RedNeckGeek
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kenmbz
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64 going to 81-fog was so thick this morning was hard to see across the driveway.
Has been cold at night, finally warming up but not much sun. spent time getting pool ready.
Brushcutter (20 some odd years old) won;t stay running. cleaned carb and reset hi/lo and still starts and dies. Ordered new plug. If that does not work, will need to take carb apart, but little hope finding parts.
Did a dry run of moving the bar with the tractor and needed to shore up some parts of my rolling platform. May try to actually move it this week. about 400 pounds and needs to go several hundred feet with some up/down hills and turns.
Hope all is well, stay safe and keep those great pics coming, helps me to get through the day.
Has been cold at night, finally warming up but not much sun. spent time getting pool ready.
Brushcutter (20 some odd years old) won;t stay running. cleaned carb and reset hi/lo and still starts and dies. Ordered new plug. If that does not work, will need to take carb apart, but little hope finding parts.
Did a dry run of moving the bar with the tractor and needed to shore up some parts of my rolling platform. May try to actually move it this week. about 400 pounds and needs to go several hundred feet with some up/down hills and turns.
Hope all is well, stay safe and keep those great pics coming, helps me to get through the day.
RedNeckGeek
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Have you checked the air intake for a mouse nest? The little buggers have had all winter to build their castles...
PJSprog
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68°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 82° today. We've had rain pretty much every day here for the last week or so, and it looks like the trend will continue through this Friday.
I took Friday off from work to have a four day weekend, and the only downside of that was having 132 GM posts to wade through to get caught up this morning. Whew!
Got all the grass cut Friday, and finished just before the rains arrived. Wife had started cutting the pasture with the ZT this year, so I did that, too. Managed to miss one prairie kingsnake just in the nick of time, but then hit another one at the other end of the pasture just a few passes later. Always feel bad about that. She hit one a couple weeks ago, so it seems we have a bumper crop this year. While I was mowing, the boy came over with the saw he borrowed from a coworker and cut up the remainder of the solid bar fence. It went pretty quick with that saw. He went through one wheel, then The Wife took him to Rural King to pick up a couple more. The rental place wants $33/wheel, and she got them from RK for $15/each. She told him to give the other wheels to the coworker as thanks for letting us borrow it, and paid the boy for doing the work. It got done, and we saved about $60 from what we would have paid to rent one for a day. With that fence out of the way, I'm now able to get the tractor to that side of the open end of the barn to store the rotary cutter and rear blade under cover. We're going to put down some gravel there once the new pasture fence is in place.
Spent Saturday morning trying to get the large burn pile going. It's still too green to burn, but The Wife kept bringing it up, so I satisfied her by spending a couple fruitless hours getting only a small part of it burned. Besides being too green, it was also poorly stacked, which also didn't help. The arrival of rain brought that to an end. After the rain stopped, she started talking about replacing the outside Buddha. It was not made for outside weather, and after a couple years is starting to fall apart. We drove the truck to a place in Wood River IL called Community Feed And Seed that has a huge selection of concrete statuary that they mold on-site. We'd gotten a few things from them a couple years ago, including a new bowl for one of the bird baths and a Border Collie statue that The Wife painted to look like our oldest dog Evey. This time, we had to order the Buddha we wanted, as they were out of that one. But, we also picked up a mini bench and a statue of a boy and girl holding hands, which she wanted to put in front of the front porch. We left there and stopped at one of my favorite places to eat, an old-fashioned drive-in burger joint called Charlie's across the street from Wood River High School. Excellent food, and they make their own outstanding root beer. My Father used to go to this place when he was a teenager, and it hasn't changed since the 1950s. The only difference is that they're not using the window trays right now, so the food just comes out in a to-go bag.
Sunday brought us torrential rains most of the day, so that was inside projects day.
Yesterday, I got the washed out gravel moved from the road back up to the driveway and filled the holes left by the rain runoff, then I finally put the last two boards on the deck, the ones we'd ordered last September from a custom mill and only just recently gotten. Deckasaurus, 20 months later, is officially finished.
I know it's probably not a popular opinion, but I don't believe in most peoples' definition of a "speed trap." When a speed limit drops drastically with no warning, and there's a cop waiting there to ticket everyone, that's a speed trap. When the posted speed limit is 65mph, though, and you want to drive 80 mph, well ... that's not really a trap. That's just people driving too fast. As someone who always drives the posted speed limit (cruise control is a useful tool), I see people passing me who clearly have no regard for any speed limits. I regularly see people driving on I-70 through St. Louis city going probably 90-100mph. It's crazy. Yet, it's always someone else's fault when they get a ticket; speed trap, cop having a bad day, end-of-month ticket quota, etc., etc. No one ever says, "Yeah, I was driving too fast and deserved that ticket."
Hope Drew is doing OK.
I took Friday off from work to have a four day weekend, and the only downside of that was having 132 GM posts to wade through to get caught up this morning. Whew!
Got all the grass cut Friday, and finished just before the rains arrived. Wife had started cutting the pasture with the ZT this year, so I did that, too. Managed to miss one prairie kingsnake just in the nick of time, but then hit another one at the other end of the pasture just a few passes later. Always feel bad about that. She hit one a couple weeks ago, so it seems we have a bumper crop this year. While I was mowing, the boy came over with the saw he borrowed from a coworker and cut up the remainder of the solid bar fence. It went pretty quick with that saw. He went through one wheel, then The Wife took him to Rural King to pick up a couple more. The rental place wants $33/wheel, and she got them from RK for $15/each. She told him to give the other wheels to the coworker as thanks for letting us borrow it, and paid the boy for doing the work. It got done, and we saved about $60 from what we would have paid to rent one for a day. With that fence out of the way, I'm now able to get the tractor to that side of the open end of the barn to store the rotary cutter and rear blade under cover. We're going to put down some gravel there once the new pasture fence is in place.
Spent Saturday morning trying to get the large burn pile going. It's still too green to burn, but The Wife kept bringing it up, so I satisfied her by spending a couple fruitless hours getting only a small part of it burned. Besides being too green, it was also poorly stacked, which also didn't help. The arrival of rain brought that to an end. After the rain stopped, she started talking about replacing the outside Buddha. It was not made for outside weather, and after a couple years is starting to fall apart. We drove the truck to a place in Wood River IL called Community Feed And Seed that has a huge selection of concrete statuary that they mold on-site. We'd gotten a few things from them a couple years ago, including a new bowl for one of the bird baths and a Border Collie statue that The Wife painted to look like our oldest dog Evey. This time, we had to order the Buddha we wanted, as they were out of that one. But, we also picked up a mini bench and a statue of a boy and girl holding hands, which she wanted to put in front of the front porch. We left there and stopped at one of my favorite places to eat, an old-fashioned drive-in burger joint called Charlie's across the street from Wood River High School. Excellent food, and they make their own outstanding root beer. My Father used to go to this place when he was a teenager, and it hasn't changed since the 1950s. The only difference is that they're not using the window trays right now, so the food just comes out in a to-go bag.
Sunday brought us torrential rains most of the day, so that was inside projects day.
Yesterday, I got the washed out gravel moved from the road back up to the driveway and filled the holes left by the rain runoff, then I finally put the last two boards on the deck, the ones we'd ordered last September from a custom mill and only just recently gotten. Deckasaurus, 20 months later, is officially finished.
I know it's probably not a popular opinion, but I don't believe in most peoples' definition of a "speed trap." When a speed limit drops drastically with no warning, and there's a cop waiting there to ticket everyone, that's a speed trap. When the posted speed limit is 65mph, though, and you want to drive 80 mph, well ... that's not really a trap. That's just people driving too fast. As someone who always drives the posted speed limit (cruise control is a useful tool), I see people passing me who clearly have no regard for any speed limits. I regularly see people driving on I-70 through St. Louis city going probably 90-100mph. It's crazy. Yet, it's always someone else's fault when they get a ticket; speed trap, cop having a bad day, end-of-month ticket quota, etc., etc. No one ever says, "Yeah, I was driving too fast and deserved that ticket."
Hope Drew is doing OK.
ronjhall
Super Star Member
Put new front gauge wheel/tires on JD lawn mower. Had to check it out. Perfect cut. One of original tires kept going flat making cut uneven. Making last run to barn and mower stopped moving. Lost belt to traction drive. No one has them in stock. Ordered one from JD. Be here next week. Have not used the Kubota 72" MMM in a few years. Will put it on tractor in a few days. No complaints. OEM belt lasted 18 years.
sodamo
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68°F and 0 rain.
Haircut went well. Feel so light headed now
Think wife’s hair maybe shorter than mine.
Daphnie is interesting and visit to her almost entertaining. She’s a part of one of those families so critical to a small community - into most everything, in a good way. Her parents run a small contracting business, ground work kind of stuff. All are involved in varied ag endeavors from live animals to various crops. Her brother and sister run the only meat processing plant on the island she was 20 or 21 when we met just finished local beauty school and waitressing at the local restaurant. I believe her speed record at local track for youngest woman still holds. You probably get the idea. Been cutting my hair 15 years.
Promised wife that this week I’ll refocus and get back to my caretaker studio project that has been on hold, so back to prep for that.
Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day
Haircut went well. Feel so light headed now
Think wife’s hair maybe shorter than mine.
Daphnie is interesting and visit to her almost entertaining. She’s a part of one of those families so critical to a small community - into most everything, in a good way. Her parents run a small contracting business, ground work kind of stuff. All are involved in varied ag endeavors from live animals to various crops. Her brother and sister run the only meat processing plant on the island she was 20 or 21 when we met just finished local beauty school and waitressing at the local restaurant. I believe her speed record at local track for youngest woman still holds. You probably get the idea. Been cutting my hair 15 years.
Promised wife that this week I’ll refocus and get back to my caretaker studio project that has been on hold, so back to prep for that.
Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day
Rich B1
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Good afternoon. Another warm one today. Near 88 again. Seems like last week I was mowing with a jacket on, this weekend I worked at keeping hydrated. What a change.
Solar panels look good RNG.
Really was too damp to mow this weekend, but had to do it on Saturday. Did some finish mowing yesterday and most things are dry from the heat. Watered the garden this morning.
Got my first haircut since early March this morning. My head feels SO much better!
We had a couple of raccoons having a 電iscussion about territory last week. Must have lasted 45 minutes. The cats showed their bravery and went under the bed.
Everyone stay safe out there!
Solar panels look good RNG.
Really was too damp to mow this weekend, but had to do it on Saturday. Did some finish mowing yesterday and most things are dry from the heat. Watered the garden this morning.
Got my first haircut since early March this morning. My head feels SO much better!
We had a couple of raccoons having a 電iscussion about territory last week. Must have lasted 45 minutes. The cats showed their bravery and went under the bed.
Everyone stay safe out there!
toppop52
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sodamo
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RNG. That nice tractor deserves extendable arms and telescopic stabilizers. Have to admit I was abit surprised when you posted a pic of the basic ones, but resisted saying anything. 
Nice work on the panels
Nice work on the panels
PJSprog
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So easy to get spoiled by those, isn't it?