Good morning!!!!

[lostcreekranch]

First the sunset
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Busy day with dad.
Busy talking genealogy and writing stuff down.
Showed him the drone flights over the farm from last trip, forgot cable then to connect to tv.
Storms this morning. Went to town for lunch and power out all over town.
So we went to another town and ate in a diner. Very good. Half tables being used.
Drove some country roads.
More sit and chat.
Had a couple show up walking that got lost in the park next door. I guess going off trail, crossing barb wire fences didn’t sink in they were going wrong way. They found the deer feeder in our valley and followed the “road” (farm trail) up to the house. They arrived as mail lady was leaving (they now walk dads mail to the porch) and she gave them a ride back over to their car. She knew them.

Some neighbors down road are now riding noisy dirt bikes back the road. Teaching a young kid to ride. We are end of the road. So I wandered out to show them someone is around. Don’t know these people, think they are relatives or friends visiting. We saw them riding in their field earlier when we got back.

Went in picked up pizza for supper.

Dads asleep in his chair now.

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Please thank your Dad .. for his service to our country.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Please thank your Dad .. for his service to our country.

Will do. He says he never figured to come back home alive, so many of his buddies didn’t.

 

[sodamo]

Sounds like a very nice visit, Dennis

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Sounds like a very nice visit, Dennis

Was nice for both of us. I needed to get away, he needs company living alone.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 70F for the start, mostly clear, calm wind. Light wind again today, sky remained mostly clear, and hi temp was 94F. Humidity should start to rise. Bike ride this morning, 61 miles, nap this afternoon.
Covid update: Cooke 288 confirmed cases, 8 active cases, Montague 109 confirmed cases, 20 active cases, Grayson unchanged.
Dennis good to hear you went, have not had Bob Evans for long time
Roy nice job on audit. you always hope the backup don't mess up.
Drew know how you feel. Our VFD is looking for people to do light vehicle maintenance, put my hat in the ring.
Thomas hope your day goes well.
Roy, good plan
Don congrats on the rain dance, wanna try one up here?
Ron nice pic
Billy grocery stores did that here 2 months back at least 1/3 don't pay attention to distancing or one way aisle
RNG sorry you have so much smoke wish they could get containment on the fires and you start getting some rain.
Ted sorry about the unstacking project, have fun with the shelves
Don Have not seen that metric. Original goal was to keep Intensive care and ventilators available for new patients. I believe that goal has been accomplished.
RS Good luck with the "pruner" hope your list gets whittled down
Randy enjoy your BBQ
RNG the Ethernet checker looks interesting, wish I had that when working on network wiring
Dennis thanks for update on dad visit
prayers for all especially Drew/move, Jay/Peg, Kyle's daughter, Mike, David(Moss), and Country
stay safe and heathy you all.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

sorry, it sure does...I'll find the right URL and post it
look at the label, sure was the right place but I guess their advertising arm is pretty tricky

try this and enter location
AirVisual Earth - 3D Real-time Air pollution map

Nope... that goes to a "world vacation" site....

 

[buckeyefarmer]

LOST

Yellow is our farm( as best I can draw with my thumb on a phone screen)
Green square is a park, orange is trail to a rock overhang called a cave. Purple is the path the lost people took to get to our house. Lol

As a kid I was all over this area, our farm is 200 acres, I played on at least 400 acres, and our parents had no clue where we were, be it in the abandoned train tunnel on the west side, or the Valleys around the cave.

 

[rswyan]

71F and clear @ 23:15, high reached 91F for the day ... and it felt warm ... although when I looked at it late in the afternoon WB said 91F with a "feels like" temp of 89F.

Happy to report no further browsing on the hostas, after applying the Bonide "Shotgun" ... The Woman says that was because they ate all the good stuff and got their fill yesterday ...

:laughing:

Got dirt on lawn picked up, along with several bucket loads of weeds, leaves, and debris which went into the compost pile. Also added another 4 bucket loads of cut grass and covered it all over with decaying wood chips.

Hauled down 4 or 5 more bucket loads of screened topsoil and got that mostly graded out. Found end of downspout line that I plan to pipe over to water the area.

One of the locals stopped by for a little visit while I was taking a break:

He really looked to be enjoying all that fresh dirt ... :laughing:

Another 5 hosta planted, probably about that many left to go in 2nd bucket ... all new planted plants got watered again today, since it's very dry here with lots of cracks in the soil. Emptied the water buffalo and refilled it. Watered the dug clumps of hostas over in the shady area and watered the adjacent planting bed.

Ground down old bow rake head so that it was relatively close in size to the hole in the new handle and then heated it up to red hot and stuck the handle on. That actually worked out pretty good ... although I didn't fully plan ahead: didn't have any water handy to cool it off and had to use a glass of iced coke to do so ... :laughing: ... seems tight though ... :thumbsup:

Got a little more BLO applied to auger rack, completion likely tomorrow ...

Refilled three bird feeders and baited and set out the live trap.

Hope everyone had a great day.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

RNG, I showed that site to my sister and she said they have a monitoring station one street away from them which she looks at daily

Got word that a buddy of mine in Forestville, in Sonoma County, is now under evacuation orders due to the Wallbridge Fire. 50,000 acres, no containment. Best fire map I've found so far is this one. It covers the whole county, and the little triangles open to a live camera view looking in the direction of the arrow.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Which UPS would you recommend?

I'm up to three now, all from APC, with ratings between 600VA and 850VA. When the batteries in them die, I'll replace them with either large motorcycle or small car batteries. Less expensive and more capacity.

 

[daugen]

Good morning all.
75 out going up to high 80's today, overcast all day. Air quality is good at 29

I enjoyed my morning walk enough yesterday going to do it every morning now.
17 acre campground so lots of places to walk, though much is now a construction site of sorts
putting in new sites.

Ted, that is disappointing about that website. I bet you have to have a subscription to avoid the marketing; remarkable how after a certain time the same link
hops to another location. I won't use it again, Wunderground has air quality reading also.

RS, you are the hosta man. Hope the deer or critters leave them alone long enough for them to get established.
I had a lot of shady spots at the farm, particularly along the woods side of the driveway and hosta did very well there.
Please give us a picture of the auger rack, I want to see all that gleaming finish!

Dennis, always great to see pics of your Dad. Most of us have parents who have passed and can't enjoy that relationship.
Sometimes the later years aren't so good and super to see your Dad still getting out and enjoying the world.
You are sure being a good son to him.

There were 70 acres of deep woods behind our home growing up, and some of my favorite memories were playing in the woods. It was old woods logged just for oak
a long time ago, even back then, and the sunlight came down through in enough areas that it wasn't dark or threatening to little kids. Plus there was a stream through the woods that was
always fun to go investigate, look for little critters in it, "skeeter bugs" as we used to call them. Oak, tulip, beech, locust, dogwood, and some pine. The dogwoods made wonderful splashes of color, but needed a fair amount of sun to thrive. The whole property was on a slope going down to the Delaware River, we always knew we had to climb up the slope to get home. Very rugged terrain with big granite outcroppings that were home to local red foxes. Carved my initials on a few beech trees. Name of the farm was Rockwood Farm, very accurate description. Three granite quarries within twenty miles. When the farm was finally sold we were able to get 70 percent put in permanent land conservation. Builder who bought it made a fortune building ten $2M homes back in those woods.

 

[sodamo]

I'm up to three now, all from APC, with ratings between 600VA and 850VA. When the batteries in them die, I'll replace them with either large motorcycle or small car batteries. Less expensive and more capacity.

I think you just installed a sizable UPS.

 

[Eric Salop]

Good morning, dark clouds again though no rain, should stay dry for another hour, maybe two if we don't look out of the window. Not a great summer, I am thankful though that it all helps to miss out on those wildfires.

LS, fence unroller looks great in that blue paintwork. A piece of plywood may also help the wire to not catch the bolt heads on the base.

Beautiful morning sky against the trees Ron !

BEF, nice to see your dad again, that is a great sunset pic too. Add a woodburner, nail up a few more planks and that old barn would make a great "away from it all" retreat (or maybe not quite "all", if it is a magnet for lost walkers !)

Have y誕ll noticed that as we get older people treat us differently?
Randy, that hit me for the first time last week in the opticians. The young assistant must have been thinking of switching to "old people" mode as soon as I walked through the door, a face mask not being sufficient to hide the other evidence of my advancing years. Even so we managed quite a normal conversation up to the point where she turned around to ask her supervisor how to enter a detail on her computer screen, then I pressed a button on my hearing aids to lower the sound level. She must have caught that 2 second action from the corner of her eye, for when she turned back her speech was even louder, with words carefully selected to match the vocabulary of a 4 year old, all delivered at half normal speed.
On the way out she even got up and opened the door for me :shocked: :laughing:


One thing that annoys this hopefully not too grumpy old man about this ever increasing age thing is filling in electronic forms. I seem to be wasting so much of what limited time I have left scrolling down into the last century, then down and down through the years before I finally reach my date of birth. It should be mandatory to default spin wheels to 80 years ago and have the millenniums do most of the scrolling

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I have at least 6 APC UPS in my house. Easy to replace batteries when they die. All my network equipment on UPS, security cams.

 

[daugen]

speaking of batteries, reading articles in Motorhome magazine, apparently the current top performer is
LION Energy 1300
normally 899 a piece, on sale at Costco for 699
https://www.costco.com/lion-energy-safari-ut1300-2-pack.product.100663833.html

 

[RedNeckGeek]

I think you just installed a sizable UPS.

You would think so. But the contractor is unable to remedy the power sags that ocurr whenever the A/C compressor starts, which play havoc with the electronics. So the entertainment system, modem and routers, and the kitchen stove all get UPSs. And they get a workout, clicking and clacking every time the A/C comes on...:muttering:

 

[RedNeckGeek]

speaking of batteries, reading articles in Motorhome magazine, apparently the current top performer is
LION Energy 1300
normally 899 a piece, on sale at Costco for 699
https://www.costco.com/lion-energy-safari-ut1300-2-pack.product.100663833.html

You'd better grab all of those you can get at that price, Drew. When I pull up that page, they're listed at $1399.00. Too bad, too, since I'm going to end up with something like them for the Vanagon some day.

 

[ronjhall]

Coffee is done brewing. 59° with clear skies this morning. Heading to 89° with some clouds. Yesterday morning was better than expected. Got siding repairs completed. Garden pond maintenance this morning. Then see if it's still cool enough to anything else outdoors.
This is the site that I use for Michigan CV data. It's what they are using to keep some areas of state locked down. Lots of information. But is it what should be used to determine to keep some business closed. My county is Oakland.
This is a decoration that has been on Garden Pond for years.

Don, I have 2 Cyberpower UPS's. 1500 and 1000. 1500 is hooked to modem, router and desktop computer. Other is hooked to cable box and other TV stuff. Both have worked very well. Only needs to keep things running until whole house generator is running. Your Ring Doorbell went down because router lost power.

Drew, you links work good on my desktop computer. But iPad sends it to an advertisement. Desktop has Add Block Plus on it.

Buckeye, good visit with your Dad.

RS, your visitor may be the one tasting the Hosta's.

RNG, sure hope you do not need to test your system with a local fire.

Prayers and best wishes for everyone.

Good Morning All.

 

[Thomas]

Ron.
I like the art work it's good eye catcher. :thumbsup:

 

[Thomas]

BEF.
"As a kid I was all over this area, our farm is 200 acres, I played on at least 400 acres, and our parents had no clue where we were, be it in the abandoned train tunnel on the west side, or the Valleys around the cave."

Yep those were the days to bad lot kids today could enjoy those times instead iphones computers etc.