ronjhall
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All the reports of snow. Still nothing to report here in the Midwest/Great Lakes region. MAYBE later this week along with some colder temperatures.
Good morning!!!!
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Buppies
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mpham
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7 above going to 28. Sunny and no wind. Starting to get a cold. Have a doctors appointment today so decided to use a sick day. Dentist visit early am tomorrow then off to work. Stay safe everyone.
txdon
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Eric, I was standing on the ground and turned the ignition on to see how many hours the tractor had been operating (2 hours) so I could not get off so your second guess seems correct. I did not check to see if the gear selector was in the N position of the L-N-H selector. I read in the owners manual that it had to be in the N position. I would bet that someone did leave it in gear (and muddy) poor baby. It is in desperate need of some TLC ( with a new daddy).
daugen
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national radar shows very little going on anywhere. A quiet Monday.
good morning all. One of my closest friends sent me this note attached, left at the small church where the pastor, who just passed away, ran the local food pantry up in the area I grew up in, and lived in most of my life. Many times I hauled baskets of food out of that church taking them to mostly single women with kids in our area, at holidays. Lot of hams and turkeys and potatoes. Those boxes were heavy.
My close friend and fellow church member was a prime mover for the food pantry, I was just a volunteer delivery boy.
He and I have always felt making connections with folks is often best when they are hungry and you give them food.
Which is why I do what I do now.
The area in Bucks County PA and specifically my old home town of New Hope PA was very gay tolerant. Helped by very high educational level of locals, and in some ways I think due to many hundreds of years of a certain faith's influence on the general karma of the area, promoting personal freedom and equality. I was told at one point half of my home town was gay/LBGT.
When I was fourteen years old working in the local French restaurant, biggest one in town, 90+ percent of the workers were gay. I was treated wonderfully, yeah goosed a few times but it was in fun. They protected me actually, looked out after me, fully accepted that I was straight. Our town had an awful lot of female impersonation contests.
Just part of the local flavor, the folks outside of town like us just ignored it. County theater was in our little town, that's what originally attracted the gays out of NYC to come for the weekend. Our little town got some top Broadway performers, so I grew up watching a fair number of plays.
The movie theatre was much better...
So this guy who I may have known, who knows, says he grew up there and saw that LBGT flag as a beacon of hope.
May we all give others some hope for a better life.
good morning all. One of my closest friends sent me this note attached, left at the small church where the pastor, who just passed away, ran the local food pantry up in the area I grew up in, and lived in most of my life. Many times I hauled baskets of food out of that church taking them to mostly single women with kids in our area, at holidays. Lot of hams and turkeys and potatoes. Those boxes were heavy.
My close friend and fellow church member was a prime mover for the food pantry, I was just a volunteer delivery boy.
He and I have always felt making connections with folks is often best when they are hungry and you give them food.
Which is why I do what I do now.
The area in Bucks County PA and specifically my old home town of New Hope PA was very gay tolerant. Helped by very high educational level of locals, and in some ways I think due to many hundreds of years of a certain faith's influence on the general karma of the area, promoting personal freedom and equality. I was told at one point half of my home town was gay/LBGT.
When I was fourteen years old working in the local French restaurant, biggest one in town, 90+ percent of the workers were gay. I was treated wonderfully, yeah goosed a few times but it was in fun. They protected me actually, looked out after me, fully accepted that I was straight. Our town had an awful lot of female impersonation contests.
Just part of the local flavor, the folks outside of town like us just ignored it. County theater was in our little town, that's what originally attracted the gays out of NYC to come for the weekend. Our little town got some top Broadway performers, so I grew up watching a fair number of plays.
The movie theatre was much better...
So this guy who I may have known, who knows, says he grew up there and saw that LBGT flag as a beacon of hope.
May we all give others some hope for a better life.
wroughtn_harv
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Rescue tractor becomes service tractor, when that hits the airport TSA agents will want more money.
wroughtn_harv
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I love a gay man.
He is a son.
51 this morning in Yuma going to low sixties, coldest day of the week. Chances of substantial rain this week, maybe a quarter of an inch. I知 wanting to replace the hot rod on the back of the coach with a pic from my iPhone, any advice on vectoring photo would help. The hot rod is a vinyl black print.
txdon
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You were not out of line Harv, most HOA are perceived as hard nose and people getting bullish. I have not detected that here. Can't say it does not exist here but I have not found it. Most people like that are miserable and eventually move out. I was standing in line to pay for the yearly HOA fee and a NEW YORK CITY transplant was behind me complaining that each of his swims cost him $50 (think of Seinfield's father). I did not swim but once this last year so I told him my swim was more valuable than his. by the time we got to the head of the line each of us was listing all of the great benefits and how inexpensive the yearly maintenance fee was.
Also our neighborhood had a walk through inspection and some people got letters. Some complained but every thing that they were "dinged" on is clearly listed in the rules that they said they had read and will abide by at their closing when they bought their house. So none complained too loudly. They just got caught with their and in the cookie jar and it got slapped. Rules are good when you know them and even better when you personally do not have to enforce them on a neighbor.
Hope you get your shoulder fixed. Is this the same shoulder you had surgery or the other one?
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Good Morning!!!! 51F @ 5:30AM. Partly cloudy this morning, then becoming cloudy during the afternoon. High 53F. Winds ENE at 10 to 15 mph.
Hope you and the wife have a good trip, Rip, and find good news waiting for you in NYC.
Maybe cleaning that tractor up would be a good way to demonstrate your good intentions toward it and the current stewards, Don?
Drilling the hole for the neighbor's new power pole went great for the first three and a half feet when I ran out of auger. He needed the hole to be 5' deep. I didn't know this before, but an official power pole has two metal seals nailed into counterbores. One on the bottom, one at five feet up from the bottom. The one on the side is so an inspector can tell if the hole is deep enough. The one on the bottom is so in inspector can make sure someone didn't shorten the pole so it could be placed in a shallower hole and still have the side marker appear at the ground line. Of course, the pole has to be lifted out of the hole to see the bottom marker, but if there's a problem later, that would be the case. Anyway, another neighbor had an auger five feet long, but it was only 10" in diameter. And the hole for the shear bolt was drilled off center, so we had to drive the bolt in and out with a hammer and a punch. I guess the threads are just for takin' 'em out, right?:confused2: Got down to 4' and then the auger hit a rock and quit drilling. Neighbor goes after it with a spud bar, and starts breaking off chips. After a half hour he's still pecking away at it, but tired. So I start dropping the auger down on it, and manage to break the rock in half after half a dozen pokes. Even got most of the pieces and dirt out by stopping the auger before I pulled it out, then letting him brush off what came up on the auger so it wouldn't go back into the hole. But we were still a few inches shy on depth when the borrowed auger bottomed out, so the neighbor finished up with my two handled post hole diggers, which unfortunately only had 4' handles on it. The electrician that was provisioning the pole didn't have a 3/8" Allen wrench to tighten the wire lugs, so I ran the tractor home and came back with the right tool in the side-by-side. I picked up a bucket of wood on the way and moved another bucket of short ends after that, so the hole was finished by the time I got back and the neighbor had moved on to installing another shutoff valve on his dilapidated plumbing system. Got that done just at dark, but he's ready for the FEMA remediation crews at the end of the month that will remove the house debris and ash. And the neighbor from whom he borrowed the auger will be over tomorrow to tip the pole into the hole with his backhoe. I didn't much of anything else done yesterday, but it was good to see my friend making progress back to even.
The satellite tech should be here between 8 and 9 this morning to fix the dish, which hopefully gets things back to normal Internet wise. I've got more wood to move around after that, and will maybe bring down a few more trees from where they've fallen. Also have to bring in stuff to keep it from getting wet during the storms that'll start tonight and last the rest of the week. Supposed to pick up another 5 to 7 inches.
Hope everyone's week gets off to a good start!
Hope you and the wife have a good trip, Rip, and find good news waiting for you in NYC.
Maybe cleaning that tractor up would be a good way to demonstrate your good intentions toward it and the current stewards, Don?
Drilling the hole for the neighbor's new power pole went great for the first three and a half feet when I ran out of auger. He needed the hole to be 5' deep. I didn't know this before, but an official power pole has two metal seals nailed into counterbores. One on the bottom, one at five feet up from the bottom. The one on the side is so an inspector can tell if the hole is deep enough. The one on the bottom is so in inspector can make sure someone didn't shorten the pole so it could be placed in a shallower hole and still have the side marker appear at the ground line. Of course, the pole has to be lifted out of the hole to see the bottom marker, but if there's a problem later, that would be the case. Anyway, another neighbor had an auger five feet long, but it was only 10" in diameter. And the hole for the shear bolt was drilled off center, so we had to drive the bolt in and out with a hammer and a punch. I guess the threads are just for takin' 'em out, right?:confused2: Got down to 4' and then the auger hit a rock and quit drilling. Neighbor goes after it with a spud bar, and starts breaking off chips. After a half hour he's still pecking away at it, but tired. So I start dropping the auger down on it, and manage to break the rock in half after half a dozen pokes. Even got most of the pieces and dirt out by stopping the auger before I pulled it out, then letting him brush off what came up on the auger so it wouldn't go back into the hole. But we were still a few inches shy on depth when the borrowed auger bottomed out, so the neighbor finished up with my two handled post hole diggers, which unfortunately only had 4' handles on it. The electrician that was provisioning the pole didn't have a 3/8" Allen wrench to tighten the wire lugs, so I ran the tractor home and came back with the right tool in the side-by-side. I picked up a bucket of wood on the way and moved another bucket of short ends after that, so the hole was finished by the time I got back and the neighbor had moved on to installing another shutoff valve on his dilapidated plumbing system. Got that done just at dark, but he's ready for the FEMA remediation crews at the end of the month that will remove the house debris and ash. And the neighbor from whom he borrowed the auger will be over tomorrow to tip the pole into the hole with his backhoe. I didn't much of anything else done yesterday, but it was good to see my friend making progress back to even.
The satellite tech should be here between 8 and 9 this morning to fix the dish, which hopefully gets things back to normal Internet wise. I've got more wood to move around after that, and will maybe bring down a few more trees from where they've fallen. Also have to bring in stuff to keep it from getting wet during the storms that'll start tonight and last the rest of the week. Supposed to pick up another 5 to 7 inches.
Hope everyone's week gets off to a good start!
wroughtn_harv
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It is the right shoulder, the left one was fixed about 8 years ago. The image office is supposed to call and do their thing this week and then we meet with the surgeon and get this show on the road. Last March the surgeon in Texas said I had a totally severed rotator cuff and the only option was surgery. I didn’t have time for it then, but might have now.
One of our friends has dogs and game chickens in the country. A new neighbor called the county on the noise, LOL. HOA’s have their place. So do game chickens.
One of our friends has dogs and game chickens in the country. A new neighbor called the county on the noise, LOL. HOA’s have their place. So do game chickens.