Good morning!!!!

[RoyJackson]

2015-07-18, 0515

Got most of the lawn mowed when I got home yesterday. I quit when the "no see'ums" started biting and irritating me. Rain today...bummer.
I'll be going to work for a few hours this morning.

 

[ronjhall]

Coffee has finished brewing. 67° with clear skies this morning. Heading to 91° with sun and high humidity. Rain let up around noon yesterday. Got warm and humid. More of the same today. Looks like a good day to spend on back porch until it gets to hot. Then inside enjoying the AC.
Good Morning All.

 

[KevT]

78 now 88 as a high. Going back to town today to get materials for next weeks work. My wife forgot to get her front license plate off her car so I need to get that too.

Thanks Drew, but it is all hers. I will drive my 06 F-250 4X4 till it can go no more. After yesterday that point is even stronger. What a PIA

Buckeye - To be honest, other than the school and the terrain, my favorite part of Walnut Creek was the "Walnut Creek Cheese Shop" better known as the grocery store. They sold everything in bulk. This is where I learned "Jello" has blown their sales by putting the product in boxes. Jello is not something I am drawn to or can say I ever crave, but when you see all those colors in the bags, it is artwork. So pretty. :confused3:



We went to local Amish shops some in local areas like Charm, Baltic and some I can't remember. Watched as they made horse collars, another to watch them make harnesses, and a shop that made carts and buggies. We ate daily at the "Der Dutchman" and brought home a couple of jars of the peanut butter spread. We both enjoyed the area very much. So much so we are talking f going back next year for a refresher course

 

[wngsprd]

70 going up to 93. I guess we're due for more hot weather...in the 90s for the next week or more. Hasn't been terrible this summer...more rain so keeping the temps down.

Got a couple more hours of bush hogging done yesterday...watched a red-tail hawk catch a field vole that ran out from where I was mowing...and of course the swallows came in force to feast on the insects I was stirring up.

 

[bakerg]

Morning all, 72F and muggy here, suppose to hit over 91F with the humidity making it feel like 113F.:confused2: Working today so it will be hot in a Plastic Injection moulding plant.:fiery:

 

[Thomas]

63F now low 8-'s for high,rain this morning good chance afternoon t-storms.
Bounce around on riding mower last even for couple hours finally got the lawn cut.

Dump run today than take Mrs. to get her new gas grill.:confused2:

Enjoy the day all.

 

[vtsnowedin]

I have family up for the weekend. Three teenagers among them that live in a city. Had them taking turns with the x300 mowing the lawn. Quite a few horse manes left but fun to watch them figure something new to them out.

 

[Buppies]

70 to start the day high of 91 later. Off soon to get haircut mow grass then look at jobs. One of my drivers yesterday imploded a driveshaft on a dump truck with a load of stone on. What was supposed to be a early day turned out to be another long one. Got home at 10:00PM

 

[farmer2009]

74 this morning and headed to 97 today. Heat advisory out today and tomorrow. Dew points in the upper 70's.

I'm about done with the bushhoging. I have one more hay farm to trim and then move cows and mow behind them. The worst part is that means that I have to mow around pond. Hate having to do that when it's this wet. But Johnson Grass stems need to be knocked down.

Need to locate salt for chicken coops also today. It's part of the bare floor treatment we do every year trying to cut down on disease. Need 100 bags. Have a supplier that has no problem with that volume but he charges a premium for the inventory. A couple of others usually have better pricing but don't always keep that much on hand.

Tore the hydraulic lines to the loader apart last night. The ends that go into the remotes were leaking about a gallon an hour yesterday. So one new line as braiding was broken. And now to put it back together before I can mow.

Kev congrats on your wife's new truck. Does this mean she now has to trailer her own horses? And you smile when she says "we're taking my truck " because you know you won't be driving.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

72* here in stormy Gettysburg. Big storm just went thru, lots of rain and lightning.

KevT, My parents used to go to walnut creek about once a week when they were in good health. I remember Der Dutchman when it was a small place. They kept adding on over the years. Used to go to the cheese shop also. My brother works in Baltic, at Provia Doors. Sounds like you had a good time there.

Farmer, my dad raised chickens when I was small, but not nearly the number that you have. I remember when I was little writing on the side of the chicken house with the little pieces of chalk, lol. He still has some of his old brooders and feeders.

storm has died down, time to go out and see what the damages are.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

75F @ 8:30AM. Plentiful sunshine. High 96F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph.

Kev, the fire that crossed I15 is at the other end of the state, but we've been having small wildfires since March due to all this dry weather. Fortunately (knock on wood) no really big ones up here as in years past, but there is still plenty of time left until the rains come again in November or December. That was an expensive trip to the doctor! :laughing: Before I spent seven hours haggling with a dealer I'd go find another dealer.

Drew, you make a good point about modern conveniences. I'm still finding buttons and knobs on the Kubota. But the big auto companies are finding out that their customer satisfaction survey results are getting killed by all the needless complication and poor reliability brought on by all those buzzers and whistles. Nobody ever heard of "unintended acceleration" in a pre-millenia F250!

Got the prep work done on the bike frame yesterday morning, but by the time the Metal Prep was hosed off it was too hot to do much more. Also acid cleaned the wheels, which helped with the stains on the white coating (don't know if it's powder coat or just paint), but might give it another dose later. Spent the rest of the afternoon inside in the A/C installing DD-WRT onto one of the new routers. The most confusing part was figuring out which version to use, then where to find it. But once determined, installation was a snap and configuration was easy. Maybe I'm imagining it, but there seems to be much less lag now when using the web, and fetching mail doesn't hang like it used to. Too early to say about reliability, but it was very solid when I used it ten or so years ago. This morning I hope to finish the frame paint on the bike, then install DD-WRT on the other router and set it up as a range extender so I'll have WiFi out to the pump house and surrounding areas. The nice thing about open source software is the abundance of tutorials that let simpletons like me act like they know what they're doing. :laughing:

Hope everyone makes the most of their time off this weekend!

 

[sodamo]

69°F and no rain since midnight, blue sky morning

Be safe
Have a great day

David Sent from my iPad Air using TractorByNet

 

[daugen]

Found a little frog hanging on to the top of my patio umbrella, as I was lowering it for the impending storm.
Very white in color, not green at all. And it was sitting on top of the umbrella, basking like a snake...
Someone told me recently here that one of the signs of overuse of pesticides was the lack of frogs. Not a problem here; I've seen four in two days.

spent some time with my Gravely down mowing the roadside at the far end of the property, on the other side of the pond and got the mower hung up on the rear hitch while crossing the ditch. All I could do was walk to the house next door, where my helper lives, and borrow his shovel. As I was digging somewhat unsuccessfully, and watching the wheels just spin around, and was in the process of shoving stuff in front of the wheels as digging from behind under the extended hitch was proving hard to do.

And then the cavalry arrived...some nice guy and his wife slowed down, took one look at me sweating with a shovel in my hand, and asked if I'd like a pull out. You bet. That took all of two minutes; long ago I had installed a heavy duty pull ring on the front of the little tractor. Not its first rodeo getting pulled out, but boy would I have had a hike all the way back to the barn in that heat. So, now thoroughly soaked, I finished my mowing and headed for the shower.

But on the way, for the second time in a week, I got stung on my left hand. Hand was filthy so I sure wasn't going to suck on it, got the stinger out. Never did see the bee after I instinctively swatted it off. Took me a while to get back to the house, take a shower, hand was really starting to itch. And swell. And swell some more until the knuckles were just a memory. Ok, now I have to pay attention, on goes the 1% cortisone cream, on goes the ice bag. Doesn't seem to be getting worse, and the itching has slowed down. I wonder if two stings in one week has amped up my sensitivity. If one of them could do this to me, getting stung twenty or thirty times would sure mean a ride to the ER. My older brother has carried an epi pen for years. Wonder if I'm getting more sensitive as I get older. Gosh, that's what I tell the women at the bar and it seems to work so well... I wish.

 

[Larro Darro]

Good Evening. 1710, sunny, 94F {104F heat index} with 58% humidity. Our high was 97F this afternoon, forecast low of 75F with 60% chance of thunderstorms tonight.

Long day at work today. It will 15 or 16 hours before it's done. Got here early to make sure the sleepover folks cleaned up good, then a family reunion {I ate too much with them}, now a baby shower and later a birthday party til midnight.

Drew, tobacco works well to draw out the poison of a bee sting. Just tear up a cigarette {from one of your smoking friends} and put the tobacco in a small snack bag in your wallet. Wet a little of it with spit and put it on the sting right away.

You guys take care,

Larro

 

[KevT]

Kev congrats on your wife's new truck. Does this mean she now has to trailer her own horses? And you smile when she says "we're taking my truck " because you know you won't be driving.

Wow, You know me so well. Now she wants to learn how to back a trailer without me getting upset??? ME? :confused3: Guess I will set up cones in the back 5 acres and hook the landscape trailer to her truck, show her the hand on the bottom of the wheel technique and run for cover. :laughing:

Thanks Buckeye, yes we had more fun learning and seeing the country, it was a great vacation.

 

[mostly_gas]

good evening all. 80F this morning and sunny but breezy. Made it to 100F 105F HI.We cleaned up the kitchen this morning, scraped paint off the wood floors, and worked on boat cleanup (found some rotten wood in one bench) and address changes this afternoon. Did I say it's hot out there?

 

[mostly_gas]

Drew sorry about your hand, you have allergy to bee stings?

 

[sodamo]

Hmmmm, backing a trailer...not sure that's something I care to teach the wife. LOL She is really good with the tractor though.

David Sent from my iPad Air using TractorByNet

 

[sodamo]

Drew, do you keep any Benadryl around?

David Sent from my iPad Air using TractorByNet

 

[daugen]

haven't had a previous reaction like this. Wonder if the "Southern" bees are just nastier...
Hand is still all puffed up, but likely will subside by morning.
I think I might get some Benadryl on hand, good idea.