Good morning!!!!

[Bird]

Went to my 8 year old grandson痴 baseball game, I can稚 believe the skill level he has developed. Two unassisted outs at third, including a high pop up that he never would have handled last year, and two assists to first base. Had a double, two singles with 4 RBI and 2 runs scored. I know I知 the only one who cares, but I知 a proud pop pop.

Whether anyone "cares" or not, we certainly understand the pride.:laughing:

 

[Frankenkubota]

Another busy day, but at least it痴 keeping me from rioting at night

Storm on the radar in south PA heading this way. Got the rest of potatoes dug tonight, so rain away.
Went and got 4 cans of gas also, after about filling the ZT.

If I put down wood flooring I値l have to trim a lot of door frames. In kitchen do you butt up to cabinet bottoms or set cabinets on top of wood flooring? My sheet flooring was installed before my cabinets. I would prefer cabinets on top of flooring, which is a lot more work.

Radar looks like we might get just some dampness soon, all the heavy stuff vanished from the radar near us.

As a DIYer I致e put down or helped to put down 15 wood floors. My brother spent way over $100 on knee pads, don稚 work. I知 building a new house on slab and sooner or later will put down some kind o& floor.

If you go under the cabinets you will use a lot more material but won稚 have to be too careful with your end cuts.

In the past I致e always been redoing a floor, not new construction so I butt up to the cabinet kick plate and put down base.

1 thing I learned the hard way. If you are going over an existing wood floor, You must put down plywood first. I cheated once and went right over the osb. The osb drys out, the nails loosen and you got wavy floors! I also leave a little room on the ends cause, the floor moves!

If I were to put down a wooden floor on an existing wooden floor, I壇 nail it and glue it! Probably a waste of time and money but, no wavy floors!

Good luck

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 81F @ 4:30AM. Plentiful sunshine. Areas of smoke and haze are possible, reducing visibility at times. High near 110F. Winds light and variable.
A Fire Weather Watch will start Monday evening, lasting through Wednesday morning, with low humidity, strong wind, and very low moisture content in wildland fuels causing any fire starts to spread rapidly. Coinciding with the Watch, PG&E (America's largest and most successful domestic terrorist organization) has started blasting warnings via email, telephone, and social media, that they will initiate the ironically named Public Safety Power Outages over much of Northern California starting Monday evening, lasting into the following Thursday. So tens of thousands of people here will be plunged into darkness in the middle of the night, and their ability to pump water to fight any fires that may arise will be gone unless they've made preparations to generate their own electricity. Or maybe they won't shut the power off after all, because it all depends on the weather, and so far their success in accurate predictions isn't that great. In the mean time, all of us out here on the left coast will stay hunkered down, fingers crossed that the generators, batteries, and solar panels will do their thing and keep us safe.

Sorry about the TBN outage, Eric. The extremes our governments are willing to go to in order to keep us safe are alarming. Why just yesterday, one of our idiot legislators in Sacramento proposed a "Wealth Tax" on anyone with a net worth of over $30,000,000. Because COVID-19, you know, and we're all hurting, and need someone else to make up the taxes lost when these same people shut down businesses state wide, losing all those payroll taxes and driving unemployment payments through the roof. You can't make this kind of stuff up.

And there's a move in the same legislative body to legalize unspeakable sex acts on children. How low can they go?

The world would be a far better place if people would not mix politics and business, Drew. But the two insist on intertwining in a death spiral that could very well bankrupt the whole country come the next election. Just another sign of the approaching Apocalypse.

Yes, distance and masks for all, Randy. Be safe at the party.

Still dreamin' about flannel jackets, and now slices of pineapple upside down cake, Billy!

Careful, RS, my Snap-On man sez he can tell when someone busted a non-impact socket with an impact wrench. But he still gives 'em a new one. What are ya gonna do when you run out of stuff to plant?

Your dogs are eatin' pretty high on the hog, Ted. But I doubt Don would approve of such a diet for you or I...:laughing:

You know what's worse than finding a worm in your tuna, Drew? Finding half a worm.:laughing:

Same issue out here with the walls, only it's the metal mesh under the stucco that screws up the reception. If you're not trying to go very far, some of the Unifi APs have separate antennas you can swap out for directional Yagi types. Or you can opt for the nanoBeam bridges, and put APs at each end for good coverage in areas that are too far apart for a continuous blanket. Yeah, I know, you wanna stream music or your favorite talk channels everywhere on your property so you can listen while you mow. You can do that, it just takes time and money, like most things worth doing.

Sounds like kitty is earning her keep, Kyle, and no wonder you want her to be an outside cat. Got any pichers of Camp Mabry? Haven't been interested in any modern motorcycles for at least ten years now, so you can keep any from that dealership...:laughing:

Tried out my plan with the multimeter out in the garage, and found that the outlet on the workbench was wired with only two leads and no ground, even though the sockets had the hole for one. My own fault, as it was little more than an extension cord I'd made up years ago, undoubtedly using what I already had on hand instead of what I should have. So I moved over to a GVI outlet, which instantly tripped when I attached the ground lead to the oscilloscope because some of the return current was being shared by both the neutral lead and the actual ground. Undaunted, I moved into the house where I found an outlet in the hall that cooperated, my reward being a nice sine wave on the o'scope's screen. I also succeeded in transferring some of the captured data to a USB thumb drive, and reading it back into the laptop. Problem was, it was a CSV file with over 3,000,000 data points, and the Apple Numbers app choked on it. So I opened it in a text editor and cut it down to just one half cycle of the 1 kHz test wave that I was measuring, and that was still 30,000 points. I got a plot, though. That had me searching for a way to set the sampling rate and duration, and for how to get just that selection into a data file. No dice, as either the o'scope isn't designed to work that way, or I'm too dumb to figure out the somewhat ChEnglish instructions that I downloaded from the manufacturer's website. Probably the latter, so I'll keep trying today. But I also found an out let in the office that had the neutral and hot leads swapped, so I ordered an eight dollar socket tester from Amazon so I could check the rest of 'em.

All that fiddlin' tired me out, so I got a nap in yesterday afternoon, too.

Got a little work to get ready for the upcoming power outages, making sure the solar powered flashlights are charged and such. I don't see any need to run the generator while I'm sleeping, so I plan to open it's breaker at bedtime so it won't come on automatically when the batteries discharge far enough. But that also means no A/C or even ceiling fan, overnight, and I'm not looking forward to that.

Hope everyone enjoys the rest of their weekend!

 

[Buppies]

Thanks Bup ... I really enjoy doing it ... which makes any associated pain a little more tolerable ... :laughing:

Your avatar is always an inspiration ... :thumbsup:

Thank you

 

[RedNeckGeek]

BTW, Goodyear's latest Endurance trailer tires are very well thought of...

So were the so called Green Balls I put on the neighbor's car trailer, Drew. He still managed to shred one.:shocked:

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 73˚F. The tempest weather station is having hiccups. It goes off line then goes on line. It missed about half of the rain fall yesterday,( almost 1.5" total). It is plugged into the UPS so there is no interruption of power. The only other remedy's is to move the receiver closer to the window and away from the UPS. I have an email sent to Weatherflow. All their troubleshooting is to get the tempest on line but nothing tell what to do with an intermittent problem. RNG could figure it out but he's not a normal person.

Ted thanks for the recipe. That is a lot of food but at least I can cut it down proportionally. I think we got Whipper a bad batch of dog food so we threw the bag away and that cleared up the problem, but I need to also be ready to make my own dog food also there are just too many recalls lately.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Don, one of the things I forgot to mention is the overall amount of "organ meat" (beef liver or chicken liver) should not exceed 10% of the total meat content: eg. 10lbs of beef and chicken = 1lb of organ meat.

Also, we add 1/2 cup of apple cider vinegar to the mix.

Ron, yes the whole batch gets frozen, we usually make a new batch about 4 days before the old batch in finished. The size of this batch lasts us a month plus a few days. You can make smaller batches by appropriate proportions of ingredients. It doesn't have to be perfect.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Good morning. It was 72° / 90% humidity this morning and our high is forecast to 92° this afternoon.

We had forecast of likely rain on Friday so .. I hooked up the chain harrow on the 55 HP tractor and went out to level old gopher mounds in our pastures.



I got two pastures done and by about 3 p.m. we were getting lightning in our area. I checked radar and a huge red cell was coming our way, from the south, so I parked the tractor outside so any rain would help wash off the dust from our recent rainless times. I decided to work on a couple of shop project and see what the weather would bring us. It got dark enough that all the outside security lights came on then the temperature start dropping noticeably and It went from 90° to 73° in less than 20 minutes. I just got started, in the shop and the sky opened up and high winds from the south. The south end of the shop has a 16' x 14' roll up door and the shop roof extends 16' beyond the door. I had to close the O/H door .. as rain was blowing 15-20' inside the shop. The storm lasted over an hour but .. gave us 2 1/2" of much needed rain. It likely won't end our burn ban but more rain is predicted for Tuesday night and Wednesday.

Hope everyone has a great holiday weekend?

Prayers to all.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Good morning to all! Low finally dropped to the low 50s early this morning.... it was still 74 at 11:00 last night.... Record high temps predicted for today and tomorrow, then the opposite for Tuesday.... a drop of almost 45 degree difference in the highs. We are starting the fal roller coaster temp swings...

Yesterday my son and I did some compressor maintenance and moved its location in the shop. He opened up the drain valve on the bottom (something that I always put off until tomorrow) and only a few drops oozed out. He then removed the entire valve assembly..... just a slight hiss and a few more drops.... mmmm.....

Then before I could tell him that what he was about to do wasn't a good idea, he shoved a small screwdriver up into the hole..... WHOOOOSSSHHHH!!!
He was instantly slimed with brown thick goo.... from his pant legs up to his head.... slicked his hair back like it was the 50's.....

I could not help but laugh out loud... hard! He even had to laugh after the initial shock wore off.... my guess is about a gallon of that gunk shot out in about 5 seconds.... there was a metal pan under the compressor which helped to perfectly direct the fluid at him....

We were still laughing about it a few hours later. It will be remembered for a long time..... one of those father / son stories for sure....

Anyway, got it all cleaned up, then added some 3/8" pipe with a ball valve to make draining it a lot easier....

Today I need to finish cleanup in the shop....

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

The second project of the day was the tooth bar install on the tractor.... that too did not go as planned. The tooth bar was a perfect fit.... at the front cutting edge on the bucket only. Apparently LS tapers the buckets on the sides, getting smaller front to rear. There was no way to bend the side mounting bars to fit.

So, we cut off the tabs, put the bar in place, and re-welded the mounts back on to follow the angle. I'll drill the bucket and get it mounted after I finish cleaning up the shop.....

Everyone have a great day!