Good morning!!!!

[ronjhall]

Coffee is done brewing. 27° with clear skies this morning. Heading to 47° with sun and a few clouds. Did not have all the batteries I needed to get all changed. Ordered them from Amazon. Should be here today. Never got to blowing leaves yesterday. Hope to get at it today. GD is going to be here to do house cleaning. That should free up my to time to get at it. No more NASCAR until next year. Maybe a good movie in the afternoon.

LS, garage looks like right size for 2 cars. Where will tractor be put.

Jay, football, UM of meets OS next weekend. Lots of rivalry.

Randy, my first car was a 55 Ford Fairlane. Great car that my dad bought me when I graduated from HS in 1960. Got something new every year after that until after I retired in 2004.

Prayers and best wishes to all.

Good Morning All.

 

[Buppies]

40 very windy today high of 52. Nice rain yesterday

Prayers for all in need

 

[wngsprd]

40 and misty fog going to low 50s.

Mostly, quite a roll, and nice looking place to refuel. I hope you didn't order a flight of 100.

Looking, so many interesting cars. I never understood why the big 3 automakers branded some models differently in Canada. Do they still do it?

I had all the parts I needed to fix the kitchen drain, so no trip to town was needed. Instead, I mixed up some gas/oil for the chainsaw, and warmed up the tractor for a short ride to cut up an oak that blew over in the big June storm we had. Hunting dogs ran a deer near me, and one dog took to me and wanted a ride in the FEL, but his owner came and picked her up (GPS tracking collar). I got unloaded right before the rain hit, but still need to split a lot of it.

Even though that oak has been dead since June, and with its leaves drying it out, still too wet to burn even its smallest branches (tested with my moisture meter). I think it will be ready by later in the season (it better be, because will probably need to burn it).

Still having skunk problems. Not safe to let the dog out after dark, and I wasn't feeling up to walking a dog on a leash in the rain last night, but did it, and walked right up on a skunk hidden behind a bush by the bird feeders. I was happy when it didn't spray us, but not happy when it ran straight for the front porch, and slipped under it. Took Coco out cautiously on leash this morning, but once we got over to the big fenced-in frisbee field, I let her off to do her business. Afterwards she must have smelled something upwind, took off through the gate and came back immediately with skunk smell. Not as bad as last time...I think she kept her distance, but steady north wet wind got her a bit. Wiped her off and went back out with shotgun, but of course, no skunk to be found...only one of the local rabbits. I have captured 3 different ones on my trail cam (different size/pattern of white stripe), and saw all 3 together earlier this year, so I have my work cut out for me.

 

[Rich B1]

Good morning! Time for a 2nd cup of coffee.

31 now, supposed to get to 42 or so today. Rain that started yesterday afternoon finally cleared out. Dry day, have one more trailer full of wood to split.....not sure I will feel motivated to do that today or not. The 3 point splitter has been getting a workout. Need to drop some more trees to stockpile.

Wood burner feels good this morning. Got a nice fire going right now. It ran all night on a good load of wood before bed. Still had a decent bed of hot embers to get the fire going this morning.

RNG, come to the flat track races at Daytona and I will put you to work :laughing:

Maybe I will feel motivated to work on the interior of the cargo trailer conversion today. Haven稚 made much progress since I got the lights working.

Everyone have a good Sunday!

 

[daugen]

leased a 1998 Neon
how dependable was that car? I always liked it but apparently it liked the service bay too.
Chrysler marketing has sure been all over the place. Corinthian leather, where's Ricardo?
Maserati styled disaster. Always did performance cars well. Smart to link up with Shelby.
Then they got bought out by Fiat and we get their unappealing small motors that
seemed to doom their recent small cars, along with the rest of that market with everyone buying trucks and SUVs.
Did I read the 2025 EPA CAFE regs have been suspended? Doesn't surprise me, but if those were kept in place,
we would be driving a lot of electric trucks and bye bye Hemi.

Ron, you clearly get the car guy award here. Though I admit I was usually in the three year cycle, except for trucks, which always
lasted longer. I even owned a Renault R5 way back when. Horrible little car with the rubberiest shifter known to man. But it was front wheel drive and I had to
get through the snows in Hartford CT to get to the Travelers training school, where I taught insurance, entry level sales, and refresher courses for middle mgmt.
It was humbling to stand in front of men much older than me who clearly came to this class out of duty but a few of them knew a lot more than I did and I had to
be very careful what came out of my mouth.

I had always wanted to be a teacher coming out of college, but war nixxed that. No teaching positions available. So at least I got a couple of years to teach in
frankly what was a very plush environment, way nicer than college, even if the topics of discussion were usually deadly boring. But so is much of the law, and basically I was teaching the laws of insurance, and then the fine print, where all the big print is taken away. Always thought it should be the other way around.

No one but no one likes being told they aren't covered when they thought they were. Ignorance is surely not bliss, so the students from all over the country, mostly young insurance agents, had a week long intensive cram session on the basics of insurance and the basics of sales techniques. And since it's been a while since I told this story, every week a new class, and every week a trip to the Cliff House one night, usually Thursday night, where this building on the side of a mountain with a wall of glass overlooking the valley, in that lux special events building built just for them, we had steak and lobster every time. Steak and lobster, steak and lobster.
Oh that got old, I think I ate that almost a hundred times.

And then my Dad died and I had the chance to come home and start my insurance agency. I left the plush corporate environment
to pursue a dream. Glad I did. I'd probably have heart disease now from that food if I had stayed.

54 degrees staying at 55 today in sun all day. Going to take a little time to dry out, about 3/4 inch of rain overnight.
I'm off to Dollar Tree to buy red ribbon this morning to put on wreaths, well, neighbor's wife volunteered to do ribbons for me, and
boy I sure said yes.

May you be happy and blessed on this Sunday morning.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Good Morning! It's 40° and clear here this morning with forecast of 71° this afternoon.

I still have two more burn piles to lite ... if wind stays down. I've been trying to get them burned for over a week but ... not doing it with any wind.

I need to hook up the 3-point log splitter and prep some wood for our outdoor fire pits. I ordered a replacement 24" x 1/2" hydraulic hose that goes between the control valve and cylinder and will get that installed as well. I built a stand for it so, all I need to do is get one of the tractors close enough to hook up hoses to tractor remotes.



WNG ... did you try moth balls to repel your skunks? They work.

Mostly ... what a ride!

RNG ... maybe you can see light, at the end of the tunnel, on your van? What's the old saying? I see light, at the end of the tunnel ... hope it's not a train!

Instant Pot country ribs for dinner tonight!


Hope everyone has a nice Sunday.

Prayers to all.

 

[Thomas]

32F snow flakes dancing in the air mid 30's for high...some rain sleet 1-3 inches maybe little more snow before tomorrow morning.

Outside chores done time for E muffin,:licking:
Plans for today...Check game cams,watch some football,putter.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[LouNY]

Looks like my autocad software has been disabled. It comes up as non activated, but I have a copy of my activation. Haven稚 tried it for a few months. They have now gone to a yearly subscription fee, mine is older with no stated time limit. I知 sure not paying $400 a yr for occasional use. I still prefer micro station over autocad, but it costs $2600 I think.

TCU was the victim of a bad call tonight. I think the NCAA refs are following the NFL refs lead in not overturning calls, even when an obvious mistake. An ex NCAA basketball official friend of mine said they don稚 like instant replay so they won稚 overturn because it makes them look bad. In reality not overturning an obvious bad call makes them look much worse.

Supper at macaroni grill was good. They warned us it might take awhile to get our food as they had a party of 35 that had just ordered. Turns out to not be bad, think we got ours before some of them. Way too many carbs though.

We were too full to eat cake at home afterwards.

Nice bike ride mostly.

It's been a lot years since I used a CAD program but close to 20 years ago I (we) my employer at time used Turbo Cad it was much more reasonably priced.

 

[daugen]

nice splitter Rick. I always wanted one with a hydraulic log lift but
could not justify the cost living in an area where I make four fires in the fireplace a year.
You have all those trees to manage, and nice to take it to them, instead of other way around.
My understanding is most of those trees are hardwood too.

Just might split a little myself this afternoon if I can get the tired BS1250 to start. Had to use ether a few times, just a little, likely the carb
is getting unhappy. I put a lot of Sea Foam in it so once it gets running, it clears up and purrs. I can't pull like Wngsprd, arms can't take it,
so it had better start in five or six pulls. Of course it sits for quite a bit, and there's no primer on it so takes a while to suck the gas through
it. I spray the ether into the air cleaner foam filter which always does the trick.

Starting fluid seems to act like steroids. Works marvelously for a short while but seriously bad on you if overused or for too long.
Using ether on diesels is another story and that argument has definite sides with strong opinions. Some tractors even came with ether can injection
built in. Modern tractors seem to deal with the cold much better.

 

[lostcreekranch]

nice splitter Rick. I always wanted one with a hydraulic log lift but
could not justify the cost living in an area where I make four fires in the fireplace a year.
You have all those trees to manage, and nice to take it to them, instead of other way around.
My understanding is most of those trees are hardwood too.

Just might split a little myself this afternoon if I can get the tired BS1250 to start. Had to use ether a few times, just a little, likely the carb
is getting unhappy. I put a lot of Sea Foam in it so once it gets running, it clears up and purrs. I can't pull like Wngsprd, arms can't take it,
so it had better start in five or six pulls. Of course it sits for a quite a bit, and there's no primer on it so takes a while to suck the gas through
it. I spray the ether into the air cleaner foam filter which always does the trick.

Starting fluid seems to act like steroids. Works marvelously for a short while but seriously bad on you if overused or for too long.
Using ether on diesels is another story and that argument has definite sides with strong opinions. Some tractors even came with ether can injection
built in. Modern tractors seem to deal with the cold much better.

Drew ... if I can do a task with tractor hydraulics ... that's my preference over another gasoline engine to maintain.

Yep about 90% of our trees are oaks. We have a few hundred cedars but, I'm slowly getting rid of them.