Good morning!!!!

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 66ºF for the start, overcast and patches of fog and light drizzle, breezy. Light wind, moderate to light gusts, and high temp was 75ºF. Made coffee to start day office work, bike ride, town trip for lunch and groceries, nap, made some phone calls, dinner.
Resuming Monday 8/25/25 3:40 AM post 210,552:
Ron glad pond maintenance done. Glad you could spend time on back porch. Hope you were ready for PT. Did not know there was a plant known as hens and chicks, nice pic.
Buppies sorry about poor sleep, and forgetting Holly's pills. Hope you can replace readers soon. prayers sent
Drew hope second cup of coffee gets you into planning session. There are ways like neck coolers with ice to help with the heat. Hydration with electrolytes also important. I shave before shower to wash soap off. I miss the daylight but not the heat.
Tim(climber) welcome to the GM thread.
Mike hope you found something to get into. What will you ever do without wife/MIL supervision. Have fun
Drew have fun with new trimmer and speakers. It is nice to have Paul to keep us on straight and narrow
Thomas friend and I are working on better lighting for night gravel riding. Hope critter food run and puttering went well.
Paul looks like quite the R/C air show. There were 7 and 9 cyl radial glow engines around but never got to see one in action. Did ones you saw have dry sump oil systems? Good to here progress on fence post trimming. Sorry you are losing your partner in crime to school.
Bill hope rain didn't wash your day out. Glad knees are better.
Frits you must have a nice collection of old wood. Sorry about blade damage. That is a lot of new students.
ArlyA Payton sure looks terrified of your dogs
Don sorry losing pool so quickly and end of summer. Hope call back meeting goes well.
Ken sorry no rain. Hope watering went well. Good to hear all good with son's roommate, hope roommate #2 as good. Hope you diet is controlling you issue from lactose intolerance and no pancreas.
Gstrom good to hear recovery from detached retina surgery. Nice you can go back to driving. Hope you held off the mowing as long as possible.
Friend(trac) glad nephew's party went well. Hope the new bridge fixes the issues. Sorry nothing to tempt you at Bass Pro. Sorry buddy had other plans for gun show. Thanks for the pool table at college story.
ArlyA fresh fish is so good.
Drew thank for memory pics.
Scott(vt) hope swim lessons went well. Hope garage attic clean up went well.
Billy bears would bother me more than dogs. Liquid IV has less sugar than Gatorade. Glad the swing turned out as well as it did!
Dennis sorry you missed a god hiking day. Hope new injectors help ranger. Smokey know good lap when he finds one
Frits sorry you had to go through surgery twice.
Happy(nc) glad concrete work went well, and son came home to help on bridge. Hope visit went well. Nice pics. Must feel good to have the bridge where it is now.
RS that was a lot of watering, hope you got showers. Hope you didn't get the crud.
Thomas glad puttering went well, nice find in jacket. nice pic of cubs.
Mike nice job on fence. 2 miles of fence is a lot to trim. Bet beer went down easily.
Randy(wag) hope your singing career gets a good boost Hope sister likes the trinkets. Good luck trapping Penelope day of appointment. Hope laundry went well
Bill good to hear shelter went well. Hope you get shelf in soon.
Dennis good to hear slides getting annotation. Any idea how many other slides from other family members?
Tuesday 8/26/25 3:37 AM:
Ron hope you get forgotten project finished soon. Glad PT went well Hope PT getting close to done. Nice pic of Sassy.
Paul nice pic of GS. Hope trip went well. Nice pic of Zoe.
Bill hope you good progress on agenda.
Jim thanks for story. Got a chuckle out of me.
Scott(vt) Hope you mowing done for swim lessons. Hope you got some portable radio time in.
Spike sorry still hot and another appointment in Austin. The traffic so bad I use the toll bypass when ever possible.
Billy hope you accomplished you agenda for the day. Unusual hikers for sure. Nice pic of Della.
ArlyA sorry more rain for you, not much here.
Mike hope weed eating and tractor work went well.Hope slide work went well.
ArlyA nice yard pic.
Happy(NC) glad day was productive, I have some washing of vehicles to do as well.
more catch up later.
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle /Daughter, /mom's breathing, /son's migraines, Mike /BIL in FL, Ron /heart, David(moss) /remodel, /divorce, Buppies /cancer, parathyroid, blood sugar /wife, Thomas /gout, Phil /reflux, Frits /veteran son with mental issues, /granddaughter with Evans Syndrome, Ken /chronic fatigue, Diet not working, Randy(wag) /sister stoke, Scott(vt) /wife's back pain, Steppenwolfe /son-auto immune disorder, Grev /wife's eye, Ted /knee recovery, /retirement & disability red tape, /family issues, /wife back issues and cancer, Lou /eye issues, /heart issues, /wife hip replacement, Doug and wife/health issues, / hand nerve and surgery, /fall and recovery, / wife headaches and heart eval, / David(sadamo)/Sophie's hip or leg pain, Eye recovery, /back issue, Scaredy/shoulder dislocation, /marriage dissolving, / friend stop drinking, Dennis /retirement, /neighbor issues, /brother's lymphoma, /dad surgery recovery, Drew /back operation issues, /friend's wife cancer diagnosis and recovery, Scotty /back pain, Helogabals /wife's friend situation, Fatjay /father broken hip, ******, Ukraine war, Middle East War, and Country.

 

[Green Acres Homestead]

I welcomed this weeks rain. Here in east cost Canada the hot dry summer reaked havoc. Many lost their water, forest fires roared, homes losts and restrictions from going in the forest were applied.

Perhaps I’ll catch up on my work now.

 

[ronjhall]

Coffee is brewing. 43° with clear skies this morning. Heading to 71° with plenty of sunshine. Got house water filters changed. Went good did not get a shower while changing like old filters. Then cleaned and greased JD mower. Took it for a test run along east fence line. Mowed like it should. Today I will do a cleanup and grease of Kubota tractor with mower on it. Then may use it to mow back field.
Yesterday's sunrise.

Everyone stay Well and Safe.

Good Morning All.

 

[daugen]

good morning all
feels a little chilly out there but should be another nice 70's day.
Ron has reminded me I need to do house filters today, I can start to taste the chemicals in the
shower water, a little salty or salt like coming from acid neutralizer. Tells me the third filter, the carbon one, is
used up. Not hard to change once I remember to leave a cold water faucet on to drain the line pressure.

my other project for today will be installing the shed ramps. Got two coats of poly varnish put on them with a good
heavy coat of sand mixed in. Looked a little milky going on, hope it dries clear. The polymeric sand was just fine in the bag; they
use a really good bag I guess to ship it in. But now that I've opened the bag, need to use it. It's for my front walkway and is a much
overdue "get to". Well the time has surely come to get to it. I found a small push broom so that job is on the list.

headed over to Princeton tonight to have dinner with sister and husband. They are here now in their rental townhouse for several months and will go back to California for Christmas. Both their kids and families are out there but I think they really missed their old friends in Princeton. BIL trying to get his old scull working so he can take it out on Carnegie Lake. I had some upset with my sister the last time I saw her, wondering how that will resolve itself tonight. Going to take her a tomato, squash, a poblano and a baby watermelon, all from my garden.

hope the day brings good start of the weekend. Weather is nice on East Coast so looks like a lot of outside fun.

 

[Thomas]

Good Evening,
The fog just rolled in !

It's being to be that time of year evening fog heavy fog in morning until warmth or sun burns off,than we all know what take its place.

 

[Thomas]

56F partly cloudy day mid 60's for high.

Outside chores done E muffin time.
Plans for today...take trimmer for least 2 hour walk than mow main lawn late afternoon,watch some of 1# Tex vs 3# OSU football game,most of all enjoy the day.

Enjoy your day all.

 

[scott_vt]

Good Morning Thomas,

It's being to be that time of year evening fog heavy fog in morning until warmth or sun burns off,than we all know what take its place.

Yes we do !

 

[wngsprd]

53 delicious degrees, headed to 77.

Nice sunrise, Ron...I think that one has moved here this morning.

Scotty, your fog makes it look like a Halloween scene (just 2 months away. Hard to believe it has become the 2nd biggest "holiday" based on spend, although it is fun and brings back great memories from childhood).

Cleaned out my toolshed yesterday...first, took the generator out and ran it for about 20 or 30 minutes...make sure we are ready in case of hurricane power outage...easy to pull start, I only use propane, and I gave up on finding the right replacement battery that is sized to fit the tray when the original died. I was shocked to look at the log I keep and see it was last used on 1/3/2022 during a power outage.

Used the genny to power my air compressor and shop vac while I cleaned up the shed. Then reorganized a bit and replaced everything...the mice should be happy with a clean home (until I or our black snakes catch them).

 

[scott_vt]

Good Morning,
Vt, 45 to start going to 65 with sunny skies which is good because we will need that sunshine to warm things up

The oldest son and his family got in around 8 pm last night, kids were all excited to see Nana, not so much to see Opa Finally got the kids to bed on the late side but they were tired.

Not sure what everyone will want to do today, I know Kathleen will want to take a ride on the boat but that may wait until tomorrow when it’s a bit warmer.

Yesterday I activated Lake St. Catherine State Park, made 22 contacts in 55 minutes, I was very impressed because that spot has mountains to the east and west. Two of those contacts were Spain and the Czech Republic with good signal reports. This of course was all done with Morse code , CW, which Steve and Sodamo know what I’m talking about I will eventually try FT8 but right now I’m having fun with my favorite mode which is CW. I’m such a traditionalist I’m back to copying 30wpm and I can get a fair amount of the text at 35wpm on W1AW code broadcasts.

To make this post legal on a tractor forum, the field will need to be mowed one more time later in September with the bush hog. But I also have the decking under the porch to replace all the boards with Trex, so that will be another fairly major project this fall. Unlike Dennis’s job this summer, I shouldn’t have to make any structural changes

Hope all have a fantastic Saturday

 

[scott_vt]

Good Morning Billy,

Scotty, your fog makes it look like a Halloween scene (just 2 months away.

Yes indeed, it certainly does, especially with that orange glow out to our west