Good morning!!!!

[Wagtail]

Wag, that sounds like a cool morning. Hope all is well down under.

Ta, Mate. All is very well down here... it's just 'that time of the year' (early Winter) when all of your Spring/Summer preparations 'pay off' for a relaxing time.

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So, good (Wednesday) morning. Overnight Low of 5.2C and it's presently 11.4C, clear with a breeze. There was 11.3mm in the gauge @ 0900, all from yesterday.

It's 'into town' day for groceries... and some birthday present wrapping paper. Naturally, the paper that I had ran out whilst getting some presents wrapped to mail out to my mate from Brisbane. So I'll need to return to town later on to do that. I should get a 'tip' run accomplished too.

That's about it, take care all.

 

[Buppies]

Good Evening wagtail

 

[ronjhall]

Drinking first cup of coffee. 56° with cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 83° with partly cloudy skies. Think I have weeds in gardens under control for the near future. Neighbor fell and broke her leg last week. Will be going over and see what I can get done in her yard until she recovers.

Everyone stay safe and well.

Good Morning All.

 

[wngsprd]

55 going to 84.

Kyle, sorry about your son's cooties...a dreadful condition. ...actually, I hope his pink eye goes away soon and he gets that first kiss. Sounds like he's a math wizz...we need more of those...if he has to pay to get his car fixed, he's just helping employ somebody else! Capitalism. Thanks for the ideas for watering. Fortunately, the ground is pretty flat and firm where she needs to water.

Buppies, I have to bring in many of my bird feeders every night...especially the suet...even if they are empty, mainly due to raccoons, but sometimes bears. Right now we are having a time with a flock of grackles and cowbirds eating the suet.

Took a nice longer hike yesterday morning (without Della)and enjoyed the cool drier air. Then roasted up a couple of new coffees...one called Bali Blue Moon, and one from Tanzania, which is tasting chocolatey and silky smooth right now. My wife will approve when she gets up.

 

[daugen]

good morning all
57 going up to 80 today in Lancaster Pa, which is just what it will
be two hours East of here when I get home. Slept very well last night and am up with the birds singing outside.

no reason for me to leave early this morning so I might take my Kindle outside with a cup of coffee later to kill some time. I'm in no rush to get into heavy traffic all the way home.

when I get home have to immediately research/fix squealing hydraulic leveling ram on rv. I think it's telling me it's about to quit on me, plus the squealing is embarrassing in a quiet campground.
Get a little oil on that will you buddy?............

unfortunately this is an industry that only knows how to replace parts.
Now if I had Kyle's or Popgadget's amazing ability to fix stuff, this probably
needs a seal kit of some kind. But instead bet I wind up having to buy the whole hydraulic assembly because the rv folks simply do not fix, they replace. Then you buy the seal kit, fix the old one and it hangs on the garage wall for ten years.

I need to find the pump motor assembly which I think they buried in one compartment and see how to check the fluid level. I've never seen any leaks but might not be looking in right place.

before I replace that cylinder, I'm going to really slobber some teflon lube on the shaft and run it up and down. I wonder if junk/rust got into seals.
but that squeal has to go

 

[Thomas]

54F partly cloudy day mid 70's.

Outside chores done E muffin time.
Plans for today...AM trim front field etc.,PM mow front field than putter.

Enjoy your day all/

 

[ronjhall]

Wngsprd, got the same problem with all black birds. If you find a way to get them to leave. Let me know.

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, the low is 50 and going to a high of 73°F. Wind S 3 mph. Sunny!

I am not sure what I will be doing today, but I can tell you that this sitting around when the weather is good is getting real old, real fast.

Ron, all birds that you don't want around like lead. .177 pellets, take a few of the females out and the males will leave for greener pastures.
The same goes for those green cigar laying canada geese, except 22 shorts work better on them.

Have a safe day all

 

[Buppies]

58 this morning high of 79 today getting drier by the day grass slowed way down. Will have to make search for suet feeder.

Hope your son gets better Kyle, very smart son you have


Prayers for all our Country

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 72˚F heading to the mid 80s with a 45% chance of rain this morning. We had an inch of rain yesterday afternoon which should keep things green and I still have not had to use the irrigation system this year.

Not a perfect day to move but the boys with the big truck will be here soon. We should be ready. After doing a quick count yesterday we still needed 40 boxes, got them and used half yesterday should used 10 more today for last used items. It will be nice having everything in one place.

 

[scott_vt]

Good Morning,
Ct, 52 to start going to 75. Will load the truck up shortly for the trek to Vermont! Looks like heat starting to come in tomorrow! Next week sounds like Texas temps !

Kyle, hoping your son gets better soon !
I really wish I had his math genes! I never made it past trigonometry, which served me well for all the years I worked in the machining and model making career !

Ron, I’m with Bill on those darn geese ! What a horrible mess they make ! I’m for taking out ground hogs that want to make home under my Vt deck and other critters that don’t belong by the house !

Time to get busy, hope all have a good day ! Sounds like we may get a nice sunset in Vermont with that smoke coming through !

 

[ronjhall]

Scotty, I do not have problems with geese. Blackbirds, turkeys, ducks and chipmunks are my problem. Sassy takes care of all of them except for the Blackbirds. I have been getting a lot of target practice with my Ruger pellet rifle lately. They keep coming back.

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning
60° now, be almost 80 by late afternoon, sunny again with no rain.
Yesterday was productive. We got all of Crete Heat panels installed, as well as all of the PEX for the radiant heat. I left a few spots without tubing to give Zoe some cool spots to lie on. I hope she appreciates it.

The spots without insulation are footings that I want to have the concrete to sit on to support columns.

We took a nice lunch break to sit on patio and eat burgers and dogs along other picnic fare.

Got it all done and pressurized in time to drive my son to Allentown to pick up the little plane, it got some avionics upgrades.

The floor is scheduled to get poured next week.
Not a lot planned for today, professor has Covid, so no breakfast with him!
Airport Authority meeting tonight, lots of cleanup in the shop in between.

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, 61 going to 79 and some sun.
Got the mower deck hammered back out and finished mowing.
Trimmed back the fig tree, it's a bit too happy.
Son's last final for the year is today.

Dad is out of the hospital and in Rehab. The rehab we wanted would not take him since he needs more help than they can give. His not moving more than 30 feet a couple of times a day for the last few years I am sure is not helping. When he visited me last, the first few days him and GF could not go 50 feet without sitting. By the time they left here a few weeks later they could walk 1/4 mile without resting. We try to get them to do stuff, but it's not possible with a few thousand miles between us.

Fuddy , I've had to rewire dashes before, as you know patience, those wire runs were all done with everything apart and ready to assemble. But at least there are less wires than on todays cars.

Kyle - son 99% is something to be very proud of. Sorry to hear about your walking worries. Pink eye, had that once, DR will have drops, don't let it get out of control.
I guess the door for the heat/cool is on a mopar? My Jeep has one completely stuck on heat for the drivers side, not sure how to access without taking the whole assembly apart, which includes cooling lines, unless I can drill a hole and move it manually, some have tried, and failed though. Controller would be easier, I can't turn the door even by hand/wrench.

L4N - how are you feeling, has the weakness started to go away or will it take some time?

Don, hope the move goes smoothly.

Popgadget - that floor heating looks really neat. Wish they had that years ago, my parents house had copper pipe floor heating, copper shifted as it was just in the pour with no structure like that.

No sign of new neighbor, hope something didn't go wrong, no grass cut, no building started.

Be well.

 

[Looking4new]

scott, any critters you don't want on your property will welcome some lead. If you cannot use lead because of close neighbours then pellet rifles and BB guns work too.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Is Mostly on a bike trip?

Found his last post from last Thursday, he was leaving on a bike trip.

 

[scott_vt]

scott, any critters you don't want on your property will welcome some lead. If you cannot use lead because of close neighbours then pellet rifles and BB guns work too.

Bill, closest neighbor is 800 ft away, so the 20 ga works well !

 

[Looking4new]

Ken, most of the weakness is gone. I am itching to do things BUT I want junior there in case things go south.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 56F @ 7:30AM. Sunshine and clouds mixed. High 73F. Winds WSW at 10 to 15 mph.

Used to work at a place full of PHD type geniuses. A street ran through the middle, and they had to put up a traffic light and cross walk because the propeller heads couldn't be bothered to look both ways on their way to the cafeteria. All brains and no common sense. Hope your son doesn't turn out to be one of those, Kyle.

Yesterday I took another look at the electrical connections to the 240VAC outlets I installed and couldn't find anything wrong. Cycled all the breakers off and back on and still no joy. Figured there had to be another breaker somewhere, so I got a chat session going with Sunrun, the folks that installed the solar power system. I asked for all the documentation they had on the system, especially a single line drawing, which they were able to provide electronically. The single line showed another component, basically a load center from Tesla, so I went through the boxes mounted on the wall one by one, trying to find each one on the drawing. Turned out to be a largish white one that I thought was part of the battery bank, with a small plastic catch on the side. There were four 50A breakers in there, and one of them controlled the 240VAC outlet I'd used for my extra outlets. And that breaker was off. Flipped it back on and all was right with the world. While I was chatting with the tech, I mentioned that the service entrance box was messed up, and asked for some help getting it repaired, as it seemed the damage was done by the solar power installers. They started a ticket, and promised a response in five to seven days. Sure glad the system is not down and I still have power.

First thing I plugged in was a GMA (Mig) welder, and repaired some cracks on a 3PH auger. That'll go back north with me tomorrow where it'll get a paint job so I can sell the auger. Got a laundry list of stuff to load today to help finish jobs at the old place. It's been in the hundreds up there, but it's supposed to break tomorrow. Sure hope so.

Happy Hump Day, folks...

 

[daugen]

home sweet home
easy ride home, despite 40 minutes parked on route 30 for some issue, nothing there when we finally
got speed back
lots to do but just going to pace myself

like you Bill, pace yourself...
Bill, with the exception of your minimally dressed times,
do you carry a phone with you at all times?
we are in the same boat, medical conditions and living alone
I even take my phone down to the basement with the wash, in case I do a header
one hand always on the rail
learned that in boating a long time ago

lot of rough concrete roads today
you folks who live in Virginia have it good
nicest roads I've even seen
must be the good example set by the Buppies paving company...

smooth macadam/asphalt whatever you want to call it in a far enough South location where you
don't get freeze and thaw damage, that to me is the gold standard. Like a train track with no clickety clacks.
I hate concrete, always sets up a roar in my ears. A roar mixed in with a bad hiss.
thank goodness for noise cancelling headphones. I can even drive with the windows down which I did today, sometimes
with both windows down to cool things off, never put on a/c.

This time obeyed the nice lady in the dash and took the turnpike to 309 North
and got off on 202. It's all redone roads now, 202 is a 45 and often slow but smooth as can be.
I won't go over 50 on it and that produces a huge line of cars behind me that I regret.

I did pull over once early on in the trip on 30, let a big line of traffic by, and sure enough
I met up with them down the road. But I got the big truck out from in front of me. He blocked an intersection
signal on me and it went red on me just as I got into intersection. Unless a real emergency, pretty dumb to jam on brakes
of rv. In a motorhome, there is always something that goes crash inside. So I drove through the red without an issue
but was then determined to get a different view forward. Which I did.

time to mow, time to water, time to get moving