Good morning!!!!

   / Good morning!!!! #176,391  
Good Morning!!!! 62F @ 7:00AM. Cloudy skies this morning will become partly cloudy this afternoon. A stray shower or thunderstorm is possible. High 77F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph.
Cloudy all day yesterday, and didn't even make it out of the 70s. Like a fall preview. We did get 0.05" in the wee hours this morning, enough to wake me up. No more rain in the 10-day, and we'll be back in the 90s by mid week. Indian Summer, or is that no longer PC?

No real work on the trailer yesterday, but did sort through a foot locker the PO left inside. Some clothes, both too big and too small to fit, eight ratchet straps, and almost a dozen huge, like 3' across, rubber bands. Oh, and a pair of Skull Candy headphones. Scratching my head over the bands and straps, as there are no tie down anchors in the trailer. There will be before I start using it. Also got a lot packed into the van. A 24' extension ladder, 8' step ladder, 42" plasma TV, a pair of original Advent Loudspeakers, lots of speaker wire, a masking paper machine, some furniture, and a bunch of stuff I'll remember when it gets unloaded on the other end. Still have room for more stuff I'll get sorted out today.

And maybe take a look at those trailer brakes. Big maybe.

Hope everyone enjoys the rest of thier weekend...
 
   / Good morning!!!! #176,392  
Morning all, 77 going to 91 and sunny.
Family trip to the big mall today, might meet up with another family we know.
Did I ever say that I hate malls?

BEF - I don't have to worry about my Forsythia getting out of control. The deer keep them heavily trimmed :-(

Great picture PJ - Good to see you out having fun on your Anniversary!

Drew - testers glue, like for models, works great on plastic as it fuses the pieces, superglue won't do that on some plastics.

PopGadget - happy birthday to your son.

Yesterday after sons 5k and record store visit we went and bought his birthday present for next week. Took dog to peddlars village after she had a much needed bath..

Mini-split delayed again, no surprise, email from trucking company, again, saying they are investigating. Only thing I think they on investigating is if there email works. OnTrac is offtrack.

Be well,
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   / Good morning!!!! #176,393  
Good morning! Low of 57°, going up to 86°. No rain, just baking sun. Not even a cloud..... makes for a beautiful blue sky!

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY! To Mr. and Mrs. PJ !!

Buppies, enjoy your time in SC. ..... aaaahhhh, sitting on the beach.....

Drew, neat kitchen tool..... I thought eating corn on the cob was supposed to be messy?

RNG, have continued fun loading the van..... just remember it has to come back out.....

Wng, nice pic of the hiking area. Good that you got a chance to hike with your son.

Dennis, nope.... not going to name a horse.... the neighbors horses are named.... I'll leave them all around us.... they do all the work, we get to look at them!

Today's agenda is to get the shrub dug up and transplanted. I soaked down the areas that have to be dug....hopefully it will make it easier. The ground is rock hard.....

Everyone have a pleas day!
 
   / Good morning!!!! #176,394  
81F and supposedly mostly cloudy @ 12:00 ... sure seeing a lot of sun here though. Heading up to around 85F for the day's high but I bet we beat that. HI 85F, DP 69F, HU 65%, AQI 55. It will be a warm one.

On Friday I started removing the deer netting that we placed over the strawberries. What a PITA (plants and runners grow up through the netting) ... knew there was a reason why I didn't want to do that ... ;)

Then got 16 more strawberry plants that were started from runners planted in the ground, also a couple more runners pinned to pots ... which used up all the holes I had melted. Very good (and quick !) root development I'd say.

Think there is still another 3 or 4 plants left to do at this point.

Yesterday I got more of the netting removed (almost done) and another 32 runners pinned into pots and watered. Making the pins out of aluminum wire ties for chain link fence. Not even quite halfway yet.

Also weeded around the plants and watered the ones I worked on the runners on. Plants seem to be doing great but the ground really sucked up the water so I'll need to continue with that today.

Woman watered the rest of the garden when She got back from the yard sale and picked a bunch of tomatoes. BLT's probably on menu for today ... :love:

She had made a pan of lasagne on Friday and She took that over to the yard sale and stuck it in the oven and then brought what they didn't eat home with Her. Was very tasty.

Monarch caterpillar has begun to pupate and is now in its cocoon.

Agenda for today:

Refill bird feeders.

More work on potting strawberry runners.

Move table in van to front then run to Menards and pick up fertilizer order.

Pick up gas for Cub while I'm out.

Area down here around the house about due for mowing again ... probably wait another day or so, will give me something to do when it's hot out.

Otherwise see what else comes up.

Hope everyone is having a good Sunday ... (y)
 
   / Good morning!!!! #176,395  
I sure hope not.
Multiple Ky. schools close due to illness at start of new year

The positive cases and COVID deaths numbers stopped being reported but the deaths are still occuring.locally.

Like reports from China recently COVID like symptoms are being reported locally but they don't test positive.

Just because COVID cases are no longer reported doesn't mean it's gone. They are working to have an updated COVID vaccine out this month.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #176,396  
I've got a 82 yr old friend nearby. Lost the use of his industrial cart due to old dead batteries. They had pushed it into a container to sit like any collectable :p.
When I asked about it he said I could have it. So I took it home and put a set of used Trojan T145 in it (8/6v) and I'm bringing it back today.
Should be happy old man
 
   / Good morning!!!! #176,397  
I've got a 82 yr old friend nearby. Lost the use of his industrial cart due to old dead batteries. They had pushed it into a container to sit like any collectable :p.
When I asked about it he said I could have it. So I took it home and put a set of used Trojan T145 in it (8/6v) and I'm bringing it back today.
Should be happy old man

Get a good charger for the batteries. The aluminum chargers that come with most carts. Boil the water away.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #176,398  
Mini-split delayed again, no surprise, email from trucking company, again, saying they are investigating. Only thing I think they on investigating is if there email works. OnTrac is offtrack.
OnTrac? You mean LostTrack! The tires for the trailer I ordered last week didn't get here until 7PM, two hours past the delivery window. The driver looked like he just woke up from a 3 day binge, and he was driving a beat to crap GMC van from the last century that had more primer on it than paint. I had to drive a half hour to meet the LostTrac driver in a parking lot to take delivery of the aluminum bumpers I put on the old van. They wouldn't deliver to my home, and wouldn't refund the shipping charges. I dread getting OnTrack shipping info, as I know I'm in for a bad experience every time.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #176,399  
I've got a 82 yr old friend nearby. Lost the use of his industrial cart due to old dead batteries. They had pushed it into a container to sit like any collectable :p.
When I asked about it he said I could have it. So I took it home and put a set of used Trojan T145 in it (8/6v) and I'm bringing it back today.
Should be happy old man
That's nice of you. I priced six 6 volt AGM batteries at O'Reilly's yesterday for $1400.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #176,400  
RNG, have continued fun loading the van..... just remember it has to come back out.....
Got a system for that, too, Ted. Everything goes into the bonus room, so the van is unloaded right away. Then I open the boxes one by one and deal with the contents until all the boxes are empty. But because they're in the bonus room, they're out of the way, and out of sight, so I don't feel like I have to rush through putting everything away all at once.
 

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