Good morning!!!!

[txdon]

When I took my KIA in for service I noticed new owners. Oregon based Lithia acquired the Texas Southwest Kia dealerships in Austin, Dallas and Houston. Apparently they are in the business of snatching up dealerships and by the end of 2025 they are expect to be the nation’s largest auto retailer.

 

[LouNY]

Around here watching the daily hospital admittance it seems that over 1/3 and some days closer to half of the admissions are vaccinated people.
I keep kind of a close eye on this as my wife is still working at a local hospital.
As far as the number of confirmed cases I have not seen many statistics on that, and it seems to vary considerably depending on who you listen too.
We just got back from grocery shopping in one of the "higher" percentage areas and other then employees only a few people were wearing masks.

 

[ronjhall]

Good visit to Alpaca farm. We got to take one for a walk in a corral. Until it decided to lay down on the job.

We visited Zodiac Ranch.

 

[Thomas]

76F humid 2 rain showers second one was good soaker.

Going to town this morning gas station $2.99 gallon heading home 1 1/2 hour later $3.06 gallon.
Woke up back pack blower from it's hibernation, 1 1/2 hour walk notice engine was lagging often think I better do some home work on new blower...11 years old no complaints.

Looks like slow roll country dirt road ride after dinner enjoying smooth cigar,pretty sure setting the deck waiting for critters and stars with cold spirit just maybe another smooth cigar.

Enjoy your evening all.

 

[Alien]

Had to remove all the exterior cladding from the north east side of the house to re-plumb it. Luckily my grand-daughters partner is a plumber so he is doing the job for nix and only costing materials which still came to about $1100. Mostly using 3/4" copper instead of 1/2". We also fitted a new pressure pump. Water pressure just about cut me in half when I had a shower afterwards.
All new taps in laundry, kitchen and new tub/cabinet in laundry as well. He had to cut a lot of holes in the steel frame to run the new pipes.
Now we can re-clad the house without worrying about pipes bursting.

 

[sodamo]

Interesting fittings, Doug. Solderless? Compression?

 

[Popgadget]

Looks like ProPress fittings. O ring and crimped with a ProPress tool. Much more expensive than sweating fittings, but works great for “wet” pipes.

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[sodamo]

Good day in the caretaker studio. Major accomplishment - Electricity. All the inside receptacles tested out except a GFCI in bathroom. Could be a suspect receptacle. Not a new one, but in my inventory and different style. Likely just replace it.

 

[rswyan]

69F and clear @ 21:30, high hit 87F today, heading down to a low of 58F.

Finished screening those 45 buckets of compost.

Wound up with about 15 - 20 buckets of material that needed re-screened a second time, got that done as well.

Have maybe 4 buckets that could be run through a 3rd time, might do that tomorrow.

Probably still have half of that compost pile yet to go, likely will not get to it until next year.

Screened material pile is replenished and is the largest that it has been this year.

Also have two more piles of compost down near the house, one large and one small. Might yet get to those this season ... to get them out of the way, if nothing else ...

24-Hour Average Soil Temperature is 73.3F, back up a couple more degrees ... expect a big drop this coming week.

Just four more days of Summer left in 2021.

Hope everyone had a great day ...

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 66F for the start, clear sky, light breeze. Light wind again, partly cloudy sky, and high temp was 93F, DP 61F. 5:30 depart for Decatur, 52 miles 2400 feet of climb. Nice day for a bike ride, had some motorized paragliders buzzing about. Temp hit mid 80's about 45 miles into the ride so nice temp. Did get nap in this afternoon
Covid update: Cooke 3880 confirmed cases, 69 active cases, Montague 2365 confirmed cases, 88 active cases, Grayson, 14132 confirmed cases, 396 active cases. Cooke 9, Montague 20, Grayson 66, new cases.
RS plenty accomplished, congrats on new spawners
Drew hope you are having good time. Your baked goods look yummy!
Ron glad PT helping your back. Enjoy alpaca open house. neat pic
Roy you know wifey can always help with directions
Thomas the leaf project is big!
Roy good luck with sump pump
Don thanks for info, looks like you have a lot of anti-bodies. thanks also for the links
Paul thanks for sim pic. You ever wonder who you made mad when doing emergency training?
Dennis thanks for pic, enjoy concert.
Don or the pillow short pilots use to see over the glare sheild
RNG good to hear more cooling, nice some rain before rain season
RS that is a lot of bulbs to plant!
Dennis any idea why cats are vomiting all of a sudden?
Don wonder if anything will change at the dealership?
Ron there are alpacas on the Saturday bike route.
Thomas hope nothing serious with blower.
Doug good to hear new plumping working with zero leaks
David good to hear no smoe issue with the wires.
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle's daughter/friend PT from Covid, Bird/aging issues/, Don,whipper/more tests,ring bearer/back broken, Randy/FIL living alone adjustments, PJ/FIL fall and stroke, Dennis /wife wrist surgery and recovery, David(moss)/remodel/divorce, Buppies/new cancer on arm, Thomas/gout, Phil/reflux/wife's eyes,Steppenwolfe/son-auto immune disorder, Grev/wife's eye, Ted/knee recovery, Doug and wife/health issues/nerve and pain/ wife's eyes, Ken/uncle, David(sadamo)/Sophie's eye surgery/Back issues, RNG/fire season, Chris/neighbor's granddaughter and Covid issues and Country.
stay safe and healthy you all.