Good morning!!!!

[Buppies]

Watching a good size doe in the back yard about 15 feet from where I'm sitting enjoying a meal of acorns

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I've long been an Ampeg guy, because I worked there for 10 years

I bet most folks don't know who Ampeg is, but having owned a Radio Shack in the 80's, and selling some pretty low quality
Realistic brand guitar amps to budding musicians, I knew that Ampeg was the good stuff.
Welcome To Ampeg
I think I even sold something called a wawa pedal. When distortion was a cool thing.

It's neat that PJ and quite a few others have an electronics/IT background plus are musicians. The rest of us learn from you.

Part of the stock I inherited when I bought this tiny Radio Shack in a very small town was a whole range of tubes, tubes such as used in what is today the
highest end of audio. And tube checkers, had to have one of those. The guy who owned the business fixed tv's from the very beginning. Which I promptly gutted, doubled in size and
ran differently, but I had this very odd stuff that went up on the wall for clearance. And the word got out, all the techies in the Princeton-New Brunswick corridor of NJ would come in looking
for good deals. Including the whole box for ten bucks stuff. Boy did I see smiling guys going out. They actually knew what the parts were, the triacs and thermistors, and
if it wasn't current Radio Shack stock, out it went. I was never a musician so I never understood all the mixing boards, and there wasn't much demand for it.
But amplifiers? Those guitars needed to get plugged in somewhere. No more air guitar. Jimmy Hendrix II is in session. Thankfully they didn't test the equipment in the store.

I think I sold over a hundred pair of Infinity speakers to local families. They weren't used to that from the department store. Kenwood, Panasonic, Pioneer and Onkyo receivers, never did high end, no super fancy turntables. But still an adult toy store. I had been reading Stereo Review since I was 16, not for the music like PJ understands, but because I found the electronics fascinating. Led to building many Heathkit gizmos too. I wonder how many of us have built a Heathkit. Perhaps a dying art. But good to know when the big EMP goes off and nothing works.
You just know RNG has something already figured out...

now it really is time to get to work. Enjoy your day.

Reminds me of the Alabama song called "Petes music city", about the " music store slash radio shack". In Ga on hw 41.
I just googled it and it actually exists, Petes music city in Calhoun Ga.

"We never bought nothing, but we sure did play"
Pete's Music City - YouTube

 

[lostcreekranch]

2nd morning of very heavy fog here. Yesterday, fog didn’t clear up until well after 9 a.m. glad I don’t have to drive anywhere early. Forecast is for same tomorrow morning too.

Started cleaning up one of the trees that Harvey took down. This one was a leaner and ground got so saturated that it just came on over. Nice, no stump to deal with, just a hole to fill.











Just have to remove a couple more limbs then use big Tractor and grapple to move tree to burn pile.

I have another similar but much large oak that came down same way to start on today.

Everyone have a great day!

 

[CWB Wyo]

The low was 22*, yesterday's high was 57* with a lot wind. We got about 2 in of snow overnight, still have lite snow coming down. The high today going be in the 40's with clearing skies.

Pulled the block heater from the tractor and tested it and it was bad. I think it was bad from the factory. A neighbor pick one up for me in town, I'll get it back in today I'll take the old one back later this week. The new one tested good.

I was going to help a neighbor cut some wood today but with the snow I don't think that's going to happen.

Hope everyone has a nice day.
CWB

 

[farmer2009]

56 this morning and headed to 85 today.

Took the boys to a local orchard yesterday. They had fun on the play ground. Oldest really enjoyed the soybean maze. It was like “I’m going” and every so often he’d turn around as if to ask if we were going to keep up or not. Wife made her yearly purchase of pumpkins. 100 small pumpkins dropped half off at boys daycare and other half go to preschool.

May try to mow today. Haven’t got to use new mower yet. Will have to see how that suspension seat works out. Other than that check cows and chickens.

Happy anniversary Ron.

Being tone deaf never got into music much. Yeah I listen to it but mainly just the lyrics. The only way I ever made it through band in school was I learned how to read music and the teacher had this machine that matched notes so I could adjust the slide on the trombone. Then I learned how to reference the slide off stationary instrument parts.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Eric, thanks for the no kiss the fish reminder story. I promise I won't kiss the fish. Glad that guy didn't die.

Ed, Hope your mama gets better. Prayers.

PJ, I remember drooling over the Carvin brochures. I ended up buying a LAB Series L5 in 1979. I loaned it to my brother, and he loaned it to someone else, and they loaned it to someone else....and I never saw it again. I was not meant to be a musician. I can play a mean stereo though. I still have my old McIntosh/JBL stereo from the '70's.

Astros won the first game ALCS. Hard to keep those yankees down for long.

The kids and I are taking it easy today. I did get the part for the tilt steering repair, but I left the other parts on my work desk 65 miles away...It will have to wait until next week.

Need to tutor my daughter on some math.

Y'all have a great day!

 

[PJSprog]

I've long been an Ampeg guy, because I worked there for 10 years

I bet most folks don't know who Ampeg is, but having owned a Radio Shack in the 80's, and selling some pretty low quality
Realistic brand guitar amps to budding musicians, I knew that Ampeg was the good stuff.
Welcome To Ampeg
I think I even sold something called a wawa pedal. When distortion was a cool thing.

It's neat that PJ and quite a few others have an electronics/IT background plus are musicians. The rest of us learn from you.

Part of the stock I inherited when I bought this tiny Radio Shack in a very small town was a whole range of tubes, tubes such as used in what is today the
highest end of audio. And tube checkers, had to have one of those. The guy who owned the business fixed tv's from the very beginning. Which I promptly gutted, doubled in size and
ran differently, but I had this very odd stuff that went up on the wall for clearance. And the word got out, all the techies in the Princeton-New Brunswick corridor of NJ would come in looking
for good deals. Including the whole box for ten bucks stuff. Boy did I see smiling guys going out. They actually knew what the parts were, the triacs and thermistors, and
if it wasn't current Radio Shack stock, out it went. I was never a musician so I never understood all the mixing boards, and there wasn't much demand for it.
But amplifiers? Those guitars needed to get plugged in somewhere. No more air guitar. Jimmy Hendrix II is in session. Thankfully they didn't test the equipment in the store.

I think I sold over a hundred pair of Infinity speakers to local families. They weren't used to that from the department store. Kenwood, Panasonic, Pioneer and Onkyo receivers, never did high end, no super fancy turntables. But still an adult toy store. I had been reading Stereo Review since I was 16, not for the music like PJ understands, but because I found the electronics fascinating. Led to building many Heathkit gizmos too. I wonder how many of us have built a Heathkit. Perhaps a dying art. But good to know when the big EMP goes off and nothing works.
You just know RNG has something already figured out...

now it really is time to get to work. Enjoy your day.

I can't even begin to tell you how much I miss the old Radio Shack stores, Drew. I loved that you could walk in on any day and more than likely find what you needed. Tubes, caps, resistors, transformers, potentiometers, wire in all gauges ... and if they didn't have it in stock they could get it in a matter of a couple of days. I remember walking in to my local store one day, and all I saw were consumer electronics like stereos, home phones, cell phones, and computers. No electronics components at all. Told the guy behind the counter what I needed, and he pointed me to a little stand against the wall with a giant catalog on it, saying, "If you can find it in there, I can order it for you." I told him I could do that from the comfort of my own home. Last time I ever went in one, and that was sometime in the mid '90s.

And tube testers!!! I remember when even Central Hardware had a tube tester right inside the front door. These days, most electronics repair shops don't even have one. They'll just swap out a suspected bad tube with a new one.

Electronics supply stores are a dying breed. I know of one here in the St. Louis area, and they are huge, but not convenient to me. I usually order from online sources like Parts Express or MCM these days. It's a shame not having those stores handy any more. But, as someone else noted, most stuff isn't made to be repaired anymore, just discarded and replaced.

 

[rswyan]

70F and mostly sunny @ 11:15. High today predicted to be 76F.

Rain is in the forecast for tomorrow (70% chance), then nada for the next 8 days after that. Which would be fine as far as I'm concerned ... will give me a chance to get caught up on the mowing. Would be nice if the leaves would all come down so I could get those picked up as well but I don't see that happening for at least another two or three weeks.

Got more clean up done up at the wood yard yesterday. Gathered a couple of buckets of short splits and piled them up by the man door to the shop, got the rest of the junk wood burned, and fished a bunch of rounds that look kind of like ash (but aren't) out of the weeds. Also hit the storage area with the box blade so rain will hopefully run off ... that area is still pretty moist ... hoping it will dry and firm up today. I may tarp it at the end of the day today to keep it from getting wet from the rain tomorrow.

Need to go get diesel fuel this morning and then fix that clearance issue with the front aux hydraulic hoses.

 

[rswyan]

Ron,

Happy anniversary to you and the Missus ... that is quite an accomplishment ... :thumbsup:

 

[rswyan]

Kyle,

That's quite the little sweetheart you have there ... she seems very intent and focused on her work. Save those pics ... you'll treasure them as the years go by.

And thanks for sharing you knowledge on the bandsaw blades.