Good morning!!!!

[bakerg]

Here's the dog with the cone of shame.:laughing:

 

[vtsnowedin]

2015-06-09, 1802

Got a hard storm here about 90 minutes ago (just before I got home). A lot of water on I-89 (around White River Junction) and Bethel was drenched. Several trees down (none on our property) and I think that may have been a microburst.

That one hit us in Lebanon New Hampshire about 5:15 P.M.. Like a cow on a flat rock. I could see lots of places on I-89 between exits 18 and 20 where the ruts were making hydroplaning a real hazard.
I thought I had fixed that about ten years ago but ten years of 50,000 vehicles a day has put the ruts right back where they were.

 

[300UGUY]

Long day, off to help a friend @7, then hauling some stuff for my wife, mow the yard at her shop, lunch, clean up the shop, take care of the critters, walk the dogs, (2x) off to the pharmacy with a script, get some shopping done. I really don't know how I found time to work 90 hour weeks for years....

 

[dave1949]

62F & raining. We've had some nice showers this afternoon, nothing violent.

Slow afternoon and evening at the poll with only 87 voters. Town residents voted down the school budget 48-39. I thought this might be a squeaker if it passes. We are one of ten small and smaller towns in the Regional School Unit so I won't know until sometime tomorrow if it passed or failed district wide.

40 million birds lost to avian flu, that's a bunch.

 

[rswyan]

64F and mostly cloudy @ 02:00 ...

Spent most of the day inside ... ordered some parts for the log splitter engine and the Walbro needle lever gauge for the brushcutter carb ... managed to make it out later in the day for a bit, before Game Three came on.

Got the quick couplers changed on the FEL ... no more leaks ... yet. Next will be ordering the two hoses whose outer casings are split/cracked before they blow.

Evidently the Wood Fairy paid me a visit sometime during the day ... probably twice from the looks of it:

Apparently the kid wasn't kiddin' when he said it was a "big" tree job.

Moved some of the sycamore wood around so I could get to it - without the possibly of a log rolling off of another and onto me - in preparation for cutting it into rounds, then moved a 275 gallon fuel oil tank out of the shop and moved the tractor in so I can weld a receiver on the box blade in the morning.

After that I watched the Cavs give the Golden State crew a nice little Northeast Ohio Welcome ...

The series is pretty good - two very talented teams that are both going at it hard and competing at a high level.

 

[RoyJackson]

2015-06-10, 0314

58 right now and a high of 81 today...looks to be a very nice day ahead of us.
I'll have to fix a rain spout after work today...that storm yesterday was hard enough topull one of the screws holding the spout in place.

 

[Eric Salop]

Good morning. After two days outside I am having a completely different day today, a day's engineering work away from home (paid work to feed the tractor habit).

Shearing went ok, apart from late starts due to a variety of minor mishaps and an earlier than expected finish on the first day due to heavy rain that didn't figure in either the BBC or accu weather forecasts.

Not many opportunities for taking shearing pics as they keep me busy most of the time. Also the camera phone tends to stay in my pocket as my hands soon get covered in lanolin - and other natural sheep products ! No ticks, just a couple starting with fly strike.




Wool prices are not great, last year they picked up a little to average about 2$ per fleece. Typical commercial shearing costs work out slightly more than this, so hiring in people to shear makes a loss. For the last few years the shepherds have acquired their own electric shears and got on with the job themselves. It takes a little more time but if we all work together the job is done as soon as the wool and weather are right, instead of waiting for a subcontractor.

I wonder if a nap is in my future. Alarm clock set? Check. Couch? Check. Book? Check. Rain on the metal roof? Check.

Perfect. My wife thinks I am crazy because I enjoy the sound of rain on the roof. I'd even be tempted to set that alarm clock early, just to wake up and hear the rain again before hitting the snooze button.

 

[Buppies]

61 this morning no chance of rain high of 87 today goes into 90s tomorrow with lots of sunshine

RS have two Blue Birds who have taken up residence here something new and very beautiful as well

Fawn has taken up residence very close to house wife says every afternoon it's at the backdoor going thru the flowers

Start putting stone on parking lot today about 660 tons of 21A pug mill stone

My memory was bad on plate wall thickness in prison in New York 1/4in thick instead of 3/16. My memory of such things is fading

 

[daugen]

warmer morning, going to be a nice hot day going up to high 80's here.
Got all the lawn mowed and trimmed yesterday, borrowed my neighbors trimming mower to finish; mine still isn't back from the shop. I called Monday and was told, oh parts are in, we're working on it now. Hmmmm. could be
service lie 229A. 229B is we're still waiting on a part. Warranty repair, I'm stuck with these guys.

This could be just my impatience, but there seems to be no sense of time for businesses here. The surveyor doesn't call back for a month, though he had done his homework in the interim. Plumbers, forget about it. Electricians, oh we're on a big commercial job now. Tree guy, oh we've been waiting for dry weather. Three months waiting?....
Frankly, nice people but poor businessmen. A core factor here is that there is so much demand for services that contractors can do just fine, from their standpoint, being poor communicators and not abiding by schedules and promises.
My little two man carpentry team told me he got 31 calls over Mother's Day weekend asking about work to be done.
Let's just say that if folks want a job around here, there is no problem getting one. If they want to work.

RS, I've been taking medication for spigot envy due to Larro, but I think I might have to up the dose on your woodsplitter log lift. Those stumps would be utter killers without it. Do you split the stumps vertically first? Use dynamite?...

Eric, that looks like a seriously uncomfortable position to stay in for long. Does your back hurt by the time you are done?
Do the sheep wiggle around?

 

[Buppies]

Good morning. After two days outside I am having a completely different day today, a day's engineering work away from home (paid work to feed the tractor habit).

Shearing went ok, apart from late starts due to a variety of minor mishaps and an earlier than expected finish on the first day due to heavy rain that didn't figure in either the BBC or accu weather forecasts.

Not many opportunities for taking shearing pics as they keep me busy most of the time. Also the camera phone tends to stay in my pocket as my hands soon get covered in lanolin - and other natural sheep products ! No ticks, just a couple starting with fly strike.

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Wool prices are not great, last year they picked up a little to average about 2$ per fleece. Typical commercial shearing costs work out slightly more than this, so hiring in people to shear makes a loss. For the last few years the shepherds have acquired their own electric shears and got on with the job themselves. It takes a little more time but if we all work together the job is done as soon as the wool and weather are right, instead of waiting for a subcontractor.






Perfect. My wife thinks I am crazy because I enjoy the sound of rain on the roof. I'd even be tempted to set that alarm clock early, just to wake up and hear the rain again before hitting the snooze button.

What is the blue marking on the sheep that can be seen in the picture?