Good morning!!!!

[LS Tractor Owner]

Good morning to all! 54 this morning, it to 78 today, nice light breeze. No rain forecasted.

Last night I suddenly either pinched a nerve or have a bad low back muscle spasm on the opposite side of the knee. I think it's from walking and compensating for the knee. Woke up this morning and the knee has felt better than it has for the past months! Back was still acting up, but also better. I'm really getting tired of being broken

Just taking it easy today, let everything settle down.

Glad everyone had a good weekend, those that are healing are getting better!

I find it amazing that I have such a strong desire to "cut grass". Since moving here to the high desert 25 years ago, even on a wet year, only have to cut the fields 2-3 times a season. Weed whacking usually once a month. Most people living out here don't even do that. I see pics of Drew's place and drool, then hear about all the dewberries and cobblers, then about having to prune trees..... That's it !! I'm moving:laughing:

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Anyone have a recommendation for a good quality garden hose cart?

 

[RedNeckGeek]

All the recent talk of CBDs reminds me that one of the sponsors of the VW event held a tequila tasting and salsa competition on Friday night. My salsa didn't win anything, but it wasn't one of my best batches, either. They were also pouring a CDB infused beer, which was pretty unusual but quite trendy. It tasted skunky, like somebody had used it to wash a basketball team's socks, which I suppose is also quite trendy. One glass was quite enough for me, and did nothing for my usual aches and pains the next morning. Then I caught one of the sponsor's employees, who was regulating the tequila tastes for everyone else, pouring two inches of a fine anejo 100% agave tequila into his glass of undefined mixing swill and told him what an ***** he was. That comment wasn't well received, so I went on to explain that his employer and all those like myself who had donated the bottles, some of which were quite expensive, supported the event because it gave everyone a chance to taste a wide variety of tequilas and perhaps find one or two they liked. It was decidedly not to support his binging and drunkenness. He started to mouth off again when his employer dragged him away before he could do more PR damage. That was the one and only ugly incident in the eitire four days, at least people wise.


I didn't take many photos this time around; looking at all those lovely Syncros only reminded me of how long it's taken to get the one I have going again. One I did take was of the remainder of a set of needle nose pliers a local tire shop dug out of my campground neighbor's tire on Saturday morning. I'd accompanied him into town to get some ice and drag back the large BBQ grill he'd be using to prepare dinner for us all when we started noticing a thump, thump, thump coming from the back of the truck about half way there. A few minutes later his tire pressure display was showing 20 psi and a few minutes after that we found the tire shop. The pliers had entered points first, creating two holes that fortunately could be patched. It was unfortunate to have happened as we were already a bit pressed for time, but it didn't ruin the tire, the tire shop was on the way to the grocery store where he was going to purchase ice, they got on his repair immediately in spite of having a garage full of other customers, and when we got to the grocery, he got a spot in the first row right in front of the door! I told him he should also buy a lottery ticket.:laughing:

 

[daugen]

Anyone have a recommendation for a good quality garden hose cart?

I seem to always buy from the AttaLeak Company...of course leaving them out during the winter is a bit of a torture test
Sorry

Delivered a full box of fresh lettuce to local food bank this afternoon. Amazing amount of work goes into that little box...
Unfortunately the lettuce got covered in dirt this morning from a end of system downpour, blasts the sandy dirt up into the leaves.
But they know they have to wash it. I saved three nice heads for myself, dinner tonight will be a treat.

And Ted, this lettuce? Droolworthy. Some of it was vegetable art. It's a mix of about six different interesting lettuces
and today most of them gave their all for the good folks of Beaufort County.

Ok sharp eyes out there, and yeah this is too easy, what's the wildlife in the lettuce?
Carefully placed on the lawn I might add...

 

[RedNeckGeek]

I find it amazing that I have such a strong desire to "cut grass". Since moving here to the high desert 25 years ago, even on a wet year, only have to cut the fields 2-3 times a season. Weed whacking usually once a month. Most people living out here don't even do that. I see pics of Drew's place and drool, then hear about all the dewberries and cobblers, then about having to prune trees..... That's it !! I'm moving:laughing:

Feel free to drop by anytime and take a ride on the tractor, Ted. I'll even make sure the mower is attached so you can rekindle your fond memories of cutting grass.:laughing:

Sorry to hear about your back, but at least the doctor's work seems to have helped the knee!

 

[daugen]

The pliers had entered points first, creating two holes that fortunately could be patched. It was unfortunate to have happened as we were already a bit pressed for time, but it didn't ruin the tire,


It's the skeleton of a Pliersaurus!

wonder if the tire might have a little thump from that, maybe some bent steel.

 

[txdon]

Had a surveyor check on the compass rose. Something is happening. It's off 1.78˚. Are those Hawaii earthquakes or sunspots throwing off the magnetic field, is the ground moving here? Even the iPhone is showing 2˚ off and was perfect before.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

It's the skeleton of a Pliersaurus!

wonder if the tire might have a little thump from that, maybe some bent steel.

The owner wasn't concerned at all. He tows modular homes for a living, and the pickup was his escort vehicle. Puts over 100,000 miles a year on it, and even high mileage Michelins like the damaged one don't last very long. And since it was a company truck, it wasn't coming out of his pocket anyway.

He drove his rig to the event. It looked like a Kenworth, a huge thing, but instead of having the usual semi tractor hitch on the back, he had a fairly good sized tracked crawler with mounts for ramps over the wheels. Apparently some of the locations where the homes are being built are quite off the beaten track, and the crawler is the only way to get them up there. So the home modules have a standard ball hitch, which the truck also has, as does the crawler. The crawler's is mounted on a forklift type arrangement with up/down and left/right hydraulic actuators. He said the longest pitch the crawler's done was ten miles, and it took the better part of eight hours to do it.:shocked:

Oh, and his luck ran out when we picked up the BBQ grill trailer. The guy at the rental company forgot to take the trailer jack off the tongue, and boy did it make a noise when we tried to leave! No harm to the truck, but the jack didn't quite look right after that...:laughing:

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Had a surveyor check on the compass rose. Something is happening. It's off 1.78˚. Are those Hawaii earthquakes or sunspots throwing off the magnetic field, is the ground moving here? Even the iPhone is showing 2˚ off and was perfect before.

No worries, Don, your property isn't moving, the poles are. And we're the cause: The North Pole is slowly moving towards London, and scientists have finally figured out why

 

[sodamo]

Drew
Ladybug?