Good morning!!!!

[Bird]

51 degrees this morning, going for 85, is hard to believe for this time of year.

 

[lennyzx11]

First cup here in SE Oklahoma @ 46 degrees.

Got two loads of wood cut and split by maul done. I had thinned out a few too close to each other and getting dead trees while the big backhoe was rented.

Had a couple of new toys to try out.
I had bought a Timberline chainsaw sharpener based on reviews and TBN posts. And sharpened two chains on the bench the night before. It worked great and appears quality made. First two resharpened chains were as good or better than new.
I also bought a Logrite 30" pickaroon. First time ever used such a thing. It is definitely quality but doesn't work quite perfect for me yet in oak and hickory. I had read though that was the case in its defense. I'm trying to get the nerve up to give it a couple of licks with a file on the sides of the point and back of the barb to make it a bit more pronounced. I see the potential in it though. I used it a lot to pick up one split and transfer that on to one hand and pick up another on the pick and carry to trailer. No bending.
Also standing rounds for splitting was great.
Still have another cord's worth of trees down. I'm going to trying to get them at least limbed and topped and maybe logs up on blocks off the ground before I leave for work again Monday to prevent rot.

Today...? Wife says upstairs toilet is running so I better look at that before I head out.

And one of the gutters needs attention after a slight miscalculation involving a trimmed branch's angle of fall happened last week.

Wishing a good day as possible to all.

 

[PJSprog]

45°F and spotty fog this morning, going up to 75° today. Had to put on a flannel jacket to take the garbage down to the road this morning for pickup.

Friends and relatives in Florida are busy bracing for Irma's arrival. I don't envy that.

 

[PJSprog]

Eric, sounds like you have your own Watership Down.

I read that book in high school freshman literature class. Loved it. I actually re-read it again a few years ago, and it's lost none of its appeal. One of my favorite pieces of fiction.

 

[CWB Wyo]

The low this morning was 42*, yesterday high was 87*. We had more smoke move in overnight. I can hardly see the mountains about 10 miles south of us. Today's high is going to be back into the 80's with 20% chance of showers later in the evening.

Ed, wishing you and your wife the best. Hope she starts to feel better.

Making a trip to town and working on the deck are my plans for today.

Hope everyone has a nice day.
CWB.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 67F 20% Precip. / 0.00 in Partly Cloudy. High 78F. Winds S at 10 to 15 mph.

Weather Underground has once again updated the web interface for personal weather stations, and I have to wonder if any of them ever actually use it. Information that used to be right out front is now buried, and it no longer remembers what PWS to associate with a given place name. Guess it's too much to ask for people to check their work, or even ask PWS owners what they think.

Very uneventful trip to town yesterday, no progress on the van. And a whopper of an excuse: The mechanic says he was asleep Saturday morning when someone broke into his house and stole his laptop. As a result he had to spend all day Sunday and most of Monday putting in a security system. :confused2:

I'll get a few parts primed this morning, get that clutch cable and switch replaced on the motorcycle, pack for the trip south tomorrow, and cook myself a nice meal this evening. Oh, and enjoy one last night in a soft bed before going back to the tent.:laughing:

Hang in there, gang, Friday's comin'!

 

[daugen]

RNG: a classic dog ate my homework tale...over the hills and dales of trial and tribulation lays your prize...no Easy button here for sure.
You will be very intimate with every bolt, rivet and weld in that thing by the time you are done.

Just like PJ, have a friend sitting in his house right now on a canal just off the Intracoastal in Boca Raton. Irma appears to be on a path right up the middle of the state, huge dollar damage to agricultural, better stock up on orange juice now. My friend is likely fighting his way through the masses down in Florida in the local Lowes trying to get rope and tape and whatever else they have. Sheets of plastic. He has lots of sliding glass doors too, of course, for the view...well Momma Nature wants in and he wants to keep her out.

I can imagine just trying to book a flight out of Florida right now. Route 95 North down there will look like the Exodus from Egypt.
Worse, there's at least a million folks lined up on Route 1 from Key West trying to go North in their campers stop and go, 4 mph, working their way up to Miami where the real traffic starts, except now it's 8 lanes wide. They should make some Southbound lanes go North like the tunnels. I hope they have a lot of cones that won't fly away. And the storm is going to chase them all the way from the path. That path is a curve ball through the strike zone of Florida. This is the stuff of movies if they get caught out on the highways. Both coasts have now been declared evacuation zones. Where do you go? Panhandle of Florida sounds good. Larro, get ready for visitors.

Really hope this thing slows down and fizzles out with a lot of rain. That often happens, but if it doesn't, this is going to be a hurricane season to remember. $2.89 for regular in PA. I saw $3.03 on another name brand pump.
good thing the Subaru is thrifty. I'm headed home tomorrow. MIL was delighted with new pics I got her of family and my late wife that go in her electronic picture frame I got her. She won't have a computer so a picture frame that changes pictures by magic
is sufficiently nifty for her. She's still going strong but I got her to talk more seriously about going into a local ccc. Same one my stepmother wound up in, where you can have your own little two bedroom cottage with screened porch. And plant your own flowers.
She's been living alone for almost ten years, all her friends but a few have died so being with others I think would be wonderful for her.
She's still got her faculties, limps with arthritis. Sent me home with my favorite oatmeal raisin cookies made with very little sugar.
And home made apple sauce.
God bless her and keep her well.

 

[sodamo]

71°F and .05 inches rain

Checked the calendar, Sears service coming out today between 10 & 2.

Might catch the early Patriots opener, starts about 2 my time.

Be safe
Have a great day.

 

[daugen]

Folks at FEMA must be having a heart attack about now, talk about being stretched thin

Plus there are billions, yes billions of dollars worth of just yachts in the path. Most of those bigger
boats either have to run for it or get hauled out.
I've sat through a Cat 1 hurricane on my boat in S. Florida. Would never do it again.
Flying palm fronds like punji stakes not to mention getting hit by high speed coconuts.

time to buy stock in building material manufacturers

David, good luck with Sears repair. Luck of the draw who you get. I've had good luck with them.

 

[sodamo]

Prayers for Ed and wife.

And best wishes for Coco too.