Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

we have showers in the forecast but likely not much will happen.
Did some mowing yesterday, and my neck was ok when I was done. Boy is that a relief.
The surgeon said six weeks and he meant six weeks, and with another week plus to go,
my neck thoroughly agrees. With three vertebrae held together by magnesium, it's the one right below
the fused ones that is most worrisome. Less flex above, more desire to flex below, and those vertebrae I'm sure
aren't much better than the ones they fixed... So I worry a bit about getting rearended, and will wear some form of soft collar while
driving for a long time.

In the heat of summer, which I must admit with a touch of wuss is nothing in this area compared to our sweltering friends out West,
wearing a hard collar is a very hot and sweaty affair. My wife made soft cloth liners that come out and are washable, which after a day of sweat
and garden/field dirt on them, is a must. one more week. I can do this.

I hope to hear back today on the motorhome we made an offer on. Once the garden is done, and the fields mowed, I'm looking to roll.

 

[sam5570]

good morning 71 degrees got 3/4 " of rain yesterday evening and night. running a little late today had to see the wife off to Gatlinburg this morning. I don't do trip's very good, had enough of it looking out the windshield of a big truck for hours at a time. everyone have a great day

 

[murphy1244]

I hope it don't rain need to paint a new barn.

 

[toppop52]

Weather is typical, hot humid and overcast, more rain yesterday and an inch predicted today. I'm glad I got my weds and vines sprayed a couple of times or I'd be wondering the jungle in my grass skirt!

David old buddy, you've lived in limbo long enough, rent a place if it's just a room. You need a place that's yours, bad for the psyche living a displaced lifestyle. Move on my friend, life will be what it is, you may as well be along for the ride.

Drew, good luck my friend, happy trails.

 

[sam5570]

I hope it don't rain need to paint a new barn.

murph put your paint brush up till after aug 17. just kidden I can't even think about outside work so wet.

 

[toppop52]

I hope it don't rain need to paint a new barn.

After the drought of last year and before, I'm not complaining...yet!

 

[txdon]

Good morning from sunny hot and brown central Texas! No rain forecasted. The roof rain water collection cistern has been dry for a month. What I don't spend in fuel to mow I'm spending double for water.
The county is still butchering the trees between my fence and the road, at least they are taking down an old fence, that was a project that I did not finish before the heat.
Whirlpool's suggestion for the hot water heater smell was to replace the original anode with a tin/zinc/aluminum anode. Leaving the anode out would cancel the warranty and lead to premature corrosion.

 

[daugen]

just seems to be spritzing and threatening here, most of the rain has gone over to NJ heading North.
All my field mowing is done, need to ride the Gravely rider to do some neatening up and frankly am kind of leery of
it. Very high effort machine, marvelous machine, but I grew up with a JD B with a similar hand clutch and all that moving
around catches up with you. It hasn't been run in a while and I need to exercise it. And likely I should wait until next week.
But maybe if I go slowly...with my martian head gear on. drip. drip. drip.

Or maybe I'll stay in the a/c cab and play with the loader lever.
Drove the smaller open tractor yesterday to exercise it too and I enjoyed the wonderful
feeling of grasshoppers and unidentified flying bug objects all over me. And layers of field dust.
The feel of the sun on my face was still worth it. I've been cooped up so long I feel the need to work on my tan...

 

[Bird]

I got the hoses and sprinklers set in place yesterday evening, then got up a 4 a.m. this morning and turned the water on front and back. It's officially only gotten up to 99 degrees each of the last 2 days and 102 forecast for today.

 

[jinman]

Today, I'm a cherry picker. . . cherry tomatoes, that is. Every other day we pick around a gallon of them and then let them ripen more inside for a day or two before putting them in the refrigerator. I'm having a double handful of cherry tomatoes for breakfast. I love the sharp sweet/sour taste of the Sweet 100 variety. I'll probably pick 10 pods of okra today too since it is ramping up to full production. The rest of my garden is still doing great too. I picked and shelled just over 4 lb (shelled weight) of blackeyed peas yesterday. I still have lot's of healthy looking bean plants with blooms all over them, but they aren't setting beans. I think the heat has them beggin' for mercy. Anyhow, we are still getting great production in spite of the triple-digit heatwave. I water every day. Thanks to all my soaker hoses, watering is not difficult, but it is time consuming. But hey! I'm retired, so time is what I have a lot of.