Good morning!!!!

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 69F @ 6:15AM. Sunny. High around 95F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph.
The temperature got to 101F yesterday afternoon, but it didn't feel that warm as long as I stayed in the shade. Slight cooling trend for the next few days will be nice before going back to more 100s for the weekend.

Looks like your green thumb is in fine shape with those peppers, Drew.

That's some heavy work, Ken. Will you be making any lumber with all that ash?

With all the rebuilding that's going on out here, there is so much money chasing after tradesmen, prices are ridiculous. Good luck with the roofing quotes, Billy. Does your metal roof make a lot of noise in the rain, Kyle?

Worked on switching laptops some more yesterday, not quite getting where I'd like to be. I did get an old laptop from 2011 up and running, and even with an old style spinning disc, I'm not noticing a lot of speed difference to the latest and greatest. And the keyboard is a lot nicer in the old machine. The one going in for repairs is also eligible for a new keyboard, so maybe there will be some improvement.

Spent the rest of the day making a frame for the screen on the grizzly, and getting the screen trimmed to size. I started cleaning the metal on the screen in preparation for welding, but I'm thinking bolting it on would be a better idea so that the screen can be replaced easily if it becomes worn or damaged. That might take more bolts than the junk drawer contains, though.

A box showed up from Amazon with a pair of dimmable LEDs for the outside of the house, so I'll see what's involved in getting those installed. At "only" 16,000 lumens, they're not quite as bright as the ones you put up, Paul, but there will be at least two on that side of the house so I think they'll be fine. I just hope I can find enough room in the wall box for the little box built onto the power cord.

 

[Bird]

wngsprd said, "Met with another roofer. Looking at GAF and Atlas shingles...anyone had any recent experience with either?"

About 10 years ago, we had our roof partially replaced with GAF Timberline shingles because that was what was already on this house when we bought it. I think they were a little better than what I see on most of the houses in this neighborhood.

But then this year we had the entire roofing replaced and went with Owens Corning Oxford Driftwood shingles. Our roofing guy said he'd use whichever we wanted, but that he thought the GAF used to be the best but that Owens Corning was now the best.

Before deciding, I did a lot of reading and I called and talked to an Owens Corning employee about shingles, and I'll still admit to actually knowing very little, but so far I'm happy with what we have.

 

[sodamo]

67°F and no rain

Scag performed well after switching out battery. The old one dated 1/18, geez nothing lasts.

Shower drain took longer, a bit more challenging, but results acceptable. Will get that cleaned up for grouting but in between have appointment for haircut this morning.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[rswyan]

78F and mostly sunny @ 12:45, HI 82F, DP 63 ... heading up to a high of 81F. Supposed to cloud up later this afternoon with the possibility of showers from Ida, but only 40% chance. Looking at the radar though, it doesn't look like she's pushing northward very fast.

The cloudiness would actually be welcome, in order to get some stuff done in areas that are normally sunny.

Ten Day shows a 6 day period of low rain chances after today, temps are mild with highs in the upper 70's and overnight lows in the high 60's and upper 50's. Rain returns next Tuesday with decent chances Tuesday through Thursday.

Bird feeders need refilled, also need to check birdbath for clean out and refill.

Order at Menards is ready to pick up. Also need to change oil and filter in Cub but I'm short on the filter and the oil ... so a trip down Massillon way might be in the offing. Two birds, one stone and all that.

Beyond that, hard to say what we'll get into for the rest of the day ... target rich environment ... so there are many possibilities.

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

 

[sodamo]

I did have supervision yesterday

 

[Rich B1]

The tomatoes, cukes, and zucchini have been awesome this year at home. Beans and peppers have been a big disappointment.

Good to see someone has gotten some good home grown peppers

 

[Thomas]

80F cloud here and there steady 5 mph breeze.

Yep another slow motion day...but not tomorrow.

Enjoy your evening all.
..............
Sassy.
Margeaux.

 

[toppop52]

Cloudy most of the day, a few sprinkles so far. Got around 90, 78 now. Storm track had been moved fifty miles north so I’m not sure what to expect rain wise.
Got FIL’s grass mowed yesterday and took my Toro in for new spindles on the deck. I just can’t get down and do that stuff since I was sick two years ago, seriously compromised my leg strength and range of motion for all my limbs.
Getting ready for the OBX trip, mostly set I guess.
Got my house appraised, market must be hot, about $60k above what I’d figured.
Have a good evening.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Took 2 new, but different chipset usb to serial cables to church building to try them. First one didn’t work, no driver and didn’t come with one, no brand name to look up.
Put 2nd one on. It has cd with driver, but is same driver from the original non working cable. Still no response, rebooted switch and the interface said PO. Hummm, typed in S3 (command for port 3) and it switched. Put original cable back on. It works. Seems there is no prompt whatsoever, I had been hitting return and expecting a response. So it was working and I didn’t know it. Now to decide if it’s worth to return the one cable that had no driver.
No rain yet, few light sprinkles, not enough to wet the road.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Yesterday, I got the last speaker finished before I left, but still have to get it boxed up and shipped today when I get home. Shop is all ready for the new welder, which is coming today, so I’ll be busy when I get home, the speaker has to leave before I can setup the welder though.

Interested to hear how the welder performs after you try a few different types of welds. What is it's duty % rating?

With all the rebuilding that's going on out here, there is so much money chasing after tradesmen, prices are ridiculous. Good luck with the roofing quotes, Billy. Does your metal roof make a lot of noise in the rain, Kyle?

It does make more noise, but to a rain lover like me, it's music to my ears.

I got great news yesterday, my friend at work is off the ventilator. They are still giving him a little O2, but he's off. A long recuperation expected.

Was on my feet a lot at work today. I see David with his 2 "Dad" loving dogs, giving him support while he has a "laydown" job.

Prayers for our team, our country, and the families of the Marines KIA.

 

[pennwalk]

I had my truck in for service today. I doubt that the Toyota dealer had 30 new cars on the lot. I imagine the sales people are crying but the dealer made up a little on the service I needed. I was surprised by how many empty spaces there were on the shelves at the grocery store. I wish the economy would get back to normal. It least lumber is going down. That was crazy. I'm as ready for the rain we are supposed to get tomorrow as I can be. I should have stayed in Maine. It has been hot here since we got back.

Chris

 

[pennwalk]

I forgot I talked to my neighbor today. His 7 year old granddaughter got the covid and now has developed diabetes. I didn't realize that could happen. This junk is a mess.

Chris

 

[txdon]

Cloudy most of the day, a few sprinkles so far. Got around 90, 78 now. Storm track had been moved fifty miles north so I’m not sure what to expect rain wise.
Got FIL’s grass mowed yesterday and took my Toro in for new spindles on the deck. I just can’t get down and do that stuff since I was sick two years ago, seriously compromised my leg strength and range of motion for all my limbs.
Getting ready for the OBX trip, mostly set I guess.
Got my house appraised, market must be hot, about $60k above what I’d figured.
Have a good evening.

Increased House value is good if you are selling, bad if it's connected to taxes and your taxes are not frozen @ 65, bad if connected to increased insurance, good if you are getting a loan on the equity.

 

[Rich B1]

I forgot I talked to my neighbor today. His 7 year old granddaughter got the covid and now has developed diabetes. I didn't realize that could happen. This junk is a mess.

Chris

i was tested 4 times a day for developing diabetes last December when I was in the hospital with Covid. Yes, it can cause diabetes to develop. And it is a big concern to medical staff to get in front of it.

Apparently the development of diabetes while still ailing with Covid can be extremely serious. Up to being fatal.

Fortunately, I have long dealt with low blood sugar and the constant testing was ended early, even though the protocol was testing up to the day of discharge. I had a nurse that got the doctors testing orders changed to: stop wasting the nurses time, stop making me miserable with the constant finger pricks, and stop wasting test strips on a patient who showed no signs of developing diabetes.

 

[Popgadget]

Interested to hear how the welder performs after you try a few different types of welds. What is it's duty % rating?

I did get it connected and fired it up, very preliminary report. I struck an arc on a piece of hot rolled scrap and ran a bead with es70-6 filler. The initiated immediately at the end of the preflow timing, and was very stable, much nicer than my old Miller. Next will be to try AC on some aluminum, but it’s been a long day.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I did get my camera control scripts working. Now I can use python to move it around, pan and tilt. Will do zoom next. I had to use wire shark to see how the OBS plug-in was sending commands.
Wrote script for the projector switch, but have to be there to test, because I don’t have remote control of the projector, yet. My Ethernet cable is bad, one I made. Never had a pressing issue to fix it, until now.
Changes I tried to fix the video issue with the stream deck didn’t help. Waiting for them to respond.
Did order a different equipment rack, one I have to assemble. If it comes in time, I’ll be racking equipment Saturday.

Good supper from the garden tonight. Corn, roasted potatoes, green beans.

 

[rswyan]

74F and cloudy @ 21:45, headed down to a low of 66F overnight.

Got hopper, two sunflower tube, and one suet feeder refilled first thing. Also scrub out birdbath and refill.

After that I mixed up another tank of juice for the sprayer and loaded the syringe for The Woman to treat the stump ends of those dogwoods behind the east planting bed while she cut down some brush (grapevine, slippery saplings) that was growing under the steps up to the deck that I had previously sprayed. Syringe ended up being unwieldy for her and she opted to use her method: foam paint brush ...

While she was doing that I used a pair of scissors to give the iris their first trimming, taking off about 1/3 of the leaf, and trimming off any that looked questionable. Also moved the pots a little further out from the house, so if we get any rain they should as well.

Then I headed over to the east planting and started finishing up the tilling with the FS 66/cultivator head combo. That was temporarily interrupted when I kicked up a good-sized rock and it wedged itself between the blades and the gearbox. Couldn't free it up in the field, so that necessitated a trip back to the garage to get some better tools. Finally got it unstuck and went back and finished up the tilling.

While I was working on that The Woman added soil sulphur and peat moss to the southernmost rhododendron and got that worked into the soil.

Brought down several more bucketloads of screened compost and got it mostly spread out:

About that time it had clouded up and was starting to sprinkle so she headed for the house and I gathered up the rest of the tools and took them up.

I still need to remove one of the trunks of that hawthorn - it's dead and actually has some sort of rust-colored fungus growing on it.

Then add screened compost in on the front edge/border and then edge that with rocks to retain it. Once that's done the Stella D'Oro' day lilies that I separated last year will get planted along the edge, since they need to be removed from where they are at for the block retaining wall. May dig the big one up next to the front steps if I need more to fill it in.

Have more of the green/white hosta that will get planted in that bed, along with some (or at least one) divisions of the large blue-green hostas out front once I get those dug up.

Probably will also plant one of these which are coming in October at the southern end of the bed since they need more light (more sun = more white):

May stick one of these in there too:

After I took the tools up, I gathered up the saplings I pulled the other day - including that tree I thought was a Russian olive (it was) - and hauled those up to the burn pile.

Got three oil filters for the Cub and an 18# bag of Espoma "Bulb-Tone" ordered from Amazon. Price on the filters was a couple bucks cheaper per filter than the last time I picked them up at the mower shop.

Scheduled some bills for payment as well.

Then we headed out to Menards to pick up the order. Swung by TSC on the way down and scoped out what they had as far as grass seed for the over-seeding project.

I had called the farmer's co-op earlier in the day for a quote on some Oligers' "Fescue Plus" seed (mix of four types of tall fescue plus 7% Kentucky Bluegrass) ... would love to support them (Oligers is a local company) and I'm sure it's a great product but at $78 per 25# bag, I think it's a little too rich for our blood at the moment.

May go with the co-op's starter fertilizer though which seemed a little more reasonably priced (The Andersons 8-32-16)

Swung by Bob Evans on the way back and grabbed some dinner to go.

Cat beasts all fed and watered, along with upstairs fish.

Need to start working on a plan-o-gram for the incoming bulbs and flower seeds that takes into account their mature heights and soil/light needs.

Hope everyone had a great day ...

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 72F for the start, mostly clear sky and near calm wind. Light wind, some afternoon build-ups 1 rain shower in area. High temp was 94F, HI 101F, and DP 67F. Bike rid to start, finished mowing front, lower DP helped reduce sweating. did get nap
Covid update: Cooke 3630 confirmed cases, 48 active cases, Montague 2105 confirmed cases, 56 active cases, Grayson, 13228 confirmed cases, 349 active cases. Cooke 43, Montague 37, Grayson 114, new cases.
Roy thanks for Margeaux update
Ron enjoy your unstructured day. nice Sassy pic
Buppies hope you don't float away.
Billy you have some cool nights in store Bet shingle prices have gone up with everything alse. Good luck with roof.
Dennis glad you got tech support talking to you. Hope you can get data soon. Taco seasoning sounds good.
Ken sorry about chainsaw issues, is bar oiling correctly? big ash
Paul wondered if Ida mess with you some on trip to KY.
Drew nice pics
PJ glad you got heat relief
Don glad your mom got an earlier appointment. Sorry about the cards.
RNG glad heat tolerable, Hope you get laptop ready to use soon. Sceen looking good
David good to hear Skag back in action, nice drain is done, good luck with grout.
RS sure sounds like planty to do
David looks like supers no in agreement
Thomas what happens tomorrow?
Randy Getting plenty done, glad to hear good house appraisal.
Dennis good to hear usb serial working. Did you get data for tech support?
Chris dealers have always been proud of their service work. Sorry about neighbor's granddaughter.
Paul have fun with new welder.
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle's daughter/wreck injuries not healing, Bird/aging issues/, Randy/FIL living alone adjustments, PJ/FIL fall and stroke, David(moss)/remodel/divorce, Buppies/new cancer on arm, Thomas/gout, Phil/reflux/wife's eyes,Steppenwolfe/son-auto immune disorder/Dad's passing, Grev/wife's eye, Bill/DIL home care, Ted/knee recovery, Doug and wife/health issues/nerve and pain/ wife's eyes, Ken/uncle, Drew/tendon healing, David(sadamo)/Sophie's eye surgery/Back issues, RNG/fire season, Chris/neighbor's granddaughter and Covid issues and Country.
stay safe and healthy you all.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Dennis good to hear usb serial working. Did you get data for tech support?
ll.

They sent me link to manual which I had. It was just me not recognizing it was actually working, serial to switch provides no feedback, I thought it wasn’t working.
I have scripts written now to control it. Very simple, open com port, send hex value for I1 to switch to 1st port, etc. so 4 short scripts for the 4 ports. I could also power it on and off.

Trying to work myself out of a job, make it easy enough for anyone to press the right buttons.

 

[RoyJackson]

2021-09-01, 0336

58° in Bethel right now...high about 70 today...

Geico adjuster is going to stop by work today to give the Tacoma a looksee...