Good morning!!!!

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 56F for the start, clear sky, light wind, .4 inch in rain gauge. Light to moderate wind, sky stayed mostly clear, and high temp was 80F, DP 44F. Rain in the forecast for next 3 days, Wednesday forecast 1.75 inch. Turned irrigation off, may not need it for a while. Was suppose to have Choir practice this morning, only 6 people showed up, so Choir canceled until further notice . Did get a ride in, and a nap. Worked or should I say reworked on the incorrectly sharpen chain and on the right track, one more try and should be there.
Covid update: Cooke 4062 confirmed cases, 23 active cases, Montague 2529 confirmed cases, 35 active cases, Grayson, 15,814 confirmed cases, 227 active cases. Cooke 0, Montague 0, Grayson 0, new cases. Grayson number still don't add up
Roy maybe you need to be closer when your wife is trying to move.
Drew good luck with the truck, have fun with the lawn
Ron Glad you caught the end of the race. Nice pic
Buppies hope that warm temps helps you at work
Billy glad your son is getting more hikes in, hope wifey on same page. Hope you can get the faucet replaced
Phil nice pics, maples are bad for leaves
Mike very sorry to hear about new issue with elbow. prayers for healing
RNG sorry trip cut short, great view in the pic. nice you had a great ride home
Bill Happy Canadian Thanksgiving!
Don Good luck with your projects
Paul glad trip uneventful. yes garages do have a mind of their own, and quite contrary.
Ken nice pics, nice last grass mowing done.
PJ nice pics sounds like avery enjoyable trip. Glad you got a good dinner for mowing.
David glad all is ok after quake. Have fun at Happy Hour
Dennis good for lawn to change direction
Drew nice haul.
Randy cute pic
Dennis Big boy is impressive, and even better when it is moving.
Dennis thanks for pic
RS plenty of room to plant now
Dennis glad brother is doing better so quickly. Stepdaughter had Covid, after only 1st vaccine, was sick fo week no hospital required.
Kyle nice violin. Cheap e strings break all the time.
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle's daughter/friend PT from Covid, Bird/aging issues/, Don,whipper/more tests,ring bearer/back broken, Randy/FIL living alone adjustments, PJ/FIL fall and stroke, Dennis /wife wrist surgery and recovery, Roy/ palpitations, angina wife/ankle recovery, David(moss)/remodel/divorce, Buppies/new cancer on arm, Thomas/gout, Phil/reflux/wife's eyes, Steppenwolfe/son-auto immune disorder, Grev/wife's eye, Ted/knee recovery, Doug and wife/health issues/nerve and pain/ wife's eyes, Ken/aunt fall injuries, David(sadamo)/Sophie's eye surgery/Back issues, RNG/fire season, Chris/neighbor's granddaughter and Covid issues, Scaredy/injuries from fall, Paul/ wife's disc issues, Mike/elbow pain, and Country.
stay safe and healthy you all

 

[sodamo]

Kyle. You might want to google about your new violin and loose pins. Should have saved the link, but apparently it can be an easy fix, but also suggested that you take a 50 yo violin to a proper shop as it just might be more valuable than you think.

 

[rswyan]

Coke is … “woke” ?

Who knew ?

 

[RoyJackson]

2021-10-12, 0341

50° right now...high inn the low 70's...

Wifey had a visitor yesterday...her sister whom I hadn't seen in 3-4 years. She'd (sister) lost a lot of weight...I'll wager 50+ pounds, at least. Didn't even recognize her at first.
So, Wife, stepdaughter and sister had a great gab fest while I was on a couple webinars for work. After the last webinar, I went out, got most of the mowing done...I'll finish this afternoon

 

[daugen]

good morning all.
cloudy Fall day here with highs in low 70's.
Two projects for today, one getting a quote from body shop on fixing rust on truck and then trip
to church to do a little more grouting on the flagstone walkway.

I've been reading the book on Churchill, The Splendid and the Vile, about the first two years of WWII and the bombing
of England. Hard to imagine what it's like being bombed, stress level for Brits must have been off the charts, despite their
renowned reserve. Eric, have you read this book? I wonder what your parents experience was like.

Toppop, you did notice that's a Ford right?...Us Ram drivers try to keep it on the street.

Chrysler dealer service told me the 8 speed trans in my truck had a sealed transmission and there was no need to change
the fluid. The internet says otherwise. In order to change the filter that it built in to the trans pan, a non removable filter btw, one has to
buy a whole new plastic pan to the trans with a new filter built in. There are other aftermarket pans with a removable filter but if this stuff is supposed to last
the life of the truck, I think one good flush should be enough, not planning on doing this again. Plastic pan is held on with numerous bolts torqued to 90 inch pounds, not very
much and shows it would be easy to crack the pan by overtightening. Unless it is an exceptional design and it really does not need servicing, I'm thinking this
is not smart engineering.

have a great day guys.

 

[ronjhall]

Poured first cup of coffee. 66° with partly cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 70° with a mix of sun and clouds. PT went well. But lasted 1 1/2 hours. I took a nap when I got home. Went along fence line and pounded all the metal post straight. That was enough. No plans for today.
Crescent moon has been very bright in evening lately.

Kyle, neat Violin. Maybe you can make into a Fiddle.

PJ, nice Kayak pictures.

RNG, great cycle picture.

I like the fall pictures being posted.

Everyone stay safe and healthy.

Good Morning All.

 

[Buppies]

63 high of 78 more drizzle early before 80s come visit

prayers for all

 

[daugen]

Mostly, did you find out why so many folks didn't show up for choir?

big discussion on our church having Candelight Sing for Christmas, a tradition that started in
1941, as a way to cheer up the community I think. A dreadful time, Pearl Harbor sure did wreck that Christmas for many.
Discussion was on high hazards of singing, lot of choirs have gotten sick in last year and stopped.
We desperately want to sing again for Christmas, since we don't do it any other time of the year. I've been going to Christmas
Candelight Sing since I was a little boy. Something very special about singing Silent Night in a room lit only by hundreds of candles.
and who doesn't smile when Rudolph's red nose comes to town.

And yes, we have had local fire company sit in lot with fire truck just in case. They've been coming for over 30 years.
Ancient dry old wood and stone building with hundreds of lit candles, sure does get my attention. There's a thin line between
friend and foe for a lit candle that topples over. We are all very careful and keep the candles away from the kid's area.

this is where I wish we had Kyle's sophisticated hybrid system.

Our meetinghouse seats about 200 when full. It's standing room only on Christmas sing night, but Covid only allows about 65 people
as we currently have to provide enough spacing. Which is fine since only 35 people physically come on Sunday.
But if folks are singing in there, what then, 40 people only? Then we have more folks being
excluded than we have safely fitting in. Our hopes are the weather will be nice enough to have an outside sing like the carolers of old.
Without a hybrid system, folks who are worried about covid and gatherings get left out.
Kyle, do you do consulting?

 

[riptides]

Ditto with Buppies weather report.

Azaleas are blooming again, as are some Iris in the yard. Very odd.

Last night in the back pasture while feeding the horses with the wife I noticed a sapling in the pasture moving back and forth. I told the wife it was a buck and ran back to the house. Sure enough, got back with the camera and the deer started coming out of the high grass...one, two, four, seven, ten.....all does and young ones. Then slowly one buck came out. Bah...young....then another...young too. We sat there for about ten minutes enjoying the grazing show and watching the bucks play my herd.

Then it was time to get back to work. The deer did not move when the wife fired up the RTV and we moved along to another pasture for more horse feeding. It was an interesting night though.

Need to rescue pics off the camera this AM. And set the game cams back on. My game cam sort of had a battery melt down. I guess a bad battery. It melted the plastic tray in the process. I contacted the manufacturer and they asked for the camera back. They promptly sent me a new one. Impressed at the follow up and customer service.

No work on the milk house. I will need to relocate all my tools and my wife says they are not coming into the house. I agree with her.

Hope all have a great day today. Be safe.

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning.
It’s 57 and supposed to get just past 70 today with overcast skies and slight chance of rain.

Yesteryday, I got the speaker ready for finishing. All the detail work is done. Spent a little time with grandson, and practiced with new TIG welder, figuring out what all the settings do.

Today I’m off to Newport News for a quick trip, hope to be done by lunchtime. Then, I’m really off for a couple of weeks. Hope to get back in shop when I get home, but wife has chores piling up for me. But that’s actually a good thing, it means that she is listening to her doctors and taking it easy on her back instead of always pushing the limits.

 

[wngsprd]

64 and more drizzle...nice moon shot, Ron, I'd settle to just see some blue sky...been cloudy for days. Should get to 75.

Kyle, that's a beautiful violin...so happy for you finding it for her.

RNG, was really hoping you'd post more beautiful pix from your latest trip...thanks.

Rip, hope you're feeling better.

Finished the faucet replacement. Always seem to run into extra challenges. After cutting the old one off, the new one was too large to fit through the holes in the cinderblock. So after not finding a good solution for enlarging an existing hole through block on the internet, I tried my own solution...I grabbed a couple of stone grinding bits I've had for years from the dollar store and put my drill in hammer mode...after several trips back and forth under the house, I had too smooth holes just wide enough, and sore knees. The new sillcock was a little too long, so cut off an inch of copper pipe...hooked it up, and no leaks...a bit of caulk and I was done. The faucet is the one my wife uses to water her herbs and flowers, so she will enjoy the pretty blue handle with the sharks fins.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 67˚F cloudy 65% chance of rain, clouds coming in from the South. FireWise has not been canceled it starts 30 minutes after sunrise so at sunrise they will send out an e-mail to cancel most likely, so on standby. Tomorrow we are under a flash flood watch as the tropical depression from the Pacific is heading straight toward us which has the possibility of making the Park cedercide a washout.

Got the garden planted yesterday. Beets, Broccoli and Kale. Let it rain.

Drew do ya'll use the plastic or the paper candle holders. The plastic holders stop the dripping. A lot less cleanup and no accidental candle drops because of the hot wax. We also provide battery operated candles for the smaller children.
Our covid numbers continue to drop in our county and in the State. Daily new cases are just double digits for the county, and plenty of ICU rooms available. Interesting new mandates are out for Texas, you can look them up if interested.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 52F @ 4:00AM. Abundant sunshine. High 71F. Winds NW at 10 to 20 mph.
The north winds howled yesterday, reaching into the 20MPH range most of the day, with a 35MPH gust just past midnight. Several new wildfires in the area kept firefighters scrambling to stay ahead of the flames and limit their spread. One new start down San Diego way has quickly reached 3500 acres.

"Lubed for Life" was, and maybe still be, a BMW euphemism for "good 'till the warranty runs out", Drew. It saves them money on "included free maintenance", one less thing to do at tune up time. Flushing an automatic transmission that hasn't been maintained with fresh fluid and filters can lead to dislodged deposits clogging valves, causing shifting problems. Do your homework and see what other RAM owners say about flushing, and proceed with caution. May be a case of letting sleeping dogs lie.

Hope you get the right angle figured out for the chain, Bruce. Are you using one of those fancy Stihl fixtured sharpeners?

I've spent nights in tents with some pretty horrific weather going on outside, and been snug as a bug in a rug, Kyle. I misjudged how cold it would get that night, and chose not to put on a down vest and some sweatpants until Jack Frost showed me the error of my ways at about 3AM. Not sure I'd prioritize what a man needs quite like that, but I hope your daughter finds a way to let the sweet music out of her new violin.

Sounds like a good time out on the water, Paul, but those fishing regulations seemed pretty confusing.

How close was that 6.2, David. Loma Prieta at 35 miles was way too close for me way back when.
Fewer end pieces to cut means a faster job on that laminate, so long ways might be the easiest way to go.

I miss parking in the garage, but neither the truck nor the van will fit under the door opening, and it's so full of shop tools and motorcycles there's no room for them anyways. Thankfully we get very few frosts and snow is almost unheard of, but I do have to dodge raindrops once in a while.

A friend of mine was planning to travel a bit after this weekend's campout, but was having trouble with the clutch on his bike slipping. I said I had a shop and a bed for him if he made it this far north, but got a note yesterday that it was slipping even worse in the headwind, so he headed home instead.

The winds made it hard to hang onto my hat yesterday, and provided enough encouragement to stay inside that I mostly did that. Swapped the 4-in-1 bucket out for the pallet forks, and dropped the box blade off the back to get ready to rearrange the railroad track ballast, but that's as far as I got. Found more oil drops under the red bike, but I'm hoping it was hung up in the bash plate, instead of being a new leak. That's an inside job, so I'll look into that today. Not sure what other trouble I'll get into, but it's an opportunity rich environment.

The power's still out, due to return sometime tonight. Not that I've missed it much, other than running appliances during the day while the sun is shining.

 

[kenmbz]

Morning-gray and cloudy-calling for 80 degrees by end of week, had to look at calendar again to check the month??
Started doing some framing for Halloween display. I did some lousy cuts, oh well...

Today , maybe split some wood from the growing pile-still need to drop a lot of trees..

Stay safe and be well,

 

[RedNeckGeek]

RNG, was really hoping you'd post more beautiful pix from your latest trip...thanks.

Careful what you ask for, Billy.

Morning comfort stop in an olive orchard. The GPS picked this tiny lane to get from one chunk of freeway to another, so now I'm wondering how it knew I had to go?

Afternoon stop on the way down at a detour around a landslide that had closed the road. Seemed like the repair wouldn't have involved more than just shoveling a lot of dirt, but here we are many years later and the detour is still in place.

That's it for photos this trip. Lots of miles and not enough time to stop and smell the roses.

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, low 62° F and going to a high of 72. Wind SE 8 mph. Partly sunny, partly cloudy, showers with a chance of T-storms.
The weather gurus have it all covered except for snow and freezing rain.
Temps will start coming down to more 'seasonable' rates starting tomorrow.

Yesterdays T dinner was good! Stepson and DIL did up a ham with brussels sprouts, mixed veg, baked sweet potato for me and mashed potatoes for them. Pumpkin pie for dessert (for me), they don't like pumpkin pie.

I did absolutely nothing outside yesterday, no excuse, just did NOT want to do anything.
The good thing about being semi-retired is that if I don't want to do anything, then I don't do it.

I too, enjoy the pictures you all post.

ken, what are the odds of that turkey hanging around until November?

I looked into one of those electronic rust preventative gizmos they sell for elimination of rust on the vehicle. Waaayyy to expensive. $535.oo US + 20% exchange + 13% tax + shipping from down under...I will see what Canadian Tire has to offer.


Have a safe day all

 

[kenmbz]

L4N - glad you had a good thanksgiving. Turkeys are quite scarce by US Thanksgiving, though not bright, I think they know what's coming

 

[daugen]

I bet that olive orchard smelled nice RNG even if no time for roses

Happy Thanksgiving Bill. Yours comes early, but then so do your winters.

I love pumpkin pie if it's home made. Healthy pie if we didn't add so much sugar and fat
to it. Pretty sure anything orange is good for you. Carrots. Pumpkins. Sweet potatoes.
Orange sweet peppers. Acorn and butternut squash.
I bet Don can suggest an alternative seasoning vs butter and bacon.
Although a sweet potato or sliced carrots with a little butter and bacon bits sounds mighty good.
I get my comprehensive labs results back next week. Am on low dose statin I would love to get off, but
the numbers will tell.

 

[PJSprog]

56°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 79° today. Today is the only day this week with no rain in the forecast here.

Some small tornadoes spun up yesterday around the region. One in central Illinois threw a tree at and damaged the tractor trailer a friend of mine was driving. Fortunately, he wasn't injured.

The boy stopped by the house after work yesterday and got the dogs all stirred up ... just as I had pressed the record button in the studio. Of course, he likes to jabber a bunch as well, which threw me behind on things I'd hoped to accomplish before it got dark. I did eventually get most of it done, but had to nix the opportunity to get some vocal recording done while the house was quiet. Maybe this evening.

BEF, Castle Walls has always been my favorite Styx song. I used to have that album on 8-track, and unfortunately the tape ended right in the middle of that song, so it would fade out, switch tracks with a "kachunk", then fade back in. I don't miss 8-track cartridges at all.

Nice pics, fellas.

 

[riptides]

Here are two of the better shots of the deer yesterday.

Been a long while since I have seen two bucks on the property.

Was interesting to see them and their family interact. Definitely two distinct groups.

Have a good day all. Be safe.