Good morning!!!!

[Wagtail]

What does the Warden do? And yes, church's need volunteers. My wife and I currently host Wednesday night youth nights. I am foregoing another term of Sunday school teacher, for many reasons. Enjoy being the parade Commander! Someday, you'll have to give us some stock tips, since you're a day ahead of us in time.

Simply put, a Warden is responsible for the maintenance of the Church and grounds... small repairs, changing light-globes, being there when 'contractors' are present, etc... The Senior Warden also attends the annual Synod for the Archdiocese (in our case, for all of Tasmania).

 

[two_bit_score]

KXAN in Austin is reporting you can bake cookies on your car’s dashboard.

How hot is it in Austin? Hot enough for cookies!

A KXAN viewer said she conducted an experiment this week just to see how hot it really was in Austin.

www.kxan.com

well, you might have a nice smelling car anyway.

 

[ronjhall]

Coffee is brewing. 60° with rain this morning. Heading to 79° with continued rain throughout the day. .75" rain overnight. Worked on chicken coop interior. Thought I was all done with this project. But found some interior trim that was never put up when built 45 years ago. When get at that when weather clears. Helped neighbor clear up large cherry tree some more. At least one more evening of work on removing it. Then we will start chipping up all the limbs.

Everyone stay well and safe.

Good Morning All.

 

[KilroyJC]

Good Morning!

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

69.1F going to low 90s, radar shows a straight line of storms stretching all the way to just north of Shreveport LA aimed right at us, so storms most of the day. They started last night just after midnight, LOTS of lightning, so Senior dog had us up alll night… Harry didn’t seem to even notice…

Main task of the day is midday trip to “the big town” to go to periodontist for a minor procedure, so as to prevent a potential major procedure. Yay…

ihope everyone has a happy healthy safe productive blessed day!

 

[daugen]

good morning all
woke up to a pouring rain, ended with .31 inches of rain. Looks like my moving the weather station didn't give it a heart attack.
more rain tonight.
Just a lot of grass mowing.

will be a busy morning.
plumber coming to install battery backup for sump pump.
Basically a group 27 AGM hooked up to a smart controller/battery charger and a large marine
bilge pump.
Sump runs a lot and if power goes off, a wet mess downstairs.
will be a lot more relaxed leaving on trips with that backup in place.

I also tried something new....a declunker.
will see if it works. There are several varieties of these things, this one made by backup sump mfg.

Amazon.com

cleaning lady also coming, time to pick stuff up.
this afternoon need to go food shopping
Might fly the drone a little more, need practice.

RNG, really wonderful you found a nice new home. A big new project for you.
But maybe you will sleep better at night.

Kilroy, hope your morning goes ok, doesn't sound like fun. I hate dentists, they hurt me and charge me
many thousands of dollars a year.
But I do like to eat...

 

[KilroyJC]

good morning all
woke up to a pouring rain, ended with .31 inches of rain. Looks like my moving the weather station didn't give it a heart attack.
more rain tonight.
Just a lot of grass mowing.

will be a busy morning.
plumber coming to install battery backup for sump pump.
Basically a group 27 AGM hooked up to a smart controller/battery charger and a large marine
bilge pump.
Sump runs a lot and if power goes off, a wet mess downstairs.
will be a lot more relaxed leaving on trips with that backup in place.

I also tried something new....a declunker.
will see if it works. There are several varieties of these things, this one made by backup sump mfg.

Amazon.com

cleaning lady also coming, time to pick stuff up.
this afternoon need to go food shopping
Might fly the drone a little more, need practice.

RNG, really wonderful you found a nice new home. A big new project for you.
But maybe you will sleep better at night.

Kilroy, hope your morning goes ok, doesn't sound like fun. I hate dentists, they hurt me and charge me
many thousands of dollars a year.
But I do like to eat...

Back a while ago, I had to go through four-quadrant oral surgery, insurance didn’t cover, screwed up most of my summer.

so this will be a piece of cake.

And I am saying “SCREW THE DIET” and having a huge, glorious REAL breakfast since I probably won’t be able to eat until tomorrow.

 

[KilroyJC]

The Further Adventures of CAPTAIN RURAL DOC!!!!!!

in this episode, our hero navigates the peculiar wold or Compensation. . .

 

[Buppies]

74 light showers around no rain yesterday

Slept all night last night not so tired today

Have not seen bear in a while but bird feeder down so no food source

Prayers for all silent or spoken Maui our Country

 

[riptides]

74 outside this AM, heading to mid 80's. 93% humidity.

Had some serious gully washers move through the area late yesterday. Missed us, but lots of flash flooding all around the area, including DC. Really not good.

Maybe more on tap later today.

Hope all have a great day today. Be safe.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 61F @ 3:00AM. Some clouds in the morning will give way to mainly sunny skies for the afternoon. High 77F. Winds WNW at 10 to 15 mph.

Tragic news out of Hawaii. Wildfire claimed 87 lives in Paradise, CA in 2018, and everybody knew before hand that it was only a matter of time before it happened. But who'd have guessed something like that could occur in a tropical climate? Was that town in a rain shadow or something, David?

RNG, really wonderful you found a nice new home. A big new project for you.
But maybe you will sleep better at night.

Yes, a lot of little fix its that make for a big project, and more sleepless nights. It seems the more I look around this place, the more I find that needs attention. Stupid things, like a fancy restaurant style kitchen faucet mounted on a flimsy stainless steel sink so the faucet wobbles around every time it's used. Or a ceiling fan wired to a dimmer. Or water filter cartridges that need replaced on the refrigerator and under the kitchen sink. Or a refrigerator with automatic ice maker and ice cube dispenser on the door that isn't hooked up to a water line. Or an extension cord routed through cabinets powering the refrigerator. Or smoke and CO detectors that don't work. Or a sloppy paint job over the ceramic tile floor in one of the bathrooms. Or an even sloppier paint job in the great room, especially where the previous owners took out the fireplace and chimney. Or, or, or. The list goes on and on. To top it all off, I'm told by a neighbor that the previous owner was a building contractor. If what I've found is any indication of the quality of the work he does, it's no wonder they had to move!

Got a carpet cleaner coming this morning, so at least I'll be able to move the bed into a bedroom.

Spent a lot of time yesterday checking out the SimpliSafe alarm systems. Found out that the cell phone app won't play a loud alarm sound when an alarm is triggered in the house. The alarm at the old house wouldn't do it, either, until I told them about the sheriff being summoned for a false alarm I missed because I couldn't hear the alert on the cell phone while I was driving. I found out about that two hours later. But at least with SimpliSafe I can prevent them from dispatching law enforcement unless they use the camera system to audibly query an intruder for a safe word and get a negative response. They've also bundled smoke and CO sensors in a single device. Kind of useless, since smoke rises, and CO sinks to the floor. They do sell a separate CO sensor, but for some reason don't list it in the online catalog. These problems have been pointed out to them in their user forum, but after several years, have yet to be remedied. That could mean the solutions are right around the corner, or that they will never be addressed. Glass half full or half empty? Maybe a letter to the CEO might get some action?

All is not gloom and doom however. Yesterday I ran some speed tests on the Xfinity internet connection, and got over a 1 Gbps to the first Xfinity hop up the line. The speed falls off rapidly using the WiFi connection, but it's still over 10 Mbps in the far corner of the back yard behind the storage shed. That was after I moved the modem/WiFi router out of the cabinet where the cable terminated and set it up in the loft over the garage. Today I'll see if I can get a stronger signal by moving the modem into the central great room by swapping some connectors around where the cable comes into the house.

I also stopped into the doughnut shop down on the corner and purchased a half dozen doughnut holes for only a dollar. They were so fluffy I could squish the air out of them by pressing them up against the roof of my mouth. Mmm...

Sometime between midnight and 4AM Thursday, SpaceX will launch another string of satellites from nearby Vandenberg Space Force Base. That should be "interesting". I've been wanting to witness a night time launch, but didn't anticipate it being from my front yard.