Good morning!!!!

[buckeyefarmer]

Mrs picked up a sign for the cabin at the flea this weekend:

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Love the sign !!

 

[kenmbz]

Great news Don, hope this works really well.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I have always thought a giraffe was an elegant animal
that's a lot of neck to scratch...

mailed off check for 1200 bucks for fuel oil, prepay for 300 gallons.
there is no reason for it to cost this much except for greed.
of course that applies to our prescription drug industry also.

a fair price for the fuel oil ought to be around 3 dollars a gallon. The current profit level of
our refineries is obscene. great stocks to own, big paybacks to investors.
We need a glut of oil some how, drive the cost down, and not send so much to China and elsewhere.
2nd and 3rd world demand for fuel ever increasing, we are all competing for world resources.

super cheap oil is no bargain either. Look at Venezuela. whole country has economically collapsed.

there is cost per barrel and cost per gallon. Whole lot of games played to get from one to the other.
I'd be happy at 3 bucks a gallon.

which I guess sounds laughable to David in Hawaii or to our Canadian friends
who seem to get taxed on fuel even more.

we started off in campfires with gathered wood we found to keep warm.
looks like we are still hunting for the best fuel.

for four bucks a gallon, what else could I use? Two buck Chuck?
not sure my Beckett burner would digest left over cooking oil well...

$1 a piece of firewood at the campground. And they say don’t bring wood in with you, which is BS.

 

[Looking4new]

$1 a piece of firewood at the campground. And they say don’t bring wood in with you, which is BS.

If you don't bring wood in with you then you can get screwed at a buck a piece. They win, you lose.

I made an executive decision that today would be dedicated to pain management.

 

[daugen]

Here here, we have a quorum Bill, seconded and so moved.

mowed the lawn and leaves, then waxed one side of the rv.
that was plenty of exercise

took the drone up, leaves starting to turn

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Not sure the low last night, probably low to mid 30s, frost warnings were out. . Used the furnace to bring the chill down, th we n the electric heater was enough for the rest of the night.
Slept in.
Cooked Bacon and eggs on the griddle.
Went for an hour hike, 1.9 miles. Included a nice flat nature trail. About 1/2 mile or so on the AT which runs thru the park.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!! (Actually afternoon). 70F @ 1:00PM. Partly cloudy. High 74F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph.

I tried to post earlier this morning, but TBN seemed to be having issues.

Another smooth trip home from Orcutt yesterday, with the usual quirks. The central leg of the trip parallels the San Francisco Bay, and it can get pretty windy with strong cross winds. Yesterday was pretty bad in that regard, and with both van and trailer being empty, the rig was moving around a fair amount, especially near the big semi trucks. That would cause the lane departure sensors to kick off the cruise control and activate the brakes on some of the wheels. Between the sudden deceleration and the angry bee buzzing of the brake controllers, it feels like the transmission or engine just exploded. Anyway, in one section it was happening so frequently I just turned off the cruise control. I did take a hit on MPG, dropping from 17 with the van alone to 13.5 loaded and towing. Gas prices varied from $4.49 near home to $4.99 at the Orcutt Costco.

The previous owners of the Orcutt home left a sizeable treasure of house paint, more than three dozen containers ranging in size from half pint samplers to full up five gallon buckets. I dug around on the net looking for a disposal site, and Waste Management was the hands down favorite. But when I went there Saturday, the gate was locked and a badly weathered note said they're not accepting hazardous waste due to personnel shortages. That's the same thing the WM site says up here, so I think it's just an excuse for not wanting to spend the money to deal with hazardous waste. Did some googling right there at the gate and found that local paint stores also accept old paint. so I hit a Sherwin-Williams store and got rid of almost all the stuff. The didn't want an empty can, nor did they want the wallpaper paste. I'm OK with that as I can deal with it later up here.

Other than that, it was a busy time unloading boxes and boxes of books, two more motorcycles, setting up some chairs and tables, and working in some dog walks.

With respect to getting a heavily loaded trailer up the hill, I've still got the 4WD F250, so that's one possibility. But if I shove a pair of firewood pallets into the ProMaster, there might well still be a traction issue. I could load it at the top of the hill the night before, or make a later departure doing it the first thing in the morning. I'd just like to keep it simple and not have to deal with it the same day as the trip itself.

I want to get a little time in this afternoon cleaning up the engine bay on the Vanagon, and maybe tracing some wires in preparation for another round of help from my buddy tomorrow. Not sure what else the day will bring...

 

[sodamo]

Prayers for a great recovery Don

 

[LouNY]

mowed the lawn and leaves, then waxed one side of the rv.
that was plenty of exercise

took the drone up, leaves starting to turn

Nice pictures,
everybody out mowing made me feel guilty so I joined the club. Mowed and mulched leaves, not that many fallen yet not even a quarter of them. Mowed and mulched everything one way to move it out into the woods.
Lots of dead heading time so just listening to the mower, she is actually sounding just a bit rough. Got me to thinking the ol thing is 37 years old. May splurge and throw a new set of injectors in her this winter, heck less the $100 for 3. It's a Kubota F2000 with the little D950, 20 Hp engine pushing the 72" deck.

 

[Wagtail]

Good (Wednesday) morning. Overnight Low of 2.1C and it's presently 15.9C. A very blustery evening/night somewhat continuing through today. It's clear at the moment.

Yesterday I did get the bottles to the tip (free for recyclables) + I stopped off at the PO as I'm expecting a new satellite 'box' and wanted to ensure that it will be delivered to my PO Box... the old one still works fine but is 10yrs old so I decided to upgrade. It's all part of this year's being "dragged, kicking and screaming, into the 21st Century" as, so far, I've replaced my computer & mobile phone.

I then tackled/cleared the downed tree branches in Paddock #3, which was a chainsaw job. Once I finished is when the wind picked up.

Today is 'into town' day for mail and groceries. But first I'll join fellow veterans for a coffee @ 1000.

That's about it, take care all.