Good morning!!!!

[txdon]

Good morning! Another hot day but hey, it's August. We did slip down into the 70s (78˚F) this morning after two day of avoiding them.

Must be my lucky week.
1. I got on the initial list of people to be taught the Wood shop laser. You had to respond to an e-mail and luckily I check my e-mail 51 minutes after it was sent out and was #8 of 8 in the first class.

2. I won all 5 hand and foot card games last night so there is a good chance next week I'll be listed in the top 10 (of 70 currently #14).

Farmer hope you son gets better.

From the American Medical Association to Doctors:
"Heart disease is America's biggest killer, and it's making a deadly comeback. Here's how you can talk to your patients about preventing heart disease."

"Todayç—´ cardiovascular disease patients differ from those of the past decades. Because physicians need to reach people while they are young, before obesity and diabetes develop, it is important to provide patients with education on cardiovascular disease prevention to improve health outcomes. Here are some preventive keys to share with your patients.

Eat a heart healthy diet. Encourage patients to follow a heart-healthy diet, such as plant-based and Mediterranean diets. They should choose more vegetables, fruits, legumes, nuts, whole grains and fish, while limiting salt, saturated fats, fried foods, processed meats and sweetened beverages."

A crisis in cardiovascular health: What to tell your patients

This is the first time I have seen their recommendation of a pure Plant-based diet and they are starting to battle with the agriculture livestock associations.

 

[txdon]

I never feel bad though at helping to produce food and this land is far better suited for livestock than arable. Most ewes will keep calling for their lambs for a day or two after they have gone and that makes you even more aware that lives have been taken away, though of course if all humans became vegetarian, none of the lambs would have existed in the first place.

Now Eric we don't blame vegetarians about the possibility of no dogs, cats, horses etc . . . .

 

[PJSprog]

71°F and partly cloudy this morning, going up to 87° today with some potentially severe storms expected late morning. Radar shows a considerable blob moving southeast from Iowa.

No visible progress on the lake level when I got home yesterday.

I did, however, get a guitar part I've been waiting for in the mail (or "post," for those so inclined), so that project can get back on track now.

Wife spent the day with her oldest son yesterday, who's been in town from Texas for his birthday (he turned 25 on the 14th). They went to an indoor rock climbing place in downtown St. Louis. It was supposedly a precursor to her next visit to San Marcos, when he and his girlfriend have promised to take her rock climbing on real rocks. She said she had a great time. The younger and skinnier me probably would have enjoyed that. The older and fatter me ... nope.

I need to start getting the popcorn and beverages ready for BEF's exciting-if-ever-changing extraction. Would be great if he could just walk out of the place and drive home, but that sure would be anticlimactic after all that strategic planning.

Mostly, I thought Smartt was a pretty small airport. I just looked it up, and one of their runways is 3800 ft., which I suppose is more than enough for a B-25.

 

[PJSprog]

Done for the day. This is the Wainaku grass I mentioned.
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Wow. I will never again complain about how high my pasture grass gets.

 

[lostcreekranch]

71°F and partly cloudy this morning, going up to 87° today with some potentially severe storms expected late morning. Radar shows a considerable blob moving southeast from Iowa.

No visible progress on the lake level when I got home yesterday.

I did, however, get a guitar part I've been waiting for in the mail (or "post," for those so inclined), so that project can get back on track now.

Wife spent the day with her oldest son yesterday, who's been in town from Texas for his birthday (he turned 25 on the 14th). They went to an indoor rock climbing place in downtown St. Louis. It was supposedly a precursor to her next visit to San Marcos, when he and his girlfriend have promised to take her rock climbing on real rocks. She said she had a great time. The younger and skinnier me probably would have enjoyed that. The older and fatter me ... nope.

I need to start getting the popcorn and beverages ready for BEF's exciting-if-ever-changing extraction. Would be great if he could just walk out of the place and drive home, but that sure would be anticlimactic after all that strategic planning.

Mostly, I thought Smartt was a pretty small airport. I just looked it up, and one of their runways is 3800 ft., which I suppose is more than enough for a B-25.

"No visible progress on the lake level when I got home yesterday."

Any chance your lake is being fed by an underground spring(s)??

 

[buckeyefarmer]

71°son yesterday, who's been in town from Texas for his birthday (he turned 25 on the 14th). They went to an indoor rock climbing place in downtown St. Louis. It was supposedly a precursor to her next visit to San Marcos, when he and his girlfriend have promised to take her rock climbing on real rocks. She said she had a great time. The younger and skinnier me probably would have enjoyed that. The older and fatter me ... nope.

I need to start getting the popcorn and beverages ready for BEF's exciting-if-ever-changing extraction. Would be great if he could just walk out of the place and drive home, but that sure would be anticlimactic after all that strategic planning.
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Oh how o wish i could just walk out and drive.

 

[daugen]

got behind four pages, now hard to remember, really should take notes...

Really sad that after a huge amount of dollar investment into our medical industry, world wide,
we still don't have cures for common recurring illnesses, mostly cancer, but there's an alphabet soup of other
awful diseases we can get, some of which have no cure. I have a good friend, a high end investment adviser, who
is wasting away and bending up from some miserable disease. Hit him in early sixties.
No rhyme or reason, diseases you don't smoke or eat your way into.
Thankfully heart valve replacements have become both relatively common and pretty high tech.
As Wingsprd said, lot of very helpful info here, real first hand experiences we can all learn from.
Makes me want to eat more veggie burgers...no joke.

headed out to finish mowing, fruit orchard left, then roadsides using cab tractor. Drove around the block this morning,
recent rains have made everything jump up. Lot of trash, sigh, I'll be getting up and down out of that tractor.
Another 93/110 day, another half an inch of rain starting at dinner time last night.
Defines hot and sticky.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 66F @ 6:30AM. Sunny. High 93F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph.

Sorry to hear your youngest is on the sick list, Farmer. Glad they caught it in time, though. Hopefully you end up with a specialist that can find the root cause and prevent another repeat.

Watching out the window this morning as half a dozen hummingbirds share a quiet sip at the feeder. Until number seven comes along and knocks one of 'em off, starting a domino effect and all of 'em are in the air and squawking at each other. Probably means that the other feeders are either low or empty...

Some, no, make that a lot, of service providers are really good at what they do, and really lousy at managing a business. Sorry you found one of those, Paul. Looks like the engineering firm I was going to use for the solar grid stamp is another one, because the guy that was supposed to be putting together an estimate for me is now out of town for three weeks, and I haven't heard a peep back from him or anyone else at the company.

Eric, the man of many names: Sheep Whisperer, Joint Pointer, and now, Doctor Pond. :laughing:

Then there's Don, the Card Shark.

Finally got the red bike on the road yesterday morning, only to have to turn around when the clutch lever went all the way to the handlebar. Made it home without stopping, and found the adjuster on the back of the transmission backed all the way out. Fixed that quickly, and since the morning was so nice, decided to re-run the trip. Long story short, I didn't come home for another four hours, and it was a great ride. Still a little hesitation in the throttle, the fork is still leaking a bit, but the handling was solid up to and over the ton, a testament to the frame bracing and balanced suspension. The tires work equally well on gravel and fast pavement, the steering is light and predictable, and only found two new, but small, oil leaks when I got home. I think repositioning a couple hose clamps will take care of that, and I sprayed foot powder on the fork to see if I could find where the leak was coming from. I may just pull another fork slider down from the rafters and worry about it later, though.

Finally got an email back from the VW sway bar seller, telling me not to use the rubber donuts on the lower ends of the links. He didn't mention why I had to drill out the dished washers that make that possible, though.:confused2: Another smart guy/dumb businessman combo. Anyway, that's job 1 this morning, and maybe I'll find out if the front end vibration is fixed...

 

[PJSprog]

"No visible progress on the lake level when I got home yesterday."

Any chance your lake is being fed by an underground spring(s)??

No, it was never deep enough for that. My Wife's Grandfather put it there because it was the confluence of two field drainage routes. It's always been fed solely by runoff.

There was no progress because the guy never came out to run the pump.

We did have a bunch of pop-up storms yesterday evening, but they were all bark and no hike. It rained at our place for all of about 30 seconds. Lots of lightning and thunder, though, which the dogs really enjoyed.

 

[sodamo]

72°F and .41 inches rain. Coming down pretty good. An inside morning for sure. Friends coming over later this morning to retrieve items left here when they moved a few years ago.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day