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   / Good morning!!!! #94,961  
good morning all.

Rick, your place looks great, lot of work to keep it that nice.

headed downtown this morning to drug store, need to get antibiotics for tick bite, the very last thing I need
is Lymes disease. Spent some time organizing tomatoes on the counter, taking a big bag of veggies to garden club meeting
for lunch, last meeting for summer. Last year the potatoes were up by this time and I brought in baby red potatoes, they sure went over well.
I have one beautiful eggplant to bring in. Would love to see expressions on faces of ladies to see if they want to be the one to snag it.

wow has the weather changed. We go from almost a month of no rain, to a week of constant rain and thunderstorms, weather looks wet every day until middle of next week. Potato field harvest is on the 15th, and we can't harvest if soil is wet. But at least until then, the moisture will sure help the taters grow.
Lot of bugs in the white potatoes, some areas looked pretty nasty. Red potatoes seem more immune, probably why locals who plant potatoes often plant
Red Pontiac. They are the largest in my field. Digging up the $2.89 per pound red new potatoes now. Two weeks later, the larger taters go for .69 a pound.
Ah youth.....

Not going to get much done, need to stay clean this morning, then it will rain this afternoon. I need to clean out the garden shed, still have the "dinner dirty dishes" from the last batch of seedlings, need to organize and put all the trays away. No garden fairies showed up to do it...
 
   / Good morning!!!! #94,963  
Ron, glad to you got those tools to working.

66 degrees going for 84 today with a 20% chance of a shower this afternoon. The 50% chance each of the last 2 days didn't happen.

Gotta take the wife to the younger daughter's this morning and leave her overnight; supposedly to help with some packing for a hoped for move next week.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #94,964  
Poured first cup of coffee. 51° with light fog this morning. Heading to 79° with lots of sun. Did get a few weeds pulled yesterday. A few more today. I may be losing the battle. Hope to get fields and lawn cut today.

Drew, glad Dr found the tick and other spot was not a problem. I have found more ticks this year than other years. About 5 so far. Check the dogs every time they go out. Have not found one on them yet.

Rick, great pictures of your park. It started using Super Lube for my boat out-drive grease. Always have one of those 4 oz bottles or tube of grease handy for lubing things. Lucas is good also.

Eric, pictures are worth many words. :thumbsup:

Randy and Buckeye, get well soon. Special Prayers sent.

Good Morning All.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #94,965  
Late start.....dozed off by the pool as the sun came up. Working too hard.
71 outside this AM heading to lower 80's.
Not much on the agenda today. Will attempt to trap another stray cat that showed up.
TGIF

Have a great day all. Be safe.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #94,966  
you need rest....and some prayers.

Thanks for the gravel tip my friend.
Getting off the couch and walking to the barn is the only thing i did yesterday. My son put the mower away no problem. I put a chair by the bay window and watched him mow from inside. His first time mowing with the ZT, he did great. Some wasted running around, but i wasnt going to criticize, he's just getting used to it.

Spent more time watching WW2 videos. Rewatched the overlord segment.

65° and overcast.

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   / Good morning!!!! #94,967  
Out here they have what they call three quarter minus road base. It's crushed rock, all of which must pass through 3/4" mesh. Lots of fines to help lock it down, but it does tend to get dusty in the summer when it dries out. Beware of round pebbles in the mix, as they never seem to stay in place, floating to the top and acting like little ball bearings. If possible, go to the quarry or yard and look at the material before you order it so you know what you'll be getting.
I need to order a load of that myself. Going to put a gravel pad behind the barn to set the trailer on.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #94,968  
49F clear sky mid 70's for high.

Chores are done time for E muffin.
Plans for today...work in the basement most of the day,late afternoon just putter.
Mrs. and I took slow country ride last even couple hours before dark,luck was on our side saw mother bear with her 2 cubs,one cub was playful running about knocking down the other cub than trying to tackle mother from behind. :laughing:

Enjoy the day all.
 
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72°F and cloudy this morning, going up to 81°. Expecting some rain later today.

Watched a great hockey game last night. One more win and the Stanley Cup goes to STL for the first time ever. Fun times around here.

Nice pictures, Rick.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #94,970  
Good morning! 68˚F heading to the 90s.
Thought of you Drew yesterday while watching the SC Garden's drew load up his SUV with boxes and boxes of carrots and tomatoes and onions to take to the food pantry. Also when I arrived at my garden they were hauling off a fresh kill 4' rattle snake that was in the pocket park 20 ft. from my garden. My lizard is gone.:grumpy: Since the ground was muddy from the shower the night before I just used the wheel barrow to help the widow next door to my garden get some mulch. I did not want the garden tractor to look like Ricks for 10 minutes of seat time.

I went through the filing cabinet and got all the tractor manuals and service records organized and made a nice little notebook for the Horticulture Club. Now I feel organized. The SIG leader had all the other machines in his books but everyone I talked to thought someone else was taking care of the tractor records. So I adopted the job.
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A little attic floor work early and window cleaning today.

I signed up for the new laser wood working class, but there were 23 people ahead of me for the 6 person class. they promise to have several classes very quickly to take care of the overload of people wanting to learn the new machine.
 

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