Good morning!!!!

[pennwalk]

"Hoping our car industry is more proactive?"

Not a problem. The car makers are just going the get the states to ban electric vehicles.

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning from Orlando.
Still here generally no clue what the weather is doing, either in a classroom or a simulator, no windows anywhere.
We should finish late today, and fly home tomorrow morning if all goes according to plan.

Had to walk wife through rebooting fancy oven, by going to the breaker panel and powering it off for a bit.
Seems to have done the trick.
Always good to call home and get an earful of frustration….

 

[sodamo]

67°F and .07 inches rain.

Major shift. 9 door trims to be painted out today, scout out any other white touch ups. Maybe hit the drops with the pw.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[two_bit_score]

I had to wait 2 months to get surgery this time longest one I’ve had to date 2.5 hours in the chair and I’m sore

Get Well Soon!

 

[rswyan]

78F and "Fair" @ 12:00, heading up to around 82F for the day's high. Attic fan just kicked on. Cool in the house though, as we've mostly kept it closed up and left the AC on since it's gotten more humid and the DP's came up.

Got up late (but still in time for the first moment of summer ... ), now enjoying first cup.

Woman just headed over with a load of stuff for the yard sale. She worked on getting stuff ready for that all day yesterday.

Got more compost screening done last evening after dinner, really starting to make a dent in the pile:

Had to tractor up on it to try and get most of the weeds that had sprouted buried.

Got a bunch added back into the "screened" pile but still a ways to go to get that back to where it was:

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Hauled a few more bucketloads down to the garden as well, also pulled out an old evergreen shrub under the maple tree that had died and hauled it up to the brush pile at the compost/wood lot.

Three hours running on the cooling system flush so far.

Credit for cancelled Burgess order finally showed up ...

Agenda for today:

Check fluids on Kubota and top off as necessary.

Swap out box blade for tiller.

Get garden tilled.

If I get that done probably see if I can't get the weed-block fabric rolled out and stapled down. Or at least get it started.

If that goes well, then see about getting the t-posts driven in for the cattle panels.

Likely will be doing all of that by myself as The Woman concentrates on getting stuff ready for the yard sale. Already don't really have enough time for that, so She will be busy and unavailable ...

Hope everyone is having a decent Wednesday ...

 

[sodamo]

I continue to be impressed with your energy and dedication to the painting project

LOL, thanks Frits. So glad the end is in sight and I can back to regular programming. In my mind, project is taking about as long hour wise, but those hours are spread out over more days which of course adds to the less strenuous, but time consuming daily prep and clean up. Sophie and I have decided that should this be required again in our future, it will get hired out LOL.

 

[sodamo]

The baby boomers are putting a huge challenge to our medicinal system afraid this will be happening here too

Our numbers are dwindling for sure. I think a greater concern will be when the younger generations, who appear less healthy than we were age into frailty. Hopefully the medical advances will compensate. Think I read recently that average American male lifespan is decreasing. Many our us are already in the bonus years

 

[sodamo]

Good looking van, RNG. Looks like all the investigative effort will payoff.

 

[KilroyJC]

Good Morning!!!! 56F @ 5:00AM. Sunny. High 88F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph.

Hopelessly behind, but from the post count, you folks have been busy as usual!

Purchased a RAM ProMaster yesterday, and got the wire transfer going. The bank required a long interview with their fraud section before the transfer was approved, though. First to verify I was the actual account holder, and then to verify that the dealership was legitimate. The agent I worked with was obviously Indian, and I'm not talking Native American. Ironic, since so many fraud schemes seem to come out of that country.

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Anyway, depending on when the wire clears, I'll be headed to the Portland area tomorrow or Friday to pick up the van. The plan is to ride up there on a motorcycle, load the bike into the van, and take a leisurely back roads trip home, stopping by a friend's place for a day or two along the way. No droning along on the freeway on cruise control, but constantly varying throttle to give the engine a good break in. Then change the oil and filter once I get back.

Very nice trip to Lompoc. Mechanically uneventful, as the Camry just purred along as usual. Still not happy with the radar cruise control surging on curves, and hoping a firmware update will someday fix that. Otherwise, I'm pretty happy with it, especially the 45MPG highway mileage. It's actually better than the motorcycles.

My friend down there is going in for cataract surgery next month, so we spent some time at a pre-op appointment, and in lining up medications for post op care. We were both struck by the price differences depending on just which medication was chosen, and where it was purchased from. Surprisingly, the Medicare Part D benefit was the most expensive option. GoodRX was half of that, but the surgeon's office offered a combo eye drop that beat every other option.

Lompoc is called "The City of Arts and Flowers", and we got a sample of it on the way out to the coast when we passed by huge fields of sweet peas being grown for their seeds.
View attachment 807008We also saw sweet pea blooms on a hike in the foothills, but nothing like these fields. And who knew sweet peas bloomed in so many different colors?

Happy Hump Day!

Congrats on the new wheels!

 

[Mark P.]

Afternoon - we are into our 3rd day of rain here... no downpours just every few hours a shower pops up for 30 to 40 minutes...

RNG - congrats on the van..

LS - hope relief comes at some point for you..

Hope everyone gets to feeling better.. Prayers for all...

Mark

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Always good to call home and get an earful of frustration….

Every time I go away something breaks at home.

Some light rain, .05” so far.
Roof still leaking somewhere, a trickle coming down the osb and dripping at the porch.

Chilly sitting outside with snagglepuss asleep on my lap.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Spent time at church building trying HDMI switch 2 again. Didn’t work at first, then started working. Don’t know why. Back to where I was last Saturday, where it mostly worked, then didn’t work the next day. Have 2 computers, both running PowerPoint slides that get switched. The one pc works, the other once you switch away from it, and switch back, it doesn’t show the PowerPoint slides in the extended screen.
Google seems to agree it’s a common problem, with no good answers. Work around is to duplicate instead of extending the display, however this removes the presenter function in PowerPoint. I can switch back to pc 1 and it shows up properly.
Did software updates on the server.
I tried 3 different video drivers on pc2 that isn’t working. When HDMI switch1 worked, I didn’t have this problem. But that switch died.
Waiting on HDMI switch3, which I hope to try before I return switch2. I don’t know if there is a warranty on switch1, but too late for amazon return.

Clear? Lol.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Thinking about entering the Milwaukee tool line with a 1/2” impact.

I need to check why brakes didn’t appear to work on my larger trailer. Few weeks ago I reworked the 7 to 6 pin adapter to put brake wire on the center, to match trailer, but it didn’t seem to work. I got busy and never got back to it. Course won’t happen in the rain.
Just like I haven’t got back to my ceiling painting.

 

[scootr]

I tawt I taw a putty tat.

 

[Thomas]

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Me time.

 

[Thomas]

Your tougher than old leather LS and you shall over come.

 

[Thomas]

Stay strong and get some good night sleeps Buppies.

 

[Thomas]

Nice... very nice van.

 

[Thomas]

75F partly cloudy slight wind not bad for the first day of summer.

Short work day follow by 2 critter stops for food,quick lunch than took trimmer for extra long walk...whew.
Pretty darn sure it's feet up enjoy smooth cigar on the deck see what comes to visit this evening.

Enjoy your evening all.

 

[wngsprd]

Raining this evening and a blast of wind just hit and took out a couple of good sized limbs.

Lou, congrats on that new Kioti...looks very capable.

...and congrats to you, RNG. Sharp looking truck. Glad your dealing worked out.

Sorry you're still having the skin issues, Bupps.

LS, I guess there was some good news from your doc...since your body's not rejecting it and the hardware is good. Hoping for the best for you.

Found an active underground yellow jacket nest 6 feet from our porch step. Must have stepped on it numerous times going to the bird feeders...will have to handle it, though.

My wife had her yoga gathering here this morning, and with the rain, I just took the easy hiking trail up and down all the aisles at Mt. Costco. Even with the rain, it was packed by the time I left at 10:45. Gas had slipped up to 3.09.