Good morning!!!!

[Eric Salop]

Gentle, low probability (<5%) rain greeted us as we walked out the door this morning. I had emptied two wasp traps last night and intended re-filling them jam and sugar water first thing this morning, but that can wait now until this shower passes.

Despite no longer having nests in the roof, wasps are everywhere this year and the traps soon fill. They get so full each day that some were escaping out of the hole, then dropping to the ground and crawling away as their wings were too wet and sticky to fly off immediately. A bucket of soapy water below the trap now accounts for them too. Not looking forward to having drunken wasps around once the first of the hedgerow fruits like cherry and crab apple start to ferment.

 

[wngsprd]

55 refreshing degrees. Getting up to only 84.

I need to check into your wasp trap set up. I have a couple of places where we have found nests too big for my usual knock-them-down-with-a-stick approach. One is inside the older gas grill...same one where the wrens fledged a nest earlier this summer. Seldom use it - only when we need the extra capacity, or we're roasting oysters. Don't want to spray there, either. Speaking of jam, reminds me I haven't had a crumpet in a while.

Don, thanks for the recipe. Sounds good.

 

[Buppies]

58 high of 79 might try to finish staining deck today

 

[ronjhall]

Poured first cup of coffee. 52° with partly cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 78° with rain in afternoon. Garden pond maintenance and some shoveling of dirt that washed onto paved drive during storm. Need rest after removing fallen tree. Then some NASCAR.
Neighbor with the boom lift stoped by yesterday. Going to bring it down to my place when he finishes his roof project. No rush, it is his so no rental cost. Retired contractor.
Eric, I have had to remove a few wasp nest this week. Hope that is not a sign of what is coming.
Good Morning All.

 

[Ed of all trades]

Good morning all. Friends stopped n for a visit yesterday, talked a while, ate watermelon a while, played music a while, a great visit. Hope to take it easy today, but need to work on the pool a bit.

Randy, Praying for your mom and your tractor. Have a good visit with her.

Have a great day. Ed

 

[RoyJackson]

2017-08-06, 0654

58 right now...high in the low 70's and clear.
I mowed most of the field yesterday....stopped when the fuel got low (and I didn't have any on hand). I'll continue on the stuff I didn't get done yesterday.
Unfortunately, my FFL didn't get back in time for me to pick up that Ruger I wrote about. Not going to happen today since he has to work at his full time job. I'll get it one day the coming week...

 

[daugen]

Roy, you've been on this blog for longer than just about any of us. Am curious, what brought you here
and what was TBN like 16 years ago?

should be a nice day today, going to work quietly in the barn this morning, then chip a huge pile of brush this afternoon. Not quite as hot out, and with wet weather coming, wanted
to get that brush pile dealt with so I didn't have to deal with wet wood and leaves. Plus the longer you leave a pile of instant habitat on the ground, the faster the critters come. Snakes...

 

[RoyJackson]

Roy, you've been on this blog for longer than just about any of us. Am curious, what brought you here
and what was TBN like 16 years ago?

I had bought a John Deere 670 (tough little tractor...I guess it would be considered a SCUT today....compact tractors were smaller back then) and, since my experience with tractors was...well, practically non-existent, I wanted to learn about operation and maintenance...and definitely safety.

As far as TBN...not much different, really. No politics then, that I can recall. The "big" debate was gear versus hydrostatic transmissions (and those threads could get pretty rowdy!!).

A lot of the guys that posted then are long gone...about the only one left is Bird Senter who was on TBN when it was still a Kubota forum.

BTW, I'm going to tell you why I bought a tractor...
We had recently (at the time) bought a log house with a few acres...about half wooded and a power line right-of-way that hadn't been maintained in years. My wife and I, one late October, decided to go on a "Haunted Hayride" that was operated by a local volunteer fire hall. The hayride was just that....tractors towing hay wagons.
Anyway, after riding in that hay wagon, I just had to have a tractor. Obviously, I didn't need (or could afford) a big ol' Deere like the the one towing the wagon...
I was actually looking at a Kubota BX 2200 when a co-worker told me about the 670.
So, that's how it all began for me...

 

[riptides]

71 outside this AM. High expected low-80's.

For only the third time in my life, yep, I walked into a Walmart by myself. I need to make an errand run so it was all about fast, yesterday. I managed to get every item on my honey-please list and my stuff for the pool, grill and equipment. There is something to be said about convenience.

Today, I plan on some weed whacking, yeah, it's a three day event here for that, I rarely spray anything other than the driveway. I also need to sand down, prime and paint my RTV bed floor. It's had a hard life.

Have a great day all, be safe!

 

[wroughtn_harv]

I had bought a John Deere 670 (tough little tractor...I guess it would be considered a SCUT today....compact tractors were smaller back then) and, since my experience with tractors was...well, practically non-existent, I wanted to learn about operation and maintenance...and definitely safety.

As far as TBN...not much different, really. No politics then, that I can recall. The "big" debate was gear versus hydrostatic transmissions (and those threads could get pretty rowdy!!).

A lot of the guys that posted then are long gone...about the only one left is Bird Senter who was on TBN when it was still a Kubota forum.

BTW, I'm going to tell you why I bought a tractor...
We had recently (at the time) bought a log house with a few acres...about half wooded and a power line right-of-way that hadn't been maintained in years. My wife and I, one late October, decided to go on a "Haunted Hayride" that was operated by a local volunteer fire hall. The hayride was just that....tractors towing hay wagons.
Anyway, after riding in that hay wagon, I just had to have a tractor. Obviously, I didn't need (or could afford) a big ol' Deere like the the one towing the wagon...
I was actually looking at a Kubota BX 2200 when a co-worker told me about the 670.
So, that's how it all began for me...

I had to smile at the no politics line. Back in the day Ozarker was a conservative on another more political forum. He was a gun nut ultra conservative I am a two tour Nam vet socialist. We were today before today was kewel. One day in the middle of a left right brawl he mentioned TBN and said I would like it and they would like me.

We had some great times back in the day, and has been mentioned a lot of the guys we had so much fun with have died. I have to believe that part of the reason for the camaraderie was because politics wasn't allowed and we got to enjoy common passions. You just have to go back to the threads we did back then to see it was about friendships and tractoring.

I don't have a tractor, motorhome instead. So instead of talking about tractoring I talk about doing motorhome stuff on another group of forums. But TBN will always hold a special place in my heart.