Good morning!!!!

[Oldpath05]

This is the wrong time a day for me to post on this thread so I'm not going to, everyone on EST needs to wait 45-ish minutes to start over...............

 

[rswyan]

MG,

Nice ride ... :thumbsup:

... RNG medium carbon steel won't fully harden, would require water or oil quench. If properly quenched (most likely water) to promote hardening, I would draw it to a brown color then then air cool

Wondering if perhaps you might have had some insights on that but wasn't sure ...

As regards your previous question, nope ... haven't checked the voltage at the battery or at the solenoid. Neighbor asked about that today when he was here. I'll check it ... but I have a feeling that juice is not the problem (it's done this before ... and battery is fairly new ...)

 

[sodamo]

Ron, that’s a really blue sky.

Drew, we’ve been watching a bit of Amazon Prime of late. Some strange stuff. Did like the Madame Curie, Radioactive, we watched last night.

Don, so Gray is a meat eater? Hmmmm.
Do you check Afib with your watch? I check every morning. Not that I’m expecting anything. Hope the study gets enough data.

RNG I’d have to say that overall, things have improved for us Apple users. Many years ago I had issues with my primary credit union. They would tweak their system, breaking it on the Mac/Netscape but work on PC/Explorer. I’d notify them, they’d deny, I’d say fine, just close my accounts if you can’t fix it. Two days later it would be fixed. I think eventually they got a better programmer.
Good luck with the emissions struggle.

Been a long time since I sharpened a chainsaw. Used a rattail file.

Jim, that does NOT sound pleasant at all. I have challenges sitting still in the dental chair.

Dennis, sure hope you get some shoulder relief soon.
Your MIL tractors sound a bit frustrating. Hope you find easy solutions.

 

[sodamo]

Great deer photo, Thomas. Wife really liked it.

 

[sodamo]

This is the wrong time a day for me to post on this thread so I'm not going to, everyone on EST needs to wait 45-ish minutes to start over...............

Welcome to GM.
But for some of us, it’s just dinnertime

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Eric,
Sophie was one of those kids that grew up wearing glasses, then as an adult it was contacts & glasses. Then about 20 years ago Lasik and she was freed. Lasik gave her something called monoview. Far distance in one eye, close in other. Made it interesting taking drivers vision test but otherwise good and they would work together, she could read, do her eyebrows etc and still see good at distance, all without glasses.
Retaining the monovision was part of discussion with the original ophthalmologist and even though the lenses wasn’t stable her vision was same as before that cataract surgery.
No discussion with 2nd ophthalmologist other than him saying he’d anchor the 1st lense if possible and if not replace. He replaced. We assumed everything was already in her record so didn’t question. When Sophie got the card with lense info we noticed it was a different measurement. He stated it was based on some measurement. So once she achieves healing I suspect there will be a discussion. We suspect he may not have honored her desire to retain the monovision and just assumed she’d be OK with glasses. Last appointment he said possibly reading glasses. At this point she isn’t reading, can’t read stuff on the TV and I seriously doubt could pass drivers vision test as she can’t read signs either.

Hood looking hay

Prayers that her vision comes back enough to read and drive.


I just got in from fixing the plastic hood on my LT180. It had cracked on of the hinge points. The hinge points are down near the exhaust, and they get hot, plus time takes it's toll. Anyway, I marked and drilled to 1/2" holes through the frame, where the pivots are, then I drilled out the green plastic hood with 1/2" holes right through the old pivots. There was some plastic webbing reinforcement that needed to come out too. I got out my flat 1/2" paddle bit and drilled thru (real gently) about halfway from each side, so to keep it from cracking. I temporarily have a 1/2" diameter x 20" round bar of 17-4 stainless (Type 630 for you metric guys) pushed through everything. Because it's right by the muffler, if anyone is reading this, don't use a wooden dowel or anything combustible. I'm going to rig a piece of 1/2" stainless tubing, with some stops on each end, one of which I can remove and pull out the shaft, to take the hood completely off in order to more easily facilitate working on the motor/carb etc. All thread with double nuts on each end will also work well.

Got my 2 pecan trees watered well, and my daughter watered our blueberries (just like rs). Our blueberries have about half the leaves turning brown from the heat I guess. Some new leaves are growing.

I want to make a (don't laugh too hard) 10' long brush killing apparatus, that uses a 2" pvc tube with some drilled holes in it. You wrap it with towels or an old blanket, and use some safety wire to hold it tight to the pipe. Then you pump in your favorite weed killer at a slow rate. Some call it a tampon. I will hang it in front of the gator or the tractor's FEL and drive around, applying herbicide to the tall weeds. Mainly johnson grass.

Other than that, it was a 100F day, "feels like" 107F......so I stayed in most of the day.

Oh, my mom had her 91st BD back on the 5th. She's a 1929 model.

 

[sodamo]

My less than planned day went well. Got painting done, both coats just before a light shower.

Got some corn, zucchini, cucumbers, and tomatoes from garden.
Need to figure out when this will be ready

 

[rswyan]

Kyle,

That sounds like quite the wick applicator you contemplating there ...

We're getting quite a bit of new growth on two of the (three) blueberry bushes, although one plant was getting its leaves chewed pretty good by Japanese beetles. That plant is currently the largest and appears to be doing very well. The other one that is doing pretty decent is also a mid-season ripening bush. The one that is not doing very well at all is an early ripening bush ... it appears to be just hanging on. They're all old plants (probably 40+ years) ... so if they can be brought back with the severe pruning we gave them it's all gravy at this point.

The Japanese beetles seem to have subsided now for some reason or another - the beetles seem to have mostly just disappeared ... which is kind of odd, given that we did not trap them this year and haven't ever treated with milky spore (need to do that)

Dunno on your brown leaves ... are these new plants or established ones ?

Glad you were able to get the hood fixed on your LT180 ... :thumbsup:

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Kyle,

That sounds like quite the wick applicator you contemplating there ...

We're getting quite a bit of new growth on two of the (three) blueberry bushes, although one plant was getting its leaves chewed pretty good by Japanese beetles. That plant is currently the largest and appears to be doing very well. The other one that is doing pretty decent is also a mid-season ripening bush. The one that is not doing very well at all is an early ripening bush ... it appears to be just hanging on. They're all old plants (probably 40+ years) ... so if they can be brought back with the severe pruning we gave them it's all gravy at this point.

The Japanese beetles seem to have subsided now for some reason or another - the beetles seem to have mostly just disappeared ... which is kind of odd, given that we did not trap them this year and haven't ever treated with milky spore (need to do that)

Dunno on your brown leaves ... are these new plants or established ones ?

Glad you were able to get the hood fixed on your LT180 ... :thumbsup:

Both were bought in containers. One was planted last year, one early this year. I have not noticed any bugs on them. I was hoping it was just a transplanting temporary thing.

 

[rswyan]

Both were bought in containers. One was planted last year, one early this year. I have not noticed any bugs on them. I was hoping it was just a transplanting temporary thing.

Very likely it could be ... :thumbsup:

As I understand it, the old roots die off when replanted and new roots have to form and grow for them to establish. I wouldn't expect them to be really well established for at least 3 years or so after being planted ... pinch the blossoms off during that time: you want the plants putting their energy into forming new roots (and stems/bush)

Also, on the one hand, they generally don't like "wet feet" ... but on the other hand, better that they shouldn't lack for moisture while they are trying to get established.

In northern climes, they are said to really flourish with "full sun" ... although our plants here actually did very well for many years planted right next to the east side of the house - maybe 3' from the foundation ... which itself is kinda odd, in that the foundation (solid, poured concrete) probably makes the soil more alkaline (rather than acidic which they prefer)

Another thing I've read is that because they are natively a northern plant, when they are planted in the south they may require some shade ... :confused3: