Good morning!!!!

[Buppies]

Mostly is fine out of town as Ron said

I am really tired this morning not sure what I will do today other than busy work.
Kidneys took abuse yesterday. Got a group of younger people coming up to weed eat tomorrow hopefully puppy comes home tomorrow if I’m up to three hour trip. Dog crate leash harness bed bowls etc will be delivered tomorrow

Prayers for all our Country

 

[wngsprd]

67 going to 88. Probably rain later.

Need to mow since like L4N, didn't get to it yesterday. Took my wife to Tex-Mex, and then grocery shopping at several stores. One was Wegmans, where they had some of the same landscape planting you are doing, Buppies...lots of butterflies and bees...hope all the dog stuff comes in and you can pick up Precious.

 

[Thomas]

49F partly cloudy day upper 60's for high.

Outside chores done E muffin time.
Plans for today...4 hours at store,stop for critter food,2+ hours on rider lawn mower afterwards .

Enjoy your day all.

 

[Thomas]

As the old saying goes Buppies about wine ....hope you feel lot better today.

 

[Buppies]

Thanks Thomas

Hope all goes well Wngsprd

 

[m7040]

good morning, 67 going to 85 cloudy

After the sill beam work went to town to pick up some window glass and then changed several panes in the basement windows

Mowed a couple of areas. Hit a cast iron base for umbrella so a sharpening of blades is in the furure

Went down to the old converted barm for a sandwich in the evening. Nice time watching families bringing young children for ice cream.
This little guy got all puckered out

 

[mpham]

Morning all!
55 going to 72.
Feeling much better!
Coffee with the 5 sisters and spouses today. Will hang back and chat only in case I'm still sick.
No yard work done lately. Just to tired and sore.
Heading to chiropractor after coffee.
Made a 15 x 3 tray for burger buns on Father's day. We will be doing a cookout here.

Also managed to finish up two birch bowls I had in process.
12 x 6.
Small dish 6 inch. pic looks bigger than it is.
Have a few other things going for next time. lol.
Hope everyone stays safe and healthy!

 

[m7040]

that's some serious lumber Frits.
do you have a background in structural engineering or do you just enjoy
carpentry?

wonderful dinner in Rehobeth, lots of pictures which will get posted tomorrow night.
for now, been a long day, a/c works thankfully, was in low to mid 90's here today and sunny, despite sun tan lotion, got too much sun. And it will surely pay me back someday. I get pretty brown and brown for a fair person is not good.

Not that complicated. Yes I enjoy working and accomplishing something whatever it may be

 

[masseyrider]

Morning all!
55 going to 72.
Feeling much better!
Coffee with the 5 sisters and spouses today. Will hang back and chat only in case I'm still sick.
No yard work done lately. Just to tired and sore.
Heading to chiropractor after coffee.
Made a 15 x 3 tray for burger buns on Father's day. We will be doing a cookout here.
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Also managed to finish up two birch bowls I had in process.
View attachment 358212412 x 6.
View attachment 3582125Small dish 6 inch. pic looks bigger than it is.
Have a few other things going for next time. lol.
Hope everyone stays safe and healthy!

Beautiful woodwork.

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning
69° under a hazy sun again. A little cooler than yesterday, high of 80.

Yesterday went as predicted. It was the most fun check ride that I ever did. That’s because it was conducted by my son as the FAA observed him, so it was actually his check ride as a check airman giving me my check ride.

We had a nice lunch on the way home from the airport, and I got home in time to hook the Progressive mower up to the tractor and mow all the open areas as well as play with Zoe. She is fun to watch when she has the “zoomies” and runs around like crazy.

Only things in today’s agenda are to do some RC flying at the club field, and play music tonight. My guess is that there will be some non agenda items added along the way…..

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, the low is 45 and going up to 61°F. Wind ENE 6 mph. Mainly sunny!

Today is Friday the thirteenth and I am not taking any chances.

Drew, better brown than red.

Popg; what is involved in a 'check ride', beside being able to take off and land without denting the plane?

Ron, I wonder if your chubby tree rat would even feel one of Drews' BBs?

Time to let the cats out.

Have a safe day all

 

[newbury]

They are on Euro time, I 'm on farmer time, we literally are about three hours apart every day

That describes my wife and I.

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, 71 going to 82 and sunny.

Graduation complete, son is now summer bound.
Hot at 91, but the kids in caps and gowns were the ones suffering.
All good in the end, lots of goodbyes etc.
Then out to dinner and home late.

Buppies, bring more water, suffering the heat like that won't be good. Puppy !

Be well,

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 68˚F, clear skies, heading to 90˚. We had 1.5" rain this week, everything is still green for now. The city lifted its mandatory only once a week watering to two days a week. I will keep the automatic timer on one day a week, by the time I figure out how to change the irrigation timer they will have change back to once a week.

With the dry river bed complete and the mowing complete all that is left is the trimming of the 100 hedges.

Preparing for the wife's family reunion which will be held on board a cruise ship out of Galveston.

We and the Germans have booked a cruise for their next years vacation in the Caribbean. Their first cruise.

 

[FriendwithTractor]

Good Morning to all who celebrate! 74° going to a high of 83° and cloudy. Rain forecast later this afternoon and the next week, allegedly.

It's been a rollercoaster of a week here by myself. Two major outages, Comcast decides on Thursday that it's going to do work on Friday near one of the branches causing intermittent outages. Of course, I'm also trying to keep the basic things working as well. At least no one woke me up with a phone call at 11pm saying they need a password reset, or I'd be in for murder. Parents had a safe trip out to see the US Open today, nephew tomorrow.

On the tractoring front. After work yesterday, I took down a branch (maybe 10" around, major branch) with the pole saw and then used the 271 to cut it up further. Tractor with grapple was assigned to put it away. I also found that my phone can survive being run over by my tractor, but likely only because the ground was damp and had enough give to make a nice little indent. Lesson learned, no more leaving my phone in the cupholder of the tractor.

I'd like to get out early enough today to beat the rain home and do a pile of mowing before the rains come crashing down and I can finally take a breath.

Buppies, you should be the one setting the pace. Remember the old saying "Smooth is fast, fast is smooth." Better luck today!
Drew, Hope you recover from your sun exposure with no major issues. SPF 90 maybe?
Phil, More phenomenal work!

Happy Father's Day!

Y'all stay safe out there and be well!
Prayers for those ailing and recovering!

 

[Happy in NC]

Good morning TBN!!
65 and wet when I got up, Tstorms again this afternoon. We got less the .25" yesterday which is strange because Charlotte got about 4". They are only an hour away from us.

Gave the tractor a bath yesterday and removed the FEL and box blade, put it in the shop and finally crawled under it. I think I found my leak. One whole side of the oil pan was loose and 4 bolts missing. How can that happen? Replaced the bolts and tightened the others up but haven't run it yet. What puzzles me is the leak I seem to have in power steering (next on the list)seems to be glowing from the trace leak I put in the oil system. I have to explore that further. Probably can't until tomorrow. I need to get the wife ready and delivered for her trip to Montana. I'll be a bachelor for the next ten days or so.

Already had my second cup.
Everyone have a great and safe day!!!

Happy Father's Day!!!

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I slept in, but working by 10. I’m more in line with Drew’s friends, but occasionally wake around 5 or 6 and just get up.
Changed filters in AC. The new geo unit acting up, hopefully clean filters will help that.
Still got lumber in the back of the truck that needs screwed down.

 

[rswyan]

82F and partly cloudy @ 12:00, WU only calling for a high of 80F today so we've already beat that. Chance of rain 70% with 1" to 2" expected.

Big Guy out on the suet feeder again when I got up.

Woman reports that plants in garden made it through another night undisturbed.

Good to know as I spooked a bunny as I was coming in last night. Don't usually see them over on the east side of the house.

Ended up heading back out to the garage last night and worked to around 03:00 with The Squeak keeping me company (on and off)

Got some brackets put up for more shelving.

Located a bunch of clothespins which The Woman had been looking for.

Put together 4 Japanese Beetle traps. Need to get those put up. Haven't seen any yet this year but this about the time that they start showing up.

More cleaning and organizing.

Agenda for today:

Snag an old plywood shelf from down in the basement and bring it around to the garage for the additional shelf I'm adding.

Maybe get that cut if it needs it.

Check plants on back shelves while I'm down there.

Probably more clean up work out in the garage.

See what else comes up.

Hope everyone is having a decent TGIF ...

 

[Wagtail]

Good very early (Saturday) morning. It's 0420 so still the 'overnight' Low of 0.2C.

I'm off to Launceston in about a half hour for the Synod, which is predicted to end by 1700. It'll then be a two hour drive home.

That's about it, take care all.

 

[daugen]

home sweet home
not a bad drive home, this time no huge backup outside of Philly.
had lunch with my friend under the pergola and then she left for home.
I've done a little unloading, but my first priority is to mow the lawn.

It's never this long but some folks like their lawns long. I understand the plant science, but
prefer it shorter. I mow at 2.5 inches. Used to mow at 1.75 in NC.
I try not to cut off more than an inch at one time. Which is why I mow twice a week some months, and if it keeps raining,
likely will continue to.
I don't mind...good seat time
Now if this John Deere had a 23hp electric motor, that would be marvelous.
just have to figure out how to quiet the mower blades, three propellers down there.

I think an electric reel mower might have the nicest sound.
now if Popgadget got out his harmonic analyzer and plotted out the sound graphs
from his zero turn and then his big Progressive mower, and then his Kubota, plus whatever other engine is interesting
I'd be interested to know what sound frequencies are predominate. Db too...

big issue for leaf blowers. Some of them are simply more irritating than others
leaf blowers are bad news for tinnitus.

will load pics later, got to keep moving til I run out of gas.
have stopped vibrating from all that driving, time to see how the roses are doing.
I've already watered everything, some wilting was starting after two days of pots in full sun.
I need to shade them a little. Earth in pot gets hot and out goes the water