Good morning!!!!

[riptides]

Morning all. Drizzle out this AM. 70 outside heading to lower 80's. Chance of rain as a cold front moves through.

It is a Motrin morning this AM. Back and hands took a beating over the weekend. Did not wear my boots and my toe tells me something landed on it too. Funny how you can incur hits and keep on ticking....except for the next day. Got some nice welts from sweat bees or flies too.

Watch out for flying corn? Yikes that is scary. Lots of excitement in the TBN world.

On the run in..probably no color for a while. I do have a sprayer but I don't have the time.

I noticed more trees down along another fence line when I was out there. Pretty sad I cannot walk my lines these days. The dogs and I use to do that every day. Sniff...... now it is just not effective use of time.

Maybe in a few months I can get more mastery of the clock.

Have a great day all. Be safe.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Morning all. Hope my day is less exciting than Kyle and Ed.
Looks like rain chasing me today, time to get moving.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 80˚ heading to 100˚. No rain last week and the grass is slow growing.

We practiced an extra Bocce ball game yesterday evening when the temp cooled down to 99˚ with 8 others. The "newbie" class consist of 51 people (20 men 31 women) and we meet for 3 Fridays to learn the rules, Sun City Rules and International rules. One game takes an hour and it reminds me of a combination of the games: bowling, croquet, and horse shoes. It's an outdoor game my Mom could play when she visits.

Today there is a strength&stretch class in the afternoon and I still have to figure which new activity to try this week.

Ron no wood working projects planned but I'm ready to learn what the machines can do.

Need a tracking device to slip on the tractors they keep disappearing.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Good morning to all! Low of 47ｰ, going up to 84ｰ. No rain over the weekend. Saturday got real cloudy, but no storms here. Yesterday started clear, but then a haze started. By the afternoon, visibility went down to 5-7 miles....what the? Lost sight of the mountains surrounding us. Saw on the news that a front and upper level winds was sucking the smoke from in California down to us. Didn't smell anything and didn't get any respiratory problems, so can't complain about the smoke blocking out some sun keeping the temps down.

Yesterday was the 35th time that wifey and I made the symbiotic chaotic journey around the sun together (anniversary). Best friends, partners, definitely better halves. A lot has happened over those years, some sad, some bad, some great, but we did it all together. Wouldn't want to change anything. My only question is: where did all that time go?

The next phase and big changes in our lives has begun. Downsizing, consolidating, simplicity.... So far so good. Now the challenge is healing things that are broken, making sure nothing else get broken, and sticking to the plan.

Ed and Kyle, wow, so much action going on... Glad that you both weren't involved any further than being bystanders... Crazy stuff.

Drew, have you totaled the weight of the vegetables taken to the panty? I know you had weighed the potatoes, but was wondering about all the rest. Any guesses?

Rip, nice run in. A lot of heavy work there, lot of overhead stuff. Looking good.

I remember Jay saying he was going on vacation to visit family, but don't remember when or for how long. I hope he is OK in any case.

Hope everyone has a great start to the week. Prayers out for those needing.

 

[CWB Wyo]

It was 43° for the low this morning, yesterday was in the mid 70's sunny and nice a breeze. How they are saying a 80% chance of showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. With the high in the mid 80's. They didn't show that last night when I looked at the weather app.

The neighbor stopped by last night and asked for help loading some goats this evening. He is taking them down to auction in Ogden Ut in the morning. I have helped one other time, it was pretty much a rodeo. We'll see how this one goes.

Don't have anything other plans for the rest of the day.

LS ... Happy anniversary to you and your wife. Hope you have a great day.

Hope everyone gets a good start to the week.
CWB.

 

[Buppies]

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY LS and many more you are blessed

Riptides if you ever need help let me know and I’ll see if I can help you

Thomas sorry about camera sure it’s not two legged

 

[PJSprog]

68°F and cloudy this morning, going up to 85° today. More rain and storms expected later this afternoon.

Thunder and lightning woke me around 4am this morning. Those storms moved out by the time I left for work. Saw a big Lincoln down in the ditch on the side of I-64. Some people seem to believe they are immune to the consequences of disregarding basic principles of science. Lots of "spinout" accidents in the traffic reports.

Wife picked up a couple more ducks yesterday, a mating pair, so we're up to seven now. This is starting to remind me of the "three or four" chickens we were going to get. We built a small coop for them, and fenced in an area near the chickens for now. Once they get used to this being home now, we'll let them out to the lake.



As for keeping it cleaner, it's been overwhelmed recently with duckweed. There is also an occasional algae problem when it sits still too long. The ducks will help with that. Not to the level of an aeration system, which we've also discussed, but better than nothing. Plus, frankly, I think she really just wanted some ducks.

We finally got to pick some peaches yesterday. They just started turning a few days ago. I've been a bit impatient, as I really love peaches.



Got some of the washout spots repaired in the driveway yesterday morning as well. Productive day.

 

[daugen]

Happy Anniversary Ted.
Today was 22 pounds, yes each box gets weighed when I come in, no idea of total, but will when they send me a receipt for total pounds.
Had a nice 1.1 pound German Pink tomato to give plus my first purple peppers.

 

[PJSprog]

Happy Anniversary, Ted!

Another nice haul there, Drew.

... and you guys with all the excitement - backyard manhunts, rolling cars and flying corn - glad no one was seriously injured.

Welcome to the craziness that is the Good Morning thread, ABOI. It's not always this exciting here, but it is always entertaining.

 

[Thomas]

Buppies
Thomas sorry about camera sure it’s not two legged.
..................................
Thanks.
Cam was located near raspberry patch and many signs of bear enjoying the berries,plastic clips were snap off and camera strap still tie to tree,also old pine stump had been paw around.... I lose least camera a year turkeys are the worst.

 

[Buppies]

Buckeye sorry I missed you being in town and maybe next time

Toppop for some reason I think you need cheering up so here you go :cool2:

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 71F @ 7:30AM. Partly cloudy. Areas of smoke and haze are possible, reducing visibility at times. High 93F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph.

You're a better man than me, Eric, to go two hours with that pole saw, especially wearing waders and in the water. And the longer you make the thing, the more it takes to loft it. I'm good for an hour at most unless I police up the branches as I go, which gives me a little seat time in the RTV to rest. But like you, I can't seem to avoid the aches and pains the following couple of days.

Yesterday about 4PM the "clouds" to the west started to thicken, and by 5 o'clock the sun was gone entirely. It was smoke from the Mendocino complex to the south, thicker than I've seen it before. It's still hazy this morning, but prevailing winds are from the south and I expect another dose as fire intensity increases during the day.


Here's the latest, Kyle. The little red square in the back window is the temporary license tag, good 'till the middle of next month. With all his employees gone, the mechanic has one less excuse for being interrupted. If he continues to drive his customers away, he'll have none at all.:confused2: But hopefully I'll be down there this afternoon or tomorrow for more drive testing, but first he needs to formulate a plan for resolving the issues with the engine computer fault codes. We shall see.

In the mean time I'll keep chipping away on the old BMW; yesterday I got the other bracket roughly mounted and the two bags aligned pretty well. Today I'll see about fabricating the missing passenger foot peg mount (the factory incorporated it into the old muffler that I'm not using). So out comes the cardboard and marking pens and scissors to make a template, and then when that's working, duplicate it in steel.

There's what looks like a thrush industriously scratching duff in the back yard; I should follow it's lead and get a start on the day. Hope everyone has an industrious new week!

 

[Thomas]

daugen
Today was 22 pounds, yes each box gets weighed when I come in, no idea of total, but will when they send me a receipt for total pounds.
Had a nice 1.1 pound German Pink tomato to give plus my first purple peppers.
.................................
Nice :thumbsup: do have way keep them fresh for the winter months to enjoy....root cellar?
.

 

[daugen]

no Thomas, that's a real problem here. No cellars at all...and high Fall heat. My potatoes promptly rotted and stunk up
my garage.
Now the veggies I am chopping up and freezing with a vacuum sealer. Need to put more tomatoes away but I'm eating them as fast as I can.
I get the cracked, buggy rotten ones, which I cut off the good parts of course and then freeze them. These are mostly dark tomatoes so worth making effort to put away.

I finally had one melon, I think from Turkey, whose four predecessors had all blown up from the rain. I didn't want to eat the whole thing so I gave it to the food pantry this morning to make their display more attractive. The ladies love arranging my fresh vegetables, something different than bags of limp leftovers from supermarkets and Walmart. These are very small melons, mostly fun stuff to brighten up the monotony of week to week staples.

made a big mistake while picking early this morning, talk about a wake up call, saw a pepper with a bad spot on the bottom, thought it was a bell pepper, and turns out it was a fat jalapeno. Spit that out and almost had to come back to the house, but washed my mouth out with hose in garden. Tiny bit of that in a salsa is fine. Getting it full strength all over your tongue is like vegetable flames. And these are really mild varieties, allegedly.

 

[Buppies]

Thomas you are the wild animal whisperer. This was taken locally

 

[lostcreekranch]

Thomas you are the wild animal whisperer. This was taken locally

Golf Goats? Who knew?

 

[daugen]

Thomas you are the wild animal whisperer. This was taken locally

wow, that picture is amazing, almost like a painting, thanks Randy

 

[Buppies]

Rick and Drew that is a local coarse know for its goats links style Ballyhack Golf coarse beautiful setting that picture is on either 4 5 or 6 I cannot remember. Holly took that picture

 

[sodamo]

71°F and .14 inches rain
Got a solid start on bushhogging my former sweet potatoes fields. Tall, wet, and thick. Did get a perimeter path cut on the Hiloside parcel. Hopefully a few more productive hours today. Time consuming having to do a lot of back cutting as I don’t know where the actual edges are.

Wife off to her morning scheduled obgyn checkup.

That’s going to be a nice setup Ed

That’s quite the wood shop Don

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[riptides]

LS congrats on the anniversary.

Buppies. Thanks for the kind offer. I Hope you are doing well.

For some reason...no motivation today. Waiting on the dealer to come get my mower. Grass needs cutting again.

Hope all are having an OK start to the week.