Good morning!!!!

[Ed of all trades]

Good morning! 70s to 90s today with a chance of a shower around 4:00.

Eric when Lance was doing the Tour we watched it, it was very inspiring. Of course now we know he had a little help, with my endurance and speed there is no question about doping.

Ron, you have the bench in your hallway to graduate to a full drop zone just add hooks behind the bench for your coat.

Finished adding extra shelves in the pantry and increased the storage area 50% by adding 160 sq. ft. more shelving.

All the OTA tv channels are coming in this morning, do they up the power on weekends?

I did spinning for 30 minutes yesterday without the class, we only have class on Mondays and Wednesdays. Is the past tense of bike spinning - spun? I have a long way to go to catch up to Mostly.

Today is my wife's Great Aunt's Birthday! Happy Birthday Aunt Gladys - 101 today!!!!!!! She still is very much with it, lives by herself, but has realized because of her vision can no longer drive.

It would have to be spunning. :0 Ed

 

[daugen]

picked up a bag of easy to eat food, what I call sick people food, and heading over shortly to my elderly friend who sounded terrible and had a bad night.
This is worth reading:

What Everyone Should Know about Shingles Vaccine (Shingrix)
One of the Recommended Vaccines by Disease

Shingles vaccination is the only way to protect against shingles and postherpetic neuralgia (PHN), the most common complication from shingles. CDC recommends that healthy adults 50 years and older get two doses of the shingles vaccine called Shingrix (recombinant zoster vaccine), separated by 2 to 6 months, to prevent shingles and the complications from the disease. Your doctor or pharmacist can give you Shingrix as a shot in your upper arm.

Shingrix provides strong protection against shingles and PHN. Two doses of Shingrix is more than 90% effective at preventing shingles and PHN. Protection stays above 85% for at least the first four years after you get vaccinated. Shingrix is the preferred vaccine, over Zostavaxｮ (zoster vaccine live), a shingles vaccine in use since 2006. Zostavax may still be used to prevent shingles in healthy adults 60 years and older. For example, you could use Zostavax if a person is allergic to Shingrix, prefers Zostavax, or requests immediate vaccination and Shingrix is unavailable.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

A gorgeous morning. 65° with a nice cool breeze from the north. sitting on front porch chilling.

 

[CWB Wyo]

The low this morning was 50, yesterday high was in the low 90's and party cloudy in the afternoon. Today is going to be in the high 80's with a 20% chances of thunderstorms this afternoon.

My wife and I want downtown SLC for our daughters birthday. I got home late yesterday afternoon, my wife is staying for a few more day's. The grandsons were with their dad so didn't get to see them.

Not sure what the plans are for today. Probably work on the trailer some and go up and bug the neighbor and see what he is up to.

Hope everyone has a good safe weekend.
CWB.

 

[toppop52]

A gorgeous morning. 65° with a nice cool breeze from the north. sitting on front porch chilling.View attachment 561610

Great photo! How tall is your flagpole? Mine is just 25’ but proportional to the surrounding trees, etc...

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Either 20' or 22' i think out of the ground. Goes in a 4' deep sleeve in concrete. Single piece aluminium. Dogwood tree next to it has gotten big.

 

[ronjhall]

Good morning for me. Chipper is gone. Got my asking price.
Wife decorated utility room. It has fishing pictures and decorations on all walls. I caught a few trophy fish on Great Lakes. 13 lbs walleye. 20.3 steelhead. 40.7 king salmon. Won prizes for each. Best prize I got was watching the excitement on my wife’s face every time she caught another fish.

 

[jbrumberg]

There she is. She was not a happy spider.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Got my flagpole from Anchor flag pole, near myrtle beach SC. Around $500 including shipping in 2004.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 67F @ 7:00AM. Sunny to partly cloudy. High near 95F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph.

Winds are out of the WNW this morning, so beautiful blue skies and very little smoke/haze. That'll change once the winds shift to either north or south, as major fires blaze now in either direction.

Thanks for posting that CDC note, Drew. Sounds like it's time to visit Costco for a shot or two.

Got the fuel tank off the Honda yesterday, and the coating stuff showed up that afternoon. It was time to see if the old cement mixer would start, and very much to my surprise, it did, on just the fifth pull of the cord. This after sitting outside uncovered for three or four years, but with the carb and fuel tank totally dry. Poured the degreaser part of the kit into the tank, dumped in 500 BBs, screwed on the lid, and wrapped the tank in an old moving blanket, holding it in place with a pair of bungee cords. Slipped it into the cement mixer and gave it a nice 30 minute ride. Then realized I should have put a quart of hot water in with the degreaser, so did that and let it go another 30 minutes. What came out wasn't pretty, very rusty water and soap, but I saved it anyway for the spare tank I'll do today. Then the etchant went in, a half hour with the tank one way, and another half hour after flipping it so that the other end was down. Had to use a magnet on a stick to get all the BBs out, and after that a hot air gun to dry it out, but it has a nice gray coat of phosphate on it now and is ready for the tank liner. The spare tank gets to ride today, and I'll line them both tomorrow. Apparently once the can of liner is opened it will harden even if recapped, so I have to do both tanks at once...


It may not be a fine English side-by-side, but this is the first new gun I've purchased in a long while. It uses table salt for ammo, house fly tags are free and there's no drawing to get one. Accuracy is very good but range is a rather limited three feet, but you don't have to worry about ricochets.:laughing: Didn't take long to make the first kill, as a clueless dinner predator landed on my shoe and was quickly dispatched, then smeared into oblivion by said shoe. The main quarry will be Yellowjackets, but maybe I should keep the sting salve handy until I work on my accuracy?

It was overcast most of yesterday, but the front cleared out just in time for the sunset.

Wow! YouTube really murdered the video quality on that one...

Hope everyone enjoys the weekend!

 

[toppop52]

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[toppop52]

Either 20' or 22' i think out of the ground. Goes in a 4' deep sleeve in concrete. Single piece aluminium. Dogwood tree next to it has gotten big.View attachment 561612

Mine is 25’ with a 42 inch sleeve in the concrete, it’s two piece aluminum and I have it adjusted to 22 feet, just looks right at that height. I’d have liked a nicer pole setup, but mom gave it to us so I’m going to use it if it holds up, I have lot heavier American made flag on it than that printed junk it came with and this one stresses the pole a lot more in strong winds.

 

[Ed of all trades]

RNG, thanks for the video, you surely have a pretty view.

Buckeye, PM sent.

Have a great day. Ed

 

[sodamo]

68°F and .95 inches rain. Hoping it clears as we are scheduled for our helicopter lava flight in 7 hours. Hard to predict. I can see a blue sucker hole here, but that’s not indicative of wx over the flight area.

Don, those are some serious biking schedules. I think I’d be looking for a D or E group.

Drew, please take it easy in that heat. Actually, everybody be mindful of the heat.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[daugen]

David, am taking the day off, figured I needed to. Lawn is mowed, garden sort of weeded, and rain is coming in.
Before then need to go pick okra and tomatoes. Melons are starting to ripen so have to pay attention there.
Fondling a lot of vegetables...

My older friend with the shingles is doing ok, pain shots they gave her really helped and she appreciated the week's worth of
healthy food munchies I brought her this morning. Then watered all her plants out on her enormous patio that faces the golf course, must have had thirty flower planters back there,
and took her flags down with storm coming. My good deeds done, time to come home.

Met my fireman helper who is going to do a little weedeating and he helped me put the big finish mower back on the rear of the Kubota.
The pto even gave him a hard time, would have defeated me. Just not enough hand strength for more than a short time.
Why don't they redesign this thing with super magnets instead?

I think using a lathe or metal mill is one of the heights of personal creativity. Almost as good as PJ's guitar riffs...
To make something finished out of bare materials is a neat feeling, but I only know woodworking.
Maybe metal is just like really, really hard wood...
I only know about melting it with a welder. Never crafted anything in it.

And here is Ed just making a new gear when he needs one.
I'm impressed. Several of you know how to do this and I want
to be on the island (with a full machine shop of course) with you guys on it.
And a huge number of adoring women. Each of you may have as many as your wives allow you.
heh heh heh
Let's see, how do we machine a big zero...

 

[daugen]

forgot to mention the big breakdown.
heading out the driveway in golf cart with helper and we just stopped. No power.
A battery cable had corroded through, despite my good attention to keeping the area clean.
Broke off right at end of connector. Yup, that will do it.
Down to the barn, found an old ground wire of lesser gauge and put ends on that.
Worked just fine.

Question. My friend tells me it's a ground wire so it doesn't have to be as big as the power cables.
Does one ever get heat buildup on a ground wire? Current wire is fairly thick but not battery cable for sure.
Local Napa shut down for weekend. Will be interesting to see if wire melts through like a big fuse before I can replace it.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Question. My friend tells me it's a ground wire so it doesn't have to be as big as the power cables.
Does one ever get heat buildup on a ground wire? Current wire is fairly thick but not battery cable for sure.
Local Napa shut down for weekend. Will be interesting to see if wire melts through like a big fuse before I can replace it.

Technically, some of the energy from the battery is converted to heat and never gets back to the battery through the ground cable. It's a measurable but small amount. I like to eliminate as many voltage drops as possible, and since it's so easy to use larger than needed positive and negative leads on battery installations, I try to do that whenever I'm presented with an "opportunity" such as the one that has now been gifted to you. Just keep an eye on that little ground cable, keep any flammable:laughing: material away from it, and try to minimizing the hooning around and I think you'll be fine, Drew.

 

[daugen]

Thanks RNG. I'll pick up a new cable on Monday, short thing, no more than six inches, I just don't know the wire gauge.
I put the melted one in a bag and will match it.
But bottom line is my friend was right then.
ah, just a little hooning please?
Just not extended hooning.

Trojan red batteries I put in three years ago are doing fine.
All the terminals were clean, except for this one.
This golf cart is used like a mini truck and goes everywhere so it gets bounced around a bunch.
Funny the thing would die though on a glass smooth surface.
That I guess is when this cable gave up the ghost, would have liked to have seen slow mo photography internally of the
wire coming apart. Connector was fine, wire gave up, possibly a dissimilar metal issue, no idea.
No matter what, I need to give it all another thorough cleaning. It really didn't look all that bad, and then it just failed
totally. Will put some battery spray on connectors when done.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Funny the thing would die though on a glass smooth surface.
That I guess is when this cable gave up the ghost, would have liked to have seen slow mo photography internally of the
wire coming apart. Connector was fine, wire gave up, possibly a dissimilar metal issue, no idea.

If the terminals were soldered on instead of crimped, there's a good chance that flux was left in the wire and accelerated the corrosion that lead to the failure. It's a progressive failure that progresses each time current flows, which heats up the wire, which accelerates the corrosion and cuts the cross section of the wire strand by strand. Fewer strands carrying the same current heat even faster, further accelerating the failure process. Try to find crimped ends when you shop, and keep them clean and soaked with a dry film lubricant that will exclude oxygen.:2cents:

 

[Buppies]

Buckeyefarmer our pole came from the same place off Hwy 9