Good morning!!!!

[Buppies]

Grass is coming along nicely, area of wildflowers is coming up now surprise blue and yellow flowers so far cool

 

[kenmbz]

74F 50/50 sun clouds.

Good work day done...6 bucket loads rocks 12 spruce stumps remove first raking done,my back pockets are dragging but the shower and 2 popsicles I got enough life before early pillow time.

B2650 had it's first work all in all I give it 8 out of 10,maybe 10 out of 10 when the lower front field dries up for land scraping.

Enjoy the enjoying all.

Nice work Thomas. looks smooth and easy to walk though/mow.

 

[Thomas]

Nice work Thomas. looks smooth and easy to walk though/mow.

Thanks Ken...yep easy to walk now still have to use trimmer to darn wet and for some reason lot ground beehives.

 

[RoyJackson]

Hi Guys! Yep...much better today...no problems urinating. I've never pass a stone before, but that what I think it was...

Just came in from mowing about half the lawn...weather permitting, I'll finish tomorrow and, maybe, do some string trimming.

Randy, I'm really sorry to read about your wife's sister...please accept my deepest condolences...

 

[txdon]

Still waiting to hear from Drew, Helicopter is on standby 10 minutes away.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Have you found a good way to attach a new halyard to the old that will pass thru the pulley?
I always seem to have to pull my pole to restring it.

Yep .. pretty easy. I butt the end of old rope up to the end of new one, apply a bit of glue with a hot glue gun, and then a few wraps of electrical tape around both ends. I use the old rope to pull the new one up and thru the pulley and back down. Then double knot the ends to form the loop.

The first time I replaced the halyards, I skipped the hot glue and the electrical tape almost .. came loose. Now it's belt & suspenders.

I pull the knotted end back to the top, attach the flag, and raise it, bringing the knot .. back to the bottom.

My two poles are 30' long, sitting in 6" x 3' HD PVC sockets, each anchored in a cubic yard of concrete. So .. 28' above the ground. I could pull them .. but don't really want to.

BTW .. I've got an inverter module, in the Polaris Ranger, that I can power my hot glue gun with.

 

[txdon]

Flag pole install at church for easy lowering.

 

[pennwalk]

When I replaced the halyards on the sailboat I sewed the ends together with heavy duty thread. It might work to melt the ends together then cut them apart.

Chris

 

[txdon]

The new vegetable washing station is complete after a 3 month COVID delay. Simple waste water disposal system- five gallon bucket and field line. The rain collection tanks are not part of the system.

 

[daugen]

Still waiting to hear from Drew, Helicopter is on standby 10 minutes away.

thanks Don. I made it, late afternoon, many screwups by hospital including sending me home with zero meds, nothing for tonight, tomorrow, etc, dumped it on assisted living place which doesn't have in house pharmacy. This includes my main chemo anti nausea med, even no Tylenol for headache. Simply hard to believe and this after my calling nursing station twice yesterday to remind them I need this.

However...place is nice, very small but everything fit. Put most away but now just too tired, time to go to bed. Got Kindle working after struggling with multi location password reset. My pillow awaits me. Had a nice cup of decaf earl grey to sip on, shouldn't have it after dinner but needed the calming, and it worked.
More tomorrow.

 

[sodamo]

Good to read you made the move, Drew.

 

[sodamo]

Brushhog mowing done for this round, phew.
Time to draw a cold one.

 

[txdon]

Yea Drew. I don't know what is wrong with the discharge prescription process. I'm still straightening out/ordering my Mom's discharge medications and missed medications.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Drew, glad the move went easy, sorry to hear of the medication issues... difficult at best deciding who is responsible to make sure you get them... passing the buck. I hope things get straightened out and you have a good nights sleep.

PJ, that is an awesome desk / chair, good find! Sounds like you and the wifey are enjoying your bikes and getting in shape at the same time! Soon you will be in competition with Mostly!

Thomas, nice work! Looks very clean and neat.

Went up to the Lowes store as planned this morning. Could not find the grill inside the store. After asking 3 different employees for assistance, getting the same reply: I will be right back to help... and no one returning, I went to customer service. I was told they were outside in front of the store.

Found 3 of them.... all dirty, some scratches on the stainless steel lids, some stripped screws when they were assembled..... no way! I want new... in a box.
So, back inside to customer service. They call someone from the stock area. A nice young lady brings on up on a hand truck. I was also looking for the rotisserie attachment... they show 7 in stock, but no where to be found. The same lady spotted a sealed case up on the very top shelf, did not hesitate and got one of those ladders. Brought them down and handed me one. Then escorted me up to the register, waited while I checked out, and already lined up someone to help her load it in the truck! Excellent service. She will get a good thank you email sent to the store manager.

It is a shame that the other 3 Employees were just walking around... I was watching them... they were not helping other customers, just making themselves look busy.....

Got home after a 4 hour ordeal, and started assembling the grill. Very good quality, well built. A little time consuming (took over an hour) but well worth it. Wifey had taken out some pork chops for dinner in anticipation of a new grill. Did a pre grill burn at 550 degrees for about 20 minutes, let it cool down to about 300 and put the sliced potatoes in first. Fifteen minutes later, on go the chops.

Absolutely the best grill I have ever used... chops got golden brown, not one area of black char, no flare ups when cooking. Potato’s were done to perfection! Chops were the juiciest I have had in a long time!

The son was needing a new grill ( his old one rusted out when he was in Tenn.). He saw how well built this one was and went into town to get the 4 burner version. We got the 2 burner one ( it is usually just the 2 of us, so no real big surface needed) but still has 300 sq in of grill surface.

The reviews were either #1 or #2 so I figured it could not be bad... here is a link if anyone is interested
https://www.lowes.com/pd/Char-Broil...-2-Burner-Liquid-Propane-Gas-Grill/1000523553
For 200 bucks I could not go wrong.

 

[rswyan]

67F and partly cloudy @ 22:00. Headed down to around 57F for an overnight low tonight, with a high of 80F predicted for tomorrow.

Got the last two 8' fluorescents in the kitchen converted over to LED today ... the ballast in one (probably original) was pretty nasty ... all kinds of brown/black goo had oozed out onto the cover. The other ballast was a newer replacement, so it will go up to the shop to be used there until those get converted over to LED. Trash and recycles hauled up to the road. Some more clean up done in the shop.

The one neighbor got his field bailed today:

Other neighbor came down in response to my call from the other day, had him take a look at the hydraulic cylinder from the loader now that I've gotten it disassembled. He seemed to think things looked to be in pretty good shape and it should go back together without any problems. Discussed what might be involved in that ... and the proper adjustment on a rosebud for a neutral flame (sounds like I had it about right)

Dug out the new pins and checked their fit on both the curl cylinder and its bosses on SSQA. No slop at all on the SSQA and very, very little on the cylinder ... so probably not going to install bushings at this time.

Also discovered that I already had the seal kits before I ordered them this last time ... I was thinking that that might be the case ... should have checked ...

Hope I can return those and exchange them for the seal kits for the lift cylinders.

Had two big bowls of ham and bean soup for dinner, trying to digest that now and work up the motivation to head back up to the shop for the late shift.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 69F for the start, few clouds near calm wind. Light wind day today, clouded up a bit, looked like some rain in OK but nothing in Texas, high temp was 92F. Had to air up tires on truck and boat, clean out loose stuff and put boat on truck, and that worked up a good sweat, trip to dealer smooth except for road construction near Kingston. Oil change, gear oil change, added VessleView capability to motor, now I know how many hours on motor and when maintenance is due.
Covid update: Cooke total confirmed cases unchanged, down to 2 active cases, Montague unchanged, Grayson unchanged
Dennis quite the spread sheet, family stuff never ends. :confused2:
Drew Free Drew today!
Randy please give my condolences to Ellen
Thomas rock digging sounds like so much fun
Ron sound like you earned it today, nice pic, don't always see heron in water
Buppies hope no damage holds up.
Mike hope you get some rain, getting back on front porch soon?
RNG nice pic of finished grapple, hope you get 3 point parts soon. Nice work on DRO.
Billy sorry about the bear visit, and the Achilles issue, and not much rain.
Mike raccoons are very resourceful and very vindictive
Rick sorry you so draggy today
Don nice garden pic, hope you get the valve fixed
Ted. good to hear more progress in hobby shack, hope the chicken could be salvaged. Have fun looking for new grill
RS good to hear you are back in welding business again, sounds like putter day today
PJ sounds like great weekend nice that bikes worked well, good score on desk. :drink:
Ken nice deer pics
David hope the PM works, and brush hogging with no excitement
Thomas nice work, quite the brush pile there
Roy good to hear probably a stone, and it passed no problem
Drew nice to know you are free w/o helicopter assistance. Sounds frustrating about the meds.
Don sorry to hear you are still have problems with your mom's meds
prayers for all and thankful for Drew's relocation
stay safe and healthy.

 

[rswyan]

Drew,

Glad to hear you were able to make the move and start getting settled in.

You'll probably sleep much better tonight.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Good that we didn’t have to call in the A-team to get Drew, too bad about meds.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Aloha to the quarantine breakers, David!

Travelers accused of breaking quarantine set to leave Hawaii - ABC News

But now it looks like they're coming here!:shocked:

 

[RoyJackson]

2020-06-16, 0338

46 right now...high in the upper 70's today.

Left work early (1430) so I could attend a webinar and still be home for dinner. The webinar was 1600-1700...we knock off work at 1530 (start at 0700, but I'm always at work at 0600.
The webinar was about internal and external auditing...went OK...better than expected, actually.
After the webinar, I mowed about half the lawn...probably finish it up this afternoon...