Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

43 years today at the grind...Ivy college... seen a lot heard to much over the years.

Dartmouth is quite a school;it was too far away for me to check out...got as far as Providence RI.
gosh, going to college when all the women decided it was time to burn their bras was, well, simply delightful.
"seen a lot"; I bet you have Thomas.

Though the articles I read on today's youth characterizes them as less capable of dealing with life, less motivated, perhaps a little lazier, they've had it too good and too easy.
Well, for sure, many of them. And when they get to college they have to call home constantly to ask the simplest things or make basic decisions.
Though I wonder if one thinks back fifty years, did some commentator say the same negative things about my graduating class?

 

[Buppies]

Thomas that's a long time at one job. I will bet you have heard and seen all sorts of things. Congratulations

64 high of 86 later still no rain and none in the foreseeable future. Off to work on another driveway but this one much closer to home

 

[ronjhall]

43 years at one job. Congrats. :thumbsup:

 

[wngsprd]

63 going to 87. Too hot and dry.

Congrats, Thomas. Do I remember a few months ago that you were talking of retirement in the not too distant future?

Don, glad your battery endeavor was successful.

Had a nice day kayak fishing with wife and friends on our local river yesterday. Caught quite a few sunfish and smallmouths, but no crappie or roaches. Water was nearly crystal clear. Then had a cookout on the banks of the river and talked until dark. Nearly a perfect Sunday afternoon.

Today, have a large mowing day.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Thanks Ron, will check the mower out some day, but not today.
Went to bed feeling sick in the stomach, woke up same way. Gonna wait awhile before hitting the road.
Need to clean up the old cider mill and try to make some cider this fall. Mill was my great grandfathers, as far back that dad knows.

 

[Ed of all trades]

Good morning all. 57 this morning going to 88 and sunny, supposed to cool down by the end of the week. Wife decided she does not like the recliner we just got her so I am going to look at another this afternoon. Might get the pantry door cut out by Christmas, trying to work things in with all of the regular stuff is slow.

Mostly, Fish taco, Reminds me of the catfish gravy I had one time.

Thomas, I remember when I thought 43 was old, 43 years is sure dedication.

Drew, Your grad. class? George Washington was worried about the children of his day and saw no way our country could survive because there was no one that could lead in the future. :laughing: Wonder what he would say now.

Have a great day all. Ed

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Buckeye, hope you are feeling better quickly.

Got the tractor tire back on the rim with the bead sealer.....Hoping it holds. Got the fuel filters on. Having trouble getting fuel up to it. Might use a vacuum pump...

Don, glad you got your dad's tractor going.

CWB, too cold for me this soon up there. Glad for your heater in side x side.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

If it ain't one thing it's another. Wife had a stomach bug a few days ago, now it seems to be my turn. Already have a Dr. appointment this afternoon to check on the infection i had.

Don't have any work to go to anyways, my last project ended last friday. I had a new project lined up, but my mgmnt is trying to get me on a different project, and they are waiting to hear from someone. Contracting work sucks at times, when a project ends (as this one did unexpectedly) It's like having to find a new job, either internal to my company, or go external.

 

[daugen]

Buckeye, engineer a fast recovery. Hope you feel better soon, you've been through the ringer.
You can wash your hands a lot but if a kiss gives you the flu, well, misery loves company.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 67F @ 5:30AM. 0% Precip. / 0.00 in. Sunny. High 84F. Winds N at 10 to 15 mph.

Congrats on your 43 years, Thomas. In that time, how many different jobs within the company have you had? Or were you so good at the first one, they kept you at it?

I think every generation shakes their heads at the latest generation's antics. The older I get, the more difficult it is to accept change, and youth is very good at finding things that "need" changing...

Accidently ran the Diesel all the way out of a rental ditch digger years ago, and ended up disconnecting a fuel line up near the fuel rail and pouring fuel into it to get a prime. Not a very good way of finding out that the fuel gauge didn't work...

Decided to skip the primer on the motorcycle parts yesterday, as none of the parts I've pulled off the thing had the first sign of primer on them, and they've lasted just fine for 54 years. The afternoon was nice and warm, and not too breezy, good enough for the satin black I was using. And like Drew, I had some "shade" on the arm I was using to hold up the parts while painting them, but that came off with some not so gentle scrubbing.

With the shocks off, I'm a little less than halfway to having the drive shaft out, which is needed to replace the rubber boot over the front u-joint. So I'll get that done today, and maybe get the start on the pushrod tube seals I'd hoped to get to yesterday.

Hope everyone's week gets off to a good start!

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Someone got a little too exuberant (or careless) on their motorcycle just east of here on the Feather River Canyon road, and ended up riding off a high embankment. Seems like it took half the county's rescue squad to get them out from the pictures, but injuries were described as "only moderate".

Screened the movie "Hacksaw Ridge" last night, which portrayed the actions of Desmond Doss on Okinawa during WWII. Very good movie, but if anything, it failed to relay the magnitude of what Doss actually did. No wonder they call the people of that era "The Greatest Generation"!

 

[Thomas]

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Now its our turn as they say.

 

[Thomas]

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Just working out the finer details need to write letter....soon.

 

[Thomas]

43 years at one job. Congrats. :thumbsup:

Thank you.

 

[Thomas]

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Sure have...grant dollars have been spent :confused2::thumbdown: students out look on life w/attitudes.

 

[Thomas]

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Fall until spring indeed struggle for most students being a way from home...learning from there choices as they taste life from little protection of mother parents wing,to harsh winter elements...ahhh what classroom books don't teach can be priceless.

 

[CWB Wyo]

The low this morning was 30*, yesterday's high was 45*. Overcast now going to partly cloudy in the afternoon. The high will be in the low 50*'s. Talked to a neighbor and he said that he has not seen snow like this in September here. Forecast is for it to warm up for the week.

Glad I got the heater in the side by side. buckeyefarmer made me laugh with his 91*. That's just to hot.
Last year I bought 4, 12 volt seat heathers from Shopko that you plug in. They were on sale for about ten dollars each. They seem to work good to take the chill off when I used the side by side. I was thinking about putting one in the tractor this winter . And see how it works when I'm moving snow.

To wet to do much outside today. Need to clean up the garage some.

Hope everyone has a nice day.
CWB.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

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Fall until spring indeed struggle for most students being a way from home...learning from there choices as they taste life from little protection of mother parents wing,to harsh winter elements...ahhh what classroom books don't teach can be priceless.

Yes, there's a lot more to learning than the books. Why I think it's better to go away to school, and not comute from home.

Mine are 1000 miles away, course today they have instant text and cell coverage, unlike when i went away. My youngest dropped his laptop and broke it this weekend. A good youtube video helped him with taking it apart, fixed it as good as it can be, and it still works so all is well.

If he was home, it would have been dad fixing it. Fortunately just some plastic broke, and not the screen, although the video shows the screen is replaceable fairly easy.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Supposed to hit the 90's again today. Maybe i should get a heater for my ranger, but id rather get a windshield first. My tractor has a cab and heat, so i use it for snow removal.

 

[PJSprog]

64°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 91° today. Tomorrow will be rather warm again, then we get some more seasonable temperatures starting Wednesday.

Didn't seem like I got a lot done over the weekend, and yet I completely cleared my little to-do list populated with small, piddly things. One of the things was replacing the toilet seat in the upstairs bathroom. One of the plastic bolts had stripped and loosened, which caused the seat to move. While removing the old one and installing the new one, I began wondering why they make those plastic bolts three times longer than they need to be.

Wife started decorating the house for Halloween yesterday. She hasn't been able to do that for a couple of years, and even enjoyed digging the stuff out of storage to do it. I noticed while in WallyWorld yesterday that they already have Xmas decoration stuff out on the shelves.