Good morning!!!!

[mostly_gas]

Good morning all. 76F this morning, sunny and near calm winds. Forecast for 101F, and chance for rain tomorrow disappearing like my soil moisture. Trip into town on agenda but not sure why we haven't left yet.:confused3: More power washing, back porch and driveway still need it. Need to finish painting garage so I can organize it.

 

[mostly_gas]

Dave (moss) good to hear from you sounds like progress on most fronts. :thumbsup:

Dave(1949) You my be too late to get that finger to heal nicely. I can relate to the injury, lot of smash/rip finger injuries in tool making/repair.

Drew glad your date went well. :drink:

 

[sodamo]

71°F and .03 inches rain since midnight.

Got some more mowing in yesterday.

Glad to hear your good news David, MFW.

Be safe
Have a great day

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[sodamo]

Drew, glad to hear you made a new friend.

Dave, ouch! Careful of infection. I just learned that Hydrogen Peroxide is a good initial cleanser, but should be avoided during the healing process as it can wash away the new cells, but a dilute iodine wash is good.

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[dave1949]

Drew, glad to hear you made a new friend.

Dave, ouch! Careful of infection. I just learned that Hydrogen Peroxide is a good initial cleanser, but should be avoided during the healing process as it can wash away the new cells, but a dilute iodine wash is good.

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Thanks, I just learned that too, about 2 hours ago. :laughing: That's what the doc said, good initial cleaner but can be detrimental to healing later. The doc thinks it will heal okay. Soak in Epsom Salts water morning & evening, try to shift the skin into a more normal position when soft from soaking, keep using the antibiotic salve, plus she prescribed an oral antibiotic for one week.

Larro, worms under the skin is a lot freakier than an injury; I don't blame you for hitting the ER. So many parasites if left untreated can do serious liver or intestinal damage.

 

[txdon]

My Acurite weather station has just recorded a new high for the year at 112˚ - heat index 120˚, but my old mercury thermometer says 98˚. All I know it is very hot and our Subaru needs me to put on it's fixed flat tire (averaging 1 flat a month). . . .maybe a little later . . . .

Good news - we have Fermentation bubbles! The strained wild mustang grapes, sugar and flour smell like grandma's kitchen when she was baking bread. This might actually work - time to make the bread.

More good news - The Dr. says my wife's stainless steal "slapper" is healed, she can hold up to 2 pounds, and she can begin physical therapy. (The foreign Dr. on the ship called her wrist a slapper and we continue to joke about it. I never did get to ask him from which county he got his medical degree.)

 

[daugen]

Don, are you making beer or bread?

Man Dave, I'd get that stitched but it's on your hand. They have some neat super glue that works also. Hope you don't have neuropathy issues down the road there. you sure get the big ouch award
and I got my medical degree in the cheese biscuit bag...:dance1:
Glad you are doing better Larro. And Don, best wishes for a quick recovery on your wife's implement of your control...whap!

disappointing day. First my trailer tire is flat as can be, bad valve stem. Luckily my "big" helper came today and took the tire off for me, we went downtown to a friend, guy fixed it while I waited, would not take twenty bucks, groused at taking ten bucks. He stops what he's doing, working in this ancient old time garage, with tires and parts and crud piled everywhere, looking like it hadn't changed in 100 years. No tire changing equipment, yet he clearly did lots of truck tire work. Man must know his tire irons. So that part was very nice and we also dropped off the orchard sprayer to the authorized Honda dealer and left him equally puzzled why the motor ran so poorly.

When I got home my local realtor called and we had a long talk about return on investment for the new garage I was considering. In a nutshell, there is no ROI. He said local property values would not support my spending that kind of money on a workshop/garage and expect to get anything out of it. The only thing that makes/made sense financially was to pour a level pad down by the barn, put a roofed carport over it, and spend as little as possible, but still give me the ability to roll certain heavy implements on concrete. That was my number one priority anyway. Worse, he said I likely would not get the six figure cost of renovations I put into the place so far out of it. You never get everything out, usually, but this was all a very negative outlook. Lot of net worth burned up. Only so much any of us can take doing that so I decided to just say no. Folded my cards and going to just do something simple. Will take the money saved and put a new roof on the house in the next two years.

Well, that does free up more money for a boat!

farmer, I bet right now you have your hands full with a gazillion little cheepers.

 

[Luke'sScreenName]

Dave, I am a medical professional. Go to the ER today, as in now. You'll likely need part of your finger amputated but if you wait it could be the entire finger. Please go.

 

[txdon]

Don, are you making beer or bread?

It's in the bread machine - it's jut too hot to turn on the oven. I'll let you know if I get a buzz after two slices!:thumbsup:




Edit: Just went for the evening walk at sunset - 99˚ Whipper made it eventful. First she chased a spike deer into the cow pen and the deer's spikes got stuck in the cattle panel. I was heading back to the barn to grab my bolt cutters when Whipper ran around to the outside of the pen and chased the deer backwards and it freed itself.

Next a copperhead was crossing the road in front of us and right as Whipper got within a foot of it it struck at her, she grabbed it and gave it a shake. She then went for a second shake and did so so violently that she fell down hard on her side. I thought she had the snake under her but when she got up there was no snake under her - apparently the second shake was an air shake. The first shake was sufficient as we walk by the copperhead as not moving.

 

[dave1949]

Dave, I am a medical professional. Go to the ER today, as in now. You'll likely need part of your finger amputated but if you wait it could be the entire finger. Please go.

I did go to the doc this afternoon. I think it's under control but thanks for the concern. The doc said let it heal under the flap of skin if it will and she seemed to be confident that it would. She agrees with me that the skin is going to slough off eventually, there's just not enough left attached to keep it alive. Said to not pick at it when it gets to be a scab and come back anytime I think I need to. I'm taking a week's course of 14 cephalexin 500 mg twice a day and applying triple antibiotic ointment.

If I see red streaks going up my arm instead of blue veins, I'll worry. Been there and done that. But as of now it's not infected, throbbing, warm, etc. I think this is the best way to have a chance of a normal pad again on that finger eventually.

 

[dave1949]

When I got home my local realtor called and we had a long talk about return on investment for the new garage I was considering. In a nutshell, there is no ROI. He said local property values would not support my spending that kind of money on a workshop/garage and expect to get anything out of it. The only thing that makes/made sense financially was to pour a level pad down by the barn, put a roofed carport over it, and spend as little as possible, but still give me the ability to roll certain heavy implements on concrete. That was my number one priority anyway. Worse, he said I likely would not get the six figure cost of renovations I put into the place so far out of it. You never get everything out, usually, but this was all a very negative outlook. Lot of net worth burned up. Only so much any of us can take doing that so I decided to just say no. Folded my cards and going to just do something simple. Will take the money saved and put a new roof on the house in the next two years.

That's always the challenge with retirement living especially in out of the way areas that aren't commutable to decent jobs or retirement hot spots. Spend the money and make it what you want or worry about resale. I'm sure we have maxed out the resale value of this property. Spending more on it will be like giving that away to the next owner. We try to stay reasonable on that.

I don't think the retirement living wishes of most TBN members line up with the what the majority of retirees are looking for but clearly there are folks who would like to have a reasonably equipped place in the country.

 

[RoyJackson]

2015-07-31, 0321

65 right now...high of 82 today.

Drew, as far as your homestead...well, you're 60 something and I expect the home you live in now will be the last place you live. Make it yours and don't worry too much about resale. That's my humble opinion.
As far as the date...take a look at some granny **** and get yourself motivated!

 

[Eric Salop]

Clear skies took us down to 4C/39F last night. This morning the sun would be doing a good job of pushing the mercury back up the scale, except for the fact that nowadays my thermometer is a solid state electronic thing, insteady of smooth flowing liquid metal.

When I was young I had a jar in which I saved the mercury from broken thermometers. I used to clean the zinc sheeted top of my dad's greenhouse potting bench, pour the mercury on and flick it around with my finger. Quite fascinating stuff to play with when you don't know it is toxic.


Ok Dave, you are excused rock picking for a week - any longer and we want to see a note from home. When you stop looking at your finger end ( watching how something is healing is always interesting, wonder if your fingerprint alters too ?), you can at least spend the rest of your rest day reading the manual for your new baby from cover to cover.

 

[wngsprd]

67 going to 90. No chance of rain for a while and yesterday's big storm barely skirted by here.

Eric, I used to play with mercury, too! I guess what we didn't know back then could kill us. I think you get the award for first day in the 30's this season.

Dave, glad you got the finger looked at...good encouragement from your friends on TBN. Have fun with the new Forester. My son bought one in April and loves it.

Drew, I'm with Roy on making your place the way you want it. Of course, you've been at it for a year on the house and orchard and may just need a rest.

I think I finally got my riding mower running right yesterday, after having replaced some front end parts, by performing an alignment. Man I was happy to take it out and mow for an hour.

I'm heading out to enjoy the nice big blue moon before it sets, while I feed the birds.

 

[bakerg]

Good morning, 66F headed for clear skies and 88F. Going to be a fantastic Civic Holiday weekend. Time off work to get back splash installed in bathroom.

 

[Thomas]

58F now mid 80's for high.
Little cooler today compare last 3 days,and mother nature sure gave everything much needed 2 hour rain yesterday.

Friday

Enjoy the day all.

 

[daugen]

Drew, I'm with Roy on making your place the way you want it.

Well I've done that pretty well so far but my pockets aren't deep enough to do it all. Sound familiar?...
and being a retired financial planner, I know that if I eat my principal, and don't get it back, that's just less income in retirement. I've approached this whole place with a "you are only going to do this once" attitude because frankly my arthritis/degenerative disc disease will put me in a ccc within ten years. Fifteen years ago I was told i would be in a wheelchair in ten years. No, I'm happily sitting in my Kubota instead. And walking miles every day. But the handwriting is on the wall. And I have no kids to give the place to. So...whatever I spend I have to think about the forest as well as the trees. Like we all do. If I were younger or had a family, I would do things differently. But I have always known I would have to sell this place when the time came to either go to a ccc or an over 55 full care place. Thankfully I bought plenty of long term care insurance a long time ago, but I still have to preserve most of my retirement principal to live off.

Money isn't a good topic for this thread but we all know it affects what we can buy and the choices we make.
For years that guy's garage vision has been in my head and on my bucket list. But since my woodshop is airconditioned and comfortable, with a bunch of old rolling office chairs for seats, at least I have someplace to escape the heat and work.
So instead of swinging for my home run, I'll be content, for now, with a double. Keep the runners moving...

 

[ronjhall]

Stopped at Tim Horton's for my first cup of coffee. 61° with clear skies this morning. Heading to 83° with sunny skies until early evening. Then some thunderstorms. Got a call early this morning. My mother was having breathing problems. She is stabilized and I am back home for awhile. Going to be a long day.
Drew, I would like to put up a building to store the motorhome in. But I should have done that 10 years ago when I bought it. For now I keep using the sunbrella cover I bought in 2006. It's going to last until I sell motorhome.
Eric, playing with mercury was a thing many of us did. Not sure it has affected my health yet. :muttering::fiery:
Good Morning All.

 

[ronjhall]

Stopped at Tim Horton's for my first cup of coffee. 61° with clear skies this morning. Heading to 83° with sunny skies until early evening. Then some thunderstorms. Got a call early this morning. My mother was having breathing problems. She is stabilized and I am back home for awhile. Going to be a long day.
Drew, I would like to put up a building to store the motorhome in. But I should have done that 10 years ago when I bought it. For now I keep using the sunbrella cover I bought in 2006. It's going to last until I sell motorhome.
Eric, playing with mercury was a thing many of us did. Not sure it has affected my health yet. :muttering: :fiery:
Good Morning All.

 

[farmer2009]

70 this morning and headed to 92 today. Another day of lower humidity. Picked up the materials yesterday for the building. Enough 2x4's to have it ready for metal hopefully. Then I think I got enough to add a shed to it. I know it's not even built yet and I'm adding on. But this way I can tie it all in better.

Off to care for chickens. 94,000 cherpers. Then back to building I guess.

Dave glad you had the finger looked at. I didn't know that about the peroxide. But I use it as an initial cleaner then don't use it again unless it gets infected or really dirty. I forget the rate but watch using Neosporin on major cuts. A significant portion of the population is allergic to the neomycin. I'm thinking they told mom she was in with like 30 or 50% of the population. But don't remember.

Ron thoughts with your family and mom.

Drew without family to leave the estate to and being pretty certain of your date your leaving the place for an acf. I don't know how much I'd worry bout having any money left when you get there. From my experience of family members in a nursing home it's better to walk in with only lint in your pockets. Because then ss and Medicare kick in. And they have nothing to lien and try and recoup some money from. With my great grandfather Medicare released the lien on his property because the appraisal was so low. Less than 10k. So his kids get to keep it. But said if it would have had a significant value they would have had like 1/3 interest. But sounds like you've given some thought of it so maybe you know more than I do about the subject. How about a wood pole barn instead of the metal frame?