Good morning!!!!

[RoyJackson]

2021-06-24, 0336

46° right now...high, about 80° today...

After work, I mowed about 2/3rds of the lawn, then took care of the cats (stepdaughter's critters)...then some chow and a beer. I'll finish the lawn this afternoon and probably start string trimming

Wife and stepdaughters are thinking about touring the USS Wisconsin (WW II battleship museum) today. I hope they do...

 

[ronjhall]

First cup of coffee has been poured. 58° with mostly cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 82° with cloudy skies. Had to turn furnace in house back on Mowed grass yesterday. After I sharpened blades. Then it rained. About all I got done yesterday. May get back at table and chairs today.
Yesterday's sunrise.

Don, no moon picture yet. It is only visible here from 10 pm to 5am. Part of that time it is hid behind trees.

Fuddy, nice Island pictures.

Buckeye, good sky picture.

Everyone stay healthy and safe.

Good Morning All.

 

[wngsprd]

It's only 44 up in the mountains and it looks clear as a bell on the webcam, so sure wish I could go for a long hike. I've been doing well since my surgery Friday...a good nurse is my wife. Had a scare last week before my surgery, but have a good surgeon. Not able to do much physical for 6 weeks, but was able to roast 3 batches of coffee yesterday and watch some baseball.

 

[Bird]

Ron, you sleep later than I do. I'm almost through with my second cup of coffee.

 

[Buppies]

Wngsprd glad you are recovering nicely

Fuddy very nice pictures lived on SML for over 20 years it is a very nice lake but have not been on it for over 15 years

 

[daugen]

good morning all
Lovely morning, cool 52 degrees going up to high 70's today, just perfect

Plant nursery only had yellow delicious apple trees, not my favorite, too soft an apple so I passed.

Wingsprd, hope you feel better soon and have a good recovery.

dermatologist appt today at noon, otherwise nothing planned.

I tried to assemble the bench grinder and what a disaster the instructions were. One big piece of paper that unfolded like an old fashioned map,
first you hunt down the English, then it's all pictograms which were not helpful. Not complicated but just bad instructions, surprising for Wen, will have to stare
at completed picture and just assemble using common sense.

Hope you all have a great day.

 

[ronjhall]

Wngsprd, good to hear you are doing well.

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning
It’s 52 and supposed to make it to 75 under cloudless skies today. Low humidity, just a wonderful day.

Yesterday was pretty much the same. Just too nice of a day to be in the shop all day. FedEx just brought me a Makita 36 volt “chainsaw on a stick” that will extend to 13 feet, so it was the perfect day to try it out. I’ve got to say that it worked perfectly, much better than the Echo gas one that I used to borrow from a friend. I used the 4-1 bucket on the tractor to carry the downed limbs to the brush pile.
I did make significant progress in the shop as well, got two cabinets cut dado’d and glued, and applied the finish to two more.

Today, I’ve got to go to Newport News which will take a chunk out of the middle of the day. Hopefully I’ll squeeze some mowing in before and after that. I can’t believe how fast the grass is growing.

 

[daugen]

Popgadget and I have been helping Makita sales lately, I just ordered the cordless hedge trimmer.
The forsythia bush at the end of the driveway needs to be kept trimmed or it blocks my vision looking for
traffic. Once again I go into Amazon and it says you bought this in May of 2016. Yup. I wonder who has it now, bet
it's still running fine. Since I have the batteries it only makes sense, since I only have to buy the tool.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 77˚F heading to mid 90 with the H.I. in the 100+ range.
Yesterdays park cedarcide went well we finished the area where the new park benches will be place an hour early because we had 12 people helping. The temp was ok, about 86˚ with the H.I. at 93˚F. Still no opening date set. ??

With the 1.6" rain we had Monday the lawn grass took off, so today is a mow day.

Biochar, I need biochar. A good garden needs good soil and good soil needs a good medium for microbes to live in. The best medium is biochar. When microbe dense compost and biochar are mixed I'll get the best organic soil. The people that have access to a burn pile are lucky. They can make theirs easy. The biochar is the black charcoal kind of glassy finish (not ash), the charcoal of incomplete burn. It's a little harder in town to make it in a BBQ pit. Of course Amazon sells it also for $60 for a 5 gallon bucket. Amazon.com : Aries Green Biochar Soil Amendment 5-Gallon Plastic Bucket – USDA, IBI Certified – 100% Biochar : Garden & Outdoor

Think of that next time you let your burn pile go to ash and maybe throw some sand or water on it toward the end of the burn and break up the charcoal and put it in your compost pile.