Good morning!!!!

[mpham]

Morning all. 50 going to 71 today with sunny skies.
Yesterday was 2 years retired for me! Man that has flown bye fast!

Apparently the doctors office had an alligator in the waiting room when we went for my final checkup! Wife and I are both currently fighting mild cases.
Having a hard time getting things done as concentration and fatigue are keeping me down.
Need to do the 200 hour service on the tractor while it is still warm enough in the garage. I have all the stuff. Started picking up and organizing things in prep for winter. Leaf picking season is about to start in full force. Trees are coloring up nicely and already covering the lawn. All the tools are prepped and waiting.
Thomas I hope your wife heals up quick! 3 years retired(lol!) for you.
Hope everyone stays safe and healthy!

 

[RoyJackson]

2022-10-07, 0625

57° right now and some rain. High, about 70...

Mostly, wife's doing pretty good, but I don't think she'll ever give up the walker

 

[Buppies]

Prayers for you Riptides

 

[buckeyefarmer]

The back tree is turning nice. Looks weird because I keep it trimmed off the side of garage.

Finding the zoning laws are pretty restrictive for the land in VA. Way more restrictive than here in MD. Bit disappointing, especially for agricultural zoned land. If this was R1 land I’d understand. But if we turn the house at an angle it might work. We can’t put any permitted accessory structure in before a house. And nothing in “front yard”, defined as space within the plane of the front of the house.
Maybe a shed under permit size can go in first, not sure about that. Have to do silt fencing, etc just to put in driveway apparently. I can get exemption from SWM plan, but looks like still gotta do all the nonsense stuff.

Haven’t heard about closing status, it’s supposed to happen before next Tuesday per the contract. Not sure what happens if they aren’t ready.

Morning all.

 

[Buppies]

Roy looking for a mossburg 500 defender mariner got any leads?

 

[Buppies]

Hope it works BEF beautiful picture

 

[rswyan]

53F and cloudy @ 07:00, heading up to a high of 56F this afternoon with the possibility of light to moderate showers this morning. Looks a little wet out there right now so it appears we've already had some. They should be mostly done by 09:00 or so.

Had a cloudy period yesterday but it cleared up in the afternoon, high temp hit 73.9F and it was quite pleasant working outside.

Made the "big push" yesterday and got lumber sort out largely done. Got everything moved back inside that I didn't want getting wet. The only thing that's left is sorting out the PT lumber (still over in front of the house) and cleaning off the two "tables" (OSB on sawhorses)

Footprint in the barn reduced by 50% to 75% because I can now stack some of the pallets and it's well enough organized now that I can empty it out using the forks on the Kubota in probably 30 minutes or less.

Woman helped cleaning and organizing on things on pallets while I juggled things around.

Recovered 5 or so wooden pallets, used 7 of the plastic ones. Have at least two more wooden pallets I can recover by consolidating retaining wall blocks onto a single pallet.

It was the "big push" because I didn't sleep at all Wednesday night but still managed to stay up yesterday and take advantage of the nice weather to get it done.

Was completely exhausted by the end of the day, think I was in bed by 20:00 and slept like a baby all night long. Woke up this morning around 04:30.

Amazon delivered my CR123A batteries yesterday, along with the nightgown I ordered for The Woman. Fedex was a no-show with the new framing nailer but tracking reports it is "Out For Delivery" as of 04:45 AM.

Did not get hopper feeder refilled so that is definitely on the agenda at some point today.

Other possible agenda items for the day:

Since it's wet, cool, and windy outside I think this will mostly be an inside day over here at the house. Doesn't appear that there is any puddling yet, so apparently any rain got was fairly minimal.

Try to see if I can find the folder for the pole barn and dig that out.

I got a count on the 8' fluorescent fixtures while I was over at the barn yesterday - there's 16 of them. Only three are hung presently. Need to figure out a layout on those so I can get an idea of how much romex wire will be needed to finish wiring them up so that I can order that. Probably already did that at some point, but it's probably easier (and faster) to just do it again.

Was happy to see that the price of 8' LED bulbs has come way down since we bought the ones we installed in the kitchen a few years back ...

Also need to work on figuring out what other items are needed.

Some kitchen clean up on agenda as well.

Plus whatever else comes up.

Hope everyone has a great Friday ...

 

[txdon]

Good morning! Temp range today is 60˚ to 90˚ with no chance of rain.
Pretty colors on the tree BEF, thanks for sharing.
Rip, hang in there.
Drew, glad your numbers are in the normal range.
Today is another rest day, some schools are out today and Monday and the farm is anticipating a crowd for the 4 day school "Fall break" and calling in extra staff.

 

[Buppies]

Job security Don

wngsprd glad mom is better

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning
It’s 50 and going to at least 70 under clear skies today.

Yesterday found me in the shop in the morning, cleaned and oiled the Bridgeport and lathe, cleaned some guns and did some mining for useable horizontal surfaces.

Grilled a burger for lunch, and then a successful shopping expedition to get a suit with my wife. We were successful as long as the keep their completion date, as its the day defore the wedding. Got the trash and recycling down the lane to the street, I think that the Caryall mounts are about perfect now.

Today doesn’t have a complete plan yet, I would like to mow if the ground dries up enough, I’ve got to fill the grain bins in the barn, first have to go to Agway and get bags of grain. Band is coming tonight, I’ve got to put something in the crock pot.

 

[Popgadget]

Buppies- good luck with the shotgun search. Seems like all defense style shotguns are in short supply, with the marine versions even rarer. Have you looked at the Remington 870 version? I think that Winchester makes one as well.

 

[Thomas]

53F cloudy low 70's for high chance AM & PM shower.

Outside chores done E muffin time.

Plans for today...leaf blowing and date night that should be enough.

Enjoy your day all.

 

[Thomas]

Yesterday was 2 years retired for me! Man that has flown bye fast!
3 years retired(lol!) for you.

Indeed it has.

 

[Buppies]

PopG they are hard to find mossberg 500 even harder 590 new version does not appeal to me. That being said might have to drop back and punt to Winchester although not as well made in my opinion

 

[Buppies]

Thomas wifey better today?

Bear made another appearance this morning came away empty but bent bird feeder pole again and turned bucket over on deck. Whenever dog barks nonstop 14 acres away she shows up

 

[scootr]

I've been looking at the Remington V3 Tactical. I had 2 Remington 870 in the past. They were very good reliable guns.

 

[m7040]

Good morning

54 going to 74 today very nice weather day

No firm plans today so will see what I feel like doing
There is a long list of projects and tasks so lots to choose from but no critical must do items
The chainsaw is one that I may look at again and do the pressure test

The picture is from last evening from our balcony

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 67F @ 5:00AM.
Abundant sunshine. High 93F. Winds light and variable.
Looks like 90s for the weekend, then high 80s the rest of the 10-day. No rain in the WU forecast, but the weather guesser on the TV last night was threatening some for the weekend after this.

Ran into an old friend at the motorcycle shop yesterday who was visiting from the Silicon Valley area. He told me his wife was suffering from dementia, and had moved into a care facility in her native Norway. She no longer knows who she is or where she is, and he thought it best for her to be with her family instead of remaining here in the States. Tough times for him.

#2 Diesel was $6.19/gallon yesterday, seems like almost twice what the rest of the nation is paying. Our slimy Governor is promising some kind of fuel rebate/bribe, but it won't do much to ease the pain at the pump.

Learned that the Pep Boys car parts store is no longer accepting oil for recycling, and the Jiffy Lube will only take five gallons at a time. It was painful watching five gallons of Kubota Super UDT hydraulic fluid go down the drain at $125/bucket, but it's still cheaper than replacement gears and bearings. I'll be shleping buckets for another three or four weeks before they're all empty.

Brought home sixpacks of two different beers, both labeled Oktoberfest, but both way too over hopped to be rightly wearing that name. Yet another sign of the approaching apocalypse.

Local tire guys wanted a whopping $340/tire yesterday, and though I'd love to give them my business, TireRack.com sells the same thing for $65/tire less with free shipping. But the TireRack price is still $75/tire more than I paid seven years ago, more bad inflation news.

Oh well, at least it's Friday...

 

[Engineer42]

PopG they are hard to find mossberg 500 even harder 590 new version does not appeal to me. That being said might have to drop back and punt to Winchester although not as well made in my opinion

I've had an 870 Mariner for over 25 years. It has held up well. I have a couple Mossburg 500 blued. All good guns.

 

[gstrom99]

Good morning everyone. Had 4 deer in my yard last evening that have found my crabapple trees, which produced well this year. Freeze warning. 30 degrees this morning. Furnace works, LP is filled, split wood is all stacked. Cleaned the wood stove chimney yesterday. Will start using that shortly, I'm sure.