Good morning!!!!

kenmbz · Sep 30, 2021

Morning all, sunny today but only a high of 66, though says up to 80 on Sunday..

Craftsman saw is scrap, can re-use chain and bar on my 490-sorry to see her go, piston shot.

Sprayed the hemlock down, but I think it seeded already. Will now be on the lookout in the spring. The pods of white flowers are nice, but touching this stuff is not good, just ask Socrates.

Roy- hope Suzette comes home soon, hospitals are no fun..therapy is good though with an injury like that.
Maybe frame rails around toilet to help. Or motorized (hydraulic) seat.

Ron - nice woodpecker picture- they are back in force here and pounding on our siding- will be more wood putty and stain this fall.

Drew-plenty of containers-just all stuck on boats or full and waiting for unload

Wngsprd-make sure they use bar magnet to get all the nails off the ground. Even with a good magnet still find a nail every few months. At my old house they left hundreds behind. Here when they did my garage only a few. Those magnets do a great job of finding them.

Happy anniversary David and Sophie and many more !

Today have 2 groups coming to look at basement to see why it is so damp. I can't figure it out, time to hire someone who should know more.

Stay safe and be well

txdon · Sep 30, 2021

daugen said:
I guess we need to automate more of our lives. Machines don't get Covid.

My truck has covid.
Taking it back to the dealership today. There is a oil spot on the garage floor and the oil level is down a smidgeon. A second problem is that the oil filter access panel in the wheel well is missing a screw. I was hoping it was just and oil spillage but from their oil change two days ago but with the oil level is down and two days in a row oil spots have cause a concern that it is more serious.

72˚F heading to the upper 80s cloudy.

ronjhall · Sep 30, 2021

txdon said:
My truck has covid.
Taking it back to the dealership today. There is a oil spot on the garage floor and the oil level is down a smidgeon. A second problem is that the oil filter access panel in the wheel well is missing a screw. I was hoping it was just and oil spillage but from their oil change two days ago but with the oil level is down and two days in a row oil spots have cause a concern that it is more serious.

72˚F heading to the upper 80s cloudy.

Your truck needs a booster shot.

RedNeckGeek · Sep 30, 2021

Good Morning!!!! 72F @ 5:00AM. Sunny. High near 90F. Winds WSW at 5 to 10 mph.
On last night's news broadcast, the weatherman was calling for rain weekend after next. Lots of it. Had I known all I had to do is make plans to go camping to end the drought, I wouldn't have waited so long.

Good luck with the Powerball, Drew. If the jackpot is big enough, I'd be OK with you using the "tractor winnings" toward buying back your grandfather's stone cottage.

How loud is the radio in your tow vehicle, David?

Welcome to the GM thread, Alan!

Sounds like once the new club gets rolling, Don, you might have trouble keeping up with all the new recipe ideas.

Hope the oil leak is no more than sloppy workmanship. They probably give that kind of work to the shop flunky. DAMHIKT

That mixer'll give you a good workout keeping it fed, RS. FWIW, the wrap I got from HF lasted about a year under tarps before it started to get brittle and fail.

When the market dipped last Tuesday, I watched Cramer's show, Drew. He said the automotive chip shortage is partly due to the low profit margin on the chips, and unless production capacity expands or the auto makers are willing to pay more, the shortage will continue. He also said ships are stacking up off the West Coast ports because there aren't enough dock workers to unload them.

Spent more time than I should have trying to get the network storage server to show up in iTunes remote as a music library yesterday. Lots of steps in the tutorial, but it was fun brushing up on rusty Unix skills. Seems like it worked at first, then quit, so still some job security there.

I did get the welding table mostly cleaned off and made a good start prepping that big fuel tank for paint. The rubber wheel decal remover did another wonderful job. Makes me wonder how whoever invented it came up with the idea. What little remained came right off with 3M Adhesive Remover, another wonder product courtesy of curious folks.

After dinner watched a movie about Richard Jewel, who the FBI almost railroaded into being the fall guy for a '90s bombing at the Olympics. I was surprised to see it was produced by Clint Eastwood, but he's done several other "good cause" movies in the sunset of his career.

Town run this morning, then maybe see if the weather cooperates and I can get a coat of primer on that tank. In preparation, I also hung a half dozen 4' LED fixtures under the back patio cover in hopes of keeping the runs at bay. It will be interesting to see if they are bright enough.

Hang in there, gang, Friday's comin'!

buckeyefarmer · Sep 30, 2021

Isn’t it a

Fix
Or
Repair
Daily

Truck?

kenmbz · Sep 30, 2021

I hate Cramer - probably can't put on line what I know he's done. He should have been fired a long time ago, instead he got promoted.

buckeyefarmer · Sep 30, 2021

Planning on taking a drive down Skyline drive in about 3 weeks. Hope to go down part of blue ridge parkway also. Maybe take in the Dday memorial.

Today would be a great day, beautiful clear blue sky.

buckeyefarmer · Sep 30, 2021

kenmbz said:
I hate Cramer - probably can't put on line what I know he's done. He should have been fired a long time ago, instead he got promoted.

I like Kramer

pennwalk · Sep 30, 2021

We got back Sunday from our second trip to Maine. My wife technically retired in April but got sucked back in for one more project. I don't think she has ever been this busy. The whole time we were in Maine in July and August she was in the house working. The deal is done now but for a few loose ends. Since she got cheated out of her vacation she decided we would go back for a couple of weeks. We had a great time. It was so nice to have her attention. Deer Isle in September is just as nice as people said. It was very quiet but several of the restaurants we like were closed for the season or on reduced hours. On the trip back we noticed a lot of leaves had changed color. We also noticed that the trip took 2 hours less than in the summer. Less traffic I guess.

There is a lot of stuff here to catch up on. The first thing was to find out why the John Deere 425aws quit running before we left. So I crawled under the machine to find out if one of the safety switches was acting up. Sure enough the brake switch lever had fallen off. While I was under there I was shocked to notice that the left side frame was cracked. On closer inspection I found that it is cracked in three places. Looks like I will be doing some red neck engineering. 2x4 check, bailing wire oh no I'm almost out of bailing wire.

I found a piece of c- channel which looks like it might make a decent splint. I'm not sure it is worth fixing this machine properly but decent used machines are pretty scarce. Looks like I may have to get to work on one of the project tractors at the back of the barn. The grass is still growing like crazy. The compost pile is pretty full. I am not sure where I will put the leaves.

The Covid is still going strong here. The county is running around 200 new cases a day. I guess about half the people you see are not wearing a mask. I heard that there will be results soon on mixing vaccines.

Chris