Good morning!!!!

[buckeyefarmer]

Just looked up the barn, it measures 700 ft long on google maps. I understand no people hurt, but lost many turkeys.

Lots of fires lately, big house fire wed.

 

[jbrumberg]

Good Morning Everyone!!!!

A hazy sunny 23ºF to start the day, 32ºF now; low 40F's expected this PM as well as some nuisance (1? snow tonight. PT this PM. I am at 50º flexion as of today. We had a great visit with our friends yesterday afternoon after her chemo; radiation starts next week. She has a great support system including her boss and her husband's boss.

Today is the last day of the ˜Backyard Bird Count." Migrating juncoes arrived yesterday from a consistent 3 all Winter to 28 counted yesterday and this AM. Our first goldfinches of the year today (8).

Wifey tried her hand at making Naan bread to go along with an Indian/NorthAfrican (leftover) lamb/chickpea/scarlet runner bean stew. For those who have never tried scarlet runner beans save yourself the time and effort growing it. The bean's red flowers are a great hummingbird attractor, they grow and produce prolifically, but those scarlet beans do not cook no matter how long, how often and by any heat source including microwaving. It took 2 years, but the dried beans are now gone, never ever to be replanted. The Naan bread came out pretty well.

BEF- I am sorry to read about your neighbor's fire and loss of structure and turkeys.

Randy- Nice looking car!!!! Thanks for sharing

Kyle- Good luck with the kids sicknesses and your and your Wife's meeting with the psychological team.

Drew- Good looking radishes. We've never had good luck with radishes; except these black Chinese radishes that were too hot to really enjoy eating.

Roy- I hope Suzette has a decent doctors visit today and she continues to gain strength and endurance.

Mike- Nice job on the windows. Thanks for sharing your project.

RNG- Your van is taking shape. I hope that once it is running you get as many hours of incident free driving as the hours you expended getting the van running.

Billy- We had a sharp shinned hawk here the other day zooming through the feeder zone with high speed acrobatics amongst our pear treeç—´ branches unsuccessfully attempting to catch a junco or chickadee. A red shoulder hawk did nail a red tree rat last week.

Ted- I am happy that despite the hours on the road with crazy traffic everything worked out in the end. There are benefits to being a 鉄hut In if one is a social isolate.

I hope that everyone is having a decent Friday and decent weekend plans.

My + thoughts, wishes, and prayers.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Oh, and a very good aspect to the end of the hectic day... By the time I got home, UPS had delivered a set of side steps for the truck. They weren't expected until Monday. I ordered them on Monday, quick turn around and shipping! At least somethings go right! Guess what I'll be doing today?

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Don, golf and the woodwork shop might make me want to retire there, lol.
What happens if you want to sell your home there?

My inlaws want to move to low maintenance area, but not a retirement community. Apparently some of the retirement communities, the house reverts back to them when you pass. At least that is inlaws understanding.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Good morning to all! Low of 38, going up to 68 and sunny. No precip in the forecast until Sunday, a mere 10%.

Drew, nice radishes. How long ago did you put them in the ground?

RNG, nice project progress! I like that color blue. Is the cloud mural an overlay or is it hand painted?

Kyle, hope your daughter and son get over their illness soon and w/o any issues. Prayers sent. Good luck with the meeting.

BEF, that looked like a big barn, always sad to hear of fires like that.

Yesterday I decided it would be a good day to drive to a New Holland dealer to get all the filters for my tractor. The dealer is about 30 miles south of the big city, I'm 30 miles to the NE of the city. I have always just ordered my filters from my LS dealer up in Colorado.
I don't know how the short circuit in my brain occurred, making me think that it would be better to go pick them up in order to SAVE the $16-17 shipping costs. Took me an hour and twenty minutes to get there. Then another 45 minutes waiting for 3 people to try and find them. Then drive back to the city, where I needed to go to the Kubota dealer to get some SUDT2 fluid (another story for some other time). Drivers were absolutely idiotic, crazy and careless. Accidents all over...
Won't do this again.... Spent over 3 hours driving plus 2 hours dealing with people that had no clue about their business.... I could have picked up the phone (like I was initially going to do) and had it at my door for a whole lot cheaper and less frustrating... AM I BECOMING A "SHUT-IN??

On top of all of that, while I was driving into town, the dealer called....said they had to order a 'harness' for the trailer brake control that they were installing in the new truck. They wouldn't get the truck done on time (supposed to pick it up at 10 yesterday). He said just use the loaner car until the truck was done. Then he said it would cost $139 for the harness.... I said no, it won't.... Part of the deal...install hitch and plugs. He said OK. Just trying to get more bucks.

So that little voice inside said "call the dealer" as I was driving through the area they were located. I thought: "Nope, they told me it would be done tomorrow"... " don't be a pest".... About 15 minutes later, I'm about 1/2 way between home and the dealer, and they call... Truck is done. Turned around at the next exit and went back.

They did a fantastic job on the bedliner, hitch and contoller installed. All good.
WHAT A DAY.... Finally got home.... I was exhausted....

Everyone have a great Friday and start to the weekend! Prayers sent.

LS ....... check out the threads over in the LS Tractor Forums. There's lots of info to cross reference LS filters to Wix and other major brands available at regular Auto Parts Stores.

 

[lostcreekranch]

It was 63°F this morning and still very foggy here. Forecast is for 83°F this afternoon.

We got about 1/4" of rain yesterday which made pasture mowing nearly dust free. As Don noted, looks like weekend may be a washout. After our very wet fall and winter, we had a relatively dry March so, some rain will be welcome.

I'm planning on some more pasture mowing this morning then ..... a funeral, for the Father of a good friend, this afternoon. The family is having a "gathering" after the funeral that will undoubtedly do in the rest of the afternoon.

Everyone have a great Friday.

Prayers to all.

 

[CWB Wyo]

It looks like the low was 27° this morning. Yesterday was the nicest day so far this season, partly cloudy In the mid 50's and no wind. Today is going to be around 50° partly cloudy this morning and overcast by the afternoon.

When I was in town yesterday I picked up a little 1500 watt Champion generator for the camp trailer. I got it at a Shopko store that is closing, for a better price then I could get at Harbor Fright. The wife asked why I wanted it when we already have a bigger generator. I told her it takes two men and a small boy to load that one in the back of the truck.

I was surprised to see a couple of Bluebirds yesterday. We usually don't see them until later in the spring.

RNG ... I like the looks of the van you're doing a nice job.

Hope everyone has a good start to the weekend.
CWB.

 

[PJSprog]

52°F and light fog this morning, going up to 61° today.

Got home form work yesterday, ate a small dinner and fed the fuzzy butts, sat down on the couch downstairs, and woke up when The Wife got home at 8pm. Guess I was tired.

Took this coming Monday off, looking forward to a three day weekend.

Bummer about your neighbors barn and birds, BEF.

 

[daugen]

Drew, nice radishes. How long ago did you put them in the ground?

Fast enough to sure surprise me...I think seven weeks for seeds, but much less than that transplanted, maybe 3-4 weeks

shopping done, rains headed in, I'm headed for garden shed to plant seeds in trays.

a good friend sent me an interesting radish story and how fast they grow:
My parents told me that when I was a preschooler in Alaska, they gave me
some radish seeds to plant in the rich volcanic soil in the driveway
where I played. We lived in Fairbanks, close to the Arctic Circle, the
Land of the Midnight Sun. They said the radishes I planted germinated
that day.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

It looks like the low was 27° this morning. Yesterday was the nicest day so far this season, partly cloudy In the mid 50's and no wind. Today is going to be around 50° partly cloudy this morning and overcast by the afternoon.

When I was in town yesterday I picked up a little 1500 watt Champion generator for the camp trailer. I got it at a Shopko store that is closing, for a better price then I could get at Harbor Fright. The wife asked why I wanted it when we already have a bigger generator. I told her it takes two men and a small boy to load that one in the back of the truck.

I was surprised to see a couple of Bluebirds yesterday. We usually don't see them until later in the spring.

RNG ... I like the looks of the van you're doing a nice job.

Hope everyone has a good start to the weekend.
CWB.

Costco has a nice yamaha 2000i right now.

All shopko's are closing, have one in my hometown.