Good morning!!!!

[rswyan]

Composed the following post in a text editor when TBN was down yesterday, was too tired to post it after we finished up yesterday:

Good morning !

63F and mostly cloudy @ 10:30 … but Sun trying to peek out now …

Only calling for a high of 69F today with a stray shower or thunderstorm possible. Maybe a long pants and shirt day.

We got 0.74” of rain yesterday, and then another 0.13 since midnight. Things will be growing.

Got 6 gallons of glyphosate mixed up yesterday morning and both sprayers reloaded.

Decided to run down to MickeyD’s for a McMuffin, forgot about the parade, had to reroute to get around that. Couldn’t believe how many were out for it … even with it raining. Biggest crowd I’ve ever seen here in our little city.

After I got back I decided to have a little nap. Set my alarm for 14:30 and went back to bed around 10:30.

Woman was headed out to Marc’s when I got up, apparently they had a deal on slabs of ribs and apple pies …

She got back around 16:30 and then we headed down to Menards.

That didn’t go entirely smoothly … they were out of mulch and only had 2 of the foam-filled tires for the little rolling garden stool (They were supposed to have 4 in stock)

I took the 2 tire/wheels they had and went ahead and paid for another 30 bags of mulch, should get a text message/email when it comes in.

Picked up another four 5 1/2’ t posts for the 2nd arch trellis.

They also had some supposedly “heavy-duty” tomato cages on sale for $3.99 after rebate. They were very nice - 54” tall with 4 rings and posts, made out of 5 gauge wire. Went ahead and picked up 20 of those.

Should be able to get double-duty out of them: they can be used to support the tall peony blooms … which should finish blooming just about the time they need to be moved over to the tomatoes.

All the potted plants were on sale for 25% off so we picked up some herbs that The Woman was wanting, plus a lavender that I wanted (for deer deterrent)

And grabbed a 50# bag of cracked corn for the birds and critters plus another 11 masonry ladders for the cabbage and broccoli and some more screws for the raised beds.

A new Sheet opened up across from the Massillon Menards, fuel prices were heavily discounted - diesel @ $3.49/gallon which is 25 cents cheaper than anywhere else in the area - so I took the opportunity to put some fuel in the Sprinter.

Woman was up when I got up this morning, said She got up too early and was going back to bed. Didn’t realize She had made coffee until I went out to the kitchen to make it.

Agenda for today:

Need to make up another batch of potting mix.

French Marigolds we transplanted are looking very happy so will try and get some more of those done, along with some more beets, plus catnip, and peppermint.

Tomatoes still in the greenhouse have outgrown where they are at so need to move those around back.

Go get the Cub out of the barn and move cages and t-posts around back to the garden.

Finish needle scaler work on the 4 short t-posts.

Collect up longer t-posts up at the shop and bring them down to the house for clean up.

TBN appears down right now, so doing this post in a text editor, will post it when the site is back up.

 

[Thomas]

This morning out walking the dog, and turn around to see a fawn walking up to us, got about 2 feet away.
Then the dog lunged and the fawn ran away, and the dog got scared and wanted to run into the house



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Start of new friendship.

 

[ronjhall]

RNG, what is your RM43 mix per gallon. I use 6oz per gallon.

 

[Thomas]

Thanks Kyle leaving again in morning taking my name off bank account etc. The road gets hard sometimes.

 

[Thomas]

Did get to run my tractor at a high idle while unloading and hooking up the brush hog with no incident., but it started to rain just as I finished so didn’t get to run under load. I still think it needs to be under load to fail and hope I can test this morning.

Looking foreword to update.

 

[rswyan]

Good Wednesday "Morning" !

Currently 55F and raining @ 13:30, calling for a high 65F for the day ... which may have already occurred ?

LWS reports an additional 1.31" of rain since 09:00 this morning.

Scattered some food for the ground feeders yesterday first thing.

Finished up scaling 2nd t-post and got mostly done on the 3rd, one to go.

Went over and got the Cub out of the barn and hooked up the dump cart back here at the house and moved the cages and new t-posts around back.

After that I headed up to the compost/woodlot and dug out some old chain-link fencing and brought it down to the garden.

Woman gathered up the repotted tomatoes and beets from the greenhouse and brought outside and I put them in the dump cart and moved them around back.

Mixed up some more potting mix using the last of the screened compost in one of the totes.

Got the 4 new t-posts driven in the ground for the first arch trellis and secured the trellis to the t-posts using some chain-link fence aluminum wire.

Ran down to Fisherman's Central and picked up a spool of 60 lb test monofilament to reconfigure the temp fence. That's 20 lb heavier than what we used last year.

Got step-in fence posts put up on the south side of the garden and mono strung on those. Also repositioned the fence posts on the east side.

Neighbor lady came down for more tomato plants and some (not) hot peppers, sent her home with a half dozen more tomatoes and a few peppers.

Got the two Sunny Boy tomatoes that had been clipped off replanted over in the row of Bush Beefsteaks where we had some additional room. One of them is already growing a new leader, guessing that the other one will as well.

The Woman and I pulled the netting off the strawberry plants so She could harvest berries and pull some weeds.

I then added another masonry ladder "hoop" at the end of the strawberry bed and we worked on redoing the netting.

The original netting was like 16' wide or something and 50' long. We only needed about 8' of width to cover the bed so we rotated the netting 90 degrees and cut it into sections. That allowed us to cover the entire bed completely ... which is a good thing because the uncovered section had been getting browsed pretty heavily by the deer ...

Other neighbor lady stopped by while she was walking her pups and we visited for a bit.

Did not get any mowing done ...

Woman cooked up some Zatarain's "Dirty Rice" and some hot sausage for dinner ... which was very tasty but quite hot.

Agenda for today:

Get armoire moved back where it belongs.

Gather up paperwork for upcoming appointment with accountant.

Get up to the shop and finish up the rebuild of the Kubota lift cylinder. Will be a good opportunity to burn some more cardboard.

Do some repotting of the stuff that's left in the seed trays.

Thankfully, the rain should be ending later this evening then we'll have three days of dry weather.

Hope everyone is having a decent Wednesday ...

 

[Thomas]

70F partly cloudy sky.

Out the door at daybreak get started on my things to do list...wash all outside windows,2 stops for critter food,mower the front lawn,pickup got good bubble bath another cleaning inside...done for the day.

Got letter from city informing all taxpayers warning taxes will go up 50% in the next 4 years.

Third day no sighting or signs of Boo good chance he found girl friend.

Enjoy the day all.

Special strong thoughts prayers for those.

 

[riptides]

Managed to just find that mowing window of opportunity. Just finished as the sky opened up. And the mower started acting up again. Only runs full throttle. Time to tear down the fuel system again.

Hailing now and power just tripped. Wow.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

RNG, what is your RM43 mix per gallon. I use 6oz per gallon.

I usually use 3 oz/gallon, but yesterday increased that to 4 oz/gallon. At $175 for that 2 1/2 gallon jug, I'm trying to squeeze as much coverage as possible from it.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Got letter from city informing all taxpayers warning taxes will go up 50% in the next 4 years.

Is 2024 an election year for those city council offices? Might be time to remind them just who they work for, and support the candidates running against them if they have more fiscally responsible policies.

 

[Looking4new]

YAAA! BEF found his tape!
I find that after I have done an extensive search for something, I will go out and replace it. Guaranteed I WILL find the original.

I think I will attempt to cut the grass tomorrow. It will be the first time it got cut since I went into the hospital. It is almost knee deep.

 

[kenmbz]

I lost one of my sprinklers, could not find it anywhere.

Went and bought a new one, and thought, hey I'll put this in the garage until spring.

Put it on the shelf, right next to the old one, which had been sitting there the whole time.

The funniest was still the missing bolt from the other day, which shot out from my grip and disappeared. Only to be found in my pants pocket later that day.
I can't even see how it could fit through the opening in the top of the pocket.
Maybe I should have played the lottery that day

At least with the tape it was back out of the way and hard to find.

Now to go find my ratchet extension which fell yesterday ...... it is not in my pocket unfortunately, I did check

 

[txdon]

Don good to hear good holiday, where do yo get plant based hotdogs, or do you make them? Nice grill.

They were homemade with the secret spice - mace - to give them that hotdog flavor. Main ingredients were pinto beans and gluten flour.

 

[scott_vt]

Good Evening,

I read the "Lone Survivor" book first, then saw the movie. Excellent

PH, I read it also, that was one heck of a book ! Highly recommend it to anyone that likes that type of reading ! These guys were true American Heroes !

Kyle, I would actually like to see Unglorious Bastards, mostly because I’m
Learning to speak German and lots of German spoken in that movie !

search for something, I will go out and replace it. Guaranteed I WILL find the original.

Bill, earlier this spring I searched for days looking for one of my 50 ft extension cords ! Finally broke down and bought a new one ! Two days later I found it in the garage buried under a bunch of stuff that my wife piled on top of it !

All have a great evening ! Back to the mountains tomorrow!

 

[Popgadget]

PopG, wondering if you are going for a gas tankless water heater in your new retirement home

Yes. A Rinnai combi boiler

 

[Popgadget]

Bingo, especially color.
Sophie gives me no end of grief when I finally find something where I already looked 3 times, but even worse if SHE finds it where I said I already looked. She and the other wives call it a male thing.

My wife says that you need a uterus in order to find anything.

 

[Looking4new]

I taught all three of my boys that if you take a tool out of the tool box, put it back where you got it from. The youngest never bothered to use my tools and the middle one borrowed my tools box and all one day with my permission. I got home from work and the box was on the driveway with tools scattered all around it... NO son... I picked up the tools and put them where they belonged and loaded the box back in the truck, locked it. Found him inside drinking beer. Confronted him about the tools and he says',"I wasn't done with them". I said they aren't in your hand now and you are not using them outside, you ARE done with them. Permanently. Go buy your own tools and see why I hard line it with mine.
All three kids knew without a doubt that you did NOT pile anything on top of something else.

 

[Looking4new]

My wife says that you need a uterus in order to find anything.

Is it that big that you can hide stuff in it??

 

[ultrarunner]

RNG, what is your RM43 mix per gallon. I use 6oz per gallon.

I use 6oz per gallon from a dedicated measuring cup.

RM43 is powerful and it knocks back poison oak.

Have an old redwood table as my outside bench for small projects and behind it mature star jasmine intertwined on a decorative wrought iron fence.

I mixed 6 tanks 4 gallons at a time to spray where needed on 7 acres by carefully pouring 24 oz RM then adding water.

The mist from adding water killed the 20 feet of Jasmine starting right behind the mixing table and then 18 feet along the fence to the right.

 

[Wagtail]

Good (Thursday) morning. A very balmy overnight Low of 15C! It's currently 18.6C, slightly overcast and fairly calm. That's going to change this evening with predicted strong winds and overnight rain.

Door 'weather strip' properly replaced = scraped, wiped and then an First Aid Kit alcohol wipe before applying the strip.

Not much planned for today.

That's about it, take care all.