Good morning!!!!

   / Good morning!!!! #35,831  
84F, that qualifies as a hot day here. How hot is it Kyle? You are a good Dad.

RNG I have on occasion dig a pit and pulled a big rock into it. I don't think covering my rocks will be feasible without a winning Megabucks ticket. Rocks build character. :D I must have been in Maine long enough now to get used to it because the build project pics people post where there are no rocks are starting to look strange. :p

Well, I dug rocks for a while this morning and I'll go back out later this afternoon although it isn't supposed to cool off much before dark.

I think the heat index is 92, but the lack of a breeze is the hot part.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #35,832  
I think the heat index is 92, but the lack of a breeze is the hot part.

Our heat index now is 85F, not bad, but like you the breeze is not much today. Stirs a bit now and then but a lot of calm.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #35,833  
92 here, feels much hotter, thunderstorms popping up all over.
I went out for the mail and couldn't wait to get back inside.
My houseguest friend is hard at work on my malwared laptop.
Hopefully he will get it going again. He's a serious techie but more importantly is patient.
He will kill off the bad guys one at a time. Keeps rebooting to save his efforts.
We might watch a movie this afternoon while the thunderstorms boom since I do believe it is Beer O Clock here too.

Had a good trip to the farmer's market down by the harbor this morning, bought some beautiful foot long plus string bean looking beans, longest beans I've ever seen, and they are cleaned, chopped in half and in the steamer just waiting their destiny. Also went to the local meat market where as I've reported before every conceivable piece of pig is presented, and we even found entire corned pig's heads, plus my favorite, corned snouts. I can just see one of those things start to move on my plate, assuming they ever got on it which is seriously unlikely. We did pick up some nice ground chuck for burgers just as it came out of the kitchen from the grinder. And the burgers are made, the onion and tomato sliced, and the buns are fluffing themselves in excitement...

Tomorrow my friend and I tackle the Northern Tools orchard sprayer whose brand new Honda engine won't run properly or produce pressure, and then we'll try to get the engine on my aging Swisher rough cut mower going. I had it going back in February but it wouldn't go for me recently. It's been sitting for a pretty long time, so the gas is suspect, even with Stabil and Sea Foam. But I didn't smell flooding so that makes me think the carb is plugged. My friend was always my go to mechanical whiz so it's really nice to have him here now.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #35,834  
Rocks are valuable in Iowa. Many people have to buy them. Fortunately we have enough land to to find our own. Yes you have to look for them. When I find some I marked them on my GPS or if they are small enough dig them out right away and carry them to a place I can easily find them for pick up. So far we have about truck load of small boulders. Many of them are pink granite brought in by glaciers from Rocky Mountains during the ice age. I suppose the source mountain was somewhere in Canada close to Banf or Lake Louis. The mountains there have the same color as rocks I find on my land.
Not all boulders found in Iowa are small though. I remember a story about a farmer who found a small boulder sticking from his field. When they dug it out it was a size of small house.
Erratics: Glacial Boulders in Iowa ? Iowa Geological Survey
http://www.uiu.edu/ocm/news/2011/feb/glacier.html
 
   / Good morning!!!!
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#35,835  
We have rocks of all sizes here. When the pad for my barn was being leveled out, a rock stuck up, it turned out to be over 4 feet in diameter. The excavator guy dug a hole next t it, then pushed it in.

Going out to mow the front yard in a bit. Spent the morning painting and scraping at a rental we have. Hope fully get new tenants next month.

Have a good one!
 
   / Good morning!!!! #35,836  
Headed outside just after day break for trimming,dump run,staining before high temp arrive...87F now.
Looks like slow motorcycle country ride and ice cream this evening.

Enjoy the day all.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #35,837  
92 here, feels much hotter, thunderstorms popping up all over.
I went out for the mail and couldn't wait to get back inside.
My houseguest friend is hard at work on my malwared laptop.
Hopefully he will get it going again. He's a serious techie but more importantly is patient.
He will kill off the bad guys one at a time. Keeps rebooting to save his efforts.
We might watch a movie this afternoon while the thunderstorms boom since I do believe it is Beer O Clock here too.

Had a good trip to the farmer's market down by the harbor this morning, bought some beautiful foot long plus string bean looking beans, longest beans I've ever seen, and they are cleaned, chopped in half and in the steamer just waiting their destiny. Also went to the local meat market where as I've reported before every conceivable piece of pig is presented, and we even found entire corned pig's heads, plus my favorite, corned snouts. I can just see one of those things start to move on my plate, assuming they ever got on it which is seriously unlikely. We did pick up some nice ground chuck for burgers just as it came out of the kitchen from the grinder. And the burgers are made, the onion and tomato sliced, and the buns are fluffing themselves in excitement...

Tomorrow my friend and I tackle the Northern Tools orchard sprayer whose brand new Honda engine won't run properly or produce pressure, and then we'll try to get the engine on my aging Swisher rough cut mower going. I had it going back in February but it wouldn't go for me recently. It's been sitting for a pretty long time, so the gas is suspect, even with Stabil and Sea Foam. But I didn't smell flooding so that makes me think the carb is plugged. My friend was always my go to mechanical whiz so it's really nice to have him here now.

Drew, my harbor freight 6hp engine on the tiller nearly wore out my arm and elbow. And that, is was with starting fluid. It has been parked since before it started raining here so much back in April IIRC. I should have parked it with AvGas....
 
   / Good morning!!!! #35,838  
It is 94 in the shade here right now. less than triple digits, but it feels plenty hot and sultry.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #35,839  
Good afternoon all. 92F here HI of 94F and bright sunshine. It was low 70's this morning. Weed-eated stepdaughters lawn this morning. Going out for Mexican for dinner with her and a former co-worker of her's for dinner so no work on the house. :( Suppose to hit 100F Monday with HI 105+. Methinks summer is here!
 
   / Good morning!!!! #35,840  
RNG nice work getting the Beemer running, I have never messed with FI yet.

Drew, good to hear your Office is cool once more! On wireless routers, encryption has a big effect on speed. I get 8mps on an old WG series linksys router. My e900 linksys router would do 30 mps on WEP encryption and faster if I used WPA2.

Riptide hope your merc job goes well.

Don have 5 mbs by choice on a cable modem hook-up ($35/mo) in STL had 100 mbs ($40/mo)

Buppies,Farmer safe trips home!

Roy, good to hear you made it through the audit. The company I worked for had only 2 minors one time seems like average was about 4.

RS you caught up on your repairs?
 

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