Good morning!!!!

[Buppies]

Wow cool 28 this morning high of 49 today no rain till next Thursday if then. Glad you are back wngspred

Hopeall had a wonderful day. Worked today got 360 tons of stone down more tomorrow

prayers for all our Country

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Well, spent a bunch of money today, ordered all the materials. I'll stockpile them until I can get around better and actually be able to do more than just walk. I haven't even tried to get on the tractor.

I figured since I became a pro at spending money in just a few clicks, I continued the trend and ordered a side link.... Woohoo! I am now fully hydraulic!

 

[LouNY]

I never considered selling my old oil burner. Hummm. It’s a smith.
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Your boiler was a Smith or possibly an A.O.Smith with a Becket AFG burner.
My boiler is an A.O.Smith 5 section with the Becket "AFG" burner thinking back it has burned over 30,000 gallons of fuel oil in it's life. When the kids were all at home and I hadn't put the coal insert in we would run between 1300-1500 gallons of oil per year. (5 girls use a lot of hot water) I'm down to under a 1000 gallons a year now, 800 last year. Reminds me I better go stick the tank soon and see what it looks like.
I've seen them for sale every were's from a $100 to $900 this fall.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

@ Gale Hawkins

Funny, My wife and I have started taking Vitamin D3 etc and she had to go for a blood test last week. The Dr looked at the results and said, "hmm, are you taking Vitamin D?" She laughed and said yes. It showed up as a 70 in the results.

That is great especially going into fall season soon. While Covid-19 has been more deadly in our part of the world I think the wake up call will lead to a net gain health wise for the world. Millions have been suffering and dying prematurely due to Vit D deficiencies world wide for decades. In 2013 in the middle of summer my level was 22 ng/ml and a year later it was 28. The doctor said get serious about shooting for 90 ng/ml. The kids where 15 and watching my health failing fast and using electric scooters for shopping and going to parks with them. Oct 2014 I chose life over death and can't even find a walking cane that were once in every vehicle and tied to the tractor in case I broke down and had to walk home. Oct 2014 was when I painfully ditched foods and drinks containing added sugars and any form of any grain and hope came to me more real for the future.

You sure live in a beautiful part of the world that I want to see someday.

 

[Alien]

It's funny, when you live somewhere it is all taken for granted. I moved to Australia in 1976 and it wasn't until I had a few return trips to New Zealand that I realized what a beautiful country it was. As I travel around Australia, the diversity amazes me. It is all so different. We are very happy here and have no intention of ever moving again. Everything is so convenient where we are. Just need to get some health issues sorted and life will be wonderful.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 33F for the start, clear sky, light breeze. Light wind day, clear sky, and high temp was 61F. Puttered some this morning then replaced tube on Volagi, after inspecting tire for glass. Stayed on Peugeot for the ride. Took wife to Dentist, and got nap in.
Covid update: Cooke 3058 confirmed cases, 43 active cases, Montague 1706 confirmed cases, 27 active cases, Grayson 10839 confirmed cases, 121 active cases, local 5 active cases.
Kyle I think he was in the Gulf, but not sure He left on another trip after less than a week home
Roy been on both sides on that issue hope they can fix your login soon
Bill the rusting issue, like GM's early 70's truck? (Had 73 Blazer).
Phil have had birds fly into house, even at night
Ron, Glad Sassy had good birthday, Sounds like you are having fun with the Mule, nice bird pic
Drew sounds like good action plan, you could follow yourself
Rich have a good weekend racing
Paul glad Tempest seems to be working for you, that is a impressive amount of stuff on that filter
Thomas glad you could handle outside chores
Don I bet the royalties are pouring in Glad you can help with ice clean up.
RNG glad firewood processing going well and makes a good campfire to boot
Rick that would be part of the upgrade, more than likely too late to do anything.
Rick good luck with air compressor
Ted very sorry about another bad night. Glad you can get your materials now
Randy glad you could get your login fixed
David great pic
RS wife will just send me out with firmer instruction to stick to the list
Randy hope you can make a deal happen on UTV
David hope the 1/4 in steel fixes the cracked frame. Have fun with new belts on Skag
Randy good luck with Nativity scene, and leather chair, glad second shot went better, my first did not do anything, and second is next Thursday.
Drew somehow I thing something will come along with your name on it.
Gale Hawkins interesting post.
David sorry about the more rain, sure that the grass is growing faster with the additional rain
Don thanks for update good news
Thomas sorry about limbs, sounds cold up there. great pic
Doug did he say anything else? At least the extra D showed in the blood work.
Billy glad you are back, even if your memory is as bad as mine.
Tom that one does not appear discounted yet
Dennis good luck with getting a new project
Buppies looks like you are back, put down a lot of rock
Doug hope you can get your heal issues sorted out
prayers for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle's daughter/sister & family Covid/friend's grand baby/son&wife Covid, David(moss)/remodel/divorce, Ron/hearing/son/aunt, Phil/reflux/wife's eyes, Dennis/older brother/son, Grev/wife's eye, Randy/family, Bill/DIL, Ted/knee recovery, Buppies/cancer removal, Doug and wife/health issues, and Country.
stay safe and healthy you all.

 

[sodamo]

My 1/4” steel came early. Got a good start on the Craftsman frame repair in between showers.
4 plates, 2 1/2x 4, 4 3/8” bolts per side. 1plate each side of frame, sandwiching break.

This shows the back plates in place. Need to get the frame properly aligned. Have an idea I will try tomorrow.

As suspected I didn’t have the appropriate nuts and bolts, only have 1” and I need 1 1/2”. Guess will be making trip to HD tomorrow.

 

[Alien]

David, did you drop it off a trailer or something similar?

 

[sodamo]

Nope, nothing that exciting. Just Sophie mowing our rural acreage. Probably a combination of speed and roughness. I tease her that she is hard on her stuff.

This appears to be a known weakness.

 

[RoyJackson]

2021-03-03, 0253

17 right now...no wind, so much more tolerable then yesterday's 5 degrees and breezy...
High in the upper 30's today

Still working the password problem...still not getting the confirmation e-mail. Randy, you mentioned you had the same problem...what did TBN Admin do to square it away?