Good morning!!!!

[LS Tractor Owner]

Good morning. Low of 33° (forecasted for first freeze last night.... missed by a couple degrees). High today around 63°, sunny.

Yesterday was a shelter inside day.... 25-35 mph wind, highest gust was 48mph. Just miserable....
The wind affected the International Balloon Fiesta too -- all events cancelled all day.

The addition is moving along, albeit very slowly. Need to give the knee frequent breaks. Yesterday's "break" due to the wind alleviated the complaints.... at least temporarily.

Buppies, hope you're ok.

Everyone seems really busy.... hard to keep up.

Everyone have a great day and start to the weekend!

 

[scott_vt]

Good Morning Again,

Ron, nice bird picture, but more importantly, happy anniversary to you and the Mrs ! I believe I was 11 in 1962, so yes that is a long time. Quite a milestone ! My parents made it to 71 years of marriage before my Mom passed ! Enjoy your day !

Buppies, sorry to hear about your unfortunate accident ! Glad you were not hurt badly !

Earlier this morning I said that we were getting a new garage refrigerator delivered ! Well it is Friday the 13th, so the appliance outfit calls and said they are down a driver, so no delivery until next Tuesday !

Kilroy, some nice looking logs there !

Well maybe we can get the grass mowed today !

All have a great day !

 

[daugen]

Buckeye, looks like you are enjoying mowing your beautiful place on a beautiful day.

Frits, I shared that remarkable video with two ladies.
One was my stepbrother's wife who is Swedish, and the other my landlady, who goes back to Sweden every year for a month.
The younger relative had never heard of the story and loved it, my landlady said she was a young girl and had heard of the
rescue. I'm amazed no one has made a movie of it. 500 boats in the middle of the night rescuing almost all the Jews from Denmark?
what a story.

I'm going to tiptoe through the political tulips here and say that events of today
have such enormous history behind them.
Never Forget
Never Again

as someone who had distant family go into the ovens, I feel compelled in their honor
to say that til I die.
I also don't want any innocents hurt in their honor either.

I don't know if there is a Pearly Gate, but think it would be wise to act like there is one...


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[LouNY]

Lots going on in the TBN world. My dad has some of those hand powered drills, used to use them as a kid. Speaking of which, I was very young when Ron got married on 10/13/1962....
Son of a friend I used to work with now lives and works in Minneapolis. Works for Target Corporate.
Last sunny day before rain, so I need to finish the last 6 ft of pipe in the hole and turn it up to the house so I can backfill. Should go put the battery charger on the tractor now.
Was just so nice at the lot yesterday, wish I had more time to enjoy. The trees are turning. A pretty maple right behind where I want to put the cabin. Will have to do some land leveling though. There is a bench, about 20 ft wide there, but not wide enough for the cabin. Ideally would like enough room to drive behind it before the hill starts. Hit quite a few walnuts mowing down near the incoming road. Should have went in and cut some grape vines, they are killing some of the walnut trees.

Have you ever thought about using the slope to do an earth sheltered or semi sheltered home or at least a well bermed back side.

 

[sodamo]

69°F and .14 inches rain, welcome improvement.

Just as I was about to walk out to the tractor shed yesterday both Kekoa and Makani started heck of a ruckus up at the gate. I walked around to see and there is a car with 2 people waving. I go up and find 2 former neighbor friends, Dave and Gerald, we haven’t seen since Kekoa was a puppy. When they sold both houses here they moved to Vegas. Since then they have lived in Costa Rica, back to Vegas, bought and sold another house here in the Volcano area, back to Vegas, North Carolina, back to Vegas and now contemplating relocating to Portugal. They were here on a cruise ship enroute to Tahiti. Their 8th cruise this year. It was fun to catchup.
I did get to mow after lunch and finished Laupāhoehoe end. Today I can at least start Hilo end.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[ronjhall]

My Wife passed in 2019. I have Good Memories of the many years we spent together. Thanks for Anniversary wishes. Today would have been 61 years.

 

[sodamo]

51 high in 70s today got job done have some touch up to do then on to next job. Went to switch service trucks last night with manager F250 pulled out in front of me pow tore my truck up pretty good. Driver left the scene, preacher I knew saw it all they believe he was drunk. State police caught him other than that no nothing. Pulled right calf muscle very little sleep but luckily no one hurt. Just got truck back from shop too’

Prayers for all our Country Israeli people

Glad you weren’t damaged.

 

[m7040]

Buckeye, looks like you are enjoying mowing your beautiful place on a beautiful day.

Frits, I shared that remarkable video with two ladies.
One was my stepbrother's wife who is Swedish, and the other my landlady, who goes back to Sweden every year for a month.
The younger relative had never heard of the story and loved it, my landlady said she was a young girl and had heard of the
rescue. I'm amazed no one has made a movie of it. 500 boats in the middle of the night rescuing almost all the Jews from Denmark?
what a story.

I'm going to tiptoe through the political tulips here and say that events of today
have such enormous history behind them.
Never Forget
Never Again

as someone who had distant family go into the ovens, I feel compelled in their honor
to say that til I die.
I also don't want any innocents hurt in their honor either.

I don't know if there is a Pearly Gate, but think it would be wise to act like there is one...


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Thanks, the other part of the story was the physicist Niels Bohr that facilitated that Sweden would accept the refugees was evacuated to England and from there to the US wihere he was one of the principal architects of the Atom bomb

 

[rswyan]

60F and sunny with a light wind out of the southeast. Heading up to around 64F today. Tonight the rains will usher in a period of cooler temps, with highs only in the low to mid 50's. Not to worry though: more highs in the 60's are on the way after that.

Local weatherman says we can expect peak color in the next 1 -2 weeks.

Dropped Woman's car off first thing yesterday and stopped at the corner gas station for fuel while we were out.

Amazon delivered off the 20-pak of suet, Jaco air pressure gauge, and the Square D pressure switch.

Then we worked on strawberry plants in pots when we got back. Got the rest of them trimmed, weeded, watered, and put up on the shelves. Had to repot a few. Final count was 135 plants. They'll be liking the sun out there today.

No further intrusions into the garden area since I sprayed and rebuilt the monofilament fence.

Woman went in and threw a couple of baked potatoes in the oven while I was finishing up.

Once I had gotten done, I came around and fired up some coals in the grill and grilled a couple of ribeyes She had picked up on sale:

Those ended up being very tasty ...

She's been out there this morning the flower bed.

I just finished doling out meds for this coming week.

Probably head outside here in a few and start working on the strawberry plants that are planted in the ground.

Hope everyone is having a decent Friday ...

 

[sodamo]

Scott, careful not to spend that 3.2% in one place. I know for my SS that won’t even cover a decent lunch with Sophie. But glad we get it.