Good morning!!!!

[Thomas]

Buppies
Another skin cancer removal today.
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Know where pulling for you. :thumbsup:

 

[Bird]

75 degrees this morning, going for a high of 94, so it's a little better than it has been. But the good news is that the humidity got down to 70% so the grass was dry for me to mow this morning.:cool2:

 

[jbrumberg]

Good Morning Everyone!!!!!!!!!

A foggy 45ºF for today's low temperature; a clear and sunny 50ºF presently; and I anticipate a clear and sunny PM with the afternoon in the high 60ºF's. I actually slept well and wet. I may be turning into an amphibian. Right now I am loving the Prednisone's energy and free air pathways. My plan for today: try to manage the energy appropriately; "sometimes" I do not manage it well. One thing for certain a couple of dog walks on a beautiful day and filling out MA "clean water" certificates for the kayaks (zebra mussels) for planned kayaking next week. Fall is a beautiful time to be on the water in any type of watercraft (even PWC's).

Too much coffee

"... Not being able to breath well must be worrisome."- Drew Thanks, I've been dealing with this all my life, and I've developed all kinds of both good and bad practices managing it. Based on what I've e dealt with professionally, If I live long enough I'll probably die some day drowning in my own bodily secretions in some kind of facility. Thats the way it might turn out then, but it will not stop me from living now.

Buppies- Good luck today. My + thoughts, wishes, and prayers.

"... Sometimes laws seem to come down hardest on those who do their best to do the right thing."- Eric "N good deed goes unpunished." That's been my observation and experience. According to my insurance I can travel on public roads along my property line, but I have to have a SMV plate and be 100% on the road with lights and hazards according to MA law. I do not qualify for an AG plate nor want to pay the costs. The local police and state police are liberal about tractors on the roads around here. I used to drive to my last place of employment to till their gardens. I got a free (beat up) 8 Woods landscape rake for my efforts

RonJH- Thanks for the +'s and anyone else whom I might have missed :embarrassed: I think of you and wonder how you are doing often. My + thoughts and wishes.

I hope that everyone is having a decent Friday and a decenter weekend.

My + thoughts and wishes

 

[jbrumberg]

When I grow up:

 

[lostcreekranch]

Good Morning! It was 72° and foggy this morning and high is forecast for only 89° this afternoon. Maybe some rain mid afternoon ..... fingers crossed.

It was great getting to sleep in my own bed last night.

The grass around the house was about 12" high, when I got back from the Hill Country. Got the mowing done, with the ZT, yesterday PM but, still need to do the trimming today.

Hope everyone has an excellent Friday.

Prayers to all.

 

[toppop52]

Buppies, JB, BEF and all you guys, special prayers.
Rick, sounds like a fun trip, playing cowboy.

I told my fill in grass cutter that next week is his last week mowing, I’m going to do it myself now. I’m going to spray my driveway and property boundaries.

My BP was high yesterday and last night, but dropped right off to normal after breakfast, no idea what that was about.

Have a good day folks.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

6.5cy concrete poured and finished.
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Another 1/2 yd tractored(4 trips) to useable location
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Paving paradise, one tractor bucketfull at a time...:laughing:

 

[hawkeye08]

I am not happy sitting around not being able to do anything (chiropractor asked me to take it easy and not lift anything to let my back settle down).. good news is my back pain is minimal since the adjustment on Wednesday, have another adjustment later this morning.. then another next week.

We got our first freeze last night, heavy dew early, then froze good at dawn. Outdoor sensor says it got down to 32. Storm is coming tonight and supposed to hit us this weekend. Might try to blow out sprinklers later (have my wife do the work, I can supervise).. I don't want to be bending down opening and closing valves, that is one of the no no no nos that the chiropractor told me about.

Glad folks are doing better..

Stay safe, prayers for all in need.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good deal. That should be plenty. Will it be inverter style? On the solar, How many panels? rough wattage?

Cummins RS22, propane fired, inverter based, 22 kW generator. There will be 20 solar panels rated at right around 400 W each, depending on what is available when the county finally approves the building permit. Still somewhat up in the air about the size of the battery bank. Probably be somewhere around 1000 amp hours to start. I see it as mainly an emergency backup in case the generator won't start, so if it can power the water pumps for an hour that's probably all that's necessary. But batteries will also allow some shifting of power demands out of peak pricing periods during the day, if I can figure out how to program the inverters to enable that capability. Just got a message back from the propane man yesterday that he has a 1000 gallon tank on hand and can install it as soon as I've made room for it. And with cooling temps and fire danger declining, I'll start chipping away at that. Just hope the tractor doesn't break down again...

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Rng. My experience with 240 and the situation you described is one leg is broken but the gap is close enough for enough power to bleed through to make a meter read it. But when you load it then there痴 nothing. Trick is to find the break. Is the problem only with the meter? It sounded like it was running appliances fine.

It was an 18" error, Farmer. I'd lost track of how the generator feed came in, and had inadvertently shut down the breaker that controlled the generator output. Worse, I hadn't documented how it was wired up, and had to kill the power and pull of the access panels to trace the wires. Now there's a new sticker on the generator power port cover that says what breakers need to be opened and closed to get it to work.:confused2: Fortunately, it's just a temporary setup until the solar system is installed.