Good morning!!!!

[scott_vt]

Good Morning,
Ct, 68 to start going back into the low 90’s ! I’m in work, uggh , but hopefully only a half day !

Vermont tomorrow, so will pack the truck tonite with most of the stuff that Kathleen has piled up in the garage!

Hope all have a good day !

 

[m7040]

good morning, 72 going to 92 today

Brought out the pressure washer and started to use it when it plugged up. Worked on that and got both lance barrels for soap and water as well as inlet screen cleared up. Then the GX 340 engine acted up so worked on that and will test it today. Need get some soap to use for the pickup hose that can dissolve the oil deposits on the tractor.

D got her cell phone stolen and is scrambling to recover. Below are a couple pictures from this weekend in London

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

58 and glorious outside. Jumping up to 92.

LS, glad you got some rain...we are bone dry here and the little pop ups have missed us for the last 3 weeks.

BEF, nice job on that gear box...hope that bridge is steel. We ate lunch overlooking it, I think, from the Rabbit Hole.

Mostly, pretty waterfall.

Been outside cleaning up bear damage...he pulled a long dead limb off the paulownia where we had 4 feeders hanging. 2 are now junk, I fixed the other two. He also bent to the ground two shepherd hooks to get feeders off...totally ignored the hummingbird feeders this time.

Got a nice hike in yesterday after the humidity dropped. Need to do some work on my zero turn today.

Big Boss...
the date on the cam is a day off...time is about right.

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A possible candidate for my bearskin hat???

Dr. called yesterday, it was negative, it was an Amalgam tattoo. Wife says cut looks good.


Good morning! 79˚ heading to the mid 90s with partly cloudy skies and south wind.
Opted for a swim yesterday evening instead of cards, very delightful.

I'm so glad to hear this Don.

Good you are on opposite end of town. Not very often you see news from Giddings, TX on National news.

Yes, it's usually a good thing to stay out of the national news.

Prayers and blessings my friends, I have to git to work!

 

[txdon]

Good Morning! 79˚F before sunrise. We are in a heat advisory, like we have been most of the month with a heat index of 110˚ today. Almost all of June days have been heat record breakers. Good year for a pool I guess. Water Temp after a night of cooling off is 85˚.

Big news for the week is that the old house is has closed and now only one house to maintain, nice.

Putting some water in the pool before 7am to stay within the city rules of no watering between 7am and 7pm. All through the winter and the wet spring the water sanctions were not lifted - too many people and the county's inability to say no to new construction.

 

[Hay Dude]

Good morning
Some scenes from this morning

Getting to the farm fields, opening gate

Walking up to the tractor

And getting underway
Miles and miles of hay mowing

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, 78 going to 95 and sunny.
Lawn tractor clutch repair went well and the simplicity keeps on going.
Talked to my dad, he is not making a lot of progress, but is trying.

Met my new neighbors. So it seems they bought the field behind me too, so no house will go there.
Quit happy about that, and they seem nice, but boy do they have a lot of $$.
Met them when the helicopter came over my house to pick up their dad.

I told them I would prefer if the whirly bird did not come directly over my house though.
$5million dollar house, plus whatever they paid for the field behind me, at least another $600K.
Guess they won't be asking me for money

Joel, glad the lightening didn't hit your truck and no fires.

Great news fuddy, no more hop along

Don - congrats on the house closing, glad new house is coming along, looks like it's pretty darn nice already.

Be well,

Handy way to travel, Neighbors dad's ride back home.

Happy bees

A little close for comfort, about 100' off the lawn, not much above the trees.

 

[daugen]

Ken, despite the helicopter, good news to have open land around you.

breakfast in hotel was predictably greasy, good thing I brought some chopped fruit with me.

made mistake to not shut blinds in hotel room yesterday, it was 96 and sunny and when I got back it was 80 in here. So I shut the drapes, and cranked down the temps and it cooled off.
cloudy morning today, just as hot, will probably get poured on while going out to dinner.

lunch today is with my old neighbor, he works at fire station right next to hotel, going over at 11 and out to lunch. We will probably have to take two cars since he needs to go if the whistle goes off. He's brass now, number three in the dept, but still it's all hands on deck when the alarm goes off. Hope I get a tour of the firehouse.

dinner at nicest restaurant in town last night was expensive, 160 bucks for two of us, normal in the big city but pretty high here. I had delicious tile fish and she had monk fish. Tonight's dinner will be half of that, but last night was elderly Miss Daisy and she is used to nicer places. Really had a fun time, and at her age, she is delighted to get some male attention, if only friendship. Her five siblings and most of her friends have already passed on.

going to get some quiet time with my Kindle til I leave. Woke up pretty worn out, do not travel well in hotels.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 70F @ 6:00AM. Sunny. Hot. High 97F. Winds S at 10 to 15 mph.

Nice job on the video, David. It sounds like it's starving for fuel, which seems to be confirmed by the gauge resting on E and the lit fuel warning light. Couldn't be that simple though, right?

Since I started connecting the two lines from the implement together after dismounting it, I haven't had any issues with unyielding hydraulic fittings. Oh, and turning on the ignition, but not starting the engine, and cycling the hydraulic valve controlling the implement BEFORE disconnecting it.

Was out early yesterday morning to take advantage of relatively cool temps. Got some minor grading work done out back, then finished removing the last bits of the rotary phase converter from the back porch shed and got them loaded in the van. After that I decided to take the shed down. Used the demo saw to cut it into sections and loaded them into the pickup for disposal. That work continued into the afternoon under cloudy skies that refused to rain. I did hear rain on the roof in this morning's wee hours, but there was no accumulation.

There were warnings of shipping delays when I placed the motorcycle tire order Monday, but yesterday's email from them said they'd be delivered today. And another note this morning confirmed it. So one more day up here, and I'll pick up the trailer for the mill tonight. Not looking forward to loading it in 97F temps.

Happy Hump Day, folks!

 

[buckeyefarmer]

couldn't sleep last night, was still awake at 5 am, then dozed off a little so maybe got a couple hours this morning. Even came down stairs and watched some youtube in the middle of the night.

Had thoughts of going to the farm today, but not driving 6 hrs on no sleep, and it's supposed to storm there tonight.
Wife still complaining about the ceiling fan switch, High, low, low, & off. supposed to be the right part number, but obviously not. ordered a different one, that pictures show the wiring numbers on it match my original L-2-1-3 CW order.

Did replace a toilet flush handle late last night, been cracking, and finally cracked beyond useability. I've had the replacement for awhile, had to look around to find it on a shelf in the garage and not with my plumbing stuff. had to heat and bend the plastic arm, it was sticking out at 45deg angle, right where the water intake is.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I get big choppers over the house a lot, going up to camp D and back. some days it's constant up and back, up and back by several at a time. Hope we get rain soon, been 2 weeks since I mowed the yard, except for the little patch I did beside the house yesterday. Saw nice long black snake in the yard.