Good morning!!!!

[Eric Salop]

Good morning all. Like Bups, my first thoughts this morning is that all of you in Texas are managing to stay safe in the huricane.


Sorry if I messed some of you up with all those days, I still have to survive one more day before getting to our anniversary. That's not quite as easy as it sounds, as I didn't start on the greenhouse base yesterday ( instead played at welding nearly all day :ashamed and now I've just compounded my sins as I've stolen a slice of irresistible home made food that in retrospect, probably wasn't intended for my breakfast. :ashamed: :ashamed:


Happy anniversary Kyle. Is Harvey putting your new roof to the test ?

Mostly, Volagi bearing gone already ! You really ought to stop peddling so fast or you too could be worn out by your anniversay

Hawkeye, I can smile at those poignant words of "advise", but dare not pass them on to my wife

According to my calculator we have been married 1.87395e9 seconds. Sure doesn't seem that long.

Don, I am struggling to calculate all that elapsed time to the second. As an engineer we were taught to always check our answers and each time I do that, it comes out with a different number :laughing:

 

[ronjhall]

Drinking first cup of coffee. 43° with clear skies this morning. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! Heading to 75° with some clouds. Got a few small things done yesterday. Cut lawn today. Get power washer out and start washing garage siding. That should fill my day.
Happy day early Anniversary Mr and Mrs Eric.
Those in the path of Harvey. Stay safe and dry. One of my Super C motorhome group members has been doing shelter and training most of the week with Red Cross.
Good Morning All.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! It has started. 74˚ raining, wind 12mph. I woke to the sound of Harvey on my metal roof. Internet is still up so need to post while I can. We are east of Austin and 200 miles from Harvey's eye on the northern edge of the Hurricane. Those South of us are really going having a lot of rain as it looks like Harvey is moving very slowly and will continue to dump rain. This "event" will last through Wednesday.
At 7:10 last night we canceled our VFD Annual Fish fry and will try again Sept 30th. The thousand pounds of fish is frozen and all rentals were canceled. We are hoping the freezer in Giddings will not loose power.

I'll give some "Official" rain totals after it gets light but right now we have only had about 3/4".

 

[daugen]

good morning all. Cooler morning, nice to wake up in the sixties, high of mid 80's, just lovely.
About the absolute opposite of lower Texas right now.

Plans today are to sharpen the blades on my CC LXT2 garden tractor, the one I loan to an elderly lady. She takes perfect care of it, I swear she dusts it when she is done. She could not push her push mower any more. Her place is very sandy and I bet the blades are dull as butter.
Once that is done, I'm either going to do a little more welding now that my welding shirt is washed, or I might cut up some firewood logs and do some log splitting. I have about a cord of wood ready to split. And then I give it all away, can't burn it fast enough, and no one has working fireplaces in the area. Well, not many. Up North, if you said free firewood your driveway would be jammed. Not here... It's still so enjoyable to split and stack it that I keep doing it out of memory. Nothing like looking at a nice full wood rack before the start of winter.

All of us send prayers to you folks in harm's way with this storm. Take pictures and be safe.
And probably a lot of grapples going back on tractors soon to clean up the mess.

 

[Thomas]

45F morning clouds mid 70's for high.

Today plans...finish trimming front field than mow field this afternoon,than maybe do little of this and not to much of that.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[Thomas]

daugen.
Up North, if you said free firewood your driveway would be jammed. Not here... It's still so enjoyable to split and stack it that I keep doing it out of memory. Nothing like looking at a nice full wood rack before the start of winter.
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You sure hit the nail on the head...both cases.:thumbsup:

 

[daugen]

Thomas the farm I grew up on had 70 acres of hardwood woods. We usually did 7 cords of firewood a year, my father loved to run the fireplace all weekend. Big old stone house poorly insulated so that roaring fire was everyone's favorite.
Now I do one cord a year and I can't give it away. One can give food to the poor, I wonder about firewood. Problem is that almost all poor folk in this area are in government housing or single wide trailers, all likely heated with electric heating.

 

[RoyJackson]

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46 right now...high will be about 70...perfect day for outdoors work!
The work will consist of mowing the lawn and field, after I get some fuel.
This morning, first a dump run...then maybe, a haircut (should have got the haircut last week).
We'll see what actually gets done!

 

[daugen]

am thinking about buying a disc harrow. 20-20 notched, about 1100 pounds, Agrisupply seems to have
best entry level "good" equipment, one step above hobby. I need to tend my neighbor's field, which he appreciates, and keep the weeds knocked down.
I mowed it last time but it's gone wild again, he tried to disc it with his old JD and it overheated constantly. And his disc is as worn out as everything else he owns.
Land Pride disc with options can go $10k, nifty multipart system but I'm trying to get something of quality as inexpensively as possible.

The Agrisupply one is made by Tufline in Mississippi.
8 foot 1100 pound disc for about three grand. 1 1/8 pillow block axles. Seems to check all the right blocks.
Another implement I've never bought before. I talked at length with the Parts Mgr at local Agrisupply, as he was "experienced" and he was.
Some of you who are real farmers..., is three grand for a decent "small" disc reasonable? Land Pride wanted at least a thousand more.
I know my Kubota will pull it in 4wd with a loaded front bucket. Gives it a good working but I stay in low range and it does fine. Sandy soil; if this were
rocky I'd get nowhere dragging something this big behind my CUT. My neighbor's broken up disc, which I'm sure could be fixed if he had the money, is a wreck
with pins wobbling about, all rust frozen in place. It's time to get my own disc. I can leave it out in the corner of this field under a tarp and it will be fine.

I want to buy locally and Agrisupply is the only place who stocks this equipment in our area. Everyone else is sure I can get it for you...weeks later.
May take a run to their store on Monday to see what they have. I do know for sure I want 1 1/8 axles. And notched discs to cut up the weeds.
No one seems to plow anymore...all no till drill I guess.

nothing decent locally used, checked Craiglist, some big old stuff, too big for my tractor. and some lightweight hobby discs.
So new it is.

 

[txdon]

iPhone just alerted there is a tornado in our area.
Rain total at 1.72 and coming down hard now.

 

[riptides]

Thinking of those in Texas this AM. I hope all fare well through the storm.

56 outside this AM. Looks like grass cutting is on order for today and tomorrow. Making a dump and gas run in a few.

Ran up to Baltimore yesterday. Friday night on I95, that was much better than expected. Highlight of the day, a road trip. LOL. Bids accepted, time frame needs serious work, but ....anyway looks like I'll be out of here for a few months.

Hope everyone stays safe and enjoy the holidays.

 

[Ed of all trades]

Good morning all. 57 this morning going to 76 with a 20% chance of showers. Today will be a piddle day as most are unless something else comes along.

Texas guys, Still praying.

Drew, Sounds like you have done your homework and are doing well on your disc hunt. Hope it does well for you.

Have a great day. Ed

 

[Bird]

No rain yet, and may not get any today up here north of Dallas, but since it's cloudy and a little cooler (only 72) I went up in the attic and pulled that big Aprilaire filter in the HVAC system and changed the filter.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 74F @ 5:30AM. Sunny. High around 100F. Winds light and variable.

Looks like Harvey is really packing a punch down on the Gulf Coast. Hope all in the area come through this OK...

Do any of the fire fighters have a generator standing by in case that freezer's power supply goes out, Don?

Congrats, Rip. Will you temporarily relocate, or are you planning to commute?

Back on a siesta schedule for the next week, with highs in the hundreds most days. Worked out in the garage until about 3 yesterday when it just got too hot to keep going. Nice cool shower and a nap for late afternoon was perfect...

Welding on the valve covers and center stand tang done, now just need to figure out how to get that as cast finish back on the covers. Shot peening might work, and I think I have two sizes of shot left over from another project to try.

Hope everyone enjoys their weekend!

 

[txdon]

RNG I do not know if there is a backup generator.
Total rain - 3" now and still coming down. Harvey's eye is 120 miles south. Wind 16 mph.
Harvey is right outside Victoria.
Good thing to evacuate your mom Kyle.
Rick are your roads still open?

 

[wngsprd]

59 earlier, going to 80. Took Coco and middle son's boxer, Charlotte, on hike this morning and felt like autumn.

Hope the forecasters are wrong on Harvey...heard the Euro model calling for over 50 inches in one area.

Don, glad you found a freezer and could reschedule.

Got some bush hogging done yesterday, and part of the lawn mowed, but will have to re-mow since it was tall, thick, and clumped from the falling dew last evening. More mowing today, and some tractor seat time.

 

[lostcreekranch]

RNG I do not know if there is a backup generator.
Total rain - 3" now and still coming down. Harvey's eye is 120 miles south. Wind 16 mph.
Harvey is right outside Victoria.
Good thing to evacuate your mom Kyle.
Rick are your roads still open?

We're high and dry here Don but, there is a low water crossing on one of the two ways out of this area that is probably high. Haven't left the ranch to check yet.

Still raining here off and on and getting some high wind gusts. Worst, so far, was about 3:30 a.m. Rain was going sideways, hitting east windows of bedroom with a 15' deep porch.

 

[CWB Wyo]

The low was 47*, yesterday high was 87*. Today is going to be about the same with some wind 10-20 mph.

Hope everyone in Texas stays safe.

Ended up working on a washing machine most of the day. The wife is happy it doesn't leak any more.

May go to a car show in town today.

Hope everyone has a nice day.
CWB

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Have a report from my friend in Victoria Texas.
All the privacy fences are down as far as he can see. Power has been out for almost 12 hours. With winds still around 70mph on the backside of the storm, the power company is not out trying to do any repairs. Hopefully tomorrow. They have a 3K generator to run a microwave. We are very concerned about his house between Victoria and Port Lavaca. He flew his J-3 Piper Cub to the County airport's large hangar built in WWII. The hangar is so big he probably could have landed in the doorway. He has plenty of tractors, generators and equipment to clean up. Just hoping his huge barn and home survived.

We are fine here in Giddings, with a tad over 7" of rain so far. More on the way. New metal roof is holding up fine thanks. During extremely heavy rains, our internet goes out for a bit.

Tornado watch is effective for 2 more hours.

Don, you picked a fine hurricane weekend to have a fish fry. Wonder if people will get a rain check?

Now we just have to wait out all the rains and possible tornadoes.

Thank you all for your prayers and concerns.

 

[sodamo]

70°F and .45 inches rain. A pittance compared to Texas.

Ours prayers to you in path of Harvey.

Not awake enough for any plans yet.

Happy Anniversary again Eric

Be safe
Have a great day