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   / Good morning!!!! #61,801  
No rain to speak of overnight at ranch, sidewalks dry, maybe a peak of sun.

Streets in front of Richmond Home dry. High water there was about half way up driveway. There are homes with 10' of water less than 2 miles away. Looks like we picked a good place to build.

Worst is over here?
 
   / Good morning!!!! #61,802  
It's raining away here, still haven't seen the wind they predicted this morning, maybe coming. Cool, around 65 here.

Drew, my home, personal liability and cars is $2640 year, I've been with State Farm for 33 years and I might save a little somewhere else, but when I need them they never fail me.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #61,803  
The morning low was 47*, yesterday's high was 92*. Looks like today is going to be sunny with a chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80's.

The neighbor is widening his driveway. He borrowed a excavator to cut back a hill and I ran his skid steer to move the dirt down the hill. Had a few hours of fun doing that.

Not sure what today will bring.

Hope everyone has a nice day.
CWB
 
   / Good morning!!!! #61,804  
It's raining away here, still haven't seen the wind they predicted this morning, maybe coming. Cool, around 65 here.

Drew, my home, personal liability and cars is $2640 year, I've been with State Farm for 33 years and I might save a little somewhere else, but when I need them they never fail me.

for sure a good company Randy. Mine totalled over six grand and I had to do something. I need to sell the Jaguar frankly and get back to one car and one truck.
I told the agent I had no desire to leave him; he is independent and represents many companies. What I needed him to do is get me into a cheaper company, and he
has. Squeaking wheel for sure.
Having taught every word of the homeowner and auto policies while working for Travelers in Hartford, I usually know a lot more than the claims person who calls. I know they need good
paperwork and I know they don't want to be abused. Other than that, this is contract law and they have to obey the contract. Like in your claim, they only pay the full replacement value on either the building or contents if you actually replace the item. Otherwise they make a partial pay, usually about 60 to 80 percent of the claim and then wait for more paperwork to document why they should be paying more. It's all about the paperwork in that business, and making sure when the company auditor reviews the claim file, that all the right documents are in there.
Less about saving the last buck actually. Each person has about a hundred or two hundred files on his/her desk. They need to move them along and they get judged on number of days.

I found it interesting that when I called Geico this morning, once they had my social and address, they knew exactly what cars I was driving, down to the VIN numbers. Good old public records.
Not much is private for sure.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #61,805  
I've never driven a skid steer CWB and I'd like to try.

got a call from Kubota dealer that they found the disc harrow in Fayetteville and they are driving over two hours each way
on Friday to go pick it up and bring it back to my farm.
Pretty good service...though nothing is free but a thank you.
and in the salesman's case who is giving up half his day to go pick up a harrow instead of selling tractors, well I'll have a little
thank you envelope for him. Along with my sincere thanks since he already had a full day.
So I expect to have some fun with that shortly after it arrives. Need to play with different angle adjustments and see how it bites in.

so on Friday around noon I'll be sitting out at the end of my lane with the Kubota with the forks on front, as the locals ride by
remarking I'm sure: Now what's that Yankee up to now? So far owning two tractors seems to have gotten me some respect...this
is farming country and for sure they check out your truck and your tractor driving by. Wife, family, truck and tractor. What more
could a man want?...well...another tractor.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #61,806  
64.1F and overcast @ 10:30, high predicted to be 76F, 20% chance of rain.

Got almost all of the rest of the gravel moved from the south side of the polebarn yesterday ... just a little left at southwest corner.

Since today was trash pickup day I went ahead and welded up the trash/recycle can picker-upper yesterday to move the cans up to the road.

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Seems to work pretty good ... waaay easier than loading them into a cart or a van. We'll see how it holds up long-term ... probably should add a bit of gusseting.

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After that I started digging into the screened topsoil behind the barn and moving it to the slope on the north side. With the way the weather has been lately (cool), seems like this would be a decent time to try and get some grass growing on that slope.

Need to refuel the kubota, then probably back to working around the barn.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #61,807  
Nice to see 300UGuy post. Hope you are doing well. Still raining here which is good. Looks like Harvey might visit here by the end of the week, hopefully just rain and not all the other stuff. Very cool here 61 reminds me of fall. Drew shopping your insurance can save you money sometimes a lot.

Hot tub is leaking one pumps seals failed new one coming next week
 
   / Good morning!!!! #61,808  
Or you can get one that'll work with iPhone and Android devices and wireless to boot:

Amazon.com: BlueDriver Bluetooth Professional OBDII Scan Tool for iPhone, iPad & Android: Automotive

There must be hundreds of 'em at Amazon!

I used one a while back on the BMW car. It would give me the codes, but darned if I could figure out what to do with them. Today's vehicles rely on so many sensors and actuators, all of them interacting, that you really have to understand the relationship between them all to make any use of the codes. That's where a good independent mechanic comes in. They have the experience gained from working on many cars, hopefully similar or the same as yours, and know how to troubleshoot first, then fix, the problem.

Screw all that. Give me a simple carb, Hall effect ignition trigger, coil, and sparkplugs and forget about that modern junk.:laughing:
:thumbsup:

No, they came out with a "platform independent" browser based package Ross-Tech: News. Downsides are that it's $449 and only for VW-Audi Group cars.
Yeah ... they certainly seem pretty proud of it ... :laughing:
 
   / Good morning!!!! #61,809  
very cool gizmo RS. Do you have a back up alarm too? ;) Can you rattle them for extra noise?
 
   / Good morning!!!! #61,810  
72° and .07 inches rain

Went to bed getting a sore throat, woke up full on :(

Kalani goes to Vet for dental work today. Been one heck of a month with dental!!

Be safe
Have a great day.
 

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