Good morning!!!!

[rswyan]

73F, partly cloudy and calm @ 21:00 ... ended up getting a substantial amount of rain today.

Including last night's, easily over an inch and probably closer to 2" ... judging from the amount of water in the pan up at the shop. Things cleared out this afternoon, first with broken clouds ... then significant sunshine.

Spent most of the afternoon running around, finishing up with a quick trip by Ace Hardware (scored a couple of tube feeders at a good price) while The Woman hit the grocery for a few items. Then pet store for cat litter and treats for Squeak (who is now comatose after gorging herself)

While at Ace I grabbed 3' of 1/4" polyethylene tubing to repair the line for the automatic drain valve on the compressor down in the garage. It ruptured yesterday ... just as I was about the blow out the radiator on the Kubota. It's probably NOT the correct type of tubing, but at $ 0.45 for 3' ... sure, why not ? Need to check up in the shed to see if I have any more of the original tubing (possibly somewhat better suited for heat) or even better: some copper tubing.

After we got back she broiled up some Hebrew National dogs with some canned chili dog chili (perfect) she picked up at the grocery, and some Bushes Baked Beans ... delicious ... :thumbsup:

After that I headed up to the shop to work for a bit while the blueberry pie was baking.

Came down for a piece with some ice cream in time to catch a little of the News Hour.

Just filled the new feeders and hung them ... heading back up to the shop here in a few.

Hopefully we'll get no more rain tomorrow and I can get back to mowing ...

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 67F for the start, rain ending 1 inch in rain gauge, light wind. Plenty wind overnight based on branches on ground. Wind blew north, south, and west today, 8.5 to 13.5 in morning then back off some late afternoon, sky cleared off, and high temp was 90F. Bike rid this morning, water was a little high for me to ride through, turned around rode to back side of LW #2 then home. after lunch nap and worked on progress on Volagi update, boat cover update, tying someone to block off louvers in attic so air is pulled from soffits to ridge vents have some caulking to do to cut down on wasps in attic.
Covid update: Cooke unchanged, Montague unchanged, Grayson confirmed cases 521, active 111.
RS nice repair on wrench
Drew sorry about the missing list, no you wont know what to order next time! Many people help their own depression when they reach out to help others. In weld there are two kinds of welds, those that are strong enough, and those that are not.
Eric is the digging over, hope the fence reclamation goes ok and the sheep stay put.
Billy I promised my wife I would always wear a life jacket when boating solo. And if you put a board on top of fence, guess who will chew on it Garden looks nice, thanks for pic
Thomas need pic of guard when done.
Rich sounds like good weekend, nice job by the rider. :thumbsup:
Ron glad FD went well, great pic of dragonfly
Don hope reservations work out for the gym and pool, do they have waiting list for the cancellations? congrats on tomatoes coming in.
RNG good luck sorting out the A/C starting issues off grid.
Bird, I got 4 inch in 3 days. :dance1:
Ken nice work on the stump, know what it is like to have chainsaw issues and no backup
Ted looking for to pics of your new dog house when finished
RNG wish I could help but what ever I could suggest would be a wag. :confused3:
Thomas nice progress on guard.
RS Squeak reminds me of a cat we had growing up. He would eat so much he would waddle to under an end table to sleep off the meal. One day Mom moved a chest where the end table was, and you could hear the thunk then loud meow of displeasure through out the house when cat walked into chest with eyes closed. :laughing: Needless to say end table was moved back that afternoon.
prayers for all especially Drew and Jay
stay safe and healthy you all.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Good morning! 66 now with a steady rain. Maybe 78 later and good chance of rain off and on today. That is ok, we need it. Yesterday the high was 88, had a heavy rain start as we went to bed.

Was a busy weekend. Got the mowing done Saturday. Then went to the short track Saturday night. A friend went with me, I worry about his health every time he goes (transplant 12 years ago), but when we get there, he seems energized and happy. Had a hard time finding him most of the evening, he was walking around socializing with people he knows.

Kid I help won 3 of 4 heat races, including winning his first race ever on a TT track. 3 - 3rds and one win in the finals. He dominated a talented field in the 450 Open final. It wasn稚 even close. There were a lot of riders there, 200+ signed up. Was a late night. I was dragging yesterday.

Sounds like he had fun. I'm amazed there were 200 entries. Wow!

I don't know if you guys follow Dr. Seheult who does the covid 19 videos on the YouTube MedCram channel. Today's video was pretty interesting. I think they are made for other Doctors so I have to work at it to understand them.

Chris

I did, and I do like them, but they take quite a bit of time to listen and absorb.

Kyle, do you know any of the stabbing victims in Giddings.

Haven't heard any names. I passed by it at 7:20 ish, did not notice major issue. Wifey is worried that because a black man (perp) was shot, that outside groups might come here.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Today's bounty.

 

[rswyan]

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Today's bounty.

Nice ... ain’t nothing like a good homegrown tomato ...

 

[RoyJackson]

2020-06-23, 0329

67 right now...high in the upper 80's...
Boy, be glad when this heat wave breaks!!

 

[daugen]

good morning all.
Still warm down here Roy.

Blueberry pie and ice cream, RS you are living large, that sure sounds good.
coffee is brewing, slept ok,still waking up with queasy stomach but it's manageable and to be expected.

had a nice elderly lady stop by my room around dinner last night, said oh hello Mr Miller, now you have four people in here right?
No ma'am I'm Drew and I live here by myself, but it sure is nice to meet you. Nice to meet you too, and she went off in search of Mr Miller.
There are never more than two folks in these rooms... Reminds me to be grateful of the shape I'm in...

Maybe Jay is just taking a break, and maybe he is medically challenged, hope the former. A very helpful giving guy, hope he is doing ok.

when nurses at the hospital can't find veins on patients, mostly older, they bring out some kind of blue light on a long pole that illuminates the arm and shows the veins inside, pretty neat. Would be nice to have something like that for welding, so you could see inside and confirm it wasn't all slagged. I know they make expensive machines to do that, and for sure steel is harder to look through than flesh. Might have something to do with evaluating magnetic structure, that could be simpler. Otherwise we weld that hook on, put an increasing load on it, and hope for the best. Well us amateurs do, you seasoned welders know what you are doing. I would really like to do more welding, was fascinated with it as I bumbled through the beginning phases of stick welding. And since I can never remember the difference between TIG and MIG (one is for aluminum?) never learned that "improved" method. Going back to high school, always worked in wood, never in metal. This is a skill I'd like to learn more about, but will have to wait a while until I get a shop again. Welding simply seems to make you self-reliant, often don't have to wait for the repairman because you are him. That can be very satisfying, like how you guys fix your older cars, washing machines, etc. Often helped today by self help instructional videos on Youtube.

My pc fan runs too much, I think it's dusty in there and needs a good vacuuming. That may be a project for today. Except I need a screwdriver kit which instead of following me got packed away so have to see what is holding case on. Do pc's have capacitors that need to drain down? Safety first...of course vacuum hose is plastic which helps

75 degrees already/still going up to 90 today, afternoon showers as usual. Have a great day guys

Kyle, great tomato haul, nice colors too, and a very healthy veggie to eat.

 

[Eric Salop]

Good morning,

Digging was going well yesterday, until the machine decided it was tired and would rather not do any more work. Fortunately it was back on dry land at the time so at least I could attempt to track down the electrical fault without wearing waders. Fetched a multimeter and did a few checks while the driver/owner, who is a really nice guy, was still there to turn the ignition key, then went back home for tea. The internet found me an entertaining workshop manual for 14 pounds and the writeup indicated it checks for under voltage to protect the batteries. The batteries looked ok, but if a high resistance produced a voltage drop in the monitoring circuit, that could help explain symptoms. Cleaned a few connections and one in particular looked really bad. It started ok afterwards but can't say more than that until we try to dig again this afternoon.

RNG, best I don't give you numbers to say how much pond depth or area increase in case our environment agency read TBN Actually, they should be fine - we are only taking out a small quantity of silt ...

Don, surprised to hear you get dust from Africa too, wouldn't have thought the wind blew in that direction, or does it circulate the globe first ?

 

[Eric Salop]

Drew, any high voltage caps in a standard PC are all inside an internal enclosed power supply unit, you should be fine if you are only cleaning the main PCBs and fans. Happy dusting

 

[daugen]

My fireman neighbor has nicely agreed to deliver my Gravely garden tractor to my old friend in PA who has several other Gravely's, the walk behind kind made long ago and utterly indestructible. Problem is it's an 8 hour plus drive, too long for a turnaround, so they have to stop someplace at a motel on way home. Was looking at covid map and gosh the whole area is bright red. What I did find out from my SIL is apparently Hampton Inn has a superior corporate plan for dealing with covid, rooms sit for a full day in between renting, and rooms are also thoroughly cleaned and disinfected. I told my friend to look at Google Maps, find a Hampton Inn on way home and I would reimburse him for room. He is also taking my Kubota UTV to my oldest brother's home in Virginia, but can come home same day for that.

Have used Uship before to move things, like my Kubota tractor down to NC, they are very competitive since multiple haulers bid on the job. Anyone else use them and what has your experience been? this time happy to give business to friend who is looking forward to a road trip. He also wants to go look at the farm I grew up on, not that it is recognizable any more. Someone bought it and put a horribly garish 12,000 sf Tara on it, so out of place for Bucks County, but the old apple orchard is still there

I was trying to prepare him for driving conditions in Philadelphia area. They are so manic compared to NC, everything really does slow down when one gets further South.
Driving the Blue Route up to PA turnpike near Philadelphia is some of the worst driving I've experienced. Folks in small cars road race on the curves, doing easily 20 over.
You have to be very careful changing lanes since overtaking speed of these folks gives you little reaction time. Once back in NC, it's 5 to 7 over, and I almost always drive on cruise control anyway, saves gas and for sure prevents tickets.

My friend will be pulling my old trailer he bought from me, and I think most trailers should be limited to 65mph anyway, particularly in hot weather. A single axle trailer blowing a tire is bad news, can upset the pulling vehicle when it starts whipping around. Lot of youtube videos of whole rig flipping over. I put uprated tires on the one ton trailer, I think max capacity is 3000 pounds for tires, but I told new owner to check air pressure carefully and also for any checking/cracking. Always a challenge finding a good quality trailer tire, currently think the South Koreans and Japanese have the edge.

 

[wngsprd]

Heavy fog, 100% humidity and 66 going to 92. Got dumped on last evening. Looking forward to checking rain gauge in a few minutes.

I took advantage of yesterday early morning's fog and dew to give my wife's SUV a very much needed washing. Might do the truck today.

Nice tomato harvest, Kyle. I can't remember, do you can or make sauce?

Eric, for 14 pounds, I hope you got more than a comic book. Good that you can tackle fixing an excavator like that.

Thanks for your concern about Coco...she is what I'd call stable, but still in a bad condition. Still doing twice daily pills and ear drops and cleaning. She has found the delight in eating canned foods with names like Cowboy Cookout, Birthday Pawty, Slow Cooked Texas BBQ, Hearty Rabbit and Salmon stew. I'd go broke feeding 4 cans of these if that were her regular daily diet, but derm vet asked for soft food since she has mouth sores. I'm also moistening her kibble for an hour, using the remnants of the canned food that I rinse and store in a jar.

My son stopped by last night to drop off some things and also has a Chesapeake Bay Retriever, a good boy that we helped raise...but is very old now. He's been researching a replacement, and told me how much DNA testing is being used now so that a breeder can ensure that recessive genes aren't combined from dam and sire. Pups cost more, but fewer dogs will have to endure problems going forward, and less long term costs with vets.

Got some mowing done before the storms hit, and did some pole sawing on some low limbs I've been threatening for a while when they smack me on the tractor after popping off the ROPS. Nice to get than done.

 

[Buppies]

65 high of 88 today storms in forecast dermatology doc this morning afraid there is a new one

Nice tomatos Kyle how did your daughter do in church?

Prayers for all prayers for Drew

 

[Thomas]

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Today's bounty.

Yep nothing like home grown,I can taste tomato sandwich now. :licking:

 

[Thomas]

Buppies
doc this morning afraid there is a new one.
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We're sending positive thoughts your way.

 

[Thomas]

Wngsprd.
Glad Coco doing better and better improvements soon.

 

[ronjhall]

Drinking first cup of coffee. 64° with light rain this morning. Heading to 73° with am rain. Did not anything done yesterday. To hot and humid for me. Rain has accumulated to .09" since Sunday. Should be good day to tackle repairs on JD mower. Got woke up by Sassy barking at 4am. She found a moth on floor. That she appears to be afraid of. :confused2: I may need a nap today.
Bluebird cleaned up it's self some. May be molting.

Drew, special prayers.

Jay, wishing the best for you.

Kyle, tomatoes look good. Lots of BLT's in you future.

Don, hope you get pool to gym time spots.

Eric, hope repair works on BH.

RNG, the surge guard that I had on motorhome dropped out if voltage dropped below 102 VAC. To help stop the voltage drop a hard start capacitors could be added to AC unit. This was on a 15k BTU AC. They also make a soft start control that will let AC start on a 2000 watt generator. May be something similar for a house AC and water pump.

Ken, nice sized stump you pulled.

Everyone be safe and healthy.

Good Morning All.

 

[RoyJackson]

good morning all.
Still warm down here Roy.

And since I can never remember the difference between TIG and MIG (one is for aluminum?) never learned that "improved" method.

Yeah...I'm fairly OK with hot weather...hot humid weather really drags me down. This heat we're experiencing now should be in the deep South...not New England!

TIG (Tungsten Inert Gas) is like gas welding...you hold and manipulate a torch (with a tungten electrode) and feed the puddle with a filler rod (like gas welding)....MIG (Metallic Inert Gas) the filler rod (wire) is fed through the gun. Both methods can be used for any metal. Both TIG and MIG are used for aluminum welding, but not limited to non-ferrous metals. The advantage is the inert shielding gas (normally argon or an argon-helium mix) reduces the weld contamination.
I was certified on TIG while in the Navy, but wasn't really too good. However, it gave me the experience to evaluate welds when perform NDT (Non-Destructive Testing)
Aluminum can be stick welded, but it looks pretty crappy

 

[Thomas]

70F heavy fog low 90's for high scatter t-storms late afternoon.
As Roy said we need break from this heat wave or I'll need to start hosing down the wood pile so it doesn't burst into flames.

Kinda of little strange maybe not last evening,around 7:30pm fancy car pull into driveway couple in there 70's visiting there daughter from lower Boston,Mass.,asking permission
set in there car half way down the driveway eating there fast food and take pictures of wildlife,Peanut investigated them and both fox pups put on show playing with tennis ball fill with catnip,Tom turkey stood proud while both hen turkeys took dirt bath,before leaving couple ask if they could return that's not a problem just no dogs and well behave children wife said.

Plans for today...putter outside until it get hot than stay low and cool.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Thomas, set up a ticket booth.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Good morning. It's a humid 73° here this morning but forecast say our high will only get to 89° this afternoon. Big rain cells heading our way this morning. It looks like we'll get rain by late morning. I think the rain has already got to Don and soon .. for Kyle.

I'm heading into town to get feed this morning .. before rain gets here. I'll be there waiting .. when they open at 7:30.

I made zero progress pressure washing up at the house yesterday. Got pressure washer ready, filled with gas, checked the oil, turned on switch, set choke, gave starter an easy pull and the cord wouldn't retract for a second pull.

I removed the recoil assembly and the cord had come off of the reel. Got it re-strung and put it back on the PW motor. Gave it a pull and it did the same thing. . Gave it up for the day and did some trimming and mowing on the front side of the house.

Depending on weather this afternoon, I'll bring the trailer mounted 4000 psi PW up to the house and get busy.

Everyone have a pleasant "Hump Day Eve" today.

Prayers to all