Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

I've gone cold turkey without owning lawn/garden/farm equipment now for a year.
Feels good having a mower back in the garage, even if it's a loaner.
Not sure where this comes from but I feel the connection to the land, and if I'm not digging in it,
at least I'm riding on top of it. I also like the water in all forms.
But I don't like the air. Or heights. Truly a "down to Earth" guy...
yet I love watching Youtube airplane videos, particularly flying into the Himalayas
or a dirt landing strip in Borneo.

Popgadget, can your son safely land his plane in your pasture? And take off again?
Not sure if you have any overhead wires there.
I'm surprised you don't have a cool R/C biplane doing loops unless it would upset the alpacas.
They seemed pretty mellow to me.

Today while it rains going to set up new set of metal shelves in garage and get things better organized in there.
I ordered chrome and got in gloss black. Not to worry, my grease gun and oil cans won't worry about what color
shelf they sit on... These shelves are easy to put together, no tools and sturdy. I had at least six of the chrome ones
on the farm and they never rusted.

Ron, it's the aliens. They have infiltrated the FCC and have taken over.
I think I read that yesterday in line in the supermarket.
Actually 227 down, 6 up here, internet is buzzing along. No issues thankfully.

 

[toppop52]

First of all, they made the name where no one can remember it....

Mind Game

Prayers for Sophie. And our crew.

RNG, maybe Randy would have an original pair of "Brougham" metal insignias to go along with vinyl top. Maybe if I can get the dents smoothed out, I could buy a similar color matching roll of vinyl wrap to cover roof. LOL.

Sorry, I’m fresh out of Brougham emblems, how about some Biarritz badges?

 

[toppop52]

80 and humid, dew point is 73, feels like 87.
I’ve got go for bloodwork this morning, I have two appointments Thursday and of course they both want labs. I want to mow today but this heat is going to be tough. I’ll mow the front then see how it is.
Gotta get on my way.

 

[txdon]

Good Morning! 77˚F heading to the high 80s, good chance of AM showers.

Bombed out in cards last night with three losses and probably relinquishing my coveted #1 ranking, that I held for two weeks, in the 3 month ongoing tournament. I will find out how much damage was done next week when the results are posted. No mistakes just drew useless cards.

Out door plumbing still on hold as it has just started to rain, again. I'll take a rain delay anytime.

Yesterday's trip to KIA was interesting because the only vehicle in make ready was a new Ford Bronco. I asked a salesman about it and he said it had 2,100 miles on it and was traded in because it was too small for the owner. The owner bought a large KIA SUV, and Kia had just sold the traded in Bronco for $35,000.

Drew, studies about Palmitic acid, a saturated fat concentrated can boost the metastatic potential of cancer cells through the fat receptor CD36.
". . . this landmark study was published. Researchers found a subpopulation of human cancer cells “unique in their ability to initiate metastasis”, all expressing high levels of a fat receptor known as CD36, dubbed “the fat controller.” It turns out palmitic acid or a high-fat diet specifically boosts the metastatic potential of these cancer cells. Where do you find palmitic acid? Although originally discovered in palm oil, it’s most concentrated in meat and dairy. “Emerging evidence shows that palmitic acid . . . serves as a signaling molecule regulating the progression and development of many diseases at the molecular level”––and that’s the saturated fat that is recognized by the CD36 receptor on the cancer cells. And we know that’s to blame, because if you block the CD36 receptor, you block the metastases."

"And not just in “human melanoma- and breast cancer-derived tumors.” Now we suspect that “…CD36…drives ovarian cancer progression and metastasis” too, since we can inhibit ovarian cancer cell invasion and migration and block both lymph node and blood-borne metastasis by blocking CD36. We see the same kind of effect with prostate cancer. Suppress the uptake of fat by prostate cancer cells, and you can suppress the tumor. This was all studied with receptor-blocking drugs and antibodies in a laboratory setting, though. If these metastasis-initiating cancer cells particularly rely on dietary fat to promote the spread of cancer, why not just block the dietary fat in the first place?"

What Causes Cancer to Metastasize? | NutritionFacts.org

Palmitic acid, a saturated fat concentrated in meat and dairy, can boost the metastatic potential of cancer cells through the fat receptor CD36.

nutritionfacts.org

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 54F @ 6:00AM. Sunny. High 78F. Winds S at 15 to 25 mph.
More wind and mild temperatures on tap; too bad lately we can't have one without the other. I was feeding Stubby on the back porch yesterday evening when the wind sent the top of the carton sailing away like a frizbee, never to be seen again. Hope the mealworms don't figure out it's missing and invade the rest of the 'fridge.

If these metastasis-initiating cancer cells particularly rely on dietary fat to promote the spread of cancer, why not just block the dietary fat in the first place?"

Because dietary fat tastes good, that's why. If we can take a pill like Lipitor and eliminate a cancer risk, I'm all for it!

Got mostly unpacked from the trip yesterday, then spent the rest of the day catching up on paperwork and email. The new water tank should be delivered on Friday, but have yet to make arrangements for more gravel. Neighbor wants to start digging at 8AM, and I'm hoping for good progress if we can figure out what to do with the dirt.

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, sub starting to hide behind clouds, rain coming soon.
Groundhogs got through the chicken wire and had some radish greens for lunch, stakes for the wire and hot pepper will greet them today.

Flail rescheduled for Wednesday, bummer. But yesterday was so hot/humid I was falling apart just cleaning up the pool robot and weeding the garden,
Why can't groundhogs, rabbits and deer eat weeds !

Stay safe and be well

This is ASDE 3, copy of the same tower I worked on, mine is now across from Newark airport.
It was supposed to be replaced with a new system 10 years ago.
I used to climb up that ladder carrying equipment, some pretty big.
But I was in my 20's,

 

[rswyan]

Good morning.

73F with some fog @ 09:00, calling for a high of 83F again today. Dew point is currently 70F, so 73F feels like 75F.

Rained again last night pretty good, calling for showers this morning then scattered thunderstorms later this afternoon ... although I don't see much at this point on radar. Chance of rain 60%.

Need to get the rain gauge set up here at the house so I can tell what has actually fallen here ... since some of the nearby weather station reports seem kinda dicey. I'd guess we got at least 0.50" yesterday.

I think I can hear the grass growing ...

Just saw a deer meandering down the drive towards the barn.

Would like to get raised planting bed finished today and plants put in, but will have to see how wet the ground is. Don't want to be rutting up the lawn by hauling buckets full of wet soil with the Kubota.

Yesterday we were serenaded by a bluebird pair as we worked which was rather enjoyable.

I got some old glyphosate solution from last year filtered yesterday and put back in the sprayer tank for the next batch batch of juice ... although it's unclear at this point, how soon we'll be able to spray with all the rain the forecast (next four days at this point)

Air cleaner prefilter is due to be cleaned on the Cub, so may do that.

Might also run down to the Cub dealer and pick up another oil filter, air filter set, and see want they want for an extra set of those Marbain blades. I'm sure the blades are due to be sharpened at this point, have seen some tearing on blades of grass rather than a clean cut. Underside of deck also needs cleaned.

Finalize and place small Menards order, possibly go pick it up while I'm out.

Plenty of raking and clean up that needs to be done in several areas.

Hope everyone has an enjoyable, productive, and safe day ...

 

[PJSprog]

70°F and cloudy with some light sprinkles this morning, going up to 81° today. Humidity is at 84%, and it definitely feels like it.

Nice oxygen supply, Eric. Looks to be working great.

 

[kenmbz]

Drew - hope the scan comes up clean- how is the shoulder?

RNG - welcome back from your adventure- was nice seeing all these areas in the mountains.

Roy - glad to hear improving.

Eric- good way to get air to flames. BBQ post time

Internet was weird this morning, some newer items came in before old ones.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

82° feels like 89° according to weather station. Radar shows light rain to the south, but sunny here. Only hit 89° yesterday.

Tried my first online order with TSC app last week. Wife needs canning lids. Local store showed narrow lids, ordered 4 boxes for tomorrow pickup. Ordered 4 wide mouth boxes from another store. After the order went thru last week, they cancelled the order for the wide mouth lids. This morning they cancelled the other order. So much for using their app.