Good morning!!!!

[buckeyefarmer]

Truecar numbers are bogus. Dealer i went to has internet prices listed couple k under the truecar best value price.

Missed a good deal on a 2016 sonata closeout, 6k under msrp. They still got some, but not in colors i want. Test drove one, liked it.

Probably will get an elantra.

 

[lostcreekranch]

My understanding of TruCar is they try to get into your deal to get a kickback from the dealer you choose?

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 60F this morning got up to 77F wind with mostly cloudy skies. Getting ready for trip, van is loaded with plywood, got all the hardware rounded from the seat, got boat hooked up, no trailer lights. Grounding pin on trailer plug is gone, so off to Oreillys to get new plug for trailer. Solder it on and what do you know , lights are working

 

[Buppies]

Decent day of work raked up front yard while wife mowed cut up dead pine tree that fell onto our property ate lunch looked at prospective job then more yard work. Picked up service truck from detailer out for nice dinner with bride then now waiting to get sleepy. Nice day to work outside but got warmer than weather man said 73.

Bill congrats on getting married maybe you will visit more often now

 

[rswyan]

Just knocked off, time for a little nap ... should wake up just in time for it to be warm enough to go out and do a little ... GRAPPLIN' !

 

[Ed of all trades]

:thumbsup:

Did you also see the research that came out this week concerning vegtable oils. None are good for heart disease. So if your Dr. recomends a vegtable oil instead of lard he is not up to date in nutritional research.

http://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/353/bmj.i1246.full.pdf
Conclusions
"Available evidence from randomized controlled trials shows that replacement of saturated fat in the diet with linoleic acid efectively lowers serum cholesterol but does not support the hypothesis that this translates to a lower risk of death from coronary heart disease or all causes."

The hypothesis that this occures is because of the fats oxidation effect on blood vessels.

My Cardiologist has been saying this for years - "ALL fats/oils are bad".

I did not, but I already know that all fat is bad. I try to eat so that my diet is 75% starch and 25% veg whole food no fat or as close as you can. A few weeks ago I took my wife out to eat and she wanted to go to cracker barrel. I had some veggies and she had some veggies with a piece of country ham. My weakness has always been country ham so I tried a little piece. It did not taste good at all. My taste has changed. Feel better too. Ed

 

[Ed of all trades]

Good morning all. #5 Here at 5:30 am and going to 73 today. Went to bed early last night, about 9:30 and slept till 4:30. Got some quiet time and am hoping for a quiet relaxing day. Do hope to get some heavy duty porch setting done today, just hope it ain't to much work. Ed

 

[Ed of all trades]

Just knocked off, time for a little nap ... should wake up just in time for it to be warm enough to go out and do a little ... GRAPPLIN' !



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That grapple looks great, Looking for the action video. Ed

 

[wngsprd]

36 heading to 72 and sunny.

RS, that grapple looks awesome. Looks like you've already had a little fun with it in the dirt. Your thread on building it is quite informative.

Started working on adding on to my little post and beam tractor barn. Originally built it with no experience, drawing plans "on a napkin" 27 years ago as a goat barn, for storing hay, grain, room for a milking stand, plus built a feeding trough on one wall. Later converted it to use for horses, then most recently as a place to store garden tools and park my tractor. Never thought it would last this long. It is all board and batten from green pine cut at a nearly mill. To pull my tractor in, I took the right side wall boards off.

It has a shed style roof, and I plan to do a mirror image addition on the front. I'll take the front boards off, cut and reuse most of them on the new lower wall. I'll reuse the old right side boards on the new addition left side.

I used red cedar posts cut from my woods and now one has rotted through at ground level. So cut another 12 footer and placed adjacent yesterday. I was surprised how dry the ground already is while digging the hole. Also had to take down some adjacent gates and fencing. The carpenter bees were using one of the old cedar fence posts, and were not happy when I started hammering to remove fencing nails. I figured I'd give the few nails left until this morning when the bees are too cold to come out.

 

[aTexasYankee]

60°F and rain in North Texas. Lots of it. Lots and lots of it. We're expecting 12" + in the next 24 - 48 hours. Ouch. I have severe flooding already! Guess I know what I'll be doing after it stops.... Drainage work. Wish I was better at this. Been battling bad designed homesite for over a year now trying to figure out which way to push the rain. This attempt failed, on to the next one.