Good morning!!!!

[Happy in NC]

Will do some more watering as I don't see any rain in the near forecast.

I imagine it's on it's way. It has definitely settled in here with a long train behind

 

[wngsprd]

Guys working on new fiber line cable in front of house, a real clown show.
One pickup parked in my grass, another bucket truck turning around made a 5 pt turn pulling into my grass several times, back hitch plowed up some of neighbors yard.
Sitting on porch just watching the show

Shows over, they moving up the road. Guess I need to get busy, getting hot again.

That's how it's been here...plus our fiber went out at around noon yesterday and not back up until 6am today...second time this has happened since we switched to fiber...I'm guessing the installers down the road cut or disconnected it.

 

[Engineer42]

They were in plain sight. I would have looked at them several times without seeing them during the initial search(s).

I do that when searching for something not used often. It's quite annoying. Actually just did it last week looking for a piece of expanded metal. But finally saw it.

 

[wngsprd]

As most of my battery powered tools are Makita, so that's what I bought. (XPG01Z 18V LXT)

To me, the Milwaukee M18 design is similar, and I know folks who like theirs. Despite knowing lots of folks with DeWalt battery tools, I can't recall seeing the DeWalt version of a battery grease gun.

All the best,

Peter

The Dewalt looks the same. It has really worked well, and with the adjustable coupler, I haven't had a need to try a Lock n Lube...but maybe I don't know what I'm missing out on.

 

[ponytug]

The Dewalt looks the same. It has really worked well, and with the adjustable coupler, I haven't had a need to try a Lock n Lube...but maybe I don't know what I'm missing out on. View attachment 3857923

If you aren't leaving "goose poops" of grease on certain zerks, i wouldn't rock the boat.

I have a couple of zerks not in the easiest to access locations, and the default coupler on my pneumatic guns used to pop off occasionally.

Make it a great day as a friend used to say.

All the best, Peter

 

[wngsprd]

64 going to 77.

Wag, thanks for letting me borrow your clamps...I put them right back where I found them.

Scotty, sounds like you are really mastering the radio thing.

Buppies, sorry about Holly...first thing to always suspect is an UTI.

Ken, I just saw our first yellow jacket of the year yesterday, and then two bald faced hornets this morning...they come to our hummingbird feeders and usually show up starting in August. I can usually find the hornets nest, but haven't found one this year, yet. One year I found it by mistake...pushing a push mower up to cut the weeds under a cedar...they found my legs before I saw their nest.

Took my wife to Orange yesterday...a small historic town near James Madison's Montpelier estate on the way to the mountains. Had a nice lunch at a Mexican restaurant and walked around visiting a couple shops and the train station. The Norfolk Southern crew were using their high-tech rail car to measure track alignment next to the station. I talked to the chief about the pending merger.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Little deck work, but ran out of clips.
Need to unload concrete mix from truck

 

[Dftodd]

That's how it's been here...plus our fiber went out at around noon yesterday and not back up until 6am today...second time this has happened since we switched to fiber...I'm guessing the installers down the road cut or disconnected it.

There are some growing pains when a new fiber system gets up.

We've experienced a couple outages. One of those outages took a while to get back up, since a car missed the turn and mowed down the distribution network up the street.

At work, we were losing the fiber regularly. They've been doing quite a bit of new construction in the industrial complex. So it required a wider road and more utilities. The boring company would cut the fiber line at least once a week.

I got a call from or IT department one day asking me why our fiber was down.

I walked outside and looked across the street.

A trackhoe hit a water main and sunk about where the fiber line was.

At that point water was shooting about 30ft in the air.

I told the IT person that it would probably be down the rest of the day at least.

He started demanding that I go out and ask them when it was gonna be up

I told him that wasn't gonna happen, told him about the 30ft geyser soaking the power pole. And reiterated that the network probably wouldn't be back up today. Then hung up.

He called my boss to complain and got the same response from my boss

 

[daugen]

good trip to Costco after dropping off several pounds of tomatoes to Popgadget on the way.
Costco wasn't too crowded thankfully and got some interesting things to provide some food variety.
plus the normal detergent and supplies.
nice to get some things back in the downstairs freezer, silly to run it with only freezer packs in it

headed out in a little bit to work on the rv.

 

[sodamo]

69°F and .01 inches rain
Nice Happy Hour in Town yesterday

Need to make another PO run today. Actually forgot to mail my taxes.

Looks like a good day for more mowing

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day