Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

good morning all, a chilly 25 here, heater blazing away in greenhouse, 65 in there, just perfect.

The likelihood of me making that trip to PA is going down. A variety of folks including family are advising me not to, but I've already cancelled too much. But three days in a hotel plus six different restaurant visits, plus a visit to my very elderly MIL, and no one has figured out what is bothering me, much less if it is contagious. Have felt great for last five days after going on new tummy meds, but who knows what is percolating. Waiting for appt with infectious disease guy for more tests, like Rocky Mountain spotted fever, bunch of other things ticks can give you in addition to Lymes. Until I get some medical person to tell me I'm not contagious, with something, I'm having real moral issues worrying me about passing bugs on to friends. So I may wind up staying home and waiting for this to pass.

Really can see how this affects economy. Friend is staying with family in Annapolis and she said there was a panic mode there, and online orders jumping. No one wants to go out to large places of assembly. I'm going to wait until Tuesday to make a decision, hope to get in front of doc by then.

email from admin head of our church/Meeting saying wash your hands before you come on Sunday morning, and don't sit too close to others. And don't come at all if you have a cough or fever. I was glad to see them being proactive.

Thankfully I feel pretty good and looking forward to a nice day.

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, the temp here is 26°F and going to a high of 43. Wind SW 5 mph. Mix of sun and cloud.

I think old man winters' back is broken.

Eric, Sheepless in Shropshire just doesn't have the same ring to it as Sleepless in Seatle.


Have a safe day all

 

[Thomas]

20F clear sky upper 40's for high.

Outside chores done E muffin time. :licking:
Plans for today...Quick trip to town for couple things,fill the feeders,putter in shed,watch little nascar,might sneak nap in.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[ronjhall]

Drinking first cup of coffee. 24ｰ with clear skies and bright moon. Heading to 57ｰ with lots of sun. Got grocery shopping done. People where stocking up on necessaries. No hand sanitizer or wipes in stores. Did use wipes on cart and hands when entering stores. The stores were crowded. Got all the clocks that did not do DST automatically except car reset. Started getting net off garden pond. Should get it finished today. Need to get golf cart out. It has not been used since November. Maybe some NASCAR in afternoon.

Drew, staying home is a hard decision to make. I traveled a lot for my job. I seemed to always be sick from something. Since I retired and never stay in motels anymore. I do not get sinus infection, colds or flu. If you are going to travel. Do it in your motorhome. Fix and eat as many meals as you can in it.
Now that I know that I do not have some kind of disease in my stomach I am feeling a lot better. Maybe some of the problem was stress. Dr gave new instruction on how to take my stomach meds (Nexium). Take them 1 hour before a meal on a empty stomach. That's what the label says but I have been taking it for so long I forgot about what it said.

Eric, the little lambs are so cute.

Thomas, sure hope you are right.

Rick, always enjoyed my trips home from our winter stays thru TX. Lots of road side flowers. :thumbsup:

David, another good project.

Prayers and best wishes for everyone.

Good Morning All.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 44F @ 4:30AM. Cloudy. High 61F. Winds SSE at 5 to 10 mph.
Or is it really 5:30AM? Leap forward, right? The so called "atomic" clocks do it automatically, but they do it at different times. Some it midnight Sunday (tonight), some at 2AM Sunday, some at 2AM Monday. The ones on the computers seem to do it at 2 AM Sunday. I always end up looking on the old fashioned digital clock on the cook stove to see what it says, because I know the only way it updates is if I do it.:confused2:

Yesterday, Drew, authorities declared a "local public health emergency" in Butte County, and there hasn't been a single case of CoVid-19 here yet. It's all about the money, as doing so makes them eligible for funding to set up quarantine facilities and start gathering medical supplies if/when the pandemic gets here. It's best to be prepared, but if they waste money as happened during/after the Camp Fire, the current state budget surplus is going to evaporate very quickly. Worse, perhaps, is that they are calling on the citizenry to start stockpiling disinfectants, food, and other supplies to get them through a possible quarantine period of a few weeks.:confused2: Looking over my own hermit like lifestyle, I could easily stretch my town visits to every other week, but I'd sure miss fresh vegetables.

Now take a look on Amazon, where you'll find various cold and flu OTC products already unavailable or with inflated prices. I thought Theraflu was a prescription medication, but there are OTC versions now, most with double digit price tags. Wasn't there a rock band called Widespread Panic? I think we're going to see a lot more of it in the near future...

If you end up making the Pennsylvania trip, Drew, you can limit your exposure in restaurants by ordering food for pickup. I strongly dislike eating alone in public, and when I traveled a lot, had regular routines I'd follow in my usual destination cities for piecing together parts of a meal (well, OK, BBQ and beer:laughing at the best places in town. Then I'd check into the motel and enjoy a good feed in front of the TV. Works for breakfast, too, eating in the car. Google Maps often has links to phone numbers and menus to make simplify ordering, When I made that long drive back to Ohio a few years ago, I took a cooler and stocked it with breakfast, lunch, and dinner food that let me eat in very few restaurants and make better time driving. Were I to do that again, I'd take along a couple packs of Clorox wipes to sanitize the shopping cart, though. Just had some delivered this week, but now I see they're "no longer available".

More nice work, David. There you go again, making the rest of us look bad.:laughing: You too, Mostly, with your 60 mile bicycle ride. Haven't done one of those since I retired (but it would do me a world of good to get back in shape and join you!).

Maybe Don's cousin can get you some alligators for your moat, Kyle?:laughing:

Gonna try to get out this morning before the wind kicks up and practice "O"s & "8"s, Jay. Thanks for the suggestion. And see if I can get the drone high enough to take an aerial photo showing most of the property, following David's example.:thumbsup:

I was curious if I could substitute the iPad for the iPhone with respect to the drone controller, so yesterday I made a short takeoff and landing flight to see if it would work. It did, but because I was inside, the controller cautioned that no GPS was available and hovering and return to home wouldn't work as well or at all. The iPad doesn't have a cellular modem in it, and I'm pretty sure it doesn't have GPS, either, so I'll give the iPad another try today outside to see if there are any negative impacts. If it works, I'll get busy cobbling together some sort of bracket to hook it to the drone controller. Several are available commercially, but I haven't found one yet that'll work with the 12.9" iPad...

Took me all day yesterday to run the vacuum cleaner and do a little dusting. The awkward angle of the handle on the Dyson really aggravates my back, and rather than just work through the pain, I took it in small doses and spread it out, interspersing sweeping with hanging upside down or just relaxing on the couch. It was cold and windy outside, so I also got a fire going in the wood stove so I could keep enjoying t-shirt temperatures.

Hope everyone enjoys the rest of their weekend!

 

[lostcreekranch]

Good Morning. That was sure a short night. It's 47° this morning and we should get to 72° this afternoon. Looks like it will be overcast all day .. like yesterday. The forecast says this is the lady cool morning for some time. Our lows will be low 60's going forward and even getting into the 80's by Tuesday.

I got my hydraulic angle installed on my LP Rear Blade yesterday. All went well until I was installing the pivot clevis pin that the cylinder connects to.



The pivot bracket must have been in final machining, when the lunch whistle blew. It was only partially drilled to final diameter for clearance of the 1" clevis pin.



The drills, I had, were too large or two small so, I cleaned it up, best I could with emery cloth. Even with a liberal dose of Fluid Film, I still had to drive the pin in with a hammer. All good to go now.



I've been hoping for some rain, so I could clean up ash from two burn piles but .. nothing in our forecast. I guess I'll just start stacking cedar and tree limbs, I've already cut and staged, on top of the ashes and just have more to clean up next time.





Mostly .. 60 miles plus. Wow!
"Rick which wild flowers to you get?" Red ones, yellow ones, white ones, blue ones, purple ones. I guess I should study up and learn their names? My bad.

RNG .. Lupins? Didn't know that either. Guess I'm a flower dummy?

Bluebonnet (plant) - Wikipedia

David .. I like your "economy" fork extensions. Whatever it takes .. right?

Drew .. you're probably wise to hesitate on your trip. As you say you could be contagious with something and your own immune system could be temporarily compromised. I think Ron is right about traveling in your RV.

Eric .. hope you enjoyed your "week off" ??

Ron .. glad your stomach is doing better. Do you miss wintering in Texas? I think this was your second year to stay in Michigan??

Kyle .. hope you share pictures of your bridge rehab?

Everyone have a nice Sunday and enjoy all that "daylight saved" .. this evening.

Prayers to all.

 

[wngsprd]

27 going to 63 and sun.

Lots of contrails up in the sky after seeing a beautiful big orange moon set at dawn.

Eric and Looking...kudos to you for humorous play on words so early this morning (or late morning for Eric).

Mostly, 60+ miles is quite an accomplishment.

Roy, great new gun. Hope you get some target time.

RNG, great drone flying. Check your documentation to see if you have a feature called Headless mode...it allows you to switch your drone to a mode where the forward direction of the drone is always the direction that the head faced at take off. So when flying, it doesn't matter which way it faces, your controls steer it the same as when it first took off.

We've never had a good apple crop due to the cedar apple rust disease. There are so many cedars around that I think new ones would grow up before I could ever cut all the existing ones. We actually like them, except when they overgrow something. Our Eastern Redcedars are actually in the juniper family, not quite the same as the Western Redcedars.

 

[ronjhall]

I got my hydraulic angle installed on my LP Rear Blade yesterday. All went well until I was installing the pivot clevis pin that the cylinder connects to.

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The pivot bracket must have been in final machining, when the lunch whistle blew. It was only partially drilled to final diameter for clearance of the 1" clevis pin.


Ron .. glad your stomach is doing better. Do you miss wintering in Texas? I think this was your second year to stay in Michigan??

Hole looks like was punched on a press. Punch and die may have been dull.

3rd year.
I know most of the flowers by color also. :ashamed:

 

[RedNeckGeek]

The drills, I had, were too large or two small so, I cleaned it up, best I could with emery cloth. Even with a liberal dose of Fluid Film, I still had to drive the pin in with a hammer. All good to go now.

That's a lot of steel to try to remove with emory paper, Rick. Usually when one of those pins goes in with a hammer, it takes hydraulics to get it out.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Hole looks like was punched on a press. Punch and die may have been dull.

3rd year.
I know most of the flowers by color also. :ashamed:

You’re probably right Ron. I initially thought it was just too much paint build in the hole so, I just worked it with some 150 sandpaper. That’s when I could definitely see the “shoulder” and took the picture. I further worked on it, with Emory cloth but, even then its still a tight fit.

A fellow “flower dummy” huh? Our wild flower variety change from year to year here.