Good morning!!!!

[Spike56]

Dwarf Yaupon Holly.
1.5 more holes to dig. 82˚ going slower but the predicted rain at 6pm keeps me moving.
Fertilized the yard today with Home Depot's 1/2 off an open bag of "Professional fertilizer".

Txdon, Interesting. I may look into the Dwarf variety as long as they are not messy. What I think are yaupons grow everywhere especially under my trees. They get multibranched, root like crazy, and take over, I try to keep them dug out. Perhaps, these are something else / some invasive variety?

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, the low 20 and the high 27°F. Wind NE 11 mph. 30% chance of flurries.

Went to bed last night at 10 and was up and wide awake AGAIN at 01:00. I am going back to bed shortly.

Today is dump/town run.

Have a safe day all

 

[KilroyJC]

Good evening all. 52ºF for the start, overcast, light breeze, 2.5 inch in rain gauge. Light wind, overcast all day with fog most of day, and high temp 57ºF. Slow day, did go to LW#2 and to spillway and took pics. Worked at moving 6 gig file on to laptop, MS has mess up home networking Will get USB drives and sneaker net it. Played with remote display but not sure that will work for what I want it to do.
Buppies hope you are ready for the snow. prayers sent.
Kilroy there are ways bypass s-mode.
Bill hope you had a good nap.
Kilroy glad you got wire up, hope you can get it complete soon.
Ron sorry about not much value for rolltop desk. Hope grocery shopping went smoothly. and porch cleanup was completed. Nice pic
Mike glad you are getting wood cleaned up hope splitting goes well. nice pic
Drew hope you get outside today.
Don sorry about cold front fizzle, went though here. Hope hedge replacement progressing well.
Paul you have a lot of precip in forecast. Glad pipe replacement went well, not sure I would like their lunch choice as well. Glad you found problem with heat pump and it will operational soon. Good to hear speakers are progressing. Nice pics
Ken sorry about mini split delay. Hope you can get ready for it in mean time. nice game cm pic
Frits I understand your frustration. We had a frac t-1 with ATT. Worked great for about 3 months then was unusable. ATT kept saying line was good, they were clueless as to what problem was. Finally got them to send tech, He replaced CSU/DSU card and all was well. Tech said they(ATT) got a bad batch of cards. Neat drone story.
Ted hope not too much wind with the 66ºF. Sorry about the knee, hope you get some puttering done.
Drew thanks for link, There are a number of options they can do, like after heavy rain send track inspector out.
RNG glad safe trip to Lompoc. Have fun with chainsaw. Hope you have good meet up with Airheads.
David have fun with door hanging hardware.
Mark congrats on first wind.
Chris last I heard he was recovering from the alligator.
Drew have fun with order.
Lou good to hear you are home and can help at the farm. Neat pic
Don thanks for the update.
RS sorry about the weather delay on cutting the plywood parts.
Don hope the bushes work out. Hope you beat the rain.
Dennis sounds like a puttering day.
Thomas sorry about the bad day at work.
RS busy,busy.
Randy(wag) glad you got day off
Scaredy glad weather is ok . Legal process are never fast. prayers sent.
David looks like plenty left to do.
Bill hope you come out pk after taxes done.
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle /Daughter, /mom's breathing, /learning new job, /friends upcoming new baby, /son's migraines, Bird /aging issues, Ron /heart, Billy /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, Frits /veteran son with mental issues, /granddaughter with Evans Syndrome, Ken /dad possible dementia, Steppenwolfe /son-auto immune disorder, Grev /wife's eye, Ted /knee recovery, /retirement & disability red tape, /family issues, Lou /eye issues, /loss of brother, /heart issues, Doug and wife/health issues, / hand nerve and surgery, /fall and recovery, / wife headaches and heart eval, / David(sadamo)/Sophie's and David's new eye surgery recovery, Chris /neighbor's granddaughter and Covid issues, Scaredy/shoulder dislocation, /marriage dissolving, / friend stop drinking, Paul/ wife's healing from back surgery, Dennis /retirement, /neighbor issues, /land development, / brother "alligallyitus" and back in hospital, Drew /foot heel issues, /friend's wife cancer diagnosis and recovery, mike /wife's healing from surgery, Scotty /back pain, Helogabals /second opinion, /wife's friend situation, Fatjay /father broken hip, Ukraine war, and Country.

It took a bit of InterWebz digging but I got past the S-Mode BS in short order. Wires are up, started raining yesterday so no further work up the woodlot until at least Sunday.

 

[Spike56]

Happy Friday to all. Front blew in but appears we will not get any rain. Need it badly this time of year. Many locals bought and spread fertilizer on hay fields already. Earlier this week, the NWS had much higher chances forecast, then of course, changed it every day.

Time changes this weekend. Wish "they" would STOP this nonsense!

F-15 Several Manufacturers, Lots of buyers / versions. Mach 2.5+ all weather tactical fighter.
Introduced in 1979 (hard to believe been around that long). What a design!

• F-15A
• F-15B- (two-seat combat capable trainer).
• F-15C- (upgraded F-15A).
• F-15D- (upgraded 2 seat F-15C).
• F-15E Strike Eagle (tactical strike version of F-15B).
• F-15F Strike Eagle- (proposed single-seat F-15E).
• F-15I Ra'am - (Israeli F-15E).
• F-15J- Japanese built F-15C (DJ=Japan-F-15D).
• F-15K Slam Eagle- (South Korean F-15E with major improvements).
• F-15N Sea Eagle- (Never left the drawing boards).
• F-15SG- (Singaporean F-15E similar to the F-15K).
• F-15S/MTD- (modified F-15B with canards, used by NASA only).
• F-15S- F-15E sold to the Royal Saudi Air Force with downgraded radar.

Wishing ALL a great day and a happy weekend.

 

[KilroyJC]

Good Morning!

God has given us another chance to get it right (or at least not screw up too badly).

currently 45F and drizzly, should be clearing a bit later but resuming overnight.

Mrs has become a huge fan of Clarkson’s Farm, so, during the binge watch of Season Two a couple weeks a go, I ordered her some Diddly Squat Farm merch (tee, hat, mug, candy). It arrived yesterday.

she surprised me because she ordered the Grand Tour book for me, which also arrived yesterday. So we had a gift swap. CMTSU


Original coffee machine place where we had our fancy-schmancy machine serviced a couple years ago could not help us with parts, but I found a place up in The Bronx and Was able to place an order for the pieced I needed, plus extra spares, plus I got a couple extra items “just in case”.

i hope everyone has a wonderful healthy happy safe blessed Friday!

 

[KilroyJC]

Time changes this weekend. Wish "they" would STOP this nonsense!

but then how will people know when to change the batteries in their kitchen timers——- I mean, smoke alarms?

 

[ronjhall]

Drinking first cup of coffee. 29° with snow this morning. Heading to 35° with more snow throughout the day. May get up to 3". Grocery shopping went good. It was nice enough outside to get car washed. Neighbor is on Parental Leave from work asked for help putting a Horn on his BX tractor. Got that done. Then put a cat door on basement furnace room door. That was enough for the day. Going to get front porch cleaned up today.

Everyone stay safe and well.

Good Morning All.

 

[daugen]

good morning all
30 going up to 47 with rain all afternoon
looks like a wet week ahead also

will see what I can do outside this morning, several hellebores blooming near front door which is a treat.
pretty flowers but plant is mildly poisonous.
I keep looking at the forsythia buds and think one more day
Hope you all have a great Friday.

 

[riptides]

36 outside this AM, heading to mid 40's. Weather people said we could get anything related to various forms of water....rain, sleet, hail, snow and/or graupel. Think they covered their bases. Looking outside, it looks nice and dry.
Needs to stay that way.

Yesterday turned into a yard cleanup day. Had to get the pole saw out for a few hangers. Ended up making three RTV trips to the burn pile. Somewhere in all that pickup effort, managed to split the wood recovered from the previous days back forty adventure.

Hope all have a great start to the day and weekend. Be safe. Get or stay healthy.

 

[wngsprd]

but then how will people know when to change the batteries in their kitchen timers——- I mean, smoke alarms?

I do it on the equinoxes...an even 6 months apart.

 

[KilroyJC]

I do it on the equinoxes...an even 6 months apart.

I do it when the beeping gets annoying

 

[wngsprd]

39 going to 49...rain close by.

Lou, glad you're home. Don't overdo it. When the farmer across the road separates his calves, it's a nice rural sound I enjoy.

Spike, I'm enjoying your jet photos...so much fun watching them do touch and go at Oceana. I saw some flying low at Langley last week, but couldn't ID them.

Hiked another section of the AT yesterday near Buena Vista...Buppies, I'm heading your way.

 

[wngsprd]

I climbed up to have a snack on these boulders...didn't hear a sound for a while (except a few crickets in my ears). It's hard to ever finding a totally quiet place outside. Then a high flying commercial airliner flew over, providing my prompt to get back on the trail.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 54˚F with a North wind and cloudy skies it will only get to the mid 60's.

The rains never came I will have to turn the sprinklers on the just fertilized yard.

The dwarfs are planted. The 2 day project would have been a 1/2 day project in my youth.

Received 20 new electrical breakers in mail to replace the defective ones.

Today our neighborhood has the "Vendors Fair". We are going to find a contractor to screen in the back porch.

 

[txdon]

Txdon, Interesting. I may look into the Dwarf variety as long as they are not messy. What I think are yaupons grow everywhere especially under my trees. They get multibranched, root like crazy, and take over, I try to keep them dug out. Perhaps, these are something else / some invasive variety?

Yes they are something else. They are similar to boxwoods but hardier and only grow to 3-4 feet. They are slow growing and only need trimming once a year. I had these at the last house. Highly recommended. I found these at Home Depot but they soon sold out. Pic of label below.

 

[txdon]

Of course on the last hole I would hit the irrigation system.

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[kenmbz]

Morning all, 31 going up to 48 and cloudy, calling for rain, and maybe a small amount of wet snow tomorrow.

Did not get much free time from day job yesterday and still a bit breezy for spraying.

Tomorrow might finish wire run for min-split just to neaten it up and start stapling in place. Might put bucket back on tractor and store plow, but will that bring snow ?

PopGadget- 2 of my first apps I wrote back in the days of basic was a floppy disk data editor and a resonance calculator. I bet the SW to do the initial layout is a bit more sophisticated now, and nothing like a good spectrum analyzer.

Grilled a salmon filet with soy marinade on a cedar plank that was part of a kit the wife got my son for xmas. Plank was so thin that it caught fire --but fish was saved and came out great. Plank was just too thin to be reusable. Will need to reconfigure burners to use the other 3 planks so the middle ones are just off and not on low.


This camera picks up the colors better. There is almost always a deer posing to help me with test shots. One of these days I need to mill the Ash trunk in the background. Anyone want an ash plank?

 

[Thomas]

21F clear sky upper 30's for high clouds moving late afternoon.

Outside chores done E muffin time.
41 turkeys running flying gobbling,have feeling just a matter time BIG Tom's going to get jealous of female turkeys hanging around me and challenge me.
Plans for today...town for critter food and diesel,afterrnoon might clear snow away from area where I stack the firewood and date night.

Enjoy your day all.

 

[txdon]

 

[pennwalk]

"have feeling just a matter time BIG Tom's going to get jealous of female turkeys hanging around me and challenge me"

Thomas, Just remember, turkey isn't just good for Thanksgiving.

Chris