Good morning!!!!

[sodamo]

68°F and .08 inches rain last 24 hours

Hope to get some mowing done

Be safe
Have a great day

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[rswyan]

Yesterday's 92 wasn't too bad since the humidity dropped, and only got damp, not sopping from sweat, while bush hogging two fields. Had the pleasure, and entertainment for about 2 hours of dozens of purple martins and barn swallows diving and swooping around me, to snatch the thousands of leaf hoppers, grass hoppers and other insects fleeing the attack of my Woods 72" cutter. It seems to always start with one or two birds, and then I guess they go get their friends, because it turns into a synchronized acrobatic feeding frenzy. This is one of the reasons I like the open cab on my tractor; however, the main reason is because I don't have a cab.

The barn swallows are a regular feature here as well every time I mow the front lawns. Same deal with starting with one or two birds and then having a bunch more show up ... yesterday it ended up being about 20 of 'em.

Never have seen a purple martin tho' ... guess I need to build a house for 'em and put it up.

Temp hit 89F ... which exceeded the predicted high by 4 degrees.

 

[rswyan]

RS, any plumbing supply house or even big box store should have that reducer, but I'd call around before making a 45 minute drive.

It's a hydraulic pressure fitting (2500 psi) ... regular black pipe or galvanized ain't gonna work ...

Love getting the blow by blow on the van restoration body work BTW ... :thumbsup:

 

[rswyan]

Drew,

Sorry to hear about the damage to the new truck ... glad you're ok though.

 

[sodamo]

Good morning all. Has to be better than how I ended up yesterday. Who would think I would have plowed into a bear... Pitch black country road coming home from dinner, never saw it, dark instead of tan like a deer, low, big, and what a huge crash. Came out of a low ditch near the road, invisible. Hit hard enough to bend both tow hooks back, but did not break grill luckily. One thousand dollar deductible. Expensive dinner....sigh.

Most importantly YOU are OK

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[daugen]

very satisfying to finish sharpening the blades and doing a full lube on my main mower, the JD garden tractor.
Even got the one hidden universal joint zerk that is impossible to get to unless the mower is raised in the air or the deck taken off. Almost makes me look forward to mowing, which I will have to start again tomorrow. Schools start tomorrow here and I lose my helper except for Friday afternoons and Saturday.

Blades on the mower were pretty dull, my helper has an affinity for roots apparently. Plus I hit my share of fire ant mounds out on the roadside and that's just mowing a big pile of abrasive sandy dirt. Usually I can get a front tire on them to squash them down enough to mow over but sometimes they are just lurking in the high grass. On my own property I poison them but I can't do that on all the roadsides I mow. The farm fields are full of them on the edges.

I also did a little cleanup and rearranging of my barn work area, and hung an old scythe and a very large two person hand saw on the wall for decoration over the woodshop door. Also a woven wood tobacco container, very shallow and three feet around, stamped Washington on it, as the tobacco that was carried in it and presented at the market had to be identified as to source. I had never seen one before in my life, thankfully did not throw it out as junk since it was left here by prior owner.

thanks for kind words on truck. Nice to be driving a heavy truck when critters decide to commit suicide.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Did a tankful of trimming. Need to mow but grass is really wet.

 

[toppop52]

We just had back to back storms, second way worse than first! Got so black at around 6:30 that we had to turn lights on to get around the house. A bunch of rain, no damage I can see.

 

[rswyan]

Sixty-five 2' rebar stakes cut.

Grass picked up off the front lawns with the Trac Vac ... only got a load and half ... looks nice. Still have some trimming to do though.

Mowed down the green stuff growing in the garden area.

Filled all bird feeders and changed out the juice for the hummers.

The Woman picked up sticks down around the house and I got that about half mowed, finish tomorrow.

Skipped the trip to Rural King ... will try Summer's Rubber for the adapters, since I have to be in that way tomorrow anyways ... hopefully they will have them in stock.

Coffee made, heading up to shop to see what trouble I can get into.

 

[sodamo]

Not only got some grass mowed but attacked some of my albizia growth.

Not exactly a before pic, but about 10-15 minutes into it today:




When I finished for the day: