Good morning!!!!

[LS Tractor Owner]

Has TBN been offline most of the day for any of you also?

Yep, just got on a few minutes ago.....I was going through withdrawals....

 

[Looking4new]

Has TBN been offline most of the day for any of you also?

I just got back on now after trying most of the afternoon.

 

[txdon]

TBN admin. 8:47 pm- Yeah, we had a hardware failure on one of the drives that does some non-important stuff. But it took down the rest. So that seems to be sorted. We're keeping an eye on it for now.

 

[Buppies]

Yes traveling this afternoon nothing to read without TBN

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. Have been having trouble getting on TBN this afternoon. 59F for the start, calm, clear. Winds picked up a bit later in the afternoon, sky stayed mostly clear, and high temp of 80F. Had to turn on AC. Made it to chapel, made wife's breakfast, then not much for the rest of the day. Needed to practice energy conservation!
Randy tell Ellen happy birthday.
Larro hope cleanup progresses well.
Buckey not much left of that blade
Ron know what you mean, these guys wear me out just reading about it.
Roy get better !
Prayers for all.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Good evening all. Have been having trouble getting on TBN this afternoon. 59F for the start, calm, clear. Winds picked up a bit later in the afternoon, sky stayed mostly clear, and high temp of 80F. Had to turn on AC. Made it to chapel, made wife's breakfast, then not much for the rest of the day. Needed to practice energy conservation!
Randy tell Ellen happy birthday.
Larro hope cleanup progresses well.
Buckey not much left of that blade
Ron know what you mean, these guys wear me out just reading about it.
Roy get better !
Prayers for all.

Picture was what i hit in the ground. Blade mowed ok after hitting it, twice.....

 

[Buppies]

Happy Birthday Ellen keep Randy straight

 

[RoyJackson]

2018-10-29, 0327

36 right now...high in the mid-40's and rain today...

 

[sodamo]

For some reason i couldnt access TBN this morning. It was 69° then, 70° now and had .74 inches rain.

Didnt do much today. Watched a bit of football. Played cards later.
Quite, peaceful day.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[Eric Salop]

A weather bucket of solid ice confirms a long cold night. -3C/26F

Like BEF, I recently found a piece of rusty metal too, but not with a mower blade. This was one I had intentionally left in the damp for over a year to test the effectiveness of DIY zinc plating. As a test piece, I had only given it a few minutes in the "plating tank" (plastic cup), to get results quicker. It still took longer than I expected (sorry RNG, you built your bike built before I got around to reporting back )



The plated half on the right is now starting to rust, it was rust free at the end of summer. I used a relatively safe, weak acid electrolyte, but it does require anode and cathodes to be close. Other more hazardous solutions can "throw" the zinc further. Looking back it was fun to experiment with, but as a process it is probably best saved for more intricate parts where I can't simply just brush on a coat of Zinga.

 

[Ed of all trades]

Good morning all, 49 going to 56 and mostly sunny. I too conserved energy yesterday. Need to go to the grocery and the produce market and get some local apples. I was not able to get on TBN most of the day as well, thanks for the info Don.

Randy, Tell Ellen happy birthday.

Buppies, thanks.

Have a great day, prayers sent. Ed

 

[Buppies]

49 this morning high of 56 and windy most of the day. Hope all had a restful weekend

Prayers for those in need silent or spoken

 

[Looking4new]

30 going to 36F. Wind NW 14 mph. periods of light snow. Yesterday I woke up to about 3/4" of snow on ground and it snowed all day. Still snowing now and we have a total of about 2". The powers that be are saying that today we will have 'periods of light snow'.

My S.I.L. put up a 12" wide by 6' long shelf for me yesterday, so now I can mount my sterling silver plaque and have a place for my crystal high ball glasses. They are company gifts for lasting 25 years with them. Next season will be year number 33.

I haven't decided what I am going to do today, but I do know there isn't enough snow to plow and the ground isn't frozen anyway. Probably I will conserve energy today, too.

"Life Gets Tedious Don't It" - YouTube

Have a good day all

 

[Buppies]

Wind chimes are really singing this morning pretty stiff breeze

 

[wngsprd]

Windy here, too. 47 going to 62.

I need one more stove pipe, a slip connector, and TSC's website said they had some. So we went to town, me to gym, wife to grocery store, then together to TSC...they had just one...bent up pretty badly, especially in the critical places, and a "Reduced 25%" sticker on it. No way you could straighten it and use it...it was just trash. Young guy working there said they had 3, between vapes at the register, but could not find them, and no one would call another store.

Found a mouse nest on top of my generator out in the shed yesterday...a real pretty one...chewed or scratched off the white liner from the inside of the vinyl cover...so it looked like snow. Set traps so I can tell the mouse how nice a job she did, and how the holes in the cover have added such a nice improvement. Decided to put traps under the house, too. Looking forward to a "trapline hike" this morning. I just read the "Keeping your hood up to prevent rodent damage" thread and will go put the hoods (bonnets) up on the tractor and zero turn this morning, too.

I read an interesting article yesterday how high fox populations reduce lyme disease in an area...theory is not as much that the foxes catch the rodent vectors, but that the foxes keep rodents underground longer, so they don't spread the disease as much. Said that high coyote populations disrupt this process, since they run off the foxes, and don't frequently rehunt the same smaller area like a fox.

 

[Thomas]

40F couple more degrees will be high w/rain.

Yesterday was busy day outside cleaning the lawn,picking up limbs/branch blowing leaves until 6pm...pillow felt good 9pm.
Notice yesterday buck decided to shine his antlers on young apple tree..arrrrr.
Last week I am able to work outside after work for an hour or so,next week darkness arrives an hour early...hmmm
E muffin feed little critters slow roll to work.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[Thomas]

wngsprd
I read an interesting article yesterday how high fox populations reduce lyme disease in an area...theory is not as much that the foxes catch the rodent vectors, but that the foxes keep rodents underground longer, so they don't spread the disease as much. Said that high coyote populations disrupt this process, since they run off the foxes, and don't frequently rehunt the same smaller area like a fox.
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Interesting...thanks for sharing.

 

[wngsprd]

Happy Birthday, Ellen!

 

[daugen]

Lovely Fall weather this week, sunny days, highs in the low 70's, just super nice to be outside.
Happy Birthday Ellen! Gorgeous, 39 and holding, right Toppop?

Snow. I love to read about it...

Another neighboring field is always a pleasure to watch being tended. The noise I thought was a propeller plane hovering over my house turned out to be this JD combine sitting in the corner of the field, closest to my home.
Heads sure cut smoothly, that field looked perfect when he was done. Had a spare MacDon head in the field also, must be a story about that.

Eric, nice experiment. Rust always seemed to me to be the termites of the metal kingdom.

 

[ronjhall]

Need to pour first cup of coffee. 38° with mostly cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 51° with mostly cloudy skies. Lots of rest yesterday. Need to haul stuff loaded into wife's car too Salvation Army today. No other plans.

No TBN most of yesterday.

Happy Birthday Ellen.

Good Morning All.