Good morning!!!!

[ronjhall]

Got coffee pot brewing. 36° with clear skies this morning. Heading to 54° with sun until late when clouds move in. Leaves are falling. But not enough to pickup yet. Need to get some small items cleaned up on motorhome before leaving later this month.
Irv, it's always depressing to drive on the east side of Detroit. They are cleaning up Bell Isle. Hope they bring it back to it's former beauty. Which plant did you work at?
Good Morning All.

 

[daugen]

good morning all, a warmer 53 here going to 73. Rain forecast for tomorrow has pretty much fizzled, hope something shows up.
yesterday's appt with the arthritis doc was disappointing, nothing new, nothing other than what was done for me before, my this is a bad mri, lose twenty pounds (sigh...) and do warm water swimming. Well, I'm going to start with the hot tub and do a lot of toe exercises...that must be what he is talking about...
Today I head off to Greenville to see the pain doc where I was told ahead of time they have nothing new either. Oh well...suck it up and keep going.
I really want Larro's Ponce De Leon Fountain Of Youth tonic. He told me he found a well on his property and is bottling the stuff like mad. I mean look at Larro's pic now, he looks 14! Must be good stuff.

kitchen floor is being torn out, bit of a challenge since they want to tear out the little bathroom floor nearby too and I told them wait, do you guys like having a toilet?
The master bath is gutted, the bathroom I'm in has a tile floor drying and no toilet, uh, you take the third and last one and well guys...they got the message. Don't take the toilet off until the other one goes back in. got up this morning, put shoes on, walked the entire length of the house to take a leak, and boy is that getting old. Actually the 2am trip while I was half asleep was even more enjoyable... They are grouting the tile today; maybe the toilet can go back on too. Am using the bathroom upstairs until this is all done. Just a little more upheaval added to my disorder.

landscapers are laying sod down the entire length of my new driveway; everyone agreed that was best due to time of year and getting it done. So that comes in today around noon and those guys starting laying green, literally and figuratively. Half centipede, half another grass, based on sun vs. shade. First part of lane is heavily shaded and last part is fully in sun. We shall see. so about one month after the driveway was put down it will finally look finished. And it looks like I will be on daily water patrol. When I moved here it seemed to downpour every day. Now when I have thirty shrubs planted, half an acre of grass seed down, and all this sod getting put down, the rain has disappeared. I think it all went to Texas. I suppose that's fair for once.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! It is 60˚ and will remain at 60˚ all day with a North wind and light rain on and off. Yep, it did come to Texas Drew.

I got the 10# of crimson clover planted in the remote garden and 50# of rye grass planted by the pond.

I picked up a 10'X5' kennel panel at TCS that will be my new garden deer gate. I'll mount it different and should get an extra 8" of clearance, which I apparently need for the tiller when I turn into the garden. I don't think the deer out here will jump over 5' but I will find out.

I can't find the local election results for our county anywhere and might have to wait on the weekly newspaper.

Drew, at least this did not happen to you. The Money Pit Bathtub Laugh Scene.wmv - YouTube

 

[houstonscott]

Just getting up, looks like the nation is shaking it off. HS

 

[bakerg]

Good morning, 41F heading to 57F. Possiblity of snow tomorrow.

 

[dave1949]

40F with solid overcast. Mid-50's today, maybe sunshine later.

Feeling wiped-out this morning. Got home at 12:30am from counting ballots. Ugly ballot to hand count with nine candidate races on the front side, seven referendum questions on the backside and no consistent spacing anywhere--which required four separate tally sheets to mark.

We were all going cross-eyed trying to track across all that paper. One person reads the ballot and marks their tally sheet, the other person in the counting team just marks their own tally sheet. Ballots are tallied in batches of 50, at the end of which each member's tally counts have to agree.

It's magical how an open overhead door becomes a black hole that sucks in every leaf within nearby galaxies. :laughing:

Drew, hope your remodel goes well and quickly. It could be worse. There could have been corpses in the crawlspace and your entire property became a crime scene; the FBI excavating your yard with a backhoe. See, don't you feel lucky now?

 

[JDgreen227]

This thread is still going?

 

[bakerg]

Well good morning Bill, are you back just to say hi, or are you going to stay awhile.

 

[farmer2009]

52 this morning and headed to 58. Rain moved out a couple of hours ago but will be lifting back north about lunch. So far not much rain was just a misty night.

 

[rswyan]

44F and cloudy @ 07:30 ... had a misty light rain overnight, got about .15" ... supposed to be partly cloudy with a high of 60F later today ... some wind would be nice to help dry things out ...

Big cool down slated for mid next week ... highs only in the mid 30's ...

Got my firewood logs skidded out yesterday and then went ahead took down a couple more trees which were hazards ... dead aspens which were probably 14" or so diameter at the base ... just pushed 'em over with the loader ... still have another two to remove but they didn't seem inclined to go over when I pushed on them ... might just have to cut them. There's one 4" widow-maker limb about 20' long laying cross-wise between two trees, about 30' up ... sure would like to get that out of there ... but I think I'm going to have to wait for nature's assistance.

This area is just northeast of the polebarn ... clearing it out and grading it will allow me to cut off the last of the surface water from running down towards the barn.

Cut down a pine tree that was growing under the electrical wires on the west side of the house.

Got the snowblower and wood chipper pulled out for maintenance ...

Blew some leaves into a pile ... had the yard pretty much all cleaned up ... but the wind took care of that.

Have a couple large piles of fill dirt in the barn I need to spread out ... might do that today, since it's dry in there.