Good morning!!!!

[lostcreekranch]

The recipe I have seen an always used was simply 1 to 4, so 1 cup sugar to 4 cups water.
They seem to enjoy it at that mix ratio.

Yep, 1 cup sugar to 1quart of water as RNG noted. Thanks!

Do you boil or just stir well? I’d think adding sugar to very hot tap water would work?

 

[Ed of all trades]

Good morning all, 65 going to 81 with a 70% chance of showers. Nothing planed for today except take it easy, will see.

RNG, You asked about unloading a lathe. I have a 1 ton engine hoist and my neighbor has a 2 ton. If that does not work there is a rental place less than 2 mi away.

Have a great day, prayers sent. Ed

 

[Eric Salop]

A little damp here this morning. I'm grateful the rain didn't come down heavy until teatime yesterday. The cooler weather gave me chance to cut up some willow for firewood that had been felled and left stacked for almost 2 years in 4' lengths. LS, does willow dry out faster with a water pump ?

Good job I took two chainsaws with me, My Husky had to do all the work as the Stihl kept dying on full throttle. Air filter is clean, will have a look at the exhaust screen later today and see if it's that the problem.


Ed, shame you missed out on that Hardinge. You may not be turning metal, but you've already turned your lathe search into a great excuse to get out and see the world :thumbsup:


CWB, that looks to be a great place to be out hunting.
To my eyes, one of those tree clearings looks a bit like a huge moose grazing away in the valley bottom :confused2:

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Our tap water, at the Ranch, is soft water RNG. Think that痴 ok? Or does it make a difference?

The water here comes out of a bank of limestone and is very hard. It all goes through a water softener, and the birds don't seem to mind a bit.

 

[Thomas]

64F cloudy mid 70's for high w/chance quick shower this morning.,

Plans for today...Take Mrs. to super market,late afternoon mow the lawn,check game cams,maybe catch little nascar, just putter.
Notice spike horn buck checking out the young apple trees... not good,my little buddy red squirrel setting in my chair just in side the shed door waiting for breakfast so I better get at it as they say.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Do you boil or just stir well? I’d think adding sugar to very hot tap water would work?

I store the nectar in half gallon plastic milk jugs. I have eight of them. First I pour two cups of sugar into each of them so my hands stay dry while handling the sugar. Then I pour cold tap water into each of them one at a time, cap, and shake. I leave about an inch or so of air at the top and the trapped bubble helps stir the mixture while shaking. Each time I fill a jug and shake it, I shake the previous two jugs as well. After three shake cycles, all the sugar is dissolved, and it doesn't come out of solution when it's stored in the fridge. I don't like drinking hot tap water because it spends time in a water heater that I'm sure is loaded with lime deposits. Cold water works just fine, for both me and the hummers.

 

[wngsprd]

67 going to 87 maybe rain, which has been teasing the last two days - storms dancing all around us. We'd actually like a good rain now.

LS, that's a lot of hail...glad you got some rain, and nice gourds.

Took Rick and Newbury's advice and bought an 18" hose to put on my grease gun = $6. Loosened the coupler on it a bit and then lubed the old mower and then a couple of zerks on the new ZTR and I now know what I've been missing...much easier not having to worry as much about the angle that the zerk is pointing.

There was still one zerk on the ZTR pto shaft that I could reach, but the opening on the U joint was too narrow for the coupler head to fit through. This hose has a bigger diameter coupler that the original. So I slipped the pto shaft off and the U joint opened with plenty of room. Now I also have discovered how easy removing and recoupling the pto shaft is - easiest one I have - in case I need to remove the mower deck.

Changed the oil in the old mower then mowed with the new one. Was trying to get a lot done before the 2 or 3 days of rain predicted.

We can tell late summer is here...goldenrods are blooming, garden spiders are growing larger and spinning their webs in the same places each year, and the praying mantis are large and hunting in the flowers and shrubs.

Woke up at 2:30am, didn't see any Perseids, so went back to bed. I cheated and just looked out the windows rather than going outside, though. I think tonight is peak, but may be cloudy.

 

[ronjhall]

Coffee is done brewing. 59° with fog this morning. Heading to 82° with chance of thunderstorms in afternoon. Got hit with a couple of thunderstorms yesterday afternoon and evening. .81" in short burst. Pond maintenance and saying goodbye to our friends. No other plans for today. Maybe watch some NASCAR.

Great pictures LS and others.

Prayers for those in need.

Good Morning All.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 73F @ 3:45AM. Partly cloudy. Areas of smoke and haze are possible, reducing visibility at times. High 93F. Winds SSE at 5 to 10 mph.

The hummingbirds here are very tame, and will sometimes try to land on the feeder as I'm hanging it, or even when I'm taking one down to fill it. Amazon sells a little cupcake sized feeder with a single hole in it you're supposed to be able to hold in your hand. I've seen videos of birds feeding from them, so I don't think hummers have any natural fear of humans. I've also had birds come find me in the garage and hover in front of me when the feeders are empty, almost as if to say "hey, we're hungry! Get busy and fill up our feeders!":laughing:

While we're talking about fun with critters, the other day I was feeding one of the fence lizards and decided to put the worm in the palm of my hand instead of holding it out with my fingers. The lizard didn't hesitate at all, just jumped right up in my hand, grabbed the mealworm, and stepped back down to the patio to eat it. Then sat there looking back up at me, waiting for another one!:laughing:

Hope that hail didn't hurt anything around the house, Ted. Sure wouldn't want to be outside when it came down. Ouch!

Thanks for the reminder, Thomas. I put a game camera out on the patio to see if it would capture what's been leaving little poo pellets, and it's been a while since I checked it...

Good luck with the chainsaw, Eric. Seems like it's always something of a challenge to get one going again after it's been sitting, even if they are run dry and stored in a clean, dry place.

The mechanic reports that the engine is throwing two non-engine related codes (whatever that means), and that neither the fuel gauge nor the water temp gauge are working. But the engine has good power, there are no leaks, and the tracker shows him driving it around the roads nearby his shop, even past midnight last Friday. I guess that means the rewired headlights must be working, too!

Hope everyone enjoys the rest of their weekend.

 

[daugen]

good morning all. Enjoyed a couple of leftover blueberry waffles for breakfast, looking at forecast and getting glum.
Inch of rain yesterday, lot more coming through Tuesday. The edge of the coast is going to get hosed.

Not a good summer for the Outer Banks. Though I bet it's good for beach combing. Nastier the weather, the more
prizes wash up. Not like I ever found anything worthwhile with my modest metal detector, what a waste of time that was.
I could pick shells up all day though...love walking the beach and bringing home shells. Once fully dried, make very cool lamps if you fill up a clear glass lamp.
Especially if you see a particular shell and can remember where it came from.
Have old friends who just moved inland from Sanibel Island, a place I've always wanted to go visit. Now I definitely will. Supposed to be the best of Florida beach combing.
Which unfortunately means a lot of people all competing for souvenirs.

Today I have resigned myself to cleaning up the second floor of my house, the office area and storage area. Admit to being a piler instead of a filer... need to hide more stuff in closets so it at least looks better. It's dealing with what's inside those storage closets, full of moving boxes, storage boxes, all kinds of crap that should be thrown out, that I have found
impossible considering all the projects going on here. But now my friend who I call Miss Daisy is coming into this private mess of mine to sift through extra pillows, a few lamps I have up here. So here comes 88 year old Miss Daisy, who when I told her I had a shelf with pictures of my three wives on it, well, talk about a curious cat. Women find looking at ex wives irresistible I think. This one at least knows she isn't going to make it onto that shelf...

Going to crank up Spotify on the PC stereo, get some tunes to move me along. Tons of family history stuff on second floor, easy to get distracted.
Newspaper articles, including the one 52 years ago showing my white 58 Chevy Impala on its roof with lights shining up into the night sky. 9mpg 348 lead sled but she was my baby.
And I wrecked her. I paid 800 dollars for that car, all the money I had saved up, gone.
Thankfully never did that again in all these years. Then there's this picture of the advertising for my Grandfather's butter and egg business in Newark NJ.
Lot to get distracted by...but I'm the family historian so I have all this stuff. Pictures of me as a volunteer fireman that got into the local papers, thankfully for not doing something stupid.
After working hard and going through two bottles of air, they got me sitting on the back step of a neighboring company ladder truck, looking up at the huge mill fire and thinking to myself we are never going to put this out. And we didn't, had to let it burn down. After the heat melted the lights on our trucks, and the metal buttons on my coat got hot enough to singe my neck
for weeks. Perfectly round burn marks. Not sure how I did that.

enough. My family keeps telling me to write books now that I'm retired. Instead I practice on all of you...
How about a mystery thriller involving a tractor dealership Service Manager leading a double life, special ops on the side...
even better, he would be a TBN member. Oh this could get funny...