I have an electric start w/ pull cord backup but yeah, I gotta do a shakedown on mine soon.
game of thrones snowblower memes incoming 
edit : I donât watch GoT⌠got better things to do with my family than staring at a small screenâŚ
Saw a hummingbird for the first time. Didnât know there were any around here.
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I need to do the same to mine and move it into the garage. I also have an electric start but I make sure every year that the pull works too. Weâre not supposed to have a lot of snow this winter and my snowblower is overkill even for the worst we ever get but the North Coaster in me always plans for the absolute worst.
I have a gravel driveway, I wish I could use a snowblower⌠though the rate its compacting I may be able to next year.
Well thereâs your problem! Glad weâve narrowed that down. 
I think our TV watchinâ screen is like 55".
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I started paying for a plowing service a couple of years ago. Money well spent, I tell you what. Itâs around $400 for the season and that is enough to notice, but still not enough to cancel out the joy of not having to scrape the snow from my garage to the street.
Hey, donât be dissinâ mah small screen, duh
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I have a gravel driveway - gotta pack down the first one or two, and then bobâs your uncle (or the oilguy). You can also adjust the gliders (or add bigger ones) to keep it higher up.
You do have to be careful about throwing stones though.
During the wee-wee hours of the morning our doggy started barking. I could hear our doggy bark all the way from our house, then up the driveway then finally at the gate. (02:30 am)
When the sun came up, I got out of bed, then toddled on over to our gate. Yep, we had visitors (gate was not closed properly), and the doggy gave them a good talking-to 
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Good doggy.
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Meh @ HPE for makening it difficult to download drivers for servers and server products.
Got an HP ProLiant ML110 G7 here, DOA from site. Got told we can play around with it.
Glee.
Gave it to my appy to check out, it doesnât switch on although all the blinkenlights on the motherboard lights up etc etc. Suspect a wonky PSU.
Instructs appy to swap out PSUâs. Still same thing.
Appy discovers it is the front power button that dieded. Salvaged a power button from another case, soldered some wires, and the server now starts up.
Have ordered a power button bezel and new power button in the meantime.
For now the server can be switched on and off via the power button.
Tried to install server2016 - need RAID drivers. But HPE doesnât want to play ball, but managed to get the correct RAID and NIC drivers. Am not impressed with that, but anyway.
Reason for this? Server2003 DC is not in good shape, is on its way out (or so it seems). So I have to get a replacement in before something nasty happens.
Those orange leaves that hadnât fallen yet from my persimmon tree arenât leaves. Theyâre persimmons! Iâm going to pick them when theyâre ripe, and Iâm going to make hoshigaki (dried persimmons). I love hoshigaki.
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Doesnât hoshigaki roughly translate as arrowhead hungry spirit?
What/who is an appy?
Appy = short for apprentice
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kaki/gaki = persimmon
hoshi = dried
Those have different translations depending on the kanji used. Hoshi also means star, gaki also means kid/brat.
So wherever I read that gaki means hungry spirit or hungry ghost was wrong?
I donât know of that definition, but that doesnât mean that itâs wrong. It just isnât one of the definitions Iâve ever heard for it.
In my minds eye, Appy is a Microsoftâs Clippy given a human body, kind of like Edgar in Men in Black.
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