Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

You will get wet with pressure washer.
I take all removable parts out to clean separately.

I heeded your good advice. grill is only two years old, gunk came off with paint scraper easily, did not even bother to clean out inside of grill after scraping.
I'd say my flavorizer bars had a bit too much flavor on them. Likely barbecue sauce of something goopy.
Everything else soaked in OFF several times and powerwashed on gravel. Not a drop on me.
All back together and grill on now to dry it all out.

now to stop sweating and go back out and wash the car. Easier to do the wheels with washer.
80 dollar harbor freight loss leader that still keeps working. I've had good ones before so had zero expectations of this but so far
it's a great deal for lightweight work. I winterize it carefully.

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, 80 going up to 91, seems we have done this before.
Hopefully get to the Grange fair today.

This look is priceless

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Good morning to all! Low of 52°, currently only 57° with a slow rain at 08:00. There is a 1/4" in the gauge already. I hope it stays as a steady rain or drizzle.

Thanks for the anniversary well wishes! The years surely go by fast....

Wng, Cafe Pasqual would have been a good place for dinner for sure! It's usually really packed there with tourists this time of year.

Paul, that brisket looks like it's going to be delicious! Do you make your own rub? Nice fix on the throttle linkage, he got lucky....

BEF, good luck with the motel search.... I have heard from multiple people that the quality of the motels has gone down. This is from all over the country. If we are going anywhere overnight, we take our own motel on wheels.....

Drew, I have been impressed with the little PW from HF. For $80, it was definitely one of the better purchases from there. I hope it lasts. I did get the extended warrant, just in case....

Ken, is the fawn still hanging around? Or am I thinking of someone else?
Drew, glad you had an easy time cleaning the grill. I have been procrastinating cleaning ours.... I always tell myself "next time"... repeatedly.

Not sure what, if anything, I'll get into today....

Everyone have a great day!

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 78F @ 7:30AM. Sunny. Hot. High around 105F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph.

My plan to fill the trench yesterday using the tractor and scraper blade worked out pretty well. It took several trips up and down the driveway to gather up enough dirt to fill it flush, and I expect it to settle quite a bit because I wasn't able to compact the dirt at all. But the conduit and wires are protected, and that's all that really matters. I also got the bracket for the solar panel pole installed with five bags of fence post concrete, and only used one of the two five gallon buckets of water I'd filled for the job. I'll give the concrete a day or two to cure before I mount the pole, but I can get the last bit of trench filled in with a bit of shovel work while I'm waiting.

"Anxiously" is a very accurate description, Ted. Lots of things can go wrong when purchasing something sight unseen, especially a nearly forty year old motorcycle. The truck driver was a great guy. He sent multiple text messages updating me on his arrival time, and nailed it within minutes so I didn't spend any time at all waiting for him. He'd picked up another motorcycle after mine, though, and we had to use a floor jack to move it sideways enough to get the BMW out of the truck. The price of having the cylinders sticking out to the sides, I guess. Cosmetically, the bike is very clean, with only a few scratches in the paint and some slight sun fading on the horizontal surfaces. Miles better than others in this color that I've seen. The plastic luggage arrived undamaged, and the usual cracks that form around the rivets that hold the clasps and hinges on haven't formed, yet. And once I figured out the key orientation, it started right up. But that's where the good news ends. The thing makes an incredible amount of valve noise, and is badly in need of an adjustment. It also smokes, even under accelaration. Blue smoke, so it's not a sticking choke or something easy to fix. There's a slight chance it's from oil collected in the cylinders from sitting and will clear itself with a little use. But that usually happens when a bike like this sits for a long time on the side stand, and oil runs up the walls of the cylinder and finds its way into the combustion chamber past the rings. But the trucker had the bike strapped straight up and down for the trip, and he said that the seller started the bike for him when he picked it up, and the trucker made no mention of smoke. I also heard an ominus clicking sound coming from the speedometer as we rolled the bike out of the truck, signaling the need to spend several hundred bux with the speedo doctor. And a distinct lack of stopping power on the front brake, accompanied by an ugly blackish tint to the brake fluid in the front master cylinder on the handlebar. Then there's the extra fuel tank, which I was told was the large capacity one from the somewhat rare R80 G/S Paris Dakar model. It turns out it is not that at all, but the much more common tank from the later R100GS. Worse, when I shared this with the seller, suggesting a significant refund was due, he declined, feigning ignorance and poverty. I expect some problems in something this old, but to be deliberately misled like this, to the tune of several thousand dollars, is unacceptable. And this is what I noticed in the ten or so minutes I've invested so far. I'm bracing myself for what else I might find as I start to go through it.

Speaking of waiting, I'd started an operating system update before I began this post, and was interrupted midway through this missive when the computer restarted. I had plenty of time to alternately stare at either a blank, black, screen, or progress bars that never seemed to complete before going black again only to be replaced with a much shorter version. All the while accompanied by the image of a white apple with a bite missing, a symbol, in my feeble mind at least, of humanity's lost innocense. A fitting reminder for the present circumstances, but a reminder also of how far we've come in spite of ourselves.

Hope you all enjoy your hard earned weekend!

 

[RoyJackson]

And this is what I noticed in the ten or so minutes I've invested so far. I'm bracing myself for what else I might find as I start to go through it.

I hope you don't find anything else, but that's a risk of buying anything long distance.
Personally, I never have...I want to touch it before the money comes out of the wallet.
Saw the picture you had posted a while back...beautiful 'cycle!

 

[daugen]

Morning all, 80 going up to 91, seems we have done this before.
Hopefully get to the Grange fair today.

This look is priceless

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just keep your buddy in Upper Makefield please, maybe we ought to tag them...
Folks in Solebury just spent a lot of money culling thousands of deer. Been my best year yet for them, maybe Solebury chased them
south to you. They just figured they needed to get on the other side of Bowmans Hill to be safe. And there they find Ken's beautiful glade in the woods, made
just for them I'm sure they think.

all I think of when I see them is ticks and Lymes Disease. And venison barbecue.
Just like the Leni Lenapes who lived here 400 years ago, they lived on deer, rabbit and fish. Pretty healthily until their new neighbors brought them a host of
European diseases. And shot up their game. No buffalo around here, just deer and some bear. Fox. Moles, voles and groundhogs. Not many skunk.
Turtles, always have to watch for turtles on Pineville Road. There's a creek that goes through there and pretty sure turtles stay close to water. Nice little pretty box turtles and
some definitely not nice snapping turtles that would love to dine on a finger.

some of you have much more interesting animals. Armadillos. Now how cool are they? Probably not if digging in your yard. Little dinosaurs.
Alligators and crocs are dinosaurs too and glad I live far enough North not to deal with them. My friends in Florida are having a great deal of fun dealing with snakes, alligators and lizards.
Texans blaze away at feral pigs that wreck everything. Are feral pigs edible? Seems like a lot of wasted ham...

of course nothing seems as cute or desirable as koalas. Lot of neat critters in Australia and NZ.
can you imagine going down to the mailbox and finding a large male kangaroo wanting to fight with you?

moose would be neat. Large elk. Just not in your car grill or in your petunias.

car is now washed and dried, and I'm resting again. Still have to go downtown, left my good hat in brother's car and can't live without it outside.

 

[Popgadget]

Paul, that brisket looks like it's going to be delicious! Do you make your own rub?

Yup, and happy belated anniversary!

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Good morning to all! Low of 53°, going up to 76°. Good chances of a shower. There are flash flood watches out for tomorrow already. The forecast shows a 70% chance of 'heavy rain'. Estimated totals could be as high as 3", depending on location.

Wng and BEF, great pics! Wish I could be there enjoying the area in person. Keep'em coming..... I can mentally teleport....

PopG, nice to share some fair time with the GS.

RNG, ---- anxiously awaiting a new bike! Sounds like it is all coming together.

Today is our 39th trip around the solar system together. Time sure goes by fast.... Not much planned, might go out for dinner.

This morning, however, the Jeep's transmission has to get closed up before these big rains arrive. Shouldn't take too long to just put the filter/ pan back on. Doubt I'll do anything else to the Jeep today.

Everyone have a great day!

Happy 39th to you and the wifey! Looks like good progress on the Jeep happening.

G'morning all! We have rec'd a bit of rain this week. .55" it has the ants thinking about coming back above ground. 83F now headed to close to 100F Very very sultry humid.


It would seem if a station had 120 pumps, they would have a pipeline delivering fuels...one of the many reasons they have that many pumps, is that people will pump gas, then go inside to use the restroom and buy stuff. Our Buc-ees is very small, like a good sized convenience store 7-11. Gas here is $3.43/gallon, in San Marcos it was near $3.20/gallon

https://buc-ees.com/locations/

The man who owns Buc-ees is a grad of Texas A&M, and has endowed the college with a grant for a new college within the University. Making your name outlast your life here (if done in a good way) is a great thing. A kind of immortality.

Kids started school last Wednesday. So far, so good. Son is going to play football, and has never played a down in his life (no peewee league or nothing). I'm trying to warn him of the dirty tricks done at the bottom of a pile of players. He signed up for higher level math english and reading. Same with daughter who's now a senior.

Got out and sprayed a little roundup this morning on some pervasive weeds. TxDon, your okra looks fantastic despite almost no rainfall. I'm guessing you got some rain in the past few days?

Going to visit my mom down south today. Just a 1 day trip, will get home late.

My wifey just got off the Life Fitness X3 after doing it for 30 minutes. She worked up quite a sweat, HR gets over 170. She's a keeper, in fantastic shape...same weight as the day I married her. We went on a date yesterday, got my professional headshot photo taken for work. We dropped off a box of stuffed animals at Good Will, I had all their heads "looking out" and told the guy to find good homes for them all. After that, we went to a Persian restaurant and ate Beef shiskabobs. my wifey loved it, it was good, but for less money, I prefer the tasty soft tacos down the street. I will take her back if she wants to go.

Have some more stuff to take to the local recycler.

Prayers for our team, our country, Ukraine, and for Putin to come to his senses.

 

[scaredychicken]

for Kilroy ...

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Gosh, Paul, that pilot sure had some luck going for him. He should have bought a lottery ticket, too. Or maybe it would be a waste of money if he'd used up all his luck by then?

I keep forgetting to ask Drew how he likes his grease gun fitting collection. It keeps staring at me from the "Saved Items" in my Amazon shopping cart...

And speaking of reviews, how do you like your HF power washer? Is this the one? Lots of bad reviews. A friend is in the market for a new electric one.