Good morning!!!!

[CajunRider]

Cajun, send that TS to Texas, we need moisture.
96 today.

I'm pushing on the prediction model as hard as I can.

 

[CWB Wyo]

51* when I came out side. Weather station said the high yesterday was 85* warmest of the year so far. A little cooler today with a slight chance of rain. Looks like the wind will let up some also.

It was a long day yesterday, didn't get back to the house till about 10:30 last night from the trip down to Salt Lake.

Plumber is coming out to replace the hot water heater today. It went out last Friday night, because of the weekend and the trip to Utah they said that they will be out today. I hope.
Might be another long day.

Hope everyone has a nice day
CWB

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 89F @ 9:15AM. Plentiful sunshine. Record high temperatures expected. High 104F. Winds light and variable.

Made it up to 104F yesterday as well, so it looks like another inside day today. I did manage to get a ladder and poke around in the attic this morning right around sunup. Connected an unused wire in the thermostat lead to the furnace to provide 24V AC power for a new thermostat, and rigged up a temporary backup battery for the alarm system. The old battery was only two years old, but I think the very high temps in the attic are causing them to fail early. Probably will run a wire pair down into a closet in the office to hold the battery so that it is in conditioned space, but that job will have to wait for cooler weather.

 

[sodamo]

70°F and .03 inches rain. Looks like another beautiful day ahead.

Sears coming out this morning to look at the mower. Engine running rough to point it actually throws the deck belt.

Be safe
Have a great day

 

[CajunRider]

Cajun, send that TS to Texas, we need moisture.
96 today.

It has moved to Texas as tropical storm Cindy. Your wish is my command.

 

[daugen]

76 degrees in thunderstorms. Not sure if I'm getting the tail end of what everyone else went through in the last day or the beginning
of the next system brewing in the Gulf. Am waiting for an opening where I can go out and pick blueberries.

spent a few hours putting up new bookcases in my upstairs office and cleaning up a little. Family pics and boxes everywhere, did some scanning of old pics.
Found an advertisement for my grandfather's butter business in Newark NJ from 1911. I love looking at the old ads in the backs of the yearbooks; almost as good as looking at old
car ads in Life Magazine from the 50's, the ads next to the big cigarette ad telling you to smoke for good health and digestion.

 

[rswyan]

Drew,

That's pretty neat

 

[daugen]

Drew,

That's pretty neat

thanks. And I have a big box to go...

note one pound butter "prints".
This reinforces the family lore that my grandfather (the Brother) sold out to
Borden in 1928 at the proverbial top of the market because he did not want to have to invest in the
machinery to take those one pound blocks of butter apparently called prints
and make the original quarter pounders. So some time in the late twenties or early
thirties those quarter pound sticks of butter came into the market.

but a print? I guess I'll start Googling.
Trying to scan as much as I can, the interesting stuff, way too much in total, my grandfather had a love affair with
the camera it seems, remember the Brownie Box Cameras?

The pictures of Rockwood Farm, the farm I grew up on, just take me back in time. Picking granite rocks all day long behind a farm wagon over every foot of 30 acres of fields. Hand raking a quarter mile long gravel driveway with incessant potholes using a heavy steel rake. Those potholes grew, like the rocks grew in the fields. And I was the youngest of three brothers and oh did I learn what the low end of the totem pole was like...
I remember a huge amount of hard work, like hard work in itself was valuable. My grandfather was always pointing his cane at something he wanted attended to.
This is where my brothers learned good delegation skills, remarkable how many jobs got assigned to me. Low man on the totem pole.

 

[txdon]

Drew on that pic, opposite page of A&B, it has me curious? What kills the babies?

 

[toppop52]

Drew, I think you're getting the leftovers from last night, we got pounded.