Good morning!!!!

[Buppies]

Thomas I don’t have enough leaves to blow yet

Bad news about coyote

 

[Buppies]

Riptides mia wonder what’s up and hope he and family are ok

 

[Jim Shooz]

Good morning all. It is relatively quiet here this morning, the concrete pecker has fallen silent and a stiff breeze is carrying away most of the other sounds of the wreckers working on the old dairy site. .

Eric are they anywhere near where they had that Shower of shyte over Shropshire which this guy mentions:
Stand Well Back _ Blaster Bates (1991) - YouTube
Takes him a while to get to it.

 

[Bird]

54 degrees this morning, going for a high of 58 (not much range). Yesterday, the forecast was a 90% chance of rain today and 80% tonight, but now the NWS says 100% today AND tonight, after 7 a.m. this morning. I was hoping the yard would be dry enough to do a little lawn work in another day or two, but that doesn't seem likely now.

 

[daugen]

Eric, first the noise, then the dump trucks, then the Land Rovers...which will require more police, who will give
you a ticket for not fully stopping at the new stop sign. Am wondering when they will start complaining about that
awful lamb smell. You'll need to install large fans along the edge of your property, and of course put in a new half million dollar
sanitation system so that not one lamb dropping can offend...

Simple fact of human nature if you live in a nice place others will want to live there too.
Solution is to plant more trees. Lots of trees. Of course one of those seriously cool woven wall fences helps.
Who knows maybe enough benefits will outweigh the crowding, like high speed internet and a new pub...
Oh, I know. Start a little petting zoo down by that property line, charge them ten pounds to pat a lamb. :thumbsup:

I am reminded of the Japanese tourists who stopped at the end of our farm lane in the 60's, in blue suits and loaded with cameras, asking if we had a cow. They had never seen a cow and wanted to see one.
No sir, drive on down the road a bit and the next farm down has some Black Angus.
And you'd better not try to pet them over the fence.
Same farm raised Great Danes, huge dogs they sometimes let run loose. If you saw one of those dogs galloping at you,
I'd like to see anyone not get back in their car pronto.

Ural's Newest Sidecar Motorcycle Has a Built-In Drone

this is for RNG...a nice upgrade for his BMW sidecar.

 

[daugen]

54 degrees this morning, going for a high of 58 (not much range). Yesterday, the forecast was a 90% chance of rain today and 80% tonight, but now the NWS says 100% today AND tonight, after 7 a.m. this morning. I was hoping the yard would be dry enough to do a little lawn work in another day or two, but that doesn't seem likely now.

Bird, I'm just amazed how much rain your area is getting, big misconception I had that Texas was a dry state.
And now you have hurricane remnants heading at you, even more rain.

 

[RoyJackson]

2018-10-24, 0713

40 right now...high, about 44.
Boy, I've pretty much determined this cold has turned into the flu.

 

[daugen]

Sounds like you ought to stay home and rest Roy.
Sorry you feel cruddy.
I'm still congested but not like that.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 56˚ rain today. Bed for extra bedroom is being delivered today and need to put window tint on SW facing garage door windows. Wife's uncle had his 3bypass yesterday and his daughter wants us to talk to him about a plant based diet. Probably won't, unless he ask and wants to change, but will give cousin all the references she can handle. I wonder if she is willing to change her diet? He is a heavy machinery operator that can't wait to recover and get back to working again at 75.

Hope you start feeling better Roy, just got over my 5 day cold.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 56F @ 4:45AM. Partly cloudy. High 73F. Winds light and variable.

The price paid for progress; it it too high, Eric? Hopefully the pecker is done, and the worst of the din is over, at least for a while.

A friend has a Ural sidecar outfit. He says it'll do 60 MPH, but isn't very "happy" at anything much over 45 MPH. He and his wife love it, but they confine their trips to secondary roads, and even then he keeps an eye on his rear view mirrors so he knows when to yield the right of way. Not sure a drone would do much to speed things up.

The work on the bike went smoothly yesterday, but it turned out I didn't have the correct head gasket on the shelf, and that meant a trip to town for one. I was also able to get new rubber bumpers for the seat, but only after the shop manager rummaged through his parts bins, as BMW has for some inexplicable reason started deleting the part numbers from the parts book exploded views for many "classic" machines, even though the parts themselves are still shown and are still available. The bad news is he only had three in stock, the seat takes six, and it'll be a week or more until they arrive. Same with the circlips for the side stand, and rebuild parts for the fuel tank petcocks. There'd be real He11 to pay if Ozzie, the dearly departed founder of the business, could see the current state of affairs. :muttering:

Also picked up five gallons of E0 "real" gasoline for the small engines here, but paid about $2/gallon more for the privilege of purchasing fuel that won't hurt the engines. More progress, I guess.

Finished the day by reassembling and running the engine for a few minutes to get the first crush done on the new head gasket, so the day will start with another head re-torquing and valve adjustment, and hopefully another ride. It usually takes three or four ride/re-torque/valve adjust cycles before everything settles in.

Then I'll pull the wheels off the van so I can take them in to be balanced tomorrow. I mounted them, but can't recall if I was able to use my balancer on them (it was almost two years ago), and there's a bit of a shake in the steering wheel. After the last time a "mechanic" drove the van and messed up the shifter adjustment trying to get it into reverse, it's safer just to take in the wheels. I guess not many people still know how to drive a standard transmission these days, and fewer still that VWs need the driver to push down on the shifter before trying to engage reverse gear.

Can't believe it's Wednesday already. Happy Hump Day, folks!

 

[ronjhall]

Drinking first cup of coffee. 29° with clear skies this morning. Heading to 48° with mostly sunny skies. My ar has a new ache to it. Going to be spending a few hours with ice machine on it. Drill Doctor works good. I can can look at a drill and tell if it is properly sharpened. Did about 6 drills when I got the setup figured out. Did some leaf blowing yesterday. Like the Lynxx blower for that. Furnace guy is coming out to inspect furnace.

Mostly, visit to doctor last week said I will have to go the full 8 weeks of recovery before starting PT. Today is 2 weeks in. The long recovery has to do with bicep tendon healing.

Looking, I am the guy who clears snow when it is too much for neighbors equipment. Have 3 new neighbors. 1 has a 9N with a back blade. The others I have not met yet. But at this time they have no equipment to deal with snow. My snow will be plowed this year with my tractor by doctor neighbor doing both our drives. Snowblower on front mower has not been put on yet. Still cutting lawn.

Good Morning All.

 

[txdon]

Looking, I am the guy who clears snow when it is too much for neighbors equipment.

Who cleared it all those Winters when you were in Texas?

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Wngsprd, sounds like a nice hike. When my wife and i was dating we hiked a lot of the SNP trails, usually in the middle section Have not been to overall falls.

 

[daugen]

46 and climbing, going to let it climb a little more...
Dump run, recycle dumpster was missing, but left them a bag plus all the packaging for various furniture projects
I've worked on recently, with all the white styrene guaranteed to make a huge mess plastic inside. Attendant pointed to landfill bin when I opened the box to show the white plastic inside.
They really ought to make a law requiring it all to be recyclable.

And while I'm on a recycle rant, how about making it a requirement that all political lawn signs be 100 percent recyclable. Now there's a waste of resources for sure. A blight on the neighborhood, ever see an attractive one?
Do you think the loser is really going to save all those signs? The incumbent might, but otherwise all that plastic goes into the landfill.
I can only imagine how many Cruz signs there must be stuck in the ground right now in Texas.

Listened to Carly Simon's You're So Vain riding home in the truck. My immediate thought went to our President.
I think we can all agree on that...
oops, the hook is coming. Gotta get a move on to beat the hook.

 

[Thall303]

This President or the last one?

 

[CWB Wyo]

It looks like 29° for the low this morning. Yesterday was in the high 50's and partly cloudy. Today will be about the same plus a little wind.

I spent most of yesterday look for elk. The neighbor seen two on private property. But we did see about seven moose and quite a few deer. I'm probably going to go back out this evening.

Making a trip to town today and have lunch and do some shopping.

Larry ... Sorry about the damages but glad everyone was ok.

Hope everyone makes it good hump day.
CWB.

 

[RoyJackson]

Listened to Carly Simon's You're So Vain riding home in the truck. My immediate thought went to our President.
I think we can all agree on that...

I think we should leave any discussion concerning one's political thoughts out of the thread

 

[Thall303]

Absolutely!

 

[ronjhall]

I think we should leave any discussion concerning one's political thoughts our of the thread

Agreed.

 

[wngsprd]

Drew Politics again?