Good morning!!!!

[sodamo]

RNG. No, that makes it more challenging. If I remove then I also lose the alignment, so while easier to mark the holes they’d be incorrect.
Chalk and a piece of cardboard and I can make a template. A bit tedious as my main concern is get as tight a fit as possible to minimize flex.

Sorry to read about pallet size variance. Why is it that when doing repetitive stuff a surprise like that crops up?

Quick Unifi update. Happy with latest configuration, seeing decent transfer of signal to tractorshed for my Outback.

 

[sodamo]

Randy, I wasn’t surprised about the frame. Have had several friends experience this. Fortunately, they experienced sooner and Sears replaced the complete mower under warranty.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

How do people get over/ though stock fences where you all live ?
)

Push wire down and crawl thru, or go to a gate, or in my younger years, find a small tree beside fence, shinney up the tree till it bends, passing you over the fence.

Trespassing is frowned upon here.

 

[daugen]

Randy, I wasn’t surprised about the frame. Have had several friends experience this. Fortunately, they experienced sooner and Sears replaced the complete mower under warranty.

Are you going to run a weld bead down that crack or just allow the bolts to hold it all together?
If Sophie keeps getting this mower airborne as she goes over the ramps, maybe a little welding would help...

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Popgadget, try St Lukes in Allentown. I keep hearing they are taking appts but ?
Lot of just in time delivery going on I'm sure.
Get your shot and then let's go to lunch.

Landlady agreed to long term lease and upgrading cottage, including new electrical panel, so
I can add a/c and a hot tub safely. The lights already dim every time the well jet pump comes on so
this electrical system is overdue for an upgrade. I offered to make monthly muffins a part of the lease and she
thought that would be highly important. So far so good. But I'm still keeping an eye out for a place with more land.

Am also considering going back to the beginning with my tractors and start a garden again at my older doctor friend's farm on WindyBush Road.
Grow potatoes for local food bank, something I know how to do. Would be an outreach project for my church's young people. Wonderful fun to pick
up potatoes in a field, particularly the red ones. And this time do it more comfortably than I did with a 1956 Super A.

Might enlist Ken and Popgadget in the tractor duties, particularly implement swapping. Ken is only five miles away.
Where I grew up on Aquetong Road, the view off our front porch due South
was of Bowman's Hill Tower about two miles away. Now just over that mountain with the revolutionary
tower on it is a beautiful wooded area where Ken lives. Not much of mountain, hence it only ranked a "Hill".
But if you ever get to New Hope and your heart is in good condition, need to climb the Tower at Bowman's Hill.
Lot of steps and gets pretty narrow at the top. But it was cool to go up there and see our farm down below in the distance.
Very blessed to have grown up in this quiet, safe area nestled along the Delaware River.

Did you cross river with Gen Washington ?

 

[rswyan]

33F and cloudy @ 12:30, calling for a high of only 34F for today. 54F by Monday and mid-60's by Wednesday ...

Heard noises this morning while I fixed my first cup of coffee - looked out window over the sink and saw whistle-pig.

Probably what The Squeak was scoping out yesterday:

Feed fish and check to see how everyone is doing in their new homes first thing, then check for any straggler fish and start removing substrate in the 55G and drain it.

Some of the white worm containers should need fed by now, so will check on those as well.

If I get that done, next order of business will be to remove all the rock work in the S. fryeri tank and capture the one "Super Red" short fin BNP that I think remains in that tank.

Beyond that some cleaning upstairs, kitchen/living room ... sheetcake inventory is now ... zero ...

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

 

[sodamo]

Are you going to run a weld bead down that crack or just allow the bolts to hold it all together?
If Sophie keeps getting this mower airborne as she goes over the ramps, maybe a little welding would help...

I think that may be a future option, but need to improve my skills first. I’m being mindful that if any flex allowed it could worsen over time. Still actively reviewing my options.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

hi, sunny and cold.

Ron-sounds like MRI went well, great news
Drew - good news on the lease and sounds like some tractor fun soon
Bowmans hill tower is a climb, took my kid there a while back. good views of the canopy and river.
Eric - I do have to remove trash on main road here, but not too bad. Hate the broken bottles, but have not had any on the last 6 months or so. Just some fast food trash and beer cans.
David-Rail repair looks good, clever
Paul-now added teachers to 1A (which they should have done a while back) in PA-try St. Mary's

Stay safe and be well.

Just looked on google, pretty area

 

[daugen]

history, whether embellished or not, has Washington crossing the Delaware not far South of New Hope
at a place naturally called Washington Crossing. They crossed over and then marched South to Trenton NJ to attack Eric's relatives.

Allegedly spotters for the Continental Army used Bowman's Hill to watch over Trenton
which was next big town down the River.
There is a state park right below my old farm that had an exhibition hall with the famous painting we all know in it. Probably a copy now.
All of us with really old homes (ours was 1720) used to joke that Washington slept here. He would have needed many lifetimes to make up for all
the nights he slept over...

not very warm out and weather ahead is not very warm either. Was going to go out and build another birdhouse but I'll wait until next week when it warms up again.

 

[PJSprog]

All of us with really old homes (ours was 1720) used to joke that Washington slept here.

There's a lot of that in Illinois, too, Drew, with "Lincoln slept here" plaques on everything with a bedroom.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

30-53 so far today, very breezy and bright blue skies.
Looks like cold three days or so coming up before we get some warm weather. My grass is greening up and some of the tiny weeds are blooming. I haven’t seen my first groundhog yet, but anytime now.

I hit a groundhog this week with my car, it seemed pretty dazed, or was on a suicide mission, as it strolled out in front of my car. I almost came to a stop before I hit it, it never ran.

 

[PJSprog]

No groundhogs here yet this year, but I have seen (and smelled) a ton of skunk road pizzas in the last week.

 

[Thomas]

26F clear sky winchill hanging around 9F-14F.

Day started out on gray side unable view TBN and I even try my TBN decoder ring which had no effect was able to send Muhammad message from iphone once again he work his magic all good..

Did BIG dump run,got good load of critter food,brought and deliver lunch to Mrs. at her job,spent couple hours cleaning up branch/limbs the rest of branches/limbs will have to wait later date,breaking thur the crust than sinking couple feet wasn't fun.
Not much plan for this evening just kicking back.
Enjoy the evening all.

 

[daugen]

RS, does your cat ever look hungrily at the fish tanks?

 

[Alien]

After a chilly 63 deg start to the day it has warmed up to a pleasant 78 deg at 8.30. Supposed to get up another 7 or 8 degrees today.
Family coming to stay tonight. Bought a bottle of Drambuie and a pack of Woodstock so looking forward to a fun night to take the aches and pains away.

 

[Alien]

David, probably too late now but I know there is a rule about warranty that if it is a known manufacturing fault then even if it is out of warranty it should be covered.
I had issues with Ford F Series manifolds cracking and took it up with them. They replaced all manifolds that cracked from there on for free. The vehicles were well out of warranty. (I looked after a fleet of them once)

 

[daugen]

Alien, did you feel the earthquake? Apparently more than one.

 

[rswyan]

RS, does your cat ever look hungrily at the fish tanks?

Hard to know exactly what is in their minds, but yeah ... all of them will scope out the tank from time to time.

Squeak more so than the others ... but less so now that she's a little older.

She'll still jump up on top of the 55G tank and try to stick a paw down through any openings. Don't know that it's so much fish, as it is just a general fascination with water.

If there's a bucket around with water in it, she'll find it and paw at whatever is in it.

Supposed to pick up 14 of these on Monday - Cyprichromis leptosoma "Utinta":

Adult size about 4.5" long - they are top water swimmer and a mouthbrooder, they school by the thousands in Lake Tanganyika. The ones I'm getting are juveniles - about 1.25"+ long.

 

[Alien]

Alien, did you feel the earthquake? Apparently more than one.

No mate, we never have earthquakes around here. Been the occasional one in Oz. Was a big one in Newcastle many many years ago but that's a long way from me.

 

[toppop52]

history, whether embellished or not, has Washington crossing the Delaware not far South of New Hope
at a place naturally called Washington Crossing. They crossed over and then marched South to Trenton NJ to attack Eric's relatives.

Allegedly spotters for the Continental Army used Bowman's Hill to watch over Trenton
which was next big town down the River.
There is a state park right below my old farm that had an exhibition hall with the famous painting we all know in it. Probably a copy now.
All of us with really old homes (ours was 1720) used to joke that Washington slept here. He would have needed many lifetimes to make up for all
the nights he slept over...

not very warm out and weather ahead is not very warm either. Was going to go out and build another birdhouse but I'll wait until next week when it warms up again.

Those pesky Hessians had to go!