Good morning!!!!

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 68ºF for the start, partly cloudy sky, breezy. wind was up to 20-30 mph by noon, speed varied some, partly yo mostly cloudy day, and high temp was 79ºF, DP 66ºF. Bike maintenance to start day, change to Trek as the main riding bike. Wind already kicking up as ride started, wind penalty 1.23 miles. Got pressure washer started, played with tips and some concrete cleaning, and made sure unoader and pressure adjustment working. After lunch got all the wood split that was already sawed to length, then stacked next to garage. Spent some time getting ready for Katy Trail., still need to put gravel tires on Trek, change tail light. Did not get nap in, and helped wife make chicken and rice. Made for good dinner eating.
Randy(wag) Good to hear pump repaired and back in service. hope you get the rain.
Buppies sorry you are up so early, thanks for info. Prayers sent
Bill has to be a bit frustrating light fixed and trailer may be junk
Dennis hope you got back to sleep.
Roy have fun working from home.
Drew understand about headlight washers. Will be interesting to hear if Prozac helps bad ear.
Thomas plenty on plate hope date night went well.
Ken we are close to May. Hope planting went well. Nice pic
Drew good luck with getting muscle to relax
Paul good to hear alpacas sheared, hope they don't get cold now Nice rendering of Emily.
PJ hope the rain slows down a bit, will have the wide gravel tires on just in case. Thanks for the kind thoughts
Ted sorry about the wind, hope nap helped. hope you remember the jugs soon.
RS hope the plants harden up ok. agenda full as per usual. nice pics
David your frequent grilling of cutoffs indicates much work needed. Hope you are getting better at it
Drew hope tomorrow goes well for you.
Thomas glad got most og agenda done. hope date night even better.
Dennis you got a lot done. Shed rehab coming along nicely
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle's daughter/friend PT from Covid, /mom recovery and breathing, living alone, Bird/aging issues/, Don /mom's pipeline process, Randy/FIL living alone adjustments /MIL Covid /son's FIL death /new(2) cancer surgeries /cataract surgery, Roy /palpitations, /angina , Billy /wife fall, David(moss) /remodel /divorce, Buppies /3 new skin cancer spots and treatment, /wife head wound healing, Thomas/gout, Phil /reflux, /wife's eyes, Steppenwolfe/son-auto immune disorder, Grev/wife's eye, Ted/knee recovery/retirement, / passing out issues, /family issues, Doug and wife/health issues, /nerve and pain, / wife's heart /rib and back and torn bicep, Ken/aunt fall injuries, David(sadamo)/Sophie's new eye surgery recovery, Chris/neighbor's granddaughter and Covid issues, Scaredy/shoulder dislocation, Paul/ wife's disc issues /dog seizure, Gale and KY/ tornado victims, Mike /5 year plan, Dennis/ brother "alligallyitus" and improving, James /wife's fall and recovery, Drew /friend cancer diagnosis and recovery, Helogabals /wife's friend situation, Ukraine war, and Country.
stay safe and healthy you all.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

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Big turkey by the bird watch station today on the new trail.

Well, it knew where to go look

 

[txdon]

Well, it knew where to go look

He was lonely and looking for a wild turkey, but all that we had was Bud Lite.

While we were there a stinging caterpillar dropped down from a tree and stung my wife. After some Benadryl and an hour, the fire sting diminished. I have never seen one like it before, it was 2" long, brown and spiney. She was in too big of a hurry to get it off her I did not get a pic.

 

[toppop52]

52F and "Fair" @ 21:00, headed down to a low of 40F overnight. High reached 65.7F today.

Got garden plants uncovered first thing, then brought some plants that were in the dining room (mostly yellow crook neck and zucchini squash) out to the front entryway. That ended up being a good move as they had mostly all popped through the soil by the end of the day probably from the warmth of the sun.

Then I trimmed off old flowers and stalks on the hosta and hydrangea, and gathered leaves and debris from north side of garage hauled up that and dumped it in the compost pile, hauled a dump cart load of screened compost back down.

Used that to make up a full tote of potting soil mix, along with some composted cow manure and peat moss added for good measure.

Then made another trip back up and got another load and spread about half that around the redbud tree on the east side after I weeded it and dug out the rocks. This one isn't looking so good:

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The one over on the west side is leafing out, but there are no signs on this one that it's even still alive. I'll give it another couple of weeks or so and if nothing probably transplant a volunteer magnolia into the planting hole.

After that I started weeding around the hawthorn behind the pump house then added screened compost. Used the "new" (large) aluminum shovel that I just put a new handle on the other day - I welcome the relatively light weight of it. It ended up taking 3 1/2 dump carts loads and could probably use a little more. Still needs tamped down:

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Then I took the blue tarp I had been using to cover the plants and pinned it down on the lawn using landscape staples on the east side of the little garden bed area where we transplanted the blueberry bushes a couple years ago.

Following that I collected up the nyjer feeders and their pole and took them to the back basement door for cleaning which I will do tomorrow. I had grabbed the sledge, the level, and 3' piece of 1/2" rebar on my last trip down from filling the dump cart so went to the area over the leach field and sunk that rebar there for the new feeder location.

It was getting late enough at that point I figured I better get the oil change done on the Cub which I did. Will do the pre filter for the air cleaner tomorrow.

After that I took Cub around back and (mostly) dug out the tarp that was lying over in the woods covered by leaves. Will get that one stapled down tomorrow.

Here's a couple of pictures of those hosta that were getting chewed on by the deer that I gave the shredded Irish Spring soap treatment:

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Not looking too much the worse for the wear ...

Hope everyone had a great TGIF ...

I never thought about planting hostas around trees like that, I like it.

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, low temp 36 and going to a high of 57°F. Wind NE 6 mph. Sunny!

I wonder if winter is actually over?

WOW! KFC sure has gone up in price. Almost $43.oo for an 18 piece bucket. I think that bucket will be the first and last for 2022.

I will load up the trailer today for the dump run tomorrow, then flip it upside down and powerwash the bottom off. With it clean maybe the welder can do something with it.
Maybe I will have to break down and buy one myself and do it myself.

Still no sign of the new Z-turn. The check is here waiting for it.

Have a safe day all

 

[Rich B1]

Good morning! 40 now, may get to 67 later. Headed out the door to go to Lima, hopefully it doesn’t get rained out.

Everyone stay safe out there!

 

[wngsprd]

39 going to 70.

Got down to 32 with heavy frost yesterday...my wife thinks we lost 4 of our tomato plants to it.

Happy Anniversary, Love BIRDS.

Hiked a section of the A/T yesterday. Talked to some thru-hikers...left Georgia in mid February. Beautiful day. Springtime creeping up the mountain and some hikers on a cliff below.

 

[wngsprd]

Always fun to find wildflowers.

 

[Thomas]

WOW! KFC sure has gone up in price. Almost $43.oo for an 18 piece bucket. I think that bucket will be the first and last for 2022.

Our local Kan't Find Chicken been questionable last couple months...way to much breading some evening sign on the window...CLOSE TO LACK OF STAFF.

 

[Thomas]

He was lonely and looking for a wild turkey, but all that we had was Bud Lite.

While we were there a stinging caterpillar dropped down from a tree and stung my wife. After some Benadryl and an hour, the fire sting diminished. I have never seen one like it before, it was 2" long, brown and spiney. She was in too big of a hurry to get it off her I did not get a pic.

Glad the wife doing much better.