Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

6am and I'm headed outside. Need to scout out how I'm going to lead a big truck through my plantings to get to the
propane tank area. Plus I have to put boards up on the driveway edge, just finished fixing the cracks too.
simply resigned to fact this big truck with a boom is going to bust up something. As long as I keep him off my septic tank
I'll be happy

 

[daugen]

odd thought, I wonder how David's four inches of rain did near the lava flows. Must have been pretty steamy around there...
Hope that calms down. Talk about living on a powderkeg.

 

[wngsprd]

48 and a nice wet dew, but we are dry here, too, otherwise. Topping out at 79.

Need to mow and bush hog once the dew is mostly dry, but before it gets too hot and dry. Was too windy yesterday to cut, but hand dug another FEL full of sand at the bridge to place on the low spot in the path. Also plan to clean the porches but likely will not power wash since the pollen and mowing dust still coming. My wife was weeding the flower bed next to the porch, and found a rabbit nest 3 feet from the step that we use a dozen times a day. Now I know why I kept seeing a baby rabbit on that side of the house last week and why Coco showed so much interest.

Are any of you with wild cherry trees seeing a lot of green leaves falling now? I've noticed it here and along the road to town. They are also flowering now, but many leaves are on the ground. Maybe the late freeze we had last Monday.

Drew, why 1,000 gallon tank?

 

[Buppies]

Drew my legs have not seen the sun since around 2005 or so yet they still come. Tilley hats are great wear one every day with zinc oxide on face spf 70 on arms and neck rest is covered. My biggest one to date on back as well about 6 inches long but some used for skin graft. Tell your fireman friend he is not invincible and needs protection now. I have been lucky in the fact so far all basil cell so many I'm losing count

 

[Buppies]

Wngsprd no leaves falling here yet but some flowering trees under performed this year

Thanks Thomas

 

[Buppies]

Toppop wear a big floppy hat

 

[Buppies]

Thanks to everyone for prayers they do help

 

[ronjhall]

My hands and arms are dark brown by now, even putting on spf70. I try to be regular about using it,
particularly on the backs of my hands where age is doing a number all by itself. Plus a Tilley hat.
I have washed my Tilley hat dozens of times and boy is that durable. That's a hat worth the money.

When I went to doctor last week. One of the questions asked by the nurse was if i used Sunblock. My reply was no. Then I added my $.02. I look for California to be listing Sunblock as a carcinogen in the future. I have a full head of hair and wear a wide brim hat when out in the sun. Also wear long sleeve shirts when out in the sun year around.
I sure would be wearing all the protection I could get on if I had fair/light skin.

 

[Buppies]

Ron full head of hair here too but still had 2 in my head. I do tan as well. Maybe the old farmers who wore long sleeves and straw hats years ago were on to something

 

[Buppies]

Sodamo hope you get your power issues sorted out looks complicated to me but electricity and plumbing are complicated

 

[RoyJackson]

Well, some good news this morning...my Woodmaxx 8H chipper has been shipped. I expect it will be delivered next week...unfortunately, I'll be in Connecticut Monday through Wednesday.

 

[toppop52]

I wear a wide brimmed straw hat but cloth floppy is better, gotta get one.

Flowering trees did poorly here as well.

The cherry trees lose leaves from dry stress, they will do that several times a year if it’s very dry.

 

[ronjhall]

Ron full head of hair here too but still had 2 in my head. I do tan as well. Maybe the old farmers who wore long sleeves and straw hats years ago were on to something

I hope I am wrong about Sunblock. But it seems anymore there is a risk in anything we use or do.

 

[riptides]

57 outside this AM. Should be a great day.
Thanks for the anti-glue advise on the breadboard. Will try a chemical solution this week. Now have a plumbing issue in my other house. Trying to find a leak. On top of that... returned to full time job. So endth my retirement. Officially over.
Count me in as no fan of the health insurance industry. Insert big sigh here.

Have a great day all. Be safe. Good fortunes to you.

 

[ronjhall]

I wear a wide brimmed straw hat but cloth floppy is better, gotta get one.

Flowering trees did poorly here as well.

The cherry trees lose leaves from dry stress, they will do that several times a year if it’s very dry.

Lots of flowering trees around here. Mostly white. Our Eastern Red Bud is in bloom. But is under performing.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 61˚ heading to the nineties. Big cloth floppy hat here and an occasional stray hat. Baseball caps leave the ears and sides of face too exposed. A light long sleeve does seem cooler in the summer keeping the direct sunlight off the arms, but decreasing air circulation brings the temp right back up.

The clutch sprocket for my chain saw should be here today and I can finish fixing the chainsaw and get a project off the workbench. The gears on the sprocket were worn this is the second time they are being replaced.

I can't remember if I posted about the washing machine repair. We replaced the door boot on the front loading washing machine. It leaked, redid it and tighten the band tighter, it leaked at another different place, took it apart the third time clean the soap dispenser connection to the boot, no leaks, yea. The guy on youtube was very good and fast, he did it in 5 minutes it took me 45 minutes the first time, 30 minutes each subsequent time to disassemble it and assemble it.

Have a good day!

 

[Bird]

68 degrees this morning, going for a high of 89. I have a weird (to me, at least) eye problem, and wonder if anyone else has had anything like it. A little background: nearly 7 years ago, an optometrist sent me to an ophthalmologist (#1)and I had cataract surgery first on one eye, then a month later on the other eye. Then he sent me to another ophthalmologist (#2) who did retina surgery first on one eye, then a month later on the other eye. Then a little more than 3 years ago, I had strabismus surgery on my right eye by a third ophthalmologist (#3) to whom I was sent by #2. Then, last August, my vision had gotten bad in my right eye, so it was back to #2 who sent me to #1 who did laser surgery on the right eye that fixed that problem, but brought back the strabismus. Ophthalmologist #3 gave me some eye exercises to do that fixed it this time (we had tried those before he did the surgery 3 years ago and they didn't work then). Now the last 2 or 3 months I've had a problem that I've taken a lot of time to try to narrow down the cause. I finally realized that when I have a problem reading something (which is most of the time), I can cover (or just close) my right eye and read it with my left eye just fine. On the other hand, if I cover my left eye, and look at something with just my right eye, sometimes some letters are missing, power lines show some weird shapes, an Amsler Grid shows wavy lines, etc. So yesterday, it was back to #1 and after a number of tests, he said I have swelling in the back of my right eye, and he made an appointment for me to see #2 tomorrow.

I know/understand the reasons/benefits of specialization, but it can sure be difficult to understand which doctor to go to and when. But when I mentioned that to #1 yesterday, he said that I was right in coming to him, AND they made an appointment for me to come back to see him again in 6 months.

 

[Looking4new]

I don't know what the temperature is this morning, the sun is in my eyes and cannot read the thermometers, but it is going to a high of 75. Wind E 10 mph. Mainly sunny. Periods of rain tomorrow.

I got the genny line buried yesterday. Not as deep as I would like it, but I can always ramp over it. I will have lots of dirt left over from the grave digging.

I will get the hole dug today. It is already marked out.
That is about all I will do today.

Bird; I think all your eye Dr.s see you as a 'cash cow'. The trouble is that you really cannot screw around with your eyes, because you really will not like the alternative. Being blind is no fun.

Have a good day all

 

[CajunRider]

Good morning.
My tractor is wearing me out! I replaced a steering cylinder and hose. It ran without any leak there and things were working fine for about 20 minutes then hydraulic fluid started to squirt out at the bottom of the double acting valves. What could cause that? Can those valves be fixed? They are $300 a piece new. A few hundred here a few hundred there and soon I will have paid for a new tractor.

Sunny and warm today. Did I tell you that one of my AC is not doing well?
Good day to all y'all.

 

[CajunRider]

68 degrees this morning, going for a high of 89. I have a weird (to me, at least) eye problem, and wonder if anyone else has had anything like it. A little background: nearly 7 years ago, an optometrist sent me to an ophthalmologist (#1)and I had cataract surgery first on one eye, then a month later on the other eye. Then he sent me to another ophthalmologist (#2) who did retina surgery first on one eye, then a month later on the other eye. Then a little more than 3 years ago, I had strabismus surgery on my right eye by a third ophthalmologist (#3) to whom I was sent by #2. Then, last August, my vision had gotten bad in my right eye, so it was back to #2 who sent me to #1 who did laser surgery on the right eye that fixed that problem, but brought back the strabismus. Ophthalmologist #3 gave me some eye exercises to do that fixed it this time (we had tried those before he did the surgery 3 years ago and they didn't work then). Now the last 2 or 3 months I've had a problem that I've taken a lot of time to try to narrow down the cause. I finally realized that when I have a problem reading something (which is most of the time), I can cover (or just close) my right eye and read it with my left eye just fine. On the other hand, if I cover my left eye, and look at something with just my right eye, sometimes some letters are missing, power lines show some weird shapes, an Amsler Grid shows wavy lines, etc. So yesterday, it was back to #1 and after a number of tests, he said I have swelling in the back of my right eye, and he made an appointment for me to see #2 tomorrow.

I know/understand the reasons/benefits of specialization, but it can sure be difficult to understand which doctor to go to and when. But when I mentioned that to #1 yesterday, he said that I was right in coming to him, AND they made an appointment for me to come back to see him again in 6 months.

My goodness. I hope you get your eyes taken care of soon.