Good morning!!!!

[RedNeckGeek]

Wow! That rabbit looks more like it got hit with your mower than a hawk, Drew.

If you want the bunnies to eat your carrots, try putting 'em in a more bunny friendly spot. They prolly get freaked out by that monster golf cart and all the petro/people smells around that parking area.

What kind of a melon is that? Looks like a watermelon on the outside, but like a honeydew on the inside. Could your melons be cross pollinating, too?:laughing:

 

[daugen]

It was more of a honeydew. The rabbits seemed to have a nest not far away from where
the carrots were put. Unfortunately under a project mower under the shed roof. Perfect bunny pad.

Big storm off Carolina's coast but not coming this way. OBX (Outer Banks) will get some rain and big surf.
Might be a fun weekend to be at the shore if you like big waves.

 

[toppop52]

Another COC day with blue sky and stiff NE breeze, got to about 81. Sitting on the deck in the shade and it’s chilly feeling in the breeze at 72. Very dry.
Busy all day with mundane but necessary things.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Enjoying the cool weather on the porch. Birds are really noisy, esp the mocking bird.
Dad broke his siclebar mower, again. Some bearing went out, said it is going to be a real pain to fix. Said he would bale what he had down and wouldnt make any more hay. He's 94 and can hardly do it, think it's finally registering.
He does want to keep fields mowed. Wants bush hog. I recommended a flail, but he doesnt know what they are.

 

[txdon]

2018-07-08, 0755
Speaking of weed trimming...we have a lot of weeds this year. I don't normally spray them, but I've started this year. I don't want to use chemicals if I can avoid it. I'm trying vinegar...for you guys in the same situation, what are you doing?

I'm using 30% vinegar bought on Amazon. It is suppose to be above 19% to be an effective weed killer. They do make a 20% but for a few bucks more I can make more by a little dilution.

 

[txdon]

Drew we had beheaded squirrels in the yard. I always thought it was gray2 or another feline.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 75F this morning, coolest morning in a while, partly cloudy light east breeze. Wind increased to a moderate level, clouded up this afternoon, but no rain, and high temp was 93F. Went to chapel this morning, then to stepdaughter's for biscuits and gravy, then to town for DASH meal deliveries. Lunch, then nap and worked on finding the sonar on/off on fish finder (found it ). Nice relaxing day cause today was my birthday, was hoping STL Cards might win, but no such luck.
Prayers for all.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Happy Birthday Mostly gas.

Sodamo, thanks for sharing the photos. Still amazed at it all, and wondering how many don't plan on rebuilding....Also, the pool temp sounds perfect for a hot day.

RNG, Whodathunk old stamp framed honda's were going to be worthy of full restoration. We renamed the Dream model to "Nightmare".

Drew, time for fricasseed wabbit? When raccoons kill chickens, they tear their heads off and start munching at the base of the neck.

BEF, I have an old sicklebar I need to do a day's work on....But not in this heat. I would really like to take it apart and rebuild it someday....but as cantankerous as it is, maybe not. I need to do some shredding, unless my neighbor wants it as hay.

mowed the weeds down in the garden today. Pulled out the squash plants that have fungus on the trunk (all of them). Put them in a trash bag to put in a dumpster. Try to keep that fungus minimized. Might be a product of the overly ripe mushroom compost.

Killed a snake today. Non - poisonous, hated doing it but we are raising chickens for eggs. They are quite common here.

Church was good today. Prayers for all.

 

[txdon]

BEF, I have an old sicklebar I need to do a day's work on....But not in this heat. I would really like to take it apart and rebuild it someday....but as cantankerous as it is, maybe not. I need to do some shredding, unless my neighbor wants it as hay.

Kyle - mom has her JD sickle bar for sale along with two complete blade bars. What is a fair price, it's been in the garage for 15 years. She was thinking $200, I was thinking $700? It is still connected to the old Fergerson tractor that that my dad used it on.

 

[txdon]

A pic

Tractor is for sale also for parts.

 

[RoyJackson]

2018-07-09, 0324

54 right now...high in the uppers 80's today.

We have AS 9100 auditors coming in today for the next 4 days. I'll be handling the audit...wish me luck.

 

[sodamo]

Thanks for all the comments. Nature sure can be impressive.

The waterfalls were just outside of Hilo, basically on way back to airport.

We didn’t fly anywhere near our place, located the other direction. We did do an overfly back in 2006 when we were building and I wanted an aerial perspective. This was before the great internet mapping assets or drones.

Sodamo comes from...

Drew, I suspect we’ll be talking about this pics along time.

RNG, there are flight restrictions in place. I think they were 1000’ over the water, 3000’ over the land near volcano.

As mentioned, perhaps a once in lifetime opportunity. Initially, the frugal me winced at the $400 for the 2 of us, but so so glad we did it. Talking with my friend Malury, we reasoned that as this was pretty much our only cost compared to those that had to travel here specially, we got quite a bargain.

As for rebuilding. Rumor is Zone 1, possibly Zone 2 may see building restrictions. Realistically, many should not have been allowed in first place, but like those that continually rebuild in known hazard areas I’d probably better not say anything that might be politically misconstrued.

 

[Eric Salop]

We have some nice light shade this morning. Unfortunately it will soon all be gone as the only white stuff in the sky is a criss cross of vapour trails from an unusually busy Monday morning exodus of planes.


I found a great spot to spend an hour or two on the bank of the larger pond. There are no fish in there, but it does have the benefit of having a few trees where I could hide from the mid day sun. There is one alder in particular that offers deep shade, only problem is -

no space left for me !


Roy, hope only the odd minor non-conformance comes your way. You're a pro, luck is only allowed if it's been fully documented in your quality manual

 

[daugen]

Roy, Good Luck! Just keep the front door locked so they can't come in.

surprisingly cool 61 out now, what a nice change from the heat.
Lady from food pantry coming over this morning to help me weed, should be a great day for it.

Don, I love the front suspension on that tractor, the whole axle moves to steer?

Eric, great pic. Don't want to overheat the lamb chops. I wonder how their behavior changes after they lose their winter coats.

 

[Buppies]

58 high of 86 today it’s 56 outside now delightful to say the least

Lambs look very comfortable

Roy good luck with audit

$700 sounds fair

Prayers for those in need

 

[Buppies]

Sodamo pictures are beautiful and scary at the same time. The power of Mother Nature and how we are helpless in some situations

 

[wngsprd]

53 going to 86 and sunny...feels great outside again.

Happy Birthday, Mostly!

Roy, good luck.

Eric, I see one spot you can stretch out with your head resting on a nice soft wool "pillow."

Spent several hours "unplanting" our garden yesterday. Primarily because of two reasons:

1). we had flooding rains several times in May and June soon after planting and some plants died, others were stunted.

2.) we used the wrong landscape cloth. Like Buckeyefarmer reported, our fabric seemed to produce a bumper crop of grass underneath. I placed it between rows, carefully pounding in the big staples, and tucking the ends. But by yesterday, the fabric had swelled up like one of those inflatable jumping houses used at kids birthday parties...the grass was pushing up so hard that it was pulling out staples. Once I removed it, the grass underneath was greener and healthier than the grass out in the open. (The directions did say after placing the cloth, cover with mulch or landscape rock).

Well, we at least harvested a few tomatoes, jalapenos, beans and okra. In fact the row of okra and 3 rows of flowers are all that we saved. Now, I'll have to live by way of Drew's garden for the rest of the season...so keep the photos coming, friend.

Son and DIL came over last night for a cookout and belated birthday party...he has started reloading, so was great to hear him talk about it.

Was planning a day trip today to take advantage of the great weather, but we were up way too late, and have more to do outside, so we'll plan another day.

 

[Ed of all trades]

Good morning all, 53 going to 85 and sunny. Slept in this morning. Hope to get some more done in the shop. Wife was hopeful that her loom would be done soon until I told her what needed done. Cut roller to length and mount ratchet wheel after I brown it. Blacksmith two brackets to hold the reed and one for the tension rope and brown them. Build the rack to hold 360 balls of warp string. Glue emery cloth to the roller. Then work out the bugs and get it all lined up. Sure won't take long.

Roy hope the audit goes well.

Mostly, Happy Birthday.

Eric, I have heard of people going fishing and not baiting their hooks so the fish would not bother them, that pond would be perfect.

Don, $700 does sound like a fair price to me as well.

Have a great day, prayers sent. Ed

 

[Thomas]

54F clear sky upper 80's for high.

Weekend seem like blink of the eye,was able to get that and this done tho.
If not to warm after work might trim some limbs/braches.
E muffin feed the little critters than slow roll to work.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[Ed of all trades]

Enjoying the cool weather on the porch. Birds are really noisy, esp the mocking bird.
Dad broke his siclebar mower, again. Some bearing went out, said it is going to be a real pain to fix. Said he would bale what he had down and wouldnt make any more hay. He's 94 and can hardly do it, think it's finally registering.
He does want to keep fields mowed. Wants bush hog. I recommended a flail, but he doesnt know what they are.

You are blessed that he is so able. Even though it is hard I bet it keeps him young at heart and healthy. Stressful dealing with it but my guess is that it is worth it in the long run. Prayers sent. Ed