Good morning!!!!

[scott_vt]

Good Morning,
Vt, 66 to start going to 86 or so with thick humidity! Another rough day to do anything too physical other than being by a pool or a lake !

We have to head back to Ct today, I have a FD concert on Saturday, so hoping the weather holds for that event.

Did manage to cut the grass yesterday along with weed whacking but I was soaked by the time I finished that !

Looks like Florida is in the path of some kind of storm, so I’m guessing that will continue to push heavy amounts of humidity up to the north east !

Hope all have a pleasant Friday !

 

[scott_vt]

Good Morning Drew,

so what tunes should I play while on Route 66?

I’m thinking Beach Boys, Little Deuce Coup etc !

 

[NHBX]

Aaaaaah!

 

[plowhog]

I have an Israeli Army nuclear rated gas mask. I'll be all set for Area 51. I'm expecting Ted to have a few strange friends there in NM, all wearing tin foil hats and if it's some kind of solstice, all the looney toons will come out

If traveling in an RV and looking for looney toons, grab a ticket to Burning Man festival in Nevada! Pix below. Oh yes this RV is a rental ...

68F going to a smoky 98F here today. Smoke is tolerable-- for everyone's sake I hope they get that fire out. We will be in it all next week at our CA property.

Rigby had his first puppy training. He is ahead of the class since we have been working with him. But surprisingly he is afraid of other dogs. This is a surprise-- we didn't see that coming. He did encounter an aggressive dog at the vet and I think that imprinted. We will see how he does next week at week 2.

Everyone have a great day !!!

 

[plowhog]

Got 3 back to back spam calls. Third one just kept talking over me.... I lost it. Yelled at her to "shut the $@#^ up!" .... that stopped her for a couple of seconds for me to tell her to "take me off your list" and hang up.

I have been inundated with scam calls all week.

Couple of quick things regarding spam calls:

1. I set my iPhone to ring only if the caller is in my Contacts list. That makes a huge difference since unknown numbers no longer ring. 98% of spammers do not leave messages.

2. If you really want to get nasty, here is a trick. Get a whistle-- a loud one like sporting events. Answer the spam call, act interested but slowly start talking more and more softly getting down to almost a whisper. On the other end, the $#@^#W^ spammer is dialing up the volume on their headset. Then blow the whistle and hang up.

Probably shouldn't write that but ... oh well. Maybe they need hazard pay!

 

[daugen]

Good Morning Drew,

I’m thinking Beach Boys, Little Deuce Coup etc !

yes
but perhaps today it should be New Age and tinkling crystals...
or just get the horn to go
Woo Woo
Woo Woo
motoring along on the cosmic dust cloud with a giant crystal as a hood ornament.

I have a distant relative in Albuquerque. She's very strange.
I am not stopping to say hi.

Thank goodness Ted is there to pilot me along the cosmic highway.

time to get outside.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 54F @ 4:30AM. Foggy this morning, then partly cloudy this afternoon. High 78F. Winds W at 10 to 15 mph.

Beautiful turnings, Phil. What's your favorite wood finish?

Didn't I read that hundreds of people got stuck out in the mud at Burning Man last year because of freak storms, PH? Hopefully you weren't one of them. There are some hilarious videos out there of people pranking telemarketers. One of them by the gal that supposedly voices Alexa, where she plays a demented old woman.

Spent yesterday morning catching up on accumulated mail, and a few emails. Then moved the van over to the RV parking area so I could unload firewood into the back yard. I was going to prepare the ground with termaticide first, but saw that the existing wood pile had been built on wooden pallets, so just piled what I had right on top. Will probably treat the pallets with termaticide at some time in the future, maybe even today. Regardless, seven wheelbarrow loads later and the wood was moved and back under a tarp. Not bad, and more like exercise than torture, so I'll plan on bringing down one or two more pallets on any future trips.

With the 1st anniversary of this home purchase coming up next week I'm being inundated with offers to renew the home warranty. They're hitting all the bases: email, snail mail, and yesterday the telephone started ringing. It'll be a cold day in H3ll before I waste any more money on that warranty. The one claim I tried to submit was denied because they said it was a preexisting condition. How could that be when it passed muster with the home inspector?

A couple years ago the motorcycle club had a camp out atop Cerro Noroeste, an 8250' mountain not far from the Grape Vine on I5. It was October and we all froze our butts off the first night so badly no one stayed for another night. Well they've moved the camp out up to this weekend, and I'll give it another try. Should be in the low 50s overnight this time of year, perfect sleeping bag weather. Google says it's only a couple hours away now, so I should be able to get to my destination both days before noon and the heat of the day. When the temperatures get much over 90F on a motorcycle, you really can't go fast enough to stay comfortable.

TGIF gang!

 

[LouNY]

Aaaaaah!
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I really dislike the heat, but I'm certainly not looking forward to dumps of that much.

 

[Engineer42]

Long day out of town one two more days 1.5 hour drive one way twice a day 200 tons between 1:45 and 3:30 today. 96 outside lots of water one diet DP just now. Ate at Isabella’s for dinner great food.

Prayers for all our Country

Plus a bunch hotter riding the screed. Stay hydrated Buppies.

 

[daugen]

Engineer, I'm curious....
why do you have a giant roadgrader?
what do you use it for?
a serious driveway?...