Good morning!!!!

[txdon]

One of the items I had lost the sales slip. Clerk at desk said no problem if you used a credit card.

Target is the same, no problem if bought by credit card.

Gray2 is still a active hunter. He was on the front porch with an unknown tail sticking out his mouth before a big swallow


New terminology on tv this morning for people who don't believe or don't want to use their scale: OVERFAT -
If your waist is more than half your height.

 

[rswyan]

63.4F and clear/sunny @ 09:30, high today 78F.

Started off the day yesterday by hauling our "new" 95 gallon trash container down to the house from up at the end of the road where the refuse company had left it. Now have two containers that I can build a pick-up hook attachment for, to use on the FEL ... should make getting the trash and the recyclables out to the end of the road a lot easier.

Then spent pretty much the rest of the day on the surface drain project. Mostly worked on getting slope set correctly, so the lines should be self-cleaning/flushing ... and flushing the lines out with a hose. I'm probably not going to actually cover the pipes until I'm sure that the fill under them has completely settled ... so the slope can be easily checked and tweaked again if necessary. I did uncover about another 25' of line (total) at the ends of what I had already uncovered, managed to skin about a 2" section off one spot on the pipe, so will have to repair that.

Also dug out about a dozen or so black locust saplings that had "volunteered" in various places around the barn ... they grow pretty quick and spread via seeds and their root system ... so I'm sure more will be back.

Lawn still looks pretty green from the recent rain, but it appears to have slowed down (thankfully)

More work on the drain project today ... they're supposed to pour the floor in neighbor's barn addition today, so I might head up and have a look at that.

 

[toppop52]

I'm busy as a piss ant at a picnic, but still want to stop and say good morning. Over 2" more of rain yesterday, not having to water flowers much this year! Nice temps around 80°. My knee is less sore today, but the cortisone is wreaking havoc with my blood glucose. Looking at tractors, paying property tax on a foreclosure we bought, got our middle grandson today, meeting a guy to look at an old truck for trailer hauling/beater and loan to friends and family duty. My "friend" hauled a load of cinder blocks in my truck, thank goodness the spray on liner held up. Weather is nice, if cloudy. Have a good day check in later.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Hey guys, I just thought of something. The Good Morning thread seems to be constantly dominating the "Rural Living" Forum. Do you think we should ask Muhammad for a "Good Morning" Forum - a category all by itself so we don't hog "Rural Living" and keep pushing other topics down?

Putting GM in a category all by itself implies that there are other topics that it should be grouped with. What would those topics be? Popular ones? Otherwise, pushing down is only by one line, and doesn't impose much of a distance penalty on a "page", unless perhaps you're trying to read using a phone. So no, from a software developer, database manager, user interface programmer standpoint, I don't think separating GM into it's own category makes any sense at all.:confused2:

If the problem is that you're having difficulty finding GM, just hit the My Home button at the top of the screen and you'll get a list of the threads that you've subscribed to, sorted with the ones with the most recent post at the top. GM will almost always be near the top.

:2cents:

 

[ronjhall]

Bird, if you have never been to the Good Morning thread before you need a WELCOME.
Stick around.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

I will be happy with something much more basic to plate larger parts at low cost, as they will only get painted over later - it takes a lot of thick paint to make my welds look anywhere near tidy :laughing:

I always tell people I get a lot more practice at grinding than I do welding. I probably spend more of that time with a 4 1/2" grinder and various cutoff wheels, hard wheels, and flapper discs on it than any other power tool! Then there's the 3/8" band sander, which I used yesterday to clean up the bird dropping looking welds I put on an old pair of exhaust headers. I'm just glad you can't see that weld from the inside!:laughing:

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Drinking first cup of coffee. 53ｰ with clear skies this morning. Heading to 81ｰ sunny skies. We got rain yesterday, well maybe sprinkles. Enough to send me in and not come out again. Lawn cutting today and yesterdays project of checking pole barn roof.
I took a couple things back to HD yesterday. One of the items I had lost the sales slip. Clerk at desk said no problem if you used a credit card. Scan card, scan barcode. Up pops the transaction. Money returned to credit card. Maybe I do not return enough things. Did not know it was that easy to return something without a sales slip. :thumbsup:The procedure before may get you a store credit. At Lowe's I use my My Lowes app on iphone. But have never used it for a return.
Good Morning All.

My experience at HD is that you'll get a refund with a receipt, but a store credit without one. Somehow I've never gotten a store credit big enough to pay for the new items I purchased on the same trip!

Costco doesn't ever need a receipt, they just go off your membership number, and can look that up with just your name or phone number. But you need a membership card to get in the door.

Net net for me, especially on big projects, is I buy way more than I'll ever need just so I won't have to make a trip for more in the middle of a job. And if I'm uncertain as to which one will fit, I buy 'em both and just return the unused one. Never had a problem and it usually doesn't add much time to the visit.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

New terminology on tv this morning for people who don't believe or don't want to use their scale: OVERFAT -
If your waist is more than half your height.

So if I'm 5' 10", I'd have to weigh 255 lbs. to be OVERFAT? :laughing: Pushing 170 now, and already that's way more than I'd like. Can't even imagine what it would be like being OVERFAT...:shocked:

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 75F @ 9:15AM. Sunny to partly cloudy. A stray shower or thunderstorm is possible. High 94F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph.

As I walked out of the office after yesterday's GM post, a baby fence lizard skittered across the floor in front of me. Tried to get it to go into a glass I was carrying, but that was easily evaded. It got slowed down by all the cowb webs under the bathroom counter, and I was able to gather it up in my hand. It quieted right down, think it liked the warmth of my hand. Took it outside, rubbed its belly a couple times, and tried to set it loose on some plants, but it didn't want to leave for some reason.:laughing: Gave my hand a little giggle and it jumped off into the bushes and was gone. Sure wish I knew how it got in. A few weeks ago, one of its much larger cousins got in, and I used a rag over it to keep from being bit. Hate to step on one in the middle of the night in bare feet, let alone much worse things (baby rattlers) that could get in the same way...

Needed another coat hanger yesterday so went to the box where the extras are kept and noticed a spool of thread at the bottom. Remembering I'd been missing my sewing kit since I moved in here seven years ago, I pulled out all the coathangers (what a mess) and found the kit. Most of it had already been replaced, but now I've got a lot more choices in thread color!:laughing:

Took the time to trace out all the wiring for the van's tail lights this morning on the schematics, and hopefully that gives me a few more clues to help chase down why they aren't working. Leaving here in a few minutes to have another crack at it. Also have a few loose ends, like installing the accelerator pedal and fixing the stuck driver's seat (they installed it without the plastic shims that prevent it from jamming).

 

[sodamo]

69°F and .02 inches rain.

Back to my tiling project today.

Be safe
Have a great day

 

[PJSprog]

New terminology on tv this morning for people who don't believe or don't want to use their scale: OVERFAT -
If your waist is more than half your height.

Yeah, I heard that one on the radio last week. I guess they feel the need to keep coming up with new ways to say the same things.

 

[sodamo]

Hey, they don't look like the macadamias I get at Costco for a treat.

How do they taste raw?

Like nuts
Maybe a bit less crunch than the roasted. I'll have to pay attention and report back.

 

[daugen]

if you haven't bought a lifetime senior pass for the US parks, time to do it now. 10 dollar pass goes to 80 in two weeks, plus 10 for processing.

The Senior Pass is a lifetime pass available to United States citizens or permanent residents 62 years of age or older. The Pass can be used at over 2000 Federal recreation sites managed by the National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Reclamation and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The Senior Pass admits the Pass owner and any passengers traveling with him/her in a single non-commercial vehicle at per-vehicle fee areas or the Pass owner and three additional adults where per-person fees are charged.

Changes to the Senior Pass (U.S. National Park Service)

I wonder how much the Queen charges Eric to get into Buckingham Palace...

Had an interesting experience changing the chain for the first time on my Homelite cordless self sharpening chainsaw.
I'd pull back on the lever and no sparks, no sharpening. Very unusual chain, doesn't last as long as regular chain for sure, but my
is this convenient. Pull on the lever, lots of sparks, and voila, a super sharp chain.
So I take the thing apart, easy to do with a simple turn knob, and find it jammed with chips. Ok, my bad, that must be the problem, grinding stone blocked because
look in the first picture, it looks new! I put the replacement up next to it, and kinda scratched my head. Then I decided to really airblast clean the saw and looked around the side of the sharpening stone and just chuckled, that's where it went. Hollowed out totally. Took me about three minutes to change out the sharpening stone and the chain. 33 bucks.
I'm guessing a higher consumable cost overall but not by much. And what a difference having a sharp chain makes. Make chips not sawdust.

 

[rswyan]

Couple of shots of the current fun.

East side:

North side:

This guy jumped out of the pipe after I cut it:

 

[toppop52]

Target is the same, no problem if bought by credit card.

Gray2 is still a active hunter. He was on the front porch with an unknown tail sticking out his mouth before a big swallow


New terminology on tv this morning for people who don't believe or don't want to use their scale: OVERFAT -
If your waist is more than half your height.

No problem, I'm 7'4"!

 

[sodamo]

No problem, I'm 7'4"!

Ahhh, just a bit taller than me

I was thinking I was was just height challenged.

 

[txdon]

So if I'm 5' 10", I'd have to weigh 255 lbs. to be OVERFAT? :laughing: Pushing 170 now, and already that's way more than I'd like. Can't even imagine what it would be like being OVERFAT...:shocked:

There is no pound or weight number in the equation

if .5 waist circumference is greater than total height then OVERFAT.

This is actually the formula the health insurance for hospital employees down here uses and OVERFAT gets dinged with higher insurance. (Or as they call it - they don't get a discount).

 

[txdon]

Putting GM in a category all by itself implies that there are other topics that it should be grouped with. What would those topics be? Popular ones? Otherwise, pushing down is only by one line, and doesn't impose much of a distance penalty on a "page", unless perhaps you're trying to read using a phone. So no, from a software developer, database manager, user interface programmer standpoint, I don't think separating GM into it's own category makes any sense at all.:confused2:

agree

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Spent the evening at the fire dept annual carnival, eating, and listening to some bluegrass music. Nice weather for august.

 

[txdon]

if you haven't bought a lifetime senior pass for the US parks, time to do it now. 10 dollar pass goes to 80 in two weeks, plus 10 for processing.

Got it, Thanks! Where do I send the $70 I saved.