Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

Lou, that would work. Good idea. thanks
normally this would not be a problem, just open the garage small door and go in and reset.
No doors...just the big wooden one and the side window four feet up the wall.
I wish someone had taken my picture crawling through that hole.
just grateful that plastic folding table inside did not collapse under me.
Clearly can not do this again. Tempting fate

 

[KilroyJC]

Good Morning!

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

59.5 F, going to low 80s, supposedly no chance of rain today with humididididty dropping below 45% as the day progresses.

Harry is a serious heavy chewer, he destroys his toys. I ordered 100’ of 3/4” cotton rope and have started making homemade rope toys. It takes about 3’ to 4’ per toy, basically just splicing it back on itself. 100’=$80, if I get at least 20 toys out of it and you figure $10 on a dog toy (all lowball numbers) I am ahead $120. Mrs suggested we make and sell some at loval flea market. I would probably price them at $25 each

After the morning household drudgery, we went to see Sound Of Freedom. It was made in the tradition of films from 60-70 years ago — they could tell the story without having to graphically push it in your face —- not an easy task considering the subject matter. And the story moved well —- it never lagged or stalled. Typical Hollywood poetic license on certain Law Enforcement aspects, but not enough to detract that much from the story line. A good story well-told.

The day was dry enough that we were able to take the dogs for a walk up to the woodlot later in the evening, when it was cooler . Still too wet to have done any sort of work in the garden, but maybe later today we will go up and do some work. I need to start on firewood for next year, plus lumber, so definitely chainsaw time and maybe sawmill will get fired up and slabwood can get cut up to burn… we shall see.


I hope everyone has a happy healthy safe productive blessed day!

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 79˚F heading to 102˚, heat advisory till 9pm every day for the next 10 days with HI at 112˚.
Looks like no rain for July.

I managed to call the Dr. office at the right time yesterday just when someone canceled and had my apt. moved to later this week, that's 3 weeks earlier. Will find out the problem with my "good knee" which will get a new name.

The County's River Ranch Park will have it's grand opening July 22. That is the 1360 acre park our hiking club members have spent 2,800 hours cederciding and making trails. They want us to set up a welcome station at one of the trail heads and hand out water. I probably won't make it because it will just aggravate my knee and it will be over 100˚.

The new Costco Grand opening is Friday! This is the most Northern Costco in central Texas the next one North is located in Dallas (150 miles away) so it will be a busy location getting all the Waco business.

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning.
63 going to middle 80’s today. No rain, gentle wind, clear skies.

Yesterday was a nice day until about 7:30. We had a cell pass by that left us hail and almost an inch of rain in less than a half hour. Wind shifted 180° while it was pummeling us.

Before that it was a good day to work out side. A buddy returned my enclosed trailer, we got out the pressure washer, foam cannon and long handled brush to give the trailer and his sprinter a bath. They both came out pretty good. Used a hand held leaf blower to “chamois” the glass on the sprinter, that worked well, leaving no water spots.
Next was a call from another friend that needed SSQA forks to unload a waiting truck. So I put the loader back on the tractor, dropped the bucket and picked up the forks so I could set them on his truck when he got here.
I got the components to build some speakers, so I called the next prospects on the waiting list to confirm orders, and fired up the saw to get them underway. My forks came back a bit after 2, so after unloading them, putting the bucket back on the loader and parking the tractor, went to a late lunch with the friend that borrowed them.
After lunch it was back to the wood shop until dinner time. Had a nice dinner with my wife, watched the storm pass by, then watched a documentary on Amazon Prime about Paul Butterfield, which was pretty good.

 

[scott_vt]

Good Morning Guys,
First time seeing the sun in some time ! Kathleen and I are thrilled to have something other than heavy rain ! 62 degrees with sun on the field, hope everyone here is as fortunate! Enjoy your day !

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, 67 going up to 88 and sunny.
Had a short heavy storm last night with some heavy rain.
Before that I got a bunch of weed whacking done along the driveway.
M18 was overheating on second battery, but was almost done so put it away to finish up today.

Thomas - sounds like a good deal at work

Don - the park is finally open, your group must be happy and proud, certainly put a lot of work into it.

Wild Raspberries are plentiful this year

 

[m7040]

Good morning, 75 going to 88 no rain in Fc

The plumber was here this morning and fixed the water leak at the accumulator tank. Pretty neat how they used a battery operated compression tool to crimp the copper tubing.

Agenda today is to do some weed eating, lawn mowing and more of the same wood stacking.

Zion in doggie daycare looks happy and smiling together with his bestie Scooby

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 76F @ 8:00AM. Plentiful sunshine. Hot. High 99F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph.
Lompoc's cool coastal weather has been replaced with a heat wave here, 99F+ through the 10-day, topping out at 112F Sunday.

The drive home yesterday was uneventful, but did learn that the 28oz bottle of PowerAid would fit in the cup holder molded into the door. And that the range estimate displayed on the dash included the amount under the red reserve bars. Had to stop for a few gallons of $4.55 gas to get me to the Indian casino and their $4.13 stuff. Missing the 38 gallon tank in the Ford, and the 45 MPG in the Camry. Still, 18MPG in the new van is respectable, especially considering the huge cargo capacity. Which yesterday was filled with the left over roof metal and timbers we didn't use on the shed. Which will get dropped off at the junk yard later this week.

All nine hummingbird feeders were dry when I got home yesterday, and I haven't heard them buzzing the one outside the bedroom I refilled last night. Might take 'em a day or two to come back I guess.

And the float ball for the little water tank shut off valve was still sitting on the kitchen counter where I left it last week, so that repair will be job 1 this morning. Then get some unpacking done. Yellow Star Thistle is coming back with a vengeance, so need to get that sprayed out this week, but probably not today.

 

[sodamo]

70°F and .03 inches rain.

Need another 3-4 hours to finish my outside mowing, but just started to rain as I’m typing.
Maybe just a quick shower?

Need my coffee, but my bike ride first.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[rswyan]

82F and partly cloudy @ 13:00, HI 84, DP 59F, HU 46%, AQI 58. Heading up to around 85F for the day's high.

Slow getting rolling again, was up late.

First cup of coffee tasting good.

Woman just headed out. She may not last long with the heat.

Yesterday took dump cart full of leaves around back first thing to flower bed and collected up weeds Woman had pulled. Then took dump cart up to compost pile and emptied it, also took up the 3rd Japanese beetle trap and a step-in post and got that placed in the upper front yard.

Refilled mealworm feeder with 20 mealworms after that.

Woman policed garden for large rocks that the rains had uncovered and took down the string line with cans on the ends.

I then used box blade and loader bucket to do some spreading and leveling in the garden.

Cloud cover wasn't really cooperating on that so we decided to switch off to something that could be done mostly in the shade: the clean up of the ash tree remnants that had fallen over in the west planting bed:

Worked on that most of the afternoon and got that mess pretty well cleaned up. Was clear that the deer have had no problem navigating the debris to eat the hosta:

Still need to remove the arborvitae stump that was destroyed.

Also got the leaves and debris in planting area at the southwest corner of the house mostly cleaned up:

Decided to cook up some hamburgers on the grill, used the Lipton Onion Soup recipe. Those were very tasty.

After that back to the clean up pictured above.

Relative came by and dropped off a bunch of fencing that they were no longer using and needed to get our of the way. Sent them home with a Giant Destroyer smoke bomb to handle some groundhog/raccoon/rabbit issues they were having.

Woman did some weeding around the burning bushes, I collected the weeds and hauled them up to the compost pile along with the leaves and debris from the southwest corner of the house:

She gathered up the garbage and hauled it up to the cans at the road which I had set out earlier.

Wasn't quite dark yet at that point but we were both pretty tired so we collected up the tools and put them away and called it a day.

Not real sure what She is up to out there but it seems like there is more cloud cover today ... so will probably get back to the garden.

Plants will need watered.

Lawn needs mowed as well, still growing rapidly with the rain we've had.

Hope everyone is having a decent Tuesday ...