Good morning!!!!

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 71F for the start, clear sky, calm wind. Light wind day, mostly clear sky and high temp was 93F. meeting this morning, walk with wife, bike ride and change oil in truck. That went smooth except for drain plug popping out and cardboard not quite large enough to totally contain spill. Cartridge filter something of a pain but went better this time around, small oring tight.
Covid update: Cooke 262 confirmed cases, 11 active cases, Montague 89 confirmed cases, 7 active cases, Grayson 1298 confirmed cases, 83 active cases.
Ted sorry about project deterioration
David got plans for the cukes?
RS way to adapt to the weather
Dennis nice Black Eyed Susans
Roy Audits are always so much fun
Buppies nice of the bear
Drew glad you can choose to remember the farm as you enjoyed it, wished would have ended better.
Eric not much left of that gate.
Drew it is wonderful that you siblings have helped you, good to hear bed is made, and breakfast sounds yummy
Ron wonderful of you to consider taking in new dog, sorry to hear about neighbors SIL. nice hawk
Billy hope you can get your grass squared away. Can't get rain here
RNG good luck with your claims, hope the solar install is far enough along to handle the rolling blackouts
Don had chuckle at whipper getting her tail bit, Temps are much nicer up here too.
Drew good to hear genny working ok.
RNG good luck on your parts quest, not much markup on 50 cent fluid how much more on network?
Ted hope the unroller project does not unravel more
Randy good to hear you are getting back to old self
RS sorry to hear about yellow jacket sting good luck with rhododendrons.
Davis (Moss) Congrats!! and good luck with new house. Keep it manageable.
PJ belated happy Birthday, hope you enjoyed the biking
Thomas weather man often speak with forked tongue, like rain here Sunday night. Good luck with getting Boo to honor any agreement
Ted nice work on the unroller.
prayers for all, especially Drew/move, Jay/Peg, Kyle's daughter, Mike, David(Moss)/move.
stay safe and healthy you all.

 

[sodamo]

Happy belated birthday, Paul.

 

[sodamo]

You can count me in! I hope David has the new caretaker cottage ready before we get there!

You guys make me smile.

 

[sodamo]

Good job on fence roller, Ted. i like how it can be either fork mounted or 3pt.

 

[sodamo]

Mostly, That batch of cukes pretty much gone, shared with neighbors and friends. There will be more tomorrow.
Another friend shared a recipe for cucumber & tomato shirazi salad which I made but with changes of course.
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That along with what Sophie calls Japanese pickles made a couple days ago and air fryer zucchini fries made for a great lunch/dinner from the garden.

For the curious
Fresh cukes and tomatoes - chopped
Salt and pepper
Original vs mine
Sliced white onion vs chopped garlic
Fresh cilantro vs fresh cilantro and basil
Fresh lemon juice vs fresh lime juice and lilikoi juice.
Tomatoes halved
Cukes sliced.
All tossed together.

 

[RoyJackson]

Good Afternoon all!

I'm a bit stunned, I just got a call from my realtor. The first group to look at my house/property Sunday wrote me a full price offer, with no home inspection...

WOW...

I'm moving!!!

God is good...

Be well all of you.
David

We're seeing the same thing in New England...mostly New Yorkers and others bailing out of the city. My stepdaughter and wife drove to north of Laconia NH to look at a house we were interested in...after looking (no realtor involved), they contacted the realtor for a tour...realtor called back shortly thereafter and said there were already 5 bids on the place...at full asking price or above.
Although I can't blame them, or the realtors that eagerly accept those bids, but little doubt those newbies to a state will want to change their new state...for the worse, most likely. Also, drive up a lot of prices on everything.

 

[RoyJackson]

2020-08-19, 0339

Rather cool 51 degrees right now...going to have to start sleeping with my bedroom windows closed pretty soon...high in the lower 70's today.
Lot of work today prepping for the audit. We normally do OK in audits...hope that trend continues

 

[daugen]

73 out now going up to 85 today, with good chance of rain/thunderstorms this afternoon. It got pretty warm out yesterday on a very sunny day.
I bet the local lawns are growing like mad.

Mostly, treat yourself to these, or something similar. I found them particularly helpful controlling the oil drippings not only underneath but near oil filter area.
https://www.amazon.com/Brady-SPC-Oi...9Y2xpY2tSZWRpcmVjdCZkb05vdExvZ0NsaWNrPXRydWU=

Roy, good luck with audit, sure you will do well. Like a good paint job, all in the prep...

I'm off to grocery store early this morning, and then not much else planned. I might crawl under rv and clean/lube the slide rails. Wish I had a step ladder, another
thing that vanished when I sold the farm. I used to have three different sizes, now none. When I get to PA, will invest in at least one. Just no room to store one now although I suppose I could put it in storage locker. Hmmm. I want to lube the rubber gaskets and good part of them are up several feet too high. Maybe a trip to Walmart is in order after food shopping.

woke up with sore neck, have a heating pad on it now. I can sleep either flat on my back or somewhat to one side. When I wake up finding myself on
"the wrong side" I know it will catch up with me. Sometimes you just never know where this stuff comes from. The joys of getting younger...

Childhood friend of mine in Doylestown PA who owns a coffee company, which sadly is down about 50 percent currently, has been trying to be creative in finding new markets. One is using his son's talents building things out of metal. They invested in a CNC driven plasma cutter, a big brake and some other similar tools. First they started building stands for hand sanitizer stations and can hardly keep up with demand. Now his son is building steel fire pits for back yards. He has a Youtube video on it, want to get permission first to list it here, and suggested son join this site and be active in the Shop Time thread, one of my favorites watching all the talent here. I complimented the son on his really nice work, and chewed his butt for grinding welds without wearing eye protection. But a couple of you would enjoy and know how to use that CNC cutter. I personally found cutting metal the old fashioned way to be a huge amount of work and very demotivating.

I hope you all have a good day, started off with a Good Morning.

 

[daugen]

David, lilikoi juice aka passion fruit juice?
expensive stuff to buy in States, like macadamia nuts, but I bet it's not bad where you are.
Do you buy the fruit or the puree/juice?
cuke salad sounds yummy

 

[wngsprd]

75F clouds and sun.

Been think about getting rid of several stumps bunch rocks and smooth lower end of the field for while,as I was hooking up rear blade Mrs. ask what I had plan and I told her all she said "don't get stuck like you did couple years ago"...that indeed was very costly mistake :ashamed: and she left for,while hooking up back blade I notice something white moving behind BIG pine tree about 30 yards thinking it was deer laying down than from behind pine tree appear Boo with bag of bird seed Boo took off bag and all,somehow Boo figure out how to open 55 gallon cover snap ring top and he took not 1 bag but 2 bags of seed during the night...we will be have chat soon... did get all stumps rocks remove until 15 min. down hit hard in which weatherman said no rain in site now have to wait to ground dries.

Mrs. put old table out for the critters got say they keep the area very clean and you never know who will show up. :laughing:

Not much plan for this evening other than numbing it.

Enjoy the evening all.

Is Boo considered a critter? If not, I guess he can't read, but very smart just the same getting that container opened...hope your talk goes well. Nice turkey family.