Good morning!!!!

[Buppies]

70 high of 86 before storms roll in later today. Not much planned for today

Prayers for those in need

 

[MossflowerWoods]

Morning y'all,

Seems like breakage season here at MossFlower. Monday my wife Tory was mowing and one of the wheels on the 42" deck for the JD LX266 just broke off. Wednesday the Grapple stopped working, and yesterday the SSQA was giving me fits as I was trying to swap forks for bucket to keep working on the dam and I snapped the handle off (broke the bolt and rounded both the handle and cam)… Sigh... Seems I need to get to know my new Kioti dealer ASAP...

Before it all broke I did manage to get the huge ugly salt spreader out of the bed of the F250 (so I can actually USE it) and I got the snow plow blade off (same reason basically). Dang but that spreader was heavy!!!

We cut down a couple smaller trees & cut them up into 6-7' lengths for use in the dam repairs (really I'm making a new dirt tractor road atop and old beaver dam along the edge of the pond so I can get to the outlet, install some sort of culvert and raise the water level back to where it used to be before multiple storms). Pond is way too shallow now).

We had to quit early, like about 7:15 PM because the front loader is just for looks now with no implements...

I'm hoping I can get some parts. Still got to finish the bonfire pile for the party tomorrow, it's gonna be smaller for sure now, LOL. Maybe I can trouble shoot the 3rd position/grapple problems too... Sigh...

The wonderful thing about a large property is that you are never bored with nothing to do...

Be well all of you.
God Bless USA and you folks.

David

 

[txdon]

Good morning! Mid 70s to mid 90s today. Did not get too much done yesterday. Went to Hobby Lobby in the morning to buy lamps and pillows and other accessories for the house and took back half in the afternoon that did not work. We lost 2 tv channels from the OTA antenna but got one back this morning, can't quite figure that one out. But I did figure turning the omni directional antenna does not improve reception.

Maybe I can get the instant pot shelving up today.

There is a neighborhood trim man that we spoke to yesterday that will give us a quote on a drop zone in the utility room. He had never heard of a drop zone but he had built the wall shelves and cabinets in the living room for the other owners and did an excellent job. I could do it, the community has a workshop with every tool - most of them I have never heard of - work but my wife wants in in less than 2 years and all my big projects take 2 years.

My wife got the e-mail back from the neighborhood Spanish Club, her quest to learn a new language, to join the club and lessons for 6 weeks is $5.

Garbage day today, still getting used to someone actually coming to the house to pick up garbage instead of a once every 3 month trip to the county's heavy trash on dumpster day.

 

[txdon]

The wonderful thing about a large property is that you are never bored with nothing to do...

That is sooo true. It is kind of funny, the people in the city think that all the people in the county do is watch grass grow, boring, and the country people think that all the city people do is sit around in Air condition with nothing to do. If they only knew . . .

 

[MossflowerWoods]

That is sooo true. It is kind of funny, the people in the city think that all the people in the county do is watch grass grow, boring, and the country people think that all the city people do is sit around in Air condition with nothing to do. If they only knew . . .

Yup. If only they knew...

Honestly that is what drove me to TBN and kept me here in the beginning.

This life out in the country was so much different from city life, I simply had no idea how to do so many things, and all of y'all here were way ahead of me so I asked lots, and lots (& lots) of questions... LOL...

But I love it and plan to never live in the city again...

Be well,
David

PS - I'm way behind on the thread. What's the "drop zone" you are referring to?

 

[txdon]

Drop Zone - a place when you walk into a house where you can drop your keys, coat, hat, shoes and it looks organized. Usually in the utility room coming in from the garage area. It has a bench with shoe storage underneath, wall hooks behind the bench, a table with a drawer and cabinets.

Google “ mud room drop zone”

 

[buckeyefarmer]

It's a mud room.

 

[txdon]

Exactly buckeye, we have a utility room that was used as a freezer room and changing it to a mud room but there is no mud here so we call it a drop zone.

Drop Zone - a citified mud room.

The washer, dryer, sink on one side and the drop zone on the other side.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I have a mud room, leave our shoes there, work coats, hats, other storage. Then inside is closet for good coats. Keys in the office, which has become a catchall room. Sons dump a lot on kitchen counter.

 

[farmer2009]

74 this morning and headed to 82 today. Yesterday was 96 with a 77* dew point making a heat index of 112. You could completely soak a shirt by sitting on a tractor for less than an hour.

Hired help did weedeating yesterday morning and mowed yesterday afternoon. He wanted off today and we’re having an audit next week. So he got to do it all in one day. I loaded up a load of scrap metal. All with the forks on dad’s tractor. How I know about the shirt.

I’m having about the same luck as MFW with loaders. The loader on my Kubota is down. Lost a pin out of the loader arm that holds on the ssqa. New pin should be in today. 45 minutes away but new headlight assembly won’t be in till Tuesday. Don’t loose the little clip that holds in a Kubota headlight bulb. You have to buy the whole light to get that clip. Although Ed and RNG would probably just make a new one.