Good morning!!!!

[sodamo]

69°F and no rain.

Mowing caught up for a few days. A bit of football today.

Be safe
Have a great day.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! sunny 94˚. I started again on the perimeter trail for the Fall Party. I'll need to get on the Z and mow the three miles. Twice. It goes 8 mph but some places Ill have to go over 4 times with a slower speed so I'm looking at a good long day of mowing next week once all the Summer over hang brush growth is cut back.

I have a list started of things to do at Mom's, it is now 31 items long with each item taking between 3 hours and 3 days each. I will have to be like Drew and hire someone to help.

 

[daugen]

big old black cloud caught me. Nice and sunny, got the final coat on the mower deck body, and was doing other parts outside.
Well...that paint job was about five minutes old when it started to sprinkle. I actually heard it on the barn roof first. Leaping for the sheet of wood I had the freshly painted parts on, I got them inside. But speckled, lots of little rain speckles. Will see how bad it is when it dries.
That's it for painting, looks like more showers coming in.

5 inches of rain? Oh my bring it on. My poor neighbor, the farmer with less than nothing, planted a fall collard crop a month late three weeks ago, and it hasn't rained since. Now he is even later....need a good solid rain to set that seed.

I guess my afternoon will be running wash. Since I at least got something accomplished, perhaps I'll take a nap. But first the fruit orchard needs a hundred gallons of water. Am thinking about upping my game on the water cart and doubling up. Need to check the JD cart rating.
Axles might not take it. I have two more water barrels. Probably need a larger cart with a little wider stance, so the whole thing doesn't tip over when I go on slopes and near ditches.

 

[rswyan]

69F and partly cloudy @ 13:00, high today supposed to be 74F.

Cold front came through last night around midnight, looks like we got around 0.33" of rain ... definitely welcome. With Nate due in tonight we should be in a lot better shape. Rain is supposed to hold off until around 20:00 - 21:00 tonight ... if that happens I'm going to light off the big brush pile and get rid of it. Have to move a bunch of junk wood laying next to the pile first though. Didn't want to put it in the current pile as it would have made it way too big.

Went over yesterday to the friends that had the open heart surgery awhile back and gave me and his son a hand moving a couple of adjustable beds he just got into the house. Sleeping flat bothers him so he needs something that he can adjust up. He's been released by his doctor for full activity and he's feeling good so that is a bit of welcome news.

After that I hit the pet store for cat litter and then DG for cat food and other stuff.

Grass needs mowed ... will probably wait a few days until there's no rain the forecast before I cut it, as it will have to dry and be picked up.

Probably work some more today on clearing the area to stack split firewood, and sorting out the junk wood from the good.

 

[toppop52]

View attachment 523950this was supper.

Poor Horatio, I knew “ham” well...
Looks like good eating!

 

[toppop52]

I would think that they would dry out within a year or so.....

I’ve heard of smoking them for 24 hours, but 35 years is a stretch!

Low 80’s, overcast and very humid, light showers earlier.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Ed, hope your mama settles in nicely.

Roy, hope your feeling better soon. Ruger ranch rifles are great guns. How was that movie? There is a museum in Fredericksburg TX dedicated to Nimitz and the Navy.

Working on the 5420. The tilt steering is tilted using a gas cylinder and the cylinder is bad. About a $100. It still tilts, but when it is supposed to be locked, it can be pushed in the forward direction. I guess a bad internal seal.

 

[Bird]

my neighbor's okra patch was producing like mad this summer, he said they put away a huge amount of it, and it just kept coming.
I saw yesterday it was all pulled up. I think they had the all the okra they could deal with. A prolific vegetable, at least here.

I'm sure I've mentioned before that okra was my first money crop when I was 11 or 12 years old. We lived on a hill just northeast of Healdton, OK, and had a well that the windmill could not pump dry. So I'd plant 2 long rows of okra from near the windmill west toward the barn and house which was a very, very slight grade, so I could just put a garden hose at the end of the row and it would eventually run the water all the way to the other end. I picked okra every other day and sold it to the grocery stores in town (the town only had 2 grocery stores). I'd start the season getting 35 to 50 cents a pound and toward the end of the season the price would be down to 5 cents a pound.

Of course in more recent years I grew okra in the garden just for our use. We fried most, I guess, because that is the only way my wife will eat it, but I also pickled some for my own use. But now, I just have to buy my pickled okra at Walmart.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Wife decided she wanted to get some apples, from an orchard just north of Gettysburg. Large orchard with lots of variety. She mixed a bunch in a large bag, for making applesauce, then got another small bag for eating.

We also picked up a bunch of hickory nuts last night at the pig roast. Was dangerous sitting under that tree. Now i need a nut cracker.

Finally got a little rain.

 

[RoyJackson]

Ruger ranch rifles are great guns.

So I've heard...I've had a Ruger American .22 bolt action for several months...fine little plinker!

How was that movie? There is a museum in Fredericksburg TX dedicated to Halsey and the Navy.

Good film, and James Cagney did a fine job as Bull Halsey. I've read Admiral Halsey was pretty salty in both his language and actions....Cagney played him as a more dignified person. Of course, since the movie was made in 1959 or 1960, I doubt "salty" would have gotten through the censors.
The actor/director Robert Montgomery, served under Halsey during WW II. Montgomery was one of the few actors who actually saw action during the war. My favorite Robert Montgomery movie is "They Were Expendable" which was about PT Boats in the Philippines in the early days of the war.