Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

Good morning all.
Had a good night last night and got some decent rest.
It's the weekend and I bet many of you will be busy.
Hope Sophie is doing ok, Mollala is on the mend, and Jay, oh Jay hope you are doing ok.
Jays posts are always insightful and interesting, smart man with a bunch of medical issues we all wish him well with.

Rick and Don, you guys seem to have full time jobs cleaning up trees there. Thank goodness for grapples. Sounds like if you didn't keep at it,
that brush would simply take over the place.

because of my back, I never found bike riding comfortable, put too much strain on lower back, but sure seems like it would be wonderful fun to get out there in fresh air, get the heart pumping, wonderful exercise. And the women in those skin tight outfits, must keep eyes on road... I do wish some bike riders would be more careful about not hogging the road, riding side by side, makes it dangerous to get around them, always worried about clipping someone with side mirror. Bike lanes are really good ideas, and I do believe in sharing the road.

68 degrees going up to 81 today. Fairly wet weather pattern, thunderstorms most days, had some nice boomers yesterday. I bet it's making a lot of lawns go crazy around here. Hopefully enough dry time that Buppies can get some work done.

Drew is the no outside for as long as you are there? Likely unless covid restrictions lifted, and NC is an unhappy state for that, with nursing homes/assisted living places the most paranoid of them all. They just don't want the bad bugs in...nor do I want to be restricted to my room for two weeks, without even the ability to walk in courtyard. Only time I get outside is to get in van to go to hospital for treatment or tests. Which will be next Tuesday. Chemo is every three weeks, but weekly testing in between. Hospital is less than mile away and drive is through one doc office building after another, not all that scenic. What I would love is to drive to local park and be able to walk long distances, take some pictures, get some fresh air. So my world is about 370sf. I have never been a patient person, always on the go, most of you know that by now, and all this inaction is challenging. How does one keep busy and occupied? At some point I get sick of surfing Youtube, though trying to concentrate on History Channel stuff now. Other than watching car accident videos (seems to be an unending number of them) any suggestions for interesting viewing will be appreciated. Maybe I can find some cooking shows, but that will just make me hungry... Always like to learn, so need to find something that challenges my mind.

 

[Thomas]

Another .56 in of rain today I need webbed feet

Feel free to send any rain our way.

 

[Thomas]

farmeratheart
Still waiting to here from Jay and now Bird.
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Send Pvt. message to Jay 3 days ago still no word Frank.

 

[Thomas]

68F few morning clouds reaching 90 again today very slight chance of t storm.
First day of summer.

Outside chores done E muffin time. :licking:
Last evening until dark watch fox do some mouseing did very well.
Plans today...Critter food run,super market for the Mrs.,figure what's need to make guard top of tractor bucket but most of all stay where it's cool.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[Buppies]

More rain in forecast today later today 58 high of 80 foggy too are we in August?

Fawn came out of woods went to sleep in tall grass by creek mom close by

This no work hurting Drew

Prayers for Drew prayers for all

 

[Buppies]

Would be happy to share if I could Thomas

 

[ronjhall]

Waiting for coffee to finish brewing. 57° with clear skies this morning. Heading to 91° with partly cloudy skies this morning. Had a great birthday. Thanks all for the wishes. Especially like Facetime with family and friends. My 8 year old GGD who shares my birthday was the best.
Couple of yard projects before it gets too hot outside today. Windows need cleaning again.
Oakland County CV numbers. Cases 8,629. Deaths 1,030. Recovered 7,292. Being treated 307.
Bluebirds are back now that starlings are not coming around.

Drew, I have been hit with a couple of CC hacks. Never lost any money. Just the inconvenience of not being able to use the card until another one arrived. I did get hit with the TurboTax one where someone filed on my taxes using them. Got free Experian for 2 years. Another hacked site. When traveling for up to 6 months each year like I did 13 years. The only way to go is internet. I hate going to banks/credit unions for any transaction. Have you tried some of the various games available for computers. Special prayers sent.

Jay, hope you are doing OK.

Bird, posted yesterday.

Mollala, prayers your recovery is going good.

RS, good to hear tractor is back running with FEL.

Rick, I see some of your photos are not accessible.

Buckeye, great evening picture.

Kyle the roach killer. :thumbsup:

Rich, hope you get internet back up and running. I spent so many years working from home it was hard to work when I had to got to the office. to many interruptions.

Everyone be safe and healthy.

Good Morning All.

 

[Eric Salop]

Good morning all. Struggling to post anything with pictures again, TBN has been logging me out before I can hit the submit button.

Excavator is making steady progress in the wetland. Steady is good, much better than stuck. Heavy rains have brought the water level up by almost a foot since starting, so much for this being done while it was "dry". Pictures were taken at the end of the day, when the digger was back on "firmer" ground, with the mud mats only just below water level. At other times it has been a little scary.

Wng I can just imagine Coco laughing if you didn't try a boomerang and have been chasing after the frisbee yourself each morning

 

[wngsprd]

66 and foggy, had several storms yesterday and last night, knocked out power for a minute. Should see more rain and 82.

RNG, had to look up Laphroaig...never heard of it, and of course, Costco doesn't sell liquor in Virginia, where the state retains a monopoly on all alcohol except wine and beer. One governor, about 10 years ago, proposed selling off the ABC store monopoly and IIRC, the estimate was $.5 billion and growing by the time it was killed.

Also, thanks for thinking of Coco and suggesting Dinovite. We've heard the Dinovite commercials for years, too, and got interested. It's a supplement, and all of its ingredients are already added into the high quality food we feed Coco now, so we've not gone that route...trying to keep things as stable as possible while the derm vet figures it out.

Roy, Happy Rifle Day!

BEF, sad your big redbud is dying. My wife tells me I make friends with every tree we have and get to know them well, so sorry you are losing one.

Buppies, not quite webbed, but maybe these will help...

 

[wngsprd]

Wng I can just imagine Coco laughing if you didn't try a boomerang and have been chasing after the frisbee yourself each morning

Me fetching my own throws is exactly how it's working, but she is hiding her laugh.

Pond clean up looking good. Buppies may need your excavator next...oh wait, he has that mini-ex.

 

[Bird]

67 degrees this morning, going for 87. When I got up yesterday morning, I found NO DEW on the grass so I mowed the yard. Then I ran the sprinkler until about 2 p.m. to water the yard, since I'd only gotten about .03" of rain since the 25th of last month. NWS was forecasting a 40% chance of rain last night, so I didn't really expect any rain. But this morning, I dumped about 2.1" of rain out of the gauge.:laughing: The lawn has been well watered.:laughing:

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 72F @ 5:45AM. Sunshine and a few clouds. High 98F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph.

Hope Coco's condition improves, Billy. Poor thing, it must be miserable.

Your quarantine sounds a lot like the time I spent evacuated, Drew, living in a friend's spare bedroom for a month. The air outside was so bad you couldn't breathe it, the stores and shops were packed with 10,000 new residents, so I mostly sat at a desk and read. And slept, a lot! Very depressing, even just thinking about it. But I'm preparing to be in your situation at some point in my life, there's almost no avoiding it. One thing I hope will help is a huge library of movies and TV shows stored on a file server, that I can play on a laptop, or if I'm real lucky, a big screen TV, listening with headphones. Would surely miss a few fingers of good Scotch or Bourbon once in a while, though; I bet that's not allowed, either. Are you permitted to interact with the other residents? If so, do they have activities you could use to make some new friends?

Looks like good progress, Eric. How difficult was it to get permits to do that kind of work?

Ohio, where I was raised, had State Stores, too, Billy. Always seemed to be some sour faced old person behind the counter, giving you looks like you were the scum of the earth for buying a six pack. Most grocery stores out here sell alcohol; it's just another isle like any other. And I can't remember the last time I got carded at the checkout. Maybe it's the white hair?:laughing:

Glad everything works like it should, RS. The microstructure of your weld on the spanner will be hard and brittle, but strong as all get out. Avoid shock/impulse loading; a cheater bar is your friend, and stay away from hammers. Better yet, shine it up to remove all the discoloration, then slowly heat it until you get a light straw color. Quench it in water, or better yet, used oil, and you'll temper it down so it won't be so brittle.

Happy the part you needed was available, Bruce. Hope the repair goes OK, too. You looking to buy Don's Peugeot?

Got the last of the open trenches filled yesterday before it got too hot, using the old tractor enough to make sure it's working OK. It'll stay parked now until I can get a little work done on it and get it moved on to a new owner.

Spent some time working on the whole house sprinkler system. Wasn't sure it would work, but I put all four zones onto one terminal of the controller, and it didn't seem to mind at all. That'll keep things simpler in an emergency. The I dug out an old transformer from a junk box and wired it in parallel with the controller. Plugged that in to a HomeKit enabled wall switch, and was able to turn the sprinklers on/off with the iPhone, or even by voice. And I can do that from anywhere I can get an internet connection. I already have video cameras showing views to the south and east, just need a couple more to complete the picture. Then I can be like the couple near Big Sur a couple years ago that waited until the last minute as a wildfire approached their home before turning on their sprinkler system, even though they weren't even there.

After that it was too hot to work in the garage, so I took a nap.:dance1:

Yesterday I turned off the grid connection first thing in the morning and left it that way all day. Even after I turned on the A/C. I learned that there's a heck of a dip in line voltage when the A/C comes on, no surprise there, but it's enough to upset some of the electronics. Checked outside after the nap, and the whole house sprinklers were on. So I might need to rig a UPS for that outlet, or figure out some way of improving the solar power system or damping out the starting impulse from the A/C. The solar controller was reporting 7.5 kW being output by the panels, pretty much all they've got. The fans on the inverters and charge controllers sure got a workout; it sounded like someone was flying a drone in there. And the garage smelled of hot insulation and curing paint.

Bodyshop neighbor wants some help setting his new generator today, and he's also having trouble getting the bulldozer neighbor to dig a trench for him with the monster he used at my place. So I'll be over there this morning before it gets too warm to help him, maybe even dig that trench, too.

Hope everyone enjoys their weekend!

 

[RedNeckGeek]

NWS was forecasting a 40% chance of rain last night, so I didn't really expect any rain. But this morning, I dumped about 2.1" of rain out of the gauge.:laughing: The lawn has been well watered.:laughing:[/QUOTE]

The good news is you found another way of making it rain, Bird.

Eric, are you paying attention? Maybe you're watering your lawn too much?:laughing:

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Good morning to all! Low of 54, going for 88 today. No rain chances forecasted until mid next week.

Starting to get concerned about Jay. Not like him not to at least check in....

Drew, glad to hear you got some rest. I truly understand your frustration with being ‘cooped up’ , especially being as active as you. The time will pass and you will be able to get out into the world. You can try R/C plane crashes next on YouTube

Wng, I hope they can find what is causing Coco to have distress and there is an easy correction.

Kyle, good job on the stomp... are you sure no one saw you? With all that is going on these days, we do not need another protest....

Ron, another great pic:thumbsup:

Bird, you need to direct some of that rain up this way.... please...

Eric, nice progress on the wetlands. Where are they putting the spoils? Just around the edge?

Progress being made on the hobby shack, first coat of interior painting done, but, ran out of paint. Had to go into the big city to HD to get another 5 gallon pail mixed up. That is a 3 hour ordeal at the minimum. By the time I got back, I was not interested in any more painting for the day.

So, that is on the agenda for today. Finish the painting. Maybe get into something else afterwards?

Everyone have a great day!

 

[daugen]

Are you permitted to interact with the other residents?
yes and no. I'm not a bingo person...and I say hi to everyone but typical person is 80+ year old little old lady.
I haven't seen another guy in here yet...

walked my ten laps of courtyard, that felt good, skies were clouding up, a few little sprinkles but it felt good.
guess I'll read my book now for a little while, not a lot of options.
When covid hit and there were worries about supermarkets being out of things, I stocked up on cleaning supplies, soaps etc.
Now I'm need handsoap and kitchen soap and everything in house has been boxed up and given away, much to charity. So a little annoying to have to
order all over again, particularly as Amazon requires large quantities, i.e. six bottles of Mrs Meyer's honeysuckle hand soap,my favorite. Will take me a long time to go through that for sure.Now if I could find some more antiseptic wipes...

 

[Jim Nelson]

You can count on it.

Thanks guys,I've had several friends and family members go through the back surgery thing and most came out great but a couple took some time. He seems to be a real stand up guy and I was just wondering how it was going. Hope to hear from him soon.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Thanks guys,I've had several friends and family members go through the back surgery thing and most came out great but a couple took some time. He seems to be a real stand up guy and I was just wondering how it was going. Hope to hear from him soon.

Nothing from him yet.

 

[daugen]

my garden club food arrived, what a feast, she really over did it. Small pieces of meat loaf, pizza, a feta salad (breaking the rule on that), squash casserole, another casserole, cheese and crackers, I'm set for a week. Plus fresh lettuce, tomatoes and grapes, none of which I can eat but gave to staff so that worked out fine.
Sure was nice of them and that piece of pizza was amazingly good.
we get by with a little help from our friends...
My Mexican gardener drove her, and he brought me an orchid which is now on my dining room table.
All super nice

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Are you permitted to interact with the other residents?
yes and no. I'm not a bingo person...and I say hi to everyone but typical person is 80+ year old little old lady.
I haven't seen another guy in here yet...

walked my ten laps of courtyard, that felt good, skies were clouding up, a few little sprinkles but it felt good.
guess I'll read my book now for a little while, not a lot of options.
When covid hit and there were worries about supermarkets being out of things, I stocked up on cleaning supplies, soaps etc.
Now I'm need handsoap and kitchen soap and everything in house has been boxed up and given away, much to charity. So a little annoying to have to
order all over again, particularly as Amazon requires large quantities, i.e. six bottles of Mrs Meyer's honeysuckle hand soap,my favorite. Will take me a long time to go through that for sure.Now if I could find some more antiseptic wipes...

Drew, I may have mentioned before, but I enjoy these youtube videos. A blast from the past. There's a little of everything, some good, some not so. some not so PC by today's standards.

YouTube

Hope you are able to get more exercise to suit your wants.

Ron, glad you had a good BD. Bluebird looks a bit tattered.

Prayers for everybody.

 

[ronjhall]

Ron, glad you had a good BD. Bluebird looks a bit tattered.

Prayers for everybody.

Poor guy needs has to fend off the sparrows and other predator birds. Plus bring food for his mate.