Good morning!!!!

[Popgadget]

I fly out to Martha’s Vineyard quite often, and have been watching the construction of a wind farm in the ocean southwest of Providence, just west of the Vineyard. The bases are in place and out of the water, but as of a few days ago, there where no towers up yet.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 77ºFfor the start, clear sky, light breeze. Light wind, partly cloudy sky and high temp was 102ºF, HI 106ºF. Putter to start day, then bike ride. Lunch then putter then nap.
Thomas you are reporting early. Hope day goes according to plan.
Ron glad generator kicked in. With 3 inch rain, wonder why birds need bath? Hope grocery shopping and Menards went well.
Frits hope you get your rain. Glad good visit. Good to hear knee better.
Drew glad light agenda today, Are you going to ask about different slides on RV? Hope landlady pays bill. Sorry about your ex BIL, my condolences.
Don hope Costco run went well. Thanks for the link and reminder on charging lithium batteries.
Buppies sorry about your allergies. prayers sent.
Ken(tinhack) I don't stand there watching, but walk by the charge since it is by door to garage.
Kilroy glad mostly good at periodontist, sorry about the soft food and smoothies. Sorry no LE at druggies. Hope tech found and fixed your leak. Sorry about getting wrong anode.
Mike glad roofer likes idea, hope estimate is good. Hope the weed whacking went well.
Paul Glad trip went ok. hope harness went ok and you were able to mow and clean up tools.
Drew hope valve stem work fixed the leak.
Scott(vt) Glad you got your F150 waxed, want todo mine?
Frits nice tray for chainsaw.
Dennis WU takes rain out days before sorry rain forecast messed with your walk.
Dennis enjoy the entertainment.
RNG glad yo were ale to pick up trailer and get it home. Battery charging more an issue than storage. Hope you get van paperwork squared away. Sorry about jury summons.
Ted hope you get more rain. Glad gravel spread.
Ken glad yore getting sheet rock up. Really sorry to hear about work not going well. Hope yo can get a working hammer drill soon.
Ted gravel look nice.
David glad mowing progressing. Hope Costco run successful. Good luck with chlorinater install.
Thomas interesting growth on Kubota.
Don I wish they had learned as well.
Thomas glad day went as expected. sorry about more rain, would love some of that here. Nice pic
Buppies we need to sound off at ballot box!
Dennis glad Lowe's had your valve and flush handle. Sorry about wife's salad. Glad you got some rain finally.
Randy(wag) hope you get some rain if you need it. Glad you could take day off
Paul no towers up probably due to the fifht Scott(vt) discussed.
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle /Daughter, /mom's breathing, /friends upcoming new baby, /son's migraines, Bird /aging issues, Ron /heart, Billy /mom hypertension & congestive heart failure, David(moss) /remodel, /divorce, Buppies /sleeping, /wife healing, Thomas /gout, Phil /reflux, Frits /veteran son with mental issues, /granddaughter with Evans Syndrome, Ken /dad possible dementia, Steppenwolfe /son-auto immune disorder, Grev /wife's eye, Ted /knee recovery, /retirement & disability red tape, /family issues, Lou /eye issues, /heart issues, Doug and wife/health issues, / hand nerve and surgery, /fall and recovery, / wife headaches and heart eval, / David(sadamo)/Sophie's hip or leg pain, Scaredy/shoulder dislocation, /marriage dissolving, / friend stop drinking, Dennis /retirement, /neighbor issues, /land development, /favorable winds not in the forecast there "alligallyitus" and back in hospital, Drew /back operation issues, /friend's wife cancer diagnosis and recovery, mike /wife's healing from surgery, Scotty /back pain, Helogabals /second opinion, /wife's friend situation, Fatjay /father broken hip, Ukraine war, and Country.

 

[Buppies]

74 high of 96 strong storms maybe big cool down coming. You are right mostly

Waiting for schedule on skin cancer removal kidneys do not look good off metforman lots new doctors to see

Prayers for all our Country hope rswyan did not wash away

 

[ronjhall]

Coffee is done brewing. 68° with partly cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 77° with partly cloudy skies. Another 1.16" of rain overnight. Lost power again. I slept thru the storm and power outage. Grocery and Menards shopping was good. Picked up limbs that were on ground. Will probably have to do same today. No other plans for the day.

Mostly, birds show up every evening around 6. Then take turns taking a bath in waterfalls. I think they like their baths in the evening. Nighttime showers do not count.

Everyone stay safe and well.

Good Morning All.

 

[sodamo]

Extra prayers for you, Buppies

 

[ronjhall]

Buppies, special prayers for you.

 

[daugen]

good morning all
up early, busy morning, pouring rain out and looks like a wet day
.24 on gauge for yesterday, looks like another inch or so today

Buppies, we are all pulling for you.

early appt at dermatologist, then straight to PT, then home for a quiet day in the rain,
good book to visit

 

[wngsprd]

71 going to 93. Not as nice feeling as the mid-50s recent mornings.

Buppies, prayers said.

Scott, I bought two similar O-ring kits from HF...nice kits, but only once have I found one of the O-rings in the kits fit my application, most recently to stop the leak on my water hose nozzle. But I'm hopeful next time.

BEF, hadn't heard of the steam engine train excursion...sounds good. That ride (Staunton/Goshen) is beautiful...it's the one we took last October.

Lou, that sounds like a nice set of tractors...you must take goood care of them.

Kyle, sorry about the finger...nice your work is gonna clone you.

PJ, real nice hoist.

Thomas, crazy the hornets built that nest. I've had wren nests, mouse nests, and wasp nest built in mine, but never anything like that. I think my hornet problem is over, except a few strays that come to the hummingbird feeders.

I fly out to Martha’s Vineyard quite often, and have been watching the construction of a wind farm in the ocean southwest of Providence, just west of the Vineyard. The bases are in place and out of the water, but as of a few days ago, there where no towers up yet.

Funny how after the trillions of dollars that have gone into wind and solar, worldwide CO2 has actually increased 12.5% over the last 20 years. I read this week that Alberta has halted all wind and solar projects for the next 7 months to study their impact on the grid, the environment, and what they call their pristine viewscapes, and to determine how operators must deal with the solar arrays and wind turbines when they stop working.

We've been doing a lot of painting and sprucing up projects. You might think there was a big baby shower scheduled here in just over a week, or something. Also had a nice visit with my mom...drove her from Virginia Beach to the little town where she was born and raised, and to the cemetery where most of our relatives, on her side, are buried, as well as my dad, and two sisters.

 

[m7040]

Good morning, 69 going 88 today and it is raining Finally

Buppies hope you can get the help you need from the new doctor.

nothing on the agenda today except what may come up

 

[NHBX]

Prayers for you Buppies

 

[KilroyJC]

I am sick and tired of what we have wasted on Wind and Solar in Texas.

(You can drop the last two words…)

 

[KilroyJC]

71 going to 93. Not as nice feeling as the mid-50s recent mornings.

Buppies, prayers said.

Scott, I bought two similar O-ring kits from HF...nice kits, but only once have I found one of the O-rings in the kits fit my application, most recently to stop the leak on my water hose nozzle. But I'm hopeful next time.

BEF, hadn't heard of the steam engine train excursion...sounds good. That ride (Staunton/Goshen) is beautiful...it's the one we took last October.

Lou, that sounds like a nice set of tractors...you must take goood care of them.

Kyle, sorry about the finger...nice your work is gonna clone you.

PJ, real nice hoist.

Thomas, crazy the hornets built that nest. I've had wren nests, mouse nests, and wasp nest built in mine, but never anything like that. I think my hornet problem is over, except a few strays that come to the hummingbird feeders.

Funny how after the trillions of dollars that have gone into wind and solar, worldwide CO2 has actually increased 12.5% over the last 20 years. I read this week that Alberta has halted all wind and solar projects for the next 7 months to study their impact on the grid, the environment, and what they call their pristine viewscapes, and to determine how operators must deal with the solar arrays and wind turbines when they stop working.

We've been doing a lot of painting and sprucing up projects. You might think there was a big baby shower scheduled here in just over a week, or something. Also had a nice visit with my mom...drove her from Virginia Beach to the little town where she was born and raised, and to the cemetery where most of our relatives, on her side, are buried, as well as my dad, and two sisters.

Somehow the people who scream at us here in America seem to have no problem with China opening two new coal -fired generating plants every week…

 

[KilroyJC]

Good Morning!

God has given us another chance to get it right (or at least not screw up too badly).

68F going to upper 80e maybe low 90s, chance of stray T-storm later in the day.

Several storm cells basses just east of us yesterday afternoon, we stayed dry, briefly touched 90F yesterday afternoon. Might have to run generator and pump for irrigation later.

Hot tub tech never showed, when I called around 10QM to get a handle on schedule I was told that it would be after lunch. 3PM I called office and was told service manager was not available but he would call me back. 4:15 I called again and was told he was probably in the bathroom and he would call me back. No call back…

so the afternoon was wasted, we could have run down to Georgia to pick up a Home Cheapo order, could have gone to woodlot and cut more logs down to splittable pieces and done oil change, but instead wasted afternoon getting sunburn and mosquito bites waiting for the tech…

i did get to du the annual application of loaned oil to all the shovels/rakes/etc and a couple other odds-n-ends, but generally a half-wasted day. Not that spending an afternoon on the deck is , in and of itself, a bad thing, but not when there are other things that could have been accomplished—- especially since I will be sitting on the deck AGAIN while the tech is working…

Harry is going to Doggie Daycare today to burn off energy with other energetic dogs, and trip for aforementioned Cheapo pickup. And reschedule hot tub repairs…

I hope everyone has a happy healthy safe blessed day!!!

 

[riptides]

71 outside this AM, heading to mid 90's. 94% humidity. Just started to sprinkle a minute ago. Can use the rain.

Walked with the weed whacker for a good part of yesterday. Ran out of gas before I ran out of energy. Had to make the trek back to the house being unproductive just lugging the whacker back. LOL.

Hope all have a great weekend. Special thoughts to those in need.

 

[KilroyJC]

71 outside this AM, heading to mid 90's. 94% humidity. Just started to sprinkle a minute ago. Can use the rain.

Walked with the weed whacker for a good part of yesterday. Ran out of gas before I ran out of energy. Had to make the trek back to the house being unproductive just lugging the whacker back. LOL.

Hope all have a great weekend. Special thoughts to those in need.

I like to walk out to the far end before starting (when I a, rested and full of energy ) and work my way back in, so when I am beat up, dirty, and tired I have a shorter trip

 

[txdon]

Good Morning! Very hot, very dry. For specifics I'd have to look at the weather and that's just depressing so all you get this morning is a general weather report.
Costco run did not happen yesterday, my knee was acting up and I could not put weight on it, had to resort to the three wheeled walker. Feeling better today, but it will be an easy day, don't need to crash before my knee operation in November. It was feeling so good on the 3 mile hike I was thinking of postponing surgery, not now.
I need to get to the estate house to get it ready but it will have to wait.

Prayers Buppies.

Edit: Looked at weather 77˚ heading to 103˚, it will be in the hundreds for 7 hours today, no rain for the last 8 weeks grass is crisp, except in irrigated yards. My one day of irrigation watering was yesterday and I did take advantage of it. Neighbors trees are dying, he does not water enough. There was one lady in the neighborhood (not on my street) who died in January. Her daughter came from Australia took a few things from the house turned off all utilities and left. The yard and all trees are dead, the vines on the house are brown and it really looks haunted. We figure it must be a reverse mortgage house. The HOA might have to step in to get it to community standards.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

68° and .07” rain overnight.
Going to breakfast this morning instead of tomorrow.

 

[riptides]

I like to walk out to the far end before starting (when I a, rested and full of energy ) and work my way back in, so when I am beat up, dirty, and tired I have a shorter trip

Yeah, but if I am carrying something, I'd like to use it.

There must be some math involved in this scenario with the weed whacker cause I find myself in the middle of no where with no supplies and less energy. After all these years you would have thought I'd have figured it out.

At least if I pass out, the wife can see me with the binoculars. She of course would think I was just being lazy. LOL.

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning
It’s 68 with a high near 80 and cloudy. Heavy rain just passed through, got over 1/4” in less than 15 minutes, total overnight was 3/8”. About 1/4” yesterday. Chance of thunderstorms later.

Yesterday was productive, it was dry in the morning, so I mowed before startling on the transfer switch. Managed to get everything but the pastures mowed before the rain. After blowing off the equipment and putting it away, I got started on the transfer switch project.
Here’s the control relay and the socket with the harness I got made up before lunchtime.

Fortunately, I had the relay, socket and DIN mounting rail in stock. Also had the drawings for the Onan switch, which made determining the connection points for the relay much easier, but still required a bit of study. The switch used clearly labeled barrier style terminal strips so connecting the relay was straightforward, I labeled the leads with where the connected to. It actually worked properly when I was done, I’m ready for power outages again. The new wiring is in white, most of the old wiring has been abandoned.

That project took me until there was a break in the rain to gather up the trash and recycling and get it to the street, and a little time to start putting things away before dinner.
Had some pulled chicken, fresh sweet corn on the cob, tomatoes and cole slaw. Gave Zoe some much needed attention before calling it a day.

Today is off to Martha’s Vineyard again, this time by way of Ogdensburg, NY. Should be home in time to accomplish some more cleanup. I think that all the lightning damage has been discovered and repaired, but we shall see. I’ll wait a week or two before telling the insurance adjuster I’m ready to settle the claim.

 

[Thomas]

We all standing shoulder to shoulder with you Buppies...thoughts prayers.