Good morning!!!!

[lostcreekranch]

First the sunset
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Busy day with dad.
Busy talking genealogy and writing stuff down.
Showed him the drone flights over the farm from last trip, forgot cable then to connect to tv.
Storms this morning. Went to town for lunch and power out all over town.
So we went to another town and ate in a diner. Very good. Half tables being used.
Drove some country roads.
More sit and chat.
Had a couple show up walking that got lost in the park next door. I guess going off trail, crossing barb wire fences didn’t sink in they were going wrong way. They found the deer feeder in our valley and followed the “road” (farm trail) up to the house. They arrived as mail lady was leaving (they now walk dads mail to the porch) and she gave them a ride back over to their car. She knew them.

Some neighbors down road are now riding noisy dirt bikes back the road. Teaching a young kid to ride. We are end of the road. So I wandered out to show them someone is around. Don’t know these people, think they are relatives or friends visiting. We saw them riding in their field earlier when we got back.

Went in picked up pizza for supper.

Dads asleep in his chair now.

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Please thank your Dad .. for his service to our country.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Please thank your Dad .. for his service to our country.

Will do. He says he never figured to come back home alive, so many of his buddies didn’t.

 

[sodamo]

Sounds like a very nice visit, Dennis

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Sounds like a very nice visit, Dennis

Was nice for both of us. I needed to get away, he needs company living alone.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 70F for the start, mostly clear, calm wind. Light wind again today, sky remained mostly clear, and hi temp was 94F. Humidity should start to rise. Bike ride this morning, 61 miles, nap this afternoon.
Covid update: Cooke 288 confirmed cases, 8 active cases, Montague 109 confirmed cases, 20 active cases, Grayson unchanged.
Dennis good to hear you went, have not had Bob Evans for long time
Roy nice job on audit. you always hope the backup don't mess up.
Drew know how you feel. Our VFD is looking for people to do light vehicle maintenance, put my hat in the ring.
Thomas hope your day goes well.
Roy, good plan
Don congrats on the rain dance, wanna try one up here?
Ron nice pic
Billy grocery stores did that here 2 months back at least 1/3 don't pay attention to distancing or one way aisle
RNG sorry you have so much smoke wish they could get containment on the fires and you start getting some rain.
Ted sorry about the unstacking project, have fun with the shelves
Don Have not seen that metric. Original goal was to keep Intensive care and ventilators available for new patients. I believe that goal has been accomplished.
RS Good luck with the "pruner" hope your list gets whittled down
Randy enjoy your BBQ
RNG the Ethernet checker looks interesting, wish I had that when working on network wiring
Dennis thanks for update on dad visit
prayers for all especially Drew/move, Jay/Peg, Kyle's daughter, Mike, David(Moss), and Country
stay safe and heathy you all.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

sorry, it sure does...I'll find the right URL and post it
look at the label, sure was the right place but I guess their advertising arm is pretty tricky

try this and enter location
AirVisual Earth - 3D Real-time Air pollution map

Nope... that goes to a "world vacation" site....

 

[buckeyefarmer]

LOST

Yellow is our farm( as best I can draw with my thumb on a phone screen)
Green square is a park, orange is trail to a rock overhang called a cave. Purple is the path the lost people took to get to our house. Lol

As a kid I was all over this area, our farm is 200 acres, I played on at least 400 acres, and our parents had no clue where we were, be it in the abandoned train tunnel on the west side, or the Valleys around the cave.

 

[rswyan]

71F and clear @ 23:15, high reached 91F for the day ... and it felt warm ... although when I looked at it late in the afternoon WB said 91F with a "feels like" temp of 89F.

Happy to report no further browsing on the hostas, after applying the Bonide "Shotgun" ... The Woman says that was because they ate all the good stuff and got their fill yesterday ...

:laughing:

Got dirt on lawn picked up, along with several bucket loads of weeds, leaves, and debris which went into the compost pile. Also added another 4 bucket loads of cut grass and covered it all over with decaying wood chips.

Hauled down 4 or 5 more bucket loads of screened topsoil and got that mostly graded out. Found end of downspout line that I plan to pipe over to water the area.

One of the locals stopped by for a little visit while I was taking a break:

He really looked to be enjoying all that fresh dirt ... :laughing:

Another 5 hosta planted, probably about that many left to go in 2nd bucket ... all new planted plants got watered again today, since it's very dry here with lots of cracks in the soil. Emptied the water buffalo and refilled it. Watered the dug clumps of hostas over in the shady area and watered the adjacent planting bed.

Ground down old bow rake head so that it was relatively close in size to the hole in the new handle and then heated it up to red hot and stuck the handle on. That actually worked out pretty good ... although I didn't fully plan ahead: didn't have any water handy to cool it off and had to use a glass of iced coke to do so ... :laughing: ... seems tight though ... :thumbsup:

Got a little more BLO applied to auger rack, completion likely tomorrow ...

Refilled three bird feeders and baited and set out the live trap.

Hope everyone had a great day.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

RNG, I showed that site to my sister and she said they have a monitoring station one street away from them which she looks at daily

Got word that a buddy of mine in Forestville, in Sonoma County, is now under evacuation orders due to the Wallbridge Fire. 50,000 acres, no containment. Best fire map I've found so far is this one. It covers the whole county, and the little triangles open to a live camera view looking in the direction of the arrow.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Which UPS would you recommend?

I'm up to three now, all from APC, with ratings between 600VA and 850VA. When the batteries in them die, I'll replace them with either large motorcycle or small car batteries. Less expensive and more capacity.