Good morning!!!!

[Buppies]

Good point L4N

 

[rswyan]

48F and clear @ 22:30, heading down to a low of 51F overnight.

Wait ... wut ?

High hit 73.8 here today, another really beautiful day.

Good progress yesterday and today.

Got water hooked up to the line over at the barn yesterday. With the ball valve shut off over at the barn there does not seem to be any leaks. But the valve housing itself is broken after the ball ... so if you open it it sprays all over even with a hose connected. New ball valve added to the Menards order.

Much more clean up done by The Woman and myself.

Worked on marking floor grade using friend's red rotary laser. Was hard to see the red laser, was not happy with how it turned out. It will get revisited once new laser gets here.

New table set up on saw horses and started transferring stuff off the two other tables.

Live trap re-baited and set. No customers this morning.

Ordered a green Skil rotary laser last night off Amazon, due to be delivered tomorrow.

Today we finished up getting all the leaves removed from the gutters on the barn. Took a bit on the front side as we had to use some old OSB/plywood as mats to prevent the tires from digging into the (relatively loose) dirt and repositioning those took some time:

Back side went pretty quick though (no mats needed), probably less than hour to do the entire length (74'), and that was with having to stop to fill in and (re)grade part of the area I was running the lift on with the Kubota.

Once I replace the water valve tomorrow gutters on both sides will get scrubbed and flushed out and then we'll replace any hangers and start getting the gutter covers installed.

Took dump cart around back this evening with the Cub for garden/flower bed clean up, apparently it was dinner time and I just didn't know it:

Got large Menards order placed tonight, hopefully go pick that up first thing tomorrow morning.

Hope everyone had a great day ...

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 65ºFfor the start, overcast, light breeze. Moderate wind with brisk gusts, trace of rain at house showers in area, and high temp was 78ºF. Rain in 10 day for now, high in 60's . Bike ride start delayed due to dampness on road, finished without incident. after lunch had to SIL to town to pick up his car, got rained on several times. Did get nap in.
James thanks for the info. Lot more work on the dock part than here, most docks on pilings.
Drew enjoy your day. If insurance companies were better at risk analysis, more people would like lower their own risk and enjoy the lower premiums.
Billy nice weather for a hike.
Buppies glad you and crew got a work day in.
Bill good feed for Thanksgiving. I get the no sugar added applesauce here. Hope the wood project went well.
Chris glad you had good birthday.
Paul great pics. Nice they had a place to stash pulley for you.
RNG thanks for link. I ran E10 in small engines two mowers, chainsaw and weed eater) because nearest E0 was 90 mile away. Did not have a lot of problems, did use the green Stabil (not marine). I use E0 here because it is only 15 miles away
Ken congrats on getting help in Home Depot, not always easy task. Neat firebush.
Scaredy hope you had a good nap.
Don glad wind kept dust down. Great work story. Good to hear mom happy with easement negotiations.
PJ hope you get the more rain.
James neat pic
RNG glad you got a nice lunch really sorry to hear about the no-start is back. 28 volts at fuel pump
Frits nice discount.
Drew love the boat stories and the pic.
David hope the Starlink swap out did not have problems. nice pic
Buppies glad you are having nice weather.
Frits nice tractor pic. I have not seen the Long Way Up.
David glad swap happen with no weeping and gnashing of teeth
Thomas glad no overtime at work, thought you could mot use backpack blower.
PJ wife and daughter make cranberry relish with whole berries. Outstanding taste
Drew glad diner with ex went well.
Randy(wag) glad not as much rain as originally predicted. Hope trip to town successful.
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle's daughter and family drama, /mom's breathing, /learning new job, /friends upcoming new baby, Bird/aging issues/, Don /mom's pipeline process, , Roy /palpitations, /angina, /alligatoritus, /wife ankle,recover from getting sick, Billy /wife back & hip, mom hypertension & congestive heart failure, David(moss) /remodel, /divorce, Buppies /new skin cancer spot and treatment, /elbow healing, /wife knee healing, Thomas /gout, /wife's pain, Phil /reflux, /wife's eyes, Frits/ daughters hip replacement /veteran son with mental issues,Ken /dad possible dementia Steppenwolfe/son-auto immune disorder, Grev/wife's eye, Ted /knee recovery, /retirement, /family issues, /wife feeling bad, Lou / eye issues, Doug and wife/health issues, /nerve and pain, / wife headaches, David(sadamo)/Sophie's new eye surgery recovery, Chris /neighbor's granddaughter and Covid issues, Scaredy/shoulder dislocation, /wife not feeling well, /marriage, / friend stop drinking, Paul/ wife's healing from back surgery, Gale and KY/ tornado victims, Mike /5 year plan, Dennis /retirement plans and land purchase and development, / brother "alligallyitus" and back in hospital, Drew /foot heel issues, /friend cancer diagnosis and recovery, Mike /spine injury and recovery, Scotty, /back pain, Helogabals /second opinion, /wife's friend situation, Mark /wife colon surgery, Ukraine war, and Country.

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, low temp is 55 and the high will be 59°F. Wind SSW 11 mph. Showers. 42 to 55 mph wind gusts expected this afternoon.

The wood conveyor was extra stubborn yesterday and did NOT start. 1/2 of the wood is in the basement, the hard way. If it is not raining later this morning then I will attempt to start it again.
There is rain in the forecast for every day next week.

You guys all stay safe

 

[RoyJackson]

2022-10-12, 0457

43° right now...not too bad...
High in the upper 60's...Summer's last Harrah, I'd say...

 

[Buppies]

I’d say Roy see some really cold stuff for you all

45 high close to 70 rain tonight tomorrow thru mid day then colder Friday high in 70s next week high in 50s. Prayers for all our Country

 

[daugen]

good morning all
should be a nice day, high in low 70's, which will be nice for trip to Milton DE
to visit friends for several days. Since it's supposed to rain all tomorrow, going to take a big box of kites to the beach this afternoon
with several adult couples and we are all going to fly kites. Some big ones for the adults and I brought some kiddie ones too.
If we see any other folks on beach with kids and they are interested in kites I'll give them some small ones to play with.
Have a 30 foot long black octopus, a 50 foot long python snake, and a couple dragons. Hopefully I'll get some good pics.

I will leave the kites with my friends so they can go play with grandchildren next time they visit.

nice trip, don't have to pack much of anything, just jeans and a warm shirt, think we are going out for pizza tonight in Lewes.
These are my foodie friends so I'm sure I'll be well fed. I packed a small bag of local apples and pears for them.

don't have to leave til after 9, just poking along, turning off stuff in house, all space heaters, hot tub, etc.
I really don't like my microwave so if it gets zapped, fine, I leave it plugged in. Just about every receptacle in this house has a surge protector on it.
I guess I should unplug the UPS also.

 

[check]

Check, that is a very cool boathouse. Is it sitting on pilings? Looks like you've got a new roof and nice painting done, one more section to work on.
Now I can just see you in a nice Chris Craft or Hackercraft woodie tooling out of there.

Kept boats in water overwinter in Chesapeake and Florida. In Chesapeake, deicers are a big deal, need lots of them, they suck up a lot of electric, but protects the boat.
just a big old garage fan stuck in the water right?...

our boat had five feet of hull under the water, and all five feet were relatively warmed by the warmer water vs freezing air.
Never wintered over, but went down many weekends just to check on the boat, check on the lines, move the fenders a little or put more chafing gear on.
I always left my boat basically hurricane rigged anyway. In Florida, that went up quite a notch with six more one inch hurricane lines, big heavy white line.
It wasn't going to be the first thing that broke. I knew the Bertram's deck gear was strong, now the Carver, might have just ripped the gear out of the boat with a line that size.
Much lighter weight construction, one made for bay, one made for ocean.

I saw guys who had added extra larger cleats to their powerboats, big yachts. Not just another cleat, but a big ass cleat. Right along midships.
One with special reinforcing and bracing below deck to spread the load over a wide area.
A cleat you could almost pick up my 25 ton boat with. Put two one inch lines on that, forward and rear, one for each side, and with a big ass cleat,
you weren't going anywhere. The marina in florida was a massive concrete block protected area used by all the emergency boats as a hurricane hole.
All of the marina cleats were huge and enviable and set in concrete. They never broke, were built to high spec. Some docks handled hundred foot yachts, up to about 150, that's all that would fit and even then you couldn't get anything that big all the way into the marina. So there is always an out front face dock for the visiting goldplaters.
Now those big dock cleats were even bigger, all those boats had lines of at least one inch and usually a lot larger. With loops at the end two feet long to go over and around
large cleats and existing large lines sharing the cleat on a public dock.

Prior owner to me replaced the stern cleats on rear of boat to BAC's. I always checked on the reinforcing brackets, big aluminum plates bolted and glassed into the structure.
But it was a really good feeling to get a hurricane line on those oversize rear cleats and know mother nature could blow all she wanted to and the boat wasn't moving.
Something my wife was entirely in favor of.

some real nautical etiquette needed when putting your boat line on top of someone else's boat line sharing the dock cleat. Which you often have to do in marina transient docking.
this pic is the opposite of the docks in Florida, a rickety but scenic floating dock in either Croydon PA, a tiny marina I stuffed the Bertram in for a couple years, til we had too many low tides and couldn't get out of the marina. To Philadelphia we went, and then to Chesapeake. The little State marina in Croydon on the Delaware river was built for 30-35 foot boats, max. Mine was 51 with the swim platform but they had two internal face docks available.

couldn't wait to get out of marina so the depth alarm would stop clanging away. Trying to idle out with about a foot of water under the propellers.
If a log had landed there overnight, gave up the ghost and finally landed in the muck, and I'm the next deep prop going by, well it doesn't end well.
Those things that go Thump Thump can ruin your day. If we were going to keep the boat, which we knew we couldn't after my wife got sick, I would have put
in forward facing sonar. Underwater sonar, simplistic version of what military uses. It will alarm for underwater obstructions, just like we depend upon our cars now to do.
Basically a glorified fish finder with more brains but at least it alarms. We do get tired of buzzers though...

I sure do miss this boat. I bet I waxed that top part out to the front a hundred times. So I could run my hand along it and feel the soft carnauba wax finish.
Probably why my hands are worn out, this was a lot of boat to hand wax. Every time we anchored out I'd take a small part and wax it. Gave me something to do, then jump in water and cool off. Those were good days.

Drew those are some serious boats you’re talking about, including yours! It might fit in my boathouse as it is 50 foot long, with 13 feet of clearance from side to side inside.

And in answer to your question about the boat house, it is sitting on massive, massive cribs at the deep end, in 20 feet of water. It must’ve been a real feat of engineering to build those things. I got my scuba gear on once and went down to the bottom and looked up, and it was like an Egyptian pyramid on each side. then, as you get closer to the surface, they used cedar eight by eights, no doubt harvested from the property which back then was 100 acres. It needed a lot of work when we bought, and the two side out-buildings still do, but with the new roof on the main section about three years ago, it is good to go. The studs inside are 13 feet high, and almost literally petrified. I could not get a 3 inch galvanized spiral nail in with a hammer. I had to use a palm nailer, which is an amazing invention.

Anyway, we’re getting near finished with the painting of that door that you see, and another side perpendicular to that view. There is also an overhang that needs repair, and….

Good morning everyone. and have a nice day! (Rainy here.)

 

[daugen]

GM Goes into the Energy Business - Here's What It Will Do for EV Owners

Ultium Home, Ultium Commercial, and Ultium Charge 360 could make a generator unnecessary, make EV ownership more affordable, and put extra energy to use.

www.caranddriver.com

GM is getting into Tesla's home energy space, good thing, maybe it will bring the cost down.
Or you can roll your own, like David has done in Hawaii, where you build all the parts yourself.
Latter probably easier to repair being more modular.

my understanding is you start with 12VDC from whatever storage device you have and then use an inverter to produce
hopefully sine wave 240VAC. Made we wonder if there were AC solar panels; clearly I failed electronics 101 here.
Is it just handling safety why we dumb it down to low voltage and then have to hop it back up to use?
Really don't want your cow electrocuted when he licks the solar panel.

a boating electricity moment:
heavy amperage DC is no fun either, been there done that with really big 32VDC battery banks on Bertram. 1000 pounds of batteries.
Today that would be a hundred pounds of Li-on batteries, which is kind of amazing. OEM wooden battery box caught on fire when battery cable
shorted out, 4 gauge wire, maybe lower, but something got it hot. Wasn't the connectors either; I looked carefully before replacing cable.
Never figured out what caused a dead short somewhere to
pull that much amperage from the battery bank to cook that battery cable. So I have to believe it chafed through a wooden opening. Heavy fiberglass boat
with a lot of wood structure inside and throughout hull. Most of the wire was hidden underneath out of sight.
I put it out with a 5 pound ABC very carefully laying on salon floor with hatch open aiming the powder at the burning area. Got it knocked down, wanted to trip all DC load but needed engine room exhaust fans to run to get smoke out. Huge mess to clean up but clean I did, annoyed at myself I didn't catch this somehow.

fires are no joke for sure. I had one on my first boat and it made me even more fire cautious. Maiden voyage of first boat had engine room fire outside of Atlantic City NJ due to plugged engine coolant piping. Rusty pipes let go on the trip down the Jersey shore from NYC and CT where I bought the boat. I almost did a PanPan on that one but we saw there was only smoke and burned hose, nothing else on fire. What a horrible smell to burn a
thick rubber based exhaust hose. They make marine hose that withstands a lot of heat, expensive stuff per foot. But you get it hot enough it will put out billows and billows
of dark black smoke.

Opened the salon windows, let the smoke clear, bobbed and weaved in ocean in boat built for bays getting sea sick since both engines were off and not making headway.
Are we having fun yet? All of us had our pfd's donned. Our second day on the water. Came into AC marina on one engine, pig to handle, I let my old friend drive, even our paid captain said no thank you. He was more of a navigator backup, a devoted sailor who really didn't enjoy twin engine controls. It's a coordinated effort of clutches and throttles, two of each, and
mostly clutches. Usually try to just use clutches while docking. Almost all the crazy stuff you see in marinas is because folks get confused with all those levers. Much more complicated than driving their truck there. Plus the road is moving and you can drown. Yes we are having fun.

If I hadn't been a fairly well trained volunteer fireman, these would likely not be funny stories.

Check, the boat house doesn't look like anything I had seen in the Chesapeake, and there are some cool ones there up all those little rivers.
But I didn't see conventional pilings. Someone's engineering masterpiece. it looks wonderful.

need to get a move on

 

[check]

Edited my post about the boathouse. Relying too much on Siri, without editing.