txdon
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We also call them "Cow Killers". Neighbor in the country had to go to the hospital after being bit, she went into Anaphylactic Shock.
Are velvet ants and cow killer the same?
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We also call them "Cow Killers". Neighbor in the country had to go to the hospital after being bit, she went into Anaphylactic Shock.
Are velvet ants and cow killer the same?
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Good morning all, 60 going up to 70-fall is here- rain missed us last night, even though I watered the garden!
Sky is still smoky, but AQI down below 100, hope that means the fires are getting contained for you all on the west cost.
Mostly - AR damaged due to mostly flooding, right on the bay.
Tent camping-when we were in teens back in MA would sometimes do overnights with no equipment(summer)-used to tent camp in NE PA at a friends place (no power/house there) and go fishing, right along PA/NY border.
RS - where do you find the time-glad you didn;t get stung- YJ are like little robots when it comes to work. Plantings will pay off next year, bet they will look great.
Phil - almost there- keeping busy was what kept my neighbors all going well into their 90's
Drew - glad your morning after was a non-event
Ron - great picture-look forward to them each day
NHBX - Animals got 100% of my peaches/pears and some of my tomatoes- Got lots of figs, so didn;t mind sharing them with the birds. No blackberries this year on new plant as buds got deer treatment. Lot's of wild raspberries and strawberries. but let neighbor have some for her pie, deer and rabbits got the rest.
Stay safe and be well
Sky is still smoky, but AQI down below 100, hope that means the fires are getting contained for you all on the west cost.
Mostly - AR damaged due to mostly flooding, right on the bay.
Tent camping-when we were in teens back in MA would sometimes do overnights with no equipment(summer)-used to tent camp in NE PA at a friends place (no power/house there) and go fishing, right along PA/NY border.
RS - where do you find the time-glad you didn;t get stung- YJ are like little robots when it comes to work. Plantings will pay off next year, bet they will look great.
Phil - almost there- keeping busy was what kept my neighbors all going well into their 90's
Drew - glad your morning after was a non-event
Ron - great picture-look forward to them each day
NHBX - Animals got 100% of my peaches/pears and some of my tomatoes- Got lots of figs, so didn;t mind sharing them with the birds. No blackberries this year on new plant as buds got deer treatment. Lot's of wild raspberries and strawberries. but let neighbor have some for her pie, deer and rabbits got the rest.
Stay safe and be well
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Good morning to all! Low of 43, going up to 80. Smokey skies have returned. Yesterday, it was very still, not a leaf moving, not even a light breeze until evening.
Spent the last couple of days just piddling around in the shop, but accomplished a bunch of small incidental projects:
I have a portable Ryobi table saw that was barely used when a motor bearing went out. Got that taken apart and ordered new bearings. I thought the helical gears had broken, but they were perfect..... the bearings were a lot cheaper to replace @ $3.
I also have a Porter Cable random orbit sander that had the orbiting head assembly break off. I disassembled that to find it needs an eccentric washer and one "specialty" bolt. All the parts are easily available .... except for the bolt, which is proprietary to Porter Cable, and of course, is "discontinued".
I searched the web for a couple hours and found some.... for $1.99. I ordered 2.... the shipping cost $15.98!! Ridiculous!! I had to get them.....
I cut down a set of bunk beds that were my sons when they were little (set is 25+ years old). It was solid wood, not like the compressed paper of today. So cut and reused the materials to make a headboard, footboard, and bedframe for a full-size bed. The middle son is going to use the rest of the whole set of furniture, so he wanted the bed to match.
The carburetor for the garden tractor came in yesterday, along with a carb for an older string trimmer.... those will be on the agenda for the weekend. The replacement bearings for the saw are due to arrive today, adding to the repair list.
I was having such a fun time ordering all the parts online that I decided it was time to order a hydraulic top link for the tractor. That should be here tomorrow! I will have to get the hoses locally, out of stock online, so I hope they won't become an issue.
I think my weekend is full of projects already!
Spent the last couple of days just piddling around in the shop, but accomplished a bunch of small incidental projects:
I have a portable Ryobi table saw that was barely used when a motor bearing went out. Got that taken apart and ordered new bearings. I thought the helical gears had broken, but they were perfect..... the bearings were a lot cheaper to replace @ $3.
I also have a Porter Cable random orbit sander that had the orbiting head assembly break off. I disassembled that to find it needs an eccentric washer and one "specialty" bolt. All the parts are easily available .... except for the bolt, which is proprietary to Porter Cable, and of course, is "discontinued".
I searched the web for a couple hours and found some.... for $1.99. I ordered 2.... the shipping cost $15.98!! Ridiculous!! I had to get them.....
I cut down a set of bunk beds that were my sons when they were little (set is 25+ years old). It was solid wood, not like the compressed paper of today. So cut and reused the materials to make a headboard, footboard, and bedframe for a full-size bed. The middle son is going to use the rest of the whole set of furniture, so he wanted the bed to match.
The carburetor for the garden tractor came in yesterday, along with a carb for an older string trimmer.... those will be on the agenda for the weekend. The replacement bearings for the saw are due to arrive today, adding to the repair list.
I was having such a fun time ordering all the parts online that I decided it was time to order a hydraulic top link for the tractor. That should be here tomorrow! I will have to get the hoses locally, out of stock online, so I hope they won't become an issue.
I think my weekend is full of projects already!
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Good Morning!!!! 69F @ 6:00AM. Partly cloudy skies. High 82F. Winds SSE at 10 to 15 mph.
Outside AQI is 29, inside is 3, best it's been in more than a week. Winds out of the southeast have cleared out the smoke, most of it anyway, as there is still some haze. The front also brought with it lower temps and higher humidity, both of which are good for the firefighters, of which there are now more than 17,000 working state wide. Somehow they've managed to keep the flames out of Bucks Lake, the same place I was motorcycle camping back in July. It's near where the fire that came down here started middle of last month, and that has been hanging on up there ever since. Every day the Forest Service man that reports on it complains their resources are spread too thinly, and that's what let it get away from them in the first place. I'm so glad CalFire took over the fight when it crossed the county line. They got it out, there's no hot spots showing on the local satellite IR maps, and yesterday they lifted the evacuation orders for the Big Bend area, closest hot spot and one hardest to contain because of the steep country.
Never did care much for backpacking, too hard on the feet. What little motor home "camping" I've done wasn't that nice. It seemed that folks were crammed into those little parks elbow-to-elbow, and the noise and constant smell of idiots burning plastic in their "camp fires" wasn't my idea of a good time. Maybe I just didn't go the right places? Many of the best places I've camped using the motorcycle involved at least a little dirt road, and that seemed to sort out the less hearty campers and their trailer trash ways.:confused2:
Another beautiful flower pic, Ron. Sort of reminds me of thistle, and of fireworks. You certainly have a variety of them there!
Glad to hear you're coming back strong from your two-fer, Drew. Must be a huge relief to move on to a more certain future.
Velvet ants, and now cow killers? I've already got my hands full of hazards; where can I go to get some relief?:confused2:
Glad you got your rain, Billy, and just in time to water your crops. Must be a very rewarding feeling to see them coming up.
Eighteen days, Phil? You can do that standing on your head.:thumbsup:
All these signs of fall! Always looked forward to it when I lived in the east, especially the first frost that put an end to the rag weed and allergies.
That was a nice run down on your situational awareness, David. The veneer of civilization is very thin, and the bare spots seem to be showing through a lot lately with the virus, riots in the streets, hurricanes and typhoons, and half the Western US ablaze. It doesn't take much to camp very comfortably, and one of the biggest mistakes I made for the Camp Fire evacuation was not taking my gear with me. I was very lucky to land in a friend's spare bedroom, as all the motel rooms for a hundred miles were full overnight. That situation lasted for more than a year for a lot of the folks that lost their homes. It does bring up the idea that you can mitigate a majority of the dangers if you take the time to pay attention to what they are, and make the choices to address the risks. There are absolutely no guarantees in life, but if you don't prepare for the rough spots, I can guarantee you're not gonna be happy when they come along.
I don't think I'd have been so easy on those yellow jackets, RS. I've kept a bait station going all summer, and have seen very few here. Noticed one the other night, and found the station dry, so it got a drink of water and is good for another week.
Harbor Freight has good quality Nitrile gloves, Chris, and seemed to have plenty of them. But try them on first, as their sizing seems to run small.
The five grand I spent on the Kubota RTV has been some of the best money I've spent in a while. But I didn't think so at the time, being a used machine with some obvious issues. Don't think it would keep up with any of those UTVs, but then again, I don't think you'd find room for a half cubic yard of gravel in any of the UTVs, either.:laughing:
Only surprise on yesterday's town run came at the allergist's, where I was told I'd lost almost fifteen pounds from the year before. I attribute that to Don's dietary influence, and eating a lot less fat, oil, sugar, salt, and anything that's processed. And maybe I'm not as sedentary as I've been in the past, either...
Oh, and maybe one nice surprise was when the man at the battery store filled my little Honda battery with acid, and wouldn't take anything for it. Guess where I'm buying the next battery it needs?
Still no word from my buddy and his smog shop, and yesterday the alternator light on the van did a lot less flickering; it's on almost all the time now. That has me wondering if high voltage can trigger it as well as low, since I'm seeing 13.5-14.5 VDC on the meter all the time now. More homework!
TGIF gang!:drink:
Outside AQI is 29, inside is 3, best it's been in more than a week. Winds out of the southeast have cleared out the smoke, most of it anyway, as there is still some haze. The front also brought with it lower temps and higher humidity, both of which are good for the firefighters, of which there are now more than 17,000 working state wide. Somehow they've managed to keep the flames out of Bucks Lake, the same place I was motorcycle camping back in July. It's near where the fire that came down here started middle of last month, and that has been hanging on up there ever since. Every day the Forest Service man that reports on it complains their resources are spread too thinly, and that's what let it get away from them in the first place. I'm so glad CalFire took over the fight when it crossed the county line. They got it out, there's no hot spots showing on the local satellite IR maps, and yesterday they lifted the evacuation orders for the Big Bend area, closest hot spot and one hardest to contain because of the steep country.
Never did care much for backpacking, too hard on the feet. What little motor home "camping" I've done wasn't that nice. It seemed that folks were crammed into those little parks elbow-to-elbow, and the noise and constant smell of idiots burning plastic in their "camp fires" wasn't my idea of a good time. Maybe I just didn't go the right places? Many of the best places I've camped using the motorcycle involved at least a little dirt road, and that seemed to sort out the less hearty campers and their trailer trash ways.:confused2:
Another beautiful flower pic, Ron. Sort of reminds me of thistle, and of fireworks. You certainly have a variety of them there!
Glad to hear you're coming back strong from your two-fer, Drew. Must be a huge relief to move on to a more certain future.
Velvet ants, and now cow killers? I've already got my hands full of hazards; where can I go to get some relief?:confused2:
Glad you got your rain, Billy, and just in time to water your crops. Must be a very rewarding feeling to see them coming up.
Eighteen days, Phil? You can do that standing on your head.:thumbsup:
All these signs of fall! Always looked forward to it when I lived in the east, especially the first frost that put an end to the rag weed and allergies.
That was a nice run down on your situational awareness, David. The veneer of civilization is very thin, and the bare spots seem to be showing through a lot lately with the virus, riots in the streets, hurricanes and typhoons, and half the Western US ablaze. It doesn't take much to camp very comfortably, and one of the biggest mistakes I made for the Camp Fire evacuation was not taking my gear with me. I was very lucky to land in a friend's spare bedroom, as all the motel rooms for a hundred miles were full overnight. That situation lasted for more than a year for a lot of the folks that lost their homes. It does bring up the idea that you can mitigate a majority of the dangers if you take the time to pay attention to what they are, and make the choices to address the risks. There are absolutely no guarantees in life, but if you don't prepare for the rough spots, I can guarantee you're not gonna be happy when they come along.
I don't think I'd have been so easy on those yellow jackets, RS. I've kept a bait station going all summer, and have seen very few here. Noticed one the other night, and found the station dry, so it got a drink of water and is good for another week.
Harbor Freight has good quality Nitrile gloves, Chris, and seemed to have plenty of them. But try them on first, as their sizing seems to run small.
The five grand I spent on the Kubota RTV has been some of the best money I've spent in a while. But I didn't think so at the time, being a used machine with some obvious issues. Don't think it would keep up with any of those UTVs, but then again, I don't think you'd find room for a half cubic yard of gravel in any of the UTVs, either.:laughing:
Only surprise on yesterday's town run came at the allergist's, where I was told I'd lost almost fifteen pounds from the year before. I attribute that to Don's dietary influence, and eating a lot less fat, oil, sugar, salt, and anything that's processed. And maybe I'm not as sedentary as I've been in the past, either...
Oh, and maybe one nice surprise was when the man at the battery store filled my little Honda battery with acid, and wouldn't take anything for it. Guess where I'm buying the next battery it needs?
Still no word from my buddy and his smog shop, and yesterday the alternator light on the van did a lot less flickering; it's on almost all the time now. That has me wondering if high voltage can trigger it as well as low, since I'm seeing 13.5-14.5 VDC on the meter all the time now. More homework!
TGIF gang!:drink:
LS Tractor Owner
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Ron, thanks for the flower pic... very pretty!
RS.... "The Hosta man"... kinda has a neat ring to it! Your place sure is going to look wonderful come the spring! That was a heck of a beehive, glad you were able to avoid being stung!
Tent camping.... I used to enjoy it when I was a young fella.... hiked and camped quite a bit. I like my creature comforts in the travel trailer now!
Drew, glad to hear you are coming down the last stretch to the finish line... another chapter closed. Sounds like everything is in order for your move north.
Ken, more leak detection in the cards for this weekend? I hope you find it soon.
Max goes back to the Vet for his ear infection follow up this morning, so gotta get moving....
Everyone have a great day and start to the weekend!
RS.... "The Hosta man"... kinda has a neat ring to it! Your place sure is going to look wonderful come the spring! That was a heck of a beehive, glad you were able to avoid being stung!
Tent camping.... I used to enjoy it when I was a young fella.... hiked and camped quite a bit. I like my creature comforts in the travel trailer now!
Drew, glad to hear you are coming down the last stretch to the finish line... another chapter closed. Sounds like everything is in order for your move north.
Ken, more leak detection in the cards for this weekend? I hope you find it soon.
Max goes back to the Vet for his ear infection follow up this morning, so gotta get moving....
Everyone have a great day and start to the weekend!
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We have them here as well as NC where I came from.
toppop52
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We called them the same, I grew up calling them cow ants.
pennwalk
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Take the ball platform out when youæ±*e not towing, I started doing that years ago after several collisions while walking around the truck.
It's true that bumping into the hitch really hurts but today I was sitting at a red light when I got smacked. If i hadn't had the hitch on he would have got the bumper and the tailgate.
Chris
It's true that bumping into the hitch really hurts but today I was sitting at a red light when I got smacked. If i hadn't had the hitch on he would have got the bumper and the tailgate.
Chris
buckeyefarmer
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Looks nice out, sunny.
Working from home.
Got no rain yesterday, it all passed to the south.
Took this while mowing yesterday.
Something dug holes in flower bed. Wife thinks maybe crocus bulbs dug up, she’s guessing squirrels.
I’ve been to Europe several times. While those church buildings are impressive, and I enjoy seeing them, I also think “what a waste of money” in materialism. I think we miss the point, and I’ll leave it at that.
Working from home.
Got no rain yesterday, it all passed to the south.
Took this while mowing yesterday.
Something dug holes in flower bed. Wife thinks maybe crocus bulbs dug up, she’s guessing squirrels.
I’ve been to Europe several times. While those church buildings are impressive, and I enjoy seeing them, I also think “what a waste of money” in materialism. I think we miss the point, and I’ll leave it at that.
