Good morning!!!!

[ronjhall]

RNG, great pictures. Never did the CA end of shore line drive. Did do OR and WA. Beautiful drives. May still do the CA drive someday.

 

[PJSprog]

Unwelcome excitement here at work today. Some idiot shot up a car at the intersection near our facility during lunch. No one here was hit, fortunately. Most of our guys sit outside at lunch. No extra holes in my car either.

... and no, this isn't the best neighborhood. A day in the life in North St. Louis, sadly.

 

[daugen]

You're gonna have fun with that Brush Hog, Drew. But you might have better luck backing it into the heavy brush instead of trying to run it over first with the tractor. It'll make a lotta noise when it's workin' hard, too!

Absolutely. I sized it small to fit the small tractor with hydrostatic; one less thing for me to look at while backing up. Anything over an inch I'll use loppers on anyway. One inch is a pretty big stick to chomp up no matter what their rating. I want to use it on my neighbor's overgrown field down at the bottom where he let everything just go, and where I was hauling
old implements out of this overgrown jungle. Too dangerous to back in blind there, just my luck I'd find out he had a sixth Holland transplanter. Now for sure that would make a loud noise
and work hard munching on the transplanter...or who knows what else he chucked into his woods.

I also have a spot on the opposite end of my property, the other roadside and ditch, where I'd like to clear out the woods near the road a little.
Might even make a building lot out of it.

Had a nice day outside today, got some leaves blown into woods, and was having a good time pounding Jobes fertilizer stakes into my fruit orchard until
I looked down and found my left hand in a fire ant mound. I came into pretty quickly and slathered it all with 1% cortisone, but left hand puffed up nonetheless.
Nothing major mostly itchy. I was only half way done but had to stop, wrist was on fire. nasty nasty bugs

Started up the larger Massey when it was pretty cold out still, and with no heaters whatsoever that thing starts on the first revolution. While starting acts like it had a
heater on it. Yet it also takes quite a while to warm up. I've always had glow plugs, this thing has nothing and doesn't seem to need any either.
Versus the little Massey which has a cold heart. It needs at least 30 seconds on the glowplugs or complains bitterly. Hot blooded Indian vs cold blooded Japanese.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Awesome, RNG. Makes me miss my '89 R100RT even more than I already do.

Yep, the RT is definitely one of those "pry it from my cold, dead hands" bikes.

Glad I made it home when I did. While I was away, 1.53" of rain fell, another 0.6" last night and this morning, and it's supposed to dump another inch before midnight. Then another quarter inch tomorrow before a brief respite, then another couple inches next Monday.

I don't know if it's just the news media covering more shooting stories so we hear about it more, or if there's actually more violence. The FBI's uniform crime statistics show a drop in 2014, the latest year for which numbers are available, so they're not much help. Regardless, glad you're OK.

 

[Ed of all trades]

Drew, You are right about being careful, I bush hogged a horse drawn plow in a field that was "clean", nothing in it. Ed

 

[txdon]

Fish bones instead of sand make up the Salton Sea beach:

How does it smell?

 

[sodamo]

Nice pics, RNG and thanks for the travelogue.

 

[newbury]

Good morning! 65˚ heading to 80˚. Can't decide which project to do, paint porch railing, caulk outside house trim or tractor dirt work.

Costco has their kitchenAid stand mixers on sale and I always wanted one to make bread so I picked one up yesterday. I was looking on youtube at several attachments to knead the dough and there appears to be the J hook or the spiral hook.
It came with the spiral but I can see some definite advantages with the J. Does anyone use a mixer to mix and knead bread? Any preference?

. . . . . . .
I seriously think I may need some help. I've been buying more kitchen appliances last year than tractor implements.
I wonder If I should list these under my avatar with the tractor implements: tamale making machine, dehydrator, air frier, stand mixer

Best Buy had the "Pro" KV25G0XER Professional 500 Series Stand Mixer on sale for $200 last week, picked one up for my Daughter, they are back up to $500.

 

[newbury]

When there is a choice of projects to do. The one with tractor use should always move to top of list.
We have a kitchen aid mixer. But have not done bread or anything else with it in a few years. I call it a cement mixer. It has the J hook. There were some problems with them a few years ago. Something to do with speed switch. Why not use a Bread Machine?

A bread machine is a single purpose tool. The KitchenAid is the "tractor" of the kitchen. Basically an electric motor with a PTO and lots of attachments.
I wonder if they have a winch for it?

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Drew, your pond barely shows on google maps, satellite view. But your fenced in orchard shows up well, as does your neighbors junk

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Speaking of the neighbor, is this you discing his field?

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 67F this morning, overcast with widely scattered showers in the area, calm wind. Sky remained overcast all day, windy puffy but light, and a high temp of 73F. Been riding extra miles this week, Denton Turkey Roll this Saturday, rumor has the group will do 68 mile loop. Need to start interior noise abatement program in van.

 

[mostly_gas]

RNG nice pics and trip!

Drew sorry to hear about your dental problems. The last two teeth I had crowned my dentist said going in they may not last due to how close the decay was to the root. 1 year so far, no problems although took a couple off weeks after the work before the teeth quite complaining.

Don, step 1 is to recognize the problem ...

 

[sodamo]

Drew
Have to wonder about dental costs...
Talking to a friend yesterday, he is born and raised in a Hilo but lives most of the year in Canada, Canadian wife. She recently needed a lot of dental work, not covered under Canadian health care. Private dentist estimate $18k.
They decided to go to Mexico. 8 crowns - 1450USD. While waiting on his wife, Henry got talking with another dentist in same office and she noticed a chipped tooth and suggested she could fix. Henry told her that at 74 yo he wasn’t up to spending a large amount. She told him 150 USD. Been a couple of months and they are both very happy with the work.

 

[RoyJackson]

2017-11-16, 0310

36 right now...high about 40. Forecast calls for a rain/snow mix. We'll see if that happens...

 

[Ed of all trades]

Good morning all, 35 going to 54 and mostly sunny. Going to take it easy again today. Lower back is tight and ok sitting in a chair but hurts standing or doing anything. Might try to figure out the remote on the dust collector.

David, Back in 2000 wife and I were in China and she got a bad sinus infection. We called a Dr and he said get a z-pac. Went to the Rx and got one for less than $3. They were more than 10 times that at home. My Niece and nephew used to go to mexico for their meds but the violence has stopped that.

Have a great day. Ed

 

[Eric Salop]

Good morning. "Neither use nor ornament" is possibly how my grandma would have described this mornings sunshine. That's what she would call me and and my grandad, though in a kindly manner, if we got in the way in her tiny kitchen while she was doing something. The sun is a welcome sight really, though not bright enough to manage without turning lights on inside, all it's doing is highlighting the dust streaks that rain has left on the windows.

Yesterday I had some work that took me away from home, so the night before I stayed in one of the prettiest little villiges I have ever come across in the Yorkshire dales. Fields with livestock constrained within by dry stone walls instead of wire fences. No mobile reception, yet the pub car park had 4 Tesla car charging points. There was an old fashioned red public telephone box - without a phone. No use, only ornament

 

[daugen]

Eric, you should have tried out that phone box and see if it would time travel for you
beautiful town

Our medical system is so geared to inflated pricing, knowing that insurance companies won't pay that much, sometimes less than half, and yet
those of us running uninsured (dental only here on Medicare) are up to the mercy of the provider. And at a thousand dollars a tooth,
I'd say not much mercy either. I really wanted to ask the Doc if this was a Medicare approved procedure how much he would have been paid.

Appointment at 9am with local Kubota dealer to talk about a new F series mower. Likely to take back all the mowing next year and go back to just having helpers do the weedeating. Too much money to spend every year on help. So I'm considering a larger mower to cut down the time, I have clearances so a 6 foot deck is fine. First quote I got from local dealer was 3 percent off list. That created some upset and I then went to Barlows, Messicks, and my old dealer in PA who can deliver at a store location in DE and save over a thousand in tax. I never got a reply from Messicks, which surprised me, Barlow came back promptly with the lowest price (very nice people) but shipping sucks up almost all their savings.
I'm just going to ask local dealer to match highest quote I got, the one in DE. About ten percent off mower which apparently makes dealer very unhappy which means I'm getting somewhere....

42 out now going up to high fifties, maybe crack 60. Don't know yet if helper showing up, he didn't respond last night when I asked him how his son's broken leg was. Even if he doesn't show up I have a lot of trees to trim. Beating the woods back as my father used to say.

Mouth is almost back to normal, yeah.

 

[wngsprd]

Sitting here trying to decide whether I'd rather visit the Salton Sea or Yorkshire...such pretty photos. Thanks for posting. Eric, I guess that last photo shows where you spent the night.

Had a rain shower earlier, and now temps have dropped to 40, but will climb to 63, first day in a while to get up out of the 40s or 50s. Woodstove has been working hard the past 9 days. Today, I might wash some windows when I get back from my haircut and the gym.

Drove to southeast Virginia early yesterday for my last chance at bowhunting this year. Saw only a small buck...but when I got home and looked at my trail cam photos, I see that a couple of nice ones are hanging around. Shotgun season opens Saturday. I'll hunt here with the muzzleloader until then.

Drew, when is the best time of year to fertilize apples and pecans? I haven't been keeping up with my pruning and fertilizing, but need to get back to it...poor harvests.

 

[daugen]

Drew, when is the best time of year to fertilize apples and pecans? I haven't been keeping up with my pruning and fertilizing, but need to get back to it...poor harvests.

Billie I use fertilizer pretty sparingly in the beginning, but now I dump some bagged organic fertilizer, mostly chicken manure it seems(says it's for fruit and citrus trees), around the base of the trees in the Fall. Maybe I should do it in early Spring instead. Not sure it matters because it takes some time to penetrate. I also use those Jobe fertilizer spikes once a year.

Pruning always on the coldest day of the year. So in January I'm out pruning. Need a step ladder now, thankfully the trees have grown.
Need to really prune and shape the pear trees, they grew almost five feet this year.

Where are the pics from our Mighty Hunters?