Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

good morning.
75 headed up to 85 today and more rain and thunderstorms on and off.

RNG we all send our prayers and best wishes the fires miss your place and you stay safe.
The orange skies over San Francisco are making front page news also.

Mostly, hope you get your nap today.

other than my walk this morning and doing some much delayed paperwork, sounds like a quiet day here.

 

[Eric Salop]

Good morning, no sun today, however it is dry and with plenty of wind on the way, that is all we need until the grass which was cut yesterday is ready for baling.

RNG, your pictures and writing really bring home what a dire situation the people in your area are in when one of those fires gets out of hand. Take extra care until this is over and do think twice if you need to attempt anything that you haven't already planned and practiced. Good luck.

LS, September Snow !

BEF, thanks for the explanation, I was struggling as all the quilts I think of are 3 dimensional soft squishy things like bed covers or cushions. So these barn quilts are really a 2d, all weather celebration of the traditional sewing skills that used to go into quilt making, before the craft got hijacked by people who prefer to paint ? Sorry artists, only kidding ! :laughing:

 

[ChuckT]

Morning all hope you have a safe and secure day!
Some rain, 2-3 times till I got the bed. The pup only woofed a couple times about 5 this AM. Vet says he might have had a bout of Colitis brought on by to he move and the fencing crew. Dunnknow. Standard Poodle so maybe he's a high strung critter? Didn't seem to react that way to the move from TX (his kennel) to FL. But now he and the 3 cats are sharing the "zoo" room. We'll see.
More unpacking and home configuring today. Hoping to get a handle on why our ISP (Spectrum) is uppa-downa all the time, 2 hours good followed by 10 minutes of none.
And somewhere in this mess ..., I'm still hunting tools. Wifie did some packing so they're probably on the bottom of a box marked "linens - hall closet"!

 

[daugen]

Eric, great picture. That looks like quality seat time. Must feel good when you're done looking back and seeing what you accomplished.

Chuck, good luck finding everything. Look in the bottom of the very last box...

 

[ChuckT]

Keep think I've reach that "last box" then ...

 

[Thomas]

63F clear sky mid 80's for humid.

Outside chores done E muffin time. :licking:
Not sure what I'll be doing today.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[ronjhall]

Drinking first cup of coffee. 61° with fog this morning. Heading to 66° with cloudy skies this morning. Got lawn mowed yesterday even though it was wet. I think it already grown another inch already. Have a motion light to replace on garage. Will see what shows up after that.
More flowers.

LS, I have lots of flower pictures to post. Until yours bloom again.

RNG, prayers and best wishes that you stay safe.

Eric, I have a quilt that my made. This winter I hope to paint something similar to it for my barn.

Phil, keep counting them days.

David, good luck with dog training. Year and half later I am still getting trained. :confused3:

Randy, a never ending task. Putting tools in tool box.

MFW, good that house sold again.

Everyone be safe and healthy.

Good Morning All.

 

[Thomas]

Eric... that's some mice looking hay.
What does bale of hay cost?

 

[Thomas]

Phil... enjoy the ride you deserve it. :thumbsup:

 

[Buppies]

ChuckT grew up around poodles parents always had them mostly standards great pets extremely smart loyal. When my mom died in 2005 we inherited their last standard Mary Beth great dog was great friends with our golden. We figured she understood over 200 words

God luck finding stuff and nice to h ave you on the GM thread

 

[Buppies]

Another great picture Ron

 

[pennwalk]

RNG has your neighborhood been burned over before? I was wondering if these fires can just keep coming back every year.

Do those underground shelters do any good? Seems like it would be nice to have a hole to crawl into when things get bad.

Chris

 

[wngsprd]

74 going to 84 and more rain. Was soggy yesterday but got a hike in.

Prayers said, RNG. You're brave.

Eric, many of the barn quilts are painted in the style of the old traditional quilt patterns, thus the name.

 

[Bird]

56 degrees this morning, going for a high of 70 after that cold front came through yesterday. We got a very heavy, but relatively brief, downpour 3 times for a total of a little over an inch of rain. It's been a long time since we had weather this cool.

The ice maker in the refrigerator has died again. We have a Sears service contract, so day before yesterday I called and was on hold for 12 minutes with no one to talk to, so I hung up and went online. The person I talked to there wanted me to change the water filter, which I do regularly anyway, turn off the ice maker, then turn it back on, and wait a day to see if that wouldn't fix it. I had no expectation for that to work, but I followed directions carefully. So yesterday, I tried going online again and their website didn't work. So I got on the phone again, and after 17 minutes on hold a nice young lady answered. I think she was speaking English, but I wouldn't bet on it. But after asking her to repeat what she'd just said many, many times she finally made an appointment for one of their contractors to come see about the ice maker tomorrow. I've always had good luck with Sears employees on service calls, but only twice have they sent a contractor, and in each case, the contractor had no idea what he was doing and accomplished absolutely nothing. But I'll keep my fingers crossed and hope for the best tomorrow.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! A Fall day at 56˚F cloudy, only heading to the 70s, NICE!!! Winds are from the SW at 3mph, so this will be the coldest morning. A good day to work on the garden root trench IF it's not too muddy.

RNG the airpacks we bought for the VFD were around $7K and only last 45 minutes and had a ton of safety alarms - more for structure firefighting. You would need a good outdoor filtered mask ( that also covers the eyes) and a helmet, which I have never researched. If you can't breath or see you can't fight the fire. Stay safe and shoot some daylight pics if the excitement slacks up some. . .

 

[MossflowerWoods]

Good Morning all.

Just read RNG's post and my goosebumps have goosebumps and I was fervently praying for him & his neighbors and the little sprinkler that could.

I've got a ton of friends and family in Oregon and it looks pretty bad up there also.

Logging MUST RESUME PEOPLE!!!!!!

Just WOW...

Makes my piddling little problems look piddling little.

Be well all! It is a Brand New Day & Hope springs eternal.
David

 

[daugen]

Be well all! It is a Brand New Day & Hope springs eternal.
Well said David

quick trip downtown to mail a letter and then to Lowes.
No Clorox cleaner BUT amazingly they had four little containers of disinfectant wipes left. I grabbed one, no price anywhere
and asked checkout person how much it was. 35 wipes for $2.48. Good deal. Sure haven't seen them in many, many months.
I wonder who is getting all the Clorox cleaner?

heavy drizzle out, humidity feels like 110 percent

Bird, I used to buy all my appliances from Sears, and you would be met by a middle aged guy in a suit who really knew his products. Now you are lucky
to find someone working in the department. Their biggest priority seems to be selling you an extended warranty, which not only pays them a spiff, but seems to be a big part of how they are rated as employees.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Good morning to all! Low temp went to 35, a few icy / sleet / rain showers overnight.... no snow on the ground this morning. Expected high of 53 today.

Rng, I hope you were able to get multiple naps in overnight and there were no surprises. Scary stuff. I hope that the need doesn't arise to put your preparations to a real test... Keep us updated when you can. Stay safe!

Ron, thanks for the flower pic, that one was beautiful! I'll see if ours are toast after the next couple of days. I am relatively certain they will be!

Moss, good luck with the move, sounds like everything is coming together nicely.

Drew, glad you were able to find some sanitizer wipes at a decent price! Out here, it is still in short supply and they are price gouging for sure! 1oz=$6.99.... ridiculous! I saw a pack of 35 of those cheap paper masks the other day...$21.99 ... used to be around/ under $5

Bird, hope they get the icemaker fixed. They are relatively simple to replace... maybe push for that?

ChuckT, my neighbor has had Standard Poodles for the last 20 years that I have known her.... she has two right now, 2 y/o and a 1y/o..... both are super high strung and really active.... she has a 1 acre fenced area for them to run.... and do they ever! .... for hours.....

Not sure what today will bring.... I need to call the vet and get an appointment for Max.... he has an ear infection. We want to get ahead of it before it gets bad..... not sure if he can get in today or not.

Everyone have a great day! Rng, stay out of harms way!

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Oh, forgot to mention.... the snow and colt temps we got broke two records.... both the coldest ever on record for Sept 9th, and the earliest snow recorded, the old record was Sept 17th.

It is all my fault.... I purchased all those pellets for the stove last weekend..... I had to start using them already....Had to fired up the stove yesterday .....

 

[PJSprog]

70°F and cloudy this morning with some light fog, going up to 84° today.

Mostly_, I thought I had some good sounds coming out of that thing before. Sounded good to my ear when played alone. Unfortunately, it didn't sit well in a mix with other instruments and vocals. So, I went back and basically undid the adjustments I made reducing the higher frequencies, and put them back in. Hoping they'll sound less muddy now, and have a little more sparkle up top. I'll find out when I record some more guitar tracks tonight. This digital modeling stuff is turning out to be a lot of work, at least up front anyway.

Still hoping for the best for you, RNG. Stay safe.

My Wife still makes quilts the old-fashioned way, Eric ... well, old-fashioned in terms of the modern sewing machine age, that is. She does finish them off by closing the borders sewing by hand. I suspect she'd scalp me if I were to hang one on the barn.

Bird, I grew up with appliances from Sears. We pretty much had Kenmore everything. We rarely had problems with their stuff, and when we did it was resolved quickly. My Wife used to work at Sears back in the late '80s as well. However, when time came to replace our kitchen appliances during the remodel a few years ago, we decided not to go that route this time. The situation with their uncertain future scared us off. We had little doubt we would get good appliances, but were worried about the possibility of poor or no support when that became necessary. So, we went elsewhere. Hope you can get your issue resolved with little or no headache.

Hope Jay is well.