Good morning!!!!

[Looking4new]

Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge.

When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge. There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together. There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable.

All the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor. Those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by. The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing; they each miss someone very special to them, who had to be left behind.

They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. His bright eyes are intent. His eager body quivers. Suddenly he begins to run from the group, flying over the green grass, his legs carrying him faster and faster.

You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart.

Then you cross Rainbow Bridge together....

Author unknown...

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Just slightly. Should have sent the drone up.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 65ºF for the stat, mostly clear sky, light breeze. Light wind, moderate to brisk gusts, clouds increased to scattered, and high temp was 89ºF. Made Coffee to start day, 30 mile bike ride, nap after lunch spent time on YouTube and taxes.
Ron glad Sassy got a good grooming. Hope grocery shopping and winter prep went well. Neat fungus.
Bill I understand the motivation MIA. Hope the rain held off.
Drew glad you slept well. Hope you have fun again today.
Thomas hope you had a good day.
Drew that was good looking lasagna. The art of cooking is getting the spicing and texture correct.
Billy good to hear maintenance done on z-turn. Does that mean you conserved energy today?
Frits hope you can make progress on some of your projects, and Cody gets his grooming.
Buppies sorry still tired and ache. prayers sent.
Paul glad dirt work now seeded and mulched. Nice the final inspection so soon. Hope breakfast was good, and town run went well.
Scott(vt) sorry fire got rained out. Hope you get more progress on rocker.Nice color on mountain.
RNG glad good trip south. It's nice you are getting some interest in container. Hope you found good project to get into today.
Mike hope good trip although bringing Covid back doesn't fit the bill. Sorry to hear about FIL, waiting to hear from BIL. prayers sent.
Ken hard to get anything done with commute time and lack of daylight. Sorry about cost of goods.
Don not sure if you meant the valley and flood plain to be the same but they are. Hope you and drew had fun.
Drew hope you got some good pics with drone.
Lou hope winter prep gets done.
Plowhog had chuckle at your post on Rigby's "business"
Frits D is going to have very volatile territory.
Ted sorry stove needs cleaning, which reminds me insert needs cleaning as well. Sorry about wife' issue with Dr office trying to give her morphine.
Mike good luck with new fridge. Sorry about flights to FL delayed.
Don nice pic of Drew getting a trim.
David good to hear progress on mowing, hope you can get mowing done fasting next round. Hope Sophie's eye recheck went well and she has a good trip to Vegas and family.
Dennis sorry about parking incident. I never go to Taco Bell, I know what Mexican should taste like.
Mike sorry about no contact with FIL. Also sorry to hear about cat.
Drew glad you got to see downtown Georgetown. Were the shelters on Lake Georgetown? Neat pics
Frits glad wife is a good cook, mine was as well. Good luck with reinforcing beam
Randy(wag) hope trip to big smoke for shopping went well.
Drew sorry so hot down there.
Drew normally use the golf cart a lot around here also.
Scott(vt) thanks for sharing.
Dennis sorry no luck seeing northern lights.
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle /Daughter, /mom's breathing, /son's migraines, Bird /aging issues,Mike /BIL in FL, Ron /heart, Billy /mom hypertension & congestive heart failure, David(moss) /remodel, /divorce, Buppies /cancer, parathyroid,blood sugar /wife healing, Thomas /gout, Phil /reflux, Frits /veteran son with mental issues, /granddaughter with Evans Syndrome, Ken /dad possible dementia, /chronic fatigue, Diet not working, Steppenwolfe /son-auto immune disorder, Grev /wife's eye, Ted /knee recovery, /retirement & disability red tape, /family issues, Lou /eye issues, /heart issues, /wife hip replacement, Doug and wife/health issues, / hand nerve and surgery, /fall and recovery, / wife headaches and heart eval, / David(sadamo)/Sophie's hip or leg pain, Scaredy/shoulder dislocation, /marriage dissolving, / friend stop drinking, Dennis /retirement, /neighbor issues, /land development, /favorable winds not in the forecast there, /dad surgery recovery, Drew /back operation issues, /friend's wife cancer diagnosis and recovery, Scotty /back pain, Helogabals /wife's friend situation, Fatjay /father broken hip, ******, Ukraine war, hurricane victims, and Country.

 

[ronjhall]

Poured first cup of coffee. 43° with clear skies this morning. Heading to 77° with a few clouds. Grocery shopping went good. All shelves well stocked. Got all stuff that may freeze has been put away in cellar. Going to move neighbors compost pile to a new place. Gives me tractor seat time.

Everyone stay safe and well.

Good Morning All.

 

[Thomas]

41F sunny sky for today around 60F for high.

Outside chores done E muffin time.
Plans for today...4 hours at part store,stop for critter food,do some leave control until my back pockets start dragging.

Enjoy your day all.

 

[daugen]

sunny and 60, that sounds pretty good Thomas
give Boo a rake and see if he gets the hang of it...

slept well last night, quiet campground
spending some time here this morning before heading off to Giddings, likely stop at Walmart first
67 in Georgetown, 58 in Giddings.

one of my tank valves is stuck open. Luckily I had a secondary final valve installed so that was belt and suspenders. I don't have arm strength to get it loosened and Don just had shoulder operation. So it's up to Kyle to save the day...metal rod into plastic valve, likely clogged with toilet paper, not conducive to hammering

some truly excellent news is that Don helped me get my new color backup camera installed. Where I wanted it had no signal, but putting unit closer to window in rear of rv did the trick. So we installed it up on the roof ladder and tilted it down. Much better pic than oem camera which washes out in any sun. I just plug the other end into 12v receptacle on dash and monitor screen lights right up.

every once in a while I'll get some crazy driver that comes up so close I can't see them in my rear mirrors. I just put the four way flashers on and that usually helps.
Sometimes I have to slow down, but one way or the other I'll convince them to go around.

I really believe there are a lot of folks who are scared by passing, very timid people and I try to move over to give them a bigger space to drive by.
As soon as I move over, many mash the accelerator and rocket by.
no one likes driving next to a big truck.
I always move over for semis, one swat from their rear end
swinging over and my day is ruined. I've found that most semis try to stay far away from me too. Reciprocal courtesy

Scott those are great pics. I'd take the one you like the most and have it framed.

and now in Phil's marvelous imagination he will be incorporating a Northern Lights theme in his next wood art.

 

[daugen]

I have a concern that our group is gumming up the site's works with likes.
we have all the top spots. My concern is for the guy who just wants to talk about his Kubota transmission, how do you level the playing field.
I wonder if GM folks should stop liking each other. figuratively....
We do a lot of it because we are supportive of each other but maybe we are creating issues

I bet this was why they tried to move things around, give some air to other groups.??
and promptly went back to this.

Buckeye is a genuine influencer with a web site so this is good for him.
I'd rather hide...am on zero other social media for a reason.

honestly for me, my "likes" are more my "that's interesting" or "yes I'm with you" or "I learned something from that".
none of us are interesting all the time...that's real life not online fantasy.
and I don't go back and see who liked whom
not overly comfortable with scoring mechanisms but understand
site has legitimate needs

so I'm floating the idea of whether as a group we stop liking each other.
without messing up buckeye's virtual credits.
I'll continue to "like" on other forums, like generators or diabetes.

if we stopped drawing attention to ourselves, maybe we could see interesting trends elsewhere.

well, if moderator/Muhammad is reading this, what would be best for site?
I think the light bulb finally went on for me reinforced by seeing this:

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[scott_vt]

Good Morning,
Ct, 36 to start going to 67 ! Looks beautiful out but it’s time to go to work !

Buppies beautiful pics !

Hope all have a great day !

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I don’t pay attention to the numbers. In the mobile version I use, I don’t even see the numbers, but did strongly object to GM being moved to the Front Porch cesspool, rather than here where it started in Rural Living. What’s the purpose of Rural Living otherwise. What’s the purpose of having “like” feature if they don’t get counted in some areas and do in other areas? Or do likes even need to be counted?
If the site wants to open it’s subject matter beyond just tractor talk, then either count all, or don’t count at all.




34°, little chilly out.

 

[ronjhall]

I don’t pay attention to the numbers. In the mobile version I use, I don’t even see the numbers, but did strongly object to GM being moved to the Front Porch cesspool, rather than here where it started in Rural Living. What’s the purpose of Rural Living otherwise. What’s the purpose of having “like” feature if they don’t get counted in some areas and do in other areas? Or do likes even need to be counted?
If the site wants to open it’s subject matter beyond just tractor talk, then either count all, or don’t count at all.

My thoughts also.

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning
42° and sunny, high of 70 under continued sun today.

Yesterday found me at the notary getting document notarized for the township, then several other errands and back to knocking details off the list.
I got the thermostats for the radiant heat installed and tested the boiler and circulators.
Cobbled together a crude but effective sprinkler out of stuff I had in the shop.

I’m keeping everything that was seeded and straw mulched watered, as I have a tight window to get grass to come up before the season ends.

Painting is progressing well, the end is in sight.

Airport authority meeting last night, no rehearsal tonight, gig tomorrow.

Today I want to get some downspout and fittings to connect to the drain pipe I put under the new walk. Also want to put a standard sink drain in the plasma cutter water pan rather than the easily clogged 1/4” NPT outlet that is there now.

No mowing to do, but I should grease the progressive mower and tractor. I did give the tractor a bath after the grading was complete. Plenty to keep me busy, but no deadlines, I’ll just move through the day at a leisurely pace.

 

[masseyrider]

45 degrees this morning going to 70+.
Broke down and turned on the furnace. House was down to 60 inside and getting that damp feeling.
No where near my goal of Nov 1.
I would have hung in but except for todays warm blip next week is going to be in daytime 50s and threat of frost nighttime.
The monthly prediction at the start of the month was calling for many more 70s days.
Oh well. The gas people have to make a living.
Taking the new Mazda CX-70 in for the first service today.
I really wracked up those first 5000 fast.
Not even a month, way above my usual average of maybe 2000.
That 3.3 straight 6 is so smooth and it handles like a dream.
Still debating brekky.
Brain says oatmeal with mixed berries and touch of honey.
Belly says bring on the pork products and eggs with a toasted bagel.
Blood tests say cholesterol is good so belly probably wins.
Time to make tea.
Good day ladies and gents.

 

[FriendwithTractor]

Good Morning to All who Celebrate! A brisk 45 going to 70, light frost this morning. Truck needed a few minutes to clear that up.

The best-laid plans of mice and men...Major outage at work this week. A driver not nearly as skilled as L4N took out an entire power pole pulling out of a warehouse next door. That wouldn't have been so bad, except when the line bounced, it arced into our fiber line and created a very pretty puddle of glass, and caught the pole on fire.

Two days, hours of hold music and angering several engineers later, we're back up and running. I got the feeling it only became a problem for them once it started costing THEM money, when we were losing dollars, they didn't care. sigh.

Couldn't get the logging crew out, but plan on pulling the log splitter out anyway after work this evening. Have a few rounds to get it warmed up and then under it's new cover. Just some mowing and if I feel motivated, I'll chase some of these early leaves that are dropping.

Have a good weekend Y'all! Enjoy the day!

 

[txdon]

Good morning! A cool 57˚F, S wind, clear skies, heading to 93˚.
So long Drew, Have fun at Kyles, you should have a short drive today. You will notice a considerable difference in the fertility of the soil on the SE side of 35. There will be more fields of crops and less scrub brush.


I like the likes. It is a way to acknowledge interesting/unusual post or simply post you totally agree with.. I can't help that the morning thread has the most interesting and informative post.

 

[daugen]

ok, I've done my civic duty and that will be all.

sun is finally coming up, things to do.

am sadly lacking in tractor pics.
when the farms are so gigantic as they are here, the machinery isn't stored near the road. I think it has been so dry everywhere would normally be a lot greener here.

driving through the West and seeing more water storage units than I thought possible the value and control of water rights is a big deal here. Looking at the small stream called the Rio Grande, well, it wasn't so grande anymore.

water is sure a big deal when you don't have enough to go around.

 

[Buppies]

I have more pictures but will not clutter up the place. The Parway was supposed to open in Virginia this morning but gates were open last night on Bent Mountain. More people there than I thought there would be very chilly too.

41 presently warm up over weekend then 30s for lows 59s for highs. Saw first wooly worm yesterday he said cold start to winter then mild cold to end maybe he is confused. I did not have time to ask him asphalt came.

Prayers for all our Country Florida and Appalachia

 

[m7040]

good morning, 43 going to 69 sunny

Picked up Cody from the groomer looking pretty

Going to look for the jacking post supports at another HD

Grass needs mowing again. Must be close to the last time

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, 41 going to 71 and sunny, dry
Did some watering, and some more watering, then went out later to see northern lights, just a glow in the sky, so not too much to see.
Got some more tomatoes in, probably last ones that will ripen.

Paul/Popgadget - Happy anniversary to your son! Reminded me, need to grease up the little tractor, it's been a while.

FWT - Well if someones going to take out a pole, seems to have been a very thorough job!.

Local hunters cleaned out our deer family, looks like one doe and older fawn only ones left.
News about poaching. We need them cleaned out a bit, but seems someone went crazy on taking bucks...

Be well,
We also drove up the road since our house is completely surrounded by tall trees. Even at the open field it just looked like bands of color.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Good morning! A cool 57˚F, S wind, clear skies, heading to 93˚.
So long Drew, Have fun at Kyles, you should have a short drive today. You will notice a considerable difference in the fertility of the soil on the SE side of 35. There will be more fields of crops and less scrub brush.


I like the likes. It is a way to acknowledge interesting/unusual post or simply post you totally agree with.. I can't help that the morning thread has the most interesting and informative post.

I like the GM thread as it is too. No concerns about post likes.
That hot tub experience will be tough to beat for Drew's amazing America road trip. I'm not sure what or where I would like to show Drew around. Any suggestions? I was thinking bucolic Serbin maybe? But that is after 2ish o'clock. See what Drew wants to do. We are planning supper/dinner tomorrow night.
Y'all's house and backyard looks like royalty.

ok, I've done my civic duty and that will be all.

sun is finally coming up, things to do.

am sadly lacking in tractor pics.
when the farms are so gigantic as they are here, the machinery isn't stored near the road. I think it has been so dry everywhere would normally be a lot greener here.

driving through the West and seeing more water storage units than I thought possible the value and control of water rights is a big deal here. Looking at the small stream called the Rio Grande, well, it wasn't so grande anymore.

water is sure a big deal when you don't have enough to go around.

Drew, drive safe. Your turnoff off of HWY 290 is at the big Texaco gas station sign. RV park behind it. The steakhouse doesn't accept reservations. Should be able to get in within a reasonable time. There is a high school football game tonight. Our team has not had much success this year, so the stands are not full at all. I don't even know if I will go or not. It starts at 7:30pm.
Hopefully I can turn the valve.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Rip, sorry about your kitty.

This was a fellow traveller on my morning commute yesterday... He almost got hit by an oncoming 18 wheeler (whom I'd been flashing my high beams at, at least 10 times to warn him to slow down). He slammed on the brakes hard at the last moment, narrowly avoiding splatting this donkey. I was worried that the splatting would throw him back onto my car from the angle he would have been hit at. I called the sheriffs and they said a deputy was on the way.
Question, I have seen up to 3 of these a few miles back on the county road that leads to this road. Hitting a donkey at speed could kill someone. Should they be "dispatched"? From what the sheriff's operator said, "No one claims them." A serious accident waiting to happen, for no reason. Don't get me wrong. I love animals. But a horrible death for the animal and possibly a person is not a good thing either.

Went to Massey dealer to pickup a part for a friend. They are selling Fendt now. Don't know much about them. Pretty big one here, wondering if they are similar to the Massey behind it? Does Fendt only make Fendt tractors? Or do they have other mfg's make them?

Prayers for Florida. They've had a tough month. The same high pressure system that is giving us nice weather is what caused Milton to go their way.