Good morning!!!!

[sodamo]

70°F and .19 inches rain

Off to town. Breakfast and take guests to airport

Be safe
Have a great day

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[rswyan]

You might consider cutting before they send the notice?

Ya think ?

 

[toppop52]

OK, We just call it barbecue chicken. Lot of it where we just moved from, in rockingham county Va poultry is huge and a ride to to most small towns will take you past 2 or 3 groups selling barbecue chicken halves. Ed

It's a differewnt than restaurant BBQ chicken or typically what you grill or make at home, different sauce, cooked for an hour over indirect heat, etc... But in the end, it is indeed BBQ chicken.

Good afternoon, hot and humid now and later.

 

[Ed of all trades]

It's a differewnt than restaurant BBQ chicken or typically what you grill or make at home, different sauce, cooked for an hour over indirect heat, etc... But in the end, it is indeed BBQ chicken.

Good afternoon, hot and humid now and later.

Here we use a "pit" that is just 3 layers of block with pipe and wire racks. Charcoal is spread in it and it takes about 4 hrs. Sauce is a vinegar base. They get $3.50 a half. Ed

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

So I'm standing in a ditch, knocking off fire ants, 100 degrees, 100 miles from home, looking at a blowout tire on my trailer, thinking of poor Whipper who was attacked by something having surgery and 60 stitches to patch up her belly thinking this kind of day is making Ed's tea by the pool look better and better.

Pooh, bad day at Blackrock...glad whipper is better. You know how I feel about hogs. A bullet in the ear and leave em for the buzzards if they weigh over 80lbs.

Whipper will spend the night at the vet.
Sitting in discount tire waiting for new tires to be installed. We should be back to normal by tomorrow

Would that be the new normal, old normal or what? Hard to tell what's normal anymore.

way too long day Don, sorry you went through it.

I came in at 2pm and that's all I could do. 108 heat index.
Can't imagine what the colonists did living in this area without a/c.
I bet they smelled pretty bad...

Never did get back to the rototiller; spent time with helper doing roadside ditches, myself on the Gravely mowing light brush.
Helper starts tomorrow mowing the lawn; then I can work on the rototiller. And get the orchard sprayer filled. Lot of bugs, whole lot of bugs.

The colonists built dog run timber homes for the breeze and still died from malaria and cholera and who knows what else. Times were tough and life expectancy was short.

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Thanks y'all. For a cell phone can I install it from the download of do they have an app?

 

[toppop52]

Here we use a "pit" that is just 3 layers of block with pipe and wire racks. Charcoal is spread in it and it takes about 4 hrs. Sauce is a vinegar base. They get $3.50 a half. Ed

Here also, I meant cooking at home, just different than the typical qtrs or pieces cooked directly on the grill, this is on the grill, but I add a tall rack and cook it away from the heat, makes it similar to pit in taste. I've threatened to build a pit, can't get much simpler than they are.

 

[daugen]

Ya think ?

you gotta love it...stop screwing around and mow your grass RS!
You got to get off that couch once in a while, stop eating the cheese curls and do some work!

I have to ask my very close friend, the retired health officer, who also wound up handling lawn complaints, about the most creative excuses
given for not mowing a lawn. You know, like my hydraulic oil is backordered from Peru...

 

[daugen]

91 feels like 104 and my helper started at 7am. So I started at 7am and just came in before 4. Way too long a day.
But the tiller is done. Surprised how much the cork gasket smushed out, I guess I could razor blade it to make it look nice.
maybe...
Only took one quart of gear oil until it ran out the hole, not a big reservoir but I guess it doesn't need to be.
Opened the rear portion of the tiller to find the top fill hole for the center gearbox, and no fill, none. Just a side fill, squirt in until it dribbles out.
Needed some, so that's all done, everything is lubed and ready to go.
I had to chuckle at the creativity of the prior owner, who welded the two most common sockets needed to take things apart on the tiller right onto a removable bar, so he carries his tools with him. Never saw that before.

 

[toppop52]

Hotter than a *****'s heartbreak here, about like Drew, "feel real" as our guy calls it is 101°.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

9Surprised how much the cork gasket smushed out, I guess I could razor blade it to make it look nice.

I'd venture to say those nuts are too tight, and the cover is bowed so that the gasket got squished out there but not between the studs. But I wouldn't loosen it now for fear of breaking the seal. Too much sealant can also cause this, as the gasket slides on it instead of sticking to the sealing surfaces. It'll probably work fine the way it is, but if it doesn't, you'll know what to do next time. :laughing:

 

[Ed of all trades]

I'd venture to say those nuts are too tight, and the cover is bowed so that the gasket got squished out there but not between the studs. But I wouldn't loosen it now for fear of breaking the seal. Too much sealant can also cause this, as the gasket slides on it instead of sticking to the sealing surfaces. It'll probably work fine the way it is, but if it doesn't, you'll know what to do next time. :laughing:

Yep That's right. Ed

 

[RoyJackson]

Good morning! Whipper's home recovering. She seems content on resting in the AC.

Good Doggie!!
Good Doggie!!

 

[daugen]

the gasket provided seemed too long on the bottom and stuck out quite a ways. Yes it squeezed out near the nuts, but I was using a manual socket drive and did not bear down. It "smushed" out very easily. I could have tightened more...but didn't. Did not see any deformed metal though it easily could have if I had tightened it more. . And so far, dry as a bone. Yes, maybe a little sliding on the caulk, forced in part by the excess gasket finding a home. Any home... All good points and appreciated. Vertical gaskets are always a little more challenging than horizontal ones.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good afternoon all. 78F this morning, mostly clear skies today, peak @ 97F and feels like 112F. Got my ride in this morning, during the less hot part of the day, Tree guy showed @ 11AM and changed the balance of TMA list. 2 more elm trees cut down and 2 oak trees trimmed up. Back to regularly scheduled activities tomorrow.

 

[mostly_gas]

Don hope today was better for you!! Good to hear Whipper is on the mend.

Dreww the nuts are too tight. When you have sheet metal covers way too easy to over-torque. I like to use thread lock in that situation, blue Loctite to keep nuts from backing off.

RNG sorry about your internet issues, have not had to have satellite based internet don't hear much good about it.

Farmer, hope you get the remodel done prior to new arrival!

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Good morning! Whipper's home recovering. She seems content on resting in the AC.

Don loves whipper so much, he let her sit on grandma's hand stitched blanket. Almost like Eric putting the grease gun on you know what...

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Thunder to the north, but according to radar won't hit here.
Sitting outside at the farm after my Mom's funeral today.
Turkeys just crossed the field, didn't seem too bothered by us. Expect to see the deer soon.

 

[toppop52]

Thunder to the north, but according to radar won't hit here.
Sitting outside at the farm after my Mom's funeral today.
Turkeys just crossed the field, didn't seem too bothered by us. Expect to see the deer soon.

I'm really sorry you lost your mom, mine is 93 and lives with us now. I see her losing a little strength all the time, but not many guys our age still have our moms, I'll never be ready to lose her.

 

[RoyJackson]

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67 right now...a bit cooler today with a high of 85...maybe (hopefully) some rain too

 

[Eric Salop]

Whipper's home recovering. She seems content on resting in the AC.

Oh no, poor Whipper got whipped. Good job she was found before any other critter she persecuted in the past took advantage of her weekend state. Do hope she heals well, maybe the time she is spending indoors will persuade her to stay closer to home in future .

Guess you shared a fair bit of the pain for an injury like that Don, when it came time to pay the vet's bill.

(PS Tell Whipper I'm sorry if I hurt her feelings when I called "her" a "him" in the past :ashamed: , I was word blind to her tough approach to life)