Good morning!!!!

[FriendwithTractor]

Good Morning to All Who Celebrate! Currently 73° going to a high of 84°, sunny and clear until the weekend allegedly.

Glad to be back at work, usually any longer than 3 days in the house and I go a little stir crazy. Other than beating back the cold, I went and looked at the land.

It sure is some dirt, that's about all I managed to see. It drops away rapidly from the road and there was no good place to park and romp around. From what I could see it looks like there was a logging road on it at one point in time. Better follow up with the realtor sometime this week.

Got the new ball hitch I bought on Friday for the new trailer installed. Now all that's left is the chains and chain binders. Then I will be able to recite the ancient incantation of "That's not going anywhere." before moving the Kubota. I did check, and my truck is capable of towing 10k from the bumper. The question now remains of if that's something I want to do. I read somewhere that for regular use, you never want to max out your vehicle. Makes sense, but even combined with a heavy implement my L3901 might push 6k. Made me look at the next truck up, a 2500 in diesel. (That would be new to me, not new, as I've mentioned previously I'm not made of money) Maybe some day, we'll see how my current truck performs.

Parents made it down to the shore without incident and they took the dog with them. I'm now going to see how brave the groundhogs get without the dog on patrol. Nephew had his first ever sit on a tractor:

I can't believe he'll be one at the end of August, I'm sure he'll be pestering me for tractor rides before long. Time flies.
Related, I can't get over how much he looks like his dad. My sister was really just a formality in the cloning process.

Mostly, I can now say I've seen the Eiffel tower. Good pics.
Kyle, Happy Belated Birthday!
Ron, I'm coming to your place for Thanksgiving, you have all the turkeys.

All not specified, Stay safe out there y'all and be well!
Prayers for those ailing and recovering!

 

[Dftodd]

Been a rough six months. My wife broke her elbow at the end of January. Broken radial head, torn ligament and dislocation.

This required two surgeries. One to install hardware to secure her elbow. One to remove the hardware. And one manual manipulation in between.

She had an allergic reaction after the last surgery to the surgical glue they used.

Medication started to work for an infection that started the other day. then overnight it blew up. Spent all day yesterday at the hospital. She goes for a 3rd surgery today for the infection. Hopefully be back home by Wednesday.

She's recieved lots of IV antibiotics so far.

Hopefully this is the last of it besides physical therapy

 

[m7040]

The story about Ha Long Bay tourist boat that capsized had my interest. 38 drowned. That was the same tour that D was taking when visiting Vietnam recently. Also at the time there was a storm in the forecast so she cancelled the bay cruise. Good decision

 

[kenmbz]

Been a rough six months. My wife broke her elbow at the end of January. Broken radial head, torn ligament and dislocation.

This required two surgeries. One to install hardware to secure her elbow. One to remove the hardware. And one manual manipulation in between.

She had an allergic reaction after the last surgery to the surgical glue they used.

Medication started to work for an infection that started the other day. then overnight it blew up. Spent all day yesterday at the hospital. She goes for a 3rd surgery today for the infection. Hopefully be back home by Wednesday.

She's recieved lots of IV antibiotics so far.

Hopefully this is the last of it besides physical therapy

Wow Dftodd, I hope this all gets sorted fast.

 

[daugen]

on this day a few years back a little black snake was having a bad day.
I discovered him the morning I was taking two garden club ladies to inspect the garden and of course
they were upset for the poor little snake. I wrecked my netting getting him down but amazingly when finally
fully undone, his skin was cut and beat up, he wiggled a little and shot off at high speed for the nearest woodline.

then apparently later that day a friendly box turtle came trucking across the front lawn.
lastly appears I was experimenting with sending the chipper output directly into the burn pile.
turned out to be a waste of time

headed out to the garage on a lovely morning, not sure what I'll get into.
I tried doing some raking of the area we worked on Saturday, that didn't feel good.
am waiting for doc office to call me back to get a scan for a hernia. Something is unhappy down there.
well, she just did, off to get "evaluated" before scan. Appt in an hour, can't complain about that

 

[Dftodd]

Wow Dftodd, I hope this all gets sorted fast.

You and me both brother... it's been a long road and lots of PT sessions.

Now with this surgery, it starts back over for another 6 weeks or so.

 

[Thomas]

You and me both brother... it's been a long road and lots of PT sessions.

Now with this surgery, it starts back over for another 6 weeks or so.

Special thoughts speedy recovery for your bride.

 

[Thomas]

Morning all, 71 going to 85 and sunny.
Yesterday we took the dog to two car shows, one also had some tractors on display.
Then went to pick up the son. We only got to do half of the bigger show as dog was getting too hot, she got an ice for her troubles and was quite happy.

Then got some of the smaller fields mowed.

Be well,
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on the Bronco...wonder if had 302cu with the 3 speed on the column.
Bolens brings back memories.

 

[Thomas]

66F partly cloudy might reach 70F winds 5-10mph low humidity.

No internet this morning.
Owl buzz me twice this morning Mrs. said maybe owl think your hind end of rabbit
Puttering this afternoon enjoying outside temps.

Enjoy your day all.

 

[rswyan]

71.4F, "fair" with some haze @ 11:00, calling for a high of 81F for the day which is a little below normal. Winds out of the north @ 5 to 10 mph. Overnight low was 56.2F.

Just got back from returning metal detector to rental place.

Emptied Water Buffalo out watering pumpkins in back yesterday, all six got at least a gallon ... probably closer to 2 gallons. Then got WB refilled.

Took Kubota over to the barn and grabbed the goat panel remnant and brought it back over to the pumpkins in back and dropped it off. Need to verify the panel will fit where it's going and then get the t posts driven today while I still have cooler temps.

Woman worked on weeding around the 2 Casper pumpkins that the goat panel is slated for, unsure how far She got on that.

Cleaned out fungicide/insecticide sprayer and reloaded with Sevin for Woman to spray brassicas.

She finished weeding those, harvested/pulled up all the cauliflower. Also picked blueberries. Did a little spraying but then rain moved in so She stopped. Need to finish that up today.

Indeterminate tomatoes on the straight trellis got around 30 minutes with the soaker hose, low flow.

More clean up in woods on the western perimeter, a lot of raking debris from around larger trees that are staying and moving that with the box blade and piling it up where I could get a good bite with the grapple:

Used metal detector to search for corner pins, marked a bunch of possibles with marking paint. None of them were obvious with something sticking up above grade.

Cut poison ivy vines on several trees, largest was over 1" in diameter.

Not sure if I got bit by mosquitos and/or flies or got poison ivy on me but am itching this morning.

Measured out and marked locations for 3 arborvitaes with driveway markers.

Long band of showers set up yesterday evening moving east southeast over us. Heaviest rain was to our south and west but we still managed to get around 0.25".

Picked the first 3 Straight 8 cucumbers yesterday.

Sliced, blanched, iced, and then vacuumed sealed 8 1/2 pounds of summer squash last evening in 1 pound portions and got it put in the freezer. There will likely be more ready to pick today.

On agenda for today:

Water arbs in pots.

Start planting remaining tomatoes.

Water/feed pumpkins along east edge of flower bed.

Probably give the tomatoes on the straight trellis another shot of water, along with the Sunny Boys in cages.

Gather up weeds Woman pulled and take them up to the compost pile.

Glyphosate spraying in various areas, winds permitting.

More marking of planting locations for arbs.

Get posts for goat panel driven in.

Trash Day and it's Recycle Week so that needs hauled up to the cans at the road along with the garbage.

Lawn needs mowed again but will probably hold off for a couple of days when it is hotter.

Other than that, see what else comes up.

Hope everyone is having a decent Monday ...