Good morning!!!!

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 58F @ 8:30AM. Abundant sunshine. High 72F. Winds S at 10 to 15 mph.



Just after I finished my post yesterday a couple rainclouds swept through and dumped enough to save me from pole saw duty. The weather cleared enough later in the day to pick cherries at the neighbor's orchard, a good excuse to catch up on the doings with the renovations on the ex-drug house they purchased. That work is coming along nicely, and the cherries are delicious. They're having enough trouble with birds that they hired a man with a falcon to patrol the orchard three or four days a week. He also uses a very high tech air rifle to take out offending pests, quite the effective combination.

I'll try to get an hour this morning with the pole saw, then it's off to Redding to help a buddy clean out his garage. His wife has him grounded until he finishes, and he just picked up a new-to-him BMW R1100RS that he's dying to ride. He got rid of a couple airhead bikes to get it, and wants to send me home with a few boxes of parts he now can't use. Oh, and there's a BBQ chicken dinner in the deal, too.:laughing:

Hope everyone enjoys their weekend...

 

[sodamo]

69°F another beautiful morning.

No big plans, just putter around and enjoy life.

Be safe
Have a great day

 

[sodamo]

Those are some very nice apple trees. My 3 are about 10 years old and too pitiful for a pic Maybe half a dozen apples over the years. Some tell me I planted too close to the eucalyptus trees robbing them of their nutrients.

 

[Looking4new]

75 here in the south of Ontario.
I crawled out of the bunk at 8 and it was already hot! At least I managed to organise the curbside cabinets on my trains and went and got 3 cases of bottled water for the tour starting tomorrow. Load at 9 P.M. and be 9 hours north (about an hour from Timmins) for 9 on Monday morning. No open restaurants on the way, but I might score breakfast at New Liskeard, but then I will have to really gouge on it to make the delivery time.
I screwed up big time the other day, loaded what I thought would be legal (63,500 kgs=139,900 lbs) rolled over the shippers scale....65,100 kgs= 143,500 lbs. I delivered the load anyway, no DoT scales to go over luckily enough. I laugh about hauling overloads, but I really do not like doing it.

 

[txdon]

Good afternoon! Thanks Kyle for the info on the Speed Queen for Mom. Went to Giddings and found out they had a truck coming in with 8 on it. However 7 were already sold. So I bought the last one - so all sold before they ever got delivered to the Store. This is the last year they Speed Queen can make them before the government steps in and makes Speed Queen make the washers HE. (Next year they will have a switch that than can turn HE on and off.) Mom will be able to wash again by Monday afternoon. The 6 year old Kenmore washer with (HE sensors) repair would have cost more than a new Kenmore ($299) - they are truly disposable.

A comercial grade washer with no computer on it and all mechanical switches is a rare find, maybe I should buy a few more.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Eating lunch in texas

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Good afternoon! Thanks Kyle for the info on the Speed Queen for Mom. Went to Giddings and found out they had a truck coming in with 8 on it. However 7 were already sold. So I bought the last one - so all sold before they ever got delivered to the Store. This is the last year they Speed Queen can make them before the government steps in and makes Speed Queen make the washers HE. (Next year they will have a switch that than can turn HE on and off.) Mom will be able to wash again by Monday afternoon. The 6 year old Kenmore washer with (HE sensors) repair would have cost more than a new Kenmore ($299) - they are truly disposable.

A comercial grade washer with no computer on it and all mechanical switches is a rare find, maybe I should buy a few more.

All my friends(that needed washers) have bought them. Did not know about the next year HE forced upon them. My friend went into an appliance store in Victoria looking for a speedqueen and ended up getting into a political argument with the lady about the previous administration forcing this stuff onto consumers. But enough about that. Glad you got 1. Maybe we should buy and stash a few, then when they can't be had, the ebay price doubles or triples. My friend's legitimate complaint was that the water level wouldn't get over 6" deep in his old top load, and would not use full hot water, only a mix of cold and hot.

RNG, fresh cherries sounds really, really good right now. I bought some cherry preserves at super Walmart from France. Ingredients were simple, cherries, sugar, pectin IIRC. Sure makes a gourmet PB&J sandwich. You mind I ask what it costs to pick your own? Will you preserve or can some? It is a bit of trouble to get the pits out, but a cherry pie is a wonderlicious thing too. Life is great when "you get the pits out."

CWB, my FIL used to work in the oil patch somewhere around Rock Springs and Wamsutter. He's a petroleum engineer and would supervise a rig or multiple rigs back a few years ago. They drilled for the gas, which became too plentiful and cheap and thus, put them on mothballs.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

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Is that the place with the huge steak, that if you can eat it all, it is free?

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Yep, that's it

 

[daugen]

was greeted this morning by a very high climbing gecko, all the way up top on the utility shed roof, must have had quite a view up there.
And vulnerable to a bird I would think.
got a face full of water when a decent quality hose let loose, the fitting looked nicer than it was. Metal corroded through, I could not get either end off,
had to cut both fittings off, and put a nice brass connector with heavy duty ss hose clamps on it. No leaks now.

local wheat fields were cut and the one next to me done without incident. I went along the edge pulling my gas powered blower and it blew what little chaff came over.

had fun digging up my red potatoes in the raised veggie garden, just enough for me.

lastly, when I went over to my farmer neighbor's hovel, trying to find him to give him a half dozen of these red potatoes, I amused myself by looking at old engines in his yard.
looks like not much works. And he clearly never ever throws anything out.