Good morning!!!!

[Looking4new]

Afternoon all,
Well it's sure not morning but I procrastinated the morning away and finally got going this afternoon;
Well, this afternoon drove home a bit how much older I am and what I can do.
Had my "shop" resided last year. Got the paint for it but it never got done.
So this afternoon with a reasonable temperature I thought I get some of it done.
So got out my airless sprayer that had only been used once and found it hadn't been cleaned enough when it was put away.
Had tried to run some satin varnish through it, didn't work very well as you couldn't see how much you had applied.
So this afternoon got out 2 gallons of the Cabot penetrating stain I had picked up last year and the sprayer, thought I could get the two side walls done.
Nope, not going to happen it took a couple of hours to get the thing working and flushed out. Then with it working.
I got started, had to use a stepladder to get the eve done and a couple of feet down then I could get it from the ground. Surprise number 2 that damned T1 11 soaked up that stain like there was no tomorrow the dang wall is only 24 feet long and 9 and half feet high but it sucked up 3 gallons of that stain. Only got 3 gallons left,
so I hope to get the other wall tomorrow after the dew gets off everything. Then I'll have to go get more to do the ends, with the walls taking 3 gallons I figure the ends are going to take at least 4 ma6ybe 5 gallons to do so I'll have to get some more and wait for a another spell to do those.

Or when you get a round tuit.

 

[LouNY]

Sitting here at the kitchen table browsing facebook market place and stumbled across this;
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Decent HP, front and rear 3 points, only one pto, and great for all these hydrostatic lovers.
Heck it's awful tempting to me and I already have several, too many according to my wife.

 

[scott_vt]

Good Evening,

Found a leak near the valve stem on the tube that is not fixable but patched it anyway to at least drive it into the barn. Blocked it up.

Frits, nice work, you still have it my friend ! Don’t sell yourself short ! If I recall I had a job replacing the tube on my 1982 Wheel Horse garden tractor !

Wow, those tubes are almost expensive as what tires used to be !

 

[Thomas]

Heck it's awful tempting to me and I already have several, too many according to my wife.

If you got the room for it than you never have to many.

 

[Thomas]

58F partly cloudy.
Well it's last summer evening finally.

Good afternoon...side field trim and mow last time this year Mrs. took me out to dinner and chose restaurant strongly suggested what I should try.

Plans for the evening share bowl ice cream watch little football until eye lids get heavy.

Have good evening all.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

BEF, I see lots of good records in there, but a couple you can throw out.

I agree, some are my wife's...lol

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Drew, sorry for your day, but I can relate. One of my neighbors at VA lot being a PITA today. More later...

 

[daugen]

my day thankfully improved enormously by being taken for a drive up route 1 to Point
Reyes and then cutting East to family home in Santa Rosa.
Saw the oyster beds on the way up, a very pretty drive that I wish had been taken slower. My neck really hurts now despite the soft collar I wore because my BIL doesn't understand g force, he attacks every curve despite my sister yelling at him.
so I got whipped around quite a bit on these extraordinarily curvy roads.

fun time with sister's kids and their kids, the whole point of this trip.
despite the four kids noise, actually had hoped I could stay longer but since they know I turn into an early pumpkin, I was driven back to rv. Those little 7-10 year olds were adorable, and all gave me a big smile and a hug.
mission accomplished...

 

[newbury]

I guess they don't know how to use tire irons

Do they even know what a tire iron is?

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

I still have all the vinyl albums I bought in the '70s and early '80s, BEF. I started buying CDs in '84, and still do.

Still have the vinyl. About 3' wide. Daughter took a stack maybe about 6" high when she moved out a month ago.
I switched to CD's too around 1984ish.

My wife & I are to attend a wedding October first in Lisbon, Portugal...I'm an usher.
We went to our local post office for passports two months ago. About $400, application, pictures, etc. Wife received hers two weeks later...I never got mine. Instead I get email & letter saying I never signed application.
So back to post office where they showed a copy & I DID sign it. So more $, another application & picture, resubmitted.
I called 2 weeks ago, US State Department, agent assured me I'd receive it on time & check back today which I just did. Agent said they're working on it & I need pay another $82 to expedite but no guarantee I'd get it in time!
I said why don't I pay $1,000 to be sure it's on time...agent disconnected call.
I call my Congressman & had to print/copy/email a consent form which I did.
What a h/// to go through!

Why did you pay again after seeing and showing them your signature on the original?

I came home last night to an emotional disaster I never expected. My next door neighbor is clearly mentally ill, and while I was away, started pulling out dead trees near my garage. He claims I"ve been planting flowers on his property and maybe I have being completely unaware. He has watched me for years and said absolutely nothing. Apparently the property line is not one side of the gravel lane next to me but rather inside the tree line I was told was this property.

so while I"m away he goes bonkers. Starts sending me emails yesterday afternoon. I came home last night to six of them. Then they started coming in every fifteen minutes, crazy stuff like F you over and over and I'm an owner and you are tenant and know your place, just nutty stuff.

I tried to de-escalate and the f you's kept coming, followed by gosh I'd really like to hear about your trip when you get back. Clearly off his meds and he has a long known history of mental challenges. Plus his cat comes over and constantly kils my birds and he thinks thats a good thing. I had to forward everything to my landlord last night who is just as horrified by this guy as I am.

It may mean I have to move if landlord will not install a big fence of some sort along the agreed upon property line.
After this guy gave me my "final warning" twice, I knew he was totally nuts.
So I have a mentally unstable person giving me final warnings.
This sure ruined by nice day yesterday, thinking of what this wackadoo is doing while I"m away
I blocked his email address so at least no more upsetting craziness.

Drew, I would be upset too. Don't know enough of the situation, but if the guy is as upset as it sounds like he is, I would get the law involved. Some people will "stew" themselves into doing something bad. Your emails should be reported. Sounds like your landlord lady is afraid of him. Most older folks don't like anything to change.

A fence won't fix his anger, it should define the boundary, which could make him angrier. Old boundarys are "Tree beside rock" type maybe?

Well it's sure not morning but I procrastinated the morning away and finally got going this afternoon;
Well, this afternoon drove home a bit how much older I am and what I can do.
Had my "shop" resided last year. Got the paint for it but it never got done.
So this afternoon with a reasonable temperature I thought I get some of it done.
So got out my airless sprayer that had only been used once and found it hadn't been cleaned enough when it was put away.
Had tried to run some satin varnish through it, didn't work very well as you couldn't see how much you had applied.
So this afternoon got out 2 gallons of the Cabot penetrating stain I had picked up last year and the sprayer, thought I could get the two side walls done.
Nope, not going to happen it took a couple of hours to get the thing working and flushed out. Then with it working.
I got started, had to use a stepladder to get the eve done and a couple of feet down then I could get it from the ground. Surprise number 2 that damned T1 11 soaked up that stain like there was no tomorrow the dang wall is only 24 feet long and 9 and half feet high but it sucked up 3 gallons of that stain. Only got 3 gallons left,
so I hope to get the other wall tomorrow after the dew gets off everything. Then I'll have to go get more to do the ends, with the walls taking 3 gallons I figure the ends are going to take at least 4 ma6ybe 5 gallons to do so I'll have to get some more and wait for a another spell to do those.

Maybe that big articulated tractor could have a manlift put on the loader to help with the painting? I know what you mean about the stain soaking in. I think I like polyurethanes from now on for stuff like that if they make one suitable.

Wifey's birthday yesterday. We took all the family out to eat Friday for supper, all had a good time and a good meal. Then we went to the varsity football game. Our team lost by a score. Scratch chocolate cake perfect.

Busy at work. Time flies by.

Son and team had a good game Thursday in the 100F heat. It was brutal. They won 22-0. A bunch of teams are having trouble fielding enough players. Son's team has about 23 to 25 players. Since son is in such great shape, he plays both ways. I wish it was cooler for him to keep him from heat exhaustion. I also wish they would sub for him more. Praying to get through this season with no more injuries.

We mowed the yard today. I pushed the walk behind recycled Craftsman around to weedeat. Son said Steiner Beast was difficult to steer and go. 2 quarts low on hydraulic fluid. Need to see where it is leaking. But haven't added any this season as far as I can remember. He jumped on the 42" Deere LT180 mower and finished the yard. Takes twice as long as the Steiner, but does a good job. I had rebuilt the TuffTorq trans and it works great. I believe the adjustment rod is biased a bit to go even faster in forward, and a bit slower in reverse. I like it better this way.

Since the yard is fresh mowed down to a 2.5" height, the bluebirds come to eat whatever they like to eat. They come when the yard is fresh mowed. I filled the birdbath 3 times today, as so many birds were needing a bath and cool down in this heat.

Met with Pastor friend and his family for supper this afternoon. We had pizza at the good place. He had been to a conference and got to see a 1st and 2nd print King James Bibles.

Bowling Green gave A&M everything they could handle just now, but Aggies held on 20 -26

Popgadget, You had mentioned selling the turbine plane, wondering why? Much cheaper to fly for most shorter trips, right? Glad you got the small plane going again. I didn't know if the aerial pics were from the small plane or a drone. OFH is coming along beautifully. Are you the contractor? It seems things are just happening perfectly in sequence with not too many snags. Glad you figured out the heat exhaust. That brings up a question. Many of the newer wall ovens have a convection fan and element at the far back wall of the oven. How much heat do they exhaust into the room? The oven I bought off of Marketplace from a guy who said "My wife wants a convection oven", well, it blows so much hot air into the kitchen, we might as well have a cast iron wood burning stove almost. While they are trying to build energy saving appliances, they need to make ovens that have a sticker that says "Air Conditioner Friendly". Our old Whirlpool wall oven had both elements actually inside the oven space. This one has the broiler in the top, but the regular element is under the steel bottom, which creates so much heat that has to be exhausted while it transfers a little of it to the inside of the oven. My buddy who is building a new home bought a Frigidaire Gallery convection. I'm waiting for it to be installed so I can see how much it blows heat into the room. Ours is like a hair dryer or worse, a hot air blower, blowing in the kitchen.
All this to say I wish I had a powered exhaust vent also over the space around the wall oven.

Prayers for our team, our nation, Ukraine and Israel.