Good morning!!!!

[shetland sheepdog]

35 and cloudy here in srn NH. Partly sunny, with a high near 49. Light west wind becoming northwest 5 to 10 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph, forecast for today.

 

[scootr]

Not real warm. 53º yesterday but the sun felt good after so much rain. So Cal averages 300 sunny days a year. My old old friend is coming over this AM to get the injection pump that just came back (USPS) from a rebuild. He will put it back on his old FORD 455 Skip loader. Getting it running again will allow his mobile mechanic guy to determine why the 3PT won't lift. Getting ready for the massive weed abatement that is about to follow all this rain. Too many invasive plants doing well. The yellow Mustard. Thank you early missionaries who sewed it while walking the coast of California. I guess they got tired of eating what they brought and decided to plant it ? The Tumbleweed brought by Russian immigrants who also brought a thistle and a cockle berry - ugh. Seems the weeds do the best in a harsh environment.

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning
It’s 42 and on,y going up 5 degrees under mostly cloudy, but dry sky today.

Yesterday was pretty much consumed by the TV project. Got new one on the wall and the old one in the shop. And got to use a tractor in the process. Got fiber optic cable run to receiver, this room has a good surround sound system installed with all wires and components run through the walls and ceiling. Had to add a wall plate with HDMI and optical connectors behind the rack for the audio equipment, but it’s all done.
That’s more than I can say about my project for the Bridgeport, which hasn’t been started, other than digging up the material for it.

Maybe today after breakfast with the professor and a likely Costco run.
At least now I know what I’m going to do with the TV, the fresnel lens is worth infinitely more than a working TV. And I’ll get to play with it in the meantime.
It’s large wooden cabinet with decent speakers, I might salvage them as well. It might be possible to save the entire speaker enclosure and grill, I’ll know better once I start the demolition.

RNG, I don’t have the challenging environment that you do, but I’m still faced with the reality of not being to take care of this place by myself in the future. My oldest son lives essentially on the same property, but a quarter mile away. I subdivided the original farmhouse and seven acres for him, he has been on this land his whole life. We are trying to figure out how to get youngest son to live with us, and he can have it after we are gone. He is the mechanical engineer, and would put my shop and tools to good use. But we have to figure something out before he and his wife become invested in somewhere else. Fortunately I have a good network of friends and neighbors to help when I need a second set of hands in the meantime, but I’m fiercely independent and hesitate to admit that I need help. Hence using the [AFFILIATE=1, nofollow=true, newwindow=true, title="Kubota"]Kubota[/AFFILIATE] to pull the TV out of the basement.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Have you looked for places out of CA?

Yes, Ron. Last March I spent a week in Oregon, with a couple days in Eugene and the surrounds. Rained almost every day, and Eugene is a BIG city, with big city traffic and big city hustle and bustle. Not for me. Oregon used to be inexpensive, but now it's been Californicated and real estate prices are comparable to here, unless you find a place way out in the sticks, which I'm trying to avoid. I'd also like to not deal with harsh winter weather, having done that growing up back in the midwest. So that eliminates a lot of places, too. Get too far south when you go inland and the summers can be really hot and muggy, don't go far enough south and you're back to snow in the winter. And the farther east I go, the more complicated the moving process gets. I've got a lot of junk! A fair amount I need to go through and get rid of. Hard to overcome the "never throw anything away" mindset.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Here is a good YouTube on burning things with the lens.


When you get through playing with it, people are buying them on e-bay.
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I had no idea these were worth something.

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, 42 going up to 50 and full on clouds.
Worked a bit in basement cutting back on overfill from the foam seal.
Had to quit early as son had friends over to practice for school talent show. Audition is tonight.

PopGadget. using tractor to lift TV is extra points on TBN, or it should be.

I worked in Ontario California, many items sent to us made their way to Ontario, CA (Canada)!

When we worked in Japan, one of my coworkers was going to be staying a while so he boxed up some clothes for work to send on for him.
Box never arrived, when he got back to work he found the box right next to his desk where the mailroom had sent it. They thought it had come from Japan, not to Japan, though it was clearly labeled to/from.
The box made it all the way from the 4th floor to the 6th in it's long journey.

Back to the day job and I still need to order wire and parts for the garage

 

[RedNeckGeek]

LOL. I am sort of done collecting more stuff.

Blasphemy to some ...probably...

I have turned into a new person. Simplify, declutter and no more stuff. I'll rent my friends back for comradery and a six. LOL.

That's a good mantra, Mike, one I'd do well to emulate. I usta haunt Craig's List looking for orphans that a little TLC and cash would get back into running condition. That's pretty much how I built up my shop. But each of those purchases came with a mortgage, not just of money, but of time. So each one takes a little slice, and when it gets out of hand you spend more time tending to machines and property than you do enjoying them. I've been very fortunate here to have neighbors with big iron so I didn't have to rent or buy an excavator or bulldozer, and now I'll be able to hire a contractor to take care of the roof damage instead of scrounging around for used roof tiles and climbing up there and doing the work myself. I like the idea of being near a maker space, like Don has, and that I've seen in larger cities, for access to 3D printers and laser/water jet cutters, and if I play my cards right, that might be available where ever I end up. It's a new way of thinking, of doing the same kinds of things but in a different way. Of being an old dog that hopefully can still learn new tricks, instead of sitting around watching TV all day with nothing else to do...

 

[m7040]

But I can get my shop crane (which is a folding/dissasemble-able one) into my house.

That isn’t to say that you can’t get an excavator into the house, but it might be a bit “awkward” explaining it to the insurance company

They make retractable track excavators just for you so it can go through the doorway

 

[Buppies]

Interesting stories and challenges, our 22 acres gets challenging when it’s only me, son off doing something, wife not well.

49 high of 66 rain tomorrow

Prayers for all our Country

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I hope everyone has a happy healthy productive blessed HUMP DAY!
I wonder if BEF can recall what that even means

No idea.

I’ve been frying eggs almost every morning for breakfast. Almost ready to open the 5 dozen package I bought. How long are eggs good for in the fridge?