Good morning!!!!

[LS Tractor Owner]

Good morning! Low of only 67°, which left the house fairly warm overnight. A/C got turned on a bit earlier at 09:00. High is supposed to be 93° with a 60% chance of t-storms. The guessers keep moving the lower temps back a day ....

BIL is enjoying the peace and tranquillity here. No family drama too! The instigators won't call here....no tolerance will be granted. It's been tough on the wifey seeing how far downhill he has gone. She is definitely enjoying spending time together.

Dennins, glad they fixed the tire. Definitely within the tread area, should be good to go!

Drew, taking the portable filter is a good idea.....same as the charcoal filters for the A/C.

Energy conservation is in order for today.

Everyone have a great day!

 

[sodamo]

67°F and no rain

A PO run this morning. Back to my electrical box repair.

We host H&F this afternoon.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[daugen]

Anything that creates heat should be put on the floor. Car/motor home seats can and do catch fire easily.

thanks, this is air only
I have two small UL approved electric heaters that either go on the kitchen countertop or the floor.
this is to clean the air coming through truck air/a/c vents as I drive down the road out West, and certainly when I stop.

just finished cleaning the house though always stuff to dust.
aren't you supposed to have a little dust for that "lived in" look?...

 

[scott_vt]

Good Afternoon,
Puttering in the wood shop , and realizing that I hadn’t put the half inch dowel holes in the front legs yet, I set it up on the drill press since the lathe is in Ct ! Not ideal but it worked Ok !

Bill good numbers on your BP !

Dennis, good deal on the tire plug ! Every once in awhile you get lucky !

Ted, good that you can spend some time with the BIL ! I’m sure your wife is enjoying it !

Have a good afternoon!

 

[sodamo]

Drew, nope, that is a new spigot, but that 3 inch pipe is a gutter catchment 1st flush that trickles water. I think real culprit is electrician found a cheap piece of plywood, likely just interior grade. New piece will be exterior and well painted before installation.

 

[m7040]

92 and humid with no rain in the forecast

Watered the flowers and mowed a section of the bigger field

The mower started to make noise from the deck and I was thinking it may be a spindle bearing but no such luck. It turned out to be the gearbox that had leaked out the oil and was burning hot to the point it melted the dip stick. Picking a new one tomorrow from Messicks saving several hundred dollars compared to buying it from local dealer.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Glad I chose to conserve energy today.... outside temp up to 98°. Fortunately, clouds are starting to form, so maybe a storm will cool us down.

Did some paperwork that I've been procrastinating doing. Still need to make some calls. Haven't heard back from PT to schedule the "nerve treatment".

Got 3 back to back spam calls. Third one just kept talking over me.... I lost it. Yelled at her to "shut the $@#^ up!" .... that stopped her for a couple of seconds for me to tell her to "take me off your list" and hang up.
Funny thing was that the BIL then got 2 spam calls about 30 minutes later.....
I told him that I gave them his number... didn't want him to feel left out.....

 

[Looking4new]

I have been inundated with scam calls all week. From the Department of Service Canada suspending my social insurance number. The last call I came unglued on him and maybe now they will leave me alone for a bit.
Service Canada doesn't make phone calls, they write letters [gotta keep the post office in business].
Other calls were from Amazon about fictitious charges charged against my account. They just get hung up on AND their number blocked.

 

[daugen]

mighty hot out
I watered everything
what shall be shall be

finished cleaning inside of house. Saves me 90 bucks.
Figured pocketing that this year bi weekly will save up to a nice chunk of change paying for my trip.
actually pays for about 2/3 of my gasoline bill. 8200 miles at 10mpg is easy math
all that gas weighs 5,740 pounds. Let's see, I could pull a fuel trailer behind me and never have to stop...

something tells me hauling 800 gallons of gasoline is a no no
sure wouldn't be going through any tunnels
I'd have to bring Bill along and we can discuss flammable liquids placarding

one thing to carry extra diesel.
carrying extra gasoline is seriously risky.
I'm sure I'd have no problems driving through the burning countryside of California
all loaded up with high test.
cinder, cinder which cinder is for me?

 

[m7040]

Heading up to Abbottsville PA in the morning at Messicks to pick up the Kubota mower deck gearbox. 1685 dollars plus a replacement set of blades. Will look at the old one later to see if it is worth rebuilding and keeping as a spare. Likely all internals to the case will need replacement.
The shaft seals don't last forever I guess is the message and those boxes don't hold much oil. I had changed the oil not long ago and the oil level then was not low.
But 1500 hours and more than 15 years I can not complain

D was nominated for another award and it comes with substantial dollar amount

 

[sodamo]

Can almost relate Frits, except a better outcome.
Lent a friend my rototiller. He checked oil in the gear box and found water. Drained and refilled only to find seal leaking. Likely how water got it. Fortunately I had a spare seal correct size. He said it sounded good.

 

[daugen]

working on details of my trip, finding supermarkets every five or six days, found another museum
the Humboldt in Nevada, and then tried hard to figure out how I was going to
get a picture standing on the corner in Winslow AZ. I'm afraid it will be this pic out of the window
because could not find a place to park, pretty built up there.
I'll just be one more tourist holding up the traffic.

so what tunes should I play while on Route 66?

still so hot out no desire to venture out.
tomorrow morning sounds a lot better

 

[LouNY]

8' high chain link with another 2' buried so he can't dig underneath.

Put a boot on the inside and plug it anyway.

If a person is going to the trouble of breaking a tire down to patch a boot and plug would not be my first choice. A properly fitted boot would not allow a plug to be inside the tire.
You can get patches that install from the inside out that combine a patch with a plug.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

working on details of my trip, finding supermarkets every five or six days, found another museum
the Humboldt in Nevada, and then tried hard to figure out how I was going to
get a picture standing on the corner in Winslow AZ. I'm afraid it will be this pic out of the window
because could not find a place to park, pretty built up there.
I'll just be one more tourist holding up the traffic.

so what tunes should I play while on Route 66?

still so hot out no desire to venture out.
tomorrow morning sounds a lot better

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I parked right where that white truck is to the right. Came down the street, every spot was open pulled right in

Put the garage window unit in my son's room. Had to jerry rig it some, hope it doesn't fall out. Heavy to haul up there.

Thought of another concert I went to once at Pier 6 in Baltimore, next to the aquarium, but don't remember who it was.

 

[Thomas]

Thomas, only 52 days till autumn!

 

[Thomas]

Saw some YouTube about flooding up in NH

Some NH area wells starting to dry up,some area have more than enough water the leach field are backing up...hit and miss.

 

[Wagtail]

Good (Friday) morning. Overnight Low of 3.4C and it's presently 15.1C, clear & calm. There was a surprising 0.7mm in the gauge @ 0900.

Today will be a trip out to Pyengana for some cheese. I checked their website to see what the Winter open hours were. This, plus swinging by town for a wee bit of cash and petrol top-up for the ute will prepare me for attending a meeting, in Ross, tomorrow.

So, my 'check-in' to the GM thread will probably be delayed 'til Saturday arvo.

That's about it, take care all.

 

[scott_vt]

Good Evening Frits,
Sorry to hear that, I’m thinking tomorrow morning I’m going to check the gear box on mine ! Hopefully you can get it straightened out !

 

[Buppies]

Long day out of town one two more days 1.5 hour drive one way twice a day 200 tons between 1:45 and 3:30 today. 96 outside lots of water one diet DP just now. Ate at Isabella’s for dinner great food.

Prayers for all our Country

 

[NHBX]

Some NH area wells starting to dry up,some area have more than enough water the leach field are backing up...hit and miss.

Unfortunately we were upgraded from abnormally dry to moderate drought. Really wish we would get some good soaking rain. (without the flooding)

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