Good morning!!!!

[RoyJackson]

2022-05-15, 0734

64° right now...high in the mid-70's and calling for rain this morning, potential thunderstorms this afternoon.

Got a presentation to put together for work...not due until tomorrow but may as well get a start on it. Too wet for outside work anyway...

 

[newbury]

any of you have "jumping worms"?

'Jumping Worms' That Destroy Soil Arrive In PA

The invasive jumping worms can clone themselves as they chew away leaf litter, leaving soil barren.

patch.com

Dang, that's downright scary!

 

[Buppies]

Beautiful but cool high in 70s ocean breeze today travel day

Prayers for all our Country Ukrainian people

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 64F @ 5:30AM. Sunshine to start, then a few afternoon clouds. High 94F. Winds S at 10 to 15 mph.
Still a broken record for the 10-day.
Hope the clouds don't get in the way of the eclipse, and that I remember to go outside and look!

I try to keep the house at 77F year round, but with wood heat in the winter, it's often cooler or warmer than that. In the warmer months, though, especially if there's smoke in the air, the A/C stays at 77F all day and all night.

Yesterday was split between tinkering with the tractor and the home network. Tried out some suggestions from the TBN StarLink thread, but made no progress. And learned that the PTO shaft on the old Bushog is too short to work with the Pat's Quick Hitch on the tractor. Had to pull one side off to replace some bent bolts, too. Thinking about pulling off the Quick Hitch, but the added six inches of engagement still might not be enough.

Sure was a nice evening on the back porch, with mild temperatures and just a slight breeze. There was even a boat on the reservoir dragging around a pair of inner tubes with people in them. Brrrr! That water would be too cold for me! Then the mosquitos showed up to spoil the party. The barn swallows are back, but their impressive aerobatics aren't enough to catch all the blood suckers. Sure are fun to watch, though.

Hope everyone enjoys the rest of their weekend.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Prom went fairly well for the daughter. The young man's parents and us went with the kids to eat, then I dropped them off at the prom. The boy's mom offered to pick them up. I'm really relieved that he doesn't have his license yet, so that they would get driven there and home.

I worked on the garden yesterday morning. Pulled the white onions and put them on a board in the sun to dry out. Tilled the non planted areas to kill some weeds, watered. Poor plants are getting beat down by these high solar UV days combined with high temps. I have a lot of room to plant more stuff, but not sure what to plant. If we don't get some rain soon, it will be hard to keep it alive. No rain in forecast.

Air compressor uses a thin serpentine multi V belt. These are difficult to align. It kept jumping it's track. I worked on it for about 1/2 hour. Seems to be holding now. Still leave it unplugged. It had some sparks flying around in the motor. Not sure if it was the centrifugal starter or what. A friend has a similar compressor to give me, but it is 125 miles away....with the price of gas as it is, it makes everything you do, think about fuel costs.

Steiner Beast: Mowed Friday. I just want to say again, that the Steiner 72" mower deck is awesome. The big roller in the back, and it's ability to eject the grass works great.

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning
It’s 68 with visible sun, but partly cloudy. It’s humid and going to the upper 70’s with a chance of rain.

Yesterday started with checking out the recordings of Friday evening’s get together. Next was to pull some flat tires off the progressive mower. It’s got 10 15x6.00-6 tires, and they are all getting dry rotted. The rear two were off the bead and full of clippings. I wrestled the first one off the rim, I hate working on small tires, even with the HF small tire machine, they are a PIA. Got both the rim and the tire cleaned up and put back together only to find that it blows small bubbles out of the cracks in the sidewalls.
I ordered a couple of tires from Amazon, there about 30% cheaper for Carlisle brand than TSC was for Chinesium. I thinking about sliming the ones that aren’t a problem (yet) but are the same age as the ones I’m fighting with. What are the collective thoughts on that? A waste of time and money or a viable way to get a few more years?

Wife came back from the grocery with 6 large chicken breasts, I think she forgets that it’s just the two of us now. So I marinated them and put them out on the grill, and steamed some fresh broccoli. Would have been a nice dinner for 6. I did invite a friend to come over, but I see chicken salad on a near future menu.

Heading out now to pick up some 6 gallon buckets from a friends winery. He got a thousand gallons of Chilean grape juice, and it was cheaper in pails than 330 gallon totes.

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all 70 going up to 80 and will supposedly see the sun today.
Did about 4 hours of weedwacking and got most of the garlic mustard invasive. Still a bit more to do.

Battery lasts me about 600 feet, went through 2, recharged and 2 more plus my smaller 5AH.
Wish the batteries lasted longer.

Party at the distillery was fun nice tour and very gracious hosts/owners. A few good Rye Whisky drinks and they put out a nice spread. Though I can't eat any of that, they did get me a vegan cupcake!

Today is pool time, need to go get salt. And also get more mulch for big garden to clean it up. Did hit the walkways with the weedwacker.

Waiting until it gets dryer to trim out the bushes, they are growing like mad with all this rain.

BEF - sorry about the flooding, that is going to be some mess to clean up :-(

Gale - glad the sons interview went well. And it is so great what you did for Ted.

Gas was $5.09 for plus ---

Stay safe and be well,

This still is certainly bigger and nicer than the ones my neighbors had in MA.
The Rye Whisky is really good, since I have never been a Rye fan, was quite surprised.

Used barrels stacked for sale.

 

[sodamo]

65°f and .08 inches rain. Sunshine

More mowing on the agenda today.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Like the barrels.

Went out this morning and dug the leaves out of the culvert end. It has wire over the opening to keep leaves out, and it just clogged.

Didn’t see water in the building when peaking in thru windows.

Church service went well. MIL goes to a Spanish speaking congregation, and they have a girl who translates for us. They did have me lead a couple songs in English.

Roast beef lunch is being prepared. Yum.

 

[Alien]

Good heavens! Jumping worms? What's next? We didn't have fire ants until they imported a load of timber from South America. Came ashore at Port of Brisbane and they haven't been able to stop them despite an expensive ongoing eradication program. My daughter works for them. Not at my place yet but about 30 - 40 klm away.

 

[daugen]

mowed my backyard, and then looking at mess next door, mowed neighbor's back yard. She is leaving in a month and isn't likely to mow anything again.
she and a mower were never friends. but she seems to appreciate me mowing it...
with 5 dollar gasoline, that's ten bucks worth of gasoline. I'm sure she doesn't have a clue. Grass is so thick over there I have to really rev up the Kawasaki and then it sucks gas.
Sure mows nice, plowed through some really heavy stuff, though I know to slow way down and let it digest its meal

went out without a hat since it was cloudy, sun came out, temps jumped to 80, humid, and got a little more sun than I should have. I almost always go out with a Tilley hat on.

the correct generator rocker on off switch came in from Honeywell, 2 days again and shipped within four hours of order. Someone is seriously on the ball there.

 

[Thomas]

76F cloudy good soaking arriving around 7pm for an hour.

Stacking wood Mrs. came outside madder than hornet one of kittens figure out how to open jewel box than both kittens had good time playing with necklaces earing sooo instead of wheeling stacking cord wood decided to wheel and stack 2 cords of wood...next delivery Tuesday afternoon.

Checking game cams bear decided he wanted,bite marks strap chew turn upside down but he/she walk away empty.
After dinner it will be feet up evening and enjoying smooth cigar on the deck later on.

Enjoy your evening all.

 

[mpham]

Afternoon all!
Beautiful day here today! Things are starting to get some color around here.
Wife had eye surgery Thursday and she is very happy. She can now see normally out of that eye!! Now we need to see if they can fix the other one that the lens either moved or was the wrong one. Her other eye issues are stable for now. Good news for sure!
Her heart issues seems to be acting up again! Hopefully we can get that back to normal. We are both losing weight and walking every day!
Need to get the snow blower off and mount up the mower on the Kubota this week. Not planning on mowing as much of the yard this year. We want to see what it will look like if we let some of the woods come back to the side yard. Hopefully will get some privacy back as there is a house there now.
Weather for the week is of and on rain with temps all over. I will take the 50+ degree nights!
Hope everyone is safe and healthy!

 

[sodamo]

Good report on the wife Phil. Hoping I can report the same some day soon.

 

[Fuddy1952]

I put down 100# Kentucky fescue seed by hand, then straw over it. Wife & I go to feed horses & horses inside stall doors are open! They're kept latched. Barn is kept locked & I was working not far from stable...so it didn't make sense.
Horses made a mess & lids off 50 ga. grain cans but thankfully caught in time, we called vet, don't think they'll founder or colic.
Cleaned up all the mess, put on grazing muzzles, then heard squealing behind stall 8ft wall. What 'tha? With ladder looked down and it was a raccoon. I put a 2x4 down so it could get out, which it did. Went back, raccoon was gone but 2 babies there.
Now I'm trying to figure out...the best solution may be to unscrew outside wall getting them out, then board or wire to keep them out.View attachment 745895

This morning I was thinking how in the World can I get these racoons out! I'm so happy though, apparently me shining light down, etc., this morning they were gone!
Wife had a good suggestion. I have a roll of aluminum flashing that I'll put around each stall at the top angled down. That way birds, raccoons or other animals can't get in. Birds can't build a nest on sloped metal.
Our neighbor brought his almost 20 year old mower over to put new tires he bought on it.
It took most of the day but I won't charge. They bring cakes & food, wife loves to cook!
Mine is a good cook too...but not desserts.
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[Fuddy1952]

I don't think pictures posted...

 

[Rich B1]

@kenmbz - which distillery did you tour? Sagamore Spring in MD, makes an exceptional rye for my taste buds.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Pretty pic Phil.

I need to walk more.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Home again. .28” rain here this afternoon.
Our new cat Tiger threw up after eating.
We get the kitten tomorrow, so it will become the new kitten.

64° and 99% humidity.

Only 1 bag of trash again. No time to gather stuff from the shed.

 

[Popgadget]

Nice weld, Paul. Did you walk that around, or do you have some manner of roller/turntable mechanism?

It was stick welded with the flange on the welding table and the pipe standing on it with magnetic angle clamps holding it square. I walked around it.