Good morning!!!!

[PJSprog]

75°F and partly cloudy this morning, only going up to 93° today. Dash display yesterday said it was 100° in the city, dropping to 98° after crossing the Mississippi River. When I started the car this morning, it said it was 86° in the garage. Be glad when this week is over. Been miserable here.

Congrats on the new great-granddaughter, Mostly_.

Happy Anniversary, Eric.

Happy (belated) Anniversary, fiddlearound. Seems like you've been here for awhile, glad you've jumped in with us.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

It's just a matter of mounting the forks on the frame...one man job...two might make it a bit easier since those tines go 90 lbs. each
If you look on YouTube, some remove the forks when stowing the frame in an out building. My neighbor has a large enough shop that he keeps the tines mounted on the frame and has a dolly to move it around.
Unfortunately, I don't have that luxury. My forks will be sprayed with some kind of preservative when not in use and left outside on a pallet. I never leave any implements directly on the ground.
The only implement I stash in an outbuilding is the chipper...

I run my forks under a pallet in my barn to store them. Before I had a barn, I stuck forks under my shed with frame against shed, under the overhang.

 

[daugen]

I ordered some 4x4x8 pressure treated lumber to build a base for a small garden shed, and
owner of Tinsmans told me price dropped in half last week. From stupidly high but for sure a good sign.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

72 going to a steamy 94.

Happy Anniversary Eric and Julie!

Fiddlearound, 52 years is quite impressive! Congratulations to you and wife.

One more congrats...enjoy your new granddaughter, Mostly.

David, glad Sophie's eye report is good...and thank her for mountain photos.

Sorry about your skin cancer, Buppies. Many of us likely have little ticking time bombs on our skin.

Speaking of skin, spent a couple of hours at the urgent care facility yesterday...the same one that put 8 staples in my scalp a couple of years ago. I have a >25 cent piece red spot on my bicep from likely a spider bite...got it under an old long sleeve white dress shirt I was wearing while mowing on the zero, running up against a long row of forsythia, etc. I never felt a sting, and had no tick, just a small whelp like the way a mosquito bite starts. It hasn't cleared in 8 days...which is weird for me...I spend a lot of time in the fields and forests so have had hundreds of tick and chigger bites over the years, and plenty of spider bites...never had one transform over the days and be persistent like this.

I was hoping for some magic test to tell me what it was, but got a "doesn't matter" from the doctor and a prescription of cephalexin. She pressed on it and said, "it's blanching, so that's good." Then drew a circle around it with a Bic pen to help me determine if it changes size. Well, I learned what blanching means, and got my first Bic pen tattoo (ink promptly washed off in the shower last night.)

Will keep an eye on it and decide if I will take antibiotics...the treatment can be worse than the ill.

I got what I think was a spider bite on my foot one year at scout camp.
And they love to web between our forsythia.

I also need a skin check, been putting it off

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Good morning! 72 now and hazy.supposed to get to 86 later.

RNG & Kyle - I have not read Fluckly’s book, but have read a lot about his exploits aboard the Barb. The Barb has about 6 war patrols and had nothing to show for it. Under the command of Fluckly, it became one of the top scoring submarines of the Pacific Theater, first submarine to launch missiles in combat, and landed the only invasion of Japan to blow up a bridge with a train on it. The boat and crew had a bunch of decorations, but conspicuously absent was any Purple Hearts. Gonna have to find a copy of his book now.

Yesterday was just a go riding the bike day with no maps, no plan, no GPS. Just ride and didn’t even take very many pictures. Here are the pictures I took. Most of my ride was this type of views







Not sure I posted this, but this one is for Kyle, he will appreciate it



Got to go to the butcher shop and pick up 1/2 hog we are getting and put that away, then not sure what I will get into

Everyone stay safe out there

Rick, I run a FB Ohio picture page, and I get people posting a lot of rural barns from up your way.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Today will be drip irrigation on the new landscape bed.... it is getting old hand watering pulling a hose.
!

Many years ago, during a dry summer, I bought stuff to do a drip irrigation system. It’s still in the box. We still drag out the hose.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Happy Anniversary Eric and fiddlearound.

Storms missed us last night.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Mostly, congrats on the new granddaughter!

Happy belated Anniversary to fiddlearound.

BEF, being we don't get much rain, drip irrigation is a must. We have thousands of feet of drip tubing. I usually buy the supply tubing in 500' rolls. That and plenty of mulch to retain the moisture.

Rich, nice pics. I definitely miss riding....

David, good job on the leveler. That stuff is amazing. Exceptionally hard once cured.

 

[rswyan]

78F and Fair @ 11:00, HI 80F, DP 72, headed up to a high of 88F. Possibility of a stray shower or thunderstorm.

Spent the day yesterday working on tanks in the fish room. Now need to draw more water. Did a big white worm harvest and fed everyone - many of them ate to the point that it looked like they were ready to pop ...

Not sure what all will be on agenda for today, but I suspect mowing definitely will be. Will depend on how wet the ground is.

Pallet forks are on the Kubota right now, so I will use those to move the fiberglass extension ladder so that I can spray the remainder of the east planting bed next to the frog pond. Also need to spray the area on the west side of the shop that I dug out, to kill off the remnants of that invasive shrub.

Probably mix up another tank's worth before I spray it, so I don't have to be mixing on the lawn.

There's still some water in the 65 gallon tank so may use that to water + fertilizer for the azaleas and rhododendrons in the northeast planting bed, along soil sulphur and peat moss.

Starting to see more evidence of deer browsing, so probably time to deploy the Irish Spring and Deer Scram. Also need to put out Blood Meal to deter the groundhogs.

Hope everyone has an enjoyable, productive, and safe day ...

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Last night I was working late on trying to use my PTZ optics camera with a stream deck, to improve our church web streaming. PTZ optics has YouTube videos that talk about it, etc. and I was trying to download their http instruction sheet. The link was broken so I sent it feedback. This morning I got 2 separate emails from them, one with a link to what I was looking for, and another from their head of digital media asking where the broken link was. I wrote back thanking them for the excellent response. These are not cheap cameras, but they are good cameras.

The stream deck has programmable keys, that can control cameras, OBS, mixers etc so you can have a person just poke the buttons to get the scene you want for your stream. Right now you have to click around in the app and a separate camera control, I’m automating it so about anyone can sit there and push the buttons.

 

[toppop52]

Just got home from getting my Moderna, don’t call it a booster, third shot. We can’t call it a booster until September.

 

[MoKelly]

Just got home from getting my Moderna, don’t call it a booster, third shot. We can’t call it a booster until September.

Good for you. Our 6 months will be Sept.

Did the place you got the original jabs call you or did you contact them?

MoKelly

 

[fiddlearound]

Thanks for the welcome, guys. Been lurking for years--just don't post much, not much to say.
I look forward to reading the Good Morning thread every day. It is addictive like an old soap opera!

Kyle, is that steakhouse in Giddings? Out on 290 East?

 

[Thomas]

91F clear sky slight breeze.

Got outside early this morning got couple things done,around noonish gout fare up enough so limited foot travel.
While in the shed this morning outside senor light came on Boo was doing slow stroll by checking out tomatoes near the house,I said morning got sleepy look from Boo,since 4:30pm Boo enjoying shad breeze next to stream next by stack wood.

Not much plan for the evening...deck feet up waiting for the star critters passing by.

Enjoy your evening all.

 

[rswyan]

82F and cloudy @ 16:40, currently under a "Special Weather Statement/Severe Weather Alert" for strong thunderstorms and gusty winds up to 50 mph.

Started off by hauling trimmings from neighbors apple tree by to the burn pile.

Then refueled the Kubota.

Did some further grading and compacting at the creek crossing.

Got east, west, and south sides of frog pond sprayed with weed killer. I finished that more than two hours ago so it should be rain-fast by now ...

Got about half of the lower front mowed before I knocked off for lunch.

Woman said the larger tomato cage was starting to lean so we just finished going out and tying it up.

Filled hopper feeder while I was out there, also placed blood meal around perimeter of garden and Deer Scram around the one crabapple tree.

Woman requested refill on the hummer feeder earlier after she noticed him at the window over the kitchen sink so I helped her with that. Saw him at the feeder after that when I came in for lunch.

Deployed the pepper gel spray into a number of groundhog holes earlier.

It's pouring rain currently ... which means the grass mowing will continue unabated into the foreseeable future.

Woman's hibiscus continue to do well:

Also dahlia about to bloom:

Probably no more mowing today, but might be a good time to go work on the azaleas and the rhododendrons as the temperature has now dropped to 73F ...

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I look forward to reading the Good Morning thread every day. It is addictive like an old soap opera!

Bam!!!!!

 

[Thomas]

fiddlearound said:
I look forward to reading the Good Morning thread every day. It is addictive like an old soap opera!

Bam!!!!!

.......
Search for Tomorrow or the Edge of Night.

 

[toppop52]

Good for you. Our 6 months will be Sept.

Did the place you got the original jabs call you or did you contact them?

MoKelly

I called them, my doctor recommended it.

 

[MoKelly]

I called them, my doctor recommended it.

Thanks. In Sept. I’ll give our place a call.

MoKelly

 

[txdon]

Good for you. Our 6 months will be Sept.

Did the place you got the original jabs call you or did you contact them?

MoKelly

8 month wait last week, 6 months this week what will it be next week?