Good morning!!!!

[kenmbz]

Morning all 25 going up to 65 and sunny, now that's a big spread in temp!

6 years at this job this week, feels like 20

 

[KilroyJC]

Good Morning!

God has given us another chance to veto thrift (or at least not screw up too badly).

45.7F going to mid-50s, mostly sunny. Airport got sensor back up before I could call, which is nice.

Got a lot done cleaning up, a lot more to do today. Moved the log pile around and cleaned up all the saw chips and leaves that accumulated between them, rotated the pile 90° and organized the logs to go to woodlot for milling in a certain order, filled a whole bag of trash, cut up the remaining pallets and stacked wood for further trimming to size for projects plus cut up all the scrap/unusable parts. Nfilled up three 15- gallon planters, a 5-gallon pail, and a large milk crate of scrap wood for burning in the sauna.

today will include blowing leaves again, cutting up some stacked tree limbs for the wood stove, and cutting up a log I was saving for a project but now that we have the woodlot/sawmill/excavator it will be better utilized as firewood — and considerably easier to relocate than as a full 12’ log!

One more cuppa and off to projects I go…

I hope everyone has a happy healthy safe blessed day!

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Buckeye, does that make you an influencer?

An enabler

Yea, Mostly is the one that outed my real name on here.

 

[riptides]

Morning all 25 going up to 65 and sunny, now that's a big spread in temp!

6 years at this job this week, feels like 20

I have been un-retired for seven years now.

If it was not for medical issues in the immediate family, I would probably be fully retired.

As is, time flies....and it feels like a lifetime. Hint: It is.

Anyway, I have a goal. That's what I am working towards, and the goal is mostly based on :

TIME.

LOL.

 

[masseyrider]

Starting day ? of 20 years retired. Sunny starting with light frost going up to aboot 60.
Have a few days of organizing my double garage and the barn to look forward to.
As if that will ever get done.
Little bit of winter prep for equipment to do also.
Starting with sausage, eggs, toast, tea and a big dollop of procrastination.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 59F here in Orcutt, CA.
A mix of clouds and sun. Slight chance of a rain shower. High around 70F. Winds SSE at 10 to 20 mph.

It was a dry trip up the driveway early yesterday morning, but I ran into showers as I crossed the Coast Range later in the day. The wipers did a very good job of scraping off all the bugs from previous trips.

Yesterday I'd planned to purchase a pair of saddle bags on the way south, but the seller turned out to be a scammer. The address he gave wasn't on any of the houses on the street. Bet he had a good laugh at my expense, but it cost me a couple hours and pushed my arrival past dark. Good thing my friend was waiting on me to get the trailer backed up onto the driveway. Really need to figure out some kind of remote camera back there.

Today I'll start unloading all the junk in the van and trailer, and start putting up the hanging shelves. Hope I didn't forget anything, but somehow I always do...

Hang in there, gang, Friday's comin'!

 

[LouNY]

Good Morning!!!! 59F here in Orcutt, CA.
A mix of clouds and sun. Slight chance of a rain shower. High around 70F. Winds SSE at 10 to 20 mph.

It was a dry trip up the driveway early yesterday morning, but I ran into showers as I crossed the Coast Range later in the day. The wipers did a very good job of scraping off all the bugs from previous trips.

Yesterday I'd planned to purchase a pair of saddle bags on the way south, but the seller turned out to be a scammer. The address he gave wasn't on any of the houses on the street. Bet he had a good laugh at my expense, but it cost me a couple hours and pushed my arrival past dark. Good thing my friend was waiting on me to get the trailer backed up onto the driveway. Really need to figure out some kind of remote camera back there.

Today I'll start unloading all the junk in the van and trailer, and start putting up the hanging shelves. Hope I didn't forget anything, but somehow I always do...

Hang in there, gang, Friday's comin'!

I am well pleased with my camera setup for my tractor it has a large 9" monitor that can handle up to 4 cameras.
I am currently using one camera and I have got two battery packs a 9 hr and a 15 hr.
A couple of nice features are that the batteries are magnetically mounted and my camera is magnetically mounted with a 150' wireless range. Then the batteries can operate the monitor or the camera, it is certainly not an inexpensive system but excellent picture quality and complete mobility.
This way the camera can be mounted in many various locations and different implements or trailers.
It is from tadibrothers;
Order Your Wireless Backup Camera from Tadibrothers Today!

 

[wngsprd]

Good Morning!

God has given us another chance to veto thrift (or at least not screw up too badly).

I hadn't decided what to do today, but now I think I'll just veto some thrift.

 

[wngsprd]

Yesterday I'd planned to purchase a pair of saddle bags on the way south, but the seller turned out to be a scammer. The address he gave wasn't on any of the houses on the street. Bet he had a good laugh at my expense, but it cost me a couple hours and pushed my arrival past dark. Good thing my friend was waiting on me to get the trailer backed up onto the driveway. Really need to figure out some kind of remote camera back there.

You're the last person I would think would get scammed. You're pretty savvy.

 

[wngsprd]

Kil,
Well, I've already vetoed all the thrift I have, so I guess I'll go back outside.

 

[sodamo]

63°F and .72 inches rain. 5.08 inches for this storm sure have been welcome.

Sophie’s pool needs attention. I’ve taken advantage of the rain to get water level up, but the algae needs to go away. Anybody see the report of the Barbie pink pond on Maui? Very colorful.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[daugen]

killing time so I washed the rv. That was fun in 30 mph winds.
now to work on the driver's mirror that is coming loose again.
need to find the loctite first

 

[daugen]

loctite must be in garage...but I got the mirror bolts tightened, two were spinning loose. Other side has never loosened. Plus I mounted a pepper spray gun inside, shortest screws I could find, never know what is behind those thin walls. made another pot of coffee, not hot but still sticky outside.

the problem with the rv plumbing connection is the thread on the valve is not the thread on the plumbing fixture. I duplicated the exact problem trying to thread the fixture on a brand new valve. It immediately cross threaded. Unless repair guy has the right connector, this isn't going anywhere til I get home. It's like they used a machine thread instead of a water inlet thread.

 

[Buppies]

Sounds very frustrating Drew

Beautiful day here warm, alike from Bedford County fire completely covered up mountains and can smell today

 

[daugen]

well that was a waste of money.
guy comes out, very professional, fiddles around back behind the toilet, confirms the wrong fitting used, should be NPT but he could do nothing until toilet was pulled out.
I thought about this, and said no, I'll do this when I get home, since I need to carefully winterize it anyway. Turns out I had the right fitting in stock, for a pex hose, so all I have to do when I get home is pull the toilet and replace that water inlet line with enough new pex that I can hook it all up first, then install the toilet.

pretty sure they installed this toilet and then tried to hook up the water lines. And since they couldn't see what they were doing, when they tightened that connector firmly, they could not see it was doomed. Though even I can look at npt thread and see it's different than what I call garden hose thread, much finer pitch

after the tech's mumblings that this will take a couple of hours to get this out and in (@175)
basically it was do i want to spend 500 bucks on this?
no, not when I know how to fix it. Just can't do it on the road when
I really need that toilet to work.

so he handtightened the crossthreaded fixture once again, thankfully originally done with lots of teflon tape so at least some of that gummed up the misaligned threads. That original connection lasted up to Michigan and back, OBX and back and finally let loose on this trip.
out of sight, out of mind.
no more. Have pex tool, will fix.
maybe with some expert advice...

 

[Engineer42]

This is the one I used on my Dometic, Drew.

 

[Alan46]

Very interesting reading everyone’s posts! Thanks

 

[daugen]

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This is the one I used on my Dometic, Drew.

plus it has a built in quick turn valve
good idea
I will definitely incorporate at least one inline valve when I'm done.

 

[sodamo]

Morning all 25 going up to 65 and sunny, now that's a big spread in temp!

6 years at this job this week, feels like 20

Thank you for contributing to our SS. Your GM friends need it to keep up with our tractors and toys, I mean tools.

 

[sodamo]

Hard to believe sometimesI’m retired from Army 30 years plus. Did do parttime computer stuff after and then my time as Home inspector until moving here. Building the house was like a fulltime job, set 8 hour day schedule, but the pay was not great. More out flow than income.