Good morning!!!!

lostcreekranch · Jul 30, 2018

ronjhall said:
The manual with Lynxx tools state that overheated batteries will shut down tool. Also battery will not charge until it cools down. Indicator lights on charger flash to show overheated battery. I would think Worx does the same.

Yes, seems so Ron.

txdon · Jul 30, 2018

RedNeckGeek said:
Take your checkbook with you, and be prepared to walk out. Then do it and see what the salesman does in response. I bet he comes running after you saying yes yes yes!

Good advise, unless you are willing to walk you will pay more. Start getting yourself in that mindset.

CWB Wyo · Jul 30, 2018

The low was 42* this morning. It was sunny with a lot of haze yesterday. Today is going to be in the high 80's again and sunny. It doesn't look like any rain any time soon.

Didn't do a hole lot yesterday. I need to get the brush cutter out and so some work on the fence line and round the house today.

The first thing I hear in the morning is the cat saying hello.

Hope everyone has good Monday.
CWB.

daugen · Jul 30, 2018

The first thing I hear in the morning is the cat saying hello.

all of you with pets, I was figuring this would be it. Or cold wet noses.

toppop52 · Jul 30, 2018

txdon said:
She keeping you barefoot and pr . . . . noooo!

I’m past my child bearing years!

toppop52 · Jul 30, 2018

First sound I hear is Gracie the bulldog snoring like a chainsaw!

toppop52 · Jul 30, 2018

Raining heavily since about 7:30 this morning, temps in the upper 60s.
Rain all day. Working on mom’s nursing home recertification, PITA every year.
Gotta get busy, have a good one folks.

Bird · Jul 30, 2018

toppop52 said:
Raining heavily since about 7:30 this morning, temps in the upper 60s.
Rain all day. Working on mom’s nursing home recertification, PITA every year.
Gotta get busy, have a good one folks.

I'm jealous. This morning, the NWS said we had an 80% chance. The rain was coming from the north, moving south. Then it split and went on south on both the east and west sides of us. When I was outside, I felt a few drops and some mist, but not enough rain to even see it on the sidewalk.

PJSprog · Jul 30, 2018

65°F and rain this morning, going up to 76° today.

Rained much of the day yesterday at our place. One of those nice, light, steady rains. Good stuff, and we definitely needed it.

Our tree trimmer showed up unexpectedly Friday evening to drop off his lift. He came back late Saturday morning and took down the damaged black walnut tree next to the well house. Looks strange now that it's not there, but no more worrying about it dropping limbs on the power line to the barn. He is supposed to come back today to take down one of the oaks in the front yard, which is nearly dead already from oak wilt. That may or may not happen, depending on the rain for the rest of the day.

Our carpenter was supposed to come back today as well to finish the well house roof. Guessing by the forecast that will be delayed a couple of days, too.

With a dumpster there again, we got the barn de-cluttered on Saturday. Most of the stuff we pitched was broken or unused parts of things that her Grandmother just refused to throw away ... you know, just in case. Nearly a fourth of the barn space was taken up with that junk. Not any more. The only thing we have left in there is a large fan that her cousin told us he wants. Everything else went into either the dumpster or the burn pile. There were dozens of fence posts stashed all over the place, which are now stacked neatly in one place, up off the ground on cinder blocks. Still need to organize the lumber onto a rack on the back wall. Nice to have some room in there for a change.

Wife found a small corn snake all comfy under a piece of wood, and had me shoo it out of the barn while we were working in there. He looked a little put out by it, but eventually wandered off somewhere. I hope I've finally convinced here to stop killing the beneficial snakes.

Got to work this morning to find that someone over the weekend decided to add a drive-thru to our building. Apparently, a high-speed chase around 3am ended with the chasee crashing into one of our buildings. Not content with shooting bullets at us, now they're shooting cars at us. Never a dull moment in North St. Louis City.

First sound I hear in the morning is our competing alarm clocks, which buzz in stereo on either side of the bed. This is quickly followed by the scurrying around of three dogs and two cats, who now know we are supposed to be awake.