Good morning!!!!

[buckeyefarmer]

our 8N tractor had a starter button.

At age 20 I was shown a 10 ton dump truck and asked if I could drive it. Sure can I said, having never seen a high low transmission selector switch before.
But I figured it out quick.

 

[two_bit_score]

before "quarter pounders" came in, butter was sold in one pound blocks aka prints.

Thanks for the history lesson! Very interesting.

 

[sodamo]

70°F and .38 inches rain

Made unplanned trip into town yesterday, primarily to send off a FedEx package also visited the brewery. Apparently the new ownership is reluctant to extend the previous discount. May have to check out the 2 other breweries. My brand loyalty can be bought

The boys and I start week 2 of baching it. Life just not as fun without her here. TG for FaceTime. I sure miss her. I gather from her reports that her sister is glad she is visiting.

Have to see what the day brings but coffee first. OK, second, bike first.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[scott_vt]

If you were really worried, you could have a kill switch on the starter and leave the hand Crank on the floor, just as a dare…

Good Afternoon KilroyJC,
Excellent !!

 

[daugen]

Thanks for the history lesson! Very interesting.

Print butter is an obsolete term for butter that was sold in wrappers printed with "some emblematic device" as a branding device[1][2] as modern butter almost always is. Originally the wrappers were normally cloth and sometimes washed and returned for re-use by the retailer.[1] By the late 19th century greaseproof paper took over from cloth.[1] The term is found in American sources from at least 1791[3] to 1949.[4] Packages of butter thus wrapped were called prints (for example, pound prints weighed one pound each).

 

[rswyan]

72F and mostly cloudy @ 13:00, heading up to around 79F for the day's high. Clouds likely to remain until 15:00 when it will start to clear a bit.

Started mowing front lawn yesterday, got about half a dozen passes done and it started raining again so I threw in the towel on that for the day.

I did run down to the corner and get gas for the Cub as it was getting low, also filled up Woman's car.

Rainfall yesterday totaled 0.35" and we've had 0.16" so far since midnight. Everything here is very green.

Persuaded Woman to make up a big pot of vegetable beef barley soup yesterday which turned out good. Was in there smelling it while it was cooking and She told me it isn't going to be ready for hours, to just get out and leave Her alone, and go get myself a sandwich somewhere if I wanted something to eat ...

So I ran over to Arby and got a 5 piece of that hushpuppy-breaded fish strip that they are advertising as a limited time deal. Fish was pollock, was not bad although a little greasy. Definitely not Eadies though.

Filled hopper + the two tube feeders after I got back, also suet feeder.

I thought I had gotten the leaks stopped on the plumbing under the sink the other day and then The Woman reported She noticed it was leaking ... right at the tail end of draining one of the basins. Got under there yesterday and verified that ... slight leak at one of the old joints after the trap. Will need to get the channel locks from up in the shop and give it a quarter turn.

After dinner Woman made 2 loaves of zucchini bread from what we shredded and froze last year, turned out great ...

She was at the sink this morning doing dishes and observed one of the fawns inside the wire in the west planting bed. Fawn was behind a tree when it exited so She couldn't see how it got out (jump or duck) Says we may need to put up a 3rd line.

The mother and another fawn came though shortly after that. Mother avoided the planting bed area, sticking around the bird feeders where I drop the cracked corn. Other fawn walked right up to the wires brushing the top one with its nose ... but didn't go in ...

Agenda for the rest of the day:

Dole out another weeks worth of meds.

Schedule some bills for payment online.

Finish up mowing the front lawn once it dries up enough. Probably get the west side and back down here around the house while I'm at it.

Grab those channel locks from up at the shop.

Do some maintenance work in garden. Some of the vining plants have gotten long enough that they need tied up to the cattle panel trellis.

Probably haul down another bucketload of screened compost for the corner of the northwest planting bed.

Otherwise see what else comes up.

Hope everyone is having a decent Wednesday ...

 

[sodamo]

People driving while reading their phone a very real safety issue to themselves and others. No common sense

My auto insurance, USAA has a discount program (safepilot) that tracks various driving aspects, one being cell phone use. Not exactly perfect as I got dinged 1 time using the Map program. But I’m on track for a 15% discount.

 

[sodamo]

Frits, last VW (1960) engine I changed took way longer. Probably cuz I had to rebuild it after it came out.

 

[sodamo]

KJC, you make some good points from your soap box.
Can’t help but wonder how much the proliferation of warning labels has dumbed down the gene pool.

 

[sodamo]

Thanks, Ken. I seriously wanted to do this when we built the pool initially but various factors dissuaded me. Sophie has confirmed we should do it. She is the primary user. Expensive, but going with the Circupool Core system as it appears it can take advantage of working with just my DC pump (direct solar powered)as well as the 240v pump. 39k gallons I guess will take a lot of salt initially. The pool is self draining but rain provides about 1.5-2 refills per year. Except pumps, all plumbing is pvc. Gonna be a new adventure.