Good morning!!!!

[wngsprd]

68 going to 87...maybe storms.

Harvey, congrats on your new place...I'm sure it will become a wonderful home for you two.

Farmer, sorry you are hurting...get well before the next chicks arrive!

Drew, how'd it go with the garden club?

Kyle, the water stays real cold all summer, but there are a few places with sliding rocks into big pools that folks swim in. I've waded barefoot in July and feet almost went numb, but you get used to it. I wish I could ship you some...crystal clear. Nice grill. Now let's see some Texas ribs!

Don, glad Whipper is getting along well. Sounds like you are approaching the transition well. Not sure I could listen to someone whispering for 90 minutes, though. .

Finally got the spraying done when I got back from the mountains, so took the sprayer off yesterday. Then took the trailer to the quarry...bought 57's at $18.25 a ton. Had to watch a safety training video that was actually very interesting. They have some monster equipment there. When they opened up a new section on the other side of the road, they tunneled under it and for years I never even knew, although I drove that road to work everyday. Ended the day with mowing about 2 acres.

I am dogsitting my son's Chesapeake Bay retriever while he and wife go to South Carolina, so when my wife returns home today we will have a big greeting party.

 

[Buppies]

Wngsprd do the two pups get along ok? Stone is getting expensive and 57s rate up there pretty high

 

[Buppies]

TxDon glad Whipper is adapting

Harv great new adventure looking forward to reading about it

 

[RoyJackson]

2018-06-09, 0558

41 right now...predicted high in the mid-70's. Should be a great day for outside work.
Plans are finish mowing the lawn then knock down and chip 4 smaller trees...then rig the flail mower and do the field

Farmer2009, please do take it a bit easy...no use making anything worse by pushing yourself too hard.
BTW, nice grill! Lots of good advice on buying a gas grill on the thread and I thank you all! We haven't replaced the defective one...we'll be looking for one after my wife and stepdaughter return from a week in California. No more online stuff though.

 

[Ed of all trades]

Good morning all, 64 this morning going to 84 with a 70% chance of heavy rain. Going over to check on the guy and see if he is going to sell the milling machine and if he will if it will be a price I can afford. Need to pull the magnets out of a couple old microwaves so I can trash them.

Farmer prayers for your healing are sent your way. Take it easy, you can't afford to be layed up long term.

Buppies, still praying for your leg, how is it doing.

Prayers for the light duty crew. Have a great day. Ed

 

[Buppies]

Ed still healing scab still there but smaller and still tender

How is A\C working nicely I’m sure

Hope the fellow with the mill will sell to you at a reasonable price

 

[daugen]

Good morning all. Did nothing but socialize yesterday and more tired this morning than I can remember...
Garden Club lunch went fine, I got inducted and the thirty pound sack of red potatoes I took with me were a hit.
As expected, not one potato left.
Then dinner out was nice, country club has same crappy overpriced food, glad I'm no longer a member. View over the marina was nice and
my friend was fun to be with. Coffee at dinner was way too strong, while home at 9pm was up to midnight, likely why I'm dragging...

However, second cup of coffee making headway and going out to garden to clean out old snow peas and to pick green beans.
Thunderstorms due in around noon, warm and sticky out already, windows fogged up.

Wow Farmer, sorry you went through that, serious stuff, and worrisome until you get answers. Heal quickly and feel better soon.

trying to organize a work party for the next 700 pounds of potatoes. Firemen weren't interested which was disappointing but they almost all have second
jobs to get by and genuinely have little extra time. Those taters will sit in the ground until I find at least four strong volunteers.

 

[ronjhall]

Drinking first cup of coffee. 62° with light rain this morning. Heading to 69° with more rain. Neighbor and I complete the area I cleaned up. He hand raked and planted grass seed. Good time with rain we will get today if it does not rain hard. Trip to Sams Club and PO. Sold another item on EBAY. Person wanting to buy my Bear Cat Chipper has decided he could do without it. Now I need to decide where to list it. I have some LED lights to mount under window sill on back porch. That should be a good project for today.

Don, good news on Whipper.

I follow Harvey on a RV forum. Life with Jane.

Farmer, prayers for fast recovery.

Buppies, glad you are getting better.

Kyle, according to the Shrimp fishing tour I did a few years ago. There is no Fresh Shrimp. Shrimp is caught fast cleaned and flash frozen in a brine as soon as it is caught. Shrimp is one food that can be thawed cleaned and refrozen without it turning bad. Wild shrimp from the gulf is very tasty.

Roy, good luck finding another grill.

Good Morning All.

 

[toppop52]

Farmer, glad you’re back and recovering.
I have friend that is allergic to farm raised shrimp but can eat wild caught shrimp. Must be what they feed the farm raised.

Warm and muggy with rain then two more cool days with east winds.

Busy day will fill in details later.
Prayers guys.

 

[daugen]

Ron, whoever told you that about shrimp has never spent much time at the docks.
One hour East of here, half way to the Ocean, is the local commercial shrimp boat dock, and I have bought their shrimp and
walked the dock. Shrimp came out of hold, dumped on huge stainless steel sorting table with maybe a dozen people working from all sides, throwing
shrimp into sizing buckets. Buckets walked twenty feet to walk in cooler. I bought from cooler. Fresh, and my what a light flavor. The shrimp I cooked
for the ladies yesterday were cheapo Malaysian shrimp and they smelled more than I liked. The local shrimp has almost no smell.

Well, not quite true. If you want a nasty smell, just be stupid and transport the big plastic bags they sell you the shrimp in without putting said bag
into a bucket. Then have five pounds of shrimp in a bag break on rear floor of truck. Took me almost a year to get that smell out, not much slopped over the top of
the floor mats but it was enough. Nothing like the smell of old shrimp on a hot day...

But I absolutely agree there is no fresh shrimp in the supermarket and that might have been what you meant.
If shrimp is flash frozen within ten minutes of coming out of the water, on some big floating factory ship,
that's probably as good as most of us will get.
If I'm having company though and they like shrimp, down to the dock in Swan Quarter I go.
One of the reasons I moved to this area was to be close to the water and the enormous Bays between the mainland and the Ocean always have shrimpers in them.

Shrimp boats are fun to watch but never get too close with your boat.
Going up and down the Intracoastal to Florida I've witnessed some boaters do seriously stupid things
around commercial boats, probably the same idiots who pull out in front of tractor trailers.
Fishing boats with lines/nets in the water usually have right of way.
They aren't going fast but to see some fool go roaring behind a fishing boat as they are being frantically waved off
was something I saw more than once.
There is no licensing requirement of any kind needed to drive a large boat, usually under 65 feet, in a crowded marine environment.
Most boaters are really good and take courses, like I did, and understand marine navigation rules. The ones that don't create havoc.
Just like on the highways. My late wife and I used to joke when we would see the next Azimut run aground on a sand bar or out of the channel,
operated by some nouveau riche guy with gold chains and no brains.