Good morning!!!!

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Ron, you have our thoughts and prayers.

Thanks again team for the prayers for my daughter. She had a mostly good day yesterday.

She is on a list, to get ABA therapy.

She is into drawing mermaids right now. I wish she'd use all the colored pencils we have, but she's using felt tips.

 

[DABSGT]

Kyle, what a talent she has great drawing.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Good Morning. It's 71° (nice) here this morning and headed to 100° (groan) this afternoon. Forecast is 100°+ thru the weekend but ...... maybe some much needed rain next week. Fingers crossed, toes crossed, eyes crossed.

I took the zero turn out to trim under several big oaks in one of our pastures yesterday. I was filthy from that with the sweat and the dust. I still have dozens of trees to trim up lower limbs, so I can mow more with one of the A/C cab tractors.

I need to clean the air filter on the ZT and check the blades this morning. I get about 10 hours mowing on a tank of diesel and with our dry, dusty conditions, I clean the filter with every fill up. I have to blow out the screen, in front of the radiator several times per tank of fuel, unless I'm cutting the irrigated area around the house.

Everyone in or near Dorian's path .... please stay safe. Our ex DIL lives in Myrtle Beach so ..... she grabbed her parents and headed to Columbia for a long weekend away from the coast.

Ron .... you're in our thoughts and prayers today.

Randy ..... sound like things are improving. Ready for Bermuda?

Don ... this high pressure bubble, covering Texas, is supposed to start moving east bringing us better rain chances next week. Keep doing your rain dance!

Kyle .... your daughter is some artist! Hope you can get some help.

BEF .... great news on your walker progress. Keep it up.

Thomas ..... have you broke into the teens yet on your "slow rolls" ?

Everyone have an excellent Thursday!

Prayers to all.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 73F @ 6:30AM. Mainly sunny to start, then a few afternoon clouds. High 94F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph.

A cooling trend starts today, extending into next week. But right now we're under a Red Flag Warning due to dry lightning. No winds, though, so we still have power.

Just sitting here, all packed and loaded, ready to hit the road. Just need a little more light so I can see any critters (two and four legged) that might want to share the highway.

Hope everyone in the storm's path finds safe shelter and is careful with what they do.

You folks on the sick list, keep getting better and pay attention to what your doctor and your body are telling you.

Randy, I'm wondering if there's anything left of Bermuda to sail to? The honeymoon challenge continues!

Met with a civil engineer yesterday who agreed to do the work needed to get a solar ground mount plan that the county will accept. It'll only cost me $950, for something I view as necessary only because the so called "solar expert" inspector at the county is anything but, and can't read the engineering documentation on the mount he's already been provided. I think a letter to my county supervisor is in order, as they can override the inspectors, and should be aware of the hardship ignorance and attitude are putting on their constituents.

Hope everyone enjoys the rest of the week, and especially the weekend.

 

[Larro Darro]

Good morning. At 0830 it's sunny, 82F with 74% humidity. Forecast high low of 94/82F with 0% chance of rain today, tonight and tomorrow. I ended up working on the sheds yesterday morning. 7 or 8 trash bags of jigsaw puzzles out to the trash. I worked on the pond road in the afternoon. Got two big oaks cut in 10' sections. Might see about milling. Most likely just seating around the campfire.

Prayers to Ron and everyone else in need. Drew and other east coasters, keep your head down.

 

[Larro Darro]

The 8 o'clock update. She strengthened to a cat 3 again. I don't think they were expecting that.



SUMMARY OF 900 AM EDT...1300 UTC...INFORMATION
----------------------------------------------
LOCATION...32.2N 79.2W
ABOUT 70 MI...110 KM SE OF CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA
ABOUT 160 MI...260 KM SSW OF WILMINGTON NORTH CAROLINA
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...115 MPH...185 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT...NNE OR 15 DEGREES AT 8 MPH...13 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...959 MB...28.32 INCHES

Google Maps

 

[daugen]

locked up snug as a bug. Used all my bungees and locked the screen doors.
Brought home a couple of muffin mixes from the supermarket, which had a big stack of water out front.

What was interesting on my quick trip down town was National Guard has been called out, large contingent of army trucks parked in Emergency Mgmt lot, lots of soldiers standing around in groups. So far today I have had storm warnings on my PC, my truck's big screen was glaring warnings and the truck radio broke in to give the civil defense sounds. And finally the radio in the barn started to squawk away. Ok, I get it....

found a nice yellow rose to pick, a little inside cheer while the winds blow off all the other flowers.

outer bands of rain just coming in now, getting charcoal grey out and breezing up.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Prayers for you Ron! Enjoy the visit with loved ones today.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Non-solar August MOST electric usage and cost survey***
(If you have not posted or I missed you, and you are higher than Rick in kwh used or pay more per kwh than RNG please post to take away their title.)

*Rick - 3982 kwh $429 = $0.11
Bird - 1600 kwh $200 = $0.13
LNY - 1284 kwh $167 = $0.13
Txdon - 1225 kwh $175 = $0.14
Mostly- 1183 kwh $148 = $0.13
**RNG - 989 kwh $256 = $0.26
Eric - 308 kwh $76 = $.25

* most electric used
**most $ per kWh
***Changed from contest to survey so no prizes awarded.

I posted mine a week ago, was near $.10

 

[lostcreekranch]

Good Morning!!!! 73F @ 6:30AM. Mainly sunny to start, then a few afternoon clouds. High 94F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph.

A cooling trend starts today, extending into next week. But right now we're under a Red Flag Warning due to dry lightning. No winds, though, so we still have power.

Just sitting here, all packed and loaded, ready to hit the road. Just need a little more light so I can see any critters (two and four legged) that might want to share the highway.

Hope everyone in the storm's path finds safe shelter and is careful with what they do.

You folks on the sick list, keep getting better and pay attention to what your doctor and your body are telling you.

Randy, I'm wondering if there's anything left of Bermuda to sail to? The honeymoon challenge continues!

Met with a civil engineer yesterday who agreed to do the work needed to get a solar ground mount plan that the county will accept. It'll only cost me $950, for something I view as necessary only because the so called "solar expert" inspector at the county is anything but, and can't read the engineering documentation on the mount he's already been provided. I think a letter to my county supervisor is in order, as they can override the inspectors, and should be aware of the hardship ignorance and attitude are putting on their constituents.

Hope everyone enjoys the rest of the week, and especially the weekend.

"Randy, I'm wondering if there's anything left of Bermuda to sail to? The honeymoon challenge continues!"

Are you thinking of the Bahamas? Bermuda is in the clear ..... for now.