Good morning!!!!

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Drew, maybe you could rent a storage for some of your stuff. I'm praying you come out on top of this and will need use of some of your stuff in the future. One day at a time. 2 more days and a ride out.

TxDon, glad your mom is going home. I'm wanting to see/hear the surprise of seeing the remaining half of her cat. I did like the "lion" style cut on her. Hope she gets spoiled some more.

PJS, sorry for your wifey's sadness. Sometimes I wonder if dogs like that might have a tumor or something physically wrong. Other times, I get mad at abusive owners.

Been having trouble sleeping all week. I wake up with back/shoulder aches, and have to get up to go P anyway...

My daughter is out on the riding mower now for about 30 minutes, and I haven't heard it hiccup/stall....Hope it is fixed.

Planning to BBQ hamburgers today....I'm off.

RNG, I might have posted this before, but it is about to be true for you soon.

 

[sodamo]

Good deal on the Massey, Drew. Was reading RV’s are in demand right now so hopefully you’ll do great on resale.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

I'm having trouble posting pics using the little picture window button. I'm using my home PC, with google chrome.

I have to go Advanced, and use manage attachments or something like that.

Is anyone else having to do this?

 

[Bird]

RNG,

Our local trash hauler provides a large (65 gallons ?) container on wheels for recyclables, slightly smaller than the similar container they provide for trash/garbage. Recyclables are picked up every other week, garbage/trash weekly. Clean cardboard is among the items they accept (so no greasy pizza boxes), along with marked plastic, paper, and metal. It usually takes us about a month to fill the recyclable container up.

This is one side benefit to government involvement in the process. Our community used to be serviced by multiple trash haulers. Well, somebody down at the mothership started thinking that maybe having all those large trucks from different companies run over the same road not collecting all the trash they were driving by wasn't the most efficient way to "git 'er done", plus mostly the additional wear on the roadways from the excess road miles (our situation on road maintenance changed bigly when we moved from being a township to being a city) ... so they announced that they were going to restrict it to a single company servicing the community and put the matter out for open bid.

Additional side benefits to that were that the company now provides the two containers (we used to have to provide our own) - which ends up better for them, because they can standardize their equipment to handle standard containers (duh) - and our bill dropped from over $90 every three months to less than $40 every three months. It has since (several years later) increased a few dollars (it's a little over $40 now) ... due to the over-abundance of recyclables and lack of demand for them.

I think the city or the county did a somewhat similar thing as far as electricity and natural gas pricing goes, only with a provision to opt out if you wish (enrollment is automatic, by default):

Save on Energy Costs | NOPEC

Our city just charges everyone $10.85 plus $0.90 tax ($11.75 a month) on the water bills to pay for once a week garbage collection. The company that currently has the contract, Community Waste Disposal (CMD) provided every home with a big wheeled recycling bin (and I've forgotten the exact size, but bigger than most wheeled garbage cans). We recycle everything we can and still only have to put out the recycling bin every third or fourth week. We actually have 2 garbage trucks from the company making the rounds every Monday. One for nothing but the recycling bins, and yes cardboard is acceptable and when I've had too much cardboard, I've just left it leaning on the bin and they take it. The other truck, each Monday, is for the garbage. They do NOT provide bins for that. Personally, I put ours out in plastic bags, some put out metal, some plastic, garbage cans. Officially, there's a limit on the number of containers a person can put out, but I can tell you that the garbage men pay no attention to any such limit. If they can get it into that truck, they take it. I've seen them take sofas, bedding, washing machines, etc.

 

[daugen]

Roy, it had 78 hours on it and more than a year left on the factory warranty. Good deal new, good deal used. Had grapple with all forward hydraulics, power top link, rear camera, etc. Loaded tractor, new owner will enjoy it I'm sure.

 

[pennwalk]

Drew this is probably a very good time to sell a RV. From what I have heard a lot of people are thinking that this is a good year for a RV vacation.

Chris

 

[toppop52]

Some other info I found out....After Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, and the President was declaring war, the Senate voted 100% for it, but the House of Reps had 1
dissenting vote.

Jeanette Rankin- a suffragette from Montana, voted against fighting back the aggressors and dictators.

WW II HAD MANY STRANGE TWISTS, Henry Ford, Firestone and Joe Kennedy were all some level of pro ******, until it became obvious what he was.

 

[pennwalk]

I had the first strawberries from the local fruit farm. I don't think it gets much better than fresh picked strawberries.:thumbsup: Pretty late this year.

Chris

 

[toppop52]

I make homemade pizza, either roll my own crust or use Pillsbury. My favorite is BLT

 

[ronjhall]

I make homemade pizza, either roll my own crust or use Pillsbury. My favorite is BLT

BLT Pizzia ?????

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

I make homemade pizza, either roll my own crust or use Pillsbury. My favorite is BLT

BLT Pizzia ?????

Hummm.

Ron, I hope you don't mind, I borrowed your flower/butterfly picture for a PC background.

Where has Jay been? Did he say he was going to be out?

The deere mower worked fine for the whole yard. No motor cutting out.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Hummm.

Ron, I hope you don't mind, I borrowed your flower/butterfly picture for a PC background.

Where has Jay been? Did he say he was going to be out?

The deere mower worked fine for the whole yard. No motor cutting out.

"The deere mower worked fine for the whole yard. No motor cutting out."

Maybe .. just the right driver .. for the job?

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Where has Jay been? Did he say he was going to be out?

I don't think so, but he did mention a post or two ago that he was very busy with yard work. Having trouble getting it all done. Prolly having trouble staying up here on GM, too...:confused3:

 

[ronjhall]

Hummm.

Ron, I hope you don't mind, I borrowed your flower/butterfly picture for a PC background.

Enjoy all my pictures. They are posted to be shared.

 

[riptides]

I do my own pizza dough..never the same twice. Lol. Still trying to get it right.

Just came in from mowing. Not motivated....only half the yard done.

Icy one on tap now...enjoy the evening all.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Good evening. It was 64° here this morning and thanks to the nice North breezes we had it only got to 89°.

I left here at 6 a.m. this morning, headed to our Richmond house. We've decided to put that house up for sale so Patricia had a list of projects for me before she meets with her realtor friend this weekend.

The garage door was making lots of noise, going up and down, so I gave the hinges and rollers some Fluid Film love .. it now is nearly silent.

I took down her bicycle wall rack and the Little Giant ladder wall rack and filled the screw holes.

I replaced a couple of fluorescent tubes in garage ceiling fixtures and three ceiling flood lights in the house.

I got back to the ranch by 10:30 and decided to load the rolling ladder onto my trailer to take to sandblaster for blast, prime, paint since weather should be dry for the next few days. The guy who does the blasting brought the forklift around to pick it off the trailer. As he started to lift .. it got un-balanced on his forks. I jumped up on the trailer, to reposition ladder on the forks and my right foot went through one of the decking boards all the way to the ground and I landed on my other knee. This move .. is now called the "Mr. Bird". . The guy, on the forklift, got so excited that he almost dropped the ladder on me. I picked myself up, got the ladder repositioned and lifted above the trailer rails. The owner, a good friend, was standing about 50' away laughing his azz off. He said this was better .. than watching the Three Stooges.





Got home, backed the trailer up to the shop and started removing the decking. I already had this on my "To Do" list but .. it got moved to the top of the list now. I just replaced all the decking on my 20' GN flat bed .. last Fall. This 6' x 12' will be a breeze .. compared to the GN.

Counting the days with you Drew.

Hope Jay is okay.

Don & Kyle .. keep that north breeze coming down here.

Hope everyone has a great weekend.

Prayers to all.

 

[toppop52]

BLT Pizzia ?????

Yessir, bake the crust about 7-8 minutes, pull it out, add diced tomatoes and onions, mozzarella cheese and crumbled bacon, put it in the oven until the crust is good and brown on the edges, take it out add a thick layer of mayo and shredded lettuce.

 

[rswyan]

66F and mostly clear @ 21:00.

Fire extinguishers picked up, one smaller one and the largest one placed up in the shop, other smaller one brought down to the garage here at the house. The other three were not taken in, as they aren't refillable. They all show good charges anyways.

More work done up at the shop straightening things up and cleaning. Three boxes worth of spray paint moved down to the house.

Also did some clean up before dinner down here at the house in the garage ... got the grill dug out ... probably clean it up tomorrow and get it ready for action.

Happy to report the Dr. Scholl's insoles seem fairly decent so far.

Just fixed a cup of coffee con leche in preparation for the evening shift ... :thumbsup:

 

[rswyan]

Our city just charges everyone $10.85 plus $0.90 tax ($11.75 a month) on the water bills to pay for once a week garbage collection. The company that currently has the contract, Community Waste Disposal (CMD) provided every home with a big wheeled recycling bin (and I've forgotten the exact size, but bigger than most wheeled garbage cans). We recycle everything we can and still only have to put out the recycling bin every third or fourth week.

:thumbsup:

We actually have 2 garbage trucks from the company making the rounds every Monday. One for nothing but the recycling bins, and yes cardboard is acceptable and when I've had too much cardboard, I've just left it leaning on the bin and they take it. The other truck, each Monday, is for the garbage.

Similar here (two trucks) ... only it's every Tuesday, and the recycle truck only runs every other week.

They do NOT provide bins for that. Personally, I put ours out in plastic bags, some put out metal, some plastic, garbage cans. Officially, there's a limit on the number of containers a person can put out, but I can tell you that the garbage men pay no attention to any such limit. If they can get it into that truck, they take it. I've seen them take sofas, bedding, washing machines, etc.

Yeah ... I dunno what the current status is on that here ... as we pretty much never exceed either can (except in the case of large items)

It used to be that if you wanted some additional large item picked up you had to call them ahead of time. Not sure that that is the case anymore though ... :confused3:

 

[lostcreekranch]

66F and mostly clear @ 21:00.

Fire extinguishers picked up, one smaller one and the largest one placed up in the shop, other smaller one brought down to the garage here at the house. The other three were not taken in, as they aren't refillable. They all show good charges anyways.

More work done up at the shop straightening things up and cleaning. Three boxes worth of spray paint moved down to the house.

Also did some clean up before dinner down here at the house in the garage ... got the grill dug out ... probably clean it up tomorrow and get it ready for action.

Happy to report the Dr. Scholl's insoles seem fairly decent so far.

Just fixed a cup of coffee con leche in preparation for the evening shift ... :thumbsup:

RS .. were you aware of the Kidde fire extinguisher recall, a couple of years ago?

We had three that were replaced.


Kidde Fire Extinguisher Recall