Good morning!!!!

[lostcreekranch]

Good morning. It's 65° here with 96% humidity and light winds. We're for St to get to 92° this afternoon and mid 90's the rest of the week.

Today will be cleaning up porches with a pressure washer.

Then first VFD Drill in 6+ weeks .. this evening.

So .. entire day in rubber boots.

I've got .. to get a haircut this week.

Hope everyone has a productive and safe start to your week.

Prayers to all .. extra prayers for Drew.

 

[Thomas]

51F cloudy sky around 70 for high.

Outside chores done E muffin time. :licking:
Got some seat time yesterday removing 3 rocks straighten 2 pole smooth driveway,but those darn blackflies feasted well.
Plans for today...town for garden fertiziler,Mrs. wants couple shelves attach to shed I said NO sooo make shelves attach to side of shed than just putter.
Boo and Peanut has given there approval of my wood stacking.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[ronjhall]

Poured first cup of coffee. 55° with rain this morning. Heading to 60° with continued rain. Got pond maintenance done. Not much else got done. Did watch NASCAR. Because nothing else was on TV. Going to work on laundry room shelf that has been setting on top of table saw all winter. Next on list is switch out hammer blades for Y blades on flail mower. Good inside job.
Mrs Bluebird working on her nest.


Drew, prayers and best wishes you are getting better.

Roy, OOPS!

Riptides, no seatbelts?

Mostly, wearing glasses seems to help finding duck quicker.

Looking, I cannot stand my falling down into my eyes or ears. Looked into mirror and trimmed my hair with scissors. Looks good to me. But nobody here to complain about my bad haircut.

Buppies, are you doing any jobs yet?

RNG, wish I could get on BH as fast as your video shows. Need another video when you put it back on.

Randy, hope you get to visit Mom soon.

Buckeye, good news on sister. Hope FIL starts to improve.

Everyone stay safe and healthy.

Good Morning All.

 

[riptides]

re .-2 Thomas, seriously..... that wood pile.... I am humbled by your work. Embarrassed at my lack of effort.

re.-1 Ronjhall, I always wear seatbelts when on machinery. No more jumps offs for me. I was standing in the bed of the RTV and stepped to far while "trimming" an overhead branch. LOL. I need to get a pole-saw, but need some more Roy reviews.

No hair-cut for me anytime soon. I am turning to grub-mode as an everyday look.

 

[wngsprd]

59 and northeast wind with drizzle - outer bands of tropical storm Arthur...should see 68, but rain all week.

Son stopped by to chat and leave his Chesapeake Bay retriever for us to dog sit this week.

Thomas, never gets old looking at pix of bears. Nice wood stack job.

Buppies, glad you're back.

Ron covered all the other thoughts I had.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 60˚F, 60% humidity heading to the mid 90s, virus killing weather. Our curve remains flat with more recovered from the virus than have the virus. Only 16 in the hospital. This is after 2 weeks of ending the lockdown but in 25% mode. More non-essential business are allow to open today with the 25% rule in this phase. I'll see how the new dentist is today.

Too wet to do tractor work yesterday might try again this afternoon. I put some extra potatoes in the "nursery" (hay pile at the end of the garden) to use in case any potatoes did not come up, yesterday I had to use only 4 to replace the no-shows.

Prayers for you Drew, post if you can.

 

[rswyan]

64F and overcast with light rain @ 08:00, high of 74F predicted for the day with 50% chance of storms.

Got more done on the compost pile yesterday.

Unfortunately I also blew the outer seal/wiper on the left curl cylinder on the loader ... which I suspect means one or more of the inner seals is blown as well.

So if the dealer and I can manage to navigate Kubota's serial number split insanity, and Kubota can deliver the seal kits in something approaching a reasonable time frame, I'll probably be rebuilding the curl cylinders this week ... Yippee ...

Probably also a good time to consider putting in some bushings on the rod ends to eliminate the slop at the pins and tighten those up ... along with replacing a few hoses that are borderline.

Hope everyone has an enjoyable and productive day - stay safe out there.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 51F @ 4:45AM. Periods of rain. Thunder possible. High 66F. Winds SSE at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 70%.
Rain started at around 2AM, hard enough it woke me up at 3. Seems to be slacking off some now, so maybe I'll be able to get back to sleep.

More nice bluebird photos, Ron. You picked a good color for that house.:thumbsup:

Sorry for your calamities, Mike. Good reminder that we all need to be more careful when we're out on our toys...

That's still an awful lot of wood, Thomas!

Pulled card on back porch game cam, first time since December 19th of last year. Found photos of two stray dogs on it, nothing else to cause concern, and very happy one set of batteries lasted that long. But it takes 12 AA rechargeables, and it took all day to charge them, four at a time.


Learned that a pretty big chunk of the trench out front collapsed in the day before's rain, hitting one of the conduits hard enough to pull it apart. I didn't bother digging it back out because more rain is on the way today.

There was a break in the rain yesterday afternoon, so I had a go at wheel rolling the gravel on the south slope around the solar panel rack. Unfortunately, the new tractor tore it up more than compacted it, just too steep and too much wheel spin. Gave up after four up and down trips, got out a rake, and smoothed things back down.

Also used a little hand crank broadcaster to get Preen pre-emergent spread on the gravel. It was pretty windy, so hard to tell how evenly it went down, but with rain on the way, it was time to do it as I'd have to be out there with a garden hose to wet it down otherwise. Walking across the hill face to spread the stuff was easy, walking up and down the hill to refill the little hopper, not so much.


Got the WiFi propane tank monitor working. Had to download a special setup app to do it, and was surprised and relieved that the WiFi signal was strong enough at the tank for it to work. The monitor sends the tank level once a day to the manufacturer's server, then I can use an app or a website to check on it. I'm supposed to get an email when the level gets down to 20%, and when the batteries get low, but I think the low propane alert be a long time comin'. :laughing:


Bodyshop neighbor dropped by for a glass of wine last night, bearing tales of exploding fans and water pumps on his helper's tractor. One of the blades hit the helper in the chest, tearing his shirt and cutting his skin. He'll be OK, but they're afraid they're gonna have a hard time finding parts for that '60s era Ford.

Hope everyone's week gets off to a good start...

 

[Looking4new]

RNG, you might suggest scouring wrecking yards for both water pump and fan.
Home | Fawcett >> Fawcett | St. Marys | Ontario, Canada usually has older stuff he is scrapping.
With the exchange rate of 45%, your dollar is worth $1.45 to the Canadian $. Even with shipping you still come out on top, seeing as it is only a water pump and a fan.

 

[rswyan]

Just got called out to the living room by The Woman to observe some unknown birds.

5 cedar waxwings perched on the deck railing ... :thumbsup:

First time I've ever seen them around here, although this area is considered to be part of their home range.