Good morning!!!!

[check]

Good morning, a wet day ahead with a fast rising wind.

RS, great service to get that bearing replaced again for free after a year of use.

Thomas, you can't mind too much getting muddy boots if that tells you winter is over.

Don, thanks for that trip down memory lane, 20 years for us since gas prices passed 4$ per US gallon.

Alien enjoy your rain ! Toowoomba, what a great place name - sounds like a hip swaying dance

Anyone remember when gas was 25 cents a gallon? I do.

 

[Alien]

I remember when it cost me 10/- ($1) a week to run my car to work every day. My rent was $10 per week. That was for a house. 1968 - 1969 era.

Kindest thoughts to Buppies.

 

[kenmbz]

I remember 35 cents when I was really small. I remember when it went over 1$, right when I got my first car :-(

 

[PJSprog]

55°F and rain this morning, going up to 57° today. I actually left the house without a jacket today. A light rain passed through early, then the storm front followed later. As Drew noted, it was a rough one, and hit just as I was approaching the bridge to cross the Mississippi River. On the bright side, it didn't last long, maybe 10 minutes. We're looking at rain and more storms all day, and probably for the next five days. That will definitely launch us into mud season here.

Amazon driver was kind enough to leave yet another package on the door step yesterday evening, right below the sign directing it to the box just to his left.

Check, I remember 59¢/gal when I was growing up. I also remember my parents ranting when it hit $1 for the first time. We're at $2.89/gal here. It's been slowly climbing as the weather warms. I heard one prognosticator on the radio recently suggest we'll likely be back to $4 by summer this year. Fortunately, if that does happen, I'm driving a car this time that's averaging around 45mpg, instead of the Jeep that was getting 22mpg at best last time it was that high.

 

[bearthebruce]

I worked weekends in high school pumping gas for a full service Atlantic/Arco station in Dresher, PA. I worked the summer of '73 when the prices started at $0.25/gal and by the time I started commuting to college everyday, had jumped to $1/gal.

The gas station operators had revolted over the 4th of July weekend owing to them not keeping their margin as the price went up. My station owner and one other in the Philadelphia region remained open for the 4th of July weekend. I had the privilege of working alone that weekend. I had cars backed up for 2 miles and had to make the decision to only sell 5 gallons. I ran the tanks dry. The boss came back and was furious with the damn kid who ran his tanks dry and he could not get a delivery for another week.

I was so busy running, I could not get the pumps shut down. That was fun! NOT!

 

[Popgadget]

In FL waiting for the passengers for the return trip. Hope the return goes as smoothly as the trip down.

 

[B7510HSD]

44 early, 55 now and 73 later.
Not sure what I’m doing today, back is tender last couple of days.

Fifty years of Thanksgiving dinners in the field this morning. View attachment 689704

I hear wild turkeys are all dark meat is this true?

 

[LouNY]

There is still a differnce in the legs and breasts but the breasts do resemble dark meat more.
I have read that the difference is do to the amount of muscle activity that a bird does,
more flying makes for darker breast meat.
I have modified my turkey dressing methods with wild turkeys;
I do not pluck and remove all the pin feathers.
I skin them and remove the breast and just cook the breast.
The legs have so many tendons that it is a job just getting the meat off the bone
after it is cooked.
I enjoy wild turkey meat but my wife will not even consider trying it.
I never have and will not spring hunt turkeys because of were they feed all winter long,
right behind the manure spreaders. I have seen over a 100 picking through the manure
behind a manure spreader.

 

[daugen]

The boss came back and was furious with the damn kid who ran his tanks dry
He should have been furious with himself, not you, didn't leave good directions or communicate effectively.

Popgadget, on one of these trips I'm going to have you snag some stone crabs for the both of us and I'll treat.
Then some fresh Kelchners cocktail sauce or perhaps a spicy cream sauce. I've been to Joe's in Miami just once, and had
wonderful memories. Way over my price range. Something like 10 dollars a bite.
I'm just not a ten dollar bite guy...
The Wagyu cows are safe from me.

 

[bearthebruce]

The boss came back and was furious with the damn kid who ran his tanks dry
He should have been furious with himself, not you, didn't leave good directions or communicate effectively.

He actually fired me for it.. then rehired me by the following weekend lol

 

[toppop52]

I hear wild turkeys are all dark meat is this true?

Pretty much all birds that fly are dark meat.

 

[toppop52]

From the age of 14-16 ( late sixties) I worked at an AMOCO station, except for a couple of short gas wars the price stayed the same, 29.9 regular and 35.9 for unleaded premium. That was a penny higher on premium than Texaco and ESSO and most brands. Sunoco 250 and 260 were a penny at each step higher.
We had a lot of customers that came for the “white gas”, (unleaded premium).
We called gas regular and high test.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Good morning to all! Low of 30, high of 55 today. We had rain / snow in the forecast for Saturday, but now it is gone! RNG sent it too far north! Now there is just 4 days of 45-55 mph winds! Yesterday we had 4 or 5 total brown outs with blowing dirt! ..... NOT happy....

Drew, I have been through Espanola.... and kept going. It is the heroin capital of New Mexico. I had an opportunity to become the Deputy Chief of the EMS division..... I turned it down quite abruptly! I do not like the "low riders"... an interesting group of customizers... I usually go the other direction... 6" lift and 35's

Don, not sure which model Craftsman your mom has, but the first place that I would look is the seat safety switch. There are no clutch plates, rather it has just a belt tensioner as the clutch. There are contact switches on the seat, brake, blade engagement, and clutch pedal. Unfortunately, they are ALL tied together, making it difficult to find which one is messed up.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Oops... hit post before I was done...

Don, my Craftsman had a problem with the seat safety switch, just wouldn't make contact. I removed it from the seat, put a small block of wood and compressed the switch.... then duct taped it tight...

It's been that way for 4-5 years now... never had another problem with it.

Another thing to check would be if the transmission is free... you may be able to reach under and turn the pulley on the tranny (Not when running). Is it a hydro or gear tranny?

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Ken, sorry to here you are still in the doghouse.... must have to do with a moon cycle or something.... I too was on the carpet in the dog house for the last few days.... I'm pretty sure I am allowed back in the house... for now....

 

[sodamo]

65°F and 0 rain since midnight but in the forecast

Need to look more closely at the Craftsman

A bit of toe in, especially in reverse

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Anyone remember when gas was 25 cents a gallon? I do.

I remember $.05 during "gas wars" of the early '60s. And I remember promising myself a motorcycle when gas went over $.50/gallon in the early '70s.

 

[Alien]

65°F and 0 rain since midnight but in the forecast

Need to look more closely at the Craftsman
View attachment 689718

A bit of toe in, especially in reverse
View attachment 689719

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

Ooooh! what did you run in to?

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

..... it's from jumping those puddles....

 

[daugen]

David, that could be just a steering arm adjustment or perhaps something was bent.
Unless your property is seriously bumpy
doesn't look like your mower is holding up.