Good Morning!!!! 54F @ 5:15AM. Cloudy with occasional rain showers. High 68F. Winds S at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 50%.
Looks like rain on and off for the next couple of days. I'd much rather keep rolling on the power project, but I could really use some "feed the goose" days to catch up on cooking, housekeeping, and mail. And maybe light the woodstove for the last time this spring.
I don't envy you the job of chopping down that iron bar fence, Paul. Even with a good blade, and the Diablos are, the reciprocating motion has been known to take a tole on my wrists in the past. Oxy-acetylene or plasma would work, but lots of sparks might be a problem, as could be blow back if you don't get it just right. Ron's idea of a porta bandsaw is a good one, but the Milwaukee I have is heavy enough to be a chore, and that bar would probably be slow going. Those 1/16" thin cutoff discs in a 4 1/2" angle grinder would probably be my first choice, but I might just try an ad on Craig's List for someone to come in and take it away for free, saving all the backache for themselves.:laughing:
The image I posted worked when I posted it, but doesn't now. And your pic from yesterday doesn't work now either, Ron. Definitely something wonky with TBN still.:confused3:
Nice work, Ted, but once again, yer makin' the rest of us look bad!:thumbsup::laughing: Very clever strategy with the stapler, too. Smack your thumb with the hammer for some additional sympathy points, then let her wear you down into buying it anyway. Brilliant!:laughing:
Hope the fish start biting soon for you, Mostly. But no bites also means no mess cleanin' 'em, and you still get a boat ride out of the deal.
A quart of chocolate milkshake, RS? No wonder you were in a coma!:shocked::laughing:
I can't imagine cutting grass in the snow, Bill, but there it is.:confused2: Gotta do what ya gotta do sometimes, don't cha?
I forget who said it, Eric, but it was something like "Communism is when the government takes away everything, then makes its citizens feel good by only giving a little bit of it back".
The meat shortage is having some strange results at the local Costco. I was hoping for some tri-tip, but none was to be had. No fresh pork or other beef, either. But the main cold case, all 75 feet of it, was full of packages of ground turkey! Glad I stocked up last week!
If those Guardsmen ever got called up, they'll need the skills they're learning in those B1s, Paul. Better to practice now than in a time of need. I'm just not so sure how much of a morale boost exhausted medical staff get out of airplanes shooting through the sky when they're so busy inside hospitals saving lives.
Two or three more new Covid cases in the county yesterday, most likely due to all the new testing facilities that are now available. Still no deaths. Employees were turning people away at Costco yesterday if they didn't have a mask, but even an old T-shirt over the mouth was enough to get by the gate keepers. And not many folks wearing masks in Medford yesterday, even though the Weather Underground page now says they've had over 50 cases in that county.
It was a rough drive up and back, mainly because a bout of insomnia the night before left me very tired in the morning. I had a hard time staying awake; even sucking on hard candy wasn't doing the trick. Ended up stopping in the Weed rest stop for a short nap on the way back; the drive through orange chicken at Panda Express had me in a coma too, RS. But the Kubota dealer came through with the goodies: three point lift bars, top'n'tilt cylinders and plumbing, a third function valve for the front, and a hydraulic thumb for the backhoe. The only thing missing were the valves for the TNT, and they won't ship until the end of the month for some reason. I was hoping to pick up a tax free battery at Walmart, but they didn't have the right size in stock. I tried to call for a stock check, but the robo answerer said employees were too busy to be bothered with that sort of mundane work. So instead, I wasted half an hour traipsing all over a Super Center before I could find an "associate" to go check stock. Aisles and aisles of merchandise, so so much of it crappy imported junk.:muttering: No wonder people revolt when Walmart tries to build on in their neighborhood; I wouldn't want one, and I'd have to be pretty desparate for something to ever go back to one again.
Ended up having to run the rest of my errands at the end of the trip as I passed through Chico. It was raining by then, sometimes pretty hard. Went to the new True Value hardware to pick up fasteners for the solar rack, but when I got to the register, the clerk asked me what the prices were.:confused2: The old hardware store that was there before had little gauges the clerks would use to do the pricing at the register; now the customers are supposed to do it themselves. I said "thanks anyway" and picked up my stuff at TSC, all in one bag, and sold by the pound. But at least the regular sized local Walmart had the battery. By the time I made it back home, it was 8PM and I still had to unpack and disinfect the groceries. I'd been driving since 6AM, so it made for a very long day. But I'm not sure when I enjoyed a can of potato bacon Progresso soup so much, or slept so soundly. In fact, it's blowing and raining outside right now, and I think I'll roll over and grab a couple more hours of shuteye...:thumbsup:
