Good morning!!!!

[sodamo]

68°F and no rain since midnight.

Maybe an outside day today

Be safe
Have a great day

 

[rswyan]

Good news on cooling system leak: it was only a small hose that connects the pipe from the coolant recovery/expansion tank to the water pump. Only $4.50 from Euro Parts SD.

Temp fix with a piece of 5/8" heater hose.

 

[mkr7734]

Rained for 5 hours just enough to keep things from drying out. Was so humid I had to brush stroke out runs that formed in the stain from pulling humidity out of the air. Removed the plastic. Sun now, warming up with a breeze. I think we are good.

 

[Ed of all trades]

There is a tornado in the other room putting things in boxes. I know from experience to stay out of the way. She is seeing that tomorrow is the last day she has to pack boxes and is going at it. The thing is I asked for my cooling scarf, get it wet and it keeps you cool and she knew exactly where it was. In what box and that the box is in the back of the storage unit, with the heat sat I just might get some more. Everything we have hauled so far has gone to the storage units but tomorrow I will take the first thing to the house, the new lawn tractor. Got to do it by Tracorbynet rules, tractor first everything else next.:laughing: Tired this evening but am happy about how things are going. Ed

 

[txdon]

. . . first thing to the house, the new lawn tractor. Got to do it by Tracorbynet rules, tractor first everything else next.:laughing: Tired this evening but am happy about how things are going. Ed

Ed, you do know that many people here consider having to own a "lawn tractor: for a house is considered country living. True city living is where you hear busses and sirens 24/7 and if you step off your balcony you plummet 22 floors. I'd say you are moving from a large country estate to a small country estate.

 

[Ed of all trades]

Ed, you do know that many people here consider having to own a "lawn tractor: for a house is considered country living. True city living is where you hear busses and sirens 24/7 and if you step off your balcony you plummet 22 floors. I'd say you are moving from a large country estate to a small country estate.

I would say it is a small ecounty it is to small to be an estate. :laughing: You would likely just get a push mower but i had to get the "tractor" Ed

 

[RedNeckGeek]

...Otter box is the shiz, like someone said, if you can deal with the size. I like mine, dropped my phone from 18" onto vinyl flooring with the old cover, screen shattered, dropped this one from 3' onto tile and not a scratch.

My OtterBox equipped 4s fell off my motorcycle seat twice (don't ask how that happened!), the second time landing in the middle of a state highway in Kansas. By the time I recovered it (using the Find My iPhone app) it had been run over at least once. It still functioned perfectly, and there was not a scratch on it. The Otterbox? Not so much... :laughing:

 

[daugen]

but i had to get the "tractor" Ed

just showing how wise you are Ed...

I bet there are some things you are having a hard time deciding whether to keep or give away.

 

[daugen]

Good news on cooling system leak: it was only a small hose that connects the pipe from the coolant recovery/expansion tank to the water pump. Only $4.50 from Euro Parts SD.

Temp fix with a piece of 5/8" heater hose.

how old is that hose that broke RS? I have a thread on how long car/truck hoses last, and the opinions are far ranging. Relates to the hoses on my used car, and the mechanic said they were all soft and fine, at 12 years. He did replace the radiator cap which he thought might have been producing the slight antifreeze smell I got in the garage. My feeling is somewhere in the 10 to 20 year range, depending upon many other factors. Of course my five year old log splitter is now leaking fluid from the lower hose. So that sure didn't last very long; cheap oem TSC part, will replace with something better, likely armored.

RNG, any pics of the van? Has it lost its head?

 

[toppop52]

Incredible. My download is 3, upload .25 I can mow the yard while waiting for Drews pics to download.

My BH has derecho phobia.

I just 88.67/11.98 on my iPad on wireless connection. Comcast pisses me off, but they are real deal for Internet.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 69F at start, 89F for high, windy, and sunny. Finished mowing, consulting, and packing for bike ride. leave tomorrow about noon.

 

[Eric Salop]

But then I owned a Radio Shack for five years and know enough to be dangerous ...

Drew you have briefly mentioned Radio Shack a couple of times before and each time I got a picture in my head of a packet of magnet operated reed switches, but I couldn't quite work out the connection - something in my distant past but what ?

This time it came back to me. I once made a fishing bite indicator that sounded a buzzer when the line pulled taught. The reed switches for it would have come from Radio Shack because I was only a kid at the time and they had a shop in the town. They were in a packet of 3 or 5, after I used the first one, the others stayed with me in their plastic wrapper for half a lifetime - never did find another use for them !

I soon quit with the bite indicator and that style of fishing, it turned out to only be fun when it was a lot more interactive.

 

[Eric Salop]

A much fresher Good morning from me, we had plenty of rain yesterday evening to keep things green and fill up the water tanks.

The big pond is as flat as a pancake, with forecast showing predicted wind speed for this morning of 1 mph. If I can make a bit of time, it's a perfect opportunity to check rifle sights on longer targets. There are some creeping thistle I was about to cut, maybe I could give myself permission to take an hour or so if I call it weed control and shoot the flower buds off a few .

 

[RoyJackson]

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52 right now...high of 66 today.
Boy, long week and it's almost done!

 

[Ed of all trades]

but i had to get the "tractor" Ed

just showing how wise you are Ed...

I bet there are some things you are having a hard time deciding whether to keep or give away.

I have given away a boat load of stuff. Still have what = a 10 ft x 60 f storage unit full (in three units) and have only taken a few boxes out of the house. Have the antiques, and the blacksmith shop and welders, the wood shop, the sharpening shop, Mechanic tools, and my leather work is still in the house. Have no clue where it is all going. But it is in the storage units. I think I need to build a shop in the back yard. Ed

 

[wngsprd]

Incredible. My download is 3, upload .25 I can mow the yard while waiting for Drews pics to download.

My BH has derecho phobia.

My download is 1.5, so I think I can plant the grass, wait for it to grow, then mow it while his pics download . Actually, doesn't seem that slow, but takes a couple minutes for me to upload a pic...maybe my files are too big.

 

[Ed of all trades]

Good morning All, 57 here this morning going to 81 with a 20% chance of showers after 5pm. They have dropped the chance of rain Sat. to 20% in the pm. It has been as high as 40% all day. Got to take the tractor to the new house and Tell the furniture delivery guys where to put stuff. Then to closing and to continue packing for Saturday.

Roy Hope you get to rest a good bit this weekend.

Eric I though that guns were almost not available to the public and most hunters shot air guns.

RNG Is the van getting camera shy? Any news on the missing man?
Ed

 

[wngsprd]

65 breezy and cloudy...not what was forecasted. Going to 82.

Finally got the sunflowers and buckwheat planted and fertilized. Crazy how fast this soil can go from too wet to till to so dry I have a dust cloud following the tractor...the sun has been so bright, humidity low, and winds strong. Felt great on the tractor for several hours yesterday.

 

[wngsprd]

A much fresher Good morning from me, we had plenty of rain yesterday evening to keep things green and fill up the water tanks.

The big pond is as flat as a pancake, with forecast showing predicted wind speed for this morning of 1 mph. If I can make a bit of time, it's a perfect opportunity to check rifle sights on longer targets. There are some creeping thistle I was about to cut, maybe I could give myself permission to take an hour or so if I call it weed control and shoot the flower buds off a few .

Now that is some great shooting and some worthwhile weed control using no harmful chemicals!

 

[Buppies]

65 high of 85 later today more humidity coming in with a hot weekend on tap. My one forecaster might be wrong for this weekends storms and deracho. Good Morning