Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

think about all the tools and equipment you have accumulated over your life. My job this morning is to make a list of the bare essentials to take with me:
small phillips head
medium phillips hear
small gripping plier
cutting pliers
small adjustable wrench'
etc
etc
all my nice Dewalt and Makita power tools aren't making the cut, pun intended. Was told shipping and storage too expensive. I almost objected but kept my mouth shut, both my brothers are doing the manual labor. But to reduce all you have owned, and collected, and saved for, over a lifetime to what amounts to a homeowner assortment, it's humbling. One thing I will not give up is a set of nice British wood chisels with rosewood handles. Worked on many a birdhouse with them. Someday I'll get back to this.

 

[toppop52]

Randy, are you still needing to take extra sodium?

Not recently but I haven’t had bloodwork in a while either. It’s been at the low end of normal for a while.

 

[wngsprd]

74 humid, and just stopped raining for a few minutes. Going to 87. Got caught outside earlier when a downpour hit...lasted about 3 minutes. More rain coming.

Kyle, seems like you had music going through your head. I loved both of those songs...have a best of Dean Martin CD I'll play next time I drive the truck.

David, glad you and Sophie got to visit a restaurant...don't think I've been in one since late February.

RS, did you dream of tempura?

Rip, move on down here when your R/E taxes get too high...lots of horse farms and hay production.

Mowed for two+ hours yesterday until almost dark...didn't trust the forecast that said rain wouldn't get here until 10am...glad I did because it hit at 6am.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 69F @ 4:00AM. Sun and clouds mixed. High 97F. Winds SSE at 10 to 15 mph.

Good luck with the carb, ad the lathe at work, Kyle. Idle hands are the Devil's workshop!:laughing:

Glad to hear that the afib is under control, Randy, but not that the meds still don't agree with the rest of you. Hope they get it ironed out real soon.

Did they ever say what caused the strokes, Drew? Just wondering if they could have been diet related.
Will your new digs have a door you can lock to help keep the noise down?

Hope you don't get a $300 bill for your hydro like I did last time, David. That was for fifteen gallons of Kubota's Super UDT. Seems to get more expensive every time.

Was looking for fly paper on Amazon, and noticed one of the top rated offerings had some really odd reviews. Many had nothing to do with their product, almost as of somehow they'ed found some way to programmatically divert good reviews to their own product to artificially boost their ratings. Still looking for decent fly paper...

I spray the poison oak with straight glyphosate when I'm out spraying weeds, Billy, but I prefer the mix with triclopyr and glyphosate because it seems to work better with only one application. Here's an article that recommends 2,4-D, which I didn't think we could get here, but Amazon doesn't seem to care. Both will be absorbed by the bark and stems, a good thing because the oily leaves shed most anything you spray on them.

Good news on the battery, Eric. At least the new one wasn't sitting in the car discharging during the two months of quarantine.

We don't bounce like we used to, huh Bird? Glad you weren't hurt worse.

Stopped working on the tractor at a good time day before yesterday; there's nothing like making a fresh start when things aren't going well. Started yesterday by loosening one end of the too long hose up, then managed to catch one thread of one of the mounting bolts on the port forward housing and that was enough to let me start the other one, too. But that led to wiring the thing, and more cryptic, and just plain wrong, instructions. Fortunately, there's really only one way to hook things up, and I got the port forward done. At least I think it's done; I can't test it until I finish what I started with the top'n'tilt. So I dove into that, expecting another dose of trial and error, and wasn't disappointed. It takes a dozen hydraulic hoses to make it work, and with none of them marked, it was yet more trial and error to figure out what went where. Thought I'd be able to finish, but I misread a torque spec and broke a bolt. Got a nice bang out of it when it let go, and thought I'd be in trouble but there was still a thread connecting the two pieces and the stub came almost all the way out with the rest of the bolt. There was just enough of the stub sticking out to grab with my fingers when the two pieces finally came apart. And instead of calling the Kubota dealer for a replacement, the mom'n'pop fastener store in town had replacements in stock.

That was a good time to quit, and with temps in the 90s, slip into a pair of running shorts and flip flops and hit the shower on the back porch. A couple of cold beers didn't hurt anything, either.

Solar contractor sent a text message that he'd be back on Tuesday next week. Guess they're not in any hurry. Fire season is here, now, and it won't be long before they start turning the power off again...

Got a call yesterday that the grapple is waiting for pickup in Chico, so I'll swing by there today and do some grocery shopping, too. First I wanna finish the TNT install, while it's still cool out. Just three more hoses to go. What could go wrong?:confused2:

Hang in there, gang, Friday's comin'!:thumbsup:

 

[RedNeckGeek]

think about all the tools and equipment you have accumulated over your life. My job this morning is to make a list of the bare essentials to take with me:
small phillips head
medium phillips hear
small gripping plier
cutting pliers
small adjustable wrench'
etc
etc
all my nice Dewalt and Makita power tools aren't making the cut, pun intended. Was told shipping and storage too expensive. I almost objected but kept my mouth shut, both my brothers are doing the manual labor. But to reduce all you have owned, and collected, and saved for, over a lifetime to what amounts to a homeowner assortment, it's humbling. One thing I will not give up is a set of nice British wood chisels with rosewood handles. Worked on many a birdhouse with them. Someday I'll get back to this.

Reading that gave me a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach, Drew. One of my first power tools was an electric drill, and I can't imagine life without a battery powered version these days. And at least one pair of Vise Grips. And a saber saw that runs off the same battery as the drill, and an impact driver, same battery. But I hear what you're saying about your brothers doing the work, and you're very lucky to have them. You can always buy new tools as you need them, and the battery driven ones will probably be better than what you have now. Small consolation, huh?:grumpy:

 

[Rich B1]

Good morning! A very pleasant 61 now, supposed to get to 77 later. Big improvement over the last couple of days.

We got a lot of rumbles of thunder, a wall of rain for a few minutes, and hardly any wind last night. But lots of wind damage north of here.

Haven稚 been posting much, internet has been acting up for a week now. I think the provider is ready to give up. They have no idea what is wrong and are unable to make it work reliably. Spent a lot of time with the tech here this week. He is frustrated.

Have been putting head gaskets in another Kohler engine. I think this may be head gasket update #5 or so in my years of dealing with Kohler Twins. Got interrupted a lot with the internet tech in and out, but it went fairly smooth until time to install the fan shroud. It kicked my butt. Think I had it back off 4 times. Didn稚 help I was tired and dehydrated. But engine started and ran good when I was done. Now we have back up for mowing duties. My wife simply likes hand lever control for motion control, which is basically extinct in heavy duty mowers. So I get to keep 2 Craftsman garden tractors alive since they are simple, they have hand lever motion control, and share a lot of parts. And most of the parts are from Kohler, Hydrogear, or Husqvarna.

There is an electrical mainline in the hollow across the road, Tuesday night, we were herding birds into the barn for the night, heard a loud crack, then got a fireworks show when a dead tree fell across the lines. The poles and wires were doing a lot of dancing. Reported it to the power company, they had a truck inspecting lines and poles out yesterday. Tree was pretty good size. Maybe I can convince the power company guys to drag the tree out from under the lines and somehow deposit on my field so I can harvest it for fire wood.

Get well Drew

Condolences for those that have suffered losses recently.

Political leanings....I am also surprised by how conservative some musicians I know tend to be. Couple of them make Attilla the Hun seem like a progressive liberal :laughing: I consider myself to be a conservative, libertarian, anarchist. Sometimes hard to wrap my head around.

Everyone stay safe out there

 

[wngsprd]

RNG, grapple! :cool2: Never tried 2,4-D. Always worry about what gets into the groundwater...well is only 40 feet. Just came in from inspecting places I sprayed and all are yellowing nicely.

I don't have solar, but got my electric ebill notice...this month's charge is -$30.99...that's minus thirty bux. Nice being a coop "owner" and getting a capital credit every year.

 

[Bird]

think about all the tools and equipment you have accumulated over your life. My job this morning is to make a list of the bare essentials to take with me:
small phillips head
medium phillips hear
small gripping plier
cutting pliers
small adjustable wrench'
etc
etc
all my nice Dewalt and Makita power tools aren't making the cut, pun intended. Was told shipping and storage too expensive. I almost objected but kept my mouth shut, both my brothers are doing the manual labor. But to reduce all you have owned, and collected, and saved for, over a lifetime to what amounts to a homeowner assortment, it's humbling. One thing I will not give up is a set of nice British wood chisels with rosewood handles. Worked on many a birdhouse with them. Someday I'll get back to this.

I can sure understand your problem. I think at times of the many tools I have, and have not used in a long time, may never use again, but don't want to give them up yet. I figure as sure as I get rid of them, I'll need them again. Things like the little table saw, the bench grinder, big assortment of screw drivers of all sizes and types, new paint brushes, etc. Good luck with your sorting of ones to keep and ones to let go.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Good morning. It's a very nice 62° here this morning and going to 90° this afternoon.

I spent yesterday a.m. on the Kubota ZT mowing around the trees and close to fence line in our 9 acre "yard" then on the LS and RFM after lunch. I got most of it done and should finish this morning.

If the wind stays down, this afternoon, I'll mix a batch of RM43 and surfactant to spray our fence lines.

Hope everyone has an enjoyable "Friday Eve".

Prayers to all.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! Thursday June 11, 2020. (for Drew). (I cheated I looked on my Dad's old time/date clock I have in the study.) A surprising 58˚F with clear skies, I did not think that I would see the 50s for another 5 months.

We filled the dump trailer up 10 times with cedars and vines and under tree brush. I had 3 people dragging the cedars to pile as I was cutting. It sure is nice not having to stop all the time to do that. I used two tanks of fuel on the chainsaw. I got it down to about 7 cuts per 10-15' tall cedar. The base of the cedars were 4-10". They are hauling the brush to a large pile to the back of the park where some type of machine will chew it up, not a mulcher, I think it mounted on front of a skid steer.

Drew when I made the move I was able to keep most my hand tools and I put the rest in Mom's garage. I have retrieved a few working on brush control and the garden in this county.

While our country house was being built we lived 6 months is the "shack-in-the-back". 12x20 = 240 sq ft., but we did have a garage and a barn, and a large patio.
Hope your new normal has you feeling comfortable as can be, if not I'm sure you can make it so.

Bird, you are not allowed to fall down without your bubble wrap overalls.