Good morning!!!!

[txdon]

Just to satisfy my curiosity, what kind of fish?

Catfish - 1,100 pounds.
Here is a pic from last year of the fried catfish and a pic from a drone early before the crowds arrived. As you can tell it is in the middle of a cow field in the middle of nowhere, but 1200 people find us.

 

[toppop52]

Catfish - 1,100 pounds.
Here is a pic from last year of the fried catfish and a pic from a drone early before the crowds arrived. As you can tell it is in the middle of a cow field in the middle of nowhere, but 1200 people find us.

I love me some catfish! We have a catfish fry as a fund raiser at the Moose Lodge, we usually serve about 500-600. Last year the weather was bad and we only did about 425.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Two years of planning but only one more week and we leave on our trip - Danube River cruise with wife's sister & husband and some friends. Of course I couldn't leave it that simple. Have to get our money's worth. We start by visiting our son and granddaughter in Va a few days. Head to Berlin for a week. Then the weeklong AMA Waterways cruise from Vilshofen GE to Budapest. Fly back for another couple days with son. Finish the week in Ca visiting wife's other sister and Mom before coming home. Not quite a month. Probably come back +20 pounds, all that great bier and food. Can you say schnitzel

Be safe
Have a great day

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David we did the Holland Belgiuim tour a couple of years ago on the AmaSonata. Excellent trip, day excursions, crew. We managed to sit with different folks at every meal so, got to know a lot of new friends. I highly recommend AMA to everyone.

 

[farmer2009]

Kyle. He's adjusting very well. He's working on it. Everyone that works with him says they'll take a whole class of him. He follows directions (even if it takes some hand over hand they count that), he does his own thing. He doesn't bother others or fight over toys. He's just content with himself. He's got nothing to prove to anyone.

He's starting to add words. I think the little brother really helped him here. He doesn't want anything to do with brother though. He will just look at him and walk off.

We go Thursday to Vanderbilt Children's Hospital for a behavioral screening, and hopefully a diagnosis.

 

[Ed of all trades]

Kyle. He's adjusting very well. He's working on it. Everyone that works with him says they'll take a whole class of him. He follows directions (even if it takes some hand over hand they count that), he does his own thing. He doesn't bother others or fight over toys. He's just content with himself. He's got nothing to prove to anyone.

He's starting to add words. I think the little brother really helped him here. He doesn't want anything to do with brother though. He will just look at him and walk off.

We go Thursday to Vanderbilt Children's Hospital for a behavioral screening, and hopefully a diagnosis.

We will be praying for that as well. Ed

 

[Ed of all trades]

Went over to Cumberland co and bought the lathe. It is a 12 x 20 with another bed bolted to it. Sounds bad but the guy is a big time gunsmith-machinest so it is done well. 45 inches between centers with the extention on it but I will likely just use the 12 x 20 while I learn. Got home and my Boy decided he wanted to go for a ride so we went up on the blue ridge parkway. Beautiful, better than Skyline Drive IMO. Home to eat the Chinese food I had brought home. It was a good day.

Ed

 

[sodamo]

David we did the Holland Belgiuim tour a couple of years ago on the AmaSonata. Excellent trip, day excursions, crew. We managed to sit with different folks at every meal so, got to know a lot of new friends. I highly recommend AMA to everyone.

We are on the AMASerena with 3 other couples in our party, I suspect most meals on ship will be with them. Never been on a river cruise so a new experience. To be honest, when this subject first came up I wasn't all that enthused. We lived in Germany, Heidelberg, from 85-91 and did a fair amount of travel, but determined this would offer a different perspective. Besides we always enjoy our time with wife's sister and husband over the years. To me, flying to Europe from Hawaii for a week was not exactly budget oriented. Wife is curious as to how Berlin has changed since we were last there. We had visited before and after the Wall came down. chaperoned our son's soccer team before and stood at Brandenburg Gate New Years Eve right after. We'll be staying in an apartment in middle Berlin that looks like was actually East Berlin. We are doing a half day Segway tour to get our bearings. I seriously considered spending a week in Budapest on the other end, but we decided to add family days before and after and doing so would have made the trip just too long in wife's opinion. To be fair, during this phase of the planning we really didn't have a clue as to timeline of our Boxer girl Pele and didn't want the possibility of burdening our sitters. Aug 30 - Sep 25 will still be a lengthy, busy trip. Unlike our earlier trip this Spring, should have wifi and be able to actively monitor TBN.

Always liked visiting Holland, did so with same SIL and family.
We will go from Budapest to Brussels overnight on return trip.
Don't know about now, but being an American in Holland/Belgium back then was a good thing.

 

[RoyJackson]

2016-08-24, 0312

54 right now, heading up to 86 today....
Not much else to report...

 

[Eric Salop]

A lovely morning here, particularly as I have been excused painting tasks for the day while I go do some paid work.

Can you say schnitzel

I can't help but associate schnitzel with noodles and Rogers and Hammerstein music for The sound Of Music, but that's what happens to the brain of a traumatised kid who already has the scar to prove the neighbour's dog bites, fully appreciates that bees sting if you don't hit them quite right and gets dragged off kicking and screaming (ok, that's a slight exaggeration) to see a film that will never be one of my favourite things.

 

[Ed of all trades]

Good morning all. 62 this morning going to 83 with a little fog this am. No idea what today will bring but will take what I get.

David, Sister went on the Danube river cruse and loved it. The next vacation they went on another river cruse in China. They will do more river cruses in the future is my bet. Have fun Ed

 

[daugen]

delightfully cool 62 degrees going up to mid 80's today.
Today's chores are putting down some Roundup, watering some bushes and going after fire ants. Easy day.

 

[wngsprd]

62 going to 86. Should be another nice day.

Decided on the fly yesterday to scrap my tractor plans and help my wife with the grocery shopping...it certainly helped that the Hatch Chile festival is underway at Chuy's where we had lunch. So it is make up day today to get tractor tilling and lanw mowing caught up.

David, your trip sounds great. We get brochures from Viking river cruises about every week, and being a geography nut, I often look over the maps and itineraries.

RNG, glad you're taking a trip - you've been working so hard on your project.

I've seen several trees with a single branch tip in full autumn colors - one red and one orange yesterday - not dead looking, but vibrant color. Seems odd to have that happen this early.

Had 5 raccoons in the front yard last night...I've caught them on my trail cam, and a few days ago walked up on the 4 young ones late in the day...they all scurried up a small dogwood tree until it started leaning over...one jumped down and looked at Coco and me...surprisingly, Coco let it walk off...maybe because I had a Frisbee in my hand...she won't even eat when I'm holding it.

 

[Thomas]

56F now high 80's for high,no signs of rain today or tomorrow.
All quite on this side of mountain....so far.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[ronjhall]

Need to pour a second cup of coffee. 57° with partly cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 81° with thunderstorms in afternoon. Had a good day with grand kids yesterday. Projects are done and got grass cut as well. Got a couple of projects then off to gun class this evening.
David S, your trip sounds great. Did some of the area in mid 70's when the company I worked for sent me to do service work on machines. Lots of spare time between jobs.
Eric, childhood stories always get exaggerated.
Ed, another tool! Why? My wife just does not understand the need.
Drew, easy day are nice.
Good Morning All.

 

[Buppies]

64 high of 84 another beautiful day

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Went over to Cumberland co and bought the lathe. It is a 12 x 20 with another bed bolted to it. Sounds bad but the guy is a big time gunsmith-machinest so it is done well. 45 inches between centers with the extention on it but I will likely just use the 12 x 20 while I learn. Got home and my Boy decided he wanted to go for a ride so we went up on the blue ridge parkway. Beautiful, better than Skyline Drive IMO. Home to eat the Chinese food I had brought home. It was a good day.

Ed

A pic of your new (to you) lathe would be nice! I have always wanted to do the Blue Ridge Parkway.

Farmer, my wife pre-diagnosed our daughter by stumbling across it on an internet search, which then sent us to the doctor system. They kept wanting us to spend money we didn't have on a developmental specialist doctor. I went and enrolled her in the school's early intervention. The right people can help. The wrong people can cause havoc. The school was the cheaper option. Fortunately, her school was a blessing until now.

 

[rswyan]

54F and some high clouds @ 07:00 ... high today 85F with a 30% chance of a thunderstorm later this evening. Could be back in the low 90's by Sunday.

Got the new cylinder attachment point cut and drilled for the log lift yesterday, still need to weld it on.

 

[rswyan]

... The right people can help. The wrong people can cause havoc. ...

Never a truer word spoken ... :thumbsup:

 

[daugen]

when you get that thing built, would you make one for me? No kidding, TSC splitter, 35 ton, I bet you could make an aftermarket kit. Northern Tools charges a huge amount to add a log lift; there's a market out there for
something less expensive. But not built to Eiffel Tower specs...

 

[txdon]

. . .should have wifi and be able to actively monitor TBN.

Great, we are going on a shared vacation with David. We will miss out on the taste, sounds, smells, temps, humidity and interaction between different people so be very descriptive in your morning report David and send pics. Oh no, I think I just turned David's vacation into a job.:drink:

Good morning, 75˚ heading to the 90s no rain today. Water volleyball night. With the pool adjusted for fall by removing some sails and utilizing a solar cover the temp is back to 86˚ - up 8 degrees from the morning temp yesterday.

Dad's tractor is fixed. It took a while to pound on the tie rod sleeve over the new axel while holding a rocker pin in the axel slot, but finally with a little file work and lining everything up right it slid together (with help from Ron's referred orange Harbor Freight hammer).

Drew's link to an axel that had all the measurements was extremely helpful after I sent the first axel back. The cost was $72 for the axel, dust seal and shipping, plus $60 on shipping the wrong part here and back = $132. Pretty good even with one mistake considering New Holland/Ford wanted $300 plus shipping for the part.

I'll start mowing for Dad again next week when his ground gets a little drier and I'm not busy with the FF.