Good morning!!!!

[wngsprd]

Coffee is done brewing. 52° with clear skies this morning. Heading to 80° with partly cloudy skies. Got all my chores done yesterday. Then enjoy some quiet time on back porch. Friend is bring his Ford Escape Hybrid over to install a base plate. Have not done one for a few years.
Bright moon.

Buckeye, glad you able to make AC run better.

Drew, being older means I have listened to all the songs mentioned.

Wngsprd, take it easy. Maybe time to take up mountain climbing?

Everyone stay healthy and safe.

Good Morning All.

Beautiful. we've got too many clouds to see the moon this morning. Ron, I hear the mountains calling me almost everyday.

 

[wngsprd]

BEF, have a great time camping. Looks like a nice place. Last time we were up at Big Meadows, we drove through the campground just to get a sense of the layout and see how pretty it was. Your trailer would look perfect there. I don't think they have any hookups, though.

 

[Bird]

Another day starting at 82 degrees and going for a high of 101. Have I mentioned more than 40 or 50 times that I hate summers in Texas? It's hard to believe now that I never lived or slept in a house with air-conditioning until I was 20 years old. Don't know how I survived.

 

[daugen]

good morning all.
Dennis, have fun camping. May nothing leak or break in the rv, which you know is a big ask...

lovely out now, much cooler at 55 going up to low 80s, super nice weather.


Funny thing, Drew, the thing won’t start until you make about three or four times, and each time it makes six attempts at starting. This was on gasoline. Does yours do that?
Thankfully no. So far I have only run mine on propane, takes about three seconds of cranking for fuel to get where it needs to go and then it starts right up. I keep ten gallons of gas
ready for it (which I use in mower to keep the fuel fresh) but so far haven't had to put any gas in tank, so have left it dry. If I get a big outage, when the propane runs out, I'll switch to gasoline if need be.
almost sounds like your carburetor is gunked up which makes no sense on a new unit.

Hope Mostly got off ok on his early morning bike ride and has a good time.

I have spent the last hour emailing church members on a called meeting on Sunday to discuss Covid and recent CDC announcements.
No question our kids will wear masks this Fall but now adults are considering remasking. Need to determine whether Bucks Co is high, medium or
low SARS incidence. If not low, we will surely consider remasking inside.

Hope you all have a great weekend.

 

[Popgadget]

Good morning.
It’s 52 and won’t quite make it to 80 today. Low humidity, and clear skies. A great day to be outside.

Yesterday’s trip was effortless, no weather to deal with at all, and I was home before noon. When I went to the end of my lane to get the mail, I heard an alarm from across the road, it was my neighbors septic system pump tank. I called him to let him know, and they were out of town, so he asked me to go over and silence the alarm, and check to make sure there wasn’t a toilet running in the house, which was easy because nobody locks anything around here. After that, I took the Makita hedge trimmer and blower as well as the little Stijl pruning saw for ride down the lane cleaned up a bit so you could see what might be coming from the opposite direction around the bends instead of finding out by Braille.

For today, I’m going to try to get back to the hangar and change the contactor if I can get someone to hold the nuts on the cockpit side of the firewall. This evening, We’re going to play at a summer festival that’s only about 25 miles from here. It should be a good time and little work, we only have to walk onstage and play, don’t have to move or setup any gear. Show starts at 4, we go on at 9, I plan to get there in time to see most of the performances.
Might even clean up in the shop some, but I’m looking forward to a relaxing day.

 

[daugen]

Paul, I'll be up your way later with a propane tank to fill up at TSC.
The one I left on all night...
paying for my mental sins

get someone to hold the nuts on the cockpit side of the firewall
pretty hard to reach around isn't it?...

 

[buckeyefarmer]

BEF, have a great time camping. Looks like a nice place. Last time we were up at Big Meadows, we drove through the campground just to get a sense of the layout and see how pretty it was. Your trailer would look perfect there. I don't think they have any hookups, though.

Have tent camped at big meadows several times. Twice we got soaked in heavy rains. One year my son burned his hand in a fire pit, and rangers opened their access road for us to get him to Luray hospital faster. They do have some electric hookups. Most nat and state parks don’t have water/sewer hookups but usually have a dump station. Prevents people from wanting to stay too long.

AC is too noisy, had to turn it off and use fans. It got cool in the night, had to turn my fan off.
Cat is getting strength back, in the night it was able to jump up into sons bunk.

 

[Popgadget]

pretty hard to reach around isn't it?...

Yes, unless you’re Reed Richards……..

 

[txdon]

Good Morning! 75˚F, Clear skies heading to the mid 90s.

Bird we did not get A/C in my parents Houston house till I was 13. I was a window unit in the living room. We mostly used the Attic Fan (3'X3" whole house fan in the hallway ceiling that sucked the hot air out of the house and blew it into the attic). They eventually got another window unit in their bedroom after I had moved out. With the humidity in Houston my mom would complain of the mold in the closets.

My neighbor here across the street had a whole house humidifier installed during the winter and now during the Summer has added a whole house de-humidifier. Now she can have what she thinks is the perfect humidity in the house all the time - 54%

I have two more hedges that struggled ever since the February super freeze week that have finally died that I need to dig out. I'm watching 4 others that are slowly loosing limbs and believe they will soon die also. The prolonged below freezing and low of zero degrees must have messed with their ability to transfer nutrients to the leaves. Anyone else having 5 month delayed freeze damage?

 

[toppop52]

Have tent camped at big meadows several times. Twice we got soaked in heavy rains. One year my son burned his hand in a fire pit, and rangers opened their access road for us to get him to Luray hospital faster. They do have some electric hookups. Most nat and state parks don’t have water/sewer hookups but usually have a dump station. Prevents people from wanting to stay too long.

AC is too noisy, had to turn it off and use fans. It got cool in the night, had to turn my fan off.
Cat is getting strength back, in the night it was able to jump up into sons bunk.
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Pretty cat.