Good morning!!!!

[ronjhall]

If I get a NPF, no problem found, next week, I will sell the truck and get a different brand. Sad, the engine is marvelous despite being thirsty, but that tap will never get better, only worse, and any mechanical part that taps for ten minutes straight is not going to last long. I think Chrysler is hiding something here; lots of mention of "hemi tap" online. I'm for sure not the only one.

My son just got a 2017 Ford pickup with ECO V-6. 10 speed trans, 4x4. He cannot believe have well it tows his Shelby Mustang on car hauler trailer. His 2012 Chevy pickup with V-6 2WD was no comparison. Both with 9K towing package. Ford has the auto backup package. Best thing since sliced bread he says.

 

[Bird]

I'm a little ahead of you, Ron; already had 4 cups of coffee and a bowl of cereal with a banana in it, since 4 a.m. NWS says we're getting a "light rain". I'd be more inclined to call it a heavy mist; 63 degrees going for a high of 77. But at least I'm glad for the cooler weather.

And I'm sure your son is going to enjoy that new truck.

 

[farmer2009]

57 this morning and headed to 78 today. No rain in the 10 day forecast.

The typical fall dry spell is allowing a lot of farmers to cruise through their crops. Most big farmers around here are shelling corn at over 200 acres a day. Some higher. Some early beans are also being cut. But corn is king here and it comes out first, beans can sit, or most think. When in reality it's opposite.
We're about halfway through calving season.
Buckeye continue to get better.
Don thanks. Was hoping you found a cheap source. As it takes about 30 gallons to do a spraying around chicken coops. Can't use roundup down there no more.
Kyle. Tell your Finnly happy birthday.
Drew. Good luck on truck. Being a GM man I've actually considered a ram and cummins combo for my next work truck. But then GM has made great strides in the last year.

 

[PJSprog]

46° and clear skies this morning, going up to 81° today. Looking like we're in for a beautiful weekend here.

Took The Wife into Fairview Heights last evening to run a few errands. Got to work this morning and found a pile of keys on the floorboard of the passenger side in my car. Whoops. She is supposed to drop her Sorento off at the shop this morning to have some issues checked ... except her key (just a fob, really), her house keys, and the truck keys are all 42 miles from her. Hope she can find the spares.

Happy Anniversary, David.

 

[CWB Wyo]

The low was 32*, yesterday's high was 47*. It was cloudy with a north wind all day. Today is going to be about the same. The weather forecast I get on my weather app is for a town that is about 30 miles away. And about two thousand feet lower then I am. So it's kind off a guessing game as to what my weather is going to be.

Sodamo . Happy anniversary to you and your wife.

I have to make a another trip to town today. To get some work done on the side by side to get it ready for the hunts. So that will be all day.

Hope everyone has a nice day.
CWB.

 

[daugen]

it was such a nice cool morning I planted the rest of the trees, will probably be a bit sore but they sure look nice.
Now I have the itch to go back and get a few more. Actually I want to get more roses to plant between the trees.
This has been the best year for roses due to no drownings out front, all the roses along the fence near the road are blooming,
nice to just slow down going out the lane and enjoy the fruits of my labor, visually anyway. If I had my way there would be splashes
of color everywhere.

Now to go drop my truck off at the shop and get a shuttle ride back. Always enjoy trips in those Caravans with 150K miles on them.
Local taxi service uses a bunch.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 66F @ 8:00AM. 0% Precip. / 0.00 in. Partly Cloudy. High 81F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph.

RNG, you sound safe from speeding tickets for a little longer with your camper. Yesterday you were flat out - at 15 thou per day :laughing:

Not quite flat out , Eric, more like 0.005" out. But good enough to get the mechanic's blessing, and take away one more excuse for foot dragging on his part. Yesterday's new excuse was a concern over engine cooling, and a desire to install an extra oil cooler and attendant high capacity oil pump. Normally I'd have no problem with that, but the oil cooler would have been mounted under the van, and on a 4x4 the idea of something full of oil that close to rocks and tree limbs was a non-starter. So it was "yes" to the larger pump, and "let's wait and see if there's a problem" to the cooler. I was led to believe that the pump would be in hand today, and that by next Thursday the engine would be ready for installation. But I've learned to take this serial disappointer's estimates with a grain of salt, so we shall see...

Got the primer sanded out on the old motorcycle parts yesterday, and just need to do one more cleaning before painting them after it warms up a bit. Not sure what the rest of the day will bring, but there are plenty of things to keep me busy.

TGIF gang! :drink:

 

[sodamo]

69°F and .02 inches rain

Off to Hilo, breakfast with wife, errands.

Likely more mowing after we get home as I only did one area yesterday.

Be safe
Have a great day.

 

[daugen]

Definitely need to put some more air in the front tires of the Massey now with the weights added. They also added antifreeze mix to rear tires, and went over the whole
tractor for me. Most importantly, on a six year old tractor with unknown prior maintenance, I had the coolant flushed and replaced. Figure it will be good for a long time now, but needed
to set a base line. Their bill was three hundred dollars less than I had guestimated, all good.
Head of the Service Dept brought my tractor back, I found that a bit odd, they must be pretty short staffed...but we got to talk about what he found and he
said the tractor was like new, all trans and hydraulic fluids ok. So tomorrow, now that I got all my planting done, will likely be back in one of neighbor's fields, the one I mowed last week, and run the disc in there. Will be nice not to have the front end fly up in the air. More excitement than I need.

Tomorrow I'm going to take my better camera outside and take this picture again of mold growing on one of my birdhouses.
What a fascinating array of growths and colors, reminds me of a coral seabed.

 

[toppop52]

Wild looking growth there Drew! Nice cool fall day, got about 73 today, near 70 tomorrow. Finally got my burnt building removed yesterday and today. Got on my tractor and leveled the pad area. Can’t decide what I want to replace it with.
Put new LED lights in the garage, even the door opener lights, man it’s like daylight in there!