Good morning!!!!

[RedNeckGeek]

RNG, how are you protecting your gasoline supply from fire?

The pump house is a pretty tight building with concrete tile roof and stucco walls, and all my gas cans and propane tanks are in there. That's also the main service entrance for the electrical feed, and where the well head and pumps are located, so it's probably not the best place to store gasoline, but it's the best I've got...:laughing:

 

[daugen]

Drew, nice basket.

thanks. Best laid plans of mice and men often go astray.
Poor lady passed away early this morning.

I took the arrangement apart and will put the flower in a vase for her.
President of the garden club, retired mathematics teacher, well liked

Got a call from "miss daisy's" son while he was driving her home, she crying away in car.
She's lost all her five siblings and now her best friend. I'll go see her tomorrow.

I'm looking at radar and wondering if I can squeak something in, threatening out.

 

[sodamo]

67°F and .17 inches rain.
Likely not a very productive day. Celebratory brunch for neighbor kids, 1 HS and 2 College graduates and then Hand & Foot with John and Diane this afternoon.
Productive cleanup yesterday, even got some new organizer bins installed.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[sodamo]

Very nice morning pic, Ron

 

[sodamo]

Delicious looking basket, Drew.

Please post about your bucket hooks, I expect I’ll be looking too.

 

[sodamo]

Sorry to read passing of your friend, Drew.

 

[wngsprd]

WNG .... I'll be listening to Astros and Orioles, on our local FM station from the comfort of my tractor cab, at 1:10 p.m. today.
Vindication will be ours!

I'll be watching the game from my recliner...no A/C needed...it's wet and cool here...will be glad when Springer comes back from the DL (he's on my fantasy team...along with Chirinos).

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Watched the O's I hope (beat Houston).

I'll be watching the game from my recliner...no A/C needed...it's wet and cool here...will be glad when Springer comes back from the DL (he's on my fantasy team...along with Chirinos).

I will be listening, or watching game cast play by play. Astros are missing key players to injuries. Might be a rough June/July
It's game time!

Kyle, Happy Birthday to your daughter...great age...glad your mom could join in. How many dogs did skinny eat?

Lynn, I love snow, but not in June.

Jay, zoo trip sounds pretty cool.

Worked outside until 9pm last night trying to get "it all done" before the week of rain gets here today. Started work on the screened porch, removed old screen, which is a pain, getting all the old staples out. Painted, and screened in one side and redid the door...used the air stapler...wow, it was like discovering the wheel...made it so much faster. Still more to do. By 7pm, the grass had dried enough to mow, so got that done.

After a large piece of double layer red velvet cake, and a bowl of home made strawberry ice cream, she went swimming for a while, then came back in and got 3 hot dogs (with ketchup...yuk). She's a great kid. I was guessing she'd have 4....
Pneumatic staplers are the schnitzel. Pulling staples is a tedious job.

Good Morning!!!! 58F @ 4:15AM. Sunshine and a few afternoon clouds. High around 95F. Winds NW at 5 to 10 mph.

Thomas, the Fox Whisperer. Sounds like a magic moment for both of you. But best that the fox not lose its fear of man, as that way could mean trouble for both of you.

Eric, I'd be happy to bundle up some of this weeks' predicted heatwave and send it to you, but only if it can be done without what you'd call mains power. It seems our overly cautious PG&E electric utility made good its threat to cut our power at about 9:15PM last night, and it's still out. Fortunately, "live" areas are still close enough that I have cellular service, better than it usually is in fact, and the iPhone's hotspot is working just fine for this old MacBook Pro.

I did manage to get the house hot wired with the generator around dinner time last night, and verified that both well pumps worked, as well as the home network and satellite internet modem. The Network Attached Storage device wasn't happy about having the power rug jerked out from under it, and now complains that its file system is dirty and needs FSCK run on it, but everything else seems to have tolerated the abrupt power transition well. I'll probably go back to sleep in a bit, then start the generator again to make breakfast and let the laptop batteries recharge and such. Then there's plenty of yard work that doesn't require electricity to do, so I'll work on that until it gets too hot while the generator rests. My gasoline supply looks pretty good, having stocked up for wood cutting and filled the tanks on the van and truck, so unless there really is a wildfire, I should be fine until our whimsical utility returns to its senses and turns the lights back on. But this debacle does validate my plan to rely on solar power for the majority of my energy needs in the future, and abandon the power grid which we have now been shown is more or less unreliable.

Hope everyone enjoys what's left of the weekend!

sorry about your power, Don't you wish that the power company could keep a list of all the people who are suing/ or have sued them, AND ONLY TURN OFF THEIR POWER. That would be totally fair IMO.

Drew, nice basket.

thanks. Best laid plans of mice and men often go astray.
Poor lady passed away early this morning.

I took the arrangement apart and will put the flower in a vase for her.
President of the garden club, retired mathematics teacher, well liked

Got a call from "miss daisy's" son while he was driving her home, she crying away in car.
She's lost all her five siblings and now her best friend. I'll go see her tomorrow.

I'm looking at radar and wondering if I can squeak something in, threatening out.

Sorry about your friend's passing. I remember my Grandpa, who survived the Battle of the Bulge, having quite a few tears flow when his best friend died. My grandpa was the last of a core group that retired in the same neighborhood in Florida.

Showed my wife your basket of plenty, and she said "Oh my, that's gorgeous!"

Ron, nice colors in your photo too.

Thanks all for my daughter's birthday well wishes. I will tell her when she gets home. She stayed at church to help the youth leadership couple work a meal we had for the graduation kindergartners from our church day school. The party went well, nobody got seriously hurt, and will have stories to tell their other friends when they get home.

Have a blessed day all.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

sorry about your power, Don't you wish that the power company could keep a list of all the people who are suing/ or have sued them, AND ONLY TURN OFF THEIR POWER. That would be totally fair IMO.

PG&E, the local electrical utility, has already been convicted of diverting funds from their line maintenance programs to prop up shareholder profits. The Camp Fire, which destroyed Paradise and several other local towns, and very nearly burned down my home, was started when a connector bar supporting a high voltage transmission line failed on a steel tower that was over 100 years old. Seven identical towers on that line had already been replaced, but not the one that failed. Lack of maintenance on a gas line blew up many homes in San Bruno a few years ago, and PG&E has been on probation ever since as a result of that lawsuit. My opinion is that PG&E has a history of poorly maintaining their infrastructure, and the fires caused by their power lines are a direct result of their negligence. I hope everyone that has suffered losses due to those fires and explosions joins a lawsuit and gets every penny of the damages they suffered. The California Public Utilities Commission is equally culpable, and everyone on it should be replaced with a person that has experience in the power industry and is qualified to make intelligent and informed decisions regarding the operation and maintenance of the PG&E electrical and natural gas grids. I'm not a socialist, but it's clear that the need to turn a profit has caused PG&E to make decisions that compromise public safety, a pretty clear indicator that it should be made into a public utility where safety and reliability are the main management objectives.

Sorry to say, Kyle, but I respectfully disagree.

$0.02...

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Sorry about your friend, Drew. I hope she passed peacefully.

Everything's all charged up and cooled off, and I've got work to do outside, so it's time to shut down the generator and go to work...