Good morning!!!!

[Rich B1]

Good morning! 63 now, 92 or so later. It was hot yesterday......did manage to keep somewhat out of the sun.

We made the grocery run yesterday. Shelves were probably best stocked I have seen them in months.

Did a little yard project after we got home, then tried some energy conservation.

First day back in the office today since March 17. I am not looking forward to it.

Everyone stay safe out there

 

[Buppies]

67 high of 90 today humid humidity at 3M yesterday was 96 percent no wonder water was dripping after trimming shrubbery

Took a leisurely drive to Hokies land yesterday nice dinner back home before dark

Prayers for Drew Kyles daughter the USA and all others

 

[Thomas]

59F mid 80's for high sunny day.

Outside chores done E muffin time. :licking:
Plans for today...trip to town for angle iron and pickup load driveway hard pack,later spread hard pack by shed door.give Mrs. boat darn good cleaning.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[ronjhall]

Drinking cool cup of coffee. 63° with partly cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 92° with mix of sun and clouds. Got all painting that I can do done on barn yesterday. Need to put all the tools away until I find someone to do upper portion. Little bit of Garden Pond maintenance today. No dew this morning. Should cut back field before I gets hot out. But I need some rest. So it will be a converse energy day.
I have about 12 different colored lilies, Waiting for black one to bloom. But looking at buds I do not see any this year. Still a couple that have not bloomed. This is main garden off parking area.

Drew, good luck with RV dealer.

Kyle, hope you daughter get over her depression. My 15 year old GD has been having similar problems. Letting her come clean my house helped. Then her Grand Mother had her clean her house. Got her a bunch of other cleaning jobs. Brought her out of her depression. Got to have something to do away from home. Plus she likes having money in her bank account and spending it.

David, my Lacrosse weather station has tipping-bucket mechanism for rain fall. It failed early on. It got full of dust when it did not rain for awhile. Had to clean it out. Mine will be 3 years old in November with no other problems. Tipping-bucket collects rain water until bucket is full. Then tips over emptying water. Size of bucket empty is added to rain fall amount. Mine seems to be .01".

Rich, good luck with back to office day.

RS, bird houses look good.

Buckeye, link to video's?

Everyone be safe and healthy.

Good Morning All.

 

[riptides]

Just a tad warmer than Buppies this AM. 73 heading to 93. The humidity is a real deal these last few days. Yesterday and on the fourth I spent part of the days (daze) working on the front porch. I finally managed to open one side of the front to the outside. It's enclosed glass. Plan is to return to open old farm house look. That meant getting up the floor boards on that side and demo of part of the side wall, outside vinyl and all the insulation and original wall material. I ran across 4 4X4 posts in a 16 foot span on the original front wall. Man they really built houses back then. I just have one sheet of plywood to hang on that side before I get to demo the other. I started pricing out wood for the floor and OUCH. What happened to wood prices? In any case, I need to order up some wood. Once the front wall is sealed up, I can spend weeks working on scraping the ceiling which is all done now with original wood replacements. Just have some old glue running the length of the porch because they used sheet rock over the wood. That's going to be a lot of overhead work.

On the fourth we were treated to a nice air show over our humble home. DC had a celebration and the planes I think (the old ones) were all flying out of an airport up the road. The coolest thing I saw was 5 (five) P-51 Mustangs in formation under 6 (six) F-22 Raptors all heading south. Unfortunate my wife's zoom lens is in NY. The air force did a couple of fly overs with their B-52 and B-1's. I only saw the B-2 up high, just over the clouds. It was quite a treat for us and we did not even have to travel. Yesterday the drone of the radials kept me looking up as the old-birds I guess were returning to their homes.

This week is porch week, even with the humidity. I kidded my wife that yesterday was a three shirt day, I think I drank three bottles of gatorade and six bottles of water before I called it quits.

Hope all have a good day, a good start to the week. Be safe.

 

[toppop52]

80 now, 92 later and very humid.

My old weather station used the tipping bucket and as far as I could tell it never failed to work. After I bought this unit and found out it had a flow meter I was a little concerned. But after 2.5 years it seems to be fine.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 70F @ 4:30AM. Sunny. High 98F. Winds S at 10 to 15 mph.

That's a wealth of beautiful blooms, Ron! Thanks for sharing.

I got lucky when I hooked up the third function stuff for the grapple on the new tractor, Rick, and the "sense" of the switch came out correctly. The odd thing, though, is that the new switch is left and right, where the old one is up and down. So now, right is open and left is close, where on the old tractor up is open and down is close. Kubota used the same connectors on both wires that go to the switch, so had the sense been wrong, it would have been easier to just swap those two wires. Hope yours turn out as easy.

The CV19 crew took the long weekend off at the county, so we'll get three days of statistics today. There was a big jump up last week; hoping to see something of a decline, but don't think it'll happen.

Sweet Baby Ray's, RS. I buy it by the half gallon jug. It's so good I could eat a shoe if I put enough of it on there!:drool:

Hope you can resurrect that Speedaire, Kyle. Be a shame to put a Chinese pump on it.

Good luck with the RV, Drew, but could you use it for temporary housing if your release date doesn't coincide with an opening at the next place?

Be nice if they went easy on you at work today, Rich. What are the chances?

That's a nice selection of choices to have, Ted, but you and I both know the wife's shelves will end up in the top spot, right?:laughing:

Sure seems to be a lot of hype surrounding that new weather station, David. My "too good to be true" meter is pegged, especially considering the price. Not that I'm in love with the Davis that's out on the pole here, especially considering how expensive parts are. Hopefully won't have to cross that bridge anytime soon!

Well, Jay, I suppose there's worse things to be reminded of when looking at certain road signs...

That was a good suggestion to write out the programming steps on a piece of paper, Ron. Only problem was I didn't get past step three, where the thing was supposed to beep after three pushes on the valet button. But hooking up both power wires works now that I disconnected the power leads to the GPS tracker. Unfortunately that's as far as I got yesterday. Turned the paper over with the programming steps and filled the back of it up with questions for tech support. Might take more than one phone call to cover 'em all. The new relays came yesterday, so I'll start there today, then get on the phone. I'm not running into problems with Chenglish, there's just a lot of information that's just plain missing. Like how do I return all the settings to the factory defaults? And what are the factory defaults, anyway? Or what happens if I don't want to use a feature; do I still need to hook up the related wires to get other things to work? I was able to get the alarm to go off, but now how do I clear the LCD display on the key fob remote to stop the flashing alert symbols? :confused2: I'm not the first person to have run into these problems, but I'm not finding the usual online forums and such. Almost like the maker doesn't want consumers doing the installs...

Hope everyone's week gets off to a great start!

 

[Bird]

76 degrees going for 88 and 60% chance of rain this morning. And I had intended to mow today OR tomorrow, because the yard really needed mowing. So I got up about 3:45 a.m. this morning, had a cup of coffee, did my morning exercises, got some spare ribs going in the crockpot, put the garbage and recycling bin out front, checked the weather and radar and saw rain coming from the west. No moon showing, so it was really dark when I went out to mow. Had to use a flashlight to find the light switch on the EGO mower, but got its headlight going and got to mowing as fast as I could. I was ALMOST done mowing when it started sprinkling, so I didn't really get wet finishing. The string trimming and edging can wait for another day, but I was done mowing by 6:15 a.m. and put the mower away without cleaning it up.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 78˚F heading to the high 90s.
My wife said she heard rain last night and the little bit of rain in the plastic rain gauge in the ground had 1/8" but that could have been from the sprinkler the day before.

Jay thanks for the warning on the Davis/Catalina compatibility issue.

David and Randy that weather station has a
Haptic rain sensor that measures rainfall by sensing raindrops striking the station's top. The tilting bucket one I had last time was a favorite place for spider webs.

I sent in my application for that weather station and hope to hear back from the CA this week. We can have them here but placement is critical so they need to know where you are going to put it. They give guidelines where to put it but since most people don't read the rules the weather station requires approval of an application that includes a pic of the station and a plat of the yard with the exact placement. The rule is simple 20' from back fence and at least 5' from side fence and no higher than 5' It looks like the stations are back ordered so it might be a few weeks before I can give a review.

The sheetrock repair is painted and ready to test for movement, all we need is some 20˚F weather.

Kyle I use this Mrs. Wages Salsa Tomato Mix, Medium, W536-J7425 at Tractor Supply Co.
to make my salsa. It is easy and very good and can be found at tractor supply or Walmart. I do not follow the first step of scalding and peeling the tomatoes, it is unnecessary. Just cut the tomatoes, ad the mix and vinegar and cook for 10 minutes. I picked another 6 pounds of tomatoes yesterday and am going to make another batch of salsa.

 

[PJSprog]

71°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 91° today.

Hot and humid Saturday found me inside most of the day, conserving energy. Decided to take an hour nap, and awoke three hours later. So much for that afternoon.

We had an early breakfast Sunday morning, then got out while the dew was still on the grass and started mowing. She was on the zeroturn mowing the fenced in back yard and everything in front of the house, and I was on the rider getting everything else behind the house and barn. We got done right around noon, and I started trimming some low-hanging tree branches. We stopped and ate lunch around noon. On our way back out to the barn, it started raining. There had been some small pop-up storms that stayed to the south of us most of the morning, but they finally found us. Oddly, moving east to west. She went back to the house, and I rode it out in the barn until it was done, then put away the freshly washed mowers. The sun came out after a few more pop-ups, and it got hot and humid again. Looks like more of the same for today. But, at least the grass is shorter now.

When .22 ammo got scarce a few years ago, Peter, we had good luck finding everything we wanted through the AmmoSeek website. Lots of sources there.

I suppose you can call it old fashioned, Kyle. I call it right thinking. I remember reading someone's advice many years ago that went something to the effect of "Never let your kids play a game named after a felony." I still think that's pretty good advice.

Best wishes for your RV disposition, Drew. Hopeful that the dealer doesn't take advantage of your situation and gives you a fair offer.

 

[jbrumberg]

Ted- I thought of this article when I thought you trimmed your own curtains:

For one's personal safety: FWIW/FYI/PSA from the British Medical Journal: https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/281/6232/26.1.full.pdf

Please be careful vacuuming in the buff or wearing a loose fitting robe

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Ted- I thought of this article when I thought you trimmed your own curtains:

For one's personal safety: FWIW/FYI/PSA from the British Medical Journal: https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/281/6232/26.1.full.pdf

Please be careful vacuuming in the buff or wearing a loose fitting robe

Yep, I am always careful around those things.... especially the shop vac....

 

[jbrumberg]

Yep, I am always careful around those things.... especially the shop vac....

Ted- Thanks for the laugh.

For a brief period of time I was assigned to a male admission unit at the State Hospital. I saw quite a few "interesting" male admissions; men can be a lot more "entertaining" than women

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Good morning to all! Low of 52, going for 88 again today. No rain yesterday, even though it was very humid (at least what we consider humid) at 40%.

Rip, I have not forgotten those "3 shirt days".... I surely do not miss that kind of humidity! Take some progress pics of the porch.... it will be a nice project to take it back to original farmhouse style.

Kyle, I hope your daughter gets past her depression. It is hard to watch a child battle a problem. I am sure you will help her get past it.
That electric glider sounds like it could make a great flier. Lots of stuff to consider before flying... radio, receiver, servos, batteries, balance points, I could go on and on.... that's all before you even learn to fly!

That brought back a memory of my very first RC plane, 35 years ago... I was so proud that I built the plane from scratch, everything worked as it should. In the instructions, it stated to taxi the plane around on the ground to get used to the controls. It was a simple 3 channel (rudder, elevator, and throttle). Did that quite a few times and was confident that I could manage the controls. So... finally went out to a local park area, fired it up.... all good... pushed the throttle up and she was airborne! ..... straight up.... then straight down! Whole flight lasted about 30 seconds. At least I was able to salvage the engine and electronics. Now I have planes that have 8-10 channels, drop payloads, and trail smoke.... I have come a long way!

Drew, I hope that the dealer treats you fairly. They will always low ball their offer, hopefully not too low....

Bird, glad you got the mowing done before the rain.

RNG, hope you make some headway with the van. Hopefully you will get some answers to your questions from the manufacturer.

Ended up going out on the small garden tractor and mowed some of the weeds that decided to pop up overnight... well not that fast, but they suddenly got bigger. The son, used the weedwhacker behind me. The fields have not greened / grown, so didn't have to worry about doing them. By then it was too hot to really want to get involved in anything else, so just puttered with a few small things.

Today might get back into the hobby shack project, we discussed a few changes to shelving last night. Glad I didn't get the shelves already put in.

Everyone have a great day and start to the week!

 

[rswyan]

87F already and mostly sunny @11:30. Oddly enough, WB is reporting that it "feels like" 86F ... kinda hard to imagine. High today predicted to be 92F.

Chance of storms for tomorrow has now risen to 60%.

I pretty much tried to stay out of the sun yesterday, but I was out in it for a little bit with my shirt off and can now feel just the slightest amount of sunburn.

Anything requiring much in the way of physical exertion is either going to be done in the shade, or later after it cools off.

Bird feeders likely need refilled and the trash can lid for the birdbath got washed out yesterday so I might get that set up.

Have some pallets of steel to move down to the house and some wood to cut and paint.

Probably try and find some more things to do inside where it's cool ...

Looks like there is another batch of macaroni salad in the offing ... :thumbsup:

Hope everyone has an enjoyable, productive, and safe day.

 

[txdon]

They finally got some hair trimmers in stock and I got the last one at Target. $58.99
https://www.target.com/p/wahl-lithi...r---soft-storage-case-79600-3301/-/A-13794872

Walmart also had it for $49 but were sold out.

The Wahl manufacture site has the list price as $69.99

Amazon has it for more than twice the price, are they price gouging? $125 - $150
Wahl Lithium Pro Cordless Haircut & Touch Up Kit With Case (23 Pieces) Model# 79600-3301

 

[sodamo]

68°F and .03 inches rain

Have to make PO run thwarted by holiday.

Couple more hours to finish up flail mowing and this round will be done - for a couple days anyway.

Kyle, forgot to commend you on your video game stance. Somewhat inconceivable the industry maintains no negatives yet computer simulation training is a massive industry with just the airlines and the military.

Always happy to read the good reports.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[riptides]

...
That brought back a memory of my very first RC plane, 35 years ago... I was so proud that I built the plane from scratch, everything worked as it should. In the instructions, it stated to taxi the plane around on the ground to get used to the controls. It was a simple 3 channel (rudder, elevator, and throttle). Did that quite a few times and was confident that I could manage the controls. So... finally went out to a local park area, fired it up.... all good... pushed the throttle up and she was airborne! ..... straight up.... then straight down! Whole flight lasted about 30 seconds. At least I was able to salvage the engine and electronics. Now I have planes that have 8-10 channels, drop payloads, and trail smoke.... I have come a long way!
...

LOL.

I have the same stories. Fun times, before the buddy system it was micro-flights. I hit houses, cars, trucks, trees and dodge my own R/C more times than I could remember. One fateful flight, I "landed" in my buddies pickup truck bed. He promptly shouted "you wrecked my plane", which he had just put away. As we approached the truck, indeed, my plane "landed" perfectly in his bed, on top of his R/C, which was properly smushed.

I finally found a kit called a dura-plane. Basically a foam wing, and an aluminum channel fuselage. Darn ugly, but we finally shed our "Team Kamikaze" patches.
I still have those hanging in the tool-shed. My last flying plane is a hanger queen P-40 Warhawk.

Today, the guys up the road are flying jets. Propane systems and real micro-technology. They hit over 100mph , and usually three people are on the flight line. They are beautiful, very expensive, and to me stress inducing. LOL.

On the front porch work, I just gave up after being stung by a nest of ground bees. One in the neck, one on the leg. Funny how they were NOT there yesterday.

And the humidity is kicking up, running out of gatorade and shirts. LOL.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Oooo.... sorry to hear about the stings... ouch!

The P40 was an awesome plane. The son built a 50" span one about 10 yrs ago. He had pneumatic retract system, realistic exhaust on the cowl, 4stroke engine, etc... he went all out on it. We guestimated about 200 hrs put into it by the time it was finished. The biggest problem was then he was afraid to fly it! After about 6 months of not being able to get the nerve to fly it, he sold it for a profit....

Yes we have had some interesting crashes... always wished we had them on video. We still talk about the good ones...

 

[Bird]

They finally got some hair trimers in stock and I got the last one at Target. $58.99

Don, you left the "r" out of timers, so I added it when I couldn't figure out what a hair timer was.:laughing: Of course I've done the same kind of thing many, many times.

And my Wahl hair clippers only cost $21.96 plus tax. Of course that was a bit over 20 years ago (1/21/2000) at Walmart.:laughing: But I keep a big bottle of Wahl clipper oil on hand and give it 2 drops before each use, then blow it out with my air compressor at about 100 psi after each use. So the clippers still run and cut as good as the they did the day I bought'em. And I found that Sally Beauty Supply had a bigger bottle of the Wahl clipper oil, and at a much cheaper price, than anywhere else. I can't even remember how long ago I bought that bottle of oil.