Good Morning!!!! 71F @ 5:00AM. Mainly sunny to start, then a few afternoon clouds. High near 95F. Winds NW at 5 to 10 mph. It's been a warm day followed by a warm night here. The glass sliding doors in the office and master bedroom, at opposite ends and sides of the house, have been open, and the inside temps have dropped to 69F. If it was winter, I'd have started the wood stove.
The wind has just picked up, and the doors are closed to keep papers from blowing all over the office... Yesterday afternoon, a wildfire broke out along Highway 70 a few miles south of here, four spot fires caused by something traveling down the road. Three were quickly extinguished, but wind spread the third out to 50 acres before the firefighters could stop it. Won't be long now before PG&E starts turning off the power again. There's already been one fire in which power lines were involved, but they haven't come out yet to say they were the cause. Yep, Don. Emojies are broken, too. That's a LOT of V8 juice! In my youth I'd have been up in that oak tree, climbing like a monkey. Still love to see big oaks like that, but with the oak disease, I try like heck to stay out from under them. RS, there have long been complaints that Facebook's Messenger app listens to conversations and uses what it hears to target advertising. If it can do that, it can also do all sorts of other, more nefarious, things, and I refuse to load it on any of my machines. I've also gone through the Facebook preferences and turned off almost all of the "features" that allow cross communication with Facebook apps and logins from other apps. Facebook also keeps a list of all the ads you've looked at, and puts them on a list you can edit to delete them, as otherwise you'll see more ads from those companies than you would otherwise. What happened to all those carp, Mostly? Hope they didn't just throw them out. Pretty sure the neighbor's wife suffers from depression, and has since the house burned down in the Camp Fire. Her husband feels powerless to deal with it. The porch really came out nice, Ted, especially with the knee slowing you down. Tell Jeff to be careful or he'll end up as a tractor salesman.
I dream of dollies and big pads of concrete, David... Nobody deserves to be treated like that, Rich. Hope you and your supervisor are on the same page with respect to that customer's behavior. Another case of CoVid-19 was discovered in the county yesterday, bringing the total to I think 18. No surprise, really, since several new testing stations have been opened, and a LOT more people are being screened. Two counties south of us are re-opening; one with a large mall that just opened yesterday. Video footage showed almost no one wearing a mask or keeping to social distances. Should be interesting to see if there's a resurgence of the disease. I have an appointment for a haircut this afternoon. Wonder how the barber'll deal with the straps on the mask I'll be wearing. Another rough day yesterday out in the trench, but in the end I've only got a foot or so of soft dirt to go, and one very stubborn rock that'll take moving even more dirt, and probably the impact hammer to persuade it out of the way. The pile of big rocks was in the way, so I put the bucket back on the tractor and used it to push them over; the tractor didn't need to downshift or even sound strained. I'm still really nervous about going sidehill with it, but found a very nice inclinometer I purchased from a merchant here on TBN many months ago, and took a few minutes to mount it on the new Kubota. Five degrees of tilt feels like falling off the edge of the world, probably because the seat on this thing is so much higher than the old tractor. I guess I'll need to somehow re-calibrate my pucker meter to match the inclinometer. Hang in there, gang, Friday's comin'! Sorry this is so hard to read; TBN just stripped out all the carriage returns!
