Good morning!!!!

[txdon]

Good evening! 3/4" of rain this evening. Yeah! The rain might make the gardens too muddy to move rocks out from a discontinued dry stream drainage bed with the FEL, will see in the morning.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 70ºF for he start, partly cloudy, light breeze. Light wind, sky clouded up and rain mid-afternoon about .3 inch. Rain not in forecast. High temp was 85ºF, HI 90ºF, low temp forecast at midnight 69ºF. Chapel for start, then make breakfast, then to town for meal delivery. Lunch then pick up some stuff for stepdaughter's birthday party tomorrow. Nap then conserve energy
Randy(wag) Glad you got caught up on GM postings. Sorry about no Eccles cake, good to bakery open again.
Frits good to hear you are almost ready to install the min splits.
Drew so just another member now? thanks for sharing pic of pastry, hope hot tub warms up fast.
Roy hope tree cutting goes well.
Sriddle welcome to GM, Always good to hear plenty turkeys.
Drew glad you are thinking plan through, hope it works.
Thomas hope the puttering went well.
Drew neat story on k\Kubota.
Paul Smoker loading looks great. Glad music was fun.
Grits 10 microns low pressure
Rich glad good show and you got to visit with friend. Good to here progress on race bike.
Ken glad good concert, I would rather not have that helper, and nice looking pepper.
Roy glad tree done, hope chipper goes that smoothly. Hope you were able to get cash.
Buppies hope dinner and time with friends was good. I think you are something with the kindness.
David hope you got to spend time with Sophie as well.
Ted really sorry to hear about mixer, hope you get some help from Kitchen Aide. Thanks for well wishes Hope jeep project gets finished, good progress and pics.
Drew I have launched off the trailer with out it, but realized boat was taking on water and got it back on trailer and plug installed.
RNG thanks for link, need to record power draw for generator needs. Good to hear good weekend going well.
Drew hope you get your floating tractor. Good to hear tub working for you.
Drew hope you get some blackberries. nice garden haul.
Doug sorry about trouble sleeping. Glad you were able to take care of tree.Hope should procedure works and Dr shed light on size issue. Hope you can get pup to not dig up the new plants. Thanks for the congrats.
Don pepper of some kind?
David good luck tilling cardboard in
Frits never had that happen, no good ideas.
Don did not know there were non purple eggplant.
Frits sorry about neighbor.
PJ hope you are getting caught up with rain, congrats on the nap. Thanks for anniversary wishes.
Randy(wag) hope catching the cat went well, they seem to know when something like vet visit is up.
Dennis noticed a lot of postsbut did not count. Glad garden maintenance is progressing, lot on green beans. Sorry about PS in computer. Hope reprogram not hard or long. Hope visit with newly marrieds goes well.
Dennis hope not too hard to deal with tank/submarine. Good luck with lot plans
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle's daughter, /mom's breathing, /learning new job, Bird/aging issues/, Don /mom's pipeline process, Randy / RIP /condolences to Family, Roy /palpitations, /fall injuries, /angina /wife ankle, Billy /wife back & hip, David(moss) /remodel, /divorce, Buppies /3 new skin cancer spots and treatment, /wife knee healing, /getting dehydrated and cramping, Thomas /gout, Phil /reflux, /wife's eyes, Steppenwolfe/son-auto immune disorder, Grev/wife's eye, Ted /knee recovery, /retirement, /family issues, /wife feeling bad, Doug and wife/health issues, /nerve and pain, / wife headaches, David(sadamo)/Sophie's new eye surgery recovery, Chris /neighbor's granddaughter and Covid issues, Scaredy/shoulder dislocation, /wife not feeling well, /marriage, / friend stop drinking, Paul/ wife's healing from back surgery, Gale and KY/ tornado victims, Mike /5 year plan, Dennis /retirement plans / brother "alligallyitus" and improving, Drew /foot heel issues, /friend cancer diagnosis and recovery, Helogabals /second opinion, /wife's friend situation, Ukraine war, and Country.

 

[Wagtail]

^^^
I caught Penelope just fine as I have figured out her routine. She's an indoor/outdoor cat and spends a good portion of the morning outside doing her 'mouse patrol' and her 'business'. Afternoons are for napping inside, so that's when I arranged the appointment. I have to physically carry her as there is absolutely no way on God's green earth that she will go into a carrier. She sits on my lap whilst I'm driving the short distance to the Vet's in town and is good as gold going into the Vet's, being examined (although she's very indignant, understandably, when her temperature is taken), and returning home.

She's not even ticked-off that I took her to the Vet.

 

[daugen]

Happy Labor Day to those of us in US. Happy Monday to all others.

Dennis, I'd sure want to confirm what was in that tank. Makes sense it was water. funny you could decorate it and make a steam engine out of it for Christmas!

not much planned today. Likely will make a run to Popgadgets and pick up some pulled pork, bet that will be yummy, and I'll get an extra container for Ken and get that down to him.
We'll all be eating well this week.

had some free range burgers last night. They were half price at 5 bucks a pound. 10% fat, what fat there was was a bit chewy, and overall a good burger. But nothing
I'd pay ten bucks a pound for. You really need a little fat in burgers for good taste.

Wet weather due in tonight and tomorrow, system working it's way across the US. Flood warning already posted

Wagtail, "council rate" is property tax on your home? Head tax? Income tax?

hope everyone takes it easy today and enjoys their family

 

[daugen]

I like the water cannon! I'm sure more would go on them than the plants! Maeve would definitely get her brothers!

About five years ago I gave my best friend a rechargeable John Deere tractor for his grandchildren to use when they came and visited.
it was a little early, they weren't quite ready for it. So Grandpa carefully kept it in the garage, cleaned it, got a spare battery for it, and
both kids and grandfather had to be patient. And then the oldest boy wanted to ride it. So off they have gone. Next younger brother current driver, but
woe to them, their younger sister is now about to start driving. I think she's three. They get out of their car from NJ and run to the little tractor, it's pretty funny.
So....that water tanker I suggested for my hot tub toy is actually meant to go on the back of their little tractor.

I suggested to my friend that the kids could help in his garden and plant watering, he has lots of stuff growing too.
So maybe for Christmas Santa will bring them a water tanker.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! A cool 64˚F with that North rain yesterday evening. But it does not feel that cold because there is absolutely no breeze, very still outside. The sky is cloudless and the temps will quickly rise to the 90s.
Tractor work will have to be called off because of the mud, too bad I was looking forward to moving those rocks.

 

[Buppies]

Great dinner last night beautiful views of water and sunset absolutely stunning.

Played pool got stomped not surprising haven’t played in 20 years still had fun like to see host win.

78 here raining at home on the way home today

Prayers for all our Country

Thanks Mostly

 

[m7040]

For 12k btu it likely has small OD lines, hopefully 1/4 and 3/8, both are pretty easily bent by hand. But it could be a good excuse to buy the Yellow Jacket bender with the outside adapter as well. Alloy Ratchet Tube Bender Kit - Yellow Jacket HVAC Supplies and Products

Are you using Slim Duct to bring it down the wall?

If you have the fittings and hoses, you can use your manifold to isolate the micron gaug

It is 1/4 and 1/2 inch lines. Have some benders that can make a bend close to the wall. I plan to make some test bends to see what diameter it ends up with and stand off distance from the wall. Have the plastic duct to cover up the line set and the first piece at the wall penetration has a hump in it that allow for may be a 4 or 5 inch radius in the lines. The lines inside the evaporator unit are normally bend out 90 degrees to go through the wall. In my case the thick brick wall will put the fittings for the line set in the wall. So plan to leave the lines as is on the evaporator and bend the line set 90 degrees to connect allowing for access to check for leaks during the nitrogen pressure test. Will have to block out the evaporator from the wall for access and wait with the bends outside the wall until after leak testing.

 

[wngsprd]

69, hotter than Texas. Going to 86, maybe rain tonight and tomorrow.

Lots of good stuff going on since I had time to visit.

First, Happy Anniversary to the Mostly lovebirds...and congrats on her winning the raffle.

Don, congrats on the new job...sounds like a neat place.

BEF, beautiful land...hope it works out. So much is going around in your head, planning, investigating, excitement...makes you feel young, I bet.

Buppies, such an interesting career...and good lesson regarding the battery story.

RNG, we are seeing "we" and "dog" in your stories...sounds good for you.

RS, dang old hornets. Feeling for you...I got stung in the ankle on the way out the porch to go to the mountains....big pain.

Son and DIL still here for the 3 day weekend...having fun...talking, hiking, visiting wineries, playing with their dogs.

Happy meterological spring to those down under.

 

[NHBX]

61° now dew point 57° high’s in the mid to upper 60’s today with RAIN! Nice steady rain, could see 1-2” both today and tomorrow.
If I had known all I had to do was mention re-roofing the shed to make it rain I would have done that earlier this summer lol. We need the rain more than I need to re-roof shed.

No plans for today except energy conservation.

Enjoy your day everyone

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning
68 going to 80
Chance of rain throughout the day, becoming a certainty with flood watch tonight. It’s about time.

I slept in yesterday, first chore of the day was to unload the smoker and shred the pork. We had a nice lunch with a combination of friends and family and lots of fruit and salads to go with the pork.

Packed up all the left overs, then cleaned up the smoker and put away the utensils and controls, it’s all ready for the next go.

After letting lunch digest, youngest son and I went out to address wife’s complaint that she couldn’t open a lot of the older gates. They were all a pretty easy fix, all just tweaking hinges to compensate for leaning posts. Same for latches, I’ve gone to all chains and bucket hooks for gate latches, they never get out of adjustment. Last task was to mow the aisles between pastures with the Lazer.

Then Erica reminded me that the gas points at the grocery store expired tomorrow. Her car was full, my Prius was half full and only holds 10 gallons, so I emptied the cans filling the Lazer and CarryAll. Between the Prius and 3 Jerry cans, I was able to get the maximum allowed 20 gallons at .40 off bringing it to $3.49.

Some fresh corn and chicken salad for dinner, then put my feet up.

Drew is coming by this morning to get containers of pork for himself and Ken. Not much else planned, but I’m sure at least one meal will include pork…..

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Looks cloudy out and rain to the west.
Woke with a tickle cough, hope that’s all it is.
Jets been flying around all weekend, guess the big guy is on the mountain.
Oldest son called rather late last night and talked till after midnight. He forgets about the time zone change. He found out the girl he’s had a few dates with has a CC. Her dad is ex marine and now retired police. She’s a nurse. They were supposed to go to a lake today, but might have to change plans due to rain.

Hope rain holds off for our guests today.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Yesterday’s meeting with solar contractor was interesting. Looks like we could put about a megawatt of panels on the hangar roofs. That is a lot more than the airport uses, it would generate a considerable income stream.

A friend sent us ribs from Snow’s BBQ in Livingston, TX, they arrived via Next Day Air, vacuum packed and frozen. We followed their instructions for thawing and reheating, had them for dinner last night, they were quite good. They were done very similar to how I do mine. Curious thing about BBQ, it’s regional, and every pitmaster puts their own spin on how they prep and smoke the meat. Over the years, I have figured out what I like and how to get that result, so of course I like mine the best. Not because it’s inherently better, it’s just that it’s exactly the way I like it. I still enjoy sampling other’s work, and have traveled enough to try a wide variety, often finding great BBQ in unlikely places, like Groton, CT.

That would be Lexington Texas. I go to church where Tootsie goes to church. She also works for the schools for decades now. I've actually never been able to eat there. We planned on stopping one weekend travelling thru, and they were closed. And I've wondered how BBQ "travels" after being frozen and such.

I haven't been researching solar panels lately. It seemed that it was a really long payoff to install them if you have no government subsidies...

So continuing the transportation story: The Volvo lasted until we adopted several kids and then it was changed to a full size sedan. When the family added a sibling group of 3 more kids we changed to 15 passenger van. And when more kids arrived we went to a large motorhome that could house the 4 kids in diapers and 5 older kids. When camping we towed the van after the motorhome to be able to easily leave the campsite for local trips And then it went to motorhome, van and utility trailer in tow to get all the gear with us to the beach in Galveston TX. It was a wagon train and amazingly we never got stopped by police. I was aways careful not to end up on a dead end street. Turning around was a major PITA

Great story!
Look what just got towed to Galveston:

I'm actually quite excited about this. I took the family there a few years back and we spent a couple hours on board.

Interesting drive today.

Went over to WV and did some exploring for land. Just a gorgeous nice day.
We passed what appeared to be a good local restaurant before we got to town. Looked good by the number of cars there.
We pull into town, wife wanted to eat before looking at the lot but I missed seeing a place I had in mind. Has food lion and a TSC. We stopped at DQ for restroom break, and I decided to go back and check out that little restaurant.
We walk in, all tables taken, small place, 5 tables and a few bar stools. Nice inside.
Couple guys and a woman sitting at a table said they were about done, we could join them. 3 of them, 5 chairs at a round table. The lady works there, she got up and went back to kitchen area. We’re sitting there chatting with these 2 guys, they were just as friendly as could be. One first guy retired there from MD about 10 yrs ago, his wife waitresses at the place, they came for lunch and shoot the breeze, the other was his neighbor, who had also lived in MD at one time before moving here while in HS. The first guy said he bought his land, dug well and put in septic, and camped on his land for years before retiring and building a house. They have lots of advice, recommended well drillers, real estate people etc. then another friend of theirs came in and sate with us and chatted some more. The first 2 left when our food came, we chatted with this other guy until some of his buddies came in and he joined them.
Great food. Homemade everything. Everyone we meet as friendly as can be.
We eventually made it to the lot we went to see
Beautiful with minimal restrictions.
This 5.6 acre lot is almost perfectly flat on top.
North view

East view

SE view

S view

West view, pear trees on another lot


There’s a big old tank, I’m guessing once used as a water tank on this lot, with old building beside it.
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It is priced for the view, at least double other lots it’s size
What’s weird is the lots developed in 1986, has over 30 lots, this 2nd largest. Most 2-3 acres.
There are only 2 houses, 1 looks like original farm house. There are 5-6 lots currently for sale. Homeowners responsible for road maintenance, most roads in development have no gravel but are cleared nice. Main Road is in good shape.

One of the no gravel roads.


Decisions decisions. A bit steep in price. Only the 1 lot has the views. Most are down in the woods around this one.

2 miles out of town. Less than 3 miles from food lion, TSC and the county hospital. all roads paved until this development.

Looks really nice from here. I'm wondering how they got that "ark of a tank" up on the hill? Used as a cistern? Maybe there's a good story behind it. I've seen old mining equipment left behind from centuries past. Maybe give it some time to double think it's potential or need if a well won't give a high flowrate? Maybe use it as a lever to get the owner to knock a bit off of the price for removal?

Good evening all. 70ºF for the start, overcast, light breeze, .5 inch in rain gauge. Light wind, variable cloudiness, and high temp was 86ºF, HI 95ºF. 10 day went from 9 day rain to no days with rain to 2 days with rain in 2 days. Temps forecast from mid 80's to low 90's for highs. Today is our 45 anniversary, wife and I got off to slow start . Got bike ride in while she napped. Got nap in after lubing chain on Volagi. Went to Sherman, got new rear wheel for Peugeot, Dinner at restaurant if wife's choice, then hit bookstore and bought gas for 3.089 per gallon!

Happy Anniversary Mostly and wifey! Prayers for many more. And thank you for the prayers. Gas is cheaper there than down here in oil country.

My new neighbor has decided to cut down all the trees and shrubs that created a privacy fence between us and then he texted me if it I would mind after he did it. What would you do? interesting in your suggestions?

?Make a visual nuisance of yourself, while just staying barely legal? We are fortunate in that our land is shaped from being a bigger parcel that got a couple of corners sold off, so our closest neighbors (2) are surrounded on 2 sides by our property. I had to mention to one of our previous neighbors who was a rowdy redneck, that I'd been thinking of raising hogs on 2 sides of his place. He soon changed his mind about what idiotic idea he had that day.

I had autocad. Then they locked it because they no longer supported it. I don’t want support, I just want to use the software I bought.

I had microstation before, bought it when I taught it as a college class. It was dos based. I still got the floppies. Thought about trying to install on a VM, but a lot of work.

Turbo cad has LTE version that is similar to autocad.

Autodesk frustrates me. They came out with Fusion, and offered it for free to "hobbyist" who did not use it commercially. You might still get some sort of working lowly version free for some time... Then they decided to start charging for it, and limiting it's abilities based on what level you payed. Now at my new job, we can get it for free and they set it up to where you have to put in your password and login manually each time you open it (chrome can't remember it for you) and then it also sends you a "push code" on your phone punch in, to finally get in. It is still not rated ITAR safe due to storage on a cloud AFAIK.

Wifey made me some yummy coffee. Decaf pecan with chocolate and a shot of milk. Sounds busy, but I wasn't in the Navy and can't drink it black.

I miss and worry about Eric too. He didn't leave any clues about leaving did he? At least Ron told us he was fed up with the alligator rules. It does take time to keep up here, but almost every day there is knowledge transferred that is usually pound wise and not penny foolish, and the friendships created are good.

It makes me stop and think about the how's and why's of people that are ill and their quietness about such. How some people can be sick and you never would know it until you see their obituary, and how some will socially document their fight against their disease until they can't any longer. I like the latter. What does the privacy gain such? Are their affairs money/trust/will related and they need to not let a peep out? Do they just not like the attention? I pray for the sick.

Don got the rain that I saw coming from the north, but it dispersed like the day before and we got none. Still have cracks in the ground. 69F going to 90's. No breeze as he said.

 

[m7040]

Rained a little this morning. Looks like more rain on the way. Picked up several small bush piles yesterday and brought them down to some place in the tree plantings that I use for this. Will rot down over time.
Our daughter informed us about her promotion to GS 14 pay grade. She is getting ready for hip replacement surgery in October
I am trying to get motivated to stack firewood. Running out of places to stack it and I don't want to cover up already aged wood with newer splits.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

YES, College football is back!
I got invited (and went) to watch the Fighting Texas Aggies play Sam Houston State. Sam Houston has been a perennial contender for the national championship in their league, so they are no slouch.

Yes, we stuck it out through the 3 hour lightning delay by getting under an overhanging area at the top of the stands. Moved close to the 35 yard line after 80% of the crowd gave up and left.

It took the Aggies time to figure out Sam's D stunting so much, but after a long day, we won 0-31, once they realized they could pass their way over the D.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

We've had some family drama caused by an external source in the last week. My daughter had broken up with a guy back in late June/July and he's not been taking it so well. He actually sent a threatening text (via a friend of his) to my daughter. He threated her and my wife. We have the text, and have seen the proof of texting between him and his friend.

He's 16 a minor, and has a good family but they have been overprotective of him. I told the father, "If my son had done what your son did, I WOULD BE DRIVING HIM TO THE SHERIFF'S DEPT MYSELF!" The mama is the most protective of her son. IMO, the kid needs help, is unstable, and has caused trouble at school too.

We are weighing our options to press charges, get a protective order, or what. I'm worried the kid will take a gun to school, and I have told his dad, the sheriff's, and the school's principal and resource officer (who is a friend of mine).

My faith is what is causing my inner turmoil about pressing charges.

Not the kind of story I would like to be posting.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

On top of that,
We found our oldest, and tamest chicken dead last night. She had led the flock and gave us a lot of eggs over the years. She was 4 1/2 years old. Did not see any signs of a predator getting her. My daughter had named her Butterscotch.

 

[Buppies]

So very sorry to hear of such Kyle very worried for you and your family prayers sent

 

[RoyJackson]

2022-09-05, 0940

60° right now, and raining (drizzling, actually)

Neighbor's son, who's a logger, cut the downed tree into manageable pieces. Too wet to chip though. I'll chip over the next few days, weather permitting. He did a great job though!
Since it is drizzling on and off, outside work will depend on that
So, maybe a couple movies today...

 

[m7040]

Kyle, sorry to hear about the boyfriend troubles.
When we lived in Texas we had 4 kids in grade school and 5 kids in high school at the same time. We had our share of boyfriend issues and conflicts with the schools. With my travel schedule a lot of this fell on my wife Lene to deal with. Not sure how she did it but she became very good at tackling school issues. Even got a principal fired.