Good morning!!!!

[Popgadget]

Good Morning.
55 and might make it to 75 under sunny skies. A nice change from the dreariness of yesterday.

Hard to get motivated yesterday, did some cleanup in the shop, played with Zoe for a bit, but definitely conserved energy until lunchtime.
After lunch I did make it to airport and made measurable progress on the little plane. Stopped at grocery store on my way home, for some fresh green beans and broccoli. Youngest son and his wife came to visit with their dog, Zoe loves the company. Grilled a couple of filets and NY strip steaks, baked potatoes, and steamed the fresh veggies for a nice dinner.

I’ll likely get back to the airport today, maybe go to the Q Mart for a Gyro at lunchtime. I’ve got to take care of the customs paperwork for tomorrow’s trip to Marsh Harbor. It’s mostly done, just waiting for a Fax from the Philly customs office, but I’ve got to have all my ducks in a row before I leave the country. It makes coming back a lot easier….

 

[m7040]

David, thank you for sharing your story about the house building and Sophies illness. I realize that being the new kid on the block I don't have the history that many of you have.

I went through a years worth of believing I had cancer only to find out the test results were wrong.
Drew went through some hard times also. Glad she is doing well today

 

[jbrumberg]

Buppies- Thanks for the laugh.

Fritz- Great mow job.

 

[Buppies]

Glad I could make you laugh I have more stories that involve me riding with him

 

[check]

Good morning, all. Looks like it’s going to be a nice day. Had quite a bit of rain over the last couple of days, so couldn’t get anything done outside. Today, however, it’s a different story. I went and picked up my new dock ramp, and I just have to put a couple of eyelets in and it can be put in the water, attached to my new floater, and then towed over to my main college from the rental property with the Sea-Doo. Can only make about 5 km/h, so it’s kind of a long boring trip. But not as long and boring as going to pick up the old one that someone found 3 miles down the lake!

Lots of fun stuff to do today. I’m going to be putting up the gazebo down on the dock so we can sit and enjoy the lakefront without the bugs.

The renters are safely in scones, and unfortunately, they can’t have a campfire because fire ban us on until at least Wednesday and they leave on Monday. They brought three fishing boats and a small, six horse motor to use on our rowboat, so they’re quite the fisher people!

 

[m7040]

In case you were wondering about what the world record holder of the 3 million mile Volvo went through for that here is the list:

Here's what Irv Gordon's 1800S has consumed in nearly 3 million miles of driving:

107,400 gallons of gasoline

3,316 quarts of motor oil

829 oil filters

464 spark plugs

156 tires

116 points, rotors and distributor caps

29 sets of brake pads/shoes

29 fan belts

4 sets of shock absorbers

3 water pumps

3 generators

2 starter motors

 

[Joel/ak]

Good evening all. 56ºF for the start mostly clear sky, Breezy. Moderate wind wind brisk sustained gusts, sky became partly cloudy, and high temp was 74ºF. Bike ride to start day, stopped in on garage sale and could not resist buying it, $40 and runs good. Needs new air filter, oil change, and blade sharpened. Also found full set Husky metric allen wrenches. Because of the sustained wind gusts did not no leave the lake. 60 miles. Took truck back to get mower, ate lunch and napped. Did not get a chance to go over mower yet.
Ron Sorry about heron and losing fish. Good luck getting it to move on. Glad rake is off and put away., and strawberry sundae tasted good. Hope heron project and pine tree project went well.
Thomas glad yesterday luck day Hope today lucky too.
Don sorry about hail, hope no damage. Is that a flail type mower? Good to hear mail box relocated and your mom's new pink coffee maker operational. Glad she liked the no Tuna sandwiches.
Bill sorry about rain washing out plans.
Frits glad mowing progressing, and blades still sharp.
Kilroy Glad concert good. Hope you can get your gravel and relative visits go well.
Buppies glad cyst gone, hope back is healed. Sorry about BS that high prayers sent.
Chris I am going with best entertainment he got all week.
Drew spores work really well on grubs. Good luck with stumps. I thing you can rent stump grinders.
Kyle sorry you are worn out and have to make your coffee. Good to hear kids having a good time!
Billy hope you got your rain. Hope cordless trimmer works for you. Good luck with mulch.
RNG Sorry about having to wet the stucco 3 times a day. Hope no Humpty action during the watering. Sorry about how hard it is to get brush hog on and working. Hope flail cleans up the bad haircut. Hope the van works out for you.
Frits Volvo quite the performer. That much performance and drum brakes not a good combination.
Drew good car stories.
Drew more good stories.
Jay BF ==? Good to hear solor back up and running, wonder if you can get resetable circuit breakers?
Ted Nice rain. hope you were able to finish gravel and get more rain. Hope you can get water diverted. Hope juniper transplanting works.
Paul Glad flight went well to pick up plane. Sorry little plane lost out. Hope ou can get to it today/
Jay nice pics.
David sorry only 1 wall got pw. Good to hear guys pulled it out and dinner good.
RS nice rain. glad you will get some good weather. Hope you can get weed burner working better. Hope you made good inroad on your agenda. Looks like sprouting is in full swing.
Ken sorry to hear about dog sick . Sorry to hear wife stuck at work. Have fun chauffeuring, won't last long. Nice pics
Kilroy nice story.
Frits thanks for link
David pw cleaning walls nicely.
Dennis I like plan A better Interesting story about storage barn.
Joel glad day improved, nice pic. Is that an ols bridge in background?
Jay glad you are getting needed rain. Neat pic and colorful bird.
Dennis that pic is raising my blood sugar just looking at it.
David thanks for the layout and story.
RS glad core aeration went well. Hope relocating the back locusts goes well.
Kilroy making progress!!! Nice pics
Bill glad better weather tomorrow.
Buppies what about Thomasina?
James hope the second on is as good as the first.
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 /back operation 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.

That rail bridge in my pic was last used in 1928 when it was owned by the grand trunk company, best I can find historically. It was made obsolete by the highway that was built about 1/2 mile south between grand rapids to grand haven MI

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 59F @ 6:45AM. Sunshine and clouds mixed. High 91F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph.
Weather guesser on TV last night mentioned a chance of showers for next weekend, but there's no sign if 'em in the WU 10-day.

RNG, did you add a battery monitor? which one.?

It's a TriMetric. Contractor said he'd show me all sorts of ways to ensure battery bank remained healthy if I put it on. That was just another unfulfilled promise, and now that it's installed, I hardly ever look at it.

Nice find on the mower, Bruce. Looks brand new!

Finished out with the bushog mower yesterday, got the new 77" cut flail mower installed without too much problem, just the usual stuck push button on the PTO coupler. Man, I hate that style, painful on the fingers. Vibrated a bit more than the old one at first, then seemed to smooth out some. Got a little scalping even with the top link fully extended, so I'll try extending the roller a bit this morning before I start in again. The extra foot of width speeds things up a little, but the extra weight also works the tractor more, especially going up the steepest parts of the property. Ran it until noon when I stopped because things were getting pretty dry.

Found and fixed a bad splice in the speaker wire on the back porch; one of the all in one solder connectors let go. Fixed it with real solder and shrink wrap.

Moved a known good LED stadium light to the back porch where it went fully out, and put the new one back in its place. Seemed to go all the way out, but once dark it is still faintly glowing. There's a procedure for trimming the switch it's hooked to, so I'll see if I can get that to work once it gets dark tonight.

Netflix announced it was quitting the DVD rental business in September, so I've been using their streaming service more. But I'm seeing lots of buffering pauses during the movies I've watched, so will try other services to make sure it's not a Starlink problem. It may well could be, as Starlink has slowed way down since it was first installed. That's been the story with every internet service I've ever had, though.

Hope everyone enjoys the rest of their weekend!

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Good morning! Low of 45°, heading up to 71°. Partly cloudy, 50% chance of storms this afternoon. No rain yesterday, looked like it would, but storms went around.

I did get some gravel spread yesterday, but the tractor was leaving some ruts, so only did a few spots.

Wifey decided that a few of the transplanted bulbs were big enough to go into their permanent homes in the driveway planters. I was her go-fer.....

The rest of the bulbs will have to wait until we get going on the courtyard again (probably this week).

I didn't take the advice given here about the "mulch sale".
I had only gotten a few of the smaller bags at HD.....
Lowes is apparently not going to have the Memorial day sale..... I should have listened.....

The mulch is one of the things needed for the project, used as its progressing:
Install landscape fabric, portion of walkway border, fill in the open beds with mulch, a little more walkway, fill in open area.... rinse and repeat. Working backwards out the gate.... Don't want to run the tractor over completed areas.

Going to definitely take the trimmer for a walk today. Then maybe get to set/fill the bigger strawberry planter (3'x8').
All depending on how bad Mr. Knee is going to argue.....

Everyone have a great day!

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Out here, the landfills are separating organic waste and grinding it into mulch, when they then sell to anyone that'll buy it. It's mostly tree/bush/plant trimmings. Maybe the landfills near you are doing the same, Ted?

 

[kenmbz]

well, coming home from dropping off the kid last night, right front pads get stuck on. barely made it home, had to have someone else pick them up.
some parts and labor and drive able for the trip for sons concert.

My lat last night and this morning:

Off to Bensalem, PA.
Dog seems a little better today. cleaning up her stuff while doing everything else. Gave her sugar water last night and today and she is perking up. May give her some food when we get back from concert.

 

[rswyan]

68F and "Fair" @ 12:00, heading up to around 75F for the day's high. Promises to be a beautiful day.

Got all the rest of the strawberry plants potted last night, ordered 20, think they actually sent us around 23 of that particular variety.

Also planted 20 green bell pepper seeds in pots.

Today all those will get moved around back where they will get more sun, maybe along with the cukes and squash ... if there's enough room on the table I plan on sitting them on.

Did not get much cleaning done.

Woman wants to get her Dahlia's planted in the grow bags so I'll go up and grab a bucket load of screened compost and bring it down and partially dump it into the dump cart where peat moss can be mixed into it. Rinse and repeat as Ted says.

Beyond that, plan to run down to Harbor Freight and pick up a small sprayer they have on sale. Easier/quicker to do that than clean up/fix the one I was using.

It's currently loaded with Roundup solution which needs drained and strained as the pick up tube was clogging, and then the entire sprayer needs cleaned and thoroughly flushed out.

After that probably get to spraying the garden area.

Plus whatever else comes up.

Hope everyone is having a good Sunday ...

 

[sodamo]

67°F and .22 inches rain.

More pw today. So why is this taking so long? First pass I hit with the foam cannon, my Dawn/ bleach mixture. This is my quickest pass, ensuring I do get good coverage. I do let it sit a bit, a chance to loosen things up. Then a second pass with the foam cannon. This time I usually see some action, some sloughing off of surface dirt. Again I let it sit a bit, but not enough to dry. Then comes the turbo nozzle. Much more intense, but as anyone who has used one knows, not a great coverage area, need to overlap passes. Some areas like the windows, screens, the wood structure require multiple passes to be thorough. Then I have to be sure there are no holidays. The wand extensions make the high areas particularly enjoyable.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[buckeyefarmer]

while I was engrossed in the extraction, Mrs2@# over my the gate, watching progress, when the neighbor stopped by, so we finally got to meet him.
…

Nice he stopped to talk. When the young man was checking up on me, he wouldn’t even look my way for me to even wave to him. I was hoping he’d stop for a chat.
I’m sure you are doing well for 5 days.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Jay, glad you got solar working again.

 

[jbrumberg]

Ken- I am happy to read that your dog is doing a little better. My + thoughts for a full recovery.

Dennis- Thanks. I could not believe the electric bill We got the last 2 billing periods.

Another skirmish in the "Suet Cake Wars." I might be going through 3 cakes today.

 

[LouNY]

For pulling fuses they make insulated pliers that work very well;

 

[sodamo]

Excellent find, Mostly. Looks to be in great shape.

 

[jbrumberg]

For pulling fuses they make insulated pliers that work very well;
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Lou- That electrician had something similar.

 

[m7040]

We went for a ride that wife was giving directions for on obscure roads one county over. Lots of single lane bridges, pretty country side and farm barns. Do not think we met more than couple of cars. Very peaceful drive. Took a few pics to share including this farmers tractors. He obviously has no brand loyalty.