Good morning!!!!

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! Becoming partly cloudy after some morning light rain. High 62F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40%.

The radar sez there are two rain cells nearby, and the closest one looks like it’ll be a near miss. The place sure could use the rain, but I’ve got a pallet of firewood sitting uncovered outside I’d like to have stay dry, too. Really enjoying the extra room in the garage after I moved it out, and don’t want to bring it back in. Something about cake and eating it, too.:laughing:

Speaking of cake, last year the Discovery Channel ran a miniseries on the Unabomber, and just last week I started watching it. Very in depth, but lots of drama, too, so hard to tell how accurate it was. Supposedly CBS news was going to break the Kaczynski story just after the FBI established surveilance around his cabin and before they had probable cause enough to get a search warrant. The linguist who linked Kaczynski to the Unabom killings through linguistics, was under tremendous pressure to find a smoking gun that would make the link solid enough to convince a judge to sign the warrent. He found one in the old saying “Have your cake and eat it, too”. Apparently, it was originally “Eat your cake and have it, too”, and that’s the useage Kaczynski used in both his letters to his mother and, later, in his manifesto. Anyway, finished the last episode last night, and would recommend it to anyone with a hankering for crime dramas.

The seven year old 17” MacBookPro went into a series of continuous reboots this morning, and so far efforts to revive it have not been successful. Probably the SSD I installed a couple years ago, as they’re known to get flaky after that time. After the MBP cools off I’ll have another go at trying to figure out what’s the matter, but until then I’m stuck using this iPad. So if things look wonky in my posts, that’s probably the reason. The iPad is a very dumbed down machine; no auto spell check, very cumbersome finger based pointing scheme, no support for Javascript, which disables many of the widgets that make TBN forum work.

Sorry I got you and Rick mixed up, Ron. Everyone looks alike on TBN!:laughing:

The aircraft grade Simple Green did work better at cleaning the carb yesterday, but it also discolored the float bowl to the point it took an acid bath to restore the finish. Gonna try Krud Kutter next time around, but for now carb #2 is almost done. The cylinder was quite filthy, too, but wouldn’t fit into the tank of the ultrasound. But if I filled it all the way to the top, about an inch of the cylinder fins would be submerged, and that was just enough. I was amazed that the burned on oil and dirt came right off, but it took about six cycles to make it all the way around the circumference. Next I loaded a piston into the thing, crown down so as to subject the burned on combustion products to the soundwaves, and about half the crud came off in the first thiry minute cycle. About half of what was left came off in the second, but by then it was time to quit for the day so that’s first thing on the agenda this morning.

Hope everyone enjoys the rest of the weekend!

 

[RedNeckGeek]

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5:15pm heart attack.
Paramedic use AED 3 different times but I do remember morphine easing the pain tho,about 5 weeks in the hospital 14 days of that in induced coma.
Now I have a whole new out look since than....gotta take time and smell the roses.

Glad you pulled through and can enjoy your tea still, Thomas. I’m more of a tea person myself, and only drink coffee socially. :laughing: Kinda like some people are with alcohol.:confused2:

 

[Ed of all trades]

I must be strange everyone drinks coffee but me. When we go to breakfast I'm the only one drinking ice tea. Been that way since 2002

Randy glad you are feeling better

Roy I can see that becoming your favorite plinker

Buppies, My guess is that I have had less than 6 cups of coffee in the last 20 years and I likely did not finish half of them so don't feel like you are all by your self. Ed

 

[lostcreekranch]

Sorry I got you and Rick mixed up, Ron. Everyone looks alike on TBN!:laughing:

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[CWB Wyo]

It was 39* for the low this morning, it made it up to the low 70's with some wind yesterday. Today is going to be in the 60's with increasing clouds and winds throughout the day. Looks like a storm for Monday and one again on Wednesday.

The neighbor and I worked on some burn piles for one of our neighbors, end up with seven of them. The neighbor we helped is only a part time resident. He asked me to do it last fall and I forgot. If the weather is good I'll get it done over the next few weeks. They are mostly sagebrush and aspens trees.

I got some little project to work on today.

Hope everyone has a nice Sunday.
CWB.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Good morning to all! Only a low of 55 this morning, going up to 77. Dry thunderstorms rolled through yesterday afternoon, kicking up a bunch of dust, 55mph downdraft gusts. NOT ONE DROP OF RAIN !!

Had some tractor time over the last couple of days filling in a hole where a pool used to be years ago. Filled an area about 2' deep, 20'x 30'. Don't know how many yards of dirt that was, but put about 11 hours on the clock. It was fun, hadn't used the tractor for real work for a few months.

Yesterday I washed the tractor, cleaned it real good. Greased the loader and BH, took the BH off onto it's dolly and got the mower ready (don't know if I'll need it if it doesn't rain). Then I was going to change the motor oil....wait ..I never did the new oil drain update from the factory...(the oil drain plug cannot be removed without hitting the front axle...I had to drop the front axle in order to do the first oil change...took me about six hours.) I was the first to report the issue to the dealer / manufacturer and they did come up with a fix / update. They sent it to me last September, figured I would wait til next oil change to install...guess what? Now it's due.
There's another 'service bulletin' to replace a coolant plug that has a hose nipple from it. There is no need for that nipple so they just put a rubber plug over it. Apparently that plug is dry rotting allowing coolant to drain, naturally causing overheating. Got sent the parts for that too.

So, today I get to take off the loader, take off the hood and side panels, jack up the tractor and drop the front axle. Won't be a hard job, just time consuming, but needs to be done. If the knee acts up, I'll just let the completion sit until I get back to it.

Bird, nice to hear you had a nice anniversary dinner with the Mrs.

RNG, maybe slicing that tire was a sign telling you not to mow yet?

Randy, glad to hear you're able to be out and about...sometimes that helps get over stuff...keep active.

Mostly_gas, I get tired just reading about your rides...question-- if you don't ride a good distance daily, do you become very restless and have difficulty sleeping?

Eric, with 30 ewes drinking 1.5 gals per day, you need 45 gals per day. I'm not sure of your tank size, but if it is 500 gals, it would last 11.1 days. They drink a lot of water!

RIP, hope your Mrs is getting through this hard time. Prayers sent

Sodamo, glad to hear that Sophie is feeling better. Wonder which treatment is working better?

Jay, I would like to see a video of the 'lawn chair management' of Brogen and also the mower simultaneously! I think that would be interesting.

Everyone have a great day, be safe, enjoy whatever you're doing! Prayers sent out to those needing them!

 

[Bird]

Glad that you fellows seem to have recovered well from heart attacks. I never officially had a "heart attack" I guess. I used to get chest pains doing things like mowing, but I'd sit down, have something cold to drink, and the chest pains would go away, and I'd go on with what I'd been doing. But they were gradually getting worse, and finally reached a point that just walking 60 yards would cause pretty severe chest pains. So that was when I had the triple bypass done on February 4, 2016, but I was already 76 years old at the time.

And coffee drinkers are all different, I reckon. My Dad always had a cup of coffee as the last thing he did before going to bed at night. My wife has, and still does, keep a cup of coffee handy from the time she gets up in the morning, until she goes to bed at night. She doesn't drink more than 3 or 4 cups a day, but always has it handy for little sips, even in the car, if she goes out. And she doesn't much care if it gets cold. I used to drink coffee from the time I got up in the morning, until I left the office at 5:15 p.m. I used to have a secretary who saw to it that I always had a cup of hot coffee on my desk, and the last thing she did before going home every day was to wash my coffee cup and ashtray. Those were things that I never asked her to do; she just did them. And now . . . I start each day with either 3 or 4 TBN mugs of coffee while I'm reading news, weather, TBN, etc. first thing in the morning, on the Internet, then I don't drink anymore coffee the rest of the day.

 

[jbrumberg]

Good Morning everyone. Temperatures in the low 40F's and raining early AM; present conditions unchanged. Maybe some brief periods of sun later today; maybe some snow showers embedded in the rain late tonight tomorrow early AM. I am looking forward to the Summer-like warmth starting midweek.

We got our first bear visitor last night. It tipped a seed containing ash can and stole ~40#'s of sunflower seed w/o making a sound and disappeared leaving behind in its wake a ripped open and empty suet cage, one small munched up/destroyed sunflower seed cage, and one destroyed 1/4" metal feeder pole snapped in half at the ferrel. It returned later, this time Brogen was up and ready for "action"= 3 walks of the lower perimeter already today. The remaining feeders (minus sunflower seed) are back up and in action. Bird feeders and remaining birdseed will be housed indoors until I run out of seed and suet.

Nothing much planned for today.

I like my early morning coffee and the process of grinding the beans and brewing it. I am down to ~2 cups/day in the AM; no caffeine past noon. I have not yet stopped the martini's yet...... That day is coming.

I have no real cardiac challenges other than managed HBP and borderline high cholesterol levels. My lungs are in good shape considering their history. My challenges are now organ and tissue inflammation. Since I started this new way of eating I have been taking my blood sugars again. I noticed that I was running "high" with the AM's baselining at ~140. I have since tweaked my insulins and am now reading ~100 again.

I am happy to read about all of the heart attack survivals here. It's too bad that many individuals need a "life changing event" to make the necessary changes that may have prevented the "event" in the first place. BTDT

Ted- I can not afford an RC mower like the ones posted. Actually I am benefitting from all the walking. It reads like your MCL is healing really well. That's good news. Your ongoing drought is not.

Randy- It reads like your lung functions are improving and that you are getting at least some energy back. Are you still on O2?

My + thoughts, wishes, and prayers for all especially the ailing wives and those mending.

Have a good one everyone.

 

[Buppies]

Thomas glad that you got over your heart attack and are taking care of yourself. Coffee icecream alcohol etc ceased in 2002 for me due to diabetes. Did not have to have it don't miss it. Diabetes high blood pressure gout seem to go hand in hand an I found all of the above. One modifies as best one can and moves on. I do make a good driver for those who embibe

 

[Looking4new]

Surprisingly, at 71 years of age, I have never had a HA. My Grandfather had a major one at age 50. My Dad had one at age 55, Dads brother died from one at age 68. I think I am predisposed for one, but so far so good. What with everything I did as a youngster, it is a wonder I am still alive today.