Good morning!!!!

[LouNY]

65°F and .45 inches rain

Got a couple more hours mowing before disaster. Mowing with the rotary in reverse can be hard on the 3ph, especially in really thick, tall stuff. I managed to break off my stabilizers. Not the first time, I should know better. Unfortunately the female half of 1 side is hiding in the clippings. Hopefully to be found again at some point. I do have a spare, but not the M12 1.25 nut to attach. Off the town to find 1 one. I did. Also refilled my fuel cans and a stop at Safeway. Should be able to resume today.

Some of the lighter stuff
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Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

Have you got a hydraulic top link?
When I'm backing into heavy stuff, I shorten my toplink which lets the mower eat it's way back in.

 

[daugen]

Have you got a hydraulic top link?
When I'm backing into heavy stuff, I shorten my toplink which lets the mower eat it's way back in.

I'm beginning to think lions and tigers are going to come out of that jungle David has on part of his property.
it appears able to swallow his LS
all that rain, everything grows like mad
might be worth investing in paying to get it done with something well over a hundred hp and
then keep up with it.
I hope David finds his three point parts and wears more than flip flops hunting around that tall grass.
he might find a thirty foot Hawaiian viper in there...

I never liked mowing in tall grass. Scared to hit an animal living in there.
And if it was real tall, it always meant a double mow, once cut tall as I could, second
somewhat lower. Much less lumpy that way.

nothing like getting finished mowing a field that really needed it.

 

[daugen]

was doing really fine waxing parts of my car, cleaned the engine compartment, and then went to shut the hood.
clunk. One side would not go down, the latch was not fully retracted. Well I tried that about six times, including starting the car, and
the one side would not unlatch fully. Thankfully the other side did, so it looks truly ridiculous now, one side two inches higher.

tomorrow morning I have an 8am appt at Heath's in Lambertville to get a new battery for car, so will let them fiddle with it.
If not, will drive directly to Volvo dealer thankfully half an hour away. It's mechanical and I poked around a lot, could not get it to retract past
its first position. Which was still locked.
And this of course was after I had carefully sprayed the latch mechanism.
perplexing

cleaned out rest of veggie garden and hauled that dead stuff off to the woods.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I was recently following a semi truck in left lane, we were passing people in the right. Guy comes up behind me starts flashing his lights. After the 2nd time he did that, I brake checked him. When the semi ahead of me got over after passing, I slowly passed him, then stayed in the left lane. Guy eventually had to pass me on the right if he wanted to speed.

Today's costco run was worse than expected. First at the gas station, both cars leave the pumps ahead of me, the prius ahead of me pulls to the first pump and gets out to fill up, instead of pulling to the front pump. So I had to go around to the front pump.

Inside was the usual people blocking aisles, parked empty carts randomly in the store, people in a hurry, etc. but that didn't bother me.
The real joy was going to self checkout, and the costco **** wouldn't let me use self checkout, said I had too much stuff. There were registers open there, but the manned registers were all backed up. I protested to no avail. I did call her out on her lie, she said the belts wouldn't handle the weight. I looked at her in disbelief and reminded her the self checkout does not have belts. Costco just does not care about their customers. I was so tempted to just leave my cart there and walk out. I do think after I get my next rebates, I'll be cancelling my membership.

The L5030 is back from dealer.

 

[kenmbz]

Leave it to car companies to make hood latches complicated.
My wife's "new" car has double latch too, if you don't close ti right one side or the other fails to latch.
Not sure how this is safer....

BEF - see what you did, you got the self checkout belts to run away and hide

 

[Looking4new]

The fuel oil delivery that was supposed to come tomorrow, came today. 572.1 Litres/153.35 US Gallons, cost me $943.20 or $1.65/L ($6.15/US Gallon). That leaves me about $200.oo credit in the account. AND I still have 480 US gallons in the big tank. Perfect. The next fill up will be out of the big tank and all fill ups after that will be the new fuel.

We've got Walmart,Home Depot and Canadian Tire in North Bay, 45 miles away. The nearest Costco is in Sudbury, so that is out of the question. 25 years ago the Walmart in North Bay falsely accused my son of doing something he didn't do and barred him from the store. I haven't gone back. Home Depot, I will go into IF I need an electrical part that I cannot get elsewhere. I buy most of my electric tools and all of the lumber at Home Hardware in Powasson. Yes, that Powasson, the town the guy that stole the portrait of Winston Churchill, came from.

I went back to bed at 8 this morning and got up at 11:45, nice power nap. I'm still going to do nothing today.

 

[LouNY]

Leave it to car companies to make hood latches complicated.
My wife's "new" car has double latch too, if you don't close ti right one side or the other fails to latch.
Not sure how this is safer....

BEF - see what you did, you got the self checkout belts to run away and hide

I opened the hood on my wifes new car the other to fill the windshield washer reservoir with good winter fluid. We had opened the hood to just look when we were buying the car, so this was the second time.
You have to have the drivers door open, then reach down and pull the hood latch all the way, then release it, and then pull it a second time to get it open. Fortunately closing it was much simpler.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Merry Christmas to me
Mackinac Island fudge delivered.

 

[scott_vt]

Good Evening,

You have to have the drivers door open, then reach down and pull the hood latch all the way, then release it, and then pull it a second time to get it open. Fortunately

Lou, they aren’t making it any easier for the old folks !

 

[Wagtail]

Good (Thursday) morning. Overnight Low of 11.3C and it's presently 21.9C, partly cloudy & fairly calm.

Yesterday, after Veteran coffee followed by grocery shopping, the arvo was spent doing a number of 'little' tasks.

Today's task is attending the Parish Council meeting @ 1500.

Life's good.

That's about it, take care all.