Good morning!!!!

[dave1949]

Roy,
After re-thinking the natural gas thing, I see that as an opportunity. People could well replace their wood stoves with cast stoves that burn gas. There are still many people in the NE that use and like space heating.

 

[sixdogs]

62 degrees and we had a little rain last night!
Chance of a midday rain and going to be warm and muggy all day

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Click EDIT post and then choose DELETE.
confirm it and that should work.

 

[Buppies]

Drew she has eight forward gears 385 ponies and zero to sixty in 4.7 seconds or so. A black beauty with light tan seats. Still British but much nicer than TR

 

[RoyJackson]

Roy,
After re-thinking the natural gas thing, I see that as an opportunity. People could well replace their wood stoves with cast stoves that burn gas. There are still many people in the NE that use and like space heating.

Actually, Vermont Castings does manufacture gas fired stoves...they're quite nice too and if you're ever in the market for a gas fired stove, I wholeheartedly recommend looking at the Vermont Castings brand. If I had stuck around for a few more years, I'd have had one.

They are a nice company and yes, they got bought out by a consortium of managers. However, to make everything work, they had to cut costs and employees...an unhappy fact of life!
Two regrets I do have though:
a) I had accepted a federal government job and would have been stationed in West Virginia. Wife was vehemently against moving to WV. Anyway, by the time my security clearance came through, we had already moved to Vermont. In retrospect, I should have taken that job regardless of my wife's wishes.
b) I had applied for a Quality Manager's job about 25 miles south of where we live now...did a great phone interview but decided against leaving Vermont Castings as I'd only been there about 4 months or so (and Vermont Castings did pay for the move from PA to VT). That was a mistake on my part.

 

[RoyJackson]

Roy, how old is the CEO? It seems the older types may be more traditional in their approach to business and also conservative to a fault. Some of the older guys have just lost the incentive to compete and look at new marketing opportunities. The younger guys seem to have little to lose, and figure they can move on to another company. Many times, the guys who are in their early 50s make the best CEOs because they are aggressive and want the company to succeed plus have that success on their resume. How well the sales/marketing department head and the CEO communicate is also an important factor. You many not have been there long enough to know all the details, but your co-worker should surely know the attitudes that prevail after 20 years there.

The CEO was...well, he resigned. I don't know all the circumstances and even if I did, I wouldn't post them here.
A group of the managers got together and bought the company. I assume it was highly leveraged...but that's a guess on my part.
Personally, I think they'd be better off going back to their roots and simplify things.

 

[dave1949]

Actually, Vermont Castings does manufacture gas fired stoves...they're quite nice too and if you're ever in the market for a gas fired stove, I wholeheartedly recommend looking at the Vermont Castings brand. If I had stuck around for a few more years, I'd have had one.

They are a nice company and yes, they got bought out by a consortium of managers. However, to make everything work, they had to cut costs and employees...an unhappy fact of life!
Two regrets I do have though:
a) I had accepted a federal government job and would have been stationed in West Virginia. Wife was vehemently against moving to WV. Anyway, by the time my security clearance came through, we had already moved to Vermont. In retrospect, I should have taken that job regardless of my wife's wishes.
b) I had applied for a Quality Manager's job about 25 miles south of where we live now...did a great phone interview but decided against leaving Vermont Castings as I'd only been there about 4 months or so (and Vermont Castings did pay for the move from PA to VT). That was a mistake on my part.

Yep, those are nice gas stoves. I just meant in the sense of market opportunities.

Don't beat yourself up. We all have coulda, shoulda, woulda 20-20 hindsight.

 

[sodamo]

70F, .02 inches since midnight.

Hopefully, a 2nd door assembled today and both put into operation
Have a great day

David Sent from my iPad using TractorByNet

 

[Larro Darro]

At this time last year I was picking watermelon like this.
This year, here is my biggest watermelon to date.

It looks like you were too dry. That was not my problem this year. My melons got off to a good start. This was the first week of July.



Two weeks later they were growing nicely. I figured I would be rolling in melons. But as you can see, some of the leaves are already turning yellow. We got rain every day in July except for four.



There were lots of melons on the vines by the last week of July. But it was still raining every day. I was getting a few splits and rotten ended ones.



Two weeks later the vines are really dying. I was able to clip a few melons, but the most of them were splitting before they were good ripe.



This is what they looked like this morning. There is only two or three vines left alive. I ate about 6 or 8 melons so far, and have about 6 more clipped. The last couple of days we haven't had rain, but the sun showed itself too late to save my melons this year.

 

[bakerg]

My issue was not too dry but too wet.:confused2: We got so much rain in June that the watermelon patch and the regular garden both flooded out. All my tomato plants died but 1 and it looks sickly, all the bean plants died, and the only things to survive were the pepper plants but even the pepper are just starting to bare fruit so to speak. Will try hilling next year.

 

[Larro Darro]

Good afternoon. 1300, sunny, 85 with 67% humidity. Forecast is for a high of 91 with no chance of rain. It's been a long time since I could say that.

So, what did you buy while she was having lunch?

Haha. I did buy a few things that I needed to outfit the used car we bought. Stuff like jumper cables, extra keys, a magnetic key holder, a small zippered bag for the glove-box, micro fiber towels and the like. But that was at Walmart's and Sam's Club, not the department stores. I talked with a few men who were doing the waiting thing like I was. I proposed the store marking off yardage so we could tell when we had walked a mile.