Good morning!!!!

[RoyJackson]

2016-04-17, 0733

32 right now, high will be a very nice 72 degrees and clear.

As far as yesterday...first thing we (wifey, stepdaughter and I) did was head out to Eaton's Sugar House for a very hearty breakfast. Bacon, eggs, hash browns...enough chow where it was hard to finish it all.

Didn't drop those trees yesterday, but I did pick up a bunch of fallen branches and some other debris (including litter) on the lawn area. I piled the branches and I reckon I'll hook the chipper up today. It'll be a few weeks before I need the RFM or ZTR, so this will be a good time to do chipping.
Also, part of the stacked wood pile fell over last week (it was pretty precarious when we stacked it last summer), so I guess I re-stack that today too.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 70˚ The rains have stayed West and North so far. I only have .04" to report this morning. Tomorrow is the predicted bad day and I would not be surprised if we lost internet service for a while. TexasYankee do you have an official rain gauge.
http://pmm.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/imageGallery/storm gauge SE 8-28-07.jpg

 

[lostcreekranch]

Good morning friends. 71 degrees this morning. Just got an alert from NWS that says we will have a rough next 48 hours here and forecasting 10+ inches of rain and big storms.

 

[Thomas]

39 clear now low 70's for high.
Plans for to today...back pack blower least 3 hours than change out pole light if enough time watch little NASCAR.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[ronjhall]

Need to pour first cup of coffee. 45° with clear skies this morning. Heading to 59° with clouds and a couple breaks of sun. Trip to Ogden, UT was mostly uneventful. Was great to see my brother after several years. Already have a list of projects my brother needs help with to complete before we start trip back East. Then we will sit down and watch some NASCAR.
Good Morning All.

 

[Thomas]

2016-04-17, 0733

As far as yesterday...first thing we (wifey, stepdaughter and I) did was head out to Eaton's Sugar House for a very hearty breakfast. Bacon, eggs, hash browns...enough chow where it was hard to finish it all.

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Heard that the Crossroads in White River Jct. near Gateways Ford dealer puts on good fee also.
Than theres the Black Rock in Springfield VT.,that little restaurant to me has any beat in the upper valley for dinner. :thumbsup:

 

[lostcreekranch]

Good morning! 70˚ The rains have stayed West and North so far. I only have .04" to report this morning. Tomorrow is the predicted bad day and I would not be surprised if we lost internet service for a while. TexasYankee do you have an official rain gauge.
http://pmm.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/imageGallery/storm gauge SE 8-28-07.jpg

Don, saw those on Amazon and eBay and was curious if they are worth the price? Best price I saw was about $35 with free shipping.

I have a couple of these mounted in various places



Saw these on Amazon and bought a couple because they "measure" up to 6 1/2".



Unfortunately they are crap as they read twice the amount of our other rain gauges.

 

[Buppies]

rswyan great job on grapple lots of thought and hard work. Have you weighed it yet?

If I was still in steel fab business would definitely try to hire you

Clear skies no chance of rain till Friday and that's iffy in for a long dry spell I'm afraid. If we go from ElNino straight to LaNino dry and warm straight thru winter and Texas is going to drown

 

[lostcreekranch]

rswyan great job on grapple lots of thought and hard work. Have you weighed it yet?

If I was still in steel fab business would definitely try to hire you

Clear skies no chance of rain till Friday and that's iffy in for a long dry spell I'm afraid. If we go from ElNino straight to LaNino dry and warm straight thru winter and Texas is going to drown

 

[daugen]

You all in Texas be careful out there, NO CROSSING FLOODED ROADS
Sadly you just know someone will in this event...
I wonder when they will modify the forward facing radars in our vehicles now to measure how deep the water is ahead
and will stop the vehicle if it's too high...the tech is already out there in boating; I had chartplotters that would flash and beep if the water was
too shallow ahead, not hard to set to a "too deep" mode. That's often the buzzer some fishermen would use to find out when they finally got far enough offshore to fish
in the deeps. I have radar sensors in my front bumpers, just need to get them a little lower...
Coming to your Jeep Rubicons soon...

After four straight days and nights of socializing, I am in dire need of quiet time out in the garden today. All my Burpee plants came in Friday, and per instructions they have been hardened and now ready to plant. Tomatoes, multi color peppers, basil and artichokes today. The latter being just a fun thing, parents liked artichokes, seemed just an excuse to dip into the butter..., so we kids grew up eating this strange vegetable/flower. And to grow it, turns out the thing winds up being almost a three foot bush, yikes. And I've got three of them. Well...not going into the raised garden, truly no room in the inn. So I have to plant them somewhere else. And nothing to eat the first year. Instructions are clear, one has to clip the buds off as soon as they form, to strengthen the plant. Apparently those buds take a lot of plant energy to produce and if eliminated the first year, the root structure gets much stronger. Probably similar to asparagus where you don't expect much the first year.

I might haul the powerwasher out to the end of the fence and start powerwashing. Such a wet winter all my white fencing is covered in mold, pretty gross and it was cleaned only a year ago. That is my project for next week. I had hoped to get help with it but the latest crew of helpers were a DNF and now MIA. 4000psi powerwasher makes quick work of it, GX390 pushing a 4gpm Cat pump, but is pretty hard for me to hold on full power. Like a miniature fire hose, truly. An inch and a half will give you a good shove, any of you who ever tried to hold a 2 1/2 by yourself on full pressure know how to dance too. I was always over 200 pounds but when one cracked the nozzle on a fully charged big line, well, for every action there is an equal reaction. Water goes one way, you go the other...firemen need a lot of upper body strength to deal with it.

RS, that grapple is flat out marvelous and kinda mean looking, all good! How did you choose which cylinders to use and what spec to use for their strength?
Do you have a Squeak Seat yet on your tractor?