buckeyefarmer
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Another hot one today. My upstairs AC struggling to keep up.
Don, you should keep your bridge avatar. It is uniquely you.
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CWB Wyo
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A little warmer this morning 42*, yesterday never got out of the mid 70's and windy. The forecast says it will be in the 80's today, they still don't show any rain in the forecast.
Didn't do much yesterday. We had dinner with a neighbor up the road last night. He is a interesting man, he is 83 and his father homestead up here in 1932. They sold the place here and moved to a bigger one in central Wyo in 1947. He has owned ranchers been in real estate own a meat packing business and won numerous awards in the livestock business. He helped start the Saler cattle breed in the U.S. He gave me a book he wrote this spring. It's cowboy poems and the real life stores behind them.
I think that some of you might find it interesting, if so I will post the title and author of the book. I'm not trying to drum up business for him, I just think some of you would in joy the story's in it.
Hope everyone has a good start to week.
CWB.
Didn't do much yesterday. We had dinner with a neighbor up the road last night. He is a interesting man, he is 83 and his father homestead up here in 1932. They sold the place here and moved to a bigger one in central Wyo in 1947. He has owned ranchers been in real estate own a meat packing business and won numerous awards in the livestock business. He helped start the Saler cattle breed in the U.S. He gave me a book he wrote this spring. It's cowboy poems and the real life stores behind them.
I think that some of you might find it interesting, if so I will post the title and author of the book. I'm not trying to drum up business for him, I just think some of you would in joy the story's in it.
Hope everyone has a good start to week.
CWB.
PJSprog
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73°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 87° today. We've gotten back to more normal temps here lately, and it looks like it will last through the week.
Three days off from TBN and there's been a fair amount of catching up to do.
We had some sever storms roll through the STL area Thursday evening. I pulled in the driveway about 5 minute before they hit us. And, they hit us hard. There was a tornado in the area that wreaked a fair amount of havoc on my hometown of Granite City. We just had straightline winds at our place, but they were incredible. Sheared the top off of the neighbor's sycamore tree and threw it in our lake ... which was better than on his house. Dropped the entire middle of our black walnut tree across our new power line to the barn ... you know, the one we just had installed about a month ago. Moved the utility pole over a few degrees and pulled the weather head out of line on the well house. Did some roof damage there. Moved a large tree branch down that blocked the barn door, which had to be removed to open the door more than a couple inches. Took down the old flag pole, which we were going to replace anyway. We did get a nice rainbow after the storm, though. So, that was nice. I got the bulk of the walnut tree away from the power line, but we are having a service come in to drop it for us. Too tall and too close to the well house and power line for me to monkey with it.
Picked up a couple of LED shop lights for the garage work bench at Menard's. Definitely better than the old fluorescent fixtures, which I still need to remove.
Busy weekend. Two days at work this week, then off until next Monday. Not going to hate that.
Three days off from TBN and there's been a fair amount of catching up to do.
We had some sever storms roll through the STL area Thursday evening. I pulled in the driveway about 5 minute before they hit us. And, they hit us hard. There was a tornado in the area that wreaked a fair amount of havoc on my hometown of Granite City. We just had straightline winds at our place, but they were incredible. Sheared the top off of the neighbor's sycamore tree and threw it in our lake ... which was better than on his house. Dropped the entire middle of our black walnut tree across our new power line to the barn ... you know, the one we just had installed about a month ago. Moved the utility pole over a few degrees and pulled the weather head out of line on the well house. Did some roof damage there. Moved a large tree branch down that blocked the barn door, which had to be removed to open the door more than a couple inches. Took down the old flag pole, which we were going to replace anyway. We did get a nice rainbow after the storm, though. So, that was nice. I got the bulk of the walnut tree away from the power line, but we are having a service come in to drop it for us. Too tall and too close to the well house and power line for me to monkey with it.
Picked up a couple of LED shop lights for the garage work bench at Menard's. Definitely better than the old fluorescent fixtures, which I still need to remove.
Busy weekend. Two days at work this week, then off until next Monday. Not going to hate that.
riptides
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PJS,
Good for you that the damage was not catastrophic. It is difficult to lose trees around the house and buildings, I think they add value and provide aesthetics.
Since I took time off of TBN, with the "summer" storms that have come through this year, I have lost a lot of trees and "branches" on our property. A week or so ago, another Silver Maple dropped a "branch" and another fully grown cedar rooted up. The cedar lays in the field, along with others now that I have not gotten around to.
This has been the worst year so far for "summer" like storm damage, and it is just getting started.....
Crazy weather.
Good for you that the damage was not catastrophic. It is difficult to lose trees around the house and buildings, I think they add value and provide aesthetics.
Since I took time off of TBN, with the "summer" storms that have come through this year, I have lost a lot of trees and "branches" on our property. A week or so ago, another Silver Maple dropped a "branch" and another fully grown cedar rooted up. The cedar lays in the field, along with others now that I have not gotten around to.
This has been the worst year so far for "summer" like storm damage, and it is just getting started.....
Crazy weather.
Eric Salop
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Good afternoon. Got out while it was still cool this morning and topped the last of the Canada thistle that was about to set seed. No doubt some of it will want to grow back, though now we are into July and the ground nesting birds have finished, I can go at it with the roller next.
My attempts at workshop cleanup is way behind David and Lenny and I've been too hot to want to do more. Instead I thought I would have a go at cleaning out the gun cabinet. One of my all time favourites is a pneumatic air rifle was so well engineered, it only requires a single stroke of the side leaver to reach a power level that would take many pumps on a Sheridan. Alas as I have grown older my right arm no longer finds it such fun to compress. Few were ever made in .177 calibre with a "Field Target" walnut stock and mine is about as good as it gets for it's age. Someone more sensible than me would just put it up for sale and take the highest bid. I just can't do that with this one, it deserves to go to someone who will not only admire it as a collectors piece but also take it out now and again and shoot with it.
Sounds like you had a very interesting evening CWB.
Mostly, unlike the others, with mud guards, rack & bag you look like you are prepared for anything on a long distance ride :thumbsup:
My attempts at workshop cleanup is way behind David and Lenny and I've been too hot to want to do more. Instead I thought I would have a go at cleaning out the gun cabinet. One of my all time favourites is a pneumatic air rifle was so well engineered, it only requires a single stroke of the side leaver to reach a power level that would take many pumps on a Sheridan. Alas as I have grown older my right arm no longer finds it such fun to compress. Few were ever made in .177 calibre with a "Field Target" walnut stock and mine is about as good as it gets for it's age. Someone more sensible than me would just put it up for sale and take the highest bid. I just can't do that with this one, it deserves to go to someone who will not only admire it as a collectors piece but also take it out now and again and shoot with it.
Sounds like you had a very interesting evening CWB.
Mostly, unlike the others, with mud guards, rack & bag you look like you are prepared for anything on a long distance ride :thumbsup:
Eric Salop
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That was quite a destructive blow PJ. Has it made you have different thoughts about having trees close to buildings ? However nice they look, gravity tends to make them do bad things to people and property when their time is up
daugen
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gorgeous walnut stock Eric. Must feel good to hold.
PJ, wow, sorry about the damage. One month old power line, well, that means it will never happen again, right?
home from too many errands, socializing, which is good..., food pantry loved the carrots (Don, do they have an optometrist on site in that fancy
retirement home of yours? Ahem....
)
lumpy, squatty carrots, ok I confess and agree. Worse is my main cucumber patch under the nice fabric trellis is only producing hand grenades.
Keeps making balls, not cylinders. If you know what I mean...
One other plant pumping out normal cukes like mad, so have no idea why one set is seriously unhappy. I'll try more fertilizer. Probably just make
croquet ball size cukes as it is now, but faster. Those are the ones I eat and I'm getting tired of them...giving all the nice ones away when they are on the small
size and extra crunchy. I utterly adore dill pickles, the expensive refrigerated ones that I rarely buy except on sale. Maybe I can figure out how to make my own.
Next year definitely will pick different varieties and ones suited for pickling. I mean, who wants a round cucumber? Only ones I've seen and actually grown that way
are the lemon cukes. Which I didn't like actually, years ago. These round balls would be great in a big slingshot.
ZZZZIIIINNNNNGGGGGG WHACK
taking out my pacifist aggression on these stupid round cucumbers
survived the dentist trip with only a next time cavity fill. I'll take it. Forgot to take my
soft collar with me and now my neck hurts like crazy. They tried with a nice pillow.
At the bottom of my five inches of titanium in my neck is a very unhappy place.
A place at C6 that is the epicenter of most of my nerve problems. I should get another epidural, way overdue.
Just hate putting more steroids in my body. Cortical steroids I believe, whatever that is.
Definitely works, for six months max. Sometimes only three.
Just doping up the old race horse before he/I becomes dog food.
PJ, wow, sorry about the damage. One month old power line, well, that means it will never happen again, right?
home from too many errands, socializing, which is good..., food pantry loved the carrots (Don, do they have an optometrist on site in that fancy
retirement home of yours? Ahem....
)lumpy, squatty carrots, ok I confess and agree. Worse is my main cucumber patch under the nice fabric trellis is only producing hand grenades.
Keeps making balls, not cylinders. If you know what I mean...
One other plant pumping out normal cukes like mad, so have no idea why one set is seriously unhappy. I'll try more fertilizer. Probably just make
croquet ball size cukes as it is now, but faster. Those are the ones I eat and I'm getting tired of them...giving all the nice ones away when they are on the small
size and extra crunchy. I utterly adore dill pickles, the expensive refrigerated ones that I rarely buy except on sale. Maybe I can figure out how to make my own.
Next year definitely will pick different varieties and ones suited for pickling. I mean, who wants a round cucumber? Only ones I've seen and actually grown that way
are the lemon cukes. Which I didn't like actually, years ago. These round balls would be great in a big slingshot.
ZZZZIIIINNNNNGGGGGG WHACK
taking out my pacifist aggression on these stupid round cucumbers
survived the dentist trip with only a next time cavity fill. I'll take it. Forgot to take my
soft collar with me and now my neck hurts like crazy. They tried with a nice pillow.
At the bottom of my five inches of titanium in my neck is a very unhappy place.
A place at C6 that is the epicenter of most of my nerve problems. I should get another epidural, way overdue.
Just hate putting more steroids in my body. Cortical steroids I believe, whatever that is.
Definitely works, for six months max. Sometimes only three.
Just doping up the old race horse before he/I becomes dog food.
daugen
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93 and headed out to drag a chain harrow over the potato and corn fields, to level out the mess after disc harrow.
Then not sure if I'm just going to let the weeds take over and bush hog until next spring's potatoes, or maybe plant
something that will enrich the soil.
I'm going to dump a big bag of sunflower seeds in one area and see if I can make a colorful stand of those.
My mammoth sunflowers are now about three feet tall, headed up to ten feet, along inner wall of garden.
Going to take big insulated thermos full of something cold with me. Though I don't mind the end of the garden hose, if the water
is cold. In this heat, even the "cold" water is not so cold anymore.
Then not sure if I'm just going to let the weeds take over and bush hog until next spring's potatoes, or maybe plant
something that will enrich the soil.
I'm going to dump a big bag of sunflower seeds in one area and see if I can make a colorful stand of those.
My mammoth sunflowers are now about three feet tall, headed up to ten feet, along inner wall of garden.
Going to take big insulated thermos full of something cold with me. Though I don't mind the end of the garden hose, if the water
is cold. In this heat, even the "cold" water is not so cold anymore.
Ed of all trades
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I am in the process but want to get finished before I post them. Busy for a bit so we will see when I get back to it. Going to get two big produce bags of sweet corn after lunch so that will keep us busy for a bit. Ed
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Good Morning! 73F @ 8:45AM. Sunny. High 94F. Winds SW at 5 to 10 mph.
You sure those cucumber cannonballs aren稚 really watermellons, Drew?
That痴 plenty of damage, PJ, but good thing it wasn稚 more.
The County Fire went from 8,000 acres to 44,500 acres yesterday do to strong north winds that aligned with the canyons in the area. CA128 is still closed, and farther north, the Pawnee fire still has CA20 closed. Yesterday it was announced that the fire ten miles west of here was caused by kids playing with fireworks. Only July and already a very bad fire year.
Spent most of yesterday blasting the hubs on the R80 wheels with super fine beads, and they came out real nice. They were badly stained and oxidized before, and now they look almost new. Today it痴 back to polishing the rims...
Hope everybody痴 week gets off to a good start!
You sure those cucumber cannonballs aren稚 really watermellons, Drew?
That痴 plenty of damage, PJ, but good thing it wasn稚 more.
The County Fire went from 8,000 acres to 44,500 acres yesterday do to strong north winds that aligned with the canyons in the area. CA128 is still closed, and farther north, the Pawnee fire still has CA20 closed. Yesterday it was announced that the fire ten miles west of here was caused by kids playing with fireworks. Only July and already a very bad fire year.
Spent most of yesterday blasting the hubs on the R80 wheels with super fine beads, and they came out real nice. They were badly stained and oxidized before, and now they look almost new. Today it痴 back to polishing the rims...
Hope everybody痴 week gets off to a good start!
PJSprog
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Thanks, guys. Yeah, it definitely could have been worse. We have talked in the past about removing that tree. Black walnuts are a pain in the derriere, and messy. They stain everything they touch. They are delicious, though, and we were looking at a bumper crop from that tree this year. It's also the tree that provides shade for the house most of the morning. In that regard, we already talked about replacing it with something else. Wife sent me a text message this morning that she found an October Glory maple tree at a local nursery. So, I guess we're going that route. I've always loved maple trees, so I won't hate looking at that every Fall. It won't get as big as the walnut, so we can keep it away from the power line and the well house.
She also saved a few of the nuts from this tree. We'll plant a few of them in a pot and take the best one to plant out near the barn ... but not too near.
We also seem to be losing one of our giant oaks in the front yard to oak wilt. Hopefully, it hasn't yet spread to any of the others. That one will come down, too.
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70°F and .2 inches rain.
Hard to believe this year is half gone already. Phew!
Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day
Hard to believe this year is half gone already. Phew!
Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day
txdon
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Don, do they have an optometrist on site in that fancy
retirement home of yours? Ahem....
No medical people or dentist or optometrist on site but a Scott and White Clinic at the entrance and the others a few miles from entrance. However there are instructors for Yoga (sunrise yoga, beginner yoga, intermediate yoga, aqua fitness, swimming (coached lap, aqua slim down, aqua fitness, aqua strength, cycling, (beginner cycling, power cycling, cycle express, sprint cycle) cross training, pilates, strength, Zumba, and Masseuses.
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Smoke from the County Fire:
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Holy Mackerel! You're not even gonna have time to go to the grocery store!:laughing:
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If you have to work so hard for just a few beans, Drew, doesn't that qualify them as diet food? :laughing:
buckeyefarmer
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Last time i used the camper last yr, the AC unit was real loud and vibrating. Started it tonight, it's fine, running normal. Registered 60° at vent on ir thermometer. Not sure what "fixed" it, but am glad its working.
92° out now, was 102° today.
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92° out now, was 102° today.
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Ed of all trades
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Got the two bags of corn today. About 85 ears per bag. One bag husked and cooked with some cut off the cob, other bag in the fridge to work on tomorrow.
Drew, They look good, more coming?
Don, after a little while of trying to keep up with a few of those you will be wishing for the country life again.
PJ Sorry to hear about the storm damage. Life I guess but no fun for sure.
Have a good evening. Ed
Drew, They look good, more coming?
Don, after a little while of trying to keep up with a few of those you will be wishing for the country life again.
PJ Sorry to hear about the storm damage. Life I guess but no fun for sure.
Have a good evening. Ed
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