Good morning!!!!

[txdon]

Good morning! 74˚ cloudy. Had .6" of rain yesterday. The grass is taking off. I will have to mow after taking the TV in.

Kyle here is a spaghetti sauce recipe.

Coming soon
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I alway plant basil when planting tomatoes to add to all tomato sauce recipes, it really compliment the flavors.

Edit my wife says she has the best spaghetti sauce recipe so I’ll post it later.

 

[wngsprd]

I do not chew gum anymore.
When I find a hole I put a dab of TangleFoot Bird in the hole. First bee to land on it is stuck. No more bees can get in hole. Bees never come back to hole. Does not seem to be available anymore. Bird X is a similar product.

The Bird-X seems expensive...is it better than just using cheap caulk to fill in the hole?

 

[buckeyefarmer]

We are in the middle of a heavy thunderstorm. It is beautiful. We haven't had rain since May 4th...16 days....and just like Morton Salt...when it rains, it pours.

We were glad to finally see the sun.
Finally got time to mow a little late last night. Put deck all the way up. Grass still wet, kept clogging under the deck. Looks like crap where i mowed.
Boys will mow today. They have never cleaned under the mower deck, will have to show them that tonight.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Good morning to all! Low of 46, going up to high of 76. The humidity has been averaging between 5-6% for the past 2 weeks...very, very, dry. This morning it is up to 64%. The chance of rain / storms is now forecast at 60%. I sure hope we get some rain. There is a likelyhood of severe storms w/ hail....I sure hope we don't get any of those !! Cloudy right now, maybe a sign of good things coming.

Finally started weed eating yesterday. Wacker would keep stalling every 3-4 minutes, especially under load. It's been used and abused for 4 years, decided to just go get a new one and avoid the unnecessary frustrations. Got a Cub Cadet 25cc 4 cycle w/ brush cutter attachment. Works like a dream. Need to go finish up this morning before the rain (very wishful thinking).

Knee doing better, swelled a little and had minor pain after PT last Friday. Swelling finally down this morning, still a little tender. Both the Doc and the PT therapist said to do anything that I feel comfortable doing. Seems easier to do yard work and such than it is to do PT! Every time I go to PT, the knee swells and gets really irritated.

Hope everyone has a great start to the week. Prayers sent out, hope everyone continues to heal.

 

[CWB Wyo]

The low was 36* this morning, yesterday was nice in the morning with showers in the afternoon. Today will be about the same with the high in the low 70's.

I thought I was done with the fence but found one more spot that needs fixed. I will have to cut the tree up that fell on it and pack everything about 70 yds to fix it. It's on steep hill side and I can't drive anything up to it. I will have to replace all three poles that are 16 ft long. Did I say I hate ring shank nails that are 6-8 inches long. They are a pain to pull out of the bucks.

Hope everyone has a good start to the week.
CWB.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 53F @ 6:45AM. Partly cloudy. A stray shower or thunderstorm is possible. High 83F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph.

Eric, I do most of my painting outside under a covered porch, no sides. I try to pick calm days where the temperature is in range for what the manufacturer calls for on the paint. I do get nits and bugs in the paint, but as it's mostly basecoat/clearcoat, I color sand and buff and you can hardly tell.

BMW motorcycle sold on eBay for a lot less than it was worth yesterday, yet another testament to how quickly and how far the value of luxury vehicles falls after purchase. Nevermore crieth the raven. The buyer is Canadian, and I hope that doesn't mean trouble. But then after he has it picked up, it's not my problem anymore.

Got in another three hours of mowing yesterday, all very steep, with lots of trees to dodge. Only one scary moment, the first of this year and I hope the last. More mowing after breakfast.

Hope everyone's week gets off to a great start!

 

[jbrumberg]

Good Morning Everyone-

The day started 48F, clear, and wet. Hopefully it will get to the mid70F's and dry today. A lot of little projects to do prior to tilling the garden later this week.

Drew- Thanks for sharing the snake pictures. I like snakes. I get about 4 of the species in that link you referenced.

Buppies- Please take care of your leg.

Thomas- I too am scheduling around the blackflies. It seems that they "peak" for the season the day that I till the garden and become a "Mr. Potato Head" from their feasting.

L4N- Happy Victoria's Day. You are probably better off if the welder is his normal drunk self for the welding job. He'd be too shaky sober.

"... Ground still too spongy"- wnsprd Only in my garden and historic wet areas now. I hope that your property dries up soon.

Don- I am finding that I can get away with 1 teaspoon of E.V. olive oil instead of 1 tablespoon in most of the recipes that I have "converted" so far. I am shaving significant calories from most recipes. The changes that I have made in diet and lifestyle appear to be working.... The real test of a diet is having to make new belt holes for a narrower "girth." I am now at that point (22#'s in 5 months). Basil and tomatoes are "constants" in our garden.

Ted- When I read about your progress in PT and am now reading how PT is irritating your poor knee, I start believing that PT is pulling your "exercises" from their primary training manual written by the Grand Inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition. Good luck. Good Luck June 1st too.

 

[rswyan]

Stuart Hughes The Aquavista Dinosaur Gold edition - Stuart Hughes

RS, here's a little inspiration for you. ...

LOL ... yeah ... unfortunately no inspiration there for me I'm afraid.

Now Charlie Mueller talking on getting rare catfish to breed ... that would be inspiring (... and it was ... :thumbsup

 

[rswyan]

64F and sunny here at the house, although WB says it's mostly cloudy.

Got all the wood for the tank racks moved up to the garage yesterday from the basement. A little sanding left to do and can then start painting. A little more cleanup done in the basement and a lot done in the garage.

Started working on turning the big compost pile. Looks like I will have to drain the gas out of the Simplicity and probably pull the carb to get it going again. 25 Hours until the next service on the Kubota. Grass just keeps on growing.

 

[PJSprog]

64°F and light rain this morning, going up to 83° today. Looks like we're in for some hit-or-miss rain much of the day today.

We were part of that giant Windstream outage here at work on Friday. Our internet, email, and phones were down until about 2:30pm. Got a whole lot of nothing done most of the day. About 45 minutes after everything came back online, our IT person announced that the system needed to be shut down again. At that point, I shut everything off and went home early. Frustrating. Technology can be wonderful ... when it works. However, events like this aren't doing any good selling me on the "benefits" of cloud computing and service bundling.

Our favorite electrician was at the house bright and early Saturday morning to finish the wiring going to the barn. He spent most of his time up on a ladder working on removing the old mercury vapor dusk-to-dawn yard light (which was quite securely rusted in place), and replacing it with the new LED light. I got a 10K lumen one from Rural King, and I have to say, it definitely lights up the yard. Everything from the well house to the barn is bathed in light once again. He also wired in a switch in the well house so we can turn it off if we want. I helped him finish the overhead wire for the barn power as well. It's been several years since we've had power in the barn. The Wife's grandmother had a plumber come in to do some work, and his backhoe caught the line on his way into the yard. She told him, "Oh, that's OK. Don't worry about it." So, he didn't. (We also had to pay Helitech to seal the basement wall he cracked.) Anyway, it's good to have power out there again. No more running two 100' extension cords from the well house when I need power.



Next, I need to repair the broken water line that runs under the garden to the spigot out by the barn, so The Wife doesn't have to run a hose along the fence to get water to the chickens.

Went to a visitation and memorial service yesterday for an old friend who died recently. Wife took it hard, as he had been like a second brother to her growing up. He was always a good guy. Worked as an EMT, was a Master Diver and instructor, and volunteered with a local underwater rescue/recovery team. 51 is too young.