Good morning!!!!

[rswyan]

70F and partly cloudy @ 10:45, headed up to a high of 82F.

A little preview of the heatwave that is heading in.

Only 0.01" of rain since midnight, total for yesterday was 0.62" ... was mostly a good, slow soaker. Next calling for the possibility of rain this coming Monday.

Ten mealworms each put out in the front and back feeders yesterday. Hopper feeder probably due for a refill today.

Lower front is getting to the point where it needs mowed again ... but I'll probably give the new spreader a workout first, since it's easier to see the tracks in the longer grass.

Probably try and get the spilled fertilizer from the broken bag on the pallet cleaned up today as well, since it will be dry.

Maybe take weed eater for walk along edge of driveway on east side of house now that the spraying seems to have taken hold.

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

 

[sodamo]

67°F and no rain

Off to Hilo town this morning. Sophie has to get a COVID test as part of her prop for her cataract surgery. Later today we have to complete the Health questionnaire portion of the Hawaii Safe Travel form. already done the profile and vaccination sections. Once approved we will be allowed to return to Big Island without having to quarantine. The island itself has been doing well lately if you don’t count the 77 active cases as the county jail. Apparently a reluctance for vaccination there among both inmates and staff.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

Got a nice pic of 2 of the boys

 

[toppop52]

We got 1/4” of rain this morning and now it looks like the sun will come out.
I put the rake on and moved the brush between periods of rain. Haven’t done much else. I’ve got to dig the hole for Charlie yet.

 

[Thomas]

Special thoughts for Charlie.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

good morning all
68 out now going up to 80 today in more showers this afternoon.
.83 inches of rain yesterday and last night but no high winds so just a good soaker.
Tomorrow it's like summer begins in earnest, stretch of 90 degree days and drying out.

Got absolutely nowhere yesterday trying to buy a mower. No Kubotas, John Deere or Simplicity's in stock.
Remarkable actually, dealers not happy at all not having any inventory.
Thankfully my old friend with the coffee business isn't using his JD 345 much at home after his son bought a zero turn.
So...he will loan me this nice older mower until mine comes in, spec'd identically to what I'm trying to buy, with power steering and a Kawasaki
engine, though his is liquid cooled. I wonder if anyone has done a study to see if the more premium liquid cooled engines last longer
than air cooled. Liquid cooled and fuel injected would be the best, but not sure anyone makes that, likely too expensive for a mower gas engine.

am off to PT early this morning, then supermarket and likely a quiet afternoon while the rain comes down.

had a pleasant chat with owner of rental house next to me, currently occupied by a nice lady who hasn't mowed her lawn all year. Sigh.
Well apparently at least three neighbors called this guy, who confirmed it was, like for me, the tenant's job to mow the lawn and no he didn't want
a field of weeds either. So he came yesterday himself with his Gravely z turn and mowed the lawn, having to rake up clippings for quite a while.
I bet he doesn't let it get like that any more. This is simply not an area where the natural look is acceptable, much less two foot high weeds. Nothing but
a haven for snakes and ticks. When he was done the emails flew between neighbors saying Yeah!

Rental place up the road has yard always like that, except sometimes they dump their trash in the yard. One year it became a motocross track. Renters always changing at the place, they seem to get worse and worse.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Toppop, sorry about the kitties.

Our little cat with thyroid issue keeps loosing weight, keeps throwing up. We give it meds twice a day.

 

[rswyan]

74F and "Fair" @ 21:30, headed down to 64F for an overnight low.

Went to spread soil amendments earlier, was cloudy and started spitting rain.

So I got out the FS 66 instead and fueled it up and started cutting on the east side of the house.

By the time I was finished with that the sun was back out.

Filled up hopper feeder which was empty.

Spread 12 bags of lime (480 lbs), 4 to finish up the lower front and 8 down here around the house.

Also put down 2 bags of gypsum down around the house (east side), still have one more to put on tomorrow.

At that point I'll need to juggle things around in the barn and dig out the 5 bags of lime over there.

Very happy with how the new spreader works ...

Stopped at 50 hours on the clock on the Cub and changed the oil and filter. (Still need to do the pre cleaner and air filter)

After I got that done I started mowing the lower front, knocked off around 20:45, still have probably 1/3 left.

All in all a decent day.

 

[toppop52]

Well, the deed is done. This was Charlie a couple of years ago when she was still fairly healthy.

 

[sodamo]

Our sympathies reading about your precious fur babies.

 

[sodamo]

Was the pineapple in the middle cake made with pineapple juice instead of water?

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Recipe called to add water to the liquid from the can.
Being as I used a fresh pineapple I had neither a can nor the liquid.

What I did have was the center core piecesI had cut out. Threw them in the Vitamix, added enough water to 1 cup line and left the vitamix have its way up to full speed. Dumped the frothy results into the batter in place of water.