Good morning!!!!

[Buppies]

LS hows the knee any improvement

 

[Buppies]

Jay if I remember correctly your knee is doing better I certainly hope so. Weather is boring in my neck of the woods and I fear lots of the three hs this summer

 

[wngsprd]

33 going to 51 and maybe short showers.

Jay, sorry your orthopedic report wasn't what you wanted to hear.

Ron, sorry the coyote has found your backyard paradise.

Mostly, I bet you meeting your wife on Saint Patrick's day is a good story.

Kyle, I like the way you are raising your kids.

Never tried to start a fire top down...I might restart the woodstove just to try. I also never split kindling...seems the splitter always make enough scraps that by the end of the season I pick enough to fill a couple of boxes for the next year...and if I need more, always enough dead small branches falling off the maples.

Buppies, like you I was in Virginia Beach yesterday...family gathering...niece and 2nd cousin both having babies soon. But I must have left on I-64 at a different time because for once it was smooth sailing. Did you see all the festivities for the Shamrock Marathon?

I de-constructed one of those $7.99 mini-dollies from HF Saturday. I was actually impressed with the overall product. I cannibalized the wheels, hardware, and hardwood boards to recut and drill and attach to the underside of my coffee roasting cart. I'm getting a much heavier roaster and needed to replace the little plastic wheels that came on the cart. It rolls much better. Using the dolly parts was cheaper than buying 4 wheels and hardware and I have two short carpeted boards leftover .

 

[ronjhall]

Drinking first cup of coffee. 27° with partly cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 42° with mostly sunny skies. Finally got all tree limbs picked up in front yard. Worked on fender project. Getting ready to put some paint on cleanup areas. Found a 4" chimney liner on Facebook Marketplace. New $50. Another item on my to do list. Only thing on my list today is trailer fenders.

Kyle, wish your son Happy belated Birthday from Betty and I.

Drew, my BCBS supplemental ( C ) covers all my test and Dr. visits. But I do have to play the game of "You Have To Do This Before You Can Get This Test". :thumbdown: So far all my Dr. have checked to make sure procedures covered before doing them.

Drew, I modified my Quick Hitch to work on FEL. Allows me to use 3pt attachments on FEL when I have BH on. I think you could modify yours to work on Cat 2 tractor. Not sure how it would hold up to added HP.

Hope all those healing continue.

Prayers for all.

Got this good morning Ring from a Sparrow at my feeder camera yesterday morning.

Good Morning All.

 

[ronjhall]

Ron, sorry the coyote has found your backyard paradise.

You may be right. Sandhill Cranes have not been at feeds for 2 days.

 

[daugen]

great pic Ron and thanks for info. LP quick hitch is likely strong enough, but definitely would need some fabrication work.
Here is a pic of the mower issue.

 

[Bird]

40 degrees this morning, going for a sunny high of 68. Yesterday morning, I did the first complete yard mowing, edging, and trimming of the year. I also removed the winter covers from the outdoor water hydrants. After I finished and got a shower, my wife wanted to go out to eat, so we did that. And on the way home, we saw our first bluebonnets of the year. I guess Spring has sprung.

 

[daugen]

I hope our chicken raising Farmer is doing ok. Haven't heard from him, hope all is well.

Wingsprd, do you have a recommendation on decaf coffee beans? Should I be looking for water process?

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Replaced some 4" fence posts yesterday that had been put in only 3 or at the most 4 years ago. In a sense I had to agree that the pathetic excuse for a wood preserver was to a certain extent "sustainable" - they had rotted so completely, all the staples pulled out dead easy and were hammered back into the new posts.

Another example of something that's supposedly good for the environment, or at least better for it, that doesn't work. Folks that come up with this crap should be the ones made to dig out the rotted posts!:muttering:

 

[RedNeckGeek]

That's pure genius, Wng! There's a bin I mounted on wheels under the workbench, full of wood scraps and somewhat heavy. One of the wheels is wonky, and fights me every time I roll it in or out. There's also one of those HF mini-dollies in another corner, purchased years ago to roll around a motorcycle from which the front end had been removed. Its wheels will find a new home shortly, I'm thinking. Thanks!:thumbsup: