Good morning!!!!

[toppop52]

Went to church, came home
, mixed bleach and water in the Cub Cadet spray rig and washed the house, all the decks and all the buildings. We finished that, rinsed the tank and sprayer and mixed glyphosate for the driveway, turnouts and assorted other places.
Feels good to be doing stuff again, I can’t throw my leg over the steering wheel yet, but I’m getting stronger.

82° and mostly sunny.

Good to hear from you Ron.

 

[Steppenwolfe]

Went to church, came home
, mixed bleach and water in the Cub Cadet spray rig and washed the house, all the decks and all the buildings. We finished that, rinsed the tank and sprayer and mixed glyphosate for the driveway, turnouts and assorted other places.
Feels good to be doing stuff again, I can’t throw my leg over the steering wheel yet, but I’m getting stronger.

82° and mostly sunny.

Good to hear from you Ron.

Glad you are coming around

 

[rswyan]

Got second dose of Moderna, was in the waiting area by 15:00 ... about to head home ...

Will stop and get some gas for the Cub on the way back and maybe a sandwich while I’m at it.

 

[Thomas]

Went to church, came home
, mixed bleach and water in the Cub Cadet spray rig and washed the house, all the decks and all the buildings. We finished that, rinsed the tank and sprayer and mixed glyphosate for the driveway, turnouts and assorted other places.
Feels good to be doing stuff again, I can’t throw my leg over the steering wheel yet, but I’m getting stronger.

82° and mostly sunny.

Good to hear from you Ron.

Good to read your out and about.

 

[Thomas]

64F clear slight wind had heavy rain shower around 1:30pm.

Good day for puttering...over turn garden spots for the Mrs.,good chat with long time friend ahhh the good ole days made tomorrow dinner,have BIG chicken with goods on the grill,not much plan for this evening recliner share bowl French vanilla ice with carrots cake Mrs. made today with the kittens.

I notice just off the parking area on front lawn certain spots grass flatten etc. for week,after checking game cam it's homeland security on the job...Boo gotten bigger the last couple of years.

Enjoy your evening all.

 

[MoKelly]

Weatherman got it wrong today. Was supposed to rain pretty much all day.

Nope - not a drop yet. Cloudy and a little cool but an OK day.

Wife planted her raised garden today. Celery, peppers, cucumbers, squash and tomato’s. If like last year, we’ll be eating lots of veggies!

MoKelly

 

[lostcreekranch]

Good afternoon. It's 85° here with 14 mph winds.

We got 4" of rain Friday a.m., another 3 1/2" Saturday a.m. and 1" last evening so 8 1/2" in less than 36 hours. This was the first real moisture here since our February snow. Just to much in a short amount of time.

Our pastures are very soft so .. tractors will stay parked for a few days. Our sandy soils turn into "quick sand" for a while after big rains.

We postponed our VFD Spring Fund Raiser .. that was scheduled for last evening .. to 5/15. With all our new Fire Dept. Building Construction and all the rain .. the location was a slop hole.

We did get the concrete slab poured last Wednesday .. so that nicely beat our down pours. We'll start our red steel erection by Monday 5/17. We've had the steel for almost 8 months but everything got delayed by the virus.

We've also had the steel siding, roofing, and all the insulation for nearly 8 months as well. We hope to have a "dried in" building by the end of July or sooner. With current steel prices .. we saved over 50% by buying everything last year and all was stored for free.

We'll eventually have five bays for our pumper, big tanker, small tanker, brush fire truck, Polaris Ranger brush fire rig, and command vehicle. We'll also have a 25' x 50' training room, full commercial kitchen and three offices.

Glad to see .. our four ISS astronauts, had a safe return this morning.

Welcome home Ron. Glad you're back.

Hope everyone had a nice weekend.

Prayers to all.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Good afternoon. It's 85° here with 14 mph winds.

We got 4" of rain Friday a.m., another 3 1/2" Saturday a.m. and 1" last evening so 8 1/2" in less than 36 hours. This was the first real moisture here since our February snow. Just to much in a short amount of time.

Our pastures are very soft so .. tractors will stay parked for a few days. Our sandy soils turn into "quick sand" for a while after big rains.

We postponed our VFD Spring Fund Raiser .. that was scheduled for last evening .. to 5/15. With all our new Fire Dept. Building Construction and all the rain .. the location was a slop hole.

We did get the concrete slab poured last Wednesday .. so that nicely beat our down pours. We'll start our red steel erection by Monday 5/17. We've had the steel for almost 8 months but everything got delayed by the virus.

We've also had the steel siding, roofing, and all the insulation for nearly 8 months as well. We hope to have a "dried in" building by the end of July or sooner. With current steel prices .. we saved over 50% by buying everything last year and all was stored for free.

We'll eventually have five bays for our pumper, big tanker, small tanker, brush fire truck, Polaris Ranger brush fire rig, and command vehicle. We'll also have a 25' x 50' training room, full commercial kitchen and three offices.

Glad to see .. our four ISS astronauts, had a safe return this morning.

Welcome home Ron. Glad you're back.

Hope everyone had a nice weekend.

Prayers to all.

Front elevation ....

 

[txdon]

Good evening! It was a nice mostly sunny day, temp now 84˚F. 2.57" rain yesterday brings the weekend total to 3.84", not as much as those South but enough to turn the irrigation off for a week.

Welcome back Ron! nice pic.

The Lake Cruise emailed that they were canceling an hour before we had to leave because of the rain so that saved a trip to Austin. We went out to eat, the first time since last year, at a Mexican grill - Chipotle's - they did not have any onions or peppers, they really don't belong in Texas with no peppers and onions. I did find out I'm a much better Chef.

Had the first Hand and Foot card game this afternoon since the covid started. The room's capacity is topped at 30 (usually 60) we had 28 show up. I won 3 out of 5 games. Face mask are required.

The sprouts are ready to eat and I had my first serving. They turned out good and I like that the crop can be harvested in just 3 days. Second jar has been started.

 

[sodamo]

Had a good morning in caretaker suite. All the interior outlet boxes installed, 5 in bedroom, 4 in bathroom, 12 in main area. Devoting rest of day to energy conservation.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

We went out to eat, the first time since last year, at a Mexican grill - Chipotle's - they did not have any onions or peppers, they really don't belong in Texas with no peppers and onions. I did find out I'm a much better Chef.
.

I got a bowl at chipotle Thursday after my 2nd COVID vaccine. They still doing only takeout, dine in still closed. They had peppers and onions, yum. it was so good.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Went out after it started cooling off and planted most of garden. 2 more rows corn, 3 rows potatoes, 3 rows of green beans, onions, cabbage, cantaloupe. Still need peppers and tomatoes.

That wore me out. Wanted to get it in before rain tomorrow. We need rain, been dry.

Got trash and recycling out.

85.8° today, almost yearly high. Now 70°

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 63F for the start, overcast, light breeze. Sky cleared off wind stayed down, and high temp was 78F. Chapel started off today, then made pancakes for breakfast. Puttered on computer, and napped.
Covid update: Cooke 3173 confirmed cases, 12 active cases, Montague 1752 confirmed cases, 2 active cases, Grayson, 11264 confirmed cases, 23 active cases, local not updated.
Doug sorry to hear about the increase of back pain, will keep praying
Ron welcome back, neat pic hope you recovery from yesterday
Buppies thanks for continuing to pray.
Drew sorry to hear about chair misadventure glad "inventory" came out ok. sorry about continued delay in your truck
Thomas cute story, sorry it messed with your sleep
Paul glad gravel went well, safe trips
Billy thanks for Coco update, glad you got wife's chore done
Bird quite the day yesterday glad you feel better now
Mo thanks for the info
Mo if he only sleeps on one side of bed then it is spoiled big time nice looking cat
RNG looks like you got a lot done. Sorry about finding tire the hard way
Bill at least the stove is gone
Drew have fun looking at mowers
Eric sorry rain was early, how is your hedge coming along?
Kyle glad prom was success. Good luck with new commuter hunt
RS sounds like a lot of rain
David glad you had good evening. Living apart from all family can be a challenge.
Roy hope you enjoyed your nap
Phil glad you got some seat time, more time to fix ruts
Randy good to you are getting better.
Thomas Boo looks a lot bigger
Mo as long as you are not too desperate for it.
Rick good to hear new fire house coming along. Good luck with fund raiser. thanks for including drawing of new house !
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle's daughter,Bird/aging issues,Billy/skin cancer, David(moss)/remodel/divorce, Ron/return, Buppies cancer surgery, Phil/reflux/wife's eyes,Steppenwolfe/son-auto immune disorder, Dennis/older brother/son, Grev/wife's eye, Randy/recovery, Bill/DIL home care, Ted/knee recovery, Doug and wife/health issues/nerve and pain/ wife's eyes, Ken/uncle, Drew/tendon, David(sadamo)/Sophie's eye surgery, and Country.
stay safe and healthy you all.

 

[sodamo]

Don, congrats on Hand & Foot. We’ll have to compare notes as I suspect we play same game but different ways. For us we meld at 50, 90, 120, 150, 120, 90, & 50 points, so that takes us a couple hours.

 

[rswyan]

67F and partly cloudy @ 22:45, heading down to an overnight low of 59F.

Got gas on way home, skipped the sandwich.

Friend came over to inspect the Cub Cadet after I got back from getting the shot. His son has started a lawn care business and is looking at hiring and expanding so may be shopping for mowers. Friend was fairly impressed with the Cub (build quality, etc.)

Got pretty much all the mowing done, except for a little trimming out front which can wait. Used the Cub down here around the house, Kubota with MMM out front. Took just under 4 hours.

All the cores stood out, now that they had a chance to dry a little. I may run over the entire lawn again, after this next round of rain.

Ordered a Chapin 8620B 150lb tow-behind spreader (with "Auto-stop") last night, should be here sometime between Tuesday and Thursday - which should work out well, as far as the rain forecast goes.

Also did some research last night on the USDA NRCS website and found that almost all the lawn area (except for a small section near the back) lies within the "Wooster silt loam" complex (which is classified as Dry Acidic Till Plains)

I actually knew that from when we were considering putting in a pond and had the the local guy from Ohio Soil and Water Conservation out, just couldn't remember the exact name. (Back edge of the property is the Canfield Silt Loam complex)

Would assume that means the soil tends towards the acidic, but I still need to test it.

The Woman brought home chow from TGIFridays. I thought what I had was good, but they didn't cook her burger correctly (was supposed to be "Medium" and was still red inside ... )

Got downstairs fish fed this evening after dinner (finally)

Arm is sore from the shot, but no worse than the last time.

Hope everyone had a great day ...

 

[rswyan]

RS sounds like a lot of rain

Just 1.3 inches over three days is all they are calling for.

Of course that could vary quite a bit - if one happens to be under a cell in a thunderstorm ...

Those pancake sure sound awfully good ...

 

[RoyJackson]

2021-05-03, 0317

45 right now...high in the mid-50's...

 

[Thomas]

48F cloudy mid 50's for high showers afternoon rain tonight.

E muffin soon outside chores.
Plans for today...putter outside 2nd C19 shot afternoon than see what happens than.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[ronjhall]

Coffee is done brewing. 60° with cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 64° with rain most of the day. Found a good deal for a Ridgid Sewer Snake on Facebook Marketplace. Picked it up in the morning. Put tiller on tractor and tilled a garden for neighbor. Got to watch some NASCAR. Wrong car won. Today will do some house cleaning while it is raining.

Drew, I had same surgery on my right shoulder in 2018. Took a lot longer to heal than I thought it would. Took 6 months before I could sleep comfortably in a bed. Electric recliner was the best place for sleep. I used a DonJoy Ice machine with shoulder pad for pain. Hooked it to a remote to make it easy to turn on and off. Dr wanted me to use it for 20 minutes at a time. PT was tuff but it helped a lot.

Randy, good you are getting better.

Kyle, it is a Red Winged Blackbird. First Oriole was at feeders on Friday.

Everyone stay safe and healthy.

Good Morning All.

 

[daugen]

good morning all.
much cooler day with rain coming in this afternoon, and then stronger rain and storms tonight.
Thomas, that is quite a large friend you have made.

electrician coming early this morning to finish the job and I will test the portable gen connection and make
sure it all works like before. Hopefully then hvac guy will come this week and I'll be set for the summer. Little window unit
in living room yesterday plus a big floor fan worked pretty well. I'll be happy to pull it out and shut that window again, looks like a sure route
for adventurous bugs to get inside through cracks.

shoulder still very sore, more tylenol today I guess. And maybe more icing, thanks Ron.