Good morning!!!!

daugen · Jun 12, 2020

Ron,your pics just keep getting better and better.
Buppies, what are your favorite guns to target practice with? Mostly long guns? Paper targets? beer cans?

growing up on a farm that had its own (now illegal) dump was great fun. Take a box of ..22 shorts down with me, out in the middle of nowhere, very safe, and blast away at old refrigerators, tin cans lined up, how many can you hit with one bullet? I've never been a hunter, used to shoot squirrels and rabbits on farm to protect their damaging rodent like ways, but one day I hit a rabbit in the rear end and it went squealing into the woods and I felt horrible. One thing to dispatch, another to harm and hurt. I never shot another animal again, until a rabid ground hog and red fox met their end to the family shot gun. I have a great deal of respect for proper hunters who go out to bring in the food, and have always liked venison.

had a shower, shave, and ready for the day.

RedNeckGeek · Jun 12, 2020

Good Morning!!!! 66F @ 4:00AM. Scattered clouds with the possibility of an isolated thunderstorm developing this afternoon. High 82F. Winds SSE at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 30%.

Are you able to recycle cardboard there, RS? The recycle centers out here are all still closed due to CV19, and I can't throw it away fast enough.

You guys are laughing about bubble wrap jackets? Now you can wear an airbag. Sorry, Rick, they beat you to the punch!:laughing:

Hope the procedure goes well and you don't suffer too much, Drew. Good news about getting kicked loose on Monday. Maybe swapping between the two internet connections resets everything so it works again? When Sudden Link goes down have you ever tried swapping to Verizon and then back again to see if that fixes it?

I'm wondering if the TSC trans lube didn't have a role to play in the gear face failures on the old tractor, David. SUDT is expensive, but gears are out of this world! I'll remember that Simple Green/Dawn trick; I usually use Gunk and it's both expensive and smelly.

Very creative on that boardwalk, Ted. But all that wood on the ground has my fire alarm going off...

The route by the sportsman's club sounds good, Paul. You can always stop for "refreshments" if you need to.:laughing:

Caught a doe sleeping under the new solar panel array the other day, Ken. Now looking into solar powered electric fencing. Good luck with the roof!

Good luck snagging that firewood, Rich. Did you lose power when the tree came down on the lines?

I think there are a LOT of people that would jump at the chance to form an electrical cooperative to replace PG&E, Billy. Latest salt in the wound is that it looks like they'll be removing a dam holding back a little lake called Pilsbury because they say they can no longer afford to maintain it. Hundreds of homes along the shore, thousands of fish, a herd of elk, what are they all supposed to do with no water?

Wanna know what else? PG&E plans to pay a $4 million penalty with funds in a $13.5 billion settlement with wildfire survivors.:shocked:

That sounds like hard work, Don. How you feelin' this morning? Any signs of the chainsaw leak?

Nice shot of the waterlogged butterfly, Ron. Cute pups, too!

Finished the top'n'tilt install before I went to town yesterday, and when I got back I put the new bolts in the spool stack and hosed all the fittings off with solvent. Followed that up with a water hose bath for the whole tractor, thinking hydro leaks will be easier to spot if everything is otherwise clean and dry. Testing for leaks is job one this morning, followed by reassembly of stuff like a fender, instrument panel, and back wheel.

The guy at the freight terminal had an ancient gas forklift he was trying to use to load the grapple onto the truck, and between the light switch clutch and the potholes in the parking lot, I thought I was gonna lose a window or a transmission. Got it done eventually; now I just need to put the tractor back together to get it unloaded.

TGIF gang!:drink:

txdon · Jun 12, 2020

Good morning! A surprisingly cold morning at 57˚F here in the valley. Restaurants can go up to 75% capacity today even though Austin had an up spike and went back to staying at home. our county went up 40 active cases. The up spike is being blamed on Memorial Day and protest in Austin. Now today I get to retrieve a patient that was mis-diagnosed before the contaminated weekend and was transferred from the treating hospital to a covid hospital in the next county at 1:00 am. in the morning 3 weeks ago. Even though the test was negative it was declared a false negative. It took two more negative test and a more definitive negative blood test to convince the Doctors to move her off the covid unit. Mom goes home today she spent the last 10 days in PT with no symptoms. She beat you by 2 days Drew.

rswyan · Jun 12, 2020

65F and sunny @ 08:00, high today predicted to be a very pleasant 74F. Ten day forecast looks good - high temps in the 70's and 80's - only calling for a 30% chance of precipitation on two days, otherwise clear apparently. Currently at +2.75" on the rainfall for the year.

Slept like a rock last night.

Opened up the Dr. Scholl's insoles and trimmed them to fit the old Ariat boots yesterday afternoon. Will try them out today ... not hoping for much, maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised. Thing I noticed is that compared to the Ariat insoles, the foam of Scholl's product is denser and seems less spongy. Ariat uses a multi-layer design (three layers, IIRC)

Expect call from fire service place to come pick up extinguishers which should be ready. I think only thing left here are three 2 1/2 pounders. Need to check them all.

Have a return that needs to go back to the Depot and it looks like I need another piece of F-channel.

Hope everyone has an productive, enjoyable, and safe day.

toppop52 · Jun 12, 2020

76 now going to 86, we got several rounds of storms last night and ended up with .8 of rain, very much welcome.
I’m going to try and mow and spray today, have to see how it goes.

Drew and everyone have a good day.

buckeyefarmer · Jun 12, 2020

Thanks for all the condolences and kind words. Been a mix of events here. Will probably head home today. Apparently the new company that took us over has already reduced benevolence leave.
Did bring the mini mavic and got a small flight in yesterday. Lots of trees, so can’t go too far but up.
My MIL will probably be selling the BX23 with front snow blade sometime. She won’t use it to mow, she uses push mower. People are volunteering to help but she tells them no.
More food here than we can eat. People keep bringing more.

Looks like everyone is staying busy and Drew will soon be free.

rswyan · Jun 12, 2020

RedNeckGeek said:
Are you able to recycle cardboard there, RS? The recycle centers out here are all still closed due to CV19, and I can't throw it away fast enough.

RNG,

Our local trash hauler provides a large (65 gallons ?) container on wheels for recyclables, slightly smaller than the similar container they provide for trash/garbage. Recyclables are picked up every other week, garbage/trash weekly. Clean cardboard is among the items they accept (so no greasy pizza boxes), along with marked plastic, paper, and metal. It usually takes us about a month to fill the recyclable container up.

This is one side benefit to government involvement in the process. Our community used to be serviced by multiple trash haulers. Well, somebody down at the mothership started thinking that maybe having all those large trucks from different companies run over the same road not collecting all the trash they were driving by wasn't the most efficient way to "git 'er done", plus mostly the additional wear on the roadways from the excess road miles (our situation on road maintenance changed bigly when we moved from being a township to being a city) ... so they announced that they were going to restrict it to a single company servicing the community and put the matter out for open bid.

Additional side benefits to that were that the company now provides the two containers (we used to have to provide our own) - which ends up better for them, because they can standardize their equipment to handle standard containers (duh) - and our bill dropped from over $90 every three months to less than $40 every three months. It has since (several years later) increased a few dollars (it's a little over $40 now) ... due to the over-abundance of recyclables and lack of demand for them.

I think the city or the county did a somewhat similar thing as far as electricity and natural gas pricing goes, only with a provision to opt out if you wish (enrollment is automatic, by default):

Save on Energy Costs | NOPEC

kenmbz · Jun 12, 2020

60 going up to 85 and Sunny! Might get some work and pool time today, but have to do a supermarket run and get medicine first after day job finishes.
Drew, glad to hear you are on track!
Mostly_gas - love reading your summaries each day , hope all is well
rswyan-glad to hear your sleeping, when I have bouts the next day is hard to face, even with coffee
txdon-good to hear your Mom is on the way home
RNG-always busy!
BEF - speaking at funerals is tough, but if it gives the family some joy you have done something great

Be well and stay safe.

buckeyefarmer · Jun 12, 2020

rswyan said:
RNG,

Our local trash hauler provides a large (65 gallons ?) container on wheels for recyclables, slightly smaller than the similar container they provide for trash/garbage. Recyclables are picked up every other week, garbage/trash weekly. Clean cardboard is among the items they accept (so no greasy pizza boxes), along with marked plastic, paper, and metal. It usually takes us about a month to fill the recyclable container up.

This is one side benefit to government involvement in the process. Our community used to be serviced by multiple trash haulers. Well, somebody down at the mothership started thinking that maybe having all those large trucks from different companies run over the same road not collecting all the trash they were driving by wasn't the most efficient way to "git 'er done", plus mostly the additional wear on the roadways from the excess road miles (our situation on road maintenance changed bigly when we moved from being a township to being a city) ... so they announced that they were going to restrict it to a single company servicing the community and put the matter out for open bid.

Additional side benefits to that were that the company now provides the two containers (we used to have to provide our own) - which ends up better for them, because they can standardize their equipment to handle standard containers (duh) - and our bill dropped from over $90 every three months to less than $40 every three months. It has since (several years later) increased a few dollars (it's a little over $40 now) ... due to the over-abundance of recyclables and lack of demand for them.

I think the city or the county did a somewhat similar thing as far as electricity and natural gas pricing goes, only with a provision to opt out if you wish (enrollment is automatic, by default):

Save on Energy Costs | NOPEC

My county tried a similar trash takeover move and were fought off with a good revolt. Most of the trash haulers are small businesses, and the large companies can’t compete on price.
Multiple companies driving the same roads is a terrible argument, especially since the county does it with their school busses. Are they going to create zones for all other private occupations? Is the county going to only allow one plumber, one electrician, one lawn care, one package delivery, etc.? They all drive large trucks all over the roads.

buckeyefarmer · Jun 12, 2020

kenmbz said:
BEF - speaking at funerals is tough, but if it gives the family some joy you have done something great
.

Thanks.
My FIL was a Lincoln, related to Abraham Lincoln. I gave a talk on the Lincoln heritage and how he related. Several in attendance had no idea. His 5G GF (president Lincoln’s GGF) bought the land including the land where the cemetery was located in 1768 while VA was still a colony. President Abe’s GF (also named Abraham)was a brother to my FIL’s 4G GF.