Good morning!!!!

[CWB Wyo]

The low this morning was 50*, the high yesterday was 90*. Partly cloudy this morning becoming overcast buy the afternoon with a chance of showers.
Did get a little rain yesterday but it didn't amount to much.

The hummingbirds are telling me I didn't fill there feeders last night. They think that is the most important thing I need to get done today. They maybe right.

Hope everyone has a nice day.
CWB

 

[daugen]

Farmer, my portable 7500 btu unit doesn't have much guts though it does a good job of getting the moisture out;
wish I had spent more money on a split unit, bigger install but you can buy them on Amazon.

cool morning work session...yup Don, that's what we think it is...just came in to change clothes, everything sopping wet. Spent two hours trimming tree limbs along one side of the nut orchard, almost could not finish, heart rate pounding, said that's enough. Didn't pick any of it up, just left it there for tomorrow. Too much bending for my neck at the moment, it was beginning to talk to me. So I'll spend some time on the mower. Did the fruit orchard, my dozen apples still there. One green/yellow Mutsu apple had a brown spot so I had to pick it. Will try it out later, see if
it's in any way ripe. Last year my one apple was assumed to be unripe and hard as a rock. Until I bit in it. Juicy and sweet. Maybe I'll get lucky again.

dry clothes, cooled off, back out I go. Drank a glass of OJ for a lift. I had gone for a sports drink in the woodshop fridge and the darn thing was totally warm.
GFI had tripped for some unknown reason. I just can't drink a warm sports drink,has to be cold.

Nice day here, going to thunderstorm late afternoon and then a drier very hot four days.

 

[rswyan]

77.4F with 81% humidity and partly cloudy @ 10:00, headed up to a high of 87F supposedly. High hit 90F yesterday.

I got the soil screen frame moved down to the house yesterday and got all the dirt hosed off of it. Then spent the rest of the afternoon moving a pile of wood chips that were out near the driveway over to near the east property line ... there were about 3 or 4 dump loads in that pile and it was pretty big. Ended up getting baked.

Zack and a friend were down clearing along the fence, ended up talking to him for a while. Found out they are getting ready to pour 'crete probably later this week in the lean-to around their barn ... told him to give me a call when they figure out what day it will be.

As I was sitting outside last evening I watched a doe saunter up out of the woods to the apple tree and proceed to scarf up a bunch of apples out of the pile The Woman raked up the other day. The Eastern Phoebe chicks look like they are about ready to fledge.

Did a little reading yesterday on composting woodchips and discovered that they apparently will breakdown pretty quickly (a couple of months) if they have sufficient nitrogen and moisture and are turned often enough. The moisture shouldn't be a problem judging from the black water seeping out from the bottoms of the piles, but I need to pick up either some fertilizer or lime and dose them with it for the nitrogen.

Was going to set the valves on the Kubota today but forgot to move it into the shop last night so the engine would be cold this morning. Will have to wait until tomorrow ... if I can manage to remember to stick it inside this evening ... :laughing:

Given the expected temps and humidity today, I might go ahead and move that soil screen frame back up to the shop and try and get the welding finished up on that.

 

[PJSprog]

75°F and partly cloudy this morning, going up to 97° today.

Wife tells me the HVAC guy is coming today to finish the new system install. I certainly hope that's true. We're still looking at being around 100° the next three or four days.

Stopped about a mile down the road this morning to capture the sunrise. Was pleasant.

 

[rswyan]

Beautiful pic PJ ... thanks for sharing it ... :thumbsup:

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 72F @ 7:45AM. Sunny. High 97F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph.

The hummingbirds are telling me I didn't fill there feeders last night. They think that is the most important thing I need to get done today. They maybe right.

There's one of those birds here, too. Another bird hogs one of the feeders, driving all the others away. I usually let it run out, and the hog still keeps to that feeder. Anyway, when the other feeders get low, sometimes one of the birds will come find me in the garage, hover around me, then fly to the nearest feeder. The message gets across pretty clearly, and as if by magic, the other feeders get filled up!:laughing:


Stopped by the local BMW shop in Chico yesterday and found they still had a /2 bike very much like the one I just dragged home. A friend of mine recently finished a restoration on the bike, and it's beautiful. But like mine, it's not exactly stock, and it's painted in a color the factory never offered. That kinda kills the collector value, but it sure is pretty! Took a LOT of pictures of uninteresting things like brackets and center stands, guides for how mine should go back together. I also learned that the dealership has a stash of /2 parts in the back, and who to talk to to see if what I might need is for sale.

Somewhat productive session at the mechanic's yesterday, but still no engine. As predicted, the machinist isn't exactly jumping through hoops to get it done, but the mechanic went over there to light a fire later in the afternoon and expects it back by Friday. Then the helper that installs the A/C units announced he was headed to Colorado for a rock concert the next day, and would be gone for a week. Then he turns to me and says "I promise I'll install your A/C first thing when I get back. I think I'll have a surprise for him. I downloaded the installation instructions last night and it's nothing complicated. Tomorrow I'm going to suggest I do the installation (the mechanic will still have to charge it), and be done with it. Oh, no guarantee that the helper will make it back: he also confessed he has old warrants in Utah related to a pot bust. BOTLO for a dark blue Diesel Vanagon with a graying hippie at the wheel...

Meanwhile, I got some wire wrapping done on the harness behind the front grill, and pulled new tubing to the windshield squirter in the rear hatch. I have a new boot that covers the wires and tube between the body and hatch top, but it doesn't fit. Turns out that the correct boot is no longer available from VW, and the aftermarket hasn't yet caught up. The boot I have will fit if I hog out the holes in the body and hatch to match the one on the other side, so tomorrow when I go in I'll take a die grinder and some burrs and make it so. Two steps forward, one step back.

Happy Hump Day everyone!

 

[daugen]

Beautiful pic PJ ... thanks for sharing it ... :thumbsup:

:thumbsup:

RS, that dog had good taste.
RNG, nice NGK plug boot

 

[rswyan]

Those of you with air conditioned shops. What did you use for a/c? I'm looking at a floor unit that vents out a window, I put windows in that are a 1/2" too small for a window unit. It's just under 400 sqft.

I have two window units in our shop (28' x 32', around masonry block building, insulated 8' ceiling, uninsulated walls)

The original one - an LG unit - was around 5K to 7.5K btu ... wouldn't keep up in the heat of the summer when it got hot out (but it was free ) By the afternoon it would always get pretty warm inside, especially if I was welding.

Added a larger one last year (I think) ... think it's around 23.5K btu ... either a Frigidaire or GE unit I believe ... would have to look to be sure.

It will keep up ... with or without the smaller unit running, IIRC.

 

[toppop52]

I have two window units in our shop (28' x 32', around masonry block building, insulated 8' ceiling, uninsulated walls)

The original one - an LG unit - was around 5K to 7.5K btu ... wouldn't keep up in the heat of the summer when it got hot out (but it was free ) By the afternoon it would always get pretty warm inside, especially if I was welding.

Added a larger one last year (I think) ... think it's around 23.5K btu ... either a Frigidaire or GE unit I believe ... would have to look to be sure.

It will keep up ... with or without the smaller unit running, IIRC.

My 24x24 with insulation has a 7500 that does great, the uninsulated 16x20 struggles on hot days with one 5000 btu unit.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Learned this morning that the old gold rush town of Mariposa, CA has been evacuated due to a wildfire. The spring rally sponsored by my old motorcycle club was staged at the fairgrounds just south of Mariposa, and the area is a familiar favorite of mine. It's very sad to see the videos of the fire on the ridge tops to the north of town and firefighters in the streets of Mariposa waiting on it to burn closer. Word is that the fire slowed during the night and the town is still there, and I hope they can figure out how to save it.

Cal Fire: Wildfire moves closer to town of Mariposa