Good morning!!!!

[wngsprd]

BEF, Prayers for you family's loss of wife's dad.

 

[rswyan]

Drew - sorry you had to suffer that (additional) indignity ...

Top and BEF - sorry for the losses ...

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 78˚F at sunrise and into the hundreds today topping out at 5PM. No hard work planned for today just watering and thinning the garden and get ready for the cedercide assault tomorrow.

BEF and Randy sorry for your losses.

Drew, according to your post (content, subject matter, punctuation) you are ready to leave, the fog has lifted.

 

[daugen]

Rick, that mowing looks like great fun and how nice it looks when you are done. You really have a lot of clearance issues, likely get the occasional wack of a tree limb on cab that makes you cringe. But oh to mow and "be out there" in filtered air and not sweating to death.

I always wanted the area outside my horse fencing to look like a field, meaning mowed higher, anything but more lawn. But we keep at it, make it nicer here and there, and soon it's a meadow or something finer than first thought. Your place is simply beautiful.

thanks Don, good minds think alike. Unfortunately they are not decision makers, way of the world. What veggies are you eating now?

 

[kenmbz]

Do you remember when the Buttonwood Inn was at Peddler's Village? Man, we had a lot of good times there throwing darts. Beautiful Bucks County... No place like it. :drink:

We have a micro brewery and a distiller there now, a lot has changed. The nut house burned down and was replaced, Ice cream shop is a popcorn place. But still kept up well.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 58F @ 5:30AM. Sunny. High 92F. Winds SW at 5 to 10 mph.

It's good to see you almost back to your old self, at least posting wise, Drew. It must take a very special person to want to be a urologist. I've experienced unspeakable treatments at their hands, and lived to tell the tale. You will, too. Hope those nerve pathways regenerate straight and true, and soon. Just keep rolling with the punches, and keep doing whatever it takes to get the heck out of there!

Wish the deer would earn their keep by eating the weeds, but no, they like the flowers and landscaping instead, eh Ron?

:welcome: MF Red. Is spring late in Montana?

To support the cause, Rick, I ordered a Radiator Genie early yesterday AM on Amazon, but when I went to add something else to the order, the RG was in the "save for later" basket, with a note saying it was no longer in stock. You guys beat me to it!:laughing:

Woke up to no water pressure yesterday morning, but couldn't find anything wrong in the pump house. The Square D pressure switches are notorious for sticking, and I think this'll be the fourth one I've replaced in ten years. One more for the todo list.

Turned a spacer for a neighbor's jet ski trailer yesterday, and sent him home with all the aluminum wire that I pulled out of the trench. He'll use it to help out a fellow fire survivor that is down on their luck when he installs a new power pole for them.

The valves (I think some call them spools) arrived for the top'n'tilt yesterday, holy mackeral, that box was HEAVY! Sixty or Seventy parts in the box, and it looks like I might be missing some o-rings. Got through step one OK, bolting the valve bodies together. But step two was adding a T to the port forward fitting, one that I haven't installed yet. So got those parts out and will do that first. Tried to install steel tubes on loader arms, but it looks like the hydraulic cylinder has to come off first, so decided to have dinner instead. That's where I'll start this morning...

 

[lostcreekranch]

Rick, that mowing looks like great fun and how nice it looks when you are done. You really have a lot of clearance issues, likely get the occasional wack of a tree limb on cab that makes you cringe. But oh to mow and "be out there" in filtered air and not sweating to death.

I always wanted the area outside my horse fencing to look like a field, meaning mowed higher, anything but more lawn. But we keep at it, make it nicer here and there, and soon it's a meadow or something finer than first thought. Your place is simply beautiful.

thanks Don, good minds think alike. Unfortunately they are not decision makers, way of the world. What veggies are you eating now?

Thanks Drew. It was nothing but goat weed, thistle, and yaupon when we bought this ranch in 2006.

Keep up your improvement my friend. We're all pulling / praying for you.

 

[kenmbz]

63 going up to 90... Sunny

BEF - my condolences on FIL

Drew-sounds painful, but now in the past. Good to hear your getting around so well and working to get back to outside life

Doe, me and dog hung out today. She just watches us as we walk by, she on one side of driveway, dog and I on other side, so maybe 8 feet.

Split a 36" round today, working so much better than the 8 pound maul

Snake was a common Garter, just full grown, still maybe 1.5 feet long, they don;t get very big.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Good Morning!!!! 58F @ 5:30AM. Sunny. High 92F. Winds SW at 5 to 10 mph.

It's good to see you almost back to your old self, at least posting wise, Drew. It must take a very special person to want to be a urologist. I've experienced unspeakable treatments at their hands, and lived to tell the tale. You will, too. Hope those nerve pathways regenerate straight and true, and soon. Just keep rolling with the punches, and keep doing whatever it takes to get the heck out of there!

Wish the deer would earn their keep by eating the weeds, but no, they like the flowers and landscaping instead, eh Ron?

:welcome: MF Red. Is spring late in Montana?

To support the cause, Rick, I ordered a Radiator Genie early yesterday AM on Amazon, but when I went to add something else to the order, the RG was in the "save for later" basket, with a note saying it was no longer in stock. You guys beat me to it!:laughing:

Woke up to no water pressure yesterday morning, but couldn't find anything wrong in the pump house. The Square D pressure switches are notorious for sticking, and I think this'll be the fourth one I've replaced in ten years. One more for the todo list.

Turned a spacer for a neighbor's jet ski trailer yesterday, and sent him home with all the aluminum wire that I pulled out of the trench. He'll use it to help out a fellow fire survivor that is down on their luck when he installs a new power pole for them.

The valves (I think some call them spools) arrived for the top'n'tilt yesterday, holy mackeral, that box was HEAVY! Sixty or Seventy parts in the box, and it looks like I might be missing some o-rings. Got through step one OK, bolting the valve bodies together. But step two was adding a T to the port forward fitting, one that I haven't installed yet. So got those parts out and will do that first. Tried to install steel tubes on loader arms, but it looks like the hydraulic cylinder has to come off first, so decided to have dinner instead. That's where I'll start this morning...

You can order thru WallyWorld too. And free shipping.

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Radiator-...r-Air-Wand-Water-Wand-Auto-ATV-Farm/619885620

Cha .. Ching $$

 

[rswyan]

71F and supposedly "mostly cloudy" @ 09:00 ... (but the sun is streaming in the through the window ... )

High for the day: around 90F ...

Finished cleaning shop vac filter last night, along with clearing and cleaning some shelves and moving some f-channel onto them. Cleaned the grinding dust off a couple of load bars earlier in the day and got those moved back out to the van.

The county's Household Hazardous Waste Disposal opened up for the year this past Thursday and will be open through September 24th. Looking forward to making a run there and getting rid of all the bad 8' fluorescent bulbs ... along with a few of containers of mystery juice/goo ... :laughing:

Was going to order a new set of insoles for the old work boots, but Ariat seems to be out of the Cobalt VX's ... possibly due to COVID-19 and supply line issues ... :confused3:

Might have to try a pair of cheap Dr. Scholl's ... although I expect that will be a waste of money.

Trip to TSC today to pick up the work boots I got them to hold and the welding helmet. Also expecting some new welding gloves, a beanie, and a new striker for the torch from Amazon.