Good morning!!!!

[LS Tractor Owner]

Good morning to all! Low of 48, going up to high 70's. Wind comes in tomorrow, state-wide, gusts to 50. No precip.

Eric, beautiful place! nice tractor too! How many acres (or do you call them hectares?) do you have?. Do you ever have to mow or do the sheep keep it well manicured?
There is a show we watch that is made by the BBC.... called "Midsomer Murders".... they could do some 'on-location' filming at your place.

Another restless and sleepless night last night. Dr's appointments are scheduled, but still a week out for one, 2 weeks for the next.... They don't really express much concern, but one would think they would want this controlled.....

Off to PT (physical torture) shortly....

Everyone have a great day!

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

RNG, nice area to ride. How much further can you go once the snow is cleared? Appears that it could have been a chilly ride.

 

[kenmbz]

Mornin, sun is out.
Had BiL/Sil and dog over yesterday for easter. Wife did most of the cooking since I'm still not back to full strength.
Got the uprights pounded in for the raised planters. Some seeds started in prep to go out.
Lots of Daffodils, original and some I planted are coming up, sunlight from woods affects when they open in different areas. Some are full bloom, some are just getting ready.

LS- sorry to hear about your knees acting up
Happy Anniversary BEF!

I am way behind in cleaning up falling branches and raking out dead grass from beds.
Planting will start this week too.

Stay safe and be well

 

[toppop52]

37-70, 58 right now.
I’m headed out to see if I can move enough stuff around to get my deck on the MF and get the Cub spray rig out, finally put the new battery in it and got it running Saturday.
I need to make a fuel run for gas and diesel, someday I’m going to find a diesel garden tractor to replace the Cub Cadet 1864, it’s a great little machine but I want to be all diesel.

Got to get moving, have a good one.

 

[check]

Good morning, all. Nice sunny day, and it’s going to get quite warm. Yesterday got another 10 gallons of Sap - enough! Must have about 35 gallons or so. Time to boil it down. Corked all the trees and removed the buckets.

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, the temperature was 42 and headed to 57°F. Wind NE 7 mph. Sunny!

Yesterday I got most of the piled up snow away from the east window and the wood pile dug out of a snow bank. Also dug out the ends of a culvert so the water can start flowing again.

I think today will be an energy conservation day.


Have a safe day all

 

[PJSprog]

52°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 81° today.

We had another one of those "chamber of commerce" type weekends here; sunny and 70-ish all weekend. I took a vacation day Friday to have a class I trailer hitch installed on my car for the pending kayak trailer. I arrived at the trailer dealer at 09:00 and sat in their lobby for about an hour before someone came out to tell me that the hitch they'd ordered wouldn't fit my car. They took me back into their shop and showed me the pollution filter that is mounted to the frame to the left of the gas tank ... right where the hitch needs to connect to the frame. They suggested I contact the Kia dealership to see it they have one that will fit this model. Figures. Nothing normal seems to fit this particular trim package of the Kia Rio 5-door. Getting aggravating. I called the dealer when I got back home, and was told their service advisors were all busy, but I would get a call back "shortly." It never came. Guess I need to call them again today.

Wife and I did get out to repair the pergola shade that was damaged during one of the recent high winds.

Felt like a wasted vacation day.

Saturday was too windy to do much outside, and became an energy conservation day. We both kind of needed one of those anyway.

Got up Sunday morning and jumped right into it. After feeding the chickens, I started hauling cardboard to the burn pile. The slight breeze made for perfect burn conditions, adding just enough oxygen to nicely feed the fire. Before I could haul anything, though, I needed to air up one of the cart tires. Hooked it to the rider and pulled it from the barn up to the garage. It wasn't taking air, and I saw that the bead was broken on one side. I took it off and tried a few things on the bench before remembering reading here some time ago that someone recommended using a ratchet strap to re-seat the bead. It worked! Thanks to whoever that was. Got the rest of the mowing done after that, then helped The Wife finish cleaning all the windows, as I have the "monkey arms" to get to the high stuff she can't easily reach. Fixed a couple of random broken things as well, and re-aligned the striker plate for the storm door on the front door, which has been giving us fits for far too long. Now, it opend, closes, and locks with just two fingers ... instead of the previous lifting, grunting, growling, and cursing.

I drove into Highland to the police department to buy a couple of 1-year boat permits for Silver Lake. The police department is the alternate location for those when city hall is closed on weekends and holidays. Then, she wanted to try a dry run on loading the kayaks on the new top racks for her car. It took a couple of tries before we figured out the best approach, but finally figured it out. I asked her if she wanted to take them somewhere, but it was starting to get too late. So, we carried mine out to the pond, slid it in, and took a couple of laps around it. We finally got one of them wet. This was my first time in (on) a kayak, and I have to say the balance is definitely different than a canoe. Going to be a fun summer.

Drew, I download the pics I use here and elsewhere online onto a computer, then open them with either Windows Image Editor (work computer) or Windows Paint (home computer) and reduce the size with them. I see there have been a bunch of other options offered here as well.

Rich, one of the benefits of being a Quality Manager is that no one expects me to offer anything that is sugar coated. When they want the unvarnished truth, they come to me. When they don't, they avoid me. I've always liked what I do, but that may be one of the biggest benefits of this job.

Nice-looking new truck, Lou. Congrats.

Happy Anniversary, Mr & Mrs BEF. Quite the accomplishment.

Those are some seriously nice views, Eric. You picked a fantastic place.

 

[daugen]

PJ, glad you had fun on your kayak. I'm being careful to look for "resize" options.
Sometimes you right click your mouse and you swear you've never seen that menu before.

spent several hours gardening, felt nice to be outside.

 

[rswyan]

59F and partly cloudy @ 11:30, calling for a high of 71F for the day. Calling for a spot of rain later, around 22:00.

Tomorrow they are calling for a high of 79F ... and 81F on Wednesday ...

We beat the predicted high yesterday by 2 degrees - it ended up hitting 68F.

Hear a hawk crying off in the distance. The Squeak is on safari out in the garage and the downstairs cat is up for a visit.

Was just too nice a day yesterday to not get some seat time, so I spent the better part of the afternoon moving an old pile of wood chips by the driveway into the compost pile, along with a pile of tailings from previous soil screenings. Still have some more to do today to finish that up.

Also screened some more compost, got about three bucketloads added to the pile. Takes probably 3 or 4 bucketloads to make one clean one, due to the material being wet and clumpy. Tomorrow will be a better day for more screening, due to the higher temps.

Have probably half a dozen or so aspens - either quaking or big-tooth, not sure which exactly - which have fallen down in recent winds that are blocking various trails and paths. Today would be a good day to throw the pallet forks on the Kubota and break out the chain saw and cut those up and move them out of the way.

If wind drops off later this evening as predicted, may go ahead and light off the big burn pile up in the compost/wood lot.

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

 

[lostcreekranch]

International Space Station

See the International Space Station! As the third brightest object in the sky the space station is easy to see if you know when to look up.

spotthestation.nasa.gov

Thanks David.