Good morning!!!!

txdon · Sep 17, 2020

buckeyefarmer said:
I had a hard enough time spending $20k for a camper, $400k for a boat isn’t even in my thought process.

I camped with a used, borrowed tent.

sodamo · Sep 17, 2020

This round of mowing complete, only took about 2 1/2 hours.
Contacted dealer re 300 hr service.

$400k for a boat? Dang probably got that in this house - barely and that be counting the land and all the solar upgrades.

toppop52 · Sep 17, 2020

txdon said:
I camped with a used, borrowed tent.

I camped once with a tarp on two aluminum folding chairs with bricks holding down the edges with the tarp folded under to make a floor. One night in late spring in NE NC was enough. I camped in a real tent a few times, but tent camping is not my thing. My idea of roughing it is a Hampton Inn with only one TV.

sodamo · Sep 17, 2020

toppop52 said:
I camped once with a tarp on two aluminum folding chairs with bricks holding down the edges with the tarp folded under to make a floor. One night in late spring in NE NC was enough. I camped in a real tent a few times, but tent camping is not my thing. My idea of roughing it is a Hampton Inn with only one TV.

Camping out, tent/no tent was a thing in the Army. Have not done so since retirement and no plans to do so. We did have a class C for a few years before moving here.

sodamo · Sep 17, 2020

All this attention to wild fires, hurricanes etc and our Cottage tenant, Diane, member of local CERT, talked to Sophie this morning about our having a “Go Bag”. A bit humorous in the sense that we probably talk about it every season it gets addressed on the local news. In the end, we kinda chuckle and thank God we are blessed. That said, while we all may not have the concern of RNG, it sure is of value to be mindful.

1. At 1100 ft elevation, not likely a tsunami would get us.
2. House has little exposed wood, concrete clad walls with metal H and C channels, metal roof. Not a big fire hazard. Even the cottage is concrete Hardie panel.
3. Grass is kept reasonably short, no trees near so not much for fuel availability.
4. Hurricane winds might pose most concern, but again, no near trees etc. being on the side of the mountain, water does puddle, but flooding not likely.
5. Being off grid we generate own power. Maybe concern would be extended outage where we run out of fuel.
6. Our water supply is 16k gal. Ok, minus a bit. But the pool is 39k gal of emergency backup. Cottage a separate 3k.
7. CD etc talk to have 14 day supply of food. I think last time we were that low was when we plugged in freezer 1st time. Even the pups and cat have 14+, not counting eating what we eat.
Neither of us on serious meds thank God, so not a concern.
8. Important documents are in a file book, easy to grab, but I should get a fire proof safe.

Given all the above, we do have to wonder. What sort of emergency would force us to evacuate, but more importantly where would we go that’s safer.

We are on record with CERT as being a place to evacuate TO.

Asked Sophie if she asked Diane where they were planning to evacuate to. She laughed.

This is serious stuff though and I do wonder about many here.

buckeyefarmer · Sep 17, 2020

toppop52 said:
I camped once with a tarp on two aluminum folding chairs with bricks holding down the edges with the tarp folded under to make a floor. One night in late spring in NE NC was enough. I camped in a real tent a few times, but tent camping is not my thing. My idea of roughing it is a Hampton Inn with only one TV.

I backpacked a week in East KY in March, no tent, just a tarp to rig up to get out of the weather. We got snow and had temps in the teens one night. Have also camped out in scouts without a tent.
Most of my camping has been with tents, up until a few yrs ago I bought a camper trailer.

We camped one night in NC years ago when a hurricane blew thru, just like what just went thru today. Lol

lostcreekranch · Sep 17, 2020

txdon said:
I camped with a used, borrowed tent.

I camped with a used, borrowed tent, in 3' of snow @ -10°.

mostly_gas · Sep 17, 2020

Good evening all.
Covid update Cooke 391 confirmed cases, 33 active cases, Montague 163 confirmed cases, 11 active cases, Grayson 1762 confirmed cases, 89 active cases.
Kyle interesting machining opportunity with the titanium tuning fork, never did any titanium machining.
David, great story on Duncan, sorry about his passing. SIL had an old horse pushing 30 Died a year or 2 ago. He would come if you just talked to him. I would pet him and talk to hime and the horse was happy, treats or no.
Drew whole lot of moving part for the move, good luck, hope it goes smoothly. You have plans for that apartment.
Chuck Walking through garage is important milestone. Took us about a month to get to that point.
Ron glad you got the doors painted. Awesome flower pic
Thomas full day planned
Billy enjoy your rain, we need some hear

RNG good news on the fire near you. good luck with your scripting. Hope you can find an o'scope to do what you need.
Ken sorry to you have not yet found the leak. Sorry to hear about AR friends, damage from flooding or wind or both?
RS nice pics, love that free firewood.
David hope nothing serious with tractor. Glad Makani has mastered dog door.
Drew good to hear getting Dr lined out in PA. Thanks for sharing the pic of Nadene. Remind me of wife attacking crab legs

Thomas enjoy you vacation day

I usually tent camp (tent service) for at least 1 week a year while biking. Warmer than Ricks experience.
prayers for all, especially Drew/move, Jay/Peg, Kyle's daughter, Mike, David(moss)/move/sale, RNG/Fire, and Country
stay safe and healthy you all.

rswyan · Sep 17, 2020

61F and partly cloudy @ 22:45.

Worked all day on northeast planting bed ... got another rhododendron transplanted:

And pruned off a couple of dead branches on the false cypress in back on left (likely buck damage)

Otherwise picked up sticks, downed branches, raked up leaves, several buckets worth and incorporated into burn/compost piles. Pulled some weeds and torched the area around one planting hole.

Hauled 7 or 8 bucket loads of mulch down and got it spread ... probably got 50% of the area done ... but it's the easy part - the front side towards the house needs a lot of weeding done to it before it can be mulched.

Tomorrow will work on the four azaleas planted in this bed, adding soil sulphur and peat moss around their bases and moving more mulch down and spreading it out.

Picture of the yellow jacket nest I uncovered the other day:

Have to admire their work ethic: it was a completely open comb when I uncovered it and they have spent the time since working on capping it. Saw the queen as I was taking the picture but can't make her out in the photo. Be interesting to see how long it takes before some 'coon or skunk finds it and eats it.

The Woman said seven deer up in the field as she pulled in tonight, I saw some up there before that ... including what I thought was a buck. Couldn't be certain though due to the distance. Sure wish he'd find something else to rub his velvet off on and leave my shrubs alone ... :laughing:

Hope everyone had a great day.