Good morning!!!!

[Wagtail]

Good (Wednesday) morning. Overnight Low, reportedly, of 1.6C. It's now overcast and calm, calling for very light showers tonight... steady rain showers for the next couple of days but, of course, the Guessers keep adjusting the amount as time goes by. It's presently 13.5C, heading to 15C.

It's 'head into town' day for groceries.

That's about it, take care all.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Happy birthdays to Mostly's step daughter and Ken's son!

More rain in the forecast for the next several days. I think that taking it easy and be mostly indoors will be the plan.
The new raised seam roof on the log cabin is earning its keep and will protect the 225 year old cabin for many years to come beyond my lifetime.
The county researched the history of the farm and it is an interesting read going back to the first German immigrant that established a 200 acres farmstead.
Traded the old Unimog military truck for the roofing work.View attachment 761248

Always wanted to go 4 wheeling with a unimog...love the re-use of the airport baggage trailers for firewood. Stacks nicely and keeps it off the ground. 1/4 of your pile would probably "do" us for the winter...unless we get another Feb super ice storm.

Beautiful kid getting a pull in the snow. Great photo. That smile. I always told my kids when they were missing a front tooth, that they had a place to put their straw for their drink.

Michael Berry and wifey adopted 2 children from Ethiopia. He talks about them often, and the opportunities they get in their situation. He also expects a lot from them and teaches them right from wrong.

Incidentally, I turned out the light at 9.00 p.m. and woke at 12.00. Not sure why. It is usually shoulder pain / numbness but not this time. Needle has certainly worked some. Now nearly 2.00 a.m. and have been surfing for the last couple of hours. Think I will get up and have a bite to eat. Have a great day / night all.

Hope you can get some rest and it gets to feeling better. So you're at 2am there and it's 11am here central time. 9 hours ahead of us. Can you give me the baseball scores a half day ahead? I need to make some side money.

I surely have not spent the last hour doing what I wanted to.
Good news, rain stopped at about two inches
bad news is I had unplugged the sump pump in plugging in the hot tub and well, the results are as expected...
inch of water over entire basement, thank goodness everything is up on pallets or shelves. So an hour with shop vac, again..., and now the fan is blowing and everything plugged into
proper receptacle.
never ever ever going to unplug that sump pump again.
repeat

Maybe that's the good Lord telling you not to put anything but outdoor carpet in the basement....and buy a bigger wet vac?

Today was busy busy busy. Like Monday on Tuesday.

Daughter is taking ASVAB test tomorrow. You get a raw score in each category, then they use some math to figure out were you stand against everyone else taking it for the last year or few. If you get a 50%, theoretically you're average. I told her my score and that I had taken it after finishing junior college, and after having worked on my own vehicles and at the Yamaha shop. I took it at age 25, so I had plenty of life experience to help. I did quite well back then.....I wonder how I would do today.

One thing I've learned over the years is this. When it comes to math, use it or lose it. I couldn't do calculus to save my life anymore, because I haven't done it in about 37 years. Same with foreign language. I knew a guy who grew up in Germany, at age 22 he moved to America. At 45, he told me he had to practice German for a few days before he called his mother.

Rip, that was the "mothership" of hornets' nests. WOW! This milk barn is quite a big project.

LittlebittybigJohn (LBBJ), use that snapper to pull out the tractor!

They have a spam festival in Austin.... mostly weirdos. Can't remember if it happens before or after Eeyore's birthday party.

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

 

[txdon]

They have a spam festival in Austin.... mostly weirdos. Can't remember if it happens before or after Eeyore's birthday party.

Spamarama is held in April.

SPAMtastic news: Spamarama returns to Austin this weekend

The all-day celebration of the canned pork product will be held for the first time since 2019, when it made its return after a 12-year hiatus.

www.kvue.com

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

My guess is that it will. This is my mother’s mixer from the 70’s that my daughter inherited. She thought it prudent to disassemble it to clean it and replace the grease. She did it in my shop, but she did it all. It’s not bad for a 50 year old appliance.

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Yep, familiar looking picture.....
Ours is all fixed and running. I now have a spare gear if and when it goes out again. I f it goes out a third time, well, then it will get replaced.

The worst thing about all this is the wifey gave her 'old' one to our neighbor. It was her mother's, probably about 45 years old.... worked great! She wanted the slightly smaller and lighter one.... guess that wasn't a good decision.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Looks like I may soon be a WV land owner, again.
The agent got a verbal agreement from the seller that he would remove the mystery tank and take $5k under asking. (2 agents said it was a water tank, this whole area used to be a big orchard) I also offered $13k under and the tank stays. Now I think I went too high.
Agent sent me a land contract to sign, I just sent back some questions.
I’m not requiring a perc test as I believe it will perc ok based on houses on much smaller lots nearby. I did call well driller for estimate but missed his callback.
I keep going thru the “what if” scenarios though, if it doesn’t perc, can’t get water.
Haven’t priced getting electric in. It’s about 2 poles away either from behind or in front. It passed thru pasture below.

There is technically an HOA, but not in reality.
The first lot doesn’t follow them, with junk cars sitting around. I wonder about who does road maintenance. The road is in good shape.

With the road wrapping around this lot, only 2 direct bordering neighbors, the pasture not part of this development and 1 lot beside me (also for sale by same seller).

 

[Alien]

Hope it all goes smoothly for you bef. Exciting times ahead.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 67ºF for the start, mostly clear, and near calm breeze. Light wind day, more building Q developed, and high temp was 92ºF, HI 95ºF. Bike ride to start day, made good time (17 mph average for 20 miles) due to lower humidity and light wind. Came in to cool off and recover and rehydrate, then out to mow back, missed the wind. Lunch then nap, and to town for dinner and groceries. Also pumped up Peugeot back tire to 80psi to check for leaks.
Doug not sure if I could watch the screen while needle going in.
Billy hope mowing went well today.
Drew enjoy your inside day.
NHBX sounds like an inside day for you also.
Drew sorry about power blip. Flashlight in basement sounds like good idea.
Mike sorry sorry insurance and contractor. Nice to get 7 miles in Saturday. Neat pics, especially the nests.
Ken Happy Birthday to son, sorry about thermostat battle. Glad you got the care package.
Scaredy sorry about skunked fishing. Sorry about SIL setback, hope wife home soon.
Drew glad hot tub can recover quickly
Scaredy you do seem to have a lot of projects in limbo land. hope you can shake a few of them in motion again. Probably good decision not to run for Regional Director.
Paul nice day yesterday, pizza looks very good. Hope today goes as well.
Drew nice rain.
Frits interesting looking truck, never seen on in person.
PJ glad low tire sensor not serious, thanks for stepdaughter b-day wishes.
Drew at least you are trying. I think that is why Don and wife male so much of what the eat from scratch, they can control ingredients so much better.
Drew Glad train wreck not near you. Nice you are getting plenty rain. sorry about the sump pump plug
Doug switch habits are hard to break. sorry about the habit of waking up at midnight. Hope you can break that habit.
BigJohn that looks very stuck. Welcome to GM thread.
David glad you are making good progress on mowing.
Ted nice work on finding the replacement parts. Hope Max not getting too hungry. Hope nap was good.
Frits nice firewood cover. And really nice pile of unstacked firewood.
Dennis had some relays go bad in some old Tripp-Lites, replaced battery once, the about the time battery 2 was dieing, relays went bad. Just started replacing with APC units.
Drew nice haul.
BigJohn I thank snappers are about as bad as raccoons.
Thomas Glad good day at job, sorry about kitty shortening your nap. Hope kitty not mad at toy
NKBX thanks for link. Did not know where the name for unwanted email came from.
Mike sorry about the pipe under the house.
Frits nice family and pic
Chris not seeing very many masks here in North Texas. Covid cases up serious cases are not.
Randy(wag) hope you get the light steady rain, and are able to get what you need from store(s).
Kyl thanks for stepdaughter b-day wishes.
Dennis prayers for land project to end with you happy with it.
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle's daughter and family drama, /mom's breathing, /learning new job, Bird/aging issues/, Don /mom's pipeline process, Randy / RIP /condolences to Family, Roy /palpitations, /angina /wife ankle, Billy /wife back & hip, David(moss) /remodel, /divorce, Buppies /3 new skin cancer spots and treatment, /wife knee healing, /getting dehydrated and cramping, Thomas /gout, Phil /reflux, /wife's eyes, Frits/ daughters hip replacement, Steppenwolfe/son-auto immune disorder, Grev/wife's eye, Ted /knee recovery, /retirement, /family issues, /wife feeling bad, Doug and wife/health issues, /nerve and pain, / wife headaches, David(sadamo)/Sophie's new eye surgery recovery, Chris /neighbor's granddaughter and Covid issues, Scaredy/shoulder dislocation, /wife not feeling well, /marriage, / friend stop drinking, Paul/ wife's healing from back surgery, Gale and KY/ tornado victims, Mike /5 year plan, Dennis /retirement plans and land purchase and development, / brother "alligallyitus" and improving, Drew /foot heel issues, /friend cancer diagnosis and recovery, Helogabals /second opinion, /wife's friend situation, Ukraine war, and Country.

 

[Alien]

They reckon we're going to have a wet summer so I went into the local town and bought a sump pump that gets rid of the excess rainwater along the front of the house. I put a sump in years ago but the original pump died several years ago and we hadn't had enough rain till recently to make a new pump worthwhile. I had pulled out the old discharge hose and power cord so I need to re-do those. Pump has a 2 year warranty so if I had replaced it back then I would have had no warranty left when the rains came again.
So I have the pump to fit, 2 x solar skylights, 2 x security lights, some window architraves and 2 door frame architraves and a inside wall to sheet with drywall and LOTs of painting. Wife wants me to clad the outside of the house now as well. Just as well I am a spring chicken... Oh, I also have lots of irrigation pipes to run around the garden as well. Been too cold lately for working but warming up fast. Hopefully it will get too hot to work?

 

[scaredychicken]

why did I just KNOW that this would appear next ???

 

[NHBX]

why did I just KNOW that this would appear next ???

Just couldn’t resist LOL