Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

Tomato plants not doing well, but I did get these two plum tomatoes.
Had to chuckle, they are just about Gravely red. Glossy red with a touch of orange.

Long, bouncy day, but finished mowing my neighbor's seriously overgrown field. With the wrong equipment, should have a bush hog with blunt blades but all I had
was my finishing mower, which was slated for a blade sharpen. So before that, figured I might as well get them really dull. Weeds were over the top of the cab.
Checked the screens at lunch, what a mess. When I was done for good it took half an hour to air blast all that gold pollen out of every orifice of the tractor.
Radiator partially plugged, all blew out fine. Kubota temp gauge never went up, but I'm glad I cleaned it half way through.
And equally glad I did not blow a tire on a sharp pungi stake I had just made...
I took my time and did it all twice, once tall, another time shorter.

very pleased to see mailman in his pickup truck deliver my new ag tires for the back of my Gravely garden tractor.
Last week I had to be pulled out of the ditch for the third and hopefully final time by neighbors. Embarrassing...hard to see if it's wet until
you're really in it and the ATV style tires I had put on 15 years ago just plug way too quickly with mud.
Everyone is always pulling someone out of the ditches, I've pulled the professional road mowers out twice already...
Funny, those big tractors had the same tow ring on front as the Gravely does. Seasoned getting-stuckers...
These should look nice with the tri-ribs on the front.
Did not pay 120 bucks for US made but rather 125 for both of these...Chinese of course, but had very good reviews.
And six ply vs 4ply on the Carlisles.

almost 24 meg of pics attached, amazed system took them. Used a different camera set to bigger pics. Get a clearer shot but
some of you on lower speeds sorry if this slows you down. My regular camera seems to have grown legs. I need to find where
I put it down.

 

[ronjhall]

I am sure you will find it in the last place you look.

 

[farmer2009]

64 going up to 86. Another whole week of mid-80s and no rain in sight.

Farmer, our youngest son had dairy allergy until he was almost two. We got some goats and milked them twice a day, and pasteurized it on the stove. Goat milk doesn't have the allergen component. I've seen goat milk in some stores, like Trader Joe's. Talking about almond milk made me think of something I saw on the local ag report...the Virginia dairymen are trying to get a law passed that the word milk cannot be used on almond milk and soy milk, etc...since they are not really milk, but instead nut juice, etc. They believe these alternative "milks" are trading on the goodwill that they have developed over many generations, and that the alternatives do not have the same nutritional benefits and consumers are being mislead when the word milk is used.

Eric, hope Max likes his pearly whites.

BEF, congrats on new assignment, and opportunity to build a team.

toppop, sounds like you made a good choice on the Suburban, based on your history and knowing yourself. I thought of you when I was reading about a nice classic car show scheduled here this weekend.

I call it a dairy allergy but it's actually a protein allergy. That protein is in all animal milk. So his only options were breastmilk or a nut "milk". The soy "milk" at our local store has some dairy in it. Doctor actually said the only thing he was concerned about is getting enough fat into the kids diet. And the almond milk was the next best option.

I would support that law. If it wasn't for the allergy he'd be on whole cows milk. No question. But then I have an idea of what dairymen go through to make sure the store shelves are stocked. In my opinion raising chickens is the 4th hardest way to make a living farming. 3rd is turkeys. 2nd is hogs and 1st is dairy. Well in terms of number of days worked. I get breaks but hog and dairymen don't even get 1 day a year off. Cows are milked twice a day, everyday.

 

[farmer2009]

92 today. 89 currently.

Went and got some post for a new pen that's going in at the cow barn. Put rollbar back on kubota and plt is spread and heat is on.

 

[farmer2009]

Toppop good job on the suburban. We love our Tahoe.

 

[daugen]

heat is on.

Glenn Frey, The Heat Is On - YouTube

all these guys are going to be lined up singing this when Farmer's
80 thousand chicks show up tomorrow. Like a welcome band at the cruise ship...

 

[lostcreekranch]

heat is on.

Glenn Frey, The Heat Is On - YouTube

all these guys are going to be lined up singing this when Farmer's
80 thousand chicks show up tomorrow. Like a welcome band at the cruise ship...

RIP Glenn Frey.

 

[toppop52]

it's because you were away and they missed you, which clearly most of us didn't....
still enjoying that Kubota z turn?

I love you too! Yes, the Kubota is a sweet machine!

 

[toppop52]

Toppop good job on the suburban. We love our Tahoe.

I've had 6 Tahoes starting in '95, since my last Suburban, I like them as well.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 78F this morning, partly cloudy, moderate wind. High temp was 94F, sky cleared up and wind was brick and gusty. Swept up acorns off the front porch and worked on the boat seat. Looks like found second flaw in the cardboard pattern, and the back of the new plywood is not square. Will retrim tomorrow and see what happens.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Off tomorrow. Have plenty of chores. Not sure which will get attention.

FIL wants me to work on his craftsman push mower. Pretty sure it needs a carburetor cleaning, but not sure what else. Has an old school L-head Briggs I believe under a craftsman top cover.

 

[RoyJackson]

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50 right now...high in the upper 70's.

Hot weekend ahead of us...

 

[Buppies]

67 high of 85 today 80s all weekend into most of next week

 

[Eric Salop]

Good morning. Clear sky this morning, 4C/ 39F at 8:00 am.

Yesterday, after depositing Max at the vets, we enjoyed a drive out and then a stroll in the rain around the old market town of Nantwich. Not many places where you can see a shop that proudly displays in it's store front window both designer light fittings and Roundup herbicide. It was ideal weather to enjoy a cheese toastie while sat in the window seat of a first floor wood panelled room that looked down onto the town centre. The cafe-come-bookshop, was built for a merchant way back in 1584. Nantwich - Wikipedia

... Talking about almond milk made me think of something I saw on the local ag report...the Virginia dairymen are trying to get a law passed that the word milk cannot be used on almond milk and soy milk, etc...since they are not really milk, but instead nut juice, etc. They believe these alternative "milks" are trading on the goodwill that they have developed over many generations, and that the alternatives do not have the same nutritional benefits and consumers are being mislead when the word milk is used.

That has happened here, European courts ruled that it is deception if non-dairy products are sold as "milk" or "butter", with a few historic exemptions for foods never sold as dairy milk substitutes, such as coconut milk.

Kyle, enjoy your day off. I always found doing jobs for my in-laws had the added bonus of keeping my wife happy too

 

[ronjhall]

Poured first cup of coffee. 64° with mostly cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 90° with sunny skies. Yesterday temperature went to 93°. Last day of summer. Fall starts here at 4:02 pm. Yeah, and it will be in the 90's. Did not get much done yesterday. Back to same list for third day in a row. Maybe take all else off and just work on the paint job. I guess I did take dog to get groomed. I can take that off list.
Bird, never been to a Whole Foods. The ones located in Metro Detroit are in the the high income areas. 2 of the stores are located in College towns. Maybe the younger people know more than we do. Near where we stayed in AZ. There was a food store called Natural Grocers. Prices were way too high. Never more than one or two cars in parking lot. When you have Sprouts and Trader Joe's 1/2 mile away. Going to be a hard sell.
Good Morning All.

 

[Buppies]

Fresh Market is our choice for meats and lettuce everything else is Walmart

 

[Thomas]

49F upper 70's for high.
Finish trimming last evening :dance1: after work double check just about everything on mower for hours of mowing tomorrow after morning dew gone.

Looks like where in for least 3 days of 3H's.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[Buppies]

Pond is now down over four feet really dry here and tropical rains here non existent. I see a long dry winter upcoming for SW Va. hope I'm wrong

Hopefully finish a big driveway today 240 tons or so, one of the largest single driveways we've done. We have one on list bigger than that which will be the largest driveway

 

[Thomas]

Pond is now down over four feet really dry here and tropical rains here non existent. I see a long dry winter upcoming for SW Va. hope I'm wrong

Hopefully finish a big driveway today 240 tons or so, one of the largest single driveways we've done. We have one on list bigger than that which will be the largest driveway

.......................................
How long the driveway?

 

[daugen]

67 going to 88 today, looks like about a week of this nice weather ahead.

This is a wonderful time of year since it's harvest time. So many things being harvested. Locally corn and tobacco are being picked. Soy beans still drying out.
And our veggie gardens are still putting out.
I have visions of peach baskets and crates brimming with apples from my orchard. Next year...

Childhood friend of mine coming home from Washington after visiting his mother. He takes wonderful pictures and this morning one came of the Yakima Valley Washington grapes on the vine, almost ready to be picked. He said the testers were out every day checking on the grapes.
They took their new Honda Ridgeline on this cross country journey, which they have done many times, and were averaging 28mpg before they hit the Rockies.
Unreal for a truck, even a light duty one. And they had the cruise on 80mph for many hours, so they weren't slow poking at all.