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   / Good morning!!!! #114,271  
Thomas, nice (well really great) job on the bucket guard! Looks factory installed!


Thanks...Had to burn couple more brain cells and sharpen my crayons real good.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #114,272  
RNG sounds like you are making good progress with the solar-too bad they couldn;t of sat down with you for a basic walk through and config

They did, and I videoed it. But you don't know what you don't know. I was never asked about the LAN address issue because he didn't check his work to realize there was a problem.

I was promised access via the OpticsRE application, but that never came because the controller was never on the internet, and they were too slow to twig to the problem. I'm hopeful that issue can be corrected this morning while we're waiting on the inspector to show up.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #114,273  
Added protection for loader pistons and arms...dang rocks.
If I used expanded metal across the snow would have pack in causing lot less lighting for night time use.

Nice job, Thomas.

Another of those things that makes you wonder what Kubota was thinking when they set up the curl cylinders that way instead of connecting the body side to the bucket instead.:confused2:
 
   / Good morning!!!! #114,274  
Nice job, Thomas.

Another of those things that makes you wonder what Kubota was thinking when they set up the curl cylinders that way instead of connecting the body side to the bucket instead.:confused2:

Thanks... Often wonder do companies send person/tech visit working sites ask equipment owners/operators for improvement ideas. :confused3:
 
   / Good morning!!!! #114,275  
68°F and no rain, may need to water the garden

Continue on from yesterday

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day
 
   / Good morning!!!! #114,276  
They did, and I videoed it. But you don't know what you don't know. I was never asked about the LAN address issue because he didn't check his work to realize there was a problem.

I was promised access via the OpticsRE application, but that never came because the controller was never on the internet, and they were too slow to twig to the problem. I'm hopeful that issue can be corrected this morning while we're waiting on the inspector to show up.

RNG
If you now have internet to the Mate3, go to OpticsRE site via Optics RE
You will need Mate MAC address.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #114,277  
Late start and a little slow to get moving today.

Was 73F, cloudy @ 12:00, with intermittent rain on and off, heavy at times. Seems to have lightened/brightened up at this point (14:00)

So much for that whole "hopefully no rain tomorrow" thing ... :rolleyes:

Should get some sun later today ... continued wind would be welcome as well. Has been blowing pretty good the last four hours or so.

Back down at the house to grab some aluminum foil to seal off the can I'm going to use to try and clean some old brushes with hardened polyurethane on them.

Way behind on catching up with replies.

Hope everyone has an enjoyable, productive, and safe day.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #114,278  
That blueberry pie, and especially the ice cream, sound delicious, RS.

It was (a Marie Callender pie) - The Woman was hoping it was not going to be too sweet and would still have some "tart" to it.

It was not overly sweet but lacked the "tart" that one of her pies would typically have.

Sounds like the Squeak might not have been the only comatose diner yesterday?

Correct ... :D

But I'm up and moving now ... :thumbsup:
 
   / Good morning!!!! #114,279  
Daughter did great in church, needed extra mic on voice, maybe next time. Proud papa Fathers day.

Billy, if you eat the sauce soon enough, you can just freeze it in baggies for 2 months. Easy peasy.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #114,280  
66°F and partly cloudy this morning, going up to 80° today. The stormy front that rolled through yesterday brought some welcome relief from the heat, even if only for a couple of days.

Did a bunch or running around for errands Saturday morning, and got almost nothing accomplished. Seemed everyone was out of everything I wanted. Stopped at the Kia dealer to pick up an oil filter, only to find that their Parts Dept is no longer open on Saturdays. Convenient for them, I guess. Stopped at the Academy store right behind them to pick up some .38 Special ammo for me and 9mm for The Wife to get in a little range practice, and their shelves in the handgun ammo section were almost completely bare. The only 9mm they had were shotshells. I did find a few boxes of .38 for me. Stopped at Harbor Freight to finally return the recalled jack stands, and swapped them for new ones. A couple other items I wanted were, of course, out of stock. On the way home, wondering where else I might try for some 9mm ammo, I remembered a little gun shop near Carlyle that I've been wanting to check out for awhile. Called them when I got home, and the guy told be he'd just gotten a shipment on Friday, and had about two dozen boxes. He said he normally closes at noon on Saturdays, which was in five minutes. I told him my predicament, and he said he'd stay open until I got there. He did, and I bought six boxes. Great guy, who has probably earned my future business.
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Sunday morning, after the morning chores, we packed up some handguns in range bags went to shoot at a new-to-us range in Pocahontas IL. An old friend had recommended the place to me years ago, but we just never found the time to go check it out. They opened at 10am, so we were there when they unlocked the doors. Nice place. We shot for about 45 minutes, and had the place to ourselves for about the first half hour. She brought her 9mm S&W Shield and .380 Ruger LCP, and I shot three of my .38/.357 revolvers. Enjoyed it, and will probably go back when we want to shoot indoors out of the weather. We went home, and I cleaned the guns while The Wife was taking care of the dogs, then we headed back out to a place in O'Fallon IL for our CCW renewal class. Instructor was fun and efficient, and we were out of there in under two hours and heading to another range in Columbia IL for qualification shooting. This was the same range we qualified at last time, kind of out in the middle of nowhere, and they have peacocks roaming around the grounds. Magnificent birds. And noisy. We got the shooting done, everyone qualified first try, took a group photo (which I haven't seen yet), and were on our way. Full day of shooting stuff, and I didn't hate that at all. Haven't been doing enough of that lately, something I've always enjoyed. Plus, now we have that silliness out of the way for another five years.

My boss called me Friday afternoon and asked if I could take some parts to a customer in north central Illinois Monday morning. When I hesitated, he asked if I had a scheduling conflict. I told him, "No, just the last time I drove up there for another customer back in February, it cost me a car." I agreed to do it, though. When I got there Monday morning to drop off the parts, I was met by their Quality Engineer. Nice guy, but he had a problem he needed resolved. That saw me there all day sorting parts for them. Not something I'd hoped to do, but staying and doing it made for some great customer relations, and they expressed their gratitude several times before I left. The 2-1/2 hour drive home tuned into a little over three hours due to some rather whopper storms passing through the state yesterday afternoon. Just north of Springfield on I-55, I almost pulled over, as even the trucks had slowed to about 20mph. We just couldn't see. Just as I was thinking about pulling off, it suddenly slowed to a drizzle. There were cars all over the place; in the ditches on both sides, up the embankments, and a white Camero with a new guard rail hood ornament. It started getting heavy again just south of Springfield, and again when it let up there were accidents everywhere. The northbound lanes were shut down by an accident, which I passed just in time to see them righting a tractor trailer which had tipped over onto a car ... fortunately only the trunk area was smashed. The rest of the drive home was relatively uneventful, and just in and out of rain. When I got home, the ground there was still dry as a bone.

Wife picked up the new foster dog yesterday. Her name is Nadia, she's a deaf and blind (double merle) Australian Shepherd, about two years old, and she was surrendered by her former owner to a high-kill shelter in the Little Rock AR area. One of the volunteers there got in touch with the Speak St. Louis organization to get them to rescue her before she was put down. The shelter had been keeping her in a cage that they clean with a power washer ... without removing the dogs. So, Speak STL got their volunteers to get her out and ferry her to St. Louis, where she ended up with us, as my Wife is their unofficial official trainer for blind and deaf dogs. Just in the few hours she'd been there before I got home, The Wife had already taught her touch commands for "come", "food", "water", and "outside". She was already house broken, and gives a low bark when she needs to go. She's a very gentle girl, and has no problems with strangers, other dogs, or cats. Here's a pic of her with our three stooges just hanging out in the kitchen last night.
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