Good morning!!!!

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 63ºF for the start, mostly cloudy, light breeze. Light wind, moderate gusts, variable cloudiness with some drizzle, and high temp was 78ºF. Made coffee to start day, Men's Mtg, bike ride, lunch mow, nap, dinner with group.
Resuming Friday 5/23 7:40 PM CDT post 207,101:
Randy(wag) glad you got a good rain. Glad you learned while you were at Bee keepers meeting. Hope laundry went well.
David Same thing except it was during HS.
Saturday 12:41 AM CDT:
Buppies sorry you are having hard time sleeping. prayers sent. Nice puppy.
Ron glad grass cut, trailers moved to the leantoos, and some barn cleanup happened. Hope string trimming went well. Nice jay.
Drew hope your day went well.
Drew not a lot of places do drive through grease jobs.
Phil hope moving items and lathe sale went well. Sorry wood wouldn't cooperate in shop.
Thomas hope you wood restacking went well.
Don does the model club do planes and power boats as well? Glad pool is warm enough. Have fun planning guest's next visit.
Bill since you took care of spider, can't say you aren't doing anything today
Drew hope you got enough mulch to keep you out of trouble
Happy(NC) awesome pic! Hope you can get in finished soon, but nice it is really driveable now.
Scott(vt) glad you made it through cruise and got home in 1 piece. Hope grass dies out some so easier to mow. Good luck with new call sign, and getting antenna up.
Frits sorry about wind. Hope other chores going well and you can get welding room usable. Nice pic
Ron sorry extra steps messed with sleep.
Paul glad you were able to find and fix the wide band box. Glad you got lock lug nut off. Stud looks short. Glad you were able to play music, Hope the driveway trim and oil change went well.
RS sorry the hawk didn't cooperate for pic, mine don't either. Sorry you could get same mix as before and had to get tank recertified. Hope you are getting good yield on the mining. Hope the Saturday agenda was successful.
Ken hope you able to finish the swale. Glad you could help neighbor with snake. Hope pool was opened without problems. Nice pics.
Drew glad you had discount card to help with cost of meds. When I first started synthroid, I was paying $150 for 3 month, I was on on brand name drug. After we establish medicine was working I asked to change to generic because of cost. Generic was jut as effective, and copay only $10 or so.
David sorry Simba woke you up. Hope meetup with Sophie's brother/GF went well.
Dennis sorry about motivation issue, have same problem myself
Randy(wag) glad more rain in tanks. glad progress on laundry. Hope church good, and free electricity went well.
Dennis glad you got out of park. Hope you end up being happy with moving steps. Nice progress pics.
Bill glad you can have such a light schedule.
Sunday 1:49 AM CDT:
Buppies glad you had good day except for sciatic nerve issue, that's rough. Was 2009 cool summer for a lot of people?
Ron glad Saturday went well. Hope pond maintenance and truck parade prep went well and you got to see at least some of Indy 500 and NASCAR. Pretty cardinal
Drew hope your day went well, lot of washing planned.
Thomas sorry rain messed with yesterday's plans hope got some wood in basement and stacked.
Scott(vt) glad you got antenna up Saturday. Have you tried it out yet? Hope church service went well and you got pool open.
Happy(nc) hope bridge did well in the rain.
Phil glad you got paid the agreed price for lathe. Hope visiting went well. Have fun doing the woodwork on the wood.
Bill the trouble with doing nothing is you never know when you are done
Paul nice rainbow and pic. Nice Zoe still likes her crate. Nice you got visibility improved on driveway and plane oil changed.
Frits hope firewood as dry as it looks. Hope family time went well.
Steve(B7510) thanks for story
Billy glad you were able to get some more batches roasted. Sorry about ticks while doing the firewood.
Buppies good to hear leg is healing. Hope you get Precious soon. I always worry about leaving head in skin when removing ticks.
More catch up later
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle /Daughter, /mom's breathing, /son's migraines, Mike /BIL in FL, Ron /heart, David(moss) /remodel, /divorce, Buppies /cancer, parathyroid, blood sugar /wife, Thomas /gout, Phil /reflux, Frits /veteran son with mental issues, /granddaughter with Evans Syndrome, Ken /dad dementia, /chronic fatigue, Diet not working, Randy(wag) /sister stoke, Steppenwolfe /son-auto immune disorder, Grev /wife's eye, Ted /knee recovery, /retirement & disability red tape, /family issues, /wife back issues and cancer, Lou /eye issues, /heart issues, /wife hip replacement, Doug and wife/health issues, / hand nerve and surgery, /fall and recovery, / wife headaches and heart eval, / David(sadamo)/Sophie's hip or leg pain, /back issue, Scaredy/shoulder dislocation, /marriage dissolving, / friend stop drinking, Dennis /retirement, /neighbor issues, /brother's lymphoma, /dad surgery recovery, Drew /back operation issues, /friend's wife cancer diagnosis and recovery, Scotty /back pain, Helogabals /wife's friend situation, Fatjay /father broken hip, ******, Ukraine war, hurricane victims, and Country.

 

[sodamo]

Thanks PJ

 

[ronjhall]

Coffee is cooling in cup. 54° with cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 67° with mostly cloudy skies. Neighbors Kawasaki Mule needs a new battery. Did some shrub trimming yesterday. Pulled a few weeds. Rest of the day was the needed conserve energy. Today grocery shopping. Get an new battery for Mule. Then install it. Need to rake up the shrub trimmings and pulled weeds.
5 Ducks in my front yard. 4 Drakes and 1 hen. How will that work out?

Everyone stay well and safe.

Good Morning All.

 

[wngsprd]

56 some fog, but rain stopped. 76 tops it out later.

 

[Happy in NC]

Good morning TBN!!
63 this morning and should be a pretty nice day. Maybe some late Tstorms and low 80s.
R&R again yesterday to let the wrist have a break. Feels pretty good this morning.
I'll test it out in a little bit. I need to get the old tank turned around in the river and stage it to come out. Friends are going to bring a couple of trucks out and see if we can get it on dry land where I can start cutting on it.
Pretty much my "planned: agenda. We'll see what else pops up.

Time for a second cup
Everyone have a great and safe day!!

 

[daugen]

good morning all
55 and rain is done, .69 on gauge
going to be cloudy and low 70s today, maybe more showers tomorrow.
one of those Springs we are jumping on our mowers whenever we can

am off this morning to get some elective work done on truck, flush brake fluid, trans fluid and an oil change.
I don't trust the last oil change at Pep Boys, who knows what kind of cheap oil filter they put in.
then home to change into gardening clothes and time to tear out the old radishes and figure out what to plant in that space.
don't mind going to this dealer since they always send me home with a new lexus suv loaner. A very different experience than the
Ford dealership.

new cars clearly want you to use your phone for nav. Last two loaner cars I had, expensive ones, didn't have a nav button.
Just asks you to pair up when it starts. Which I don't and have never done. Interestingly the standard old fashioned nav in Lexus asks if I want to get around heavy traffic, like Waze. Plus it shows traffic activity like Google maps does, but not a google system. ??
I updated the nav data so it will be fine for me.

my car still has buttons, but it's old fashioned and I like that. Have not found voice activation reliable on modern cars.
My favorite is the consistent response to the word Cancel.
Canso Nova Scotia?

Paul, good deal on new car, darned hard to find a nice new car/truck for under 30k.

have a productive, fun and safe day

 

[Thomas]

55F cloudy day mid 60's for high.

Outside chores done E muffin time.
Plans for today...8 hours at part store afterwards stop for critter food and pallet,no plans for the evening not unless.

Enjoy your day all.

 

[daugen]

no luck on rv stereo system. Sound bar still will not turn on with new cable. And then went to test dvd player and it made a loud
bearing noise and failed. Sigh. New one of those ordered but still can't get sound to come out of sound bar.
I think I need Ken or Popgadget to come add brain power to this, I appear to be getting nowhere.

very wet and green out, probably a humid day

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, the low is 56 and going to a high of 63°F. Wind ESE 8 mph. Rain.

Energy conservation day today.

Ron, your 4 drakes and one hen looks like the lineup at the cat house when the ship comes in. Probably works the same way, too. The last duck gets sloppy 4ths.

Have a safe day all

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, 61 to 73 and cloudy.
Hoping they can start the driveway today.

Looking at a used JD X360 later.
Head gasket is going on the Simplicity. I replaced one on the spare Simplicity, not sure I want to bother on such an old , hacked together mower.

Did get the last tomato plant in and cleaned the pool robot, boy is that a mess of stuff after opening.
Might need to get more water out of the pool with all the rain we are having.

Be well,

 

[m7040]

Good morning, 55 going to 74 rained all day yesterday no rain in FC today and getting warmer

Changed the oil and filter on the excavator. Kubota calls for every 500 hours. Changed it after 200 hours. It holds a lot of oil for a little engine and takes a large diameter filter. Used Rotella T6 15W-40.

 

[Buppies]

Long night sugar dropped to 35 woke up soaking wet at 2:00 had to drink orange juice to get it back up to 60 now 100 tired now.

No rain today more storms tomorrow maybe can turn heat off today. Had logs o yesterday quite cool. Leg healing up now down to a couple of days antibiotic left to take. Holly chilling on couch.

Prayers for all our country

 

[masseyrider]

Good morning everybloody.
Still looking at the garden plot with high hopes and low expectations.
We are just managing mid 60s when we should be averaging mid 70s. Clouds and rain. Even the ducks are saying, "Enough already."
Looking forward to Saturday. High predicted to reach a blistering 55F.
Hopefully better growing weather elsewhere or it's going to be a long hungry winter.

 

[txdon]

Don does the model club do planes and power boats as well?

Yes they do. I'm thinking of getting a power boat. I will go to the neighborhood lake and watch them first. I can always practice in the backyard pool.

Yesterday was Germans last day of water volleyball and they said their goodbyes. Going out to eat last night did not happen as a severe thunderstorm warning was issued with baseball size hail. The hail did hit our county but about 20 miles away. Pizza in was good.

69˚F, cloudy. We had 1/4" rain yesterday.

Trip to the airport on the agenda for today.

 

[scott_vt]

Good Morning,
Vt, 54 to start going to 64 with cloudy conditions. I did briefly see a little blue but it’s gone now. I cut the foot high grass in the yard last night before sunset, my little z turn took a beating. I should have just bush hogged it with my Massey
This morning I’m raking up the piles of clippings. What a job, that’s what happens when you disappear for 3 weeks

I repaired it with stainless steel, but still clean it off every mowing.

Paul, I remember you doing that project, very nice job BTW.

Paul Pj, $28 K is a great price.

David, sorry I forgot that you purchased new awhile ago, senior moment

Happy, hope wrist feels better soon.

Frits and Thomas lots of stacking guys, pace yourself.

Don, I agree that the Germans have great English speaking skills, better than my German for sure.

Time to get back to taking again.
Hope all have a good day

 

[rswyan]

56F and partly cloudy @ 08:30, calling for a high of 72F for the day.

Special Weather Statement issued earlier for patchy dense fog, now expired.

Light rain/mist pretty much all day long yesterday.

Decent progress up in the shop.

Got the aisle way on the west side cleared to the back shelves so you can get back there without breaking your neck.

Lower shelf on 3rd section of west work bench cleaned, also one shelf on back shelves.

Rounded up a bunch of cans of spray paint and got them put away on that back shelf.

Tire/wheel inventory mostly sorted out.

A couple of 5 gallon buckets pulled out from under the west workbench. One is used hydraulic fluid which can be reused in the log splitter.

The other is a mystery fluid … which based on the smell of it is probably phosphoric acid. Looks like over a gallon of that … which will be useful for treating steel. Think there is another 5 gallon bucket of that up there somewhere as well.

Cleaned out the little Shop Vac.

Cracked open another package of mothballs and deployed those in various places to keep the rodents at bay. Still need to do the welder.

Overall, the shop is getting messier as I clean things up, sort thing out, and get things stowed away. Eventually it will pay off though.

Agenda for today:

Some more clean up in shop this morning as things warm up and clear off.

Work on getting posts coated later.

Break out stakes and string lines and start laying out fence lines and marking where post holes need to be drilled.

Looks like feeders are due for a refill. Can’t believe how quickly the birds are going through the suet cakes.

Hope everyone is having a decent Thursday …

 

[sodamo]

69°F and .3 inches rain

By all reports, SIL’s back surgery went well and back home recovering under the care of her loving sister.

Headed over to my friend John in a bit. He is getting a concrete pour for his tractor shelter, one of those quonset hut type steel structures. 19+ yards. Only going to observe and say Hi as most of the guys did my concrete.
But at $260/yd I may have to be a bit consoling as well.

Not sure what I’ll get into when back home.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[buckeyefarmer]

But at $240/yd I may have to be a bit consoling as well.

I take it they have to import all the cement.
Had a breakfast meeting this morning. came home and lit the firepit again, this time it burned. Got a bit of yard waste gone, although was very smoky at first due to the wetness. Sun starting to peak out now, maybe will be dry enough to mow later today or tomorrow afternoon.

 

[daugen]

lexus dealer said my right front strut was starting to leak.
quoted me 1100 bucks to replace one strut. Utterly laughable.
I ordered two (should do both sides at same time) KYB Excel G struts from Rock Auto, here on Monday,
for 162 delivered for both. Need to find someone to install them, shouldn't be too hard.

they also said I had a slightly leaking differential seal and wanted 2200 bucks to replace both seals.
no thank you. That needs more research. I had both differential fluids changed today, a little overdue.
at least they did the diagnostics.

 

[sodamo]

No problem Scotty, the bank didn’t forget.