Good morning!!!!

[Thomas]

53F partly cloudy day mid 60's for high.

Outside chores done E muffin time.
Plans for today...8 hours at part store afterwards not sure.

Enjoy your day all.

 

[wngsprd]

64 heading to 75.

Mostly, hope your pride (and knee) are getting well.

Nice, BEF.

Blade trimmed saplings yesterday. A full tank of gas was enough.

Then took Della on a hike to the swimming river.

 

[daugen]

good morning all from Salida CO.
a brisk 44 degrees out and the rv floor is cold vs hot like it has been.
heading downtown this morning to get friend's car out of shop, then we head to his favorite beanery for breakfast. Will be interesting to see local spots.

my nice cherry table in rv keeps falling apart, really, so that is job number one today.
The center section holding the two trestle legs together holds together by sliding joints and the pins keep falling out. I need to put very small brackets in hinge area to prevent movement. Something black and small to blend in. I could just glue it all but that would mean it could never come apart. Can't imagine why someone would need to take table out of rv but? Otherwise love the table, sadly didn't realize laptop feet were putting fine scratches in one area, now a place mat goes under the laptop. Perhaps if someone with good woodworking skills could eyeball it, I think it needs some fine steel wool, maybe 600 grit.

5am in the Rocky Mountains and way up there too. My stepbrother made a wonderful swedish meatball dinner for me last night, his Swedish wife made the meatballs and they were small, firm and delicious, but different. They are almost totally vegan so making meatballs was something nice wife made before she went off hiking in UK, 180 mile route, with her two late 40 something sons, at her age 75. Strong woman...
I think salmon is on dinner menu.

they have an enormous Swedish wood stove in center of house, need to take pic of,
something doubt any of you have seen often, huge soapstone stove that rises vertically and he said five logs heats house for almost two days. They have two favorite chairs set up in front of it, where they read together, and logs lay around. All good. Just need to get permission to take pics of inside of house.

I drove way out of the way to get here, and glad I did. This is a nice area, touristy for sure. Southern Colorado coming up here? Not so attractive and very poor looking with fields of junk machinery everywhere. Of course I love boneyards but likely the chamber of commerce doesn't.

Buckeye is a very good photographer, I'm a hack, but volume does have rewards.
and no one does sand cranes like Ron. And where are they?

 

[Hay Dude]

Good Morning.
Teddering hay destroyed by the rain bands of Helene​

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning
59° and overcast, going to partly cloudy and middle70’s if the forecast is accurate.

Yesterday was yet another busy day, before the sun was up, I was out changing the bucket on the excavator. In an effort to get the concrete contractor out earlier to put in a patio and front walk, I told him he wouldn’t have to move his excavator, he could use the one here. As it turned out they didn’t get here until after lunch, and then only to measure what I wanted them to do. They are going to prep form it up on Friday, and then pour on Monday.
The cedar siding did get completed on one side. and the gutters and downspouts are on.
The way that the addition tied into the original roof, made for some interesting gutter work.

I got the French cleats installed to hang the mirror frame in the bathroom, now have to take the frame and get a mirror cut and installed in it.
Hopefully today the cedar will get finished on the other side, the painters are coming back today, they were on an outside job the last couple days, taking advantage of the weather.

All of my woodwork is stained and sanding sealed, now needs a quick sand and urethane. Then lastly the walls get finished.

I’ll be working on the AV wiring today, I printed up heat shrink labels for all the speaker wires, I’ll install them and strip and terminate the cables.

RC club meeting this evening, I’ll charge something up to bring to the field and fly before the meeting. Other than that, I’ll play it by ear.

 

[m7040]

good morning, 53 going to 74 and finally no rain

Taking wife for her monthly infusion today

10 gallons of engine oil was delivered, Trans oil will deliver today

 

[daugen]

beautiful gutter work, just letting water find its own level.
Frits, put a smile on your wife's face today
Popgadget, I've got this old Radio Shack wire stripper, I could come over, sometime, to show you how to do those speakers wires. Make sure you wrap them around the electrical wires every few feet.

 

[daugen]

I just gazed in awe at my stepbrother's home yesterday, which I will ask permission to take inside pics of today, particularly that stove. When you do it yourself you fuss with everything to get it just right. My stepbrother is as or more exacting than Popgadget.
Custom spiral staircases, heavy pegged beam construction. Building this house wrecked his back btw. His son got a degree in construction engineering just to help out with this house. It was a long time coming.

He is a high end machinist whose shop I will also see today. To find out why his handle is BugattiDoc
He mortgaged his old home and bought a 250k Amilcar circa 1930 maybe, race car. Unique, rare, he fixed it up and sold it for 685k. And used that money to build his home. A dream come true. He is quiet and humble.
and he wants to live on his 70 acres in utter privacy and quiet down a long dirt road.
a whole family of tiny chipmunks lives in the stone wall below his deck.
lets' just say it's really nice there. And now, as everyone does, he bemoans all the new construction. Which is why if you have land and good sight lines, you can just tune out the rest of the world.

hope Plowhog is doing ok.

 

[scott_vt]

Good Morning,
Ct, 55 to start going to 72 ! Cloudy overcast skies this morning, cig the sun breaks through it should warm up if not we won’t see 72 !

BEF and Drew, great pics ! Thankyou !
Drew, really looking forward to see that Swedish wood stove. I have the Hearthstone Heritage soapstone stove in Vermont and we love it !

Perhaps if someone with good woodworking skills could eyeball it, I think it needs some fine steel wool, maybe 600 grit.

Drew, actually you do know a few people on the east coast that could help you with that !

Bill, glad you got your tractor straightened out !

Work today so better get going !
Hope all have a good day !

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Drew, I have twice ridden a horse up to the continental divide just west of you. About where I dropped the pin, it was near 13000 ft there I think.