Good morning!!!!

[txdon]

Good morning! A cooler 74˚F with the front that pushed through after midnight. The weather station reported lightning 23 miles away at 12:05 A. M. and no rain. High today 95˚F.

Drew, You were in a bad situation during negations, your Realtor should have told you that prices are remaining stable because of fewer properties listed, That is what the realtors are saying to list properties in this area anyways.

The Garden tractor is getting close to it's 600 hour maintenance, so I'm getting a shopping list for them - oils and filters - sure is nice not coming just out of my pocket, it's split 240 ways and the seat time is only split up 3 ways.

 

[wngsprd]

63 and foggy earlier, going to 84 and sunny...I feel like Christmas morning, too...getting some sunshine.

Ron, a very sad thing digging a place for Muffin...glad you can see from your house...I have the same set-up here.

Buppies, glad you are unBearable today . I guess we have separate bears...here's some from a train cam...I pulled the pic yesterday...

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Ron, I am deeply sorry for the loss of Muffin. It is always hard to loose a close friend. Remember the good times together.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Good morning to all! Not much different on the weather side... still dry and hot! There were a few sparse storms passing by resulting in just a few sprinkles, but not enough to even register in the rain gauge.

Took a couple days off from reading the goings-on here and miss all the action.... gennys fixed, bear encounters, van emission sagas, ....

Drew, very nice way to handle the request.... I would have been far more straightforward in my reply.....

Wng, yes, the cabinets were done with the "pie safe" look in mind.

The weekend was productive after having one hiccup with making the fence unroller for the neighbor. I had a bunch of the angle iron pieces for the base all cut and was in process of grinding the ends / prepping to weld together when the neighbor came over. I usually don't mind people watching me work, but he started asking a bunch of questions about the tools, buying replacement consumables, about the tractors, .... just a bunch of distractions....

Well, when the "plan" is in your head, distractions and interruptions are not a good thing !..... when I was putting the pieces back on the welding table, a few went back in the wrong position.... Then the base got totally welded upside down and backwards ! Ooohhh boy, was I angry....

After calming down, I was able to figure out another way for mounting. Just had to recut the cross pieces and add 2 more angle pieces to the ends. It will be stronger anyway... cut the top plate cut and called it a day....

 

[kenmbz]

Just FYI, I posted the listing for my home in my other thread.

Here it is again... The pictures are STUNNING (I think).

Email from Aug 15 22 - Matrix Portal

Be well,
David

Nice house and love the pond.
Now go out and pressure wash the cement and remove as musch stuff from each room as you can and put up new pictures.
I learned from my Aunt who sold a lot of homes, clean and tidy sells a home and makes the rooms look large and let's people picture how they can fill it with their stuff. Don;t remove everything, just as much as you can , boxes spare chairs etc.
Good luck on the sale, really nice setup and hope you get a bidding war!

 

[kenmbz]

Good morning all 73 going to 85 and sunny-maybe will dry out the rain from yesterday.

Sorry to hear about Muffin Ron, sad day.

RS-My wife bakes the cookies-would not be too good if I baked them, no patience. Glad you got rain, we are probably around 8 inches in the last two weeks.
Drew- glad you didn't cave in with the new owners. I have talked to the new owner of my old house a few times, he wasn't too bad at the table with pricing, but his RE agent kept telling him to get me to come down on silly stuff. seems like these people really pushed too hard and lost their best source of info in the mix!
LS- distractions! glad you got it worked out,but sounds like a lot of frustration. Been there before, extra "supervisors" don;t make the job go faster.

Seems we are up to three foxes now, hear them all "screaming" to each other last night

Stay safe and be well

 

[pennwalk]

Drew old time Quakers used to believe in fair dealing but it is not the way things work today. I'm sorry they left you with a bad taste in your mouth.

Chris

 

[LouNY]

Drew, I could almost see a cash cow coming too you.
Sure you can answer any questions once there is a bit cash in hand,
to many questions = my mind is getting hazy fill the hand and we shall see what happens.
Have a good day.

And a good day to all

 

[rswyan]

A pleasant 76F with scattered high clouds @ 11:30, high predicted to be 80F for the day ... with a 60% chance of thunderstorms in the later afternoon ... :thumbsup:

Mostly energy conservation day yesterday ... although I did get the upper portion of auger rack sanded, and plenty of BLO applied to the end grain portions that will sit on the ground. Need to install it on the rack bottom today and coat the remainder with BLO, and install retaining hardware.

Read over manual for new jig saw and then took it for a test drive, cutting out the entrance hole for the barn owl nest box. Seems like a solid piece of gear.

Got sunflower seed feeders refilled yesterday, along with one of the nyjer seed feeders as well. Lots of birds now and they are really hitting the feeders.

First item on outdoor list for the day is to finish filling around catch basin, sow grass seed, and cover with straw.

After that pick up debris from the weeding The Woman did the other day. Might get a sprayer cleaned up and loaded with Roundup to do some spraying tomorrow since rain chances will be low and it will be cool (77F)

Maybe finish taking down that oak tree.

Need to take some additional measurements for retaining wall on east side of house and calculate amount of block caps that will be needed and get that ordered.

Hope everyone has an enjoyable, productive, and safe day ... :thumbsup:

 

[MossflowerWoods]

Nice house and love the pond.
Now go out and pressure wash the cement and remove as musch stuff from each room as you can and put up new pictures.
I learned from my Aunt who sold a lot of homes, clean and tidy sells a home and makes the rooms look large and let's people picture how they can fill it with their stuff. Don;t remove everything, just as much as you can , boxes spare chairs etc.
Good luck on the sale, really nice setup and hope you get a bidding war!

I don't disagree, but I gotta live here full time, so, I will do what I can... LOL.

David

 

[sodamo]

Good for you Drew. Glad you stood up to theses A**holes.

 

[sodamo]

69°F and .02 inches rain and coming down. Hopefully just an early morning storm passing thru. Was thinking I’d get last of this round of mowing done. Have to see how wx goes.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[Bird]

Another slightly cooler day today; 73 degrees going for 92 and the BEST news is that we got almost .3" of rain just before midnight last night; first rain of the month.

This morning we went to Walmart for just a very few things, AND we got our annual flu shots, so that's out of the way for another year.

 

[daugen]

Twenty years ago, before the internet was popular, I put a small personal ad in local paper, Bucks County Courier
Captain looking for First Mate
For Life of Love and Adventure
And of course my late wife answered the ad...wanting to be Commodore of course, which ranks above Captain...

Recently I put in a small ad in same paper, expecting nothing, saying apartment wanted, carriage house, quiet location, etc.
And amazing a guy called a few hours ago who owns a 1300 sq foot cottage on a quiet country road in Point Pleasant,Pa in lovely area.
He lives across the street, and the house has sat vacant
for three years since prior owner who died, and left him the house, last occupied it. Probably in a little rough condition, and lots of unanswered questions, but my
brother and wife will go inspect it next week. Owner said I was exactly the kind of person they were looking for, someone to take care of it. Gardens could be planted, etc.
At least I'll have a second choice, another small house lined up.
That sure made my day
am amazed that anything in Solebury Township could be valued this low, so clearly this is not fancy.
5 Tollgate Rd, New Hope, PA 18938 - realtor.com(R)

 

[txdon]

I don't disagree, but I gotta live here full time, so, I will do what I can... LOL.David

Only for the pictures and for showings.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Recently I put in a small ad in same paper, expecting nothing, saying apartment wanted, carriage house, quiet location, etc.
And amazing a guy called a few hours ago who owns a 1300 sq foot cottage on a quiet country road in Point Pleasant,Pa in lovely area.

Good things come to good people, Drew. Hope it works out for you...

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Not what I wanted to see first thing this morning looking out the master bedroom sliding door. The thunder was booming and the lightning was flashing as a storm passed overhead, three more bolts rained down while I was taking this photo. Fire was reported as a mile or so away, way too close. I don't know if it went out by itself or had help from CalFire, but the smoke stopped about an hour later. :cloud9:

 

[toppop52]

A pleasant 63 early, going to 83 later, unfamiliar sight of sunshine.
My cardiac rehab got cancelled this morning for “deep cleaning”, classes resume for me on Wednesday. I have to ask a few questions before I go back.

 

[daugen]

my sister is looking out off her porch and seeing these whales breach right now
must be absolutely amazing

Humpbacks appearing in droves off SF coast - SFChronicle.com

 

[toppop52]

my sister is looking out off her porch and seeing these whales breach right now
must be absolutely amazing

Humpbacks appearing in droves off SF coast - SFChronicle.com

That’s a whale of a view! Sorry...