Good Morning!!!! 59F @ 5:30AM. Sunny. High near 80F. Winds W at 5 to 10 mph.
Nice sunrise, Ron. Thanks for sharing the photo.
The "rule" I've always heard is not to mix synthetic oil with petroleum based oil, Drew. And even if you carefully measure the proportions, the viscosity still may not be what you calculate. Another rule I live by is to not eat wild mushrooms. Even the experts sometimes get sick/dead from breaking this rule.
Sorry about your birds, Andrew. Might be time to set up a game camera to find out what killed 'em.
Plenty of crickets chirping when I awoke this morning at about 4:30, even one in the kitchen when I went to get a drink of water. Sounded like it was coming from a corner on the counter, but when I got there I couldn't tell where the noise was coming from any longer. The cricket kept chirping, so I was obviously not close enough. Now the geese are up honking over the lake, the hummers are buzzing and squawking on the feeders, and other feathered friends are calling that it's time to get after the worm. For me that means more tractor time, and whatever other trouble I can find to get into this afternoon.:laughing:
I did a lot of limbing yesterday, and a whole lot more branch gathering and dumping them on the burn pile, but while admiring my work from the comfort of the back patio last night realized I could do a whole lot more. But that would be for appearances sake, and not fire safety, so I'll draw the line and give my neck, shoulders, and hands a few days to recuperate from their workout in the "wood gym".
While in town yesterday I went to Home Depot and Tractor Supply looking for a bolt with a 13/16" hex head on it to match the size of my neighbor's trailer lug nuts. 5/8" bolts were too big, 1/2" too small, and neither store had 9/16" bolts. This is what happens when chain stores try to take the place of real hardware stores. There are only two left in town now, both on the other side from where I was, and it was already past 5PM so I decided to leave it for next week.
The neighbor and I looked at the trial fit of the new fenders on his trailer yesterday as well, and he's decided that they are a LOT bigger than the old ones. So much so that we may end up trimming them a bit, and extending the simple brackets I'd envisioned so they will ride much closer to the tires. I hope not too much lower, though, as he was thinking of allowing only two inches between the two. Not sure how much travel the suspension provides, so next time I get it up on jack stands I'll make some measurements. He needs it back to haul his tractor Saturday, so I towed it to his place for him and got to meet the deputy sheriff that he's befriended. More than befriended, as the neighbor's wife and the deputy have started a goat raising business together and now have close to ninety animals they're caring for. It's saving my neighbor some tractor time not mowing, but he's instead building more fences, a trade off I'm not sure he's very happy with.:laughing: The wife has even roped the deputy into helping with the fencing, an activity he didn't look happy with, either.:laughing::laughing: Despite an invitation to join them for a taco lunch, I begged a rain check and got mine in town, otherwise I'd have been wrangling fence for her as well.:laughing::laughing::laughing:
TGIF gang!:drink:
