Good morning!!!!

[rswyan]

... RS, glad to hear from you. Nice fish pictures.

Thanks Ron.

Send some of that warmth up this way will ya ...

 

[toppop52]

Like I said, willows are what they are, if you have a safe place that you don't mind the clutter, they're great.

Not as cold today, some rain tonight, warmer tomorrow. Gotta make a run to Front Royal tomorrow for the oldest grandson's 8th birthday.

 

[rswyan]

36F here and mostly cloudy @ 11:30 ...

Hope to finish setting up a 20G long today, so I can move some fish around.

 

[CajunRider]

Good morning all.

Training day for me. Being the trainer kinda sucks but I get to tease the greenhorns.
I can't wait for this weekend. I'm hoping to get my FEL back to working shape. Plus I gotta change the transmission oil on my lady's car. Hopefully it'll go as planned.
Being new here I don't know most of you guys so I've been reading your posts but have not said much.

 

[sodamo]

65°F and .04 inches rain last 24 hours. No shoveling.

Be safe
Have a great day

 

[newbury]

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The tank is an old 10G I had ... wish I had painted the back black before I set it up.

It's a little on the small side but the tank environment seems pretty stable now ... so I'm reluctant to mess with it or try to move them at this point ... especially with them breeding. They can be kind touchy about changes breaking the pair bond.

At some point I suppose I'll have to tho' ...

Beautiful fish.

Back in the '70's I worked at a pet shop and raised cichlids at home, including Discus. For tanks I had lot's of loboy 20's a few 50's, a 55 and a bunch of 10's. I usually bred them in the 10's. My method for "increasing the tank size" with a full brood of Discus was to set up the 50 and get it operating smoothly for a few weeks so it was stable. Then draw the water down enough in the 50 and the 10 so I could set the 10 gallon aquarium inside the 50 gently then gradually fill the 10 and the 50 gallon back up such that there was virtually no disturbance. Then when all the fish eventually swam out of the 10, remove the 10. Never got any complaints from the fish.

A full tank of Discus can be darn pretty.

 

[Buppies]

.................................................
What do you think...no more heavy snow falls so I can remove plow from tractor until next winter?

Will check on and let you know probably Saturday evening after I read all the models and different bloggers thoughts

 

[sodamo]

My aerial tractor was delivered about 10 minutes ago

 

[buckeyefarmer]

My honda alternator went out, lost power on the road in the way home, but managed to get to a honda dealer where it died in the parking lot. They probably can't fix today, close in an hr.

 

[daugen]

welcome cajunrider.

long but very fun day. the farmer neighbor who wanted to borrow my tractor motivated me to go over there this morning and hook up his ancient disc,
and disc three fields for him. I must have disc'd for five hours. Time for a glass of wine and the hot tub. My oldest brother just emailed me back after
seeing these pictures and said "two glasses!" I am tuckered out for sure. Back and neck highly unenthused.
Smile stuck on my face...haven't pulled a farm disc in 50 years

 

[txdon]

Got a 4" trenching shovel for one of my c g. Back to work.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Neat tool Sodamo. waiting for pics!

Drew gets the blue star for the helping a neighbor today award.

Don, hurry before it gets up to 90F. There should be a tool to help do that. Maybe some type of small auger on a drill to break it up, so then you just have to scoop it out?

Buckeye, I have been told by so many people that Hondas don't break...(I used to work at a Yamaha dealer).

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Well, when the first thing to go is at 333k miles, I can't complain too much. If I could have gotten home, I could have replaced much cheaper, but at least I made it to a repair shop without a tow.

 

[Eric Salop]

Good morning all. Lambs all looked miserable yesterday and spent the day tight by their mothers in the cold wind and rain. Today has started a little better for them, many already keen to work off their excess energy by running around.

Eric, do the English auctioneers talk faster than humanely possible? If so, I would not be able to understand much if any.
How would you know if they were talking weight or money telling of pounds of any item?

They do talk fast, although once the selling starts it is only numbers. All in pounds, except you have to be careful because sometimes sneaky ones will suddenly start taking bids in guineas to catch out anyone who wasn't listening carefully. I can't think of anyone else in this land who still uses guineas - a guinea was originally 21 shillings. Shillings died off way back in the 70's, once we changed to decimal currency, so an auctioneer's guinea is now 1.05 pounds.

What a lucky neighbor you have Drew.

Don, that looks like a maths question from schooldays - If a farmer has a 14 bar cattle grid laid on 5 cross pieces and his son has a 4" trenching shovel that takes 15 seconds per scoop, how many glasses of lemonade will it take to empty the whole grid ?

 

[wngsprd]

44 going to 62, but cloudy/rainy, so will keep the woodstove going...small chance of snow tomorrow although getting to 53.

My aerial tractor was delivered about 10 minutes ago View attachment 502486

Sweet!!!


PJ, glad your boy is okay, and happy birthday to him.

Buckeye, glad you made it to the dealer. 333K is just getting broken in, right?

Drew, hope those two glasses of vino were top shelf.

Eric, you need to give each of those lambs a warm hug.

Roasting coffee today to take to friends this evening. Plus, wife found a small leak under the bathroom sink in the vanity last night, so I'll crawl under.

Making progress on my 3rd function and grapple research. Of course, much of it is on TBN. Thanks for your help.

 

[daugen]

good morning all. Steady light rain all day, for sure an indoor day, though maybe warm enough to work in the barn.
I have a new diamond metal saw blade I put on my 4.5 inch Dewalt grinder/cut off tool and hope to try that out today.
Found that using abrasive wheels on hardened steel was like trying to break out of jail with a finger file....slow going.

48 degrees going to 56 today, warmer day, .16 precip so far.

David, you should feel good about getting that solar panel project done, quite a big job, and now you are set for what, ten years? 20? Do the newer ones last longer?
Did you ever get that Chinese diesel gen to run right?

new Northern tools catalog came in, the big one with all the nice color pictures. Prime bathroom reading.

I bought an annual beach pass for Hatteras, out on the Outer Banks, so I can drive my truck on the beach actually all year. Unless there are some turtle times or similar.
Never done that before, went once with someone else, want to do it myself. I have one farm jack, might pick up another one at Harbor Freight, 45 bucks is a pretty good deal.
Tow ropes, jacks, boards, etc all required/highly recommended. Local tow company makes a lot of money towing the hapless out. Most important is lowering the air pressure down to about 20 psi, some suggest lower, and having a good DC air pump to return to street pressure once off the beach. I have a site right on the beach reserved for my travel trailer in mid May, hope to take the truck out then. No fishing, just pictures and maybe do a little metal detecting. Some beaches ban metal detectors which I find odd...maybe too many folks not replacing their divots...leaving holes all over for people to step in. Seems a bit silly when the kids don't have to clean up after their sand castles... I've never found much, still looking for
those Spanish doubloons.

Of course around 3pm when I finally got in from playing farmer yesterday, what shows up but 25 more hybrid willows. Holes are all dug, will be easy planting tomorrow. That will finish off
the eyesore prevention project.

 

[Thomas]

5F clear sky now upper 30's for high.
Putter day ahead...dump run,pet store,shoveling snow here and there than FEL for bigger scoops,take rest of the day as it comes.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[Buppies]

38 this morning high of 60 today cooling to low 50s tomorrow. Up and down week coming up 60s to 40s for highs. Lots of damage done by last weeks cold temperatures to fruit trees and strawberrys. Payback for the warm February I suppose

Haircut this morning look at a job or two then off to clean up the forest some more. 37 trees cut down so far lots of brush cut up in piles waiting to be moved. A grapple sure would be nice. Six loads of dirt brought in yesterday 35 still needed for this section.

Monday is more cutting off skin cancer on other ear. For what these things cost I could have two and one half grapples. Wish I would have known about the sun years ago

 

[Sysop]

41F currently and should get to 46F today.

Spent a week in bed getting over the flu. Today is going to be my first day venturing out so I can go to the Maple Syrup Festival at Pickens!

 

[daugen]

Lots of damage done by last weeks cold temperatures to fruit trees and strawberrys

I'll let you know...