Good morning!!!!

[RoyJackson]

2020-10-19, 0311

46 right now...far cry from yesterday's 28 degrees in the early morning.
High in the upper 50's...more light rain...most of this week, in fact. Going to be a rainy Fall according to the long range forecast...

 

[Eric Salop]

Good morning, all seems normal for this time of year, 7C/44F at 10am, with scarcely enough daylight to see the keys on this laptop. Even with a stiff breeze and two days without rain, everything is still glistening with dew. Thought I would check the temperature gizmo to compare with LS and sure enough it confirms an invisible wetness reading of 90% humidity.

The afternoon got a lot noisier yesterday when they started to harvest the maize in the field on the opposite side of the rail track to us. It is taken whole crop as cattle feed, quite a sight as the first cut through the jungle is shot out in a long arc, right over the cab roof of the tractor following behind to land with some force in the trailer. This 21st century fodder has become the new sound of October, badgers will all have gorged themselves last night on what has been spilt. For weeks to come I will no doubt be finding half eaten cobs discarded in our fields as they return from their midnight feasts.

RS, I never much liked sycamore trees until we got woodburners, now any of their windblown branches are very welcome. It may not burn as long as my favourite, which is hawthorn, but is certainly easier to handle. Squirrels have killed off most of our younger sycamores by stripping off the bark.

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Very nice shot of your mown grass BEF, lots of gentle curves to nicely lead the eye.

Don, see, I am not the only one on here who find pleasure in deviating from straight lines.

 

[daugen]

good morning all
46 out now going up to 69 on a cloudy day

Plumber coming this morning to fix water/well pump, hopefully just to pump some air in the storage tank bladder.
Well pump comes on every time toilet is flushed or any water
is run in kitchen sink. Also going to install my new
adult height toilet so I'm not sitting on the floor anymore...
Then at dinner time electrician coming to look over house to see what is needed to install a 10kw portable generator
into an exterior 50amp outlet plus interior interlock panel in basement. I have budget of $1k for his work, will see how far off I am.

Have been researching t connections for propane tanks as Lou suggested. I find the hose connectors/ends to be confusing but once I have all the parts here, will then get the hoses. Also got some plastic feet/stabilizers for tanks so they don't sit on the ground. I have an idea the only thing that will work in the winter will be gasoline.

Need to make trip to grocery store and hang curtains. That should keep me plenty busy today.

I have bought ethanol free gas before in those little cans, but only for my chain saws and weedeaters. I need a better solution for ten gallons at a time.
The more I research this the more I'm realizing I may just have to have two 5 gallon cans of premium gas in garage,
and if not used in six months, dump in car and refill.
I did order a small bottle of Stabil marine 360.

 

[NHBX]

Good morning folks

31 now dew point 28 high of 61 and partly sunny today.

Not much planned for today,been slowly putting the garden to bed for the season. Keep picking at the brush along driveway.

Enjoy your day everyone

 

[daugen]

read an interesting article put out by NJ Farm Bureau about NJ fuel tax. State law in 2016 mandates minimum contribution to Transportation Trust Fund of $2 billion annually.
Reduced driving during Covid has created big shortfall so only thing they can do is raise the tax. Gasoline sales dropped as much as 70 percent during height of
pandemic. Gas and diesel tax hiked over 9 percent effective Oct 1, reflecting a 36 cent increase since only 2016. That's a lot of new taxes and doubtful they will ratchet it back if higher
usage no longer requires it. Emphasis on "minimum"...

another interesting fact from the Farm Bureau is that US farm income is expected to drop 3% this year to the lowest level in more than a decade.
The only "saving grace" was PPP and tariff mitigation help from Fed government, which actually boosted gross income up 3% over last year. But that won't last and certainly doesn't help
all farmers.

 

[Buppies]

43 high of 70 today by Wednesday high of 78

Prayers for Jay and wife, Kyles daughter, riptides and shoulder, and all others silent or spoken

 

[toppop52]

No E0 in MD, least not easy to get to.

There are several near me, one is a mile and half away. There use to only be the one in town that I was aware of, but I know of at least three now.

 

[Thomas]

40F partly cloudy 60 for high rain early evening.

Outside chores done E muffin time. :licking:
Just about all day yesterday blowing leaves and they were LOT some areas leaves were wet but back pack blower did :thumbsup: job.
Plans for today quick trip to town do errands blow lot leaves from side field etc.
Boo show up last evening had snack decided to take nap,must been dreaming back leg kicking.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[wngsprd]

51 and some fog, going to 70 and more sunshine.

Kyle, the Anatolian was well behaved, also their other 3 dogs. The Anatolian is a stunning dog in appearance, read about it when I got home....had also seen a segment of Virginia Farming on RFD that interviewed some sheep and cattle farmers in the Shenandoah Valley that use them as guard dogs for their animals. Coco is doing much better...but not up for a hike that long, and kinda glad she wasn't with me with so many other dogs on the trail. Thanks for asking. Glad your daughter got to sing/play in church service.

Received the replacement fan and repaired my coffee roaster and roasted two batches with no problems yesterday...a Congo organic and a Burundi Dry Process.

 

[ronjhall]

Got coffee started brewing. 38° with light rain. Heading to 47° with continued rain all day. Got leaves blown off back patio yesterday. Then stayed in and read a book all day. May do the same today. Cellar door project is still waiting.
Been watching this milk weed for a few days. It somehow closes up every night.

Drew, I refuse to do any shopping on weekends. It can wait until a day when working people are at work. I bought some drapes recently off Amazon. Even that can be very frustrating. Glad you got some help.

Mostly, most of the work was done by tractor. About 10 shovels full to clean out each end of culvert.

Buckeye, when we had horses and cattle they would go crazy when balloons flew over. I like the view balloons give.

Everyone stay safe and healthy.

Good Morning All.