Good morning!!!!

[Thomas]

I think I’m getting near the end of working full time at almost 69 time I think

You certainly deserve to put your feet up more often.

 

[Thomas]

68F clear sky moon will shine tonight.

Yup beauty of day,low humidity nice 7-10 mph wind high 74F now that's summer.
Good day today...front field trim and mow,trim half main lawn will finish tomorrow and mow,Mrs. even treated me out for dinner and she pay but it was choice of restaurant. I think it was donkey burger left LOT to be desire.

Well time to head for deck with smooth cigar wait for the critters and stars.

Enjoy your evening all.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Didn't get to any walks with the trimmer today. First changed out some drippers for more flow. Then got involved hand pulling some weeds hiding in the beds.

It heated up real fast, 88° at 10:30, went up to 92° and I was feeling it. So figured I'd just tackle the recoil on the trimmer. WHAT A PIA THAT WAS!

The engineer that designed how these are assembled should be made to disassemble one of these. Had to take off 3 different covers (one of which gets screwed to the recoil). The recoil itself has 4 machine screws holding it on .... Why not just have that service item be removable by itself? Too easy!
--- We need to make it a real pain to remove so people will just throw it away and buy another!

Somehow, the recoil rope got under the pulley, wrapped around the center post that the pulley turns on. Of course, that pulley is permanently mounted onto the post molded into the housing. I had to come in and google if it, in fact, could be disassembled..... nope! --- Replace the whole assembly as a unit.

So, stubborn as I am, broke out the picks, pliers, and pokers.... pulled, twisted, turned, pulled some more.... walked away and checked the tractor fluids. Went back to it and fought some more.... Then, with the last pull, it released! WOOHOO!
Lubed it all up, cleaned any gunk under those covers, and reassembled it.

Then I found one little plastic deflector plate that goes in the recoil housing.... apparently, I knocked it off the bench with all my struggling with the recoil. Took it all apart again... put in the plate, reassembled again... I can do it in under 10 minutes now.....

At this point it was still 92°, but with no breeze, so feeling much hotter. Decided to close up the shop and went into the A/C. Wifey made the blueberry turnovers again.....

Time for relaxation and desert.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 78ºF for the start, partly cloudy sky, light breeze. Light wind with moderate gusts, variable cloudiness with front passage, and high temp was 102ºF, HI 106ºF. Bike ride this morning, 60 miles, HI was worse than last week. Nap after lunch had some issue with cramps inspite of heavy dosing of V8 and water . did get some nap in. Tomorrow least hot of 10day, 98ºF
Ted glad trimming is coming along. Nice your heat is not off the charts yet. Hope you end up liking the change to courtyard.
Randy(wag) good to hear wind died down. Glad you could deliver chair as well. Hope rain does not affect the moving of the horses.
Don really good to hear Great Aunt Gladys back to perky self. Wish her a Happy birthday from me. Good to hear Whipper on best behavior. I wonder if a snake was there.
Kyle good to hear trip was fun.
James hope the water starts warming up.
Drew nice amount of rain, hope steering wheel went well.
Drew did not try TBN this morning. Spacing is better on computer now.
Roy hope you got your chores done.
Roy sorry about the lack of steam.
Billy hope you got your rain. Lunch was OK, but restaurant at gate much better. Went there for dinner tonight, yum
Billy nice pics
Don Front went through here this morning during bike ride. Still got real warm here.
Dennis that is some nice rain!
Dennis had higher hopes, neighbor said it was good.
Dennis sorry to so much pain. Glad you are still around
Dennis not the ideal first date. My first date with wife was St Pat's ball, she said I spend the entire evening behind her.
Dennis hope you can get Starlink hooked up soon.
Rich good to hear projects progressing. Toy hauler/camper sounds interesting.
Buppies good to hear you are getting rain at home. Glad tent so easy to handle.Hope wife is healing.
Ted Hope trimmer cooperated, if not drill got it running.
Drew sorry about nut driver issue.
DF sorry you are getting the same temps we are. Nice to hear GS spent the night.
Scaredy no power issues here. Hope car show went well and was fun.
DF good to hear infrastructure is good. It is running hotter than normal here.
Drew soory steering wheel going so poorly. Glad generator powered up.
Davis hope no bites at your house. Some of those meds will reduce immune response.
Dennis did not know Washington explored Ohio River.
Dennis good luck the tracts.
RS Glad you got a mulch count, good luck with Menards on that. Hope get well into today's agenda.
Don 98ºF too hot to mow, bet you were sweating like me or Drew! Sounds like many of us had less than promising first dates with future wives.
Roy glad mowing done hope Sunday goes as well.
Chris you are correct, this is not the old days
Chris glad you are getting used to Z-turn. I never got real good with mine, only had it one season and left when selling house.
Drew chocolate muffins sound delicious.
Dennis sorry bout the thick oil. Wonder why no change above 90ºF. I hate it when I forget to replace drain plugs
Drew look good!
Drew nice score on cherry pie, wife makes such good pie crusts, it has ruined me for so-so crusts. Good luck on preservation project.
Dennis glad you got fill techniques worked out.
Buppies glad great day on beach again. Making it full time to 69 impressive.
Drew glad you can learn from others to have a better oil change experience.
Buppies your plate is very full.
Drew ususally go 2 - 3 years on plugs.
Thomas sorry about your dinning experience, hope cigars and star gazing went well.
Ted glad for your trimmer victory! hope rope does not hang again.
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle's daughter/friend PT from Covid, Bird/aging issues/, Don /mom's pipeline process, /fire nearby, Randy/FIL living alone adjustments /MIL Covid /son's heart issues, /pneumonia and not posting, Roy /palpitations, /angina , Billy /wife fall, David(moss) /remodel, /divorce, Buppies /3 new skin cancer spots and treatment, /wife knee healing, Thomas/gout, Phil /reflux, /wife's eyes, Steppenwolfe/son-auto immune disorder, Grev/wife's eye, Ted /knee recovery/retirement, / passing out issues, /family issues, /wife feeling bad, Doug and wife/health issues, /nerve and pain, / wife's hospital stay, /torn bicep, Ken /kids shot tragedy, David(sadamo)/Sophie's new eye surgery recovery, /cataract surgery, /Sophie's hand infection, Chris/neighbor's granddaughter and Covid issues, Scaredy/shoulder dislocation, /wife not feeling well, /marriage, Paul/ wife's disc issues, Gale and KY/ tornado victims, Mike /5 year plan, Dennis /retirement plans / brother "alligallyitus" and improving, Drew /foot heel issues, /friend cancer diagnosis and recovery, Helogabals /second opinion, /wife's friend situation, Ukraine war, mass shooting victims and family, and Country.

 

[rswyan]

66F and clear @ 23:00, heading down to a low of 59F in the overnight. High temp hit 86.2F, with the breeze it was quite pleasant.

But no spraying done.

Did get the weeds along the electric fence mostly knocked down with the string trimmer.

Hopper feeder refilled.

Replaced bag on Japanese Beetle trap which was full:

Found out the putrified repellent juice works good for trapping mice - found a floater this afternoon ... which I removed and then covered the bucket the juice is in.

Got one 4' tall chickenwire cage put together and taken around back.

Mowing done down around the house, except for a very small area at the northeast corner which I'll get tomorrow.

Took dump cart up and got a little less than a half cart load of screened compost and filled in the far end of the garden bed.

Made the run to Menards and picked up order after straightening out the number of bags of mulch I was still owed on that previous order. Came home with 40 bags, having that on the tail made the van ride a lot nicer ...

Stopped and got 4 gallons of gas for the Cub at the cheap station while I was down there, $4.299/gallon which is the cheapest I've seen it in a while and 10 cents cheaper than the station down at the corner. Grabbed a "hunk" (two slices) of Hunt Bros Pizza there as well, which hit the spot on the way back to the house.

Replaced fittings on the Water Buffalo and installed new hose, should be a little less unwieldy:

Got new 4' tall cage installed on the largest tomato plant out in the garden area.

That freed up the short cage so I planted the last remaining (large) bell pepper plant and caged it.

Picked the first produce of the season from the garden:

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Zucchini ... what else ? ...

Orienpet Lily "Pretty Woman" blooms:

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Fragrance on those is strong enough that you can smell them from 8' - 10' away.

New Dahlia bloom "Polka":

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New Day Lily blooms "Bonanza:

Woman scored a new plant yesterday - "Blue Razor" Ornamental Grass - for which She has an idea to incorporate into a planting:

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Moved 4 largest tomato plants in front around to the back, there's 6 back there now in pots waiting to get planted. Thinking real hard about a greenhouse for next year.

Refilled a 5 gallon bucket with some potting mix which emptied the tote before moving plants into the garage and closing up.

Sounds like The Portage Lakes just had their 4th of July fireworks show.

May pot some more bare root strawberries after I have a little snack.

Hope everyone had a great Saturday ...

 

[Wagtail]

Good mid (Sunday) arvo. Another mild overnight Low of 7C, no wind and there was 2.5mm of rain in the gauge from yesterday's intermittent showers. The High was 12C and overcast with no predicted rain.

I did get the 'new' paddocks set up for the horse transfer in between the showers, basically had to set up the water trough and put a round of hay out on it's end. Tractor fun! The owner and her daughter were a bit delayed so were appreciative that everything was ready to go. I'll wait a day or two to chain-harrow the used paddocks.

Church this morning... I read 1Peter5: 1-14. Put me in mind for being humble and gladly helping those in need; like travelling into town to open the furniture shed, and helping to deliver the pieces if required. I'm a fortunate man.

Quiet rest of the day. Take care all.

 

[NHBX]

52° now, dew point 47° high’s today around 80 and sunny.

Need to give the trimmer a little exercise today, but other than that nothing much planned, just take it as it comes.
Jasmine turned three yesterday



Enjoy your day everyone
Stay safe and healthy

Prayers for those in need, our country and peace around the world

 

[daugen]

There's 2 missing....I wonder what could have happen to them.

Now Thomas, good eyes, but I only ate the little one.
Other two are going to neighbors who made the cherry pie for me.

slept nicely last night, have a long day today.
Church, then business meeting at church, then drone video of graveyard. Likely to be there all day
64 going up to 84 in sunshine, lovely Sunday

 

[daugen]

prayers for our friend Toppop this morning.
May the Lord hold you in his arms and heal you.

 

[Thomas]

49F clear sky 80F for high.

Outside chores done E muffin time.
Plans for today...finish trimming mowing main lawn,afternoon putter later on grilling.

Enjoy your day all.