Good morning!!!!

[toppop52]

84 and the first rain just hit with a bang.
The storm path centerline is directly over the Wicomico Youth and Civic Center, which is about 2.5 miles from my front door as the crow flies.
Tropical storm warning and flash flood watch.

I have both a clicker and bar style torque wrenches, both are older than my kids but work great.
I never use them to break anything loose.

I mowed the grass with my new to me Toro ZTR this morning. Moe’s great and took me an hour and thirty five minutes. It’s 50”, my tractor has a 60” deck and it takes 2 hours minimum. I missed not having a zero turn since I sold my Kubota 2 years ago. I thought mowing with the tractor would help justify its cost, but I don’t need to, we use it for stuff all the time. If this Toro gets me through this year I might just sell it and buy a higher quality machine like my Kubota was. I’m too old to justify everything, I just want to enjoy it and make it easier.

My former Snap On dealers and good friend, started his route in 1963 and retired in 2013. I dealt with him from 1975 until he retired. He stopped by in his 1936 Chevy pickup a couple of weeks ago.

 

[daugen]

Randy, glad the Toro worked well for you.

got home after PT and it's clouding up pretty good, Weather Underground won't load for me. Pretty sure that rain will get here in a few hours.
I left the car outside so it could get a free bath. Forecast says tropical storm conditions so that ought to give it a little scrub. Radar still won't load, they must be having
a site problem. Weather.com works though, rain is hours off.

 

[Thomas]

68F light rain 10 mph plus wind most of the time.

Got outside early to get couple things done but mother nature was waiting for me with on/off down pours,but was able to get side field trim ready for mowing hope to dot it before dark if not tomorrow.
While trimming mother Doe step out from the woods about 15 yards and and did the stare down notice the twins fawns slowly sneaking away than mother Doe,thought for sure at one point I'll get my butt kick.

Not much plan for this evening feet up pillow time early busy day tomorrow.

Enjoy your evening all.

 

[kenmbz]

Kind of a bittersweet story. My wife wrote into the show a year or so before my FIL sold the house. He passed a few months later and it seems the show contacted the new owners and did the filming with them. Never contacted us, found out from a friend in town. His house was right on river road across from the river, it was in too rough a shape for us to afford buying and renovating.

We don't have DIY+, so wife wrote the show to see if we can get a copy of the program from them.

The Yardley Tavern

Learn about The Yardley Tavern from DIY

www.diynetwork.com

 

[txdon]

Sadamo and Popgadget, Tempest now does history. Tabs let you to Day, Month, Year or All Time.
The web site for your station (Put your 5 digit weather station number where the Xs are)
https://
tempestwx.com/history/XXXXX/day/2021/7/8

 

[Alien]

A little warmer this morning even though we are getting good rain. Supposed to clear by tomorrow. I hope it does. I want to fly my RC planes at the club.
Going to put an offer on a new Ranger this morning. Several dealers are all close in price. Did a lot of ringing around yesterday. Dealers are tough at the moment as there is a very long wait time of about 4 months or more. It took my buddy 9 months to get a new Isuzu D Max.
There is a silver Ranger XLT available if I am quick, as a guy pulled out of the deal at the last moment. Wife wanted red but just none around. I prefer silver anyway. It was first choice. No Wildtraks around at all.
Our Mustang is red anyway so she should be happy. I haven't been able to pick the Mustang up yet due to covid lock-downs but should be OK on Monday/Tuesday at long last. Just as well our Honda is still going well.

Randy, glad your Toro is going well. We need a ride-on with a catcher. Our Husqvarna hasn't got one and no longer available for them. It is over 20 years old now and only ever had to replace a spark plug, blades, battery and spindle bearings. Kawasaki twin engine in it. It has been a brilliant machine.

Tried to ring my buddy yesterday but the message kept coming his phone was not connected so I left a message on his mobile. He rang later in the day and said he had the other landline removed as it was always breaking down and he was sick of it. His iPhone only works in some areas on his farm so not sure how he is going to manage that. Maybe he needs a repeater.

My wife spent hours last night looking up accessories and wheels for the new Ranger. (if we get it) She said, "well if it is silver I want to put some colour on it" ??? We will see. Wife is still not well but must be improving to be taking so much interest. She still has Laryngitis so it has been quite peaceful around here.
That's about it for the moment so have a great night/day all.

 

[sodamo]

Only took about 3/4 bag of quikcrete, but still PITA work

My sauce and meatballs smell very tempting, or is it my garlic butter? Hard to believe still another 4 hours until we eat.

 

[txdon]

Kind of a bittersweet story. My wife wrote into the show a year or so before my FIL sold the house. He passed a few months later and it seems the show contacted the new owners and did the filming with them. Never contacted us, found out from a friend in town. His house was right on river road across from the river, it was in too rough a shape for us to afford buying and renovating.

We don't have DIY+, so wife wrote the show to see if we can get a copy of the program from them.

The Yardley Tavern

Learn about The Yardley Tavern from DIY

www.diynetwork.com

That is impressive. I do not have cable TV. Is there any way to stream it?

 

[txdon]

Going to put an offer on a new Ranger this morning.

Ford or Polaris?

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[sodamo]

Sadamo and Popgadget, Tempest now does history. Tabs let you to Day, Month, Year or All Time.
The web site for your station (Put your 5 digit weather station number where the Xs are)
https://
tempestwx.com/history/XXXXX/day/2021/7/8

Good find