Good morning!!!!

[ronjhall]

Sunday is Mother’s Day and I don’t know what to do with myself. Always took my late wife, mom and daughter to dinner. Wife is gone, mom is not able and daughter is doing stuff with her family, she doesn’t want to be reminded either I think. Oh well, the new normal. I’ll go see mom, certainly her last Mother’s Day.

The home my mother was in always had a Mothers Day celebration. My family always joined in on these. Would be great if your Mom was having one of her good days. :thumbsup:

 

[ronjhall]

That would be Windsor, wouldn't it? Or is Windsor too far North-east?

Windsor is Southeast. Heading north from Detroit/Windsor roads are named Mile Roads. I live on 15 Mile Rd. Going all the way to 37 Mile Rd. Our visits will be between 15 and 23 Mile Rd.
I believe Windsor is the only place Canada is South of CUSA.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 61F @ 4:15AM. Plenty of sunshine. High 86F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph.

Good luck with your next attempt with the water drill, David. Keep pecking at it, and you'll get 'er done!

I look forward to the event next year, Eric, when hopefully I can leave the tent at home and sleep inside the finished interior of the van. I'm thinking four inches of foam will also feel a lot better than a couple inches of air mattress!

I haven't noticed any specialty parking places out here, but I have found several lots with isles so narrow it's almost impossible to get a full sized pickup truck into a space. Perhaps that helps explain your crooked parker, Randy?

Thanks for the reminder about Tiltmeter, Ron. I'll get one for both the tractor and Kubota side-by-side.

Do the foxes use their barking to flush their prey, Thomas? Now that the weather has warmed, the windows are open and I hear them out there most nights.

Yesterday's adventure with the pole saw blossomed into another wood harvesting job as half a dozen fire damaged trunks were removed four feet at a time, some of them almost too big for me to lift onto the forks mounted on the FEL. All were damaged at the base by last year's fire, and likely would have come down by themselves once the rains returned over the next winter. I continue to be amazed at the ease with which the little pico chain on the Stihl saw cuts through the oak, even twelve or fifteen feet up at the end of that spindly pole. I was once again reminded, as the saw coughed it's last gasp as the fuel ran out, how much easier it is to cut the wood than it is to load it up and cart it off. Several times the stiff branches would lever themselves off the forks, forcing a stop to wrestle them back into place for their ride to the burn pile. At times like those I almost wished for a battery to go flat in the saw, perhaps requiring a nap to let knotted muscles recover while the juice was replenished.

By 3 PM I thought both the saw and I had earned a rest, and decided to pull two of the awning brackets off the van so that the paint that there was no time to apply could be done. The old canvas tarp was pulled off the bead blaster for the last time this year, a couple handfuls of black blast furnace grit added to the hopper, and oxidation and burned powder coating vanished with a wave of the gun. There was still plenty of semigloss black paint left over from the last motorcycle luggage rack build, a two part urethane that should last a good long time. This morning I'll put the parts back and remove the remaining set and repeat the process. The locks for the awning brackets showed up yesterday as well, so I'll see how they work today, too. I'm hoping they'll fit just as well on an M8 nut as they're intended to work on a 5/16 one. If not, there'll be an additional stop at the nut and bolt store this afternoon while I'm in town for groceries.

Hang in there, gang, Friday's commin'!

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

I raise my hand and say bad idea. You are likely in the eye of the comprehensive camera system installed on the stores.
The guy suffers a blowout on the interstate going home at 70mph and takes out three cars in the other lane head on.
And all because you opened that valve stem.
Sorry...insurance underwriter training, you can't kill someone for parking like a fool. Air in tires is a primary safety issue.

Obnoxious, offensive belittling sign put on window, you bet.

One nice thing about an all around camera on a car, you can see exactly where you are parked within the lines. I have to put Audi
in reverse to activate that. Can't tell you how many times I have had to repark my truck when I got out and found myself crowding one side too much.
To me driving is a skill and how I park reflects that. Others clearly could not care less and that doesn't seem like it's going to change anytime soon.
Oblivious is what I often think of some parkers.

another nice day today, high in mid 80's. No cramps last night and slept well, a nice improvement.
Mowing roadsides today on a beautiful day.

I liked those inclinometers too.

You should see how skinny the idiots in Austin have forced businesses to paint their parking spaces. Trying to force the public into compact cars, but now compact cars have gotten wider, so that people will buy them. Anyway, a motorcycle still fits in the skinny spaces. BYOSC bring your own smart car

A second wet morning for us, though it doesn't feel as cold today as the wind has dropped.

I have been invited to have a look around the new manufacturing facilities of a company I used to work for. I still do some occasional work for them, but haven't been to their headquarters for a long while. A 2 1/2 hour drive will get me to their development centre and from there a coach will take us up to Northumbria. Should be good to see again people I haven't seen in years.

Hope you have a nice trip, sounds fun.

Inclinometers = A hole pucker factor meters.

Randy, my mom is about to turn 90 in a few months. She takes "loads" of pills for many ailments, but is still in decent shape and still drives. AFAIK, she can still park straight away.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Windsor is Southeast. Heading north from Detroit/Windsor roads are named Mile Roads. I live on 15 Mile Rd. Going all the way to 37 Mile Rd. Our visits will be between 15 and 23 Mile Rd.

Always wondered about where you live. My old company was on Whitcomb, just below 14th mile, just across from a big UPS depot. I spent a week there in late Jan 2009. Snowed a few inches every night.

 

[toppop52]

Mom was never a great driver, but she thought she was. Every time she scraped something it was somebody else at fault! LOL

 

[ronjhall]

Always wondered about where you live. My old company was on Whitcomb, just below 14th mile, just across from a big UPS depot. I spent a week there in late Jan 2009. Snowed a few inches every night.

I live 30 miles west of there.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

oops. I used to teach this stuff... If you intentionally open his valve stems, intentional acts are often not covered
by liability policies, and if you get those wonderful denial letters from your general and umbrella liability policies, they will come for your
assets, just about all of them. And you wind up on the street with a tin cup.
I rest my case.

I get seriously irritated by tailgaters, wish someone made a light up sign that says Tailgating Is Stupid, or a variety of nasty insults.
I would have fun running through them, assuming the moron riding my bumper knows how to read.
Please Stop Tailgating
Tailgating Is Dangerous!
Tailgating is Stupid. Are you Stupid?
Yes, You Must Be Very Stupid
Back Off!
could really have fun with this.

Don't be a bumper humper

 

[buckeyefarmer]

65 high of 84 today slight chance of storms

Buckeyefarmer you were close was working in Buchanan when you went by

Toppop back parking job on their part

Prayers for all

Happy Birthday to Ron痴 son

Buchanon is nice, sometimes i get off I81 and drive thru town.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! A muggy morning at 72 ˚F heading to the mid 80s. I need to walk the Whip and head to the Gardens. Too wet for the tractor - we had 2.5" yesterday. I still managed to wash the car and mow the front yard yesterday evening.

Got a return call from KIA they said they will send me the new version of the Navigation SD which was updated a month after I bought the car. A $145 savings. :cool2: