Good morning!!!!

[scaredychicken]

Good Morning,

Busy few days and way behind on this thread again ... catching up

Saturday - friend from highschool was in the area and had a short visit, walk around the property, hit the ice cream place nearby (yikes, the double scoop could have fed the whole family)
Sunday was busy - church, then a lake baptism for 4 people, hung out with buddy as he got ready for new tenant. Then we went boating, fishing (skunked) and rained on
chickens are good
tenants small dog went missing, did not return to the house after being on the property with her ... it doesn't look good, but i checked with neighbour at other end of road. still hoping for the best
Monday - watched the online service Celebration Of Life for my uncle. I wished that I could have been there. It was a nice service. I had a short visit with 6 month old grandson (and his parents ) so that was really good.
Tuesday (today) my computer is going in for servicing, repairs upgrade, - the tax program and excel are both challenged, and I use them all the time. Hopefully it is back Wednesday. i'm too far behind as it is, but it seems to say that it is out of memory (not so), so it will need an attitude adjustment
S I L can't find a rental back up North that she can afford, so her solution is to stay here ??? nope, can't happen, but wife isn't home yet either, so the hard talks will follow ... wife should be home in 10 days or so. (way too long)

still catching up ... only 12 pages to go

 

[daugen]

one good way to catch up is Mostly's post Scaredy.
always good to ask to be taken off injured list...

as expected hot tub was turned off, back on, almost immediately to 104.
I had left it on all night for first time. Definitely hotter than before, had a nice soak.
going to order that electricity monitor, see if I'm worried about nothing based on actual amp draw
Pump makes a slight hum I can hear in bedroom, as long as it heats up pretty quickly from around 96 where it seems to drop to
overnight, think I'm better just turning it off each night. Too bad it doesn't have a timer though not hard to add

 

[scaredychicken]

riptides - I am also in a season of waiting...

- waiting for wife's return from assisting her father up North, 8 hours away. was supposed to be 7-10 days, that was months ago
- waiting for my tires, rims from my buddy (since May)
- waiting for the zero turn cub cadet mower --- dealer had a heart attack and open heart surgery, fabrication not yet done (since May) - I may ask them to assemble it and deliver, I think that I can get the fabricating done (hand controls, grab bar etc) by a friend
- waiting for clients to sign off and pay for taxes and bookkeeping (yay for invoicing)
- waiting for some friends with greater mechanical expertise to assist me with a few vehicle matters (son in law has the parts now)
- waiting (not really, just no time given current circs) to find my garage and workbench back ... I need that organized and accessible

I was able to get to some yardwork, have a load of yard waste to go to the dump

I decided NOT to put my name in for Regional Director elected position (a 4 yr term), part time gig, reasonable pay ... too much going on and unknown right now. I think I could do a decent job, when all the plates stop spinning. Perhaps next local election.

 

[scaredychicken]

riptides - your dump run efforts look clean and organized, mine are typically a dirty smell mess of a load, and the recycling takes a bit of extra time

daugen - yes, I found the mostly_gas summary cheat sheet a few months ago ( I love it, very helpful) Kudos to mostly_gas. Sounds like you are enjoying the hot tub adventures

kenmbz - your pool helper looks like a garter snake

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning
68 and going all the way to 70 today. Rain started late yesterday afternoon and is continuing until this evening. Almost 2” so far, but it’s been at a very manageable rate, no deluge so far.

Yesterday was a lazy day visit from Drew first thing, some puttering around, tweak a couple of gates at the wife’s request.

Lunch was pulled pork again, youngest son and fiancé attended as well as oldest son. After lunch we all sat around the pool until it started to rain. Oldest son made pizza for dinner in outdoor oven over a wood fire.

It was quite tasty, and a nice end to the day.

About to head out to breakfast with the professor now. Have a project in the shop when I get back.

 

[daugen]

scaredy, my next older brother just retired as CPA, accounting in our home town for 40+ years.
He was showing me his Rolex watch last week, saying he had a fun story on it.
He did a lot of work for someone, perhaps a jeweler, who owed a ton of taxes, and my brother kept the penalties down to a minimum.
When time to pay the bill, I have no money.
But
Take this please, hands over Rolex.
Brother was pissed, but left with some dignity, sure it was a fake.
Took it to local jeweler, real Submariner. Worth about five times what his bill was.

Popgadget, I want to get stuck on a deserted island with you (and a few others) seems you can not only fix everything but you can cook too!
The smokey flavor of your pulled pork was medium strong, added a wonderful overtone to the pork.

Paul and Ken both got a couple of my non noteworthy tomatoes and a green pepper. Couple of prize tomatoes coming up, almost one pounders.

going to pick up a packet of red radish seeds and plant some for the Fall.

1.20 inches and coming down steadily.

 

[m7040]

More rain in the forecast for the next several days. I think that taking it easy and be mostly indoors will be the plan.
The new raised seam roof on the log cabin is earning its keep and will protect the 225 year old cabin for many years to come beyond my lifetime.
The county researched the history of the farm and it is an interesting read going back to the first German immigrant that established a 200 acres farmstead.
Traded the old Unimog military truck for the roofing work.

 

[daugen]

that's one very cool truck, like our Jeep on serious steroids

and now I get to have my first jackfruit for lunch. Yes, Don's ears will go up.
And figured I'd better show the ingredients before question rose. Looks like some no no oils in there,
and lots of gums. Stuff to gum up our food, I guess hold it together.
going to have sausage and peppers sandwich.

oh dear, two grams of added sugar. That's not good. Why not pick something else?

Now that I have lunch planned on to something else...

 

[PJSprog]

67°F and cloudy this morning, going up to 81° today. Chance for some light drizzle throughout the day, says a voice on the radio.

Back to work today. Got about 1/2 mile from the house this morning and my low tire pressure indicator came on. Turned around and went back. Left front tire was down about 8psi. Aired it back up and didn't hear any hissing. Need to keep an eye on that. I'm due for new tires anyway.

Happy Birthday to your stepdaughter, Mostly_.

Good morning, gents.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

btw pretty sure there is a replaceable battery in UPS. These things never seem to last very long for me.

I just bought 2 replacement batteries for an UPS at church. The last ones lasted 4 yrs.
I have 3 at home dead right now.

We got over 2” rain since midnight.

 

[daugen]

we just went over 2 inches here, back yard starting to flood, as expected.

bad train derailment in IA yesterday, but someone flew a drone over wreck that shows chemicals leaking into stream below.
Not a good day on the railroad.

 

[Alien]

Kenmbz. I can relate to lights being left on in the house. Always flicking them off. It was quite a dark place a while back but I spent $4,000 getting 4 skylights installed which made a big difference but light switch habits seem hard to break.
Scaredy, hope the little dog turns up safe. I would be out of my mind. I found some wandering on my place last Christmas and caught one but the other ran into the bush. Turned out the neighbours 2 klm down the road had family staying and it was their dogs. They were thankful I had caught one and 6 hours later the other one turned up back at their place thankful to be home.
Hope you get the SIL problem sorted. Couldn't for the life of me imagine living with mine.
Doug

 

[Alien]

Incidentally, I turned out the light at 9.00 p.m. and woke at 12.00. Not sure why. It is usually shoulder pain / numbness but not this time. Needle has certainly worked some. Now nearly 2.00 a.m. and have been surfing for the last couple of hours. Think I will get up and have a bite to eat. Have a great day / night all.

 

[LittleBittyBigJohn]

Whoops...

 

[sodamo]

70°F and .65 inches rain.

Did get most of the interior mowing yesterday. Just the pool area and Cottage left, Scag mows due to some narrow areas.

Need to finish up prep for my concrete work. Still planning on Thu being the day.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[m7040]

Whoops...View attachment 761275

Has happened to me too getting too close to the pond and sliding in when trying to get out. Then trying to pull it out with another tractor until that sunk in and then getting the Unimog truck and a long tow line. Still not coming out so got the big tractor and used the tilt on the bucket to generate leverage against the ground to pivot and move the tow line a foot or so and repeat

 

[txdon]

...and the power went out for two minutes and I was annoyed to sit in a perfectly dark room with a non functional UPS on computer.
Could be operator error but doubt it, maybe battery has given up. Cyberpower 750, any other brands recommended?

I have the Cyberpower 1500VA Sine Wave from Costco ($179) I think I got it 3 years ago and it was used a lot during the rolling 2 hour power outages in Feb. 2021. I just checked and it has 164 minutes estimated run time if power should go out.

 

[PJSprog]

Whoops...

I only do that with the zeroturn or the rider ... and I seem to do it a couple times a year . Came close with the tractor once or twice, but have not stuck it yet.

 

[riptides]

I only do that with the zeroturn or the rider ... and I seem to do it a couple times a year . Came close with the tractor once or twice, but have not it stuck yet.

Ditto, I am good for getting the ZTR sideways at least twice a year. I hit a wet spot and it just slides right into the muck. Then, you know....you just have to try and drive your way out. LOL. Which makes it sink just a whole lot more. LOL.

 

[daugen]

I surely have not spent the last hour doing what I wanted to.
Good news, rain stopped at about two inches
bad news is I had unplugged the sump pump in plugging in the hot tub and well, the results are as expected...
inch of water over entire basement, thank goodness everything is up on pallets or shelves. So an hour with shop vac, again..., and now the fan is blowing and everything plugged into
proper receptacle.
never ever ever going to unplug that sump pump again.
repeat

did order a new UPS, wanted one that seemed to put emphasis on good output, not just number of minutes.
Seems my nice new 10kw gen has some pretty unimpressive THD specs. Very unimpressive.
So I'm hoping if I use a unit touting sine wave it will help. A perfect sine wave is 0 percent THD?
Devil is always in details.

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B08GRY1W93/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

clearly states battery replaceable, a must have. Current one says no from factory, yes from tinkerers.

it was my trip down to get new bottle of MopNGlow that led to my distraction. Came up with wet feet, mopped the floors, waiting for them to dry.
I have a number of deliveries today including a rug for downstairs so glad the rain has stopped.