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   / Good morning!!!! #86,781  
37 going to 49 and rain.

David, congrats on getting your concrete done. I think I may need to concrete our whole yard it is so soggy.

Coyotes are here...mostly see them on the trail cams, but occasionally see one in the field or find their scat.

Never heard of a gray squirrel stripping bark. But have seen the damage they do in an attic. The first house we ever bought was a fixer upper beach house we bought from an elderly couple. Squirrels had chewed a hole through the fascia board and nested in the attic in the loose glass wool insulation. I bagged all of it up and in the process found 2 mummified squirrels...nothing but bare dry skin stretched over bones....must have been there for years. I then rolled out the pink insulation in its place. Nasty job...and of course replaced the board...and endless other fixer upper jobs.

Spent 3 hours working on my chain saw yesterday while the HVAC man was working here. Sharpened chains, cleaned it up thoroughly, and troubleshot a problem with the cutoff switch...just a loose wire. In the process looked at the owners manual and realized it had recently had its 29th birthday. Been a great saw that has cut over 100 cords and this loose wire is the first problem. This sort of performance makes me a very loyal customer. I like loyalty.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #86,782  
Got down to 28, 30 now, lent know it was going that low!
50s later with rain.

There are coyotes all around here including this county, but for some reason they stopped advancing in this direction about 10 years ago and this part of the county has not seen them yet.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #86,783  
Same here on the 28. No rain materialized yesterday, thank goodness. Retrieved cars delivered one to Richmond. Daughter number two graduated and needs a ride. Since she has wanderlust, told her she can have my ride until she figures out what she wants to do. Sadly, and proudly, I expect her to relocate to either FLA, CO or Australia. She studied at the latter and it's tugging on her. I said go for it while she is young and has no debt or anchors.

Daughter number one ordered some driveway maintenance that will show later today. She is still working even with the current state of the government. I liked that she stepped up to the plate without asking. I think she got tired of bouncing down the driveway in her shining new truck. Although I gave her some crap about it being dirty, she replied back that it is a truck. Raised right.

I'll have to dig up my fav photo of the coyote I caught in daytime on the back forty. He or she is now part of a larger pack that makes their home close here. Daughter said she heard them again last night in the front and wanted me to put the game cam up to the house. I am still trying to get a pic of the big 12 point buck in the back. He is...elusive...

Hope all fair well with the HVAC issues.

Hope all have a good day, be safe. Enjoy!
 
   / Good morning!!!! #86,784  
Good Morning! 32 ˚F heading to 65 ˚F sunny good day to hit the trails. Trail development today as we grub out rocks and dig small stumps out under a grove of live oak trees to prepare it for some picnic table being made by another hiking club member. This club has no tractor.

I messed up bad on yesterday's Horticulture club tree removal. After using the chainsaw 45 seconds and grubbing around the base for 2 minutes I pushed the trunk over and pulled it out by hand. I need to slow down and make every job include seat time since this is the tractor owning club. (Remember the stump that took a weeks worth of seat time to get out on the farm)

I did find out that there are 11 SIGs (special interest groups) within the horticulture Club. None say Tractor SIG but one is a Tractor SIG it is just hiding behind another name. So the lady I helped with the tree said I need to go online and on their website check which SIG I want to join and I will start getting emails from that SIG. I signed up with all of them, that way I won't miss out on which one the tractor is hiding under.

The Special Interest Groups SIG
(*) Most likely includes tractor

*Infrastructure
Orchard & Vineyard
Bed Renters
* Powered Equipment
* Small Engine Repair & Maintenance
Landscape
Nursery
Greenhouse
Herb Garden
Iris
Outreach
 
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#86,786  
Morning guys. 31 here, warming to 46. Be nice to see the sun. Sometimes it’s a week or more without sun here, but benn pretty good lately. Going to do something outside, I’ll figure out what as I go.

Cancer sucks. My wife just finished 5 years of meds after breast cancer. She is clear, but it really scared us. Her mother has had a couple of bouts with it, but her dad is a crazy smoker, and very inconsiderate. I hope all you guys come out ok.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #86,788  
Rip put your glasses on, it's bed not bad renters, and it's garden beds just to be perfectly clear.:D

I was wondering why a community would have such a group. I thought it more on the lines of dealing in mitigation techniques. LOL.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #86,789  
40 high of 43 today pretty good dose of rain again Moved tractor to dealer yesterday for new air ride seat third function valve replace bad spool. Should come back next week

Prayers for those in need
 
   / Good morning!!!! #86,790  
40 high of 43 today pretty good dose of rain again Moved tractor to dealer yesterday for new air ride seat third function valve replace bad spool. Should come back next week

Prayers for those in need

Who do you deal with Buppies? If I go up to the mountains this week upcoming, I may go visit the dealer in Stuart's Draft.
 

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