Good morning!!!!

[Buppies]

Sorry or your losses BEF and RS

 

[Buppies]

Kyle how are you liking the new job? Hopefully family is doing well

 

[Wagtail]

Good (Sunday) morning... well, almost noon by the time I post this. The weather 'event' started around 2230 last evening, blustery and squalls of rain, yet the overnight Low was only 13.4C. Strange, as the wind was from the South to the SE. There was 24mm in the gauge @ 0840, prior to heading off to Church.

The wind has not abated and it's still a rain squall situation, but I've got my wood in for the day/night. Penelope the Pussybeast is NOT pleased with the outdoor weather situation.

The 'Agisting' Woman had planned on putting out a round today... perhaps the rain will ease later on. I'll just throw on my Driza-bone & Akubra for that short tractor job, if it materialises.

Not much on except for this Thursday which, in Aus (not sure about NZ) is Viet Nam Veterans Day (Battle of Long Tan). Although I was too young to serve in that conflict (I joined the Navy in '75 @ 17yo) I'm typically 'tagged' as the "Parade Commander". It must be my dulcet voice.

Take care all.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 75ºF for the start, clear sky light breeze. Light wind day, sky mostly clear, and high temp was 97ºF, HI 100ºF. Bike ride to start the day, We did some new gravel roads, had 2 dog chases, no bites, 46 miles. After lunch nap covers the day. Was going to favorite Mexican restaurant, but they did not reopen after scheduled vacation. Hoping the do reopen next week.
PJ please check-in soon, you are missed.
Dennis kitty has you wrapped around it's paw nice pic
ted glad you have done ok in rain department, hope errands went ok.
Don hope you have a good dust mask!
Billy glad you got a good day hiking, hope you got some good conversations. nice pic and view
Drew hope painting project went well.
Paul hope you got the flight to lunch in.
Buppies not sure what or who timber rattlers are. Good to hear you have enough yard left to have a jungle.
Don you seem to have plenty tractor work lined up.
RNG hope you get gate wiring wrapped up soon.
Mike hope you get some progress on trimming and milk house.
Roy sounds like good plan from here
Dennis hope you go oil change done.
Ken hope you enjoyed your mischief.
Ken sorry you will miss local car show. Hope fair is good enough to justify $20 parking
Ted any excuse for pizza party. Hope you are able to enjoy some grandson time. Hope trimmer walk was productive.
Kyle you are welcome for the prayers. Nice to hear you got some rain.
David good to hear baching it going ok. Hope you get flail going soon.
Scaredy nice rat rod, engines don't look like they used to look.
RS nice progress yesterday. Sorry about neighbor's GF My condolences to you and his family. Nice forecast.
Dennis good to hear your dad motoring along. Nice progress on shed.
Thomas Glad nice day, hope date night went well.
Dennis sorry to hear about your friend. My condolences to you and her family.
David glad you get to use Sophie's tractor while she is gone.
Dennis thanks for the action pic
Drew sorry you did not get pic of Vette.
Dennis glad you got priming done.
David good to hear boys staying out of the way.
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle's daughter/friend PT from Covid,/mom's breathing, /learning new job, Bird/aging issues/, Don /mom's pipeline process, /fire nearby, Randy/FIL living alone adjustments /MIL Covid /son's heart issues, /pneumonia and not posting, Roy /palpitations, /angina /wife ankle, Billy /wife back & hip, David(moss) /remodel, /divorce, Buppies /3 new skin cancer spots and treatment, /wife knee healing, /getting dehydrated and cramping, Thomas /gout, Phil /reflux, /wife's eyes, Steppenwolfe/son-auto immune disorder, Grev/wife's eye, Ted /knee recovery/retirement, /family issues, /wife feeling bad, Doug and wife/health issues, /nerve and pain, / wife back in hospital, Ken /kids shot tragedy, David(sadamo)/Sophie's new eye surgery recovery, /cataract surgery, /Sophie's hand infection, Chris/neighbor's granddaughter and Covid issues, Scaredy/shoulder dislocation, /wife not feeling well, /marriage, / friend stop drinking, Paul/ wife's disc issues, Gale and KY/ tornado victims, Mike /5 year plan, Dennis /retirement plans / brother "alligallyitus" and improving, Drew /foot heel issues, /friend cancer diagnosis and recovery, Helogabals /second opinion, /wife's friend situation, Ukraine war, and Country.

 

[NHBX]

Good morning
56° now dew point 47° high’s around 80° today.
For me if I could bottle a summer day Friday was it, low 70’s, low humidity, blue skies and a nice 5-10 mph breeze.

Mowing and trimming is caught up, need to get the garden beds weeded. Today is going to be a conserve energy day.

Enjoy your day everyone

 

[daugen]

good morning all
lovely cool morning, 60 going up to 85 in sunshine and lower humidity.

I got some of the church paint work done yesterday but not enough. Thought I'd be mostly cleaning off mold but turns out I had to sand
the entire railing and despite bringing two extra sanding pads, ran out. Plus I realized I need to prime first. So another trip likely tomorrow to finish the sanding
and prime.

hope you all have a lovely day.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Good morning
56° going to 80°

Yesterday was the perfect day, but still hot in the sun when working.

Worship this morning.
Our usual Italian restaurant is closed for 3 weeks as they are in a trip back home to Italy, so maybe we will go to the diner up on the mountain.

Wonder if PJ is busy at a new job?

 

[daugen]

fun email from owner of Rivian truck who just gave me a ride. I asked him how many g's it pulls on full acceleration.
0-60 in 3 seconds is apparently .95G

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning
It’s 56 with a high of 80 forecast, another beautiful day, except we need some rain. Maybe tomorrow.

Yesterday’s meeting dragged on too late for me to fly out to lunch, so I replaced a failed camera in the shop. The old one was connected via Wi-Fi, the new one is POE, so I had to run a cable to the POE switch, which had no open ports, so had to add a switch as well. This was all planned, so Amazon brought the switch along with the camera. At 4mp, the new camera is much higher resolution than the old one. This is a capture of my son retuning Makita batteries.

This was just a section of the actual video that I zoomed in on and captured. I’m pleased with the improved performance.
It is surprising how long everything takes to get done by the time you get the tools and supplies out and put away.

Today youngest son is coming to help put in a couple more gates. We have 3 more posts to put in and then hang the gates and attach the fabric to the new posts. We have been adding gates in existing straight runs of fence so I can get the tractor into the smaller pastures to mow rather than use the Lazer.

Have to go to TSC to pick up some lag style hinge pins before he gets here, be interesting if that’s all I leave with.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I moved my house network over to my starlink system yesterday. I noticed my barn camera isn’t working. But it might be the Ethernet over power line adapter. I use a separate 12v supply for that camera, it has gone out before. I didn’t finish that investigation, but got all the others working.

I still need to move over some wireless devices, like the thermostats. I need to get on the old router and see what’s on it. I had to move it upstairs to plug directly into my mobley internet.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

fun email from owner of Rivian truck who just gave me a ride. I asked him how many g's it pulls on full acceleration.
0-60 in 3 seconds is apparently .95G

That buggar is quick! I looked at the Car and Driver writeup and it says the curbweight is over 7000lbs. Wow! For reference, a Ford F 150 is less than 5000lbs. So I'm amazed that with all the extra weight, that it is so fast. Impressed. I hope it serves him well. I have seen one drive past me, and I wondered what kind of vehicle is that with those funny lights?

Maybe I'm late to the news, but I see TopNewsTalk is shut down.

Condolences Rs for your friend and neighbor.

We're having a combined church service today and then a baby shower for one of our friends afterwards. Wifey made chicken spaghetti and Nestle's Tollhouse chocolate chip cookies.

I took the son for a quick road trip to San Marcos, to jump in the 70F cool spring river water. It is down about 14" from normal, as the aquifer is suffering from lack of rain. Still felt great at close to 100F air temp. A thunder storm passed a couple miles south of us while there. I was looking at MyRadar app to keep an eye on it....just got some wind. We stopped at a deli known for good food and free ice cream cones.....only to find out after we ordered the ice cream machine was broken. Stopped later at Whataburger and got us a couple of Dr. Pepper shakes.

The new job is going good. Things had been mostly unattended since the alligator problem. The time flies by, because I'm playing wac-a-mole with 2 hammers. Much of the equipment is in need of replacement, but I'm trying to patch it up. So much to get done in about 6 more working days. My cnc mill proposal has gotten kudos, but the head guy wrote me he's not sure he can fit it in the budget but will try.

Hope all have a blessed day, and prayers for our team.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! Walked outside and I felt nothing, absolutely nothing. No heat no cold no wind. That means it is a perfect 72˚ with high humidity and the heat index is also 72˚, and it was. Cloudless sky heading to the upper 90s but then back to the 100s, however it looks like after Wednesday the temps will only be in the upper 90s for several days in a row. It would be nice to get rid of the 100s for the rest of the year, we will see.

Our total rain fall for August is 0", for July it was .06" and for June .7" so our Summer total is 3/4", with almost every day in the 100s.

Went to Mom's yesterday and threw a downed tree limb out of the yard and thought the cows were going to stampede to get to the green leaves. They have run out of grass and have eaten the dry grass to the ground. They still look healthy, the owner is feeding them several times a week, any profits are slowly disappearing. The only farms making money during the drought are "adventure" farms.

 

[Thomas]

54F clear sky 80 for high.

Outside chores done E muffin time.
Watch the siblings bears from the deck last evening playing for while,than they lay down one lean against the other fell sleep.

Plans for today...haven't decided yet.

Enjoy your day all.

 

[Buppies]

59 this morning getting very cloudy rain coming late afternoon. Slept very well last night

First order of business pick up medicine from Walmart maybe weed eat no animal sightings this morning

Hope PJ is doing well miss his posts

Prayers for Toppop, Alien and wife, Kyle and family all others silent or spoken our spoken.

 

[RoyJackson]

2022-08-14, 0926

60° right now...high in the high 70's

No plans today...

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 68F @ 6:00AM. Sunny. High 101F. Winds light and variable.
An Excessive Heat Watch will go into effect from 11 AM PDT Tuesday through 8 PM PDT Friday. We'll see triple digits for highs, not unusual for August, but the lows will stay in the 70s, so not much cooling off overnight. The A/C's gonna get a real workout, but the humidity won't get super low, and the winds will remain calm, so not much chance they'll call a Red Flag Warning, too.

It's surprising how few people check the image quality of their security cameras, Paul. They find out too late, like after a break in, that the images they've recorded aren't good enough to help law enforcement identify the culprit(s). 4K makes a heck of an improvement, but it sure eats up bandwidth and storage space...

Looks like I better make filling up the hummer feeders job #1 this morning. They're knocking each other off the feeder outside the bedroom slider, a pretty good sign the other three feeders are empty.

I was able to get the generator running off propane yesterday, but it took a while to figure out why I'd stopped in mid conversion sometime last year. The kit comes with a little donut ring that fits between the carb and air cleaner, that feeds the propane to the engine. The donut is a half inch thick, and that moves the airbox another half inch from the carb. There's a short rubber ring between the airbox inlet and the filter box, just barely enough to accomodate the location shift. I spent a lot of time trying to get the pieces to fit better, but short of replacing the oiled foam filter Honda designed with a crappy K&N, I guess I'll have to settle for half-a$$ed on this one.

I did get a nice siesta in after lunch, long enough that it was too hot out to test the welder out on the generator. So that's second on the list for this morning.

I did find a little tutorial on repairing the broken wires on a set of earbuds, and got one pair fixed. Felt like a brain surgeon with the big magnifiers and Xacto knife operating on those tiny wires. The new Shure buds I tried out last weekend don't sound as good, and they're down right painful after a few hours under a helmet. They don't make the old buds anymore, but I was able to find one outfit selling new old stock. Ordered a pair to have on hand in case the repair doesn't hold up, and will likely order another set just in case.

Hope everyone enjoys the rest of their weekend!

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Had to look up "adventure" farms, Don. Turns out there's one in Bucks County. Isn't that your neck of the woods Drew, Ken & Paul?

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, chilly 60's when I walked the dog, going up to 83.

RNG - I was in Doylestown last night where that "adventure" farm is located. Never been there though.

Got some wood split, some weeds wacked and a bunch of other stuff done in the queue.

My Game cam wasn't working. Seems it had too many pictures in the picture folder. Moved the folder and all good. Had to clean it out as ants had gotten in somehow.

Off to Philly today- sons friend playing at Hard Rock Cafe where they have a "future Stars" show for new bands in the area.
Can't wait to see how much parking costs. That city does everything they can to slow down tourism and new business.

Stay safe and be well.

 

[sodamo]

68°F and .01 inches rain.

Happy Sunday.

The boys AirTag collars a bit disappointing. Lose track of them before the even get to the fence. Those happy with them must have city dogs and live in apartments. At least the collars look good.

Should get the interior mowing finished today with the scag. The pool area, around the bananas, up to the cottage. Basically all areas where the BX 60in deck is just too big.

I’ll give the BX an extra good cleaning, blow out all the clippings in those hard to get to areas in prep for servicing tomorrow. While tempted to just do myself, I opted for dealer to perform this initial/50 hr maintenance. Much more expensive that’s for sure. Need to seriously consider getting the right trailer.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[RedNeckGeek]

The boys AirTag collars a bit disappointing. Lose track of them before the even get to the fence. Those happy with them must have city dogs and live in apartments. At least the collars look good.

Looks like AirTag range is limited to 33 feet, the distance commonly associated with Bluetooth devices. But if the AirTag is within that distance of an AirTag capable Apple device, the AirTag's position will be relayed to you via the FindMy app. That's an advantage in congested areas like an airport or grocery store, but probably not so much on your farm or ranch. The article mentions other Bluetooth trackers with considerably more range, but they may or may not be Apple compatible...