Good Morning!!!! 52F @ 4:45AM. Areas of patchy fog early. Foggy this morning followed by occasional showers during the afternoon. High 63F. Winds light and variable. Chance of rain 50%.
Good friends are hard to find, Drew, and that makes the loss of one even tougher. I hope his wife will be OK without him.
Keep those bird pics comin', Ron. No blue jays out here, and I miss 'em. We have two jays out here, a scrub jay, and Steller's jay. Parts of them are blue, but the rest is gray. Same rude behavior, though.:laughing:
Scrub jay:
Stellar's jay:
Looking forward to the car port build, David. If idle hands are the Devil's workshop, you must have an angel parked on your shoulder!:laughing:
Cookies for rides sounds like a good trade to me, Bill!:thumbsup:
Nice way of taming those charger cords, Ted.
Still be another few weeks before all the paperwork's in to do taxes, but I'm in no hurry to pay.
Speaking of pay, thanks to google, I paid for a generator yesterday. It's supposed to be the only one of the 22 kW models left, and is supposed to ship free from Pennsylvania. This is the first outfit I talked to that actually went to the trouble to find one in stock, and speaking of taxes, there wasn't any.:dance1: I just hope the purchase pans out...
The solar outfit called again yesterday, and now they're sending a new batch of rails using a different shipper. SAIA, the old shipper, will apparently be returning the first batch to them, and I hope giving them a refund.:confused3: Now I have two trucking firms on my black list: OnTrack and SAIA.:duh:
Also got a voicemail from a gal that hails from "AT&T Office of the President". It's either about their failure to provide backup power on radio links that have been substituted for copper lines in recent years, or their failure to issue refunds for the months during which there was no telephone service here. Either way, she's gonna get an ear full of both if and when we ever connect.
The weeds finally dried down to just damp late yesterday afternoon, so they got a dose of the last of the RM43. Had a little left in the tank, so I ran through the areas where I'd spread Preen, but there were no weeds to spray. Tried to order more Preen through Amazon, but Chase had put a hold on the Amazon Visa card and didn't bother to tell me. An hour on the phone had them telling me that they did try to tell me, but I could find no voicemail or email messages from them. That led to me being ping ponged back and forth between their web guys and their security guys, both of which pointed fingers at each other, and I'm not sure the problem will be addressed. But I've got a new number on the account now because the hold was triggered by an eight dollar charge that supposedly came from an Amazon merchant for a purchase I have no record of. The new Visa card should be here later today.:confused2:
Hope everyone enjoys a great weekend!
