Good morning!!!!

[wngsprd]

This might work, too, from my front yard this morning...

 

[wngsprd]

But maybe what we really need is love...

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 65F for the start, partly cloudy, calm wind. light wind day with moderate gusts, sky did not cloud up much more, and high temp 85F. Mowing this morning, then nap then launch the boat and help with carp removal. Process went faster, and all I ended up doing was unloading carp and help load equipment back in truck. Help the wife make marjoram meatballs for dinner :licking:
Covid update: Cooke 17 confirmed cases, 1 active, Montague unchanged, Grayson 342 confirmed cases. 68 active.
Balance of yesterday's posting:
RNG nice job on the mods.
Jay, sorry about the bear, apparently they are as bad as coons after cat food. Don't ask me how I know
Thomas, glad you found game cam, does it still work, and did you find out who left the bite marks? what time is chowder?
Davis still looks like a lot of hand work from truck to forks.
Don very nice potatoes
Billy no discount from state farm.
Buckeye, interesting pic.
Today's posts:
Buppies was that during daylight?Good luck with bear proofing.
Billy nice weather
Thomas, bet it was fun to watch peanut last night
Don quit reading posts last night, so did not see it
Ron sorry about trip cancelled. Sound like you worked around it very well. neat pic
Mike with all the rain that has been going on everyone is either cutting grass or calling the hay cutters in
RNG nice panorama pic, hope contractor showed and you can get your trenches filled.
PJ good to hear progress on the pond, hope all goes well with old contractor.
Ted at least the transfer to gernny should be painless. Saw the new acid video, turned out nice.
Ken glad you got bar moved ok.
Buckeye, this is a family friendly website, bears frolicking on poles
Drew thanks for update, prayers to you
Ted wait your son has serious moments? :laughing:
Drew thanks for the update.
Buckey, braggart :licking:
Billy the skunk would not like the neighborhood.
prayers for all, especially for Drew's recovery
stay safe and healthy

 

[RoyJackson]

2020-06-02, 0244

40 right now...high about 70 today...I can live with this weather all year.

 

[Eric Salop]

Good morning, the sun shines yet again, with a high coming of 23C/73F.

here is a bear you can use. This is the one that was in my yard a few minutes after I came in the house the other night. View attachment 658230

Can you all please add a scale ruler to bear pics - it will help with perspective when I wake up drenched in sweat from my bear nightmares

... maybe do a rain dance... every little bit might help to get some rain going....

Good luck LS. I have tried everything I can think of to summon a few dark clouds. Today in desperation I am sifting sand to make a start on more pointing and rebuilding part of our old bull pen brickwork. Hadn't intended starting that before autumn, but other than taking a roof off, baiting for rain with some lime mortar to wash out is about my last resort.

"... seems the newer crop of Apple products are not nearly as service or modification friendly as PCs. "
Unfortunatley so PJ, lots of items have gone that way, with not a single screw in sight. The simple screw has got to be one the best ever inventions, so simple, cheap and effective, yet now it is despised by some manufacturers who prefer to incorporate user-hostile methods of assembly.

Drew, no sheep pics today, but I did take a couple of poppy pics and you can while away a few minutes use your imagination to fill in what the big pond at the end of the track looked like reflecting the blue sky, with coy pairs of ducks slowly paddling in and out of the reeds.

[Oops tried and failed to put some pictures here]

Sorry Drew - at least that can be a few more minutes of imagination time for you

 

[riptides]

65 heading to 85 today. Cloudy with rain expected. Looks like the hay is gonna get wet. Timing here sucks.

Have a great day all. Be safe.

 

[Eric Salop]

Rip, sorry about the rain, we would gladly soak that up for you if we could.

It seems the picture issue some like me are having has been going on for a few days, there is a thread about it in news/feedback.

 

[Thomas]

mostly_gas
Thomas, glad you found game cam, does it still work, and did you find out who left the bite marks? what time is chowder?
Cam had to much damage and cause by bear...Chowder all gone barely enough for seconds. :licking:


Thomas, bet it was fun to watch peanut last night.
You can almost set your watch when she will visit.

 

[Thomas]

Kyle_in_Tex
"Bears, bears, bears....Could y'all send them out amongst the rioters please?"

Wouldn't that be cruelty to wildlife offense.

 

[Thomas]

But maybe what we really need is love...

And cycle continues on. :thumbsup:

 

[Thomas]

This might work, too, from my front yard this morning...View attachment 658233

Sure hope there friends or that could be snarly smelly mess.

 

[Thomas]

BEF, here is a bear you can use. This is the one that was in my yard a few minutes after I came in the house the other night.
View attachment 658230

Now that's BIG Boo Boo and I bet he does as pleases most of the time.

 

[ronjhall]

Coffee is done brewing. 55° with partly cloudy skies this morning Heading to 88° with clearing skies in afternoon. Car ride was good. Lots of barns. Big dairy farms north of Howell, MI. No pictures. Way to much traffic for pictures. Not much planned except take my Aunt home today. Aunt in Port Huron had a bad reaction to some meds for back problems. Was doing better yesterday.
One Hummingbird likes my feeders. Watching for chances to take action photos.

Drew, good to see you posting. Get well soon.

RNG, hope solar crew showed up yesterday.

Buckeye, Your desert looks good. No strawberries here until later this month.

Wngsprd, great pictures.

Everyone be safe and healthy.

Good Morning All.

 

[Thomas]

38F foggy low 60's for high chance of showers later today.

Outside chores done E muffin time. :licking:
Plans for today...Rocks in ditches to one side and fix mailbox hinge other than that putter.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 67˚F heading to the 80s chance of rain as every day, then the real weather is cloudy no rain and 90s.

The organic potatoes should be hard enough to wash and put in the pantry. Tractor day at the gardens moving gravel and mulch.

I picked up my weed eater from moms it still has the metal blade on it and I'll clean it up and get it back in service for the park cedarcide party tomorrow.

Drew you must be feeling better with more than one post a day, Yea!!!

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 65F @ 5:00AM. Sunny. High 97F. Winds light and variable.

I hope all of you with bear neighbors continue to peacefully coexist. Not sure how comfortable I'd be if I had one (or more) roaming around here.

Once the word gets out about your feeder, Ron, Katie bar the door! You'll have hummer aerobatics galore...

Sorry the bear destroyed your game cam, Thomas. Would you buy the same one again, and if so, what's the make and model?

Around here, Eric, washing a car is an almost sure guarantee of rain...

You've got plenty of time to make up your mind on next steps, Drew, so don't get ahead of yourself and forget about getting better first. Too many changes too quickly are never good. Looking back at the end of both my parents' lives, the transitions from hospital to rehab to nursing home were never smooth and were always upsetting. Very seldom was any warning given, so not much time to plan or screen the choices, and some bad ones were made. Word of mouth, and finally finding an eldercare agency at the county level were big helps in finding good facilities and care. And as you've found, there were often waits until vacancies would open up, so sometimes they got stuck with bad food and smells, and poor care as well. But you're a fighter, and still have your faculties about you, and your family around you, too, so it'll work out if you give it time.

Glad the pond project seems to be coming back on track, Paul. Might be time for a cautionary review on Yelp! go keep others from using the wrong contractor.

The contractors have a two hour commute to get here each day, so starting time is between 8 and 9, and by 3 they're all antsy to get back on the road to home. That makes for a short day, but the four of them here yesterday still made great progress. All of the wire is pulled to the generator, solar panels, and to the power feed in the pump house, and a new copper line now powers the main electrical service. Got the battery bank unloaded without dropping it, and all the balance of system components are here. They're going to take a LOT more floor and wall space than the salesman counted on, so it's a good thing almost all of the shop tools are on wheels. At one point, though, the contractor thought the lathe would have to move, but we worked around it instead. Today they'll wire the solar panels and finish the conduit runs inside the garage, which will complete most of the mechanical part of the work. My day started by pulling off the tarps and plywood from the trench, and loading the plywood back into the truck. Not really any place else to put it, and since it looks good as new and I don't have any use for it, might as well just return it, right?:confused3:

The old power lead now sits abandoned in the bottom of the trench, and I think this morning before they get here, I'll cut the other end where it disappears under the driveway and drag it out for recycling. There's a LOT of aluminum in there.:laughing: We're due for another round of showers over the weekend, so today I'll get the bucket back on the FEL and start filling in the trench. Got a big pile of rocks to move first, but I'm not sure where to yet.

CoVid-19 wise, confirmed cases now stand at 51, with 20 in isolation and 30 recovered. The first fatality was yesterday, an older person with several preexisting complications. Testing is still running in the 300/day range, so there are bound to be more cases discovered.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Good morning. It's 72°, 96% humidity, and no winds. Our high is forecast to be 88° this afternoon with possibility of rain later today.

I got primer and first coat of paint on the rest of the rolling ladder small parts yesterday. Our high humidity sure extends dry time.

We had our first VFD Apparatus Check last evening, as a group, since before the Covid. We been going down in teams of two, at different times, to make sure everything is functional and ready to go.

More pressure washing .. will be the order of the day today.

Hope everyone has a safe productive day.

Prayers to all.

 

[daugen]

good morning all
covid really messing up my options, may need to stay in 250sf place for a while just to get out of here. Cant get north.

Late wife came to me in dream/drug induced/spirit state last night, told me to move on and open up my heart, have hope.

 

[kenmbz]

Good Monrning.57 going up to 75 and cloudy.

Got the Brushcutter working again. Had to completely break down the carb. Clean every part and reassemble.

Just doing day job today, tired from doing all the trim out last weekend.

I see the Stilt Grass is starting to come back. There goes all my work so far, I got some Milestone herbicide which is supposed to tame it a bit. The R43 only slows it down and I can't use it everywhere.

Might see if I can eliminate some of the carpenter bees in my deck railing :-(

Stay Safe, be well.

 

[rswyan]

62F and cloudy, a little bit of rain overnight. Forecast for partly cloudy with a high in the low 80's. Severe Storm Risk Alert issued until 08:00 Wednesday morning.

Picked up fasteners and brass brushes at hardware store yesterday, struck out on the digital calipers at HFT (out of stock, check back Thursday )

Dropped off a full recycle can at the end of the road on my way out.

Enjoyed nice dinner last night of spaghetti ... with homemade flan afterwards ... :thumbsup:

Need to change out juice in the feeder for hummers ... interestingly haven't seen a one since I hung it ... :confused2:

Hope everyone has an enjoyable, productive, and safe day.