Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

CountyLine Adjustable Top Link, Cat. O at Tractor Supply Co.

Bingo. A Cat O will work, 13 inches shortest length will shorten the top link by at least three inches,
that should give me all the adjust-ability I need. Pricey for such a small thing, TSC catalog came today, maybe
there will be half off on all top links tomorrow. I'd take ten percent...
Well, I have some time. The potato plow might fit on the larger Massey ok but a disc harrow is on the back and that's just too hard
for me to take on and off. Plus the rows were made by the Super A, which is narrower than any of them, so even the smaller Massey's rear
wide turf tire can be a problem. Got that spinning in the mud yesterday, all of a sudden the noise continued but forward motion stopped.
Find the too small made by Iseki for tiny people handle near the floor and off I went.

I admit to looking for opportunities to use the tractors. Let's see play in the dirt with machinery or hand hoe weeds.
Hands up for hoeing? Hands?
And the tractor takes it by a mile...:tractor:

 

[sodamo]

Whirlpool dryer fixed - open thermostat.
Kenmore Dyer - board on order, new appt set.

 

[jbrumberg]

"... I admit to looking for opportunities to use the tractors. Let's see play in the dirt with machinery or hand hoe weeds.
Hands up for hoeing? Hands?
And the tractor takes it by a mile..."- Drew

Everything around here is 60" L and W, Depth ~8" or a "challenge." Some of the plants around here are well spaced. Saves me a lot of aches&pains.

My "opened" 7 acres is now closer to 6 maybe less; but I still have a "perimeter." Compared to a lot of you my slope is wussy stuff; 4WD, upslope and down, low and slow, watch for woodchuck holes and "new stuff" and all is good. Our lower opened area's ground surface moves around here; the surface and subsoil flow downhill; I think it's the nature of the glacial till/moraine(sp?) deposits of the ground and subsurface soils. Somebody here knows about this stuff. Every year there is some "new feature."

 

[txdon]

tomorrow I need to get some bird netting over these blueberries.

What is really sad and a bit scary is cutting out the snakes that get tangled in the netting. After cutting out two snakes I took my netting off.

Cobbler #6 is in the oven. Cobbler #7 I will share with my brother when he comes down this weekend.

I thought I found the perfect Mother's Day gift for mom.
Amazon.com: Mail Chime MAIL-12�� Wireless Mail Alert System: Home Improvement

But the range is not far enough and a message to the owner did not result in any possible way the range could be extended 1000 ft. Mom's biggest challenge every day is getting the mail and when it comes late she makes two trips, she is such a fall hazard. I saw this Hardship Mail Delivery and will apply and try to get her mail delivered to her front porch. That would be even a better gift if I can accomplish that.

J, here is some incentive to seek out the simple facts of a healthy diet you are seeking:
Turning the Clock Back 14 Years | NutritionFacts.org

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Good morning all, 47 this morning going to 70 and sunny. Rain tonight and likely tomorrow. Have a friend coming today for a visit and then a costco run if I can work it in.

Kyle, I have picked a lot of berries in my time, not many dew berries but what is the stick for? Leaning or beating the berries into submission? Or snakes?

Prayers for LS, Randy, and RIP, David and Ron's wives. Have a great day. Ed

I know when I pick Texas dew berries the stick is used to push the stickers vines out of the way to get to the berries. last years vines that have died are really bad, the splinters break off easily and into your skin, the ones on the green vines mostly poke and rip. When I got finished picking my gallon of berries yesterday my hands were two colors - berry purple and blood red. My reward is cobbler for breakfast!

Almost everything in Texas either wants to either puncture you or bite you, not a place for sissys.

Don explained it well. The picking where I was, was not really great. As I worked my way thru the patch, each spot you bend over, you might get only 10 berries on average. And the berries are underneath hearty protective younger vines. So, it is far easier to use the stick to move over the top overgrowth.

Randy, glad you are better and glad you have a partner to help you out. Tell her Howdy from Texas and thank her for helping you.

Drew, did you buy the strawberries in root sets, or as plants in small containers? Do you remember the name of them?

 

[lostcreekranch]

Johnny going to his new home today.

 

[txdon]

Whirlpool dryer fixed - open thermostat.
Kenmore Dyer - board on order, new appt set.

I'm going to play the may tag repair man, I got in the front loader washer seal today for our whirlpool and found a youtube that shows how to replace it in 23 easy steps. Well, they are all easy except for the one they say is hard - something about a spring . . .

I'm getting my wife to supervise me and stop the you-tube when I can't keep up. I wonder how this will turn out?

 

[txdon]

Johnny going to his new home today.

What's the replacement?

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 44F this morning, light wind, clear sky. Wind stayed light, sky stayed mostly yo completely clear till very late afternoon, and 73F for the high. started with more consulting, then bike ride, then swapped out rear tires on bike.

RNG nice video!!

Randy good to hear you are doing better!!

Don Mon's mail delivery person saw her walking out to her mailbox and stet up a tray on her front porch. If you can take her in to PO when you talk to then it may make their decision easier.

Drew, pace yourself on the garden, and have fun on your tractors :drink:

prayer for all.

 

[lostcreekranch]

What's the replacement?

Stay tuned.

 

[txdon]

Don Mon's mail delivery person saw her walking out to her mailbox and stet up a tray on her front porch. If you can take her in to PO when you talk to then it may make their decision easier.

Excellent idea! :thumbsup:

Ron this cardiologist opened a restaurant in your area, I think, we might have to plan a road trip to eat there. He was the speaker on the Cruise that had to stop his lecture and run to the 15th floor because someone (not in our group) was dying of a heart attack. He is also the Doctor that first mentioned the Prolong diet that I researched, tried, and it worked marvelously. GreenSpace and Go opens in Royal Oak - YouTube

 

[sodamo]

I'm going to play the may tag repair man, I got in the front loader washer seal today for our whirlpool and found a youtube that shows how to replace it in 23 easy steps. Well, they are all easy except for the one they say is hard - something about a spring . . .

I'm getting my wife to supervise me and stop the you-tube when I can't keep up. I wonder how this will turn out?

Could be exciting (or frustrating)
Best of luck, Don

 

[sodamo]

Drew, be easy on those tractors. They may not be as spry and experienced as you.

 

[RoyJackson]

Johnny going to his new home today.

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[RoyJackson]

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44 right now...a bit cooler then yesterday. High in the upper 50's and more rain...rain 3 days straight. Looks like a decent weekend ahead of us though.

My generator, a Pulsar Hybrid (gasoline or propane) was delivered yesterday. Peak output is 10 kW with gas, 9 kW with propane. Should be OK for what we need.

 

[txdon]

Up early, with VFD call to set up landing zone. One neighbor was not having a good morning.

 

[txdon]

From the time we got the call till the helicopter took off from the scene was 53 minutes, add 30 minutes before, for the ambulance another 30 for the helicopter to get to austin - almost two hours. This is about as fast as one can get to the hospital out here unless you can drive yourself immediately, or have someone driving, that is if the patient can make it to the car, then it would be about an hour and fifteen minutes.

 

[daugen]

62 out going up to 78 today with showers coming in fairly soon. Guess not much will get done today outside, maybe this afternoon.
Otherwise tomorrow looks very nice.

Don, I was really surprised by the issue of snakes and bird netting. You have snakes that climb three and four feet up in the air?
My netting is laid on top, tied to tposts at the corners so it doesn't get within maybe three feet of the ground. How do snakes get in there?
Birds I could understand.

Strawberries growing were bought in conventional pots, don't remember the varieties, sorry, except for the Carolina pineberries I planted in one corner that are almost indistinguishable from strawberries. Except not as sweet.
At the end of this year I'm going to cut out about half the plants and put them somewhere else, it gets so packed and congested in there.

cleaning ladies coming this morning, time to pick up the place. All the inside plants are on the back porch, my sunroom adventure is officially closed. So this morning I'll be pulling the plastic sheeting off the carpet in there, vacuum, and really really hope I didn't wreck the carpet someplace I haven't seen.

New mower cut about an hour off my mowing time yesterday, very pleased with that, though I need to let some air out of the tires, they pumped them up way too hard.

We put them to what it says on the side of the tires.
Why? That's way too hard.
We let the customer adjust.
Well thanks for nothing.

It's not like we were dealing with trailer tires...or front tires on a heavily loaded FEL.
This is a lawn mower with static weight...and part of my lack of grip I'm finding is that the tires are overinflated.
Just seems like a dumb approach for the dealer.

TGIF, may good health and happiness make your day.

 

[Eric Salop]

No cow udder skies for us, we have only a uniform (flat chested ?) gray cloud covering that even the most imaginative weather observer would struggle to describe as anything but dull.


Drew, each time you talk of planting, the program that decides what advertising I see while catching up on tbn shows me something gardening related. This is typical of what has been coming up this week.



A distant "cloud computer" will no doubt now be pondering over Jay's cloud formation descriptions - next time I log on it could be offering me some very different products :confused2: :laughing:

 

[toppop52]

Raining this morning after what I’m told was a pretty warm day yesterday. Woke at 3:30, not an ideal sleep setting.
Chest seems some better this morning. I’m making my case to get out of here today and home to my cats, bed, food and fresh air. Most of all my people.
I’m here my BP, BM AND Sugar get messed up. Not to mention my psyche.

Thanks for the prayers and well wishes, from you guys they feel genuine.

Let me return those prayers to all of you and I hope you all have a great Friday.