Good morning!!!!

[Thomas]

35F cloudy low 40's for high.

Doing early morning chores had to be extra careful or one boot pointing north, other boot pointing south from last night's freezing rain.

Think I may have spoil the owner/boss day,told him I like my hours cut 20 hours week,he had the look like someone kick him in the back pockets all he said was "let's set down tomorrow and talk" consider that fair enough.

Short work day 2 stops for critter food plus goodies.

Plans this afternoon do small project for the Mrs.,diesel up and do walk around Kubota...storm arrive early eveing Thursday into early morning Saturday pretty sure I nap will be on the list.

Enjoy your day all.

 

[Thomas]

Tractor chase

Man in stolen tractor leads police on hours-long chase, hitting a dumpster and a church: 'What a day'

A now-viral TikTok video shows a police chase in North Carolina involving a John Deere tractor, reaching speeds of up to 20 mph, in the city of Boone Tuesday

www.foxnews.com

What no SWAT.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

What no SWAT.

They learned spike strips don’t work on Ag tires, so they shot out a front tire.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Good morning to all! Low of 23°, only going up to 33°. A few snow flurries this morning. Wind advisory with gusts up to 45 mph expected until this evening.

Snow, rain, sleet, graupel, .....a mix of everything yesterday. But, that's a good thing.... hardly any snow left and over a 1/2" of rain in the gauge. Wish it was more, but anything helps.

RNG, I absolutely hear you and the logic behind it. I was determined to move from here and 'start over', finding the perfect "slice of heaven". Until I realized how much work would be involved. Then the mere fact of how much it would cost. We could do it, but wondered how much we would benefit from doing so.

Then, having an RV changed the thought process. Keeping everything we have built, everything paid for, everything made by our hand, to our specific liking. We decided to use our homestead as 'home base' and use the funds for travel. To take $100K just for infrastructure on a new property.... well, that's a lot of travel!
You have a very hard decision to make.......

I might try to get out into the shop today.... I hear some metal calling out to me. It's wishful thinking..... I have an appointment in town, so not really any time to do much. Another appt. with the ortho surgeon tomorrow will eat up most of tomorrow too....

It' hump day.... not that it really matters (BEF -hint, hint)

Everyone enjoy the day!

 

[Mark P.]

Good Morning - currently 59° going to 66°

RNG - good luck on your decision & Ron beat me to asking about moving out of CA..It's a big country..

not much going on today, just waiting to get through the next couple months before live ag shows start back up..I know the kids are ready to start showing animals again..

It is getting closer to wife's surgery next week..

Hope everyone has a great day..

Mark

 

[sodamo]

67°F and .05 inches rain. Not a lot and just persistent enough to stop work, but every little bit appreciated.

Off to Hilo town this morning. Sophie has her ophthalmologist appointment. Good news would be appreciated. Been a long haul, over three years.

Then some in town errands. Hoping I can pick up aluminum angle for my solar rack.

Wx forecast like yesterday but maybe I can get more bracing installed.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Then, having an RV changed the thought process. Keeping everything we have built, everything paid for, everything made by our hand, to our specific liking. We decided to use our homestead as 'home base' and use the funds for travel. To take $100K just for infrastructure on a new property.... well, that's a lot of travel!
You have a very hard decision to make.......

Having an RV was part of my plan, too, and see how that worked out?

I still want a home base, but here I can't be sure I'll even be able to get back to it if they evacuate the area for another fire. Or even be here, as home could be reduced to ashes, as my friend's home was while they were camping in Death Valley.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

The Mexican place is ok. Worth a repeat trip. Right next to my pharmacy where I almost forgot I need to pick up a couple prescriptions.

This place has been many different restaurants over the years. A Burger King for years, Chinese, diner, now Mexican. Inside looks like an old Roy Rogers.

Now to Costco.

 

[txdon]

No rain so it was a morning of trail work in the county park. Found an old trailer and tv someone had dumped probably decades ago.

 

[rswyan]

38F and cloudy @ 15:00, heading up to around 40F for the high for the day.

Yesterday did not develop quite like I expected it to.

Woman wanted some (unspecified) help here at the house so I didn't make it up to the shop.

Then She got tied up yakking on the phone.

I noticed that the drip on the bathtub faucet in the main bathroom was going pretty good so I collected up a variety of tools and started working on that.

Used the 20 volt B & D Impact to remove the 3 screws holding for the hot, cold, and shower diverter knobs on, 2 unscrewed, the 3rd snapped off ...

Squirted the knobs down with PB blaster (probably should have done that first ... )

Then I headed down into the basement to track down the supply valves for the main bath. Located those and was successful in freeing those up.

Decided while I was down there to tackle the supply valves for the kitchen and laundry room while I was at it. Was successful with freeing up those as well ...

Came back upstairs and checked to make sure the water was off in both places (it was)

Then started working on removing the knobs on the tub/shower, eventually managed to get one off (cold water) after considerable banging with a wood stick and large HF screwdriver. Also got the cover trim and escutcheon removed.

After I got that done I put that one back together so the shower could be used while the Blaster soaked in on the others.

At some point in all this I had to stop and hunt up a YouTube video explaining how to replace the valve seals and seats for The Woman ... after I got the ... "OMIGAWD ... WHAT ARE YOU DOING ? ..."

Any sort of plumbing work and the prospect of water being shut off tends to make Her extremely nervous ...

Of course, what gets shown on the video doesn't include all the work (over time) that was actually required to get the valves taken apart.

Also got the packing nuts loosened on the supply valves to the washing machine. Tried to move the valve stems themselves but no joy so I sprayed those down with Blaster as well.

Also got the platform put back on the scaffolding in the living room and the DVD player pulled out of the old tv stand and put on the new tv stand.

We have 3 tv's in the living room: the (newer) 55" 4K Vizio which we use, an old JVC CRT (which isn't hooked up but still works) and an older large flatscreen (1080) which doesn't work sitting on a love seat. Need to get those moved out of there and and get at least the non-working unit disposed of.

Did not get any feeders filled ... so that's on the menu for today.

Also need to go up and get my large crescent wrench out of the shop for the plumbing job.

Dole out meds for this coming week.

Probably get back into working on leaky faucet in the main bathroom after that.

Some of the items for the dust collection system ordered from Amazon are "out for delivery". Looks like the rest of the stuff will be coming in between now and Saturday.

Hope everyone is having a good Wednesday ...