Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

good morning all. Going to be a nice summer day with highs near 88.

family dinner last night went ok after initial very cold shoulder by SIL. She warmed up when I brought her
a bag of chocolate chip cookies I was given earlier that day, and trying to avoid sugar, thought regifting made sense.
And it did, she was pleased with her cookies and whatever chip she had on her shoulder seemed to slide off.
I found the dinner tiring and couldn't wait to get home. Where I didn't sleep well last night, think it's going to be a nap day.

off to PT, then foodshopping, and not sure what else to get into. Might try lifting up the new mower with the new mower lift and give it a thorough greasing.
Looks like I need to get one of those grease zerk couplers as the mower spindle zerks are hidden out of sight.

 

[Buppies]

69 high of 88 today getting dry again again

Sorry about troubles at get together last night Drew

Roy hope you are feeling better copd nothing to play with

prayers for all

 

[mpham]

Morning all!
Glad your feeling better Roy!
Woke up to another rain storm. Flooded streets here all over the place. 63 going to 72. Weather guessers say we have already broke the record for most rain in the month of July and we are only half way thru.
Wife and I are doing good. Staying as active as we can between storms. No major health issues.
Nothing planned for jobs as it's just to wet and hot,humid out there.
35 years together this Wednesday! Time sure has flown by quick!
Hope everyone stays safe and healthy!

 

[daugen]

congrats Phil on the big anniversary!

we don't need any more rain here either...wish we could send some out West.

 

[wngsprd]

69 and cloudy, headed to 86. Feels good.

RS, nice looking squash/zukes/peppers. We've started harvesting them, too...gave a box full to my son and DIL to take home since so many seem to come at once. We talked yesterday about how the garden seems to be having its best year in memory.

Caught a mouse in my truck Saturday night...none caught last night. Still can't figure how it got in, but doing a thorough cleaning and investigation today. Was gonna do it yesterday, but decided the best approach was to do my wife's SUV first...she had commented the other day how dirty it had gotten.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 78F @ 4:00AM. Sun and clouds mixed. High 102F. Winds SSE at 10 to 15 mph.
Windy today, then calming through the week, but highs stay in the low hundreds. Siesta weather. The threatened dry lightning never materialized, but the threat is still on for today.

The small water line pressure was down again yesterday morning, so I walked it again, tightening hose clamps as I went. Hopefully have better news this morning.

Mounted the sprayer on the side-by-side yesterday morning and spotted weeds for an hour or so. Pump had trouble keeping prime on the steep hillsides, what else is new? Much less yellow star thistle than in past years. Seems that by pushing over the tall grass instead of cutting it, the thistle doesn't get any light and doesn't sprout. Most of what I did find was growing out of bare dirt.

Put together a circuit with the water level sensor, relay, 24VAC transformer, and 600 feet of wire to make sure it would work. Very happy that the relay triggered, no problem. Not very happy to get a notice from a wire supplier that the Ethernet cable I ordered is on backorder. Found a new supplier, but they have slower shipping. Hmph!

Very bad news on the fire front, with it spotting across the eastern fire lines yesterday afternoon, and moving towards Bucks Lake, where I was supposed to be camping over the weekend. My friends left before evacuation orders were issued, but issued they were. And Highway 70 through the canyon is closed in that area. Biggest concern is that now the fire is free to come back south again on that side of the river. I counted seven air tankers working on the break out, but this morning's heat map shows the fire to be well established, having overtaken several miles of highway and advanced several miles more toward the lake.

Found a new feature on the video player yesterday. Click the icon and it plays a random movie from the collection. First it picked "Blow" starring Johnny Dep, then "The Blob" with a very young Steve McQueen. Corny movie, but then any Steve McQueen movie is worth watching, right?

Hope everyone gets started on the right foot for the new week!

 

[Popgadget]

Good morning
Its 68 with highs in the 80’s forecast, looks like it will be a decent day.

Yesterday went as planned, shop time followed by nice trip to the Vineyard.

For today, I’m already in Richmond, I’ll be here till between 2 and 3, so I won’t get much done by the time I get home. But it’s a quiet week after today.

 

[newbury]

Started looking into Ethernet extension/repeater hardware, and like most electronics these days, there is a wide range of performance and price, and a large number of manufacturers, to choose from. The run from the pump house to the cul-de-sac is about 1400', and Ethernet's maximum range is supposed to be only 100 meters. There's no line-of-site, so doing it with solar powered radios is out.

Have you looked into Point-to-Point or LoRA/LoRaWan? Either seem suited for your application.
Point to Point can be done with Pringle cans and USB dongles but requires LOS. LoRaWan seems to conquer the LOS problem but is extremely low throughput.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Glad you're able to go back to work Roy. Hope you get better.

Another trip around the sun for me today.

Happy early anniversary Phil.

Ron, I really loved the wild turkeys picture. It's a big success if the young ones reach maturity. Hope your son is doing well....and you too.

Billy, I've had mice get into vehicles. On a suburban, I believe they were getting in somewhere around the rear wheel. Little farts can squeeze/chew their way through about anywhere.

Doug, nice rides! and a new barn will be nice too. We have to get you on track to calling it a barn. hahaha A shed for us is a small storage unit, usually too small to park a car in. Make sure you pick the kit that handles the high wind loads. Here I believe the wind loads are rated at 90 or 110 miles per hour. The doors can also be a problem in the high winds.

Hope all of you have a blessed day. Prayers for Buppies, mostly's wifey, Billy to not overexert, Drew to get the right amount of Helga, Roy, our families, and our country.

 

[MoKelly]

2021-07-19, 0306

63° right now...looks like a spot of light rain now...
High in the mid-70's and probably some rain

Up a bit early this morning...woke up about 0200 or thereabouts. Be my first day back to work since the medical episode last week...we'll see how things go...

I’ve noticed your post times in the past. You are indeed an early bird person.

Do you not need much sleep or do you go to bed early? I’ve known 2 friends over the years who needed little sleep - like 5 hours a day. They went to bed around midnight and woke at 5am.

I like early morning. Barely light. Quiet. Peaceful. But, to enjoy early morning I need to get to sleep by 10!

MoKelly

 

[wngsprd]

Happy Birthday, Kyle! Hope you get some special pecan coffee.

 

[ronjhall]

Happy Birthday Kyle!!!

 

[ronjhall]

About 7:15 this morning. This is what Sun looked like at my place.

May be from the fires out west.

 

[daugen]

what a picture Ron,

PT and supermarket done, now killing time til 11am when a local cigar shop opens and I'm headed there in Lahaska.
Never smoked one in my life and unlikely ever to, but it's my brother's birthday and he is hard to buy for.
don't know whether to get him a sampler pack or one expensive cigar. Really depends upon their stock, chain store with 19 locations.
And here we are with a father who died of laryngeal cancer from smoking cigars. (Don we can lead them to water...)
I suppose I'm encouraging/enabling his bad habit but we're in our 70's and I think we are going to enjoy some of life's pleasures a little more.

At least he and his wife are healthy eaters and very active, so some risk factors are lower.

Lovely day out, PT went well, Helga made me groan but all good. Slowly the shoulder is loosening up but she sure finds all the sore spots.

My SIL is from NM near Ted and she was complaining in some general way of Texas restricting water in the Rio Grande so NM got less. ??
Anyone downstream always complains...

I guess I can't imagine what living without enough water is like. East Coast never seems to have this problem.
Geez it looks grim for California, RNG best wishes everything stays away from you and maybe you should start wearing your mask

 

[PJSprog]

66°F and partly cloudy this morning, going up to 88° today. No rain in the forecast here for the foreseeable future.

Everything here was a wet mess from the rains on Thursday and Friday, so not a lot of options on outside tasks on Saturday. Going to need a few days of drying time. Spent much of the day working in the studio, and it was productive time.

Sunday was originally planned as a kayaking day, but waiting for other people kind of spoiled that opportunity. Not a lot of 82° days in the middle of July, but so it goes. I did finally get to take the line trimmer for a long walk, then pulled some weeds and trimmed up some tree branches on the other side of the pond. It never got very warm, but the 80% humidity made me feel like I was swimming around the yard. Pores definitely got a good flushing.

The boy finally got the rest of his stuff moved in last night. Wife is already stressed over it. He was one of the people we waited on most of the day, and he didn't show up until about 8:30pm. Wife gave him a good tongue lashing over it, noting that we didn't go kayaking because we were waiting on him. It's apparent that not much has changed responsibility-wise since he moved out, which is what is stressing The Wife. The "plan" is for him to stay with us long enough to save some money and find another place that he can afford without a roommate. I honestly don't see this working out very well. But, here we go.

Happy (early) Anniversary, Phil.

 

[RoyJackson]

I’ve noticed your post times in the past. You are indeed an early bird person.

Do you not need much sleep or do you go to bed early? I’ve known 2 friends over the years who needed little sleep - like 5 hours a day. They went to bed around midnight and woke at 5am.

MoKelly

I'm up early so I can get a cup (or 2) of coffee, spend 45 minutes on the internet and grab a shower before heading to work.
I work 50 miles south of where I live, so that's an hour's drive in good weather.
I like to be at work by 0600 (an hour before my official start time) to catch up on e-mails and such

Always was an early bird, since my Navy days. I'm normally in the rack by 2000 nightly

 

[daugen]

I honestly don't see this working out

PJ
You will need the Patience Of Job.
And the humor of Rodney Dangerfield
And the forgiveness of your supreme being.
I'm sure you will do fine.
At least at times you can put your headsets on and just
go off in the wonderful musical moment. You might find our other Paul there.

I was thinking...is the audio quality on Zoom high quality digital? Can two people in different locations
see each other playing, all playing together , and hear the combined result realtime?
Lag/latency would likely mess that up.

 

[PJSprog]

Happy Birthday, Kyle.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Drew, got her with food, nice!!!

Roy, hope day goes good!!

Buppies, hope all is well with you. Hope you get all the equipment parts soon!!

Phil, happy Anniversary

Kyle, happy Birthday.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Geez it looks grim for California, RNG best wishes everything stays away from you and maybe you should start wearing your mask

Yesterday morning, when the air quality was rated Hazardous, I was spraying Glyphosate while wearing an N95 rated spray mask that also sported charcoal canisters. Couldn't smell a thing, except when I took it off in the garage before I came in. Since the Glyphosate lawsuits started, I've been wearing that mask, regardless of the air quality outside.

This morning the air still looks to be a mess outside, but with an Unhealthy rating of only 159 PPM, it's a LOT better than yesterday's peak of 440 PPM. It's been mostly good overnight, too, enough so that the Dyson filter in the great room shut it self off until just a few minutes ago. Now it's going full blast.

The view from the front porch yesterday afternoon. First time I've been able to see the Dixie Fire cloud from the house.

Just checked, and the fire almost doubled in size overnight, going to more than 30,000 acres from 18,000. It's covered ground north of Bucks Lake that escaped last summer's Bear Fire, but firefighters are going to have a real battle to save the lake.

In other news, PG&E has been linked to the start of the Dixie Fire.