Good morning!!!!

[sodamo]

67°F and 0 rain

Very nice dinner with Sophie last night. Opted for the ribeye with Shrimp tempura special. Good, but maybe not as good as the sashimi and shrimp tempura I usually get.

Has been suggested and I agree, I should put together a large pot of homemade spaghetti sauce and meatballs using some of the homegrown tomatoes in the freezer. I agree.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Just when you think you've seen it all, something new can happen.

Yesterday, I decided to take a short drive to see how much construction work has been done lately in this area, and as I was coming back south on I35E to exit at Exit 460 and was in the exit lane with the driver’s window open because it was such a beautiful day when an 18 wheeler went by. I briefly saw something flash in front of my face and heard a crash. Then I saw my windshield was broken on the right side and a 3.0 oz wheel weight laying on the dash.

Obviously, the automotive wheel weight came from that truck, flew in through my open window and broke my windshield from the inside. If it had hit me, there would have been serious, if not fatal, injuries.

So now I have a new windshield ordered to be installed in 2 weeks.

Whew, thank God you didn't get hit in the head. Sometimes the weights are laying in the road, and the tires will pick them up in the grooves and sling them out fast.

Good morning!! The news of the the day 46˚F very cold morning. Heading to the mid 80s with lots of sun. Good tractor day and looking for treasures at the mega garage sale.

Hope you find some good stuff. We're all kind of bummed not getting to go...

Good morning.
51 and raining, .8” since it started, supposed to continue for a few days.

Yesterday wasn’t sunny, but it was dry. I got the little airplane put back together, speaker left with a happy new owner, puttered around and got some shop chores done.

About to go out to breakfast with my wife, today I start my 7th decade. I’m going to celebrate by flying a trip to Manchester,NH this evening. Not much else planned.

Happy Birthday, hope you get a big piece of cake, and prayers for you and your wife getting back going again strong.

Just got word I can now order a 2023 Subaru Forester for December delivery. The Mazda CX-5 I have a deposit on is now in Baltimore and may be delivered to dealer next week, so I’ll stick with it. Smaller vehicle.

A buddy of mine (engineer) is a car NUT. He just bought a CX-50 turbo model. Says he shopped a lot, and he's happy with it. He moved to Fort Collins, and did not want a CVT in the mountains.

I have seen people move out on a lot, building say a 40 by 60 ft poole barn and inside build a small apartment with a mezzanine deck for visits and living while building the permanent house. Then they have the shop space up front locked in and not subject to a veto by spouse

This is a great idea IMO too. I tried to talk my wife into it, but she was pregnant and did not want my FEL bucket as a headboard....

I am nervous. Been a long time since someone raced “my” bike. Keep thinking I have forgotten something, overlooked something, or missed something.

It was less stressful to help with “their” bikes!

Everyone stay safe out there!

With your thoroughness, I'm figuring it will be ok unless some freak thing happens. Hope the young man rider can adjust to the added weight, hp, and speed, and have a good ride. It was always awkward for me to try and change bikes, getting my comfort zone established again. I remember taking novice rider training on a Katana 1100, then getting off and onto my RZ 350 for my very first race.... What a difference.

Waiting for wifey and daughter to get back with more/different painting supplies. I might finally re-hang the pantry door that's been needing it for years....

 

[sodamo]

Gee, Bird, how fortunate you are. That could have been fatal. Blessed.

 

[sodamo]

Happy Birthday, Paul
And many more.

 

[sodamo]

Dennis, not boring at all. I find it interesting. Took us a couple years to get the plan we are living in. Kinda a wild trip looking back. At some point after looking at any number of drawings we sat down and wrote down (in words) the requirements for the house. Tweaked them over time. What a tool. Like you, we drew our own. So were were able to get what we wanted. 15 years later and still feel that way. Once we had a good plan I made a scale model using foam board. Even a car & truck in the garage and mock furniture to get a sense of space. Only made 2 changes, eliminated a slider door in master suite and location of the fireplaces in the bedroom suites.

I had never had a real shop, so thought I was being generous claiming end of the garage. So wrong. Have expanded the shop once, the tractorshed 3 times and a 4th being seriously considered.

Have fun (and share)

 

[rswyan]

59F and cloudy @ 12:30 ... heading up to a high of 62F with a slight chance of a light rain shower in the next six hours.

Yesterday's high was only 62.2F, still well below normal temp (70F) for this time of year. But I enjoyed the sun.

Slightly below temps will continue until next Friday when the bottom drops out, with highs only in the low 50's and lows in the high 30's. There are a couple of days (Wed, Thurs) with highs in the 70's though.

Thankfully, it's predicted to be mostly dry throughout that period, with only a slight chance of of a little rain today. Historically October tends to be one of our drier months.

Looks like a high pressure system to the north will keep the rain from Ian mostly at bay. Hurricane Center now predicts that what is left of Ian will turn and head southeast so it would appear that we've mostly dodged the bullet from that as far as rain goes.

Started moving stuff out of the barn and sorting it, once that's done will need to work on getting it tarped up.

Got hay wagon moved over to the house yesterday, along with much of the dimensional lumber that was stored in the barn. There are still a couple of pallets of lumber left to move however before I can finish sorting and organizing that.

Also gathered up and staged more scrap metal for the trip to the recyclers.

Continued grading work in front of pole barn.

Located rippers for box blade and got those installed, although I still need to grab a linch pin for one of the retainers and lock it in.

Rental company dropped off rough terrain scissor lift, guy that dropped it off said he didn't see any issues with where I plan to operate it:

It's fairly easy to operate if a bit unnerving from 5' up while on the platform. The only issue I had was taking care to go light on the joystick on the clay I added on the front side of the barn to avoid digging in. I had run over the clay with the Kubota to compact it, but the dirt was a little dry for proper compaction and the additional weight (>8,000 lbs vs 2,500 for the Kubota) makes the scissor lift want to dig in.

The ground has continued to dry up down there yesterday with the sun we got. That will continue over the next five days.

Agenda for the rest of the day:

Check live trap which I rebaited yesterday.

Get that linch pin put in on the box blade.

See if I can locate the 2" hitch ball so I can move the log splitter out of the barn. If I can't (easily) find it, will probably just run down to Harbor Freight and pick up another one.

Probably grab another 4 gallons of diesel if I go out.

Get vapor barrier and geo-tex unloaded from the van and sweep out the cargo area.

Continue working on moving stuff out of the barn and work on sorting out stuff I have already moved out.

Finalize and place Menards order for some additional items.

Hope everyone is having a good Saturday ...

 

[sodamo]

I have seen people move out on a lot, building say a 40 by 60 ft poole barn and inside build a small apartment with a mezzanine deck for visits and living while building the permanent house. Then they have the shop space up front locked in and not subject to a veto by spouse

My early plans, while less expansive were similar. As we planned to relocate from Georgia to Hawaii we had 2 boxer dogs & 2 cats. The reality of finding a suitable rental were slim to none. Decided we could build a shed that would be livable as well as storage while building. Settled on a 16x20 two story plan. A full bath, but only partial kitchen it served use well 2 years while building. I figured what we saved in rental paid cost of construction. I figured it would be a great man cave/shop as I had already space planned at the house. Never happened. Shed morphed into cottage, full kitchen, large covered lanai, 1/2bath, even large carport, but not a workshop. No real regrets though as it has been nice financially and fun projects as I made changes.

 

[sodamo]

Thought of you guys when I saw this at Safeway

 

[Alien]

Wow Bird, You were very lucky not to wear that. Sorry about your windscreen mate.
Happy Birthday to Paul and David too. I had my 74th the other day. I tell my wife I was a Christmas 'naughty.'
Raining here at the moment. Hope it dries before the truck comes with the cabin or it is going to leave trenches on my manicured lawn.
Have a great weekend all.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I have seen people move out on a lot, building say a 40 by 60 ft poole barn and inside build a small apartment with a mezzanine deck for visits and living while building the permanent house. Then they have the shop space up front locked in and not subject to a veto by spouse

The realtor already said the county frowns upon that, that was my first idea. . But really, if built to code I can’t see why you can’t though.
I got $50k estimate for 30x40 pole barn built.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

A buddy of mine (engineer) is a car NUT. He just bought a CX-50 turbo model. Says he shopped a lot, and he's happy with it. He moved to Fort Collins, and did not want a CVT in the mountains.
..

The cx-50 is just little wider and little lower than cx-5. Other that that about the same. I liked the cx-50 but not many coming in. No turbo for me.

 

[sodamo]

Happy belated birthday, Doug

 

[buckeyefarmer]

We are really excited about this version.

Bumped the left side out onto the porch space and moved laundry to that side, freeing up space on right for master bath and walk in closet. And had room to put stairs back inside, instead of added on the back side.
Kitchen redesigned also, thanks Don.
38” for fridge, but I could change 32” cabinet for a 30” if I wanted more.
Already made a couple more small edits after this, slid back door a little to right to get one more 24” base cabinet in, for microwave to sit on.

The reason some items are orange, is I copied those from my current house design drawings, done using microstation back in 1995 timeframe.

It’s fun designing houses.

 

[scootr]

I reached 159 hours on the MX5200 and got the regen alert. After struggling to remember what I had read, I drove to the house and got the manual. Since I was parked I did a parked regen putting the tractor in neutral and at idle pressing the parked regen button. The computer takes the throttle to about 2200 rpm for about 8 minutes. It seemed a long time for so few hours of running. IF this how it's going to be? 10 minutes every 150 hours? Jeewiz. It seemed we were just burning more fuel, ... whatever

 

[m7040]

The realtor already said the county frowns upon that, that was my first idea. . But really, if built to code I can’t see why you can’t though.
I got $50k estimate for 30x40 pole barn built.

The alternative is travel trailer parked in the pole building

 

[scootr]

We are really excited about this version.

Bumped the left side out onto the porch space and moved laundry to that side, freeing up space on right for master bath and walk in closet. And had room to put stairs back inside, instead of added on the back side.
Kitchen redesigned also, thanks Don.
38” for fridge, but I could change 32” cabinet for a 30” if I wanted more.
Already made a couple more small edits after this, slid back door a little to right to get one more 24” base cabinet in, for microwave to sit on.
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The reason some items are orange, is I copied those from my current house design drawings, done using microstation back in 1995 timeframe.

It’s fun designing houses.

Personally, I'd shorten the porch and make that bedroom bigger.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

Weather is beautiful so i decided to do the last bushing at the churches in the swampy area yesterday and got hung but not down. It took a while of going back and forward with the 2WD Ford 3600. I didn't get myself muddy until it was time to shift into high range.

Drove the Leaf to town to get more diesel ( first trip in a month) and finish tonight around the churches before Sunday when I can finish up around the house.

 

[Buppies]

Long day no power no shower great breakfast out western omelet no lunch salad for dinner power on now

Happy Birthday popg nice plans BEF, Glad Bird wasn’t hurt

Prayers for all our Country

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 47ºF for the start, clear sky, light breeze. Light wind, clear sky, and high temp was 82ºF. Bike ride to start day. Slept through alarm for 50+ minutes, was 30 minutes late starting. Volagi was fine, GPS showed 44ºF temp early in ride. Had to wear arm and leg warmers and warmer gloves. Was back to summer kit 20 miles into ride. 60 miles today. Nap after lunch. Dinner with stepdaughter and her hubby at Mexican restaurant.
Drew hope no flooding yet. Sorry about power, hope sump pump can catch up soon. Hope you hear back from FL people soon
Don corner pantry sounds nice, Kitchen looks very user friendly.
Billy glad you got some outside work done before rain.
Bird glad you not hurt from wheel weight.
Thomas Good plan for day.
Don what a nice start temp. hope you found some useful stuff.
Paul Happy Birthday!. hope flying trip went safely.
Frits hope you were productive with inside day. Nice flower pic
Dennis house discussion not boring to me. Hope you get new car soon.
Frits good idea, college buddy of mine did just that.
Ken good to your FL people ok. Maybe you need to find way to shrink attic space
Rich hope you can control nervousness. Good luck with race.
Roy sorry about lack of stamina, won't come back fully till you are eating.
Don good stuff...
David glad dinner was good. good luck with spaghetti sauce and meatballs.
Kyle good to hear activity not too frenzied. Good luck with panty door.
David you and Sohpie were more thorough than we were with our house.
RS hope you made good progress today.
David quite the spam wall.
Doug hope you had a Happy Birthday. Also hope you don't get ruts.
Dennis like this version better also. Glad you are having fun with this.
Scotty sorry about the regen. Can you regen while using tractor?
Buppies long day with no power. Glad you got power back.
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle's daughter and family drama, /mom's breathing, /learning new job, /friends upcoming new baby, Bird/aging issues/, Don /mom's pipeline process, , Roy /palpitations, /angina, /alligatoritus, /wife ankle,recover from getting sick, Billy /wife back & hip, mom hypertension & congestive heart failure, David(moss) /remodel, /divorce, Buppies /new skin cancer spot and treatment, /elbow healing, /wife knee healing, Thomas /gout, Phil /reflux, /wife's eyes, Frits/ daughters hip replacement /veteran son with mental issues, Steppenwolfe/son-auto immune disorder, Grev/wife's eye, Ted /knee recovery, /retirement, /family issues, /wife feeling bad, Lou / eye issues, 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 and land purchase and development, / brother "alligallyitus" and back in hospital, Drew /foot heel issues, /friend cancer diagnosis and recovery,Mike /spine injury and recovery, Scotty, /back pain, Helogabals /second opinion, /wife's friend situation, Ukraine war, and Country.

 

[PJSprog]

44°F and clear skies this morning, got up to 76° today. More of the same coming tomorrow. Just fantastic weather here all week.

Wife had a couple of her brother's things in our storage, so I put those in my car and drove them to where he's living now in Granite City. Not what I wanted to do first thing in the morning, but if I didn't she would.

Feels like one of those days where I was busy all day, but didn't get anything done. I did, but it sure doesn't feel that way for some reason. I did slip in a two hour nap, though.
Need to do some mowing tomorrow.

Scary story, Bird. Glad you're uninjured. I've thought a lot over the years about things that could hit me while riding a motorcycle. Wheel weights never entered my mind.

Happy Birthday, Paul.

Happy (belated) Birthday, Doug.

All this new house and shop talk is fun, BEF. Wife and I keep talking about what we're going to do with our barn. The most current idea was to pour a concrete floor, wall in the open side, and build a new storage room in the corner where the old corn crib is now (which the boy has been using for storage). There would also be a new work bench area. However, she actually suggested about a week ago the thought of razing it and building a new one. While it would be nice to have a new one, I'm not sure we can justify the expense, as the current one seems structurally sound.

Good evening, gents.