Good morning!!!!

[buckeyefarmer]

Happy “official” birthday Randy and Ken.
Hope party went well yesterday Randy.

Had a very loud close lightning strike wake me in the night. We finally got some good rain after everything yesterday went around. At least 2 storms in the night.

Another night sleeping in the chair. I’m sure I’m doing too much with my arm. Last evening I mowed the rest of the lawn I didn’t do the week before. Grass was tall in spots, not in others.
Grilled burgers for supper to go with our corn from the garden. Could have been eating corn a little earlier.
I moved my basement access point closer to the middle of the house, which has improved my signal in Family room.

 

[Buppies]

68 high of 88 more storms today lots of rain Monday and Tuesday

Toppop now you are way older than me

Ken Happy Birthday

Prayers for all

 

[Buppies]

Tornado on ground yesterday a couple of counties north of us

Time to clean cars

Regrade area that is only dirt install more straw

 

[wngsprd]

74 going to 95. Got another light shower late yesterday, so everything's good and wet.

Well, I hope the birthday boys have a great day! Happy Birthday Randy and Ken!

Ron, sorry about those yellow jackets! I usually find one or two ground nests each year, but none so far this year, and haven't seen them flying around or stealing hummingbird juice...although the wasps are taking their share.

Don, glad that collar is working. Sounds like Whipper is a good trainable dog with a good master. Coco barked to go outside at about 1am...hopefully this need will stop once these meds are finished. So I joined BEF in the sleeping in the lazyboy club at that point.

Kyle, we're maybe 100 crow miles give or take from the coast on the Eastern Shore, but often get rains and blown over trees and lose electricity from hurricanes. This one's just a tropical storm, but we're predicted to get 4 to 6 inches of rain.

Speaking of Eastern Shore and NASA and rockets, Randy do you ever see the rocket lift-offs from Wallops Island? I went duck and brant hunting one time right off the island in the mouth of the sound, but no rockets that day.

Got most of the mowing complete yesterday but it took until 4pm for the grass to dry out enough.

Rip, hope you're doing okay and your projects don't get caught up in this storm.

 

[ronjhall]

Drinking first cup of coffee. 67° with rain this morning. Heading to 72° with some continued rain and thunderstorms. Did not get much done yesterday. Started playing with drone and before long it was time to get in house out of rain. Did find out that drone did not like operating on my old iPad Mini 2. Switched app to my iPhone 8 plus. Ran it out 1/4 mile and back with no problems. Will do inside house work today.
Day Lilly that I forgot about near mailbox.

Drew, stay safe. I saw pictures from storm that hit TX. Most of the damage seems to be from stuff that was not tied down.

David, have never used the flash light app on my watch. It works. Never have had luck using it to answer calls.

Mostly, dinner sounds good. Did you get leftovers to take home.

RS, sparrow trap got 3 yesterday. When one got in. Seemed like it was a attractant.

Prayers for everyone. Extra ones for Jay and Peg.

Good Morning All.

 

[RoyJackson]

2020-08-02, 0817

64 right now...high about 80 and rain (maybe some thunderstorms).
Was up for a while in the middle of the night, which is why I'm posting this late (for me).
First order of business it to see if the PTO drive shaft (described in a post yesterday) extended. If it doesn't slide by hand, I'll pull it apart by tying one end to a tree, the other end to the tractor. I had to do this a few years ago too. When the mowing season is over, I remove the driveshaft from the implements and store them in the garage. This normally prevents any problems. I guess I didn't grease the drive shaft enough this year.
I'd written yesterday I dropped more limbs on the path down to the field...this to prevent knocking the cab work lights askew. I did get enough to prevent that...also lopped some low hanging branches on the trees up on the lawn. Not enough to worry about chipping yet, unless I get severely motivated

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 73F @ 5:00AM. Plenty of sunshine. High 101F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph.
Looks like Florida's gittin' walloped by Tropical Storm Isaias today. Anybody heard from Larro lately?
Good plan just hunkering down where you're at, Drew. Better to stay on familiar ground when it comes to bad weather.

An Airforce buddy of mine is stationed in Korea right now, Ron, and he's had his Mavic Air 2 up to 1500'. Sez most places have no altitude limits, and his photos cover a lot of ground from that elevation! Hope the stings don't bother you too much.

Gave up wearing a watch when I retired, Don, and don't see a need to go back to one now. That might change if my health starts to fail, especially with Apple's focus on turning the watch into a medical snooping device.:laughing:

Thanks for the SpaceX link, Rick. Be nice to have those boys back on the ground safely.

Hope you get the A/C straightened out soon, Phil. Will the new unit save you some money through higher efficiency?

I have lists of lists, Kyle. I'd never get anything done without them. They sync automatically in real time between the laptop and phone, so they're always at hand to consult or update. Kinda hard on the screen scratchin' 'em off when they're done, though, so I either mark them as "done" or erase them altogether.

Verified that the auto leveling on the M62 fails at slow boom speeds in both the up and down directions yesterday, and that increasing the RPMs to build better hydraulic pressure doesn't make a difference, either. Also ran the test on the tilt cylinder, and it appears to be leak free. I haven't mentioned the broken eye on the top cylinder to the Oregon Kubota dealer yet, but I'd like to figure out a way to test it as well before I do.

Pulled the plug back out of the firetruck sump yesterday and drilled and tapped it for 1/2" NPT. I found an old brass valve in the junk drawer along with a short nipple, and used them to replace the tiny air compressor tank sized drain valve that was already on the plug. Figure that'll save me some time if I ever have to drain the tank without having to fire up the main pump. I went over the instructions that came with the coating yesterday to see when it would be dry enough to test, and the only thing I could find was to try scratching it with a nail. The nail left a mark, so I let it go another day. This morning I'll put a foot or so of water in the tank and look for leaks, then fire up the pump and see how well that works. If everything checks out I'll get the lid back on and put the grates back in place. There are a couple water lines that get hooked back up as well, one of them went through the material on the hatch that was replaced. I'll need to get back up there with the welder to reattach that one. Then repaint the repairs, but it'll probably be too hot for paint by that time.

Hope everyone enjoys the rest of their weekend!

 

[txdon]

Good morning! A cool 71˚F, feels like 71˚F, Wet bulb temp (the lowest I have seen it) at 69˚F. Humidity is 87%. Wind N@2mph

Drew the Tempest weather station would be good for you because it has no moving parts. My country weather station always had spiders and the rain measurement cup would be be inoperable.

I did good on redirection of the four sprinkler heads. No false rain alerts during the automatic lawn watering session last night.

Swim session went well only 5 people doing laps well spaced. I let the watch know that this workout was a pool swim and it went into water lockout mode, then back to regular mode after I was finished. In lockout mode the sensitivity of the face of the watch is deactivated so it does not always stay on with water touching it.

RNG wait till the Apple Watch series 6 comes out - it will have a pulse oximeter, along with ECG and pule rate that it has now. (this is the first watch I've worn since retirement, except on the cruise ship where I did not carry my phone. (didn't want to miss the ship leaving the ports.)

Happy Birthday Randy and Ken.

 

[toppop52]

74 going to 95. Got another light shower late yesterday, so everything's good and wet.

Well, I hope the birthday boys have a great day! Happy Birthday Randy and Ken!

Ron, sorry about those yellow jackets! I usually find one or two ground nests each year, but none so far this year, and haven't seen them flying around or stealing hummingbird juice...although the wasps are taking their share.

Don, glad that collar is working. Sounds like Whipper is a good trainable dog with a good master. Coco barked to go outside at about 1am...hopefully this need will stop once these meds are finished. So I joined BEF in the sleeping in the lazyboy club at that point.

Kyle, we're maybe 100 crow miles give or take from the coast on the Eastern Shore, but often get rains and blown over trees and lose electricity from hurricanes. This one's just a tropical storm, but we're predicted to get 4 to 6 inches of rain.

Speaking of Eastern Shore and NASA and rockets, Randy do you ever see the rocket lift-offs from Wallops Island? I went duck and brant hunting one time right off the island in the mouth of the sound, but no rockets that day.

Got most of the mowing complete yesterday but it took until 4pm for the grass to dry out enough.

Rip, hope you're doing okay and your projects don't get caught up in this storm.

Yes, I see a lot of the launches including the moon mission a few years back.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Good morning to all! Low of 56, going for 90 again. Chance of some T-storms. Got cloudy yesterday, thought a storm would form, but nada...

BEF, hope your shoulder pain goes away soon!

Drew, hold on tight, hope there are no leaks, hope the storm stays manageable.

Ron, thanks for the flower pic.... all our flowers are long done.

Thomas, enjoy your puttering about!

Wng, hope you don't get any trees down and not too much flooding.

Rng, hope the water test goes as planned and you can get it sealed back up.

I did not go over the neighbors yesterday, he was not feeling well, so he rescheduled the posts for another day.
I was able to rip down all the oak for the bench slats and cut for size. I will get them sanded and stained today, maybe start assembling tomorrow.

Today is also irrigation day, so monitoring the drip system and switching zones every 1 1/2 hours will be on the agenda. That is about the only function on my iPhone that I use... the timer w/ alarm, oh and maybe the calculator every now and then....

Hope everyone has a nice day!