Good morning!!!!

[RoyJackson]

2016-04-28, 0322

a chilly 28 right now...warming to a pleasant 54 today...

 

[Eric Salop]

Good morning. A cold start to the day again -1C/30F. We can expect a few more days of hail, snow showers and brief glimpses of sunshine to see out the rest of April. Have run out of fire wood close to the house. There is plenty of dry stuff under cover, however most of it needs splitting. I got the axe out and did enough for one day the old way. That was enough nostalgia for this year, I will get the hydraulic splitter out today.


RNG - can you please do a temporary spray of undercoat ASAP ? Kyle has now gone and got us all thinking of cat puke when we see your Vanagon, which doesn't go too well with breakfast cereals. :laughing:



RS, as someone who has been heavily involved in trying to locate someone escaping from the police, I thought this story I saw yesterday may appeal to you :-

A group of children were out on an Easter egg hunt when they saw two men running away from the police. The men split up and ran in opposite directions. The children saw the police helicopter circling and looking in the wrong direction for the second man. Instead of jumping up and down and waving like a typical bunch of excited children, they lay down on the ground and formed a human arrow, pointing which way to search. Children form human arrow to lead police to suspects BBC News - YouTube

 

[Buppies]

Cool story Eric hopefully your dog gets better David

61 this morning and rain cloudy rainy all day today high of 70 sting storms possible but to me it's going to be to cool for much of that

 

[daugen]

rain has finally arrived and it is pounding down, more than an inch predicted today and wow, look at next week, lot of precip coming.
I was going to move the travel trailer to a local campground today but now I'll just wait until tomorrow when the rain stops.
So it looks like an inside day the way the rain is coming down. Good day to finish fixing up my "new" office. So far I'm being good not to leave
new piles, but a piler not a filer I am.

 

[Thomas]

28F clear sky mid 50's for high.

Junk dealer show up last evening and left w/good load now I got lot room for goodies.

Dang Tom turkey was love calling this morning,guess its time for plan B.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[ronjhall]

Coffee is done brewing. 40° with cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 47° with rain. Made it home after all yesterday. Beat the rain. Need to recover from to many hours driving yesterday. MDOT seems to think closing freeways is best way to do repairs instead of doing one side at a time. Nice to sleep in our home after 5 months on the road. Lots of cleanup to do in the yard. Then get mower ready for first good day to cut lawn. It's 10" high in places.
David, best wishes for your dog.
Good Morning All.

 

[daugen]

NASA maps Zika's potential spread in the U.S. - CNN.com

highly recommend you see where you are on this map. Larro....you had better slather yourself with lots of bug spray. Though I think at your age you might not be fathering dozens of children any more, still best not to get bit by the "roach" of the mosquito family.

Welcome home Ron and David.

 

[daugen]

TBN Members
this is from another thread on a mildly controversial issue, a map of all the members. Voluntary of course, many folks want their privacy.
But if you want to participate, another member set this up. And now I know that Shropshire is South of Liverpool, so our good friend the Earl of Shropshire
must have grown up on the Beatles. Eric, you must have some tales to tell.

 

[Ed of all trades]

Good morning all. 58 going to 64 today and showers forecast for the next week. There was a quote from someone at the command center for the fire that said the fire season is over. I am very thankful for the rain, more for the firefighters than for me. I'll just have to mow grass but they can quit eating smoke 16 hrs a day. Going to turn in the signed contract for the house at the bank today for the new house. Other than that I am in the I NEED A NAP mode and hope to get one today.
David hope you dog is better soon.
The Earl of Shropshire be careful in the snow and thanks for the story.--->

Ed

 

[Ed of all trades]

NASA maps Zika's potential spread in the U.S. - CNN.com

highly recommend you see where you are on this map. Larro....you had better slather yourself with lots of bug spray. Though I think at your age you might not be fathering dozens of children any more, still best not to get bit by the "roach" of the mosquito family. .

You never know, I know of a guy back in the mountains many years ago that married a young wife. He was in his 50's and she was 16. They had a good long marriage and his grandson said they loved each other and had a good marriage. He fathered his last child when he was almost 70. Larro is not that old yet is he. Ed

 

[farmer2009]

62 this morning and headed to 81. .92 inches of rain yesterday evening. NWS did confirm an EF-1 yesterday in Evansville, IN. About 1 1/2-2 hours away. Today they'll have more to investigate. There is damage west and northeast of me.

As for plans for today. Think I'm going to be in the chicken coops. Although I need to run and borrow a trailer for a trip tomorrow.

David. Hope dogs better.

Ron. It's always good to be home.

 

[rswyan]

46F with light rain, high today only in the 50's ...

Waiting for ATT repair to show up and fix broadband/landline phone.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 67˚ light fog. It got to 92˚ yesterday when mowing the yard and for the first time this year I was attacked by mosquitos but only by the front gate not by the house. The vegetation is different in the black land than the sandy land on the hill. There are thousands of water puddles in every low spot in the blackland that would normally dry in a few days but it keeps raining every few days. Another storm is headed here tomorrow.

We are in the Low area for Zika.
NASA Released This Zika Forecast Map Today | Inverse

Eric, good arrow story.

 

[txdon]

I figured out the vegetation that is keeping the mosquitos away from the house in the sand land - HORSEMINT

It has the same smell and effect on mosquitos as citronella. It is a common "weed" around the house that has now gained a new status.

 

[toppop52]

50's now, 50's later, cool, damp, showers, mist and generally ugly.

 

[300UGUY]

81 and going to 86 in sunny Florida! Found a excellent coffee shop, I'm a happy boy!

Visiting my folks for a few days. Then back to Michigan to continue the spring chores.

Have a good one guys!

 

[wngsprd]

56 going to 63 and raining.

I need to plant some of that horsemint!

 

[mkr7734]

Good, Late Morning, Weather is much the same here as it is for toppop52. Just waiting to go donate blood at 12:30.
Here is two pictures of one of my smallest tractors. :laughing:

 

[rswyan]

Internet back up and running ... at least for the moment. The tech has me temporarily hooked up on a good pair for the time being, until another tech can make a permanent repair.

Spoke with the Assistant (Jennifer Watson) to the Lead Prosecutor for Summit County (Brad Guessner) yesterday and she wanted me to leave a message for her boss, so she was going to transfer me to his voicemail and he actually picked when she transferred the call. Spent a little time talking to him, no promises ... other than to check into the possibility of reclassifying Seth for extradition.

I also mentioned the federal felony aspect, and he said that he'd never seen the Feds prosecute anyone for it for the 30-some years he's been a prosecutor. That's another aspect to creating a nation of scofflaws, in addition to disrespect for the judiciary: create a law and then don't bother to enforce it.

Gave me the name the local US Attorney and wished me good luck in getting him to return my call.

No call back from Hernando County Deputy Belfry, just called and asked Dispatch to pass another message to him and suggested she really might want to have me give him a call ... since I ain't going away ...

Need to find out what Seth's disposition will be if Monroe County (or anyone else) doesn't extradite him and he can't bond out ... got to figure they won't keep locked up forever.

 

[rswyan]

Managed to finally get the Weather Pack connector installed yesterday ... then promptly went out and got the tractor stuck in the mud.

Not only that, while I was trying to unstick it by using sticking the lower rake teeth in the ground and curling back, I managed to unhook one side of the grapple and tweak the SSQA a little.

Fortunately I was able to chain it up and my neighbor was out on his JD getting some topsoil for his wife and he came down and gave me that little extra pull that I needed to get unstuck.

Turned out that the SSQA wasn't so badly tweaked that I couldn't remount the grapple and use it (away from the mud ... :laughing ... but it's going to need some work to get it back to where it fits really securely. Best news out of that whole deal: no welds broke ...

Took down two more trees (one ash, one poplar) in the area I'm clearing.

Frustrating day to be sure.