We have the winds from Colorado like everyone up there is blowing our way. Some gusts of 50 MPH and the skies are partly cloudy. Just a tad breezy. It has been blowing our wheelie bins around.

Skinny folks need to carry rocks in their pockets. I am so well grounded I am OK, but walking across a parking lot looks like I am drunk, with a lot of weaving in the gusts of wind. It is 63 degrees so the windchill is only 60.

no wind here and the crap did melt off. Drive home should be normal.

Morning all. Below 32 here but dry so that is a plus.

The winds yesterday were a bit high.

We had 60 MPH winds for about an hour, and it then calmed down to 30 to 40 MPH gusts. Out in the panhandle they had an hour of 78 MPH winds, and then it calmed down to four hours of 60 MPH gusts. 74 MPH is the bottom end of hurricane force winds, so kinda breezy.

At sunset, the winds were ZERO. all the wind got to wherever it needed to be.

Good time for a kite and roller blades Glen!

We are only 40mph winds today with rain and snow.

he might need a lot of rocks in his pockets to hold him down.

Not me. I will be inside a car, with the windows rolled up, heat or AC running as needed.

I drove a 914 for 25 years, and I have had more than enough wind in my face, open air transportation. BTDT.

Next thing you will tell me is that you don't like an open cockpit to fly!

On occasion we get an oblique photo shoot for a client. We fly in a circle over a building or park, or area and shoot at an angle out the window with a hand held camera.

On the ground, before takeoff, we take the screw out of the window limit lever so it will open up all the way, and the air flow hold the window up against the wing. It is not bad in the summer time. It really really really sucks in winter time when it is sub zero at 3,000 feet and I have to stick my hand out into the wind flow to lower the window.

We really prefer nadir photography and we keep the windows closed.

I have never flown in an open cockpit. With the right pilot I would certainly do it, in summer.

We had a cold front and rain come through. As usual, .01 inch of rain, but the temp went from mid 60s to mid 20s. At one point we were still at 67 and the folks in the panhandle was at 7, and several inches of snow. Fortunately that did not get here, but the cold did.

The good news is back to upper 60s by the weekend, and 70s by Tuesday. I am ready for spring!

Moring all. Yikes that is cold. We are supposed to get down into the teens next week. I might stay home where its warm and I am wanted rather than here.

I got to thinking about my main computer and the Windows recovery drive I have. It is for Win 10 and I am on Win11.

So no big deal, put that old thumb drive in, and make a new recovery drive. I then noticed the old drive is a 16GB USB 2.0 drive. It failed after 30 minutes when the drive ran out of room. OK, start over. I am using a USB 3.1 32 gig drive this time.

I will format the old USB drive and keep it for the possible future project that a client insists on a USB drive and 16 gig is big enough. Or I may just trash it. I can remember when a 16 Gig thumb drive was HUGE and expensive, now they are pretty much trash. I forget how slow a USB 2 drive is.

Again I remember the thought of a huge 640 MB CD was enormous. Then a 4.7 MB DVD was huge. I don't think I have burned a DVD or CD in years. Even a 4.7 GIG DVD is tiny.

Snowing here. Should get form 1 to 8 inhches.

Glen, a dual layer DVD is a whole 8.4GB.

Yea, we used those back in the bay as well.

The new recovery drive is done. It sure is a ton faster with a USB 3.1 drive and plenty of room to spare.

I need to make a Win 10 recovery disk for my old computer and the laptop. I think I will used that slow old USB 2.0 drive to do it.

As long as you have a recovery drive you will not need it. If you don't have one though...

so true. I need to figure out how to make one now that the computer is fixed.

That reminds me, a few of our computers still have XP. I should make sure those recovery disks are in the safe. They only get used for some games when we have lots of company over.

Super easy. Just open the settings. In settings you will see a search box and type in Recovery Drive. It will ask if you want to make one. Have a thumb drive installed and it will make it. It will ask if you if you should create it to the drive. It takes a while.

Label that drive and date it. I figure in a year or so, do the same thing again.

thanks for the info! I have to upload some photos from the work computer to the home one and then delete them off work.

I managed to use the old USB 2 thumb drive to make a Win 10 recovery drive for the laptop. My old recovery drive was 3 years old. It would still work, but there would be a zillion updates after recovery.