Good morning!!!!

[rswyan]

72F and clear, heading down to a low of 66F for the overnight.

Went out first thing and picked up rubber hose for dishwasher/disposal from the local hardware store and fixed leaky sink.

Then went up and spread 3 yards of topsoil for neighbor, backfilling around his new building. Still some more to do on that, waiting for him to get back with me on it.

After that I pulled the last of invasive shrubs at the shop and hauled them over to compost/wood lot followed by mowing the upper front.

Then it was dinner time - a couple of Johnsonville Kielbasi links with a mess of zucchini and yellow squash. Tasty.

Followed that with running up to the neighbor's and grabbing another 20 lbs of pork and 6 lbs more chops for friend. We got a pork roast, bacon, sausage (links and patties), a large ham hock and a slice of ham, and chops. Friend said chops were the best he's ever had.

Spent some time shooting the breeze and having a beer with them and one of their friends.

Did more weeding of garden accompanied by a Old Leg Humper from Thirsty Dog Brewing after we got back until it got dark.

Then fed all the fish.

About to go have some of The Woman's homemade zucchini bread and a glass of milk and watch the remainder of the Bucks/Suns game.

Looking forward to the cooler temps tomorrow.

Hope everyone had a great day ...

 

[Alien]

Time for a new flag, the moon is shining thru.
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This is the flag doing the rounds at present

 

[buckeyefarmer]

My laptop won’t boot, keeps trying and failing to repair itself. Don’t have time for that right now. So I told it to restore to the last save. 3 days ago. Guess it did an upda te then, and something in update hosed it. So far restore isn’t working either. I left it and went to bed.

 

[Alien]

My old one started doing that but booted up by itself OK again. After a couple of weeks of that I went and bought a new one. Gives me a chance to save everything to the new one before it carks it altogether.

 

[RoyJackson]

2021-07-21, 0331

62 right now...high in the low 70's today...
There was a fast moving thunderstorm last night right around 2100...pretty intense there for a while.

Started a refi on the home mortgage...rates are really good right now and it'll knock about $250-$275 off the monthly mortgage payment. My part of the process is pretty much done but will take 5-7 weeks to complete. I've been kicking this around for a few months and finally decided to take action before the rates go up. There's a pretty high probability of higher interest rates later this year

 

[scaredychicken]

State of Emergency declared in Province of BC yesterday afternoon, due to over 300 wild fires.

closest ones to us are 45 - 60 minutes down the road. Lots of smoke. But so far, we're good and safe.

 

[RoyJackson]

Roy, everything has risk, I think highly likely you will reduce your risk by getting vaccinated.
The new stuff, the variant, is supposed to be much more contagious if you are not vaccinated and potentially be more harmful to you.
But if you are vaccinated, you should have very high chance of adequate protection against this year's bunch of bad actors.

During my hospital stay, the doctor did state that the Delta variant would be extremely dangerous to me, due to the COPD and heart problems...I'm not real enthusiastic about getting vaccines which, IMHO, haven't really been proven (no matter what the "experts" say).
So, I reckon it's a worthwhile risk...

 

[ronjhall]

Coffee has finished brewing. 57° with mostly cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 76° with plenty of sun. Did not get grass mowed yesterday. I better get it done today. Did do maintenance on garden pond. Should be a good day to finish cutting back field.
Took this picture while cleaning pond.

Roy, only one person that I spend time with has not gotten vaccine. No one has had a bad effect to it.

Scaredy, stay safe from fires.

Randy, I am sure you and Ellen will adapt to living with another person in house.

Happy Anniversary Mr and Mrs mpham !!!

David, if you come back to the mainland. I sure could use some help with a couple of drywall projects.

Drew, good to hear arm is getting better.

Everyone stay healthy and safe.

Good Morning All.

 

[Buppies]

64 high of 88 very Smokey here vivid sunsets maybe that’s why I’m sneezing nonstop

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY mpham

Prayers for all

 

[daugen]

good morning all
warm and sunny this morning then changing to rain this afternoon
while whole area (and much of country) is under bad air alert, 151 out there now.
Probably not a good day to work outside without a mask
Folks with breathing problems like Roy need to take care.

birds were chattering away so loudly they woke me up this morning. A fine alarm clock.