Good morning!!!!

[sodamo]

Morning off to a good start

 

[rswyan]

51F and cloudy @ 11:30, rain has moved off to the east.

Forgot to flip up the seat on the tractor yesterday after I finished (vinyl is cracked) ... so I'll have to be putting towel down today for any seat time.

Temp should start dropping any time now, so I'm going to be hustling for the next couple of hours to get the rest of the stuff put away in the barn.

He had the rake all done before I had even finished my coffee this morning. Says it works great ... and he should have done it a long time ago. It angles about 45 degrees with no interference on the cylinder ... so a lucky guess on my part as to the cylinder mounting. I do need to run over and drop him off a restriction orifice to slow it down some.

Anybody know which side of the cylinder - rod or base end - that the restriction orifice should go on ?

Seems I recall there being a potential issue/problem if was placed on one side versus the other ...

Couple of pics ...

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 54F @ 9:15AM. Sunny. High 61F. Winds NNE at 10 to 20 mph.

Horrible news out of Ventura and the Thomas fire. 31,000 acres burned last night, and fire is entering eastern Ventura city. Santa Anna winds...

Made it to Santa Cruze with no problems yesterday, but a bit of trouble finding the shop as they had no sign on the store front. Tiny place with lots of depth in back, funky, cluttered, looks like a fun place to work. Awning was stored across town, so after paying it was another treasure hunt to find that. After the pickup, headed north on Highway 1 along the coast, the inland to Palo Alto. Beautiful sunny day, sun low in the sky, beautiful!

Dined at a really nice Italian restaurant, had a delicious smoked chicken/pesto sauce dish. Best meal I’ve had in a LONG time!

Off this morning to Santa Clara to have the drums turned and shoes arced on the old BMW’s brakes.

 

[rswyan]

... RS, what kind of welder are you using for your work? That looks too nice to be stick.

It's a Lincoln PowerMIG 215 ... like this:

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Sigarms, too funny..
Sodamo, pretty sunrise
PJ, i need a room i dont hear high wind blowing
Thomas, thanks. Remembered we had dramamine, one of those did wonders for my stomach.

Been working on updating retirement calcs. Cant do it without affordable health insurance, and boys are out of college. So no time soon.

 

[300UGUY]

Dentist appointment came out ok, then Menards for some lumber to finish off the deck job, then lunch at Panera’s, then back home, my sister came to visit, and now cruising tbn. Life is good, going out to check on the chickens, and dinner is soon.

Good thoughts to all you guys.

 

[rswyan]

Got MMM, dump cart, and auger bit rack put into the barn, a pallet of wood. Also snatched the chipper out of the shop and stuck it down there as well.

Still to go: backhoe, post hole digger, landscape rake, shrub bucket, grapple, rototiller, boom pole, and TracVac.

Might pull the wood splitter out to make some room, it's probably going to get used at some point in the not too distant future and just tarp it.

 

[Steppenwolfe]

Franklin

WOW! We are neighbors... I'm on the border of Franklin / Henry. My son lives in Rocky Mount.

 

[Steppenwolfe]

Got up a 0500 this morning, wife sound asleep.

Go to put my sweat pants on from last night that I had laying on a chair next to the bed, and I forgot I was up at the gas station last night and bought a paper. Go to put on my pants in the dark, and a bunch of change fell out onto the hardwood floor. You'd be amazed at the amount of noise loose coins make falling onto a hardwood floor. Wife wasn't too happy. Kind of funny thinking about it.

How many bruises did she lay on ??? I go to bed at 9pm, up at 5 to 6 am. Wifey goes to bed at midnight and gets up by 9... I'm always tiptoeing around the house...

 

[tungularafishcamp]

That's why a detached garage/shop is a marriage saver