Good morning!!!!

Ed of all trades · Sep 22, 2017

Good morning all. 59 this morning going to 83 and mostly sunny. Went and got a prepaid burial plan for my mom yesterday. Now no matter what happens the gov can't take that $$$ from her, unless they change the rules. Today I feel like taking a nap but will try to get the door cut into the new pantry instead, or maybe I'll do both. We shop at Martins grocery store. It is a chain here that is a part of Giant foods. Buppies, I hate going into Walmart and avoid it as much as I can. We had a food coop in Harrisonburg and they had prices that were way high. Walked through it twice.

Ron My day would not be the same if you quit coffee. It is like your coffee is a part of my day. It's the only coffee I have had in years.

Mostly, The wind was brick and gusty. What is brick? a misprint or a term I don't know.

Have a great day. Ed

daugen · Sep 22, 2017

One of the things I always found at good prices in Walmart was motor oil, particularly Mobil 1, for many years. Now I find good deals in Tractor Supply, and in fact, with my new ten percent off coupon, I'm headed to TSC today to stock up on motor oil. It's the first store I get to going into town, how convenient.
Mostly synthetic 10/30, 5/30 for the Generac gen, and 15/40 for the tractors.
Saw I was getting a little low on 10/30. 24 motors to maintain. Just thankful the old straight weight oils aren't needed.
I do a fair amount of oiling out of a big hand oiler, like the trainmen but smaller, and that's where I use up the old
sizes, particularly the straight 40 weight. Not much uses that anymore that isn't pretty old.
I have about a hundred lifetimes worth of oil with nowhere to go, using my hand oiler.

toppop52 · Sep 22, 2017

I have one of those in law jobs today, my son in law's father needs a molding put on the door of his Denali. It's very complicated, clean, apply two sided tape, attach molding.

Another pretty summer day, last one of 2017, mid 60's to mid 80's.

txdon · Sep 22, 2017

Good morning! 72˚ foggy. Yea, First day of Fall.
Planted my garden yesterday and then I realized I forgot about the potatoes. I'll have to take the last of the watermelons out to plant them.
The tents are back up for the FF. We will finish off the last details next week.

Mom Actually did some hoeing in her garden with walker and chair and the promptly broke the hoe. I just made the handle shorter and it's ready to go again.

RedNeckGeek · Sep 22, 2017

Good Morning!!!! 56F @ 5:15AM. 10% Precip. / 0.00 in. Mostly Sunny. High 69F. Winds NW at 5 to 10 mph.

Radar sez it's snowing in the mountains east of here. And yesterday it snowed on the road that goes through Lassen National Volcanic Park, up over the mountain to some 8000 feet of elevation. I rode a motorcycle over that road last Friday, maybe the last chance to do that for the year. Several mountain passes over the Sierra Nevada are also closed, roads that I also enjoyed over the past few weeks. Nothing like going straight from 100F+ temps and cloudless skies to snow deep enough to close the roads in the space of a week. So much for leaf peeping this year. Just another sign of the approaching apocalypse I suppose.:laughing:

Fingers crossed for good fish fry weather, Don. And good to hear your Mom is feeling well enough to get out in her garden again!

Went to the local BMW dealer to get some more photos of the old /2 the have on display, but the saddle on my bike was different and that's one thing I had questions about. Grandson of the now departed owner took me back into a warehouse building that was just chock full of bookcase size shelves loaded with old motorcycle parts, all well organized but none of them labeled. And several elevated platforms with old motorcycles in various states of restoration, all projects left by the old man. I did find something to take pictures of that I think will get me going, but the grandson and his grandmother are pretty overwhelmed with the size of grandpa's collection and with trying to figure out what to do with it. Rows of frames, stacks of wheel hubs, shelves full of heads, cases, and barrels of oil filled with cranks and rods. A real Aladdin's cave for someone into old BMWs.

Yet another disappointing day at the mechanic's, where almost nothing had been done since my last visit three weeks ago. Told him if I don't see significant progress next week, it's trailer time and he's getting stuck with the motor...

TGIF!:drink:

daugen · Sep 22, 2017

RNG, that warehouse sounds wonderful, the proverbial treasure trove.

Had to race to get Massey out to end of road for pickup, guy came super early, should have known, he's a farmer on the side,
and while I had the tractor out there I was on my way back with the Kubota and a pallet of weights he had to take, when I saw he was already out there.
Worked out perfectly, lifted pallet right to end of his pickup truck and he was very relieved,
said my timing was perfect. Well....
So back to barn and put on grapple and having some breakfast before I go cut down an ugly tree behind my house.
And hopefully plant a pretty one in its dying place.

Toppop, I have memories of first gen side moldings drooping off cars in the 70's and 80's, all kinds of cars, Dodge caravans, sedans.
You must have put a lot of them back on with better glue.

oosik · Sep 22, 2017

Typical fall morning - cool, damp - looking like more rain. The fortunate aspect - no smoke, ash or crud.

CWB Wyo · Sep 22, 2017

The low this morning was 35*, yesterday's high was 70*. Today's is going be in the mid 50's overcast with a chance of rain.

Wish I could send the cooler temperatures to everyone who wants them. I would be more then glad to do it.

Work on the heater for the side by side yesterday. Got everything hooked up and ready to see how well it would work. It blows a lot of cold air. Did everything it said to do to get the air out of the system 3 or 4 times. Not sure what's going on. I'll work on it some more today.

Hope everyone has a nice day.
CWB.

PJSprog · Sep 22, 2017

65°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 95° today. Potential record breakers every day right now, so they say. We missed our record yesterday, as some afternoon clouds kept it to 92°

Black Walnuts are starting to fall with regularity now. Pecans have been trickling down for the last week or so. Need to keep a closer eye on that shagbark hickory this year, and see if we can get more than 10 nuts.

Have a great weekend, gents.