Good morning!!!!

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning! 39F in Terre Haute, IN. Partly cloudy. High 63F. Winds ENE at 5 to 10 mph.

Well, the kid screamin' up and down the hall showed up right on time this morning: 2:20AM. He brought the whole clodhopper wearing family with 'im. Shoulda gotten up to see which room they disappeared into so I could arrange a nice 5AM wake up call for the whole miserable bunch.

Oh, and did I mention that they're rewiring the cable system, and there was no TV reception last night? And no hot water for a good shower this morning? Well, at least I'm awake now! And the real cherry on top: dog slow Internet. I'll be paying my respects at the front desk on the way out.

TGIF folks! Seems like this week's been a year long.

 

[Larro Darro]

Good Morning. 0700, partly cloudy, 64F with 97% humidity. Forecast high of 79F with no chance of rain today, and a low of 60F tonight. The rain has been pushed back until Saturday night into Sunday.

Today is a good planting day, so I'm putting more seeds in the dirt. The plan is for Acorn, Zucchini and Crook Neck Squash, Marketmore and Armenian Cucumbers, and anything else that I find in my seed collection that there's room for. Also need to put the Cherub Tomato sprouts in cups and up-pot the Yellow Pear Tomatoes. Got my first New Mexico Chili pepper and Pruden's Purple tomato sprouts yesterday.

You guys have a good one,

Larro

 

[ronjhall]

Drinking first cup of coffee. 58° with clear skies this morning. Heading to 88° with plenty of sun. RV park I am in is having a patio sale. While getting the stuff out of compartments that I wanted to sell. Neighbor came by to say hello. He and a friend bought all the stuff I wanted to sell. What to do today. Relax on the patio and plan tomorrows trip to antique tractor show.
RNG, yup you are listing all the reasons for not staying in motel/hotels. Love travel with the motorhome. But do not cover as many miles per day as you are. Safe travels.
Drew, hope you have a safe trip.
Good Morning All.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 62˚ heavy clouds, might get some more rain, it's like the UK around here - sopping wet. With the 4-6 inches in the county this week the ponds are overflowing and the creeks are touching the bridges.

The dew berries are blooming and the grasses are still low from the winter. When the berries are ripe in a month the grasses are high and I cant find them. This year I printed out a google map of the farm and drove around and marked the dewberry patches. I have a total of 48 little patches marked out. The rains hit perfect so this will be a bumper year.

My Dad's chain link yard fence gate is giving me grief. I tried to replace the rusted through bottom rail but it broke off in the side bracket. I brought the gate home and bought all the pieces for a new frame, so even if it rains I can work on it today.

Eric thanks for the heads up on Dr. Thorne, my wife will want the book to get a head start.

RNG you got the script to make a good commerical for RV motorhomes.

TGIF - well not really, being retired for every day it's actually TGIS.

 

[farmer2009]

51 this morning and headed to 65 today. Cloudy today then rain back in forecast for the weekend.

Need to run some errands today and might get back to some maintenance in the chicken coops. Then when wife gets off work it's to the funeral home for a family friend. He's really had a hard road the last 10-12 years.

RNG & Drew. Safe travels. The other drivers are what makes traveling so bad.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

RNG, almost every cheaper hotel has some "cheap" stories the next day. Safe travels.

Larro, I envy your gardening knowledge and the time you get to spend doing it.

wngsprd and top, sounds like you 2 might have crossed paths at some point.

ron, glad that you lightened your load a bit. When are y'all headed back home again?

Drew, it is usually much cheaper to just have stuff delivered and dumped. I wanted some special crushed granite for a walkway and patio area. It cost me over $400 for the load to be hauled from about 100 miles away. I now am thinking about getting some mushroom dirt (turkey manure and straw) compost hauled up here. It stinks considerably while fresh. The compost is relatively cheap, but the hauling is pricey.

Drew, any advise would be appreciated:
Today is my "off" Friday. Last week while spraying the yard with weed killer, I noticed some shingle tabs on the ground around our large yard. I went ahead and called in a wind damage claim. The adjuster called me and told me he was busy and asked if we have noticed any leaks in the house. I said at the time NO. He said he prioritizes claims by "if they are leaking". Well, we've had over 3" rain in the last few days and my wife found water has leaked into the wall on the east side of my home, dripping onto the bathroom window ledge. I had noticed a very musty smell yesterday in there. So this morning, I will call him. Are there any "code" words I should not use or use? I was planning to just say as little as possible and wait to see what he says, but I know this company can be a bit on the cheap side for paying claims. What to do, what to do?

 

[mkr7734]

Hi guys,

A chilly 38 but heading to 56 with abundant sun. So could be worse. Mark and Mark came over yesterday and we went out for lunch at Sandie's tap and then came home to my place set up the range sited one gun and shot other guns then drank beer. I think Mark K wants my Henry Golden Boy 22LR. So I told him if he finds me a Henry Big Boy 357MAG I will pay him the difference it cost over the Golden boy. I already have an everyday 22LR and I had only shot the Golden Boy twice since I got it. It just hangs on the wall. So this way I will have a rifle that uses the same load as my S&W hand gun.

Travel can suck for sure when you stay in the cheap motels. When I was still working I traveled a lot and you had to stay where Cat wanted you to. Most of those places were okay but some were nightmares.

Still waiting on the quote for the gravel.

 

[toppop52]

I recall that you're from my old stomping grounds. That's why we call culverts tiles. I hunted quail, snow geese and swans on a couple of big farms opposite the Dismal Swamp south of Deep Creek on 17 near NC line. Spent lots of time in Indian River and Great Bridge and made a few beer runs to Moyock when a teenager or on the way surfing at Hatteras.

Yesterday went to Southampton County, a few miles north of the NC line.

My uncle's farm was just below Deep Creek, across the canal, had to turn a barge around to drive across, he and his boys were big time hunters and fishermen. I'm 63 and the boys are all older than me. I was born in Moyock, at the office of Dr. Romm. I was raised in South Mills, NC. Spent many lost weekends at the Casino in Nags Head.

 

[toppop52]

65° to 69° today, cloudy and breezy, but still great for March.

 

[rswyan]

43.4F and overcast @ 11:00 ... high of 48 predicted for the day.

Used the first sink in the main bathroom yesterday, shut off the water and hear a steady dink dink dink noise ... metal trap pipe is rotted out.

Got up this morning and headed into the head and there's a note from The Woman: "This sink is leaking ..."

Forgot to tell her last night when she got home

So probably a trip to The Depot to pick up a replacement pipe ... will grab the photocell for the HPS light on the polebarn while I'm there ... assuming I can remember it.

Called local Stihl dealer yesterday to price a replacement chainsaw for the one that was stolen, looks like around $700 for something comparable. Need to stop by the local PD and pick up a copy of the incident report for insurance. This will be the first non-auto claim I have filed in the last 35 or 40 years.

No further emails from alarm company no. 2 ... tick-tock ...