Good morning!!!!

[buckeyefarmer]

No rain so it was a morning of trail work in the county park. Found an old trailer and tv someone had dumped probably decades ago.
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That’s an old one with tubes.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Another over $200 Costco bill. Wife messed me up on self checkout. First she put her purse down on the tray and the computer got confused on number of items. Then when I was about to scan the last item she started removing items from the tray to put in cart, before the computer was ready and this time it froze and I had to wait for the attendant.
Part of the higher cost was because they finally got the mobile 1 oil in stock that I needed, and on sale. Got 3 cases of 6 qts. Still over $5 a qt.

Water in fridge again in the bottom drawer and under it. I suspect from the water filter, but it’s all dry and it would first leak into top of the pullout crisper doors before it could run down to the lower section, and it’s all dry there. So no idea where it’s from. I did order new filter.
Order oil filter for Honda and Subaru, latter needs changed. Maybe tomorrow.
Still need water softener fixed. It’s full of water again where the float is shutting it off, so has to be seal under the motor plate.
Just ordered seal kit for every seal under the rotating plate on softener, figure if I take it apart might as well do all of them.

 

[daugen]

had a very fun long visit with childhood friend in Lederach, they got some crab and shrimp pasta dish brought in that was yummy.
flew home to be ready for 5pm school board meeting only to find out it was tomorrow afternoon. I don't use my phone for a calendar
remaining a tech troglodyte.

so...headed for hot tub and a long soak. I think I'm going to miss it while in FL.
But before I go, will drain it and clean it out; don't want to leave it running for ten days without reason.
Will put in fresh water when I get home and wait overnight for it to warm up.

lot of rain coming in late tonight and tomorrow.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

had a very fun long visit with childhood friend in Lederach, they got some crab and shrimp pasta dish brought in that was yummy.

Used to get a really good crab&shrimp w/ penne pasta dish from a place years ago, really miss it. 3 brothers pizza, it went out of business during covid I think.
Looked them up, Still some locations around, one I used to go to closed down, but they are in DC area.

 

[m7040]

Forgot to get coffee filters yesterday. So off to get them as well as mail letters. The dead bolt lock set is not operating smoothly so back to HD with that tomorrow. The State forester will be here tomorrow to inspect the tree plantings for contract compliance. A number of tree shelters were blown over in the last storm. We also have the yearly appointment with the eye optometrist. Had mine checked by a Retina specialist a couple of months ago.

 

[Thomas]

Good Morning! God has given us another chance to get it right (or at least not screw up too badly).

Foggy but warmer this morning, 37.8F, allegedly going into the 60s.

Coworker expressed interest in buying eggs from us — we never brought up the topic. since the new hens are starting to come online, it will be a good way to not get overloaded - I think I have eaten more eggs since May than in the last thirty years (I was never a big egg eater other than as an ingredient)! I just hard boiled another 2doz and have to pickle them, and barely made a dent - and I never got to make the quiches I planned this weekend…

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an embarrassment of riches

Another coworker said that come spring she would give us some elderberry bushes since all of ours died last summer. Yep - we managed to kill elderberries! Actually, i am pretty sure it was moles that got them, so this year they will go into some large planters and then next year I will attempt propagating cuttings, hopefully avoiding the critters by planting several detached patches.

The training module practice jobs are still wonky, and grading is aggravating. I did an experiment where I completely erased all the scanned data entered into the digital forms, saved the job completely blank, then went back and manually re-entered everything, one block at a time and saved it again. This way there is zero chance of pre-existing data contaminating my work - and it will clearly show if the system is re-loading documents into the forms with the default training data that is meant to be corrected.

the games one must play. . .

our fancy-schmancy coffee machine I snagged from a Habitat ReStore about 8 years ago has a leak - I need to replace a Teflon hot pressurized water feed line. The machine is 19 years old and it is worth every penny of the 100$ I paid for it - and the 300$ we invested three years ago in replacing the heater and control board, since the new equivalent one is over 1600$ and mostly plastic - this one is a metal chassis and body.

Stocking Mill Coffee ROCKS!!!!!
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Got up around 4am to answer The Call, never fell back asleep - I got an earworm of “Burning For You” by Blue Oyster Cult. By 5 Am I couldn’t lay there anymore. Still have the earworm going. . .

Apparently We aren’t going to get more seasons of “Clarkson’s Farm” since Amazon dumped him for insulting the Former Royal and the Hollywood (insert appropriate (or badly inappropriate, depending)term here) who gelded him. . .

If you haven’t seen “Clarkson’s Farm”, it is quite entertaining - he is a much bigger dilletante than me & Mrs, with a big head start (inheriting working farms), bigger and more equipment, and a film crew. . .

I am “back of a napkin” designing a firewood processor for branches, based upon the ones you see with a chainsaw on a stand with the actuator for the throttle, but instead of using a chainsaw per se, it will use the bar and chain but be powered by a horizontal 4 stroke so large quantities of branches can be processed. Everything from about 1” to 5” in diameter. The 2” and smaller stuff will be primarilynfor kindling and the wood-fired sauna, and for mangal (kebab grill) the eventual beehive oven. Why waste firewood on a burn pile?

I hope everyone has a happy healthy productive blessed HUMP DAY!
I wonder if BEF can recall what that even means

I found this little device makes boiling hard boil eggs so much easier and quicker.

 

[Looking4new]

lot of rain coming in late tonight and tomorrow.

Your rain will be snow for me. About 4" they claim.

 

[KilroyJC]

They make retractable track excavators just for you so it can go through the doorway

I wonder how that would work going up my front steps, though?

 

[KilroyJC]

No idea.

I’ve been frying eggs almost every morning for breakfast. Almost ready to open the 5 dozen package I bought. How long are eggs good for in the fridge?

Until they aren’t…

 

[Wagtail]

Good (Thursday) morning. Overnight Low of 7C and it's presently 20.5C due to a cold front that came through yesterday arvo. There's a steady breeze and there was 8.5mm in the gauge at 0900.

I've already been to the local Base Hospital for a 'foot bloke' appointment. He cuts my toenails, ensuring that no ingrown nails occur, takes care of callouses and generally checks the condition/circulation of my feet due to Type II diabetes.

Today I hope to mow the property in preparation for Sunday. Doing a wee bit each day... slow and steady wins the race.

That's about it, take care all.