yes, they are still in the 6-10 inches of solidified glowbull warmthing mode) I stabilized the push mowers, started my lawn tractor to make sure it was charged up, rearranged the shedinabox so that the push mowers were buried in the back and the tractor and Olde Deere were in front, started the Olde Deere and moved it around under its own power, verified that the auger augeres, fluffed up its tires, (if they get low, it throws off the tirechains which are a real pain to reinstall when there is snow on the ground - ranks right up there with replacing the auger drive belt in similar conditions) maneuvered it into the shedinabox oriented for ease of egress in snow, and shut if down by turning off the fuel and allowing the carb to run dry. That procedure seems to be the workaround to the 'it won't start when it's cold' issue of previous years. Whether that syndrome was due to cruddy electrical contacts in the on/off key switch or icing in the carburetor I don't know, but killing it by starving it instead of switching it off seems to have worked last winter...
Should the notalwaysaccuraweather people be correct, I will soon find out if that still works this year.
Looks like I need to plan my 'last minute' trip to the store for tomorrow instead of Wednesday... ;-)
It's strange though. My clothes smell of Deere fumes...