Good morning!!!!

[pennwalk]

I got no ethanol gas for the mowers yesterday. I payed 4.17 for regular. But it is always expensive. I guess that's what the market will bear because they keep selling it. Seems like a lot of stuff is getting expensive.
The cool down here was a shock. It dropped like 40 degrees. The heating system turned itself on. We are having some perfect Fall afternoons yesterday and today. Not much color.
The covid is still going strong here but it may have peaked. It would sure be nice to get back to single digit new cases. I am eligible for a third dose. I am thinking if mixing for my next dose.
I broke down and got some suspenders. What ever it is that old guys loose that keeps their pants up I have lost. Definitely works but takes a little getting used to.
I have to say that my Wahl clipper was a good investment. I have been cutting my own hair for more than a year now. Looks good enough to me. This last time my wife offered to help with the back. I guess it was a little shaggy back there. I never noticed. I told her ever since I got it I'd help her cut her hair. I guess she never got that desperate.

Chris

 

[PJSprog]

Not sure why that pic didn't load the first time, but went back and reinserted it, and now it seems to show up.

 

[daugen]

great pics PJ. Now that's a foot bridge. I think I might get vertigo on it...

3.49 for reg in Lambertville NJ, I got 89 for 3.59
At least 20 cents more in PA.
There is a place on 202 up near Flemington that has always had a line of stations
in a price war, and the Lambertville gas pumper opined it was 20 cents cheaper there.
Flemington is an easy drive from here but I'm burning several gallons of gas just coming and going.

got second estimate for right rear rust repair. 800 bucks and he would fiberglass/bondo it and
told me it would last a year or two. He says most shops won't touch rust repair. You either replaced the whole panel or
forget it, labor was too expensive. So 800 bucks for a fiberglass job and a blend in paint job or 1400 for a whole new panel.
On a 2014 truck that is nothing special to begin with, I'm just not motivated to spend the extra money.
New Hope Auto Body, same place prior owner fixed all my family's cars, and boy as teenagers we were seriously hard on the family
cars and our own. I was the worst. Only one to flip his car and total it and walk away with two stitches. Someone was looking after me.
I pulled the steering wheel half way out its splined shaft I was hanging on so hard.
Never did that again thankfully.

when I was an insurance underwriter I always remembered how flawed my own driving was and figured all families had to deal with that.
The crowning glory was my next older brother, the accountant, crashing his MG the same night I crashed my Mothers 98 convertible in the rain.
And year in and out those dented cars went to the local body shop and got fixed. We definitely got the multi crash discount.
Besides auto body shop owner's daughter was in my class in our little high school, so this little body shop was and likely still is a community asset. Zoning makes opening new
body shops very difficult. So this one is on a country road outside of town. And later on when I came back to town, I insured this little body shop for many years.
Never had a claim. But if one took soil samples nearby, well...........

 

[daugen]

Welcome Rebecca, nice to have you here.
Do you really have a big MAN diesel under the hood of your Fendt?
That's a seriously impressive tractor.
So I'm guessing you live in either Canada or Europe and I'm guessing you grow a lot of grain or corn.
Please correct
Drew

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 51 @ 8:45AM. Cloudy with showers. High 62F. Winds SE at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50%.
Big rain days coming tomorrow and Friday, the 10-day total now tops 7 inches. When it rains, it literally pours! No complaints here, but I think I'll get my shopping run done today. And maybe a flu shot, too.

And fill up the truck. Last tank of #2 Diesel was north of $4.50/gallon. These days I don't care what it costs, as long as I can pump all I want. With a 38 gallon tank, it usually takes two transactions to fill it up, as the pump cuts off somewhere around a hundred bux.

I did get the ashes dumped out of the camp fire ring yesterday, and the wood stove cleaned out, too. That left me with a chill that by dinner time still hadn't worn off, so I fired up the stove for the first time this heating season. Only used about half a load of wood, and it was very comfortable the rest of the night.

Got started reassembling the transmission for the white bike, reviewing several videos and the factory repair manual. Then replaced/upgraded some parts on the shift cassette. The parts have been sitting on the bench long enough they need a good cleaning again, so that's next on the agenda.

Welcome to TBN and the GM thread, Rebecca!

Hump Day already?

 

[txdon]

Took a knee rest day. Just piddling around the yard I found freeze damage from February splitting the bark on the trunk of my only live oak tree. The foliage looks healthy and I'm going to see if it self heals. Has anyone else seen damage like this and does the tree survive?

 

[Buppies]

Thomas lost of taste is not good, please take care of yourself and wife

 

[Buppies]

Live oak trees are not native here but if I can get ahold of friend I’ll show him picture he will know

 

[Buppies]

RNG I believe the forecast for rain are correct maybe even more

 

[RedNeckGeek]

RNG I believe the forecast for rain are correct maybe even more

Thanks, Buppies. What does your crystal ball say about the long range? It it keep up like this, I'm going to have to switch from motorcycles to building an ark!