Good morning!!!!

lostcreekranch · Apr 30, 2021

Kyle_in_Tex said:
Here's a good report that says to only use white sugar when feeding hummingbirds. Plain white sugar in water.

Amazing Nature & Wildlife : This is a hummingbird unable to retract her tongue, which is a sign of fungal spores that have germinated on her tongue or in her gullet caused by folks mixing honey or anything other than plain white sugar with water

That's what we use Kyle. We're going to put out our feeder tomorrow.

MoKelly · Apr 30, 2021

lostcreekranch said:
That's what we use Kyle. We're going to put out our feeder tomorrow.

We’ve had our feeder out since Easter. Zero birds yet. Last year we had many.

Maybe we jumped the gun.

MoKelly

mostly_gas · Apr 30, 2021

Good evening all. 59F for the start, overcast, light breeze, .8 in in rain gauge. Sky cleared some this morning, saw some sun clouded back up in afternoon with some drizzle. High temp was 73F. Bike ride early, then trip to town to get groceries and new door latch and haircut and lunch. Have to go back for rekeyed door latch

did get nap in.
Covid update: Cooke 3170 confirmed cases, 12 active cases, Montague 1751 confirmed cases, 2 active cases, Grayson, 11260 confirmed cases, 25 active cases, local 0 active cases.
RS nice score on the Cub, Lights, and oatmeal raisin cookies.
Dennis hope arm pain is only issue.
Roy hope drought no longer issue.
Drew at least it did not feel like rock crusher. hope not as hot today, and you don't suffer too much w/o power
Thomas glad nothing pressing today
Drew saw that in news yesterday.
Dennis Aficanized honey bees. much more aggressive and pack oriented
Drew glad you could shower

Buppies thank you for your prayers.
Bill I am impressed they did not get the wind numbers swapped

Billy that would get my attention as well! hope he gets all the mice
Roy quite the story about the ships crossing, you would think it would be told more. Thanks for the link
Ken sorry to hear about your own insect issues
Paul no donuts for that alpaca! glad all went well otherwise. warm in the restaurant.
Eric good luck with the rat. nice pic. When GD was 3 Canadian geese would chase, when she was 5 she would chase then bacl

RNG For what it is worth, I have been using marine Stabil with both E10 and E0 with good luck. Thanks for the feed back on the gloves. Good luck and safe mowing
James hope boyfriend is a keeper

We have large wasps here that live on ground, and have a habit of moving into the cupos on the greens

nasty sting as well.
PJ chili sounds good, sorry about the hornets
Drew hope book is good, are you hiding in basement?
Billy hope you don't get blown away.
Kyle hope you survive daughter's Prom! Glad your cracks are closing
David glad guys won again, thanks for the update on the screws
Don thanks for the info on sulforaphane. Have been using broccoli and cauliflower raw mix for snacking
Randy hoping and praying you are cured too
Drew don't push it too soon and damage the tendon.
Bill always had too many neighbors too close to deal with them properly
Dennis sorry about late night at work
Bird glad you got your roof inspected, more rain tomorrow.
RNG not a lot of roofs can carry the weight of 3 layers then somebody walk on it .
David glad your breakfast place open again.
Ted glad you are recovering, nice to hear PT helped. Hope you get caught up
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle's daughter,Bird/aging issues,Billy/skin cancer, David(moss)/remodel/divorce, Ron/return, Buppies cancer surgery, Phil/reflux/wife's eyes,Steppenwolfe/son-auto immune disorder, Dennis/older brother/son, Grev/wife's eye, Randy/recovery, Bill/DIL home care, Ted/knee recovery, Doug and wife/health issues/nerve and pain/ wife's eyes, Ken/uncle, Drew/tendon, David(sadamo)/Sophie's eye surgery, and Country.
stay safe and healthy you all.

rswyan · Apr 30, 2021

44F and clear here @ 22:15, headed down to a low of 32F. Was raining when I got up ... ended up clearing out and warming up to 54F this afternoon. Very windy though.

Aerating the lawn didn't happen today (rain) ... imagine it will still be plenty wet enough to do it tomorrow - plus it will be a lot nicer out.

Went to grab my coffee out of the microwave this morning and startled a rose-breasted grosbeak off the suet feeder outside the kitchen window.

Noticed the bluebirds were on the rail of the back deck, probably looking for a suet meal ... then noticed both suet feeders were no longer hanging, and that the nugget feeder was down as well ... with corn spilled all over the back deck.

Dunno if it was squirrels or 'coons that got them (probably coons) ... but it's now WAR ...

Refilled hopper, two sunflower tube, and both nyjer feeders. Also zip-tied an old cat food can to one of the poles and put out some live mealworms. Located the suet feeders - 'coons had reached down from the roof and grabbed them and left them in the gutter. I reached up and fished them out, still had suet in them.

Got two the lids for two plastic containers drilled with the pin vise making some vent holes last night and got some oatmeal cooked up to start two new cultures of banana worms. Added some yeast this morning and innoculated them with worms to get them going.

All fish and cats fed.

Located some red primary wire last night, know there is a roll of black wire some place around here ... will have to see if I can scare that up.

Also located the battery and charger for the hedge trimmer that we spent a bunch of time looking for this past week.

Just placed the order for the rest of stuff I need for the lighting install on the Cub, will be here Monday.

Had a huge bowl of The Woman's spaghetti for dinner, followed by some of her oatmeal raisin cookies for desert.

Hope everyone had a great day ...

buckeyefarmer · May 1, 2021

April went out like a lion. It’s mayday.

Up in the night again.

check · May 1, 2021

buckeyefarmer said:
April went out like a lion. It’s mayday.

Up in the night again.

Me too. There is snow on the ground! So much for firing up the water system on the rental cottage! It has been below freezing for 3 nights in a row.

RoyJackson · May 1, 2021

Thomas said:
DANG only critter I have to eye for when I get to close to his girl friend...like today

Yep, them male turkeys get pretty pissy when when you interfere with their love lives
Another example

RoyJackson · May 1, 2021

2021-05-01, 0510

38 right now...high in the low 50's...maybe snow showers this morning...

it's probably going to be too wet for outside work today. I'm donating some books to a local organization that supports the local library. The former owners of the place we live left 200-300 books and I want the shelf space for other things
While I'm out and about, I'll pick up the 16 gauge wire, in-line fuse and fittings I need to wire those LED work lights I'd written about in previous posts

Up way too early...back to bed for a bit, I think...

daugen · May 1, 2021

Good morning all and happy first day of May.
Temps sure dropped last night, about 40 out now, going up to mid/high 60's in sun today.
At least no need for a/c today...or trips to the basement to cool off.

I see one of my flower pots in the middle of the lawn, there were four on top of the picnic table and one
was blown off in the wind. Will have to repot this morning.

haven't had any tylenol in a day, shoulder pretty sore but perhaps slowly improving. At least no stabbing pain anymore.
But still can't pick up arm which is worrisome. or if I try it hurts so much I have to stop. Just not going to push it this first week.

Toppop, how are you feeling this morning?