Good morning!!!!

[Thomas]

Buppies....are the bears out looking for whatever now?

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning.
60 outside, a shower just passed through with rumbles of thunder in the distance. Looks like another front will blow through later in the day.

I did get a tiny bit of tractor time in yesterday, got the tiller off and the quick hitch back on. The quick hitch would work with the tiller if I bought a longer driveline, but I’m pretty cheap.

Got the post hole auger mounted on the loader, being SSQA makes that effortless though. Did not get the posts for the gate in though. Picked up a winter’s worth of wind blown trash from the hedgerows and culvert along the road. Made a Costco run, forgot to get pretzels, but otherwise successful.

This morning I’ve got to look at the Davis rain collector, hard to believe we only got .1 inches, although the showers passed pretty quickly. Have to replace a door closer at the restaurant, and put new batteries in the bathroom scale. We’ll see what else pops up.

And lunch with a friend that just passed his private pilot checkride last week. He wants to take the people that mentored him out to celebrate.

 

[m7040]

Good morning, 44 going to 74 with rain

Graded some yesterday with the x. Still need some more but not today with the rain here.
The haircut yesterday turned out great. Wife is a pro at this.
Cleaned out the floor in the corn crib where tractors are parked. Amazing the amount clay that had accumulated on the floor from the tractor tires.
Plan to go up to the shop and clean up some and see what else I may want to get into

 

[Buppies]

Have not seen ours yet others down the road a piece yes

Raining hard presently

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 46F @ 5:00AM. Mainly cloudy. High near 60F. Winds SSE at 10 to 15 mph.
Forecast is still calling for showers tomorrow, then no more rain in the 10-day until Friday. We could use some time to dry out. March left like a lamb, but I was flying a desk much of the day.

Glad you figured out the beep, Drew. I've got so many similar sounding beepers in the house here that I dread when one goes off. Good that your patience with traffic was rewarded with another nice spot. Looking forward to seeing your GM double header pics.

You have some wonderful old archietecture in your area Frits. Thanks for sharing it with us.

Sounds like you could use either piece of metal to patch that hole if you weld it in flush on the outside, RS. Who cares what it looks like on the inside?

Sounds like a good plan, Bill. Don't you think you'll be ready to give it a rest by the time you're 80?

There's always more work to do, Thomas. But time's running out to live what's left of your life...

Thirteen years ago today, I submitted my retirement notice. Management thought I was kidding until they heard it from personnel.



Another roller coaster day yesterday. The first property was pending when I checked the listing in the morning, and still no word from the realtor. I texted him asking WTF, got a phone call back that the buyer accepted a no contingencies offer, which forfeited their right to back out if something untoward came out from the inspections. That means they're either crazy or are planning to bulldoze the place, so good luck to them.

Never fear, though, an hour later another listing popped up for another dump with four acres, more rural, but what looked like a decent kitchen and at least one decent bedroom. Photos hold a world of information, but missing photos might tell even more. There were no photos of bathrooms, strange because there were supposed to be three of them. Got the realtor over there that afternoon for a zoom call, and by the end of it the answer was still mixed. The house was built in 1922 on a raised foundation, then sometime in the '90s they added what at first looked like a prefab 16x60 extension, forming a T. Then what they called the laundry room was added on a concrete slab. Except for a rank carpet that had the realtor gagging, and a little settling in the original house, it was in livable condition, but the carpet would have to go and it all needed paint to kill the odor. The roof was leaking in a couple spots in the addition, and it was two steps down through a locking door, so conceiveably someone could rent that part out if they wanted to. It did have a second kitchen, but it was a total tear out. The saving grace was a 960 sq. ft. shop building with 12' walls, complete with a fair looking workbench and lots of shelves for storage. Concrete pad, too. Oh, and another concrete pad next to the shop, with 50 amp service and water, but we couldn't find a sewer drop for it. It would be a perfect spot for a shipping container, though. That means I could move in there tomorrow with room for all my stuff, the first place I've seen where that was true. And I'd be keeping my tractor; that new 8' flail would get a real workout. We'll probably make another offer today, but it will be contingent on what the inspections show, and we'll probably get beat out by someone with more money than sense. They'd be saving me from myself, as this new place would be a lot of work.

In between all that I went after the aluminum sweep on the front door with the tiny belt sander. The door frame or threshold shifts with temperature and humidity changes, causing the two aluminum pieces to emit a fingernails-on-chalkboard screech when opening or closing. Took a while, but I was able to carve enough metal off the sweep to quiet things down, but had to string 75' of air hose to do it.

With all that going on I didn't have a chance to look for a replacement realtor, but I will. There were seven new listings this morning, and I'm getting the hang of researching and preparing a bid. Just need to find someone that's a little more aggressive, and not afraid to upset a seller that's out of line anyway.

Hope everyone enjoys their weekend!

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, the low temp is 29 and the high is upside down at 28°F. Wind ENE 16 gusting to 25 mph. Snow at times heavy and mixed with ice pellets. Been raining all night long. I will plow today about 1 or 2 P.M.
Went to bed last night/this morning at 1, got up at 4, stayed up till 7, went back to bed and got up at 9. With my sleep all screwed up like that, I will go to bed early tonight and be up early in the morning.
The forecast looks good for the trip south and once I get there the weather can do whatever.

The only reason I am going to pack in driving the big truck is because of the annual road test AND medical. Passing the medical is a breeze, but with a clean license which I keep clean I see no reason for a road test annually.
80 is only a number, so is 16. When I got my license you had to hold an operators license in order to get a chauffeurs' license (get paid to drive) I got my chauffeurs' license the day after I got the operators. we got the classified licensing system in 1973 and a must have for 1974 was a license for the class of vehicle we were driving. I got grandfathered in on a Class A because the vehicle I was driving was licensed for over 54,000 lbs. The employer had to swear to that. I was in Florida when I got my Class A in the mail in Canada. Went down in November after U.S. Thanksgiving and came back in February. Technically driving without a license from the issue date until I picked up my mail at the PO.
My Jewish boss says to me that he gets more tan in one week in Florida that I got in 4 months. Not much sunshine in the bars, eh? I told him that I didn't believe in laying around on the beach like a beached whale. He didn't much care for that comment (he weighed in at about 300 lbs). I had worked for him about 3 years at that point and stayed with him until he sold out in 1977. He was good to work for as long as you didn't want to get rich off him. $100.oo/week was all I was getting, but I could do as I pleased and the fringe benefits weren't bad either. I got 40 miles to the gallon of engine oil and paid him $1.oo/gallon for oil. Filled a Sunoco 2 gallon oil can and paid him $1.oo for it. He knew I was sticking 'it' to him and also that I didn't complain about the $100.oo/wk he was paying me. I road tested all the new drivers that came in and if they didn't know how to drive a two stick truck I would take a day and teach them. My philosophy is that if you want to learn I will teach you. But if you don't want to learn, then buzz off and leave me alone. 'buzz off' is the family friendly forum style of telling them what I usually say.

You guys stay safe until I get back on Wednesday.

 

[gstrom99]

Tornado warnings last evening. Scary skies, huge wind, rain, hail, etc... Went to the basement, with the dog. Stayed down there 20 minutes, until the phone app said the warning was lifted (early). No damage that I've seen, except a long downspout drain tube got blown around. Was 72 before the storm, 28 this morning with a skiff of snow. Tornado damage to the southeast and over in Illinois also.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! Started out at 42 but warming to the 80s.

At the farm the 3 building on trailers were lifted off the trailers and set on the piers (to be out of the flood zone). The ramp is now being built. This is the new food court, I call it the treehouse food court.

 

[m7040]

Walked Cody again before the rain started up and took another pic of our barn.

 

[wngsprd]

Rain ended...had some thunder. A lazy morning watching a gobbler and hens in the clover, then shaking off and preening...now gobbler is strutting.

Here is a photo of the James River, where I started my hike, with Thunder Ridge and Apple Orchard Mtn. in background.