Good morning!!!!

[sodamo]

Dennis, my grandmother used to make something she called mustard pickles that had onions in them. Boy do I miss them. Could eat half the jar myself.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Dennis, my grandmother used to make something she called mustard pickles that had onions in them. Boy do I miss them. Could eat half the jar myself.

This is wife’s grandmother’s recipe. Bread and butter pickles.

 

[rswyan]

77F and supposedly cloudy @ 14:00, but I'm occasionally seeing some sun out the window. Some showers in the area with more on the way. WU was only calling for 74F for the day's high temp so we've beaten that. HI 78F, DP 67F, HU 78%, AQI 32.

Closest LWS reports 0.35" since midnight. No rainfall data available for yesterday from the three closest stations, something apparently hosed on Weather Underground's website.

Took core aerator around back and collected concrete block and then parked it in the barn first thing yesterday before mowing over leach field.

Covered up Cub with a tarp when the deluge hit.

After rain quit ran down to the corner and got 5 gallons of gas, refueled Cub when I got back.

Things seemed to dry up pretty rapidly, the fact that lawn had been recently cored probably helped.

Then got east side down here around the house all mowed.

Got hopper feeder refilled later, plus the tube feeders.

Put dump cart on Cub and picked up all the weeds The Woman had pulled and hauled those up to the compost pile. Still need to do the compostables in the garage.

Swapped out the smaller cage around the gingko tree for a larger one, also weeded around it. Gingko tree looking the best it ever has.

Swapped the shorter/smaller cage around the best Rose of Sharon bush. It has around 6 flower buds on it and is now over 4' tall ... but the tips of the branches had been getting nipped ... hopefully this new cage will protect it a little better.

Put Cub away over in the barn before knocking off for the day.

Woman and I split the last Parmesan Crusted Chicken Breast for dinner and polished off the green bean casserole. She also fixed some Saffron flavored rice to go along with it. Tasty.

Looking like not much on agenda for the rest of the day outside due to the weather.

Probably a good day to do a clean out on the refrigerator/freezer and do some work on paperwork organizing.

Overdue for a shave ... so may work that in as well ...

Hope everyone is having a good Monday ...

 

[daugen]

looks like quite a good storm coming in tonight, will affect many of us on East Coast.
one to two inches of rain possible and high winds.
in fact at bottom right of my screen it says high winds soon

I've been lazy this afternoon, read a book.
now headed to basement to pump out hot tub so maybe I will get lucky and find out what is leaking.
I think the whole pump assembly has to be removed and taken apart, meaning all the plastic shrouding on top so I can
see what is inside. Hope it's a loose pipe

 

[riptides]

Well, severe weather moving into the area. Alerts are up all over the place and the FED has decided to abandon all locations in and around the city. It's every man and woman for themselves with early dismissal. (Hint: Staggering when to leave, never works). LOL.

Guess I will go secure the worksites and batten down the hatches on the home front.

Conditions are hot and humid right now. Perfect for bad weather.

 

[riptides]

looks like quite a good storm coming in tonight, will affect many of us on East Coast.
one to two inches of rain possible and high winds.
in fact at bottom right of my screen it says high winds soon

I've been lazy this afternoon, read a book.
now headed to basement to pump out hot tub so maybe I will get lucky and find out what is leaking.
I think the whole pump assembly has to be removed and taken apart, meaning all the plastic shrouding on top so I can
see what is inside. Hope it's a loose pipe

Good luck on digging into the hot tub.

Not to be a negative nelly, one I had sprung a leak, pipe actually gave way at joint. Patched it, and then another gave way. Seems the hot water and chemical mix, over time, degraded the pipes.

I tried to make a fish pond out of it after that. Found out they float rather well after you lay them down into holes and it rains. LOL.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

The feds used to never release early unless it was a blizzard that already hit.

Was 8 jars of pickles, 7 in canner, one for is to eat now.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Current radar with storms heading NE direction. Nothing heading towards DC right now, but I guess they could pop up.

 

[m7040]

We have warnings all over the place about T storms and tornadoes but so far only a few heavy wind gusts. Power went off and came back on a few times

 

[buckeyefarmer]

It’s coming. System getting bigger.