Good morning!!!!

[sodamo]

Sorry to read of wife’s situation, Jay. I’m sure she is lucky to have your loving care.

Lived a number of years on Nubble Rd, York Beach. Bought old Victorian house for 20K, sold it for 55K when I went back in the Army. A few years ago I saw it listed 1.2M. 7bedrooms, would have made a nice bnb.

 

[m7040]

Went up to the barn and changed the oil in the front steering knuckles on the RTV and while at it greased the steering now that the wheels were off. Just working off my list of service items Will try to mow some more of the 2 ft high grass in the meadow this afternoon.

Jay sorry to hear about your wife and hope she will continue to manage with your help.
Wife's immune system attacks the healthy cells and she has to take immune suppression medication to stay alive. It is not working as well any more so she is pain and discomfort. I don't know how she does it but she still stays in good spirits and enjoy life as much as possible with a debilitating illness. I am doing more and more of the daily things and helping her dress etc. Thankfully we installed a downstairs handicap bathroom a few years ago for her and converted a room to bedroom.

One of the kids showed up this afternoon and gave me a hard time with my hat and shirt that I use for service woks. She says I look like a bum and laughed and took pictures. But she wants to come out next week and do some mowing for me and set fence poles.

 

[jbrumberg]

Thank you David. And Sophie was lucky to have You as a spouse/caregiver when she was in that horrible accident.

Peg took care of me when I had all that crazy autoimmune stuff going on.

The blower attachment worked its magic on the deck. I may use this setup to rid myself of nuisance snow on the driveway next Winter.

My day starts before sunrise, and I start "fading" ~ 2:00PM. Time to chill and get ready to order that take-out white pizza from a "nearby" bakery (14 miles downhill).

During the Winter my 2023 Ford Maverick was getting ~28mpg mixed driving. So far this Spring I am getting ~29mpg. With the turbo I buy premium gasoline.

 

[m7040]

Sorry to read of wife’s situation, Jay. I’m sure she is lucky to have your loving care.

Lived a number of years on Nubble Rd, York Beach. Bought old Victorian house for 20K, sold it for 55K when I went back in the Army. A few years ago I saw it listed 1.2M. 7bedrooms, would have made a nice bnb.

David, we have a similar story where we sold houses because of job transfers. One in Tiburon and one in Costa Mesa California. Hate to even look at what they sell for now

 

[jbrumberg]

Fritz- I am sorry to read about your Wife, but happy to read about your and your family's support.

My Sister and Niece tell me that I look like an old, long haired, crazy hillbilly..... So what. When We had a bathroom installed on the second floor We got a walk-in shower. When We will really do need it We will not be able to get there to use it.

62ºF and it really looks like rain is pending. So much for today's forecast. So much for the increased predictive power and accuracy with the addition of the NWS's newest "Super Computer." My memory is shot, but if I remember correctly it is the 6th most powerful super computer on the planet.

From the NWS: "The latest system, also referred to as C5, is an HPE Cray machine with over 10 petaflops — or 10 million billion calculations per second — of peak theoretical performance — almost double the power of the two previous systems combined. C5 is one of three NOAA computers operating at ORNL.Apr 12, 2023."

 

[newbury]

Someday you have a plan, somedays nothing goes according to plan. Somedays that can be very fortunate.

No PW today…

Having 1st cup of coffee this morning and perusing HD website, as I await Sophie’s return from her walk, researching items for a future project. Click to add item to Cart. I don’t normally buy from HD online but I like the cart to get a feeling of costs and makes a convenient list. Cart greets me with an alert, something wrong concerning an item in the cart. Sure enough it is the scaffold unit I didn’t pickup last week. Now out of stock, therefore no longer available. Not happy as I just know possibility was raised at the time and I very likely could hear about it again. Painting due to start 1st of Jun so not a lot of time. Sip my coffee as I finish my research and promptly update Sophie as she prepares breakfast for the boys.

During 2nd cup of coffee I open Craigslist. Surprise, surprise, there pops a listing for 2 scaffold units, same as I wanted. Posting only 30 minutes old. Immediately email questions to poster hoping for a quick reply. Quick conversation with Sophie and I send a 2nd email asking to Text me and that I could pickup today. Items are located other side of the island, just up the road from Costco. Asking $150 for the pair. HD price locally is just under $300 per set. Before finishing coffee, I get msg answering my questions as to condition and verifies price. Get his address. Only 1 hour 55 minutes travel, but that doesn’t account for the road paving or 3 work crews I encountered yesterday and expect would be there today, so likely 5 hour trip.
Sophie suggests that as I’m going so close I might as well stop in Costco and get a 2nd reeled extension. Who am I to argue when told to get another tool

Off I went. Success. Nice guy. Helped me load. Not pristine condition of course, but 100% serviceable, but he suggested I might want to replace one of the platform boards.

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Sophie helped me put together. In a better world I might wire brush and repaint, but if I do it will come after painting the house.
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These will most likely be stacked and my outriggers used. With my unit I’ll bridge with aluminum plank at lower level.

This is my new 50ft extension cord
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Note it is 12AWG not 14.

Grilled Ribeyes to celebrate.

Great score on the scaffolding!
They make great tables for "temporary" projects that you can easily clean off when you REALLY need a scaffold. At least my 2 do.

 

[daugen]

Frits, I have a three day beard, being a bum is wonderful.
Easy trip to TSC in Ringoes NJ, nice lady there, had exactly what we needed and it all fit nicely in the back of friends
truck. I bought the phd and the 12 inch auger for my tree work, and he got a six inch auger for fence posts.
We were in and out in 15 minutes. Delightful.

of course....started off asking cashier where post hole diggers were
what is that?
where are the three point hitch farm implements.
like what?
oh my
guy in line smiling pointing to side door half way back, where most of these stores have access to their fenced equipment yard.
Off we went. I have to remember most of these places are set up the same.

Big puffy white clouds starting to build outside

wondering what kind of trouble I should get in to.
and then looking at those big balls of cotton in the sky
makes me fall asleep.

however maybe I should sit outside in the sun on a 70 degree day
for a few minutes. I wish I could have my Vitamin D without the UV.
So I take an extra vitamin pill
Falling asleep sitting in the warm sun.
not taken to Godfather conclusions.
and no bug bites
TGIF

 

[sodamo]

Most of the years we’ve been here I’ve had 2 changes of clothes going, what I call Town clothes vs work clothes. Usually by the time I’m done with work clothes they aren’t even suitable rags. Lately I’ve noticed that sometimes the work clothes sneak into town if no holes. Just yesterday my trip to Kona I noticed my work jean shorts (stained by whole) were accompanied by a town shirt.

 

[KilroyJC]

do you have annual car emissions checks there?
many old cars smell terrible when you follow behind them on the street, as well as being out of tune for sitting so long.

most of us remember the first gen Japanese catalytic converters. What a horrible smell they made, rotten egg smell.
Get behind an early Camry with an open window. Or not.

my understanding is that everything is fuel injected now. Not sure you can buy a mainstream vehicle without fuel injection.
I'm sure the new regulations proposed have cars both cleaner and more efficient.
Bigger more expensive catalytic converters, those thieves will just smile in delight

Toyota has a hybrid mid sized suv that gets at least 35 mpg. They have smaller hybrid suvs that do even better than that.
the tech is out there.
making mandatory CAFE number near 50 mpg sure makes good headlines.
must be an awful lot of exemptions to that rule.
EV is not the answer to everything.
Maybe they should pay more attention to road and bridge safety.
Car regs are pretty strict now thanks to California.
Europe is another factor, what the EU decides on.
Seems like Europe and Scandinavia in particular have committed to EV.

something tells me there will soon be a generation that does not know how to hum along
She's real fine my 409

Maybelline…

 

[KilroyJC]

Good morning, the low temperature is 48 and the high to 70°F. Wind SW 10 to 15 mph. 90% chance of rain this afternoon.

The grass seed I spread yesterday will get watered in good. Rain starting at 3 P.M. and continuing through the night and tomorrow.
The rain will keep my tractor off the field for the next few days (I did get the compost pile turned), but I can pull stumps for the neighbour. They are right beside her driveway.

I had a 305HO motor that I put 202 heads on with headers and an accel super coil and dual point ignition and a Q-jet. All that coupled to a powerglide tranny with a 2.73 rear gears. I could light the tires with it. The points would float at 6500 rpm. That was my rev limiter. Pulled the modulator valve vacuum hose off the tranny and shifted it manually. According to the speedo, normally I would shift into drive at about 40-50 mph, but try and 'run' me and I would take it up to 75 mph before I shifted and never let off the gas. Keep it floored.
I had taken the carb off and cleaned up all the casting marks and shellacked the gaskets and set up the butterflies so when I went to wide open throttle the secondaries did NOT go over center.
She was a fun truck while it lasted. I would still have it today except that I bought this place (money pit) and one of my other money pits had to go.

Time to eat and get on with my day.

Have a safe day all

305 is a decent motor - once you get rid of the factory faults!