Good morning!!!!

[toppop52]

So do you live on the bay side or the ocean side of the eastern shore?

Basically in the middle, near Salisbury.

 

[toppop52]

coffee is perking (now there's a term that will go out of use...) and unlike L4N I'm up for the day.
Accuwrong says 2.28 inches of rain, I bet the rain gauge says close to 4 inches. And more showers floating around, going
to be wet and muddy out there. Headed out to pick peas at daylight, then this morning downtown to deliver the veggies to food bank.

got a call last night from one of the two ladies who came to "inspect" from the Garden Club. She is a little older than me, but quite youthful, frankly younger acting than me creaking around. She thought we should have dinner some time...well.
It's been a long time...
I might need to call Toppop for some advice.
She's pretty, smart, classy and not indigent. I probably should pay attention...

Anyone paying attention to we old farts, deserves special attention!

 

[toppop52]

well, I would have asked for the little blue pill but there are none on the East Coast
after Toppop took them all! :dance1:

They are ok, little white generics work fine too!:thumbsup:


Went to breakfast with four friends, need to mow but it’s awfully wet. A friend of Ellen’s had her mower stop with half her front yard left to mow, might try to get that, too. She waited way too long to mow, she claims two weeks, I say at least a month.

Got a caliper or brake hose acting up on the right front of the Borrego, gotta get that fixed ASAP.

Prayers for all.

 

[PJSprog]

71°F and cloudy this morning, going up to 84° today with rain expected later.

It was just hot and humid here all weekend, which is not atypical. Low 90s every day.

Got the rock spread Saturday for the new parking space at the side of the driveway. Permanent place for the truck, and for the boy to park his noise machine. Still need more, though, to finish the end of that area and put a fresh layer on the upper driveway area. Got that done before it got too hot.



Wife went to a little resale shop a few towns north of us after seeing an ad for concrete benches. Her grandmother had one that was a group present many years ago, and her son (my Wife's uncle) decided to take it after she died. Wife has been wanting another one to put under the same pecan tree next to the garage. She got to the place only to find that they were those mini decorative benches, only about a foot high. However, she did walk inside and find a nearly new looking Craftsman tool cabinet stack for $300. Only problem was that they didn't have the keys for the locks. She sent me a picture, and I told her we could get key made for it, or just replace the locks. A guy who was also there helped her load it into her SUV. We were going to spend that much or more on a stack from Harbor Freight, so this was a no-brainer.



The Wife also decided recently that the grill needed its own "place of honor." So, Sunday morning, before it got hot again, we laid some landscaping paper in the area between the paved part of the driveway and the well house, put in some pavers leveled in sand, and rocked the rest with decorative rainbow rock.



Yesterday was to be chicken processing day. We started early again to beat the heat. Of the first 10 chicks we got, six turned out to be roosters. The last five new ones are all hens. We decided to cull the roosters. We are now down to nine, and all are hens. The coop is noticeably quieter without the roosters. We also took this opportunity to open a passageway between the original coop and the extension area. We'd left it separate to let the new chicks and older ones get accustomed to each other, as the new ones are considerably smaller birds. All of them seem to enjoy the newly open space (not to mention less crowding without the larger roosters).

I was a little surprised and disappointed at how little meat there was on the roosters. For as large as they were, there was very little meat there. Mostly just a really big breast bone. The plucker gadget, which I made Sunday, worked OK, but not great. I think I needed to use a more powerful drill, as the little Black & Decker D1000 corded drill I chucked it in just didn't have enough torque to keep it spinning steady with the resistance. I didn't lose any fingers (or hair off the back of my hands :laughing, but one of the roosters did leave a nice scratch down my left arm as his last great act of defiance.

 

[hawkeye08]

Drew, we went back to a peculator coffee maker. We like it better, the sounds have memories, and it keeps the coffee just right.

 

[sodamo]

69°F and .12 inches rain. Could be an inside day at this point.
Would like to mow but likely will be too wet today.
Have to go to PO.

Prayers for all

Be safe
Have a great day

 

[hawkeye08]

Took a break from our chores yesterday to go check out the 5 acres our middle daughter and son in law purchased recently. They camped in tent there Sunday night to give them more time onsite to get work done. They are busy getting some driveway work done and planning the shome (shop/home, aka barndominium). It is a hillside with a slightly flatter portion in middle. They take turns running the backhoe.

 

[lightleader]

Good morning, new to all this, just registered. received a little message says now go introduce yourself ????? OK where might I make that happen?

 

[PJSprog]

Welcome, lightleader!

There's an introduction thread here.

 

[daugen]

Welcome Lightleader. If you have a Ferrari tractor, don't go anywhere fast, pun intended, we want pictures!

This thread is to say hello each morning, say what the weather is like and what you might have planned that day.
If you have a question say on the right motor oil for your Ferrari, then you look in the Ferrari section, just before Ford.
Ahem.

We would certainly enjoy hearing all about you and your tractors; consider this thread a morning group of coffee drinkers at the diner.
You need to read the rules on posting too.
Welcome aboard.