Good morning!!!!

[toppop52]

Better save some of that for next summer.

There's about twice that much now and still pouring!

 

[CWB Wyo]

The low this morning was 44*, the high yesterday was 85*. The forecast for today is about the same with 30% chance of showers.

toppop
That's a lot rain. For the most part we don't get rain like that in this part of Wyoming. If we get inch and a half in a day it's big deal. I don't think we have gotten two inches in the last two months. Pop up thunderstorms for the last week but they seem to miss us . Hope you don't have any problems with that much water.

Not much going on today.

Hope everyone has a nice day.
CWB

 

[rswyan]

72.3F and mostly cloudy @ 11:00, with a high of 77F for the day.

Picked up oil filters at NAPA yesterday afternoon, and then oil at Walmart after went into town to pay the lawn guy.

Grabbed a couple of coney dogs and a large hot fudge malt on the way home - which was clearly a mistake as I passed out for a couple hour nap after consuming it ... :laughing: Was pretty much worthless for the rest of the day ...

Didn't get Kubota washed either ... so I'll have to do that here in a little bit and get it moved up to the shop for tomorrow morning.

Really didn't get much in the way of rain either ... enough to wet the pavement, but not enough to cause any standing water in low spots in the driveway.

Next real chance for any rain will be this coming Thursday.

Probably fill bird feeders and mow lawn down here at the house after I clean the Kubota and move it.

Dunno ... it's so pleasant out right now I might have to consider doing some more stuff that might not be very fun in the hot sun as temps are forecast to start moving up after today.

 

[sodamo]

68°F and .52 inches rain. More in forecast but hoping it holds off until afternoon.
Kekoa has has CGC test this morning. Expecting him to do well.
Project slowly going well, working on the shelves.

Be safe
Have a great day

 

[buckeyefarmer]

There's about twice that much now and still pouring!

sunny here, but humid out.

cut off, froze 8 cups of corn. Not all the corn was very good, so a lot got taken back to the woods for the deer or whatever gets it first. Not sure the work of freezing corn is worth it.

 

[lostcreekranch]

The Perseid meteor shower will be at peak tonight.

 

[daugen]

still no rain here. I mowed my entire lawn and field thinking the helper would not show. He still probably won't.

worked hard on cleaning up things in the barn, got the mower deck moved ready for welding.
the two tall boxes in the pic are welding screens I need to build next.
Going to elevate the deck with 2x4 all around and that's a welding blanket on the bottom.
Having never welded in my life this should be fun.
Wanted to get deck high enough I didn't have to bend too much.

Good motivation to get this done with the Kubota stuck outside
likely plaintively watching me the whole time yet not understanding why
such a rude occurrence took place.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Got outside around 8 am and put the FEL and boxblade on the 4310. Then I used the scarifers to "till" the weeds in what is supposed to be the garden. I did uncover about 5 onions that got left behind.

My plan is to let the heat kill the tilled up weeds and bermuda grass by running the scarifers through it every few days. Last year I tried to "solarize" the garden with clear plastic. Did not work. As soon as I pulled back the plastic, after over 2 months, it started growing back weeds. I might try black plastic next year.

I have never put round up or anything like that in the garden. I would consider my garden organic...no pesticides.

Don, I don't know any of the studies concerning glyphosphates, but I do know many people got parkinsons prior to it being widely available. We used to ride our bicycles in the DDT sprayers in Houston back around 1969. I'm betting that none of this is good for anybody. I will leave it at that.

 

[daugen]

In this last picture you can see the Ark way out back! Yes I know nobody cares, but I'm bored! LOLView attachment 518314View attachment 518315

man does that look familiar, my front lawn before they cleaned out the main ditch. I hope it's going down and your power stays on.
you can always work on insurance receipts. That's enough to drive one to drink. Now where would I have put that.

In bad fires often many items get overlooked. Good to see if any pictures exist of items or the inside of the shed even better.
You simply forget you have/had that nice tool on the wall. If you provide nice paperwork and have reasonable expectations, you could
be quite pleased with how it turns out financially.

a little story to tell...
Over almost twenty years I handled a lot of claims. But nothing was more important, more poignant in some ways, and for sure,
the most educational, was my very first claim.

The very first day I started my general insurance practice in my little home town, the father of my best friend
came and bought car insurance from me. I saved him quite a bit too. It was early December, 1977. One week later he came with a tale of woe
about how his station wagon's wheel covers had been stolen. And he had gone and gotten an estimate and here it was. Wow. My first claim.
And he would never look me eye to eye. I had been a Travelers underwriter for the last seven years and all my alarm bells are now going off.

There was only one little problem. As both Randy's knows, I'm a car buff, was since high school, and I just knew he had plain Country Squire hub caps on his pristine station wagon and not the top of the line spinner ones on the estimate. More than a hundred dollars a piece, big money back then. Something wasn't right, but I told him I'd submit it right away.

I let it sit on my desk overnight. Politely the situation reeked of dishonesty. So, with heavy heart I drove a mile to his house, and as I drove up, what do you know but the garage doors
just happened to be up, and there were his hub caps neatly lined up along the wall. Oh, well, someone just returned them. So no problem, no problem.
I walked away after saying very little, glad it was not confrontational, and knew we both knew what had happened. And I could have turned him in, which coming from a family of lawyers
and trained to obey the law was seriously confusing to a 27 year old. Frankly I really felt betrayed. This was my best friend's father, how could he be so dishonest?
Well....he lived well over his pay grade, and Christmas was coming and he needed money for gifts. So why not tap the insurance company atm for some free cash?

To this day I have never said a word about this to his son, who is a genuinely good man and would bear this
as a permanent hurt. So I figured better to just sort of bury it.

Now there was a genuine life learning experience.
People get in over their heads financially and do stupid, often illegal things.
Even nice people. Even fathers who took me to the shore when my own father was too busy.
So no, I wasn't going to turn him in. His wife found out, and he got all the punishment he needed from her. And then some.
And the son is still a dear close friend. His daughter is my god daughter. Quakers aren't supposed to be Godfathers** but pretty lenient
with that rule...and now my Goddaughter has a houseful of little kids. Life is very good.

**Do you solemnly swear to bring this child up in the Catholic Church, etc, etc? (Just say Yes)
Yes I do. Thankfully I never had to. Maybe a Christian Church would have been close enough.
Her father and I looked at each other and I said I was committing to make sure his daughter always had
a safety net and would not have to worry and that was all he wanted to hear.
And for sure she hasn't and won't hear this little tale.
Did you know your grandfather was a crook?
nice dinner conversation topic among family...like I'd ever get invited back.
thankfully none of them own tractors...

back to regular programming.My neighbor brought my loppers back and gave me five green peppers i'm going
to stuff for dinner. They in turn got a plate of home made chocolate brownies from me.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 87F @ 11:30AM. Sunny. High 96F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph.

I read yesterday that this year the moon will be out most of the night during the meteor shower, making it more difficult to spot them as they streak across the sky.

That's a LOT of rain, Randy. You gotta boat? :laughing: Fire and rain. What next?

If that's a Harbor Freight welding blanket, Drew, it'll stop sparks, but globs of molten metal will melt right through, as will a healthy jet of sparks from a body grinder. DAMHIKT

My dad had Parkinsons, but we always attributed it to either the aluminum dust in the aircraft factories or the perchloroethylene in the dry cleaning machines he serviced. Or the raw gas he used in the garage to clean paintbrushes and automotive parts, or, or, or. We didn't know much about chemical hazards back then, and folks just used whatever they could get their hands on to get the job done. Now we're seeing the effects, but without knowing the exact history or the dosage levels, it's very difficult to determine a "safe" concentration in the body. Since anybody that guesses wrong will likely have their pants sued off, I'm not optimistic that any truthful or useful info will come out anytime soon.

Slow cooked the carcass of last weeks Costco chicken last night, so this morning I stripped the bones, added another frozen batch of meat from a previous chicken, and dumped in a big tub of Bueno red chilis, some garlic and some ground coriander. After everything comes back up to temperature, I'll season to taste and let it slow cook all day, then dump in some chunked up potatoes for the last half hour or so. I've used this recipe with green chili, but never red, so we'll see what happens...

Hope everyone has a great weekend!