Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

good morning all. Nice sunny day up to 70 today.
RNG, thanks. Each of my restaurant meals were meet and eat with a friend or family. Otherwise I love controlling my own food (healthier) and prep in my rv.
My late wife and I use to take a lot of ship cruises and we were old hands at taking our own container of wipes and first thing was to wipe room down. We never got norovirus or in any way sick on a dozen cruises. I'm headed downtown food shopping today, will be interesting to see what they are out of.

I have been on Zofran for five days and feel much better. Used for cancer patients, it sure works for me even if drug plan would not pay for it, had to have cancer and/or going through chemotherapy for them to approve it. At 24 bucks a prescription at Walmart, I'm happy to buy it if it works. And so far it does. Underlying issue not diagnosed yet, so good I stay where I am. After having both brothers and my sister contact me in one day suggesting I not make the drive, and then two of the invites to our big dinner out., the handwriting was clearly on the wall.

Did half an hour of leaf mowing yesterday afternoon, nice to get out in the sun. Just wish my back would allow more than that.
Almost all the spring flowers are blooming nicely except for tulips, they are still coming up.

 

[Buppies]

I hope that one works

 

[Buppies]

41 high of 70 today rain tomorrow

Prayers for all

 

[Eric Salop]

Good morning, with plenty of blossom in the hedgerows and lambs running around the pasture, it finally does seem like spring. No rain expected until tonight, if only the wind would ease up it would be very pleasant outside

Eric, Sheepless in Shropshire just doesn't have the same ring to it as Sleepless in Seatle.

Explains why I never could sell the film rights ...

On average, how many lambs do you get per year? How many do you keep for future breeding

Numbers can very widely each year, over the last 5 years it has been between 167 and 227 lambs. My friends who have kept sheep all their lives decide how many to keep for breeding and that also has no regular pattern to numbers. Only certainty is that all males will go to market.

Kyle, the trains only generally blow if there are workers on the line, or someone crossing. Heavy goods trains make a loud rumble, the latest passenger trains can be whisper quiet until they are only a few seconds away.

Mostly, nice legs, although the asymmetric sock look isn't generally the best when posing for the hottest rider calendar

Still need to flash cottage side

David, may be best to keep clothing in place until visitors have left

 

[Buppies]

Another one

 

[Eric Salop]

That little .380 I bought has the stiffest slide I've ever encountered. One trick I've read is to lock it back (open) for a few days. That's what I'm going to do since it's too tough to rack right now... I'll post the results in a couple days.

Roy, interesting to see what happens. I always thought a properly tempered spring can safely be left compressed a few days without loosing any significant strength. If the effort does reduce and the spring is (hopefully !) not operating near to it's yield point, does that suggest they are manufactured with residual stresses still inside the steel ? :confused2:

This needs a good QA guy to investigate, fortunately you are already on the case

 

[Buppies]

Interesting idea Eric and quite correct steel background possibly

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, the temp is 40°F and only going to 45. Wind WSW 8 mph. About an inch of rain coming this afternoon and tonight.

I may go out and move some more snow piles off the neighbours' south boundary. This is an annual affair. If I was to leave the piles where they are, then his neighbour to the south would get flooded out. I did move 1/3 of the pile the last time I went out. This pile is 9' high and 50' long and about 10-15' deep.

Alligators & crocodiles, in my opinion, should be shot on sight. What good are they other than for boots and purses?

Eric, your 'wellies' are our sheep boots. They come in real handy in the sheep pen. IF you get to send the male sheep to the slaughter, then who/what breeds the ewes? Maybe it is you, you do have the boots for it. :laughing:


Have a safe day all

 

[ronjhall]

Poured second cup of coffee. 41ｰ with clear skies this morning. Heading to 59ｰ with rain in pm. Finally got net off garden pond. Fish did good this winter. Still have 10 fish. Golf cart ran like it should. Dogs enjoyed the ride. Yard cleanup today. That will take a few days. County snow plow put a lot of road gravel on lawn. But they did not break mailbox this year.
Lots of critters in yard. Hard to pick a best picture.


Buppies,thanks for pictures. Area is steep.

David, lots of covered area to keep you from getting wet when it rains.

RNG, video did not work.

Roy nice pistol. I need to get a laser for my LC9s like Rick has.

Rick, is your Lasermax red or green.

Looking, Alligator boots for what? :shocked:

Drew, good plan on going north. Glad to hear prescrip is working.

Mostly, riding gear picture. Looks like you are wearing a ankle brace. I need one on my left ankle.

Good Morning All.

 

[wngsprd]

41 and clear, going to 74.

Buppies, real nice clean up job. I want a turn with that mini after Don.

Don, real nice story on Christy. So pretty and smart and sweet...no relation to you, right?

Mostly, beautiful wildflowers.

Roy, more fun shooting it 200 times, but I know, ammo is costly.

I took the chainsaw and tractor out and tackled some more cedars...mostly cut 2 to 5 inch branches on the big trees, and cut down several small trees. 5 more grapple loads. I couldn't believe the clouds of pollen that were released when I dropped the branches. I have a few more branches to hand saw with my pole saw at this spot, and then I will have opened up a better view. Talked with some other neighbors and they had skunk stories, too. Seems like the whole road had a population explosion this year.

 

[Buppies]

Thanks wngsprd more pictures just have to upload. Over 30 loads of brush hauled off so far

Ron some of it is very steep but very private

Toppop glad you enjoyed the show

 

[Thomas]

39F clear sky upper 50's for high.

Outside chores done E muffin time. :licking:
Plans for today...wire brush front plow frame on pickup and paint black,start picking up limbs branches from snow ice where I can,mostly enjoy the weather.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[Thomas]

A picture for Ron

and skid steer coming,now that's having to much fun.

 

[check]

Good morning, the temp is 40°F and only going to 45. Wind WSW 8 mph. About an inch of rain coming this afternoon and tonight.

I may go out and move some more snow piles off the neighbours' south boundary. This is an annual affair. If I was to leave the piles where they are, then his neighbour to the south would get flooded out. I did move 1/3 of the pile the last time I went out. This pile is 9' high and 50' long and about 10-15' deep.

Alligators & crocodiles, in my opinion, should be shot on sight. What good are they other than for boots and purses?

Eric, your 'wellies' are our sheep boots. They come in real handy in the sheep pen. IF you get to send the male sheep to the slaughter, then who/what breeds the ewes? Maybe it is you, you do have the boots for it. :laughing:


Have a safe day all

Yup. Rain today here and also down in TO for our ride back down this afternoon, with more rain this week and next, along with above freezing temps.

By the time we get back up next weekend, the driveway will probably be down to the bare gravel.

Sometime in the next two or three weeks, they will start to fill the lake up (Kawagama Lake). Then the water will rise almost 4 feet! And the ice will float around, mashing up a bunch of docks. Happens every Spring.

Also, the creek in front of the cottage, which is now hidden under the snow and barely a trickle, will turn into a raging torrent. Will post pics when the time comes.

Good morning all. Time for coffee!

PS do y’all think it’s time for Jasper’s Spring Airedale trim? Daughter thinks so. He kinda looks like a sheep right now. LOL

 

[ronjhall]

PS do y’all think it’s time for Jasper’s Spring Airedale trim? Daughter thinks so. He kinda looks like a sheep right now. LOL

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Little early. Still some cold weather coming. Well maybe a trim would be OK.

 

[RoyJackson]

Roy nice pistol. I need to get a laser for my LC9s like Rick has.

Rick, is your Lasermax red or green.

Crimson Trace makes a nice laser sight. It mounts quire compactly with the trigger guard as shown in the picture below (Kahr CW pistol)
Mine is a red laser and sighted in for 6-7 yards. IIRC, green lasers are available too, but at a higher price and reduced battery life. Check on Amazon...

 

[lostcreekranch]

Poured second cup of coffee. 41ｰ with clear skies this morning. Heading to 59ｰ with rain in pm. Finally got net off garden pond. Fish did good this winter. Still have 10 fish. Golf cart ran like it should. Dogs enjoyed the ride. Yard cleanup today. That will take a few days. County snow plow put a lot of road gravel on lawn. But they did not break mailbox this year.
Lots of critters in yard. Hard to pick a best picture.
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Buppies,thanks for pictures. Area is steep.

David, lots of covered area to keep you from getting wet when it rains.

RNG, video did not work.

Roy nice pistol. I need to get a laser for my LC9s like Rick has.

Rick, is your Lasermax red or green.

Looking, Alligator boots for what? :shocked:

Drew, good plan on going north. Glad to hear prescrip is working.

Mostly, riding gear picture. Looks like you are wearing a ankle brace. I need one on my left ankle.

Good Morning All.

"Rick, is your Lasermax red or green. "

Mine is red Ron.

 

[lostcreekranch]

41 and clear, going to 74.

Buppies, real nice clean up job. I want a turn with that mini after Don.

Don, real nice story on Christy. So pretty and smart and sweet...no relation to you, right?

Mostly, beautiful wildflowers.

Roy, more fun shooting it 200 times, but I know, ammo is costly.

I took the chainsaw and tractor out and tackled some more cedars...mostly cut 2 to 5 inch branches on the big trees, and cut down several small trees. 5 more grapple loads. I couldn't believe the clouds of pollen that were released when I dropped the branches. I have a few more branches to hand saw with my pole saw at this spot, and then I will have opened up a better view. Talked with some other neighbors and they had skunk stories, too. Seems like the whole road had a population explosion this year.

WNG .. I bought the Lynxx 40 volt pole saw, chain saw, blower at Harbor Freight a couple of years ago. The pole saw has been extremely handy for cutting cedars. The majority are growing right beside bigger oaks so I can't just push them out with the tractor .. to easy to cause damage to the oak trees. With the pole saw, I can reach in, make a cut on the side of the direction I want it to fall, then start cutting on the back side. In most cases the larger oak tree protects me from the cedar falling.

 

[PJSprog]

52°F and light rain this morning, going up to 60° today. Supposed to rain here most of the day.

Wifey and I made a trip to a dealer in St. Peter's MO Saturday to look at some cars. After some unnecessarily contentious negotiation (salesman tried to back out of the internet advertised price), we bought a 2020 Kia Rio Sport 5-door hatchback. Nice to not be without a car once again.


Got up to 66° here Sunday, but the sustained 20mph winds prevented me from re-erecting the flagpole, along with a few other needed outdoors honey-do list items. Spent the day piddling around int he studio instead.

Nice looking gun, Roy. I've thought about a .380 as a warm weather pocket pistol. Let us know how you like it when you finally get to shoot it.

Kyle, our chickens have been upping their productivity lately as well. We went from zero per day for a few weeks near the holidays to averaging nine or ten a day this past week. Not bad for 13 two-year-old hens.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

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Looking good! I like to clear in the winter when you can see what is there.

So dry and breezy here there is a total outside burn ban.