Good morning!!!!

[Buppies]

55 rain soon off to get skin cancer scarped and burned off review cyst prayers for all

 

[Thomas]

Ahhhh retirement BEF.

 

[Thomas]

51F clear sky now cloudy afternoon near 80F.

Outside chores done E muffin time.
Since last Sunday all but few areas have snow,it's been good melting for stream brooks haven't been roaring.

Today plans...AM town for critter food,shovel out than rake short ditch line,PM rake another section by road and spruces and date night.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[pennwalk]

Good Morning. We are in a stretch of nice weather. It must have hit the 80s yesterday. 49F now heading up to 85F. Kind of dry.

We had a little excitement here at the house yesterday. My wife got home around 3:30 and there was a fire department jamboree going on in the backyard. The woods behind the house burned. Burned right up to the property line. Burned my branch pile. That's OK one less thing to chip up. The only thing of ours it got was an old garden wagon. All that is left is the frame and the wheels. I wouldn't have minded if it got the old picnic table back there. The woods is completely cleaned out. They had to cut down a couple of dead cherry trees that got fire inside. I wonder if the cable crews that have been working in the neighborhood dropped a cigarette?

I missed all the action. I was up mowing the lawn at the farm. Beautiful afternoon. Nice and warm with a nice breeze to keep it from feeling hot.

I found out my neighbor across the street is moving. I found out because he put a huge pile of garbage bags out on garbage day. His wife died 2 years ago and he took it hard. She was in her mid fifties so it was unexpected. I will miss them. They were good neighbors.

Our daughter is home with us for a long weekend. She found out it was a lot cheaper to fly home to go to our dentist compared to the dentist out in Illinois. She must have saved a couple of grand. It is nice to have her visit.

Keep your eyes open this Spring is going by like a flash.

Chris

 

[buckeyefarmer]

55 rain soon off to get skin cancer scarped and burned off review cyst prayers for all

Hope all goes well !!

 

[KilroyJC]

good morning all
very warm day, up to 88 today

am off with trailer to Pemberton NJ, near Ft Dix/McGuire AFB, to pick up Gravely garden tractor.

sure was nice being outside yesterday but my eyes itched and itched.
Getting to be where I need to change my morning shower to an evening shower just to get the pollen off me.
Even though I wear a hat, it seems to get everywhere and it's just starting...

always did a morning shower because wanted to be clean after communing on throne. But now with a bidet seat on my toilet,
that necessity is gone. If you haven't tried a bidet seat, I highly recommend it. It's a little weird but you get used to it.

am hoping a water heater part shows up today from dealer, the one that fried when I plugged in the rv without any water
in the tank. Not good. Not my error, he forgot to turn it off before sending me on my way, so he said no problem, I'll send the part.
And then, drum roll, I have an interesting list of rv to-do's for my favorite MacGyver. Heater element, new water intake, replace kitchen faucet.
And I have a new digital door lock I'd like installed on my house door, but not sure there's enough room.

5 years ago I would not have asked for help on any of this. Admit my confidence was rocked when I got sick three years ago, plus I seem to get frustrated
too easily. Perhaps it's my brain ossifying...
so I consider myself seriously lucky to have friends who are willing to help.

forsythia continues to blaze away, lots of color along with my yellow pansies

Pemberton is one of the nicer parts of Jersey - I always enjoyed getting lost in the Pine barrens and exploring my way back out

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Ahhhh retirement BEF.

Yep, now I get to do all the work I never had time to do while working.
After seeing the state of the mower, I almost left it. But this is the one I just rebuilt the transmission. I have not checked, but I think the engine is gone, locked up. I told dad if it bounces off the trailer on the way home I’ll just keep going.

“AC” worked well last night. 52° outside and only had the fan on low.

I looked at the split tree, one big limb where the split is could hit the house if cut off low.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Good Morning. We are in a stretch of nice weather. It must have hit the 80s yesterday. 49F now heading up to 85F. Kind of dry.

We had a little excitement here at the house yesterday. My wife got home around 3:30 and there was a fire department jamboree going on in the backyard. The woods behind the house burned. Burned right up to the property line. Burned my branch pile. That's OK one less thing to chip up. The only thing of ours it got was an old garden wagon. All that is left is the frame and the wheels. I wouldn't have minded if it got the old picnic table back there. The woods is completely cleaned out. They had to cut down a couple of dead cherry trees that got fire inside. I wonder if the cable crews that have been working in the neighborhood dropped a cigarette?

I missed all the action. I was up mowing the lawn at the farm. Beautiful afternoon. Nice and warm with a nice breeze to keep it from feeling hot.

I found out my neighbor across the street is moving. I found out because he put a huge pile of garbage bags out on garbage day. His wife died 2 years ago and he took it hard. She was in her mid fifties so it was unexpected. I will miss them. They were good neighbors.

Our daughter is home with us for a long weekend. She found out it was a lot cheaper to fly home to go to our dentist compared to the dentist out in Illinois. She must have saved a couple of grand. It is nice to have her visit.

Keep your eyes open this Spring is going by like a flash.

Chris

Glad fire stayed away from house. Always nice to have the kids visit. Today I’m the kid visiting.
What side of Lancaster are you on? We like to visit up that way.

 

[daugen]

Kilroy, my friend's parents owned a blueberry farm in Pemberton, still have the sign out front (rehabbed for fun)
that went back to nature after friend's Dad died. Father was an aircraft mechanic and my old friend got a lot of good
training from him. he and I have done many projects together, and he was the only one I would trust to take care of my Gravely
while it was living away from home.

went to Jersey beaches as a kid. Driving down those long stretches, with the windows down, no a/c..., in the station wagon, watching the pine forests
go by and by and by, and will we ever get there?? On the way back you were tired, sunburned and itchy from sand and hopefully just fell asleep.

First trip I remember riding in was 1959 Biscayne station wagon, with the big fins, big silver thing, six cylinder and three on the tree. Probably horribly slow compared to today, but then the world seemed to go a little slower too in the 50s...

My grandfather always bought cheap Chevrolet sedans. Pure depression mentality, had lost almost everything he had earned in big crash.
So my Father started off buying these seriously slow and boring cars.
Then I think he woke up, maybe started making more money, started buying my Mother an Oldsmobile.
It was the cheapest one, and geez it had three on the tree also, must have been the last one made.
And then came the Olds 98 convertible, dark green, with a 370hp 455 top spec engine.
Dad must have had a good year. If I was good, it was my date car instead of my own beater.
But he did it for us, he would have been happy with an old faded Biscayne. Not a material guy at all.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Camera got me using the kubota to pull the mower out of the garage. Lifted back end off the ground.
The garage is another major project. Not sure it can be saved. The middle keeps coming down, the side posts are leaning to the right.