Good morning!!!!

[deserteagle71]

I wonder if you guys that don't live in tumbleweed country realize how deprived you are? Wonderful crop that comes up every spring on your fences - no effort needed on your part to plant or irrigate or cultivate!
We had 4 days of extremely high winds this past week...blowing 20-40 mph and gusting to 60. This morning - no wind! So I started clearing the tumbleweeds off my fences...but the wind just came back up and no way to hold the tumbleweeds on the trailer so I have to wait for another calm morning.

 

[Joel/ak]

I wonder if you guys that don't live in tumbleweed country realize how deprived you are? Wonderful crop that comes up every spring on your fences - no effort needed on your part to plant or irrigate or cultivate!
We had 4 days of extremely high winds this past week...blowing 20-40 mph and gusting to 60. This morning - no wind! So I started clearing the tumbleweeds off my fences...but the wind just came back up and no way to hold the tumbleweeds on the trailer so I have to wait for another calm morning.
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How much of a pain in the butt are tumble weeds?

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Phil, beautiful work and wood.

BEF, sorry about the old homestead.

deserteagle, wonder if tumbleweeds have any composting value? beautiful mountains.

Popgadget, glad you got some space now in the shop.

rswyan, I'm waiting to hear about a bountiful strawberry crop. I hope all your work pays off.

Sodamo, saved by the Lord again. Wet mowing is not fun if grass is the least bit high.

RNG, Glad it is you painting and not me. LOL.

Son's b'day is today. He's grown about 2 more inches this year (about 3" last year). If he keeps growing, he will pass me up this year. Celebrated on Friday (when his friends could all go to the trampoline park). He's a great kid, I just wish our relationship was more communicative. He has another track meet Thursday. He bruised the side of his hip, jousting on a balance beam at the trampoline park. Hope he heals by then.

Went to buddies church about 20 minutes away. It was good. I traded the stove top back in for a complete, but smaller unit. The larger one needed burner caps $88, and propane jet orifices, another $25. I'm trying to figure out how to nest the smaller unit in an old BBQ pit, that has a porcelain hinged lid and can block wind for an outdoor setup. The smaller stove is too deep in Y axis. will have to cut and re brace the pit's frame to fit somehow. Maybe the stoves knobs will be exposed. It is mostly stainless.

K46 update: got all the internals cleaned and they look good as far as wear. Here's one of the faces that matters. Like I mentioned before, I'm not seeing any major issues, and hoping a cleanout and fresh oil will get it going. This tranny has had an initial "groan" for the first 10-20 feet since it was young. I'm figuring that it groans until a fresh coat of circulated oil gets to the spider gears.

I sent an email to the Torchmate plasma team (Lincoln) about the height sensing problem. Awaiting further advisement.

Hope all of you have a blessed St. Patrick's day. He used the 3 leaf clover to explain the Christian belief.

 

[deserteagle71]

How much of a pain in the butt are tumble weeds?

They are awful. They weight nothing but are very stiff and round and designed by nature to roll. Burn extremely hot so you can't just burn them off the fences because the heat will make the wire sag. So you have to pick them off one by one with a pitchfork. Though they weigh nothing they are very bulky; unless you stomp them down just a few tumbleweeds will fill a pickup or trailer.

I (and my neighbors) spend hours every spring picking them off our fences and moving them to a place where they can be safely burned.

 

[check]

Good evening all, and Happy St Patrick’s day! (My brother’s birthday.)

Haven’t reported for quite a while, and lots has happened. The big one is that the sale of our 23 acre property closed, and then we turned around and bought a house in town.

Still have our original cottage, where I am staying quite a bit, but there will be a big change on March 28 when the closing on the new house happens.

Sad to see the big place go, but the guy came along and made me an offer that I couldn’t refuse!

This will leave me more time to finish up the basement at our original cottage, and to do the things that need doing in the house. There is always something needing doing when you move into a new residence.

Meanwhile, the tractor is going to be getting pretty lonely, because I’m now down to 3/4 of an acre up at the lake. I will still have some outside work to do, and of course, there is the snowblower in the winter.

That’s all for now. Hope everyone had a safe day!

 

[Thomas]

39F mostly cloudy.

Spent most of day raking had to take 1 1/2 brake due to rain than hail follow by heavy snow flurries got raking etc. done than I plan on.

Plans for the evening set in recliner and numb it.

Enjoy your evening all.

 

[Wagtail]

Good (Monday) morning. Overnight Low was 18.7C and it's presently 24.5C, partly cloudy with the wind 'picking up'. There was 6.2mm of rain in the gauge @ 0900.

A lovely, relaxing, day yesterday and it looks to be continuing for the foreseeable future. More rain is expected tomorrow = .

That's about it, take care all.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Those tumbleweeds look like a mess to clean up.
Check, good to hear from you, wondered if the sale was done yet.

 

[scootr]

The trick with tumbleweeds is to stay ahead of them. Spray or scrape young weeds off the soil and free them from fence lines on windy days, be free ~ blow away.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 54ºF for the start, overcast, light breeze. Moderate wind with brisk gusts, stayed overcast, and high temp was 62ºF. Made coffee to start day, helped setup chapel, then stayed for chapel then went to breakfast with my breakfast group. Rest of day nap and conserve energy, did get chicken baked for chalupas, and made to grief share.
Don glad you got more rain, and prospect for more.
Dennis glad nothing bad going on on cc. Glad you got some trimming done. Hope you got bugs under control. Hope you find a satisfactory way to display the genealogy data. Nice pic.
Dennis sorry about the house getting bulldozed.
Two_bit glad you will get a lot of grandkid time.
Ron glad party fun to watch. Hope NASCAR was good. Glad Sassy got her walks. Nice sunrise.
Drew it is a shame that more old buildings are not preserved. Hope laundry went well.
Phil hope sister visit went well. Sorry cough lingering, but getting better slowly. Really awesome project.
Bill hope better weather helps progress.
Buppies have been praying for the remaining spots. prayers sent.
Thomas hope rain ends on time. Enjoy NASCAR.
Scott(vt) interesting house, it is a shames unusable year round.
Billy sorry about the extra loss of fluid. Seems like front axle fluid changes are the pits.
Billy thanks for the pics and the story.
Frits sorry wife had to come out after you to see if you were alright. thanks for showing barn detail.
Drew good to hear transplanting done. Hope you found something interesting.
Paul sorry about ruts. Sorry about pump not starting first time. Progressive looks nice. Hope you got finish on speakers
Ken glad you enjoyed movie. Sorry to hear new owner of FIL house in over his head. Hope cost reduction does not result in loss of house.
David sorry about the wet grass mowing, Glad pizza party fun, Hope potluck was good as well.
RNG hope painting went well, good to Promaster getting it's routine maintenance.
Dennis really sorry to hear so little effort to keep farm and buildings in the family.
Scott(vt) I agree great view.
Don glad more rain at 3AM. No parade here.
Joel congrats on taking course.
Scotty glad unit tested ok. Hope install straight forward.
David sorry no mow.
Dennis seems like it's been while since you led singing, hope it went well.
Don sorry about the rain timing.
Deserteagle I don't feel deprived at all
Kyle good luck with install of new stove. Hope K46 works better after clean and fresh oil.
James congrats on new house.
Thomas sorry Mother Nature no cooperating with cleanup plans
Randy(wag)good to hear more rain
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