Good morning!!!!

[Looking4new]

PJSprog, I only drive 3 1/2 hours to work in the spring and park the Jeep for the summer. The big truck takes me home all summer long and into the fall. All totaled over the course of the spring, summer and fall going back and forth to work costs me about $150.oo. I do more miles in the Jeep in the winter than I do in the other 3 seasons.

 

[Buppies]

Going out today to stake out my mole of choice!
Bunch of 50's-40's-30's over the next several days, some rain Sunday maybe. Upper 20's this morning, 51 later, same as yesterday.
Beard, no beard, I ain't looking 20, or 40, maybe 50 with enough shadows.
Gas here is around $2.15.

Let me know how this works out might have to try it.

Wish I still looked 50 but no beard not enough fur

Gas here the good stuff high test no ethanol $2.99 worth it to me

 

[Buppies]

Good Morning! 42F @ 7:45AM. Partly cloudy this morning, then becoming cloudy during the afternoon. Slight chance of a rain shower. High near 55F. Winds light and variable.

Bushwacked by paperwork yesterday, but did manage to get the holes filled in and the conduit buried again in the side yard. Found the piece of steel channel I've been looking for and placed that over the spot that was crushed, and made sure to keep rocks away from the rest of it so maybe it'll survive being driven over for a while.

Back on the radiator fan shroud today.

Happy Hump Day!

Happy Hump Day to you too sir

 

[txdon]

He says to leave on the existing roof and that it will provide the final barrier.

I guess the existing roof would be a good barrier as long as you don't put any nails in it. Is this the same guy that did not want insulation next to the metal because it causes rust - but the existing roof will not? Will the additional weight of the metal roof cause any sagging problems? does he have any references for putting metal over an existing roof that you can view? I really don't have any answers just questions.

 

[toppop52]

Let me know how this works out might have to try it.

Wish I still looked 50 but no beard not enough fur

Gas here the good stuff high test no ethanol $2.99 worth it to me

I have the outdoor cats on mole watch tonight, I'll relieve them just before daybreak, my new plan is just to shoot him before I turn on the light. No shadow! What could go wrong?

 

[Buppies]

It would be my luck to hit my neighbor in the tush

 

[txdon]

I have the outdoor cats on mole watch tonight, I'll relieve them just before daybreak, my new plan is just to shoot him before I turn on the light. No shadow! What could go wrong?

Ha, reminds me of the story Mikim told about teaching his grandson to shoot a 22 at a target. The first shot hit his dog laying behind the target, cost him a hefty vet bill, not to mention traumatizing his grandson.

 

[300UGUY]

30 here in Cohoctah, and a light snow. Going down to 16 by dawn. I guess Ill get some more tractor time! Not supposed to get much warmer tomorrow, but that is winter in Michigan. Of course, no sun either....

Got the news that my rental will be empty next month. Sad to see them go, they paid on time, its been a good 2 years. I will be busy cleaning, maybe some painting, normal wear and tear stuff. Then need to get a new renter...yuck.

Be safe!

 

[txdon]

While I was axing mesquite I took a minute to admire the evening's golden sky behind my camo UV.

 

[farmer2009]

55 today and 30 tonight. Nice warm couple of days we've had. Gotten several projects done and some more just started. Headed back to the freezer till the weekend.

Have two brush piles burning. Working on 36 hours each. Ones about burned out but the other one had way more dirt in it than I thought. So when it goes out I'll have to spread and repile. Finished cleaning out cow feeding pen. Have 50 tons of 610's on there way. Hopefully in the morning. I'll get to pack them all in with the loader. Wishing I had been able to find a hydraulic shuttle to fit my needs. But at least I have a shuttle just mechanical.
The guy that crops the neighbors place spent the day cleaning up after the loggers. Dug the stumps out of the hay field I cut. So have some dirt work and seeding to do there. Had a 200 Deere with mechanical thumb. Watched him work for a few minutes. He's obviously spent way too many hours in that thing. Was picking up limbs less than an inch in diameter and 3-4 feet long. Without disturbing the ground.
Birds leave next week so getting things situated for that also.

 

[RoyJackson]

2017-02-02, 0228

12 right now....mid-upper 20's as the high today...

 

[wngsprd]

40 going to 52.

Split all my firewood rounds yesterday morning, and saved the gnarliest to split Riptides-style.

As the day warmed up, decided to change the oil in the Tundra...The dealer changes free for the first 2, but at 10,000 mile intervals...so I got the first one early, and now doing the second change before their next free one comes due. Disappointed it took almost 3 hours...granted, there was a learning curve, and it was the first time I had changed an oil filter cartridge with the special wrench, etc. But the time consumer was trying to get the skid plate back on and aligned properly. Afterwards my wife asks...so do you see why the dealer charges $92?

Off to the dermatologist for a routine (I hope!) exam this morning. Buppies, how are you healing, and have you had your next surgery?

 

[wngsprd]

I turned on the outdoor spotlights and Coco saw her shadow. Yikes.

We actually do have a couple of groundhogs on the property, but don't usually see them come out until March.

 

[Thomas]

17F now low 30's for high.
About 2" snow clean up last evening and no major snow storms in site.

Wondering what BIG Phil wisdom we be.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[Buppies]

40 high of 47 today starting to cool down before next warm up. This up down stuff has got to stop

Healing nicely wngsprd still waiting on feeling to return completely in nose and ear. Next surgery is scheduled for first part of March

 

[Buppies]

17F now low 30's for high.
About 2" snow clean up last evening and no major snow storms in site.

Wondering what BIG Phil wisdom we be.

Enjoy the day all.

I think he will have a hard time just like our weather men. I think he will say warm rain crap cold repeat. If the moisture ever meets the cold maybe but nothing there to lock in the cold

 

[riptides]

44 out this AM. When the sun comes up, returning to the maul. I seem to be in a pattern of burning what I am splitting. Must...work...faster....

I have about 20 pieces of hickory that are really dry, they are naturally splitting, but even with the maul, it's a no go. Too bad, cause they are overnighters, they burn nice hot and slow.

Last night about an hour before sunset, my neighbor started shooting again, I called the horse up from the back as they were already freaking out. Since I still don't see where he is, and he won't answer his door when I knock on it, all I can do is remove myself and my animals from my back lot. All I know is he shoots right across the my property line into the woods. Which woods (his, mine) I have no idea, but on my side that's where the latest firewood venture is. I am just trying to figure out where he is pointing.

I got a few smoke bombs for my groundhog. I am doing him, on Friday. He has set up his homestead in the middle of one of my pastures. They aren't even worth the ammo and time to me.

Have a safe day all. Enjoy it!

 

[Eric Salop]

Good morning all. The wind is up this morning, though it doesn't feel bad outside as it is blowing in at a very mild for February 10C/50F. Hay is a little reluctant to stay in the feeders. The forecasters were in two minds about giving this storm a name, hopefully it will behave itself and remain nameless.

If this makes anyone feel better about the price paid for fuel, my last fill was at the equivalent of $5.77 per US gallon.

 

[daugen]

much cooler 41 going up to low sixties today, forecast looks like a sine wave, up and down, up and down, tis the season.

got the entire place mulched yesterday, except for the fruit trees, and I do that myself. The helpers dump mulch on weeds, I pull
the weeds first... then my two strong firemen helpers got my Gravely mower all torn apart as desired, picked up a large wagon load of sticks and debris, then they split a mountain of firewood
of big rounds. Looking forward to going down to the barn at first light to see what they got accomplished. They love running that splitter as much as I do. I heard it running, and said oh boy, that's not right, engine running flat out. No. Went down and quietly pulled the throttle back to three quarters, makes full pressure almost at half speed, but no reason whatsoever to run that little Briggs at full rpm. A waste of fuel too.
Yes, I know it cycles a second faster at full throttle, but sometimes on equipment like this slowing down is a really good idea. Haste makes waste, and injury.

I made enough firewood last year I didn't burn a quarter of it. Need to give it away and restock log pile with this new wood. Surprisingly few fireplaces down here locally, some wood stoves, not that easy to give away fire wood. (sounds nuts to a Northerner huh?)

going to order some plants from the Burgess catalog, which I have gotten for years. Inexpensive compared to others, will see why. Jackson & Perkins catalog came yesterday and roses are now 24 to 28 dollars a piece. I have a raised bed rose garden and most of mine die before the next year, not sure what I'm doing wrong, well at least this year it won't be the deer eating them, roses are surrounded now by electric wire. Will probably buy my roses locally for ten bucks apiece. Bush roses seem to do fine, multiflora not so well. About ten years back I was able to pick three bouquets of a dozen roses each one summer for my wife. Got a nice kiss for that.

 

[Looking4new]

Happy groundhog day! Temp; 0 going for a high of 14F and maybe flurries too.

daugen; roses thrive on fish heads and guts.
Every spring Dad and I would go smelt fishing and come home with 4 or so bushel baskets of 'em. The heads and guts the roses got. He had a south facing wall full of them roses. I can't get them growing here either and I am tired of paying out big bux just to see them die.