Good morning!!!!

[KilroyJC]

Nah, just waiting for them to bloom.

 

[daugen]

good morning all
very pretty tree Ron

sump pump ran all night long, 4.98 inches so far, some light rain left for today but this system seems done.
Lake in back yard is receding but ground is totally saturated.
what a lot of rain but no damage, local streams like the Neshaminy are overflowing, bet the Delaware River is very high today.
I may mosey on down that way to take a look.

off to oncologist early this morning, don't expect any changes, since CT scan two weeks ago of my gut didn't find any cancer at all.
but my primary looked at the new scans and remarked that my back was in really bad condition, kind of wondered why I wasn't getting it operated on.
Surgeon said unless I had pains shooting down my leg, hold off. But the handwriting is on the wall. Just normal falling apart...

enjoying my coffee and a fruit muffin, hope to have a good day.
soak in hot tub last night felt wonderful, I leave it set at 104. By the time I start to sweat, time to get out.
Am amazed how well that Coleman hot tub works for such an inexpensive tub.

Ted, great job on the planters. They will look amazing when full of flowers.

 

[KilroyJC]

Good evening all. 50ºF for the start, mostly sunny sky, and light breeze. Light wind, sky mostly clear, and high temp was 77ºF. Chapel to start day. Made pancakes for breakfast. Did some work on credit card bills and conserved energy.
Ron sounds like you are getting your share of the rain. Sorry about the aches and pains after pond cleaning. Hope you were able to conserve energy day. Nice cardinal
Kilroy hope you can get enough straw down to keep chickens and you happy. Harry had nice timing around the rain. Hope you were able to have a go at the tiller.
Randy(wag) thanks for explanation of government. Thanks for feeback on priest, hope you stay happy with him.
Drew glad birthday party was good and a surprise, sorry about noise driving you out. Sounds like Lake Drew will be there for a while. Enjoy your soak.
Drew Swedish pancakes sound good.
Billy gald had nice time at the garden center. NIce story. I may have heard her but not familiar with what she sings.
Scotty hope you got your weeds sprayed. sorry about the mustard giving you fits while mowing. Thanks for link
Dennis glad you got some rain. Sorry about son losing another girl friend. Hope worship went well,
Drew nice pics
Frits sorry about all day rain. Glad you got some mowing in, hope you get cable fixed on mower. Good to hear shoulder doing well and you are working to avoid the surgery. Nice pics
Frits nice story, bet goat milf made significant change to taste of pancakes.
Paul glad you are getting some rest for the higher energy days. nice pic
Bill hope you don't wash away.
Frits nice pics, neat ferry boat.
Jay glad your weather will improve soon.
Ted sorry about lack of rain. Good to hear planter project progressing. Looking forward to pics.
Buppies glad you are getting more rain. prayers sent.
Ken good to hear dog bathed, and you enjoyed the new place. Sorry about unstable neighbor. Bike ride was part of Germanfest at Muenster, so plenty of German cooking around Nice pics.
Jay good Cardinal.
Frits sounds like a good system.
Drew hope you can find good installer.
David hope you can get welder working soon. Enjoy your crab.
Ted great progress pics
Don sorry wind beat up the canopy. nice pics
RS nice progress yesterday. Hope you can the saw in the mobile base successfully.
Dennis looking forward to pic of cobbled lynch pin
Dennis sorry about HDMI cable not up to task. Good luck with leaking dormer. Hope colonoscopy goes well and clean bill of health.
Dennis thanks for lynch pin pic.
Frits hope daughter has good trip.
David hope you can salvage welder gun.
Drew are you floating yet?
Dennis neat little dozer.
Ted Planters looking very good.
Thomas hope you enjoyed non productive day.
RS good to hear good progress on saw.
Randy(wag) hope rain does not mess with AGFEST. Have fun planning your day(s) there.
David glad you and Sophie got a good soak. Sorry gun not salvageable.
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, /back surgery 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, /favorable winds not in the forecast there "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.

No tiller progress. Put a good deal of effort into ensuring the sofa did not get caught in the ceiling fan. . .

 

[Buppies]

40 this morning very breezy high in 50s today cooler tomorrow

Take care of yourself Drew

Prayers for all our Country

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, the low is 39 and the high to 41°F. Wind SW 10 gusting to 20 mph. 100% chance of rain.

I guess the BH wont be going on today.

Another energy conservation day.

Have a safe day all

 

[KilroyJC]

Good Morning!

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

34.5F, going to upper 50s. Supposedly no rain until the weekend, but we know how THAT works…

Yesterday was an energy conservation day. after church,, spent a lot of time on the sofa, catching up on podcasts and YouTube videos on excavator operation. Figured out an easy way to remember how to do a jump turn: point the spin handle at the track going ahead/forward/under the boom.

Big plan for today is to go to feed store for some straw and layer pellets, and maybe clean out the back of Mrs’ Subaru and the back seat of the pickup, both of which have become quite cluttered over winter. I also have to set up payment for the new excavator. Otherwise, try to work on Harry training a bit more, maybe a trip up to the woodlot before chiropractor appointment this evening.

I hope everyone has a happy healthy safe productive blessed day!!!

 

[daugen]

no question of not being in a drought here, with last big rain, but historically Bucks County, the one to the very far right,
has been ok.

| U.S. Drought Monitor

droughtmonitor.unl.edu

area where Popgadget is, North of here, is closer to drought zone, but where Ken and I am, no problems with lack of water

 

[wngsprd]

44 going to 64.

Some nice sunshine after a rainy Sunday, starting with a thunderstorm.

BEF, nice that your son led your congregation.

Kyle, nice to hear so many good things going on.

Most of yesterday was indoor paperwork, filing and weeding out old files while I watched San Diego play baseball against San Francisco in Mexico City. Looks like they were having a blast...in the Saturday game they hit 11 home runs, attributed to the 7,349' elevation there.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 58˚F heading to only 80˚ East wind partly cloudy.

Today is a relief from the heat that we had yesterday 92˚. We had to wait till late evening to take our trail walk. Under the trees with a slight breeze was not bad at 88˚.

Did a potato check at the garden and they are the size of a baseball, I'll let them go till the foliage just starts to look stressed. They still look very healthy, looks like it's going to be a bumper crop year.

Our little rains are not pushing the lake level up fast enough. The lake level is still lower than the last two years on May 1.

Have a good May Day!

 

[m7040]

Good morning, 45 going to 55 today with wind gusts up tp 20 MPH

Doctor appointment this morning for follow up on shoulder injury.

Repaired the dragging battery cable on the mower yesterday. Otherwise a relaxing indoor rain day.

Spent some time preparing daughter for new to her, role as panel discussion moderator for conference starting this week.
Feels good to be able to transfer knowledge

Kil, there are several tricks to learn on operating the X that are pretty neat.

 

[KilroyJC]

Good morning, 45 going to 55 today with wind gusts up tp 20 MPH

Doctor appointment this morning for follow up on shoulder injury.

Repaired the dragging battery cable on the mower yesterday. Otherwise a relaxing indoor rain day.

Spent some time preparing daughter for new to her, role as panel discussion moderator for conference starting this week.
Feels good to be able to transfer knowledge

Kil, there are several tricks to learn on operating the X that are pretty neat.

What I found even more instructive was all the videos of excavator ”fails” so as to learn what NOT to do!

these are fun:

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I got potato’s growing in the bucket again

 

[m7040]

What I found even more instructive was all the videos of excavator ”fails” so as to learn what NOT to do!

Thanks will look at that. The boom has rescued me so far when in trouble

 

[KilroyJC]

Thanks will look at that. The boom has rescued me so far when in trouble

I edited and added another vid lol to it - fun stuff.

 

[KilroyJC]

Thanks will look at that. The boom has rescued me so far when in trouble

Question: is the only place to put tools in the storage compartment in the cabin? Or is there somewhere else to put things like a lifting chain/shackles/etc?

Just thought of another: Besides a hammer, what tools do you find helpful to keep onboard?

Thanks!

 

[m7040]

There is a compartment to keep a grease gun. Pretty small. No other space for anything except on the floor. I only keep a couple of wrenches for changing the bucket since I don't use the Lynch pin system. Never had any trouble with it to require any tools.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Happy May Day. 4 months retired now, hard to believe.
As noted yesterday, not much planned for today.
Got new HDMI cable ordered for church, directional cable that uses fiber.
Kyle, my oldest sons capstone project was cool, they applied for a patent on it. A screw gun auto feeder for when doctors put a skull back together after brain surgery. As the only computer engineer on the project, he selected the microcontroller and did all the programming.
My youngest son was so excited when he found out a week earlier they had scheduled him for song service for Sunday morning. He has done Sunday and Wednesday night’s. He selected his songs, themed to the lesson a week ahead and made up the song slides to project. He or I put those together every week and he usually runs the projection and streaming. So after all that the new projector acted up and he had to just use the books
And the microphone batteries died and I had to change them in the middle of service so online viewers could hear.
But the good news was we had a baptism and my son got to on the spot pick and lead a few more songs.

 

[KilroyJC]

Happy May Day. 4 months retired now, hard to believe.
As noted yesterday, not much planned for today.
Got new HDMI cable ordered for church, directional cable that uses fiber.
Kyle, my oldest sons capstone project was cool, they applied for a patent on it. A screw gun auto feeder for when doctors put a skull back together after brain surgery. As the only computer engineer on the project, he selected the microcontroller and did all the programming.
My youngest son was so excited when he found out a week earlier they had scheduled him for song service for Sunday morning. He has done Sunday and Wednesday night’s. He selected his songs, themed to the lesson a week ahead and made up the song slides to project. He or I put those together every week and he usually runs the projection and streaming. So after all that the new projector acted up and he had to just use the books
And the microphone batteries died and I had to change them in the middle of service so online viewers could hear.
But the good news was we had a baptism and my son got to on the spot pick and lead a few more songs.

Batteries are cheap - always use new every time.

put out a bin “Free BaTerrie’s - Lightly Used” and they won’t go to waste.

I went through a lot of batteries, way back when - my co-workers were thrilled.

 

[Popgadget]

Good morning it’s 50 and the sun is shining. Considering that we got just shy of 4” of rain since Friday, it’s a welcome sight. The rain was pretty evenly distributed with no real gully washers, so it will be helpful overall.

Spent most of yesterday in the shop, started by reclaiming a table that I had to clear off to get at an outlet so that I could attach a ground wire for an Ethernet surge protector that I added to the cable to the barn.

Spent a lot of time going over digital audio mixers with an “old school” mix engineer that we are going to use for some upcoming gigs. He was trying to wrap his head around the fact that all of the outboard hardware that he was used to is now software. At the end of the day he was convinced that he had all the same functionality in a much more compact package with very little cabling. This was good news because we can use our gear, and we already have setups stored in its memory that we know work, and make a sound check go very smoothly.

Zoe hung out in the shop with me for hours, she was very well behaved. I took her for a walk and brought her home, and she came back later for while.

Today will start with a ride to Quakertown to get parts for the little airplane, it’s inspection time. Probably work on that for a while, and then who knows what I’ll get into before it’s time to take Zoe to class tonight.

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, 50 going up to 58 and sun is out.
More heavy rains and branches down last night. Got about 5 inches since Friday.

Just ran errands and kid to date yesterday, back to day job.

Be well,