Good morning!!!!

[Thomas]

Wishing Randy & Ellen many many more trips around the sun.

 

[RoyJackson]

a suppressor is going to cost $800-$1200, plus the tax stamp ($200)
Wow Roy, they sure know how to charge for a short tube with holes. I would be worried all that gold would make your barrel too heavy. :laughing: . https://wildcatmoderators.co.uk/complete-moderators.html

Yeah, they're not cheap! I already own 2...both .22LR.
I like 'em because you don't really need ear protection (especially with subsonic ammo) and I don't rile the neighbors.
One gun I shoot suppressed is a Ruger SR22...a very light little pistol. My first suppressor, a Hydra-SS, went 7-8 oz. and did make the little pistol muzzle heavy. Same suppressor works great on the two Ruger Mark IV pistols and especially on a Ruger American bolt action rifle. I picked up another suppressor about a year or so back...this one, an Aklys Defense KOPIS, weighs only 2.5oz. That's a good fit on the SR22

Mark IV with Hydra-SS

SR22 with KOPIS

 

[Thomas]

mostly_gas
Thomas is the boat cleaning from last fishing trip or prep for next?
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From the last fishing trip $47 lic. sure glad wife likes to fish.

 

[ronjhall]

No coffee this morning. 61° with clear skies this morning. Heading to 93 with chance of thunderstorms late afternoon. Called my barber yesterday morning. Got me in. First time since February. Got paint mess cleaned up. Son says he will come over and finish doing the last 6 feet of barn painting. Just not when not decided. It is way to hot after he gets off work to do it now. Pond is clean. Algae is hard to keep from forming in the heat. Dr, appointment this morning. Then back home and eat and stay cool. Going to do the conserve energy day today. Took to long to do pond yesterday.
Got another good moon picture this morning. But thought yesterdays fawn picture would be a better one to post. Doe, yearling and fawn have been grazing in field everyday. Just have not been able to get all 3 in a picture yet.

RIP, Charlie Daniels.

Buckeye, I like the videos. Thanks for link.

LS, great pictures.

Mostly, I have having drain problems. Black stuff. Found that not using enough water when brushing teeth and such was allowing crud to build up. I now use more water when using all my sinks.

Eric, always willing to help with our advanced education.

Drew, sounds like you are going to have a busy day.

Don, I attribute many of the spelling/word errors to auto correct within a APP.

Everyone be healthy and safe.

Good Morning All.

 

[Thomas]

61F clear sky mid 80's for high.

Outside chores done E muffin time. :licking:
Plans for today...not sure yet but I am sure I'll find something fiddle with.

Setting on the deck last evening Peanut for the first time brought her fawn,we're calling her Butter..

Enjoy the day all.

 

[wngsprd]

71 going to 93. Storms skipped and danced around us yesterday.

LS, nice sunset pix.

BEF, is that your neighbor with the antique tractors? Nice way to display the Flag.

Eric, rules look pretty straight forward.

May get some backpack spraying done today...saw a spot I missed with the tractor sprayer...definitely see why the "big guys" use foam to mark where they've sprayed. I also found where I must have forgotten to shut off the tractor sprayer valve where I transported a short distance across a tall field, now that the July 1st spraying has turned yellow. Still poison ivy huntin' too.

 

[wngsprd]

Great deer/fawn pix. Thomas, peanut butter...next one gonna be named jelly?

 

[Thomas]

Great deer/fawn pix. Thomas, peanut butter...next one gonna be named jelly?

There another Doe with twin fawn visit least once week upper side field,might call the fawns E Muffin.

 

[riptides]

72 outside this AM, heading to 90ish. LOL. Seems to be a pattern we are in, looking out we could be heading for over 20 days of 90ish.

Storms missed us last evening.

Grass is browning out rapidly.

Ground is hard. Bees are dead, a full can of raid over an hour of back and forth seems to have gotten them. Nice welt on back of neck, perfect sport to irritate the next few days. LOL.

Seeing lots of fawns here too. Nice pics. But, we already have enough deer around here.

Hope all have a good day. Stay cool my friends. Be safe.

 

[daugen]

Ron, don't know if you drink tea or boil that much water, but I've always filled the pot up more than needed, then poured the boiling water down the drains.
Seemed to work great without resorting to chemicals. Once the hot water is done, then run tap hot water for about five minutes, try to keep the greasy stuff
moving on down the line.

Roy, are you sure you don't have a nice little assassin business going on with those suppressors? Phht Phht
today folks seem to call the police way too quickly, makes sense to keep gunfire noise down. Scares some folks too.
I learned to ignore it around here, around dinner time on weekends sounds like a war out there, and I swear I hear fully automatic
rifles going off. I try to stay indoors then and have been thankful for woods surrounding me. Always did like target shooting though.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

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!

Thanks, you see, I don't even know where to start. I will tell my son to start researching it.

 

[RoyJackson]

Roy, are you sure you don't have a nice little assassin business going on with those suppressors? Phht Phht
today folks seem to call the police way too quickly, makes sense to keep gunfire noise down. Scares some folks too.
I learned to ignore it around here, around dinner time on weekends sounds like a war out there, and I swear I hear fully automatic
rifles going off. I try to stay indoors then and have been thankful for woods surrounding me. Always did like target shooting though.

Nah...no assassination business for this boy...
There's a fair number of shooters around here. One gun...well, I don't know what he's shooting, but it's sure a hand cannon.
That full auto you hear is probably either a bumpstock on a AR-15...or a guy proficient with using his belt loop. Just using a belt loop works...there's videos on YouTube showing the technique. Although I did at one point, I don't do mag dumps anymore. Can't hit anything shooting that fast (at least, I can't) and it's a waste of ammo
BTW, that

Phht Phht

is complete Hollywood fiction... You might get pretty quiet (hearing safe quiet) with a .22, but no larger calibers

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

72 outside this AM, heading to 90ish. LOL. Seems to be a pattern we are in, looking out we could be heading for over 20 days of 90ish.

Storms missed us last evening.

Grass is browning out rapidly.

Ground is hard. Bees are dead, a full can of raid over an hour of back and forth seems to have gotten them. Nice welt on back of neck, perfect sport to irritate the next few days. LOL.

Seeing lots of fawns here too. Nice pics. But, we already have enough deer around here.

Hope all have a good day. Stay cool my friends. Be safe.

Sorry about your bee attack. Take some benedryl and put some hydrocortisone cream on whelps, unless you have problems with mild steroids.

Side story, a buddy lives not far from the Gulf of Mex, and he has a metal trash pile. When it gets big enough, he'll haul it to recycler. Some bees have set up home in an old washing machine, and are probably the killer type. He says he can't mow near there anymore or they'll come out. He wants to make a gasoline trail up to it and pour a cup of gas in it and light it, hoping for a lid blowing explosion. I told him to make sure to put his redneck hat on and video it. Actually I first told him to look on craigslist for a beekeeper who would come get the hive and split the honey....and a $20 tip.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Sorry about your bee attack. Take some benedryl and put some hydrocortisone cream on whelps, unless you have problems with mild steroids.

Side story, a buddy lives not far from the Gulf of Mex, and he has a metal trash pile. When it gets big enough, he'll haul it to recycler. Some bees have set up home in an old washing machine, and are probably the killer type. He says he can't mow near there anymore or they'll come out. He wants to make a gasoline trail up to it and pour a cup of gas in it and light it, hoping for a lid blowing explosion. I told him to make sure to put his redneck hat on and video it. Actually I first told him to look on craigslist for a beekeeper who would come get the hive and split the honey....and a $20 tip.

Yep. Use gasoline .. they said. It'd be safe and fun!

 

[toppop52]

76, going to 87 today, sure beats the upper 90’s. We got .7 of rain from a line of storms that moved down from northern Delaware, the severe weather was over by the time they got here.

Drew, thanks for the advice, it’s a complicated deal.

Mostly, the humidity is miserable, yesterday the temp was 99 and the index was 114, in one point.

Had two doctors appointments yesterday, one with my kidney doc and one with plastic surgeon to check my sun damaged ears and forehead. Have to use chemo therapy cream for a few months.

I hope y’all have a great day.

 

[riptides]

Sorry about your bee attack. Take some benedryl and put some hydrocortisone cream on whelps, unless you have problems with mild steroids.

Side story, a buddy lives not far from the Gulf of Mex, and he has a metal trash pile. When it gets big enough, he'll haul it to recycler. Some bees have set up home in an old washing machine, and are probably the killer type. He says he can't mow near there anymore or they'll come out. He wants to make a gasoline trail up to it and pour a cup of gas in it and light it, hoping for a lid blowing explosion. I told him to make sure to put his redneck hat on and video it. Actually I first told him to look on craigslist for a beekeeper who would come get the hive and split the honey....and a $20 tip.

I'd vote for the bee keeper. I had a friend that showed up with "old gasoline" at a burn pile one time. I was not paying full attention to what he was about to do, nor did I pay attention to "old gasoline" - ain't no such thang....or how much he had...or anything.

Well after the BOOM we both had some explaining to the wives and neighbors.

It was a miracle we did not get killed.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 69F @ 6:00AM. Sunny. High near 95F. Winds light and variable.

What a great adventure for you and your son, Kyle, an RC plane as big as a car!:shocked: Sounds like you'll get lots of help from this peanut gallery, though!:laughing:

I think the deer here have all packed up and headed for the mountains; haven't seen any in weeks.

Maybe I should get the sprayer out again this morning, too, Billy. I spotted some beds of yellow star thistle with blooms yesterday, and the poison oak in the easement is thriving. And I've got a new jug of 2-4-D that needs trying out...

Sorry about the stings, Mike, but good you're having the last word.

Hope you regain control of your meds without too much trouble, Drew. Just another sign of the rapidity of your recovery, and another reason to get the heck out of there. Shameful, just shameful, the way the Medical Industrial Complex takes advantage of folks that can't do for themselves. Been with Vanguard for a long time now, too, for pretty much everything but a checking account. Real nice to be able to see everything on one computer screen. But I just can't bring myself to invest in bonds in this rising interest rate environment. It would be a different story if I had old, individual bonds with 8%-10% coupons, but those are a thing of the past.

That's a surprise, if not welcome, bit of regulation, Eric. Are you going to stop looking for permission now? And are you going to rig up another siphon?

Nice sunset shots, Ted. Taken from your new porch? Your lumber misadventures are pretty par for the course with HD out here. I've given up pre-ordering for pickup; they're either out of it and cancel the order or the wrong stuff shows up on the counter when I go to collect it. I guess we know now what happened to all those C, D, and F students we went to school with.:muttering:

Sixty-two new CV19 cases in the county over the July 4th weekend, bringing the total to nearly 300. Still only 3 in the hospital, and now over a thousand have been tested. But no sign of the spread slowing down. It's a lot worse in other counties, though, and the governor is forcing those counties to close bars and further limit inside dining in restaurants, in addition to requiring masks everywhere when out in public where social distancing is impractical. We're supposed to have a motorcycle campout next weekend at a nearby park, but I'm having a hard time working up any enthusiasm for doing it under those conditions.

FWIW, Weather Underground posts guidelines for weather station placement, specifying a height of five feet and a certain distance from houses, trees, etc.

Glad the compressor work is going well, Kyle. I'm sure you'll come up with something good for that compression ring...:thumbsup:

All this talk about Menards got me curious. I'd have to go to Wyoming to get to the closest one, so it looks like I'm stuck with Home Cheapo and Loathes for the foreseeable future...:laughing:

That garden show I was listening to over the weekend spent a lot of time talking about blueberries, RS. I recall them saying they like well drained soil, and on the acid side. There are even hybrids now that bear fruit at different times of the growing season, and planting all of them can get you berries for a lot longer. Are you going to start raising your own meal worms, too? I'm thinkin' about it; the lizards are eatin' me out of house and home!:laughing:

Cutting grass at 4AM, Bird? I can understand wanting to stay out of the heat, but what about the neighbors trying to sleep?:laughing:

The NiCd rechargeables in my trimmer finally gave up the ghost a month or so back, and it's been "interesting" trying to use them with the cord still plugged in. Not that I'm trying to do anything more than trim a sideburn or eye brow; that guy in the video looks like he just got out of prison or boot camp!:laughing: I'd rather look like a shaggy dog than that!

Woke up in the middle of the night, night before last, and realized that the alarm system wasn't going into program mode because it couldn't tell when the ignition was turned on. Both of the power leads were connected, correctly, but to always hot sources. So yesterday morning after breakfast I sat down at the computer and went through the breakdown of what each of the wires are for, some fifty of 'em. And I found one that, in addition to its main purpose, also gets connected to a switched DC source, that is also hot during cranking. And sure enough, when that lead was hooked up, all of the programming instructions that had been failing started to work. :duh: But the horn wasn't blowing when the alarm was tripped, and I traced that down to using switched DC to powering the horn relay. Fixed that, and now I can wake up the neighbors when I fat finger the remote pendant in the middle of the night. It's a REALLY LOUD horn!:laughing: One of the features I like about the door locks on the truck is that there's no beep when I lock the doors, except when I push the button again. Sometimes it's nice to get an audible confirmation that the doors are locked, but most of the time it's a nuisance. This alarm has that capability, but it wasn't working. So I read through all those fifty something wire descriptions again, and found one that might be needed for that feature to work, and it did. But the instructions never linked the programming feature to that particular wire.:banghead: Last thing to hook up was the GPS/cellular tracker, and buoyed by the previous successes, I gave it a go. The instructions mentioned a pair of status LEDs, but failed to tell where they were located, so I spent some time looking at the wrong end of the device before I noticed to teeny weenie little spots of red and green color on the side. It thought it had both GPS lock and a cellular signal, so I downloaded the controller app to the phone to see if it would communicate. Nope, no dice, so I used the help menu in the app to call VOX tech support. Fifteen minutes on the phone with Larry revealed that they're using T-Mobile for a carrier, and I'm outside their coverage area. Even took a drive to the top of the hill, an interesting experience with no instruments in the dash, to see if I could get coverage, and no dice. But Larry couldn't tell for sure if it was a bad unit or lack of coverage, and the experts that could had already gone home for the day.

The special sealant for the van's oil pan was delivered yesterday, but I think I'm going to give the van a rest and use the calm predicted for today to untarp the fire truck, move it, and finish grading that part of the yard. All of the super strong magnets I ordered are also in, and when I put the tarp back on, I'll use them instead of ratchet straps to hold the tarp in place. I figger magnets will be a lot quicker to take off in an emergency...

 

[txdon]

Good morning! Cloudy 80˚F heading to the 90s, last day before the 100s hit again under a high pressure area.

Kyle, I don't think I'll be eating 6 pounds of tomatoes in one day. But it's good you are looking at labels.

Mostly - A weather station on the fence is out because of the golf course. I ordered the weather station last night and the next shipment is suppose to go out July 9th, I hope I get a confirmation e-mail. They started out as a Kickstarter project and collected over $800,000.00 TEMPEST: A revolutionary personal weather system by WeatherFlow Kickstarter

Randy and Ellen happy 1 year 1 day anniversary!

After the potatoes were pulled half my garden is empty - till today - watermelons get planted.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Good morning. It was 78° this morning, already up to 82° and we should see 91° this afternoon with a 20% chance at some rain.

Got more pressure washing of patios done yesterday. About 500 sq. ft. Left then I can start on the porches. At least .. that'll be in the shade.

We had "apparatus check" at the VFD at 6 p.m. yesterday. We'll probably start at 7 p.m. next 2-3 months. We had a quite 4th July weekend with no call outs.

Plan for this morning is .. to head into Columbus for my 2nd post lockdown haircut. I'm over due.

After that .. a stop at H-E-B to restock the pantry.

I hooked up the big grapple, to the LS 55 HP tractor, yesterday and cycled the 3rd function and .. as luck goes sometimes .. it was backwards. I bought some 90° elbows to add to the QD ends of the hoses on the grapples .. so will swap the male / female QD's when I add the elbows.

RIP Charlie Daniels .. a great artist and even greater patriot.

Very appropriate for what's happening in some parts of our country today.

YouTube

Hope everyone has a great day.

Prayers to all.

 

[PJSprog]

75°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 91° again today. I say "again," but it actually got up to 97° here yesterday. Chance for showers around mid-day. We had some tall clouds build up yesterday evening, coming in from the east again, got some lightning and thunder out of them, but they got to about 10 miles away and just stopped. Not a drop of rain.

Happy Anniversary, Randy.

BEF, a farmer about four miles or so north of us had his combine parked out by the road with the elevator arm swung out to display a giant flag. It's on IL-160, so I didn't stop to take a picture.