Good morning!!!!

[wngsprd]

Good Morning! 50F @ 5:00 AM. Sunny. High 72F. Winds light and variable.

Made it back home in one shot yesterday with just two stops for fuel. I80 west out of Rawlins was open, with packed snow and ice that had been plowed and sanded. Caught up to a semi and just followed him to his exit, then followed another that was getting on at that entrance ramp. Figured these folks know the road conditions and I was right. Saw one goose neck house trailer on its side, but that was the only accident in the 150 miles to where the road finally thawed out. It was wet from there to Salt Lake City, then dry for the rest of the trip. Very happy to be home, and that I don't have to put up with that weather anymore.

Noticed a screeching and clunking coming from under the hood as I went down the driveway, and I suspect that the harmonic damper or belt tensioning pulley is on the way out. Will look at it later this morning, but both are apparently common failures at this mileage (160K miles). No rain in the forecast for at least a week, so it won't be much of an inconvenience to be motorcycle mounted for errands (the cupboards are bare here except for the milk I brought home in the cooler

Glad you made it home safely...I was watching the weather and snow cover maps on your path home.

 

[TNTurf]

Welcome to tbn

Thank you! Good to be here.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Back in the 80s I was a plant manager for a Farm Service Co. for 3 years. We supplied fertilizer and chemicals to licensed farmers and did custom applications of both. At that time the herbicides were not as concentrated as they are today and you had to mix gallons and gallons of herbicide to water to do a field. Today it is ounces to gallons and gallons of water. Even then we spent a lot of time schooling to apply the chemicals and you had to have a license to do it or buy any. Today it seems anyone can get their hands on some wicked stuff and do what they want. That is scary.

I can't speak for Illinois but, in Texas, you have to have a Private Applicators License to purchase restricted herbicides. Renews every 5 years with continuing education required between renewals. I've had mine since early 1990's.

 

[mkr7734]

I can't speak for Illinois but, in Texas, you have to have a Private Applicators License to purchase restricted herbicides. Renews every 5 years with continuing education required between renewals. I've had mine since early 1990's.

Right Rick,
The key word is restricted.
That is the way it was here back then and I still think it is that way today but can't swear to it. One would hope so. We were always going to school to keep up with the progress with the new chemicals. But back then 2-4-D was restricted now anyone can walk into Farm and Fleet and buy as much as they want along with a lot of others that were restricted back in the 80s.

 

[daugen]

glad you are home ok RNG, you cleaned up a big mess and did good.
My potatoes are coming up and you're talking snow. :confused2:

passed a lot of short hair cuts on the way down and back from Wilmington today, 6 hours on the road, as I passed right by Camp LeJeune.
Got home in time to do a small amount of mowing before the rain started. Might be some thunderstorms tonight, but
basically wet weather has set in.

Boiled some shrimp for my houseguests tomorrow night, and found the icemaker on the Kenmore fridge jammed. Ice blockage somewhere and no easy access for repair.
It's the part in the door that's on strike, the inside part makes ice fine. Lot of plastic, all wants to break at the slightest touch...
Some of you guys are so handy you could fix this easily; I'm likely to make a huge watery mess on the floor and maybe fix it.
So I manually pawed out the ice for the colander and dumped the hot pink shrimp on the ice. Then took another bowl of ice I had mined out of the machine and dumped that ice on top. Quick cool down and the crunch of the shrimp is preserved. Who wants limp rubbery shrimp...

My houseguests asked what they could bring from PA and I said Kelchners cocktail sauce. Made with super fresh horseradish close to where I grew up and they don't have it anywhere in this area. Has to be kept refrigerated. I said if they would bring some Kelchners, I'd make shrimp.
That was considered a good deal by all.
Then some small strip steaks from the local butcher, sweet potato slices, steamed broccoli. Small steaks because I'm baking a cherry pie for desert, ala mode.

Sat morning breakfast will include fresh mixed fruit, cranberry-tangerine juice, cheddar dill omelettes with fresh local chicken sausage and low salt bacon. With a cinnamon raisin English muffin on the side. Then out they go and I get my house back. Running a B&B is a lot of work...
But then, she is my first wife...and her husband is a genuinely good friend of mine.
Never a dull moment. :dance1:

 

[Larro Darro]

Good Evening. 2055, overcast, 73F with 92%humidity. Our high today was 84F, and tonight's low is forecast to be 69F with 50% chance of thunderstorms. All day they have pushed back the time the thunderstorms are getting here. This morning it was at 1500, now it's at 0030. So far no rain. I stayed at the camp again last night, then worked in the garden all day. Got everything plowed and hoed, and transplanted carrots and onions. Things are still coming up.

Boiled some shrimp for my houseguests tomorrow night, and found the icemaker on the Kenmore fridge jammed. Ice blockage somewhere and no easy access for repair.
It's the part in the door that's on strike, the inside part makes ice fine. Lot of plastic, all wants to break at the slightest touch...
Some of you guys are so handy you could fix this easily; I'm likely to make a huge watery mess on the floor and maybe fix it.
So I manually pawed out the ice for the colander and dumped the hot pink shrimp on the ice. Then took another bowl of ice I had mined out of the machine and dumped that ice on top. Quick cool down and the crunch of the shrimp is preserved. Who wants limp rubbery shrimp...

:dance1:

Drew, it sounds like your ice is frozen together in the bin. Gently slam it open and shut as hard as you can without breaking it a few times and the ice will break up.

Hope you guys have a good one,

Larro

 

[300UGUY]

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glad you are home ok RNG, you cleaned up a big mess and did good.
My potatoes are coming up and you're talking snow. :confused2:

passed a lot of short hair cuts on the way down and back from Wilmington today, 6 hours on the road, as I passed right by Camp LeJeune.
Got home in time to do a small amount of mowing before the rain started. Might be some thunderstorms tonight, but
basically wet weather has set in.

Boiled some shrimp for my houseguests tomorrow night, and found the icemaker on the Kenmore fridge jammed. Ice blockage somewhere and no easy access for repair.
It's the part in the door that's on strike, the inside part makes ice fine. Lot of plastic, all wants to break at the slightest touch...
Some of you guys are so handy you could fix this easily; I'm likely to make a huge watery mess on the floor and maybe fix it.
So I manually pawed out the ice for the colander and dumped the hot pink shrimp on the ice. Then took another bowl of ice I had mined out of the machine and dumped that ice on top. Quick cool down and the crunch of the shrimp is preserved. Who wants limp rubbery shrimp...

My houseguests asked what they could bring from PA and I said Kelchners cocktail sauce. Made with super fresh horseradish close to where I grew up and they don't have it anywhere in this area. Has to be kept refrigerated. I said if they would bring some Kelchners, I'd make shrimp.
That was considered a good deal by all.
Then some small strip steaks from the local butcher, sweet potato slices, steamed broccoli. Small steaks because I'm baking a cherry pie for desert, ala mode.

Sat morning breakfast will include fresh mixed fruit, cranberry-tangerine juice, cheddar dill omelettes with fresh local chicken sausage and low salt bacon. With a cinnamon raisin English muffin on the side. Then out they go and I get my house back. Running a B&B is a lot of work...
But then, she is my first wife...and her husband is a genuinely good friend of mine.
Never a dull moment. :dance1:

That sounds like a complex relationship...��

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Boiled some shrimp for my houseguests tomorrow night, and found the icemaker on the Kenmore fridge jammed. Ice blockage somewhere and no easy access for repair.
It's the part in the door that's on strike, the inside part makes ice fine. Lot of plastic, all wants to break at the slightest touch...
Some of you guys are so handy you could fix this easily; I'm likely to make a huge watery mess on the floor and maybe fix it.

I'm handy, but I'm also lazy. Were it mine, I'd b tempted to let the stuff in the 'frige and freezer dwindle down until there's only enough to fit in the coolers I have available, then unplug the blasted thing and just let the ice jam melt. Yeah, it'd make that mess on the floor you mentioned, but it would fix the problem without a service call... :confused2:

 

[txdon]

I'm


That sounds like a complex relationship...��

Not if you consider the other guy took his problem away . . . and he is grateful for it.

 

[txdon]

My Dad's culvert extension is getting more complex all the time. The county has to put in the 10' extension but first all underground utilities must be marked. The telephone line will either have to be moved (our expense) or left to go under the new culvert extension. I can't see any reason not to leave it, and route it under the new culvert. It's probably bettter protected there than through the ditch where a good ditch cleaning might snag it.

The cattle guard might be delivered tomorrow. I have put 6 solid cement blocks (about 250#) on the box blade to keep the rear wheels down. If that fails I'll set one side down and have him pull the gooseneck trailer out while lifting up the other side. If the 18'X 15" L shaped cement beams fall they could get a bad crack and the cattleguard is heavier than mine was because it will have wings and a gate already on it.