Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

good morning all
warm 78 out, never really cooled off, but high of today is 80 and tonight cooler.
But I won't be here....
headed out at 9am to stop at supermarket to get some things for cooler, then to chocolate shop when they open
at 10am, to get house presents, and then off to friend's home in DE.

first, shower and shave and a thorough watering of everything outside. I have a friend coming Wednesday to water again for me.
By Thursday when I get back some stuff in pots won't have made it.
Besides my friend gets to pick some beans while she's here.

friends I am visiting today in DE are coming up for long weekend in August for our annual car show. It's a big deal here in town and a really big
car show. it was easier to treat them to a couple of nights in local B&B than try to stuff them in my small cottage. Besides I know owner of B&B and
they will be well taken care of. This way after a couple of hours walking the show I can go home and then meet them for dinner. They are hikers and walkers and will leave me in the far dust. So better they do their thing and I'll catch up with them.

packed up my old sound system, powered Klipsch The Fives, and taking them with me to DE. They my friend's son comes down from Northern NJ and gets them and takes them to cabin in Catskills their family has owned since we got out of college in 1971. Started out as decrepit hunting shack, over all this time has been fixed up and now has some electricity by way of solar, batteries and inverter. Now that AC has arrived, after all those years of lanterns, he can plug in these pretty powerful speakers that basically act as stereo receivers, every conceivable input including bluetooth, and he can finally have good tunes there. For fifty years we have listened to music on battery boom boxes. Now we will rock.

I have a long tradition of helping out at the Arkville cabin. My 1988 Honda Foreman lives there, still looking like new. I could no longer drive it, too hard on my arms, but perfect for the mountains. Sometimes the gift of giving far outweighs the cost.
I can't sleep there any more, too uncomfortable..., but was hoping to take rv up there this summer. That got cancelled when neighbor down the road decided to level home and build a new one, so my rv parking spot disappeared. Maybe next year.

this is an old pic, now has new roof and new deck

 

[daugen]

that tanker crash in Texas Ron was a highway merge gone very wrong

Crash in Lee county involves truck tractor towing crude oil

The crash happened Sunday morning on 290 between Giddings and Ledbetter.

www.kbtx.com

always, always give flammable tank trucks the right of way

 

[NHBX]

Good morning all,

70° now highs in mid/upper 70’s and cloudy with showers this afternoon and evening.

A few boomers yesterday, only got about 1/2” rain, tornado watch all day until 10pm
fortunately nothing materialized. Easy day, put some tools away, sharpened brush blade for the trimmer and greased the gearbox. Mixed up a new batch of gas for trimmer and chainsaw.

Need to get some weeding done today and get some pole beans planted. Not sure what else.

Enjoy your day everyone
Stay safe and healthy

 

[Thomas]

61F partly cloudy steady wind NNW clearing out humidity,on/off showers late afternoon.

Outside chores done E muffin time.
Plans for today...3 stops in town for this and that,find out ticking sound from mower deck rest of the day putter.

Enjoy your day all.

 

[riptides]

73 outside this AM, heading to upper 80's. A cool down from the last few days.

Spent the day yesterday working around the houses cutting back mother nature. Something like 3 or 4 RTV loads worth of leaves and branches. Need to keep up with that a lot better. Even walked around the house fence lines, only a few hundred feet vs a few miles in the pasture. Still got wore out. LOL.

Today, think I will do nothingness and see if I am good at that.

Hope all have a great day, be safe. Stay hydrated.

 

[Buppies]

74.4 presently still weak not sure what’s up with that high upper 80s 97 by Wednesday

Prayers for all our Country

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, the low temp is 57 and going to a high of 79°F. Wind NNW 8 mph. Sunny!

I have a telephone interview with the diabetes clinic at 8:30 A.M. According to the paper I got from the hospital it can be in person or on the phone. I chose the phone. That way I don't have to go all the way to North Bay for a 45 minute lecture. Sometimes I think they talk just to hear themselves talk.

After that I will probably get after the SMV install. I have two 1/4" holes to drill out to 3/8" and two more holes to drill on the wide corners for the support 1/2" wire ties/zip ties.
I might just cut the grass today, but that will come after the SMV sign.

It is sad that people still haven't learned that trucks are not as maneuverable as cars. If it was a true merge lane then the onus is on the car to give way to the truck. Well wishes for the two people in the car.

Have a safe day all

 

[daugen]

wonderful pic posted this morning of obelisk erected overlooking Las Vegas.
Police took the pic before they took the structure down.
something about the SouthWest that seems to encourage this

Ted, do you have any interesting neighbors?

https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/gqm9lioakaaj8d6.jpeg?q=w_2000,c_fill/f_webp

 

[scott_vt]

Good Morning,
Ct, 69 to start going to 75 with humidity dropping this afternoon!

Looks like our whole family is going out to dinner tonite at a local place along the River not far from here ! Should be a nice time with all the grand kids !

The pool needs to be vacuumed again after the thunderstorm that came through last night !

With the rain we got over the last couple of nights, the grass will start growing again ! I have been cutting it high so it doesn’t burn ! We leave for Vermont on Thursday so I may go over it quick before we go, will be gone a week and a half ! Need to put up a bit more wood in Vermont for the winter. We are only there part time but like to have extra in the wood shed !

Hope all have a good day to start the week !

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Been awake since 4, so got out of bed and got a few things done already. time for breakfast. Looks nice outside, only 76deg. Haven't seen snagglepuss in 3 days, getting worried..

 

[ronjhall]

that tanker crash in Texas Ron was a highway merge gone very wrong

Crash in Lee county involves truck tractor towing crude oil

The crash happened Sunday morning on 290 between Giddings and Ledbetter.

www.kbtx.com

always, always give flammable tank trucks the right of way

I think Kyle lives on west side of Town.

 

[txdon]

You are right Ron, Kyle lives on the other side of town. Good that no Firefighters were hurt I have cousins that are in the responding VFDs.

Good morning! Weather station online. 74˚F heading to the mid 90s with heat index up to 109˚.
From the pic it loos like I need to level the weather station up a bit.
In the pot is one of three date trees that my mom planted from Costco pitted dates.

 

[masseyrider]

First morning in a week that it's starting out below 70 degrees.
Going into the low to mid 80s.
Bit of a relief.
Turned off the AC and opened the windows. Outside air just has that better smell.
Closing them around 10am before it gets too warm and the AC has to work too hard.
I'm going out to cut some grass in the mean time.

 

[daugen]

Don, will they produce dates?
sometimes foodstuffs don't reproduce well

got everything loaded, just killing time and trying to stop sweating.
everything is watered and friend just confirmed she will be here tomorrow and the next day to water.
power to the cukes!

 

[txdon]

Don, will they produce dates?
sometimes foodstuffs don't reproduce well

got everything loaded, just killing time and trying to stop sweating.
everything is watered and friend just confirmed she will be here tomorrow and the next day to water.
power to the cukes!

Don't Know if I will get dates, they need to be 3 years old. but they do match the palms by the pool. I will plant them in the ground next cool morning.

 

[daugen]

Don't Know if I will get dates, they need to be 3 years old. but they do match the palms by the pool. I will plant them in the ground next cool morning.

would be neat to make your own sweetener from them, like figs, good to cook with

 

[plowhog]

hit and miss engine used to make ice cream,

Thanks for the pix Mostly. My neighbor has antique hit and miss engines, but not as nice as the photo.

65F going to 95F today.

I'm traveling to our ski cabin today. Meeting a repair company tomorrow to discuss removing the tree out of the roof and associated damage. It will be a long ride for Rigby but he does well in his crate in the back seat.

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, 76 going to 81 and sunny.
Got to 95 in NYC yesterday, spent some time on a rood top bar to catch some breeze.
Son's drop off at the school went fine. The course is at Fordham college and he is staying in the dorms. So he will get a taste of college for the next two weeks.
Did a lot of walking visiting old haunts. The redo of Penn Station is so much nicer now than the old crappy moldy basement version.

Popgadget - Happy birthday to your daughter.

Back to the day job,
Be well,

Yes, it's skinny

Ironbound is still scaffold bound for a redo.

View from the roof top bar at 230 5th.

 

[wngsprd]

About 80 before dawn this morning, and high humidity. Should see 90 and humidity drop.

I've been busy, and of course, see I missed a few things...Ron, Happy Birthday; Buppies, hope you are recovered from dehydration. Rigsby is multiplying cells exponentially...so is Della.

Had a great long mountain hike last Sunday...from up on the mountain down to Pocosin Hollow, full of waterfalls, and back up. Also, quick run to Norfolk and back...new bridge-tunnel is really coming along...lots of sailboats and ships in Hampton Roads. Saturday, travelled to my son and DIL's new house in western Albemarle for birthday celebration and late father's day...wow, can see the nearby mountains right from their yard and windows...fenced in back yard made it fun for Della to chase their two dogs around...one is a high energy Brittany...first time I've seen that Brittany worn out. This was Della's first interaction with other dogs, since I was holding off until after her 3rd round of puppy shots. Granddaughter Isabel has her first tooth, and seemed fascinated by me...she is an angel...must not have inherited any of my DNA .

We have an immature red-tailed hawk that was raised in our pines this spring still hanging around ...sits on our house roof and the tin roof on the barn, on a fence post and in the tall cherry tree. I put a wide planting pot's saucer full of water on the ground near the garden, and it just flew down and took the most interesting bird bath for 30 minutes. My wife and I watched and laughed the whole time.

Della is officially house trained, and doing well on her leash and on her rock climbing "playground." Her favorite toy is any cardboard box, and her favorite food right now seems to be rabbit poop pellets in the yard...have to watch her closely.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Snagglepuss is ok, came outside to a mouse offering on the doorstep. Then as I was working on gearbox she showed up, but soon left as I needed

her out of the way. Performed upside down. Hard part is lifting and getting bolts in by yourself. I’m beat.