Good Morning! 67 F @ 6:00AM. Plentiful sunshine. High 93F. Winds W at 5 to 10 mph.
It is always easy to put on another layer of clothing, keeping cool is a different matter entirely and not something we do often enough to get good at.
Well now, perhaps that, rather than Lucas refrigerators, explains the British proclivity toward warm beer? :laughing: On a more serious note (I really do prefer a good English bitter served at cellar temperature to most anything brewed on these shores), it does help explain why British motorcycles of the '70s (their last gasp before Triumph's relatively recent revival) were prone to over heating, and seemed to run much better in the late fall, winter, and early spring. Except, of course, when it was raining, as all "featured" the notoriously unreliable Lucas electrical systems.:laughing:
RNG I noticed the frost advisory just north of you, are you going to have a cool day?
I noticed that too, Ed, when I watched the news last night. Yesterday was very nice, with a high in the low 80s, but today and for the rest of the week we'll be in the 90s and 100s again. Alturas, CA, probably the largest burg in the area subject to the frost warnings, is a couple hundred miles north of here and on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada/Cascade ranges. It's also at a much higher elevation (4370' vs 1200'), and their temperatures are always much cooler than here. Down right miserable in the winter, in fact!
No wonder my fish catching is not up to snuff...I don't know the good tricks...Ivory, WD-40, cod liver, and dope.
I don't know about the other stuff, but maybe with the dope neither you nor the fish care if anything's biting?:shocked:
She is resisting coming back inside from her walks, she plants her butt on the ground and increases the gravity field around her by 93%.
:laughing::laughing::laughing: Sounds like she's feeling much better, Don! I hope for both your sakes she gets a clean bill of health soon.
The floor is sealed up and the ceiling is fixed. I had pulled a sky light out several years ago when it started to leak. But only fixed the roof. Never fixed the ceiling until now. Walls are framed for closet and bathtub. So now some plumbing when I get back to it.
Sounds like you're scoring some major brownie points there, Farmer! :thumbsup:
Spent most of the morning spraying weeds again, finding that what looked like mostly clear field was in fact just more sparsely populated. The yellow star thistle plants were much shorter, and therefore harder to see, but were still thick enough that spot spraying would have missed too many of them. And since just one plant can put out 50,000 seeds, it was back to blanket spraying with the boom. Put out another 40 gallons, then got a call from the body man neighbor, saying his eye was feeling much better, and he was going to do some spray painting in his barn this morning. I had more questions for him about painting, so I rode the Kubota side by side down there to take a look. Picked up a few tips, and saw that he had as much or more dust in his paint as I do in mine, but then he hadn't put up his plastic paint booth for the little job he was doing. When he saw the spray rig on the back of the Kubota he asked how it worked, and I offered to show him if he had any weeds to spray. Around here that's a bit like asking if the Pope's Catholic, so off we went. There were only a couple of gallons left in the tank, but we did manage to douse one of his smaller fields. It was nice to help him out, as after the recent uncompensated time off he'd taken for his eye problem, money is a little tight and purchasing glyphosate isn't a big priority when there are mouths to feed.
When I got home I saw a post on a mailing list from someone complaining that the web site I help maintain had been hacked. I let my partner in crime know, and he was quick to dismiss the claim, as in his experience Norton Antivirus is very quick to incorrectly assign blame. Never the less, I ran a few scans on the site, coming up empty handed, and since we'd received no other reports of problems, posted back to the mailing list with the results. I also questioned why the original poster hadn't notified we webmasters, instead choosing to stir up concern on an unaffiliated mailing list. This morning I got an email from the offending poster, admitting that the malware attack he'd suffered did not come from our site, but alleged that the link that led to the attack was from our site. And that he'd found the offending page using a search engine, but couldn't convey to us the URL of the page. I responded that most modern web browsers keep a history of the visited pages, and by sorting that list by date/time, he could easily retrieve the URL of our infected page. And if he would be so kind as to forward that URL, we would be happy to remove the offending link. In reality, there's no telling what results were returned by whatever search engine he was using, and at this point I'm pretty certain the infected link came from his search results and not our web site. This person has had an ax to grind with our club for a long time, and has used his posts on the mailing list to make a long string of damaging allegations against us. So I suspect his response to my request will yield no more information, and I'll have to restrain myself when I follow up to the mailing list that it was all just another false alarm.
Hope everyone's week gets off to a great start!
