Good morning!!!!

[RedNeckGeek]

RNG, how are you protecting your gasoline supply from fire?

The pump house is a pretty tight building with concrete tile roof and stucco walls, and all my gas cans and propane tanks are in there. That's also the main service entrance for the electrical feed, and where the well head and pumps are located, so it's probably not the best place to store gasoline, but it's the best I've got...:laughing:

 

[daugen]

Drew, nice basket.

thanks. Best laid plans of mice and men often go astray.
Poor lady passed away early this morning.

I took the arrangement apart and will put the flower in a vase for her.
President of the garden club, retired mathematics teacher, well liked

Got a call from "miss daisy's" son while he was driving her home, she crying away in car.
She's lost all her five siblings and now her best friend. I'll go see her tomorrow.

I'm looking at radar and wondering if I can squeak something in, threatening out.

 

[sodamo]

67°F and .17 inches rain.
Likely not a very productive day. Celebratory brunch for neighbor kids, 1 HS and 2 College graduates and then Hand & Foot with John and Diane this afternoon.
Productive cleanup yesterday, even got some new organizer bins installed.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[sodamo]

Very nice morning pic, Ron

 

[sodamo]

Delicious looking basket, Drew.

Please post about your bucket hooks, I expect I’ll be looking too.

 

[sodamo]

Sorry to read passing of your friend, Drew.

 

[wngsprd]

WNG .... I'll be listening to Astros and Orioles, on our local FM station from the comfort of my tractor cab, at 1:10 p.m. today.
Vindication will be ours!

I'll be watching the game from my recliner...no A/C needed...it's wet and cool here...will be glad when Springer comes back from the DL (he's on my fantasy team...along with Chirinos).

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Watched the O's I hope (beat Houston).

I'll be watching the game from my recliner...no A/C needed...it's wet and cool here...will be glad when Springer comes back from the DL (he's on my fantasy team...along with Chirinos).

I will be listening, or watching game cast play by play. Astros are missing key players to injuries. Might be a rough June/July
It's game time!

Kyle, Happy Birthday to your daughter...great age...glad your mom could join in. How many dogs did skinny eat?

Lynn, I love snow, but not in June.

Jay, zoo trip sounds pretty cool.

Worked outside until 9pm last night trying to get "it all done" before the week of rain gets here today. Started work on the screened porch, removed old screen, which is a pain, getting all the old staples out. Painted, and screened in one side and redid the door...used the air stapler...wow, it was like discovering the wheel...made it so much faster. Still more to do. By 7pm, the grass had dried enough to mow, so got that done.

After a large piece of double layer red velvet cake, and a bowl of home made strawberry ice cream, she went swimming for a while, then came back in and got 3 hot dogs (with ketchup...yuk). She's a great kid. I was guessing she'd have 4....
Pneumatic staplers are the schnitzel. Pulling staples is a tedious job.

Good Morning!!!! 58F @ 4:15AM. Sunshine and a few afternoon clouds. High around 95F. Winds NW at 5 to 10 mph.

Thomas, the Fox Whisperer. Sounds like a magic moment for both of you. But best that the fox not lose its fear of man, as that way could mean trouble for both of you.

Eric, I'd be happy to bundle up some of this weeks' predicted heatwave and send it to you, but only if it can be done without what you'd call mains power. It seems our overly cautious PG&E electric utility made good its threat to cut our power at about 9:15PM last night, and it's still out. Fortunately, "live" areas are still close enough that I have cellular service, better than it usually is in fact, and the iPhone's hotspot is working just fine for this old MacBook Pro.

I did manage to get the house hot wired with the generator around dinner time last night, and verified that both well pumps worked, as well as the home network and satellite internet modem. The Network Attached Storage device wasn't happy about having the power rug jerked out from under it, and now complains that its file system is dirty and needs FSCK run on it, but everything else seems to have tolerated the abrupt power transition well. I'll probably go back to sleep in a bit, then start the generator again to make breakfast and let the laptop batteries recharge and such. Then there's plenty of yard work that doesn't require electricity to do, so I'll work on that until it gets too hot while the generator rests. My gasoline supply looks pretty good, having stocked up for wood cutting and filled the tanks on the van and truck, so unless there really is a wildfire, I should be fine until our whimsical utility returns to its senses and turns the lights back on. But this debacle does validate my plan to rely on solar power for the majority of my energy needs in the future, and abandon the power grid which we have now been shown is more or less unreliable.

Hope everyone enjoys what's left of the weekend!

sorry about your power, Don't you wish that the power company could keep a list of all the people who are suing/ or have sued them, AND ONLY TURN OFF THEIR POWER. That would be totally fair IMO.

Drew, nice basket.

thanks. Best laid plans of mice and men often go astray.
Poor lady passed away early this morning.

I took the arrangement apart and will put the flower in a vase for her.
President of the garden club, retired mathematics teacher, well liked

Got a call from "miss daisy's" son while he was driving her home, she crying away in car.
She's lost all her five siblings and now her best friend. I'll go see her tomorrow.

I'm looking at radar and wondering if I can squeak something in, threatening out.

Sorry about your friend's passing. I remember my Grandpa, who survived the Battle of the Bulge, having quite a few tears flow when his best friend died. My grandpa was the last of a core group that retired in the same neighborhood in Florida.

Showed my wife your basket of plenty, and she said "Oh my, that's gorgeous!"

Ron, nice colors in your photo too.

Thanks all for my daughter's birthday well wishes. I will tell her when she gets home. She stayed at church to help the youth leadership couple work a meal we had for the graduation kindergartners from our church day school. The party went well, nobody got seriously hurt, and will have stories to tell their other friends when they get home.

Have a blessed day all.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

sorry about your power, Don't you wish that the power company could keep a list of all the people who are suing/ or have sued them, AND ONLY TURN OFF THEIR POWER. That would be totally fair IMO.

PG&E, the local electrical utility, has already been convicted of diverting funds from their line maintenance programs to prop up shareholder profits. The Camp Fire, which destroyed Paradise and several other local towns, and very nearly burned down my home, was started when a connector bar supporting a high voltage transmission line failed on a steel tower that was over 100 years old. Seven identical towers on that line had already been replaced, but not the one that failed. Lack of maintenance on a gas line blew up many homes in San Bruno a few years ago, and PG&E has been on probation ever since as a result of that lawsuit. My opinion is that PG&E has a history of poorly maintaining their infrastructure, and the fires caused by their power lines are a direct result of their negligence. I hope everyone that has suffered losses due to those fires and explosions joins a lawsuit and gets every penny of the damages they suffered. The California Public Utilities Commission is equally culpable, and everyone on it should be replaced with a person that has experience in the power industry and is qualified to make intelligent and informed decisions regarding the operation and maintenance of the PG&E electrical and natural gas grids. I'm not a socialist, but it's clear that the need to turn a profit has caused PG&E to make decisions that compromise public safety, a pretty clear indicator that it should be made into a public utility where safety and reliability are the main management objectives.

Sorry to say, Kyle, but I respectfully disagree.

$0.02...

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Sorry about your friend, Drew. I hope she passed peacefully.

Everything's all charged up and cooled off, and I've got work to do outside, so it's time to shut down the generator and go to work...

 

[daugen]

with my afternoon newly freed up, and rain threatening, still got the potato patch mowed down, just doing weed control. On Thursday will mow it down to just above
dirt and have it prepped for Saturday harvest.

The oem bucket on my Massey seems like a high capacity bucket, or maybe just a bit flimsily made.
It's a US Quicke loader.
Steel isn't very thick compared to WR Long grapple I have that is super strong.
Tradeoff I'm sure of weight vs capacity vs cost.

I was patient and waited a whole week to get into the pickled beets my neighbor made from my first batch of cukes.
Yum.

 

[jbrumberg]

A sunny 46ºF for today’s low. A beautiful sunny 78ºF for today’s high temperature. Some deer woke Brogen up ~4:30AM. The little bear woke me up ~5:30AM dragging the ashcan off the deck. He was unsuccessful at stealing bird food this time. Since I was up it was a good time to water the garden. Then walk the perimeter with Brogen. Later I spent 3 hours essentially recutting what I cut yesterday in 4 hours. This time I had the grass catcher on the mower to collect all the dried lawn clippings for mulching the garden. I have muscle groups and joints complaining about the 7 hours bouncing around mowing, but Happy Hour will “silence” the complainers.

Lynn- Thanks for sharing your “Winter” weather pics.

“…. Ahhh....New York.....I always enjoy the walks around the hospital seeing the people and the various eateries. Some fine sandwiches and interesting conversations in those little places.”- Mike. NYC is one of the few “Big Cities” that I enjoy visiting.

Happy Birthday to Kyle’s daughter.

Eric- In a way that bear did me a favor. Sunflower seeds are not as popular with the birds as they are during the Winter. We had consistent flocks of ~ 12 chickadees all Winter; now we have a pair of regular feeders.

Thomas- I really enjoy your sharing those moments of connecting to the native wildlife. Thanks.

RonJH- Nice sunrise picture. Thanks for sharing.

RNG- Your ongoing challenges with your utility company’s bottom line mindedness and CA state governments’s inaction boggles my mind. Our total electricity bill for last year was ~$34 thanks to our solar panels. We probably would have ended up with a credit if our propane fueled central heating had not failed during a subzero week. We really could not use our wood stove effectively due to my knee either. We resorted to heating our house with our 3 slimline mini splits.

Drew- I thought of you this PM when I found a tick setting up shop at the nape of my neck. I appreciate all the veggie pictures. Good luck with this round of Prednisone. I had/have a love-hate relationship with Prednisone. Despite all the permanent side effects, it did save my life. I still miss the energy and anti-inflammatory effects. I am sorry to read about your friend’s death and all of Miss Daisy’s losses. May your friend RIP.

 

[daugen]

So as not to pull on the loader unmoving objects that should not be pulled on by loaders, ahem, I got a heavy duty pull ring
for the front bumper of the big Massey. If I can't pull something out with 23 tons of pull, probably need a much bigger tractor.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001GN3GVA/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
or turn it around and use the rear drawbar. I wonder how much grip my tractor has, 5 tons loaded, big radials, wonder if it would create 23 tons of pull/grip anyway before this ring broke, or much, much more likely when my semi defective weld breaks.

 

[lostcreekranch]

I'll be watching the game from my recliner...no A/C needed...it's wet and cool here...will be glad when Springer comes back from the DL (he's on my fantasy team...along with Chirinos).

Amazing how well Houston is doing with all their injuries.

Their currently ahead 3-0.

Taking a mowing break and switching from the non A/C ZT to a cab tractor and RFM. It was 92°F at noon ..... now 94°F

10 days growth.

 

[Bird]

Severe weather warnings on TV and the Internet this afternoon, as a rainstorm came south from Oklahoma. It got here about 1:20 p.m., brief very heavy rain, then lighter rain and some pretty loud thunder before it passed on south and the hot sun popped back out. My rain gauge got about .28" of rain. And my wife is watching the TV and waiting for the rain delay to end and the Texas Rangers/Oakland Athletics baseball game to start.

 

[Thomas]

jbrumberg
Thomas- I really enjoy your sharing those moments of connecting to the native wildlife. Thanks.
.................
Just another of mother natures many wonders to enjoy,by the sounds your enjoy some... take easy on the leg.

 

[Thomas]

Clear sky high of 82F highest temp its been 2019 but that will fall.

Good day today got everything done I wanted to and than some even cat nap,just 1 more small putter job than some bbqing. :licking:
Looks like good night set out on the deck enjoy sights and sound with smooth cigar.

Enjoy the evening all.

 

[wngsprd]

Amazing how well Houston is doing with all their injuries.

Their currently ahead 3-0.

Taking a mowing break and switching from the non A/C ZT to a cab tractor and RFM. It was 92°F at noon ..... now 94°F

10 days growth.

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Congrats on the game. You have a beautiful place.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Power came on about 1PM. I stopped for lunch and checked then, but apparently it came back on shortly before that.

Here's an article providing more details on PG&E's past bad behavior.

Too bad it took this to get me off my duff and get the generator configured and connected. It was nice to have this morning, but in reality I'd have been just fine without it doing what I had to do. Totally different story if there had been a fire, so it's full steam ahead to get the new solar power system up and running as soon as possible.

 

[ronjhall]

Did not get anything done excepting play with 2 dogs. Seems to be working. Puppy will walk alongside older dog like she is her mother.
NASCAR race canceled until 5pm tomorrow because of rain. No rain here yet. But it is humid.