Good morning!!!!

[CWB Wyo]

I think it's the warmest morning of the year so far 47°. Yesterday was mostly sunny tell the afternoon. End up getting a pretty good shower just after dark. Today is going to be partly cloudy in the 70's with the wind increasing to 20-30 mph by the afternoon.

I did get a few things done yesterday afternoon. Talked to a neighbor and he asked if I could help him work on his deck. Not sure what he plans on doing but told him to call when he gets started. I'm not sure about the rest of the day.

Hope everyone has a good start to the weekend.
CWB.

 

[wngsprd]

71 and been raining since 3:30am...Not complaining/need it...got good and wet out feeding the birds and emptying the rain gauge and giving Coco her morning dose of frisbee throws. Should get to 81.

Toppop, I'm thankful to your dad and the thousands of other heroes 75 years ago. Hope you continue to recover.

Paul, sorry to hear about your wife's uncle.

BEF, go slow. Nice that you have your son to break in that new Z...I bet he is liking it, like a go-kart.

Thomas, sounds like a productive day and enjoyable evening seeing those bears.

Rick, beautiful pix. I have that same 1/2 inch Earthquake from HF and like it...thinking of getting their air gun stapler to redo our screened porch...$20 after discount is worth it to me rather than using my old manual staple gun with my bad thumbs. I've never used an air nailer or stapler...always went the old fashioned way.

Found a pin hole leak in one of the copper water supply lines under the house...decided to get a plumber...fairly quick fix, but he found a crack in a gray water iron pipe (washing machine) that feeds to a different drain field than the septic field. Didn't have time left to replace it, and he's heading to Alaska today, so will find alternate plan.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Good morning. It was 72°F this morning with clear sky and headed to 92°F this afternoon. Humidity is at 93% this morning so heat index will probably get to 100°F by mid afternoon.

Drew .... the story on Mr. Higgins is very interesting. I'd seen pictures of some of his ideas but, your story is more complete on all he did. Early oil / gas exploration, on the Gulf Coast, created lots of entrepreneurs, developing some very interesting machines for transport. Sorry about your tick but, still better than what you were envisioning.

BEF .... glad you're continuing to feel better. I'm thinking that watching someone else mow ..... might not be such a bad thing? As it gets hotter, I do more of our 9 acre yard around the house with the 55 HP tractor and RFM. The new Kubota ZT's A/C is pathetic.





Randy ... I hope your rehab is going well.

Don .... Rattle snakes hiding in gardens .....not good. I did chase down a copperhead with the ZT last week. He stuck his head up at just the wrong time, as my blades ..... went thru his mind.

WNG .... pneumatic stapler is a good idea. Just make sure that the HF stapler uses standard staples. I've got a Porter Cable and easy to get various length staples for it. I agree with your take on manual staplers. https://www.amazon.com/PORTER-CABLE-NS150C-2-Inch-Narrow-Stapler/dp/B008YOENNY

With our recent rains, it's still too wet to mow the "Park" yet, the grass keeps growing.

I think I'll take Ron's lead and lube my old Kobalt air impact wrench. I rarely use it since we got the HF Earthquake wrench. I've got a 10 year old Dewalt angle grinder that starting to make noise so, I might take it apart and put new grease in its gearbox.

A visit to feed store and a haircut should finish my day.

Everyone have a great Friday and weekend.

Prayers to all.

 

[sodamo]

68°F and no rain

Off to breakfast with wife, errands in town. Possibly a dump run later.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Had my son drive me down to a local italian place to pick up my favorite chicken cheesesteak sub. Sure beats the peanut butter sandwiches I've been having for lunch.

AC on a ZT, just go faster, lol.

I have an electric stapler i really like.

 

[daugen]

The new Kubota ZT's A/C is pathetic.
C'mon just go a little faster...

I have to go out and do a little mowing now, before the rains come and it's pretty sticky out there.
Nice garden club lunch, they really liked my veggies, one lady scarfed up that egg plant within the first minute.
I got to my seat and mentioned to my next seatmate I was curious who got my first and sole eggplant. She turned red, and
happily admitted she got it! She adores eggplant and said it was the perfect size and she couldn't resist.
All good. Those ladies there for awhile truly know you snooze you lose, they are not shy at all taking things from giveaway table.

Ear started acting up half way through and had to leave early but well fed and content.

Don, I think my neighbor has the same tractor, or his uncle across the road does.

got my doxycyclin or however it's spelled, lymes disease antibiotics. My body does not need more prescription medicine in it, now back on steroids, and what
a whopper dose they gave me. 4 pills a day? Plus the Niacin was doubled. I'm going to be red as a tomato...back sure will feel good though.
Have to look on the brighter side, assuming there is one.

I am thankful I have a good friend, a retired doc, who I run things by. I'll ask him about the dosage, he knows more about the rest of my body than the ENT
guy does, who seemed to just wave off my issued concern over contraindications with all those steroids going in. Same thing with the antibiotics.
The same way I put my investments into Morningstar to track them, I wish someone had an online drug interaction site where you could load all your meds and see if the
software squawks. I already cut my primary arthritis med, Celebrex, back to one pill a day. Stuff is hard on the heart. And I have no idea what the other meds
are hard on. Very important to look at forest here and not the trees. Not sure specialists do that...

going to work on Craig's List ad for 1968 Cub Cadet tonight. Need to keep decluttering.

 

[riptides]

The new Kubota ZT's A/C is pathetic.
C'mon just go a little faster...
...

And lean forward to get you back off the seat!

 

[wngsprd]

Cat, my French fries today are from potatoes from Sugar City. Anywhere near you?

 

[daugen]

big thunderstorms moving across VA and NC. We just got 1 1/2 inches in less than an hour.
Chased in by black clouds, got my mowing done. Made a pot of fresh coffee and going to do some office work.
Power was off for over an hour, must have been the storm messing up something West of me.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

big thunderstorms moving across VA and NC. We just got 1 1/2 inches in less than an hour.
Chased in by black clouds, got my mowing done. Made a pot of fresh coffee and going to do some office work.
Power was off for over an hour, must have been the storm messing up something West of me.

Those storms staying south of me. We have 77° and overcast skys.