Good morning!!!!

[Thomas]

Morning-grey
My old neighbor, grew up with, went to school with through high school. and hung out with quit a bit. Passed on yesterday. He had lung cancer 2 years ago, survived that, but his heart finally gave out. His younger brother died 2 years ago from cancer.
I will miss Tommy. Sad day.

Sorry for the loss of real good friend...cherish the memories.

 

[Thomas]

Masks required at work again, even if vaccinated. @%*€%!

Was going to get lunch at chipotle, they had mask sign, so I left and did Chick-fil-A drive thru.

Seeing more and more businesses and colleges in our area requiring mask even fully vaccinated...hmmm

 

[Thomas]

Ron... hope the hands of time slow down during your son visit.

 

[txdon]

Don, thanks in no small measure to you, I can tick the last 9 of the items on those guidelines and my meat consumption is now so small our local butcher decided to retire.
Would hate to ever give up eating fish though - is that significant when it comes to determining the risks of heart disease?

Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn says fish protein, actually all animal protein, results in the production of TMAO by way of lecithin and carnitine, in the gut. TMAO causes inflammation and damage to blood vessels. The following YouTube videos may be helpful.

Fish gives you the highest rate of TMAO as Dr. E. says in the YouTube below.

In addition to blood vessel inflammation,

1. All fish contain cholesterol, with salmon and shrimp having higher cholesterol in comparison to other seafood

2. PCBs, dioxin, mercury, and other toxic pollutants contaminate the fish supply

3. A look at fish consumption in the Iowa Women’s Health Study showed no protective effect in coronary heart disease or stroke mortality

4. The FDA & EPA issued a joint advisory warning to pregnant and nursing mothers about the toxic effects of mercury from fish consumption

5. There is no scientific evidence showing the addition of fish to a healthy diet increases an individual’s health even more

Is Fish Part of a Healthy Diet? - Center for Nutrition Studies

Many healthy diets around the world contain fish, but are they the reason why the diets are healthy? Are there any adverse health effects of eating fish that you should worry about?

nutritionstudies.org

 

[wngsprd]

Do you add food coloring to water...red?
We didn't want to stop feeding hummingbirds but small bears must of thought it was Kool Aid,and glass feeders took real hard.

Nope...never add any color, just a 4:1 water to sugar ratio...we had problems with bears, too, and had to bring the feeders in every night when the bears were hanging around. Haven't had bears in over 2 months, so evenings and mornings are easier now. We clean them and refill everyday...currently running 16 feeders.

 

[txdon]

Nope...never add any color, just a 4:1 water to sugar ratio...we had problems with bears, too, and had to bring the feeders in every night when the bears were hanging around. Haven't had bears in over 2 months, so evenings and mornings are easier now. We clean them and refill everyday...currently running 16 feeders.

Have you ever counted the number of hummingbirds at your place at the same time?

 

[Bird]

My rain gutter crew was supposed to be here between 10 a.m. and noon. That 3 man crew actually arrived at 9 a.m. Since I'm an early riser and had already been to two Walmarts and The Home Depot, I was glad to see them early, although it had started raining off and on around 7 a.m. so I had thought they likely would not come at all today. Wrong again. Those three young men really knew what they were doing. Now they didn't leave until 2 p.m., so they were here 5 hours, BUT with lots of breaks when the rain got heavy because we got an inch and a quarter of rain while they were here.

A number of things were different, and better, than in the past. The 6 downspouts they installed were slightly larger than the old ones. The old ones had crimped ends of the pieces to fit them together; these news ones are not crimped. They had no "elbows" at the bends of the gutters themselves. They just cut the gutter ends at an angle, fitted them together, and had a narrow piece of metal obviously designed for the purpose to fit over the ends.

So 232 feet of 6 inch gutter, 108 feet of 6 downspouts; and 63 feet of 6" gutter protection (leaf screen) for a total of $3,967. I don't think it was bad at all for what they did. Of course they hauled off all the old gutter and trash.

 

[Thomas]

79F on the humid side.

Got everything done I wanted and than some before Fred arrives tomorrow morning and relieving himself nearly 2" of rain by tomorrow late evening.

Mrs. been talking lately about having dash cams install both vehicles,I can see her car having one she drives somewhat heavy traffic,but the pickup and I'm slow driver. ???

Not plan for this evening after dinner,set on the deck enjoy smooth cigar what for the critters.

Enjoy your evening all.

 

[rswyan]

SS here has lime buggy’s, you pull it home full with a truck and spread with tractor.

I just called and spoke with the lady at the Wadsworth location. Lime buggies didn't come up, but I did ask about bulk ag lime purchases and she said that they do them but I'd need to talk to the boss and gave me his number ... to get a price on a skid ...

They do have regular pelletized lime in 50# bags in the store for $4.99

Menard's has #40 bags for $4.35 (after the 11% rebate)

So less than 1 cent difference in price, per pound.

Truth be told, I'd rather handle the #40 bags ... and we're really not using all that much of it to warrant switching. We've probably used less than $100 dollars at this point.

Thought you would have gotten soaked by Fred, it totally went around west of us, and now over central PA

I think what happened here is that we caught some of the northernmost outer bands of it this morning ... but bulk of the heavy rain passed to the south and/or east of us.

My sister in Harrison county got a good bit.

Well hopefully, they needed it.

 

[rswyan]

78F and "mostly cloudy" (supposedly) @ 17:15, although I'm seeing quite a bit of sun right here. Pretty pleasant out there right now.

Got both the upper and lower fronts cored, also did much of the compost/wood lot.

Heading out to core down here around the house ... as soon as I fill the feeders, disconnect the supply wire to the electric fence, and move it and the spreaders out of the way.

Path along the property line over in the woods had no standing water on it (not true for the lawn in spots)