PJSprog
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42°F and cloudy this morning, going up to 64° today.
Best wishes on the showing, Drew, and get well soon.
Best wishes on the showing, Drew, and get well soon.
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Good Morning!!!! 61F @ 8:15AM. Mainly sunny. High 86F. Winds NW at 10 to 20 mph.
Hope everything works out on your Mini 2, Ron. I really like the new big display for the app. Before, I couldn't see the battery meter, leaving me to guess how much flight time remained.
Sure am glad I have all these projects to keep me busy, especially with the stay-at-home restrictions in place. I can't imagine what people in large apartment complexes are going through, being cooped up for weeks at a time with nothing but the internet and a TV, and perhaps a few old fashioned books, to entertain themselves.
Sure hope everything's OK with our MIA members. Drew, hope the docs quickly figure out how to reclaim your good health.
The decomposed granite I've used around the house acts as a mulch, holding moisture in the soil. But unlike organic products, it won't burn once it dries out. In a climate that gets enough rain that the mulch stays moist, it probably doesn't matter. Here, we're pretty much done with the rainy season, and with temperatures headed into the 90s this weekend, organic mulch just acts as a fuse, conducting fire to whatever it touches. I feel sorry for my neighbor.
Got maybe ten feet of trench dug yesterday, all of it through solid rock. I think I understand now why the trench for the original conduit disappeared under the driveway, there was probably easier digging there. I'm also learning that this tractor is enough bigger than the old one that it's more difficult to use in close proximity to the house, especially since the boom is so tall it can easily hit the eves when working close to the tractor. So far I've avoided that, and I think I'm through the worst of the rock and almost into where the sprinkler lines and that such have already been buried. That means I'm back to pick and shovel for most of today, but it also means I'm pretty close to finishing the excavation.
The bulldozer neighbor will be down to collect his monster trench machine, and on the way home will stop at my bodyshop neighbor to dig a few trenches for him. The battery in the thing is long dead, so I'll probably have to help him jump it with the truck.
The Kubota dealer was supposed to have called back with a date for when the repairs would be complete on the old tractor, but not a peep from them yesterday. I'm planning to drag the trailer along for this weeks grocery run, and will just swing by there and pick it and the repair parts up, then do the work myself once the work for the solar system is complete. That small tractor may not be as strong as the new one, but in tight spaces like I'm in right now, it would have been a lot handier.
Hump Day sure came early this week...:confused3:
Hope everything works out on your Mini 2, Ron. I really like the new big display for the app. Before, I couldn't see the battery meter, leaving me to guess how much flight time remained.
Sure am glad I have all these projects to keep me busy, especially with the stay-at-home restrictions in place. I can't imagine what people in large apartment complexes are going through, being cooped up for weeks at a time with nothing but the internet and a TV, and perhaps a few old fashioned books, to entertain themselves.
Sure hope everything's OK with our MIA members. Drew, hope the docs quickly figure out how to reclaim your good health.
The decomposed granite I've used around the house acts as a mulch, holding moisture in the soil. But unlike organic products, it won't burn once it dries out. In a climate that gets enough rain that the mulch stays moist, it probably doesn't matter. Here, we're pretty much done with the rainy season, and with temperatures headed into the 90s this weekend, organic mulch just acts as a fuse, conducting fire to whatever it touches. I feel sorry for my neighbor.
Got maybe ten feet of trench dug yesterday, all of it through solid rock. I think I understand now why the trench for the original conduit disappeared under the driveway, there was probably easier digging there. I'm also learning that this tractor is enough bigger than the old one that it's more difficult to use in close proximity to the house, especially since the boom is so tall it can easily hit the eves when working close to the tractor. So far I've avoided that, and I think I'm through the worst of the rock and almost into where the sprinkler lines and that such have already been buried. That means I'm back to pick and shovel for most of today, but it also means I'm pretty close to finishing the excavation.
The bulldozer neighbor will be down to collect his monster trench machine, and on the way home will stop at my bodyshop neighbor to dig a few trenches for him. The battery in the thing is long dead, so I'll probably have to help him jump it with the truck.
The Kubota dealer was supposed to have called back with a date for when the repairs would be complete on the old tractor, but not a peep from them yesterday. I'm planning to drag the trailer along for this weeks grocery run, and will just swing by there and pick it and the repair parts up, then do the work myself once the work for the solar system is complete. That small tractor may not be as strong as the new one, but in tight spaces like I'm in right now, it would have been a lot handier.
Hump Day sure came early this week...:confused3:
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Just read a new article criticizing N95 masks that use a vent to make exhalation easier. The fear is that the valve will pass droplets from sneezes or coughs, making it easier for surrounding people to get sick. I have both types, and can't stand the unvented ones for any length of time. And if I was sneezing and coughing, I wouldn't be out in public, mask or no mask. Of course, by tomorrow they'll be an even newer article criticizing the first article, since it was published on Fox News. These days, news isn't news anymore, it's just opinion posing as news...
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67°F and .01 inches rain.
No big plans for the day. Probably a little this, a little that. A friend likely stop by to borrow a couple items I offered.
Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day
No big plans for the day. Probably a little this, a little that. A friend likely stop by to borrow a couple items I offered.
Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day
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Just read a new article criticizing N95 masks that use a vent to make exhalation easier. The fear is that the valve will pass droplets from sneezes or coughs, making it easier for surrounding people to get sick.
I have the kind with the vent too. It may be that they slow the exhaust down some and also direct it down. In some situations medical people wear a surgical mask over their N-95 mask but I think that is to keep the N-95 clean so they can reuse it. I have tried the un-vented masks. They make me feel like I can't get enough air. I found a plain dust mask in the shop. When I tried it on I couldn't get it to seal. I guess the single elastic band doesn't hold it tight against my face. Pretty useless.
Chris
I have the kind with the vent too. It may be that they slow the exhaust down some and also direct it down. In some situations medical people wear a surgical mask over their N-95 mask but I think that is to keep the N-95 clean so they can reuse it. I have tried the un-vented masks. They make me feel like I can't get enough air. I found a plain dust mask in the shop. When I tried it on I couldn't get it to seal. I guess the single elastic band doesn't hold it tight against my face. Pretty useless.
Chris
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Watch out, folks, I think Kubota is monitoring this thread.
Just got off the phone with the service writer at the local dealership. They have the tractor apart and in addition to the bad seals, they found two bad bearings and pitted teeth on the 4WD gears. I knew about the pitted teeth because I was in there a few months ago replacing those same bad bearings. Now, apparently, the bearing housing is also warped, and that's why the new bearings failed. The repair bill just went from $1200 to $4800. :shocked: And there's more salt: they still have to order the gears and bearings.
Not off to a great start today...
Just got off the phone with the service writer at the local dealership. They have the tractor apart and in addition to the bad seals, they found two bad bearings and pitted teeth on the 4WD gears. I knew about the pitted teeth because I was in there a few months ago replacing those same bad bearings. Now, apparently, the bearing housing is also warped, and that's why the new bearings failed. The repair bill just went from $1200 to $4800. :shocked: And there's more salt: they still have to order the gears and bearings.
Not off to a great start today...
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Dust masks are better than nothing, but they were never designed to offer protection against vapor, which is how CoVid-19 is spread through the air. Pretty much the same deal with the cloth surgical masks, and the masks that all the little old ladies are sewing to give away. Better than nothing, but not much.
Funny how the WHO was saying not too long ago that wearing a mask provided no protection, and now they're saying don't go out in public without one. There is so much disinformation out there on this topic one has no idea what to believe anymore.
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RNG everybody listens
Car we still have cracked windshield none in this country back ordered 7months wait time. Mentioned this on another site I comment on windshield shows up in Greensboro NC in two weeks. Son who plays golf finds golf ball he has not heard of the fellows playing with him also have never seen. Next day ads on apple phone have advertisements for this ball somebody listening agree?
Car we still have cracked windshield none in this country back ordered 7months wait time. Mentioned this on another site I comment on windshield shows up in Greensboro NC in two weeks. Son who plays golf finds golf ball he has not heard of the fellows playing with him also have never seen. Next day ads on apple phone have advertisements for this ball somebody listening agree?
PJSprog
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Yup. That's why I don't even bother with any of them anymore. You have to go to 5 or 6 different "news" sources, then piece together on your own what the real truth probably is.
That's been the case for a long time, and not just on this topic. Some study is always coming out to refute the results of a previous study, only to be refuted yet again a few months later by yet another study. Every time I hear or read one of those "studies show" stories, I break out into audible laughter. Science isn't real science anymore; it's a bunch of people getting paid to find confirmation of someone else's ideals, in the hopes of getting even more funding. Scientific method is all but dead.
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47 degrees this morning, going for a sunny 80. I decided to go inside my nearest Walmart Supercenter this morning. I had a pretty good list and found everything on the list EXCEPT distilled water and FLOUR. So, I went to the nearest Walmart Neighborhood Market and they had plenty of distilled water AND flour. I wore my mask, and I'd guess 2/3rds to 3/4th of the other customers and all the employees were wearing masks. But that left quite a number of customers who were not wearing one. And I think you could say that I'm OVERSTOCKED with groceries AND paper products.:laughing: We shouldn't need anything other than milk, eggs, and bananas for more than a month.
