Good morning!!!!

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Sodamo, I have the same worries as far as my wife and kids when I leave God's good earth. But alas, just like us, they'll have to learn life's lessons pretty much on their own when faced with them. I teach them as much as I can, but it probably goes in one ear and out the other.

Kyle,

Glad to hear you are having success with the mower. Having equipment that is "operational" is something I can really appreciate ...

Hope the aches and pains subside for you.

Thanks, Back is much better. The mower is "naked". One of the plastic hood's mounting posts broke off. Weighing whether to replace or not. I say not. I need to work on the K-46 next. It has 500 hours and sounds a bit "grindy" when you first take off.

my wife would say, you snooze you lose.

My brother used that term religiously. I always chuckled at it.

This morning smells like an Italian kitchen.....making fresh tomato sauce, with a lot of basil, onion, garlic, oregano, a wee bit of thyme, salt and pepper. Cooking down now. 2 gallons worth.

A friend at work told me he paid $20 for 5lbs of fresh garden tomatoes....$4/lb Maybe I should take some to work. Since I've fenced the chickens out of the garden, I'm having a grasshopper explosion.

Rick, I didn't block the north breeze, must've been Don. It's balmy here too.

LS, good job on the overhang.

Ron, nice pic.

Drew, glad the Flomax worked for you. I had to give it up.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Good morning to all! Low of 60, going for a high temp of 88 today. Storms all around again yesterday, but not here. Still dry as a bone! Northern NM is the only spot on the CONUS in severe drought ... not going to be good this summer.

Drew, you are doing wonderful progressing forward. Glad that you have family to help you move. Any return to normalcy is great!

Bruce, the sons projects were completed last weekend. There is a joint sons project, rehabbing another old shed, that they will start in a week or two. They will need me to act as supervisor again, so it will wait until I am done with our hobby shack.

RNG, at least the T&T was easy to fix and you did not have to tear into it and redo. Could you please send some of the rain over here?

All the talk of pizza.... we had to have some last night.... not exotic like the ones here... just Dominos ... (Don, cover your eyes) double bacon and extra provolone cheese. Sure is tasty for store bought.

I was able to finish 98% of the hobby shack porch roof yesterday, just a few pieces of drip edge to be installed and a few screws up on the roof that I could not reach from the scaffold.

Next comes a mundane task of installing the insulation... another job that I really dislike. At least this is a small job... the house just seemed to take forever...

Nice job on porch, flowers really add to it.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

My mother had a whole row / patch of Iris along the side of the garage and along a neighbors fence. They were the pride and joy of the neighborhood, seemed that no one could walk by without saying how beautiful they were!

I am going to jump on the flower picture wagon... here are a couple of wifeys favorites. Know what they are?

Bottom is similar to tiger Lilly but no dark stripes which I think they have. Our tigers not blooming yet

 

[ronjhall]

Got it.

Yeah ... drove past that building too many times to count. In fact, I had a couple of acquaintances that worked there.

I was wondering if it might be machine/mold shop related.

Used to be quite a bit of that sort of thing throughout Northeast Ohio.

Akron Standard made force variation machines for tires. Micro-Poise made high speed balancing machines for manufacturing. Tire and automotive companies mostly. They are now located in Streetsboro.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Ron, really love all the pretty pics you post, flowers and birds.
Purple Iris is a favorite. My mom always had beautiful flowers, as my wife does.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

I make the pizza dough with my sour dough bread starter, make the sauce with tomatoes and Italian seasoning and make the base hummus from chickpeas and spices, top it off with onions, peppers, garlic, pineapple, olives, sliced tomatoes, steamed kale, and then sprinkle nutritional yeast on the top (for cheese flavor).

Thanks, Don. Believe it or not, I've got most all of those ingredients already here, except for the sourdough starter and the yeast. Do you use powdered or flake nutritional yeast? Got a favorite brand? Bob's Red Hill seems to get good reviews...

And do you spread the hummus on before or after the tomato sauce?

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Got it.

Yeah ... drove past that building too many times to count. In fact, I had a couple of acquaintances that worked there.

I was wondering if it might be machine/mold shop related.

Used to be quite a bit of that sort of thing throughout Northeast Ohio.

My uncle and cousin in N canton worked for Timken

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

BEF, thanks for posting some of the family heritage. It is really cool... especially the old pics and new pics. One of our dreams when we first got married was to find an old historic farmhouse and restore / repair it. On of those dreams / plans that never come to fruition. I always found that it was way more expensive to restore / renovate, so I built 4 out of the 5 houses we have owned, hands on... not contracting out.

I am following your build thread.... might not be a good thing for me to do... I am thinking about building again....

Keep the heritage info coming, very interesting!

 

[RedNeckGeek]

I am going to jump on the flower picture wagon... here are a couple of wifeys favorites. Know what they are?

Some kind of lilies, but around here, we call 'em deer buffet.:laughing:

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Last of the metal roof screws and trim done! For some reason, I was not comfortable being up on the roof today, thank goodness it is done!

Now on to the insulation... oh joy! ..... At least I will be out of the sun!