Good morning!!!!

[rswyan]

great pics RS
check for ticks....

Thanks.

For some reason, ticks are not that much of problem around here. Not saying we don't have them, just that they seem fairly rare.

Would probably be worse if the grass were tall ... not that I'd ever let that happen ... :laughing:

 

[rswyan]

... RS great progress and pics ...

Thanks ... trying to go hard at it, but I've resigned myself that everything I was hoping to get done before winter sets in probably ain't going to happen. No biggie ... just thankful for the good shot of nice weather.

I do find I'm thinking more and more about what fabrication projects I want to get done over the winter ...

RS cooler weather here slows the grass down, when highs below 70's goes dormant.

Probably the difference between cool-season grasses (what we have here) and warm-season grasses (likely what you have there):

Cool-Season Vs. Warm-Season Grasses Explained | Nature's Seed

Glad you got walk and nap in ... :thumbsup:

 

[Jim Nelson]

well my day sure improved. My good friend with the truck and trailer now says his son wants to trade his dump trailer in for a 7x16 new covered trailer and pulling it with his nice Chevy Duramax 3/4 ton, could they come down and move my stuff for me? Oh my....what a genuinely nice thing of them to do. And my friend will baby my car while his son drives the truck and trailer.
I can wait a couple more days for them so they can come down on a Sat, the 10th and go home on Sunday and not lose time from their family business.
I'll still pay them but we sure get by with a little help from our friends...
Whew.... :dance1::drink:

Good things happen to good people! Really happy for you.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Good morning all. Two more days of dry weather to come with a high of 21C/70F, after that the rain will be here to give me a break from brick work :dance1:

Catching up on here, I read a few posts about large European churches. We live on the outskirts of a small town - Whitchurch, Shropshire - and with a name like that, it is not surprising that the skyline is dominated by a church tower. St Alkmunds is not as big as some, but is still a very impressive building. This "latest" Whitchurch church one was built way back in 1712, after the earlier one had collapsed. That does not imply any shoddy workmanship, as the original had been giving service since the year 912.

St. Alkmund’s Church – Whitchurch, Shropshire

I regularly use the church as an aiming mark, though not for shooting! The route of the footpath that crosses several of our fields is not obvious where it passes over the undulating landscape, so if I am out topping, I will cut a path to guide new walkers, the very top of the church tower showing me which way to steer the Iseki. Of course this is no coincidence, as the original purpose of many footpaths is as a direct route to church.

Great story....I believe you have a crick in your neck from mortaring the bricks, thus, a wee bit off the beaten path.

Churches last over there fairly well. Latest one is older than USA.

I wonder if they make a scythe in a cab model.

BEF and Ted, resident Tuff Torq experts. I need to do mine, it still works, but grinds fairly loud for the first 10 seconds, then it quiets down.

We have got about .95" rain so far from Beto.

Thanks for the pics!

Thanks for the prayers.

Prayers for our group, and for our our country.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all.
Covid update: Cooke unchanged, Montague unchanged, Grayson unchanged.
Eric thanks for the history lesson and pic
Buppies working around the house.
Drew good luck with the RV
Ron pretty leaf. We had a Vizio, I suspect it was someone else's reject, wife very happy with Samsung
Ron awesome rose pic
RNG sorry about your air quality hope the wind changes soon. Good luck with alternator. Is the regulator internal or external?
Don hope you get some rain to watch
Ted hope your errands go well and Dr not backed up
Ted neat wheelhorse.
PJ don't you just love how you get sucked into her projects Thanks for the e-saw report
Drew what a nice break glad it works for you.
Randy glad your grass is slowing down.
RS now why would you be tired? Deer are wondering if you are taking notes from Thomas posting.
Ken sorry oak stump did not cooperate, nice the spruce is giving you more trail cover
Randy good luck relocating tail light
Don hope you can get the rainfall amount worked out.
RS nice progress today.
Kyle, you might get lucky and fluid change fix it.
prayers for all, especially Drew/move, Jay/Peg, Kyle's daughter, Mike, David(moss)/move/sale, RNG/fie, and Country

 

[RoyJackson]

2020-09-22, 0334

34 right now...high in the mid-60's today...

 

[daugen]

51 in Greenville NC going up to 70 today, beautiful sunny day with lower winds. Latter will help me have a more pleasant
ride over to Apex, other side of Raleigh in several hours, to rv dealership. Until then, stowing things inside then have to do all the disconnecting outside.
Not too much and not too hard, got a head start on it yesterday by removing covers and putting wheel chocks away.
Up at 1:30am, wide awake, had a banana, then thankfully got several hours more sleep so looking forward to the day.

I continue to read the book Greger, How Not To Die, and only one quarter of the way through it and all I can say is it is transformative.
It is no wonder I had a stroke... I made curried chicken last night (curry is good for you) and that will be the last chicken I eat in awhile. Hardest part for me is cutting way
back on cheese, which I adore. I'm hoping the supermarket up North will have healthier choices vs down here where no one seems to care what they eat. So many easy to understand science linked references to how cancer and heart disease are caused by what we eat. If I want to live a normal healthy life after my last six months of wake up call, the solution is clear. I'm not going to become a vegan, but I sure am going to radically alter my diet. Lots of berries, lots of vegetables, lots of beans. Avoid sugar, avoid salt, avoid processed foods and store made pizza, which I already do. All throughout the book there are clear references to "if you eat this too much, say more than one time a week, you have X greater likelihood of hypertension and stroke". And if you eat this, you will reduce your chances of bad things happening by X percentage. This is not nutcase stuff, all very clearly written and credible with tons of references to case studies. I ordered a copy of the book off Amazon and sent it to my sister who likely already has it, if so she will give it to one of her sons. For Christmas I'm giving a copy to each of my siblings and close friends.
And then I will be quiet and not nag...

I owe this wake up call to two people. One is my sister, who has eaten an almost vegan diet for 40 years, and the other to Don, whose wonderful but sad story about his brother who
just would not change his diet likely caused the loss of his brother. We still laugh over my sister's first attempt 40 years ago to make a home made healthy apple pie. The crust turned out like concrete and none of us could cut it, to much amusement at the table. I ate it anyway, I love pie...now I just have to learn how to bake them myself in a healthy manner.

Most of us are ignorant of what our diet is doing to us. But we are not stupid, we can learn and change. Particularly a bright bunch like us!

Hope you all have a good day and I'll report back in tonight as to how the day went.

 

[Buppies]

41 high of 75 today sunny

Prayers for Jay and wife, Kyles daughter, riptides MFW move, Drew, Our country and all others

 

[ronjhall]

First cup of coffee cooling. 41° with clear skies this morning. Heading to 76° with partly cloudy skies. Garden Pond look good after a good vacuuming. Going to get edger out and do walkways and driveway edges today.
Wish I could rotate my neck 180° either direction.

Drew, good news on helpers. I ordered the book in Audible. Since you do not have a dishwasher in your RV. Have you tried using Dawn Power Wash.

RS, there is always time to get it all done next year.

Mostly, I would have gotten the Samsung. But they did not have one in stock at Sam's Saturday.

Don, hope they figure out why rain amount is not accurate.

David, would a trail cam get you a picture?

Everyone be healthy and safe.

Good Morning All.

 

[Thomas]

Ron.
"Wish I could rotate my neck 180° either direction."

Great shot on catching the moment. :thumbsup:

 

[Thomas]

32F clear sky 4th morning in row with frost mid 60's for high.

Outside chores done E muffin time. :licking:
First day of autumn and best season of all that's if old man winter doesn't decided to visit.
Plans for today...trip to Kubota dealer set of tire chain tighteners,maybe late afternoon short hike with seeing large bull moose,and putter.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[toppop52]

42-71 today. Nice fall weather.

I bought a Hisense 55” smart TV on sale at Sam’s about 6-7 years ago, hasn’t missed a beat so far, I’d never heard of them before that. My 10 year old Phillips Ambilight was too heavy, too hot and past it’s prime.
I don’t normally buy what I considered off brands at the time, But $329. For a 55” tv six plus years ago, I had to try it. I’ve got two 32” Visios and love them, also have two 19” off brands I got at Radio Shack years ago, all of them work well still.

Not sure what today’s chores will be, other than the mundane everyday stuff.

Have good day and prayers for all.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 66˚F raining. Beta is in Texas, heading straight to us but should make the turn now. The Tempest records heavy rain a little better and is reporting .28" in the last 25 minutes (so about an inch.)

Drew good to see you are taking control of your health. My wake up call was my heart attack, my brother who was 5 years younger than me, had his fatal heart attack 5 years later, at the same age I had mine. My cousin, 68 who died last month also did not change his diet after his bypass, another reminder/encouragement. The Doctors in Houston The Weatherhead PET Imaging Center were also a big encouragement that I was on the right track and actually monitored the stopping of the progression of my heart disease through the PET scan over 5 years.

I know you say you will not be completely plant based but please do not allow yourself to make constant excuses and give yourself permission, like traveling, special occasions eating with friends special benefit, holiday - you see how many time a week you can easily break plant based. In the country every weekend (before covid) there was a church or FD or benefit that would make me cringe, a good cause but a very unhealthy way to raise money for those like me who's diet directly affects my health. My wife who was vegetarian for the last 25 years but changed for the stricter diet has been a constant encouragement and good cook. (She still takes no prescription drugs.)

If it stops raining later I need to pick okra and beans and give a bunch to Mom this week. I got all the rust off her well an will paint it and trim some trees and fix a leak in the PVC coming from her well - there is never a shortage of things to do. I am starting to hire out the un-fun jobs I am getting behind.

One of my elderly neighbors just put their house up for sale. The number one reason for leaving the active retirement community is to be closer to their children. I wish I could get my Mom to move into their house. . . it's hard to squeeze in a good days work with a 3 hour commute.

 

[kenmbz]

Good morning all, 51 going up to 73 - sunny
Not much done yesterday but dog walking
Hummingbirds have all left

RS - your down day sounds like my busy day !
Ron - great picture-if your head rotated like that it would be in a movie (Exorcist?)

For diet, my wife has low cholesterol and I am the opposite, so I try and work in veggies for myself. Kid likes Poke, so we try and get that or make that. Wife makes all fruit smoothies every other day or so from fresh fruit. Those are really good.

Today - clean out pool house preparing to put in pool furniture, ladders etc. and see how much we can fit in there so not in garage.

Stay safe and be well

 

[PJSprog]

49°F and cloudy this morning, going up to 78° today.

I don't mind, Mostly_. She was never going to be able to drive all those posts by herself, and she knew that. It is much easier to get around the coop to the nesting boxes on both sides now, so it was worth it.

Of course, as I type that, my hands still feel like someone beat them with a hammer.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Good morning. It's 72° this morning and our high will only get to 73°. Winds are about 15 mph out of NE.

We got 3/4" of rain Sunday .. just over 8" here, so far, from overnight and it's still raining.

I'll probably just work on some shop projects today.

Hope everyone has a great day.

Prayers to all.

 

[rswyan]

55F and sunny @ 10:40, high headed up to around 73F. Another beautiful day.

Need to remove box blade then move WB over so it can be filled.

After that remove FEL and put on MMM.

I have some hosta planting to finish up in the west and northwest planting beds.

Garage also due for some straightening up.

If we can get mowing done in reasonable timeframe, probably do some more transplanting later in the day.

Bad news on flicker nest box: looks like starlings ...

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

 

[toppop52]

Now the hummers and most of the butterflies are gone, I need to trim one of the butterfly bushes, it’s way overgrown. Then I’m taking a saw and pruners to some low hanging limbs. I’m tired of fighting them when I mow. Did the holly grove last year so it’ll be good until next year except the suckers need cutting. Might just use the machete for that.
I’ve watered everything so I’m going to have a tomato sandwich take a break until afternoon.
Another club meeting tonight, outdoors thankfully, not sure what we will do next month.

 

[sodamo]

70° F and no measurable rain last 24 hours.

Oregon friends are back in their house after 2 weeks but just 1 level removed from possible evacuation. They count themselves as very fortunate as they know others that were wiped out.

Another take it slow day out at my caretaker project.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[sodamo]

Drew, would love to see some sort of study comparing todays diet to the way we were brought up 60-70 years ago.