Good morning!!!!

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Don, how is the new car? It sure looks schnazzy.

Got home from church and watched the MotoGP motorcycle roadraces at COTA track just outside Austin. The fast guy who's won every single race there to date, finally wiped out coming into the corner after the long back straight. These guys were hitting 208 mph on this straight coming onto it from a hairpin corner. Anyway, the guy who was in 2nd, and everyone thought would win, ended up using up his back tire and not having enough grip to beat the guy who had been 3rd. It was his first win in the big boy class.

Daughter mowed with the rider, knocking down the weeds. We picked rocks out of the veggie garden. Planted some marigold seeds in the front flowerbed. Filled up the bird feeder. Cleaned up the bird bath. Did some weeding in the garden, and hilled the potato plants with some sand.

Changed the oil and filter in the car.

Took my middle daughter for a gator ride after washing it. She brought her tube of bubble soap and blew some big bubbles in the wind. Fun! Glad she still likes those rides with the wind in her face.

Ron, hope your new computer works out great for you guys.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Maybe that is your date Drew just funning

Where'd you get the inlaw picture?

 

[farmer2009]

73 this morning and currently 41. After the heavy showers passed the temperature dropped fast. No thunder here. Just really hard rain.

Been sick this week. Now on antibiotics for upper respiratory and ear infection. Spent yesterday at the annual autism group walk. Smaller turnout than last year but still raised over $7k.

The folks that do the equine therapy picked up 2 new therapy horses this week. Will go see them this coming week.

Grass seed is coming up nicely. Now just need a window to get fertilizer on. Hopefully I’ll get the pen extension done tomorrow and I can work cows this week. Get them ready for green grass once fertilizer is on. Need to pickup some high magnesium mineral for them.

Went Friday and got the sprayer parts that I was needing. Still need to get some steel to rework some boom supports. And finish the hay wagon build. Still looking for someone that can tell me if the steel frame rails I’m thinking about using will be strong enough. I need to hold 5 tons on 2 rails spanning 12 feet. I need 8 inches to get above tires. So was wanting to use 2x8 c-channel. Just not sure how thick.

Glad to hear some are mending. Hopefully others will follow suit.

Kyle. Sounds like a good time with daughter. Hope your surgery goes well. Are they just removing the stone or are they taking the gallbladder out completely? Since my gallbladder surgery I cannot eat some foods. Onions and peppers are the most prevalent. But surprisingly I can’t eat yellow mustard either. Super Greasy food is another. Mine was complete removal.

Drew. Glad you’re ears are doing better. I believe there is a benefit to using ear protection when around loud noises. I’ve seen an improvement in my hearing since I started with regular ear protection usage. I try to instill that in the teens that work for me also. Some do well others not.

Was listening to the Grand Ole Opry tonight. Rerun from last night I think. They finished with a song and the announcer says to the singer that it’s not logical for a man to reach that high of a note. Singer replied back that if we lived in a logical world. Men would ride side saddle.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Farmer, good to hear from you.

We had lots of rain tonight, sudden flash floods, hurricane warnings, watch till 3 am. Windy at times. Reported tornado in the county.

 

[mostly_gas]

good evening all. 44F this morning, 3 inch in the rain gauge, windy most of last nite finally slowed down this morning. Mostly clear sky. Moderate wind day today, sky stay clear, and high temp was 67F. Chapel to start day, made Creme of wheat for breakfast, and then entered conservation of energy mode. Did get a nap in, and dinner at stepdaughters.
Roy glad you had a good afternoon with your wife.
RNG hope the alignment works after all the work to check it. Enjoyed he poem.
Jay good to hear you are not hearing from Mr Knee (yet) With wife and my mother & siss allergic to poison ivy, well the encounter just put images in my brain that shouldn't be there :ashamed:
Randy any damage to truck motor after the oil fiasco?
prayers for all.

 

[txdon]

Don, how is the new car? It sure looks schnazzy.

Nice. it says more than you have a tire low, it says the air pressure in each tire. (No flats yet, they threw in a real spare instead of just a pressured slime can.)
I was trying the voice NAV out today and after about 4 different commands it finally taught me how to talk to it. It does not get upset and insist that you make a U-turn it just re-navigates. It's not a korean voice, it sounds european and pronounces streets better than garmin.
It grades your driving and I have 97% alertness. It will yell at me if I start failing and tell me to take a break.
The adaptive cruise works well.
Still trying to figure all the working of the side mirror - it folds and tilts automatically backing or locking the car.
Blind spot alert works great.
I programed the review mirror to open the garage. - after I accidentally erased all the codes and had to reprogram my truck remote and the coded remote on the garage
Looking for some window tint this week, apparently ceramic window tint is the coolest - temp wise. I think I'll get a dark tint on the sunroof also so I can open the roof cover without burning, you know global warming and all.
Almost time to wax it. Put 300 miles on it and filled it up for the first time.
There is an art to getting out of a low car that my wife taught me so I don't look old.
1. turn sideways
2. put both feet on the ground.
3. lean forward.
- no more swinging one foot out and start to stand up wile putting the other foot out. (too much stumbling while trying not to fall)

Ordered paint matching side moldings so I won't get dings in the parking lot.
Tx tag came in the mail yesterday so I can go 80 now.
I got to remember to let my wife drive her car sometimes

 

[Eric Salop]

I like Webster definition of Poutine. Some assert that poutine is related to the English word pudding, but a more popular etymology is that it's from a Quebecois slang word meaning "mess."

Ron, some messy puddings are very tasty, do you have Eton Mess as a dessert ?
Not too much meringue or it becomes sickly sweet, otherwise a great way to enjoy summer fruits.

 

[RoyJackson]

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42 and steady rain right now...high about 60 and looks like rain most of the day.
Finished up the aerator assembly and installed a hitch on the ZTR yesterday...ZTR's battery is low, or the starter is going bad...just a ratcheting rather than turning the engine. I gave the starter a couple smacks with a hammer (in case the Bendix was sticking) but that didn't help.
I also picked up a 36" lawn roller since we have so many frost heave (looks like gophers gone wild!). Assembly should be pretty easy but I don't want to fill it with water until I know there'll be no overnight freezing.

 

[Eric Salop]

Good morning all. Looks like we are in for another dry cold day, thanks to what seems a relentless easterly breeze. You can tell how cold by the fact that the older grandson went out to play with his RC car yesterday and came back in with blue hands and charge still left in the battery.

Farmer, nice to hear someone's grass is growing. Around here people are running out of silage and hay, yet not really enough grass growing to turn out all the cattle.

I am another one who enjoyed both woodwork and metalwork classes at school and unlike the Latin lessons, still making use of what they taught to this day. The neighbours to our attached house probably weren't too impressed that the woodwork teacher let me make a pair of speaker enclosures, especially after borrowing and taping a Jimmy Hendrix album.

Best of all though was metalwork. That room was always full of interesting sounds and smells, like the the short satisfying hiss of quenching our first chisel or the background rumbling from the milling machine with it's endless gushing of cream coloured stinky coolant. Someone always seemed to be hammering away at yet another ashtray for their dad. Occasionally you would hear the pop of the acetylene torch, immediately followed by the threat of the whole class getting another 100 "lines" (Gas on, air on. Air off, gas off) unless it was turned off in the right order.

 

[Buppies]

51 that’s about it wind gusts 40 to 60mph snow showers west of me the negative NAO at work. Lots of power outages glad I’m not one

Farmer get well soon the thicker the flange the stronger look at goose neck trailers

Prayers for all

 

[Rich B1]

Good morning! 34 right now, big change from the weekend. Was 74 Saturday, 72 Sunday. Yesterday was rain in the morning, then cleared and was nice, then big storms in the evening. Already a confirmed tornado northwest of here, lots of other damage north of here. No injuries that I have heard.

Good luck with the date Drew.

Mowed part of the property for the first time Saturday. Spring is truly here!

Maybe more word about going to France/Germany today. Dealer is supposed to go to the machine tomorrow, so I need to be up early to be available for questions. Time to get moving.

Everyone have a safe and good day.

 

[Thomas]

43F little windy and raining upper mid 50's for high with more rain today.

Yesterday was another outside t shirt day,almost caught up cleaning lawn etc. to mud snow line...Lot more to go.
Started weaning the deer from the feeders yesterday...should be interesting.
Not much for after work because of the weather just puttering.
E muffin feed little critters slow roll to work.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[Looking4new]

28 °F and going to a high of 43. Wind N 20 gusting to 32 mph. Snow!
So far since yesterday evening we've got about 2" of snow. This should be the last snowfall of this season, I hope.

There is a town run in the cards for me today and other than that it will be a conserve energy day.


Have a good day all

 

[Buppies]

Bought a new electric took brush over the weekend old one no more replacement heads available. Had to read owners manual three times before I understood it. I would hate to think about a new car.

Don your new car sounds very nice and fast too best of both worlds

 

[toppop52]

Mostly, I won’t know until today about the motor.
Kyle, sounds like a fun and fulfilling day.
Farmer, that’s a good one, but he’s right about the side saddle, or at least cut out in the saddle.

 

[toppop52]

Woke to a tornado warning alarm at 3:08 this morning, that’ll get you going. .9 of rain and gusty winds with lightening and small hail where I am.

 

[daugen]

More snow for Bill, amazing. 30mph gusts, now that must be a nice snowstorm which hopefully is Mother Nature's
way of saying she is leaving but she will be Baaaacccckkkkkk this Fall.
When you get into town Bill, any favorite spots you like to visit, like a hardware store?
I live in a very small city about 10,000 people, spread out too, so not a lot of downtown
shopping choices. And you can only get your hair cut so often...which I actually intend to do this morning if he's open.
Normally barbers seem to close on Mondays, but some don't.
Might be my last trip to him, he is selling the building which was a converted row home. One wall tilts down, floor ripples and dives,
I'd say he is going to have a challenge unless it's a tear down for a medical complex. That means the beauty parlor next door would likely go too.

So if a woman goes to the "beauty parlor", what a funny name, where do men go for gossip other than barber shop? Some store where you know
the owner perhaps. Anyone have a favorite?

Rich, thanks. I guess I'd better get to the barber this week...
This family is my young fireman next door's Uncle, I have met them once,
she seems all over the place and her husband very nice. And then his brother and wife and this nurse are coming.
I'll likely never remember anyone's name...

Guess I should take my truck over there, keep the Audi in the garage.
These folks are 100 year locals...and they've been bred on evaluating the Occupiers
and The Northerners for a long time. So I will avoid politics and religion like the plague.
Let's talk about fertilizer...

But first today I start mowing and mowing and mowing.
Really need to pace myself and only do half in one day.
I'm not as young or tough as Rick, and my body can't cash those checks the enthusiasm is writing.
Catches up with me later.
Though running the larger tractor yesterday with the a/c on, a very quiet cab reminiscent of a diesel 3/4 ton pickup was
sure easy and fun on me, could do that for a while..., with those earphones which tuned
out the steady state noise of the motor by some form of electronic feedback,
don't know how that works on ear, but it does.
And my ear was improving again this morning, almost don't want to jinx myself saying that.
When I mow, those headphones going on.

70 degrees and temps are headed down all day into the night down to a chilly 42 here tomorrow morning.
Who left the door open?
then back to warm weather again.
Rained enough last night to wash pollen, should be a great day to mow lawn.
And nice weather all week.
:dance1:

 

[daugen]

Farmer, get well and feel better
Toppop, prayers for your Mom and hope you two can at least smile at each other.
A warm hand, holding hands, I think it gets through, soothes the worry. For both of you.

off to take a big plastic pail of collards, about 30 pounds worth, down to food pantry.
By the time I'm back maybe sun will be up, dry the lawn a little.

 

[ronjhall]

Ron, some messy puddings are very tasty, do you have Eton Mess as a dessert ?
Not too much meringue or it becomes sickly sweet, otherwise a great way to enjoy summer fruits.

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Some of my favorite Berries in the MESS. :thumbsup:

 

[Buppies]

Toppop good luck with the truck