Good morning!!!!

[buckeyefarmer]

Wife’s been up half the night with pain in her leg, so she said no flower planting today.
I’m sore all over from yesterdays work. Was up and down on concrete floor a lot wrestling with the BX mower deck.
Did get the FEL greased. Not sure 1 took grease, need to check it. Got deck and shaft all greased. Probably should change all the fluids. The hydro filter has hours and date on it.

Chance of rain has disappeared for us.

Found my 1/2” torque wrench in the barn yesterday. New one I ordered comes today.

 

[KilroyJC]

We had similar problems when we moved into the property here. We had a hard time getting deliveries and contractors. Talked to a local guy working an excavating business and he said if you did not live in the area for two generations you are foreigner and not trusted.
He spread the word to help us out and after that we had no more problems. Anything we needed and they would send us a bill later. Sometimes they did not invoice us for several months

oddly, the outfit that did this is a large regional multi-location concern, not a simple local provider.

Luckily, the second vendor (who is a local operation) is one we had done business with when we first purchased our small business here, and just as I was leaving, The Boss Showed up.. . And he was “the kid” who had done the delivery 8 years ago, except he ain’t a kid no more - he’s The Boss!

Good thing we tipped him well, way back when…

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 66F @ 5:30AM. Abundant sunshine. High 96F. Winds light and variable.

Turns out you can set the number of posts you see per page:

https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/account/preferences

I think the default is 10.

Sorry to hear about the druggies, JKC. Think complaining to the local newspaper, city council, or county board of supervisors would do any good? Good help is hard to find, huh?

Got a late start with the wiring job, then took my sweet time going up and down the ladder and securing it every couple of feet, even measuring to get the spacing even. Made the mistake of using those all in one connectors for the splices, the ones you slip over the wires and use a heat gun to melt a ring of what is probably bismuth to make a solder joint. The plastic shrink wrap on the ones I was using almost melted at the same temp as the solder, and the solder didn't flow much at all. One of the speakers kept cutting out due to the cold joint, until I grabbed it and flexed the heck out of it a few times. It probably won't stay fixed, and I'll end up cutting it out and doing it again, this time with real solder and shrink wrap tubing.

Watched a video this morning where a gal used mosquito repellent to clean the haze off her plastic headlights. I replaced the ones on the Ford several years ago and they're fogging again, so figgered I'd gamble five bux and give it a try.

Got some wiring jobs coming up, and am fed up with the knock off automatic wire strippers I picked up several years ago that don't work. Gonna try a pair made by Klein to see if they're any better. Prime will make it easy to send 'em back if they don't.

Also gonna splurge on a tie wrap tensioner/cutter that's supposed to work very well. Really tired of slicing my hands up on the sharp stubs left when I can't get flush cutting pliers on the left over stem.

No word from the new stucco contractor yet. My contractor says they're working our job in between larger ones, but it'll be done by the end of the week. I told him I don't want them on site unsupervised, as they strike me as the kind of people that would steal anything that's not nailed down. And that I want a day's notice when they'll be here so I can be, too. Trust issues? Not me. Trust has to be earned, not given freely, and these guys didn't make a very good first impression.

More wiring today, this time installing some LED light fixtures under the porch cover.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Kilroy, any chance you will build on your wood lot?

 

[KilroyJC]

Good morning! 66˚F heading to the upper 70s cloudy 40% chance of rain this afternoon. Looking better all the time to stick with my Thursday date for the potato harvest.

Ron's pictures from yesterday and today are visible.

When I hand hammer the staples in I turn them a bit so they are in different grains so the wood does not crack. Is the Milwaukee power tool capable of doing this?

Kilroy, young people and hunters really mess up a rural area. Thank goodness for HOAs. Weeds are blocking your second gravel sign, needs to be higher and florescent paint. Remember, the wife is always right.

dude never went in far enough to see second sign, and orange fluorescent tape is on the top, it just happened to waft behind in a breeze as I took photo.

I have the opposite opinion of HOAs - which is why we sued ours and won and it was so egregious that the judge ordered his ruling to be appended to our property deed, with that wonderful phrase, “… and heirs, assigns, and successors. . .”

This is the same HOA that refused to address the druggies issue in its infancy, when all I wanted was for the, to tell them to stop treating our single-lane Road like it was Talladega, but who had no problem giving us grief about many other issues, including a nastygram notice that we had to make our propane tabks comply with the visual blocking rules (behind lattice basically) in spite of the fact that a) six other houses (including board officers and the druggies) are not in compliance (to this very day) and b) we have electric HVAC and electric stove and wood fireplace, and the only propane tanks I had at the time were one 10lb BBQ tank for camping and some 14oz Bernzo tanks for torches and lanterns.

 

[KilroyJC]

Good Morning!!!! 66F @ 5:30AM. Abundant sunshine. High 96F. Winds light and variable.

Turns out you can set the number of posts you see per page:

https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/account/preferences

I think the default is 10.

Sorry to hear about the druggies, JKC. Think complaining to the local newspaper, city council, or county board of supervisors would do any good? Good help is hard to find, huh?

Got a late start with the wiring job, then took my sweet time going up and down the ladder and securing it every couple of feet, even measuring to get the spacing even. Made the mistake of using those all in one connectors for the splices, the ones you slip over the wires and use a heat gun to melt a ring of what is probably bismuth to make a solder joint. The plastic shrink wrap on the ones I was using almost melted at the same temp as the solder, and the solder didn't flow much at all. One of the speakers kept cutting out due to the cold joint, until I grabbed it and flexed the heck out of it a few times. It probably won't stay fixed, and I'll end up cutting it out and doing it again, this time with real solder and shrink wrap tubing.

Watched a video this morning where a gal used mosquito repellent to clean the haze off her plastic headlights. I replaced the ones on the Ford several years ago and they're fogging again, so figgered I'd gamble five bux and give it a try.

Got some wiring jobs coming up, and am fed up with the knock off automatic wire strippers I picked up several years ago that don't work. Gonna try a pair made by Klein to see if they're any better. Prime will make it easy to send 'em back if they don't.

Also gonna splurge on a tie wrap tensioner/cutter that's supposed to work very well. Really tired of slicing my hands up on the sharp stubs left when I can't get flush cutting pliers on the left over stem.

No word from the new stucco contractor yet. My contractor says they're working our job in between larger ones, but it'll be done by the end of the week. I told him I don't want them on site unsupervised, as they strike me as the kind of people that would steal anything that's not nailed down. And that I want a day's notice when they'll be here so I can be, too. Trust issues? Not me. Trust has to be earned, not given freely, and these guys didn't make a very good first impression.

More wiring today, this time installing some LED light fixtures under the porch cover.

Complaining to those outlets will not do any good. In fact, having the ability to honestly say to said druggies, should the situation arise, that we have never reported them to officialdom, other than complain about their speeding and generally dangerous driving to the HOA years back, May be a net plus. . .

Because of the ADA and DA let them drive in and out past THEIR houses daily, my complaining isn’t going to do squat.

I even have a couple of boxes of NarCan handy, in case I have to throw them over the fence in an emergency. Are we good neighbors or what?

 

[KilroyJC]

Kilroy, any chance you will build on your wood lot?

Possibly but not for several years at a minimum. we have kicked around the idea, residence at the top of the hill, big barn/garage partway up, there is a cool spot for a lookout deck where the cove drops away and overlooks the main valley and county airport (and there are about 16 ginormous poplars that would make a lot of great lumber that would need to come down to make the view possible), but right now we have too much invested in our primary residence and with the current state of world and economic affairs, we don’t want to start any projects of that scale - clearing bottom land and making a micro-farm is more than enough!

 

[RedNeckGeek]

... residence at the top of the hill, big barn/garage partway up, there is a cool spot for a lookout deck

One of the reasons I have trouble finding homeowner's insurance here is that the home sits above a steep canyon, with lots of trees and brush below. The ISO has figured out that fires burn faster uphill, and that increases the chance of the place burning down. It also exposes the house to strong winds, which last December sent the porch cover sailing, taking out the roof and chimney in the process, and resulting in almost $150K in repairs. Beautiful view, but it comes with a pretty stiff price tag.

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, 61 going up to 70 and sunny.
Worked at the bigger garden last night, cleaning and weeding.
Nothing exciting.

KC - druggies and DAs , what a combination.

Be well,

There is always one bird that successfully gets a nest in. Since it's on eggs, will leave it.

 

[LouNY]

Good Morning!!!! 66F @ 5:30AM. Abundant sunshine. High 96F. Winds light and variable.

Turns out you can set the number of posts you see per page:

https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/account/preferences

I think the default is 10.

Sorry to hear about the druggies, JKC. Think complaining to the local newspaper, city council, or county board of supervisors would do any good? Good help is hard to find, huh?

Got a late start with the wiring job, then took my sweet time going up and down the ladder and securing it every couple of feet, even measuring to get the spacing even. Made the mistake of using those all in one connectors for the splices, the ones you slip over the wires and use a heat gun to melt a ring of what is probably bismuth to make a solder joint. The plastic shrink wrap on the ones I was using almost melted at the same temp as the solder, and the solder didn't flow much at all. One of the speakers kept cutting out due to the cold joint, until I grabbed it and flexed the heck out of it a few times. It probably won't stay fixed, and I'll end up cutting it out and doing it again, this time with real solder and shrink wrap tubing.

Watched a video this morning where a gal used mosquito repellent to clean the haze off her plastic headlights. I replaced the ones on the Ford several years ago and they're fogging again, so figgered I'd gamble five bux and give it a try.

Got some wiring jobs coming up, and am fed up with the knock off automatic wire strippers I picked up several years ago that don't work. Gonna try a pair made by Klein to see if they're any better. Prime will make it easy to send 'em back if they don't.

Also gonna splurge on a tie wrap tensioner/cutter that's supposed to work very well. Really tired of slicing my hands up on the sharp stubs left when I can't get flush cutting pliers on the left over stem.

No word from the new stucco contractor yet. My contractor says they're working our job in between larger ones, but it'll be done by the end of the week. I told him I don't want them on site unsupervised, as they strike me as the kind of people that would steal anything that's not nailed down. And that I want a day's notice when they'll be here so I can be, too. Trust issues? Not me. Trust has to be earned, not given freely, and these guys didn't make a very good first impression.

More wiring today, this time installing some LED light fixtures under the porch cover.

I like to use a flat tip on a soldering gun on tye wrap ends, melts them flush and smooth. It does take more time and is an aggravation most times so many of mine are just cut off some times with a knife to be flush.